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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
Film Activity.

An unprecedented revival of pic
ture-producing activities among
the independents is promised for
the early part of the new year.
All present indications point to a
veritable flare-up of such indie
pendent production Immediately
after New Year Day is celebrated.
A single releasing concern-the
new United Producers and Dis
tributors-is responsible for the
assurance that at least ten new
producing units will get under
way almost simultaneously with
the advent of 1924, all scheduled
to make photoplays of all lengths
for this company exclusively.
Meanwhile a dozen or more other
big independents have announced
their plans perfected for much re-
juvenation, all of which seems to
prove the oft-repeated prediction
that at last the film industry is
upon the Threshold of it's great
est progress.
Charming Pollock's new play
will be entitled 1.-THE Enemy"
After Mr.. Pollock has produced
THE Fool in London. he will go
to Vienna to finish the new piece,
which will be produced next Sep
TENDER. Mr.. Pollock expects to
return to America in the early
spring to begin work on his Dol
lar Theater.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
ZEIGFELD AN D
MARILYN
PART

Just a week ago Flo ziegfeld
purchased the script for a new
musical comedy, to star Marilyn
Miller, from Guy Bolton, Jerome
Kern and p. g. Wodehouse.
Miss Miller, having retired from
the cast of sally two weeks
ago, on expiration Of her old
contract, was to be reengaged
under a new contract, dated
February /.
Last night at the National
Theater, Ziegfeld, who is here
experimenting his new musical
show, kid Boots" said that he
was through permanently with
Marilyn.
Just put it this way" he said.
''If it is any satisfaction for Miss
Miller to say she has broken her
contract with me, am satisfied.
/ request, however, that the at
torneys who speak for her make
public the letter / wrote them last
Friday. That letter will show I
took the initiative in the matter.
1.-THE contract under which
Miss Miller has been working for
some time has expired. The
controversy is, over new con-
tract which dates from February
l, 1924. The production in which
it was intended that Miss Miller
would appear will not open until
February /.
"Is it proper to assume that
you expect this difference with
Miss Miller to be settled
amicably?'
mo; please say I am through,
with finality
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
TOWN TALK IS
GOOD BET AT
GAYETY

The Talk. OF the Town" is in
our midst and despite the fact
this show has been seen here be-
fore a goodly crowd was at the
Gayety last night to laugh at
Eddie Halls jokes and otherwise
enjoy good burlesque show.
While few changes have been
made in the show since it was
first produced two seasons ago 1t
still retains much of it's bright
ness and the original company
has been retained to put it over
with vim.
Hall is a comedian of the tramp
variety and is one of the funniest
men in the burlesque world. He
also shakes a mean hoOf. Jack
ellison and, Frank Anderson aid
him in putting over the humorous
situations with which the show
abounds. Franz Marie Texas is
an attractive singer and her duets
with Paul West featured the
musical part OF the performance.
Helen Harris and Fern La Roy
do their stunts wen. Henry
Jahrl and Frank George have
musical act that pleased while
Joe Slim Parker, a tall colored
boy, introduced some novel
dancing.
The chorus is well drilled and
one member, q blonde, attracted
much attention by the pep she
displayed. Some manager is over
looking a good bet by not taking
this girl out of the chorus
H. w
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
HOLDS
THE BRIGHT
SPOT

Don't, under any circumstances,
overlook Helen Slower on this
weeks bill at Keith's. Not listed
among the headliners, this most
charming songstress is one bright
Npot on an otherwise mediocre
program. Her soprano voice is
clear, rich and full, penetrating
without being shriIl; smooth and
pleasing. She has charm Of man.
ner, and a personality which
sf1lacks of anything but the stage.
Helen Slower is bound to win you
with "Lindy Lue."
Scene-from about 1890 to II
at the theater last night. Action
Ten, twenty, or hundred actors
running hither and thither among
the audience. Much laughter from
the actors and bewildered chortles
from the customers. Cries from
the leader in what is billed as
"a Surprise Party" Get into the
spirit OF itp' ETC., and much more
along the same line. The reviewer
stood fifteen minutes of it then
grabbed his fair companion, and
dashed for the door, amid the
jeers of said members of Surprise
Party.
Either Olson or Johnson, we
don't know which one, il the
manager of the party; anyway,
pretty nearly everyone on the
: bill is rung in on it. Frankly,
wen say we don't quite know
what it's all about. Everybody in
the show comes out to do some
thing or other again; some just
come out. We advise a trip to
Keith's because the like of this
will hardly be seen again.
Nan Ha1perin sings character
songs very well. Her Queen
Catherine number Is original and
done with grace. The kid" stuff
was also good.
Harry Yerkes' Floti1la Orchestra
is q high speed jazz aggregation
which manages to mix in a little
opera. The scenic adjuncts to
this act are little out Of the
ordinary.
Ward and Van as Street Mu-
sicians'' harmonic in discord and
present an acceptable turn. Smith
and Mildred Barker present g.
playlet, Good Medicine" the
Bells Duo are very clever in
aerial stunts, and Tex Mcleod
talks on timely topics as he
swings ropes.-H. III.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
EIsie'S Nep Play.

Elsie Ferguson. with a new
show and under new management,
will make her first appearance in
Washington, at the Shubert-Be-
lasco the week of January IA.
"Moon-Glow" Is the title of the
new drama which Charles L. Wag
ner sponsors. Sydney Blackmer,
who last appeared here in 1.-THE
Mountain Man" will be her lead
ing man. The piece plays two
weeks out of town preliminary to
a Broadway opening. Wagner re-
Gently produced "Scaramouche,"
which failed to attract profitable
business, although Blackmer won
high praise in the title role. Wag-
ner is the manager of John Nc
Cormick and other concert stars as
a profitable sideline.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
DuSe Chances PZov

Nine. Duse, at Polls Thursday
afternoon, will not play Ibsen's
Ghosts, but has substituted
LA Porta Chiusa" c'The Closed
Door'D. a play in three acts by
Marco Prago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
Double Dutv.

A. N. Waters. manager Of Gran
dalIs Theater, at Ninth and f
streets, has had his hands full
during the last fortnight super
vising the conduct of CrandalIs
Central Theater in addition to his
own. Mr.. Waters assumption
of the double-Guty was brought
about by the resignation of Eu.
gene Way from the managership
of the Central. The close proxi-
nifty of the two Ninth street
houses makes ii possible for Mr..
Waters to lend his personal at
tention to both.
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Ziegfeld Dumps HIS BAnkr0N On
Il Musical Marathon
By HAROLD PHILLIPS.

kid Boots" Ziegfeld's new
entry in the musical sweepstakes.
has a. seven-league stride that
marathoning Sally and Good
Morning Dearie" before the new
year finds all the grooves in its
orbit.
AS revealed at the National
last night, this gorgeous new
panoply of paint and platinum,
proved satisfying beyond ex-
pectancy. If anything, Ziegfeld
has overcharged his battery of
song and setting with too much
talent. Some Of it gets but a
momentary peek at the footlights
and is heard from no more, thus
confirming Ziegfeld's nomination
to that canny circle of showmen
who believe in Rarading little
less than they actually have. The
One-time irrepressible Jobyna How
land is among those repressed. So
is George Olson's orchestra, i'm
ported from California. for ten
all-toO fleeing minutes. So are
three young colored boys who
give promise as real steppers.
Still further, editing is required
for the performance now runs
until 1925.
Since the flag end of the war,
Ziegfeld's purse strings have
shown increasing elasticity and n
great stream of lovely doubloons
has poured therefrom to edge the
public's ever jaded vision. kid
Boots" seems not only to have
emptied the Ziegfeld purse, but
to have sent that patrtcian ex-
hibitor to the old family mattress
for those two restless Liberty
bonds. Thus there is frame
work, in setting and talent, for
Eddie Cantor and Mary Eaton,
that presents those two enter
tanners in canvas they have
heretofore never graced. In the
featured class of talent, there is,
for instance, Harland Dixon,
Marie Callahan, Jobyna Rowland,
Harry Fender, FI-elind Terry,
Beth Berri. and jon i2utherford.
Also OIson's orchestl'i quartet,
and several outstanding steppers.
In the two acts and eight scenes
there moves poInpous parade or
pretty girls in a Rondrous variety
of costumes, climaxing in cocoa
nut grove scene that is beauti.
fully staged in scenery and
lighting.
The theme is golf, with Eddie
Cantor as Kid Boots, caddie, boot
logger and general drawback to
the smooth conduct of the club.
Mary Eaton is the girl Harry
Fender loves but Ethelind Terry.
alluringly luscious, complexities
things as prerogatiye permits
brunettes to do. Every time there
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18

By JACK CUNNINGHAM.
(Adapter of 1.-The Covered Wagon
Now at Polls Theater.)
We are now talking about the
training necessary for those who
aim to give their best efforts to
the preparation of a photoplay
Either inside the studio or out,
either writer's of original stories
offered for sale or those who con-
coct the continuity from which
the screen story is developed.
This writer believes that there
is a distinct training and techni-
cal knowledge which the pro-
Queer Of pictures has a right to
expect from those to whom he
pays money for such effort.
Let US suppose, for the sake
of argument, that you are a nov
elist. Suppose, again; that the
publisher of books who is going
to buy your novel and publish it
were beset by the same circum-
stances that surround the pro-
NuSCh vi d PASLAA
from the same story.
Under those conditions your
publisher would face the follow
ing disconcerting details:
While the printers are setting
up the type for the book, while
the presses are printing it, and
while the binders are binding it,
the publisher pays the hero $3.50
a week.
During the same period he is
paying "A leading woman 5000 q
week, an ingenue $400 a week
several character people from $3.50
to $500 a week
When you describe a ballroom
1T costs the publisher from $4,000
to $4,000.
On the day or days the printers
set up the description of the
grand ball given in your ballroom
1t costs the publisher of your
book $40 a day for every person
indicated by your description of
the ball
When the hero and heroine, as
well as other characters, wander
80 ~ INSTANT tIlIllGS a great Iccn-
meal staff trails along, unseen on
the margin of the pages describ-
ing the trip. Thousands of dol
lars are paid out in railroad fare.
salaries coming and going, hotel
bills, etc.
The description of a lodge in
the Adirondacks may be as ex-
pensiVe as the ballroom, etc, etc.
etc, until the cost of publishing
the book mounts up and up into
the hundreds of thousands.
considering the above, ask
youTseit these questions:
would you, as writer of
novels published under those cir
cumsfances, be compelled to learn
something about the technical
side OF book production in order
TO be an accepted contributor of
stories in the eyes of book pub
fishers?
Would you be as much in de-
Llahd among publishers if you re-
FUSED to consider his cost sheets
as the writer who made a study
or them and tried to make his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18
Ur1tlng for the MOOies
Hoo It's Done
BY JACK CUNNINGHAM.

(NoteThe fourth articles sOrtteu by
the scyeeu
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18

is a complication or a release
from one, someone sings or
dances or sails headlong into
comedy and the action spins like
a pin-wheel.
Cantor is in white face until
the final fifteen minutes. How
hard this boy works! And with so
little. For such star better ma
terial must be procured even If
thirty Riddles go barefooted
Christmas morning and Ziegfe1d
has to spend the shoe money for
gag man. The osteopath scene
is still the best laugh, though its
attractions are now beginning to
wane. The Nineteenth Hole should
be the big comedy punch Of the
show but it isn't.
Mary Eaton's dancing is a de-
light and her singing can be
mentioned for the first time as
fine enough to carry the role.
Also she is now an actress and
has to declaim and emote ges-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-18

lures and this. is all a new part
of the lovely Mary
Ethelind Terry has the strong
voice and a most bewitching
presence. THE Same Old Way"
with Harry Fender, is her best
bit. We. can't mention everyone
but a word must be crowded in
for Harland Dixon's dancing and
character number, 1.-THE Cake
Eaters Ball." with Marie Callahan.
The songs we liked best were
1.-THE Same Old Way Someone
Loves YOU After ALL "The Old
Lake Trail" by Mary Eaton and
the inevitable platoon of chorus
men; When the Cocoa-nuts Call"
One unprogrammed number, with
animated drop. also made a hit.
Would that we were as sure of
getting our. Yuletide shopping
done on time as we are that
kid Boots" wont be excelled as
pictorial entertainment for sew
eral seasons.
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stories conform TO something re-
sembling a commercially posi-
BILE venture when produced?
Would not the writer who
could take the same story and,
by thought and ingenuity, tell it
with as much dramatic intensity
as another writer for half the
cost be the more successful of
the two?
Several novelists of admitted
ability and no small repute have
been asked questions and they all
have replied that, under circum-
stances such as I have just out
lined, they would undoubtedly
have to know all about the tech
meal side of publishing their
novels.
My point now is that there is
only one place in the world
where this can be learned. In
the studio. There is only one
way to get that knowledge in
the studio. By actually going
through the process time and
again of writing photoplays while
In constant touch with what is
being done with the manuscript.
Some day a good situation--or
ldea-w1ll not be bought until il
is pretty well proven that the
100000 which that feature Of the
story would cost to produce will
be worth that much, with a profit
attached.
Some day no story will he MIR
chased until a corps of screen
writer's and other technicians
have looked it over with n great
deal more care than is now given
to such processes. They do it
pretty generally already, but not
as infinitely as they will.
All of which leads to the natu-
raj question as to where the next
generation of screen writer's is
coming from. l do not believe
they are coming from the ranks
of established fictionists. A few.
yes. But not many.
Who will learn this new art
from the ground up and what re-
wards await them is our next
concern.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-05-03
DEER PARK

Not only to say the right thing in
the right place, but far more difficult
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at
the tempting moment.-Sals.
Mr.. Paul George is employed at
Pittsburgh with the Westinghouse
Electric Co.
Mrs. Blake and daughter Lillian,
of Oakland, are here on a visit to Mr..
and Mrs. Charles A. Ashby.
The measles and whooping cough
are in season around here.
Soon it will be harvest time.
Miss Thelma Walter, who has been
at Grafton for some time, has return
ed to her home here.
Mrs. c. S. Refs, accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Fisher and daugh-
ter and Mrs. Chidester went to the
Cove for dinner on Sunday.
Mr.. c. N. Murphy, the Baltimore
and Ohio agent here, has secured
frlough for six months to work in
the store in which he is interested as
a partner. Mr.. w. Mckinley, of near
Green Spring, has taken the railroad
position. On account of the death OF
a relative Mr.. Mckinley was called
to his home and during his absence
the place is being filled by Mr.. Har-
man.
Nh and Mrs. Guy F. Gregg and
family will arrive here from Weston
in few days to remain indefinitely
at their summer home.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Droege. of New
York, were here Saturday looking af-
ter their interests.
Among the visitors to this place
on Saturday were Mrs. Lulu Nero
bic, of Wilson and Mr.. and Mrs. H. V.
Fisher, of Altamont.
Mr.. J. S. Hardesty is moving in the
". H. Chadderton farm house near
town.
The box supper and festival held
Saturday night in the Savedge hall
by the ladies' aid society, was a sue
cess in every particular.
The farm land together with the
woodland of the Williams place, will
be divided and sold to Messrs. Guy
F. Gregg, Ashford King, J. c. Lash
orn and Miss Blanche Hardesty.
Mrs. Robert Moss, of Annapolis,
who was here for several days, has
retured to her home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-05-03
GOVERNMENT SAVINGS SYSTEM
PERMANENT.

The U. S. Government Savings
System is a permanent institution.
Beginning as a helper in raising
money to carry on the war it grew
rapidly and finally developed into
real necessity. 1t was found that
many people who had money would
not invest it or deposit it with any
institution that was not operated by
the Government. The word of Uncle
Sam is what such people wanted be-
fore they would take their money
from the old stockings or cubby holes
and tea canisters and place it where
it would earn fair interest and have
the principal returned to them at the
end of the term of investment. War
Savings Certificates proved popular
with investors in small amounts, but
they were not adapted to peace con-
ditions, nor was the War Savings
Organization of the Treasury Depart
ment able to handle after-war condi-
tons. So a new savings security was
devised and the U. S. Government
Savings System was created and
made a permanent part of the Treas
ury's fiscal policy.
The new system not only sells saw
ings certificates but is conducting a
nationwide campaign to encourage
saving and to discourage the tenden-
cy toward taking chances with all the
fake Investments that ARE offered
by sharpers and swindlers who deal
in bogus stocks and other worthless
securities. In brief but interesting
form the Government Savings Sys-
tenn tells what is doing in booklet
recently issued. It is sent free to
anyone who is interested enough to
write to the Treasury Department at
Washington for it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-05-03
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK

Mr.. and Mrs. F. f. Baker motored
though from New York last week.
Mr.. Baker returned to N. Y. on Mon
day and Mrs. Baker left the same day
for Chicago.
Mrs. Harry Clayton has returned
to her cottage here as has also Mr.
Richardson from Fairmont, w. Va.
Mrs. Rachel Laughlin has also ar
rived for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Powell, of Baltimore,
have rented the Sincell cottage and
are moving in this week.
Mrs. Lee has rented her cottage to
the Cutbert family. This family occu-
pied the j. L. Echard cottage last
season.
An enthusiastic meeting was held
in the NJ. f. church last evening,
when committee was partly elected,
the other members to be added next
Sunday to arrange for one days out
ing for the adult bible classes of the
different denominations who may
wish to take part in this splendid
gathering The day and place to be
announced later.
Mr.. Ami Rodeheaver has purchased
one of Miss Rachel Weems' cottages
and he and his family are now enjoy
ing their new home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-05-03
TOLD YOU SO9

How many days since you have
thought of Coue? He is amost for
gotten. To endure persistently in
American memory, one must be a
baseball player, a prizefghter, a stage
or movie star, a theatrical scientist
or medical manor the inventor or
marketer of breakfast food, beauty
lotion or some mechanical device that
can be sold cheaply.
A reader, one Of the wise few who
will get permanent good from Coue's
system of Harvesting the Imagination.
sends letter announcing his discov-
cry that the original. disciple of the
Coue method of treating ailments by
auto-suggestion was-Socrates!
Xenophon, Greek historian and mil
itarist, wrote in his Memorabilia"
that Socrates one day said to him:
81 consider that those live best who
study best to become as good as pos
sible; and that those live with most
pleasure who feel the most assurance
that they are Daily Growing Better
and Better"
That sounds familiar, strikingly like
Coue's "Day by day, in every way, I
grow better and better"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-05-03
FOR SHERIFF.

l hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination of Sheriff of Garrett county
subject to the result of the Republican pri-
mary election and most earnestly solicit the
support of the male and female voters of
the county. JOHN c. FORMAN.
Crelin. Md. Feb. IA, 1928.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination of Sheriff Of Garrett County
subject to the result of the Republican pri-
mary election, and most earnestly solicit the
support of the voters, male and female at
the polls. JOHN NJ KlSNER.
Pleasant Valley, Feb. 49, 1928.
hereby announce myself candidate for
the nomination of Sheriff of Garrett County
subject to the result of the Republican pri-
mary election, and most earnestly solicit the
votes and influence Of the people of the coun-
ty. CECIL RAMSEY.
Oakland, Md, March 2I 1928.
l hereby announce myself a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Gar
Fett. county, subject to the result of the pri-
mary election, and earnestly solicit the sup
port of the members of the party in all parts
of the county. JOHN W. KIMMELL
Deer Park, District No. 10. 3-td*
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Gar
rett county, subject to the result of the pri-
mary election and earnestly solicit the sup
port of the members of the party in all parts
of the county. GUY YUTZY.
Oakland, District No. A.. Std
hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination of Sheriff of Garrett County,
subject to the result of the Republican pri-
mary election, and most respectfully solicit
the support of the voters in all parts of the
county. LLOYD L. SKILES .
Accident. District No. SIS
I hereby announce myself candidate for
the nomination Of Sheriff Of Garrett County,
subject to the result of the Republican pri-
mary election, and most respectfully solicit
the support Of the voters in all parts Of the
Kempton Md March % 1o23
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-05-03
LOCAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

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