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years production is Rose Time"
Hoffman Hoskins' Annual Kid
die Revue viii be produced at the
National Wednesday and Thurs
day nights, May 20 and 20.
The dancing class Of the Smith
-Hodgson School will on Satur.
day night, May 81, at the National
Theater present the annual spring
revue.
METROPOLITAN - Abraham,
Lincoln called the only pic
ture ever made that can match
THE Birth of Nation" in en-.
tertainment value and audience
interest, will be shown for the
first time in Washington at
Crandall's Metropolitan Theater
beginning tomorrow afternoon at
;. The First National super.spe.
cial, produced by AL and Ray
Rocket, is twelve full reels in
length and embodies every essen
tial element Of engrossing drama.
w The most important incidents
In the life Of Lincoln were deity
nodded into fascinating nara
tive by Frances Marion that COW
ers the full. span of the great
emancipator'S life from the day
or his birth to the final tragic
episode at Ford's Opera House.
The picture, Abraham Lin.
coln." is not In any sense q film
version Of the Drinkwater play,
but an original work vastly more
comprehensive, more interesting
and more entertaining. The ac-
ton is rich in humor, thrills, ro-
nance, pathos, tragedy and ad-
venture and the production and
photography are Of the finest.
COLUMBIA-A photoplay vers.
Ion Of Broadway stage success
will be presented at Loew's
Columbia, beginning tomorrow
afternoon in the Truart picturiza.
ton of Roland Vests gripping
society drama, 1.-THE Unknown
Purple" with Henry B. Walthall,
Alice Lake, Stuart Holmes, Helen
Ferguson, Ethel Grey Terry, and
many others.
Few plays have ever brought
to stage or screen so powerful a
theme as 1.-THE Unknown Purple"
which combines the suspense and
fascination of Monte Cristo"
with the mysterious thrill of
The Bat" 1t is a story which
revolves about the mysterious
and subtle revenge that was
wreaked on a faithful wife and
her perfidious lover by a man
who had discovered the power
Of making himself invisible.
= A new "Spat Family" comedy,
and the International News reel,
will round out.
PALACE-Loew's Palace will
present the picturized version Of
the George M. Cohan comedy,
"The Meanest Man in the World"
beginning Sunday, with a cast
that includes Bert Lytell, Blanche
Sweet. Bryant Washburn, Maryon
Aye, Lincoln Stedman, Helen
Lynch, Ward Crane, Forrest Rob-
inson and many others Of almost
equal fame.
The story deals with the des-
perate determination Of a young
attorney to become the meanest
man in the world, after his in
veterate tendency to be kind
hearted has nearly driven him to
financial ruin. Commissioned to
collect bill for $500 from an
upstate merchant or foreclose
on the business, the young at
torney discovers that the mer-
chant is a girl with the same
soft hearted tendencies that have
nearly ruined his own career.
He also discovers that he has
fallen in love with the fair young
business woman. A Ben Turpin
comedy yukon Jake" and Pathe
News will round out.
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TIVOLI-Paul Tisen and his
Russian Orchestra from Moscow
will supply the outstanding novel;
ty of the program announced for
the new week at Crandall's I'll
wolf Theater beginning Sunday.
This organization is notable for