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Evening star., 1924-06-22
"Phantom of the Opera
rARL LAEMAh.E is preparing to

TARL LAEMNLE is preparing to
venture another fortune in q spec
tacular production OF the proportions
OF The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
from CASTOR Leroux's famous novel,
The Phantom OF the Opera"
THE Phantom Of the Opera" will
star Lon Chaney in the role OF Erik
the Phantom, which will offer fine op-
portunity to display his art of carl
cature and characterization.
Erik is not deformed character,
but his face is so terrifying that it
causes women to faint and men to
do his bidding, unquestionably. on
most occasions he is forced to appear
in mask. This strange compelling
character. who sleeps in a coffin and
whose appearance and disappearance
are so stealthify executed that he
has earned the title of The Phantom"
was once a famous music teacher and
but for his terribly distorted face
would have been one of the opera
stars. His life is bound up in the
opera Through his compelling per.
the superstitions which usually sur
round the opera, he is enabled to di-
rect its destinies as definitely as
though he were the conductor.
The story is laid in the Paris opera
house, its strange subterranean pas
sages and in several we'll known
inns and churches of Brittany.
Universal contemplated at one time
sending the company to Paris, for
The Phantom of the Opera is a
modern story and its production in
Paris would not have the manifest
drawbacks which would attend the
production of such picture as The
Hunchback of Notre Dame"
At the opening last week of the
latter picture at the Marivaux Thea
ter, in Paris, several Partisan papers
stated that the French republic
should have put the Notre Dame de
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Amateur Photodramatics.

MANY movie stars and directors of
IL tomorrow will get their start
toward fame via the amateur motion
picture camera. predicts Watterson R
Rothacker, owner of film Laboratories
in Hollywood and Chicago.
Just as the legitimate stock COM
panies in the past have recruit ed
talent from amateur dramatic clubs,
SO will the movies draw new blood
from among the amateurs who direct
or act in photoplays produced in the
back yard at home" says Mr.
Rothacker.
The amateur movie camera is now
within the means of the average
well-to-do family. The use of the
home cinema is increasing at a re-
markable rate. Most of this is as
yet in family motion snapshots, but
frequently the developed film reveals
an attempt TO photograph definite
sequence of dramatic scenes, and now
and then there is an attempt that is
not so amateurish.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Didn't Pay to Be Literary.
"\NHY did you take up a career a!

"WHY did you take up career as
an actress?"
Carmelita Geraghty, playing op-
posite Jack Dempsey in the pictures
starring the champion prizefighter,
answers the question without hesita-
tion:
Because 1 couldn't write"
Then she goes on to explain that
while script girl for Marshall Neilan.
John Robertson and Chester Franklin,
she tried desperately to get across"
some stories. But nobody paid any
attention.
Your story has been carefully read
but found unsuitable to our require
ments at the present moment"
That stock line" worried her for
eighteen months. She escaped liter
ary fame and, when she realized her
failure, took up the career of an ac-
tress with only her beauty and a
charming personality as her assets.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Fred Stone Dawes Man

presidential election in this country
Since / last saw you the Dawes re-
port has been made public Here, to
my mind. is a service to this country
and to the European world which
will be remembered as one of the
great accomplishments of our time
1t seems TO me that the plan which
Gen. Dawes has worked out will
bring peace and stability to Europe
and an era of sound prosperity to
this country. All of which suggests
TO me that in Gen. Dawes the Repub-
lican party has the ideal running
mate for President Coolidge in the
coming campaign"
Melville Stone in his reply, made
public at the same time as the letter
written by Fred Stone, said:
while by all of the proprieties
am denied the privilege of taking
any part in politics, i may say to you
that you have not overestimated the
character of Mr.. Dawes. He and
have been friends for more than
thirty years and it has been in
evitable that l should have con-
stanuy increasing admiration for
him"
Evening star., 1924-06-22

ment are infallible box office Wit
ners. We think this method OF selec-
tion by proven experts, rather than b.
Office theorists, is the best ever de-
viSed.
'1The members of the NJ. P. D. A
have voted unanimously. step by step
on all the proceedings leading up to
this contract, and will give il their
support to a man. They will CO
operatively plan and supervise the
various pictures and lend their ad
vice and counsel in the editing and
titling.
Our production plans have beer
underwritten by one of the strongest
international groups Of capital in the
world. They are 100 per cent solid
on the idea, and there will be no
necessity to economize at the ex-
pense of our pictures.
We are not in the field to maxi
big profits. but primarily to get f"r
directors the means to make the bes'
pictures they know how to make
This is pledge, not merely
DrOmiSe''
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Title Troubles.

COME one recently reflected the at
titude of the motion-picture in
dustry in the remark that from the
commercial angie amy film is 81 per
cent title" In other words. that only
a flm of extraordinary merit could
overcome the handicap of a title the
reverse of alluring or self-expIana-
tory.
Perhaps no part OF film receives
moro concentrated attention from its
producer and author than the title
1t is not unusual for producers to
change a title, even after the bill
boards have been prepared and
printed. Occasionally picture
along that stumps all hands,
and then tentative list of titles is
prepared and tried out on any one
who is willing to listen
Another plan is to withhold the
Evening star., 1924-06-22

THAT Fred Stone. the actor. was
the original Dawes-forPr President
advocate is the claim being made in
behalf of tho famous comedian by
his friends along Broadway.
1t was recalled that Mr.. Stone set
the ball to rolling for Gen. Dawes
several weeks ago in a letter which
he wrote to his cousin, Melville f..
Stone, general counselor of the AS
sociated Press, and which, with Mr..
Stones reply, was published in tn.
New York Tribune, Gen. Dawes only
a few days previous to the exchange
Of letters between the two eminent
Stones had completed his work in
Europe and had published the now
famous Dawes plan"
In his letter to Melville E. Stone,
as published in the Tribune, Fred
Stone said:
For several weeks the thought
uppermost in my mind has been that
the fortunate circumstance. that We
had in the vice presidency at the
time of the death of President Hard
ing a man of presidential caliber
must not be left to chance in any
Evening star., 1924-06-22

he WOLF HOPPER, intellectual
= prince of comedians. believes that
had Mark Twain written lyrics he
might have been the American w. S.
Gilbert. In expressing this opinion,
he says:
Certainly in Punch, brothers,
punch with care, punch in the
presence of the passennaire,' Mark
Twain showed the same knack OF
rhythmic value, coupled with narrative
writing, for which the famous Eng
lish librettist is noted and very much
the same style as Gilbert used in For
I am the cook. the captain bold and
the mate OF the Nancy Bell Ger
tainly no other American author. un-
less il be Twain, suggests an Ameri-
can Gilbert.
Many people claim that Gilbert is
sophisticated. OF course. the play
goer who believes in taking nothing
with him to the theater except the
price of admission cannot appreciate
Gilbert, but neither can he appreciate
any other kind of humor, except Wis
ual.
However, the thought must not
obtain that Gilbert is a highbrow.
Somebody said he did not like Ham
let because 1T contained too many
Evening star., 1924-06-22

IMAGINE how much visual gayety
the world would lose il every
woman were restricted to dresses and
hats Of only two coiors-black and
white.
This occurs in ordinary motion pic
ture photography. To hurdle this
tremendous disadvantage producers
add more magnificence to the lines
and symmetry of costumes and set
tings. This has been done with such
success that the absence of color,
present everywhere in the everyday
world, has been but vaguely missed.
To-day, with the perfection of the
technicolor process which films in
natural color" says Ethel Chaffin, a
Paramount designer, Il feel that the
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Paris Cathedral at the disposal of
Carl Laemmle for the purpose OF
making The Hunchback of Notre
Dame" But all of them agreed that
the reproduction of the fifteenth cen
tury cathedral had been marvelously
executed.
The production of what MIR.
Laenmle plans to make the greatest
production of his career has been
entrusted to Rupert Julian, who di
rected Merry Go Round" in its first
thousand feet
Evening star., 1924-06-22

title until sorne magazine can ar
range contest among its readers
As an example, the Famous Players
Le-sky Corporation has just completed
a picture of that type which will
shortly be endowed with a title Sc
lected by hundreds of magazine
readers in title contest.
Metro Pictures Corporation re
Gently used a variant OF this idea in
submitting a synopsis of a magazine
story to the class in photoplay writ
ing at Columbia University and offer
ing a prize for the best title chosen.
The story was angel Face Molly,
by Fred Kennedy Myton, which ha-s
been put into production with Viola
Dana as the star.
The class entered into the spirit Of
the contest with enthusiasm, and out
of a list of nearly fifty titles sub
mitted the Metro concern selected
The Heart Bandit" suggested by J.
c. Kempyanee of New York city.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Feet Express Moods.

" NY mood asserts itself through
the feet as well as through
the face and hands," declares Mar
garet Livingston. and one Of the in
consistencies of acting which she
says annoys her the most is to see q
tired face and happy feet, or vice
versa on the screen.
We often speak of "telitaie eyes"
and hands that converse" Accord =
ing to Miss Livingston, talking feet"
are just as important in putting over
an idea in pantomime. Margaret de-
cIares that her feet do q great deal
toward putting over her characteri-
cations.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
The Little Dippers. .

THE Mack Sennett Bathing Girls
L have formed a club, which thew
call The Little Dippers." They in
sist that the name does not mean
that they go into the water seldom.
but that they believe themselves to
be potential stars
Only Sennett bathing girls are
eligible for membership in the club.
but when one of them "graduates''
into parts and leads her member
ship is not discontinued
The first member to graduate"
since the formation of the club was
Marceline Day, who became leading
woman for Harry Langdon when her
sister, Alice Day, left Langdon to
play leads with Ralph Graves.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Defense of Hokum
HyXTHAT is hokum-

HyLHAT is hokumr'
II would really like to
know" says Cecil B. De Mile. For
years / have read diatribes against
'hokum' as something no photoplay
should have, and as yet none of those
who SO glibly use the term have
offered any sort OF a definition.
Il feel that a little thoughtful in
vestigauon would rid US of 'hokum'
rs word of reproach, misapplied by
individuals who are ignorant of its
true meaning.
IF / were one of the playgoing pub
lie therater owner would need only
display one sign to get my money.
The sign would be: This play is full
of hokum.'
TO me Hokum' is ~the key which
unlocks the great heart of humanity.
'Hokum' presents quickly recognized
symbols of the reaction of men and
women to various emotional crises.
'Hokum. easily understood, a short
Evening star., 1924-06-22

cut to the heart, is the great central
thing which sells motion pictures.
God forbid that we ever grow SO
sophisticated that 'hokum' loses its
hold upon us! 'Hokum' is sincere,
trusting and optimistic 'Hokum' IS
not cynical. 'Hokum' stands guard
against those of advanced thought
who would warn us against love.
tears, laughter and loyalty.
Il have been accused of putting
hokum' into my pictures. I admit
it, and / am proud of it. l am also
very proud of the fact that my pic
lures still mean something TO the
public, whereas cynical, rhokum
despising directors who started with
me twelve years ago have long since
failed and been forced out OF the
business.
There is 'hokum' in such OF my
pictures as The Ten Command
ments, Triumph and Feet of Clay
and | hope that in the future my
writers may always provide me with
this invaluable ingredient"
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Important Belasco Announce.
ment.
MANAGER l. sToDDARD TAYLOR

MANAGER l. STODDARD TAYLOR
OF the BeIasco Theater has an
nounced that Thomas w. Fowler will
present at the BelaSco Theaser for
a limited time, beginning Monday
night June 30. with In Love with
Love-" a series Of plays interpreted
by a company headed by Robert Ames
and Lotus Robb, with Everett Rut-
terfield az the producer and John f.
Lang as the technical and art direc-
tor.
It Is stated that MIR. Fowlers nol-
icy will be to present plays only Of
the highest class. such as Two Eel
lows and Girl" Polly Preferred"
Wildwood" Magnolia, ..rhe New
Poor and other comedies and dramas
of similar high character-aIl New
York successes, but many new to
Washington.
There will be no Sunday perform
ances. no bedroom plays no sex pIavs
and no plays suggestive in text or
action: The mounting of every play
viii be given the most careful
thought.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Travel Like a Circns

METHODS used by the old trave1tns
4 circus companies were adonted
during the filming of Zane C;reys
"Wanderer of the Wasteland,"
According to the authors agree
ment. locations used for filming the
picture were selected in the wild
country described in the novel
The motion picture company was
organized after the model Of the
travelling circus of the nineties 1t
moved from place to place in Arizona n
and the Mojave Desert with Complete
self-dependence of a caravan Cooks
tents, water supplies and equipment
were transported by motor cars
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Tunes and Steps

Tunes and Steps" singing,
dancing and musical revue. is an
nounced for the Strand next week.
Others will include Rosite Mantilla
and Phil Seed in Sense and Nom
sense" Dan Jarrett and company in
Just a Pal" Harry Reed and Perry
Mayo in Vaudeville Moments and
the Brghtons, Artistic Ragpickers. F."
No announcement has as yet been
made as to the photoplay.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Coming Attractions
Keith $ Summer Revue

More than a score OF Washington
debutaptes and subdebS it is an
nounced. will present fantastic re-
vue at B. F. Kefth's Thea1er next
week. 1t will be produced by Donald
Macdonald as ~Keith's Summer Re
vue," and will be staged for the
beneft OF Roxie's hospital fund. to
provide radio sets for the ex-service
men and shut-ins. Roxy Is l. Roth
afeD himself will be present for the
Evening star., 1924-06-22
DANCING.
MR.. STAFFORD PEMnER

MIR. STAFFORD PEMRERroN,
Former N. Y. Winter Garden star, and
partner to Mae Murray, Gertrnde Hoffman
Stage training in all its branches.
Dancing-MusicaI Comedy-Dramatic Art.
Studio 1850 BiItmore St. Phone Col. 2802 z3s
HISS JOSEPHINE JACKSON, PRIVATE
dancing lessons; lessons, IS, or 81 single les
son. 1886 10th NV. Phone Potomac I'll. 21s
DANTSON'S Teach you to dance cor
La i1c' - rectly in a few lessons
PROF MRS. Strictly private, any hour.
1929 NJ ST NV. Class and dance Satur
MAIN 1882. day. Evng. with orchestra.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
CHESAPEAKE BEACH

On-fHe-BGv
Beautiful New Dance Pavilion and all Sea
shore Attractions.
Round Trip: Adults. Soc; Children. 2Sc
Except Sundays and HolidAysl
Trains leave District Line Station
Saturdays: 1000, 1890 2. 2:30. 3:25. 500.
Sundays: $50, ID: 80. II 80. g. 3:o6. 4:45 s.
Other Days: 10, 1870. 2:3o, $40, 8.
Frequent Trains Returning,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-01-31
FOREIGN

Japanese Prince Regent weds with
Shinto rites.
Germany reported ready to comply
with decisions of experts council.
Nine. Lenin sings dirge at funeral
of husband in Moscow.
French Chamber sustains Poincare
after bitter debate over his taxation
plans.
Premier Macdonald considers effort
to reach accord with France will be
extremely difficult.
AuspiciOus beginning leads Britain
to belief Macdonald government may
last for one or two years.
French Czecho-Slovak alliance for
mally signed in Paris.
Premier Macdonald seeks curb on
Red plots on India borders.
At 81 below zero Lenins mourners
keep street vigil in Petrograd.
British Psychologists finds mum
mics 2,642 years old at tomb of Ra-
NOSE.
French Chamber in uproar when
Poincare and Tardieu exchange sharp
words over Pyemier's internal loan
plan.
Obregon forces are engaged in heavy
fighting with 1000 rebel troops at
Acambaro, in Guanajuato.
Plans of experts to reform German
finance take form.
Russian leaders bury Ratchet as
tribute to Lenin.
Schwab in Berlin reported to have
arranged Ruhr deal.
London paper says Baldwin forced
Bonar Laws hand in debt settlement.
Premier Poincare's bills to raise
5000, 100000 francs for French budget
up.
Premier Macdonald, of Great Brit.
ain, is to resume diplomatic relations
with Russia and James O'Grady is new
Ambassador to Soviet Government.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-01-31
ANDERSON REVEALS
STRANGERS GIFT
'john T. King" Then Disappear
ed and Dry Chief Has Never
Seen Banefactor Since.

New YOrk.-An amazing story Of
how a mysterious John 7. King gave
him $4,000 for no particular reason
was related on the witness stand by
William H. Anderson, state superin
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, and
on trial for third degree forgery.
The forgery charge grows out of the
alteration Of the incorporated leagues
books, to make it appear that $4,000
turned over TO Anderson by o. Burstal
Phillips, who was splitting commits
sions with him, was for "hotel and
travelling expenses
Maude Odell, who was Anderson
confidential secretary testified that he
did not include the S4,400 on his in
come tax returns to the Federal or
State Government.
Then, taking the stand, Anderson
told about the easy thousands that
Mr.. King had thrust into his hands
in 1913 and 1914 how he loaned some
Of this money for purposes of the
league, and how he was merely en-
abling the league to pay back the loan
when he split commissions earned by
Phillips, moheyraiser for the league.
Thus Anderson sought to show that
this income was not taxable, having
been received in 1913 and 1914, when
no income tax law existed, and merely
refunded in 1919; and no basis existed
for forging the leagues book entries
TO nontaxable item, hotel and travel
ing expenses"
Anderson's astonishing story was
elected before Supreme Court Justice
Tompkins on cross examination con-
Quoted by Assistant District Attorney
Ferdinand Pecora. Under Pecora' 3
fire, Anderson had reviewed all the
details Of the employment of Phillips,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-01-31
SPORTING

Finland wins Olympic skating hon
ors
West Point cadets beaten by To-
ronto in boxing.
Jay Gould beaten in play for Cana
dian racquets title.
Travis Jackson affixes signature to
New York Giant contract
Harry Lewis, of Erasmus Hall High
School, Brooklyn, breaks American
interscholastic swimming record for
100 yards.
Charles Jewtraw, of United States,
wins the 500-meter Olympic skating
race Of Chamonix; Thunberg, of Fin
land, captures 5,O0O,meter event; Fin
nish team leads and America is third.
Eighth Olympics are opened at Cha
monk with customary ceremonies.
Hugh McQuillan, last regular New
York Giant pitcher, signs contract.
Gene Sarazen is up on Arthur G.
Havers after first thirty-six holes Of
seventy-two hole match on Pacific
Coast.
Everything in the tennis world is
again as lovely as day in June Dur
ing a dinner at the Racquet Tennis
Club, New York, the little argument
between William T. Tilden, I'd, and
the Davis Cup Committee was settled
amicably. The controversy once
threatened to rob the United States
OF its Davis Cup star
The New York Yankees have such
riches in pitching material that they
turned back to the Atlanta Club Of the
Southern Association Benny Kari, 4
smart twirler they had obtained dur.
ing the winter with George Dumont
former curve ball hurler of the Wash.
ington and Boston clubs.
McTigue is offered 100000 for bouts
with Carpenter and Young Stribling
Worlds light heavyweight champion
receives release from Joe Jacobs.
Pitcher Arthur Nehf sends in
signed contract to New York Giants
Manager Taylor threatens to with
draw American Olympic skaters from
games at Chamonix if extra trainers
badge is denied Carman.
Frank Churchill signed articles Of
agreement covering Pancho Villas
bout with George Marks for the fly
weight title.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-01-31
Ticks and Flashes Which BulIe-
tin in Condensed Style the
News of the World.
= TIMELY HISTORY PARAGRAPHS
Events at Washington Which Loom
Large as Crucial Happenings.
Industrial Activities at
Home and Abroad.
WASHINGTON

New bombing plane to carry sutfi-
Glen explosive to destroy largest war
ship.
Republicans on House Way and
E.eans Committee prepare to ignore
Democrats on income sections Of tax
bill
Representative Cable, Republican,
CT Ohio, introduces bill to extend pres
ent immigration Bill to June 80, 1880,
with certain amendments.
Attorney General Daugherty left for
Florida. He and Mrs. Daugherty, who
is an invalid, plan to spend several
weeks at resorts.
j President Coolidge announced that
If evidence of criminality is brought
out in the Teapot Dome oil lease those
concerned in the negotiations must be
prosecuted and the lease annulled.
This followed exposure Of a $4,000
loan to Fall by counsel for Sinclair
under the latter's orders.
E. L. Doheny, holders Of rich oil
lease in California from Government,
testifes he lent Secretary Fall $780,.
0O0
Senate voted without dissenting
voice to take from committee Cara
way 3D., Ark resolution declaring
Tea Pot Dome naval oil reserve lease
void
United States government warns
against private sale Of war craft to
Mexican government.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-01-31
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

House committee to report Mellon tax
plan intact.
Gen. Hines contempIates plans for re.
modelling work of Veterans 6u-
reau.
Representative Garrett introduces
joint resolution to void Teapot
Dome oil lease.
Republican leaders may urge Cool
idee to GUST both Daugherty and
DENLY over Teapot Dome oil dis
closures.
Charging propaganda by New York
"foreign interests" Ohio Congress
man offers drastic inning. aticn
bill. j
The fight against the confirmation Of
George B. Christian as member
of the Federal Trade Commission
was resumed in the serate with re-
doubled vigor, Senator Shipstead,
of Minnesota, leading the fight.
Coolidge selects special prosecutors
in Teapot Dome inquiry; Daugh-
erty washes hands Of case.
Joint legislative committee opens
headquarters to direct nationwide
fight for VoIstead law modifica'
ton.
Bitter battle over surtax rate to DO
fought on floor of House.
House Ways and Means COMMITTEES
agrees to repeal nuisance and ex-
else taxes totaIing 100000.
Former Secretary Fall received S25r
900 loan from H. F. Sinclair on go
ing 20 Russia for oil operator, Col.
ZeVeIy testifies.
Coolidge cracks whip in vain fer MS'-
ion tax bill.
Criminal prosecutions toreshadowed
by White House following Teapot
Dome lations; basis laid tor
case against Attorney General
Caugherty; NcVely swears he lent
Fall $4,000 for Sinclair; iattsr's
Russian concessions to the fore