Evening star., 1924-11-16


l grams for children at Crandalrs
Tivoli Theater have created nation
wide interest. After exhaustive study
and vast amount of expert
mentation, Mrs. Harriet Hawley
Locher, director of the public service
and educational department of the
Crandall Theaters. and Peggy Albion.
one of the most accomplished story
tellers in the United States, have hit
upon a form of entertainment that
has proved so successful that the
Tivoli juvenile policy is being adopt
ed throughout the country at the
behest of the Will H. Hays organi
zation in New York. Saturday, No
vember %. Immediately following
Thanksgiving, the youngsters will be
treated to a view of Mary Pickford
in "Pollyanna.'
The now policy of presenting sew
eral film plays of the first grade each
week at Crandalrs Tivoli Theater.
instead of a single bill composed Of
screen, musical and stage attractions,
1t Is announced, has met with instant
public approval. The first week of
the new program policy registered
maximum patronage.
Helen Margason. graduate dancer
Denishawn. conducted by Ruth St
Denis and Ted Shawn. who will be
remembered as the classic dancer who
appeared with Lawrence Downey,
local baritone, now with Irving Ber-
Inns new Music Box Revue" in the
atmospheric prologue to The Brass
Bottle" at Crandalls Metropolitan
Theater, has temporarily abandoned
the stage and has taken up her resi-
dence in the Capital.
Tho Girl Of Gold" a story by
Cleveland Moffatt and Anna Chaplin,
is to be filmed with Florence Vidor
in the title role, and Charles Meredith
| opposite.
Buster" Collier has been signed
for a featured role in Playing With
Souls" a Ralph Ince Production. In
the meantime he is playing the male
lead in The Devils Cargo for Para
mount.
Carl Miller will play a romantic
role opposite Nazimova in THE Re-
deeming Sin," a ]. Stuart Blackton
production.
Moreau Preston has been appointed
assistant to the Rtalto house mana
ger. Preston has been at the Rialto
since It opened its doors in 1918 and
previous to that time had been with
Bob Long at Keith's. Every one in
the theatrical profession is glad to
see Preston advanced and today he
doffs the uniform of the head usher
and dons the dinner coat of the man.
agerial staff.
The past week was Columbian
Women's Club week at the R;alto in
honor of Mrs. Rinehart's picturized
story "K," which was played there.
The lobby all week resembled the
drawing rooms of the fashionable
folk present
The new uniform Of the ushers at
tho Rialto is a novelty for Washing
ton and Is a product of the West. The
| coat Is buff with mulberry colored
trousers. The coat is cut low enough
for the boys to wear a white stiff
bosomed shirt, with wing collar and
black bow tie. Every man also wears
white gloves and as soon as one pair
| is soiled another is supplied. The
f1appers stand in awe at few OF the
lads who can out-Valen:ino Valentino.
Marcus Loew, president of Metro
Goldwyn, has purchased Pembroke,
the country estate Of the late Capt.
Joseph D. Dc Lamar, at Glen Cove,
Long Island. paying fer it over
81, 600, 900. It has a water frontage of
| $50 feet, with a residence surrounded
| by tropical gardens, with a mosaic
tile swimming pool 70 feet in cir
cumference.
Frank Borzage, who is to direct "A
Mans World" from the Zoe Atkins play,
| Daddy Goes a-Hunting," for Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer, is adapting it in
collaboration with Kenneth Clark,
| q new scenario writer, recently added
| to the staff employed at the Culver
City studios. Borzage claims that
Miss Atkins drama is unsurpassable
screen material.
The golden bed made for Cecil B
| De Miles newest Paramount picture
1.-The Golden Bed" is said to be the
largest individual job of woodcarving
since the days when strangely fash
toned furniture was the vogue. This
! bed, the symbol of luxury, Is made OF
three carved swans, one curving over