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Evening star., 1924-07-13
Glen Echo Park.

Glen Echo Park. with it's score of
diversified amusements, offers an ideal
locale for an all-day family outing,
Reached by electric car ride along tho
bank of the Potomac, with fast and
frequent car service, or by motor via
Conduit road. with ample parking
space directly In front OF the park
Glen Echo is situated In a beautiful
part of Maryland, close to the Poto-
mac. At the park are beautiful picnic
groves under large shade trees, with
rustic tables and benches and spar
king spring water near at hand. Ad-
mission to the park Is free always.
The amusement devices include the
shooter, electrically driven cars that
glide over steel flooring and can be
operated by grownups or kiddies;
big coaster dips, with eighty-five- foot
drops, and the derby racer, with many
steep inclines. with the caroussel for
the children. There is also a big
midway" which houses a dozen or
more fun features.
The big attraction week nights is
the dancing in the large. electrically
cooled ballroom, with music by a Jazz
orcheStra-Andy'S RythImonicers
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Looks After Details.

D EFERENCE to the making of mo-
tion pictures as an art is, in many
quarters. the cue for laughter. There
have been many inartistic pictures. to
be sure, but silent drama has, also
enlisted the active interest and active
participation of many of the recog-
nized exponentS of the arts. both in
this country and abroad-men and
women of high education and attain
ment.
Among authors who have directed
screen production of their stories are
Rupert Hughes. Gene Stratton Porter,
Rex Beach, Leroy Scott, Maeterlinck,
and scores more.
Rex Ingram, maker of The -Four
Horsemen" and "Scaramouche." was
a sculptor, and has now siEnified his
intention of deserving the films per-
manently for his first love. making
his home in AlgierS. Victor Schert-
Finger. director of many excellent
photoplays, is a musician and COM
poser whose works are ranked hlgh
by musical leaders and critics PEN
rhvn StanlawS. celebrated American
Illustrator and painter, has directed
many camera dramas. and maurice
Tourneur. native F'renchman, an artist
of renown before he transferred his
talents to the screen, is well known
as a director of American pictures.
Tourneur, it is thought, probably
permits his art to reveal itself upon
the screen to greater degree than
many of his contemporaries. he
thinks, literally. in pictures and ar
tistic composition. 1t was he who
Evening star., 1924-07-13
"Manhandled.

CEvERAL months ago S. r. Kent
~ general manager of distribution
of the Famous Players Lasky Corpo'
ration, was struck by the picture pos
sibilities of story of the shop girl
who is beset by temptations in hei
struggle for living. When he sug-
gested the idea to Arthur Stringer
novelist and short story writer, tn.
latter Immediately saw it's possibil-
tiles and put it into story form. II
was published in the Saturday Even
ing Post.
Recently, Rev: Fred Alan Macdonald
of Worcester, Mass, in sermon at
the Old South Church. based his ser
mon on the same theme and summed
up the moral behind the story by
saying:
sterling moral character should be
one of the chief qualifications of a
young woman. Stores discount their
shop-worn goods because too much
handling spoils the merchandise and
removes it's freshness and bloom"
In the meantime, the story has been
made into a picture by Allan Dwan
with Gloria Swanson as the star.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

realized for the silver sheet the rare
beauty of Maeterlinck's The Blue
Bird" before the Belgian poet him
self was persuaded to take an indi-
vidual interest in the new medium of
expression.
Tourneur pictures are noted. as a
rule. for touch of the sensitiveness
of the director to the beautiful
things of life. Perhaps not in every
scene but certainly somewhere in
every subject. the artist shows
through.
His latest production. The White
Moth" romance of the Parisia n
stage. is said also to reflect the cor
might reasonably be expected to shat
ter once popular delusion that Paris
is where good Yankees go when they
die.
Many Of the scenes that necessarily
take place in a theater disclose a
major portion Of the audience as well
as the full stage. The audience is
dressed in conformity with the re-
cent French edict that gentlemen may
attend the theater only in formal at
tire Every actor in the scenes was
compelled to do himself up like a
poutcr pigeon in starched shirt and
swallow-tail coat.
This action on the part OF the
French Authorities is said to have
been a rebuke to American tourists
who followed the comfortable prac-
tice of attending the Paris play
houses dressed in whatever they hap
pened to have on-paJamaS, bathing
suits and overallS excepted.
Or was it just Tourneur's little
ioke?
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Men Are Loyal.

MAE MURRAY had wifely "ex-
III perience" recently, when she
found herself without husband in
Los Angeles. She had left the Culver
City studios early in the afternoon to
go to Los Angeles. and Robert q.
Leonard, her husband and director,
who is always On the lot" was to
ioin her later. He was detained at
the studio"
Miss Murray became anxious, es-
pecially when terrific storm came
UP, and she was unable to get In
touch with the studio over the tele-
nhone wires. After an intolerable
wait it occurred to her that perhaps
Mr.. Leonard, held up on account of
the storm, had decided to spend the
night with friends. so she wired four
friends of her husband.
A little later, however, Mr.. Leonard
arrived safely. Just a little later Miss
Murray received four answers from
Mr.. Leonard's friends. All four an
swers were the same: Yes Bob Is
spending the night with me-"
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Fantasy of the Screen.

<eVXIHEN a motion picture director
or stage producer begins to
create fantasy" says Herbert
Brenon, there is one thing which is
essential if his effort is to succeed.
He must approach his task in the
mood of a child 1t makes no differ
ence how clever the fantasy may be.
If it is without that spirit of naivete
which distinguishes the childish
imagination, it will fail in it's pur-
pose. If, as in the case of Peter Pan,
a pirate or an Indian enters the story,
it must be the child's idea of a pirate
or an Indian. The adult conception
of either would be as much out of
place as the child's pirate on the
decks of a real ship or the child's In
dian in a real forest.
1.-The same applies to animals which
may be introduced in the fantasy.
Children attribute to animals the
powers of thought which they possess
themselves. I have known children
who held long conversations with the
family dog or cat and who reported
faithfully to their parents everything
which the animals said.
children will sometimes create
familiar spirits to whom they go for
advice upon variety of subjects.
What these spirits say is frequently
Suoted as justification for some child
fish caprice. Fortunate, indeed, is the
parent whose own youth is still vivid
and who is able to sympathiZe with
these artless dreams.
I'm the unweaving of the plot" con-
tinued Mr.. Brenon, vice must be pre-
sented according to the child's idea
of being bad, and virtue must con-
form to the childs idea of being good.
It is the sweetest and the simplest
things which must be brought out. :
Fantasy calls for the most finished
actors. The parts they play must be
presented as a child conceives them.
TT I were asked to give q reason
1nE the failure of two or three fan
Evening star., 1924-07-13

4 FTER six and a half years prep
aration and research. Conan
Doyle's story, The Lost World" is
now under way at the First National
studios, Hollywood.
This unique story, the feature ac
tors of which are the mammoth di-
nosaurs which lived on the. earth
millions of years before man, is to
be transferred TO the screen on a
scale heretofore undreamed of by the
picture world.
An idea of the immensity Of the
undertaking is seen in the shoot
ing of one OF the spectacular Sc
quences of the play-when the 120-
foot brontoSauruS. brought To LOndon
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Old Light Best.

WHAT ails our eyesight? This
w query is not for the tired busi-
ness man in the bald-headed row, but
to the nation at large. 1t seems as
though half the population is adorn-
ed with large rubber-tired spectacles.
Charles Ray had a few hours ses-
sion with a good book under the diff
fused glow of an old-fashioned kero-
sene reading lamp recently while
making his new picture, and some
one asked him how he could read by
such a poor light. ,.,
"Poor lightr' he exclaimed. ITS a
good light. Couldn't be better!" And
went on to state that many persons
are going back to the old-fashioned
lamp for reading, because electricity,
with its hard, penetrating rays,
seems to do the eyes more harm than
%People did more reading, in the
old days, the print was smaller, yet
their eyes lasted longer. why was
it?" .o ,,oh 1;ebt
;s worse than too little.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

nave never seen so many beautiful
girls in all my life as ! have in the
last f1ve months in New York City.
Most of them are dreams of lowell
ness. They are blessed with remark
able compilations and have superb
figures. Most of the girls in this
country are larger than our girls and
they present a more striking appear
ance."
This is rather a free translation OF
Miss Duvars words about the Ameri-
can girls beauty, for she speaks very
little English, but Rene Hubert. a
Partisan, who was also connected with
the filming Of Monsieur Beaucaire,"
has vouched for the substance of the
French girls words.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Just Human Nature.
From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Walter c. Tindall of religious Oct

From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Walter c. Tindall of religious Ocean
Grove, who shocked New Jersey with
his exposure of scandalous Deal
Beach stag parties, said the other
day:
'WelI, human nature is human ma
ture, after all. There was once
venerable old Quaker who left be-
hind him when he died a diary in
twenty-seven volumes. This diary
was the record Of a blameless-an
almost holy-life, and page after
page was filled with the most ele-
waiting reflections.
Very frequently in the margin OF
the diary the odd phrase IT. and F.
appeared. Pages recording truly
sanity days would have IT. and F. on
their margin time and time again.
1.-The venerable old mans heirs
finally discovered somehow the mean
ing of the cryptic phrase 1t meant:
'Tempated and feIl.'"
Evening star., 1924-07-13
He Treats EN- Rough.

WALLACE BERRY says that people
w often ask him how he likes play
ing the brute, and his reply is that
he doesn't like it
When a heavy succeeds in max
ing everybody hate him." Berry ex-
plains, he is credited with a wonder
full piece of acting. Producers all
send for him to do similar parts, and
in Justice to his family and his. pocket
book he can't we'll decline.
But nobody enjoys being hated
even by proxy, though. fortunately
in the films one doesn't hear the misses
of the audience. l don't so much
mind mopping the floor up with big
fellow who can stand it, but when
it comes to making ferocious faces al
and frightening a gurgling baby
well, my heart almost fails me-"
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Hopper Shows Real Self.

and has been from time immemorial
Gam 1 going too fast) 1t has OBJ
tanned for centuries and has achieved
more infinite good than any other me-
dunn.
Nothing can pound a lesson home
like the background of dramatic
appeal. Reach a mans sympathies
and he will never forget the truth
contained. Nothing is more sNmpa-
thetic than the appealing drama.
(Here l am, dealing out the old didac-
tic puff to you who are of the younger
gCnerationD
Il despise the salacious. You can
teach valuable lessons with Whole- :
some laughter or beautiful thousht
much better than with unpleasant
suggesiveness. You men may tell a
smutty story to you man friends, Dut
would you tell 1t to your sister! !
That is what you are doing when you
take her to a salacious play.
Il practice what | preach | want
Gilbert and Sullivan to be accepted
as the standard of superlative excel
lcnce. In man. communities they are
on a mar with the immortal bard. All
places, | believe. in time will credit
them with that position. and that
time is not far off. either"
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Leaves EN- All Behind.

owner of the Crandall theaters
in Washington and of the First Ma
tional franchise for the Washington
territory and the Exhibitors Film
Exchange, will lead the annual pill
grimage. of Crandall executives to
Lake Hopatcong, N. j., next Friday,
also accompanied by Mrs. Crandaii
and the Misses Mildred, Olga ana
Dorothy CrandaH.
The party will include also Joseph
P. Morgan, general manager OF the
Crandall interests, and Mrs. Morgan
John j. Payette, assistant genera
manager, and Edwin a. sherwood
MANAGER of the Exhibitors Film Ex-
change; Mrs. Sherwood and their son
Edwin, jr.
The outing will be of a months
duration.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Middleman Animosity.

CPENDING 100000 of somebody
- elses money on a challenge is all
right if it comes out all right. If it
doesn't-well, life in the movies is a
short, merry one anyway.
Gould you take the original story
the book-and direct a play from
it without use Of a scenario or
script?" Kathleen Norris, novelist,
asked Of Clarence L. Brown, director.
Sure" said Brown.
prove it," said Miss Norris, and
presented Brown with four copies of
"Butterf1y," her novel, to which Uni
yersal had purchased picture rights.
This is the reason a perfectly good
movie script was thrown away and
the story was Transcribed directly
from the book to the screen.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

COR every thrill registered on the
screen, it is said, there Is a dra-
matte counterpart which is not re-
corded. Stars often risk their lives
for realism, and their cameramen US
ually experience the same, FOR even a
greater hazard. An instance occurred
during the filming of some outdoor
scenes in THE Man Who Fights
Alone" William Farnums Paramount
picture.
Guy Wilky, boss" cameraman. had
to shoot" a bridge across gorge as
it fell, leaving Lois Wilson dangling
from the edge of the chasm. The
"shot'' had to be made from an angle
that would show the depth of the
Evening star., 1924-07-13
An Attractive Gypsy Type

set up a little colony, which has kept,
throughout the years. their customs
language and religion unchanged.
Miss Johann's people were of this
group. and they made their home on
the "puszta," or prairie as we call 1t
in our country. Her father was an
officer of the Hussars. and on his
trips of inspection his little dark
haired daughter was often his COM
panion.
1t was in these trips that she en-
countered the gypsics. and grew to
love and admire the sspontaniety an. and
artistry Of their carefree lives. The
verve and abandon of their impro-
vtsed singing and dancing was ever a
joy and an inspiration to her, and she
determined that she too. would fol-
low a career in which the could ex-
press the temperament and develop
the art that constantly urged her ON.
To these early romantic surround
ings and experiences of the little Zita
of the "puszta." Miss Johann at
tributes much of her success today,
and these memories remain a con-
stant source of inspiration to her in
her chosen career.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

tastes which have been we'll done, I
should say it was because the di-
rector failed, in the first few hun
dred feet of film, to place his audi
ence in an unworldly frame of mind.
The purpose of fantasy is to draw
each world weary person out of him
self and make a child of him again.
The moment director treats any
scene in a worldly fashion, or mixes
with it some of the worlds cynical
philosopby, he misses his point.
THE child in us never really dies.
The best proof of this is the rever-
sion to childishness which comes
with old age. In many of us the boy
or girl asserts itself all through life
in our actions
to her husband; You are nothing but
a boy" For f1eeting moment, in
some chance action or word, he has
betrayed the eternal youthfulness
which. underlies all the worldly wis
dom accumulated through experience.
greater. opportunity for achievement
than drama, farce, news reels or edu-
cational matter. Despite this, it is the
least exploited. The reason is not due
to lack of Hans Andersons or Ste
vensons or Barries. 1t is because the
powers which control production have
yet to- be convinced that fantasy
would be popular with the public
Those of the present generation
who have not seen Peter PAN or
who have not read the prose from
which it is drawn may have an idea
that that great genius, Sir James
Barrie, was giving far deeper mean
ing to his fairly tale than ever he
intended
Barrie wrote Peter Pan for the
purpose of giving back their lost
youth to those who saw 1t. That he
succeeded is proved by the fact that
audience after audience, carried away
by its beautiful simplicity, responded
to Peters plea from the stage and de-
clared their belief in the existence of
fairies.
ITO attack Peter Pam from any
angle except that of a delightful.
wholesome fairy tale would prove
fatal *
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Camera Man Risks Life.

gorge and the risk taken by Miss
Wilson.
At his suggestion he was hauled up
the side of the precipice with ropes
to a narrow ledge ninety feet above
the rocky river bed. There was just
room to plant the camera tripod.
There could be no retakeS no re-
hearsals, as the bridge was massive
structure which would take weeks to
rebuild-so the "shot" had to be right
the first time.
Getting one arm around a stunted
sapling growing in the face of the
rock. Wilky swung out at snarp
angle over the chasm to sight for his
camera angle, and turned the trick.
But Farnum and his director, who
watched his maneuvers from a dis
tance, heaved a deep sigh OF relief
when it was over and Wilky was
Evening star., 1924-07-13

SVOU will pardon me If l don't get
up. There is helluva lot of me
downstairs
1t was the voice of the walrus, not
the carpenter. downstairs" was be-
low the table which graces the box
office of Polls Theater. A silver
handled crook cane. high hat and a
press agent also graced the table
Above the table the interviewer dis
covered the Intriguing countenance
of the gentleman known officially as
De Wolf Hopper, and unofficially as
Hopper De Wolf, an intriguing name
breathing the personality of per-
sonality.
De Wolf Hopper is a tradition. as
traditional as jefferson, Irving, the
Booths. For almost half century
he has graced the American stage as
an exponent of the bluff, the hale and
the hearty. For a genexati tion he has
been a crusader for the clean, with d
flow of talk as beautiful as a printed
page.
Il derlore the nobility of any great
institution being belittled with COM
mercialism," he says. THE theater is
one of the noblest of all institutions
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Raiment and Poverty.

uDEOPLE chatter lot about the
psychology Of clothes-one's
mental reaction to clothes. etc." be-
gan Bessie Love, as she sat between
scenes during the shooting of "Dy-
Mantle Smith," Charles Rays new
picture.
She looked like q quaint little
trump under her pancake straw hat,
with its skinny .'ostridge' feather,
her "choker" collar, barred silk shirt
waist with leg O mutton sleeves, long
skirt, gored tightly to the waist line,
nared out around the ''founce," and
that choice decoration Of yesteryear-
the Feather boa-r"-around her neck.
"well. 1 want to say there is some
thing to 1t. / understand now why
poor people are apt to stay poor.
Shabby clothes certainly induce what
the psychoanalysts term an "inferior-
ity complex-" can see how one
.choly II forced to wear dirty. old
clothing for any length 4of time
Evening star., 1924-07-13

4 MONG the interesting group Of
players which are entertaining
Washington this summer, an out
standing personality is Miss Zeta
Johann. the ingenue of the Belasco
Theater Players. whose g!rlish ap-
peal and sincerity are fast winning
many admirers.
Though but twenty years of age.
Miss Johann has already been identi-
fed with several of last seasons most
important productions, and critics
both on Broadway and elsewhere
have paid her high tribute for dra
matte and interpretive proweSs.
However, the most interesting thing
about this young actress is the un
usual and colorful background against
which her slim years have been
reared.
Coming to this country some ten
years ago. just a bit of delightful ac-
cent remains of her speech. and she
tells a romantic tale of her home and
people that claims the interest.
Many years ago group of AlSa
tians journeyed to Hungary and there
Evening star., 1924-07-13
A Wide Stretch.

FROM Battery Park to the Golden
Gate and the 5000 miles between.
Such was the location site of Sun
down." Earl Hudson's epic picture of
the fast fading west, just completed
the scenes of which were taken in
eight different states, in two coun-
tries-the United States and Mexico.
A part of the story is unfolded in
the crowded tenement districts OF
New York. but for the greater part
the tale is spun ION the trail with
10000 cattle forming a background.
Scenes were taken in Texas, Ari-
zona. New Mexico, Utah, Chihuahua
and Sonora, with interiors at the Cal
ifornia studios.
The camera battery Travelled more
than $1,000 miles by train and on
horseback to film the story.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Don Give Up the Slip.

TACQUELINE LOGAN declares. come
= what may, she will not surrender
to the tight-waisted. long -sleeved
dress, no matter how many fashion
able seals it may have upon it.
In Dynamite Smith" she was
obliged to wear a flannel shirt" waist
and wooden skirt all through the
Alaskan episodes of the picture. The
shirt waist had to be tied with tape,
and the skirtband pinned to it, then
covered with the old time leather
belt
"A nuisance to put on and off,'
complained Miss Logan. and mar
'tistic. il seems to me-this being di-
vided at the waist. Also annoying to
wear.
The loose. slip dress. with it's
straight, Greek lines, is a thing OF
beauty and joy forever. Women
will be foolish if they discard it for
close fitting models of any outline.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Audiences Not a Mass
Formation.

The actor must bear in mind that
he is performing to individuals, not
to an asSemblage. And As his ar
tistry makes its impress upon each
separate entity, he gradually. one by
one. wins to his mood, and for his
further moulding, d majority and
sometimes all of his listeners. In
stead of bringing with them an at
titude of hostility, people enter the
theater in a respective, anticipatory
mood.
Even today it is common to hear
a back stage remark to the effect
that that was tough audience to-
night The actor thus moved to
utterance should realize that the fail
ure has been his own and not that
of the paid customers. He has not
launched with sufficient persuasive
ness the thousand and one mental
wires of contact which establish
warm glow of comradeship between
the player and those who sit beyond
the footlights.
when the capable actor charac-
terizes at his best there never is
any question of his audience not be-
ing with him.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

"TIME was" says Winthrop Ames,
publicity man. when actors
were wont to think that audiences
were we'll symbolized as huge, hos
tile monsters, quick to sneer, and
difficult to bring into d sympathetic
mood.
That feeling has entirely changed
during the past decade"
1T is Freud with his doctrine of
dualism who has charted the truth
for U.s." declares the writer. Freud
and the members of his school have
shown US by means of psycho-analyt-
ical that the mod mind although
often a unity in its general effect, is
attuned to individual currents.
We have been taught to think
of our audience not as a mass forma-
ton, but as an aSSemblage of many
entities. Each member of an audi
ence, generally, is alert and eager to
receive the message of the player: to
merge. for the time being, his own
ego with that of the character be-
yond the footlightS.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Stamps for Wall Paper.

Rev. A. Bussi, retired priest, of
Burbank Calf, has papered two
rooms of his home with 142,242 can
celed postage stamps. More than
thirty years were required in collect
ing the stamps. Every nation in the
world is represented on the walls and
the ceiling On one ceiling is a de-
sign of the Stars and Stripes, with
Italian stamps forming a blue field
and American two-centers the red
stripes. The brown staff upholding
the banner consists of Canadian
stamps