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Evening star., 1924-09-28
Columbia-"The Covered
Wagon"

The Covered Wagon. James
Cruces spectacular perturbation of
Emerson Houghs romantic novel of
the overland trail in the early days
of the West, has been held over for
another Seven-day engagement at
Loew's Columbia, beginning this aft
ernoon.
This is the splendid photoplay which
had a run of four consecutive weeks
when first rpesented in Washington
at 81 prices several months ago, and
which has established itself as one of
the most powerful and successful
screen dramas of the old West ever
produced.
j. Warren kerrigan and Lois Will
son have the leading roles. while Tul-
ly Marshall and Ernest Terrence, in
character parts, offer characteriZaitons
which have made screen history.
Over 5000 supernumeraries appear in
the picture which reveals in sweep
ing. unforgettable fashion the epic
conquest of the region beyond the
Missi ssippi by the hardy pioneers of
the period who braved hostile In
dans. prairie fires, flooded streams
and starvation to establish new homes
and bring into the Union new en-
pire.
Owing to the unusual length of the
production added features have been
curtailed, though a fine musical en-
bellishment is provided by the Column
bia Orchestra, under Leon BruSilof.
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Tivoli-" Fools In The

Fools in the Dark" the first-run
screen offering at Crandalrs Tivoli
Theater this week, beginning this aft
ernoon, is proclaimed one of the most
unusual of mystery-thrillers. Matt
Moore and Patsy Ruth Miller have
the leading roles. The added attrac-
ton will be the Abbey Trio of vocal
lists. together with a new issue of the
Tivoli's Mirror of the Living World"
"Tivoli Wanderings" and music by
tho newly reorganized TIvoli Orches-
ira under Elias Breeskin
Fools in the Dark concerns the
sen of a wealthy manufacturer, whose
suit is not favorably looked upon by
the girls guardian, a sinister. arro-
CANT scientist. Much to every ones
surprise, he suggests an elopement.
This is thwarted. and the girls life
seems to be put in jeopardy-so the
youth stays in the house as her pro-
tector. Then things begin to happen
The house is a museum Of frightful
relics, trick panels, self-opening doors
and windows, strange lights and eerie
sounds. The girl is always just be-
yond reach and death seems to lurk
in every nook and Granny of the place.
But these are only the beginning of
stirring incidents that hold the inter-
est to the end.
sisters, appears in specially staged
songs, with original scenic and light
ing effects by John J. Payette. in
charge OF productions at the Tivoli.
The Tivoli Orchestra will play
Herold's Tampa" as the concert over
ture and a melodious interpretative
score.
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Palace" Sinners IN
Heaven"

A romance of the tropics is un-
folded in sinners in Heaven the
Paramount picture which opens its
first Washington engagement at
I.oews Palace this afternoon with
Bebe Daniels and Richard Dix in the
leading roles supported by Herbert
Holmes Florence Billings. Betty Hill
burn and Montague Love.
Sinners in Heaven was directed
by Alan Crosland from the English
prize novel by Give Arden. The ex-
terror scenes of the production were
all filmed in the Bahama Islands. The
screen version closely parallels the
incidents of the novel and is punct-
uated with thrilling episodes, includ-
ing an underwater fight between the
hero and a native chieftain.
Miss Daniels is seen as an EngilSh
girl who, engaged to the man she
loved, Joins a party on round-the-
world flight by hydroplane. In the
tropics. the plane is wrecked and all
but the girl and a male member OF
the party are drowned. These two
however land on the tropic island
where the man succeeds for time
in convincing the natives he IS
Il god and where the forces OF their
environment draw the man and Wom-
an closer together.
The added attraction Will include
a new Mack Sennett comedy, an
derine Waistlines." the Screen AL
manac. showing stars of the stage
and screen at work and play, the
Pathe News and orchestral contrlou-
fiODS.
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Educ alton and the Screen.

THE special Saturday morning per-
formanceS for children to be
given at Crandalrs Tivoli Theater,
Fourteenth street and Park road
northwest, and opening October IL, it
is announced. will not in any sense
sisnalize the discontinuance of the
other valuable activities of the pub
lie service and educational depart
ment of the Crandall Theaters, which
has blazed a trail for the entire coun-
try through the foresight and gener-
osity of Harry NJ. Crandall.
1t is planned by Mrs. Harriet Haw-
ley Locher, director of the depart
ment, to resume next month the CO.
operative work with the District OF
Columbia school authorities in de-
veloping further the scope and the
value of the motion picture as an
agency of visual instruction.
With the launching of the new
school year, the visual instruction
classes will be resumed in all the
Crandall neighborhood houses. These
classes are conducted by principals
and teachers of the public schools
and substitute the motion picture
screen for the less interesting and
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Park.

Today and tomorrow, Betty Compson,
in '"The Enemy Seq; Cliff Bowes, in
Pardon U.s." and Pathe News; Tues
day, William Farnum. in "The Man
Who Fights Alone" Mermaid comedy,
Family Life and Grantland Rice's
Spotlight. Building Winners: We'd
nesday, Viola Dana and Lew Cody, in
Revelation; Charley Chase, in out
door Pajamas," and Bruce scenic, Ozark
Timber; Thursday. Gloria Swanson. in
'The Humming Bird Aesop fable,
"Housecleaning," and Pathe News; Fri
day, Tom Mix. in 1.-The Trouble Shooter ;
Our Gang comedy. Tire Trouble" /;
Jack Dempsey. in The Fight and Win
Stories" No. l.; Saturday, Bebe Dan
iels and Richard Dix, in "Unguarded
Women; Mack Sennetts comedy,
BLACK Oxfords"; Lyman II. Howe's
"Speedville," and Pathe Review. Matt
nee only, twelfth episode of "The Fast
Express" starring William Duncan.
Doors open daily at $50 pm; Sat-
urdays, pm, and Sundays. 3:45 pm,
with continuous performances both
days.
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Metropolitan In Holly
wood With Potash And
Perlmutter."

In Hollywood With Potash and
perlmutter," Samuel Goldwyn's pic
turization for First National of the
successful play, Business Before
Pleasure" by Montague Glass and
Jules Eckert Goodman, will be shown
for the first time in Washington. with
Alexander Carr and George Sidney in
the roles of Mawruss Perlmutter and
Abe Potash, at CandallS Metropolitan
this week. beginning this afternoon.
y selected comedy. the Metropolitan
World Survey, glimpse of scenic
beauty and IL delightful musical pro-
gram by the Metropolitan Orchestra,
under Daniel Breeskin, will complete
the entertainment.
In Hollywood With Potash and
Jerlmutter" takes the famous part
hers to the West coast as producers
OF motion pictures. Their first effort
is Z colossal failure, so they decide
to make a vampire picture as d
sure-fire box-otfice attraction. The
difficulties, both professional and do
mestic, in which they soon find them
selves afford the finest opportunity
the screen has known for clever and
amusing satire aimed at the indus
try in which Mr.. Goldwyn, the pro-
ducer. is one of the leaders. 1t is
the second picture in the Potash and
perlmutter' series and is said to be
n big improvement on the first pic
ture, which was shown last year. In
addition to Alexander Carr and George
Sidney, the only actor in America
thought to be equipped to succeed the
late Barney Bernard in the role of
the senior partner, the cast includes
Vera Gordon, Betty Blythe, Anders
J;aT dolf and Belle Bennett.
The camera version was made by
Frances Marion. and the subtitles
were written by Montague Glass.
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Movies Need City Editors.

MORE city editors with big blue
~ pencils and less word men are
what the motion pictures need today.
according to Allan Dwan, Paramount
producer of pictures. This statement
was made during one of the almost
daily discussions that go on in a big
motion picture studio about the i'm
provement of photoplays-
Yes, in spite of what captious
critics say, there is a constant effort
among thinking producers to find the
ideal way to make the perfect motion
picture.
Most scripts for the average mo-
ton picture are too long," explained
Mr.. Dwan- I'VE need some one to be
hard boiled with us, to slash and cut
out extraneouS material-Some one
like city editor, who wants his story
told smashingly, coherenuy and with
the human element stressed.
We are gradually advancing to the
point where our screen writers are
developing the faculty of thinking
photographically and not In words /;
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Novel or Screen Story

out disappointment to those who in
dulge in both presentations. The
media of expression are necessarily
different-as different as an English
translation of a French novel is from
the original
Much is lost say those who know
This handicap is very great, some
times unsurmountable.
"On the other hand, the original
story for the screen is more vivid
more thrilling. So far as the public
is concerned, it is new, viewed for
the first time. No preconceived i'm
pressions of characters or memories
of the plot rise up to clash with the
screen presentation. For that reason
it holds the interest better and is
more entertaining. One must see it
through before ono can tell abso-
lutely whether they like it or not
Some may think they know long be-
fore. but there is often a surprise
finish for them.
1T is written especially for the
technique of the screen, and for that
reason is, or should be, boiled down.
showing great amount of dramatic
action in a small amount of footage.
It's unfolding is certainly different
than it would be for the stage; closer
to what it might be in a novel.
I'm my own experience the most
successful stories l have done have
been original ones by a screen writer
or one who had the screen in mind
when writing
Evening star., 1924-09-28
m b assa dor-1n Holly
wood With Potash And
Perlmutter.

IN Hollywood With Potash and
perImutter" is announced also for
,.,.lndalrs Ambassador Theater the
first three days of the current week.
hcginning this afternoon. The PIC
rur.e is more fully described as TINS
weeks feature at Crandalis Metro :
politan. Comedy, news and scenic
subjects with pipe organ music py
oLto F. Beck. concert artist, will be
added attractions.
Wednesday ar Thursday, Ramon
Eovarro and Alice Terry will be
seen in Rex Migrants THE Arab
a romance of the Orient based on the
rlay by Edgar Selwyn, and the Spat
Family. in suffering Shakespeare
with added short reels. Friday only,
Jack Holt and Norma Shearer, in
I'aramount's production of Empty
Hands" a romance of the Western
country and New York's elite, and
Walter HERS in his new two-reeler,
"Short Change George Arliss, Tay-
Tor Holmes and Edith Roberts Will
L. seen Saturday in Twenty Dollars
a Week modern domestic drama
Evening star., 1924-09-28
st AM a firm believer in the origi-

IT AM firm believer in the origi-
nal story written for the screen" "
says Charles Ray, the screen star.
"The screen method of unfolding a
story is quite different from the stage
method, every one will admit. Many
things are taken for granted on the
stage, while in pictures we show
them.
Some critics think we use too
much footage on this sort of thing
that We should get on with our story.
This has been mainly due to the fact
that the screen, as we'll as the stage.
has been straining after realism
think we have about completed this
cycle. Many persons still like to see
the actual action, but we are settling
down more and more to the real art
of making an audience feel that it
has seen something when we have
really only implied or suggested it.
For the most part, / am against
the novel being adapted for the
screen. The main objection is that
people with any imagination at all
form their own pictures of characters
when reading a book, and are diSap-
pointed when they see them portrayed
on the screen. The more widely read
the work, the more criticism invited.
Even if a casting director succeeds
in getting players who are almost
satisfactory to every one, situations in
the story have to be changed, elimi-
mated or arranged in a different Sc
quence, often not to the readers lik-
ing.
"A picture is very short, compared
with a written story. Whole chap
ters of a book must be left out for
reasons of footage. An author often
takes pages, sometimes a chapter, to
explain a characters mood, his rea-
son for an act and his attitude toward
life in general. An average siH-reeler
slips by very quickly and a director
must manage to get all this over in at
least two short scenes.
I'VE probably shall always havs
popular novels and stage plays
adapted for the screen, but not with
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Lincoln" Tarnish." )"

.Tarnish," the screen version of the
stage play by Gilbert Emery, will be
shown at the Lincoln Theater the
first three days of this week, Begin
ming this afternoon. 1t is story of
modern love combining comedy,
Dathos and thrills, featuring May
McAvoy, Marie Provost, Ronald Col
man, Harry Myers, Norman Kerry and
Albert Gran. "Aggravating Papa
featuring Jimmie Adams. and the
Kinograms will be added features.
Wednesday and Thursday, "Vanity's
Price," a story of love and rejuvena-
tion, featuring Anna Q. Nilsson,
Wyndham Standing. Stuart Holmes,
Lucille RickSen and Arthur Rankin,
and also Harry Langdon. in Flicker
ing Youth" a new Mack Sennett
comedy, together with children of
Germany'; Friday and Saturday. Eli
leen Percy and Irene Rich, in Yes
terdays Wife; Our Gang" in Hal
Roach's Seeing Things" and nov
lily reel, Bees"
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Central-"Women Men
Marry."

At Crandalls Central Theater to-
day and tomorrow. beginning this
:fternoon, Women Men Marry,
FEATURING f. X. Lincoln, Hedda Hop
Ter and Julia Swayne Gordon with
Cvril Chadwick and Margaret Sed-
don. a story of present day domes-
1icity. will be shown with Jack
,lrempsey's second release in his
Fight and Win" series. "a Society
Knockout: new Aesop Fable, The
Mouse That Turned" short reels and
nine organ music. Tuesday and We'd
nesday, wine of Youth" picturing
Eleanor Boardman, Johnnie Walker,
Niles Welch, William Collier, jr and
others will be shown with Jimmie
Adams. in Nerve Tonic" a new
comedy. Thursday and Friday. Jackie e
Coogan in Little Robinson Crusoe,
by willard Mack; the Spat Family,
in Hit the High Spots" and the
Kinograms Saturday, 'Untamed
Youth" starring Derelys Perdue and
Lloyd Hughes. and killing Time" "
starring Lloyd Hamilton.
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Cables Princess Yolanda.

DRINCESS YOLANDA, daughter of
the King and Queen of Italy, was
married to Count di Borgolo April 8,
1923, just about the time Marion Da-
vies started work on her picture, "Yo-
landa."
Recently Miss Davies sent to the
Italian princess a cablegram reading
as follows:
Congratulations on the birth of
your daughter. Best wishes for the
good health of you and the baby.
Your romance, marriage and this
happy event has particularly inter-
ested me, as my next motion picture,
'Yolanda,' is a namesake of yours"
Miss Davies, following the dispatch
of the cable, announced that she
would shortly arrange for the send
ing of a print of her new film to
Princess Yolanda for private
screening in Turin.
"Yolanda," based on Charles Majors
historical romance, is woven around
the romance of Princess Mary of Bur-
gundy, who, in the masquerade of the
burgher girl Yolanda, wins the love
of Europe's most dashing prince. The
story is set in the fifteenth century
in the period of Charles the Bold,
Duke of Burgundy.
Evening star., 1924-09-28
F1lmograms S

MAURICE ELvEY. the noted Eng
lish director, will direct Shirley
Mason in "Curley Top" one OF
Thomas Burke's celebrated Limehouse
stories.
B. p. Schulberg. after diIa,ing
upon the possibilities of presentIng e
the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in
screen form, wound up with the re-
! mark: I'VE must keep on producing
until the time is ripper"
Charles Ray has started his Sec
ond Ince-Pathe feature, The Des-
ert Fiddler" an adaptation of William
III. Hamby's novel.
"Entisement," adapted by Bradley
King from Give Ardens novel, of1er-
ing great opportunities to the three
players in the leading roles. will be
the next Thomas III. Ince feature for
First National.
"The Mirage" based on Edgar
Selwyn's play, in which Florence
Reed was starred, is being adapted
for the screen by George Archain-
| baud, with Florence Nidor in the
stellar role.
1.-THE Chorus Lady" with Margaret
Livingston as its star. will soon be
ready for release through Producers
Distributing Corporation.
1t is said Metro-Goidwyn- Mayer
| endeavored to obtain permission from
Roman authorities to reconstruct the
| famous Circus Maximus in order &c
| faithfully portray the chariot scene
| in Ben Hur," but failed and had to
purchase 400 acres Of ground upon
| which TO construct new Circus
MaXimus.
Ida Waterman, well known actress
of the stage and screen, has been
selected by Dimitri BuchoUetZki for
the role of the Princess Beatrice, the
| intriguing mother of the '"Fhe Swan
which is to star Elsie Ferguson in
| the Paramount screen version or the
stage play.
John Russell has completed the
scenario Of "Argentine Love-" an
original story by Vicente Blasco
Ibanez. which is to go into production
soon at the Long Island studio, with
Bebe Daniels and Ricardo CorteZ in
the featured roles. Allan Dwan will
direct.
Jacqueline Logan will be Richard
u
Live" to be made at the Long Island
studio under Paul Sloane's direction
Miss Logan recently appeared oppo-
site Mr.. Dix in Manhattan"
Two leading women have arrived in
the East for Tongues OF Flame, >
Thomas Meighan's next picture They
are Bessie Love and Eileen Percy.
Joseph Henabery will be the director.
Not all the thrills incident 70 the
! making of motion pictures are vouch-
safed to the players. In filming some
of the daring rescue scenes on the
top OF a 12-story building in New
York for Dangerous Money" it was
necessary for the cameraman to take
his place on a platform projecting
eight feet from the edge Of the roof.
While Tom Moore saved Bebe Dan
iels, the operator cranked leaning
over the edge of his flimsy perch.
All Little Neck, Long Island, resi-
dents who could, turned out last
week TO watch a medieval costume
ball on the shores of their bay. The
bay shore had been transformed into
Lage Maggiore, Italy, with silk lam
terms, old barges and festoons, for
Bebe Daniels picture, dangerous
Money" under direction of Frank
Tuttle.
Alan Crosland has arrived in Holly
| wood and is soon to begin filming
Top Of the World" The story is by
Ethel NJ. Dell. England and South
Africa are the backgrounds.
! Six Russian refugees, former mem
! bers of the most dreaded of Europe's
| fighting forces, the Cossacks, appear
Evening star., 1924-09-28

THE impression seems to be gaining
ground in screen circles that in
spiration is vastly superior TO per-
spiration in the manufacture of cell
luloid fiction. AS an example of the
actual ox-office value Of inspiration,
such pictures as THE Birth Of Ma
ton" and "The Covered Wagon" are
being cited.
Those who have seen and compared
these two pictures have been struck
by the similarity that exists in the
strong effect of realism and actuality
that both directors achieved, although
the materials they employed are the
same that are constantly employed in
the perspiration school of production.
In some curious way, both Griffith
and Cruze, in these productions,
seemed to forget that they were
merely making a picture. In both
the fires of creation were flaming
high and the result is a hypnotic
suggestion of actual occurrence rath-
er than the mere unfolding Of nc
tional events on screen,
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Potash and perImutter.

Many Of the situations which lent
a distinctive quality Of originality as
we'll as the charm of keen humor to
the stories as they first appeared in
print were based upon actual Incl
dents. Others he invented.
When Al II. Woods determined TO
translate the stories into drama, he
naturally commissioned Mr.. Glass TO
'sit in" with Jules Eckert Goodman
in the fashioning Of plays that were
destined to make Alexander Carr and
the late Barney Bernard the living
embodirnents OF the world-famous
characters.
When Potash and Perlmutter" wa s
converted into a film comedy these
same two masters of comedy and
pathos were retained in their original
parts, but with the lamented passing
of Mr.. Bernard. casting problem
confronted Mr.. Goldwyn.
An excellent bit of managerial
judgment prompted the engagement
of George Sidney to succeed Barney
Bernard in the lovable character of
Abe Potash. Mr.. Sidney is veteran
actor whose experience dates back TO
two decades ago and more, when he
was playing the same sort of Jewish
character in Ward and Vokes produc-
tions that David Warfield played con-
temporaneously with Weber and
Fields.
Evening star., 1924-09-28

perhaps less lucid text book. The
Crandall organization contributes the
theaterS, house staff and projection
lists as it's part of this new plan of
motion picture and educational de-
velopment. Miss Eliza beth Dyer and
an assistant teacher will cooperate
with Mrs. Locher in selecting and
editing films for school use. Miss Dyer
served in the same capacity last year.
Miss Maude Alton, principal of the
Americanization schools of the Dis
trict of Columbia, is a stanch ad-
vocate of the picture screen as a
means of intoxicating in the minds
of the foreign born who seek Ameri-
can citizenship the real principles
upon which our national life is based
and the varied activities that enter
into the composite of the Nations
daily existence. Miss Alton has reas-
signed Mrs. Herman to the charge
of the classes held weekly in the pro-
lection room of the Metropolitan
Theater. Many made films
depicting various forms of Ameri-
can agricultural and industrial ac-
tivity have contributed to the ef-
feCtiveneSS of this work
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Inspiration and Perspiration

"The Covered Wagon" was admit
tedly an inspirational picture on
James Cruces part. He was given
the script to make a program picture
and he Immediately saw in it the
materials and makings OF an epic. So
powerful was Cruces belief in the
possibilities of the story that he be-
gan a veirtable campaign with the
high officials of the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation to persuade them
to advance the funds necessary 20
make THE Covered Wagon" into
drama, rather than a mere movie.
With all due respect to Cruze, THE
Covered Wagon" does not resemble
many of his other pictures. 1t has IA
force of conviction, a soul. that none
of his earlier or later pictures, made
in the course of the days work, pos
sess. The same goes for Griffith. who,
of recent years has seemed all too
frequently to part company with in
spiratfon and fall back on the mere
sweat of his brow for motivation
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Apollo.

Today and tomorrow, Mae Busch
and Adolphe Menjou in Broken Bar
riers" and Lloyd Hamilton in Going
East: Tuesday and Wednesday,
Jackie Coogan in Little Robinson
Crusoe" and Lyman H. Howe's
"Hodge-Podge"; Thursday and Fri
day, Betty Compson and Wallace
Beery in THE Female" and Mack
Sennett's wall Street Blues: Sat
urday, Estelle Taylor and Pauline
Garon in Forgive and Forget" Earl
Hurd's "Boneyard Blues" and INSTALL
ment No. 2, rInto the Net"
Evening star., 1924-09-28
Savoy.

Today and tomorrow, Jackie Coogan
in Little Robinson Crusoe" and Clih
Bowes in "Drenched"; Tuesday and
Wednesday, Mae Busch and Adolphe
Menjou in Broken Barriers" and
Mack Sennett's "The Lion and The
Souse"; Thursday, Viola Dana and
Adolphe Menjou in open All Night"
and Louise Fazenda in 'Dizzy Daisy;
Friday, Johnnie Walker and Mary
Carr in 'The Spirit of the U. S. A"
and Jack Dempsey in "a Society
Knockout: Saturday. Fred Thomp..
son in 1.-The Dangerous Coward"
juvenile comedy. THE Junior Part
ner," and insta1lment No. 3, Into the
Net"