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Evening star., 1924-03-16
Thy Name l.
Woman"

At Boew's Columbia this afternoon
the new Fred Niblo production for
Metro, Thy Name Is Woman" will
be offered as this weeks attraction
The cast selected by Director Fred
NibIo for this love story of old Spain n
is headed by Ramon Novarro. remem-
bered for his performance in "Scara
mouche." and includes Barbara La
Marr, William V. Mong. Robert Ede-
son, Wal'ace Macdonald, Edith Rob-
erts and Claire MacDowell.
Thy Name Is Woman" is the screen
version of another Broadway play, by
Karl Schoenherr, in which Mary Nash
and Jose Rubens achieved success,
and which was seen here at the Shu-
bcrt-Garrick.
1t concerns a young Spanish SOL
dier. who, at the suggestions of his
commandante, enters into Il plan TO
infatuate the wife of Pedro the Fox,
a noted smuggler, in order to assure
his conviction. The young soldier
falls madly in love with her. how
ever, and the crippled old smuggler
takes a hand in the game just as the
couple are about to elope.
The supplementary features will in
clude only the International News
and orchestral establishment
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Metropolitan The Dan.
gerous Maid"

"castance Talmadge will be pic
tured at Crandall's Metropolitan The
ater this week, beginning this after
noon, in THE Dangerous Maid," her
most pretentious production, together
with the new two-reel comedy, "One
Night 1t Rained." featuring Harry
Tighe and Ned Sparks. and an elab-
orate orchestra program, including an
overture comprising gems from "The
Chimes OF Normandy" Paderewski's s
''Minuet," the theme melody from
"Mignon'' and "Sweethearts' Lane"
"The Dangerous Maid" while en-
livened by a vein of delightful
comedy, Is essentially a romantic
drama. Constance Talmadge appears
first as a beautiful young woman who
feels it necessary later to don a male
garb and with a sword and a supply
of kisses to bring CONSERVATION and
defeat to the armed forces of the
king. The production. is executed on
{. mammoth scale, and the photog-
raphy is said to be extremely artistic.
Conway Tearle. Morgan Wallace,
Charles Gerard, Marjorie Daw, Kate
Price, Fully Marshall. Thomas Rick
stts, NAnn May and lincoln Piumm er
make up the cast.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
New Art In Movies

HENRY KING, the director respon-
sible. for "The White Sister,"
feels that the motion picture industry
is no longer an overgrown child with
"a tremendous body and tiny head,
but that the brain has been gradually
nourished and that something vital
and human has been put into the body
of the movies.
TT is no wonder" says Mr.. King,
that newspapers and magazines have
|overfiowed with articles on What's
wrong with the movies?' There has
been plenty to find fault with and
plenty of reason why only 10 per cent
of our population patronizes the mo-
|tion pictures.
""The time has come, however, when
the pietures will take their rightful
place as an artistic entertainment de-
manding serious consideration. AL
ready the light is breaking. We have
attained a technical perfection ex-
product rod Of a % few = short 10 a years. ao onr 5nr
l'ghting is in many cases exquisite.
Our photography is unrivaled. Our
directing Is genius. OF course, / am
speaking of the best examples, be-
cause, after all, we judge our progress
in new feds by our leaders.
"True, we need actors. But cannot
help feeling that the potentialities are
in the ones we have, providing we
give them the material from which to
draw some inspiration. The movie is
reaching the point where the actor is
called upon to do something more
than just register an emotion. 1t is
necessary for him to feel the role he
lis acting, to know thoroughly the
background of the story and of the
character-in other words, to really
create the part.
"The cost of the so-called super
picture has risen by leaps and bounds
from a quarter of million to a half,
then to million, million and a half,
and now we have the two-million
mark. Directors and companies vie
" it'll one another In an unreasoning
competition to see who can spend the
most money. But more money does
Evening star., 1924-03-16
A Quaint Biography.

A NTON TCHEkHOFF, author of
THE Cherry Orchard is averse
to talking about himself. On one or two
occasions, however, he violated his usual
custom, and one of them is found in
the course of n letter he wrote to a
friend. This is what he said:
You want my biography? Here it
is: I was born in Taganrog in 1860.
l finished the course at Taganrog High
School in 1879. In 1884 i took my de-
gree in medicine at the University y
of Moscow. In 1883 1 gained the
Pushkin prize. In 1890 / made a
journey to Sakhalin, across Siberia, and
ack by sea. In 1891 l made tour
If Europe, where l drank excellent
wine and ate oysters. In 1892 1 took
art in an orgy in the company of
v. A. Tihonoff at a name-day party.
"I began writing in 1879. The pub
ished collections of my works are:
Motley Tales In the Twilight
Evening star., 1924-03-16

THE director of dramatics at tho
Central High School, Miss Sibyl
Baker. recently announced that the
costumes for the spring play. Tire
laWney of the Wells" must be ready
much earlier than usual this year
Miss Cribs and Miss Merrill of the
domestic art department, who had
been studying the fashion books as,
siduously for some time, showed
signs of consternation. Why such a
sudden and urgent demand for cos
tunes three weeks before the play
was TO be given?
Miss Baker explained that owing to
tha fact that the modern young iaoy
is unaccustomed to passing through
a three-foot door in dress nve 1eeI
wide. and that the modern young man
does not feel at ease shaking hands
over several yards of billowly crino-
line, it was found necessary TO nave nave
ali rehearsals in costume. Miss Griges
ana Miss Merrill accepted the ultl-
matum gracefully and by March Il,
Evening star., 1924-03-16

VAUDEVILLE has come to mean al
most anything and everything
that can be presented upon the the
atrical stage. Its range reaches from
grand opera to low comedy, from the
spectacular to the acrobatic, and
many of it's acts are the offerings of
d single person, with a company
who plays the accompaniments, or
who merely acts as a valet or waits
on the only performer.
But there is vast clientele that
Graves vaudeville, hunts for IL and
eats it up when it is found. And SO
vaudeville, in the effort to cater to
this demand. has widened it's domain.
until now nearly everything in the
way of theatrical entertainment. even
the circus, may be found at one time
or another in the vaudeville program.
At the beginning of the current
season, when the Cosmos Theater
was reaching out for greater worlds
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Ambassador-"The Danger
Gus Maid"

Constance Talmadges newest pic
ture, "The Dangerous Maid" will be
shown the first three days Of this
week at Crandall's Ambassador Thea
ter also, together with Aesop fable.
From Rags to Riches and Back
Again." and the Pathe News, with
orchestra music, including a prelude
from Reginald De koven's 1.-The Red
Feather" Wednesday and Thursday
Gloria Swanson as a young Apache
will be seen in her strongest charac-
terization in "The Humming Bird"
together with Charlie Chase. in
Don't Forget" and with Massenet's
"Manon' as the orchestral overture.
Friday and Saturday, Douglas Mclean
in the amusing screen version of Go
ing Up" with Marjorie paw, and
"Over the Fence" a comedy, with
overture selections from Hirsch's
musical comedy. Going UD." and
short reels.
Evening star., 1924-03-16

'Stories,' tSurly People and a novel,
The Duel
81 have sinned in the dramatic line,
too. though with moderation. 1 have
been translated into all the languages
with the exception of the foreign
ones, though / have indeed long ago
been translated by the Germans. The
Czechs and the Serbs approved of me
also, and the French are not indif-
ferent.
The mysteries Of love 1 fathomed
at the age of thirteen. With my COL
leagues. doctors and literary men
alike, l am on the best of terms.
am a bachelor. / should like to re-
ceive pension. 1 practice medicine.
and so much so that sometimes in the
summer 1 perform post-mortems,
though I have not done so for two or
three years.
''Of authors, my favorite is Tolstoy;
of doctors, Zaharin.
"All that is nonsense, though
Write what you like. If you haven't
facts, make up with lyricism."
Evening star., 1924-03-16

THE poet who said music hath
charms and a few other things
knew what he was talking about, &C
.ordine to Joseph Schildkraut.
Young Schiidkraat, whose fame In
he movies and on the stage is well
known. gives all credit for his success
- an old violin which he constantly
carries with him. The violin has no
particular value, yet he has had 1T SO
long he prizes it more than were II
4 costly Strad. :
whenever he feels blue he plays a
-evy strains; whenever an audience Is
cold or fails to accept his efforts ne
gets out the instrument, and when ne
~eads a new play he always pauses
-one enough between reading each
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Lincoln-Blanche Sweet in
Anna Christie

"Anna Christie" Thomas H. Ince's
film version of the famous play by
Eugene O'Neill, will be shown the
first three days of this week at the
Lincoln Theater, U street at 18th. The
title role is played by Blanche Sweet
and the cast includes George Marion
and William Russell. The comedy
will picture Neal Burns, in Foo
Proof Wednesday and Thursday,
Marguerite Courtot, in The Steadfast
Heart" and Dorothy De Wore and
Babe London. in Christie's two-reel
icomedy, kidding Katie; Friday and
Saturday, Colleen Moore, in Through
the Dark the story of a seminary
girl who brought regeneration to a
band of crooks of which her own
family had formed q part unknown
to her, together with paris Lights"
starring C.iff Bowes; short reels and
special music arranged by Louis NJ.
brown.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Crandall 's-W. S. Hart in
>"White Oak"

William S. Hart, foremost deIineator
of rugged western types, will be pic
tured the first three days of this week
at Crandalrs Theater in white Oak -
la play of action and thrills, tog. ther
with Jimmy Aubrey, in The Hay
seed; Wednesday and Thursday, Col
leen Moore, in Through the DARK a
melodramatic romance in which a
seminary girl is implicated with a
band of crooks of which her brother
is leader, and Paul Terry, in a new
Aesop Fable, why Men Leave Home:
FIR day and Saturday, Glenn Hunter,
May McAvoy, Ernest Terrence, George
Fawcett, Zasu Pitts and Riley Hatch,
in the film version of Homer Croy s
story, West of the Water Tower"
with Cliff Bowes, in Gave Inn" Short
reels and pipe organ music are added
daily
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Cosmos Photoplays.

TO conquer, it formed n connection
with the Keith booking offices for its
vaudeville and with the Stanley Com
pany of America, which deals only
with the finest photoplays, first-run
comedies and short-picture subjects,
for its screen entertainment.
Under this arrangement the very
choicest of photoplays are being pre-
scented weekly in its vaudeville pro-
gram and without extra charge. The
management believes the general
public has overlooked this splendid
feature of it's bills and now is point
ing with pride" to the fact that its
photoplays are of the latest releases,
with the greatest screen stars and of
the finest quality supplied by the
films. Pied Piper Malone" and THE
Humming Bird" are pointed to as re-
cent offerings, and this week Leah
Baird will be seen at the Cosmos in
her latest big picture, THE Destroy
ing Angel" which is quite new to
Washington.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Sang and Stuck to It.

roles in operetta in stock, in virtually
all the present and past successes.
1T was really by chance that ] took
up a stage career. / was singing in
a church in Boston when Henry W.
Savage heard me and offered me d
position on the stage. At the time
did not intend to remain on the stage
permanently. But I came of a theat-
rical family. and l guess it was the
line of least resistance for me to re-
main once I arrived
II have, been in this work almost
without any break since the time
Henry W. Savage offered me that first
job, while j was still at my own home
town of Springfield, Mass
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Central High Drama.

the date Of the first performance, Miss
Baker feels sure that the gentlemen
will have earned to keep their dis
tance" and that the ladies will glide
through doorways as gracefully as
the SenoraS in "Sancho PanZa-"
Much interest in these newly ar
rived costumes has been evinced dur
ing the past few days on the part OF
those privileged to witness rehearsals.
1t was with genuine gasp of sur
prise that a selected group of observ-
ers saw the marvellous creations for
the first time. There is a much be
ruffied white muslin. robins egg blut
silk, y fowered cambric and many
others-aH modelled in minutest detai.
after the Victorian fashions of the
early sixties, the era of the hoop skirt
and peg-top trousers.
AS the acts take place at different
seasons Of the year, there is necessa-
rily a great variety in the costumes,
all of which are being made in the
domestic art department OF the
school.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Central-''After the Ball" i"

Crandalls Central Theater, beginning
this afternoon, After the Ball." a
romantic melodrama, based. on the
famous song hit of 1893 by Charles
X. Harris, with cast including Miri-
am Cooper. CASTOR Glass, Edna Muir
phy land Robert Frazier, will be
shown. The story deals with the
question of whether a prison record
is a bar to happy marriage. Horse
shoes featuring Larry Samon: the
Evening star., 1924-03-16
VIII at MakesStage Success? E?

only route to success back of the
footlights.
THE faithful actress is student
Of human nature, psychologist, and
visionary. all combined In one. She
does not live surface life. Her feel
ings, thoughts and acts are sincere,
genuine and true. In many ways
she is something of doctor-philoso-
pher. She analyzes and treats. She
must be a thousand people in on =
material physical being. But her
spiritual and emotional selves must
,e paramount. Feeling is her, one
guide. And the personality that can
accomplish these triumphs Is per-
sonality that can find success on the
stage.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
FLORENCE REED. who has climbed

FLORENCE REED, who has climbed
to the pinnacle of glory in the
past few years, has her own
Jews as to what creates stage sue
ess.
'Interpretative power" she. saws,
is a gift. Actresses are seldom made.
crue enough, managers have been
Known to establish so-called stars.
)ut their pseudo-brilliance soon
timinishes. The real actress is the
,ne who has a big personality--a
God given gift-tegether with the
subsidiary supports that go to make
distinction. And fame, If 1t is won.
is not acquired by looking pretty and
thinking specifically. Work is the
Evening star., 1924-03-16

and musical comedy
" have been the chief field of my
stage work during my entire profes-
sional career" says Henry Coote.
81 have played virtually every tenor
role in all of the musical comedy
md operetta productions OF recent
wears at one time or another" con-
t;nued Coote. "I was in The Waltz
oream,' Chocolate Soldier The Lilac
0omino,' The Firefy, Naughty
usriette and The Rose Maid have
,Iayed at the Winter Garden and in
he .F'oIlies' and have played 2s5
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Avenue Grand Specials.

TRANDALL'S Avenue Grand The
ter announces two costly added
attractions for the current week. To-
day at the 5, Z and 9 o'clock perform
ances and tomorrow at 7:30 and $50,
a musical treat Is promised by Ger
aid Cooks Oriole Society Orchestra COM
posed of eight syncopators who will
play the current dance and song hits.
Thursday, at 1850 and 9:35. pm. a
gifted violinist, Miss Sweeney, will
be heard in a miniature recital with
pipe organ accompaniment. These
added offerings will be made without
increases in prices.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Violin an Inspiration.

act to dash off little music. It is
the violin, and nothing else. he says,
that his kept his spirits up when it
seemed as if all the world was against
him.
Despite his dignified and reserved
manner, he likes to play jazz music
best, but he will not admit 1t. Only
his closest friends are given the priv
ilege of hearing him play Yes, We
Have No and similar melodies.
When he thinks some one hears him
he dashes into heavy selections from!
II wouldn't take $4,000 for my vio-
lin," he says. ITS probably worth
only 500, but to me it is priceless.
I carried it during all my tours in
Europe. for it is my inspiration as
well as my Solace."
Evening star., 1924-03-16

not mean better films. And producers
are slowly awakening to that realiza-
ton. It becomes increasingly diff
cult to make the public give back the
cost of these er-spectacles. The
present stoppage of production by one
concern is a silent admission of that
fact.
THE crisis is here. And from it
VIII emerge, not necessarily the
bigger picture, but the better picture
The true art of the motion picture is
the satisfied audience"
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Studies Life In Court.

ANTONIO MORENO studies ma
school of life on two mornings
of each week in the criminal branch
of the Los Angeles police court
I'm the various cases which I hear
tried" says Moreno, II see men and
women in every conceivable mood.
There are those who have stolen,
forged. lied and even killed for love
OF another, for personal gain or even
tU satisfy an appetite for adventure
and action. Each of these characters
contributes something to my knowl-
edge Of all phases of life which I can
utilize on the screen"
Evening star., 1924-03-16

Kinograms and pipe organ music will
be added attractions
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Fred Thomson. Hazel Keener, Josef
Swickard. Tailor Graves, Wilfred
Lucas and Chester Conklin will be
seen in North of Nevada" western
melodrama. in which climaxes pur-
sue each other other with amazing
apidity. Flying Finance" a COM
'dy featuring Neely Edward and
Mack Swain, with short reels and
,ipe organ music, will be added at
fractions
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Apollo.

Today and tomorrow, Richard Bar
thelmess, in '"Twenty-One,'' and
Dorothy DeVore. in kidding Katie;
Tuesday and Wednesday, Thomas
Meighan. in "Pied Piper Malone" and
Dippy-Doo-Dad, Loves Reward;
Brother" and Neal Burns, in Fool
Proof; Friday, Frank Mayo, in
wild Oranges" and Cliff Bowes, in
Heads Up; Saturday, Strongheart,
in THE Love Master" and Spat Fam
ily, in Let's Build"
Evening star., 1924-03-16
News andComment
Bu w. H. Landvo;;qt.


TvR havngl doubt they
\xHying something better but there
w the they do which must be painful to those
ymost deeply interested For time there storm of
pictures which the producers stretched into inter-
better and bigger pictures Accordingly they began to
public demand for better pictures The response with bigger
pictures did the demand Washington has
Gently had illustration the of Hunehback OF Notre
which the s. admission prices 1t
plainly that the public need expect the
picture at less than scale Thanks
enterprise Harry Crand the brought back at the
poian
Illustrations of the pubcs dsapprova of the attempt
popular into the ranks costly
m sun , m . 30 or % th .d1s % of n;ces can he
how producer apparently
applying the forcing process
THE reports conclusion there that th
play dead" Also that cit for films and
and booeggng divorces and motor will be the main
circles until the belief becomes did few
years society stuff dead also Assuming that the bewide
Hollywood due an honest doubt as to the best tor
the the inference natural that what needed movie produ
brains much morals 1t has been evident for
long time that the director has been the dominating picture pro-
But is that "boxofhce influence has played
tricks with directors and authors and that there have been un
ant public uerances by the latter because OF Inc new"
indicate that and in the potopay world should
by both There have been
many pictures
that phoopay production sincerely climbing toward the
heights that accessible to with honest endevor for boost
FURTHERMORE, likely tough
grind ] to 9v s n & It's they have 9a
@ | the e with bs1 the @ d ne
o that P9Ps1 % ses Pss
g 5 @ 5hss 1 ind o os
sbo % lack attendnee Sa the payhouss say
CHARLIE by
~ will what als the movies gotten leading
% H nss % ss 1 @ 9f % G EsRS says satsu @ 5s"
% e4o a Al
sTs s M n as' boost the curiosity see the next Chaplin picture " which
OUR Hart actor
only recently welcomed with and acclaim
ns m q e and ese y did did
and that M m s Players will or Bh Dans
with her pictures Film Daily authority the
effort is being made law New York applicable the
or sea M s % I % & @ aaS s years % o sgt o f
& Be G
THE picture by seastro will be "rhe Tree
made ths n by 5 nsa @ & R9 The Swedish already has
Chaplin will be advertised Paramount
There said to be much talk Los Angeles
BRENoN who his frs. fame for his Annette Keller
w "f a a hs
DArHE to release April novelty Birds of
which will picture the annual migration birds
IN Ohio retail eoh association has voted Ramon Noyarro "hs
Rodp redmted to the graces s OF the
Thomas W. Gim dyed wool picture
Ian I with this oumn about misleading and
mores pity. ' ~ ~
.1HE THIEF OF BAeDAD Doasss Fairbanks latest picture
SION Ss9 ' the IN Ts York at @ top price OF
>.THE COVERED WAGON" eomDsd years run at the Criterion
Theater New York last week The
MARY PHILB1N having King Bag
Cummings welding The meeanhone. ~ s
PhotoplaysThis Week.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Avenue Grand.

Today and tomorrow, Thomas
Meighan, in 'Pied Piper Malone; !;
Tuesday and Wednesday, Richard
Barthelmess. in ''Twenty-One," and
Dorothy Devore, in kidding Katie;
Thursday, Virginia Valli, in wild
Oranges" and Dippy- -Doo-Dad com
edy. Loves Reward; Friday, j.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
This Week
At the Photoplay Houses This Week

AT the fnotopIay Houses lhIs Week
Tanadge, "The Dangerous Maid"
Shown this afternoon and evening.
PALACE-Women Who and even;rg
COLUMBIAThy Name Is Woman" Shown and
evening.
RALTOEinor Gyms Three Weeks" Second Week. Shown
this afternoon and evening
Observation-Disclosures Tanadge, -
Shown this afternoon and evening. E
CENTRAL-After the Ball" Shown afternoon and evening
CRANDALLS-W Hart in "White Oak" this afternoon
and
(ColoredBanche Sweet Christie Shown this
afternoon and evening
Evening star., 1924-03-16

CrandaHs Exhibitors Film Ex-
change, under the management OF
Edwin A. Sherwood, has moved lint,
new ofYlces on the eighth fioor Of the
Mather-, building
Evening star., 1924-03-16
Palace
Next Weeks Photoplays

COLUMBIA-Gioria Swanson,
in "A Society Scandal"
METROPOLITAh-"The Gal
Looping Fish" (and Jan Gar
ber'S Orchestral.
RIALTO-"Daughters OF To-
day" (and the California
Ramblers Orchestral.
PALACE-"The Fighting Cow
ard" screen version of Booth
Tarkington's Magnolia"
AMBASSADOR-"The Gallop-
ing Fish Don't Call 1t
Love-" The Temple OF
Venus" and Not d Drum
Was Heard
CENTRAL-"The Old Foor'
and Going Up"
CRANDALL'S-"The Heritage
OF the Desert" Pied Piper
Malone and "The Night
Message"
Evening star., 1924-03-16
GASION
GLASS
Central
No Tailored" Sandwiches


THERE are ham sandwiches and
ham sandwiches!
So discovered the property man for
George Melford, while the latter was
directing The Dawn of a Tomorrow
y scene in the picture required a
yeritable bundle of sandwiches to be
eaten in the attic of London tene-
ment house. Jacqueline Logan, Ray
Griffith and Alma Bennett, in their
characterizationS, were supposed to
be starving. On came the sandwiches,
tasty. attractive things, with thin,
Waferlike bread, minus cruStS.
Vow barked Mr.. Melford. Where
in the London Slums do you suppose
sandwiches would be served like
that? Take 'em back. Make each
slice of bread at least an inch thick
and leave the crusts on. Wrap them
in newspaper, and take these cor
rectly tailored sandwiches over to a
drawing room set"
Evening star., 1924-03-16

TV HAT time the movies havngl There is doubt they are
IA Hying climb something better but there
w Etanty which be painful to those