Evening star., 1925-09-20
PALACE-"SaIIy of the Sawdust.' -

PALACE-"SalIy of the Sawdust."
n. w. Griffiths photoplay. sally
OF the Sawdust." with W. G.. Fields,
stage comedian of The Follies.'
THE Music Box Revue and Poppy
Carol Dempster. Alfred Lunt, Glenn
Anders and Effie shannon in its fea-
tured roles, will he this weeks at
traction at Loew's Palace.
1t is a screen version of Dorothy
Donnelly's play, Poppy" in which
w. G.. Fields played for II months in
New York the role of Prof Eustace
McGargle. the lovable circus faker
which he now interprets on the
screen. The adaptation was made by
Forrest Halsey.
The story revolves around the per
Sonality of a little circus waif. whose
dying mother bequeaths the child to
Frof. McGargle with a request that
he look after the little tot, and also
identifying the child's grandparents
as prominent people who cast out the
mother when she married circus
man.
The years pass and Sally. grown to
he young lady. falls in love. and the
professor appalled, at the prospect
starts out to find her grandparents.
In the end there is a romantic ending
End a life of real joy ahead for Sally.
special musical score by Louis
Silvers, who composed the score for
Way Down East will he inter
rreted by the Palace Orchestra, under
Thomas Joseph Cannon.
n RIALTO-"The Goose Woman"
Rex Beach's 1.-The Goose Woman"
has been made into n screen dra ma .
and will he shown at the Rialto this
IL 1. ri
forS and Constance Bennett as the
featured players.
The story revolves around an old
haG who. in her day. had been noted
prima donna and concert artist.
Through dissipation she gradually
sank to the lowest depths and appar-
emily sank from the face Of the earth
She, however. becomes a tender of
geese on a ramshackle farm unbe-
known to any one a murder is com
nlitted. The district attorney. in his
effort to run down the criminal, finds
her and recognizes her as the old
time favorite singer. Meanwhile the
newspaper reporters have dug up
romance - the life story of the old
drunken slattern who lives on the
farm next to where the murder took
place. The woman, once the great
opera singer, tells a fictitious story OF
the murder when her Unsuitable desire
FOR publicity, dormant for 20 years,
ik again stirred. This confession. un-
happily. involves her son. and he is
arrested for the killing. Then she is
forced to reveal her life. Just who
did commit the murder and the come
hack to grace of 'the goose woman"
forms the startling denouement
| Mischa Guterson has arranged for
a special prelude to the picture in
which Miss F,stelle Wentworth. the
well known operate singer, will sing
"Hail. Hall of Song"
The overture by the Rialto Orches-
ira will be the march from Tam
hauser." and there will he sa saxophone
solo. ''Valse Nanite,"- by w. l.. Mars
den. jr.
A comedy and news reels will also
he shown.
METROPOLITAN Knockout"
Milton Sills. in First Nationals pro-
duction of THE Knockout is the at
| Straction this week at Crandalrs Metro
poltan Theater, beginning this after
SIT in the northern Canadian lum
her country, where men are men and
women are not governors, this sub
tect abounds In climacteric scenes of
most unusual CUlLSHl anu III
u-ith combat of the most thrilling sort.
In adition the picture introduces a
n-w leading woman, Lorna Duveen.
an English girl who. seems destined
to 70 far before the American camera.
The comedy will be BE Careful" ;"
starring Jimmie Adams, supported by
Molly Malone and Lincoln Plumer,
and supplementary attractions will
embface the Metropolitan World
Survey and musical program
| by the Metropolitan Symphony. under
Daniel Breeskin. The concert over
ture will be Offenbach's "Orpheus"
nd the encore overturette will be the
popular number Sometime. The
theme of the interpretative score will
he Alone at Last" and "Footloose,
new fox trot, will be the exit num-
Der.
The Knockout teens with action
Of the most exciting type. it is said.
An ex-pHgilist. whose right arm has
supposedly been put out of commis-
sion by a torn ligament, is employed
as 4 lumber camp boss by an un-
scrupulous millionaire who plots the
fnanSal destruction of an Invalid
rival. Whose daughter ts the active