The Washington times., 1925-08-29

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the Broadway playwright who
wrote East is West, LaWfui
Larceny" and other plays.
Miss Shearer, in the stellar role
OF "A Slave of Fashion, has Lew
Cody a. her leading man while
the cast IL support includes VIII
lam Haynes, Harry Carr. James
Corrigan, and others.
"A Slave OF Fashion permits
of the display of one of the
most exquisite and gorgeous
gown displays ever photographed.
Described as drama OF fash.
ions follies, the picture gives
Miss Shearer the role of small
town girl who longs for the lux
uries OF Manhattan and who
finally cuts loose from home ties
and sets out to conquer New
York, v
In a train wreck, the girl ac-
cidental1y comes into the pos
session OF letters which open TO
her the New York apartment OF
a wealthy bachelor. She catches
the fancy of young society
man who carries her to dinners,
opera and the theater. Then,
like a bolt from the blue she
learns that her mother and maid
en- aunt are coming to visit her
and in desperation, she poses as
the wife OF the apartments alb.
sent owner. Out of this mixup,
order is finally restored but not
until the apartment owner,
Wentworth, has fallen in. love
with the fair inposter and de-
clined to hear any explanation OF
events as entirely unnecessary.
A hilarious Mermaid comedy,
Pleasure Mad" will be pre-
scented as the 1augh.maker OF the
bill, while the Pathe newsreel
pictures. Topics of the Day and
Tom Gannon's music will be
other features.
COLUMBIA-The third week
Of Greater Movie Season in
washington, beginning Sunday,
will be celebrated at LoeW;s
. Columbia with the first Wash
ington presentation Of Gloria
SWanson's latest starring produc-i
ton, ''The Coast Of Folly, 9
vivid and alluring modern ro-
nance OF upper-class American
life. filmed against the gay BACK
ground of Palm Beach.
"The Coast Of Folly" was d.
rected by Allan Dwan with such
favorites In Miss Swanson's sup
port as Anthony JoWitt, Alec
francis, Dorothy Cumming, JED
Prouty, Eugene Besserer, Arthur
Hausman and Lawrence Grey.
In addition to offering MISS
Swanson a dual characterization
of exceptional romantic appeal,
"The Coast bf Folly" also pre-
sents her in an exquisite, ravish-
ing gown display that sends one
back to the days OF her star
dom under Cecil B. DeMhlle for q
comparison.
esThe Coast of Folly reveals
Miss Swanson first as a belle OF
a generation ago who started the
tongue of scandal wagging by
abandoning the motononous bore
of a millionaire to whom she was
married and flinging herself into
q new world of romance and e1-
element that lost her to the view
of friends for nearly twenty years.
In the meantime, her daughter,
also played by Miss Swanson, has
grown to womanhood and has be.
come involved in a love affair with
Larry Fay, a wealthy and popular
but already married young club
man whose wife, heartless and
mercenary, declines to grant him
q divorce. The belle of twenty
wears ago. reading of her daugh-
ter's predicament in. the news
papers. hurries across the ocean
and Immediately opens a war on
the heartless wife.
The battle of wits between the
two women, one for the retention
of a husband and the other for the
clearing of her daughters name,
gives 1.-THE Coast of Folly" an in
tensity of interest and appeal that
is unusual.
A strong array of added screen
and musical attractions will SUP,
plement.
INTERCOLLEGIATE new Con-
stance Talmadge sophisticated,
mature, poised, capable and in
tensely faseinating-will greet
patrons Of CrandaIl's Metropolitan
Theater throughout the week
BEGINNING Sunday afternoon in
Her Sister from Paris" a spicy
and engrossing vehicle. So will
the third week of the greater
movie season" be ushered in
to the tune of a high-pitched
comedy. The short-reel laugh
maker will be the new two-reel
Mermaid, Beware, in which the
stellar role is played with his
usual flair for absurd effect by
Lige Conley. Then there will lie
the new issue of the specially as
sembled Metropolitan World Sur
vey and a diverting musical pro-
gram.
''Her Sister From Paris af-
fords Constance Talmadge the
first opportunity she has had
to execute a dual role. She is
cast as the brow-beaten AMI
brow-beating wife of a tempera-
mental young Viennesse author
and also as his wife's flashy Sis
ter gay dancer from Paris who
comes to Vienna to FULFILL a
brief engagement. After having
declared her purpose to return
to the home of her mother
they all do-she spies her sister
at the railroad station and goes
to the dressing room instead of
home. The sister. being a crafty
soul with thought only for the
main idea, induces the piqued
wife -tmpersonate the effer-
vescent exponent of Terpsichore
and flirt her husband back into
his humble place in the second
money. You see, the plot is a
clever duplication of the same
idea that Belasco utuilized in
1.-THE Harem" as a, vehicle for
Lenore Uric. Ronald Colnan is
the object of the concern felt
by the abject little housewife
uyn,, bis doclo "a tiop Of inde-