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Evening star., 1925-07-05

receipts for a performance. at the reg
ular scale, run to nearly 100000. Miss
Elssler, at her first ngagement in
New York, danced IS times and
brought to the box office about S24 900,
of which she retained SO. 900. her
share Of that enormous fortune OF
900 which she carried away from
America. Pavlowa. by the way, re-
ceives 81 600 each time she dances.
Nevertheless, Miss Elssler's toup
was a triumph. She danced several
times in Boston, Philadelphia and Ha-
vana, as we'll as in New York. Hats
We're named after her and her statue
was shown here. In Baltimore the
young bloods dragged her carriage
from the theater 10 the hotel. In
Havana numbers Of white pigeons,
trained in such politeness," wera
turned loose to carry garlands Of.
flowers to her. Also in Havana her
ballet master, NJ. Sylvan, in despair
over the dark skins of the CubaTI
girls. picked his coryphees for tho
ballet. La Sylphide." and then palms.
takingly white-washed their arms.
necks and legs to give the proper
effect.
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Lasky S Inside Story

Jesse /. LASKY, first vice presi-
- dent of Famous Players Lasky.
Corporation, in charge of production,
in the following article relates the
story of the purchase and the prepara-
ton for production of The Wan
derer," one of the biggest pictures
made during 1925.
1T was several years ago, in De
Cember, 1921, to be exact, that I sat
in the second row of the Manhattan
Opera House in New York awaiting
the rise of the curtain for the eve
ming performance of Maurice Y.
Samuels stage spectacle, The
Wanderer,' from the Biblical parable
of the prodigal son.
For several weeks. from all sides.
/ had listened to countless words of
praise for the play. Finally l had
determined to see it myself. | had
witnessed a dozen plays within the
past few weeks. While they were
excellent as stage productions, none
of them was of particular appeal as
motion picture material. 1t was for
this reas son, as / sat there, l was
not overly enthusiastic.
1.-THE overture ended and the cur
tain rose.
During the first five minutes I
maintained my Indifferent attitude.
Gradually, as scene after scene trans
pired before me. everything else faded
except what was taking place upon
the stage. Gradually, too, the words
of the characters became dim in my
ears, and / yisualiZed the spectacle
as a gigantic motion picture. Every
thing was there, the story, the color,
the characters, the settings-every-
thing that went to make perfect
screen production.
II left the theater enthusiastic, yet
bewildered. l had just seen the
nucleus of a marvellous photoplay
But one fear gripped me, one ques-
tion fiared before me. Was the art
of motion pictures sufficiently de-
veloped to guarantee the results the
story demanded? Was photography
justice to a production of such mag
nitude and force? l decided in the
negative.
Following a conference the next
day with other Paramount officials,
It was decided to purchase the motion
picture rights to the spectacle and
hold the production in reserve to
await the day when the art of motion
pictures had advanced to the stage
where full justice could be done the
story. 1t was too beautiful a theme
too sacred a task, to risk a failure.
1t would have been sheer folly then
TO have attempted 1t. The story was
purchased and put aside for the
future.
"A year passed. The Covered
Wagon was filmed. Came 1928. We
filmed The Ten Commandments The
art of photography was advancing by
strides. Then came 'Wanderer of the
Wasteland,' a production done en-
tirely in natural colors. 1t proved a
tremendous success. Last year
brought Peter Pan one of the great
est achievements in the history of
creative motion pictures.
Through those years we had The
Wanderer' always in mind, awaiting
the day when the art of the motion
picture could do justice to the theme
and also awaiting the director ideally
suited to aesume the tremendous
responsibility.
Zone morning at the Para mount
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7 EONARD SCOPES, in no way re
lated to the John Thomas Scopes,
who will be tried in the anti-eVolution
law test case in Tennessee, has fol-
lowed the example of his namesake.
however, by compiling an. interesting
list Of motion picture stars and from
what they evolved What he says
follows:
Lon CLANCY used TO be in the trans
portation and interior decorating
businesses. He got his first motion
picture start as a slapstick comedian
in 1912.
Marion Davies was in Mr.. Ziegfeld' s
Follies and in musical comedies. She
is the daughter of a judge.
John Gilbert was a cadet at the
Hitchcock Military Academy at San
Rafael, Calf. Later he was with
Eddie Foy's comedy stock company.
Lillian Gish made her stage debut
as fairy in The Good Little Devil, 4"
produced by David Belasco. She made
her screen debut at the old Biograph
studio while visiting her friend, Mary
Pickford who introduced her to d.
w Griffith.
Jackie Coogan danced and did imi-
tatiOnS of celebrities as an encore in
his fathers vaudeville act with An
nette kellermann.
Buster keaton did an acrobatic COM
edy act in vaudeville with his family,
the three KeatonS.
Mae Murray Is a graduate Of Mr..
Ziegfeld's Follies and used TO be
known as the Nell Brinkley girl.
Ramon Novarro studied first for
the ministry and then for the con-
cert stage and latterly joined a dance
extravaganza in vaudeville.
Norma Shearer was n society girl
of Montreal and won all the beauty
prizes in that Canadian city.
Eleanor Boardman ran away from
her home in Philadelphia to go on the
stage and served an apprenticeship
posing for celebrated artists.
Aileen Pringle was the INDUCED
daughter -in-law of an immensely
wealthy privy consul of Jamaica.
Pauline Starke was q Kansas City,
Mo-. schoolgirl who went to California
ABOUT the time that d. W. Griffith
made The Klansman."
Renee Adoree was a dancer on the
New York stage.
Mae Busch studied for the operatic
stage after graduating from st. Eliza
beth's Convent in Madison, \. ]. Her
father was conductor of the symphony
orchestra OF Melbourne, Australia,
Miss Busch's birthplace.
Lew Cody was an undergraduate
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GLEN ECHO PARK.

A pretty and an ideal spot for an all
day and evening family outing is Glen
Echo, Washington's nearby famous
free admission amusement park, with
its score of diversified fun features,
shady picnic groves with ample tables
and benches, Fairgrounds for the kid
dies and sparkling spring water near
at hand.
Glen Echo Park is reached after
pleasant ride along the bank of the
Potomac on cars of the Washington
Railway and Electric Co, and. for mo-
torists. by the recently reconstructed
Conduit road. which offers a plea SAINT
drive with ample and no time-limit
parking space for any number of cars
At Glen Echo may be found the
''frolic," the most eccentric ride in
the world; the big dips" with their
big thrills, and the derby racer; the
caroussel, big midway with dozens
of fun features, the old mill with the
quiet ride on the water, and the gin
ger-snap whip"
There is dancing every week night
from $50 to ll:30 to music by Happy
Walker and his band the Golden
Pheasants. Wednesday the Washing
ton Lodge of Elks will be hosts at
Glen Echo TO Washington 1900 or
phan children from all the orphan
asylums in Washington. This will be
their twentieth annual outing.
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schoolteacher Just ahead of US wept
audibly. on the way out after the
show Bill thanked me for taking him
there, and again, when We got out
side, he thanked me.
And once again he said 10 me. L
viii not forget you for your kindness
for d long time. and this Will give
me something 10 think about for
years. I will not sleep much tonight.
1t seemed like as II the actors and
actresses were really there on the
stage, and they weren't there at all.
1t made me forget the outside world
for time
Early the next day he had started
off for his claim. 80 miles away. He
started out walking ahead Of the
stage, and when the stage got to
Beaver Bass, 45 miles out. Bill had
arrived there an hour ahead and gone
on from there in snowshoes across
Dragon Mountain TO his prospect tun-
mel on New Creek. Can you beat
that"
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Evolution In the Movies

of the medical college of McGil Uni
versity in Montreal
Kathleen Key was well on her way
to commercial artistry when the
movies wooed and won her.
Carmel Myers was the daughter OF
a rabbi who supplied ID. W. Griffith
with the Biblical data necessary in
Intolerance"
Malcolm McGregor won the inter
collegiate swimming championship
for Yale several years ago.
Armed with a degree of bachelor
of oratory, Conrad Nagel was a reader
for the Red Path Lyceum Bureau.
Sally O'Neil was a dancer at the
Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador
Hotel in Hollywood. Her father was
Judge Thomas F. Noonan of the Su-
preme Court of New Jersey.
A cyclone drove Claire Windsor and
her family from Cawker City, Kan,
to California, where she became a
movie extra.
Conway Tearle was an amateur
boxer in London and later followed
the footsteps of his father, a noted
Shakespearean actor.
And now for the directors:
Monta Bell was a crackerjack news
paper man in Washington.
Frank BorZage played in stock COM
panies at the age of IA.
Rupert Hughes was a famous nov
elist, newspaper reporter, dramatic
critic. magazine writer, playwright,
humorist and composer.
William Christy Cabanne was a
midshipman at the United States
Naval Academy.
Hobart Henley graduated from the
University of Cincinnati and went on
the stage.
Rex Ingram was a night worker
in the freight yard at Belle Dock
New Haven, before he was enrolled
as student at Yale's school of fine
arts.
Before embarking on a career. Rob
ert L. Leonard was property manager.
comedian and stage manager for the
California Opera Company.
Fred Niblo was a soldier of for
tune in India, China. Siberia, Spain,
France, South America and even the
African jungle.
Victor Seastrom was legitimate
stage actor in his native country,
Sweden. He made his debut in Fin
land.
Josef Won Sternberg was a labora
tory assistant.
All these stars and directors have
evolved to the highest degree of mo-
ton picture efficiency and may be
found at the Metro-Goldwyn-M yer
studios.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

lust as the palate Graves lighter
- and less substantial viands in
Summer" says Steve Cochran, who,
with Clarence Jacobson, is the motive
power behind the National Theater
Players, 80 the public taste, eschew-
ing problems and problem plays, runs
rather to the frivolous and laugh
making type of entertainment when
the warm weather comes on. 1t seems
most natural, and certainly, for those
who provide the public entertain
ment, It is both fortunate and agree
able.
II have had some experience in
theatrical tastes, and I do not believe
the general public Graves looseness or
daring in its entertainment. Certainly
our experience with the National The
ater Players does not prove 1t. and 1t
has been indeed most gratifying to
both Mr.. Jacobson and myself, who,
while promoting the first stock com
pany that has found a lodging place
in the National Theater in many.
many years, to be able also ever TO
keep unsullied the reputation of Wash
ington's Oldest and, believe, its most
popular playhouse.
Il do think as a matter or course,
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Bebe and the Old Thalia.

REBE DANIELS is so well known
as screen actress that few are
aware that she started her theatrical
career in "the legitimate" at the age
of 8, though from that time until
she worked in front of an audience
in the old Thalia Theater on the New
York Bowery recently, the stage and
Bebe had been strangers.
Curiously enough, her last stage
appearance was in connection with
the photoplay version of the Chan
ming PollockEdgar Selwyn play, THE
Crowded Hour" one Of this week S
attractions in Washington
The Famous Players-Lasky Corpo-
ration hired the old Thalia Theater
and a real Bowery audience to re
produce the exact conditions under
which the famous amateur nights"
of old came into existence. And in
the interests of art, Bebe and her
companion, T. Roy Barnes, got the
hook" that dreaded sign of an audi
ences disfavor
The Thalia Theater, in which this
scene was staged for The Crowded
Hour" is one of the oldest in New
York. 1t was known as the Bowery
Theater until 1879, when it was re
christened The Thalia. The play
house was originally built in 1926.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

West Coast studio. my secretary an
nounced that Mr.. Raoul Walsh wished
to see me. Mr.. Walsh had learned
we possessed the motion picture
rights to The Wanderer,' and asked
that he be given the opportunity TO
put the spectacle upon the screen.
Since the start of motion pictures.
Mr.. Walsh declared, he had visualized
the parable of the prodigal son as
photoplay. In his own words he out
lined his idea of the screen play, the
pictures as he thought it should be
filmed. Our ideas were parallel At
last we had found the man to direct
the picture.
James T. ODonohoe, who had
written the scenario for more than
a score of successful pictures. and
who was Mr.. Walsh's right-hand man
as well, was assigned to the task of
preparing the screen version of The
Wanderer.' Many months were spent
in reading and research work even
before the first line was written.
Hundreds of books were consulted
and clergymen of every creed were
called upon for advice and informa-
ton.
When the adaptation was COM
pleted l found to my delight it was
exactly as I had pictured the f1lm in
my minds eye"
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Barrie Changes Story.

"THERE Will be quite a number of
changes in the screen play "a
Kiss for Cinderella" when 1t is shown
TO the public, every one of them die
tated by the author himself" says
Herbert Brenon.
For instance, the finish depicts
Cinderella as a dying child. In a
'romanticaP moment, our policeman n
brings her a pair Of glass slippers,
which. he says, are in lieu of an en-
gagement ring. He remarks that
they are like two Kisses
Barrie realizes that it is not wise
to have a sad ending to a picture, so
he has rewritten the finish. AS he
wrote 1t 1t reads:
"'Oh they're terribly small says
Cinderella. Maybe they'll not go on.
But the shoes go on, and the po.
liceman says: To me you are like a
flower that has grown up in a dark
place
And TO picturize this, Barrie evol-
we'd. in a flash of inspiration, this idea.
The final scene shows Cinderella in
her poor dress in her old room. On
the table is a flower pot, in which is
growing a little plant. From among
the leaves of this plant, instead of a
flower, energies a miniature figure of
Cinderella herself, apparently dying.
The child waters this dropping figure
and 1t seems to straighten a bit She
smoothes it with her hand, it revives
even more. A ray of sunshine falls
across the plant and the tiny figure
lifts its head erect.
when he had finished developing
this idea, Barrie lit his old pipe, and
pacing UP and down the room, said:
Those who think among the peo.
pie who see this picture will know
the truth. Those who do not want
to think-well, let them believe what
they please
Evening star., 1925-07-05
LIE PARADIs ATTRACTIONS.

The lie Paradis Roof Garden and
the Chateau LIE Padaris, at Ammen-
dale, Md. are important acquisitions
to the Capital amusement world this
Summer.
Since the opening of the Chateau
lie Paradis several weeks ago, this
luxurious resort has registered a
steadily increasing popularity with
the smart elements of both Baltimore
and Washington. The Meyer Davis
Tent Band. led by Nathan Brusiloff.
is the featured attraction
The LIE Paradis Roof Garden, with
lie Paradis Roof Garden Band, Harry
Albert, director, provides ideal Sum
mer dance music, with original har-
monies worked in modern style, while
comedy hits are furnished by Banjoist
Solari in the jazz spirit.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Coming Attractions
NATIONAI-"Twin Reds" /"

What has been called the funniest
play in the English language, Twin
Beds" is on the National Theater's
play menu for next week.
This monarch of American farces,
since its writing by Salisbury Field
and Margaret Mayo. has been trans
lated into half dozen languages and
has been played in virtually every
country that boasts a theater Aside
from its unceasing barage of laugh
getting situations. Twin Beds" prob
ably accounts in part for its undlmmed
popularity by the fact il is time-proof;
that its dialogue, situations and peo-
pie are as applicable TO this day as
they were when its success started
the farce epidemic which hasn't sub
sided yet
There are twin beds, young mar
ried couples and the beds are not al
ways peopled by the right tenants
The situations unfold with rapidity
and II seems as though the laughs
accumulate in volume with each new
device.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Has Had a Career.

EVELYN WALSH HALL, former
in the photoplay. 1.-The Pace That
Thrills" which Earl Hudson is pro-
ducing. was born in Harrowgate Eng
land. Her father, averse to his daugh-
ters stage ambitions, finally gave her
her choice of joining Sir Herbert
Trees or Frank BenSonS school Of
acting. She selected the latter, study
ing fencing, dancing and elocution.
Frank Benson, who was later knight
ed, conducted repertoire company in
conjunction with his school, in which
Miss Hall soon qualified, and after
touring the provinces for six months
she was graduated to leading roles.
She has played under the manage
ment OF Edward Compton, in school
for Scandal" 'She Stoops to Con
quer" and David Garrick"; with the
Abbey Players, in plays by Bernard
Shaw, Hauptman, Sir James Barrie,
John Galsworthy, John Masefield,
Granville Barker, Gabrielle D'Annun-
zio and the Gilbert Murray trapsla-
tions of Euripides' 'Hyppolytus" and
"Medea'' with Sir Herbert Tree and
in collaboration with Isadore Duncan
in a plan to combine the Greek drama
with the dance. In 1915, at the Am
bassador Theater, London, she played
opposite Lyn Harding in THE Little
Brother"
Finally she received an offer to come
to America to play Queen Elizabeth
in Arthur Hopkins production of
Richard ILL.," in which John Barry
more was starred. and when Barry
more's sudden illness terminated the
engagement, she Joined "A Bill of Di-
vorcement" company in Philadelphia
Later she left for the coast for her
first picture part in Elinor Glyn's "Six
Days" Upon her return to New York
she accepted a role in The Fake" in
which Godfrey Tearle, brother of Con
way Tearle, was featured
Then came her engagement with
First National in her second picture
venture, The Pace That Thrills
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Days of Fanny Elssler

GAN one imagine in these days of
postwar prices paying % cents
to see Pavlowa dance? Or of getting
a seat in a box at the Metropolitan
Opera House for a dollar?
Yet these were the prices that pre-
vailed when the great Fanny Elssler
made her first visit TO New York in
the period depicted by the Paramount
picture, Not SO Long Ago" accord
ing to director Sidney Olcott
Meade Minnigerode. in The Fabu-
lous Forties," reprints a bandbill Of
the Divine Fannys first appearance
ii reads:
Park Theater. this evening, May
IA. will be performed the farce Of
Dumb Bell after which Mile. Fanny
Elssler will appear in her celebrated
dance Of La Cracovienne. TO which
will be added Bachelors Buttons To
c@clude with La Tarentule' by Mile
Fanny Elssler.
Doors open at 61z. Performance
commences at 7.
Boxes. 81. Pit, so cents. Gallery,
25 cents"
When Pavlowa dances at the Metro
politan opera House nowadays, the
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COLONIAL BEACH.

Colonial Beach, sometimes called
"Washington's Atlantic City" offers
saltwater bathing. fishing, grabbing
and dancing in a large pavilion built
out over the water, a long, sandy
beach and many other seashore attrac-
tions.
The steamer st. Johns leaves for
Colonial Beach every Saturday at 2:30
pm. and Sunday at 8 am.
Annual Mardi Gras week at Colonial
Beach is planned July 13 to July 1S,
with an elaborate program.
Every evening at 7:15 o'clock, except
Saturday and Sunday, the steamer St.
Johns makes a 40-mile moonlight trip,
and on every trip of the st. Johns
there is free dancing to music by Soko-
lows Orchestra
Evening star., 1925-07-05
EARLE-Rostfck's Riding School

Bostick's Riding School, which shows
how circus riders are made, and Gre
ates for the audience fun and no end
of thrills. will head the bill at the
Earle Theater next week. In this Of
fering there are five bareback riders
we'll known in circus circles, with a
number of highly trained circus
horses.
Another feature will he The Eight
Hoboes" in a comedy offering new TO
vaudeville.
The photoplay will present Nazimova
in her latest picture, The Redeeming
Sim" supported by the greatest of
stage and screen lovers" Lou Telle-
gen.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Theater Tastes.

that doleful sermons on the stage and
plays without a dash of life and pep
are not the kind the public wants.
refer rather to the morbid sex plays
and those that offend respectable sen
sibilities as not at all being within
the line of public demand. In pro-
Viding our Summer entertainment we
have sought to intermix lively and de-
lightful comedy with hilarious farce
that does not win its way with vul-
garity and the lascivious element.
And we are happily gratitied with
the splendid response that our public
has been pleased to give to our eff
forts.
1T is curious to note that where
plays rely upon dramatic art in con-
struction and performance, rather
than upon a morbid lure, the audi
enceS usually are of refined Anglo
Saxon appearance. But where the
play is advertised as salacious, with or
without the danger of police inter
ference, it's patrons are of quite diff
ferent type.
I'VE mean to have our plays so free
from objection that our patrons need
never fear to bring the entire family
to see them"
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Marshall Hall.

Marshall Hall is reached by the
steamer Charles Manchester, which
makes three trips Saturday and Sun
day 10 this down-the river resort, Ieav-
ing the Seventh street wharf at 10
a m, 2:30 and 6:45 pm
A popular feature this season is
free dancing in the pavilion to music
by McWilliams' Orchestra, and among
the new fun features will be found
the kissing bug" and the "skooter"
The old favorites-the roller coaster,
aeroplane swings, caroussel, bowling
alleys and shooting gallery-are also
going at top speed"
Evening star., 1925-07-05
CHESAPEAKE REACH

Situated on the bay and famed by
refreshing breezes, Chesapeake Beach
Is an ideal spot for a week lend out
ing. The resort is one hours ride
from the District line and special
train service is in effect Saturday and
Sunday.
There are attractions for those of
every varying taste, and for those
who seek rest and quiet there are the
shady picnic groves.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
"Annes' Aid Him.

ITS strange, unusually so, what a
part the name Anne has played
in my life," said Percy Marmont re-
Gently.
ITO begin with" he explained, 81
was educated at st. Anne's, Redhill,
Surrey, England. Then during my
stage career I toured the United
States with Anne Murdock. And now
in "A Woman's Faith" my latest
photoplay, l find myself in the his
toric shrine of ST. Anne de Beaupre,
near Quebec. in Canada. Each of the
Annes has done much for me-"
Evening star., 1925-07-05
CHEVY CHASE LAKE.

Vaudeville specialities of high call
Der booked as special attractions at
Chevy Chase Lake include Wednes-
day evening the Mohawk Quartet, one
or the Capitals notable amateur or
carnations, presenting Il group OF
cleVerly arranged popular songs both
OF the jazz and sentimental variety;
two Meyer Davis bands nightly will
play for the dancers in both the
upper and lower pavilions; the pep
perry Pete Macias Band and the high
power group conducted by Al
Kamons
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KEITHS-Richard Bennett.

Richard Bennett. the eminent actor,
will headline the bin at b. +. Keith 5
Theater next week in a new sketch by
Tom Barry. called Springfield. 3"
Lewis and Gordon Will present Mr.
Bennett. The entire production is
staged by the author.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Outdoor Attractions.

Saltwater bathing, dancing to Dag
moir music, fishing and boating are
some of the features
Evening star., 1925-07-05
CHESAPEAKE BEAC

SHORE ATTRACTIONS
Round Trip: Adults. soc; Children. 25o
Except Sundays and Holidaysj
Trains leave District Line Station.
Saturday: 1000, II 80. 200. 2:30, 3 3:25
SUNDAYS: s;so. 1890, 1880. 200, s:oe.
Other DAYS: 1000 II 80. 80. $40. a.
Frequent trains returning.