Evening star., 1925-03-08
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UNUSUAL activity is reported in the
- photoplay world in the erection
and acquisition of new theaters.
Out in Oshkosh, Wis, the exhibitors
are protesting against the free show
ing of photoplays at the city's re-
creational centers in competition with
the theaters, which pay large taxes
to the city.
Five theater managers were in
dicted last week in Elizabeth. n. J.,
for violations Of the vice and i'm
morality law.
Will H. Hays, in an interview with
representative of the Chicago Trib-
une, is quoted as saying, More than
100 questionable books and plays have
been kept from the screen voluntarily
by our members. No censorship could
bring these results.
Universal City (Calif) will hold its
tenth anniversary this month, it f1av-
ing been first opened March Is. 1915.
Metro -Goldwyn has purchased the
screen rights to Brown of Harvard"
and "Lovey Mary" and has also signed
new Danish. director, Benjamin
Christianson, who has made many
pictures abroad.
Again is Will H. Hays quoted as
saying, The outlook for 1925 is the
best that the motion picture indus
try ever had as to quality of product
and extent of business"
Famous Players. it is announced,
will issue between 20 and 80 pictures
| during 1856.
Owing to the presence on the bill
| OF Warnings Pennsylvanians, the
| doors at CrandalIs Metropolitan
Theater will be opened to the public
at o'clock this afternoon, instead of
2:30. This concession is made for the
| benefit of those who wish to insure
satisfactory seat locations by early
| attendance.
Construction work is nearing COM
pletion~ on the new lobby of Loews
Columbia Theater, which, when ready
will be one of the most beautiful and
| ornate theater entrances in America
| The work has gone steadily forward
| despite capacity crowds at the CO.
lumbia this month and last, all-night
| crews of workmen being utilized to
avoid the daytime lobby congestion.
/ L
| Yale Club of Washington, will intro
| duce the inaugural bill of the series
| OF Yale chronicles of American his
| tory. to be presented Tuesday after
noon at 4 o'clock in Crandall's AM
| bassador Theater, with successive
programs on Tuesday afternoons dur
| ing March and April. This series OF
pictures, visualizing the pivotal
events in the history OF the Nation,
marks an epoch in photoplay making
in this country. The chronicles have
| aroused widespread comment. Wash
| ington residents are responding en-
| Enthusiastically to this opportunity Of
| fered by the Public Service and Edu-
| cational Department of the Crandall
| Theater. Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher,
| director. Course tickets for the en-
| tire series are being sold.
| Horsemen" and Blood and Sand"
4 says all she needs to devise a story
| is an alarm clock, some paper and a
| pencil. The alarm clock is to waken
her at o'clock in the morning, when
| she declares her thoughts flow freest
| and with the most originality.
| Eugene Walters play "Just a wom-
| an" in which Charlotte Walker star
| red successfully about a decade ago,
/ will be brought to the screen under
| the direction of Irving Cummings. 1t
will feature Conway Tearle, with
Claire Windsor. Percy Marmot and
| Lloyd Hughes.
| Plans for Norma and Constance Tai
madge's next productions are under
| way, Norma's will be a modernized
version of George Barr McCutcheon's s
"Graustark," while Conny will star
in East Of the Setting Sum-" by the
| same author.
THE White Monkey" by John Gals
worthy, has been chosen for Barbara
La Marr's next picture. 1t ranks with
! the best sellers"
| 1t too the casting director for Doug.
Fairbanks new picture, Don O." ten
days to unearth and bring to light SO
unbobbed, black-haired, beautiful
| women to take part in this romance