The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-08
.GOINGS-ON
At the Theaters


beautiful glimpses of tropic
scenery ever caught by the cam
era. The direction throughout is
fully up to the high standard that
Maurice Tougneur has established
in many past productions, while
the work of the well-balanced
cast is uniformly fine throughout.
Miss Stewart, in the role of the
native girl, offers what is clearly
one of the most remarkable enact
ments of her career. Bert Lytell
makes a highly convincing Amer
lean who turns beachcomber,
while Huntly Gordon, as his
friend, and Justice tombstone. the
"Follies" beauty, as the former
sweetheart, all splendidly portray
the parts assigned them.
A striking group of added photo
play and musical features will
supplement- first Washington pre-
sensations of Never the Twain
Shall Meet" at Loew's Palace.
RIALTO-The Rialto inaugu-
rates its 1925-26 season with
1.-The Teaser," in which Laura La
Plante introduces a new kind OF
screen flapper to theaterdonl with.
Pat O'Malley in a, featured role.
THE Teaser" is said to be one
of the outstanding comedy-dramas
of the year.
1t is an adaptation of the
William A. Brady Broadway
stage play by Adelaide Matthews
and Martha M. Stanley.
Laura Ia Plante plays the role
of a girl who falls in love with
cigar drummer Pat O'Maliey)
only to fipd that his breezy. ways
and loud raiment don't strike
her family very well. Then, to
get even when her aunt inter
feres in this odd love affair, she
proceeds to flirt with all the
married men in their set.
The cast of the picture is adj
mirably fitted to the zippy story.
1t includes Hedda Hopper,
Wyndham Standing, Walter Nc
Grail, Byron Munson. Vivian
Oakland, Margaret Quimby and
Frank Finch Smiles.
AS an extra added attraction
will be a photoplay of the frozen
North, "Kivalina of the Ice.
lands" presenting a play by
Eskimos, the entire action TAX
ing place in the bleak GOODNESS
OF the arctic.
The special presentation fea-
ture win be a pianisrI ny
sylvan Levin and Emilio Doria
CT dance of Death" saint
Saensl, and March Militaire"
(SchuberD, played on two pianos.
Emilio Doria is a concert pianist
of note and graduate of the
Leipsic Conservatory.
METROPOLITAN = Crandall's
metropolitan next week win pre-
sent the film version of Robert
Hichen's novel, Snake Bite" in
which the pivotal roles are played
by Lewis s. Stone, Virginia Valli,
Mia Naldi and Edward Earle. The
auxiliary offerings will. OF course,
include a new issue OF the Met
ropolitan Survey and brief COM
edy subject in addition to the
musical establishment contributed
by the Metropolitan Symphony,
under the conductorship of Daniel
Breeskin. The extra added fea-
ture will be the exclusive motion
picture of the Crandall Saturday
Nighters broadcasting a complete
radio program through station
WRC, taken by Nat Chaser. chief
of the Crandall technical depart
ment from a working script de-
vised by Nelson B. Bell.
The Lady Who Lied, the
screen title Of Hichen's Snake
Bite" is colorful drama of
Venice in the carnival season and
the vast stretches of the Sahara
Desert. An engagement is broken
and a. battle of wits then starts
to redeem the love Of beautiful
young heiress. This enhancing
young creature, however, has mar
ried a young physician. TO be
near her, the former lover en-
cages the husband to safeguard
his health during a long journey
across the sands. During the
tedious trek, Pierpont, the rich
American, is bitten by a viper
and upon his attitude toward Fay
Kennion depends his physical sal
walton at the hands of her med
ical husband. 1t is upon this sit
uation that the stirring climax Of
the drama is based.
The concert overture for the
week VIII De comprised OF Selec-
tions from Blossom Time" The
theme number for The Lady
Who Lied will be Elisabeth
Wheeler Francis THE Desert
Call"
OLUMBIA-Another thrilling
romance of the frontier, wild
Horse Mesa" by Zane Grey, the
noted author of such outstand-
ing photoplay successes of the
past season as THE laundering
Herd" North of Sc" and THE
Call of the Canyon" will be
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