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The Washington times., 1925-02-23
METROPOLITAN
'"Thief in Paradise"

Do you know the kind Of story
you hope to find every time you
open your favorite magazine Or
the kind you hope will be the full
fillment Of the intriguing intro
duction to some by chance picked
up novel? That is the kind Of
story that "a Thief in Paradise"
unfolds on the Metropolitan
screen for the current week.
A story of daring intrigue and
romance-one that catches drama
at it's pinnacle and detains 1t
there for the duration Of one
picture. A story that makes one
evenings good entertainment.
Even so. it has its defects. and
1t is with no thought Of malice
that We reveal them, for 1t Is
humor rather than malice that
they invoke. In the first place,
there is Ronald Coleman's love-
making. Oh! Ronald, Ronald,
when will you learn that it's no.
being done? We reprimanded
you severely for doing the same
thing in 1.-THE Wife Of the Cen
taur," and here you are at it
again. OF course, there's always
the possibility of setting a new
style, but, Ronald. let US whisper
a secret-it's not new-it's old.
We saw the same thing pulled
long ago, when we wore pigtails
and Bingham aprons. It was on
a June day in the sweet smelling
COW pasture. and every time that
Bridget and Daisy passed they
would stop and rub noses In just
the same manner.
The story begins on an island
off the coast of China-'The Isle
of Lost Souls. An heir to an
American million who has sunk
to the depths and is living here
with a half caste wife is killed in
a terrible fight by Ronald Cole
man, another Teduced gentleman.
Coleman, at the suggestion Of the
wife, takes the other mans iden-
tity and goes to America to claim
the fortune. Then starts his ad.
ventures as a thief in paradise.
The rest of the cast includes
Aileen Pringle, Doris Kenyon, Alec
Francis, and Claude Gillingwater.
Daniel Breeskin has planned a
pleasant surprise for the musical
program by an overture based on
Rose Marie" and including many
of the song hits in that play.
A Lloyd Hamilton comedy,
Hooked" and the Metropolitan
Survey complete the bill.
The Washington times., 1925-02-23

NEW ZIEGFELD MUSICAL
CARNIVAL AT THE Ma
TIONAL, rs MOST PRE-
TENTIOUSLY LAVISH IN
THAT PRODUCERS Ca
{ REER-A WH0LEsALING
OF MELODY, COLOR,
COMEDY AND BEAUTY.
The Washington times., 1925-02-23
RIALTO-
Films and Features

The Rialto Theater is presenting
another multiple-feature bill this
week, including, in addition to
the photoplay, the Royal Marimba
Band and Percy Cakes and Grace
Delour, dancers.
The band is one of the best
features Of its kind we have heard
recently. For one thing, this
music is meIodious and beautiful
Ia welcome relief from jazz.
Semi-classical and popular num-
bers are played, and everyone -
enjoyable.
Cakes and Delour appeared yes
terday for one dance, the Marimba
Band supplying the musical ac-
compartment. This number was
pleasingIy graceful, but it is
doubtful If the changing colored
lights thrown on the dancers add
to the act.
The featured photoplay is 1.-THE
Tenth Woman" from the novel
of Harriet T. Comstock.. The en-.
tertainmeit value Of the film IL
fair and the suspense rises little
toward the end, although am
sorry to have to record that the
ultimate ending Is never In
doubt from the first scene.
Beverly Bayne is the heroine
and gives a very fine performance.
In fact, she is quite the best thing
in It. John Roche Is the hero, a
fine gentleman but a little indis-
Greet. June Marlowe gives him
an excuse for being 50. She is
the complication" Raymond Nc
Kee Is her husband. You'll won
der how any woman could love
Billy Brainerd. Alex Francis,
Edith Yorke, Charles Post and
Gilbert Holmes have the other
principal roles.
The International News Reel
and comedy complete the Program.
The overture, which you will
doubtless enjoy. is the "Blue
Danube Waltz" by the Rialto
Concert Orchestra. ]. W. B.
The Washington times., 1925-02-23

bill, which, in theater parlance,
is not half so bad as it sounds,
for the bill does not need a great
deal of saving. A Cameo a la
Miniature" is pleasing little
offering by George Lloyd, who
sings, and Rosalee, who dances
to his songs, and Booth and
Nina open with a "20th Century
Novelty" CThere's no such word
in the dictionary. And this
covers the five acts Of vaude.
Now for the photoplay, Those
Who Judge" is a picture which
may easily afford varied opinions.
At its best it is booky and stilted,
with many of the circumstances
artificial and manufactured. Pat
sy Ruth Miller is cast in the
role of a widow, a role offering
very scanty opportunity for act
ing, of which we know she is
capable. Lou Tellegen plays OPP
posite, and, well, Is just Lou
Tellegen. Others in the cast are
Walter Miller, Mary Thurman.
good as jealous "Judger,"
Flora LIE Breton and Colt Albert
son. And so mucn for the photo
play. But considerably more for
the bill as a whole. =. l.. r.
The Washington times., 1925-02-23

funny even when teamed with
such a master of comedy as
Enrol. She's from the Queenie
Smith mold, both in looks
and talent and helps often to
tangle the traffic and halt
the changing scenes. More
over, there are such princi-
pals as Hugh Wakefield, an
English import; j. w. Doyle,
Evelyn Law, peerless as a
dancer; Florentine GOsnOva,
another stopper to match the
Law gyrations; Pauline Mason,
Judith VOsselli, EdOuard Du-
rand, an unnamed dancer who
steps from the chorus and
shakes the rafters and
quartet of Swiss novelty
dancers.
The people in this production
number above a hundred. That
all is not gloss and gossamer,
take note that there are thirty
five trained male voices who
give to the song Homeland"
musical setting that no ensemble
of this or the last season, has
touched. Harry Fender leads
this number and it took three
encores to satisfy the clamor-
Gus demand of the audience.
There are, again, the Co.'S
mopolitan Girls, a trained bal
let that merges grace and Til
lerism. In "Pep," erin Tin Tin,"
and the "Regimental Band"
number these specialists, sup
ported by the general ensemble,
dances and maneuvers with
amazing rhythm.
In spectacle, the Joan of Arc
number towers the highest. 1t
is the perfect piece of indoor
pageantry. The banquet hall
The Washington times., 1925-02-23

scene is another achievement in
gold-plate settings. The parade
of the thirty footmen and the
accompanying song by the
major domo, is strikingly like
a snatch from a Gilbert and
Sullivan opera.
Enrol has two particularly good
numbers, Taking a Wife" and
Follow the Rajah." Miss Pats
ton and Harry Fender blend in
excellent voices in "True Hearts"
and Sweetheart of Nine" In
"Vamp Your Man" and erin
Tin Tin" Miss Shutta has Gre
dentials that fit her talents like
two gloves.
Generally the Sigmund Rom
berg music is distinctive with
Homeland" probably the best
melody, though the majority
have appeal. The book by
The Washington times., 1925-02-23
STRAND
VaudeviIIe-Films

Singing seems to be the trend
Of the vaudeville program at the
Strand Theater this week, aQd
q variety of singing it certainly
IL. The very lowest scale 10
sounded by the featured come
dams, Sam Lewis and Sam Dody,
in "Helloi Hello! Hello" which
IL no more or less than a con-
tinuous song full of rib-ticklers.
And the peak of high-brow-stuff
IN reached in the very volumin.
Gus and melodious offering of
the Paramount Quintette. This
act may truthfully boast both
quality and quantity.
But to, Myrtle Boland, sing
ing comedienne, and her assist
ant at the piano, Ellen Hopkins,
who hit somewhere in the mid
die register, we pass the palm
for highest rating. 1t is almost
too true that the girls save the
The Washington times., 1925-02-23
BY HAROLD PHILLIPS.

What is the nearest to per-
lection in musical comedy the
stage, in my time, has seen, is
spelled out in letters of blazing
color by Flo ZiegfelRs "Louie
the 14th," which swept across
the National Theater stage last
night in a veritable typhoon of
vivid beauty and charm.
The whole thing is built on
the proportions of an ocean
liner, And its temporary haven,
the National, seemed at times
unable to accommodate the null
titudes which prance aboard.
In setting and costuming; in
its assembly of talent and
beauty over all of which is
squirted a stream of ever
changing color, Louie" makes
Babylonian stab that easily
outreaches any competitor.
It can well and truthfulIy be
styled the Universal Musical
Play, for in IT there are in
gradients of the circus, the
carnival, the expansex of pag-
eantry, burlesque, the concert
and the art gallery.
Just how Ziegfeld manages
to be so arctic to the groans
of his bankroll and just how he
will ever retrieve a 1.-THE of the
doubloons that have vanished
into the making of this spec
tacle, no one can figure out
Ziegfeld, included, probably.
81 can't imagine what
Ziegfeld has spent on this
show" said an associate
in the lobby last night,
"but l know Broadway is
full of producers who
couldn't pay its weekly
laundry bill"
In the show business there
are men who have an uncanny
flair for finding treasures in OBJ
scure places. A glance at the
roster of 'Follies' graduates
shows Ziegfeld to be the pre-
eminent prospector in his field
as Belasco is in his.
Louie the 18th" is a veritable
mine Of golden talent, but the
priceless nugget of them all
because of her total unexpect-
ancy-is Doris Patston, a twenty
year-old find who, a week ago,
was unheard of in this country
and probably only the fifth as
sistant toast-of-the:town in Lon
don, where she comes from.
Today this pretty obscurity Of a
few weeks ago is the prima
donna of startling talents in the
biggest enterprise of Ziegfeld's
career.
This, l should say, is pole
vaulting into fame. Miss Pats
ton has no use for ladders with
plenty of rungs. Her own tai
ents and Ziepfeld's perception
have rocketed her overnight
alongside such favored Amer
lean cousins as the Marilyn
Millers, the Mary Eatons, the
Binney'S, and the Dolly's.
She is a dancer, singer, and
an actress with something of
the fragmentary beauty of
Anita Stewart. And notably in
the Jean of Arc number, she
envisioned a picture of physical
allure that drew appreciative
"Ah's" from the audience.
Leon Enrol, of the cOlIap-
sible legs, is the star. He is
"LOuie the 14th," deriving his
title as a pinch-hitting guest
at a dinner party that num-
bered thirteen until the super
stitiOus host discovered it.
Enrol is all over the place a
cOmpleter [buffOOn than he
ever was. Harry Fender
carries off the male singing
lead admirably. Ethel Shutta,
a Coincidence recruited from
burlesque, is that kind of a
cOmedienne who can show up
The Washington times., 1925-02-23
Parade
Over Stage and
Screen
NEW OPENINGS

Reviews Of Sunday open.
ings at Polls, where Willie
Howard is appearing in "Sky
High; at the Gayety and
Mutual burlesque theaters and
of the Palace film, Excuse
Me-" will appear in this de-
partment Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1925-02-23
COLUMBIA
''The Great Divide"

Whether Metro Goldwyn have
the Grand Canvon, the great
mountain torrents, and the heaV-
ems under contract we do not
know. At least they utilized and
Continuation Page 49,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
ROBINSON CIRCUS IN HACERS.
TOWN. MAY g.

John Robinson's Circus, the earth's
oldest white top" is coming to
Hagerstown, for afternoon and night
performances on Saturday, May 9,
and circus lovers of this vicinity are
looking forward with great interest
to the appearance in this community
of this famous old circus.
For the 1926 tour, the 102nd in the
history of the organization, John
Robinson has arranged a program
that is bubbling over with features
and extraordinary numbers. From
the Far East, Europe, South America
and from practically every country
have been imported, and now as al
ways John Robinson will give the
best circus performance that money
and brains can assemble.
Such noted trainers of the steel
arena as Capt. Ricardo, Nellie Roth.
Theo Schroeder. Lorraine Wallace,
Wink Weaver, Margaret Thompson,
Bob Thornton, Dewey Butler, and
others will send their charges through
remarkable routines One of the ex-
traordinary features will be the APP
pearance of s'Kittie" the only wrest-
ing tiger IN the universe, which will
combat in regulation bout with Miss
Wallace.
The regular circus features and
acts will also have prominent posi-
tons on the lengthy program. From
China will come the Sing-Sing Jung
Dsai troupe; from Mexico, the famous
Morales Family; from Austria, the
Rudy Rudynoff Family of Eques-
trians; from the Argentine, Senorita
Peidad, the demure and petite wire
artist, and all other countries will
have representation in the dressing
tents of John Robinson.
Clown alley will have contingent
of fifty famous fun-makers, boys who
know the art of extracting chuckles
and grins from young and old It
will be complete and perfect per-
/ Torrance in everyway and John Rob
inson will offer real Roman holiday
in every respect.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
3. & o. PUTS ON NEW TRAIN.

Washington, d. c., April &c.
Spick and span in minutest detail,
the National Limited. new all
Pullman train of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, started on its first
trip from the Capital City to st.
Louis. gliding smoothly out Of Union
Station at 6 20 p. NJ, on it's 23-hour-
40 minute journey This marked the
first time that an all-pullman service
has been attempted by any railroad
between the Nations Capital and st.
Louis, the Gateway of the Southwest.
Except for the route and its name
on the observation end, the new Ma
tional Limited is the same as the
Capitol Limited which has been
operating between Baltimore, Wash
ington and Chicago for two years.
It's addition provides both main lines
of the Baltimore and 0hio-the one
to the northwest at Chicago and the
otter to the southwest at st. Louis
with identical modern train service
both westbound and eastbound.
The Capitol Limited during its
short life has built up a reputation
for comfortable and dependable ser
vice which has placed ID among
Americas finest trains and the effort
will be to have the new National
Limited merit the same favorite con-
sidertion from the Company 5
patrons.
Westbound the National Limited
leaves Washington at $40 T. NJ, ar
irving Cincinnati $40 the next morn
ing and st. Louis 5 o'clock that after
noon.
Eastbonnd it leaves st. Louis at IL
o'clock noon, arriving in Cincinnati
3 40 that night and Washington
12:45 noon the next day.
All the features of modern passen-
ger travel are included in these new
trains in both directions, embracing
barber. maid, manicure. train secre-
tary. club car, shower bath and OBJ
servation car. 1t is also provided
with current newspapers, periodicals,
stock reports and bulletins.
4 While the National Limited west.
bound will start from Washington
and its companion train eastbound
end there, passengers from 4other
/ cities such as New York. Philadel-
phia, Wilmington, and Baltimore,
will be able to use its faoilikes the
same as If they lived in Washington,
because through sleeping cars from
eastern points will ge forward on the
National Limited from Washington.
Passengers eastbound for Baltimore,
Wiln'raton, Philadelphia or New
York viii likewise be afforded SINH
/ lar aece n1modations.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
PREsBYTERN NET I'm RoMNEY

Winchester Presbytern which clos
ed a two-day session in Romney
Thursday evening will have it's next
meeting in Petersburg. The congre-
cation at Falling Waters extended an
invitation for the next meeting but
the Petersburg invitation was accept
ed.
Delegates to the General Assem-
bly, meeting in Lexington, Va, next
month were named by the Presbytery
as follows: Ministers-the Reverend
DR.. Hugh White, missionary to Chi
ma now in the United States on fur
Tough. and the Reverend Mr.. T. H.
Daffin, retiring moderator of Presby-
terry; lay members-Messrs. Hillage
of Front Royal, Va, and Woodwork
of Burlington.
The Reverend Mr.. A. r. Eddins of
Mt. Storm elected moderator at the
opening session was in charge Of the
meetings.
The son of DIR. White who has vol
unteered for work in the foreign field
was taken under the care of Presby-
terry.
Delegates to tn meeting were loud
in their praise of the hospitality ex-
tended them Dinner both days was
taken by all delegtes at the hotel as
guests of the Romney church congre-
CATION Arrangements for taking
care of the visitors were in charge of
Senator G.. X. Klump.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
PARENT-TEACHERS ASSoCIA.
TION MEETS.

The Charles Town-Ranson Parent
Teachers Association met in the
graded school auditorium Thursday
evening. Parents were well repre-
scented, both fathers and mothers. and
all seemed interested in the play
ground project which is being dis
cussed at this time.
After short business meeting the
following program was rendered.:
Piano duet, "Soldiers Chorus. .
Misses Watson and Shull.
A Collection of Poems, Fourth Lit
erature Class.
Solo, Mrs. w. Fl. Best.
Timrod's Spring, Dorothy Withers.
Solo. Zone Fleeing Hour" Mrs.
Roberts.
Dance. Physical Education Glass.
Mrs. Williams, who was instrument
tai in starting the first Parent Teach
ers Association in New York some
years ago, gave an account of it's
origin after which the playground
project was introduced by Forrest
Down and freely discussed by both
parents and teachers. Marshal Nc
Donald was appointed chairman of a
committee to make plans for procur-
ing and installing the necessary
equipment.
Refreshments were served follow
ing the meeting.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
PRESENTED A DIAMOND PIN.

The nineteenth annual meeting Of
the Woman's Auxiliary of Winches-
ter Presbytery adjourned Tuesday af-
ternoon in Winchester, the closing
program including report of COM
mittees. and in stallation of officers.
In appreciation of her services as Sec
rectary and treasurer Of the Auxili-
airy for nineteen years, Mrs. ]. Y.
Blackfod, of SHENANDOAH Junction
was presented with diamond pin by
members of the organization. Mrs,
Blackboard is one Of two members who
have been connected with the auxili-
airy since it was first organized
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
A HOME COURSE IN DOMESTIC
SCIENCE

Twenty Lessons in Domestic
Science" by Marion Cole Fisher has
recently been received by US for re-
view
This is complete advanced course
in domestic science and home eco
Monies boiled down to meet the re-
quirements of the housewife and the
student.
The entire course consists of TWEEN
ty practical lessons-one hundred
pages filled with the most valuable
information the housewife can pos
sess-heretofore taught only in do
nestle science schools.
Do you know the relative value of
food. which fruits to use for cooking,
what purpose salads serve, the cor
rect use of condiments, about proper
kitchen equipments, about U. S. Gov
ernment's bulletins, how to reduce
the high cost of living, how to pro-
mote and protect your own and your
fanatics health, how to make house
keeping simpler and more economical
and pleasant by utilizing modern
science in the home.
This book, We note, is priced at
$500 per copy and from what we
understand it contains a complete
$4,000 college course, condensed,
and it is practically FREE to every
interested housewife.
Write the Home Economies De-
partment of the Calumet Baking
Powder Co., 4100-28 Fillmore St.,
Chicago, Illinois, for full particulars
regarding the book and how to secure
it.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
HARPERs FERRY CONTESTANTS

Names of contestants for final
scholastic tests to be held at Charles
Town. April ID from Harpers Ferry,
preparatory to Field Day.
Arithmetic--Grades A, and 3d.
Dominica Diaddezzio Ethlyn Nelson.
Arithmetic-Grades s, 7, and s.
Audrey Engle, Ethel Moler.
Spelling and 9Th grades:-
Irene Waters Mildred Barr.
Spelling-7th and 9Th grades :--
Louise Moler, Robert Cronise.
Harpers Ferry High School Section.
Spelling Elizabeth Biller and Fran
ces Young. English Composition
Helen Reese and Bette James. Ari-
thmetic-Lowell Hetzell and Cecil
Webb.
Bakerton School-Spelling 9Th and
9Th Evelyn Bishop, and Har-
nv Bishop. Arithmetic. grades 3, a
and 5-Harry Bishop, Mary C. Duke.
Arithmetic, grade Anna c. Moler,
Walter Butts.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-04-29
CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY MAX
ING DRIVE.

The Citizens Fire Company, one of
Charles Towns Crack Fire Fighting
organizations, is now making a big
effort to pay off the large debt on
their splendid fire truck. The fol-
lowing are authorized to soloeit SUBJ
scriptions for this purpose:
Charles Town-Misses Leslie, Miss
Dallas Russell, Lyman Linson.
Harpers Ferry and Bolivar--Mrs.
Juliet Hino. Miss Elizabeth VENTED
jefferson County-Lyne q Little
john, Miss Wiltshire, Miss Mary
Engle, Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.. Jordan, A.
S. Allen, Mrs. John C. Burns, Frank
Robinson, Gardner Bros, Raleigh
Houser. John Myers, Edgar Jacobs,
Jack Wilt, Garland Heffiehower, Mrs.
Chas. Harris. |. n. Bonham, Charles
Currans. John J. Dixon, Mrs. John j.
Dixon, Frank Jackson, Mrs. Celia
Lawson, Rev. Johnson, Lavenia
Payne, Wesley Tolbert, Walter
Moten. James Bradford. Peter
Brooks. Ed. Hughes, VIM. Lowry.
When you are called on by any one
of these solicitors. try and give lib
orally to this worthy cause, and II
I you are not called on see one of them
an dhand in your subscription. When
you help the fire company to pur-
chase first-class equipment, you are
helping yourself.
The following contributions have
been received up until the first of the
week:
From Mrs. Hino-H. T. Mcdonald
$500: w H. Saunders, SO 90. Fl I'll
Winters, $1.00; G. 7. Newman, 50
Mrs. l. G.. Dennis, 25c; J. L. McCrav
soc: r. e. Mcdaniel. S1.00: F. F.
Brady. 25c; G.. f. OFT, S1.00: Robert
Fields. 25c: Mrs. f. Learmont. SO. 90
Mrs. Ben Eackels, 25c: Mr. and Mrs
J. Billmyer, So 90: Mr.. and Mrs. J
X. Grubbs, $500; H. varkees, $1.00
Mrs. Raymond Snyder. Csc Mrs Ray
mony Young, $1.00; Mrs, f. P. Mol
and, soc: Mrs. Leon Upwright. 25c
w. r. Daley, S1.00; Mrs. c. C. James
i 25c. NJ Clevenger. $1.00; Mrs. Ed
ward Hino, $1.00; Ralph Bowers. 81
Katie Twyman, 25c: c. f. Watson
s1.00; B. B. Moler. $1.50 Mrs. j. w
OFT, Csc; Miss Edna OFT, 25c; Mrs
J. WxClevenger, 81 90; Nelson Davis
soc: Mrs. L. v. Snyder. soc: J. w
OFT. Csc. The total was 1925.
Mrs Orems-Mrs. Webb. 25c; Jas
Derry, CSC; Mrs. s. A. Luckett, SOC
Mrs. v. Frye. S1.00: S. Markell, ST.
F. p. Reibert, $1.00; John Walsh
S1.00; Mrs. Annie jefferson. $1.00
Miss M. Murphy. soc: Bank of Har
pers Ferry. $500: Earle Towns. 81
Mrs. F. Crane, $1.00; r. L. Butts
S1.00; Miss Sara Coe, 81 on; Hvmar
Wiener, $1,000; Miss M. p. Duval
$500.