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Evening star., 1925-02-22
The Passion Play

mothers arms he participates in one
OF the many mob" scenes in which
the entire population takes a part.
At 10 he stands on his own feet in
the mob scenes. At 20 he has had
the benefit of schooling for a certain
definite role-perhaps that OF the be
loved Apostle John, a cunning Israel
ite, or maybe the Christus himself.
The latter role has for three genera
tions been portrayed by a member
of the Fassnacht family-Adolph
| Fassnacht gives a mastery portrayal
of the part. His brother George enacts
| the part OF Judas.
Overtures to have this epic drama
filmed met with whole-hearted op-
position from the people of F'reiburg
for years. In 1922, however, the
financial panic of the inhabitants, due
to the World War, made negotiations
for filming more acceptable. Ac-
cordingly the spectacle was filmed
| in the same setting used for the
decadal rendition. Inbred acting abil-
| ity. combined with the direction of
Dimitri Buchowetzki, "the European
Griffith" make this film the great
| est, most instructive and religious
| epic ever depicted on the silver sheet
This film has been secured for a
! limited Washington engagement at
| the New Washington Auditorium,
commencing February %.
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Palace-"E Excuse Mel"

A festival Of laughter is said to be
in store for Loew's Palace patrons
this week in Metro -Goldwyn's ver-
sion of Rupert Hughes comedy, Eek
cuse Me-, which features Conrad
Nagel and Norma Shearer, supported
by Renee Adoree, Walter HERS, John
Boles and others.
The story tells of the efforts Of a
young naval lieutenant to heed the
call of duty, which takes him to the
Orient, and to hurry his nuptials
with his fancee, so that she may go
with him. Discovering that their
minister has smallpox. they decide to
be married on board the train. No
minister appears, however, and the
almost bride Is about to leave at the
first stop, when a pretty French
divorcee boards the express and
recognizes the young lieutenant as an
old friend of the war days in France.
Complications and misunderstanding
follow, adding spice and hilarity to
the tale, which ends in thrilling
trip by airplane to San Francisco,
where the lovers are finally wed and
the transport caught in time.
A new Richard Harding Davis
comedy for Earle Foxe, called THE
Burglar; the Pathe News reel,
Topics of the Day and Mr.. Gannon's
orchestral music complete the bill.
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The Great
Divide"

Reginald Barker's screen version
of the William Vaughn Moody play,
"The Great Divide" which has been
often referred to as "the great Amer
lean play" will be seen at Loew's
Columbia this week, with Alice Terry
sharing featured honors with Conway
Tearle.
Benjamin Glazer made the adapta-
tion and Metro Goldwyn has brought
it out as one of the outstanding at
fractions for 1924-25. The well chosen
cast includes Wallace Beery, Huntly
Gordon, Allan Forrest, George Coop
er, Zasu Pitts and William Orlamond
The setting of the story is laid in
the Painted Desert of Arizona, where,
by a curious set of circumstances, a
beautiful Eastern girl, romantic yet
puritanical of temperament, finds
herself alone and at the mercy of
three drunken marauders, who gam
BILE for her possession. Stephen
Ghent finally wins her, and the girl,
fascinated by the masculine direct
ness of his bartering for her, thinks
she sees in him the ideal lover. After
their marriage, however, Client quick
ly tears down all the idealism with
which the girl has surrounded him,
and though he becomes a rich miner,
she spurns his money and devotes
herself to earning back the price he
paid for her.
In the end a supreme sacrifice on
the husbands part awakens the girl
to his true value, and she realizes
that she has changed him from the
man he was and that, after all, she
loves him.
A Billy Bump comedy, a musical
crossword novelty, the International
news reel and Mr.. Brusiloff's orches-
trail music complete the BILL
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Pola to Make Flying Trip.

For the first time since her arrival
in this country, 2A years ago,
Pola Negri will return in March to
her native land across the seas. Miss
Negri has completed her plans and OBJ
tanned her passports for a flying trip
to Europe to see her mother and visit
the scenes Of her early continental
triumphs.
During the three weeks Miss Negri
will be in Europe more than half of
the time will be spent in Poland
with her mother. She also plans to
dispose of her estate in Poland and to
make arrangements for the enlarge
ment of an orphanage she is endow-
ing. At present this orphange ac-
commodities 1S5 persons. By the new
arrangement Miss Negri plans to
have 1t support more than 500 Polish
children.
Several days will be spent In Paris
purchasing a wardrobe to bring back
to the United States, and short
time will also be spent in Berlin,
closing her affairs in that city.
According to the star she does not
wish to return to Europe to live.
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He Has It."

FROM Samuel Goldwyn came a ca
BILE recently saying that he had
rendered contract to Count Salm
Won Hoogstraten, husband of Milli-
cent Rogers, to go to Hollywood to
act in a new film production.
Goldwyn states: 1.-THE count is
photogenic' and has plenty of sense.
There is every reason in the world
why he should succeed in pictures. If
the countess will come also, / am
prepared to offer them both a good
contract"
And now Hollywood has almost
come to blows over 'photogenic." "
Some claim there is no such thing
and others admit there may be, but If
so, it doesn't mean anything.
Mr.. Goldwyn was asked for a def
milton of the word and sent the FOB
lowing answer: when EIinor Glyn
saw leading man and said he had
1T and registered that it before the
camera, that leading man was photo
genie Ronald Colman has it and i
maintain that Count Salm has it,
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Bebe Daniels in the stellar role. The
supporting cast includes Robert
Frazer, Raymond Griffith, Lawrence
D'Orsay and Florence Billings Jim
mie Adams, in step Fast" and a new
issue of the Pathe Review also will
be shown. Following will be-Tues-
day and Wednesday,, Richard Dix.
supported by JacqueIine Logan,
George Nash and Edna Murphy, in
Paramount's film version of /. A. r.
Wylie's novel, Jungle Law" renamed
"A Man Must Live; Mack Sennett's
>"Off His Trolley" a new release of
the Screen Almanac; Thursday and
Friday, Pola Negri, in Paramount's
camera version of w. Somerset
Maugham's play, East of Suez," and
Harry Langdon, in Feet of Mud;
Saturday, Captain January" starring
Baby Peggy; Charlie Chase, in The
Family Entrance; a new Lyman H.
Howe Hodge Podge" and the eighth
installment of "Galloping Hoofs"; at
each daily bill will be heard pipe or
gan programs by Otto F. Beck.
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Vets and Orphans at
Passion Play."

The orphans of the District of Co
lumbia.- are to be the guests of the
committee of management of the Frei-
berg Passion Play" film spectacle at
the Washington Auditorium this week.
A special 10 o'clock showing of the
film has been arranged for Tuesday
morning, and a special section of the
Auditorium has been set aside for the
Walter Reed, Mount Alto and st. Eliza
beth's war veterans. Public utilities
and individuals, it is said, have gen.
erously proffered transportation.
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The Man Without Z
Country.

Through the generosity of Will
liam Fox, the fine screen version of
Edward Everett Hale's famous story.
THE Man without a Country" in
which Richard Tucker is featured as
Aaron Burr and Edward Hearn as
Lieut.. Philip Nolan, "the man." will
be shown in the ballroom of the
New Willard Hotel, Saturday eve
ming, at $3.50 o'clock, for the benefit
of local charities. under the auspices
of the Junior League Of Washington.
This famous story, which concerns
a young soldier OF the United States,
about the time of the War of 1872,
who cursed his country and her flag
and was penalized by being compelled
to live thereafter first on one bat
tleship and then another, forbidden
to land on American soil, until old
and gray, through hardship and
longing for home, he paid the penalty
and finally found the love for his
native land which he lacked in his
youth, Is a masterpiece of history.
The films version is said to faith
fully reflect the original story.
In the early scenes are shown the
life and customs of the early days
of the American republic in a tale
of charming romance, when Philip
Nolan was the idol Of his mother and
his sweetheart. The real action
starts with Nolan's denunciation of
his country. Then follows his life
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Ambassador "A Thief In
Paradise"

Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman,
Aileen Pringle. Claude Gillingwater,
Alec B. Francis and John Patrick are
the principal players in Samuel Cold
wyn's production of Leonard Mer-
rick's novel. The Woridlings," to be
shown at Crandall's Ambassador Thea
ter the first three days of this week
Lyon and Norma Trevor, in Para
disc" directed by George Fitzmau-
rice. Have a Heart" starring Cliff
Bowes; added short reels and pipe
organ music will round out the pro-
gram. Wednesday and Thursday
Gloria Swanson, supported by Ben
Lyon and Norma Trevor in Para
mounts The Wages of Virtue" and
Harry Langdon, in Sennett's Feet of
Mud; Friday. William Fox produc-
ton, IAN Arizona Romeo" Mack Sem
nett's -'Lizzies of the Field and the
third Grantland Rice's "Sportlight."
Sporting Armour; Saturday. Bebe
Daniels, in Miss Bluebeard"; Lige
Conley, in Motor Mad" and "Gallop-
ing Hoofs,'' No. 9, complete the weeks
program.
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Lincoln The Only
Woman.

Norma Talmadge will be the star
for the first three days of this week
at the Lincoln Theater in First Ma
tomas release of "The Only Woman"
the story of a beautiful young woman
who sacrifices herself to save her
father from the penalty of his folly
and redeems drunken husband from
his vice, the latter role taken by
Eugene O'Brien. The comedy will be
Poodles Hanneford in THE Bone
head" and a new issue of the Kino-
grams also will be shown.
Wednesday and Thursday, First Ma
tionafs production of 'If L Marry
Again." with Doris Kenyon, Lloyd
Hughes, Frank Mayo and Hobart
Bosworth, and Lloyd Hamilton in
Jonah Jones'; Friday and Saturday,
Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis S. Stone and
Mary Astor. in 'Inez From Holly
wood; Our Gang, in Hal Roach s
big Business" and Saturday the
tenth installment of "Galloping
Hoofs" completes the weeks pro-
gram.
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Rialto-"T The Tenth
Woman. 80

The screen version of Harriet T.
Comstock's novel, "The Tenth Wom-
an" will be the feature at the Rialto
this week, the story dealing with
problems typical of certain phase of
American life today.
June Marlowe is seen in the role of
Rose Brainard, the married f1apper,
who is always looking for q new
thrill. When her husband refuses to
escort her to a midnight party, she
goes alone, and finally adds to her
wild escapades by running away to
an old sweetheart, from whom she
expects sympathy.
Beverly Bayne portrays the role of
Villa Brooks, a sympathetic charac-
ter, in love with Roses former sweet
heart, Barry. Compton, played by John
Roche.
Added features will be the Royal
Marimba Band, in program of mu-
sical hits; ''The Buccaneers" an ''Our
Gang" comedy; the Rialto Orchestra,
under Mischa Guterson, who will play
as overture Strauss "The Beautiful
Blue Danube Waltz and the Inter-
national News reels
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RUTH
MILLER
Strand

TN the dark ages, when Attila's Hun
hordes swept from northern
Europe to terrorize the Roman En-
pire, their pagan pageants were the
principal diversion of the Teutonic
warriors. The evolution of these
orgic pageants into dramas was but
a step. Depicting incidents in the lives
of their NEUROLOGICAL characters be-
came custom.
Gradually these primitive plays
lost their barbaric character and the
dramas centered around the life of
Christ as Christianity's influences
reached them. In the thirteenth CEN
tury the people of Freiburg. a little
town nesting IN the hills of Baden,
decided to enact every 10 years pas
sion play depicting every detail of
the passion and death of Christ as
set forth I'm the New Testament. II
was 80 years later that the people
of Oberammergau, about so miles
distant, in Bavaria, instituted their
passion play in thanksgiving for be-
ing spared from a pestllence that
spread all over Europe
Since 1864 1.-THE Passion Play" has
been enacted at Freiburg religiously
every 10 years. The principal roles
have been passed on from generation
to generation. The Freiburg child
is educated in the part he is des-
tined to play. AS a babe in his
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Lou Tellengen's Career.

7 OU TEILENGEN, who has the fea-
tured male role in "Those who
Judge" was a stage favorite before
coming to the screen.
His greatest stage "hit' undoubt-
edly was Blind YOUTH" in which he
starred for several seasons on the
road and in New York
BY birth Frenchman, Tellengen
received much of his early education
in England as we'll as France. In his
native land he played in many of the
stage productions of Sarah Bernhardt,
and was fayorite Juvenile leading
man and protege of the Divine Sa-
rah," and a popular Partisan matinee
idol
He also enjoyed quite vogue in his
early years on the London stage
playing leading roles with some OF
the greatest English stars.
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Metropolitan-"A Thief in
Paradise"

The production for First National
of "A Thief in Paradise" adapted
from Leonard Merrick's novel, ''The
Wordlipgs," directed by George Fitz-
maurice, will be the feature this week
at CrandalPs Metropolitan Theater.
The comedy is Lloyd Hamilton in
Hooked" and other attractions will
be a new issue of the Metropolitan
World Survey, added short reels and
a musical program arranged by
Daniel Breeskin for the Metropolitan
orchestra, including melody gems
from. the operetta Rose Marie" and
Might Time in Araby," from George
Whites Scandals
"a Thief in Paradise" unfolds the
story of a derelict living the life of
a beach comber on one of the islands
of the Samoan group, who comes into
possession of enough money to return
to the States. In the new environ
ment he wins the love of Helen
Saville, but their plans are deferred
by the appearance of Rosa Carmino,
his half-caste common-law wife, who
has followed him. The manner in
which reconciliation and under
standing is brought about furnishes
the crux of the play.
Ronald -Colman and Doris Kenyon
Rrs cast as Maurice Blake. the dere-
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CHEVY Chase.

Today and tomorrow, Mary Pick
ford, in Dorothy Vernon of Haddon
Hall"; news and fables; matinee
Monday, 2:30 pm. Tuesday. Constance
Ta1madge, in 1.-The Goldfish; Sun
shine comedy, The Diving Fool"
Wednesday and Thursday, Agnes
Ayres and Pat O'Malley, in Worldly
Goods; comedy, news and newspaper
fun. Friday, Charles (Buck) Jones,
winner Take All'; Jimmy Aubrey,
in "Heebie Jeebies"; fifth chapter,
Ten Scars Make a Man" Saturday,
Reginald Denny, in "The Fast Work
err; Bert Roach and Neely Edwards,
in Horse Play; last chapter Into
the Net" Doors open Sunday and
Saturday 2:3O pm.
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Apollo.

Today and tomorrow, Colleen Moore,
in so Big" and Aesop Fable; Tuesday
and Wednesday, Lewis Stone, Flor
ence Vidor and Lew Cody, in Illus
bands and Lovers and Charlie Chase
in The Family Entrance; Thursday
and Friday, Claire Windsor Frank
Keenan, and Lloyd Hughes, in 1.-THE
Dixie Handicap" and AL st. John, in
"Lovemania"; Saturday, Helene Chad
wick, in "Trouping With Ellen" "Our
Gang" in Every Man for Himself"
and "Galloping Hoofs," No. T.
Evening star., 1925-02-22

THE camera lenses and attachments
which have been invented by Leon
F. Douglass, vice president of the Vic
tor Phonograph Co., and which are
expected to revolutionize many phases
of motion picture production, were
used extensively in photographing
THE Phantom of the Opera, Uni
versars latest screen spectacle.
Apparently insoluble problems IN
photographing the scenes showing the
dark cellars under the Paris Opera,
where the Phantom dwells, his
chamber of mystery" and other Sc
quences in the picture were found
easy Of solution by the use of Mr..
Douglass invention.
For the past five years Mr.. Doug
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Valuable Filming Inventions

lass has been experimenting with
optics as a hobby, and has made many
important inventions. Through his
lenses he can bring two distant OBJ
jects together on a single film, thus
eliminating the old subterfuge of dou-
BILE exposure. He has also invented
devices which make the colored pho
tograph as simple as straight pho
Biography.
Besides being an authority on lenses
and optics, Mr. Douglass has made
valuable contributions to phonograph
recording, having originated the
methods of recording which made the
grand opera record possible. 1t is
claimed that he was the first to place
the voices of the worlds greatest
artists on the photographic record
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Lights and Shades
Expressive

quired to express the mood of a story
is 20, the joyous scenes of the picture
might run to so and the sadder parts
to 90. Another story might be set at
80 and range from 50 down to IS.
Still another might be based on 60
and run no higher than 65 and no
lower than 5S.
I'm every William de Mile produc-
tion the light values are planned with
the same care that is devoted to the
selection of the players and the de-
signs for the settings. 1cebound'
had a much lower scale of lighting
than did The Fast Set'--to take two
striking examples-while Men and
Women the latest production by De
Mile, will have still another one,
owing to the difference in the story.
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Central The Foolish
Virgin.

Elaine Hammerstein will be the
star at CrandalPs Central Theater
the first two days of this week in
Exhibitors Film Exchanges release,
1.-THE Foolish Virgin" and for COM
edy, Ben Turpin in THE Reel Vir-
ginian"; Tuesday and Wednesday,
'The Dixie Handicap" with Claire
Windsor, Frank keenan, and Lloyd
Hughes, and comedy, THE Goat Get
ters," with a Juvenile cast; Thursday
and Friday, Constance Talmadge,
supported by Ronald Colman and AL
bert Gran, in First Nationals Her
Night of Romance" and Mack SEN
nett's "Lizzies of the Field; Satur-
day. Locked Doors starring Betty
Compson, supported by Theodore
Roberts and Kathlyn Williams, and
Cliff Bowes in Weak Knees" COM
plete the bookings for the week
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Carolina.

Today and tomorrow, Her Night Of
Romance" with Constance Talmadge; !;
Tuesday, "The Snob," with John Gil
bert and Norma Shearer; Wednesday
and Thursday, The Fast Set" with
Betty Compson and Adolphe Menjou;
Friday, THE Red Lily" with Ramon
Novarro and Enid Bennett; Saturday,
"Sundown," with Roy Stewart and
Bessie Love.
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Children's Matinees.

The excellence of the bills arranged
for the special performances for chill
dren presented each Saturday morn
the public service and educational
department of the Crandall Theaters,
under the direction of Harriet Haw-
ley Locher, continues on the high
plane already established.
Saturday, February 81, Jackie Coo
gan was chosen as star in First Ma
tionaPs Circus Days"
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moons can be expressed in light
and shade on the screen ac-
cording to L. Guy Wilky, chief cine
photographer of William de Mile pro-
ductions. Just as a composer ex-
presses moods in combinations of
tones, so the photographer can ex-
press them in the way he lights a
picture.
Every story has it's own light and
shade values" said Wilky. Each in
dividual scene has its own definite
light or shadow.
IF we could express lighting quail
ties in mathematical terms it might
work out like this: Call darkness
zero and the fullest light '100.'
Then If the general light value re-
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Circle.

Today, George Hackathorne and
Eleanor Boardman, in THE Turmoil;
tomorrow, open 8 pm, special pro-
gram of short features; THE Gate
way to the West; account of young
George Washington's first command;
Gang comedy, ITS a Bear; Spat
comedy, Hunters Bold" and Gal
looping Hoofs"; Tuesday, Noah Beery
and Airline Pretty, in Tipped Off,:
Wednesday, "Babbitt,' with Willard
Louis and Mary Alden: Thursday and
Friday (showing and p.m). Col
leen Moore, in $50 Big; Saturday.
CONTINUED on Fourth Page-l
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Photoplays This Week
At the Photoplay Houses This Week

COLUMBA-"The Great Divide" Shown this afternoon and
evening
INTERCOLLEGIATE Thief in Paradise" Shown this afternoon
and evening
PALACE-"Excuse Mel" Shown this afternoon evening
RIALTO-The Woman" this evening
TIVOI-Miss Bluebeard" Shown this and
AMBASSADOR-A in Paradise" Shown
evening
evening
LINCOLN coioted)-"The Only Woman" Shown
evening
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Wednesday, Colleen Moore, in ESQ
Big" and Aesop Fable; Thursday,
Agnes Ayres, in "Tomorrow's Love-"
and Lige Conley, in Fast and Furi-
GUS; Friday, Bebe Daniels, in Miss
Bluebeard," and Mack Sennett's ''Oh
His Trolley; Saturday, Betty Comp
son, in Locked Doors" Cliff Bowes.
in "The Mad Rush." and 'Galloping
Hoofs," No. s.
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on the high seas to which he was
condemned. moving from battleship
to battleship, his participation in
thrilling sea fights, touching now and
then at foreign ports, but never in
his homeland, until, through the un-
tiring and ceaseless efforts of the
sweetheart of his youth, he is par
doned in his old age by President
lincoln
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Warner Bros. Announce
mentS.

WARNER BROS. have started prep
W arations on four new pictures
Millard Webb has the direction of
1.-THE Golden Cocoon the first novel
of Ruth Cross; Dorothy Farnum has
completed the adaptation of Kathleen
Norris novel, Rose of the World"
which Harry Beaumont will direct; the
famous old melodrama, THE Limited
Mall has been assigned to Daryl
Francis Zanuck, who will make an up
to-date adaptation, and Rin-Tin- Tin s
next picture will be Below the Line
which Charles Logue will prepare for
the screen.