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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Observation-Disclosures.
Lovers.

Stage and screen features to con-
form to the spirit of the Yuletide
will be presented at Crandalls Metro
politan Theater Christmas week. be-
ginning this afternoon. The photo
play will be First Nationals produc-
ton, Midnight Lovers" featuring
Lewis S. Stone and Anna O. Nilsson,
Contance Mering and Muriel Pollock,
Duo-Art and Columbia recording ar
lists, will be heard in a double piano
lOgue; and a selected two-reel comedy,
the Metropolitan World Survey. with
added short reels and music by the
Metropolitan Symphony, under Daniel
Breeskin, will complete the program.
Midnight Lovers" is a comedy
drama which concerns the marital ex
periences of a flying ace in the Eng
lish aviation forces on the French
front and cultured English woman
who Is wholly mismated but swept
into matrimony after a Whirlwind
courtship of two weeks while the
major is on furlough. An effeminate
young interior decorator forms the
third side of the triangle and helps
to make things interesting.
Misses Mering and Pollock will
conf1ne their program to the lighter
forms of musical expression. to which
they bring distinctive Interpretation.
Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the
Metropolitan Symphony, will substi
tute for the overture a miniature
concert comprised of three sharply
contrasted numbers, the Hungarian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
PALACE-"Everybody's Acting :"

An elaborate Christmas week pro-
gram Is promised at Loew's Palace.
starting this afternoon.
Joe Rea and his California Night
hawks. in a revue of revelry, will APP
pear as the headliner of the stage pro
gram. with "Everybody's Acting"
Marshall Neilan's latest production,
the outstanding number of the screen
bill.
Additional features will be the over
ture THE Message of Yuletide." an
orchestra feature combined with stage
and screen establishment, directed by
David Armand, guest conductor: Pal
organlogue, Christmas Suggestions, i"
with Dick Leibert at the console, and
Harry Campbell's Recessionals.
Joe Rea and his California Night
hawks promise 80 minutes of music,
song, dance and comedy, featuring Ma
RE lie Viness, soprano; Jerry Ely
tenor; Jim Mcnamara. dancing fool;
Matt Walker. baritone; Ralph Jack
son. comedian, and Billy Miller, di-
rector.
'Everybody's Acting" with a cast
including Betty Bronson, Lawrence
Grey, Louise Dresser. Ford Sterling
Raymond Hitchcock, Stuart Holmes
and Henry 3. Walthall, concerns a
waif Of the theater who is adopted by
four foster daddies and who, when the
only love affair of her life seems
smashed to pieces by the interference
Of an imperious woman, finds her path
to happiness smoothed by the guile of
her four foster parents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
What s a "Gag?"

"'XXHAT'S a gag?" .
w Usually a dozen different an
swers meet the query. But that isn't
all. Curiosity isn't appeased. For the
question, Where did the word come
FROM" invariably follows, for gags"
are as common now in the movies as
spots in case of measles.
Now, and without intending to be
evaSive, Edward Sedgwick, who has
just completed the direction of Tin
Hats" for Metro Goldwyn- Mayer, says
that gag" can be explained and de-
fined in half dozen different ways.
For example" says Sedgwick, IAN
Englishman might define the word
gag as bit of extemporal wit
while his American cousins would de-
play or movie that gets a laugh"
And really, a gag is a piece of
business in theatrical production, or
in a motion picture play, inserted to
get a laugh. Sometimes a script is
gagged before the cameras start
working; mostly. picture is gagged
on the sets as it unfolds.
often, on the set. a gag presents
itself, and this means, simply. that
the opportunity to get a laugh pre-
sents itself. And, incidentally, that's
what we hire 'gagmen' for-they are
employed to look for gags and think
them out-create them-if they do
not find any.
"It is extremely hard to say where
1t came from. 1t is a well known fact
that it is not modern. Long before
the period of 1864. the year Dutton
Cook was much concerned about the
origin of the word, 1t had been in
vented and was in common use
among theatrical people, particularly
comedians
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Crandall's Christmas
Party

THE selected programs for chill
dren in Crandall's Tivol and
Chevy Chase Theaters Saturday
morning will give way to Mr. Gran
dall's annual Christmas party for the
children.
,For weeks the cards available in all
of the theaters have been coming
back signed by the children request
ing invitations. Prominent leaders in
rfrtisical life of the city have volun-
teered to lead the children in singing
Mr.. James p. Shick at the Ambas-
sador; Mrs. B. B. Brann at the Apollo:
Miss Sara Williams at the Colony;
Mr.. Arthur Jet at the Home; Miss
Hattie Potter at the York: Miss Glad
E. Mills at the Chevy Chase. The
Savoy and Tivon audiences combined
at the Tivoli will be led by Mrs.
Robert Lawrence.
The extent to which this years
merrymaking will be carried on may
be estimated by the fact that c6n-
tracts were let late last Summer for
the delivery of four tons 5000
pounds) of candy in half-pound pack.
ages and 10000 toys. The candy is
of a high grade and the carton in
which it is presented to the Riddles
is one of genuine attractiveness.
The. most popular of the musical
noise makers to be distributed this
year no doubt will be the fexophone,
an ingenious device which in unskilled
hands is merely a noise-maker, but
which with sufficient training on the
part of the player can be made to
render the same quality Of tone and
melodx as the musical saw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
COLUMBIA-"The Magician. IS

The latest production Of Rex In
gram, producer of The Four Horse
men" "Scaramouche" and Mare
Nostrum," called The Magician" and
based on the novel by w. Somerset
Vaughan. author of Rain" will be
given its first local presentation. at
Loew's Columbia this week starting
this afternoon.
Once again Alice Terry has the lead
ing feminine role, while Ivan Petro-
vich a young Serbian actor, Is seen,
as her leading man. In the title role
appears Paul Wegener, the great Ger.
man character star.
THE Magician" directed and pro-
duced entirely in Europe. concerns
beautiful girl who is saved from being
a hopeless cripple by a delicate and
wonderful operation performed by
young surgeon. At almost the climax
of their happiness the shadow of
sinister, half-mad magician falls across
their path and the girl is suddenly
brought under the hypnotic spell OF
this curious character.
The program will be supplemented
by a short-length comedy. the Pathe
news reel and a Christmas overture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
RTALTO-"The Mystery Club"

The Rialto offers as its feature. pic
ture this week Edith Roberts, Mildred
Harris and Matt Moore in the featured
roles.
The story. taken from Arthur Som
ers Roche's series. Grimes of the
Armchair Club" concerns the adven-
lures of an organization Of million
aires, called THE Mystery Club" AS
a result of a heated discussion. a
wager is made, by the terms Of which
each member obligates himself to
commit a crime, undetected by the
police, the failure of any project en-
failing the payment of a large forfeit.
A real crime is committed and mem
bers of the club are suspected. This
is the basis for a series Of startling
situations. The action is fast and
stirring until the very last, when
surprise upsets all calculations.
The cast includes Charles Lane, War
ner GLAND, Henry Herbert, Charles
Puffy, Alphose Martell. Finch Smiles,
Earl Metcalf, Nat Carr. Jed Proudly,
Alfred Allen, Sidney Bracey and Monte
Montague.
The stage presentation is the eat
lantic Four" a harmony quartet,
which will be heard in a program OF
late song hits; also an unpublished
number by Percy Venable. entitled
RED Riding Hood"
The Rialto Orchestra, under Rox
Rommell, will play for an overture
THE Blue Danube Waltz" Otto F.
Beck will offer an original organlogue.
the International News. Buster Brown
comedy and other short reels will com
plete the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

IN the three years since his last visit
to America Max Reinhardt has
produced scores of modern plays in
his theaters in Vienna and Berlin,
apart from his classical repertory. his
Summer festivals in Salzburg and &C.
casionai artistic invasions of the
neighboring capitals.
Among the American and English
authors presented by the Reinhardt
theaters were Eugene O'Neill, John
Galsworthy, Ossip Dymow, Noel Cow
ard, Randolph and Cotton, Milne,
Shaw, Somerset Vaughan, Hopwood.
The biggest Anglo-Saxon successes
of Retnhardt were Rain" Saint
JOAN Somerset Maugham's Vic
toria." Noel Cowards Hay Fever
and Fallen Angels" and Galsworthy's
"Loyalties The next English play
on his program Is Noel towards
"Semimonde," which he considers IA
the opening OF new chapter in dra-
matte technique.
| Max Reinhardt. who recently ar
rived in New York, will go to San
Francisco for his last" Miracle" re-.
hearsals, at the Civic Auditorium.
| DIR. Karl Vollmoeller, co-author Of
THE Miracle" arrived with Mr.. Rein
)hardt on the Deutschland. He also Is
going to California, at the invitation
OF Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick
ford
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Rex a Cosmopolite.

DEX INRGAM, by taste and inclina-
N ton, is said to be "cosmopolite. :"
He loves to roam in strange climes
and send back pictorial records OF his
travels. His uncanny ability to Judge
public taste in matters of film moves
Metro. Goldwyn to continue to cable
him drafts of money and take in ex-
change the film product that has been
popular since Ingram made his first
picture, Shore Acres" In the U. S. A
Ingram made THE Arab" abroad
and followed it up with another Eu
ropean.filmed hit, Mare Nostrum."
Three years ago he read Maugham's
novel, "The Magician" and decided to
make 1t into picture If possible. His
willingness to Aim the story in its
continental locale was a big factor In
deciding the novelist in Migrants
favor.
The story offers great role for
Paul Wegener, the famous German
star Of 1.-THE Golem," and inasmuch as
Ingram has long desired to make a
picture with Wegener in It. 1.-THE Ma
Sician" gave him the opportunity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Talmadge Sisters Busy.

WHILE Norma Talmadge is en-
w gagged in a unique modern YER
sion of Camille" under direction of
Fred Niblo, Constance Is busy on an
original comedy DRAMA 1.-THE Vamp
of Venice WITH Marshall Neilan' in
charge. Both features are being pro-
duced by Joseph NJ. Schenck for First
National. H.
Camille" is Norma's last release
for First National before she becomes
a member of United Artists, of which
Mr.. Schenck Is chairman of the board
of directors, while Constance has one
other picture after 1.-THE Vamp of
Venice" to make for First National
before she, too, joins the associated
galaxy of stars which includes Mary
Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles
Chaplin, John Barrymore, Buster
Keaton, Gloria Swanson and others.
Desiring to make TCamille" one Of
the outstanding triumphs in Norma's
career, Mr.. SchenCk ,%who incidentally
Is her husband, recruited a notable
cast, including Gilbert Roland dash
ing young Spanish actor, for the role
Of Armand Lillyan Eastman for the
role of Olympic, Rose, Dione, as Pru-
dence and Oscar Beregi as Count de
Varville.
FREQ de CIresSdC wrote the 1875
adaptation of Camille" and Chandler
Sprague and Olga Prihtzlau prepared
the continuity. The new Camille" is
lavishly costumed. Miss Talmadge's
gowns and other finery were brought
direct from Paris, and oliver Marsh
is chief cinematographer.
In THE Vamp of Venice" Constance
; Talmadge has perhaps the strangest
role of her career. The play has been
retitled from an original screen story,
"Carlotta," by Hans I<raly and Wal.
lace Smith, and presents the come
dienne as an elusive young Ventian
crook, who swins' the famous canals
An search of victims, and who finally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
NORMA SHEARER-
Strand
Movie Sidelights

BY the Associated Press.
GRASS and flowers did not grow
~ fast enough for the movies, so
a lawn, flower garden and banana
tree are being grown at Universal
City by artificial light and heat in
order to have a big set ready on the
required date, to represent a planta-
ton home in Uncle Toms Cabin" :
Featured players, entirely at ease
before batteries of motion picture cam
eras leveled at them, have been known
to freeze up" and become as self
conscious as an amateur while pos
ing for new portraits and still" pic
lures.
Six extras were recently engaged
for a scene in Paradise for Two"
in which they had to portray the
roles of six extras applying at thea
trical casting office for work.
The wilds aren't wild enough any
more for making outdoor adventure
thrillers. 1t was necessary to ship a
small sized menagerie of wild ami
mails into the Sierras for the filming
of Zane Grey's THE Man of the
Forest" A mountain lion, a bear,
some deer, foxes, wolves and a coy.
ote were transported to the location
Impressionistic photography is an
example of modernistic influence in
the motion pictures. It has been en-
ployed in "Sunya," Gloria Swanson's
forthcoming production, in which an
unusual effect of photographing the
mind has been attempted by Dudley
Murphy, cinematographer, In filming
a sequence Of enacted thoughts"
with rhythmic speed.
Picture producers say that in buy
ing stories they are attracted by mys-
tifying titles. THE Taxi Dancer" for
instance does not mean a dancing
taxicab, nor a person who dances in
such a vehicle; neither is 1t a cab
1t Is a girl in a public dance hall
who dances with anybody that pays
for the privilege.
Dolores Costello and Kate Price re-
old times. Miss Costello played in sew
eral pictures with Miss Price as long
as IL years ago, when Maurice Cos.
tello, father of Dolores and Helene,
was a screen idol.
John Gilbert and Lew Cody have
basement dens in their California
homes. Gilbert has equipped his with
rapiers, masks and other equipment
for fencing, while Cody has one room
for billiards and another for his corn
beef and cabbage dinners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

I'm an probability, the. word or1gi-
mated when drama originated. It Is
probably the contr1vance and prop
erty of the comic performers of the
Greek plays. So soon as the author
began writing words for the actors to
deliver, rest assured that the
actors found way to interpolate a
speech Of their own-particularly the
comedians, for a gag IS their priv
lege, and always has been. The dra-
matte actor of the tragedian Of old
do not 'gag'-they require lines to
speak of another nature. There IN.
except in rare cases. nothing funny
about the parts they play.
II found in Whetstone's Hep
tameron.' a book published in Eng
land away back in 1882, a very rare
old volume, that the comedians OF
Ravenna, who were not tied to any
written device, but who, nevertheless,
had certain grounds or principles Of
their own found 1t most successful
to gag their roles.
There is not q question or doubt
that the word gag Is q very old one,
and its meaning is the same today as
1t was when 1t was first originated.
Call it slang If you wish, call 1t what
you may-it Is part and parcel of
both the theater and motion pic
lures"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Will Show Government
Film

ITO furnish a contrast with the
spirit of the season, the Leader
Theater Christmas day will start
showing. for weeks run, a series of
United States Government war films
entitled Through He'll and Back
Again With the Allies" which are de-
clared absolutely authentic and which
show the American doughboy fighting
side by side with the French, Belgian,
Canadian, Australian and Italian
troops in the late World War.
One Of the features of the series is
the bottling up of the German fleet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Midnight Show at Strand
TREAT is promised for the stranc

4 TREAT is promised for the Strand
patrons, as Manager Sparrow has
made arrangements for a special mid
night show on New Year eve, starting
at II 80.
The stage attraction will be Victor
Hyde's snappy, syncopated musical
comedy hit, "Frolics of 1927" by the
Strands permanent cast.
On the screen will be shown a first
run photoplay appropriate for the
holidays. All seats will be reserved,
going on sale December 10. Mail
orders will be filled according to time
of receipt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

reforms" and wins the heart of an
American artist. Antonio Moreno Is
Constance's new leading man. Other
PLAYERS in the cast are Edward Mar
tindel, Julianne Johnston, Michael
Vavitch, Arthur Thalasso and Andre
Lanoy. Dave Kesson, Director Mel
lan's veteran camera chief, is doing
the photographing.
William Cameron MenzieS, art d.
rector for the Schenck organization.
designed both the Camille" and THE
Vantp of Venice" sets, and John w.
Considine, jr., general manager of the
Schenck enterprises. is supervising
the productions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

"Sunya" is a Sanskrit word mean
ing Illusion, in the sense that all life.
here is phantom-like, and was selected
as the title Of Gloria Swanson's latest
because the picture itself is said to re,
veal great Illusion in camera angles
parallel to and correlating with the
human action in the drama. "Sunya"
is also Miss Swanson's name in the
film
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

Dance No. g." by Brahms, followed
by a unique arrangement for four
violins of Somewhere a Voice Is Call
ing" and a special transcription for
four solo instruments of the sextet
from Lucia di Lammerrhoor, by
DoniZetti
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
Photoplays This Week
SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS

PALACE-Everybodys Acting" This afternoon and evening
INTERCOLLEGIATE Lovers This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA-"The Magician" This afternoon and evening.
RIALTO-"The Mystery Club" This afternoon and
TVOLIThe of the Apocalypse This afternoon
and evening
AMBASSADORM Midnight Lovers This afternoon and
WARDMAN PARK-"The Caigar" This
and evening.
CENTRAL-"Flaming Fury" This afternoon evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
ANNA Q. NILSSON :
and LEWIS S.STONE'
Metropolitan
Next Week $ Photoplays

METROPOLITAN - Colleen
Moore in "Twinkletoes."
COLUMBIA Wallace Berry
and Raymond Hatton in
Were in the Navy Now"
Edward Everett
Horton and Marion Nixen
in Taxi! Taxiw
PALACE-Beatrice Lille and
Jack Pickford in exit Smil-
ing" s .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-01
Asking All Smith to Investigate His Man

New York being first in all things Ii Pennyl
ana corporations monare spent 30OOO to corrupt the
voters in the republican primaries Gotham traction interests and
Wall Street spent that amount to put over Governor
Smiths candidate mayor of the city
field who accounts under Mayor Hyan the
hackers his candidate the broadway hebuttern
Jimmy spent of $6OOOOOO the primary
and election of 1925.
victory cheap that considering the fact that about
twice people New York City in the state OF
Pennsylvania Hirschfeld, being good democrat like Al
Smith ought the New York traction interests spend
ing candidate of Americas leading democrat
spent Pennsylvania republican,
Hschfed also supplemented man and demands
that Smith appoint impartial tribunal to investigate
the New Does Mr. Hrschfeld imagine that AL
Smith is going to investigate himself and Tammany Hall?
politicians who out fighting against those who are
in and expose great public utility combines spent
of their it would be the better
part workers the city of New York and OF other
places broken breaking and will break
Of interest to the corporations to spend much
on their candidates.
inquiry these ush funds from class point of view will
furnish one why labor should create its po
ca party challenge both old parties 1t will also reveal why
the branches of the trade union
support Tammanye candidates in New York Pincho in
PENNSYLVANIA capitalist candidates other parts of the
these leaders who support capitalist
ddaes They for sale the highest bidder and oppose the
ton Of labor party because it would spoil their graft
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-01
BY EARL r. RRoWpER.

COMING into London just after the
~ betrayal of the Great Strike, one
was instantly struck by the fact that
Britishers were, on the whole, taking
it rather as matter of course, and
going about their business with sub
lime disregard of the fact that world
history had just been made under
their noses. And instead of making
records of all the small and great ex-
periences, the new creations of the
masses in their great movement, all
attention was being turned to the
record of the betrayal and the official
history. Much, very much, of the
story of the strike which matters the
most, will never be told because Brit
ish workers haven't learned to write
about their own life. But fragments
of the precious story are gradually
being gathered, which may some day
help make the whole picture. Here
are a few of such fragments:
A CERTAIN small town in Durham
"A had stood completely solid during
the strike, the Council of Action had
been particularly effective, taking
complete charge of the town during
the strike period. 1t was known that
no Communists or organized minority
movement existed there. One of the
so-called left wingers from London
dropped into the town to learn how
they had worked it. This is the story
as l heard him repeat it from the
local leader:
eve called a meeting of all officials
of labor organizations on the first
day of the strike, meeting in the prip-
cipal church. OF course, there was
some jealousy on the part of mem
bers of other churches, but we solved
that by pointing out that this one
was the only church big enough, and
by getting all the ministers on the
platform. Then we had prayer and
sang Lead Kindly Light after which
the meeting took up its business. A
motion was made by brother (who
is a local captain in the Salvation
Army as well as transport worker)
that a Council of Action should be
elected. We didn't know what that
was, but he said all the big places
were doing it, and that the council
should sort of take charge of things
and especially stop all transport Thai
sounded reasonable, so we elected the
council, and put the Salvation Army
man in charge of the pickets, and
then everybody prayed for the success
of the strike and the work of the
Council of Action, and then we went
and did it."