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This season our strictly burlesque
companies will run largely to comedy
scenes with plenty OF girls as usual.
We will make it snappy'-for it's
speed the public wants. whether It
be on or off the stage
An interesting list of attractions
promised in the Columbia Wheel"
lineup when the season opens around
Labor day includes Lew TaIbot's pro-
duction of white Cargo and "The
Gorilla" Musical shows will include
Kosher Kitty Kelly" "Mercenary
Mary" Broadway Brevities," MY
Girl" Give and Take" and Not Toi
night, Josephine" Three companies
will have all-colored casts-"4-11.44,"
'Watermelohs" and Lucky Sambo."
Dave Marion, sliding" Billy Wat
son, Mollie Williams, Jimmie Cooper,
''Bozo" Billy Mack and other Column
bia Wheel favorites will have at
fractions in the regular burlesque
class along with might Life" Karin
TO Co" High Flyers" Lets Co."
Dancing Around" Sporting Wild.
ows,' Powder Puff Frolic," Derby
Winners" big Sensation" "Follies
of the Night" Around the World"
and New York to Paris" Novelty
will he found in John w VogeIs male
and female MINISTRIES. Each company
will have a season of 40 weeks. there
being 40 theaters on the Columbia
wheel"
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NATIONAL PLAYERS-"Charley's
Aunt"

"Charley's Aunt" the marathon
farce. whose record for consecutive
performances has not yet been
equaled, will follow the current pro-
duction of "Lightnin' at the Ma
tional Theater next week.
Shakespeare, Sheridan and Gold
smith are supposed to be the only
inkpot nusketeers whose plays sur
vive the ravages of time, forgetting,
of course. the attic ancients. The
man who wrote "Charley's Aunt" is
something of q Gibraltar himself in
lasting power, for the piece is now so
years old, and it's dialogue and situ-
atoms are worthy of yesterday s
treatment by the sophisticated Avery
Hopwood. Indeed, the farce was only
recently adapted for the screen, serv-
ing for sgd Chaplin, and, allowing
for the liberties which the screen
takes unto itself, the theme proved
one of the happiest the shadow
comedian has yet presented. And
it was as modern as though written
in 1925.
The play deals with mistaken iden-
titles. The character Charley has
a wealthy aunt. 1t is to his
profit to produce her in certain sur
roundings. At the last moment she
wires she cannot come. Lord Bah
erly--"Bab" for short-happens in.
He's en- route for a toss at amateur
theatricals, booked to impersonate an
elderly female. The result is obvious.
He's reQuisitioned for the emergency,
though events SO shape themselves
that the emergency goes on and on,
like Tennyson's brook, until Cbarley's
Aunt" aches for the relief that
doesn't come. Particularly is he
annoyed by the attentions of an old
dodderer, who has heard of her
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account largely for the reported ro-
nance.
AS a matter of fact, Bebe Daniels Is
probably the champion engagement
ring collector of HoilyWood--and that's
no faint praise, either. She has. al
various times, been reported engaged
to Jack Dempsey, Harold Lloyd and
Jack Pickford, among others. Each
engagement came at time when Miss
Daniels and the rum0red fiance as
WELL could do with little publicity.
Aside from Bebe Daniels, the two
most frequently engaged of the Holly
wood stars are Constance Talmadge
and Patsy Ruth Miller. Miss Tai
madge, having recently married a
handsome Englishman, however, is
out of the running. Another an
nouncement concerning Miss Miller
should appear any day now.
The Vitaphone, new device for the
synehronization OF pictures and mu-
sic, will be used in Grauman's Egyp-
tian Theater. Hollywood, during the
run of John Barrymore's picture Don
Juan" The Vitaphone was de-
veloped by the American Telephone q
Telegraph Co. 1t will be tried out
during the run of Don Juan" at
Warmers Theater in New York also.
Mildred David Lloyd will return
to the screen in AN Old-Fashioned
Girl" billed as Mrs. Harold Lloyd"
to the intense annoyance of the Lucy
Stone League
Gloria Swanson's first picture for
United Artists will be Eyes of
Youth" which was produced some sew
en- years ago with Clara Kimball
Young. The news that Monta
Bell wants Lillian Gish to play the
lead in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
is greeted with loud laughter by those
who know Miss Gish.
fCopy1ght. 1897
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Cbaplin s New Screen Stunt.
=nnnr the th,,rnnin- ,,.-aise-drurns

FROM the thumpinG fatse-u. It ana0
of Hollywood am type.
writer's of Times Sql -
notices Of THE Gil .f;o
silent drama and ! hoi az
Chaplin. - heen
Recently the magazines nave pee -.
telling in drolI paragraphs OF the Visit
made nv Chaplin to New York IasI
summer. when he became acquainted
With the Feitlebaums and Looeys OF
IL At Nilt Gross They do say, TOO
chat Chaplin and Gross talked INTO
the latest hours, and that the tesutI
of their converse was an inVltatIon
Fro,,, the comedian to the comic artist
to sit in as advisory counsei on ne
The outgrowth Of that converse
zion seems to have been that MI;
Gross went to Hollywood, composeo
some of the gags movie LeAl'
cographers term comic sequencSs-
p.d then departed homeward.
While in New York Chaplin ex.
k,Isined his employment Of gag mem
6y asserting the negligibihty OF plot
He said that in his next picture as III
Others, characterization, when rs SO
easily picturized through extreme IN
cidents that amount to moving carl
catures, viii be the thing.
Producers assert that the pupifc
wants this, that or the other-oattle,
sn1Irder and sudden death in evening
dresg and smoking jacket. But II you
have the neatest tailored plot In the
world and have not living characters
you have nothing" said Chaplin.
Among the peanut smells and the
sawdust rings under the commonly
denoninated big top" there VIII De
enacted between Chaplin and MS new
leading lady, a 1T-year-oid girl nameo
Merna, Kennedy, many OF these Incl,
dents which give atmosphere ana
character to the film and outlaws to
4he customers. One of these scenes
depicts Charlie on tight rope.
Chaplin can walk the tapt wire with
some degree of success. However. IN
S'The Circus he Is taxing IT,
Then the wire snaps.
Unaware that his overhead support
has broken, Charlie keeps on skipping
IN and down the length of the Wire.
suddenly he spies the dangling WIRE
before his eyes. He looks up. he
ionlSs down at the monkeys. He
LOOKS at the wire and his face goes
SThite. Down from his eminence
cornes the brave fellow proud before
According to all information at
hand. the circus story is woven OF
inst ludicrous situations. 1t is built
For laughter, a low-brow comedy for
high brows and one that viii satisfy
his most exacting critics. a.
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Meaning of Beau Geste.

"REAU GESTE," the name of the
mystery story written by P. c.
Wren and filmed by Herbert Brenon.
translated from the French, means
gallant gesture"
Because Wren has given the title
Of this story Of the French Foreign
Legion a double meaning, no little
confusion has resulted as to its exact
significance.
The story centers around the sacri-
fees of a young Englishman for
those he loves. AS 1t unfolds 1t pc
comes increasingly evident that MS
actions are a gallant gesture, a
real gentlemans efforts to unraVel an
unfortunate situation in the mousse
hold of his aunt.
Wren's story centers around three
bows whose family name is Geste;
Michael, the Oldest, is nicknameo
Beau" by his brothers, q nickname
that sticks with him as he grows
older. Thus, Beau Geste"e not only
refers to the hero's sacrifice put
also can be taken as his name.
Herbert Brenon. the director
chosen recently by newspaper critics
~ The country as one of the best ten
directors. led company or z.ovo
into the American Sahara IN Arr
IONA to film this story.
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Philadelphia as Is.

modern picture of Philadelphia and us
people. as he conceived 1t.
The Betsy Ross house, where the
first American flag was made, appears
in the record. SO does Independence
Hall, the Liberty Bell, the statue o.
William Penn, the City Hall, Logan
Square with its beautiful fountain
the University of Pennsylvania, IN"
Broad Street Station and even the
actual interior of the Pennsylvania
Railroad offices in Philadelphia,
where Kelly's mythical hero was
employed. Even the wrecking wagon
that drags off the hero's managed
motor car bears a Philadelphia tele-
phone number prominently displayed.
And the 16 beautiful girl extras"
who add color and atmosphere to some
of the scenes are Philadelphia girls
hired right in their home town.
Even George Kelly, the author OF
THE Show-Off," is himself a Philar
deiphian,
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Success--What It Brought.

ton was instituted by people who now
hold the rights for a play called Ten
nessee's Pardner," melodrama of the
1900 vintage. The plaintiffs allege
that "Lightnin' is pilfered from the
play to which they have copyright.
"Lghtnin' incorporates locale
that "Tennessee's Pardner" didn't use
and couldn't have used successfully
the Reno idea. Divorce in the late
and hardly gay nineties was, admit
teddy, less frequent thing than now.
Reno may have been on the map,
but its fame hadn't begun to jell.
And the outstanding theme of the
play, aside from its unusual charac.
izations, is based on the idea that
there is boundary line between Ne
vada and adjoining States and that
that line might just as well be COM
mercialiZed by building a divorce
refuge right across 1t.
Whatever the outcome of the case
now In the courts, "Lightnin' will
be remembered for its merit and Ten
nessee's Pardner" rather through pub
tieity attendant upon the suit.
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THE operating cost of IL companies
OF ben Hur" and eight com
panies of 1.-THE Big Parade" which
Metro oldwyn-M Mayer will send on
tour the coming theatrical season, is
said to amount approximately to
SO. 000, 900.
Each company unit, 1t is an
nounced. will consist of musical con-
ductor and orchestra of 20 pieces,
publicity representative, advance
agent, company manager, two motion
picture operators. full stage crew and
carload of stage settings and COM
plete projection equipment-by far
the largest and most complete road
show enterprise of the so-called two
dollar" pictures ever made.
In the stats of the publicity repre-
sentatives and managers with each
company are to be found the names
of Randolph Hartley, r. A. Mitchell,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

SUCCESS has it's rewards, but also
1t has its handicaps.
Because they are fighters to begin
with, successful people are necessarily
fighters after they have arrived, or
they wouldn't arrive.
One of the most successful plays of
all times is "Lightnin'," the play that
crowned rs years Of obscure effort by
it's author and brought him fame and
wealth only as deaths hand inter
yened TO detach him for all time
from the comforts he had spent life
time struggling for.
Frank Bacon wrote "Lightnin',
which the National Players are to pre-,
sent this week. with Percy Winter
in the name role. He wrote II when
he was IS, produced it first on the
West coast under another name, gave
it it's Eastern premiere at the Ma
tional here and then played in 1t for
three years on Broadway.
Several weeks ago--eight years after
the play was first produced-suit was
filed in New York against Bacon's
heirs. alleging plagiarism, The litiga-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

MARION TALLEY, Mischa Elman,
- Anna Case, Giovanni Martinelii,
Efrem Zlrnbaiist. Harold Bauer, the
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
of lot under the leadership of Henry
Hadley, and the Metropolitan Opera
House chorus all on one program -
what is promised at the introduction
of Vitaphone by Warner Bros. and
the Vitaphone Corporation, at the
Warner Theater, New York City,
Thursday night, August D, I'm eonnec'
ton with the premiere of John Barry
more in Don Juan"
For many weeks Warner Bros.
have been synchronizing the pro-
gram which is to make Vitaphone
known to the world, using as their
studio the Manhattan Opera House,
which they leased in its entirety for
that purpose. -,
Experts claim that Vitaphone win
be hailed as one of the marvellous
inventions of the age. It's develop.
ment was made possible by electrical
engineers who have made intensive
studies in telephone, radio and sound.
wave recording problems. THE eX'
perts of the Western Electric Co. ana
the Bell Telephone Laboratories, TO
whom credit Is given for Vitaphone,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Debut Of Vitaphone.

claim that they have secured syn.
ehronization of movement and sound
to a degree of perfection.
They are said to be positive in as
sorting that those who attend the
opening contest will hear all the
cadences OF Marion Talley's youth
full voice. the rich soprano notes Of
Anna Case and the clear tenor of
Giovanni Martinelli, who make up the
trio from the Metropolitan Opera
House. AS with the vocalists, Vita
phone claims that there will be the
same charming and delightful effect
with the instrumentalists. This
means that one will hear all the tonal
beauties of Mischa Elman's violin, the
artistic phrasing of Harold Bauer at
the piano and the harmonious out
pourings from the violin of Efrem
Zimbaiist. These will, even in the
quietest passages, be heard with the
same distinctness as will the vol
ume from the Philharmonic Orches-
ira of LOT pieces and the Metropolitan
Opera House Chorus,
The Vitaphone prologue will be
prelude to the presentation for the
first time of John Barrymore in Don
Juan which is based on Lord
Byr poem.
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Richard Talnadge to Rise.

WITH the signing OF Irwin WiIlat
to direct Richard Talmadge in
his first production for Universal un-
der the contract the athletic star re-
Gently signed with Carl Laemmle, It is
the evident purpose to enter Tai
madge in the ranks Of the first-class
artists. Hereafter he will produce his
pictures at e. cost of approximately
5000, 900 apiece.
For his first production Talmadge
has purchased the rights of THE
Black Rider" by Max Brand. maya.
zine story on the type of The Mark
of Zorro" in which Douglas Fair
banks achieved distinction. Negotia-
tons are now in progress with a noted
scenarist to prepare the story for the
screen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

"THE luncheon list" at the Hal
Roach studios. where Pathe
comedies are made, often reads like
list of who's who" In FINLAND.
During a recent period the follow.
ing players carried their trays around
the cafeteria patrol line. either while
working for Hal Roach or leasing
space in his studio: Our Gangs seven
members, Charley Chase, Tyler
Brooke, Helene Chadwick, Ora Carew,
John T. Murray, Anders Randolf,
Jimmy Finlayson, Anita Garvin.
Monty Banks, Vivian Oakland,
Martha Sleeper, Oliver Hardy, Char
iotte Mineau, Mabel NorTnand, Creigh-
ton Hale, Fred Malatesta, William
BlaisdelI, Virginia Pearson, Noah
Young, Clarence Geldert, sgd Cross
ley, Francis Macdonald. Edna Muir
ply, Virginia Bradford and 10 or Is
others who were merely visitors.
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BY Their Works, Etc.

career with Paramount and has made
pictures for no other organization.
1t is our sincere wish that he remain
with us many years to come.
Born and educated in Ogden, Utah,
Cruze began his career as an actor,
touring with medicine shows ana
stock companies. AS popular screen
leading man he appeared In more
than score of photoplays, among
them Believe Me Xantippe" and The
Million Dollar Mystery" In MS
career with Paramount he has directed
many successes.
Coincidental with the announce
nent of the signing of Cruze, b. r.
Schulberg, associate producer, de-
clared that unusual efforts would be
made to give him only vehicles that
will permit the full scope of his re
markable ability as a director.
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Good Luck, st. Pat Revue

somebody supposed to know all about
revues. Except for its youth, beauty
and general spfightliness, there is
nothing amateurish about it, and there
are many special features that ought
to command professional attention
during it's forthcoming visit to the
big metropolis, where Father Hurney
is taking 1t on a further mission OF
charity.
The blase few who shun the juvenile
I'm the theater need have no fear OF
the "St. Pat Revue" nor need those
who tremble at the touch of pro-
priety. Both may well take a chance
on Washington's very own this time.
w. III. l..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Titles Less Important.

"DURING the past five years one
- of the greatest changes in pic
ture production is that sub-titles
have become less important, says
Marshall Neilan.
THE old fashioned way of picture
making was telling a story almost
entirely by titles. 1t mattered slight
~ if the action did not get the story
over. for there were the ever-present
sub titles to bolster it up.
Now, however, it is quite different.
A picture, TO be a good picture. and
to not be classed as old fashioned,
must only have few titles. These
must be used sparsely and only when
absolutely necessary. In other words,
the action must tell the story en-
tirely."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Outdoor Attractions
Glen Echo Park.

Glen Echo Park, where admission
is always free, announces hundred
and one amusement devices at low
fee From the "Humming Bird,
with its 1000 feet Of thrills, and fire.
quent 40-foot drops. to the milder de.
vices in the Midway. the hours at
Glen Echo may be filed with pleasant
diversion.
Every evening except Sunday
Happy" Walker and his orchestra
play for the dancers in the big ball
room from $40 until closing time.
Just at this time, when the vaca-
ton season is at It's peak, Glen Echo
Is proving a mecca for picnickers,
who, compelled by various reasons to
forego an out-of-town vacation, com
promise in this and other ways for
recreation and fresh air. Rapid
transit street car service to and from
the park make the journey along the
Potomac pleasant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

HT7HE SHOW OFF a
character study Of a blatant
,boastful American type who, In TINS
case, slangily refers 20 himselt 40
'tthe kid from West Philly' is es-
sentially a story of Philadelphia, as
put on the screen,
Philadelphia, its streets, its avenues,
it's landmarks. it's people, its atmos-
phere and it's environment are claimed
to have been woven into the warp
and wool of the story.
- When Malcolm st. Clair under,
took the director of THE Show-Or
he made no attempt to substitute
studio Philadelphia for the real thing.
He simply transported his company
and his technical equipment direct
20 the famous metropolis, received
what amounted to the freedom OF
the city from the mayor and then
proceeded TO paint honey, intimate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Next Weeks Photoplays
METROPOLITAN B t v

METROPOLITAN B e tty
Compson and James Kirk
wood, in The Wise Guy"
PALACE - Thomas Meighan,
in Tin Gods"
COLUMBIA-M onta Bells
production, THE Boy Friend"
TIVOLI-"As No Man Has
Loved" "A Trip to China
town." SILVER Treasure" and
The Golden Strain
AMBASSADOR THE Wise
Guy" The Road to Manda-
lay" "Padlocked,' "As No
Man Has Loved" and Born
to the West"
CENTRAL-"The 6 o | d en-
Strain forbidden Waters"
"Moana," Silence" and "Oh,
What Nurse"
WARDMAN PARK-Rex In
grams "Scaramouche." D. w.
Griffith's Birth of Nation"
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Twenty Road Companies.

Howard Herrick, George Bowles.
Lester Thompson, Alfred Head, Fred
r. Zweifel, George w. Lederer. Tom
Kane, Augustus McCune, Arthur
Ryan, Michael Manton, John Powers,
A. L. Morgan. William NJ. Roddy,
John Stout, Thomas Hodgen1an, G..
A. Florida, Fred Meek, Matt Allen,
Robert f. Irwin. r. n. Harris, John
L. Peltret. James Troup, Lee Riley.
F. @. Wallace, E. w. Lewis, Mack
Whiting, Leon Victor, j. E. James,
John Manning, II. n. Ferrar, Ben
jamin won Ottinger. Lew Weed,
Harry A. Benson and Joseph Shea.
To those familiar with show bust
ness, the roster reads like a Who's
Who in the administrative world of
the theater
If the Movie can do this. the
temptation is very strong TO ask
why not the Speaking Stage?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

nINAsHINGToN is really proud of
" the merry band of local jewellers
at the Strand Theater this week an
valluring attraction. These are the
days when theaters are not crowded
. to the doors without a special reason,
, and the breezy little organization
gathered and trained by Rev. Father
Francis j. Hurney, very largely for
worthy charities, literally overfoWs
with special reason"
- The entire show has the zip and
finish of one of those big things we
sometimes hear of as constructed
a''under the personal SUPERVISORY OF
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The Moving Picture
By Robert E. Sherwood

THE appearance Of motion pictures
from Soviet Russia has long been
anticipated, and there is now a strong
possibility that such films will reach
the American screen.
At least one Russian movie, THE
Cruiser Potemkin," has been deposited
on these shores. ! have not as yet
seen it, but those who have assure
me that II is an extraordinary eK-
ample OF experimental photography. II
is the story-presumably the true
story-of a mutiny aboard a Russian
battleship during the Russo japanese
War, showing the first fiare-up among
the seamens which later ignited the
high explosives of revolution.
There is small chance that this
picture will be shown publicly In
America; indeed, the State Depart
ment is sure TO watch with particular
care for any signs of Bolshevist prop
Uganda in Russian films. Any of them
that touch on communism. even in a
remote way, will be summarily barred.
However, 1t is quite possible that the
Russians will make pictures that are
purely dramatic in theme and that
bear no faint of propaganda That
they can do 1t, and do 1t well, is con-
clusively proved by the reports have
heard from various expert observers.
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick
ford saw a Russian movie in Paris,
and both are wildly enthusiastic about
1t. They have gone to Russia to
study conditions there. and they will
make every effort to induce some ac-
tors, directors and cameramen to jour
ney to Hollywood. for the purpose OF
eleyating the American film industry.
fNfx tan
able to produce interesting pictures.
With their extraordinary feeling for
the dramatic, as evidenced in their
Moscow Art Theater, their Chauve-
Souris and indeed their entire litera-
ture they can bring to the screen a
new and welcome form of expression.
I hope to see 1.-THE Cruiser Potem-
kin" soon, and shall report on it in
this column.
x *G
1t is getting so now that no athlete
can qualify for the championship in
his particular sport until he has
passed a satisfactory screen test.
Jack Dempsey. Gene Tunney. Red
Grange, Duke Kahanamoku, Charlie
Paddock, William T. Tildeh and many
other stars OF the sporting page have
recently disported themselves before
the camera; every studio in Holly
wood is crowded with spdnters,
fighters. shortstops, pole vaulters,
wrestlers, tennis players, halfbacks
and swimmers of lesser fame. who are
learning to apply white grease paint
to their weather beaten countenances.
Furthermore, the established stars
such as Doug Fairbanks, Richard Dix,
George O'Bden, Douglas MacLean,
Fred Thomson, Norman Kerry and
syen Rudolph VaIentino-are all train
ing themselves constantly and devel-
oping proficiency in every known form
of athletics.
Action is always popular with the
movie fans, and Of late there has been
great craze for pictures Of college
life and the sporting world.