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The Washington times., 1926-04-24

LIE PARADIS--The Might in
Melodyland'' is the tuneful lure
at LIE Paradis next Tuesday eve
ming. Specially booked entertain
ment, a full program OF brand
new dance music and decorations
and souvenirs will make the
Might in MelodyIand" one of the
most attractive of the special
nights that LIE Paradis has been
featuring all spring. A feature
of the vaudeville program, begin
ming at midnight. will be the
evolution of jazz" from the cake
walks and ragtime hits OF 1900, to
the red-hot numbers of today.
Miniature pianos and xylophones,
both capable of producing real
music, will figure as souvenirs.
LIE Paradis tea dances on Wednes-
days and Fridays are attracting
the coIlegiates and debbies, not to
mention the gay little subdebs.
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CHATEAU-These April eve.
nings are said to be bringing them
out to the Chateau LIE Paradis by
the hundreds, both from Wash
ington and Baltimore. The Cha
teau Band. headed by Phil de
williams. Is serving up some ex-
tremely verveful dance music, and
plans to introduce extra entertain
ment features very shortly.
SWANEE-Swanee specialties,
fresh as April blossoms and as
intriguing, are booked for Tues
days, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Vaudeville night" is on Tuesday,
while Thursday brings a step lad.
der of clever children in the "Ju-
venile Revue" Manager Wood
is planning to bring a dance or
chestra from New York for next
Wednesdays Battle of Music"
Swanee.in-the-Air will be opened
on the Earle roof just as soon as
the mercury rises.
MAYFLOWER-A OF
Director Spencer Tupman. Of the
Tupman Mayflower orchestra, in
the role Of baritone singer. was
a big surprise and also smash
ing hit at the Mayflower Gardens
a few days ago. Tup's advent as
a singer is in connection with a
trio including Jimmy Harris. BAN
joist and tenor. and Stanley
Simon who drops his saxophone
as second tenor. The trio was
used as. part of a recent radio
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
COLONY THEATER
TO BE OPENED
MAY /

The new Colony Theater will be
opened to the public, Saturday,
May L. Crandall's Colony is the
latest addition to the circuit Of
playhouses in the National Capt.
tai operated by the Stanley.Cr
dali Company and brings the total
local chain up to IL houses of
the first rank. The Colony is a
handsomely finished theater with
a capacity of approximately $500
on one floor which constitutes
part of an important improve
ment embodying also apartments
and stores at the corner of
Georgia Avenue and Farragut
Street Northwest.
1t will be recalled that the
Colony was named in the 800
prize contest conducted over the
radio when the Crandall Satur-
day Nighters were still active
through statis ? WRC of the Ra-
dio Coporatic More than $4,000
names were submitted in the
contest.
The Colony will be under the
personal management of Leroy
Sherman. transferred from Gran
dall's Savoy Theater to the new
post as a reward for meritorious
service. Mr.. Sherman will be sue
ceeded at the Savoy by Ashley
Abendschein, promoted from the
assistant managership of Gran
dalFs Metropolitan where, under
the managership of Fallas Broche,
his place will be taken by Nelson
Smith, promoted to the assistant
house managership from the cap
taincy of the floor staff.
Complete. announcement of the
details Of the dedicatory cere-
monies and performance at the
Colony will be made in due course
through the press and the Gran
dali screens
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

NATLONAL--A young man ex-
pecting to receive fortune whose
investment will benefit the world
by a revolutionary invention, dis
covers that someone else has been
named beneficiary and that that
someone Is a boy the Young nan
is expected to take care Of. What
does he do? Around this situation
the author has built Little Old
New York" a play of New York
in it's early days. which the Ma
tional Players will offer for the
new week beginning Monday
night.
The action is interestingly COM
plicated by the belated discovery
that the hoy heir is really a
girl, and that Patrick O'Day is
Patricia O'Day, who comes all the
way from Ireland to claim her
fortune. marries her guardian and
keeps the money where it was
originally meant to go.
Rida johnson Young. author OF
Little Old New York spent
months of research to have the
atmosphere of the play historical
~ correct. The period IS that OF
Fulton. the steamboat inventor;
John Jacob Aston. Cornelius Van
derbilt, Washington Irving, and
others. These characters appear
in the play, lending a quaint, old
timey flavor to the really vital
love action Of the piece.
Leneta Lane will play Patricia
O'Day with John Warner cast
as Larry Delavan.
KETTH'S - Headed by r a
Samuels. 1.-The Blue Streak of
Vaudeville" the Keith-Albee road
unit show comes into Keith's for
the. new week, commencing Sun
day afternoon. Mildred Land viii:
be at the piano. Bert Lair and
Mercedes will introduce their fun
skit. whats the Idea?" Others
on, the bill include Jerry and
Her Baby Grands." piano quar-
tet; Paul kirkland and company
in THE High stopper; the Du-
Points with the Keith-Albee Dane
ing Girls in "a Study in Non
sense; Billy Abbott in singing
piano speciality: Louise and Mitch
ell, billed as THE Belgian Won
ders.'' Also the fifth Charleston
instruction. Aesop Fable and
Pathe News.
E.ARLE-The headline attrac-
ton at Earle Theater for the new
week will be a musical innova-
ton bearing the illuminating
title of Berlin VS.. Liszt." in
which the comparative melodic
merits of Irving Berlin, foremost
of the present day tunesters, and
Franz Liszt, one of the great
masters, will be demonstrated by
a syncopated modern orchestra Of
Is pieces. in which Alexander
Hyde is the featured artist. The
works of the two composers, OF
such sharply contrasted methods,
have been deftly woven into a
striking musical novelty. other
acts include Roy Rice and Mary
Werner, ION the Scaffold,' Sager
Midgley and company, in "Oh,
Jonesey;" Al Fields and Johnny
Johnston, as TERRY and jerry
Kennedy and Kramer, Dancing
Items" the Eddie Miller duo of
singers, featuring Victor Valenti.
. Johnny Hines in Rainbow Riley,
will compose the film feature.
with shorter films and house ad'
ditions rounding out.
STRAND-The Four Mortons.
headed by that veteran OF COM
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

of raw film will be manufactured
during that same period.
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No small group of individuals
own the producing facilities nova
days. Half a dozen of the larger
companies alone have IL, SIG stock
holders. owning 3,554,115 shares
which. incidentally, were untouched
in the recent Wall Street flurries.
The movie industry, led by
Win H. Hays and the Motion
Picture Producers and Distribu.
tors OF America, will celebrate
it's thirtieth anniversary in
August by Greater Movie
Season, during which, they de-
clare, they will put forth the
finest of their product. They
proved, by experiment last year,
that people will go to see movies
just as frequently-provid
they're good moVies-in summer
as in winter.
One of that long-ago audience
in the Roster and Bal Music
Hall was the late. Charles Froh-
man. He made an odd prediction,
when interviewed next day:
The vitaScope means the end
of stage scenery. Some day be-
fore long the scenery will be
thrown upon the stage with this
device and the actors will appear
in front Of it. The dead things
of the stage must CO."
Evan so astute a Snowman as
Mr.. Frohman did not foresee
drama itself being thrown upon
the screen, and this drama be-
coming the chief amusement
sometimes, indeed the only
amusement - of thousands of
times the number of persons who
patronized his sort of theater.
Nor could he, of course, envision
the almost complete abolition of
the road show" the travelling
troupe which carried to towns
and villages away from the GEN.
ter of population the sole dram
attic entertainment their inhabit.
ants ever received. There are
few road shows now-but the
tiniest hamlets get the movies,
and see exactly the same thing
that Broadway sees.
The movie people are pointing
with perhaps justifiable pride to
the fact that spoken drama was
known good many hundred
years before the Christian era
began, while only three short
decades have passed since the
first images were thrown upon a
theater screen.
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
THE PLAY CALENDAR

METROPOLITAN - Norma Talmadge
in "Kiki."
COLUMBIA--HaroI Lloyd in For
Heavens Sake" second week.
RIALTO-John Barrymore in THE
Sea Beast" third week.
TIVOLI-Waring's Pennsylva mans and
film. THE Scarlet Saint"
AMRASSADOR-Nor Talmadge in
"Kiki"
CENTRAL-"Yeilow Fingers" film
drama OF the South Seas.
COMING MAY .
NATIONAL - National Players in
white Collars"
kEITH'S-Ruth Chatterton, with Mi
nor Watson: other acts.
RLE-"Danceland." music and
dance novelty: others and films.
STRAND-VaudeviIIe and films.
MCTUAL-Max Fields and "Kud-
ding Kuties."
RIALTO-Bert LyteI Alma Rubens
in 1.-The Gilded Butterfly
METROPOLITAN-N Blue. Marie
Provost in "Other Women's Hus-
PALACE-Clars Bow. Warner Bax-
COLCMBIA-Jack Holt, Esther Raj
ston in The Blind Goddess"
TIVOLI-GIoria Swanson in THE I'm
tanned Lady"
AMBASSADORS - "other women's
Husbands"
CENTRAL-special cast in siberia"
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

Stallings, famous author of "The
Big Parade" who attended the
big game last fall to "cover it"
for the New York World, and
who blames the result of the
gridiron battle onto the Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer studios.
Jack Conway, director, and
cameramen, were on the field to
film the classic for use in Brown
of Harvard" the Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer production, which opens a
weeks engagement at Loew's
Palace tomorrow.
Even after Harvard had punted
back to Yale's 45-yard line" says
Sta1lings, land with three min
utes more to play. the Ellis were
still determined to add yet an
other thrill to the Forthcoming
motion picture production of
Brown of Harvard" Phil Bun
nell threw a wonderful 35-yard
forward pass for Yale, Bradley
caught it, and was brought down
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

The last week in Washington
this season of Warnings Pennsyl-
vanians will be signalized, begin
ming Sunday afternoon, by their
appearance at Crandali's TivoH
Theater in their own original act,
Campus Frolics," which scored
record runs of twelve weeks in
Los Angeles and ten weeks in
Chicago in the largest theaters in
those cities. Campus Frolics"
will give full scope to the comic
propensities of "Scotty" Bates,
the juvenile funmaker picked up
in Los Angeles by Fred Waring.
conductor OF the band.
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
Note Made OF

Several New York papers noted
something Of a record for stock
anywhere in the addition of an
extra mat!nee at the National
the first week of the summer
stock season. No matter how
popular the play. it is seldom
that two matinees week will not
satiate public appetite. Interest in
the returning players is assigned
as one reason why third after
noon show was given and heavily
patroniZed.
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

than 1t costs Europe 10 manufac.
ture them, despite our higher
wages. Efficiency explains that,
Brisbane states.
But pictures can be made more
cheaply abroad than here, yes
foreign nations refuse their own
cheaper product and demand
American pictures. That also is
easily explained. American pro-
ducers work ceaselessly. with ter
rifle energy and unlimited ex-
penditure, to make pictures bet
ter. The best OF this year is out
of date next year.
There is only one explanation
for any success, one mixture, 10
per cent inspiration. 80 per cent
perspiration, as Edison puts 1t.
producers are looking for the
next step in moving pictures.
some way to make photography
more effective. to crowd into an
evenings use of eyes, and brain
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
COnferS

Harry NJ. Crandall, founder OF
the theaters bearing his name
in Washington and vicinity, now
operated by the Stanley-Crandall
Company of Washington, of
which he is executive vice presi-
dent, spent this week in At.
lantic City, N. J., at the annual
convention of First National
Pictures franchise holders. Mr..
Crandall left the Capital last
Tuesday and returned today.
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

TODAY
NATIONAI-Sation aI Players in
THE First Year" matinee and
night.
KEITH's-Nora Bayes; wany shsr-
pies: others.
EARLE-"The Great Nicola" ilIu-
sionS: other acts and films
GTRAND-Vaudevill and films
WARDMAN PARK-Herbert Players
IN "TwcedIesI' matinee and night.
MCTUAL-"Smiles and Kisses bur
METROPOLITAN LanRdon in
Tramp. Tramp. Tramp
COLUMBIA-HaroId Lloyd in For
Heavens Sake"
RIALTO-John Barrymore in THE
Sea Beast
PALACE-Lew Cody in Monte
Carlo"
NEXT WEEK
NATIONAL - National Players in
Little Old New York" Monday.
KEITHS-Rae Samuels; Bert Lair
and Mercedes others
WAkDMAN PARK-Herbert Players
in Weak Sisters" Monday
EARLE-"Berlin versus List" mu-
sic novelty; other acts and films.
9TRAND-Four Mortons; other acts
and films.
MUTUAL-Eveiyn Cunningham in
"Her Own Show"
sDAT1ACE Mary Brian wfIIisu
Taines. Jack Pickford in Brown
Of Harvard"
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
Them Were. etc.

The good old days are libelled
now as "slow," but in the early
days of New York there was con
siderably more variety of enter
tainment than is offered in this
day OF the night-club. There were
prizefights galore. ock-fights that
were the thing for the young
blades to be seen at and tally-ho
rides to and from the wassail
bowls. These facts are vouchsafed
by Rida Johnson Young, author
Of Little Old New York" which
opens at the National Monday
night.
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

more entertainment, instruction,
emotion and excitement.
THE picture excels the written
word in expressing thought and
action, as our alphabet excels an
cient hieroglyphics. But thought,
in pictures. is still held down prac-
tically to the slow speed and
action of written books and plays.
"The first automobiles We're
made with dashboards, although
there were no horses hoofs to.
kick UP mud. Men could not
change at once to the new idea.
They have not yet done SO with
motion photoplay. And pictures
are still the old stories told in the
same way, with fewer words.
IF you have the new idea you
can change it for gold.
There are endless opportunities
in moving pictures and everything
else in this age than ever.
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

critic: Ruth Russell and Ranald
Slavery are the lovers.
MUTUAI-Evelyn Cunningham
and Her Gang open Sunday
Cunningham is one or the beauties
of burlesque, also lady OF wide
talents. In her support come
George Leon, Harry Left, Ed
Callan, Will Carleton, Alice Sim
gleton, Gladys Lockwood and Dol
lie Barfinger. In addition to :he
chorus special scenic and music
numbers will feature the perform
ance.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tai
madge in "KiIzi." A combination
of one of the most popular stars
on the screen in one of the great
est play successes of years. The
Metropolitan and Ambassador
Theaters will show the film for
the new week beginning Sunday
afternoon. Ronald Colman, Ger
trude Astor, Marc McDermott and
many others, including George X.
Arthur, are in support, XIX"
long served the remarkable tai.
ents Of Lenore Uric, under the
guidance of David BeIasco. 1t il
the tale Of a little lady OF the
Paris streets who joins the chorus,
is fired from it for her temoer,
only to- worm her way into luxu.
rious surroundings and the affec-
tons of the theater owner. The
role allows ample display for
the Talmadge talents. Doris At.
kinson, soprano, will offer a vocal
prelude to the film. A NewIreel,
cartoon comedy and special mu.
sic will round out.
COLUMBTA-Harold Lloyd, the
goggle.eyed monarch of mirth
and merriment, whose latest
Continued on Next Page)
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
VIEWS ON
THE FILM GAME

Arthur Brisbane the gives interest
ing impressions the industry in the New York american
thinks it most encouraging that the entire world
this country for moving pictures and
the million sell them less
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
FOR OLD HARVARD AND
METROPOLITAN

motion picture stffened the hearts
Harvard football eamand resulted oreless tie in last
football classic when Yale expected
to overwhem the Crimson eleven.
of the tie according Laurence
The Washington times., 1926-04-24
THE MOVIES 80 YEARS
OLD ON NEXT
TUESDAY

will be the history OF
the thrteh birthday of the movies
They their debut before
amazed unbeevng asembage of New Workers in
Roster Broadway Thirty Street.
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

STRAND-The -Four Mortons.
headed by that veteran Of COM
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

COLUMBTA-Harold Lloyd, the
goggle.eyed monarch of n1irth
and merriment, whose latest
Continued on Next Page)
The Washington times., 1926-04-24

critic; Ruth Russell and Ranald
Slavery are the lovers.
Evening star., 1926-03-23
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 23.-"Littlc
Miss Dillon" a clerk in the Coney Is.
land branch of the Brooklyn Boro
Gas Co. % years ago, has become
President Mary Il. Dillon. head Of that
S5,OOO.OOO corporation, and probably
the only woman president of gas
company in the United States.
Elected yesterday, Miss Dillon to.
day has the direction of more than
800 workers serving nearly 10000 con
sumers in Brooklyn. Elected at the
same time to work with her were
Helen :. Steers. who will act as treas
urcr and assistant secretary. and
Mary l.. Armstrong. who becomes sec
retary and assistant treasurer of the
company.
Miss Dillon has been vice president
and general manager of the company
since December s. 1924. After her re-
turn from Europe last year. where
she inspected public utility companies,
she was honored by the Coney Island
Chamber of Commerce for her efforts
to increase efficiency in public utility
corporations.
Miss Dillon is the wife of Henry
Farber a wholesale coal dealer, but
retains her maiden name to avoid con-
fusion to customers. She does not be-
lieve in sex warfare or that women
are to succeed men in the administra-
ton of industry.
This country is expanding so quick
Evening star., 1926-03-23
BYRD PLANE CHRISTENED
Polar Flight Craft Named for Edsel
Ford's Daughter.

The airplane in which Lieut. Comdr.
Byrd hopes to reach the North Pole
during the flight for which he will sail
from New York early in April will be
named the Josephine Ford. in honor
of the three.year-o daughter Of Edsel
Ford, son Of the Detroit automobile
manufacturer. Edsel Ford is one of
the sponsors of the flight.
The steamship Chantier, on which
Lieut.. Comdr. Byrd and his party will
go to Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, to be-
gin the Polar flight, will be ready to
sail by April ..
Another Marine Corps volunteer has
joined the expedition. John Szenpe.
terry of Philadelphia. having decided
to go along as signalman on the Chan.
tier
Evening star., 1926-03-23
''Little Miss Dillon,'' Once Just Clerk,
Becomes Head of $5,OOO,0OO Company

ly there certainly is room for both
sexes" she says.
She sees a special place for women
in business. to "humaniZe business"
and to handle customers "as woman
handles them"
Sentiment is necessary in busi-
ness is one of Miss Dillon's pro
nouncements. "A woman realizes this
where a man may not"
II am not welded to my business
career" she says. II have a perfectly
good husband, and the fact that l now
head Il large corporation does not in
terfere with my home life at all. It's
just a matter of arrangement with
friend husband
Evening star., 1926-03-23
AGREEMENT TERMS
OF KRESGES SECRET
Suit Declared Settled When
Called in C0urt-ReC0n-
CiIiation Rumored.

NEW YORK. March 23.---Alrs
Doris Mercer EresGes suit against
her husband, Sebastian S. Kresge, for
$500 shares of his chain store stock
was called I'm supreme court yester-
day and his attorney answered
settled" Mr.. kresges counsel
nodded.
Neither the word nor the nod cast
any new light on the terms of settle
ment. Values from $1.000,0O0 to So
600 900 have been put on the stock
involved, which Mrs. Kresge said her
husband promised her under pre-
nuptial contract. She alleged that he
paid her only a small part of the
stipulated amount and in lieu Of the
rest presented her with a cloth cat
from one of his own ten-cent stores.
Version of the agreement issued
over Mr.. kresge's signature men,
TONED no money, but said. Mrs.
kresge'S right in certain shares of
5. S. kresge's stocks has been con-
tirmed, thereby making Mrs. Kresge
Independent for the rest of her life.'
Mr.. Kresge also thanked Supreme
Court Justice Wagner and the Kresge
Evening star., 1926-03-23

settlement.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kresge have been
seen together frequently since the
suit started. leading to reports that
they are fully reconciled.
Evening star., 1926-03-23

New Fancy Leather \
Belts in the popular wide
collegiate style. with
tongue or metal slide
buckle. Sizes 20 to 81 :
inches.
Evening star., 1926-03-23

Spring weight Lumberjacks i'll
plain tan and gray suede cloth;
cuff-knit bottoms. Sizes II to II
neck measure, for boys from 10
to 18 years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
MOVIE WORKERS
PRESENT DEMAND
!. FOR RECOGNITION
Los Angeles Unions Are
Ready to Strike
BY WIN. ScHNEIDERMAN,
worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Nov 16.-The four
unions making up the Studio EN-
ployes' Alliance have presented de-
mands to the Los Angeles film execu-
tives for recognition of union condi-
tons. failing which a general strike
will be called here Dec. 1, as we'll as
in the New York section of the in.
dustry
Delegates to the Central Labor
Council report hundreds OF applica-
lions are coming into the union offices
for membership since the opening Of
the organization drive in preparation
for the strike.
C. L. c. Backs Move.
The Central Labor Council assures
complete support to the strike II it
takes place. They are anxious to
make some kind of showing before
the next convention of the A. F. of L.,
which takes place in this city in 1927.
Other Drives Loom.
Organization drives in other indus
tries may soon get under way for the
same reason. 1t is interesting to note
that most of the officials of the council
were against inviting the next A. F..
of L. convention here, because of the
issue of organization campaign raised
by progressive delegates in this con-
nection.
However, the opinion Of Frank L.
Johnston, reactionary president was
defeated by a vote of
the delegates, who will be spurred on
to strengthen the labor movement now
in this open-shop city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
EXPLODE BOSS
PROPERTY BUNK
IN AUSTRALIA
Workers Short of Food
and Clothing
BY W. FRANCIS AAERN.

SYDNEY (FP) ACCORDING to Ma
pier Thompson, ex-president Of the
Australian Metal Trade Employers
Assn, Australia is a nation Of CAPT
talists," where wealth is widely dis
tributed, where everybody is prosper
Gus and where there are no poor.
A clipping of this statement from
the N, Y. Times of July 20 reached
the Australian bureau Of The FEEDER
ated Press when commission was
hearing evidence for higher mini.
mum wage. Some Of the evidence was
heart-moving, telling of the grim strug.
gle to make ends meet.
The evidence by various witnesses
is typical Of thousands Of workers in
the city of Sydney alone, and is a
striking answer to the allegations that
in Australia all are prosperous and
none are poor.
A family Of was forced to live on
S21 weekly, Of which IS had to be
paid for rent. They were short Of
food and clothing. There was no milk
for the three young children. Christ
mas toys for the children were I'M
known.
A mother with children, eldest
aged IL, said her husband earned
$225O weekly, out OF which she paid
$3.50 for rent for a Broom house.
They went short of food and clothing.
|. Many similar stories were told--all
showing that the minimum wage was
not sufficient to provide a decent liv.
ing. The majority of the Australian
people $3.50 Of whom are workers. are
worse off than before the war.