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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-09
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Officials Of the traction companies
said their cars were running q
schedule. Sweepers were sent o
the various routes and kept the
tracks clear. No delays win be en-
countered unless the snow drifts,
they say.
Trains were reported to be behind
schedule in several cases. The
Pennsylvania train from New York,
due here at Gas a. M, was two hours
late arriving today, and the Big Four
trains from Detroit and ST. Louis
were both less than a hour late Other
steam roads announced only minor
delays The various bus lines re
ported that their buses were arriv-
ing at near schedule time.
Only slight delay in transporta-
ton Of the mails was reported here
by Postmaster Robert Ii. Bryson.
Carriers were having some difficulty
in battling drifts in the residential
districts, it was said
The snow came into this section
from the southeast part of the
country, starting on the south At
lahtic coast Friday. Indianapolis
was about the northwest extreme Of
the snow area Friday. Today the
storm conferred on the middle At
lantic coast Strong winds accom-.
panied the fail Friday and today,
and snow was considerably drifted.
A warning was issued by police
to children who hook their sleds on
behind automobiles, There is great
danger in this practice, it was said.
Coasting i'm Vogue
Coasting will be in vogue in all
parts Of the city, for r. Walter
Jarvis, parks superintendent has ar
ranged for supervision by city en-.
pIoyes at eight parks and other q
grounds.
The parks department will help
the coasters at Rhodius, Garfield,
Douglass and Jamison Parks, South
Grove. Riverside and Pleasant Run
golf links.
Streets formerly roped off, now
are being used as bus routes, Jarvis
said, so coasting will be confined TO
city grounds
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s275 IN CLOTHING STOLEN

Mems and women's clothes valued
at $275 were stolen Friday night
from the store of George BurlS.
meyer, 1914 e. Michigan ST., accord.
ing to police report.
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Twelve Killed
The nation suffered greatly In the
storm Twelve persons were killed.
Death and suffering accompanied
rain, hail and sleet in the East. -Four
persons met death in Staten Island
when their autos slxidded on an Icy
turn and crashed into telephone
pole.
-Four were killed at Newport.
Mich, when their auto was struck
by a Detroit Toledo interurban dur
ing binding snow storm.
One person also was reported dead
at SteubenviIle, Ohio, and one at
Pittsburgh, Pa, as a result Of the
storm.
Two men were killed when run
over by a motor car during a hard
snow storm near Warren, in north
western Pennsylvania.
Ohio was blanketed by five inches
Of snow.
Street cars were delayed and train
schedules suffered in the East. Thou
sands battled their way to work at
New York. Pittsburghers struggled
in four inches of snow. One 49,
year-old girl died OF heart failure
from over-exertion while coasting.
Snow was reported even in the
sunny South. Clay, Ala, reported
two inches. For the first time in
years, housetops and trees glistene0
with snow in Atlanta, Ga. Mercury
stood at 81.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
Screen Technique Outwitted.

AN experiment that merits more
than ordinary attention has been
made. according to the studio press
agent. in the screen production OF
Michael Arlen's story, THE Ace of
Cads," In which Famous Players
Lasky Is to star Adolphe Menjou. =
The dumbest of the most beautiful
Dumb Doras knows, even II vaguely,
that screen expression comprehends
something entirely different to that Of
story telling in print.
Michael Arlen's popularity, both
here and abroad, has been due largely
to his unique epigrammatic style, and
as 1t was impossible to transfer this
| in English to the screen. In order to
catch the spirit of the story. it is.
claimed, Forrest Halsey, who adapted
the story; Luther Reed. who directed
| it. with Mr.. Menjou himself occupy
ing a chair In the projection room
during the conferences, and Julian
Johnson, the film and title editor.
have succeeded in reaching the de.
sired result in "the development and
characterization of the story"
1t would seem from this that that
wonderful bugaboo known as screen
technique had been outwitted and that
| after all maybe the trick can he
turned on other stories and plays
which heretofore have been deemed
unavailable because, of the require
ments of screen technique. And II this,
can be done with plays and stories.
who knows-it may be possible to ad-
nit some of our great stage actors
and actresses to picture work who
heretofore have been barred by their
lack Of screen technique. 1t would
be a wonderful accomplishment, for
it might serve to prolong the vanish
ing life of the speaking stage. of
which the untechnical public Is being
so frequently advised,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12

WHEN an actress speaks of my
public"-it signals a smile from
the amateur satirists, sheer from
the intelligentsia, laugh from lesser
stars and a loud guffaw from the gal
lery. Still, my public" Is relent-
less fact, as witness the case OF Mary
Pickford.
Mary came as near, perhaps, to
being a public idol as any one ever
in public life, and her hold on popu-
lar fancy was not difficult of ana
lyzation. The parts she portrayed
were elemental in characterization.
She did simple, homely things for
simple, homely reasons her whole
some stories were simple, direct and
easy to feel. BY nature, Mary is
something of the temerarious gamin-
and a rollicking scene with a joyous
impertinence behind it was not act
ing to Mary In her stories, there
was sure to be a weepy emotionalism
that in simple natures Is ever near
the surface. What combination for
the great mass Of people! Laughter
or tears within easy call-and with
simple. elemental motivations. Is it
any wonder that Mary's hold on my
public" was SO sure?
Then came the period during
which she allowed ambition to close
her eyes to the basis Of this hold.
She essayed more impressive roles;
more pretenuous settings; more
grown-up characterization. Then
came the verdict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
Made Mary a Kid Again.

my public saw her, admitted she
was as beautiful as ever. said tina!
her productions were we'll done, but
went away dissatisfied because they
wanted the other Mary. She tried
it again, using another type OF story
with the same result. The public de-
manded the young Mary, the kldd1sn
Mary, the pert, irresponsible. ragged
curly haired, short skirted Mary
They continued to love her, but they
demanded that she should make the
sort Of pictures I'VE" want.
After receiving more than 10000
letters in answer to her publlsheo
question-"What do you want me
to ?"-she realized the truth; she
did not dare to grow up.
She did Little Annie Rooney" an
inconsequential thing dramatically
but exactly the sort of picture her
followers wanted. 1t was her great
est financial success and made thou
sands of new friends for her.
The lesson Of this was so plain
that she will probably never for
get it.
Her newest picture, "Sparrows.
which will be shown here this season
is another child part, but for the first
time in her career gives her an in
tenSely dramatic vehicle.
Advance reports of "Sparrows" are
glowing and my public" here await
with interest a picture that Will give
the Mary Of old in combination with
the new, emotionally effective Mary
that her press agents promise us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
The Moving Picture
By Robert E. Sherwood

EVER since the silent drama en-
~ tered upon it's protracted infancy
it's minions have been conscious OF
the fact that they are employed by
women. Their actual checks might
be signed by, such prominent males
as William Fox, Marcus Loew. Sam
uel GoldwJA or Jesse Lasky, but
there could be no doubt that the
revenue behind these checks origl
mated in the pocketbooks Of the wom'
an customers.
Not only are women heavily In the
majority in movie audiences through
out the world, but a large percentage
Of the men who pay in money at the
box Office do so because they have
been compelled to by wives, daugh
tiers or girl friends.
Whenever the members or ram.
lily debate as to which movie shall
be seen that evening, it Is the WON
ems vote that triumphs Thus you
will find that all the great stars OF
the screen-male and female-have
attained to their present eminence
because they could appeal to the
ladies out front.
1t is worthy of note, then. that
moving pictures have recently be-
come intensely masculine. The old
types Of society dramas and fashion
shows have gone out of style; sup
planting them are films of more
rugged, more masculine aspect.
This tendency started, undoubtedly,
with THE Covered Wagon" and was
increased to it's present proportions
by 1.-THE Big Parade The vast
number of war movies are part of 1t.
So are such productions as Beau
GeSte' Tin which there is hardly any
Riders" "Old Ironsides," FLAMES, .
Three Bad Men" and a great many
others.
The stories Of these pictures are
concerned with essentially masculine
activities, with the old red-hot ro-
nance minimized. Furthermore. they
have few women in their cast-which
means thousands of extra girls in
Hollywood are going hungry.
This is probably a passing phase.
The movies eventually will get back
to the scenes of languid luxury, the
parades of grotesquely- CARRIED man
nequins and the passionate passages
which are supposed to thrill the
female fans. But the trend toward
masculinity. however temporary, is
proving beneficial 1t is producing
more honest, more fortnight, more
dramatic pictures.
X X \
New York's highbrow, movie organi-
cation, the International Film Arts
Guild, recently exhibited 1.-The Cruiser
Potemkin'' to a select group, COM
posed of those who are working seri-
ously for the betterment of the
cinematograph ic art. Included in the
audience were such ardent film fans
as Fannie Hurst, Alexander Wooll-
colt. Christopher Morley, Arthur
Harpo Marx, Neysa McMein, Norman
Bel Geddes and possibly others who
nimbly escaped my notice.
1.-THE Cruiser Potemkin" is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
In the Spotlight

A LBERT LEWIS will produce THE
"A Creole" by Samuel Shipman and
Kenneth Perkins, with Richard Ben
nett in the leading role.
Frederick Truesdale has been added
to the cast supporting Frances Starr
in THE Shelf" which opens in Phjla-
delphia tomorrow night and then goes
into New York.
A. P. Waxman, known in the thea
ter as a press man, has accepted for
production Wings" a play by Ashley
Miller and Zelda Sears, with incidental
music by Arthur Bergh.
A company of 60 players has been
recruited in New York to appear under
the direction of Carter De Haven at
his Hollywood Music Box Theater.
Hilda Vaughn, Rosemary Hilton,
Sidney Booth, Harold Elliott and Don
Cook have been engaged for Seed OF
the Brute" which is planned for Oc-
tober presentation in New York.
The new year Of the Theater Guild
School of Acting started last Monday
with 20 seniors and Sc junior mem
bers enrolled. Hamilton MacFadden
will be executive manager of the
school.
A new play by Henry Arthur
Zones is scheduled for an early Lon
don presentation. Its title Is That
Which was Foretold."
The Dillingham; offices in New York
have just received from Frederick
Lonsdale the manuscript of a three
act comedy entitled ION Approval
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12

a cast is being selected. Reports from
London indicate that Lonsdale him
self will follow his play before the
end of the month.
Olive Valerie has been engaged for
the cast of 1.-The Jeweled Tree" She
Will play Ankhesson, who is none
other than, the widow Queen of Tut
IN that fantasy of ancient Egypt by
Garrett Chatf1eld Pier
Beatrice and the Blackguard" is
said to be we'll advanced on its way
from Cincinnati to New York. This
is the play by Ernest Goodwin which
Is being tried out by Stuart Walker
under the anxious eye of Edith Ellis,
who was instrumental in securing the
piece for production. Her daughter.
Ellis Baker, has an important part in
the cast.
First Love-" with Fay BANTER as
its star, got a good start in Atlantic
City last Monday night. The play
was adapted from the French by Zoe
Atkins.
Another company Of 1.-The Green
Hat" with Charlotte Walker and
ANOIIIldIl I1dChclL do LID 1CclNAhS PAAS
ers, opened a long road tour at Plain
field last Thursday night.
Mitzi is reported to have established
a sell-out record in Naughty Ri
quette," the new Oscar Strauss oper-
eta, which reaches New York tomor-
row night. The production. made
big hit in Atlantic City last week.
The cast of "Henrys Harem, "
which reaches the Greenwich Village
tomorrow night, will include Olive
Reeves Smith, Joan Storm and AL
Roberts. Fred Ballard and Arthur
Stern are the authors.
John Van Druten, author of young
Woodley," has made an adaptation
for A. H. Woods of a play entitled
MILAN Begovic. The title will be
changed to 1.-The Third Day."
A play by Gretchen Damrosch Fin
letter. daughter of Walter Damrosch,
has been accepted by Mrs. Samuel
insult for production in Chicago. 1t
Is entitled THE Runaway Road"
1.-THE Pearl of Great Price" an allie
gorical play written by Robert Nc
Laughlin and described as "a drama
spectacle" will be presented in New
York late in October. 1t will be pro-
duced on a huge scale with q COM
pany numbering over 200
Arrangements have been made by
the New York Theater Guild for the
importation of Jacques Copeau to di-
rect his own version of 1.-THE Brothers
Karamazoff," which the guild will
produce this Winter. Maurice Wer-
them, who has just returned to New
York after a Summer in Europe, con-
firmed this while In Paris.
A new play. Live Wires" has been
accepted by Boothe. Gleason & Truck
and will reach New York some time
next month. 1t is characterized as
IAN American comedy" and was writ
ten by Rolph Murphy. an erstwhile
stock actor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12

first moving picture to come to these
shores from Russia since the revOlu-
ton. 1t was produced under the
auspices Of the Soviet government
which means that it is not likely to
be released in this country; not while
the State Department keeps its eyes
open.
1t Is my sad duty to report that
1.-THE Cruiser Potemkin" doesn't de-
serve to be released. 1t describes a
mutiny aboard a Russian battle
cruiser, anchored in the harbor of
Odessa, during the Russo japanese
war. Mechanically 1t is extremely
interesting to the student of movie
technique-but it is far too confused
too incoherent to be offered as a
medium of entertainment for the
general public.
Some of its individual shots" are
superb, and 1 hope that our Ameri-
can directors will observe these, and
profit by the new ideas that the
Russians have introduced.
+ X X
Another American tragedy might
be written around the career OF
Josef Won Sternberg, a young d.
rector, who has just recorded his
third successive failure.
Won Sternberg is of Austrian birth
supposed to be a krony of Ferenc
Molnar and other Central European
mental giants. He was known about
the lower movie circles of New York
as a competent camera man; then
he drifted to Hollywood, to emerge
with a picture called THE Salvation
Hunters" He wrote, directed and
produced this himself, with capital
of $4,000, that he had begged and
borrowed.
1.-THE Salvation Hunters" was hail
ed as a masterpiece by Charlie Chap
lin and Douglas Fairbanks, who
arranged to distribute 1t through
United Artists. 1t was a woeful flop.
Then Won Sternberg was signed by
Metro Goldwyn to direct another
story of his own composition. 1.-THE
Exquisite Sinner" Even before this
picture had been completed the
Metro Goodwin officials quietly re-
moved the name of Won Sternberg
from their pay rolls.
Charlie Chaplin still has faith in
the young Austrian, and invited him
to his own studio to make 1.-THE Sea
Gull" Now comes word that Chaplin
has shelved THE Sea Gull" and that
Josef Won Sternberg is once more on
the town.
Just what will happen to this
gifted but erratic young man is hard.
at the moment, to say. l hope that
he will go back to his camera and
stay there, for he Is as fine a phOtog
rapher as the movies have produced.
X X
"Don Juan" is a tremendous hit at
GraumannS Egyptian Theater in
Hollywood. A new record for rev.
enue from "literary" work has been
established by Frances Marion. who
has signed a years contract with
Metro Goldwyn for $175,000. During
that period and for that sum, she
will write the continuity for six pic
lures. Ralph Spence. a subtitle
writer. asks and receives $1,000 a
reel for his services.
1t is reported that DIR. Hugo
Riesenfeld will be managing director
of the new Paramount Theater, which
is due to open in October. DR..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
To Marry Royalty.
PEBE DANIELS learned for ii

PEBE DANIELS learned for the
- first time very recently that she is
engaged to marry nobility.
She heard from a sporting editor
that Charles Paddock. the worlds
fastest human" to whom she has an
nounced her engagement. is really Sir
Charles William Paddock" He was
knighted and given this title at Paris
In 1919 after the inter-allied games.
by the then King of Montenegro. who
has since been lost somewhere in the
shuttle.
That's a good one" laughed Bebe
"I1l spring that on Charley" When
Paddock confirmed the story she
gasped.
why. l feel like a regular Cinde-
rella," said Bebe. Honestly l didn't
know 1 was getting into the nobility.
along with Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri
and Mae Murray"
Paddock doesn't take the title seri
ously, however. and his only comment
was that if the King of Montenegro
had been able to do the 100 yards IN
Q 35 seconds. he might still be In the,
running.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
Movie Sidelights.

THE complete interior Of theater
was constructed for the musical
comedy sequence that features Olive
Borden In the perturbation Of Cur.
woods story, 1.-THE Country Beyond"
The screen has played joke on the
casting directors. In choosing the
cast for a picture whose title featured
the auburn haired it was found that
motion picture ''red-headed mamas'
are not red headed. Under ordinary
Photographic conditions red hair
photographs black, while under the
soft light used in an attempt to get
rosy tints in the close-ups 1t photo
graphs white.
Four barrels of camphor balls are
| to be shipped to Calgary, Canada
! from Astoria, Long Island. for use In
Thomas Meighan's next Paramount
picture, "The Canadian" The cam
phor Is to be used in a hailstorm. 1t
was necessary to ship them across the
continent to make sure they would be
on hand at the time needed and tC
| give prop men time to stain them
| light blue, as light blue photographs
white.
While making the South American
sequences Of Upstream" on the Sana
Anna River in California, John Grit
fifth Wray, directing the picture for
Fox, had to place some alligators In
the river for realism of setting. That
afternoon he was warned by the indig
nant natives, who objected to his
"willfully and maliciously stocking the
river with dangerous reptiles"
An ordinary yellow pup, worth a
dollar when new. Hank now com
mands a staggering salary and rides
to work in an expensive car. Holly
wood is filled with trick dogs, but his
owner, Henry East, claims that Hank
will register every emotion required
for the screen. The dog will be seen
in "The Return of Peter Grimm" the
Belasco- Warfield success; featuring
Alec B. Francis in the picture, which
was directed by Victor Schertzinger.
Movies in the making are just as
popular as they are on the screen. A
company of German actors stopped
on Park avenue the other day to take
shot, of the villain emerging from
the doorway of an apartment house
Though the proceedings took barely
10 minutes, 800 adults and children
| collected and watched with open
| mouths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
Cries Real Tears.
TAROL DEMPsTER wept buck

CAROL DEMPsTER wept bucket
fuls of real tears in the filming OF
final scenes for the new D. w. Grit
fifth picture, Sorrows Of Satan"
Crying real tears is a difficult &C
complishment," Miss Dempster says
until you learn how it is done. I re-
member the first time Mr.. Griffith
wanted me to cry in a picture.
simply couldn't do 1t. He sent me off
to my room with Mrs. Myrtle Sutch
the studio chaperon, and had the
prop man install monograph in the
room. For hours that phonograph
played Chopin's Funeral March, and
I tried vainly to enter into the spirit
of the occasion and weep.
"At first it was funny, then 1t got
monotonous, and finally it nearly
drove me frantic. My nerves were on
edge, and presently, as though heard
it for the first time, the music began
TO suggest it's forlorn, despairine
beauty. l burst into tears. Mrs
Surch called Mr.. Griffith, and the
scene was taken.
Now when I have to get into this
sort Of mood I first study the part
thoroughly, get a good mental picture
Of the character, try to visualize her
sympathy for her troubles. That is
not so hard if life has taught you a
lew Of its elementary lessons, among
tnem the fact that but by the grace
uf God, there go l.