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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-24

BRiCkLAYlNG MINISTER
When the Rev. l.. L. Scott, of
Seminole, Okla, starts anything
Ne believes in finishing il. A
year ago he decided his congre-
cation should have a new house
Of worship, costing $4,000
Skrpiics said. "it couldn't be
done" but the pastor donned
overalls and helped lay brick
for tie structure himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
ADLER WE'LL
and HERMAN
Palace
Beau Geste Shot in
Arizona

TT had been tentatively planned to
film Beau Geste" on the actual
scene of the story-the Sahara Desert
in Algeria.
Lou Sarecky had been dispatched
from Astoria to Africa to shoot desert
scenes and to obtain permission from
the French government to erect fort
in the Sahara. Things moved smooth
ly for a time until Add el krim, in
his war with Spain, crossed into
French territory and precipitated the
wrath of the French government
From that time on reports We're so
discouraging it was evident that no
motion pictures could be taken there
until after the cessation OF hostllltles.
When this information was received,
orders were given to establish loca-
ton on the Arizona Desert. mile
and a half of plank road was built
across the sand dunes Of Arizona
along the Mexican border to enable
Paramount to build a camp for 1000
men in Barren Valley. Here are found
the only sand dunes that exactly
duplicate those of the Sahara.
Every person connected with the
picture lived in this camp, 30 miles
from the nearest habitation, more
more than three months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Indorses Memorial
Abbey

ENTHUSIASTIC approval of a plan
to erect memorial abbey in Hol-
lywood. in which might be placed the
remains of those individuals who, by
their various achievements. have won
inches in the motion picture hall of
fame, has been voiced by Joseph NJ.
Schenck, chairman Of the board of
United Artists.
There are q score OF persons whose
lifetime endeavors are worthy of such
recognition, according to Mr. Schenck,
who considered 1t most appropriate
that memorial abbey should be built,
TO stand as permanent tribute to
these outstanding personalities.
Future generations will look back
to the present period as one of the
most important of all eras in which
marked progress was made in the
worlds advancement" said Mr..
Schenck. "Of first Importance among
the factors that are contributing to
advancement in the present age is
the motion picture screen, which, with
its viSualized story education and en-.
tertainment, in few brief years, has
gripped and held the serious attention
of the entire civilized world.
The pioneer artists and builders in
this great art industry have been in.
NViduals Of courage, genius and
vlrion, better known to more of the
worlds peoples than any present-day
potentate, leaders in other arts. or
those of military or political great.
ness. There are a score of individ-
uals now living who certainly have
won a niche In hall of fame. and
there are some departed who. by their
artistry and pioneering genius. will
be Of the immortals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
WILSON PLAYERS-Friday.

1.-THE Unchastened Woman" play
in three acts, by Louis kaufman
Anspacher, will be given by the VIII
son players, Aurora M. Poston. direc.
tor, Friday night at S:15 pm. in the
auditorium of Columbia Heights Gen.
ter in Wilson Normal Building, Elev.
enth and Harvard streets northwest,
under the auspices of the community
center department.
Jack Page will appear as Hubert
Knollys, Louise Wood as Mrs. Murtha.
charwoman; Irene Neikirk as Miss
Susan Ambie. Grace Meyer as Caro-
line Knollys, Willard Miller as Law
renee Sanbury, Martha Dixon as Hill
degarde Sanbury. Edith Dresden as
Emily Madden and III. r. Baukhage
as Michael Krellin.
The scene of the play is laid in New
York in 1915. the acts occurring in
the Knollys' drawing room and In the
combined kitchen and living room Of
the Sanbury fiat In model tenement.
The stage setting and lighting for the
play are'by Harold Snyder of the COM
munity center department.
Tickets may be had at the door or
Of members Of the cast and also OF
the community secretary at Columbia
Heights Center
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Two Perennials
AUNT" has a. twin,

"CHARLIE'S AUNT" has a twin.
In point Of continuous-run rec
ord, "McFadden's Flats" IS running
or has run--the famous English farce
practically a dead heat.
Charles Aunt" already has been
seen in film form, and now come
Charlie Murray and Chester Conklin
In co-stellar roles in 'McFaddens
Flats
A New York theatergoer, bent on
statistics, recently computed that
'McFadden's Flats" the comedy
classic of the stage, has been seen by
more people than any stage produc-
ton in American history, with the
exception of Uncle Toms Cabin"
And now that it is made the sub
ject OF the seasons most ambitious
screen offering by Asher, Small &
Rogers for First National. the same
expert says that 1t probably will be
viewed by more audiences in six
months than during its entire pre-
viouS stage existence.
''McF'adden's Flats" has been shown
on the stage for somewhat more than
80 years. The same statistical au-
thority estimates that 1t never was
shown fewer than 500 times any year
of that period and that a part of the
time found not fewer than 10 or u
companies playing it.
Estimated on a basis of 200 peopleI
to an audience--and that Is a low esti-t
mate-10. 900 900 people have seen the
stage version OF the old laugh pro-
Queer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
EARLE-"TOOt Sweet"

For the current week, beginning
this afternoon, the Earle Theater's
headline attraction in vaudeville will
be Janet of France and company in
lively skit. ''Toot Sweet" The pho
toplay feature will be 'Nobody's
Widow" starring Leartice Joy, with
Charles Ray and Phyllis Haver in
support.
Janet of France is a piquant young
coincidence, with a wardrobe of gor-
geous costumes, who is supported by
Byron Hawkins, William Rand, Mack
RUBBER and Mkt MARITIME in "Toot
Sweet" lively and tuneful sketch by
Johnny Cantwell. She brings to the
American stage a sparkling personal
ity in one of the most pretentiously
staged acts of it's kind in vaudeville.
The added attraction will be Kath-
leen O'Hanlon and Theodore Fam
buni, spectacular character dancers,
in an original creation, "a Cabaret In
Cuba Added color is lent this Of
fering by the presence of the Argen-
tine Orchestra, both in Individual Sc
lections and as @ dancing accompan1-
ment.
A third act Of Importance is provided
by Harry Jolson, a native son and a
brother Of Al. who appears as Vaude-
vile only OpeIdIlC pielCh-AoSO N~AAAS
dian, supported by an attractive asso-
ciate billed only as Lillian" Mr..
Jolson offers a series of operate trav-
estes.
Others include Don Valerie in
Dances on the Wire" presenting
Italy's premier wire dancer in asso-
citation with Ella Hajek, a gifted
danseuse, and Eddie Jerome and Bill
Ryan, with a banjo and a guitar to
accompany their own songs.
"Nobody's Widow" is a screen adap-
tation Of Avery Hopwood's play of the
same name. Charles Ray Is cast as
the husband who refuses to be desert
ed, and Phyllis Haver as an additional
temptation.
House features will include short
reel comedies and news subjects and
orchestral music, with pipe-organ &C
compartments by Alexander Arons on
the Kimball grand organ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Hasoutra Creates

TT is Hasoutra's ambition to do in
dancing what Raquel Meller, ia.
nous Spanish star, does in song-to
create dramas, to construct character
studies in dance.
'In a measure" says she, Angina
Enters does the kind of dancing
would like to do, except that Miss En-
tiers combines considerable straight
pantomine with her dancing; 1 should
like. to experiment with constructing
dramas entirely in dancing.
There Is much of the sort of dane
ing 1 mean in Oriental countries, In
connection with religious rites. Nearly
all of the temple dances of India.
Java, Burma and other far eastern
countries tell a definite legend"
Hasoutra, who appears in vaude-
vile here this week in George Choos'
ballet, is said to excel in oriental dane
ing. Although she Is part English and
part French, she lived all her child
hood in the Orient, China India, Java,
Burma; became well acquainted with
various kinds of oriental dancing and
extremely enthusiastic about it, so
that when, several years later, she
studied dancing in Paris, it was in
oriental dancing that she specialized.
She even chose an Indian stage name,
Hasoutra.
Her first professional appearance
was with the Paris Opera Co. as char
acter dancer. She made her New York
debut in Ed Wynn's 1.-The Perfect
Fool" then in 1.-THE Spice of 1922" and
two Passing Shows"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Special Holiday Matinees

Announcement is made that special
holiday matinees will be given in all of
the Crandall residential theaters on
Washingtons birthday, Tuesday, be-
ginning at 2:30 pm.
This will be an augmentation of the
regular schedule at Crandall's Am
bassador, Savoy, Apollo, York, Colony,
Home and Chevy Chase Theaters only,
the others of the dozen on the circuit
simply observing the regular custom
of daily matinees.
Special holiday programs have been
booked in all of the Stanley-Crandall
Theaters by John j. Payette. super
visor of theaters, and the musical en-
bellishments also will be found in
keeping with the spirit of the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
The Rediscovery of
~ Friend Pickwick
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

was exceedingly fond Pickwick has
a soul unrufflcd by adversely and
smile which may betray him into ex-
cessive philanthropy, but never into
cynicism. This is the unvarylng
mood of trustful hoping like that of
Micawber, of Tom Pinch, of Mark
Tapley and the rest of the jaunty
dchants of ill-fortune that people
Dickens pages.
Mr.. Cumberland plays the role with
such unvarying consistency that he
seems to vitalize it rather than to
enact it. 1t apparently takes care
of itself, like all the others in this
large and goodly company. Beauti-
full as the scenery is, it is eclipsed
by the performance which would be
fascinating entertainment if offered
with no more background than that
of a production by Ben Greet, who
gave his Shakespeare successfully,
even though he ignored scene paint
ers and carpenters.
There is wide gulf between Dick
ems and Shakespeare, POLITICALLY as
we'll as chronologically. Yet they
become closely associated when re-
called as the two authors who made
characters live and breathe SO hu
manly that they are mentioned by
the dozen on terms of living friend
ship i'll daily conversation.
1t is needless to speculate on the
future of the Reilly production of
"Pickwick.' 1t is masterpiece which
has given delight to all concerned
with its presentation, whether as
stage craftsmen or box office con-
tributors. The pity is that it carnot
take its place as one of the perpetual
permanences along with the art that
is preserved in frame or on pedestal.
A stage play, however wonderful, is
but evanescent, whether its time is
measured by the years or only by tho
months. 1t was privilege well worth
acceptance of the humble status of
a tryout town on the theatrical map
to have the opportunity 10 catch
passing glimpse of this immense and
fascinating creation.
X X X X
AS the Pickwick people come and
go they leave an impression that
claims for each some word of CRATE
full praise. In recalling the event,
there must be some reference to
Charles McNaughton's Sam Weller,
as well as to Bruce Winston's imper-
sonation of Sans father. There was
Joe, the fat boy. looking the part
natural as life-but there are over
half a hundred people in the COM
pany! Each is entitled. in all fair
ness, to line of approval; and
where in the voc abularly of theatrical
compliment can so many genial ad-
Jectives be found? The task is be-
You'd the power of the word-weary
reviewer. The thesauros fails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
NATIONAL-"Beau Geste."

The screen version of Beau Geste"
begins the second week of its local run
with 8 o'clock matinee today and
continues twice daily thereafter at
230 and $50 pm. Seats for the sec
ond week will be on sale at the box
office tomorrow.
The National Theater continues to
be a mecca for those who have read
the book or listened to stories of its
marvellous entertainment.
Beau Geste' brings something new
to the screen. Sex romance is sub
servient to the affection of three
brothers for each other, willing to cut
away from loves, family, careers, each
to protect the names of the others and
all suspected in connection with the
mysterious disappearance of q famous
sapphire. All three meet in the ranks
of the French Foreign Legion, the
port of adventure they all had cher
ished since childhood, and In good
naturally kidding" each other about
the theft of the jewel are overheard
by a cornrade In the legion. who i'm
mediately plots to obtain the sapphire
from them.
This undercurrent of suspense to-
gether with a sudden attack on the
desert outpost by an Arab tribe, with
it's bitter ferceness, brings Beau
Geste" to the height of dramatics. At
the conclusion of the battle the story
marches on to the solution of the
mystery of the sapphire's disappear
ance
The cast of featured players has
Ronald Colman in the leading role,
with Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes
in the roles of the younger Geste
brothers, to Colman's Michael Beau
Geste." Alice Joyce, Mary Brian.
Norman Trevor. Noah Beery, William
Powell, Victor McLaglen and Donald
Stuart complete what is said to be
considered the best picture cast ever
assembled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Vitaphone at
Metropolitan
THE first Vitaphone entertainment

THE first Vitaphone entertainment
ever presented in the National
Capital will be offered at Crandalls
Metropolitan Theater next week, be-
ginning Sunday afternoon, In conJunc-
ton with the premier local showing of
the Warner Brothers production of
don JUAN" described as the greatest
Of all love stories, in which the title
role is played by John Barrymore,
Americas distinguished actor
The Vitaphone Is one of the great
achievements of the century and
marks q forward stride in the develop
ment Of the motion picture as all
round entertainment.
The Vitaphone is exclusively leased
to the Stanley Crandall Co. Of Wash
ington, for use in it's Metropolitan
Theater for q long term of years at
a cost which may be estimated from
the fact that the initial installation
has exceeded 100000 in actual ex-
penditure.
The Vitaphone Is claimed to be the
first scientific achievement actually
to synchroniZe every sound with its
appropriate action on the screen.
Music, voice In conversational tones,
voice in song, extraneOus sounds. any
thing that pertains to sound suggested
on the screen, Is so synchroniZed as
to make the Illusion uncanny in its
reality.
Yet withal the Vitaphone program
is one Of pleasant as well as unusual
entertainment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Feature" Pictures

1.-THE term spectacle" says Marshall
Neilan, has been so over.used
with picture productions that one is
never certain whether they are going
to see really magnificent pageant
or what should rightfully be called a
program picture.
I'm the olden days there was one
variety of picture. That was a pro-
gram picture. Comedies and dramas
were all in the same class. Judith
of Bethulia' broke through the shell
and being unusually massive and awe
inspiring for a picture Of that time
was labeled a feature production.
Then followed a series of feature pro.
auctions, all entitled to being SO
classed.
1.-THE market then became deluged
with so-called feature productions,
few of which were of a caliber that
merited such distinction.
81 believe a time will come in the
very near future when pictures that
are spectacles will be called such and
where feature productions will be
used in the true sense of that phrase, :"
Neilan concludes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
KEITH'S-ElliOtt Dexter

Washington's Birthday week will be
commemorated at B. F. Keith's Thea
ter with the first appearance in vau-
deville of Elliott Dexter, star of screen
and stage, in a sketch entitled,
Gentlemen Prefer" written for
him by Clyde North.
Featured also will be Miss Hasou-
tra," the dancer. presented by George
Choos in High Art" an elaborate
dance act introducing in the COM
pany Walter and Elizabeth Reddick
Alice Hayward and Gordon Bennett
and the six Adelaide and Hughes
girls. The production has been staged
by Mr.. Hughes, with music by Gene
Lucas, and the orchestra will be under
the direction of j. B. Freese.
A special feature will be Bert Enrol,
female impersonator, In Modes and
Melodies of 1927"
Others will include Jim McWilliams,
known as THE Pianutist," who COM
bines fun with clever piano manipu-
lation; VIII Hay, English comedian.
in 1.-The Fourth Form of ST.
Michael's," assisted by Bert Plat and
Cy Laceby; Henry Regal in clown
acrobatics; Brooks and Ross, 1.-TWO
Boys and a Piano." and Bert Ford
and Pauline Price with Dancing on
q Silver Thread"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Another Jolson

The Earle Theater. beginning this
afternoon, is exploiting one of Wash
ington's native sons. yet though the
brother of one Of the most famous
entertainers on the American stage,
Harry Jolson by no means fiourishes
in the reflected glory of his brother AL.
Harry Jolson, however, like his
brother, is endowed with voice of
almost operate caliber and thereby
is enabled to Undue his travesties with
a quality of artistry that is pleasing.
The second of the Jolsons to meet
success on the boards bills himself as
1.-The operate blackface comedian, ="
with an associate billed only as
Lillian"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
Saturday,

The selected programs for children
announced for next Saturday morn
Ing are at the Tivoli Theater, Harry
Langdon's popular comedy. Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp" and at the Chevy
Chase Theater, Marion Davies in
Janice Merideth," which was Sc
lected because its spirit is so in har-
mony with the commemoration OF
Washington's birthday.
Short comedies have been selected
for both theaters TO meet the demand
of the younger children.
The Mount Pleasant Branch Public
Library will. on request. furnish list
of the books selected for the exhibit
of the picture Janice Merideth."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
STRAND-"In FINLAND"

The current show at the Strand.
opening yesterday. presented by the
Strands Permanent Presentation Co
and produced by Leo Stevens, is tilted
"In FINLAND" The action Is laid In
~ scenes, notable ones being The
Google Eyed Man." Uncle Toms
Cabin" and Past Times on the
Levee." Interlarded through the
show will be presented Wouldn't
You" High, High Up in the Sky"
"Tonight You Belong to Me" and
other new and popular songs.
On the screen for the entire week
will be shown Douglas Fairbanks in
"The Black Pirate" a superproduc-
ton, laid in that part of the South
ern Seas known in the seventeenth
century as the Pirates Main. 1t Is
said that never before has Fairbanks
had a better vehicle for his blithe
sort of adventuring. This is said to
be the first picture Of magnitude to
be made in color.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Little Theater BUSY

S"THE LITTLE THEATER" re.
Gently organized in Washing.
ton with Miss Estelle Allen as di.
rector general, Tuesday evening, as.
signed the members to parts in THE
Drums of Dude" principals and un.
derstudies. and also considered sew.
eral plays submitted by local play.
wrights. including "A Guarantee for
Good Dialogue" with five characters.
which was read by Miss Canaan of
Trinity College. its author; also
RADIO" play of three characters,
by A. Milne. 1t was announced that
parts would be assigned with a fair
division of work
A tea is to be given in the club.
rooms at the Carlton Hotel the la
Sunday in February.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

A play called Private Jones" goes
into rehearsal this week for production
by Asher and Small in association with
AL Lewis. 1t has been expanded from
a one-act playlet by Richard Slayer.
which was originally produced in Los
Angeles.
Under the guiding hand of Willard
Mack rehearsals start this week on
THE Snowman" in which Joe Laurie
will be starred. For this reason Mr..
Mack has laid aside his own play,
Weather Clear-Track Fast" Dave
Starnper. Paul Gerard Smith and Joe
Lourie are the authors Of 1.-THE Show
MAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
CLARA w. NORTHUMBERLAND

Miss McQuown, at her weekly talk
on current history, will give a brief
review Of recent developments at
home and abroad, but will devote the
greater part of the time to the ques-
lions Of alien property and the man.
date system. with especial reference to
Palestine and Syria.
These talks are given every Friday
morning at IL o'clock at the Washing
ton Club. Seventeenth and X streets
northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM
Eucharistic Congress Film.


The motion picture spectacle of the
Eucharistic Congress of Chicago,
which George Cardinal Mundelein,
Archbishop OF Chicago. will present
at the Washington Auditorium. COM
mencing Saturday of this week, shows
what is claimed to be the most cos
mopolitan gathering ever assembled
In this country.
of Archbishop Michael j. Curley Of
Baltimore and prominent Catholic
laymen.
Among the more than 900 900 per-
sons said to have been photographed
at this great religious demonstration
were representatives of q different
nations from the four quarters of the
globe. Special meetings of the con-
gress were assembled, % separate
groups being gathered in as many
halls in various parts of the city, and
discussions were conducted in 81 diff
ferent languages or dialects, ranging
all the way from the ancient Latin of
the clergy and the modern Greek of
the oriental Catholics to the musical
intonations of the Sioux Indians and
the gutteral vernacular of the EskimoS
from Alaska. More than 1000 inter-
prefers were employed to aid and
| direct the vast army. At the special
| meeting for men, held in the huge
| stadium on the Chicago lake front
after night fall, orations were delivered
| in 8 different languages.
| In the great procession which was
held on the closing day of the con-
gress and which is portrayed in the
| film, almost every race Of people In
the world are represented in the line
of march. many attired in their native
| costumes. When the procession was
but half way on it's course terrific
hail and rain storm beat down upon
all.
All the outstanding events Of the
| congress are pictured with author
| itative detail.
The musical score was arranged by
Emo Rapee and Otto Singenberger.
The film was prepared by Fox Film
| Corporation and presented as gift to
| George Cardinal Mundelein, sponsor
| Of the congress. 1t will be shown at
| 2:20 pm. Saturday and thereafter at
| 2:20 and $40 pm. to and including
March 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
GAYETY-"Sporting Widows"

The Gayety Theater announces for
this week John G.. Jermon's Sport
ing Widows" with Josephine Joseph,
who has baffled scientists and be-
fuddled professors of physiology.
Sporting Widows" the latest eff
fort of the producer, boasts a cast
superior in many instances to some
high priced road attractions and
quite number of the principals who
have been drawn from Broadway
and from vaudeville.
George Shelton has the comedy
lead. with Harry Martini. WarreA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
EARL ROOT Strand
Coming Attractions.

past IS weeks has produced the
stage presentations.
On the screen will be seen Across
the Pacific" q first-run photoplay.
with Monte Blue as it's star. The pic
ture deals with the Spanish Amer
lean War. Maxwell music and the
usual short reels will supply the
embroidery.