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Actors Fund, Dec. 9.

WITH an all-star cast, such as no
other theatrical event brings to.
gether. the Actors Fund of America
annual benefit will be staged at the
National Theater Friday afternoon,
December 8. While the program is
still in the making, it Is certain to
bring a brilliant array of talent, as
this is the actors own charity, and all
the stars in town, augmented by Visi-
tors from New York, add their talents
to the entertainment.
The Actors Fund of America is this
year celebrating it's forty-fifth year of
service for helping actors who are
temporarily in distress or Ill and there
fore unable to help themselves. Its
work Is among the great rank and file
Of players-people who help the great
ones to make the theater what 1t is
but who do not share in the customary
rewards of greatness.
Daniel Frohman is president OF the
fund; E. F. Albee. first vice president;
Sam A. Scribner. treasurer; Mark
Klaw. chairman of the finance commit
tee, and Robert Campbell. secretary.
Walter Hartwig, assistant to the presi-
dent. Is now in Washington and will
take active charge of preparations for
the benefit.
Evening star., 1927-11-27

FANNY HURST started much talk
throughout the land when she
made the remark that it was impos-
sible for two persons to live an ideal
married life under the same roof and
at the same time engage themselves In
the same line of endeavor. Dolores
Del Rio and the dashing Senior Jaime
Martinez Del Rio have thrown the
writer's theories to the four winds and
have proven that man and wife can
be happy, live together in the same
house and be active in the same pro-
fession,
While Miss Del Rio has been soaring
to movie heights, Senior Del Rio has not
remained idle. He has not reached
nor will he ever reach that stage when
he is referred to as MIR. Dolores Del
Rio" The senior has written three
stories for the screen during the past
year. All three have been purchased
the third having been bought by Pro
ducer Edwin Carewe for $4,000
Carewe plans to star Miss Del Rio in
the original story after she concludes
her work in Ramona" now being
made.
Besides writing the three screen sto-
ries, Senior Del Rio has collaborated
in the writing of a stage play which is
to be given a Broadway opening TINS
season. And that is not all. The
dashing young don has been offered
leading role in a motion picture by
Wallace Fox, the director. And he
has almost come to the point of sign
ing the dotted line.
The Del Rios have been In Holly.
wood a brief two years. In that short
space of time Miss Del Rio has climbed
from the bottom o: the ladder Of film
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Has 90 European Records.

wrestles and plays an exceptional
game of foot ball. He was champion
forwarder for France in the interna-
tional Rugby contests. He also head.
ed the 100-meter division of France
for several years.
In addition to his athletic prowess,
Paoli has won an enviable place for
himself in the theatrical life of Eu-
rope. Before taking up motion picture
work he was upon the legitimate stage
for a number of years. For the past
seven years he has been appearing
before the camera. In Paris ne
worked with Pearl White, Gloria
Swanson and others. He appeared
opposite Miss Swanson in Madame
Sans Gene" and was Ursus in "Quo
Vadis."
Paoli served with the 9th Infantry
of the French Army for the first year
and "a half of the World War. He was
thrice wounded and twice decorated.
Later he was assigned to the 1st Avi.
alton Group. Here he served until the
armistice. 1t is his desire to make his
home in America. With this end in
view. he is taking lively interest in
American athletics. The coming Olym-
pic games will occupy much of his
time in the intervening months.
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p AOUL PAOLI, champion shot-put
~ and discus thrower of France and
a man who holds many records
throughout Europe, has just been
signed to play an important character
role in "Womanwise, new Fox pro-
duction.
Paoli. who is native of Corsica, is
6 feet 21a inches in height and weighs
225. He has been actively engaged
in athletics since he was Is, and holds
20 championships in France. England.
Germany and Spain. He has been in
America eight months, and at present
is attached to the Hollywood Athletic
Club. He competed in Olympic games
in Stockholm in 1912; Antwerp, 1920.
and in Paris, 1924. He also took an
active part in the athletics staged in
Pershing Stadium at the end of the
World War.
Finishing eighth in the Olympic
games shotput in 1924, Paoli has since
met virtually all European contenders
in Paris and at other centers. He es-
tablished, and still holds, the French
record of 1860 meters, or the Ameri.
can equivalent of 4S feet inches.
Sportsmen and critics in all sections
of the world have marveled at Paoli's
versatility. He swims, runs, boxes,
Evening star., 1927-11-27
Ruth to Tell Her Story Here.

2 UTH ELDER has turned stage
star-and at salary declared
10 be almost unheard of outside the
precincts Of Hollywood.
Miss Elder. who is appearing here
at a local theater this week, is said
to be decidedly versa tile, as BELTS a
beauty of her talents. She now re.
turns to Washington to let her ad.
mirers hear from her own lips the
story of her flight epic"
She is meeting face to face the thou
sands who want to see her and hear,
Iirect from her. the full story of that
rip In narrating and picturing that
hop Miss Elder relives the adven-
ure-the whole affair from the long
wait for weather to the ride to the
White House. the meeting with Col.
Lindbergh. and the teaming with The
President himself, at the famed "avi'
alton luncheon"
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PALACE Tea for Three" - Ruth
Elder.

Ruth Elder, who is appearing on
the stage at Loew's Palace Theater
this week, lives in vivid detail her
transatlantic hop by plane. From
the first day of preparations to the
return in glory, she recounts the
events of that notable flight with
George Haldeman, flight that failed
of it's goal, but became even more
thrilling because of startling rescue
from the ocean.
The screen entertainment on the
program is Tea for Three" a film
version of the play by the same title.
The plot concerns the curing of
husbands jealousy-the wife and the
other man adding fuel to the angry
embers in hubby's mind. And it
works out accordingly. 1t develops
that the husband is so jealous he is
even willing to cut cards with his
rival for the heart of the wife-the
loser to take himself out of the pic
ture via the suicide route. Lew Cody,
Aileen Pringle and Owen Moore are
featured. 1t is a Metro -Goldwyn.
Mayer production. In addition there
is Colby Hartman production, with
several artists: j. Virgil organ music,
M-GM News and the Palace Orchestra
music,
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Jcexe Hom 7EA for~ T4pEE- Palace
Fill MOOR A NJ S
Bits From the Studios and Theaters.

films, French producers are said to
be turning their attention to the pro-
duction of war pictures from the
French standpoint.
1t is reported that Fox has pur.
chased screen rights to Paul Arm.
strong's play. Romance of the
Underworld" for production next sea.
son.
1t appears there is to be another
Graustark picture. THE Prince of
Graustark," with Ramon Novarro as
its star.
William II. Post wrote the book for
Merry Mixed Marriages" the one-act
musical comedy. current at the RialtO.
His latest success was 1.-THE Vagabond
King" and he has also written the
book for THE Squaw Man." now under
rehearsal and to have it's premiere
shortly.
Mrs. Wallace Reid, who is headlining
at local theater this week. Long
before she madeAher screen debut, in
1910, as a young girl she toured the
home country with her mother. Alice
Davenport, in vaudeville. Mrs. Reid.
who before her marriage to Wallace
Reid was known to screen fans as
Dorothy Davenport, Is a niece of
Fanny Davenport and a granddaugh.
ter of e. l.. Davenport, both of whom
are famous in the who's Who of the
American Theater."
Beginning this week. the Motion Pic
ture Guild will start the new weekly
programs at the Little Theater every
Saturday instead of Sunday. Per-
formances of the new shows will start
at / pm. Saturday and at 3 pm. Sun.
day.
A band of Piute Indians employed
by Edwin Carewe to furnish realism
in the action of Ramona" are, ac-
cording to historical experts, exact
prototypes of, the Temecula Indians
described by Helen jackson In her
original nd kls 81 49,. ...-.4-- -.
Evening star., 1927-11-27

THE proposed closing of the Warner
studios, according to a statement
by President H. M. Warner, is not
due to financial stringency, but to
enable the stars opportunity for rest
and leisure and to enable the scenario
staff opportunity to get ready for the
1928 program "as soon as the plant
reopens."
Film Daily states that houses in
New York are utilizing the phono-
graph and others are experimenting
with it with a view to replacing
graphs are widely used in small.town
theaters in the West.
"Wild Geese" the Tiffany-Stahl
production based on the novel of
Martha Ostenso, will have it's New
York Premiere at the Roxy Theater,
December 10.
Movie chain theater operators ir
New York are discussing the back
to pictures" movement to get rid of
the high cost of presentations on the
stage. They are being appalled, at
the overhead expenses"
Recent labor troubles are said to
have caused a loss to the Northwest
Theater Owners Association Of $685.
900.
A general exodus of filIh executives
to the Pacific Coast Is occasioning in.
quiry, although the executives them
selves deny that there is any signifi-
canoe to it.
Film Daily quotes Speaker Long
worth of the national House of Repre-
sentatives as strongly in favor of the
repeal of the tax on tickets OF ad-
mission to places of amusements.
American film realism Is receiving
shock from the wide protest of
races and nationality against being
caricatured in American pictures.
Influenced by the success OF THE
pio ToaroAc. ud ,fhar A m ericaS1E wa r
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given especially in honor of the open
ing of the Panama Canal and recalls
that the first day he spent in Panama
City they had 25 earthquake shocks
in "a hours.
In The Black Hussar" Mr.. DAILY
was typical German comedian in his
Interpretation Of the role of Piff.kow
in the old German opera. During the
past week he played the famous com.
edy role of F'riar Tuck in Robin
Hood" Mr.. Daily is a versatile actor,
and this week he will be the stern
and comical Colonel Popoff in THE
Chocolate Soldier"
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Average Extra Girl.

wear shop with her aunt, and when
pictures picked up again, sold her IN
terest for enough to buy the automo-
bile, which after all is necessity II
one expects to get to outlying STUDIOS
in time for am. calls.
Her advice to other beauty contest
winners who may he thinking OF COM
ing to Hollywood is:
BE sure you can do something be-
sides act"
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The Popular Del Rio Couple

fame to the top rung. and Senior Del
Rio now enjoys personal position in
the movie industry well to be envied
uy many.
Evening star., 1927-11-27
COLI Garden of Allah"

Rex Ingram's production for Metro.
GoldWyn. based on the story by Rob
ert Hichens, THE Garden of Allah"
with Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovich
in the leading roles, remains over for
another week at Loew's Columbia
Theater.
The story is that of Christian love
against a Mohammedan background.
Christianity supplied the personalities,
Mohammedanism the canvas. Mr.. In
gram is said to have gotten authentic
rapture in the scenes on the desert
between Alice Terry and Ivan Petro-
vich. AS in his other pictures, tragic
endings continue to be his forte. FIRE.
quently he kills the lovers. Sometimes
he just separates them. In nearly all
cases the fadeout is a kiss of death,
and in The Garden of Allah" he fol-
lows his old conception of the artistic.
When Rex Ingram decided on 1.-THE
Garden of Allah" as his fourth picture
to be made abroad for Metro -Goldwyn,
he realized the fulfillment of desire
he is said to have cherished for many
years. 1t was his own wish to work
again with Arabs on the Sahara
Desert, and doubtless this fact,
coupled with the directors talent for
reproducing realistic beauty on the
screen, accounts for the heights Of
achievement reached'in this picture.
MetroGoldwyn News. a comedy. and
the Columbia Concert Orchestra com.
plete the program.
Evening star., 1927-11-27

perturbation of Cyril Harcourt's play
called "A Pair Of Silk Stockings"
How the essential articles of fem.
mime apparel mentioned in the title
threaten to break up the romance of
a pair of newlyweds. furnishes the
basis of the story. Molly and Sam,
married less than a year, scrap over
everything and when another woman
takes off her stockings at lunch and
hides them in Sans pocket for
lark, Molly gets a divorce. Both re.
pent it and as the degree is not final,
Molly discovers that if Sam compro-
misses her the divorce will be void.
She plans to plant herself in Sans
bedroom, but by error gets in the
wrong room and, of course. compli.
cations of the kind she was not seek
ing. follow.
The supporting cast includes John
Harron. William Austin, Otis Harlan,
Marcella DAILY. Heine Conklin, Burr
Mcintosh, Tempe Pigot and Ruth
Cherrington.
The stage presentation Is Merry
Mixed Maria ges." a musical cGmAdy
in one act, with music by Oreste YES
sella, the Atlantic City bandmaster,
who has played with his band for
the past 81 years on the Steel Pier.
The cast is headed by Tom Tempest,
comedian, who is aided by four girls
the orchestra at each performance.
The overture by the Rialto Orches-
ira, Rox Rommell, conducting. is "The
Merry Wives of Windsor" Gertrude
kreiselman offers an organlogue.
"Berlinian na." which together with the
international neWSreel and a comedy
completes the bill.
Evening star., 1927-11-27
RIALTO-"Silk Stockings"

Laura La Plante is the star of silk
Stockings" which is the screen attrac-
ton at the Rialto this week 1t is a
Evening star., 1927-11-27
Photoplays This Week
SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS

FOX-"High School Hero" This afternoon evening
METROPOLITANFgures Don't Lie" afternoon and eve
PALACE-"Tea for Three" This afternoon and evening
RIALTO-"Sik Stockings" This afternoon evening
COLUMBIAThe Garden of Allah" This evening
LITTLE THEATER-Moon Of Isreal" afternoon and eve
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EIGHT NOVELTY ACTS
LISTED AT THE LYRIC q,

An eight act vaudeville bill con-
tanning many vaudeville novelties is
promised at the Lyric next week.
Feature honors will go to the Three
Alexander Sisters. noted for their
beauty, personal charm, their talent
as singers and their grace in dane
ing. They recently returned from
Europe, where they scored great
success in Cochran's. Revue at the
Alhambra.
Added headliners will be George
Lane and Byrd Byron, well-known
farceurs, who have a brand new
comedy skit entitled "On A Side
Street" packed with humorous chat
ter interpersd with comedy songs.
The bill will include:
ELCOTA AND BEATRICE
BYRNE-America's greatest xylo-
phonist and a petite dancer in an
Offering which provides wide scope
for Ell Cota's laughable musical &C.
centricities.
DE HAVEN AND MEGA versa.
tile team of funmakers in mirth.
full hodge podge of variety.
GEORGIA HOWARD-"The Dane.
ing Violinist." a veritable bundle OF
nervous energy, supplemented by
rare musical gifts.
WATTS AND HAWLEY-Proffer
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COMEDY BILLS TO
BE ON VIEW AT PALACE

Entertainment of all kinds with an
emphasis on the comedy is to be
found on the bill opening at the
Palace theater the first half of next
week when Johnny Hines in his new
est picture. stepping Along" and
the Welder Sisters in their CLASSY
Demi-Tasse Revue" top the honors.
The feature film is claimed to be
funnier than Hines Brown Derby"
or 1.-THE Live Wire" Hines has the
role of a newsboy~ in the Bowery of
New York. q. He has high political
ambitions and due to his dancing and
popularity in his neighborhood wins
the favor of the political boss and
gets his position. Mary Brian is the
leading lady who wants to go on the
stage.
Four men support the Welder
Sisters in an offering of songs,
dances and fun.
Bill includes:
AGNES BURR AND MABEL
EIAINE-Comedian singers and
dancers. The former was a star of
Some Baby" musical show; the lat
ter a co-star with Mcintyre and
Heath.
HARRINGTON REYNOLDS -
Leading man in mo No Nanette"
in Australia, who just comes from
there In his ADVENTURE In Bust
ness" an original satire dealing with
a young Englishman's advent into
the business world by means of a
haberdashery, willed him. English
humor infests the sketch. A young
lady enters the store and the funny
situations occur.
CURTIS AND LAWRENCE-In
us that the Custom" a skit intro
ducing a United States Customs Of
f1cer and a traveller who have many
an argument of song and chatter.
DE WITT, BURNS AND TOR
RENCE-Whose Awakening of the
Toys" presents a doll shop come to
life on Christmas eve.
"A Night in China" is an Oriental
favored musical comedy with seven
sic, characteristic dancing, and
comedy in plenty the last half of
the week Dorothy Curtis is the
featured player and is assisted by
the Roma Duo. A act that works
with the headliner is that Of Joe
Norris and VIM Shaw. Their act
THE Mosquito Trust was written
for them by Otto johnson who has
written skits for Mcintyre and
Heath. Ray Conlin is Sub Vocal
Comedian" with his ventriloquist act.
Frank Ledent and partner are hav-
ing "A Festival at Bagdad" and give
a juggling act that is said to be I'M
usual. One more act is on the bill
On the screen are:
Stepping Along" with JOHNNY
Hines and Mary Brian the first half
and Pals in Paradise" with John
Bowers and Marguerite de Ia Motto
the last half. Pathe News, a comedy
topics of the day and an Aesop Fable
complete the bill.
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NEW POLICY CONTINUES
AT COLONIAL THEATER

Finger Printing" the screen YER
sion of Arthur Somers Roche's mys-
terry comedy novel OF the same name
in which Louis Frazenda is given
her first starring vehicle and she APP
pears in one of her famous slavery
characterizations, will be the CO.
lonial's photoplay attraction of the
musical comedy-feature picture policy
next week.
Arthur Ranks Sunshine Revue
next week will be continued a second
week and will present "A Duke for
a Night" a musical skit in which
Tom Collins is starred.
The revue numbers will be com
pletely changed as we'll as the chorus
numbers and there will be an entire
new wardrobe and new scenic eff
fects making a complete new stage
offering.
Floyd Thompson's gang will be
heard in two speciality offering in ad
dition to interpreting the picture.
Billy Cullen, the blues" singer of
the Harmony Kings, will present a
new program of songs accompanied
by his colleagues and will also sing
request numbers during the progress
of the entertainment offered by Mr..
Hauk and his splendid company.
The story of Finger Prints" deals
with a band of criminals who stole
SIS, 900. 900 in a mail robbery and were
caught and convicted, but the money
not recovered. Upon one man who
knows the hiding place of the booty
the detectives worked and learned
the whereabouts to be in mystery
house and here the mystery element
literally sprinkled with comedy
thickens, and while the backbone of
the story isNstraight melodrama of
unexpected thrills, the interest is
heightened by the uproariously funny
situations brought about by a girl
detective portrayed by Miss Fazenda.
She enters the mystery house dis
guised as stupid servant and is
finally instrumental in turning the
tables upon a bunch of crooks and
spiritualists who glide through the
many paneled rooms and secret pas
sages to the suspense and amuse-
ment of the spectators, The support
ing cast of players to the new star
includes John 1. Murray the vaude-
vile headliner who made a hit in
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an attraction of outstanding interest
in the annals of the footlights.
The story of the girl who loved
where and when she pleased, who
chose her lovers for the moment and
discarded them when they no longer
interested her, is hardly a narrative
for the narrow minded. One must
be generous of-the frailties Of hui
man nature, and particularly of the
farilties of women, to sit, before the
unfolding of Iris Marchs life as
Arlen has written it and not grow
impatient
If you agree that she had the right
to take love where she found it you
will like Iris March, if you disagree
with her purposes and her methods,
you will hate her. But like or hate
will be fascinated during the course
of the story's telling in it's four pow
erful, ironic acts.
The cast, headed by Katherine Cor
nell, will be identical with that which
presented THE Green Hat" on Broad
way Cor a solid year
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First Time

While George Arliss, who i
having such a magnificent success
on the Pacific Coast in Winthro
Ames' production Of John Gals
worthy's "Old English" has Stare,
in such films as "Disraeli," 9TH
Devil" 1.-THE Man Who Played God,
1.-THE Ruling Passion" and "Th
Green Goddess" he had never see
Hollywood, most famous of movi
cities, until his present visit to 10
Angeles to act Galsworthy's grea
old sinner. All Of the Arliss picture
were made in New York City. Hi
last film was THE Green Goddess.
When he went to London to presen
that play he was forced to abandol
his cinema appearances, but he e5
poets to be seen on the screen agail
after his present tour is ended.
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Grantland Rice Spotlight. big and
Little" will n added features.
'The Timid Terror" a comedy
drama to be shown Thursday and the
rest of the week relates a series of
strange adventures that befall poor
yoeng man who desires to own a car
in order that he may thus impress
the girl he loves. Suddenly and most
Unexpectedly he inherits and automo-
bile which, upon inspection proves to
be a taxi cab. The comedy finally
winds up in a thrilling climax after
which there is time for the romance
to solve it's all important problem.
George O'Hara has the stellar role.
Other players are Doris Hill. Rex
Lease, Edith Yorke, George Nichols
and Dot Farley. A Pathe Review
and an Imperial comedy, Golf
Widows" will complete the pro-
gram.
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THE PALACE AND
KE|TH'S TO HAVE
ALL FUN BILLS
Three Alexander Sisters to
Top Eight Acts at the
Lyric.

The Keith-Albee circuit is celebrat
ing Comedy Week" with bills that
run mostly to fun. At the local
Keith Theater, the bill that will be
seen for the coming week. starting
with a matinee Sunday is one de.
signed for laughing purposes only.
"All Over Town Revue" a parade
of fun, song, dance and novelties
with Lew Seymour and Jessie How
ard in the principal roles will be the
featured offering Of the bill. In this
act they will have the assistance
of Peggy Daugherty and William V.
Powers.
The bill will include:
HARRY HOLMES - Popularity
known in vaudeville as THE
Pessimist' is a fun dispenser with
a line that has made him one of
the biggest favorites in the two a
day field.
AL SHAW AND SAMMY LEE
Former features with Ed Wynn's
Grab Bag" company are a pair of
droll comics. They offer a bright
line Of chatter and comedy bits that
are sure-fire laugh producers.
MARGARET PADULA-Assisted
by Monroe Purcell will offer their
Ivory Novelties" in which songs
and piano playing are offered in an
original manner.
JAMES KELSO AND BELLS DE.
MONDE-Will present what they
call "a Revue for Two" which is a
combination Of smart songs and
dance numbers.
BEULAH STEWART-Has won
fame as, an artists model with the
assistance of and May Day will pre-
sent a series of classical poses styled
as paris an Art"
FRANK JEROME AND EVELYN
VIII add more fun to the bill In
their act "A Breeze From Broad
way" which is said to be something
new in songs and fun.
The bill will include:
The Pathe News Weekly, Topics
of the Day, and Aesop's Fables.