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Evening star., 1927-10-02

In another scene Beery and Hatton
were TO descend the familiar fire-houss
brass pole. Hatton came down as
expected. with the awkward fall at
the bottom. And then Beery's turn.
Instead of descending suddenly and
IN heap, the big comedian. wrapping
arms and legs tightly about the pole,
come down painfully. slowly, one
cheek tight against the brass, a big
smile lighting his face. And so an.
other laugh was grabbed out Of
clear sky.
1t was from a chance remark that
another sure-fire comedy gag"
sprung. Hatton and Director Edward
Sutherland were discussing a fire.
fighting sequence. Beery started to
argue. What do. you know about
fire fighting?" demanded Hatton.
"A lot" replied Beery. "Once when
l was kid l set the Christmas tree
on fire.
Sutherland was quick to see the
possibilities. Calling Monte Brice and
Tom Geraghty, writer's Of the story,
Sutherland had them introduce a pro.
logue sequence in which Beery Is a
little child. He gets a toy fire en-.
gine for Christmas and then sets the
tree on fire to see If he can put 1t out.
Is Is always so, Beery and Hatton
insist. The biggest laughs are plucked
out of the air.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
The Leads In 'What Price
Glory

MOST actrssse. have hard road
10 screen success, but Dolores
Del Rio. who plays the fiery Char.
maine in the screen version, What
Price Glory" which is shown here this
week, achieved stardom in six shor:
months.
A Mexican society girl. and wife OF
q member OF the diplomatic corps.
she mad no ambitions toward a film
career. and had never been inside OF
a motion picture studio when Edwin
Carewe, motion picture director. met
her while on trip TO Mexico City,
was struck by her great beauty, and
prevailed on her to return with him
TO Hollywood for Q film test
Victor McLaglen. the Capt. Flagg
Of the story. had no ambitions as a
screen star until after he was
mustered out of the British Army as
a captain, following the Armistice. A
chance meeting with Commodore j..
Stuart Blackton at the National Sport
ing Club in London led to his first
work before the camera. His taking
a screen test was Blackton's idea. not
McLa gien's. His screen debut was OPP
posite Lady Diana Manners in The
Glorious Adventure"
McLaglen II the son of An Anglican
bishop and was born I'm Lond" =.
Previous to his becoming an actor he
led a career of soldering and adVef-
ture which began with his enlistment
IN the Royal Life Guards at the az:
Evening star., 1927-10-02
PALACE-"Fireman. Save My Child. ="
Male Ensemble

Wallace Beery and Raymond Hat
ton, favorite comedy team, return
to the screen in Fireman, Save My
Child the current attraction at
Loew's Palace Theater, while on the
stage J. Humbird Duffy offers his
Gilbert and Sullivan male ensemble
of Is soloists in Il repertoire of mum
hers from the "Mikado." "Gondoliers,"
"Iolanthe" and Pirates of Penzance."
The offering features Robert Norton.
baritone: Charles Ross. tenor, and
Karl Schulz. Added advertisements
on the program are: M-G-M News,
M-G-M Oddity, The Lake" a scenic,
musically interpreted by Lee Croni-
can; MY Old Smith," song and dance
creation, and the Palace Concert Or
chestra in a special overture. Gem
From Grand OPERA under Don
Felice, guest conductor.
Beery and Hatton, after appearing
in doughboy garb and in naval whites
and blues, have temporarily left the
Federal service and this time appear
in the fire fighters garb. What these
two do with fire trucks. hose and
water is declared to keep the audience
convulsed with laughter from the
opening shot to the final fade-out.
They find themselves inducted into
the fire department wholly without
their own vOlition, and from the time
they make their first slide down the
pole in answer to an alarm they pro-
Ceed to crash through regulation and
tradition with such abandon that they
all but wreck one of the country's
finest fire departments
Evening star., 1927-10-02

OF II. His extraordinary physique,
even at that age. is said to be what
fooled the recruiting sergeant. He
fought with the Guards all through
the Boer war and then went to
Canada.
He sustained life in the Dominion
by acting as a strong man and
wrestler with circus, joining in the
Cobalt silver rush. playing vaudeville
and trying his luck in the prize ring,
which reached A climax on March
10. 1909, when he fought Jack john
son for the worlds heavyweight
cha mpionship at Vancouver. Johnson
won the 10.round bout. but with Nc.
Lagien on his feet at the finish.
AS the rough, tough Sergt. Quirt,
Edmund Lowe realizes an ambition
which he has harbored since he first
gave up trying TO be lawyer TO he.
come an actor, namely, to get awaE
from handsome lover" parts and
play role which gives full rein To
his histrionic talents and permits his
looks TO be forgotten.
Lowe is a native of California and a
graduate of Santa Clara University in
San Jose. AS a college youth his
goal was the bar, but before he hung
out a shingle as a lawyer he decided
he was better qualified for the stage.
His first theatrical engagement was
in a stock company i'm the Alcazar
Theater in San Francisco. After a
short apprenticeship he was given
| leading parts and then came East
| He appeared on Broadway in a mum.
ber of legitimate attractions produced
| nv Belasco. and then. returning to
| California. went into moving pictures.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
FON-"What Price Glory"

AT the Fox Theater this week. be-
ginning today, William Fox presents
What Price Glory" the motion pic
ture version of the stage play by
Laurence Stallings and Maxwell An
derson, in which Victor McLaglen
plays the hard-boiled Capt. Flagg.
Edmund Lowe Sergt. Quirt and Do
lores Del Rio Charmaine, with Pvt.
kiper and Pvt. Lipinsky played by
Ted Mcnamara and Sammy Cohen.
Augmenting the picture will be a
Roxy prologue containing Is colorfui
numbers in which Roxy" is said to
have caught the happy -go.lucky spirit
of the American soldier off duty in
France. and has also woven songs
and incidents beloved to the A. +. r.
and their French comrades. Several
Soloists of "Roxy's" Gang will make
their first bow to Washington in this
prologue.
Prominent in the stage presentation
will he Douglas Stanbury, baritone,
who will sing The Marine Hymn
assisted by the French girls and cho-
rus; Gladys Rice. who will offer
Mon Homme" C'My MANI: Sigard
Nilssen tthe "viking'). who will sing
by My Fireside"; Marion Keeler,
new member of the Gang. and James
Melton. youthful lyric tenor. who will
sing "Charmaine." and the Roxy
Male Quartet in comedy limericks and
new scores. In addition there will be
an Apache dance by Rose and Arthur
Boylan and eccentric comedy dance
by the ''gob" team, Gschrey and
Gully.
Fox News, the orchestra in new
scores and a new program by Jacques
Wallace on the organ will complete
the bill
Evening star., 1927-10-02

In this production an unusual num-
ber of electricians, property men and
others were employed because of the
huge sets and the unusual lighting
effects involved.
Three orchestras were necessary in
the production of The Prince of
Headwaiters. Two of the orchestras s
were employed "off stage"-that is,
they do not appear in the film, but
were used to assist the players in de-
veloping the required action for the
dramatic or comedy situations.
One of the orchestras in itself was
an unusual combination, comprised of
harp, cello and violin, which was
said to be effective for some of the
light comedy and dramatic scenes.
The other "off stage" orchestra was
the usual studio combination of organ,
violin and saXophone, and the third
orchestra was full ensemble, appear
ing in 1.-The Ritz Hotel' tea room and
New year eve dance scenes, in
which more than 100 of Hollywoods
smartest young women and young
men were employed
Evening star., 1927-10-02
METROPOLITAN-"The Prince of
HeadWaiters."

The featured attraction this week.
beginning this afternoon, at Gran
dalrs Metropolitan Theater will he
First Nationals production of The
Prince of Headwaiters," with Lewis
s. Stone in the title role. supported by
Lilyan Tashman, Priscilla Bonner,
Robert Agnew, Ann Rork and John
Patrick.
A two.reel Hal Roach comedy. en-
titled Love and Kisses; the Metro
politan World Survey; a special color
reel. The King Of Sports" and the
contributions of the Metropolitan
Symphony Orchestra also will be Of
fered.
"The Prince of Headwaiters" was
adapted by Jane Murfin from the
Liberty Magazine story by Viola
Brothers Shore and Garrett Fort, and
was directed by John Francis Dillon.
The story concerns fathers love for
his son, and depicts the manner in
which present-day youth Is presented
with temptations along the gay white
way of large city. Stone is seen as
Pierre. a French art student, who
marries an American heiress against
the wishes of her family. Because
she is still a minor. the marriage is
aA1nulled, and the artist. cast adrift,
acquires wealth and position.
1t transpires that son was born
to Pierre's wife. unknown to him.
and by an unusual but logical combi-
nation of circumstances this lad is
placed unwittingly under the watch
full eye of his own father. neither be-
ing aware Of the identity of the
other 1t is from this situation that
the powerful climax of the story is
reached.
The supporting cast includes Lilyan
Tashman, in the leading feminine role;
Robert Agnew, as the son: Ann Rork,
his childhood sweetheart; Priscilla
Bonner. John Patrick, Cleve Moore
and Lincoln Stedman.
The concert overture. arranged by
Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra,
will be q symposium of the favorite
melodies of Fritz kreisler, presented
under the tile of "Kreisleriana," the
selections including THE Old Re-
frain." 'Schoen Rosmarin," Caprice
Vienno:s," 'Liebesfreud" and selected
numbers from apple Blossoms"
The theme number accompanying
the feature is Rudolf Frimls Amour
Coquet" and II Love No One. But
You" a new song hit, which will be
used as the exit number.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Unusual Lighting Effects.

ENOUGH electricity to illuminate
5000 homes was used in the hotel
lobby scene and the Ritz Cafe for, the
New Year eve celebration in the
First National comedy-drama. The
Prince of Headwaiters," seen on a
local screen this week.
A crew of il electricians manned
the batteries of lights overhead for
the lobby and cafe scenes. There were
90 overhead spotlights and 60 "broads'
which are batteries of arc lights
which can be moved about on stands.
Robert Ross, assistant to Director
John Francis Dillon, calculated that
if the overhead spotlights were
ranged in the open they would i!lumi-
nate the landscape for distance of
10 miles.
The overhead spots were just part
of what film producers call the over
head" Ross continued. "All the
scenes of the picture were made in
doors, with two minor exceptions, and
even those two were taken 'on the
lot'-that is in the studio grounds
Evening star., 1927-10-02
RIALTO-"Shanghai Bound"

The screen attraction at the Rialto
this week Is Richard Dix in q colorful
production. entitled Shanghai Bound"
The locale is China. and Dix has the
role of Jim Bucklin. captain of
Yangtse boat. Up the river from
Shanghai. 100 miles or more. he meets
party of tourists-Louden, Ameri-
can capitalist Sheila. his pretty
daughter: Payson, his general man.
ager. and AlSy, an F:nglishman. They
don't know, as Bucklin does. that food
riots are liable to break out any min
ute, With China's turmoil slowly
spreading southwark and hunger and
hordes threatening daily.
When he tells them they are terri
fed. But Bucklin could have taken
them down to Shanghai and the safety
of the internationally protected area II
the Englishman. in terror. had not
shot the leader of the Chinese mob.
From then on ii is fight. fight. all the
way. finally leading TO thrilling cli-
max.
The supporting cast includes Mary
Brian. Charles Byer, George Irving,
Jocelyn Lee, Tom Mcguire. Frank
Chew, Tom Gubbins, Arthur Hoyt.
Tetsu Komai and $50 Chinese in the
fight scenes.
The stage presentation is Peggy
Heavens, Atlantic City's famous
golden mermaid" in postures and
original dances. Nanny King, Wash.
ington's boy singer. will he heard in
popular ballads. The overture by the
Rialto Orchestra, Rox Rommell con-
Quoting. will be "Colors of Spain"
and International Eewsreel. comedy,
Busters Home Life" and other
short reels complete the bill.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

4 MERICA holds but little virgin
territory for the movie cameras.
In the life of the film industry. prac.
tically every piece of scenic property
has been penetrated in behalf of the
screen.
How certain areas within the bound.
aries of Zion National Park. Utah,
have been kept free from clicking
cameras is a mystery. But these,
too, have now fallen in tribute to the
twentieth century era of movie pro.
duction.
Edwin Carewe. directing Helen
Hunt Jackson's American love story.
Ramona" is now located with his
company of players among the tower.
ing peaks and palisades of Bryce
Canyon and Zion Park, for years
considered among the country's most
beautiful scenic spectacles.
1t was only after many conferences
with officials of the unmolested mecca
for the cameras that Carewe finally
obtained permission to film the sheep
shearing episodes for Ramona" in
this natural garden spot of southern
Utah.
The story Of Ramona" was laid in
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Virgin Ground for Cameras.

California by Mrs. Jackson. and all
of the scenes will be made in the
locales pictured in the novel--with the
sole exception Of the Utah territory,
this being sought because California
could not produce sufficient sheep for
Carewe's production.
One sweep of the cameras shows
$4,000 sheep. This spectacular pano.
rama, resembling an interminable
field Of snow, will be seen in the fin.
ished film.
Another "shot" has been register
ed from an altitude Of 10000 feet.
Daily Dolores del Rio, star OF the
film-story, together with Warner
Baxter. Roland Drew, and the rest of
the company, climbed the hazardous
heights in motors, on horseback, and
on foot, to get the proper atmosphere
and background for their dramatic
film story.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
EVELYN BRENHTsad Y end! GL'vE bRc0K-
The Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT f. SHERWOOD.

various things; the latest shows on
Broadway, the danger Of being mis-
quoted in interviews. Graham Mac
Namee's mastery radio.report of the
| Tunney Dempsey fight. the difficulty
of driving a horse car at breakneck
sped through Wall street in the rush
| hour-and so forth.
Harold Lloyd is one of the extremely
few film stars to whom the term gen
uine" may reasonably be applied.
There is nothing artificial or preten-
tious about him. He is what he is
and he doesn't care to appear. or to be
represented, in any deceptive light.
He is hard worker, an intelligent OBJ
server. marvellous organizer this pro
duction unit is rated the most efficient
in Hollywood), and an all-around good
scout.
From which it may be gathered that
| I like Harold Lloyd. Well, | do.
| Furthermore, ] admire him for his
ability to realize the unimportance of
success. There are not many. in the
| movies or elsewhere, who are as thor
oughly unimpressed by fame or for
tune as is Harold Lloyd-and he has
much more than his share of both.
While he is appearing as taxi
/ driver in Speedy" or whatever it
| is TO he called, Harold has a sequence
! in which he is assisted by none other
| than Babe Ruth.
The Babe halls Harold's cab and
commands him to drive to the Yankee
| Stadium. But Harold is anxious to
| show. off his conspicuous cargo, so
! he goes far out of his way to pass
through his own district and let his
friends know that he is carrying the
mighty Sultan Of Swat. AS he drives,
| he turns around continually to look al
! the Babe, and thereby narrowly
misses a series of trucks, busses,
street cars and traffic signals
1t would be interesting to take a
vote among American boys to decide
which of the two occupants of this
taxi is more to he envied--whether it
is Harold Lloyd, who had the privilege
of riding with Babe Ruth--or Babe
Ruth, who had the thrill of riding
with Harold Lloyd,
BULLETINS.
HOLLYWOOD, if.-Maxwell An
derson and Laurence Stallings have
written a sequel to What Price
Glory" in which Capt. F'lagg and
Sergt. Quirt become civilians. 1t will
he done in the movies by William
Fox, and it bears the extremely
pungent title. THE Cock-eyed World"
Mae Murray, evidently unable to
find work in the studios, is about to
enter the picture theater with a dane
ing act. Herbert Brenon, who has
lately completed "Sorrell and Son." is
going over to Metro Goldwyn long
enough to direct Lon CLANCY in
Laugh. Clown, Laugh" Tom Mix
has returned from the fight in Chi
cago looking rather detected about
something or other
NEW YORK, y. Y.--Three new fea-
ture pictures have opened here lately
THE Student Prince" at the Astor;
Sunrise at the Times Square. and
1.-The Magic Flame" at the Rialto.
| tCopyrisht 1927,
Evening star., 1927-10-02

r Y AROLD LLOYD has lately
been showing the impress
sionable inhabitants of Man
L 4 haitian Island just how movie
comedies are made. He has
been rushing about madly, from one
end Of town to the other. disruptins
traffic in the most copgested districts
and causing great deal of pleasant
excitement.
Out in his own bailiWick in the Los
Angeles district, Harold Lloyd is TAX
en- as a matter of course; his strange
antics on various forms Of chases are
everyday occurrences. Consequently.
he can 60 about his business without
attracting any extraordinary amount
Of attention.
In New York, however, he is phe-
nomenon. Wherever he goes he is
surrounded by one of those good
natured mobs. composed largely of
small boys. who overwhelm him and
interfere with his plans to an unfor-
tunate extent. Luckily, he has the
whole -souled cooperation of the local
constabulary-and the cops are always
ready to clear a path for him by brute
force.
He is making picture called
Speedy" or Rapid Transit" or pos
sibly something else-the title being
still indefinite. 1t tells Of an old man
who runs horse car line In New
York, his entire rolling stock consist
ing OF one aged, dilapidated car and
two horses. To retain his FRANCHISE
he has to run that car at least once a
DAY over the crosstown route. Or
course, there Is a gang OF crooks, VINO
want to get the franchise away ffom
him, and who do their utmost TO pre-
vent the car from making its required
run. And, of course, 1t is Hafoid
Lloyd, spectacles and all, who steps in
and foilS them.
Harold's character is that of free
and-easy, happy go lucky, here-today'
and gone tomorrow type of young fel
low, who drifts from one job TO an
other. He is, by turns, soda Jeraer
a taxi.driver and, finally, the coach
man on the venerable horse car.
The other day I went to Watch
Harold make a scene for this picture
He was on location in a vacant lot
near an old. abandoned ferry in Brook
lyn. under the shadow of the Williams
burg Bridge.
1t would be impossible to imagine a
more dismal spot. The aged ferry
shed has been in a state of decompOsl'
ton for the past century, and appears
to be ready to collapse from sheer
weariness at any moment. Through
it's sagging timbers can be seen the
busy expanse of the East River, and
beyond that rise the gorgeous towers
Of Bagdad on the subway.
Amid these weird surroundings were
the directors, assistant directors, gag
men, camera men and hangers-on, who
| always proclaim the presence of a
movie company. They were all stand
| ing about. Idly waiting for some one to
| get back from lunch.
Harold himself was resting in an
antiquated automobile that appeared
to be Of much the same vintage AS the
horse car itself. He talked to me Of
Evening star., 1927-10-02

Tom Kennedy. who was the hard
boiled sergeant of Behind the Front"
and the chief crow in We're
in the Navy Now has the role of
the fire captain. Love interest is pro-
vided by Josephine Dunn and Walter
Goss, and Joseph Girard plays the
fire chief. Edward Sutherland di.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Photoplays This Week
SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS

FON-"Wha Price Glory" This afternoon and evening
METROPOITAN"The Prince of Headwatcr This afternoon
and evening
PAIACEFreman. Save My Child This afternoon and evening
RIALTO-Shanghai Bound" This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA-"U Undrworld' (second week.. This
LITTLE THEATER-"A the Grey House" This afternoon and
WARDMAN PARk-"Narety" This afternoon and evening
Evening star., 1927-10-02

Raoul Walsh will return to Fox
employment to direct Victor McLag-
len in "a Girl in Every Port" as
soon as he has completed Sadie
Thompson" starring Gloria Swanson,
for United Artists.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

"The Wedding March will be given
a New York premiere. and il will serve
to introduce Fay Wray, a new star oi
the Paramount organization, "A
Evening star., 1927-10-02
WARDMAN PARK-"ysrietv."

The last Washington showing of
the unexpurgated Variety" will be
presented by the Motion Picture Guild
at the Wardman Park Theater this
week. Emil Jannings and Lya de
Putt are the stars of this UFA pro.
duction. which was brought in it's en-.
tirety to Washington for the first time
two weeks ago by the Motion Picture
Guild.
Variety" is the story of a German
trapeze artist who leaves his wife and
home to stride the bars and nets once
more with. a beautiful performer.
Retribution comes. however, for the
girl is stolen from him by another
acrobat. and the end of the picture,
when the three are leaping and gliding
through the air high above the heads
of spectators. presents one of me most
interesting psychological expressions
of jealousy yet attempted.
Short Motion Picture Guild films
and music will complete the program.
There will be a special matinee this
afternoon at o'clock
Evening star., 1927-10-02
LITTLE THEATER-"At the Grey
House."

An event of interest to lovers of fine
films occurs at the Little Theater this
week. when a new UFA production,
AT the Grey House," will be present.
ed by the Motion Picture Guild, begin.
ming this afternoon.
The settings. atmosphere and pho.
Biography of this picture, it is said,
represent the finest efforts of the
screen in the depletion of the life of a
period Of the worlds history, the par.
t1cular period treated being feudal
Germany. with it's magnificent old
castles, tyrannical lords and romantic
events.
The story is an old chronicle. quaint
and beautiful. whose simplicity and
naivette add to the studied antiquity
of the picture. 1t concerns two young
lords who battle over the inheritance
of great castle, finally settling the
dispute with swords. Lii Dagover. the
girl of THE Cabinet of DR.. Caligari";
Paul Hartman, Rudolph Forster and
others appear in the cast.
Short subjects selected by the Mo.
ton Picture Guild and special medi.
eval German music by the Little The.
ater Trio will accompany the feature.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Observation-Disclosures"

Paramount's production, Under.
world" with George Bancroft, Give
Brook, Evelyn Brent and Larry Sc
mon in the cast, remains at Loew's
Columbia Theater for a second week.
The unfolding of the lives of the
underworld characters in an environ.
ment of crime, their methods of prey.
ig on organized society, their strug-
giles with men paid to uphold the law
and the intimate side of their natures
in following out impulses and emo
tions in love and hate. provide the
basis of the story written by Ben
Hecht.
The climax shows how a city street
may take on the aspect of a battle.
field. with police reserves rushing up
to house where gangster is trapped
and has decided to die fighting.
Searchliehts. machine guns, grenades
and all the equipment Of soldiery come
into play when the house is stormed.
The story recounts the adventures
of a group of men and women of GRIM
inal instincts in a metropolitan Ameri-
can city. and is said to show gangland
in its true colors. There is regenera.
ton for only two of the characters, a
man and a girl whose underworld as
sociations have been brought about by
strange circumstances. and who finally
f1nd the right way" through their
love-
MG-M News. Topics of the Day,
Circus Capers," Poodles Hanneford
comedy and the Columbia Ensemble.
under the direction of Harry Borias.
round out the program.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

r YAROLD LLOYD has lately
been showing the impress
sionable inhabitants of Man.
Il haitian Island just how movie
comedies are made He has
Evening star., 1927-10-02

THOMAS MEIGHAN announces
u that when his contract ends
with the Paramount company he
will make only two pictures each