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Evening star., 1927-05-15
PALACE-"The Taxi Dancer" "
Presentations.

Two stars from the musical com
edy stage will vie for honors with
THE Taxi Dancer" the featured
photoplay at Loew's Palace this week,
beginning today.
Eva Puck and Sammy White,
Youthful stars, who We're featured IN
The Girl Friend" will appear in an
Offering written and staged by Lew
Fields OF the historic team of Weber
and Fields.
Joan Crawford has the title role in
1.-THE Taxi Dancer" Metro-GOldwyn-
Mayors elaborate production of the
Robert Terry shannon novel. as JOS
lyn Poe. girl who becomes a taxi
dancer. owen Moore plays the part
OF Lee Rogers. a happy-go-lucky
young man, whose interest in gam
bling is a means of making living.
Harry Millarde. famous as the di-
rector of over the Hill, IF Winter
Comes" and "The Fool" directed the
picture and the cast also includes
Mare MacDermott. Gertrude Astor.
RockIiffe Fellowes. Bert Roach. Claire
Mcdowell. Douglas Gilmore and Will
liam Orlamond.
supplementary features will be a
novel overture by the Palace Orches-
ira, the International News Reel.
Aesops Fables and spectacular
presentation produced and lighted by
Colby Hartman.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
RIALTO-"The Yankee Clipper"

The Yankee Clipper" is the feature
picture at the Bialto this week. with
William Boyd, Elinor Fair and Junior
Coghlan heading the cast.
The story deals with the colorful
days of the clipper ship, when all the
seven seas were speedways for these
maritime greyhOunds and thrilling
races were international events in COM
mercial and sporting circles. The big
dramatic incident in the production t.
a race from China to a New England
port between two ships, an American
and an English clipper. the prize being
t tea trade of the world.
OF course. there IS q romance woven
into the story which recOunts the diff
ficulties during the race hat besat the
captain of the American clipper. who
not only wins the race, but the beat
tiful daughter of the owner of the
English clipper.
The cast includes Walter Long. Burr
Mcintosh John MILAN. Louis Payne.
George Ovey, ZaCk Williams, William
Blaisdell Julia Faye and James Wang.
RoX Rommell has arranged an all
American score to the picture. ii'-
Cluding works by Ethelbert NeVin.
Edward Mcdowell, Henry Hadley and
others The overture will be selections
from "Pagliacci," with Themy Georgi,
operate tenor. singing THE Lament"
from the stage Gertrude kreiSelman,
accompanying her own AmpiCo piano
recording Of $50 Blue" will also be n
added feature.
A Felix cartoon comedy and Inter
national News will round out the pro'
gram.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
A Freud Theme

DR. SIGMCND FREUD, world IA
nous scientist and psychologist is
credited with the psychoanalytical
theme in Secrets of the Soul a Ifa
production. The story of this unusual
motion picture. it is declared. is taken
from life. the true tale Of case stud
led by Dr. Freud. This theme is not
gruesome or too 'highbrow.'' it IL
explained. but merely makes the pic
ture slice of life. an interesting mo-
ment snatched from the career of
man who might have counterpart In
any number of people one meets daily.
The Ufa Co. it is claimed. rose to
pre-eminence in the creation of the
motion picture as an art. not as banal
entertainment. A great motion picture
is made not by spending a lot of
money on mob scenes. stars and tall
settings. Behind the really great mo-
ton picture there is a creative mind,
like that of won Stroheim. Chaplin.
Murnau. etc. genius with the capacity
for taking infinite pains
For years the Ufa Go. made pictures
that revolutionZed the film industry
for compare lively small outlay. 1t Is
a peculiar paradox that the picture
which it regards as one of the least Of
its works. Metropolis" cost so much
money that the company went bank
rupt.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
COLUMBIA-"kmockout Reilly. ."

Starred in a fast-movius film of q
young steel puddler whose ability
with his fists wins him flstic fame and
the girl OF his dreams. Richard Dix
will be the picture star at Loews co.
lumpia today for d weeks engage.
ment
Knockout Reilly" IS the name OF
his latest Paramount screen effort,
and it is reputed by those in the
know TO he the most engrossins Dis
offering ever.
As Dundee Reilly Dix works In
steel mill. and on Saturday night goes
out in search of recreation and 70.
nance, Although protesting an utter
disregard for all girls, ne is immensely
fiattered when he receives message
purporting to he from Mary Malone
tMary Briau). pretty entertainer in
a cabaret, inviting him backstage 10
meet her, not knowing that this is
little joke of his friends He finds
there Killer Agerrd tJack KenaulU E,
champion pugilist. making advances
10 Mary. and without knowing
who he is knocks him out Later
AGerra reCiproCatcs by deCoyiug
Reilly to his gymnasium and beating
him up. Complications set in, and
Reilly on the eve of a championship
fight with Agerra finds himself rail-
roaded to prison for two years for
felOnious assault. Director Malcolm
st. Clair made events move rapidly to
d smashing denouement
Additional features are the Pathe
News. Scenic. Magazine, comedy aud
a musical score arranged by Leon
BruSiloG Of the Columbia Orchestra.
Evening star., 1927-05-15

THE great world public-a picture
wise public---is the supreme court
of the motion picture industry today.
and not the fanatical reformers, de-
clared Jesse L. Lasky in an address
at the recent annual international
convention Of the Paramount Famous
Lasky Corporation in New York.
Sixty-seven countries were represented
at the gathering.
Asserting that the evils that beset
the motion-picture business have been
conquered. Mr.. Lasky gave his audi
tors an inside report" on what has
been taking place in the business of
film making.
The temperamental star problem has
been disposed of forever, and the wild
methods of guessing production costs
have been replaced by a sound system
that now makes it possible for 81 pro-
ducer to make a definite production
budget.
One by one baking stars and direc-
tors have been set free. and now IL is
the policy of Paramount, according to
Mr.. Lasky, to value talent at its
worth, not, however, Understanding
the value of public appeal nor forget
ting the responsibility that every pro-
ducer has to the great world public
the film audience.
Mr. Lasky said. in part:
Since it's birth years ago the mo-
tion.picture business has been at vari-
Gus times the creature of many mas
ters-~n nlonopolists, trade combinations,
fanatic reformers, temperamental
artists, cxorbitant costs. All of these
things and people have buffeted the
industry about. hamperins its growth,
DETECTING the course of it's destiny and
at times making it almost mockery
and a Jest in the eyes Of intelligent
people.
"Through all this welter and hub.
bub Paramount las held steadfastlY
to it's purpose and its ideals; and,
holding TO them, it has maintained it's
leadership.
To-day and I say it with all mod
esty, Paramount in production. in dis
trlbution, in exhibition, stands su-
prene. We have conquered and beat
EN- all of the evils that beset our bust
ness--trade combinations, fanatical re-
formers, temperamental artists and
exorbitant costs. We are no longer
their slaves, to be bull.ed and beaten
about. We are their masters. We
have come of age and stand before
the world on our own feet In the
pride of our strength.
But in fighting and conduering
these evils that have been common to
the whole industry we have emerged
through the battle line only to be
confronted by greater and invinci-
BILE master. That master is the great
world public. the men and women of
the Americas and Europe and Asia.
the people of crowded cities and the
out.of.the-way places Of the earth.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
An Artist of the Air

IT'S hard lines to be a star and vet
not be able to take a vacation
Yet that is the predicament of Lii
han Leitzel, the dainty aerial queen
among the 800 arenic performers of
the Ringing Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey circus, coming here next week
The smiling Lillians salary is in
four figures. She owns two automo-
biles, and her jewels, it is said rival
those of n dowager. Yet she must
keep working. Not for pecuniary
reasons, but because the nature Of
her act forbids any prolonged lay-off.
When the petite aerialist stops her
strenuous work ON the Roman rings
and flexible rope for even week she
finds ii difficult TO get back into
form. Two weeks of rest would prob
ably prove fatal. There would come
binding Of muscles and softening of
wrists and hands that could never be
corrected.
So when the circus folds it's tents
la te in the Autumn and goes into
Winter quarters, and most of the
other stars plan IA jaunt to Florida or
a Winter in California. Lillian heads
for New York or Europe and--more
work.
For two Winters she was a feature
of the 'Ziegfeld Follies." Prior to
the present Spring she played the
European capitals. Stunting on
Roman rings, 40 feet in the air. while
scorning the use of safety net.
seems but child's play for Lillian
Leitzel. Turning "a hundred consecu-
tive giant f1anges" while hanging by
one hand from the end of rope is
just part of her daily work--year in
and year out.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
VERA REYNOLDS Earle
Beck Back at Tivoli.

OTTO F. BECK, popular Washing
ton concert organist, this after
non will resume his former post at
the console of the triple-manual Wur'
liter grand organ at Crandalls
Tivoli Theater.
Mr.. Beck, in addition 10 having q
peculiar facility in scoring motion
pictures for organ, is a concert artist
Of brilliant attainment and one OF the
popular radio broadcasters. In ad-
dition to participating in the pro-
grams presented through Station
WRC by the Crandall Saturday Night
ers he frequently was heard in his
own individual concerts, broadcast
from the Tivoli organ.
During his absence from the Tivoli
he has toured the South.
George Emmans, who succeeded
him at the Tivoli, and whom he now
succeeds, will transfer his activities
TO Crandall's Tivoli Theater. Fred
erick. Md. Arthur B. Thatcher. who
comes from the Tivoli in Frederick.
Will make his bow 10 Chevy Chase
Theater audiences today, supplanting
Irene Juno, resigned.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Barthelmess' War Epic.

4 FTER a six weeks intensive cam
paign, Richard Barthelmess and
THE Patent Leather Kid" company
boarded a special train for Burbank
recently TO return to the studio and
complete the final scenes i'll this epic
of the Tank Corps, from the story by
Rupert Hughes.
While at Camp Lewis, it is said
some of the finest battle scenes ever
screened were made for this picture.
More than 1900 United States Regu-
lars and 600 civilians participated in,
the war spectacle. which also features
so huge United States tanks.
Actual happenings in the World
War were reproduced in detail for the
picture, it is claimed, under the super
vision of Brig. Gen. Robert Alexander.
commander at Camp Lewis, and other
Army officers, with Alfred Santell as
director.
Several weeks will he required to
finish the studio scenes, and the pic
ture will be shown in New York this
fall as road show.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
METROPOLITAN-"Senorita" and
Eitaphone.

"Senorita," starring Bebc Daniels,
is announced as the photoplay feature
OF this weeks bill at Crandall's Met
ropoltan Theater, beginnin% this aft
ernoon.
The taphone artists announced
are John Charles Thomas and Nivi-
enne Segal, in the flower garden scene
from "Maytime. and Johnny Marvin,
who interprets popular songs in d
novel manner with exceptional ac-
compa niments. The supplementary
features of the bill will include new
comedy the Metropolitan World Sur
yey and contributions of the Metro
poiitan Symphony Orchestra, under
Daniel Breeskin
'Senorita" is Clarence BaC ger pro-
duction for Paramount. with story and
screen play by John McDermott. Miss
Daniels is cast as a high-born senorita
whose family has based its prestige
and social standing upon the valor
and physical as we'll as intellectual
prowess of its male line. This line
is interrupted by the birth of a charm
ing girl who is confronted with the
necessity. when visiting her forbears
i'm South America, of assuming the
role of a dashing young caballero in
order not TO break the heart of her
grandfather. who is relying upon the
visitor to salvage the family fortunes.
The girl. Injured 10 hardships en-
countered on the polo fields of Amer
ica outWtS. outfights and Outeenerals
thieving neighbors in a plot which
brstles with action. William Powell.
Joseph Swickard. James Hall and
Tom Kennedy are among the sup
porting players.
John Charles Thomas and Fivienne
Segal. the vitaphone artists of the
week. need no introduction to Wash
ington audiences, and Johnny Marvin
is now playing on Broadway in Hon
eymoon Lane" In addition to his
own ukuleles and other trick instru-
ment accomplishments, his offering is
enhanced by Frank Banta at the
piano, Murray kellner, violinist, ard
Amy Sannella. guitarist.
The Metropolitan Symphony will
play selections from Bizet's opera of
Carmen and the orchestral accom-
paniments of "Senorita."
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Shades of Our Ancestors! !
THE news is spreading that the d

THE news is spreading that the De
Mile lot is fhronged with sons and
daughters of pre- Revolutionary Ameri.
cans.
There is Virginia Bradford. who
plays the ingenue lead in the rural
classic, The Country Doctor" Her
ancestor, William Bradford, came
over in the Mayflower and was elected
Governor Of the Pilgrim colony upon
ale death of Gov. Carver. who died
during the first terrible Winter at
Plymouth.
Frank Marion, who enacts the iuVe-
nile role on" site to her, is directly
descended from Gen. Francis Marion,
THE Swamp Fox" of Revolutionary
fame.
The ancestors OF Beulah Marie Dix,
who wrote the screen drama. were
among the first settlers of the Massa-
chusetts Bay colony.
As though this We're not enough,
Fred Tyler, company production man.
ager, Is grandson of John Tyler.
tenth President of the United States,
and Rupert Julian, the director. is a,
son of pioneers, for his father went to
Australia to raise sheep years ago,
and Australia hasn't yet passed the
pioneer stage.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Bebe With a Mustache.

pEBE DANIELS with a moustache.
- That's what happens i'll her
latest romantic comedy. "Senorita, y
which appears in Washington today.
For the first time since wild, Wild
Susan" she appears in the role of a
boy, a dashing, staggering, sWash-
buckling caballero of South America.
But Bebe does not lose her femi-
ninity despite her mustache. She is
still the fascinating Bebe. The
mustache is but part of the dis
guise she assumes when she visits
her fathers ancestral home in South
America to learn that her grand
father had always presumed her to
be boy, and that for him to learn
otherwise at that late date would just
about break his proud old heart.
And so Senorita Francesca becomes
Senior Francisco with brief lapses
into the feminine role-when her
grandfather isn't looking. -s-.--
Evening star., 1927-05-15
LITTLE THEATER-"Sccrets Of
the Soul"

Ia line with its policy 10 make
every effort 10 secure the truly artis-
tie and imaginative creations OF the
cinema. the Motion Picture Guild
sent 10 Berlin for Secrets Of the
Soul which is this weeks attraction
at the Little Theater.
This great drama is based on ma.
tertal gathered by Dr.. SiEmund
Freud. the famous psychologist. and
has been described by critics as The
most thoughtful motion picture ever
made. 1t is a UFA production. with
Werner Kraus in the leading role,
and Ruth Weyher. newcomer. op-
posite. The surrounding program in
cludes a capsule drama" a story
of the war told in one reel: a Harry
LangdOn comedy and music by the
Little Theater Trio.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
The Worlds Window.

BY the Associated Press.
MANUFAcTURERs of novelties
are close students of the movies.
They watch the new films for startling
fads affected by screen actresses, keen
= aware Of the advertising received
Oy any bizarre piece Of jewelry or
other novel article noticed by film fans
IN the worlds biggest show window
the motion picture closeup.
Many q woman wears slave brace
ct, an ankle chain or grotesque shoe
ouckle first glimpsed in Hollywood by
\ manufacturer of novelties. and then
.urned out in quantities to meet a de-
mand created by the articles screen
appearance.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
All Is Well, Says Lasky.

And before that world public We bow
in obedience. We accept its dictates.
The public speaks and we leap to
obey. We try 10 anticipate it's wishes
even when it is inarticulate.
There was a time not so long ago
when the public either had no voice
or was Indifferent to what we were
trying to accomplish.
THAT condition no longer prevails.
Today the public knows pictures--it
is picturewise. picture-conscious-and
it quickly and emphaticaly registers
it's likes and dislikes at that greatest
of all forums, that greatest of all test
ing grounds, the box office.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Photoplays This Week:
SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS

RIALTO"The Yankee Clipper" This afternoon and evening
PALACE-"The Taxi Dancer. This afternoon and evening
METROPOLITAN-"Senoria" This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA"Knockout Reilly This afternoon and evening
LITTLE TEATERSecrets OF the Soul This afternoon and
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Next Weeks Photoplays

COLUMBIA-Ramon Novarro
and Alice Terry in Lovers"
METROPOLITAN - Lewis
Stone and Doris Kenyon in
"The Blonde Saint
RIALTO-"Held by the Law
Marguerite de la Motto and
Johnny Walker.
PALACE-Adoiph Menjou in
Evening Clothes"
LITTLE 1HEATER - Nazi-
movaain salome.'
Evening star., 1927-05-15

THARLES ROGERS, selected by
~ Mary Pickford as her leading
man in My Best Girl" IS native
OF Kansas. his father being the cdi-
tor OF a newspaper i'll the town OF
Olathe. Rogers, who is p years old,
entered motion pictures by way OF
the Paramount School Of Acting i'll
the Summer of lQ25. His graduation
picture was Fascinating Youth"
and he was given other training in
SOS Your Old Man. Wings and
More Pay. Less Work" The young
man--for those who desire such in
formation-~is six feet in height, has
black hair and brown eyes.
Evening star., 1927-05-15

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LARRY X. THAW, according to
L L news from New York, has en-
tered the motion. picture game as a
producer, having financed the pro-
duction OF one short feature starring
WiIfred Lytell and Muricl Kingston.
The picture was made by the Pyra-
mid Studios. and it is reported that
ThaW is planning the production OF
a series OF comedy dramas. Efforts
have been made to keep secret the
fact that TI1aw has entered the pro-
duction end OF the motion picture
industry. but there has been consid-
cradle talk around the New York
studios.
Evening star., 1927-05-15

GLORIA SWANSON announces
~ the names and subjects OF her
next three pictures. The first. she
says, will be The Woman and the
Puppct,' based upon a French novel
by Pierre Louis. Miss Swanson will
play the part OF Conchita Perez, an
impuSive senorita. The second pic
turc will be titled cleopatra" and
it will be based upon an original
screen story OF the loves OF Egypt's
Queen Of some years ago. This is
declared by Glorida TO be IAN espe
cialy desirable interpretation The
third film (Which was to have been
her next production) will be The
Battalion of Death" a story of the
women who fought for Russia dur
ing the World War. The three pic
lures are classed as a romance,
drama of love and "an heroic drama"
# y *
CIR ESME HOWARD, Ambassador
- from Great Britain to the United
States, and Lady Isabella Howard
were guests of Douglas Fairbanks
and Mary Pickford in Hollywood
May 7. The visit to the United
Artists Studio was the Anbassa
first contact with American film pro-
duction. Doug gave an exhibition of
the bolaS, a three-bal sling, which
he will cmploye in his next picture,
The Gaucho.'
Evening star., 1927-05-15


MISS FLORENCE TURNER. one
4'A OF the first members of the old
Vitagraph company. is back in the
movies. having a part i'll Buster
keaton's comedy, college" And
the first job OF Norma Taln1adge in
screen work was in support of Miss
Turner, then a star and known over
the country as The Nitagraph
Girl" Buster keaton is Norma's
brother-in-law.
Jesse L. LASkN, who directs the
j Paramount producing organiza-
ton. announces that his firm has lit
tie consideration for temperamental
screen stars and directors. "One by
one" he says. baking stars and di-
rectors have been set free, and now
it is the policy OF Paramount to value
talent at its worth, not, however, un-
derestimating the value of public APP
peal. nor forgetting the responsible
ity that every producer has to the
great world public-the film audi
ence.
THE poor picture is failure, re-
CARELESS of the star. We are inde-
pendent and are not making pictures
for any director, star or class. Past
successes of the star cannot make
pictures succeed One of our out
standing feats was the taking OF two
'heavieS from our stock company
Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton
putting them into rollicking COM
edy, Behind the Front and making
a sensation with it. It's the picture
which does the work"
THE motion picture industry now
l. ranks as the fourth largest in
dustry in the United States and rep
resents an investment OF about
81 500, 100000, OF which $l,250,000,000 is
in theaters and the remainder in dis
tributing Offices and studios. The
figures are compiled by the bankers
who engineer the $l00,000,000 COM
bine OF the Stanley Co. OF America,
First National Pictures and the West
Coast Theaters.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Flashes From the Screen
BY c. e. NELSON.

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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-19
Wife OF MANIAC
IS ALSO VICTIM
F|END|SH CRIME
Body Found in Ruins of Farm
House-One Funeral for
IS Children.

BAY CITY. Mich. May 19.-Por.
tions of the body of Mrs Andrew
Kehoe were found in the ashes of
one of the buildings on the Kehoe
farm showing she was the first vic
tim of her maniac husband who
blew up the school building yester-
day afternoon resulting in the death
of AZ persons, mostly children.
The skull of the woman was
crushed, leading to the belief kehoe
killed her before casting the body
into The burning building.
A group funeral Is planned for
the SO pupils of the school and
separate services will be held for
the five elder persons and for Kehoe
whose body was found in the base
ment of the school.
Kehoe set fire to the farm house
and other buildings were also burn
ed to the ground. The fire even
destroyed trees on the place.
On the fence was a sign reading
Criminals are born, not made"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-19
PRESBYTERIANS
!. DO NOT Want TO
MIX IN AFFAIRS
Secretary Mission Board Says
Report Will Not Urge Med
iation, Whites, Natives.

According to a telegram received
today by the Rev. o. A. Stillmar
pastor of the Northern Light Presby.
Presbyterian Board of National Mis-
sions does not contain the matter
credited to it by Associated Press
dispatch.
On reading the press report which
said that the report of the National
Board of Missions would urged thai
the church be allowed to act as a
mediator between the white and ma
tive population of the Territory. and
other matters regarding the condition
of the natives. entirely unjustified
by conditions here, the Rev. MI.
Stillman and the members of the
session of the Northern Light Church
Immediately cabled protests against
the inclusion of such matter in the
report.
In response to their message the
Rev. Mr.. Stillman today received a
message from Secretary A. J. Mont
gomery of New York City, in which
he said that the report simply stated
that economic adjustments of the ma
tives we're in process. That any
mediation by the church was neither
asked for, nor thought of, and that
the publicity man had evidently mis-
interpreted the tenor of the report.
He assures the Rev. Mr.. Stillman
and the members of the session that
there is nothing in the report TO
cause them concern.