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AGifted Actor.

TT B. WARNER, the noted screen
actor, whose impressive impersona-
ton of the Christus in 1.-THE King OF
Kings" stamped him as one of the
really fine actors of the screen, will
be seen in Washington this week In q
characterization at once gripping anc
whimsical in Man Made Women" his
6rSt screen role since his return from
England, where he played the lead ir
"Sorrel and Son.
Mr. Warner comes from a family thai
has been associated with high theatrica
traditions in England for three genera.
tons, and although he was started fol
a career in a medical college, true t
his line, he quickly turned to the stage
joining his father IN Charles Warmers
company in Drink" In 1905 he came
to America to play with Elenore Robson
in Merely Mary Ann"
He made his screen debut with the
late Thomas H. Ince and has done fine
work in number of screen successes
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COLUMBIA-"The Patriot"

i Emil Jannings in 1.-The Patriot" now
being shown at Loew'S Columbia, is
said to give remarkable performance
as mad Gear Paul of Russia.
Mad Paul had the heart of a child
and the brain of tiger, and Jannings
portrays both. Others in the cast arc
Florence Vidor as the Countess Oster-
mann; Lewis Stone as Pahlen, who is
"the patriot of the story and a great
| friend of the Gear; Neil Hamilton as
the Crown Prince Alexander. Ernst
| Lubitsch directed the production
The picture, adapted from the play
OF the European playwright, Alfred
Neumann, concerns the life of the mad
Car, Paul I, who is hated by the people
| as much as his son Alexander is loved.
Count Pahlen is the Cars only friend
and he sees that for the good of the
nation the Gear should be dethroned.
Pahlen plots against the Gear but is not
successful in getting the crown princes
support.
With the aid of Countess Ostermann,
Pahlen keeps the Car in the castle,
where he is finally killed by one seeking
revenge, and Pahlen, to prove that he
had committed patriotic act, has
himself killed. The scene in the throne
room, where the Gar is killed, and his
flight through the castle are outStan6-
ing in drama and realism
In addition the program includes the
M-G-M News. short subjects and the
Columbia Orchestra, under Claude
Burrows.
EARLE-"The Man Who Laughs"
Following a midnight Washington
premiere at the Earle Theater Friday
night, THE Man Who Laughs" Victor
Hugo's enduring tale of love between a
blind girl and man whose face was
ghaStlier than Cyrano'S, will be shown
daily at the Earle at the usual prices.
The 81 admission was charged in New
York during its Broadway showing.
The picture employs, aside from its
stars and immediate support, an en-
semble of 5000. The direction is by
Paul LEM and the picture is further
enhanced by Synchronized sound and
music. LEM will be remembered as the
director Of THE Cat and the Canary"
This Hugo tale of love has been the
fountain head for more than one short
story which various authors have used
as their own, due to the absence of
copyright. Students and critics agree.
however. that the immortal Hugo touch
has never been approached by his most
Sanguine imitator.
The Man Who Laughs" contains
several stories blended into one COM
Polling whole. The comprachios, for
instance, are subjects for full-length
novel alone. These were the vicious
bands of child dealers of the early
eighteenth century who bought or kid
mapped young children, mutilated them
and then sold them to circuseS for ex-
hlbltS or as clowns. There Is, further.
the tragic yearning of Gwynnplaine,
in boyhood so that he wears
a perpetual and horrible grin, for Dea, |
the blind girl. There is also plot and !
counter plot between royal minds and a !
mingling of scenes of the lower classes, |
as at the Southwark fair, and the no. /
bilitv, as in Parliament and in kingly |
palaces.
Conrad Viedt, German star, and Mary |
Philbin are co-Starred. with support |
from Olga Baclanova. George Siegman,
Brandon Hurst, Stuart Holmes, Sam De |
Grasse and Cesare Gravina.
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The Water Hole. -"

A MOTION picture without a
heavy! Zane Grey special at
that!
Jack Holt has the featured lead in
this villainleSs picture, 1.-The Water
Hole" and Nancy Carroll is his leading
lady. John Boles takes the part which,
in the ordinary picture, would be that
of the heavy. Instead of being vii
lain, however, Boles portrayS a clean
cut young fellow whose worst crime is
to want to marry the same girl whom
Holt admires. There is a very real
menace in the picture, however, that
of the mercileSs desert
The lack Of tWo-gun villain is not
the only different thing about this Zane
Grey picture. The outstanding feature,
perhaps, is the sequences filmed in tech
nicolor.
The heroine of 1.-THE Water Hole
does not wear the trappings of cow
girl or frontier belle. Instead, she takes
the part of society girl with all of
her wardrobe that an unlimited pocket
book can supply.
THE Water Hole is a sophisticated
story Of modern life with much of the
action centering around a fashionable
home In big Eastern city. The thrills
of action IN the far West are not lack
ing, however.
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Thoughtful Patriotism.

GENERAL representative British resi-
dents of New York have organized
the British Film Society of America
to give series of 10 bimonthly en-.
tertainments, afternoon and evening
at prominent and convenient Times
Square theater, commencing in Octo-
Der Each entertainment will comprise
special British film feature, excellent
music, together with novelty reels and
specialties.
The object of the society is solely
to provide an opportunity to see these
British productions, and at the same
time have them reviewed by the Amer
lean press, in order to widely dissem-
mate their merits,
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Boston Gave Doug a Shock.
WILLIAM A. wELLMAN, the director


of Wings" entered the motion
picture industry through a chance
meeting with Douglas Fairbanks. Later
this led to an incident which caused
Doug" no little amusement.
The two met while they were help
ing sell Liberty bonds in Boston-Well-
man in the blue uniform of a pilot of
the French Lafayette Escadrille from
which he had been invaded home, with
several decorations for valor. Later,
Wellman joined the American flying
service as an instructor and was as
signed to San Diego.
At the close of the war Wellman
went to see his friend Doug" and
told him that he had always liked to
act. So the athletic star cast the
former war bird for an extremely minor
role in 1.-THE Bucking Buckaroo."
When the picture was presented in
Boston, where Wellman, owing to his
wonderful war adventures was very
much in the public eye. the newspapers
billed it as William Wellman and Doug
las Fairbanks in THE Bucking Buck
aroo."
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FRANKIE
HEATH
Kei+ho
Coming Attractions
KEITH'S-"Hit of the Show"

KEITH'S-"Hit of the Show"
The bill at B. F. Keith's Theater
next week will include on the stage
two headliners, the De Marcos and Joe
Laurie, jr.
The feature picture will be the Ralph
Ince production "Hit of the Show"
starring Gertrude Olmstead, Joe E.
Brown, Gertrude Astor and Daphne
Pollard.
STRAND-'MOulin Rouge Girls"
Next weeks attraction at the Strand
Theater is billed as the Moulin Rouge
Girls" and is said to have a distinctly
Partisan flavor.
Among the stars are Benny "Wep"
Moore, Belle Miller and Gus Flag.
There are other featured entertainers
including the famous Paris Pleasure
Chorus and La Belle Zaza.
The costumes, scenery and lighting
effects are said to be novel and colorful
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Sights in wings

UWINGS," which enters its second
week at the National Theater to-
day. depicts the first air fighting, in the
World War, and it is not without his
toric significance in view of the fact
that fighting in the air came into vogue
for the first time in the history of the
world with the late war.
The airplane has proved itself to be
one of the deadliest war weapons the
world has today
In wings" Director Wellman has
graphically shown what fighting in the
air really means. It provides an added
fascination and a new sensation for
warriors of the twentieth century. The
stark terror that bombing airplane
thousands of feet in the air can put
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

into the breasts of soldiers looking like
ants crawling on the earth is stirringly
illustrated. Here we have a battle sce1.e
shown principally at st. Mihiel, reveal
ing the full length of the allied front,
with our war aces bombing the trenches
and lines of the enemy, swooping down
like mighty birds of prey, scattering
regiments and companies with deadly
terror and effect
One sees the bird machines rise from
the ground to become mere specks in
the fleecy clouds of the azure firma-
ment. They soar through the air, shoot
each other down and bomb the soldiers
far below in the trenches.
In the midst of all this horror of war
there is also the romance of adventure,
daring and love
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
Romance of an Unknown

Sons" dissatisfaction of John Ford, the
director, with tests of character women
in the film colony led him to explore,
as final resort, the ranks of the extra
unknowns. Margaret Mann was among
them and as sixtieth birthday present
she was given the leading part in this
production.
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STRAND-"Big Revue"

This weeks Offering at the Strand
Theater, billed as big Revue" with
new scenery and lighting effects, as
we'll as new cast, is said to offer some
snappy new features.
Clair Devine, the star of the piece, is
late of Greenwich Follies" and others
are Jerry McCauley, shimmie dancer;
Lillian Dixon, ingenue; Jane Vital, SOU
brette; Fred Reeb, comic with orig
inal ideas; AL Shenk, speciality dancer,
and a chorus selected on the basis OF
pep, personality and pulchritude.
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Photoplays / MS Week
IN PHCTOPLAY THEATERS THIS WEEK.

COLUMBIA-"The Patriot" This afternoon and evening
EARLE Man Who Laughs This afternoon and evening
FOX-"Four Sons" This afternoon and evening.
PALACE-The Water Hole" This afternoon and evening.
METROPOLITAN-Ligh of New York. This afternoon and
evening.
LITTLE THEATER-"Dawn" This afternoon and evening
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FOX-'FOur Sons"


-Four Sons" the screen feature at
the Fox this week, has been credited
by critics as one of the outstanding
screen productions of the season. 1t
followed Street Angel into the Roxy
Theater in New York and there broke
the attendance records, which had been
but one week earlier set at a new high
count by the Charles Farrell-Janet Gay
nor feature.
Margaret Mann, the featured player
OF -Four Sons, is 60-year-old mother
and was Hollywood extra before she
was selected for the role of Mother
Bernie by John Ford. who directed
the picture.
The story is from an original by l.
A. r. Wylie, and was adapted for the
screen by Philip Klein.
A Fox Movietone standardization
will accompany the picture, which will
be presented with an atmospheric pro-
logue, in which will be featured the
Roxy Male Quartet. This combination
OF voices is well known to Washington
theatergoerS and radio audiences.
Leon BruSiloff, conducting the Fox
Orchestra, will be heard in a colorful
overture number, which, together with
short reels and novelties, will round
out the program.
PALACE-"The Water Hole"
Loew's Palace offers as the screen
attraction this week Jack Holt in Zane
Grey's latest story. The Water Hole"
with Nancy Carroll.
There is something for every one to
enjoy In this picture-frOm exciting
scenes in the desert to scenes of East
ern society in their palatial homes.
Jack Holt plays the part of a young
engineer in love with Saucy, pampered
fapper, Nancy Carroll. He kidnaps the
heroine. with the consent of her father,
and takes her to an Arizona desert to
tame her. The harmless prank be-
comes serious. however, when they lose
their horses and water
They are finally rescued by cowboys,
who want to lynch Holt, but he is
saved just in time to provide a happy
ending.
On the stage Wesley Eddy and his
Palace SyncopatorS are presented in
Charles Niggemeyer'S new Low-PubliX
production. Blossom" with Sammy
Lewis, Patti Moore, Arthur Ball. Helen
Kennedy and the Foster girls, 'Bevy
of Buds"
Added attractions include the Fox
Movietone News, the M-G-M News.
short reels, the Palace Orchestra, under
Harry Borjes, and Charles Gaige at
the organ.
METROPOLITAN- Of New
York"
Having established the house receipt
record for pictures at the Earle Theater,
Lights of New York" Warner Bros
lll-talking and sound picture. moves to
he Metropolitan Theater this week in
'esponSe to actual public demand.
Shorter Vitaphone subjects on this
all -sound" program will introduce
3eniamino Gigli. Metropolitan Opera
Tenor, in scenes from La Gioconda":
Dick Rich and his orchestra and a short
ilent comedy. Skating Home
In Lights of New York" the veriest
Whisper that happens during the actor.
very sound, words. music, dancing feet.
'istol shots, the roar of Broadway trafIic
nd the quieter nuances of the love
Genes. are timed to the split second
Nth the action. and in this picture on
Continued ON Third Page
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Attractions in Washington
PlayhOuSes This Week


NATIONAL-WingS photopay. This afternoon evening
KEITH'S-'Man-Ma Women'-Frankie Heath. Vaudeville
and pictures. This afternoon and evening.
STRAND-Bg burleSque This evening
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-24

A fireplace. II feet wide. 10 feet
deep and high. is used in 1.-The
Yellow Lily" Billie Doves new
First Rational picture.
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NOPMA'SF FIRST
SINCE HER
WEDDING

First proof that Norma Shearer.
film star. does not intend to
abandon her professional career
ayen though She has just wed
Irving G. Thalberg, one o. the
CHIEF executives Of the Metro-
Goldwyn.Mayer Studio. comes
with Norma's new picture, The
Latest From Paris, now being
ghown 1T Loew's Palace.
This Is Norma's first picture
since her marriage and, con-
sidered by many of the foremost
critics. the best of her career.
"a woman can be successful
xtife and have her professional
career as WE'LL" said Miss Shearer
tha dav that she started to work
an the new picture. want to
trv and show the picture goers
that married woman can 40
as well as a N actress as 2 single
one. and. at the same time, be
iust as successful as a wife.
During the making of the pic
ture she lunched with her nus.
hand, 1T the studio whenever her
duties permitted. Occasionally he.
called on her on the settings,
but he stood aside like any
other spectator while she went
through her scenes offering no
suggestions that he would not
nave offered any other star.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-24
NEW LEADING
MAN BACKS
BILLIE

Larry Kent is one Of the newest
Of film leading men.
Young Kent plays opposite Billie
Dove in the stars latest First Ma
tional Picture, 1.-The Heart OF Fol-
lies Girl" now heading the screen
bill at the Earle Theater This is
his second important leading role,
the first being with Colleen Moore
in Her Wild oat."'
Born at sea he became sailor
and sailed and ''hoboed" all over
the world. At the same time he
picked up" such thorough pre-
paratory education that he was
able to enter the University of
California. There he became mid
dleWeight boxing champion!
Shortly after he entered pictures
as an extra, he was discovered"
by First National Pictures and be.
came stock player. His progress
to leading roles followed rapidly.
Lowell Sherman, Mildred Harris
andsotEer capable players head the
supporting cast of The Heart of
for Miss Dove from Adela Rogers
ST. Johns magazine story of the
same title. Fifty of Hollywood 8
sIlapeliest dancing girls appear in
FoIIies scenes.
"A warmly human romance,
spIced with highly dramatic situa-
tons, link the. destinies of the hero
and tho heroine.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-24
Ne w POLICY
BEGINS AT
KEITH'S

Scott Sanders, the famous char
acter comedian. has the honor or
topping the bill at b. F. Keith
Theater for the week of March
rs, inaugurating the new Keith
Albee Orpheum policy. He viii
present. His Own Studies.
Sylvia Clark. vaudeville's lit
tie buffoon. will be featured with
Robbie Kuhn, 1st, conducting the
orchestra.
William and Joe Mandel will
return with their humorous
gymnastics. They choose to call
their offering Quiet Please
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Phillips
and Norman Phillips, jr.. will APP
pear In a new comedy in four
scenes, entitled, Parents" 1t is
BY Edgar Allan Woolf.
Don Lee mad Mile. Louise viii
present Dance Moods. Vaude-
viIle,s sinartest revue, with ueas
Trudina and Allys Wilson.
Cortini. the master nanipula-
tor, will thrill with his unusual
tricks by which he has earned
the title OF MAN With Ten
Thousand Dollars
ssSkyscraper'' il the title Of
William Bovd.s greatest star
picture. This picture win be
added to the usual Keith variety
bill.
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10000 NJ lies
TN AIR WITH
Indy

s'Forty Thousand Miles With
Lindbergh,n a thrilling, dramatic,
historical, motion picture record
OF the superairnan's amazing
achievements during the past year,
win be shown at LoeW's Columbia
Theater, commencing today. The
picture, three-reel feature, was
made by Metro oldwyn-Mayer and
Is not merely record Of the glori-
Gus achievements Of the nations
hero: 1t Is q story, too, of his anlaz-
ing career pictured for the first
time and history of aviation as
well. It shows the first efforts OF
Wilbur and Orville Wright in avi-
alton and then depicts scenes OF
the youthful Lindbergh's early
days in flying. There are thrilling
scenes Of circus stunts Illustrative
OF Lindbergh's early career and
showing the type OF training 1t
took to develop that wonderful
pluck and courage which were
necessary to bring to a successful
conclusion the determination TO
fly alone across the dark and dan
gerous expanse. Of the Atlantic
Ocean.
The picture shows Lfndbergh as
an air pilot and then follows him
on his take-off from San Diego to
st. Louis, and thence to New York
when, less than a year ago, the
public first heard Of the young
Lochinvar who had come out OF
the West.
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MAPY'S PHOTO
BROUGHT HER
CONTRACT

A little Chicago school girl
went to a photographers gallery
to have her picture taken few
years ago at the request of her
parents, and as result, the
screen has another brilliant star.
The little school girl. pretty
and very shy, was Mary Philbin.
When she graduated from high
school. her parents thought some
Photographic record of the mo-
mentous event was in order.
They did not know, however,
that the photographer, being a
not particularly prosperous one,
decided to enter little Mary's pic
ture in q beauty contest then
being conducted with the national
convention OF the order of Elks
in Chicago. The photographer
thought that he might possibly
draw some attention to<his work
as result of the picture.
Mary was startled to see her
photograph in the papers as one
of the contestants. and still more
startled when she was informed
that somebody else had been
chosen the winner, but that
Carl Laemmle. who believed she
would screen splendidly. wanted
to give her trip to Hollywood
and a six months contract to
play in Universal pictures.
Mary, accompanied by Ter
father and mother. went to Holly
wood and conquered. At the end
OF six months she showed such
exceptional promise that her con-
tract was renewed. Shortly after
she was given tremendous OPP
portunity-the feminine lead in
Merry Co Round"
The popularity which she at.
tanned through performance in
this picture was so great that she
became star almost overnight.
Leads and starring roles in THE
Phantom Of the Opera Fools
Highway" and stella Maris" fol-
lowed.
Now Miss Philbin is to be seen
in the leading role in Love Me
and the World Is Mine" which is
being shown at the Rialto.
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ST Ar
IS LOCAL
FUNSTER

Harry Jackson to be seen here
as the leading comedian with the
BE Happy company at the
Gayety Theater, is a Washington
boy. and first became identified
with the theater in this city.
Harry Jarboe, now manager of the
Gayety. held the same position
some years ago, and It was he who
gave young Jackson his oppor-
tunity by putting him in the box
office. Later on the young man
went to the Belasco as treasurer,
and from there to the old Shubert-
Garrick Theater.
jackson always liked the stage
end of the game and SO severed his
connection with the box office to
accept an engagement in vaude-
vile. He is now looked upon as
one of the best comedians in the
burlesque field.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-24
FEnnE CruDen and Colt, Blanche Yurkcn In The
D. SOCIETY
IN SACRED
TABLEAUX

Many prominent young women
of Washington society will APP
pear in tableaux to be given at
the National Theater on Friday.
March 80, at 3 p. m. represents
ing scenes from the lives Of the
saints. The entertainment will
be given for the benefit of the
Nuns of the Good Shepherd, who
aid girls of all denominations,
and of several other Catholic
charities.
Young women from the diplo-
matte corps will represent saints
from their own countries. Among
them will be the daughters of the
French, Spanish and Argentine
ambassadors, the daughters OF the
Austrian and Hungarian minis
ters, and several ladies and chill.
dren from the British. Italian.
German and Peruvian embassies
and the Swedish legation. The
other roles will be portrayed by
Washington debutantes and chill
dren.
Tickets may be obtained from
Mrs. Wilson, reene's concert bu-
reau in Droop's, Thirteenth and
G Streets Northwest. The patrons
among the clergy are headed by
Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop
of Philadelphia: the Most Rev.
Peter Funasoni- Blond, apostolic
delegate, and Archbishop Curley,
nf Baltimore
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METROPOLITAN
STARS ARE
MANY

Much interest has been aroused
locally in the operas to be given
here next month by the Metro
politan Opera Company. par
ticularly in Norma" which is
practically unknown to audiences
of the present day. since the
Metropolitan revived it this
season with tremendous success
after lapse OF thirty-five years,
and in Boris Godounoff," an
opera of modern tendency and
great opportunity for spectacular
investiture.
Norma is an. opera in two
acts, by Bollini. with a libretto
by Romani. Its locale is Gaul
during the Roman occupation,
and the principals, Norma and
Sever, are respectively Druid
astrologer and q Roman pro-
consul. Sever. before meeting
Norma, had loved Adalgisa.
priesteSs of a Druid temple, and
when he meets her again after
several years he proposes an
elopement. Adalgisa, unaware OF
the love of Norma and Sever, In
forms the former OF the plan.
and Norma utters a curse upon
Sever. The second act Is laid
in Norma's apartment. Sever
comes Tor Adalgisa, Norma de-
nounces him and the Druids
seize him. But she gives herself
up also. to die on the funeral
pyre with Sever.
The operas will be given at
Polls, Norma" on Wednesday
evening, April Is, Boris God.
ounoff" on Thursday afternoon.
April 10, Romeo ct Juliette" on
Saturday afternoon, April q, and
"Tannhauser" on Saturday even
ing, April 81.