Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
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society known as THE Hot Stove
League" The organization came
into being for several reasons
but the principal one was to tails
over the weighty matters of oul
national sport during the, off sea-
Son-during the long wintry days
Many were the weighty discus
SionS of THE Hot Stove League.
Members who possessed the abil-
ity to look deeply into the future
made predictions for following
Springs and Summers - and the
league has always fiouriShed
when the days were coolest and
bitter winds howled down the
chimneyS.
The time is now ripe to organ
iZe The Electric Fan League" an
organization which functions only
in Summer and which shall dis
cuSS and settle the weighty mat
tiers of the theater. That is. the
matters will be settled to the sat
isfaction of the members. in
Washington this Summer rumorS
have been as numerous as tour
lists on Pennsylvania avenue. They
have fioated around from Fiji
teenth and G streets to the Rialto,
away up on Ninth street. All sorts
of changes were to be made; the
theater world was all upside
down: in the Autumn an old
WaShingtonian would hardly rec
ognize his fair city. Electrically
speaking. But. as August grows
apace. It seems that things are to
be a0out as they were. with only 4
few changes here and there.
The Keith-Albee organization
was to build large theater in the
Capital, to house the new and
grander vaudeville. Then, the
Keith vaudeville was to move
into the Earle Theater, on Thir-
tenth street. Both of these
rumors have been punctured The
old Keith Theater. on Fifteenth
street. will omen AGAIN soon with
first class vaudeville. A theater
may be built in the city a. later
date.
A real change comes to the Fox
Theater, for Manager s. J. Steb-
bins has been commissioned to
open the new 6.000-seat Fox
Theater in Detroit. From that
point he goes to St. Louis. where
another Fox Theater will be
opened in the Fall. 1t will be the
big job Of Mr.. Stebbins. who has
made himself thoroughly popular
with washington theatergoers,
to start off the new Fox theaters
with real bang He is capable
man for the position.
The Motion Picture Guild has
been especially successful, and
new Little Theaters are being
opened every few months. The
organization was started in Wash
ington, and it has grown to Bal
timore, Philadelphia and Detroit.
The new 400-Seat theater in De-
troit. to be conducted under the
auspices of the Twentieth Gen.
fury Club. will be opened Septem-
Der Is, members of the Washing
ton organization attending the
inaugural ceremony. The Motion
Picture Guild first started with
sfowings at the Wardman Park
Theater. and. since May. 1926, the
move has grown by leaps and
bounds.
Now that the Keith forces are
not moving to the Earle. one can
expect. this Winter, the same sort
of high class vaudeville and pic
tires at the Thirteenth street
house This theater has always
s-~@"ia'i7aS in fts stooe Droduc-
--T -, %~--a t,oao~1a very
popular with local theatergoers.
A ND this ends the discussions
of The Electric Fan League"
for the week. Other rumorS, re-
ports and he-told-me-so's will be
taken up and thoroughly threshed
out at the next meeting. .
GIT will be a grown up, but not
an over sophisticated story"
says Mary Pickford of her new
picture. And then she continues
as follows: There is more tragedy
and heartache in the love of an
18-year-old girl than in that of
world-wise elders. Youth lacks
the experience that teaches older
people resignation. Youth has
not learned that life has con-
ISOLATION for all Sorrows, and that
is why young love is the most
tragic"
SO Mary leaves her curls behind,
10 take up the heartaches and the
love affairs Of f1apper. The new
picture has not been named, but
it will not be known by the title
Of Hot Lips" or The Red Flare
OF Passion" Mary viii select a
Quieter, more sympathetic title
not the sort of title which some
movie magnates consider real box
Office attractions, regardless CT
The picture itself.
49,
THE prediction is made, here
and now, that il Charlie
Chaplin goes into the "talkies,"
ne win produce q flop" as the
unpopular picture is known to the
trade. Charlie, from the first
days Of his stage work, has always
been a pantomimist, and one OF
the very best in the business. His
stage work in pantomime frat
drew the attention Of the movie
directors, and it is this same pam
tOmime which has made the co
median the popular idol that he
Is today.
II is said around Hollywood
that Chaplin will turn his next
picture into a sound production
II the theatergoers demand it
that he will make his debut in
the "talkies." But the cash GUS
toners are certainly not making