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lUELLA FEIERTAC
and BILLY MYERS
Palace G7a9e)
Men Sound" Better.
EARL DERR B1GGERs, who

EARL DERR BIGGERS, whose
cherubic, genial countenance would
never suggest that he writes the kind
of shuddery thrillers which cause the
perturbed reader to look under his bed
before retiring, has become particularly
interested in talking pictures of late
because Fox Film Corporation has pro-
duced his mystery story. Behind That
Curtain" as an audible film.
And Mr.. Biggers. who was invited to
Hollywood from his nearby home n
Pasadena, Calf, for story conferences,
found on looking the "speakie" field
over that what seems to be most needed
now are good feminine voices for the
audible screen drama.
There seem to be comparatively few
women players so far" said the play
wright novelist, who have voices that
record well in talking pictures. It's a
curiosity that to date men seem to
monopolize the talent in this direction.
II presume it's because men, having
voices of lower register, sound better
Women's voices are often pitched too
high for talking pictures. The male
actors all appear to enunciate better
than the women. Some of the women
seem to have greater difficulty pro-
nouncing s. SO it won't be harsh, for
it's the s. and not the 'p's' and 'qs,'
that player in talking pictures has to
mind because of its sibilant quality"
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What Wins Movie Fame?

"R ED hair. blue eyes, blonde curls
or slim figures do not hold
the key to motion picture success"
This Is the formal announcement from
the Paramount publicity Office It adds:
Among the girls who have succeeded
in Hollywood are blondes and bruaettes,
slim figures and plump ones, red heads
and tow heads. Records of those who
have made good reveal that the right
amount of ambition, courage and per-
severance had more to do with their
rise than the color combination. of their
hair and eyes, or their feminine figures.
AT Paramount'S Hollywood studios
there are IL girls under contract as
stars and featured players. All are
beautiful, or more than ordinarily good
looking. Yet not a single one came to
her present position without a healthy
number of reverses, but met by plenty
of logged struggle in the face of dis
enlargement" B. P. Schulberg, general
manager of West Coast productions,
says this.
Clara Bow was cut completely out Of
the first picture in which she appeared.
She was beautiful when she played that
first screen role which resulted so dis
astrously, in fact she had Just won a
beauty contest at which such competent
critics Of pulchritude as Harrison Fisher,
Neysa McMein and Howard Chandler
Christy were judges.
AsWas- direct. result. O& this. heaiitu
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Lois MORAN and WARNER BAxTER-Fox-
Outdoor Amusements.
GLEN ECHO PARK.

Glen Echo PARK in shady glen Of
Maryland's rolling hills, with breezes
aplepty. offers more than so amuse-
ment devices to make the hours speed
on wings, sharpen the wits and pep one
up for the next days work. The derby
racer and coaster dip stand unchal=
lenged as thrillers, though the air
plane swing, novelty, has captured
the fancy Of the public. because it is
almost duplicate of a real plane, as
it wings its way through space, with
motors roaring and propellers swinging.
Cool as a cave is the old mill, which
must be traversed exclusively by boat,
passing interesting scenery on the way.
Popular with the children is the car
rousel, Offering fine ride to tuneful
melodies by WurtliZer organ installed
this year. At the midway. every little
device has meaning all its own, and
these with the shooter, whip and other
devices guarantee fun to every one who
passes the free gates Of the park, day
or evening. &r
In the ballroom the de luxe attrac-
ton is McWilliams and his orchestra.
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METROPOLITAN-"On With the
Show"

Announcement is made that ION
With the Show" the first of the talk
ing, singing and dancing pictures in
natural colors. will be held at Gram
dall's Metropolitan Theater for the
second week. 1t is a Warner Bros.
Vitaphone production the first of
its kind, photographed by an en-
tirely new color process, and there
is not a single scene which is
photographed in the old-faShioned way.
With its music, dancing, songs, the
gorgeous colors of its settings and cos
tunes, it is as If one were sitting in
theater seeing musical comedy, with
the added privilege of going backstage
with the players, where the real comedy
and drama of their lives take place.
The cast includes Sally O'Neil, Arthur
Lake, Betty Compson. William Bake
well. Louise Fazenda, Sam Hardy, Joe
E. Brown. Lee Moran, Harry Gribbon
and Wheeler Oakman. It Is based on
story by Humphrey Pearson and adapted
by Robert Lord. Words and music
are by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke
dance and stage presentations by Larry
Ceballos. and it was directed by Alan
Crosland.
A new Vitaphone presentation, which
features the child wonder, Baby Rose
Marie, who sings several of the newest
song hits, with the latest issue of the
Pathe Sound News viii be added at
fractions.
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contest that she was given her initial
screen opportunity In a picture called
Beyond the Rainbow" When it was
finished, Miss Bow invited all of her
classmates to see the preview with her.
Reel after reel went along and the
beauty contest winner did not appear.
The picture faded out after the final
embrace and there had not been even a
tiny glimpse of the future 1T" girl.
Hers had been one of the faces on the
cutting room floor.
That was blow that would have
almost killed father" as the old song
runs-but Clara Bow just tossed her
red-crowned head, blinked to keep the
tears back while her friends offered
condolences, and then everlastingly
went to work.
Her next experience was almost
strenuous. For five weeks she was
bruised and battered In a rough and
tumble part of picture called Down
to the Sea in Ships" She stuck grimly
to her work in spite of sore muscles and
the bitter memory of her previous ex-
perience. When the picture finished
CIara's role had stolen" the produc-
ton. And yet there were months of
drudgery that brought little in the way
OF financial reward, and much in dis
couragemert.
But Clara stuck" and today Il Is
said she gets more fan mail than any
0theE- player Ia Hollywood,
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Longfellow' S Greatest.

THE canny righteousness Of me-
l. chanical invention and the so-called
spirit of American youth have unwit-
tingly combined in the present day and
generation to thrust the beauties and
the art of literature well into the back
ground Of what Grover Cleveland once
called "innocuous deSuetude." (The pre-
ceding sentence, by the way, is ended
with word that Is properly pronounced
as If it were spelled "deswetude" and
not "desoo-we-tude," as many public
speakers persist in pronouncing it. But
that's a digression.)
The poet always has been a victim
Of fate that alternates in praising his
work and then in consigning 1t to outer
darkness, like punning, as something
utterly unworthy of consideration of
the highbrow whose thoughts soar only
into the ether of commercialiSm or
politics, personal or partisan.
>. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose
poems have been secretly priced as
among the dearest Of 1ife's treasures by
many an American boy and girl in the
past. belongs to the ranks of the de-
spised poets, and, II he really knew 1t,
he had cause to weep that some wise
acres declared that he wasn't even a
poet. Perhaps the majority Of his self
constituted judges have been ever con-
ndent that certainly he Is not one of
the great poets the world has. known.
1t is a sort of fashion in America-and
has been for a long time-to decry
things American, especially individual
writer's and thinkers, in the conviction
that it might denote superior culture,
more profoundly developed sense of
intellectual discrimination. And Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, who sang the
"Song Of Hiawatha" and the story of
''Evangeline," the former perhaps more
familiar, due to its use In schools as a
parSing medium in the vain effort to
achieve grammatical expression, rather
than the desire to exploit its symbolic
beauties, may or may not be poet, de-
pending upon the way you feel about 1t.
But "EVangeline" has been decreed,
by an ipse dixit almost as unassailable
as that which bars poetry from the
society of the learned, as a. prose story,
not really a poem, and yet withal as
"Longfellow's greatest poem" Be that
as it may, there are thousands who love
it for the beauty and the pathos of its
story, and who know that Nathaniel
Hawthorne, next perhaps to Washing
ton Irving, the greatest of American
authors, to whom the outline Of the
story Of the lucklesS Acadians was
o6ered and declined IS material fox
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Signs German Writer.

+ 60 B1R1NsKI, young German
writer who has been responsible
for several of the most striking and
artistic European motion pictures and
plays Of the last five years, has been
signed by Pathe to write original stories
and dialogue for its new program Of
talking pictures.
Birinski's best known picture in this
country was Variety which first
brought Emil Jannings and Lya De
Putt to the attention of American
audiences. He wrote more than a
score of successful German pictures,
included among them being 1.-THE
Tragedy Of Love-" starring Emil jan
nings, and Three Wax Works -
starring Jannings and Conrad Veidt,
both of which were loudly acclaimed at
various little theater" showingS in this
country.
Birinski is also the author Of eight
successful European stage plays, in
GLIDING pRasputin," which was pre-
sented with marked success by the
Theater Guild in New York; ''Narren-
tanS" (The Mad Dance) and "Moloch"
GThe IeIrH MaItyrl
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FOx-"Behind That Curtain"

Behind That Curtain, Fox Moxie-
tone talking production, is the attrac-
ton at the Fox this week. 1t Is from
the novel of Earl Derr Biggers and is
described as a drama of love and mys-
terry. profound secret develops in
the beginning and is not disclosed until
the climax.
\. The Biggers novel is one of the kind
ti%t the aIe%Se reader does not lay
assAe until hA Aas completed it. The
samk is true IF the picture-which is
said u grip tn interest until the end is
reache plot introduces highly
interesting persons, including q famous
explorer, a young wife, a cunning and
courageous operative of Scotland Yard
and q certain evildoer against whose
wiles the detectives wits are constantly
matched. A series of puzzling situations
is woven in with the romance OF the
adventurous hero and the heroine.
Featured in the production are War
ner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery
and Philip Strange. The production
was directed by Irving Cummings.
On the stage Midsummer revue VIII
feature John Irving Fisher, master OF
ceremonies; 1.-The gorgeous Foxettes, ;"
"the Forty Fox Jazznanians and other
.ertertajneSs, including Sally Sweet, the
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an American novel, not only approved
and urged the use of the material as
the foundation of poem by Longfellow
but when the Cambridge poet had COM
pleted his immortal work declared it to
be perhaps Longfellow's greatest poem.
This being true, and because there
are millions of Americans not Of higher
critical rank who love Longfellow," to
employ a familiar term within the
reach Of even the modern youthful spirit
of America, it might be well to care
fully read the poem and something of
its history before going to see its
artistic replica upon the screen in
Washington this week. 1t is the very
soul of poetry that shines in its every
line, although in form it may be
thought to be prose: and those who
never trouble themselves as to whether
a work is prose or poetry may find an
exceedingly interesting and beautiful
story as their reward It's theme Is the
constancy of love, but Of a love whose
spirit and meaning is not frequent
topic for screen production.
Those who have fortunately seen the
picture at advance shownigs seem to
feel that the interesting Dolores del
Rio is typically and peculiarly an ideal
EVangeline.
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big Ben" In Talkie.

THE mellow chimes of Big Ben, his
= toric clock tower of the British
Parliament Building, have been brought
picture THE Wheel of Life" starring
Richard Dix.
The sound Of the great bells was
photographed" in London by Para
mount news cameramen and sound ex-
pertS and then was sent to Hollywood
for inclusion in the film, part of the
action OF which takes place on the
banks of the Thames. It is an ALL
talking production, with Esther Ralston
and o. p. Heggie in the leading sup
porting roles.
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CHEsAPEAKE BEACH.

Chesapeake Beach, Washington's
nearest salt water resort, offers respite
from the city heat in cool breezes from
Chesapeake Beach and bathing in the
salt water. A double water slide adds
to the bathers' fun, and bathers may
loli on the sand In the shade Of big free
gay-colored beach umbrellas.
The picnic groves. on a hill overlook
ing the bay, are shady and cool and
quiet--a delightful place TO spread an
open-air luncheon. Dancing on the
overtime water pavilion Is featured. The
pavilion is open on AL sides and famed
Ax haE1 heeezeAk a.. D.s:,.s.. >
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PALACE-"DivOrce Made Easy"

PALACE-"DivOrce Made Easy"
Douglas MacLean, Marie Provost and
Johnny Arthur are featured at Loew's
Palace for week, beginning Saturday,
i'll the talking comedy Divorce Made
Easy" This IS considered just the sort
Of vehicle in which MacLean displays
the happy faculty of making people
laugh. 1t provides humorous episodes,
humorous gags" and humorous dialogs,
all funny in themselves, but vastly fun
nier in the hands of MacLean with his
ever-ready smile He has also a pleas
ant voice and knows how to use 1t
effectively.
The story is based on scheme
whereby young married couple hope
to secure a divorce in order to get a
large part of the fortune of the maiden
aunt of the husband. The husband
obligingly consents to take part in the
project, offering his services as CO.
respondent, but their plans go all awry
amid a flock of fast-flying and uproar-
iously funny situations.
On the stage Herbert Rawlinson
master of ceremonies, will be presented
with the Palace SyncopatorS in a
Boris Petroff production, Honeymoon
Cruise" based on two pairs of clippers
who sail on a boat to escape their par
ents. Featured in the cast are Joe
Penner. a Washington favorite famed
for Wanna Buy a Duck?"; Joe and
Willie Hale, Luella Friertag, Billy
Myers, Babe Morris, Eugene Ramey,
the Honeymoon Trio and the Dorothy
Berke dancers.
AS a special attraction the Sonnen-
berg Lewis championship wrestling
match will be presented with sound eff
fectS and a description in dialogue by
a competent wrestler. The Fox Movie
tone News, the M-G-M News, short
subjects, the Palace Orchestra and
Charles Gaige at the organ complete
the program.
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MARSHALL HALL.

To Marshall Hall, beautiful and
historic spot on the Potomac River,
opposite Mount Vernon, the steamer
Charles Manchester makes three trips
daily and Sunday, leaving the Seventh
street wharf daily at 10 am, 1880 pm.
and GAS pm, except that the Sunday
morning trip Is made at 1890 o'clock,
Marshall Hall presents MANY fun and
entertaining features. such as airplane
swings, shooter. rolled coaster, carcusel,
etc. A popular feature this season Is
free dancing in the pavilion, Picnic
groves with tables and benches are
available for all day and evening family
outings. -
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Two.Hour Vacation.

TWO hours is not a very long vaca-
ton, but it was the exact length
of the between picture respite recently
granted Kay Hammond. young stage
actress who is making her screen debut
via talking pictures.
At IL one morning Kay completed her
role in Gloria Swanson's current pro-
duction, and retired to her dressing
room for q two-hour nap before walking
to another sound stage to begin work
In A::Her Private .AtfatEsn
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EARLE-"The Wheel of Life"

Lively military scenes form the back
ground of Richard Dix's Paramount
picture, THE Wheel Of Life" which
is now at the Earle Theater.
The story opens in London, where
Dix, as furloughed captain from a
British military post in India, meets a
girl esther Ralston) with whom he
falls in love without knowing who she
is. Later he arrives at his Indian COM
mand, where he meets the girl again,
only to find that she Is the wife of
his commanding officer 20. P. Hegge).
The romantic couple foreSwear their
love and the captain gets a transfer
to Tibet, whence he is dispatched to
battle with native tribesmen who have
threatened group of British travellers
in a Lama monastery. The colonels
wife proves to be one of the endan-
zered travellers. The battle with the
tribesmen RACES until reinforcements
arrive and save the day. The colonel
heads the rescue troops. An amazing
climax is then reached in the tense,
gripping drama. Victor Schertzinger
directed the picture.
The added features include a new
Paramount talking comedy, Moon
shine; q novelty reel, 'Marionettes," "
and a new Vitaphone presentation Of
Harry Tate, England's laughing fool, in
THE Patent ONCE"
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acknowledgements"

Dolores Del Rio, eminent as screen
star and one of the worlds handSOmeSt
women, appears this week in person
at Loew's Columbia four times daily
in conjunction with her latest screen
success, "Evangeline," adapted from the
famous poem by Longfellow.
Miss Del Rio to make her first bow
to the Washington public over the foot
lights Of the Columbia Theater, brings
with her a wardrobe which cost $45 900
land at each performance will give the
feminine fans an opportunity to see
what the best -dressed women of the
world wear
The picture "Evangeline" is beau
tiful screen version of the famous
classic, and is noted for its photog-
raphy, scenic Splendor and the acting
Of an excellent cast. The story is that
of the AcadianS, who, refusing to take
up arms against France, were dispersed
by the English and sent to various
parts of the New World In the con-
fusion of embarking Evangeline is
separated from her lover. He searches
for her and she for him and, while
their paths cross at various times, she
is never able to meet him until, as a
sister of mercy, she finds him broken
man in a hospital There she sings
for him again the love songs she sang
to him in their youth. 1t IS here that
Miss Del Rio demonstrated her beau
tiful singing voice.
Metro Moyietone Acts, the Columbia
Concert Orchestra, the M-G-M News,
the Fox Movietone News and usual
house features complete the bill.
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dainty singer, held for a second week
Wally jackson. an eccentric comedian;
the seven Red Devils, whirling aero
bats, and Jack Rose. The Fox Movie
tone News rounds out the program.
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DOLORES DEL RIO and
ROLAND DREW-Co
Photoplays This Week


SCREEN ATTRACTIONS OF TIE WEEK.
COLUMBIA del Rio in "Evangene." This afternoon
and evening
EAPLE-Rchard Dix Wheel of Life" This afternoon
and
Behind afternoon
and evening.
PALACE-Douglas MacIean, Divorce Easy" This
afternoon and evening.
METROPOLITAN oT1eil in the Show" This
afternoon and evening
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-16

burglar come up this way, sir,
and your window open, and all
we thought maybe you seen hirn?
Danny blew more smoke and
stirred with a snow Of interest.
Why no, he answered, trying
to initiate the about
town drawl he had heard at the
Emerald. He came this way.
you say?"
sWell, the officers don't rightly
know. 1t was the house over
the alley he broke into. You been
here all the time. sir? Excuse me,
but ] thought you went out( .
spell ago.
Changed my mind and came
back. Anything can do?'' He
was tense then, ready to spring.
II this bird came nearer into
the room
The bird did not. He backed
out with a Sorry, sir. They'll
prob'ly catch him sonnewheres
else and closed the door.
Danny drew q long breath and
flung down the pipe. That was
over but he was not safe vet. al
half hour he sat there listening.
The steps went back down The
fire escape but this time did not
hesitate at the window and
finally he got up and looked out.
He could see no one In the alley.
That meant they had concen.
trated on the Van Aston house
and the houses on either side Of
1t; they thought his lean TO the
fire escape had been a rnse ami
that he would somehow ret hack
and make his. way out through
Madison Avenue.
This was the time to 60. then,
But how! II he appeared in
the lobby downstairs employees.
warned to be Aon their guard.
would recognize him for
stranger and give the alarm.
1t occurred to him, however.
that since the superintendent had
taken him for granted. perhans
he was not so unlike the man
who occupied this apartment.
They would be something ~ :
size. at least, for while the loung
ing robe was rather too wide and
short for him 1t nevertheless
might have been his and a poor
fit.
With this thought the spook
began to prowl and it was now
he noticed striking feature 81
the room--the great number Of
women's photographs on tbe
walls, the mantel. the table, every.
where.
Say, this guy must be nonu.
lar" he remarked, MOVING about
for closeup views of the pictures
Some Of the faces he recognizes
as actresses. some as movie
queens, few he had seen re.
produced in the society columns
of Sunday newspapers. Thev All
were inscribed sweetly or archIy
or provocativelv or ardentiy with
clever little phrases and girls
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i've got a letter for YOU" Dick
shouted. "F'rom your father!''
Well, let's have a drink first.
Got to have a drink before can
read any OF the old mans lee
lures"
This letters important"
A drinks important, too!'
The bartender had paused, and
the doorman looked uncertain.
The latter surrendered with
bad grace. Didn't know who
you were, see? We gotta be care
full all the time"
He made his way down the pas
sage.
Tommy Rand swayed over to
the bar, and thumped it.
Give me some pink.eye,
Charley. And some for Mr.. 49,
Mr.. What s.his-name.'
Trent. Dick Trent"
Yes. for Mr.--for Dick! How
are you, old boy? Must've been
pretty thick tonight. wasn't it?'' ~.
Listen, you better not have a
drink now. You've got to ny back
in the morning"
''Oh, yes, have got to have a
drink now! And right now! Ever
hear Of the Sahara desert? Well,
it's in my throat
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rapid steps came down the pas
sageway, and the angry doorman
confronted him.
Come here. your he banked;
and to the bartender: Charley,
this guy tried to crash the door.
He may be from the Mapleson
crowd. Get him."
Dick backed against the wall.
He felt sense of menace, Of
ruthlessness and violence, that
lurked under this roof.
I'm only looking for someone,
told your he declared. TIM
looking for Tom Rand"
The bartender had come around
the bar to join the doorman. There
was going to be fight, and a
one.sided one at that. But from
the entrance a cheerful, intoxi-
Gated voice asked suddenly:
Who's looking for Tom RANDI
Dick stared at the newcomer, a
good-looking chap, little more than
a boy, younger than himself, He
looked careless and good-natured
and spoiled. His face was like a
weaker copy OF the face of Mary
Rand.
Tommy Rand himself! 1t was
sheer luck!