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A Helpful Threat.

HARRY GREEN, who "a years ago
got his start on the stage singing
song, the lyrics of which were written
by Jesse l.. Lasky is today in Holly
wood, featured comedian in one of
Lasky's Paramount pictures
The song was MY Brudda Sylvest,
written to be sung in Italian dialect.
II was this fact that made Harry Green
true TO his race. for ever since he re-
ceiVed a blackhand letter following his
tlrSt rendition of the song he has been
a Jewish dialect comedian.
They informed me that they would
knife me If I ever tried italian dialect
again" says Green. land I'm glad they
did. for As an Italian comedian / GER
ta1nly would have been flop. AS 1t
is, get along pretty WELL"
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EARLE-"saturday,s Children"

Saturdays Children" the Maxwell
Anderson comedy drama, which held
Broadway in its spell for nine months
and won the Pulitzer Prize as the best
play of 1927, will be the featured at
traction this week at the Earle Theater.
1t Is announced as the first Pulitzer
Prize play made by Vitaphone to reach
the screen. Corinne Griffith is starred,
and the original dialogue of the play
has been retained almost verbatim.
In Saturdays Children" Bobby, a
private secretary, and Jim O'Neill,
clerk, are called upon to solve the prob
to prove that two can live as cheaply
and as contentedly as one on $40 a
week can save a fraying romance. In
other words, when the wife gives up
her economic independence to cook,
wash and sweep, and the husband must
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ODD FELLOWS BENEFIT,
Wednesday.

Under the auspices of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows for the District,
the chorus and quartet of Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church Wednesday
evening at BIS o'clock will present
Betty Lou, the Dream Girl" in the
National Press Club auditorium. at
Fourteenth and streets. The book
and lyrics Of the production are by
Ida Larrimore TU~>,r, the music by
r. NJ. Stults, and tie production will
be staged by Dorothy K. Golladay.
The quartet comprises Elsie Schulze,
soprano; Mary S. Apple, contralto;
William 2. Shanahan, tenor, and
Herman Fakler. bass. with Claude
Robson and John S. De Forest as ac-
compa:Nts. Others who will take part
include Anne Moffatt, as Betty Lou;
William P Kilgore, Ann G. Callander,
Dorothy Henderson. Horace F.. Guilford,
James Burns, Pearl Howard and Will
lard c. Buell.. Orchestral offerings will
include the march from Aida" as the
opening number, and between acts 1
and II the full chorus will sing Fly,
Singing Bird, Fly" by Elgar, and Pin
suits Spring Song"
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Attends Conference.
MRS. HARRIET HAwLEY LoCHE

MRS. HARRIET HAWLEY LOCKER,
AVA director of the department o.
public service and education for the
Stanley Co. of America, attended the
first public demonstration of talking
educational pictures given before the
Visual Instruction Association at the
Hotel Barbizon in New York City last
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Locher is member Of the
advisory council of this organization,
which consists of noted representatives
from educational circles, persons active
in social and civic service and others
engaged in arts and trade affiliated
with production and distribution of
visual aids.
Mrs. Locher had won wide recog-
milton for her achievements in devel-
oping educational uses for the neigh
borhood motion picture theater and in
opening new fields for the screen for
group study.
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She Can Really Swim.

MARIE PROVOST is one of Holly
A'A woods champion swimmers. She
gained her proficiency while one of
Mack Sennett'S bathing beauties early
in her career, which explodes the old
theory that bathing beauties in pic
lures are purely ornamental. The funny
thing about 1t is that since she has be-
come dramatic star she has never had
the opportunity to swim In picture.
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BeethOven's Life Story

and his passion for music, his life work
and of other interesting facts connected
with the life of one of the worlds
greatest masters.
The picture was produced in Ger
many and in Austria, and reflects
scenes of places that he often visited
and which were intimately connected
with his life and work. 1t is we'll worth
seeing, and although 1t is what is now
known as a silent" picture, the man
agement of the Little Theater. where 1t
is being shown, has provided for musical
interludes by competent artists that
compose the theater's well known and
much-liked trio.
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Sound Films at the Strand.

that the Strand Theater, which
previous to its entry into the burlesque
field, was perhaps the leading family
theater" at low and very popular prices,
is going back, for the Summer months
at least. to "its original policy" but
with full sound equipment that will
permit the presentation of talking and
sound pictures, Vitaphone vaudeville
acts and news reels. This Fall 1t is
stated, high-claSs vaudeville will be
added to its repertory. The house man
agement has been entirely changed,
even down to specially drilled corps
of usheretteS
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Attractions in Washington
Playhouses This Week

said to be worthy of place in any
professional production. Labor day
and Halloween are used for two very
novel numbers, including group
dance, called Machinery" and a skele-
ton dance.
Many solo features will complete a
program of speed. talent and color by
these kiddies, who combine childish
charm and professional grace and skill.
TCHERNIKOFF- GARDINER-Friday.
Jeanne Densmore, it is announced, is
coming down from New York to dance
THE Lotus and the Butterfly for the
Tchernikof- Gardiner recital to be given
at Wardman Park Theater Friday and
Saturday evening of this week. Una
Ralph, who has recently had an offer
from Albertina Rasch to go with Zieg-
also is staying over to appear on the
program. Miss Ralph will dance her
Russian Gypsy" dance and will inter
pref the part of the poet, Alfred de
MuSSet, in the Chopin ballet arranged
by Miss Gardiner
Lisa Gardiner will do the solo part in
the moon dance which she has arranged
to Rachmanioff' prelude, played in
g major. The dance portrays the in
fuence of the moon on drama and
Miss Gardiner as the spirit of the
crescent moon. who guides the dramas,
danced by four of the students.
MABEL JONES RECITAL-May 81.
Miss Mabel Jones, a graduate of the
Vestof -Serova Russian School of Dane
ing in New York City, will appear in
her annual classic dance recital at the
Belasco Theater Friday evening, May
81. She enjoys the distinction of being
the only colored girl to enter this
school and is one of the few girls of
her race who has made a serious study
$f dancing as an art.
Her pupils will be presented in every
type of classic dancing, including toe,
ballet, Spanish, Grecian and interpre-
tatiye.
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, give up his pocket money, his occa-
| Stonal nights off at the club and his
little gambling sprees at cards to meet
the household expenses, how can q
husband still be lover?
The cast includes Charles Lane Anna
Schaeffer, Alma Tell, Lucien Littlefeld,
Albert Cont, Marcia Harris and little
10 An Pierce.
The added features include a new
Paramount laugh fest, When Julius
Caesar Ran a Newspaper which fea-
lures Edward Everett Horton and Sam
Hardy; new issue of the Earle Topical
Review and the Earle Orchestra, offer
ing Gems From Favorite Operas" I'M
der direction of Daniel Breeskin.
FOX-"Through Different Eyes"
Another star of the stage, Miss Mary
Duncan, recruited for the talking pic
lures by William Fox, will make her
screen debut in Washington at the Fox
Theater this week in Through Differ
ent Eyes" Co-starred with Miss Dun
can are Warner Baxter and Edmund
Lowe. In addition to the three stars,
Mr.. Fox has given the picture sup
porting cost including Natalie Moor
head, Earle FoXe, Sylvia Sidney and
the Negro comedian Stepin Fetchit,
who, though only allotted brief mo-
ment, creates comedy situation that
juStifieS future billing.
As the title of the picture suggests, a
dramatic and interesting scene is pre-
sented from three different angleS-as
different eyes see a situation and re-
enact 1t, according to their view, after
it has taken place.
John Irving Fisher as master of cere-
monies will introduce, in addition to
his own contribution, many Broadway
players. Leon BruSiloff will direct the
Forty Fox JaZzmanians through a spe-
cial stage overture. as well as furnishing
musical accompaniment for the enter
tainers. The Gorgeous Foxettes will
have several new dance routines. and
world events in sound and picture via
the Fox Movietone News will round out
the program.
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COLUMBIA-"Coquette."

Mary Pickford in her first talking
production, 'Coquette," is featured at
Loews Columbia Theater this week.
John Mack Brown plays opposite Mary
in this picture, produced by United Art
lists. 1t is an adaptation from the IA
nous play of the same name.
"Coquette" is the love story OF the
modern girl, who dances. kisses, fiirts
and makes merry in the moonlight,
life grand and glorious game.
One day she meets a man from a diff
ferent world-a serious young noun
taineer. Michael Jaffrey. who loves
her, too. but not her game of insin-
certify. Suddenly the girl finds that she
loves this young man, but her father
forbids her to have anything to do with
him Michael goes back to the noun
Continued on Second Page.J
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DANCERS.
Friday.

The Hoffman & Hoskins "Kiddie
Review" is scheduled at KeiLh's Thea
ter Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:l5
o'clock. One hundred and fifty OF the
cutest, prettiest, cleverest kids you've
ever seen will take part The youngest
member of the troupe. Lillian Hoffman,
lust 2l2 years old, will make her debut
on the stage.
The holidays of the year have been
used for the 10 scenes of the show,
starting with New Year Eve, with
Jazz and many up-to-date numbers, IN
Guiding baby chorus of 'Zula maids
Valentine day offers many pretty num-
bers and costumes. A modernzeo
George Washington minuet will be done
in tap-dance style. st. Patrick's day
offers many reels, jigs and novelty
numbers. A lovely corsage bouquet is
an Easter suggestion. July Fourth, a
military tap dance by the older girls Is
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Photoplays This Week


PALACE-'Eterna Love-" This afternoon evening.
EARLE-"SaturdayS Children" This afternoon
FOX"Through Different Eyes" This afternoon evening
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" This afternoon and evening
neutrality-suspicious." This afternoon and evening.
METROPOLITAN" Desert Song" This afternoon and
evening.
sTRAND-'Molie Me-" This afternoon and evening
THEATER-"Eife Of Beethoven"
evening
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