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Americas Art Theater.

people, who started out with the idea
that its work should be guided and
directed by a board of managers, never
dominated by an individual.
The aim of this little group was to
establish self-supporting art theater
without endowment from any source,
save the devoted and unself1sh sacf1-
flce of its members and artists OF the
profession who cared to make sacrl-
fice for the high ideal. Much ridicule
has been directed by the facetious
against this presumption: especially
from interests aligned with the com
mercial theater of the day. The guild
however, admitting the failure of some
of its plays, but with the ratio OF its
successful productions ranking very
high, proudly boasts the support and
encouragement OF an intelligent thea
ter-going public, manifested in the
standing subscriptions to its perform
ances that have leaped from $50 during
the first year of its enterprise to more
than $4,000, divided evenly between
New York and the other cities visited
In the season of 1929.
And during the span Of its 10 years
the Theater Guild of New York, it must
be admitted, has unfolded rare list
of outstanding achievements. Envy has
not deferred it, facetious criticism, al
though plentifully distributed, has failed
to pierce its armor, nor has even the
lack of success in specific instances
discouraged it. Keenly alive to the
role it has set out to play, 1t proposes
to continue with its original ambition
undimmed, unobscured, and its surviv-
ing founders and the constantly in
creasing host of talented players num-
bering the best of the contemporary
stage are flinging wide their challenge
their determination redoubled to give
America an art theater, II tempered
intelligence and jealous and unremit-
ting human endeavor can make such
an end possible.
Theater lovers in Washington should
know this, for Washington is the Cap
ital of these United States of America
and the Theater Guild of New York
has not overlooked the fact as so many
of the managers and producers of the
so-called Commercial theater" have
done In the past
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Girls Take to Pipes.

FIFTY girls in Hollywood recently
were introduced to that time-hon-
ored favorite, the corn-cob pipe. How
ever, hands need not be thrown up in
horror just yet.
The beautaous damsels in question
are not feminists of such an advanced
order that they are trying to steal not
only the prerogatives of today's men,
but those of their grandfathers as well.
The corn cobs were part of the stage
setting for chorus number in Red Hot
Rhythm" the dialogue, song and dance
production which is being featured
this week at the Rialto Theater. At
tired in abbreviated overalls, carrying
carpenters tools, and with corn-cob
pipe in each mouth. so chorus girls
construct a miniature cottage, build
fence around it and even hang up
moon. while Kathryn Crawford puts
over the song and dance number 'My
Idea of Heaven"
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NEWMAN IN JANUARY.

E. M Newman, travel talker, combin-
ing the customary delights to be found
in scenery, history, romance, industry
and whatnot, this year has followed the
footsteps of President Hoover and will
bring front page" news interest from
South America, according to announce
ment.
At the five Sunday matinees, begin
ming January 19, at the National The
ater he is to exhibit new group of
travel-inSpiring motion pictures and
still-color views from Argentina, Bra
zil. Around South America, the Rhine,
Vienna and Buda-Pesth.
Throughout this vast area, Newman
rambled for six months, and his pic
lures and stories from the highways
and byways should fire his stay-at-
home fellow-travelers with the enthu-
siasm to actually visit these places. In
those who have covered the territory,
it may arouse a new desire to revisit
the countries in quest of enjoyment of
many things they missed.
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"THE OTHER WISE MAN"
December 26.

For four years, during the Christmas
season. the Chapel Players of Luther
Place Memorial Church have been pre-
senting the beautiful religious produc-
ton. THE Other Wise Man." drama
tized from DR.. Henry Van Dykes ORR
entail legend. This year on December
26, 27 and %, this yuletide drama will
be given under the auspices of the Bible
School Association, with cast of rs
well known players from all parts Of
the city, representing not only churches
but dramatic groups in Washington.
Denis E. Connell will assume the
role of Artaban the Median, and will
assist Bess Davis Schreiner in the
direction of the five dramatic episodes,
which tell the story of Artabants search
for the Christ-child. Katherine. Riggs,
Washington harpist, will appear as the
narrator, and will play the harp ac-
compartment for the scenes and inter-
ludes, and Charlotte Hartman, as the
Hebrew mother, will come from New
York City to play at all three per-
formances.
THE Other Wise Man" was arranged
for this production by Bess Davis
Schreiner, and is given each season by
special permission of DR.. Henry Van
Dyke and his publishers.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sinners"

"Charming Sinners" described as a
brilliant comedy drama with talking
dialogue, is this weeks attraction at the
Metropolitan Theater It combines an
exceptional story with cast featuring
william Powell. Give Brook, Mary No
Ian and Ruth Chatterton, and also in
cluding Laura Hope Crews, Montagu
Love, Florence Eldridge, Claude Allls-
ter, Juliette Crosby and Lorraine Eddy.
Charming Sinners is said to ofter
@ new turn and treatment to the theme
OF the wife who taught her erring hus-
band a lesson. In this case the wife
discovers that her spouse, a wealthy
physician, is having an affair with her
friend. Opportunity to get even pre-
SentS itself to the watchfully waiting
wife, in a former suitor, who appears
on the scene with plethora OF per-
suasiveness and persistence. The hus-
band becomes jealous and alarmed-but
that's not the end of it. BY series OF
shrewdly manipulated situations, the
play comes to startling climax.
Beautiful sets, gowns and magnlf1-
cent safe scene presents new reVela-
ton in talking screen entertainment.
Shorter features of higher grade en-
tertainment, together with the Gus
tomary Metropolitan house features, will
complete the bill.
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THE New York Theater Guild Is cele-
brating its tenth anniversary WITH
book-"The First Ten Years" While
it is apparently the work of Walter
Pritchard Eaton, several other writer's
have contributed their mite until the
volume is made to cover not only the
mere chronicling of events in the his
tory of the guild from its organization,
April 10, 1919, but many interesting
details of the avowed aim OF the lnStt-
tuition and the methods followed IN
building it up to a position of national
importance that encourages In Its
founders the belief of it's permanency.
Theresa Helburn, the astute woman
executive director: Helen WeStley,
Philip Moeller, Maurice Werthetm,
Lee Simonson and Lawrence Langner,
live wires IN the organization, all add
their say to that of Mr.. Eaton TO give
to the book gripping interest to player
and public alike who may have an
admiration of the real theater, whose
determination has been so freely pre-
dicted by leading producers identified
with it who have been charged with
letting it drift into tnnocuous deSue-
tude, without a hindering hand, before
the march of the talking motion pic
ture
Inasmuch as Washington has but this
year been added to the limited number
of cities to which the guilds road pro-
ductionS are being sent, it may be OF
local interest to know precisely what
the guild stands for, and how 1t hopes
to realize its aims.
First of all, the guild is not in the
narrow sense an experimental theater;
it is not commercial theater in the
sense in which the term is usually ap-
piled, nor is it an exploiter Of plays
that originate with its members.
Rather does it seek plays the antith-
esis of those supposedly popular
for the most part, plays with a sharp
intellectual appeal, or with some edge
of wit or style of sophistication setting
them off from the ruck," to quote the
language Of the book. Sometimes,
however, its plays are experimental In
construction or production.
The guild originated with group,
nearly all of them amateurs, young
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Carewe to Film
The Spoilers

HAVING glorified Ramona" and
1 L "Evsngeline," Edwin Carewe is
turning his thoughts to more virile plots
and announces Rex Beach's The Spoil
ers" as his next independent super
feature production.
Carewe has disposed of his United
Artists production contract and has
become afiliated with Joseph p. Ken
nedy in the making of his future pic
lures
THE Spoilers" enjoys the reputation
of being one of the most celebrated red
blooded, herman stories of American
fiction, and with it's colorful Alaskan
background and spirited action should
afford scope for the building of i'm
pressive screen drama.
It is planned to spend three quarters
Of million dollars on this Rex Beach
story, and it is said to be likely that
some Of the scenes will be made in
Alaska.
No cast selections have been made,
but "The Spoilers" is scheduled to &c
into production about January /.
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John Boles' Voice Did It.

WHEN they found out John Boles
w could sing, the producers saw to
it that his career, up to that time fairly
barren of practical rewards, should no
longer worry him. His success par
ticularly in THE Desert Song" and "Rio
Rita" marked his rise.
Universal is now having stories writ
ten especially for him. Houston Branch,
who wrote La MarseillaiSe," Is writing
THE Land of Song" for the new star.
Boles appeared in pictures briefly and
without success about six years ago. He
returned to musical comedy and was
not attracted back to the films until
three years ago, when he was engaged
as Gloria Swanson's leading man in
"Sonya." He had little opportunity in
this, however.
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The Snoring picture cAlb~rr
BY Robert E. Sherwood.

Perhaps it will be necessary for the
Academy of Arts and Sciences to issue
second collection, devoted to great mo-
mcnts from comedy, and another, de-
voted to clippings from the German.
Russian, Swedish, French and Italian
masterpieces.
There is not much that could be done
with talking picture anthology at this
time. But even the vocal screen has
begun to supply its great moments.
There is evidently one of them in the
new George Jessel picture, Love, Live
and Laugh" According to Wolford
Beaton of the Film Inspector, Mr.. Jes-
sci appears as a sentimental philosopher
who is blinded in the war. At one stage
of the picture he reaches for his old
concertina and announces that he is
going to sing. The audience gets set
for the inevitable theme song. But one
of the other characters in the film asks
Mr. Jessel not to sing-and, miracle of
miracles, he doesn't.
If Mr.. Beaton is right about this (and
how hope he Isl then George Jessel
must be given credit for the most un-
expected action In the history of the
cinematograph.
(Copyright, 1927
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Anne Is Getting Wary.

ION account of present conditions
~ in the theater," Anne Nichols is
abandoning, at least for the time being,
stage production in New York.
Confirmation of the report which was
circulated when 1t was learned her
New York offices were being dismantled
was given by M. L. Malevinsky, counsel
for Miss Nichols. She had occupied the
Offices since "Abie's Irish Rose" became
New York habit.
1t was said that the authoress was
en- route to Los Angeles, where she has
a suburban home. and from other
sources it was reported that she might
resume stage production on the West
Coast.
Her last play was "She Walked
Home" which appeared recently in
Washington. 1t closed after brief run
in New York,
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Daily With Retirement.

p EPORTS say rift has come be-
tween Douglas Fairbanks and Mary
Pickford, but it is n rift over profess
Sional rather than martial matters.
Despite the success with which their
first joint picture, the talking Tam
ing of the Shrew.' Doug is represented
as being opposed to further film ven-
lures, Mary, on the other hand, is de-
clared to be in favor of more pictures.
This indicates a reversal in Miss
Pickford's attitude, as less than a year
ago she was widely reported to have
privately determined to retire perma-
nently from the screen.
Fairbanks reported desire to quit is
said to be motivated by two causes-he
doesn't like the talkies, first; and he
Hood" Zorro and D'Artignan.
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Founder Still Survives.

CARL LAEMMLE, now heralded as
the lone survivor of the producing
group which built the foundations for
the present screen industry, is celebrat-
ing his twentieth anniversary as a
maker Of films.
In 1909 Laemmle organized the old
Imp Co., the name representing the
initials OF independent Moving Pic
lures" His first reelase, "Hiawatha," &"
came the same year.
Universal today is the sole remain
ing company of the big three upon
which our industrial structure first
rested" commented William A. john
ston, publisher of motion picture trade
journals. "Since then and to date
large alignments have come and gone.
Leading figures have arisen and de-
clined
Pictures have changed from shorts
to multiple reels and from silence to
sound. Theaters have passed from
individual ownership to national chains.
One sturdy figure, that of Carl
Laemmle, has stood steadfast and to
the forefront"
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HOLLYWOOD Makes Forav.

HOLLYWOOD made another foray on
= New York the other day, in the per-
son of Samuel j. Briskin, assistant gen.
eral manager of Columbia, and captured
another covey of live Broadway stage
birds. Among those he carried away
under contract we're Elmer Harris, au-
thor of young Sinners" so Long,
Lefty" and THE Great Necker'; Ira
Hards, stage director credited with the
staging of "Dracula" and "Jarnegan";
Patterson McNutt, director and co-au-
thor of Pigs; Joe Sterling, author of
THE Kibitzer"; Paul Harvey Fox,
author of Soldiers and Women" and
Herbert Ashton, jr., author of
Brothers"
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Amateurs and the Drama.

stead of leading Broadway by its apron
strings, they are busy holding on 10 its
coattails."
He is less concerned, he said, with
the drama, which he declared Is deteri-
Grating, than with unsuccessful drama
fists.
Colleges represented at the conference
were Mount Holyoke, Goucher, Hunter,
Skidmore, Wheaton, Russell Sage, Uni
versity of Vermont, Hood, University of
Delaware, Wilson, Keuka, Sweet Briar,
HollinS and Cedarcrest.
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FOX-"The River"

A picture with big moments in dialogue
directed by Frank Borzage, is shown al
the Fox this week. 1t is THE River,
in which Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan
Margaret Mann and Ivan Linow are
featured.
The story of "The River" by Tristram
Tupper, is a modern Pilgrims Progress
the pilgrim" being young man who
reared in the backwoods, decides to see
the world by means of a river boat
made with his own hands. The first
woman who attracts him. and the last
whom he chooses to love, is worldly
wise miss waiting in a secluded spot
for her consort-a construction camp
foreman about to return from prison,
to which he had been committed for
murder
In lonely mountain cabin, Borzage
is said to create situation after situa-
ton which have no counterparts in
motion picture direction.
On the stage the colorful Fanchon
and Marco idea Contrasts" provides
novelty, beauty, song, dance and
laughter and features Mel Klee, the
singing comedian. Others to be intro
duced by John Irving Fisher are Nan
Blackstone, Gypsy Burne, Bud and
Eleanor Coll, Serge and Robert Temof,
Buddy Emmett, The Old Timers and
the Sunkist Beauties.
The Fox Orchestra will play LiSzt'S
Second Hungarian Rhapsody" and the
Fox Movietone News will complete the
program.
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CLARA w. McoUOWN.

regular weekly talk on important pub
lie questions Friday morning at IL
o'clock, in the assembly room of the
Washington Club, entrance 1910 Seven
teenth street.
She will discuss questions before
Congress and matters of special i'm
portance to the District of Columbia
the political situation in Germany and
Poland, the development and modern
ization of Turkey, and the promised
entrance OF Iraq into the League of
Nations.
Miss McQuown's next talk will be
given Friday, January 10.
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ARTS CLUB PLAY THURSDAY.

The Arts Club Players will open its
l929-1930 season at the Arts Club, I'M
der the direction of Ednah PROCTOR
Hayes, Thursday night at $50 o'clock,
with "A Scrap of Paper" an adaptation
Of Sardou's Les Pattes des Mouches,"
one of the outstanding comedies of the
old school, in vogue in the gay
nineties." This presentation, which
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R-K-O KEITH'S-"The Great GabbO,'
With Erich Won StrOheim.

Betty Compson is featured with Erich
Won Stroheim in The Great Gabbo, y
the current feature at R-K-O Keith's
Theater. 1t is the first talking dramatic
spectacle directed by James Cruze, who
directed one of the greatest successes
of the silent screen, THE Covered
Wagon"
"The Great Gabbo,' although a mas
sive melange Of original dances and
tuneful melodies, is primarily drama
set in a vivid, exotic and gorgeous
background, with more than 500 choris-
ters assisting.
The story concerns a ventriloquist
who loses Mary, his assistant, at a criti-
cal period of his career. The girl,
from Europe refuses to be the subject
of Gabbo's continued abuse and grandi-
ose boasting. When Mary has gone,
Gabbo's better self asserts itself and,
communing with his dummy, Little
Otto, he soliloquizes. A few months
pass and the Great Gabbo has become
great indeed. He and Little Otto" are
a stellar attraction of the famed Man
haitian Revue" Mary, now married to
Frank, is one of the lesser headliners.
She meets .Gabbo, who attempts to
effect a reconciliation. Her husband,
however. interVenes. Then Mary tells
her former friend of her recent mar
riage. At this juncture all Of Gabbo's
old egotism and peculiar traits again
come to the surface; he interrupts the
grand finale number of the revue, is
summarily dismissed and professionally
disgraced.
''The Great Gabbo" was adapted from
q story by Ben Hecht, with dialogue by
Hugh Herbert.
Owing to the length of the picture,
the subsidiary features embrace only
the newsreel and a11 overture by Freddy
Clark and his R-K-Olians.
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JANET R1CHARDs-TomorrOw,

Miss Janet Richards will give her
weekly review tomorrow morning of
Political History in the Making" in
the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street
and New York avenue, at 10:45 O'Clock.
In these talks each week Miss Richards
outlines the outstanding events in the
worlds work, making use of large maps
to clarity the questions under discus
sion. Among the subjects touched upon
this week will be the situation in regard
to Haiti, congressional legislation, Great
Britain's recent problem in Egypt and
other vital questions Of the hour
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Coming Attractions.
NATIONAL-"TreveIyn's Ghost, -

A. L. Erlanger and George C. Tyler
announce that "TrevelynS Ghost" a
lively English farce-comedy by Dwight
Taylor. comes to the National Theater
New Year week, opening Monday, De-
cember 80. The play will have its try
out period in New England cities and
Wilmington prior to being brought into
Washington.
With the announcement of the Wash
ington date came word that Mrs.
Charles Hopkins is not to play the lead
ing woman's role, her place being filled
by Phyllis Povah. Frederick Kerr, the
English actor, whose latest engage
ment in the Capital was in THE Mid
die Watch" will have an important
role.
Others in the cast are Rea Martin,
Harold De Becker, Percy Ames, Nancy
Ryan, Percival Vivian, Basil Hanbury
and Charles Brown.
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GAYETY-"Flapper Follies."

Next weeks attraction at the Gayety
Theater is smart revue called FLAP
per Follies," featuring a galaxy of
stars, including Lola Pierce, with Jack
Tramp" Montague, Billie La Motto,
Made Vincent Jack Tiny" Fuller, Earl
Root, Peggy White, George Stellas and
chorus of girls famous for youthful
beauty and their ability to sing and
dance as a matter Of course.
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WARDMAN PARK-"The k-Eyed
World"

The Wardman Park Theater, reopen
ing under policy of big-f1lm presenta-
tion. has THE Cock-Eyed World" COM
panion picture to What Price Glory?
as its current attraction.
Pictures only of established merit will
be shown. the management announces.
The theater has been renovated, and
diversified arm chairs insure patrons
comfort.
Flagg and Quirt, played by Victor Nc
Laglen and Edmund Lowe, go into ac-
ton again in THE Cock-Eyed World"
These two have made history in the
movies, not to mention cutting them
selves huge slices of cake in the way
of stardom and all that goes with such
prominence. 1.-The Cock-Eyed World"
has everything that goes to make up a
great evening of film and dialogue en-
tertainment. Carefree adventure, roll
licking comedy, romances with the girls
of all climes-with the inevitable wind
up of the marines marching away to
other lands and new adventures.
Led by Lily Damita, the fair ones of
the cast are devastation. Damita is with
the Marines in South America, Jean
Bary at Coney Island and Leila Kernelly
in Siberia.
Added short subjects appear on the
program.
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In Capital Theaters

Trio, Jolly and Smith and Chester
Hale's Dresden Dolls complete the cast.
The Hearst Metrotone News, the Palace
Orchestra, Charles Gaige at the organ,
short subjects and comedy complete
the program.
EARLE-"The Love Racket" With
Dorothy MackailI.
"The Love Racket picture of mod
ern love, starring Dorothy Mackaill, is
the attraction at the Earle Theater this
week. It is a First National and Vita
phone production and aboundS in as
tonishing climactic situations, presenting
the theme Of the girl who erred from a
modern viewpoint.
The girl, victimized by philanderer,
attempts to forget her past and finds
new romance. She is called upon to
serve on q jury trying a girl who had
killed her betrayer. In the jury room
the picture reaches dramatic heights,
leading to a surprising denouement.
Miss Mackaill is supported by Sidney
Blackmer, Edmund Burns and Alice
Day.
Subsidiary features include the Vita
phone Varieties, The Evening Star Uni
versal and Fox Newsreels, organ spe-
cialties by Milton Davis and music by
the Earle Orchestra.
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GAYETY-"Pretty Babies"

pretty Babies" a snappy show, is
announced for this week at the Gayety
Theater. This vehicle is claimed to
have achieved a genuine triumph
through its faithful adherence to a
policy of absolute modernism. and local
fans are promised new heights of fun
and new standards of feminine beauty,
with genuine novelties, especially in
the singing and dancing line.
In two big scenes, Parade of the
Wooden Soldiers" and 1.-THE Great Di-
vide" side-splitting laughs come quick
and fast, clever comedians accounting
for a continuous round of fun.
Prominent members of the cast are
Viola Spaeth comedienne, singer and
dancer of burleSque renown: Hazel Wal
ker, the Chicago beauty prize winner;
Harry Levine, comedian; Jimmy Wal
ters, straight man; Frank Rags" Muir
ply and Don Darlene, with chorus of
young and beautiful girls in the snap
pieSt of costumes.
Manager Lake continues to announce
special matinees for ladies on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
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RIALTO-"Red Hot Rhythrn,"

A typical musical comedy of Tin Pan
Alley, with pretty girls, gorgeous stage
settings and gay comedians, is this
weeks feature at the Rialto Theater.
Red Hot Rhythm" which presents
Alan Hale, Josephine Dunn, Kathryn
Crawford and Walter O'Keefe and
other stars of the stage and screen, Is
one of the outstanding color pictures
of the year, and MY Idea of Heaven, "
sung by Miss Crawford, is one Of the
big song hits.
Walter OKeefe remembered as the
radio announcer in THE Sophomore, ="
this time plays the part of young
Juvenile in a story of Tin Pan Alley"
where the music of the Nation ema-
mates.
Graham McNamee, the great radio
announcer. as the star in one of Grant
land Rice'S "Sportlights," will be an
added feature on the program. The
Evening Star-U Universal Newsreel, spe-
cial comedy subjects and short screen
novelties round out the program.