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created What Price Glory" are re-
Sponsible for The Cock-eyed World"
Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Ander-
son wrote the story and Raoul Walsh
was the director. Billy X. Wells wrote
the dialogue.
with McLaglen and Lowe a new
flame" appears in the person Of Lily
Oamita
The picture concerns further adven-
lures Of F1agg and Quirt in their pur-
suit of fair women, from one end Of
the world to the other. AS they battled
in What Price Glory" so do they in
THE Cock-eyed World" except that in
the former the dialogue was imagined
and now 1t Is spoken.
The United States Marine Corps is
said to have co-operated in the making
Of the production, over 1000 of the
devil dogs participating.
Preceding the picture, which is al
most twice the length of the usual
motion picture feature, there will be a
brief stage prologue. a recreation of
the Roxy stage feature that won high
praise on its first showing at the New
York theater.
EARLE-Jack MulhalI in Dark
Streets"
Dark Streets" a directorial success
of Frank Lloyd, director of THE Di-
vine Lady" and The Sea Hawk" is
this weeks screen attraction at the
Earle Theater. Jack Mulhall, erst-
while comedian and now a dramatic
actor Of power, is featured in this First
National Vitaphone picture, in which
he has dual part. that of a cop and a
crook who are brothers.
Dark Streets" has been called by re-
viewers one OF Lloyd's most interesting
productions. 1t Is an adaptation of
Richard Connell's magazine story. Pat
the brothers to protect each other. One
brother Is a gang leader, and the other
a policeman, whose chief purpose is to
bring crooks to justice.
Lloyd transformed a section Of the
studio into gangland, and through the
aid Of the Los Angeles police was able
to secure many hard" characters from
the city's underworld to people it. The
picture is said to be rich in atmosphere
and the realistic depletion of gangsters
and their doings.
Lila Lee appears opposite Mulhall and
the cast also includes Aggie Herring,
Lucien Littlefield. Maurice Black, Pat
Harmon and Capt E. H. Calvert.
Kate Smith. the Eddie Bowling
protege OF Honeymoon Lane" and
WaShington'S own Sophie Tucker"
will appear in person in the Earle stage
program this week. Miss Smith, known
as Kate to every one in Washington,
will appear for one week only, her en-
gagement ending on Friday night.
COLUMBIA-Ruth Chatterton in
Madame ~"
AS might have been expected, the
worldfamous melodrama Madame X"
will be held over for a second week at
the Columbia Theater. Metro Goldwyn-
Mayors talking screen version Of Mad
anne x" was directed by the veteran
actor Lionel Barrymore. and its cast,
lavishly praised. is headed by three we'll
known stars--Ruth Chatterton, Lewis
Stone and Raymond Hackett.
Madame x" is the story Of beau
tiful Frenchwoman whose husbands
indifference causes her to leave him
and her small son. The chain Of events
that follow see her slowly sink down
the social scale until she becomes the
prey of a rogue who intends to make
use of information he has found about
her past to blackmail her former hus-
band and injure the standing of her
young son, now an attorney. To pre-
vent this she murders the rogue, is
brought up for trial and the govern
ment supplies her with lawyer for her
defense, and that lawyer her own son.
Not knowing she is his mother, he
pleads for her so eloquently as to win
the court, but too late, for as the trial
comes to a close the woman dies.
Raymond Hitchcock in "Sardines
la Carte" and Marion Harris, "the song
bird Of jazz" will be presented in Metro
Movietone acts. and the Fox Movietone
News, the M-G-M International News
and the Columbia Orchestra will conf
plete the program.