Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1922 — Page 8

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4 Great Stage Stars Will Be Here Next Week Blanche Bates, Henry Miller, Fay Bainter, Ethel Barrymore Scheduled. COMEDIAN AT KEITH'S Players of the first magnitude -will be on view next week at English’s and the Murat Blanche Bates and Henry Miller, in “The Famous Mrs. Fair,’’ and Ethel Barrymore, in “Declassee,” will divide the week at English’s. At the Murat on next Thursday night, Fay Bainter will open a three-day engagement in “East Is YYest.” Charles Irwin, In a comedy, "On Fifth Avenue," will be the headline offering at B. F. Keith’s next week. The Lyric will feature Mile. Ithea and her dancers. The Park will present "Jazz Babies.” Seldom has so many leaders of the stage been booked for the same week In the local theaters. Managers are expecting those high class attractions to do capacity or 'near capacity at every performance. -I- -I- -IX>VO STARS OPEN MONDAY AT ENGLISH’S. “The Famous Mrs. Fair,” with Blanche Bates and Henry Miller, will open a three-day engagement at English’s on Monday nfght. Ilere is presented an ordinary family of means, such as may be duplicated by the thousands in any large American city. Father, mother, son and daughter, all are average folk, and the domestic difficulty in which they become involved is equally commonplace. Yet the Interest aroused is absorh’ng and the effect produced intense, because Mr. Forbes has created genuine living characters, and lent to their troubles aP the poignancy of humanity and truth. Thus, with the acting equally attuned to reality—as it is at the hands of these capable players—the lesson of “The Famous Mrs. Fair” is brought home with peculiar intimacy and unforced appeal. One says lesson, and yet this potent social play Is one of those rare compositions—a problem play without argument or sermonizing by the author. The audience is left severely alone to draw its own conclusions from the experiences of the characters. Mrs. Fair, Qlaycd with much womanly charm by Miss Bates, is typical of the majority of American women who took up war work in France. Her rathet stodgy business husband, like the mat-ter-of-fact son and undeveloned daughter, put up with her absence under the stimulus of the spirit of wartime sacrifice. It Is when thp mother returns, and, fed up by publicity and notoriety, seeks a large field for her overestimated abilities on the lecture platform, that ; the mischief of her emancipation begins to work. The family strenuously opposes her course, but she advances the familiar plea of the feminist that, if a man can have a career outside the home, why not the woman? The result is that the husband finds desperate solace with a designing lady of the neighborhood: that the daughter, starving for maternal love, gets into bad ' company, and that the whole family establishment totters on the brink of ruin, i Mrs. Fair, who is. after all, a woman of right principles, is shocked back into j the recognition of her manifest limits- ' tions and true responsibilities by the narrowly averted tragedy. She realizes that it Js impossible for her, at least, to serve two masters—the home and the public—and she choses the home. The cast includes Marjory Williams. Marie Louise Walker, Bert Leigh, Lynn Starling, Edna Archer Crawford, Flor- ■ ence Carpenter, Norma Havev, Kathryn Meredith and Elmer Brown. There will be a matinee on Wednesday of the engagement.

-I- -I. -fTAT BA INTER dee AT THE Ml RAT THERSDAY. Probably no other player has caught the fancy of the American Theater going public with such a Arm hold as Fay Balnter In “East Is West," which William Harris, Jr., will present for the first time to local audiences at the Murat for a three night engagement, beginning Thursday night, and with matinee Saturday. Once or twice in a generation there comes to the theater a character which dominates all hearts and stands out through the following years as a beautiful memory. Such for instance, was “Peg O'My Heart.” and such again Is the Ming Toy of Fay Balnter. Miss Balnter, old in experience but young in years, will undoubtedly add many notable characters to her gallery of stage portraits, but it Is safe to believe that never will she have one to more surely win the heart of the public than Ming Toy. It is the varied, lovable, human quality of this little Chinese girl which has the great appeal and her efforts to assume the ways of the Occident are so charming that they entertain consistently. A feature of "East Is West" Is the Incidental music to harmonize with the Chinese-American story, written specially for It by Robert Hood Bowers. Mr. Bowers Is also the composer of the "Chinese Lullaby," sung by Miss Balnter during the action of the play. William Harris, Jr., has supplied Miss Balnter with an unusually capable supporting company, which Includes among others Ralph Locks as Charlie Yang; Robert Harrison, Frederick Howard, Ronald Colman. Harry Maitland, Leonora von Ottinger, Maria Namara and Dorothy Burgess. The curtain rises promptly at eight fifteen and no one will be seated during the prologue, as the action begins Immediately. . 4- -t- 4BARRTMORE ENGAGEMENT OPEN THERSDAY NIGHT. In the play in which her success has become an important item of American theatrical history, Ethel Barrymore in “Deelassee" comes to the English on Thursday night. From early October of one year until late June of the next, New York theatergoers crowded the Empire Theater to its capacity to see her magnificent performance as Lady Helen Iladen, the delightful, brilliant, beautiful, but reckless and unfortunate heroine of Miss Akins’ story. Miss Barrymore's role in “Deelassee” Is one in which her following loves best to see her, combining as it does numerous moments of the exquisite, deft Barrymore comedy with Intervals of more serious Import, In which Miss Barrymore excels. The actress is seen as a young Englishwoman of aristocratic birth and upbringing to whom, through no fault of her own save a most amusing recklessness, unhappy circumstances bring matrimonial disaster. Cut off from her own kind, she is next seen In New York, the center of a mixed group of unusual people. Surrounded by a gay group of Inconsequential worldlings, and with happlnstis seemingly almost within het grasp, La,dy Helen’s magnificent adventure becomes a tragedy, pathetic In it* truth but logical in Its unswerving circumstances. Surrounding Miss Barrymore a most capable and distinguished company appears. The principal male role is ln(Conttangd on Page

.t WITH PLA YS INDIANAPOLIS IS TO SEE .4

■ ’c n at ! Upper Right—Fay Bainter and Frederick Howard, In a scene fr Mrs. “East is West,” opening Thursday night at the Murat. Upper Center—Ethel Barrymore, as she; appears In “Declassee," MU- English’s, beginning Thursday night. 9ht Lower Left—’Theresa, wl h Don Valerio and company at the L) jjjj| Next to Upper Right—lda Gordon at B. F. Keith’s next week. next week. two years ago. These stage decorations, p •• . ■ - ■ ■■ i ——————————————'R O’Brien Girl,” with which be hope •> which freed the verse of the poet from | _ rrs-i T 1 _ _ __ . , bring in the coin be has missed in '• <• . 'tl overmuch trappings, have already bad I- |Un | nn H n / \/g q l/'P Jin jj p-r n last several months. Theie “farew '• J their Influence on elassicle production In A- X* A llv I—/ it 1. iLA LvA lx v A1 L V of producers are becoming as fu *V?' < < / America. _____ / a8 some farewells of the actors. . Ihe .-.stars present with considerable by WALTER D. HICKMAN |l -I- -l- -lp' I iM,< pardonable pride toelr company, a —__ . “From your actual experience v ... includes Frederick Rowland w " 1 - ■■ ■ - ■ kind of filmg are moat )n demand But-kstone Sidney Mather, Alma Kruger, Occasionally there U a atoge play which ways la absvnt; because ft administers schools and churcher?” was asked : Lenora ( blppendale, L.izabc-th Valentine, v . v , v..i, Albert Howson, Vernon Kelso, France become* a sort of a passing institution, one aeries of shocks and tbrllla after w ' or * ” c J ,a "K® 4 ' _ i . _ _ _. . . .Non -i Mi * t ion I icr\ir6B| Jinc R#‘? tftpn !• Pu nlf V 1 I ru.dlle It I<■ w,..# cft4> n hnt a .-V rn of I m a snrh ■ l.fP find ft Tlft ! ▼ Almost IflDua TOU _

New Plays Headed This Way FRANCIS STARR ROOKED AT ENGLISH’S. “An American play concerning a particular phase of New York life,” is the phrase used by Eugene Walter to describe his play, "The Easiest Way,” with which David Belasco opened Frances Starr’s season In New York last August and which is her play for the season. Miss Starr comes to English’s for three days beginning Thursday. Feb. 4. Miss Starr Is said to have achieved a remarkable personal success in the role of Laura Murdock and that her acting of the part overshadows any other impersonation she has yet given. Os Mr. Walter’s designation of his play, it is not broad enough. The phase of life which he exploits is common enough to all metropolitan life, though it is admitted that the temptations of the first city of the land tend to accentuate this condition and to make more common the situations treated on by the playwright But Mr. Walter's play is none the less powerful for that. -I- -I- -IMARGARET ANGLIN BOOKED AT MCRAT. Margaret Anglin will shortly be seen In her dramatic triumph, “The Woman of Bronze" at the Murat for a limited engagement of three nights. The leading role is one of the most powerful of Miss Anglin's stage creations and comes to Indianapolis after a year in New York. Directed by Margaret Anglin herself, adapted from the French by Paul Kester and produced in association with Lee Stiubcrt, the play is one of the dramatic achievements of the decade. -|- -|- -|. “LIGHTNIN”’ BOOKED AT ENGLISH'S AT LAST. “Ligbtnin,’ ” the most successful pin.' in th" history of the American stage, \vi be presented at Euglish's for a we' 1 beginning Monday, Feb. 13, with Mllto. Nobles in the role of Ligbtnin' Bi. Jones. Like “The First Year,” "Thank You,’ "Turn to the Right,’’ "Three Wise Fools” and other comedy successes produced by John Golden, "Ligbtnin’ ” is a mixture of laughs and heart throbs, introducing wholesome, everyday folks who actually exist in real life. It ran for three solid years at the Gaiety Theater, New York, and with I.UTI consecutive performances to its credit, it holds the world's record for length of run on Broadway. -I- -!- -I“SITSS LULU BKTT” IS HEADED THIS WAY. On Monday night, Jan. 30. Brock Pemberton will present at the Murat for a week s engagement Zona Gale's comedy “Miss Lulu Belt,” which proved to bone of the outstanding comedy success'of last season In New York, where It r:i for the better part of the year at the Be mont Theater. The original company, headed by Car roll McComas, as its featured member, ii eludes Louise Closser Hale, C&therin Calhoun Doucet, Lois Shore, John Thor. Willard Robertson and Brigham Royct--I- -I- -ISOTIIERN AND MARLOWE DATES FIXED AT Mi;RAT. E. 11. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, tie foremost classical actors on the English speaking stage, will make thetr first appearance In Indianapolis In two yeariat the Murat on Monday, Tuesday anWednesday nights, Feb. 13, 14 and If. "The Merchant of Venice” will ope the brief Shakespeare festival on Mon day night; "Hamlet” will be seen oi Tuesday night and “The Taming of tin Shrew” on Wedneaday night Mr. Sotl; “The Merchant of Venice” for the fire ern and Miss Marlowe are now presenting time in several years. Mr. Sothern; Shylock, it will be recalled, disregardthe tradition created by Henry Irving o a sympathetic Shylock. Mr. Sothern find ample authority in Shakespeare's ow: text for his conception of the Jew as th villain of the play. He does not regar this character as typical of the "whoi” suffering Jewish race,” as Heine fanci fully imagined it to be. It is a Jew, not the Jew that Shakespeare drew In “Thi Merchant of Venice.” Playgoers will recall the new manner of stage settings Mr. Sothern and Miss Mariowa used on their appearance here

two years ngo. These stage decorations, which freed the verse of the poet from overmuch trappings, have already bad their Influence on elassicle production In America. "lhe co-stara present with considerable and pardonable pride their company, which includes Frederick Ijevrls, Rowland Bu< ketone, Sidney Mather, Alma Kruger, Lenore Chippendale, Elizabeth Valentine, Albert Howson, Vernou Kelso, France Bendtsen, Frank Peters, V. 1_ Granville, Frank Howson, J. W. I/athara, Jerome Collamore, William P. Adaum, Harold Webster, Carolyn Ferriday, Helen Bcsly, Eleanor Wells, Llliian Gray, Dina Schleicher. "GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES" IS FEBRUARY BOOKING AT MURAT. An announcement of extraordinary eigniflcance to those theatergoers who lean toward the girl ana-music type of entertainment Is that the second annual edition of the “Greenwich Village Follies ' will come to the Murat on Monday evening, Feb. 6, for a week's engagement. Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan head the cast of this spectacle. Conspicuous among their associates are Pee Wee Myers and Ford Hanford, Phil Baker, the McCarthy Sisters, Janies Clemons, Ada Forman, Louis Berkoff and Sister Frieda, Collins and Hart, Juia Silvers, Russell Scott, Virginia Bell, Hap Hadley, Olga Zieeva, Mildred Mann and Huriette Glinbel. The decorative frame for the grotesquerles of this varied and versatile group is formed by the thirty famous artists' models, naively refreshing beauties filched from the studios of onr leading Illustrators and sculptors. They fill the eye, and thrill it, too. The opening performance is order the auspice* of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

.4 SCREEN FA VORITES TO BE SEEN HERE S

Upper Left—This picture looks like It might be a quiet little love v '- g MjMf • tjjjrSfia j'ffif M W? scr of M.:rti-.a Cueed." at t:-e Isis next v.eek. 'W~ ~* 'H’\ l 'l ''// l jKiW Upper Center—Mae Murray having an easy time of it in a scene from ? jjfir * “Peacock Alley," which will be on view at Loew’s State all next week. jjjjlf \k | Upper Right—Pola Negri, as she appears in “The Last Payment,“ at '-if Lower Left—Agnes Ayres In a dramatic moment from “The Lane jflE • JHjBgIBB j That Hath No Turning,” at the Ohio next week. bS^Tx ‘Wa f vfjda Lower Right—Douglas Fairbanks In a scene from “The Thres MusJ keteers,” at Mister Smith’s next week. L, i "cl®' S heater, bar® Informed me that If other “Miss Lulu Bett,” the Sotherns and oth- role of Mary Carey, the orphan whose produced last week at the Lexingtc t. ■; XCv:- I "Kood shows like ‘‘The Bat” were booked er.s are knock ug at the door. love brings sunshine, though she lives Theater with Julia Adler in the leadin j hey would be glad to uyiwrt tb* It Is universally admitted that those . chmitv lmmo where there is little rolp> suffers from too much theater ei H hea’cr. are worthy real charity, until some "human sympa- £ an8 ®‘ 11 * s *“ removed closer 1 p& .ta*. “Th* Bar* m please aJ2 kinds of Will we forget? Will wo forget? thetlc and understanding people visit the Broadway and closer to the audience, an I hemw goers. There is bo chance for -I- -I- -|- ’ orphanage and change the whole Tfte of when this ,s done 11 wUI win ,ts dl ■’§?’>. hararter acting atthuergh Julia Stuart as After the noise has died out, George Mary served success. |£t£?l Id '!•*• Tats Gordon, doe* some excellent M. Cohan, who mads an awful racket ’ '“‘The Story of Nathan Hale’ is dra- The play Is an amusing and simple 11 p i •' ,M * w,J - ct £• Ita Battue that of over his “retirement” some months ago, matically told In ‘The Heart of a Ilero,’ tle story of a girl, the daughter of a ’{■ 4. .tracter, attbo.ugh the authors were not now admits that he is going to reopen an( j i s t n demand by both schools and Irish father and Jewess mother who |H ffesvliSt (,ut after rkannutetSsst, but tkrllla. offices In New York and resume pro- churches, and Justly so—telling as It does reclaimed by her grandfather on hi jfegSlA fo> And so tie public ku voted “The Bat" duclng George was “done.” He said that Inspiring story In early American father’s side, who disowned his son ft M "Sf*'- :l Foo ' l show." jso himself. He said It so often that history. what he termed his misalliance. The ol ' nd wl Vl ‘ some of us became tired of reading the “These are only a few of the films for gentleman Is choleric and holds an a vet | Her* is my answer to Che question— dispatches, let alone printing them, but which there is a steady demand, but they alon to Jews, but Rosa —the play will l ***& That 1* olean; nn mrx problems are ; George is back In the game and is or- aro indicative of the kind of’films the known as “Rose of the Ghetto” bereafU 1 thus*-- and, thifc ttaageor mfiCk. hag erayy I another company of “The a

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1922.

Occasionally there la a atoge play which become* a aort of a pasting Institution. It is not often but sometimes snch a thing come* to pass. “The Bat” 1* *uch an “Institution.” I welcome th. visit of this mystery play to Indianapolis for several reasons, the chief one being that It has actually caused a “revival of Interest” in the local s’age. “Th. Bat” has acted as a sort of bomb which has caused the local play going public to wake up and look about. To illustrate my point—A certain Judge of a local court, who seldom visits the theater, informed me that he had purchased tickets for “The Bat” for last Friday night. He admitted that he had heard nothing but “Bat” talk for days and that it must be a “good show.” This jurist is not a tight wad—far from it. He supports Sothern and Marlowe and never paitsed up an opporf unit* to witness a performance of Richard Mansfield and the other old timers. With the passing of the old school, hi* visits to the theater have been few and far between. But he had heard that “The Bat" was a “good show” and so he Journeyed to the box office of the Murat and Invested in a pair of seats. This example Is typical of many other* in the city. Some, who seldom enter a (

theater, hav® Informed me that if other “good shows like "The Bat” were booked hey would be glad ho support Lba hfealer. “The Bat"” srHI ptease all kind* es eoter goers. There Is bo chance for ’iiraat-ter acting although Julia Stuart as Miss Tan Gorvien, doe* some excellent work winch is is its nsat rxr-ve that of ..arac-ter, attlnough the authors were not j out after ehamccerEaatlon.s, but thrflta. And so the public kti voted “The Bat" a "good show." And why? Her* is my answer to Che question— That it Is idean; no mrx pmiilmna are 1 theag: gad, thifc Haaner- w-itli. hag emiv

Upper Right—Fay Bainter and Frederick Howard, In a 6cene from “East is West," opening Thursday night at the Murat. Upper Center —Ethel Barrymore, as she appears In "Declassee," at English’s, beginning Thursday night. Lower Left—Theresa, wl h Don Valerio and company at the Lyric next week.

way* Is abcent; because it administers one series of shocks and thrills after another and finally almost land, you in the hospital with nervous prostration when yon discover who ’The Bat’ really Is. Frobabiy back of it ail is, it the fact that thi* play Is good melodrama. You hear and see things at th. same time. | There is so much action that you long for an express train to keep up with the event* on the stage. “The Bat” sets your imagination to work and you play hide and wt-k in your mind as you become a sort of a detective. In other words, “The Bat” gives the spectator something to see and think about. Words and actions have been mixed by super-artists of thrills In one grand bag of tricks. From a standpoint of strnctnre, it seems that the authors have violated all rules of playwritting and the violation has resulted In the making of several fortunes and the pleasing of a great public. I might remark that “The Bat” isn't the only “good show” that ha* been here this season. Mrs. Fiske starved to death. "Three Live Ghosts” was given the cold shoulder. “The Merry Widow” wa* spurned and “Shavings,” a pretty play, wa* entirely forgotten. Such plays as “The Famous Mrs. Fair.” "Declasee,” "East Is West,” “Llghtnla’."

“Miss Lulu Bett,” the Sotherns and others are knock ng at the door. It is universally admitted that those plays are all worthy of support. Will we forget? Will we forget? -I- -I- -IAfter the noise has died out, George M. Cohan, who made an awful racket over his “retirement” some months ago, now admits that he Is going to reopen offices in New York and resume producing. George was “done.” He said so himself. He said It so often that some of us became tired of reading the dispatches, let alone printing them, but George is back in the game and is orcanizirijjf another company nf **XjD|t

O’Brien Girl,” with which be hope* to bring in the coin he has missed in the last several mouths. These “farewells” of producers are becoming 89 funny as some farewells of the actors. -1- -I- -I"From your actual experience what kind of films are most in demand by schools and churcber?” was asked the New York exchange manager of National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures, Inc. Hl> ' -tswrr was significant. "h ...ns that are clean, wholesome, with an unobtrusive moral, are always In demand. but particularly to Just now,’ he answered readily, “ ’The Turn in the Road,’ a five reel feature, with 'God is love' as its main theme and ’a little child shall lead them' ns its secondary theme, is always popular, and never more so than at this time. “We are booking ’God and the Man,' in six reels, to ministers for their Sunday or Wednesday night services. Love is stronger than hate and God is mightier than man, is its theme. The story centers around John Wesley and the early days in the founding of the Methodist Church, but concerns Itself with two neighbors whose hearts are filled with hatred and revenge but who are finally converted. Ministers are using tills picture because, although It is a story with a moral, the moral does not obtrude itself and spoil the picture from a dramatic p.lnt of view ’That Something' is also in demand by churches. It is a story of s failure who becomes a success because of ‘that something’ to be found in each and every one of ns “‘Nobody’s Kid’ is popular all year round for both church and Juvenile programs. Charming Mae Marsh plays the

Upper Left—This picture looks like It might be a quiet little love scene from “The Sin of Martha Queed,” at the Isis next week. Upper Center—Mae Murray having an easy time of it In a scene from “Peacock Alley,” which will be on view at Loew’s State all next week. Upper Right—Pola Negri, as she appears in “The Last Payment,’’ at the Alhambra next week. Lower Left—Agnes Ayres In a dramatic moment from “The Lane That Hath No Turning,” at the Ohio next week. Lower Right—Douglas Fairbanks In a scene from “The Thre* Musketeers,” at Mister Smith’s next week.

role of Mary Carey, the orphan whose love brings sunshine, though she lives in a charity home where there is little real charity, until some human sympathetic and understanding people visit the orphanage and change the whole Tffe of Mary. “ ‘The Story of Nathan Hale’ is dramatically told in ‘Tha Heart of a Hero,’ and is In demand by both schools and churches, and Justly so—telling as it does that inspiring story In early American history. “These are only a few of the films for which there Is a steady demand, but they aro indicative of the kind of films the

Critics Divided in Opinion on ‘S. S. Tenacity ’ Hines Likes New Broadway Play and So Does the Public. OTHER RIALTO NEWS By DIXIE HINES. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. —The Theater Guild not infrequently manages to blend the artistic with the “popular,” and in “He, The One Who Gets Slapped,” by Leonard Andreyev, skilfully staged and acted by a cast of considerable proportions and evident sympathy, they have done this thing. It Is a play of mixed lightness and drabness. He Is a cultured gentlemen who seeks the companionship of circus people In order to forget his disappointments. Life has slapped him and he becomes a clown, to be slapped by others that the great multitude may laugh. He does not contemplate that be shall again be made the buffet of fate by falling In love with the pretty circus girl, nor anticipate the end of this romance when he and the girl of hla love pass away together. From the rise to the fall of the curtain there are many brilliantly acted acenea, although In the role of the clown Richard Bennett Is far less effective than he has been In several recent productions, and little Margola Gilmore, who has launched herself as a prime favorite in New Y'ork, lends attractiveness to the role of the girl If she does not at all times meet the histrionic requirements. Frank Belcher and Louis Calvert give strength and authority to two Important role*, and there are so many other names on the program—in the main well cast—that It Is safer to throw a bouquet that may be divided between them rather than to particularise. It. is a really brtlllant play, as evidenced by the fact that many of the most astute New York managers, to whom It was submitted, predicted dire failure If ever it was produced. It Is splendidly mounted, and though it is not without I‘* fault*, they *re Inconspicuous compared to tjs many excellent qualities. TO SETTLE THE ARGFMENT YOU WILL HAVE TO SEE IT. When Augustin Duncan produced “The S. 8. Tenacity” which, when all is said and done, Is one of the notable stage triumphs of the season, he was accorded a dividend press opinion. There were those like Charles Dartton on the afternoon edition of The World, for Instance, wl j found all its charm and brilliance and said so In unmistakable words, while Louis De Foe, who wield* the pen of the dramatic department on the morning edition of the same paper, found in it nothing to commend and much to condemn. There was the veteran Evening Post who found it trash, and there was The Globe who v raised It in unstinted language. So when all the reviews were In, and realising that the piny had but one fault and that its brevity, Mr. Duncan played a Joke on the critics by presenting as a curtain raiser to the main play. St. John Ervlne'a satire, “The Critics,” which dealt with Just such a condition. But the wise men of Broadway detected in some of the speeches of the players bodily exrerps from some of the critical reviews aimed against “The S. S. Tenacity,” and “The Critics”—the play, not the writers—became one of the objects of hilarity of the week It Is an exqnislte little satire, and well Is it played by AMgustln Duncan, J. M. Kerrigan, George Gaul. Tom Powers, Claude Cooper, Henry Handon and others. And in the meanwhile, “The S. S. Tenacity" which one critic said was the stanchest ship that has come to this port In many a year, and another said it was futile, sorbld and Inept, continues to attract attention and evidences of appreciation. HEnKFW-IRISn COMEDY IS PRODUCED ON BROADWAY. “Rosa Machree," the Hebrew-Irish comedy, written by Edward E. Rose and

produced last week at the Lexington Theater with Julia Adler in the leading role, suffers from too much theater expanse. it is to be removed closer to Broadway and closer to the audience, and when this Is done it will win Its deserved success. The play Is an amusing and simple little story of a girl, the daughter of an Irish father and Jewess mother who Is reclaimed by her grandfather on her father's side, who disowned his son for what he termed his misalliance. The old gentleman Is choleric and holds an aversion to Jews, but Rosa —the play will be known as “Rose of the Ghetto" hereafter

Movie Houses Book Both Old and New Stars Elaborate Screen Productions Planned for Coming Week. AYRES TAKES STEP UP The local silver screen next week will reflect numerous new and important movie productions, Mae Murray, in “Peacock Alley," will open a week’s engagement Sunday at Loew’s State. At the Ohio next week, Agnes Ayres will be seen in “The Lane That Hath No Turning.” Pola Negri, a continental actress, will be seen in “The Last Payment ” “The Sin of Martha Queed” will be the offering at the Isis, Douglas Fairbanks In his romantic “The Three Musketeers,” will be the important offering at Mister Smith’s next ""The Colonial will offer “The Slot” and the screen at the Regent will reflect “Tangled Trails” with Neal Hart. -!- -1- -!- AGNES AYRES IS NOW A STAR. After distinguished work In “The Sheik,” “The Affairs of Anatol,” and “Forbidden Fruit,” Agnes Ayres becomes a star in her own right with the advent of “The Lane That Had No Turning," a filmizutlon of the Sir Gilbert Parker novel, next week’s attraction at the Ohio. Victor Fleming, remembered for his work in several Douglas Falrbank's pictures including “The Mollycoddle,” Is the director of the piece. Victor Warrenton, whose photography was one of “Humoresque's” admirable features, times the camera for this production. A romantic story of self-sacrifice on the part of a woman, who clings to Ler husband In spite of his deformity, and Strives to spare him the humiliation of learning that he is not the rightful master of even his own estate, is tht gist of the narrative in which Miss Avres, enacting the part of Madelinette, has the opportunity to do some rare emotional acting. The machinations of a villain, the Intervention of a real man, an Englishman, who is the rightful heir, and the final happy ending of a tangled eerte9 of events, all laid In picturesque FrenchCanadian country, combine to maks one Interested in this photoplay. Theodore Kosloff, who had Important parts In “Forbidden Fruit,” “The Affair* of Anatol,” and “Fool’s Paradise,’’ impersonates Louis Racine, the husband of Madelinette. Mablon Hamilton is the Englishman, George Fournel, who finally wins Miss Ayres’ heart. He has appeared In pictures as the leading man of Gloria Swanson, Mary Piekford, Anita Stewart and Blanche Sweet. Frank Cam pen u has the “heavy” role in the production, under the name of Tardiff. Lillian Leighton is a well known feminine portrayer of character parts, and he has an Important place in “The Lane That Had No Turning.” Wilton Taylor, Charles West, Robert Bolder and Fred Vroom are other players in the cast. The International reel of news and a Christie comedy complete the pictorial supplements. The orchestra offers a musical program. -I- -I- -IMAE MURRAY PLAN'S TO DO JULIET ON STAGE.

The star of "Peacock Alley" plans to j do Juliet on the stage, i "After I finish with my present aeries of Tiffany productions for Metro, I ; am going to return to the speaking stage, * and work for a time in both pictures and on the stage." declares Mae Murray, star of “Pea lock Alley," the first of her productions for Metro, which will be at . Loew's next week. In making this announcement anew step is indicated in her career, which was started In 1905, when she was 15, as a chorus girl in the Ziegfeld Follies. Her dancing skill made her a Follies star. In ! 1915 she went into motion pictures with j “To Have and to Hold ” | “They were surprised then that I ! could realize the romantic and poetic ' role of Lady Jocelyn,” said Miss Murray. “That was because I had made my reputation primarily as a dancer. But I have always had ambitions for a nobler sort of artistic expression ar.d, to exj press myself fully, I need the medium of the speaking stage. “I plan a stage production of ‘Romeo ! and Juliet’ first. And then there are a gallary of Shakespearean heroines that I have studied and would be ready to act at a moment's notice—Rosalind, Viola, Beatrice Ophelia, Desdemona, Kathine." In “Peacock Alley” she appears as a Parisian dancer who married an American business man. The photography Is by Oliver T. Marsh, the art setting ty Charles Cadwallader and the sub-titles by Frederick and Ihinny Hatton. -I- -I* -I* POLA NEGRI RETURNB TO ALHAMBRA. “The Last Payment," a drama of today providing Pola Negri with her first modern role, will be next week's attracat the Alhambra. The scenes are la'd for the most part in Paris, though 'he story opens In South America where Paul Durand a young Frenchman meets Lola the wife of Pedro Mnurez, a cattle grower. They fall In love and when Pedro ls slain by an assassin the pretty widow accompanies Paul to Paris. There her frivolous nature finds an inviting playground, and quick to take advantage of her environments Lola makes love an art and human hearts her playthings. Her beauty blights several lives and In time brings tragedy Into her own. “The Last Payment” was written by John Brennert and George Jacoby, two of the foremost of European writers for the screen. It is massive production. The principal roles are played by well known European artists. The Fox news weekly and a Harold Lloyd farce “Crack Your Heels,” will be added program features. -I- -I- -IDOEBLE BILL BOOKED AT ISIS. Allan Dwan’s special production, “The Sin of Martha Queed,” end Harold Lloyd In “Never Weaken,” will constitute a double program at the Isis next week. Mr. Divan wrote the story of “The Sin of Martha Queed" in addition to directing the making of the picture. It present* an luteresting angle of the psychology of a sin that exists only In a suspicious, bigoted, Intolerant mind. Its heroine ls a sweet, pure girl whose father, a narrow minded, tyrannical man, resented her acceptance of the well-mean-ing intentions of the man whom she really love. He conceived the Idea that she was doing wroDg, and to bend her to his will forced her to marry a scoundrel. The character of Queed, who so abhorred sin that he found it In everybody but himself, ls portrayed by Josepb J. Dowling. The daughter Martha is played by Mary Thurman, while Niles Welch, Frank Campeau, George Hackatborne, Eugenie Besserer, Gertrude Claire and little Frankie Lee have Important roles. Many of the scenes In “Never Weaken" are high In the air on the skeleton of a skyscrapper In course of erection, and the antics of the bespectacled comedian