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DM, COMEDY FOUND ON NEW MOW MENU Film Managers Provide Special Musical Events Next Week, -1 OVIES for next week run toward drama, although all bills include comedies and musical novelties. “Single Wives,” with Corinne Griffith and Milton Sills, will be the chief film attraction at the Circle next week. Harry Stoddard and his orchestra opens an engagement Sunday. The Ohio features “True as Steel,” with Norman Kerry. next week. Lester Huff will play “Jazzmama” on the organ. "The Heart Buster,” anew Tom Mix picture, will be the chief drawing card at the Apollo. For the first half of the week at the* Isis “The Back Trail,” with Jack Hoxie, will be on view. “Scaramouche” will be on view all next week at Mister Smith's. “SINGLE WIVES” OPEN SUNDAY AT THE CIRCLE "Single Wives,” a dramatic story of modern society from the pen of Earl Hudson, will be on new at the Circle beginning Sunday, with Corinne Griffith and Milton Sills the featured players. “Single Wives” deals with the class of women common to the present day, who axe virtually forced to seek attention away from their own firesides, because of the indifference or pre-occupation of their own husbands. Miss Griffth appears as Betty Jordon, a bride of a year, who craves from her husband the little attentions and thoughtfulness that endeared him to her in their courtship days, but Ferry Jordon is too much absorbed in his business interests to continue to play the ardent lover. On their anniversary night he presents her with a beautiful string of pearls, but his lack of romance and sentiment hurts her deeply, and when they attend a reception given them by Dorothy Van Clark, Betty's mother, Betty again meets Martin Praie. an old admirer, who has become a distinguished diplomat. Quick to sense Betty’s unhappiness and the cause for it, he pays her ardent court, finally persuading Betty to divorce Perry and marry him. Betty determines to do so, and when she finds her mother in a very tragic condition as a resuit of the same situation in Mrs. Van Clark's wife. Betty decides to divorce Perry immediately in order to save herself from a like experience. Fate steps in at this moment, however. and after a series of dramatic incidents, happiness is brought to the mother and her daughter. Kathlyn Williams is seen as Dorothy Van Clark. Lou Tellegen is Martin Prayle and Henry B. Walthall is Franklyn Dexter, the mother's admirer. Others in the cast are Phillips Smalley, Phyllis Haver and John Patrick. There will also be a Circlette of News, a Circle comedy and a novelty film. The special feature beginning Sunday will be Harry Stoddard and his Streets of New York Orchestra, a unique novelty band. Stoddard will present his own interpretation of the various phases of New York, which he calls “The Streets of New York.”
MOVIE STORY IS BASED UPON QUOTATION ‘ Steel bends but will not break; the better the steel the farther It can bend without snipping and the quicker it returns to the straight." It is upon this quotation that "True as Steel” the Rupert Hughes story of modem business is based. The picture will be the featured attraction the coming week. "Pay as You Enter” is the name of the comedy. A news weekly is an added attraction,. Lester Huff, at the organ, will be heard in his original solo, "Jazzmania." Virgil Moore’s orchestra will be heard in a lively program of summer melodies. "True as Steel” features Norman Kerry, Aileen Pringle, Raymond Hatton. Eleanor Boardman, Louise Fazenda. William H. Crane. Huntly Gordon, Cleo Madison. William Orlamond and William Haines. The picture concerns modem business life and has to do with Frank Parry, a midwestern business man of middle age who goes on a business trip to New York, leaving his wife at home alone and his daughter to become infatuated with a young banker. While East on business Parry meets Mrs. Eva Boutelle. a beautiful and clever young business woman. Their commercial association brings them close together and the settled married man finds himself intoxicated with his new acquaintance. Mrs. Boutelle cannot resist the bit of color in her humdrum office life while her husband is in Chicago. She flings herself gladly into this apparently innocent flirtation. Parry puts off his return from day to day. He wires of business delays and sees Mrs. Boutelle daily, at night accompanying her to brilliant supper clubs. -I- -I- -!- TOM MIX OBSERVES GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY With the release of “The Heart Buster,” next week’s attraction at the Apollo, Tom Mix observes hit, "golden anniversary” as a screen star. It is Mix’s fiftieth picture, and according to advance reports, is better than any of its forty-nine predecessors. which is considerable of an assertion, because a Mix production is generally corking good entertainment. "The Heart Buster” presents Mix as Tod Walton, a prosperous Arizona ranch owner in love with Rose, daughter of his neighbor, John Hillyer. Though welcoming Tod’s attention Rose becomes infatuated with a man named Gordon who poses as an English gentlemam Tod recognises Gordon as a crook tbhorr he had once foiled in an attempted
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robbery in Kaxisas City. When he tells Rose she becomes indignant, refuses to credit him and announces that her marriage will take place within two days. Then things begin to happen. Gordon is held up by a masked bandit and relieved of the marriage license and ring just prior to the hour set for the ceremony. The local minister and the justice of the peace the only two persons in the community with authority to perform a marriage ceremony, are kidnaped. Tod himself lands in jail, but with the aid of his horse Tony, manages to escape. The cast contains Esther Ralston, Cyril Chadwick, William Courtright, Frank Currier and Tom Wilson. George Scarborough wrote the story. Other films will be a comedy, “The Unreal News Reel” and the Fox news weekly. Benson's melody entertainers, making their debut at the Apollo, and Earl Gordon, organist, will offer a musical program of appropriate quality. -t- -I- -ISABATINI STORY ON VIEW AT SMITH’S Rafael Sabatini’s story of the French revolution, “Scaramouche," will be the attraction at Mister Smith’s beginning Sunday. Ramon Navarro is seen in the role of a dashing young cavalier who dedicates his life to the cause of the oppressed people when his best friend is villainously slain by the Marquis de la Tour. Sick at heart because his boyhood sweetheart. Aline, accepts the attention of the marquis. Andre-Louis renounces the nobility and joins a band of strolling players. He becomes a Scaramouche. the clown, and the idol of Paris. After denouncing the marquis from the stage he is forced to flee, and becomes a fencing master, while the rumble of the French revolution grows louder on all sides. Andre-Louis, still believing that Aline is in love with the marquis, plunges into the midst of the rebellion. and is able because of the position of trust he occupies, to save his mother and Aline, through the marquis, who he learns is his own father, is sacrificed to the mob. Aline explains that it is Andre she loves, and they ride away together, seeking happines in a less troubled land. Alice Terry is Aline in this production, Louis Stone is the marquis, and Julia Swayne Gordon is Andre's titled mother. Rex Ingram directed this production, which took seven months in the making.
NEW HOXIE FILM OX VIEW AT ISIS "Shooting up” a Western cattle town, a run-away stage coach team and a battle between a gang of cattle rustlers and a sheriff’s posse are the action features of Jack Hoxie's new melodrama, “The Back Trail.” to be shown at the Isis the first half of next week. The scenes are not all of this variety however, for there is a charming love element, aDd an atonement for wrong done, to appeal to the more subtle emotions. Hoxie is cast as a cowboy veteran of the World War who suffers from loss of memory due to his experiences over-seas, and who is made the victim of a I iot conceived by an ingenious crook. Eugenia Gilbert and Claude Peyton lead the supporting cast. The comedy will be a farce entitled "Models and Artists.” "The Ridin’ Fool,” is the title of a comedy drama starring Lester Cuneo. which will he the offering Thursday and the rest of the week. It concerns the adventures of a pampered and somewhat studious son of a wealthy Easterner who sends the young man to his friend Thompson, a Western rancher, with instructions that he be made to "rough it.” The erst contains Frances Martinson, Leslie Eates. Slim Padgett, Tom Forman, Frank Stockdale and ethers. A Billy West comedy “Dying For Love” will be added. Rosen to Make “This Woman” Phil Rosen, whose direction of “Abraham Lincoln” established him as one of the foremost directors of the day, will produce "This Woman” from the book by Howard Rockey, as a special Warner Bros, classic. This will be Rosen’s third production for Warner Bros., the other two were "Being Respectable” and "Lovers’ Lane.” Violet Plays in “Clean Heart” Violet La Plante, one of the prettiest of Hollywood’s “debs,” is playing one of the important roles in "The Clean Heart,” which J. Stuart Slackton is producing for Vitagraph with Percy Marmont. as Philip Wriford and Otis P’.idd!<b—r
No. I—Lou Tellegen and Corinne Griffith in “Single Wives” at the Circle, opening Sunday. No. 2. —Jack Hoxie in a pleasant scene from “The Back Trail” at the Isis the first half of next week. No. 3. —Aileen Pringle in “True As Steel” at the Ohio all next week.
Berkell Players to Present Farce
Few farce comedies have enjoyed the success accorded "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,” which will be the offering of the Berkell Players at English's next week, and which has never been played here by a stock company*. It was written by C. W. Bell and Mark Swan, and produced in New York by Al H. Woods. After a season of prosperity on Broadway it was sent on tour with unprecedented returns. There's a lively mixup in “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath” from the very start, due to the fact that Mrs. Richard Irving, newlywed, just dotes on her husband having a “past,” and is furthermore thrilled with the belief that marriage has not caused him to change his ways. Though Richard was not in the least inclined to wander away from his own rooftree, he nevertheless felt duty bound to live up to his wife's expectations just to satisfy her. Accordingly he hit upon the idea of carrying on an “affair,” wholly lm-
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No. 4. —Laufa La Plante and Edward Hearn in “Excitement” at the Palace the first ( half of the week. No. 6.—Tom Mix in "The Heart Buster” at the Apollo all next week. No. 6.—Lewis Stone in “Scaxamouche” at Mister Smith’s, opening Sunday for the week.
aginary, even going so far as to write endearing letters to himself — letters supposed to be from “Tootles," his latest feminine admirer. A handwriting expert is on the point of exposing him when his best friend steps in and saves the situation by arranging to give Mrs. Irving first-hand knowledge of her husband's perfidy. In the scenes that follow the perfectly innocent Richard is perplexed to find himself with three “admirers” on his hands, two of whom chance to be real friends of his wife. And to make matters worse the husband of one of the women discovers his better half in the general plot of having “pasts.” There’s no end of merriment through all three acts, the hilarity reaching it’s height in a climax where everything is ironed out to everybody's satisfaction —'including Mrs Irving, who is happily convinced that hubby is, as she always suspected, a regular devil among the women.
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LILLIAN LEITZEL #ne of the big drawing cards with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, which will be here Tuesday, Aug. 26, for two performances, will be Lillian Leitzel. She is famous in the circus world.
NEW YORK STARTS WORK ON FOR NEWSEASON Many New Producers Throw Hats Into Theatrical Ring, By ROBERT EDGAR LOND NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—The coming theatrical season will start off with more new names in the producing field than have ever been with the New York stage. Many of these producers are entering the business for the first time, while others are shifting from various branches of the profession to take up the more hazardous enterprise of play production. Among the newcomers will he Hassard Short, former wizard of the “Music Box Revues,who for the past four years has staged all the big productions at the Music Box Theater. Horace Liveright, well-known book publisher, has decided to become a theatrical producer, as have Robert Milton, fOx-mer stage director; Martin Beck, prominent vaudeville executive; William Caryl of the Shubert forces; Gustav Bloom, Mark Hellinger, O. G. Collinson, Irving S. Strause, the Jordan Amusement Company and Adolphe Mayer. Short Makes Plans Hassard Short’s plans seem to be among the more elaborate of the newcomers, and he will be the first in the field. His Initial production will be called “Hassard ShortV, Ritz Revue.” It will be housed in the remodeled and reconstructed Ritz Theater in West Forty-Eighth St. His assemblage of authors and composers for this single enterprise reads almost like a Who's Who of the writing and composing guild along Broadway. He already has under contract Roy and Kenneth Webb, Anne Caldwell, Clyde North, Norma Mitchell. Ralph Bunker. Roger Gray, Joseph Santley and Clifford Gray in his roster of authors. The composers include Jerome Kern, Silvio Hein, Frank Touts. Raymond Hubbell, Werner Janssen and H. M. Tennent, the latter the English composer whose "When You and I Were Dancing” is the present hit. of London. The cast of the new revue will he headed by Charlotte Greenwood. Ton, Burke, prominent tenor, also has been signed, as have Jay Brennan and Stanley Rogers, vaudeville successors to Savoy and Brennan. The entire production will be designed by Clark Robinson, a Hassard Short “discovery,” who served in a like capacity on the settings for ail the "Music Box Revues.” The cos-
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LENA DALEY When the burlesque season opens on Sunday, Aug. 10, at the Capitol, Lena Daisy and her company will be the opening ata-ac-tion. Miss Daley xs an Indianapolis woman and she is x e:e now rehearsing her con pany.
tumes will be by Charles Le Maire and Adrian and Ralph Mulligan. Immediately following the production of “Hassard Short’s Ritz Revue,” Short will launch Reynaldo Hahn's light opera, “Ciboulette,” now in its second year at the Theatre des Varieties, Paris. The French book by Francis de Croisset and Robert de Flers will be adapted for the American stage by Anne Caldwell. Short is said to be combing the field of sopranos In search of a prima donna for "Ciboulette.” Several names have been mentioned, among them Margaret Namara, Tessa Kosta, Vivienne Segal and Eleanor Painter. Leo Ditreichstein and J. Harold Murray probably will be in the cast. Some New Women Os the other newcomers in the production of plays and revues Horace Liveright will come forth with a comedy by Edwin Justus Mayer; Irving S. Strause will stage a play with music, tentatively called “Spigotless Barrel;" Mark Hellinger has a comedy from the German, “My Son The Doctor:’’ Gustav Bloom will branch out from the Independent Theater to offer “My Son.” a play by Martha Stanley, with Sarah Truax prominent in the cast; The Jordan Amusement Company will have “Marge;” O. G. Collinson announces a revue named “Steam Piano;’’ William Caryl will stage a musical comedy, “Top Hole,” and Adolphe Mayer will produce “Bye. Bye, Barbara,” opening it in Boston early in August.
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TURPIN IN FILM DOES. TRAVESTY ON VON STROHEIM Funny-Eyed Comedian Has Chief Role in Three Foolish Weeks,’ By A. H. FREDERICK NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2.—Neither “Three Weeks” nor “Foolish Wives," presenting as they do such ample opportunities for burlesque, should have expected to have escaped the hands of the funsters. They didn’t. Mack Sennett recently completed the filming of “Three Foolish Weeks,” as the name suggests, a double-barreled burlesque. Principal star is Ben Turpin, he of the misbehaving eyes and prankish nature, but otherwise a renovation. Not now the shabby suit and misfit neckwear; no indeed. Turpin has modeled himself upon the person of Erich von Stroheim, due allowance being made for the different fields of their talents. Eyeglass, walking stick, uniform and medals all complete. To those who expect to laugh-be-cause of the dissimilar similarity between either of the serious pictures and the takeoff, perhaps Turpin’s makeup will be the funniest thing in the picture. To those who enjoy Turpin and the Sennett studio humor, well, they may expect a two-reel treat in the near future. Nearly Straight Comedy Which all leads to the declaration or hint to theatergoers—that the picture is much more a straightaway Sennet comedy than a burlesque. The title, Turpin’s makeup, a tiger-skin rug and a few scattered scenes are the principal connection between it and its serious predecessors. Considered as a Sennet comedy only, it is good—with the exception of a few scenes which might much better have been left out However, the fun moves fast. Turpin's courageousness, symbolized by his uniform, and the total lack of it, gives him new opportunities for “gags” or incident development, of which he takes fullest opportunity. Even the time-honored scene of the small man fearing physical violence from a larger threatener is given zest by Turpin’s characterization. Madeline Hurlock, the love-smitten queen, handles what part she has capably and, much more to the point, pulchritudinously, while Supervising Director F. Richard Jones has set the scenes with serious thought to the purpose for which the picture ■was planned.