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Making a Film Finale

Satisfy the Customers

Hollywood Adopts a New Scheme of Fitting a

Picture's Last Scene to the Locality Where It Is Screened—Advantages of the Idea.

By E. de S. MelcHer. HE cinema industry has de- ι

veloped a new racket. This is a sound, sensible bit of j business which threatens to

put at least one or two up on ι

Mother Stage. Its efficacy was

proved here in Washington a few weeks ago, where, at the clapping of the hands of the astute city manager of the Loew forces (Car- ter Barron), something in the way of a novelty was introduced.

It all came about when at a pre- view of the John Gilbert film, "Downstairs," a group of local re-

viewers, somewhat invigorated by Its novelty at the outset, began to grow more and more unhappy as the yarn progressed. Unhappy, too, was the local Loew generalissimo, since he must have felt the shrinking appetites all around him and the general spirit of depres- sion that set in when, for in- stance, in the last few snatches of this film Mr. Gilbert, as a smooth-faced, two-faced rogue 'smiling gallantly under a chauf- feur's bonnet) plunged into a wine vat and was drowned as un-

ceremoniously as a rat. Mr. Barron, pink cheeked j

majordomo of three vital links in, this city's theatric nucleus, said. to himself: "This will never do!" And he wondered why a film I which had so much that was good about it should thus teeter off and become a somber saga of un-

healthy mien which in its final shrieking point uttered a loud and j somewhat nasty yowl. The sight of Mr. Gilbert immersed in a gar- gantuan wine vat, giving himself : up to the devil, was not the sort of thing which would appeal to the vast majority of film-goers, Mr. Barron argued. And his argu- ments proved right.

Only last week in the shadow of Beacon Hill (Boston) this re- viewer, in a fit of holiday leniency, : was enticed into a cinema pa- ; vilion, where unbeknownst to him the feature film was "Downstairs." After a long and somewhat satis- fying sleep, punctuated by a wak- ing growl at the thought of hav- ing to see Mr. Gilbert go down the wine vat again, he was startled :

to find that, in spite of the fact | that the wine vat appeared, Mi·.i Gilbert had apparently nothing to do with it. Having told his near relation (who had taken him to this "talkie") to beware of the j tragedy at the near end, he was more than surprised to find that no such tragedy occurred. In the ; ultimate climax, Mr. Gilbert was : not only not in the vat, but he | was breathing merrily out in the ι sunshine and smiling glibly before ! the also smiling countenance of ! Karen Morley.

wnerc is yuur vrageay .' asKea the equally surprised relation, who1 had enjoyed the fleeting vision of Gilbert being pursued by Paul Lukas' foot up the flight of stairs. I "I thought you said Gilbert was drowned."

"He was drowned when I saw j it."

The near relation looked at us | somewhat askance—and walked out of the theater asking other and more personal questions.

Back in Washington the re- viewer fled to the giant offices of ; Mr. Barron. "Didn't Gilbert get j mixed up in a wine vat in 'Down- stairs'?"

Mr. Barron smiled. "He did j when you saw it. But he didn't when it was shown at the Fox ! Theater."

"What happened?" Mr. Barron relaxed, sat back in

his office swivel chair, seemed to enjoy the confusion that his vis- itor was in, and expounded on what had happened.

It seems that after viewing "Downstairs," he wired the home office. "Send me another end- ing," he said. They did. Within 48 hours Mr. Gilbert was definite- ly out of the wine vat and as alive and kicking as he has always been. Large audiences at the local theater were never aware that he suffered a more unpleasant fate when the picture was first re- leased. That when it was re- ; viewed, for instance, by this de- ! partment the reviewee was writ- ing about other events than were actually taking place at the mo- ment.

Two endings—that's the new | Hollywood racket! And a good j one at that. In sections of the country where tears are known to predominate ia popular pastime now), Mr. Gilbert, floundering around in a pre-death fit, prob-

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ably will be thoroughly enjoyed by depressionlstic fans. In other parts, where the countryside would prefer not to have Gilbert dead, he can be switched on again, and made to continue his villain- istic career, tooting around the land as Miss Morley's new and eccentric chauffeur.

A fine idea! Something the stage, for instance, can never hope to attain. The only trouble is that you can never be certain what you are going to see. You might even be wrong about the Marx Brothers. In a dreary swampland the manager of the local theater might wire in: "Don't care for the ending. Send us another." And so instead of a generally jubilant ;limax the Paramount Corpora- tion might send them the last part Df "Thunder Below" and thus give the audience the sorrow it has been looking for.

In the case of "Downstairs," particularly, the substitution of another ending was shrewd fore- sight—or aftersight. Mr. Barron sensed accurately that Mr. Gil- bert had bent too far backward in bis attempt to be realistic. Audi- snces these days are too realistic themselves to want to follow their heroes down subterranean pas- sages and mud-colored wine cemeteries. "White Zombie" was enough of an atrocity to keep peo- ple unhappy for a long time. After ill, Gilbert is not yet a Number i Dne tragedian. Ladies, it is said, j ?o to see him smile and be happy. \nd so if one ending of a film j ias him gazing playfully at the J ovely Miss Morley, and the other las him sputtering around in a vine-cellar's styx, you can hardly vonder that what the public pre- ferred was the more cheerful so- ution.

The upshot of all this being— 1 f you don't like the ending of a ! ilm try again somewhere else and fou may see something different.

Circus Is Coming! HUNT'S SHOW HERE THIS WEEK.

y^ASHINGTON will have the unique opportunity of seeing the oldtime

Family circus when Hunt's shows visits the Capital for a week's engagement :ommencing Monday and appearing each day at a different locatiqn.

Hunt's circus is this year celebrat- ing its fortieth annual tour and is the only show in the world owned and di- rected by a great-grandmother. Four generations of her family appear in its program, and typical of the traditional circus, emphasis is placed upon the rid- ing acts.

Hunt's circus will open its engage- ment at Wisconsin avenue and Yuma street northwest on Monday and will ! thereafter iippear on the following lo- cations: Tuesday, Georgia avenue and Underwood street northwest; Wednes- day, Rhode Island avenue and Frank- lin street northeast; Thursday, Massa- chusetts avenue at Eighteenth street southeast; Friday, Congress Heights, Nichols avenue and Portland street; Saturday, Georgia avenue and Euclid street northwest.

On Monday morning there will be a special performance on the ground of Mount Alto Hospital for the benefit of fick veterans, and on Tuesday morn- ing another performance will be given du the grounds of Walter Reed Hospital.

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A Dramatic Event BY WALLACE Ml'NRO.

ONE of the most distinctive

dramatic events of the season is scheduled among the early bookings at the National Theater when for the week

commencing Monday evening, October 3. Eva Le Gallienne will bring here the Civic Repertory Theater Co. of

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■with the associa- tion of Joseph Schildkraut appear in two of the most successful plays in the entire reper- tory: "Liliom," by Molnar, and "Ca- mille," by Dumas.

These two plays, one from France and the other from Hungary, have been ac- claimed by review- ers as representa- tive dramas of in- tense interest. Henry James wrote of "Camille" that

Joirph Schildkraut.

"it was an astonishing piece of work, taking a great place among the love stories of the world." Of "Liliom," it has been said "that it is undoubtedly Molnar's greatest play with its amazing virtuosity, its imaginative daring, Its uncanny blending of naturalism and fantasy, humor and pathos, tenderness and tragedy into a solid dramatic structure.

In "Camille" Eva Le Gallienne ap- pears as the famous "Lady of the Camellias," and Jœeph Schildkraut will make his initial appearance as Armand Duval. Other well known roles in the play will be taken by leading members of the Civic Repertory Company.

Miss Le Gallienne's verson of "Ca- mille" more closely follows the original than any other version used in the

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American theater. The translation Is by Henriette Metcalfe. The score of Verdi's "La Travlata" will be used as incidental music with settings designed i by Aline Bernstein.

In "Liliom," Joseph Schildkraut Will | be seen In his original role, that of Liliom. and Miss Le Galllenne will again be seen as Julie. The reunion of these two artists brings to the theatrical sea- son a note of hteh Interest. They were first seen in the Molnar play when it was produced by the Garrick Theater in 1921.

"Liliom" Is almost wholly a natural- \ istic story of underworld life. In Hun- J garian, Lilliom is a slang expression j for a "tough," or as we in contempt i sometimes call a person, a gangster. ! He is that particular sort of man who is employed as a barker for a merry-go- round, who picks up and flirts with young housmaids and nurseglrls, and who is especially attractive to women.

With much the same glamour that j Schnitzler spreads over Vienna, Molnar In "Liliom" emphasizes the radiant at- mosphere of Budapest.

The first act of the play takes place in a carousal in Budapest, the place not unlike a country fair, with much the same din and glamour that comes from people bent on a holiday.

The scenes that follow are a photog- | rapher's studio, a railroad embankment; ; Heaven, or. as Molnar puts it, in the Beyond, and the last is 16 years later in a small house In the country. It is through these scenes that Molnar tells his touching and fantastic story.

The large cast is composed of mem- bers of the Civic Repertory Co., and in addition to Miss Le Gallienne and Mr. Schildkraut includes Josephine Hutchi- son, Paul Leyssac, Beatrice de Neer- gaard, Harold Moulton, Charles Ellis,

j Donald Cameron, Leona Roberts, J. ! Sayre Crawley. Robert Gordon, Ruth ! Wilton, Beatrice Terry, Walter Beck, j Florida Freibus, Robert Ross and Nel- 1 son Welch.

Cohan's Los Angeles

George m. cohan admits

himself "completely lost" in a

city he thought he knew so

well. He can't recognize Los Angeles as the little town he

last saw 22 years ago. Back in Southern California for the

first time since he toured that section of the country with "The Yankee Prince" in 1910, Cohan is making his talking picture debut in Paramount's "The Phantom President."

Still greater is the difference between the Los Angeles of today and the vil- lage he visited in 1896 when still a

youth in knee trousers, but "fresh enough to think I was a man of the world," as he describes it.

That was the time he convinced his parents and sister Josle—other mem-

bers of the Four Cohans—to try out a

pair of vaudeville acts he had written. They staged them for the first time at the Los Angeles Orpheum, the acts be-

ing "The Professor's Wife" and "Money to Burn." The material proved such a hit that these acts resulted in the Cohans finally crashing Broadway.

Prom that time until 1903, Cohan played Los Angeles periodically. Fur- thermore, when he was 21, the Cohans took a family home in Los Angeles "away out on Eleventh street." where they spent their Summers for a few years.

"In those days, all variety actors spent the Summer in Los Angeles," Cohan recalls. "As with the Four Co- hans, these performers would book Into San Francisco and Los Angeles for the wind-up of their season and then vaca- tion until September.

"A family could rent a furnished house for the three Summer months for a couple of hundred dollars.

"When I first played Los Angeles it was a little adobe town of about 50,000. Out here in those days any one with an automobile was considered a millionaire, any one who carried a flask on his hip was a bum and any one who rode a

bicycle was a daredevil. "Every one was buying and selling

gold mines and hardly a person walked the streets without a pocket full of gold

; nuggets. The early oil boom was over

; and the heart of town was filled with I decaying oil derricks.

"From 1903 until 1910 Τ didnt see ! Los Angeles. Then I returned in "The

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Yankee Prince.' It was the biggest road show on earth then. We came in a

special train of 10 cars and the entire coast trip took 14 weeks.

"Until my present return to Los An- geles. that 1910 trip was the biggest surprise of my life. In the seven years I had been away, the town had be- come a city of a half million and even then I often got lost.

"Motion pictures were just starting then, but none of us ever ran into a

company at work or saw a studio. No one took the tiny industry seriously.

"In the years since 1910, Los Angeles has more than doubled Its size. Now, I hear, there are a million and a quarter inhabitants here. I thought I'd know my way about, but I'm wholly at the ■

mercy of taxi drivers. I just hop In and tell them to go somewhere. If It takes half an hour to get there I never know whether we've gone a round- about way or straight there." 1

New Play Analysis School. A NEW school of play analysis and : Λ production In connection with stage ■

design opens September 15. The Ab- <

bott School of Pine and Commercial ι

Art has announced that it will add this course to the school, under the direction of J. Milnor Dorey, who has produced 1

plays In this city, at Dartmouth Col- 1

lege, the Little Theater at Trenton, N. J., and the Beechwood Theater, Scar- borough, Ν. Y. He has studied play analysis and writing ~~with the well known stage consultant, W. T. Price of 1

New York, and has been identified with 1 the famous Workshop 47 at Harvard University, under Prof. George P. ι Baker.

The course will deal with analysis of the play and its direct application to Its production. Plays will be analyzed and interpreted as the basis of creating original stage settings which reflect the mood and purpose of the plays.

These classes will be given in connec- tion with the regular classes in stage ι

design and stage costume. Classes in designing of original sets will be under Hugo Iden and those in costume will 1

be under Ada Klein-Peter. The school is now open for registre- ]

tion from 10 to 5 p.m. An exhibition I of student work may be fee η at this i time.

In Washington Theaters This Week GAYETY—Hinda Wausau and Her "Hindu Belles." This after-

noon and evening. LOEW'S FOX—"70,000 Witnesses," and stage show. This after-

noon and evening. EARLE—"Devil and the Deep," and vaudeville. This afternoon

and evening. KEITH'S—"Bird of Paradise." This afternoon and evening. PALACE—"Love Me Tonight." This afternoon and evening. METROPOLITAN—"Horse Feathers," second week. This after-

noon and evening. COLUMBIA—"A Man's Land." This afternoon and evening.

Humpty Dumpty Partners

ALONG Broadway, New York, |

they are calling the recently1 formed partnership of Laurence Schwab and B. G. De Sylva, authors and producers of ;

Humpty Dumpty," which will open at :he National Theater on Monday eve-

ling. September 19. "a natural." Laurence Schwab has previously

been known to the theater as the senior member of the successful firm if Schwab and Mandel, while "Buddy" De Sylva was the chief member of the equally proficient partnership of De Sylva, Brown and Henderson.

Thia is by no means the first associ- ition of Schwab and De Sylva, which Jates back some eight years. But, heretofore, they have collaborated on

:he writing of musical comedies, such is "Good News," "Follow Thru," "Cap- tain Jinks" and "Queen High." This s their first association as co-producers is well as co-authors.

Schwab and De Sylva are as allEv nhysically and temperamentally as two men can possibly be. They are both in iheir 30s and there is a difference of Dnly two years In their ages. Schwab seing the senior. They were born at -he two extremes of the Nation. Schwab Is a Bostonian and was educated at Harvard, while De Sylva hails from Los Angeles and graduated from the Jniversity of Southern California. Both :ame to New York at about the same ;ime—Schwab when he was discharged ïrom the United States Navy as lieu- ;enant at the end of the war, to enter he office of Wilmer and Vincent, vaude- ville producers, and De Sylva to sell ,hree songs to A1 Jolson for "Sinbad."

Up to 1924 both young men labored in the vineyards of the theater with- out their paths crossing. Schwab wrote, produced and booked vaudeville acts, and in 1922 produced his first musical comedy. "The Gingham Girl." During that time De Sylva gained fame as a writer of songs and contributed num- bers to "La La Lucille," "Sally," the Scandals of 1922, 1923 and 1924.

Then the two met. It was in the office of the Harms Music Publishing Co., where it was suggested that De Sylva provide the songs for Schwab's musical show, "Sweet Little Devil." They collaborated on "Captain Jinks," "Queen High," "Good News and "Fol- low Thru," while each one followed his own bent in other directions. Schwab, in partnership with Prank Mandel, wrote and produced other shows, while De Sylva furnished songs for nearly all of Whites "Scandals," A1 Jolson's "Big Boy." "Manhattan Mary," "Hold Every- thing" and other New York hits.

When the talkies became the fashion, De Sylva, with his partners. Brown and Henderson, went to Hollywood and wrote and produced what were probably the only successful musical productions for the screen.

A few months ago Prank Mandel, Schwab's partner, decided to go to Europe and temporarily retire from the business of the theater. So Laurence Schwab and B. G. De Sylva joined hands and their first production is "Humpty Dumpty," which they offer as a novel idea in the way of musical comedy and which Washington will see prior to its Broadway engagement.

Outdoor Amusements.

GLEN ECHO PARK.

i<jgIG DOINGS" will continue to be the rule at Glen Echo Park

;hroughout the month of September, ind there is a "carnival spirit" pre- vailing throughout the amusement re-

iort these Indian Summer days. The nanagement has announced that on

Monday ail ladies will be admitted free 'or dancing; on Tuesday carrousel rides nill be free from 1 to 5 p.m.; on

Wednesday admission to the Midway will be free from 1 to 5 p.m.. and on

rhursday and Friday carrousel rides ind Midway will be free from 1 to 5 >.m.

Great enthusiasm is manifested by ;he crowds who know they can con- •lnue to enjoy the splashing and diving η Crystal Pool, the thrilling rides on ■oiler coaster, airplane swings and car- •ousel. or drift through the romantic >ld mill. Picnic parties will continue to Ind ample accommodations at the park, vlth benches, chairs, etc., in abundance. tlacWilliams and his orchestra will be >n the Job every evening except Sun- iay from 8:30 until 11:30 p.m.

CHEVY CHASE LAKE. "THE personal appearance of Russ

Columbo and his band at Chevy ?hase Lake during the past week was a luge success, and packed the dance pa- Dillon of the popular resort to its ut- nost capacity.

The management will continue to ;pring surprises of this kind and many nnovations will be offered this week or those who «sit the popular dance •esort.

Barnes Thompson and his Ambassa- lors. with Jack Newlon furnishing di- ,'ertisement continue to provide the nusic and entertainment.

SEASIDE PARK CLOSING. TODAY marks the closing of the reg-

ular season at Seaside Park, Chesa- >eake Beach, and a gala closing it is expected to be. A carnival, centering η the boardwalk ballroom, set off the veek end festivities last night with

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Howard Opening

^AB CALLOWAY and his Cotton Club Orchestra, supported by his

j "Hi-De-Ho" revue of 70 entertainers hold forth at the Howard as the cur- rent and inaugural attraction of the season.

The demand for the midnight shows has been so large for Cab Calloway that the management will give three of these special performances—Tues- day, Thursday and Friday.

Cab Calloway has long been estab- lished as a prominent radio and stage star and is so solidly booked in the fu- ture that this will be his only appear- ance in Washington this year with his famous Cotton Club Orchestra. His new "Hi-De-Ho" revue is the most pre- tentious stage production he has ever presented.

The three midnight shows. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, for this engage- ment will doubtless prove a popular in- novation at the Howard.

Robinson in "The Machine." EDWARD O. ROBINSON S next plc-

ture, following the completion of '•Silver Dollar," will be "The Machine," the life story of a ruthless department store owner, said to be one of the most unusual characterizations ever allotted to this star. David Cohen is the author of "The Machine," and Roy Del Ruth will direct. It is expected that "Silver Dollar" will be completed within the next three weeks and the new film will probably enter production early in Oc- tober.

balloons and various noise-makers add- ing to the spirit of the occasion.

Today's feature will be a "pajama matinee" in the ballroom, with free ad- mission and dancing for all women ap- pearing in pajamas. Jarboe and his Nighthawks will play this afternoon and for tonight's wind-up, as they have played throughout the season. All amusements, including the salt water swimming pool, will remain open until late tonight.

Comedian Lou

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One of Broadway's favorite comedians, who Is appearing in the National Thea- ter's opening attraction, the Schwab and De Sylva musical comedy, "Humpty Dumpty."

This Week's Pictures PALACE—"Love Me Tonight."

Maurice chevaliers latest

film, "Love Me Tonight," Is the current offering at Loews Palace Theater. It is prov- ing to be one of the most

popular of his American efforts In cellu- loid. Featured with the French come- dian Is Jeanette "MacDonald, and in supporting rôles are Charlie Ruggles. Charles Butterworth. C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy also, as the Countess Valpntinp has pasl- ly her finest role to date. "Love Me Tonight"

Is essentially some-

thing different in the way of cine- ma entertainment. Rouben Mamoulian, who rocketed to fame five years ago with the New York Theater Guild pro- duction of "Porgy," directed it.

Aside from its engaging story, the picture boasts an abundance of songs that wers written by the well known

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team οι uicnara Koagers ana ix>renz

Hart, who have written successful music for more than 25 recent Broadway musi- : cal comedies. Their contributions in-

( elude the title song. "He's a Tailor," done very much m Gilbert-Sullivan style, and "Romance." The play is based on a stage production by Leopold Marchand and Paul Arment.

The supporting cast includes Eliza- beth Patterson, Joseph Cawthorn, Ethel Griffes. Blanche Friderici, Robert Greig, Ethel Wales. Marion Byron, Bert Roach, Mary Doran, Cecil Cunningham, Tyler Brook, Herbert Mundin, Rita Owin, Gordon Westcott and Tony Merlo. 1

LOEWS POX—"70.000 Witnesses.*· Τ OEW'S POX THEATER this week ί ■*"' offers a stage bill headlined by Abe Lyman and his celebrated California 1

band and Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, 1

screen comedian of several years ago, 1

I offering a brand-new comedy routine. j The picture this week is one of 1 Paramount's newest — "70,000 Wit- nesses," a combination of a foot ball, 1

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campus and murder mystery movie. In ■

I the fea'ured roles are Phillips Holmes, 1

Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles. I Johnny Mack Brown, Lew Cody and «

Walter Heirs. The film deals with the murder of an

ail-American halfback as he dashes >

I through a clear field for a certain <

touchdown. The spectators at the game, 70,000 of them, suddenly see him <

stumble, fall and remain prone on the ι

ground. Baffled physicians who rush < him to the hospital are unable to dis- 1 cover what caused the death, though authorities know that it is murder, ι

Ultimately, the halfback's roommate »

and teammate, In co-operation with a J clever detective, discovers just how and why the gridiron star was put out of the way. ,

Abe Lyman, the California bandman. brings with him his entire orchestra of 25 pieces. Lyman has made more than ι 250 best-selling phonograph records in j his day and has himself written several ι song hits. Among them are "What Can ( I Say, Dear. After I Say I'm Sorry," , "Mary Lou," "Mandalay" and "You < Told Me to Go." Fatty Arbuckle is \ \ trying for a real film comeback. He has all of the comedy tricks that made him one of the foremost stars of the screen several years ago, as well as -,

many new ones. Other vaudeville acts this week are June Carr. Luis Zingone and Arthur LaFleur. Phil Lampkin i leads the Fox Concert Orchestra j, through "Orpheus." | ;

KEITH'S—"Bird of Paradise." DICHARD WALTON TULLY'S "Bird χ ^ of Paradise" that brought stardom s to many feminine stage playtrs during t its 20-odd years' presentation as a suc- c cessful stage play has finally reached t the talking screen and may be seen f this week at R-K-O Keith's.

Dolores Del Rio, exotic Mexican star, 1

c protrays the role of Luana in the screen -j production produced by R-K-O Radio j Pictures.

In making this film King Vidor, as 0 director, transported the cast to Hawaii, j where it required almost two month* !

a of "shooting" to make the picture. It | is done on a spectacular basis, with the j inhabitants of an entire village being engaged for the many and important ] scenes of the famed story. 1 J

Joel McCrea protrays "Johnny Baker," while others in the cast in- (

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elude Creighton Chaney, son of Lon V

Chaney, this being the boy's picture iebut; John Halliday and Richard •Skeets" Gallagher.

COLUMBIA—"A Man's Land."

p-JOOT OIBSON'8 newest movie, "A Man's Land," is the current West- %

;rn offering at Loew'e Columbia Thea- ;er. Thrill is followed by thrill and , :omedy by more comedy as Adele Buf- ing ton's splendid story of romance, in- ;rigue and rapid-fire action unfolds on ;he screen.

The story concerns a ranch foreman, i vho inherits a half interest in a ranch when the owner dies, the other half \ joing to his daughter, whom the fore- nan has never seen. She has very de- eded ways as to how the ranch should « 3s run, which conflict radically with ;he usual idea. "Hoot," trying to save 1er from her folly, which would event- îally lead to the loss of all of the prop- ♦

■rty, manages to get himself tangled up η a series of circumstances that make : îim appear to be conspiring to Injur· 1er. r

Gibson is said to do the best work ♦

if his screen days as a Western actor. « Marion Shilling, however, helps greatly ■

η making the story convincing and en- ertaining. The rib-tickling comedy of akeeter Bill Robbins and Ethel Wales s a decided contrast to the conniving <

ntrigue of Robert Ellis, A1 Bridge and Charles King. News events and selected horts complete the program.

EARL—"Devil and «hc Dtep," ARNER BROS.' Earfe Theater ha* opened lta "Superlative Show Be a-

son" with the presentation of Tal- ulah Bankhead and Gary Cooper in he Paramount drama "Devil and the Deep," and a vaudeville show headed >y Billy House, the musical comedy and creen star.

The screen feature serves two out- itanding purposes. It gives Tallulah bankhead, the glamorous star, a dra- matic story worthy of her talent·, and ntroduces, in Charles Laughton, a new haracter actor. Miss Bankhead is seen is the tortured wife of a maddened îusband, whose raging jealousy drives 1er into the arms of a stranger. The evenge which her jealous husband sub- *

ects them to form a dramatic and ex- iting climax. Billy House, the jovial musical-com-

edy and screen star headlines the vaudeville portion of the program In a ketch "Resolutions," in which he 1· issisted by a cast of five funmakere. >ther acts are Adelaide Hall, the Crooning Blackbird"; Fortunello and Jirillino, the "Happy Hooligans"; Aud- ■ey WykofT in dances of today, yeater- iay and the day before, and Maxlne Joyle, mistress of ceremonies.

The program is completed by spe- ially selected short reel subjects, the iraham MacNamee Newsreel and the ïarle Orchestral Prelude. »

METROPOLITAN—"Horse Feather»."

J^HE Pour Marx Brothers, the thor- oughly insane quartette of comics

vho made the world roar at "Cocoa- îuts" and "Animal Crackers," have teen held over on the screen for an- ther week at Warner Bros. Metropoli- an Theated in "Horse Feathers," the Irst hit of a new "Certified and 'ledged Picture" year at the Metropoli- an. The engagement will positively nd this Thursday night. "Horse Feathers,"'like previous Marx

Irothers pictures, is sheer foolery with he bemustached Groucho talking and unning at a terrific rate, slow moving 'hico answering in his inimitable dia- îct and occasionally playing the piano, ed-wigged Harpo, and juvenile Zeppo îaking love to the ingenue. In "Horse 'eathers," they go collegiate. Groucho ecomes president of a college to get his on Zeppo out. Harpo is working his way «

tirough college as a dog-catcher, and Ihico as a bootlegger. Between them hey manage to create a concoction of un thai is really insane. In addition to the Marx-maniacs the

ast includes beautiful blonde Thelma odd. David Landau, James Pierce and fat Pendleton. The program also includes the first

Ε Vitaphonc's all-color musical "C'est aree," and the latest issue of the Par- mount Sound News.

GAYETY—HINDA WAUSAU. -JINDA WAUSAU and her "Hindu

Belles" are the featured attraction Larting today at Manager Jimmie ake s Gayety Theater on Ninth street, fashington's "own" burlesque star is iaking her initial apearance of the ■ason in a revue which is said to be ρ to the high standards which she set erself during her many visits here, ne of the most popular stars on this Ircuit and recently seen in musical jmedy, Miss Wausau not only has roken all records for attendance in her jpearances in this city, but she has iold out" at each and every perform- ice. She is being assisted this week y Billy Fields and others, such as huck Calahan, Jeanette Alabassi, orothy Ahern, George Hank, Bobby ;onard and the Bowers sisters. A large chorus will also be featured

ι this revue and customary matinees ill be given daily during the entire eek. Next week's attraction will be "Girls la Carte."

Carrying On. ^REIGHTON CHANEY, son of the

late and beloved Lon Chaney, has iccumbed to the lure ol the screen and ans to carry on the family name dis- ngulshed by his great father. The in was born In Oklahoma City, and is lived all his life in the theatrical id motion picture atmosphere. He is placed under contract by R-K-O idlo Pictures recently, and makes hie reen debut in "Bird of Paradise," cur- ntly showing at Keith's as a chapter the R-K-O greater show season.

With His Band ρ

ABE LYMAN, Who leads hts big California band on r<

the stage of the Fox this week. o: