Interesting Ghat About the Screen and Stagein the Broadway Picture Houses Leading Figures in Eight PremiersLook Not Upon

The Way WlienIt Is J^hite

This Is the Good Advice\ Which William Powell

Has Re f u set! to Heed

By Harriette UnderfillOne of the rules of our life.a life

in which there are few ruins.-is al¬

ways to tee any production !n whichWilliam Powell is playing, vtSiether it

be »¡lent drama or otherwise. Mr.Powell is * favorite of ours, "but never

have we had at ..ha*n->e to te2i b!m .*..>

unt'l we captured him one njght afterthe final curtain of "The Woman WhoLaughed." Mr. Powell is appearing intwo different theaters on Broaihvaysimultaneously, a feat whieih may beaccomplished if you are a sereen as

well as a stage star. BesldKS* playingthe renegade husband of Martha Iïca-man, who is the woman wh-o laughed,he is appearing with John Barrymoreir* **Sbetlock Holme-*" at tfie Casino;and when that picture completes Usrun on Broadway, if it ever does, ttwill be tiBM for "When "Knighthood\\ ha Flower" to bloom otn the WhiteWay.

"Î play the Dauphin," said Mr.Powell, "if you remember the piny at

all."If we remembered it?.»s though we

had not acted in it "in the dim andshadow** past," a« Nellie, the beautifulcloak model, used to say."What part did you play?1*1 asked

Mr. Powell, interviewing us for a

ehange."None at all; we furnished atmos¬

phere, and as far as we were concernedthe show was silent drama."And then, while six people waited

without, we made Mr. Powell tell, us

the story of his life. He was bornsomewhere, and we think he said Kan¬sas City. Anyway, that was where helived when he encaked away from homeone night to join a stock company.His parents wanted him to be a lawyer,end he said that they never were recon-

ciled until thdy saw him in "SpanishLove." They liked that show, and no

Wonder, for Mr. Powell played the vil¬lain, who was dying of heartbreak so

brilliantly that even James Renniewith all of his debonair pulchritudefound it difficult to win the sympathyof tlie audience away from him.And then we put to Mr: Powell the

que ition which was to be the final test.If he answered it to our satisfactionhi-- batting avéras« would bo 1,000.."What do you consider the most im¬portant thing in the making of a pic¬ture'." and he answered "the director,'-'Just as we knew h« would, "Thestrange thing is that so many peopledo not know this-. Now. can you thinkof Mr. It'irnur«, or Mr. Griffith, or Mr.von Stroheim making a bad picture?They couldn't do it."

'*I$ut you, who live with your char¬acters until you know them so thor¬oughly that you never wouldmake theminconsistent, do you not find it difficultto achieve any Mich intimacy when youare doing pictures'.' Wé have seen

enough of them in the making to knowthat there is no continuity in the film¬ing, though there sometimes is in theerecnîng.""The only thing for a screen actor

t«) do is trust his director and thengo ahead. That is*, what most of themdo, really, and that is why I know what,-,n important part the director playsin a picture.

'"Well, that ;s our own idea, but youarc; the. iiist sctor'who has admitted it.Heretofore, we have heard it only fromthe directors themselves. Ho you likeacting in picturei '."'

'Very, very much more than any¬thing else, I think."

"Really, or only for publication?""Really."

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A Few Suggestions for"Captain Applejack"

Fred Niblo has asked for suggesk tions as to the prop-» person to plajI Wallace Bddingc-r's role in "Captaii* Applejack," the Sam Harris play whi'c?

Metro purchased fot him recently ..

ninke into a picture. It ought to bwonderful screen material, and our owi

" for Applejack w oui t be tfatMoore. He, in our opinion, would 1;the part to a T, and we. cannot thinlof another screen actor who could d«it so well. He has exactly the prope»mount of personality of the right sorand i*, not too handjome. If any onelse Is selected for the rolo we, fo

. -e. shall be disappointed, and ioKar) Nasl '¦ pari we should like to seBarbar« La Harr in the picture, an«r~'<! B ->..*. WouW be delightful nMr. Applcjohn's maid, who, fib the sec1end episode, becomes a pirate's hclnc-Work -on the production is already unitx *vsy out in Hollywood.

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Coming, the GreatAnd Only Pola Ne*arr

Pola Negri, who is coming to Am.ricito appear in Paramount pictures, wil.-nil from Europe on the Majestic September 9 and will arrive in New Vorithe 15th, ready to start work at th<Long Island City studio. George Fitzmanrice wifl direct .Miss Negri in thspecial production which is to mariher American début and will arrivi¡from the west coast with b's*'producSng organization at about the saBiidate.

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At the ColumbiaThe "New Bon Tons" U the bur

lesque attraction for the week beginnjng to-morrow afternoon. John Barrjheads the company, and in his supporiare Bob Startzman Gertrude BeckJean Del isle, Lou Barry, IDave KindlerWalter Le Foy and Jane Bobby and heiband of terral* syneopators.

Shadows on the ScreenJoseph Plunkett announces that

"Grandma's Boy" will etart its NewYork run at the Strand Theater Sep-tomber 3. This will bo Lloyd's first*five-reel feature and it hnsi smashedail records out Los Angeles way.

It is said that Lewis Stone gives oneof the linest choracterizations of *mscareer as John Andrews in "The Dan¬gerous Age," which is just being com¬

pleted at Louis Mayer's studio. Tn thesupporting cast are Ruth Clifford,Edith Roberts, Cleo Madison, JimmleMorrison, Richard Tucker, MyrtleStedman, Helene Lynch and LincolnStedman.

Pearl White, popular Fox star, hasintroduced at Clover Gardens a newdance which she brought with he»from Paris. It is called Paean rl'Or.which translated means Golden Pea¬cock. The name is so euphonious thatthe big ballroom has been named forher dance, ...

"The Bondboy," Richard Barthcl-mess's next picture, will be releasedthe ßrst of October.

The fisial scenes of "The Christian,'which Maurice Tourricur has beermaking for Goldwyn, have been fin*ished and a print of all the interiorstaken in California and of the exterîors photographed in England will btsent to Sir Hall Cain«.

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Marcus Loew will arrive in NevYork oh the Berengaria next ThursdayHr has befa abroad in thé interest othe Loew-Metro Pictures.

Katherine MacDonald has begun i

Rvo-ree) journey along "The Lonel;Road." The story is.by Charles Loguand Victor Schertzinger is directinithe picture. In support of Miss Mac

Donald are Kathleen Kirkham, VeraLewis, Eugenie Besserer, William IConklin, Frank Leigh and/ CharlesFrench."When Love Comes of Age" wiT! in¬

troduce Helen Jerome Eddy as a star.Miss Eddy will be starred by Ray Car¬roll in a series of pictures.

Sidney Franklin, one of the mosthuman directors of the films, has beenengaged by Harry Jtapf to direct¡"Brass," Charles Norris's story of[marriage and divorce.

"Peg o' My Heart" is to be screenedon the scene of its first triumph.LosAngeles. The first scene was shot cx-

aetly ten years after the first prcr-senta-tion of "Peg" at the old BurbankTheater. Since then Peg; has becomefamous in many capitals of the world.

I Laurctte Taylor will be seen in her¡original role and King Vidor will direct,

There are to be at least two bad¡men in "Ching, Ching Chinaman,'1which Tom Farman is making for Pre¬ferred Pictures!, The two are LonChancy and Walter Long.

Betty Blythe, who has just finished"How Women Love" has received aroffer to make a tour of personal appcarances in connection with the show;ii3g of "The Queen of Shcba."

Hope Hampton has received an offerfrom Carle Carlton to go to Londoiand play Julia Sanderson's part u

I ''Tangerine.'' It does seem foolish fo:Miss Hampton to waste such a bcautiiul soprano voice in the silent, dramahut she absolutely refuses to appear 01the stage, although she has hadnumber of offers which would drivmost any other young girl wild wit!joy. Strange are the ways of stars!

The Playbill(Continued from pr-fceding nwte)

manager of the store explained thattheir designer had arranged for theweaving of the special cloth and had

f designed the costume. When the de¬signer arrived and was acquainted withMiss Sharon's desires, he smiled."We have some of the same goods in

the store that was woven especially¦for Mile. Gence fifteen years ago, and 1will bç able to duplicate her costume

j with the very. goods she had wovenfor her."

E. F. ALBEE. president of the Keithvaudeville circuit, has financed and or¬

ganized the Keith Coiiege of Theatri¬cal Music in the Regent Theater Build¬ing,. Seventh Avenue and llGth Streer.S. W. LAWTON is the dean of ttie no*«institution. Its plans, the announce¬ment reads, are "to develop the anof the theater orchestra, to expand lupowers and possibilities, to make inci¬dental music and all acezirnpariirnent!artistically and psychologically correct, to work for better musse genrrally >n the theater."

Brooklyn TheatersBl'SHWICK."The Storni," condensed

version-, '"Words and MusicMakers," Joseph L. Browning, Shawand Lee, Ewe Lynn and Clyde Dilson,Miss Robbie Gordone; other.--.

ORPHEUM Craig Campbell, UnaMunson, Max Wcily and Melissa TenEyck, Frank Marino and Tony Mar¬tin, Albert F. Hawthorne and JohnnyCook, Smith and Baker; others.

NEW BRIGHTON.Pat Rooney andMarion Bent, Al Herman, GordonDooley a!3d Martha Morton, Wells,Virginia West; others.

LOEW'S METROPOLITAN.First half:"Cameo Revue," Jeff Healy anccompany; others. Second half: CWesley Johnson and company, JohrJess and company; others. RodolplValentino in "Blood and Sand," filnfeature all week.

STRAND -Lady Diana Manners ii"The Glorious Adventure," a filncolored by Prizma. Other picturesvocal, orchestral and ballet numbers¦...

A Comedy of MannersIs it true, as some ha« said, th«"Peg o" My Heart" is a comedy cmanne-rs? Laurette Taylor has beguthis picture for Metro, playing throle which was create*] in thf stagversioB. a

VaudevillePALACE.Billy B. Van and James .1.

Corbett, Mrs. Sidney Drew, BillySharp and company, Vincent Lopezand his Pennsylvania Orchestra,Diamond and Brennan, Olga anaAlan Parado, Bronson and Edwards,Fearless Cedora and others.

RIVERSIDE.Irene Franklin, MargaretSevern, Billy Arlington and com»

* pany, Lydcll and Macey, Pinto andBoyle, Lois Bennet, Burns andLynn and others.

EIGHTY-FIRST STREET.Al Shayne,Ethel MacDonough. Edith Clasperand company, Earl Hampton ana

Dorothy Blake, Williams and Taylor,Sensational Valentines, WallaceRcid and Lila Lee in "The Dictator,"*-'..-. Zfflf

FORDHAM.First half: Lewis andDody, Higgins and Bates, ArthurAlexander and company, Young andWheeler, Tamaki Trio and others;"Heroes and Husbands,"' picture.Second half: Mrs, Gene Hughes,Holland and Oden, Honey and Mor¬gan; "The Dictator."

HAMILTON.First half: "HamiltonFollies" (local revue), Al Raymond,Ilalland and O'Den and others;"Heroes and Husbands." Secondhalf: "Hamilton Follies," Le Grohsand Ciark and Story; "The Dicta¬tor."

LOEW'S AMERICAN.First half; C.Wesley Johnson and company,Henry Frey and Dorothy Rogers andothers; "Sage Brush Trail," film.Second half; "Dance Cycle," Weber,Beck and Frazer, Gertrude Saundersand others; Rodolph Valen-tno In"Blood and Sand."

LOEW'S STATE.First half: Joe Wes-ton and Grace Eline, George Libbyand Ida May. Sparrow and others.Second half: Royal Peking Troupe,Hart, Wagner and Eltis and others;Rodolph Valentino in "Blood an 1Sand," all week.

PROCTOR'S FIFTH AVENUE.Firsthalf: Van and Schenck, Doyle andCavanaugh, Grace Hayes and others.Second half: Dooley and Morton,Bert Fitzgihbons, Charlotte Lansingand company and others.PROCTOR'S TWENTY-THIRDSTREET.First half: "The LetterWriter," Belle Montrose, Bruch andThur3ton and others; "Heroes andHusbands." Second half: Moore andJayne, Will ,T. Ward and others;"The Dictator."

PROCTOR'S FIFTY-EIGHTH STREET.First half: Al Green ?.nd Pals,Mel Klee, William O'Clair and com¬pany and others; "Heroes and Hus¬bands." Second half: Dancer andWooding's Orchestra, Belle Montroseand others; "The Dictator."

PROCTOR'S 125TH STREET.Firsthalf: Tarzon, Al H. Wilson, Haneyand Morgan and other«; "Heroesand Husbands." Second half: *tfa-votites of the Past, Jim and BettyPage, Neil and Witt and others;"The Dirt ."for.-'

Keiglitley Used to WearingHalo Behind Footlights

Cyril Keightley was adjusting his¡halo as we* entered the dressing room

after the opening of "Fools Errant."in which he plays "the noblest workof God" in the superlative degree. Asa matter of fact, it would have beenno surprise if ho had been cursing andkicking the- cat around the room afterthree hours of Eric Brierly, the youngman whose abnegation make,-; everyone in the audience hate him.

"I am a pretty good boy,"aren't I?"said Cyril, with that twinkle in hiseye which always acts as leaven to theheaviest role."No, you arc not; but Eric Brierly

is. Still, he is hardly moro noble thanGeorge, or whatever his name was, in'The Little Journey.' Why do you al¬ways elect to be those very good youngmen?""Elect?" Cyriled Mr. Keightley. "The

producers choose me for the parts.They must know what they arc about,of course," and again there was thattwinkle in his eye which is one of thereasons that every one lover- him andwould continue to do so even if Tiewere as good as he is painted, A senseof humor is an asset in any walk oflife, but in an actor it is absolutelyindispensable. Without it he is houn-Jto act like an actor."Why does Lucile Watson, or rathe*

Mrs. Pritchard, hato Greta so mud:because she takes her husband froirher when 3hc doesn't love him, anybow""But she docs love him.""Oh, no, she doesn't; she loves you;

else why does she follow you out itMesaba three months after lier lui;«band dies and offer to marry you an«be ¡a pale martyr, too'.'"

j "You'll have to aisk Mr. Shipniai! that. He wrote the play and the lad;has not confided in me.'""But we do not know Mr. Shipman."No? Well, while there is life thcr

is hope. I've lived through this ontbut first nights are a nightmare to mand I'm glad that's over."And still you couldn't possibly be

Hove that Mr, Keightley worried abouanything and you couldn't possibly fer.sorry for him;either. He seems alwayto be having the best time in the worlcand we, for one, are quite sure thathe should forget his lines he could irvent others as he went along, and peihaps they would be better than thones the author thought of. We toi.him this and he said: "Little do ycknow. Why, the only time I ever ha\walked on the stage at a first nigland not felt asi though I were goirto my execution was when I played ithe Druy Lane melodrama 'Tlj Whip.' Then I looked out on the sta(j and saw one dozen horses, sever¡dozen dogs, a half dozen jockeys, ,->i[biro and one heroine, and I said *0'

with you they won't know you arethere.' "

"What part <lid you play in 'TheWhip'?""The villain, of course. It is only

here in America that they always castme for good men."

"Yes. we can remember you as farback as 'Love Watches,' with Billi*Burke, and my, how handsome youwere! Do you always play villains iniEngland?','"Always," answered Mr. Kcightley,

and we quoted, "À prophet 135 not with¬out honor save in his own countr;. ."

> 1 *j i -i î .* ; 11 Score for"Robin Hood" Finished

The original musical score being pre¬pared for Douglas Fairbanks in "RobinHood" by Dr. Boris Dunev is rapidlynearing completion; For the last liveweeks Dr. Dunev has been working atthe Pickford-Fairbanks Studio, cosnpos-!n¡r the music as the picture is beingtitled and cut. The score will bo arilent opera on a symphonic basis, andwhen the photoplay is shown in NewYork, Chicago and other key cities itwill be accompanied by an orchestra ofceventy-fivc pieces. In New York, Chi¬cago, Boston, and possibly Los An¬geles, .Dr. Dunev will pe3-sonally con¬duct the orchestra.

SATURDAY NIGHTSEPTEMBER 2^SEAT SALE TOW-ROW9 A.W.-6 BOX OfFKES

.MANAGEMENT-CHARLES DIUINGHAMTHELAiXESTAND MOSTMAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE-EVER STAGEDAT THEHIPPODROME.BYR.H.8URNSIDE..'MUSIC by /rlm.-noncL Hubbell

CAST OF 1,00015 l-OUKN N0VE1IES¦24NOTED SOLOIrSTSL "Everythingfrom Orcos

(o Grand Operáis

Picture TheatersASTOR ''The Prisoner of Zenda."Rex Ingram production.

CAMEO.John Barrymore in "SherlockHolmes," eleventh week.

CAPITOL.Florence Vidor ir. "Dusk toDawn." a King Vidor production fromthe novel, "The Shuttle Soul," byKatherine Hill. Other films, balletdivertissements and orchestral selec¬tions.

CENTRAL- "Human Hearts." from theplay by Hai Reid. Fifth week«

CRITERION.Bessie Love and GarethHughes in "Forget Me Not." Sixthweek.

FQRTY-FGl:RTH STREET- * M o n t oCristo." William Fox production.John Gilbert has leading rôle.

LYRIC."Nero," last four nights. "ALittle Child Shall Lead Them,'' an¬other Fox film, opens on Friday-night.

R1ALTO."The Valley of Silent Hen,'with Alma Rubens, a Paramount-Cosmopolitan production from thestory by James Oliver Curwood'Other films, vocal and orchestra'numbers.

*.*¦ sRIVOLI.Marion Davies in "The YoungDiana," by Marie .Corelli, a Cosmo'politan production. Forrest StanleyPedro de Cordoba, Maclyn Arbuckl«and Gypsy O'Brien in cast. Setting.«by Joseph Urban. Special prologueother films and vocal and orchestrafeatures.

STRAND.Miriam Cooper in "KindrecOf the Dust," from Peter B. KynVinovel, produced by R. A. WaishRalph Graves, W. J. Ferguson, Eugenie Besserer and Lionel Belmor«arc among those in the supportinjcast. Max Linder in "The ThreMust-Get-Thci-es," a travesty on "ThThree Musketeers." Vocal and orchcstral numbers.

TimelyRemarksBy the Star of a

Timely Comedy.*¦

"The Old Soak" Talk* <rfth*r» Pasl, the Prese»«and the Near FutBi>

bread upon the waters is a!l t*-

popularly supposed to be, an?! «**_is about, to return to you in the *.>*>»of jelly cake."

Harry Beresford looked bewil^and said: "You are from The Tr;b**-t(aren't you, the paper to whin's _r.,Marquis, the author of this pi-,, ¡.abput to go?""Yes; but that is not ail. Of «****,.

you don't remember the"" extra girltiwhom you gave a chance some "***.«¦-years ago. when you were the star ir.The Croi-s of Firr,' or whatever fcname of that show was. Well,th_t*iL But you do rem-mber beautifylittle Edith Wyîie: you met her ;.the first tinv i hearthat yours has been very happy nai-riage."«The Old Soak" i led «mfcl*^"Yes." he satd. "but it wasn't tc lor;--

ago--it couldn't have been! It seems aday! "

"That is the best boost for marriifjewe ever heard, but it was »o ¡ongago because we left your ..o*» **_*; tflgo with Forbes-Robertson in '.»Mrand Cleopatra,* and that -was in 1907.*'Mr. Beresford shook hi?, head againand said: "It doesn't seem a day."

"Well," the reporter from The Trib¬une said cheerfully, "you are -going tostay right in the Plymouth Theater forthe next fifteen year?, if we are atirjudge. 'The Old Soak looks like themost popular bibulous drama of theage and the people out in front .«.-

night sin,; up -drank it up.rather.""Have you told the author that?""Yes, when we met him to-night tat

the first time. So he bas two reasosifor looking with a kindly eye upon vu.one because we are bowled over by hisfirst play and the other because we ¿id.not call him Don Markee!"

"I'm rather bowled over myself. Itis the first time I've played in'ar.**-thing that went over with a bang, is.this evidently has done. You -flo**when you are inside a play, as we ailare, it is impossible to tel! anythireabout it. An author, a produeer or acast never has the "lightest id?-»whether the play will be.-'a riot or iflop.' "

We finished for Mr. Berr-tierd «dhe nodded.

"That's it. You should hare se«Mr. MarqUis to-night. He kept raa-

r.ing up to me and saying tremulously.Tve done it. Harry! I've done it'.'andthen the next minute he would comeback and say. 'No, Harry, you've doneit. It's your triumph, not mine. You'**"«done it.' "

"You do give a marvelous perform¬ance, but think of the lines Pet*Marquis has written! Did you ever

hear anything more wonderful th>"his description of the death of Peter.the parrot? Also they tell me tiu'this show has something not one plafin a hundred can boast. It has a thirdact that does not slump.""Slump! It is the best act of i"

and even the last scene does not «**down in the leas;.'"What did Mr. Marquis say when*"»

told him us .*

"He said. 'Yes. I've tried to mil "Chokum with a little logic and not ¡Kmuch plot." "

But we can't help wondering i«»*what the author of a first big taw****thinks about. EL-

Thorns and Oraiuie BloS-on**Edith Roberts bar. "nrpl*«ed Em*

Burnett in the cast of "Thorns 8"1*

Orange Blossoms." This is an adapt*-tion of the novel by Bertha M. Clayand the stage play. It is the mudpicture on the program of A! M8**man and is being directed *>y Gas.**-In the cast are Kenneth Harlan, '«"telle Taylor, Arthur Hull. Eve'«Selbie and Carl Stockdale. Work *»'

started on "Thorns and Orange Biossoms" last week at the Louis B. May*"studios in Los Angeles.

FROM THE STORY BYJAMBS OLIVER CURWOOD

^VALLEY OFSILENT MEN

_¦ with.ALMA RUBENS

jLTOW love came throughfaith to pretty Marette

of the Northwest; how shecarried her hero off to HERvalley to prove his innocence-.that is the story, graphically told,wonderfully acted, of Curwood'smasterpiece. Borzage has madeof it another " Humoresque. "

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