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who reaches high C with all the ease that Joe Brown gives his running mate an iced shower. With Miss Woodruff as the singer of the show, when semiclassic stuff is in order, Miss Dorothy Barber comes along as the dancer extraordinary. In a beautiful scene—illustrating a song, “Sweet Arabian Dreams”— she contributes a number sufficient to place her among the top notch of the profession. And she has other moments throughout threeacts,Merely hitting the high lights, it is easily seen there are few dull moments in “Betty Lee,” the book of which was written by Otto Harbach, who, while clinging close to the original story, ha- interspersed enough condensed comedfy situations to make a Broadway success. It has everything in its favor.JOHN J. DALY.TIVOUHarold Lloyd’s feature-lengthcomedy, “Hot Water,“ yesterdaycontinued to exert its appeal uponthe audiences at the Metropolitantheater where was the beginning ofthe second week of its run. Twosubstitutions ill titles have been made. The Metropolitan World Survey Is a new issue* with a natural color study of New Haven as its scenic feature. Last week's Aesop Fable has been replaced by Paul Terry’s cartoon humor bearing the title of “Noah’s Athletic Meet,” which, unusually sapient in Us ridiculous moral. Grantland Rice's “Sportlight. “Champions,” continues on the program and the Metropolitan symphony is heard in a rendition of Lake’s The Evolution of Dixie.” ’“Hot Water” is a laughmaker of the first few weeks of married life, v\ ith the mother-in-law and other “in-laws” coming in for their share of good natured satire. Harold is seen first as a young bpst man trying to persuade his friend who was born a bachelor, to let well enough alone Then he collides with a beautiful girl. That is his finish. Next we discover him bringing home the family marketing on a crowded street car. All very amusing, but no more so than his demonstration of the many superiorities of his new “Butterfly Six,” bought to surprise the wife.With this shiny touring car he simply ruins Los Angeles. Sequences follow in which Harold is led to believe that he has been Instrumental in killing his mother-‘in-law. The belief is appropriatelystrengthened by the fact thatmother-in-law is a somnambulist.Jobyna Ralston appears again in the role opposite the star and a bit of character work is contributed to the ensemble by Josephine Crowell, who is cast as the mother-in-law and reveals a penchant for delightful comedy.THE RIALTOTHE GAYETYMolhe Williams’ “Snappy Revue,” which yesterday opened a week’s run in the Gayety, probablyIs one of the most diverting burlesque offerings on the Columbia circuit.The humor is doled out in sizzling portions, and the chorines arenumerous, young and good looking. The piece has 20 scenes, all of which are well staged, and some three or four are worthy of the first line revues. The costumes, also, are new and. fetching.Fred Harper and Bobby Wilson are buffoons of a hi|h order. They keep the patrons roaring whenever they appear. Harper also is an eccentric dancer, reminiscent of James Barton, of “Dew Drop Inn,” who lately graduated from burlesque to Broadway.In the main the tunes are new. The feminine contingent put them over nicely and with gusto. Bebe Almond, Ella Corbett and Addie Clifford capture the honors in this division.Most of Miss Williams* work is done in act 2, in the postoffice scene, following which she made a plea to the audience to support the bill before Congress to increase the pay of letter carriers.Morton and Mayo are clever soft Shoe dancers. Their burlesque on the French Apache dance, “Mon Homme,” is excruciatingly funny.“Love and Glory,” a Universal-Jewel production portraying French life in the Algerian campaign and the French revolution, is the feature of the progr.am at the Rialto this week.The story covers a span of some 60 years, the first scene being laid in'the late sixties and the finale in 1921. The difference in time, necessitates versatile character work on the part of the three stars—Madge Bellamy, Charles DeRoche and Wallace MacDonald—all of whom are as convincingly old in the concluding scene as they are young when the play opens. Charles DeRoche should be particularly commended for bis splendid characterization of Pierre the dashing soldier and Pierre the aged veteran.Madge Bellamy is beautiful as Gabrielle, the sister of Anatole Picard (Wallace MacDonald) and the sweetheart of Pierre Du Pont.The Victor artists, Tomasini and Guarnerl, have been held over for an extra week, due to insistent popular demand, and offer several favorite classic and popular song features* as a special attraction.“Broadway Beauties,” a Century comedy; a fashion set and International Nfews real are added features.AMBASSADORThe Midnight Express,” at Crandall’s Ambassador theater yesterday and today, Is one of the best of the melodramatic railroad photoplays shown recently in the Capital. The directors of this picture did not produce as exciting a“thriller” as its name might suggest, but it has a well balanced plot, and there is action and interest throughout.The race to save the passenger train—of course there is one—is realistic and does not overtax the imagination. It is produced in a thoroughly plausible manner that sustains the interest to the climax, and the usual “stagy” effect has been eliminated.Elaine Hammerstein has the only' feminine role. She ia^ ably supported by a large cast, headed by William Haines,Charley Chase is even more entertaining than usual in a light comedy, “The Poor Fish.” A Grant-land-Rice “Sportlight,” and news pictures complete the bill.Norma Talmadge has seldom done anything finer than her portrayal of the devoted wife in “Secrets,” the film shown in the Tivoli this week. It is based on a recent stage play, which it follows closely.Miss Talmadge first appears as a ebarming old woman, in devoted attendance at the sickbed of her husband, Sir John Carlton, who is apparently at death’s door. In grief she thumbB over her secret diary, the record of 50 years of devotion, and the outstanding episodes of love and sacrifice come before her memory and the spectator’s vision. First is seen the romantic young girl who runs away with her father’s despised clerk. John takes his bride to Western America, where there is a thrilling incident of despair, grief, and rescue in a rancher’s cabin.In England. yearB later her husband, now wealthy and titled, is found straying in unlawful fields. Lady Carlton, most beautiful at 39, with four growing children, is heartsore but forgiving and devoted to the end. It Is ail very real, dramatic and appealing.An “Aesop’s fable” cartoon, funny as the best of them, rounds out the program.BURTON HOLMESTHE STRANDArturo Bernardi, who depicts 35 characters in three scenes, heads an unusually good bill at the Strand this week. Some of the changes are made with such lightning-like rapidity that it seems ’almost impossible it is the same man in a different character.Changes are made, In some cases, in the little time it takes to walk out of one exit and back through another.Zaza and Adele revue easily takes second place on the bill. The revue is called “A Potpourri of Song and Dance.” In it are given an Argentine tango and a French Apache dance by Zaza and Adele.Others on the bill are La France brothers in a head-balancing act; Delbridge and Greramer in “Harmonies and Smiles,” and Fagg andWhite offering “1925 Bits of Afri-eanology.” The program 1 opens with a moving picture, “Another Man’s Wife,” which is followed by an overture, “On the Way to Monterey.”wBurton Holmes, travelogue lecturer and photographer supreme, knows his Italian Alps; none who saw hia marvelous pictures at theNational yesterday will deny this, and those who were absent missed an artistic treat. The subject naturally lent itself to moving pictures.Airplane flights are common occurrences in our present-day life, but an airplane ascent to the top of the Matterhorn and the filming of a record flight from Zurich over the Rigi, past snow-clad ranges of the Swiss Alps, over the Zermatt valley and around the very tip of the famous rocky pile up which so many Alpinists have climbed is most unusual and afforded thrills aplenty. There have been seen heretofore movies pertaining to skiing sports, but nothing comparable to Burton Holmes’ movies of the shooting of the snowy slopes of the Alps on skis and the pictures shown by him of hair-raising glides from dizzy heights to the depths by veritable fiends of the Italian Ai: s.As a preliminary to all this heart-throbbing action there was a peaceful and delightful summer journey out of Rome, with accompanying quaint roadside picnics, flowers and beautiful pastoral scenery, a stop to admire the magnificent beauty of the Milan cathedral and time to become acquainted with the Sunday doings of the costumed peasants in northern Italy, and finally to arrive in the heart of the Mont Blanc region.Next Sunday Mr. Holmes willguide his tourists along the Riviera and the beauties of that “azure coast* will again display his photographic shill.tt wwiiUQi. nuu □ kuunLOEWS COLUMBIAports.4:30 p. m.—Ho lessons (World Radio Language).KFJ—Los Angeles (409)8 to 8:30 p. m.—Bulletins.8:30 to 9 p. m.—News bulletins.11 to 12 p. m.—Program.12 to 1 a. m.-—Studio.1 to 2 a. m,—Dance orchestra.rfsg—Los Angeles (378) (A. P.)9:36 p. m.—Children’s hour.KDKA—Pittsburgh (836)12 m.—-Weather forecast. Stockman reports. ,12:15 p. m.—Concert by Daugherty’s orchestra.3:30 p. m.—-Closing quotations on hay, grain and feed.6:30 p. m.—Concert by KDKA Little Symphony orchestra.7:15 p. m.—Stockman reports.7:30 p. m.—Daddy Winkum has a Christmas story.7:45 p. m.—“Helpliig the Postman Serve.”8 p. in.—Bringing the World to America.”8:15 p. m.—Sixth of a series of talks on Developing a Pleasing Personality,” by Dr. W. W. Charters.8:30 p. m.—Concert hy theLOEWS PALACE“Janice Meredith,” with Marion Davies playing the title role, which* is continued this week in the Columbia, gives a wonderfully realistic picture of the trials overcome by the colonists to throw off the yoke of Britain, and set themselves np as a free nation. Not an ^essential detail in the gripping romance byPaul Ibices ter Ford has been overlooked in the screening, and at the showings yesterday there was repeated applause at the depiction of the heroism of Washington’s ragged army.The picture of Washington and his famished and half-frozen army crossing the Delaware through fields of ice and in a blinding snowstorm to capture Trenton stirred the audiences yesterday as few Washington audiences have been stirred by a motion picture.In supporting roles Miss Davies has Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Maclyn Arbuckle, Hattie Delaro, Joseph Kilgour, George Nash, Tyrone Power, Mrs. Arbuckle, George Seigman, W. C. Fields, May Yokes and 01 in Howland, with a background of more than 8,500 persons in the bigger scenes.A special musical score adds charm to the picture.Admirers of Thomas Melghanwill find much of interest in his latest starring vehicle, “Tongues of Flame,” by Peter Clark Macfarlane, produced at the Palace yesterday. It is a picture with picturesque outdoor settings, sweet girl heroines, and a dauntless hero.The story concerns Henry Harrington, a lawyer, ex-army officer, and friend of the Indians, who allies himself with an unscrupulous capitalist to obtain a certain tract of land belonging to the Indians. A little half-breed, Lahleet Mor-ceau, allows Harrington, with whom she is in love, that he is a party to the fraudulent practices and from then on he becomes the champion of the rights of her people.Thomas Melghan as the hero, Harrington, gives one of his finished performances. Special mention for fine acting should be made of winsome little Bessie Love, as Lahleet Morceau, the half-breed, who finally wins the hand of the man she loves. Eileen Percy 1b attractive In a comparatively brief role. Otbers who appear in the cast are Burton Churchill, John Milton, Kate May-hew, and Cyril Ring. The direction by Joseph Henabery is sympathetic and intelligent.Funny Walter Hiers appears in an amusing comedy, “A Fat Chance,” which would seem to disprove the old saying that “nobody loves a fat man.” Subsidiary features include Lyman Howe’s Hodgepodge and the Pathe News. 'CENTRALThe Central offers for the first two days this week, The House of Youth,” featuring Jacqueline Logan, supplemented by “The Title Holder,” one of the Jack Dempsey “Fight and Win” series.The “House of ’Youth,” adapted from the novel by Maud Radford Warren, gives Jacqueline Logan, Corinne Endicott, as a modern society bud; Malcolm McGregor, as Spikp Blalh, the regular pal,” and Vernon Steele as Rodney Winston, the man with ideals, a splendid chance for some very effective characterization.The story reveals the eternally blind search of youth after truth— that search which is leading the modern younger set” on its reckless career—all too often riding to a fall.In this particular “crowd” the most popular butterfly of them all is caught quite innocently in a very compromising position, with such serious results that she is brought to her senses suddenly and completely.Jacqueline Logan is both vivacious and charming in the role of the butterfly, who, once having stumbled in her blindness, wisely opens her eyes and sees the world as it is.Jack Dempsey furnishes many a laugh in his latest comedy of the ringside, depicting the trials of a world champion heavyweight besieged by crowd of admirers, photographers, reporters and publicity hounds.
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