ON THE TRAIL OF THE MOTION PICTURE At Hotel and Restaurant Something mysterious happened business in its career this .winter,"' down in the room where they make up said Mr. Townsend. "It isn't a ques¬ (.ur pages last week, and our hotel tion of securing tenants. It is a ques- notes (.stuff in the vernacular) which tion of securing accommodations for were printed on July 27 (as one young them." The roof has weathered so lady from Stamford informed us) ap- many storms this summer that Walter peared again at the top of the column, Guzzardi is looking for at least another boldly seeming to say, "Here I am. month of roof weather. It can't rain j Hope you'll enjoy me." And each para- always! j;raph which we had deemed clever when we devised it a month ago j James Carney, of the McAlpin Hotel, sounded as banal as "It isn't the heat; was prepared for tho recent subway it's the humidity." So here, Miss Stam- strike At 4 o'clock last Sunday morn¬ ford, is the apology which you re- ing a fleet of motor 'buses and touring guested, and to C. R. H., who asked cars assembled at the hotel and were "Waa your column reprinted by re- sent out all over Manhattan, The Bronx iiuest?" we would say "No, by inad¬ and Martini----wo mean Queens.to vertence.'' bring in the early shift. Nearly two thousand employes of the Waldorf, Mc¬ Restaurateurs arc -such optimistic Alpin and Claridge were transferred in Each one writes that the people! this way, and declared that it was actors' strike sends the to the they JE>02~ot¿ty~,. (3z<yjfi cStjrotje2.c^^3r'tooJ^2y-j>st. Jcr¿r~& J^jrltexjc people the first time they ever enjoyed having JÇgPoïz ey. restaurants for amusement and that their employers 'em the air." business never has been better. From "give the Café de Paris comes this news: Meanwhile the othei How does this sound to you? "Mr. S, L. R. Discusses "The t "With the closing of the local theatres j Jazz and his famous 'Black Devil Band' brought up in the Café has taken on the fispeCT of with 1 er continue to shell the dance-mad sum- Right to Happiness,'" a Continental music hall. H. it seems to * ¦. Disappointed mër visitors to Brighton Beach with New Films This Week "Oh, U., good get indulgenl fa*he \ r heatregocrs throne the main dining- back to the end of it as their inebriating, war-1 production again! regards , room to witness an entertain- higii-explosive, nightly time at the Hotel Shelburne." The Yes, I've had a long rest and I've need¬ workadaj ment that is furnished by real artists. jazz "Checkers," the melo¬ men." greatest racing Eldora will some . fall and winter rates will become ef- Stanford, soprano, ed it, but I've got great ideas up This is t! , With an unlimited supply of talent to drama ever produced, will reach the fective September 15, and many ad- sing Cadman's "At Dawning." Ralph H. my sleeve for this picture." Happiness." Alan II draw from now, Manager Thompson motion picture screen when vanee have been to-night, Brigham ancf Herbert Sisson will al¬ "Well, S. L. R., we believe you, for rected "The Henri 3 lias made the most of the bookings already William Fox will as oppor- mail^. present it a big ternately play a solo on the pipe or¬ you always did have great ideas up directed tl unity." special production accompanied by a gan. The Symphony orchestra will your sleeve, and sometimes you would And from Terrace Garden we hear: orchestra and with full A convict in the state at Tren- symphony play the overture "Orpheus." Carl let a few of them s'ip down and give In spite of the strike or because of it, prison effects at the Central N. has written stage Theatre. Edouarde and Alois Reiser will con¬ the movie world a jolt. And then Universal Picture /or the public insists on dancing. The week ton, J., Evelyn Hubbell, All the thrills in the. of Terrace Garden Dance ask- present stage duct. some one would try to imitate them just passed has been the best in point Palace, version have been retained on the Wir Orleans ing if it isn't possible for her to bring and you would sit back and laugh up Convention ».i' attendance that the Dance Palace screen and many new ones added. some of her young women dancers to A belief in that self-same sleeve." All of the ron and »¦ver has had." And at Murray's Roman There is the from a signs and omens fur¬ the institution to demonstrate the lat- leap speeding Sam Rothapfel was distinctly please«], which con Uarden they have had to j>ut in a new nishes the legend .i-oun-l est auto to the boxcar, the fight in the greater rjart in the comedy although we were only telling the '.».»or because the old revolving floor dance steps for the prisoners. , of the history of '!,.- "We boys dance with each other in burning car, the wreck, the rescue "Nobody Home," in wilich Dorothy Gish truth. He and we were discussing th<- has grown so thin that. Manager Kelly from the scenes and later .-. the corridors," the letter "and dory, many in China¬ will be seen at the Rivoli next production of "The Right to Happi¬ developn of is afraid it will just disintegrate some states, town week. we're keen about the new resorts culminating in a fierce ness," a Universal picture which is New Orleans will be 1 night. It isn't going to stop the danc- steps. For Written by Lois R. Zellner, it was di-" obvious reasons, we haven't hand-to-hand battle, and the great rac¬ said to be one of the biggest things of the most beau' ifu ing, however, because it is to be done been able rected by Elmer Clifton. The to learn them. Won't and ing climax. company that ever has been on the screen; dramas ever Cor the screen. n sections. you the girls Miss Gish put produced The cast is all star. It, includes supporting includes,George on. Work on sucl n of we come over and show them to us? In and Mr. Kothapfel is putting it And, speaking Murrays, neg¬ Thomas J. as Fawcett, Ralph Graves, Can- return we'll teach you one wc call the Carrigan Checkers, Jean Raymond Helen It is to g'o to the Park Theatre next started, so that when 10 a,i- lected to mention last week, when we non, Vinan Keller and Acker as Pert Barlow, the heroine; Montrose, Rudolph Valen¬ Saturday, and after what S. L. R. vertising leaden of the v poke of the contributory pleasures of lockstep." tine and Chichester. Mrs. Hubbell may make a Ellen Cassity, a Ziegfeld Follies family told us of the music and the setting« ble at New Orleai annual our evening there, one Carroll Clark. up party A to over in if tne beauty, as Alva Romaine, the unhappy special feature of the programme we are all on the qui vive. convention on 131 to II is music is a delight and we don't go September, prison Her Deliverance September Robert as Ken- will be a "Mutt a wonder that he is called the authorities sanction the plan. victim; Elliot, Arthur and Jeff" cartoon, Dorothy Phillips plays dual role filmed story of the S "Warbling dal, the as "Sound Othello." villain; Bertram Marburgh Your A." The scenario was in this picture, which is another thing be presented to t What used to be called Columbus Judge Barlow, Pert's father; Freeman written by Max Manne, the drummer in its favor, for we have rec¬ tainment arid as a toki n of the By Harriette Underhill doing this, for this woman knows pleasant appre¬ Next at the Astor Circle has come to be known as "Jazz Barnes as Sam Wah, king of China¬ of the Rivoli orchestra. There will also ollections of the one picture in which ciation felt the y thai should Thursday night Wc have seen everything -even wiiat are think- by town, and Ed. a well known be a Christie just Helen Keller. you we saw there is going to be a monster benefit Circle" out of deference to the "Black Sedgwick, comedy, "Dangerous Nan ing. Miss Phillips similarly em¬ be chosen as the nieetin) ball to be the Actors' Devil Juniors," who are up at Reisen- comedian, as Pete, the big negro McGrew," and the Rivoli Pictorial. We have talked to her, and what is ! ployed. brilliant, an arr--. given by Equity "You arc sweet," she announced to It weber's. We couldn't trainer. The still move wonderful she The initial action of the shows All of the and association. certainly ought to be help wondering musical features will consist of I has'talked our intense relief. "You have piece glory gla worth what Columbus would think of this Keler lovely an American manufacturer in New Orleans Mardi tfc i well going to. for Ted Lewis's Bela's "Hungarian Comedy Over- to us, and wc have come away exalted, eyes and a sweet mouth residing Gras, and---" here Russia to jazz band, Charlie Prince's orchestra change, and what he would have "Deliverance," the motion picture turc" and Johann Strauss's waltz. "The feeling as though we had been in the she prior the outbreak of the year will take on hesitated, "a nice ,We r and the Brown Brothers will thought of the Juniors themselves.