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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0780 Enlarge and print image (3M) |
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THE JEFFERSONIAN NEWSGRAVURE AND MAGAZINE SECTION.
"MERTON OF THE MOVIES" AT FORDS.
One of the most pronounced successes on the New York stage for the whole of the past year is the comedy "Merton of the Movies." It will play a return engagement at Ford's beginning Monday night.
It is a dramatization of the famous story of the same name
AUDITORIUM
NEXT WEEK Mats. Wed and Sat.
ELSIE FERGUSON —In—
"THE MOON FLOWER"
—With— SIDNEY BLACKMER
A Play in Three Acts
By Zoe Akins
Adapted from the Hungarian
of Lazos Biro
Staged by David Burton
Managed and Produced by
Charles L. Wganer
MARYLAND
Playing Keith Attractions The World's Greatest
Week of February 11th, 1924
A Pretentious Bill of Old and
New Favorites.
Brirglitest Star of London's
Music Halls
WILKIE BARD
England's Greatest Comedian In Comedy Characterizations
Extraordinary Star Attraction LOU HOLTZ
Oh-Solo-Mio
Special Star Attraction MARGA WADDRON
Premier Danseuse Assisted by Josef Martin In a Unique Classical Offering-Added Star Feature WILBUR MACK & CO. In an Original Smart Offering
Special Star Attraction RAE ELINOR BALD & CO.
In "Moments Musical"
THE FIVE PETLEYS
Aerial Comedy and Cleverness
BURKE & BETTY
In a Mirthful Potpourri
EDDIE MONTROSE
The Crazy Tumbling Clown
In Funny Falls and Nimble
Tumbles
AESOP'S FILM FABLES
TOPICS OF THE DAY
BOULEVARD
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday February 11, 12 and 13
GLEN HUNTER
—In— WEST OF THE WATER TOWER
Thursday, Friday & Saturday February 14, 15 and 16
CONSTANCE TALMADGE
—In—
DANGEROUS
MAID
Program Subject to Change.
FORD'S
NEXT WEEK Mats. Wed and Sat.
The Comedy Smash of the Century
MERTON OF THE
MOVIES
Prresented by a company of 32
headed by
GLEN HUNTER
After a year at the Cort Theater, New York. (Direction George C. Tyler and Hugh Ford). Prices:
Night—50c to $2.50. Mat Sat.—50c to $2.
Popular Mat. Wednesday 50c to $1.50.
Week of Feb. 18 OTIS SKINNER if—In— "SANCHO PANZA"
by Harry Leon Wilson, which was made by George S._ Kaufman and Marc Connelly, two bright young collaborators who are the authors of "Dulcy" and "To the Ladies." The attraction is under the direction of its producers, Messrs. Geo. C. Tyler and Hugh Ford. And the playwrights have faithfully preserved the threat of the Wilson story and really succeeded in emphasizing the main incidents.
It has been said that Harry Leon Wilson's objective in writing the story of "Merton of the Movies" was to show up not merely the effect of the movies on the more susceptible youth of the land, but the sham and petty vanities of the movie business itself. This the play does with something thrown in for good measure. Much of the action goes on behind the scenes and here the atmosphere of studio life is laid on thick. Not everyone can afford a trip to the Coast to see a movie colony in action. An evening with "Merton of the Movies" would tend to make the trip unnecessary.
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ELSIE FERGUSON IN "THE MOON FLOWER" AT AUDITORIUM.
Elsie Ferguson in "The Moon Flowpr," with Si 'ney J31acr--mer, which Zoe Akins has adapted from a play by Lazos Bi:o, comes to the Auditorium Theatre Monday eveuing, Feb. 11. The play is a romantic love story told with the wit and charm which those who remember Zoe Akins' "Declasse" have come to expect from her pen.
"The Moon Flower" is said to be the first of a triology of flower plays which Miss Akins plans and of which Charles L. Wagner, the purchaser of "The Moon Flower" has the producing rights. The second of these will be "Morning Glory" and the third "Hollyhocks."
Miss Akins once said that she wrote her plays only when
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her interest in a character "flowered" into a story, so perhaps that is why she has this plot for writing a garden of plays. They are, however, not to be plays of gardens. "The Moon flower" is a play of Monte Carlo; a love story in this domantic setting.
Oddly enough, the play with which Charles L. Wagner entered the field of theatrical producing was "The Money Moon," J. Hartley Mannerr's dramatization of Jeffrey Far-nol's novel. The settings for "The Moon Flower" are resigned by Edward Unitt, the technical director, who also designed the sets for Mr. Wagner's first production, and for "The Love Child," in which Sidney Blackmerr appeared last season. These "Moon Flower" scenes are said to excel in beauty even the sets for "Scar-amouche," Mr. Wagner's production made earlier this season, in which Mr. Blackmer' played the title role, and a production which set a high-water mark in stage productions.
With Miss Ferguson and Mr. Blackmer in the cast are Frederick Worlock, last seen in Washington with Mi |