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Christmas Camera Conceits From Some Broadway Best Bets ELSIE FERGUSON as Mme. Leland, a Parisian lady of 1870, m that interesting play "The Varying Shore." which Zoe Akins wrote to run in reverse gear. In the prologue ami eoi logue the attractive heroine of many a cinema romance lives in the present?in the first act. in the days of fifty years ago; in the second act she carries us back an? other ten years, in the third a dozen years more are su btracted, Elsie growing young? er and more attrac? tive with e?ch suc? cessive act. White LEO DITRICH STEIN, as New York's homeliest man. instead of th" mo3t dapper and deho~>air of lovers, is the nov? elty promised when "Face Value" ooens the Shubert's newest playhouse, in Forty ninth Street, to-mor? row evening, white THE PAVLEY-OUKRAINSKY BALI ET. A mixed foursome from the Chicago? Opera Company's famous ballet, which comes to the Manh?*tt?n Opera House the last week of next month for its fifth and farewell New York season. The above artistic terpsichorean conceit pictures Andreas Pavley trying to win with three queens against one of Samson and Delilah's full houses. ffu?cW-?on ? DOROTHY TETLEY, a popular young Eng? lish actress, who makes her first ap pearance on the American stage in Dillingham's produc? tion of "Bulldog Drummonnd," melo? dramatic success now in its eleventh month in London. The at? tractive miss with the four o'clock surname will have the same role when the play opens at the Knick? erbocker to-morrow evening she played more than 250 times in London. MARION GREEN as Juaniyo in the title role of "The Wild Cat,',% in the English version of Manuel Penella's thrilling baby - grand opera, which is proving as effective a box office attraction at the Park ?s it is said to have done before some 2. 700 audiences in old Spain. The erstwhile barytone of " Beau caire" scores s?ler diily as the sinister figure of the Spanish mountaineer. Royal Atelier _ BIRD MILLMAN, the ever popular "queen of the slack wire," whose thrillingly graceful number, "I Am Up in the Air Over You," is one of the most distinctive hits of that generous evening's entertainment at the Shubert, known as the "Greenwich Village Follies," ? the pretty and personable lady's very newest camera study. France? Bruguiere THE GISH SISTERS in the title role of D. W. Griffith's latest ?u per-screen offering, "The Two Orphans," which will have its New York premiere at the Apollo this week. Here are ?the two orphans, Henriette (Lillian), caring for her blind sister Louise (Dorothy), in a scene from this latest Gri nth cinema achievement. BEHIND THE SCENES with Lilian Owen's remarkable marionettes, which are now playing a series of special morning and afternoon per? formances at the Shubert Theatre. Rosalind Fuller in old English folk songs and Margaret McKee, the girl whistler, aie appearing on the program with the ingenious pup? pets. White