Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 78

FILMOGRAMS Bits From the Studios and Theaters. Week” from December 23 to January 2 and local picture fans are asking if the closing of the Rialto, the Universal Theater here, has anything to do with the cele- bration. Be that as it may, Universal an- nounces that it will spend $5,000,000 on sound production for the season of 1028-29, and that except “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “Show Boat,” “The Man Who Laughs,” “The Last Warning,” “Man, Woman and Wife” and “The Charla- tan,” all other Universal sound pictures will have dialogue sequences or will be 100 per cent talkers. R. C. A, as the Radio Corporation of America is known in film circles, is speeding up the installation of the * regular Photophone _sound-on-picture film equipment and has manufactured 2 smaller and cheaper device to meet the needs of smaller houses. It is pre- dicted that it will have equipped 854 theaters with sound-producing devices by May 1. Lionel Atwill has contracted Wwith Fox to produce a two-reel talking pic- ture version of “The Knife” by Henry Arthur Jones, supported by Violet Hem- ming in a cast of 12. The producers in Hollywood are now employing voice experts to teach for- eign and domestic stars who have failed in voice tests how to corractly speak English. These stars they be- lieve, are great assets, but the public, they think, wants sound and dialogue pictures. “Where East Is East” is to be the title of Lon Chaney's next picture, to be directed by Tod Browning from a scenario prepared by Waldemar Young. Film Daily, the “Movie Bradstreet,” is the authority for the report. “If Men Played Cards as Women Do” is the title of the latest short nov- elty started at the Paramount Long Island Studio, with Joseph Santley di- recting. It is based upon a dramatio sketch by George S. Kaufmann, the playwright. New York critics are divided in their opinion of “Interference,” Paramount’s first all-talker which has been rated as the nearest to perfection yet in sound ictures. It would seem that the screen fild failed to surpass the stage in the presentation of this interesting drama, not in sound perfection, but rather in the dramatic and character exposition of the story. No less a celebrity than H. G. Wells s to write a movie scenario in London NIVERSAL Pictures Corporation I l will celebrate “Universal Joy Montague Esa Lanchester as his star. A cablegram from London so reported to Film Daily. No wonder Charles (Buddy) Rogers won fame in the movies. The press agent says that besides being an actor, he is a musician and composer and he can talk with his hands. And yet he has been surrounded by 50 of the pret- tiest girls in Hollywood in his picture “Someone to Love.” Jack King, a Washington boy who has hit the high spots in vaudeville here and there throughout the country, came home to spend the holidays with the folks before starting out again with | his dancing act. Film Daily, “The Movie Bradstreet,” says that the opposition among stock- holders to the absorption of the Stanley theaters and of First Natlonal by the Warners has been dissipated, and that their merger will now be com- pleted. Washington is interested be- cause of the Stanley theaters here. Film Daily also has its Christmas charity movement in the film industry again under way in the hope of getting a fund of $10,000. Film magnates and rich players in the industry did not re- spond with as much alacrity—and cash—as was hoped for last year. Fanny Brice’s Vitaphone movie ef- fort, “May Man.” is to have its New York premier December 21, at the ‘Warner Theater. 0 Joseph P. Kennedy, who recently ac- quired fame in the movie industry and then quietly withdrew and returned to New York, says the talking picture makers need a new technique and that it should first be developed in the short- subject field. ‘Twenty writers for movietone sub- jects who went West to achieve fame have been dropped from the pay rolls by William Fox, who sent them there, according to Film Daily. Charles Gilpin, the negro star, will make his picture debut under the Fox banner, in “Hearts in Dixie,” with Paul Sloan directing the all-falking picture. Willlam A. Brady, the theatrical producer, is said to have announced recently in Providence, R. I, that un- less something happens in eight months the movies will wipe out the legitimate stage—and all on account of the talkies, which are robbing the stage of its actors. Dr. Paul Fejos is topping them all in retaking scenes of “Erik the Great,” starring Conrad Viedt and Mary Phil- bin, in which he will have talking se- for his son Frank, who is to make his advent as a producer, with Hon. Ivor quences in English, French and Ger- man. Pathe Signs Ina Claire. 'NA CLAIRE, recognized as the out- standing feminine personality of the American theater, has been signed by Pathe to ster in motion pictures. The signing of Miss Claire is stated to be the first of a series of moves, now well , which are designed to ad- vance Pal further toward the very first rank of motion picture producers. “The notable talent, great beauty, and fine speaking voice that have made her pre-eminent in the theater, and have won for her such popularity as has come to but few in the history of the American stage, have now put her in the very top of stage stars to whom advent of talking pictures offers a ring future, and to whom motion picture producers are looking for some of the great pictures of tomorrow,” states Colvin W. Brown, executive vice presi- dent of Pathe. “The fruition of the new art will come from a judicious blending of the best of the technique of the silent pic- ture with the talent and the experience of the . Miss Claire’s contribution to motion pictures promises to be as signal and as unique as that which she in New. York was early this year in “Our Betters,” a play by W. Somerset Maugham. It was recently announced that she will star in “Children of the Darkness,” which Jed Harris opens in New York the week of January 7. Miss Claire was born in Washington, D. C,, and educated in the local schools and at Holy Cross Academy. She made her first appearance on the stage as a vaudeville entertainer. As a headliner she appeared on the Orpheum, the Keith and the Proctor circuits. Her success in vaudeville placed her in de- mand as a star in stage attractions, and she made pronounced hits in one play after another. Her popularity in this country was paralleled in several London appearances. Notable among her triumphs was “Polly With a Past,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, under the man- agement of David Belasco. Another Belasco play in which she materially in- creased her great popularity was “The Gold Diggers.” Subsequent to these she appeared in “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” “The Aw- ful Truth,” “Grounds for Divorce,” and more recently in New York in Freder- has made to the stage, where she has 00 equal.” Miss Claire's latest stage engagement ick Lonsdale’s play, “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.” Belasco Reminisces. INIA CITY, Nev., the mining camp which in the 70's was re- ferred to as “hell with the blower on,” is the locale selected by David Belasco for the new play in which he will star Beth Merrill this season. The play is being completed by Mr. Belasco in col- laboration with William Hurlbut. ‘The choice of Virginia City is not casual. David Belasco as a youthful actor was a member of the Piper Stock Co. in the turbulent mining town and saw at first hand many of the inci- dents on which the play is based. He knew intimately John W. Mackay, later head of the Postal Telegraph Co.; James G. Fair, James C. Flood, Willlam S. O'Brien, “OI' Pancake” Comstock #nd others whose huge fortunes came 275, “cost from $3 to $15, with miners’ ail lunches on a flat rate of $2 each. ut every one had a pocketful of gold and money flowed like water. “John Piper, whose big wooden opera use was one of the cradles of the e in the ploneer West, had a strong iness sense. He mufht the best tal- t available and prov th such visiting stars as Adelaide ellson, Mrs. D. P. Powers, Dion Bouci- ult, Katherine Rodgers, Joseph Mur- phy, John T. Raymond, Lawrence Bar- Tett, Annfe Pixley, Robert Fulford, the inimitable Lotta and many others of nle. ‘No one could play leading roles for F per who was not ‘up’ in the Shake- #">arecn roles as well as the great com- ecies. No juvenile was considered un- Irs h» had played Laertes and had uaderciudied Hamlet, as well as be- ing p-epared for the leading classic Juvenie roles. The same standard Was anplied to the comedians, to the first, second and third ‘walking ladies 21 gentlemen,’ the first and “c 9 men,’ ete. “We Gomblers, second ppreciative audiences. adventurers, ladles of the s of the world and the hodge- podge of humanity which follows every g -at strike, all were there. Capital- i=°5 rubbed elbows with miners, and every one called every one else by first - mes—sometimes nicknames. “I saw life in its rawest terms in Viashington's Unlaue Playhouse The Little Theatre Betveen F and G on Ninth Street Films From Al Over the World FREEO B NOW PLAYING! OF_MAD PAS- A e W, PE. “The Loves of Jeanne Ney” UFA PRODUCTION Directed by G. W. Pabst (Maker bf “Secrets of the Soul"”) ded his patrons i Virginia City. Once I was_mistaken for a slayer wanted by the Vigilantes, and when I was identifiled as a Piper player I was compelled to accompany the masked forces of law until they had captured and hung the leader of the outlaws. This action was forced by the utter lawlessness of the city. “I saw thousands won or lost on the turn of a cord. I myself 'ran’ a quarter into $4,096 at the dice table, and a few days later I saw John Mackay, soon to be one of the coun- try’s multi-millionaires, overpower and disarm a bowie-wielding bully with the same coolness and unconcern Wwith which he would drink a cup of coffee. “Miss Merrill, with her vivid, Nordic type of beauty, is in appearance a startling double for a beautiful girl I knew there during those days. In fact, so remarkable is the resemblance that I was startled when I first met Beth Mer- rill. It was then I realized that one day I would build a play around her with Virginia City as the locale. Her new play is the result, and I hope the Virginia City I reproduce will be as nearly the stirring place of those other dtfl.'ys as it is humanly possible to make SIDNEY LUST'S HIPPODROME oty $ittiow Joan Crawford in “Qur Dancing Daughters” 1ith AND E. I AVE. "_1419 N. Capitol St. Today and TOmOFIow Eric Von Stroheim “Wedding March” JESSE THEATER '3.%N%™ “AIR CIRCUS.” with LOUISE DRESSER, DAVID ROLLINS, SUE OARROL and ARTHUR LAKE.' COMEDY, “IMAG- INE MY EMBARRASSMENT. PATHE NEWS. Other added hits. 8pecial orchesiral music. Also the complete voyage of the Zeppelgn. CAROLINA 1ith & N. C, Ave. SE. First Time Shown SE. “THE ROAD TO RUIN.” with HEL ROSTER ‘and SLstar casts o You St. Bet. 1ith & 15th " White' Patronage BELLAMY in “MOTHER KNOWS_BEST." NEW STANTON ‘it %% EMIL_JANNINGS in the ERNST L " BITSCH Production, “THE PATRIOT.” TRUXTON ™idh C2- Retat i “STAND AND DELIVER. Tomorrow-—"LADY RAFFLES." ith TAKOMA % Today at 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m.; Tomorrow a7 and's pm—. - Joan Crawford in “Qur Dancing Daughters” PRINCESS _ ,di¥ E58eF “THE_COSSACK." CAMEOTHEATER ** g TOMORROW~—ALICE WHITE in “SHOW 2105 Pa_Ave. Ph. W. JOAN CRAWFORD. NILS ASTHER in "OUR DANCING ERETN With Edith Jehanne Brigitte Helm, etc. DUMB. Wisconsin A RICHARD BAR- THELMESS and MARION NIXON in “OUT OF THE RUINS.' COMEDY, “PAPA'S BOY." ST Wl Pty “THE WILD PARTY,” by Warner Fabian, author of “Flaming Youth,” is announced as Clara Bow's next pic- ture. It will be a 100 per cent dialogue, and directed by Malcolm St. Clair. “The Wild Party” will show the flap- per queen in the role of a girl whose sole ambition in life is to be the life of the party until one party produces several dramatic complications. E. Lloyd Sheldon adapted the Fabian story to the screen and F. Hugh Herbert is credited with the continuity. John V. A. Weaver, author of “Love '’Em and Leave ’Em,” is preparing the dialogue. “The Wild Party” will be Clara Bow'’s first talking film, and is the result of numerous tests, which prove that the “It” girl possesses a voice suited to mechanical recording. “The Saturday Night Kid” was orig- {inally slated as Miss Bow's next, but has been postponed to a later date. i Was Prepared. | BY simply using a gas mask while | working in the volcanic smoke, | Bixio Alberini, Paramount News staff | comeraman, managed to make not only | the first moving picture to reach this country of the eruption of Mount Etna but also one of the most striking rec- ords ever filmed of a great disaster. Alberin, it is said, managed to secure a 15-hour lead on his competitors by flying from Rome to Palermo and then working his way back across the Island of Sicily while his rivals were making the long train trip from Rome to Mes- sina. He had done a great deal of work around Mount Etna in the past, and knew something of the dangerous handicaps under which he would have to make his pictures. Therefore, be- fore he left Rome he borrowed from the army a gas mask equipped with an oxygen respirator, an outfit that was to prove nearly as valuable to him as his camera. SRl T Alrplanes Annoying Movies. PATHE STUDIO officials are suggest- ing an aerial traffic cop at Culver City to shoo away aviators from flying over the city. For airplanes are a nuisance when a sound and dialogue picture is being made. Cuiver City and_Hollywood lie on a main air route. If an airplane flies high that is one thing, but if one flies low there is a hum and vibration that no sound-proofing entirely shuts out and work has to stop with the delicate sound-recording apparatus until the plane has passed over. Furthermore, there are a number of air fields nearby and local aviators sometimes like to give impromptu dem- onstrations for the benefit of their friends in the studios. Willlam Sistrom, general manager of the Pathe studios, is considering the practicability of a huge sign reading, “Airmen, Please Detour.” el ARG Young Aviator in Films. OHN BERG, 13-year-old youth, not only won the junior championship in the model aifplane meet in Los Angeles this Fall, but also the right to play a part in an aviation thriller in the “Russ Farrell, Aviator,” series being re- leased by Educational. Chatles R. Rogers and Harry J. Brown, producers of these aviation pic- tures, became interested in the meet because the 1,000 or more youthful con- testants competed under the auspices of the Model Airplane League of America, of which Thomson Burtis is a vice pres- ident. Burtis wrote the “Russ Farrell” stories on which the entire “Russ Far- rell, Aviator” series is based. Young Berg is thrilled at the thought of playing in a motion picture with Reed Howes, who portrays Russ Farrell. Berg admits that his two heroes are Lindbergh and “Russ Farrell,” whose heroic deeds are known to millions of American Boy magazine readers. —_— Angling for a Playwright. HAVINO determined to go into the dialogue field of pictures, Harold Lloyd, the bespectacled comedian, is ne- gotiating with several of the leading playwrights in New York to do the dia- logue for his current production, which finds Lloyd cavorting for a great por- tion of the picture in San Francisco’s Chinatown. One of these authors has had four successful plays produced in New York in the last two vears, but up to this time he has declined to listen to any overtures from the picture world. He is said to be seriously interested in the Lloyd proposition, however, because the coriedian portrays on the screen the type of material the playwright gives to the stage. 7"""'i'vvv'vhvvvvvvv ENTERTAINMENT SUPREME with NANCY DREXEL—DAVID VNV VYV VIV VI VYV VVV VIV VVVVVVVV NV MEYER DAVIS SAMUEL Supervising Director Associate 1t Speaks VI VVVOVVVVVV VY Baclanova, Russian actress, making a test of her singing voice, whilel George Baneroft, who once appeared in musical comedies, adds his voice. two are appearing in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” One Who Succeeded. PHYLLXS HAVER is cited as an ex- cellent example of the fallacy of the old saying that “beauty and brains don’t mix.” one of the most popular of the screen stars, but she is also one of Holly- wood's leading real estate investors. She owns much property, including several apartment houses and & bun- galow court—the latter being typical of Hollywood home development enter- prises. She has shown such excellent judgment in making her investments in realty that all have shown a decided profit. / In another way also she has shown her level-headedness. When she start- ed with Sennett, at the age of 16, her first scréen work was purely orna- mental. She was one of the celebrated bathing beauties. But she seized every | opportunity to develop an acting tech- nique and before long was honored by | being made a featured comedienne. For two years she industriously worked to | improve her acting in this, the hardest of all schools, but was rewarded by be- ing given a chance at good roles in fea- tures. During the past year, while under contract with Pathe, she has given ex- cellent performances in_ “The Wise Wife,” “The Fighting Eagle,” “Chi- cago,” “Tenth Avenue” and “Sal of Singapore.” Her latest is “The Shady | Lady,” in which she plays the part of | a beautiful American girl who is in | hiding in Havana to escape criminal | proceedings on a murder charge of | which she is innocent. “The Four Feathers" Cast. GEORGE FAWCETT and Phillipe de Lacey will be in the cast of the Schoedsack-Cooper film, “The Four Feathers.” Fawcett will have the role of Col. Favercham in this Paramount The | Christmas Habits. THERE is scarcely any one who knows what Christmas is who hasn't developed “Christmas habits.” One family wouldn't feel it to be Christmas if the day wasn’t spent with grandmother. Grownups in another never neglect to hang their Christ- mas stockings. In other homes from which the children have long_since departed mother still trims the Christ- mas tree just for dad and herself. Screen stars, too, have their Christ- mas habits, Lina Basquette, for instance, always sends herself a Christmas present, “It is usually some little luxury I have been wanting for months and avoiding as an extravagance,” she explains. “So at Christmas time I buy it, wrap it up just as gaily as any of the gifts I give to my friends, and put it on the Christmas tree. It’s ever so much more fun than buying something nice at any other time of the year.” There is a particular kind -of short face veil much liked by Carol Lombard’s dainty litfle grandmother. Since veils are no longer the mode for any one but such a charming granny as the young Pathe actress possesses, they are hard to obtain. So each Christ- mas Carol sends to a New York store, where she once located the veil, for a dozen new veils. When Jeanette Loff, also a Pathe featured player, was a tiny little girl she used ‘to like to sit up long past bed-time. Instead of scolding, her mother bribed the girl by telling her she could stay up until after mid- night every Christmas eve to hear the bells of a nearby church announce the festal day. Sitting up with her mother on Christmas eve until the clock strikes midnight is a habit Jeanette loves to continue. Several years she traveled long distances to be with her mother on the holiday, but this year Mrs. Loff is visiting her, and the two will carry out their old custom in the daughter’s Hollywood home. Willilam Boyd, a Pathe star, and his wife, ‘Elinor Fair, each hang a stock- ing on a side of the mantel on Christ- mas eve. Gifts from family and friends are placed around the Christ- mas tree, but gifts from each to the other are carefully hidden in the stockings, if not too large. Perhaps the liveliest celebration is held each Christmas in the Quillan home, where Eddie, his three brothers and five sisters make the Yuletide a memorable time for mother and dad. According to the family custom all nine of the children give their gifts to each other and their parents to dad on Christmas eve. Then after they have gone to bed the parents trim the huge Christmas tree and arrange the gifts in a Santa Claus sack, from which dad distributes them in a room-to-room some v 'v*“ P_.AT.FOURTEENTH ST. William Fox Presents A Fast and Farions Farce of @ Fun-loving Bluecoat RILEY 72z COP FARRELL MacDONALD ROLLINS LOUISE FAZENDA A Knight of the Nightstick Has His Paris Nights A FOX MOVIETONE SOUND PICTURE On the Stage Broadway Bubbles A Musical Extravaganza in Miniatare With the Thirty-Six FOX MELODY MASTERS and the Invisible-Visible Master of Cermonles Lawrence Downey Introducing THE LIME TRIO Comedians Eztraordinary ADDIE SEAMON Star of Many Broadway Revues ELTON RICH Erom the London Hippodrome JOE PESKI And His Harp ERNIE & FISHER Creators of Laughter WILL & GUS Comedy in the Dance MILDRED LA SALLE A Dainty Miss of Songland Held For a Second Week IN IS NEW SETTING FOX GRAND ORCHESTRA LEON BRUSILOFF, conducting KORMAN Conductor Overture RICHARD WAGNER'S IMMORTAL “TANNHAUSER” FOX MOVIETONE NEWS HENRI SOKOLOVE Concert Master for Itselt A A A AAAArsasisacasaisand film version of A. E. W. Mason's stirring tale of British courage and adventure. Young de Lacey will impersonate the Richard Arlen character when a child. Although less than a handful of folk in Hollywood have seen any of the spec- tacular scenes brought back from Africa by the two daring makers of “Chang” and “Grass” for climactic scenes in their new picture, reports emanating from the West Coast cve to the effect that “The Four Feathers” will be Paramount’s most ambitious offer- ing since “Wings.” The_cast now includes Richard Arlen, Clive Brook, Fay Wray, Willilam Powell, Noah Beery, Theodor von Eltz, Noble iohnson and Fawcett and Young de ac COMPANY THEATRES “The Houser of Talkier® THE FINEST FILMS IN TOWN METROPOLITAN __2ND WEEK ~ OF THRILLS tour of his house very early on Christ- mas morning. ‘These are just happy reminders of the year’s happlest day. 1t 8 reported that the foreign di- rector, F. W. Murnau, proposes to re- turn to Germany to work in co-oper- ation with Lulgi Parandello, the Ital- ian playwright, in the making of talk- ing pictures. ‘Thousands Saw It Last Week and Were Thrilled Beyond Words SOUND LIFTS THIS GREAT HUMAN DRAMA INTO A NEW REALM OF ENTERTAINMENT! YOU HAVE NEVER REALLY ENJOYED THIS > UNTIL YOU'VE HEARD AND IT AS THE METROPOLITAM PRESENTS IT THIS WEEK Presents the star of “Ramona” and “Resurrection” as the Tur- bulent, Dashing Spitfire Maid of Many Moods! DOLORES IDIEL RIO IREVENGE A Smashing Drama of Primitive Passions, fpmxln and Jewels, Told in a Setting of Magic Charm and Barbaric Beauty! ADDED LAUREL—HARDY BYN:;! TR ED TIVOLI 14th St. at Park Rd. N.W. 18th St. and Columbis Rd. SUNDAY—MONDAY RONALD COLMAN VILMA BANKY in “TWO LOVERS” TUES.~WED. GEORGE BANCROFT in“DOCKS OF NEW YORK" THURS.—FRI. LILLIAN GISH in “WIND” SYNCHRONIZED SATURDAY RIN-TIN-TIN in “THE LAND OF THE SILVER FOX" SYNCHRONIZED VITAPHONE. CTS ON EACH PROGRAM SUN.~MON.—TUES. First Washington Showings DOLORES DEL RIO In & Gypsy Love Story “REVENGE” COLLEEN MOORE in “LILAC TIME” “THE TERROR” _ REGINALD DENNY in “THE NIGHT BIRD” EMPIRE ot ® st. NE. TODAY and TOMORROW—NORMAN K\l(l}fi\' and PAULINE STARK in WOMAN and WIFE HOME AMBASSADOR i 234 TODAY and TOMORRO' DOLORES DEL RIO in “REVENGE.” LAUREL- HARDY COMEDY. APOLLO 24 H St. N.E. TODAY - and _TOMORRQW — COL- LEEN MOORE and GARY COOPER in_"LILAC TIME.” AVENUE GRAND TODAY _and _TOMORR! N MOORE and GAR' in_"LILAC TIME.” CENTRAL 9th 8t Bet. D and E TQDAY and TOMORROW-—MARION NIXON and CHARLES ROGERS in D L VY CHASE seeRiieyse be. TODAY “and _TOMORROW — JOHN BARRYMORE in_'“TEMPEST." COLONY Ga. Ave. arragut St. TODAY . and TOMORROW — COL- BB i SR oochis 12330 C St. NE. TODAY _MAY McAVOY, ALEC B. FRANCIS and EVERETT HORTON in_“THE TERROR.”" NEW 535 8th St. S.E. ‘TODAY and = B i IRigoRnon— L W - OOL- COOPER SAVOY 14tk & Col Ra. N.W. TODAY and MORROW—BILLIE DOVE in_"THE NIGHT WATCH." TIVOL] #*h & Park Rd. N.W. TODAY and TOMORROW-RONALD COLMAN VILMA BANKY and LOVERS." SYN- Conn. Ave. and ST. n " TWO CHRONIZED. YORK ¢ Ave. & Quebec st. N.W. ' TODAY _and TOM W WAtk rifche R R 2O The Pathe star is declared not only | AMUSEMENTS. ™ Guessing Publ_ic_Taste. AMONG other changes which talking pictures are expected by close ob- servers to effect on an already jumbled screen map, according to a writer for Fox Films, they are ronsidered likely to bring back the costume drama and the Western films as staples of popular consumption. “An occasional thriller of the plains still smacks the public where it lives, and good pictures of any type never really die. But the second-rate kind of cowhoy epic has ‘dented’ the market. And production of Westerns has been falling off, even though the visible sup- | ply of Indians is nowhere near ex- | hausted. “Nowadays the addition of dialogue is regarded as an essential factor in re- viving the six-shooting drama with a bang, all because conversational cowboys will now be enriched in their picturesque | character by the ability to speak right up in public. Picturegoers must be aware by this time that the modern emphasis, thanks largely to such pic- tures as “What Price Glory?” “Variety” and “Underworld,” is largely on char- acter drawing, rather than in switch- ing puppets through ingenious plots. “Certainly producers are aware of the appeal found in delineating the traits of a distinctive and quite human individual, rather than in putting him through the far-fetched jumps of a fictional yarn,” continues the Fox writer. “Producers are all the more eager these days for any new twist or turn which will make a character step right up and buttonhole the fancy of an audience. And dialoguge has been found to be one of the surest develop- ments in gaining the patrons’ ear. “For one thing, th: dialogue gives a wider and more colorful range to a character’s emotions through the sensi- tive modulations of the voice. For an- other, it adds a tang to a personality through the vivid; homely medium of a dialect, a drawl or a stutter. Any pic- ture which has the most variegated ) +THE SHOW ‘Eh;:;kall!. group of intonations would appear in- evitably destined to strike an arresting note in public interest. “Hence the newer type of picture, in the immediate future at least, is likely to be a melting pot of tongues that. just stops short of being an entertaining tower of Babel. “This tendency,” the writer concludes, “has been capitalized by Fox Film Cor= poration in ‘In Old Arizona,’ a tale of the romantic Southwest just prior to the days when the sheriff's flivvers made brigandage a trifle less romantic and a good deal more tiresome. This pro= duction, which Raoul Walsh and Irve ing Cummings have directed, is a dif- ferent type of frontier story, since the cowboys in it are mostly background stuff, and its hair-trigger possibilities reside in a bandit, played by Warner Baxter, and an Army sergeant, por- trayed by Edmund Lowe. “It exemplifies the new trend in pre- senting a choice cluster of accents, for it has the hybrid jabber of Mexican English, the rough lingo of an Army post, the soothing brogue of an amiable Irishman, the guttural gibberish of a Russian immigrant and the languld but racy drawl of the true plainsman of the Southwest.” A D Still in the Makmg. "[HE official cost of “Hell's Angels” to date is slightly more than $2,- 000,000, according to Producer-Director Hughes. who estimates that another $500,000 will be expended before the world premiere on Broadway in March or_April. More than 1,500,000 feet of celluloid have been ground through the cameras since actual filming began October, 31, 1927. ‘Ten cutters, under direction of Frank Lawrence, editor-in-chief, have been engaged in trimming this enor- mous footage during the past six months, and the picture is now in 17 ‘Someone lolove w8* MARY BRIAN ~ WILLIAM AUSTIN America’s most delightful young bach- elor. tangle. a girls’ school. him their ideal. male personality in the world. Caught in a fast, Charles (Buddy) Rogers manages Fifty desperate *‘debs” call The most captivating complex love An up- roarfous mixup of girls, fun and romance. ADDED ATTRACTIONS METRO MOVIETONE ACTS MILLER & LYLE in the sketeh that made them famous “THE MAYOR OF JIMTOWN” JOSEPH REGAN Famous Irish-American Tenor. FOX MOVIETONE NEWS M-G-M NEWS COLUMBIA CONCERT ORCHESTRA CLAUDE BURROWS. Conducting.