Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 56

AMUSEMENTS Flashes From the Screen By C.E €« ONCENTRATE on sound” is the order to nearly all managers of the big studios. And, from this | viewpoint, it appears that the| silent picture is doomed—at least, until the cash customers demand something different. The Fox Co., now one of the largest, if not the largest, among the film producing organizations, announces that ef- fort is being centered upon sound pictures and that the silent films will be cut to 2 minimum. Other producers are expected to follow with similar statements, for they have built and equipped great sound studios. The craze for sound pictures has resulted in a popularity of the short subject, and a large number of the one and two reelers are ac- companied by sound. Short come- dies, novelties and vaudeville acts make up a large part of the ma- terial in this particular field. It is claimed that the transition to sound is more marked in the field of short pictures than in features, for the reason that the sound and silent combination will not mix in the “shorts.” Although he was one of the most outspoken against the talk- ing picture, Joseph M. Schenck, president and chairman of tLe board of directors of United Artists, has planned a new schedule for his company which consists mostly of all-dialogue vehicles. At the present time United Artists is releasing the Mary Pickford talker, “Coquette,” and Roland West's “Alibi.” Among the other Spring releases are the| Norma Talmadge picture, yet un- | titled; Herbert Brenon’s produc- tion of “Lumox,” “The Locked | Door,” and starring pictures for Lupe Velez, Harry Richman,| Fannie Brice and other newly signed players. All of these pic- tures will have dialogue and music, Irving Berlin having gone to the West Ccast to assist in musical development at the United Artists studio. Another interesting phase of the sound picture situation is the move of European producers in sending us “musical pictures.” Through World Wide Pictures, | Italian opera and singing pictures | from France are to reach the| Ab\mcan screen. Germany is to “create popular operettas of | native origin _ interpreted by world-famous Viennese conduc- ters and artists. Two operas nre“ expected from the La Scala Opera Co. of Milan, and the English pro- ddcers are to Send the best acts| from London’s music halls.” * x ¥ x OTION picture history was| PA the past week—at least, from a| b x office standpoint and from | quality of pictures exhibited. Heans in Dixie,” at the Fox,| diew !housands of visitors in the | C4pital, and “Broadway Melody” | packed ‘em in at the Columbia. e Divine Lady” at the Metro- itan was a big drawing card d the Earle and Little Theater r eived their share of the large | wds. Wiliam Haines and his| pigture, “The Duke Steps Out,” at | the Palace, came very near| srhashing house records. ‘While the plot of “Hearts in Dixie” is quite thin, the picture is; a glorious effort. The all-col- ored cast, headed by the star, Sfepin Fetchit, could not be im- proved upon. The picture de- sarved to break the box office re- cérd. “Broadway Melody” is a tap-notcher, with an almost per- | fect synchronization, and “The | D:.vlne Lady” is a real starring| icle for Miss Griffith. So, the | p ture business is booming in the | National Capital. * * *x X JFLY DAMITA, one of the i newest importations for Holly- | \ wdod, has a peculiar contract with | Sgmuel Goldwyn. Four months | ago she placed her name on the| paper which called for her serv ices for the next six months. Then, her contract was to be re- g wed if she had learned to speak Efglish. The six months is not up, but Goldwyn has taken up the option. He admits that she still speaks with an accent, but sl}e is asked to give up her Engllsh :Dn! for the present. She is uired in a picture where her rde demands accent. * ok X From Here and There. 'HE Fox organization plans-a picture - version of = “Cameo rby,” by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. Warner Bax- ‘gx will have the title role. For tlfe same company, George Jessel i starting work in a screen musi- comedy with an Italian back- made in Washington during|$ e Neb;n. sions for all its talking pictures. Already it is beginning to look as industry ultimately pro- goses to eliminate the silent pic- ure, the only cause of delay being the fact that all theaters are not ?'et wired for sound. In the pub- icity there seems to be a distinc- tion being made between the terms “make” and “market” silent films. Under the lead of Anne Mor- an, an organization has been lormed by dpromlnent New York- ers and a drive started for funds to provide the city’'s first non- commercial picture house to be opened in the Fall. Film Daily says “it is under- stood” that Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer will make 50 talkies for 1929-30, about 30 of them to be available as silent pictures, but all of the star features will have silent versions. United Artists says its present schedule will pro- vide for both the wired and the unwired theater, but uses the térm “product will be available for both kinds of theater.” Mary Pickford’s picture, “Coquette,” will not have a silent version. Charlie Chaplin has threatened to withdraw from United Artists if its deal to merge with Warners is carried out. Joseph M. Schenck has reversed his former position and now says talkers can be made at less cost than silent pictures. He thinks that silent pictures in future will be made Eflmnrlly to hold the for- elgx mari niversal’s plans provide for 32 all-talkers, for which “silent ver- sions are planned. Current Attractions! (Continued From First Page.) | pretty girls; a desert scene and the Drill | y evening there will be the usual wr!amng match. Y. W, C. A. PLAY—"Cinderella.” “Cinderella,” a musical fairy tale by Harvey Worthington Loomis, will be pre- sented by the Girl Reserves of the Young Women's Christian Association Friday and Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening of this week in Barker Hall of the administration bullding, Seventeenth and K streets, The players comprise 116 young Washingtonians. The settings will be original and colorful and the costumes for both principals and the big chorus | were especially designed for this pro- duction. Young and old always follow with keen interest the romantic story of | Prince Charming in his search for Cin- derella, and the Loomis score is said to be unusually melodious. Solo numbers will be sung by Mary Middleton as Cin- {derella, by Catherine Schofield as Prince ing, by Ursula Estes as the Fairy Godmother and by Marcis Knowlen, Jean Bone, Mary Whelchel, Ruth Nllls‘ and Virginia Hunter, who appear in | other important characterizations. The singing and dancing choruses will be features of the presentation, the for- mer urtder the direction of Imogene B. | Ireland and the latter under the direc- tion of Alice Sigworth Morse. Tickets may be had at the main bullding of the Young Women's Chris- n Association; also ‘at 614 E street, 11M M street and Twentieth and B treets. The proceeds of the operetta will be used to send Girl Reserves to Kamp Kahlert and to the Summer con- ference at Kiskimenitas Springs, Salts- burg, Pa. The evening performances will begin 48 33 p.m. and the Saturday matinee a Imported Films. NIN! imported photoplays are an- nounced for release in April lnd May by World Wide Pictures. As in previous releases, all of the pictures were made where the stories are laid, and the places covered are London, Henley, Scotland, Paris, Deauville, | Vienna and Berlin. In the list there are silent pictures, pictures with syn- chronization and part dialogue, as well | i as an all-talking production. ‘The new releases are: “Piccadilly,” an original screen story by Arnold Bennet, starring Gilda Gray, made in London; “Kitty,” adapted from the novel by Warwick Deeping, author of “Sorrel & Son,” made at Henley-on- Thames, England’s fashionable boating center; “The Woman in White,” adapt- ed from the novel by Wilkie Collins, directed by Herbert Wilcox in Scotland, with Blanche Sweet as the star; “Week- End Wives,” a comedy directed by Harry Lachman in Paris and Deauville; “The Prince and the Dancer,” a story of Vienna made in that city, which will introduce to America a new star, Dina Gralla, and “The Whirl of Life,” a story on the order of “Variety,” made in Berlin and London. There are also three Ufa productions. ‘They are “The Doctor's Women,” made in Paris; “Berlin After Dark,” laid in the Elysjum, the Coney Island of Berlin, and “The Apaches of Paris,” a story of the Paris underworld. At Junior Theater I ' ggound. This will be the first pic- tdre of a three-year contract for | ound the West Coast studios c@nsiderable concern is being dis- played over one angle of the talkie | velopment, which was climaxed | by the Fox Co. abandoning silent It is said that the ve may be a lever in the reduc- tin of salaries. Free-lance di- e New York State Board of | nsors has passed the French ture. “Joan of Arc.” Thi barred in England. Marshall Neilan is becoming a alogue picture director for the the Co., using the Culver Clty,‘ lif., studio. “Film Daily, the Movie Brad- | street, as it is called, reports that r next season, early compila- ns place the number of talkin; ctures to be made at 348. Forty e units out Hollywood way are| sy making talking pictures. Richard Barthelmess is to have 0 leading women, Alice Day and la Lee, for “Drag,” his new Vita- | which is to have 1, ctures has enfi:ced Ann vaudeville headliner, “Rio Rita” “Hit the Deek,” and' Pearl lor the dnnu numben in MILDRED NATWICK, Who plays the of Puck in “ summer Night's Dream” at Park, Friday Theater, Wardman Saturday, April 12 and 13. DANCING. ught c{m 1 s §.°'. lessons, "fl-anl sl mflrh"‘;%l:- : -m MRS. MAE EAVISGE G| AR e m&m B A mnw | finest all-talking picture yet made, and | ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ey vSudly Mondly Tuesday D. Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week (symehonteet) Ambassad'’r T _Davey Lee d ey Lee (lynchrmmd.v ~_Davey_Lee and Betts 3 (synchronized.) C, APRIL 7, 1999—PART 7‘ nhuu ru Richard fclm ant Apollo- llynehrrnilld ) chard Arien and "Rings (synchronized.) N s e A and r-unm n-am'l and m"f’ Uivnen.) Mevhen) (synchronized.) lll Hi e ‘Adores ;p Vitaphone reel. Jean Hersholt -n! £3 Nancy Carroll i “Abie's Trish no-e " (Synchronized. ) Ave. Grand “Ablu Trith. mn i (Synchronized Willfam Heines Jimmy \l’a‘mlnfl" l!lml:h ). hone_reel. Heuhnn and (!'/nchrnlled) “The ity reel. Vitaphone_reel. “King of Kings." Carolina “King of Kings.” Al_Jolson (. t Kings.” ey " wrne® singing 1 Mar; T Coy 13 “The Busnranser.” Fauntlersy. Back Senneivs “The Gond-by_ Kiss." Inkwell Imp_cartoon. Central Sennett’s v ‘Fhe Gond:b Takwell Imp ¢artoon. i Phyl Eddie Quillan an Marlon Nixon 1 of Singapo: ty reel. Haver and e in and Phyllis Haver and Alan Hale in Kiss.” ingapor Mary_Astor_in “New Year's Eve." velty reel. J n Hersholt and. Nancy Carroll I, “Able’s Irish Rose (synchronized). Chevy Cha. Tots Wiison, and olores Costello § onTeier Tl taikie) b Hedceming. Sin” Vita. short subject. ~ Unchny;lud) Come Lois_ lv’ulmn and Bert Lytell in “OnTrial (all-talkie). ita. -mm Bes Ject. William Haines in “Allns Jihmy Circle wflum Haines " Owen Moore and Marceline Day “Stolen” Lo Forbes. mxm’ Dane aha K “The Trall of 98" * Vi m““lp Vmor o F Sha Claire Win “on' Colony Tois Wilson and S Tall tablte). razy Kat cartoo: Il e Quillan and arion Nixon in “Geraldine" (silent), Comedy. Vitaphone. ! Ronald Coll “The Rescue willle Ast e Th “wild Orchids” (syn.) vu- short_subject. Astor and Llova Hughes in, Dumbarton Claire_Windsor Ricardo Gorses In. », “The Gratn of Dust. Dayid Rollins Sue Carroll 1 “Win_That Girl. Comedy. ieorge. crof l o “The Wod ul \}lfl‘ "Thl’yzlr s cuu‘(t‘)::)!vllldl"‘ Comedy. Comedy. Street. “Fancy Bags: {eynchronized: __ Jack Dufty comedy. __V " Charles Murr Loretta Young in “The Head Man. ews. “Heatt to Heart." Com Emil .unmnn TN “Sins of the Fathers. r-lfilnt l\!lth. Cartnon. Elite ermil Jeoni erllllnl Norma Shearer Patsy Ut ullur T o “A Lady of Chance.” Comeay. E “*Clot! s M ke the "'Kg?.:hn-l"lm‘ o 8. Lena atch, Cnmrdy Comedy. News. lu':il “Bell n “Gisl Shy Cowboy. Cammille Horn in reets of Almn" t bal Collegi: Phllls Haver and Tl Have osal ot sln' osal “Krazy Ka Empire Phyms lu‘u and Floon. _‘Krazy Rat" un n uglas Fairbanks, ir., e Jopyna Ral in "The Toller Bllb:rl Bedh rd and H!lzn! Cuwlln in b n “Burning o L ol c:meu com 67 Sincapore. Bt Comedy: sunmzou Hippodr'me he Menjou and Kathryn Carver in “His Private Life.” Comedy. Variety. News 8ir,_Harry Lauder in “Huntingtower. Odaity. T 8 8 ‘Brien = nrise. “Boap Shots. an !m‘ltel m Dolores Costello in - «The Redeeming Sin" (syn, Home t»homc:umm Vits Dolores Coutello in “The Redee) sy Fanny Brice Mary Astor Ty n “New Year's Eve." ameo_comedy. Vitaphone subject. Ci lbo!‘l” ¥ . Sub) fiue in adows." sumfl-n Leader Dorot ¥ 'k Ml in "My Home Town." e u'fin b Lionel Bartymore in “A Man in Hobbles." “Body and Soul.” Subsidiary Dol Tores Del Rig in, “Tne_ Trall o Liberty PR e of 0. Comedy. Travelogie. Norman Kerry and TLewls Stone 1 y. Jack Mulhall in 58 Bt in “The Foreqin Lesion.” Emil .v-nm n “8ins umr"-"nu N oo Alan Hale in “8al of Singapore.” “Sal New Cameo_comedy. Cameo_comedy. Byl o Phrlan e . Tuxedo comed: of Birgapore. vmgu reel. Tim McGoy T “Beyond the Slerras.” wald cartoon. Serial. Princess Norma Shearer in ‘Lady of Chance.” ((Svnchroalsed. Tom Mix “Painte] Post” Vitaphoge ‘reel. om i i “Painted Vitaphine Yeei. Savoy Spor Coreliug Keete in *The Adorable Cheat.” medy. dfo! d *Robert. Elliy. m G “Marry the Girl Comedy. in “Scarlet Seas. Novelty reel In t reel. Com Christie_comedy. “Show_People.” !mm Foreign Production, “Behind, Lines.” Tim McCoy in ‘Beyond the Slerras.” Variety reel. Jerry Drew comd Sifver Spring, Md. Seco mmy Cohen in “Plasicred in Faris.” Comedy. Norma Shearer in William Haines in “Lady of Chance.” “ Comed: ‘Show People. Comedsy. News. N"u mmund Lowe and rothy Burgess in ‘lnoldArlzonl rsyn.) Tivoli «al Vita. _Comedy. Oddit ments”_(syn.) _Vita. Wiliam B Boyd and “Lady of the Pave- Blue e onmaunu "Bim- ments”_(syn.) Vita. b Camedy Dolorn Del Rio .. Dolo “The Trail of '98 Tlhynchrrnlum Takoma ““The Trail of '98 William Hi Marion Davie: William ~ Haines and Vila_Banky "Iflufl Davies l!l in “‘Show - People" ‘Show Peopls “The Awnkening” (synchrenized). Cayhenronizet. (syn: oon. ref Del Rio in ‘nchronized) Vilma Banky n “The Awakening" s ed O'Brien in SIS (aynch.). Jean Hersholt in “Jaze M Charles mm and 4 York (aynen; Vitaphone. Pauline Frederick nnd"F-unm Frederick an nd_ Dolores Bert Lytell in Conrad Nagel “ “The Redeeming S 8. B0 rial.” Sin” - (Al-taEie) "“Others. (All-talkie) “Others. | ayncno Comedy. d Dolore d in fskin®® _(synch.) The R emln. Sm oon. vu-nhoni reel. Has Many Indorsers. GEORG! BANCROFT, star of “Underworld,” “The Drag Net" and other crook pictures, has author- ized United Artists to quote his opin- jon of “Alibi,” the talking underworld film which will have its world premiere at the Forty-fourth Street Theater, New York, tomorrow. “It is the supreme dialogue and sound achievement to date. If it will be equaled at any time I do not know, buz I doubt that it will ever be sur- passed. It provides a combination of everything blended in perfect harmony and is a directorial masterpiece and a box office salvation.” Even Josef Von St.ernber(. who di- rected “Underworld,” calls “Alibi” the Louis Wolheim, the star of “The Racket,” and Lewis Milestone, director of thlt‘ film, both are on record with praise of | ““Alibi.” Roland West directed and produced | “Alibi,” which is based on the play | “N htstick.” Chester Morris, Pat | alley, Regis Toomey, Eleanor Grif- | flth Mae Busch, Purnell Pratt and | Kernan are in.the cast. Itisa| United Artists’ picture. & Others who have lndoned “Alibi" include Douglas Fairban] . P Schulberg, Mary Plck!ord George Fitzmaurice, Norma Talmadge, Henry King, l{e%n Brenon, Sam Taylor and G n Gish. It ought to be good. I Yaconelli's Accordion. Tl-m fifth horseman and u;w ‘White House spokesman are more cu- ous than Frank Yaconelli, accordion player for Lupe Velez on the me stage in New. York in “Lady of the Pavements,” but there is a story in | 1 Yaconelli, nevertheless. He is not a’ Mexican, as many suppose, but an Italian who was born in Munich of Italian parents. He has known Lupe Velez only a year, and yet she will not work with any one else and she in- sisted he accompany her in the stage act in Chicago and New York. i Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show boasted of the Yaconelli accordion for a year. Mr. DeMille's “Volga Boatman™ emoted to the strains of the Ynmneml accordion. ‘The 92d Aero Squadron, A. E. F., heard Yaconelli play each night when he had laid aside his gun. The musi- cian was in action on the Flanders front and in the Cambrais drive; he was in service overseas for 14 months. He started to play the accordion when he was 6, ahd made his stage debut at the Hub Theater in Boston two years later. As a he traveled with his rents — musicians »— through A Germlny, Prance, Belglum, Greece and Rumania. He was 3 years old when he reached America. ‘ Yaconelli began his screen career as a character actor in Larry Semon comedies. Only Partly Authentic. AN!.’WSPAm office said to have been as authentic in appearance as any in_American journall WAS built at Paramount's Long Island Studio for the all-tal film “Gentle- men %{nm the l:en. ll;’! ‘were bt.r:e green lampshades swung low over bat- tered ters; the circular copy paste pots and news and disorder; story worth doing. At first glance it was an authentic newspaj Fer office—perfect. nuz it was & movie studio, too, and Tbe npomnmlll had ler pufls and mirrors in wers, with ich they went o\m‘l;t thel.r faces be- NATIONAL N ink bitions, ‘have heretofore STAR IN Y. W. C. A. OPERA MARY MIDDLETON, Who plays the part of Cinderella in the opera of that name, to be produced by | tal the Girl Reserves of the Y. W, C. A,, April 12 and 13. Dramatics at Sea. OW comes John Drinkwater, Eng- lish ph{rfl(ht who predicts that eventually all transatlantic liners will carry casts of first-rate actors and produce plays every night at sea. ‘The prediction grew out of Mr. Drink- water'’s own uction of “The Bird in Hand” on Alaunia yecently, while he was en route for New ‘York, where his play is to be put on at the Booth Theater. It was at one of those <n- evitable seaman’s fund benefits that Mr. Drinkwater, with the aid of the ship's carpenter and electrician, ve what was said to have been the first legiti- mate -production with & complete cast that has ever staged on a trans- atlantic ship. And it was reviewed the next day in the nhlnl paper by John MacDonagh, Irish playwright. Concerts, boxing matches, vludeville stunts, movies, lectures, even art ex{::— e worked out to conform to the neces- sarily limited facilities available aboard ship. If the passenger companies them- selves like the plan we can probably ex- pect new liners to be equipped with stages . and spotlights and dressing rooms. And repertory companies can very likely “work their passage” during Summer vacations. ST, S0 “My Madonna” is the title given to the theme melody for Dolores Costello’s next production, “Madonna of Avenue A" The words are by Billy Rose and the music is the work of Fred Fisher and Louis Silvers. FILMOGRAMS “Married in Hollywood,” an original nperen.l written by Oscar Strauss, the | Viennese composer, according to Film | Daily, will be produced at the Fox | Movietone studios early next month, un- der the direction of Marcel Siiver and Edward Royce. | | The film versiam of “Twin Beds” will | star Jack Mulhall, supported by Patsy | Ruth Miller, and with Gertrude Astor, Armand Kaliz, Eddie Gribbon, Jocelyn | Lee, Edythe Chapman and Ethel Gray | Terry in the cast. | | Bobbie Burns, formerly of Earl Car- roll's “Vanities” and Keith-Orpheum | | vaudeville, has joined the Fox Movie- | | tone forces. \ “The ancient Lenten bugaboo has | been slain this year by Fox West Coast lhuhn. which have experienced no let- down this year during the period which |1s supposed to deliver a blow at lthe show business.” Thi Daily | quotes Harold B. Franklin, president | of Pox West Coast. ‘ After making 14 pictures together in the last several years Jack Mulhall and :Domlhy Mackaill have just launched | separate starring vehicles. Jack's is G’l;:l'n Beds”; Dorothy's is “Hard to ——— | have made a concession to the cor- back. It goes—talk and all. | window of the monitor room. ‘"AMUSEMENTS.” Now comes Pathe Audio Review— whlch means that the once emi-, nently silent and discreet Pathe Review bel!m an edition devoted to crying out n seems that nothing can be done about it but listen. The Audio version of the Review— the silent also continues—will burst screaming upon the public with its talk | and music and merry jests once a week, mmin% violently almost at once. ts the first issues are now on the road to the exc! es. The Audio Review, like the silent, is edited by Terry Ramsaye, who has been_contributing his eccentricities to the Pathe product and utterances for about a year, since his emergence from the long silences. Mr. e h offered a modest statement in behalf ot Pln:.e Audio Review in the following "mt.her than be crushed by the over- whelming demands for this product I | forltion and will now proceed to de- liver it. “I have been reluctant about it for a number of reasons. First, it involves | effort, which is to me a corrosive poison. | Secondarily, it did not seem entirely kind to the industry to really sug out | and do my best, as I must in this in-| stance. But now there is no turning “For years I have stood quietly aside | and let the other boys have a chance.| Meanwhile Mr. Griffith has achieved ‘ Pathe News “C_}oes_ Sound.” fame, Mr. Chaplin has becorze a world famous comedian and Mr. Lasky aad Mr. fmuknr l;nd :141;1 Fox h?& lybemlrme powerful and wealthy, practi with- out visible competition from me. “Now everything is different. 1 have given them all their chance and \.f they are not set now it is too bad. have to go right ahead and dnmlmu the business. “I am sure all those who know me will realize with what misgivings I launch an enferprise which is so bound to rule the screens of the world that it is almost sure to invade the market value of the stocks and securities of competing concerns. I hope that the widows 2nd the orphans who hold other motion picture securities will ot be as | seriously damaged by the inevitable avalanche of business which will turn toward my product. “In other words, I think the Audio Review will be rather good. If it is not I shall speak sharply to Mr. Bev- erly Jones and Joe O'Brion, who do all the work. I desire to point out that the policy of the Audio version of the Review will be as conservative as the stlent edition. We guarantee to dis- agree with everybody and to present an entirely cock-eyed and casual view of this solemn world. “Mr. Samuel Clemens once remarked that he ‘would rather have seen the Queen of Sheba with nothing on at all than Gen. Grant in full uniform.” That, in epitome, is the policy of the Pathe Review, sound or silent.” Tempora ONCE a moving picture studio re- sembled a combination of Old Home week and the Stock Exchange, and it as about as much fun to visit as is a Kerry vs. Cork foot ball match. Con- | tinuous music, continuous rush and| gabble, a seeming delight among all | hands in waste motion, a sort of “Beg- gar on Horseback” show with most of the characters unconsciously funny. | Nowadays—in the year II of talking | pictures—a studio has something the air of “Strange Interlude” and takes about as much out of actors and spec- tators alike. ‘The general reaction is indicated by the experience of Ronald Colman, who | claims that he approaches the sound | stage with the feeling of an Edgar | Allan Poe hero. One moment every- | thing is pandemonium, with technical | men shouting over Rube Goldberg gad- | gets and contrivances, directors raving and assistants scurrying. Then whis- | tles, bells, sirens and rattles, in a New | Year eve chorus, warn whom it may concern—meaning_every one down to the studio mice—that a sound sequence | is about to be recorded. A dead silence | —the dropping of a pin could be heard, | but no one dares to try it since it would probably sound like the wreck of an express train, and the cast go through the scene, their voices ringng weirdly in the ghastly quiet. It is like making small talk in a graveyard at midnight. Sound sequences are longer than silent ones used to be. It is small | wonder that Mr. Colman comes to at home and murmurs with a shudder: “I'm glad it was only a dream In fact, Mr. Colman’s nerves seem to be in for a bad time of it. In a sound studio walls litcrally have ears, as he discovered to his embarrassment one morning. He and Lilyan Tashman. siren extraordinary, were in the midst of an intimate, whispered conversation when they h.pgened to see rude fellows grinning at they | | 'm through the glass It seems that they were standing over a micr |phone and whatever sweet nothings | | _Theatergoers who witnessed stnge | presentations of “Coquette,” “Bulldog | KDmmmund" “Nightstick” and “The | Sign on the Door” will scon be afforded | | the opportunity to see and hear all- talking picturizations of these pla; made by United Artists' Producers. “Nightstick” will appear as “Alibi” and | “The Sign on the Door” will be changed | to “The Locked Door.” I Richard Barthelmess begin work on “Drag,” film, in which he is to have the role of a young country editor. Lila Lee will play opposite. is all ready toi an all-dialogue | l Mae Murray hu been ll;ned by 'm-} “"i;)s‘md She 1- | In a Class by Itself. Tms's & real jail in “The Girl in the Glass . & new PFirst Na- tional Vitaphone production, but it hap- | pens to be a portable jail, which puts it quite in a class by itself, Ol'kimuy it graced a stone thet be- | AL Now it y e studio, and, whilé its appearance in “The Girl in the Glass c- " mnrn its bow in | the films, it wil bly appear in | other productions. 'l'he segment used in the picture consists of three cells. Mlkvmmn«tnoflehfla ‘were made of wood. f the talking picture put an end to thlt be- cause of the sonorous clanging and clashing of mehl that resounds in a real jail | SHUBERT BeLascO MGMT. LEE and J. J. SHUBERT et Mores. ‘were being passed were reproduced in & bellowing roar for the benefit of the assembled technicians. The old order has changed in so many ways. The orchestra which used | to keep Colman and Banky that way about each other in the days of silent films now plays only up to the moment when a technician gives the whole set- up the once over and claps his hands for the recording machinery to be switched on, so that actors have to muddle through rs best as they can without the stra®s of “Hearts and Flowers” to remird them that love wiil find a wa. Not a Suburban Annex. A VILLA MAYE, the featured sou- brette with Lou Real's “Nite Life in Paris,” at the Strand this week, has a name that sounds like the caption of a high-grade suburban addition. But it is her own and was not assumed for stage rposes. ‘The pretty auburn-haired actress is of French derivation, although she has |been in America for some years. She came from Paris with the same com- pany that starred Mistinguette, she of the million-dollar legs, and has re- mained here ever sinc Mile. 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