Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1929, Page 71

Photoplays and evening. ning. FOX~—"Strong Boy.” Both Vietor McLaglen and Clyde Cook appear in McLaglen's latest star- Ting picture, “Strong Boy,” at the Fox ‘Theater this week. This combination il;e;hbe::l much laughter with “Captain “Strong Boy” is described as a smooth, fast comedy with a simple love story, studded with farcical situations that revolve about a railroad newsgirl (played by Leatrice Joy), who tries to infuse a baggageman with pep, person- ality and promotion. The stage program marks the. in- auguration of the Summer policy of the Fox, bringing back as a feature the 39 Fox Melody Masters, with Leon Brusiloff conducting, and with a re- adjustment in instrumentation to give full value to the symphonic syncopation numbers of the orchestra. John Irving Fisher, master of cere- monies, will be heard in another piano specialty, and Melba Vierdag, ballet ley King. He gets them into the show, mistress, will present the girls in & |but it is the younger sister who scores 5 'T e . monia pipes. try to look like one, series of numbers to make them worthy | in 1t and King falls in love with her. Varied Types. Their Own Technique. of their name—the Gorgeous Foxettes. Musical comedy and revue entertain- ers will be on hand, with Allyn Reese, soprano, among them in a return en- gagement. An overture from the stage will be offered by Mr. Brusiloff and his orches- tra and the Fox Movietone News will SCREEN ATTRACTIONS OF THE WEEK. FOX—“Strong Boy.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—"“The Flying Fleet.” This afternoon and evening. EARLE—“The Wild Party.” This afternoon and evening. . METROPOLITAN—“The Canary Murder Case.” This afternoon COLUMBIA—"“The Broadway Melody.” This afternoon and eve- LITTLE THEATER—"“Simba.” This afternoon and evening. This Week the murder, a motive established and clues uncovered to prove her connection with the murder, but detectives still scurry hither and yon, questioning, ac- cusing and arresting, when Philo Vance enters into the case. He is the amateur sleuth created by 8. 8. Van Dine, the famous author, and Philo Vance, played by Willlam Powell, discovers the real criminal in & unique manner, COLUMBIA—"“The Broadway Melody. The hit of the season, apparently, “The Brondway Melody” contiaues its run and goes into the third week at Loew's Columbia Theater week. ‘The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talking, singing, dancing picture features Bessie Love, Charles King and Anita Page. Its story bares the lives of two sisters from the “sticks” who go to New York with the expectation of securing a part in a Broadway production through the aid of the older girl's boy friend, Char- The girl sees it and tries to discourage him by going out with men whose repu- tations are not so . The older sister finally realizes the truth and then pretends that she never cared for him at all except for what she could get out of him. This relieves him from what he regards a moral responsibility. Coniujd Co-operation. ers and wives are also s mix. moth- bust- . Miss _Coffee recently completed “Redemption,” the story for John Gilbert’s n ure, “I 'have written my stories around the Russian ideas Mr. Cowen ve me,” confessed Miss Coffee. My rusbmd was in Russie during the war, ‘chngl:"n]';ww ha lncl'“? fiom i ‘e have a! excl helpful suggestions and feel that mar- riage is the means to better work for both ef us.” Mr. and Mrs. Hmileywoodr wnmdt gve never been sepa o an 5 rated in their work in their 23 years of married life. “Lucile gives me my best ideas for plays,” says James Gleason, author of “Is Zat So” and “Shannons of Broadway.” “She is full of clever suggestions. I cannot work when sepa- rated from her, I state freely that I depend on her menull; for my suc- cess.” The Ken Maynards have been mar- rled six years and Xen admits shyly that he is in love with his wife. He has her picture on the instrument of his aeroplane where he can see her al- w 1 never saved any money until I married,” says the Western star. “Now we arc getting ahead in shape.” Fazenda is married to Hal Mmexecudx at First National, Wallis, and they are happy and contented with life. N through the long lines o£ I :l:l.‘:?rom which were “weeded“out the 60 members of the chorus of “The Broadway Melody,” an effort was ‘made to select a number of varled types. Di- eorge Cunningham, S which all the girls And he is busier than any operator at a big-town, manual switch- board! of the manicurist’s Next Week's Photopla FOX-“Speakeasy,’ Fox Movietone dialogue picture. PALACE— Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer’s “Spite Marriage.” “Buddy” Rogers and Nanc; currolr in “Close Hns-' mony,” Paramount dia- logue picture. EARLE —Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill in “His Captive Woman,” First Na- tionul Vitaphone picture. COLUMBIA — Douglas Fair- banks in “The Iron Mask,” a sequel to “The Three Musketeers.”” Synthetic Snow. ip- A HUDSON BAY ESKIMO would be wal tool kit marble table top and the clang of the cash ter. Add to these the occasional .invading roar of outside city traffic, always o subdued hum, but raiszd to a high de- gree when the barber shop street door to admit a new customer, or to let out the shorn ones. And, of course, the calls of “Next!” and the subdued murmur of conversation, for close- and long It’s the same shots, for the eompuuter sound symphony is essen- tial for every scene inside the shop. SmNO & play in the tirely unnecessary to ture scenarist who contemplates the for talikng films, play This belief is part theater is en- a moving pic- “of the theory of Garrett Fort, experienced lcreenr}d'r - matist. 2 | k & he | that desolate her | people of Culver City, Calif., to witness three wagon loads of real, cold, drip- ping snow drawn through the streets on;';‘rm and sunshiny day recently. ice plants around Los scraped from the frost-covered am- no more surprised to sce a palm in the barren reaches of land thau were the good curious, some of whom had never 2en snow close at hand and were only familiar with it on mountain tops at a distance, followed it to its destination. Then it found that it was being carted to the Pathe Studios to be used in a picture. It had been collected at the various Angeles, being LEY- LL RS AN ERAN ary The first sound and talking pict: to be shown in that country have be: three of the latest Pathe features an the Pathe Sound News. The Em Theater in Shanghai, one of China’s most important first-run Té cently presented “ AR very Mcg . 8 napolis” and “Show Folks” to business. ks as & possibility tha It is regarded tures r:'mn Englhh-mml.di' mmc- q i e ing 3 will become familiar with ‘the !nlhs%" language, and that thus one of the'” main barriers to international amity> will be swept away. i3 Accuracy Assured. : | ANOTHER move to insure the ace. curacy of detail in the filming of » 8. 8. Van Dine's famous detective sg)r_v. “The Canary Murder Case,” was taken with the acquisition of the professiondl . advice of Southern California’s leading - finger print expert. He is Glenn Wilson, attached to the bureau of criminal identification of Le#<! Angzsles County. Wilson gave Malcolm'~ St. Clair, director, the benefit of his/ experience in tracing crime and track~ ing down criminals. . Wilson also coached Willlam Powell,. who portrays the role of the detective, - Philo Vance, in the manner and de<’ portment of detectives. Take pride in week two all-talki His first word of advice was, “Don’t’’ enting for this g pictures which guaranteed 100% entertainment “I helps, of course, to see a play; it makes one more familiar with it,” said Fort. “But, after all, the screen play- wright doesn’t have to visualize it as a production. That is the director’s job. He is engaged to provide a swiftly mov- ing, consistent plot which will carry to the audience without any distraction of interest. He can do this quite as well after reading the play as by seeing it.” *|, An entirely new play has to be writ- ten when a story is translated from the footlights to the screen. The idea of talking pictures that they could simply record a play as it is given on Broadway Tound out the program. requirements to PALACE—"The Flying Fleet.” Ramon Navarrd will be seen on the screen at Loew’s Palace this ‘week in one of his most thrilling pictures, “The Flying Fleet,” supported by Anita Page, Ralph Graves, Edward Nugent and others well known to the screen. The picture was made, it is announced, with the co-operation of the United States Navy, and the story was written by Lieut. Comdr. Frank Wead, United States Navy. He rescues the younger sister from a wild party and marries her, while the older sister takes a new partner and goes back to play the “sticks.” broken hearted. The addition of a sequence in color greally enhances the charm of the picture. “Confession,” a Metro Movietone act of the World War, directed by Lionel Barrymore; the Fox Movietone News, the M-G-M News and short subjects complete the bill, LITTLE THEATER—"Simba.” selected bad to conform, yet at the same time they were looking for photo- graphic individuality. ~The result was that many were called before even a few were chosen. The average height of the girls is 5 feet 2 inches, and their average weight is 110 pounds. Blondes are dis- tinctly in the majority and about one- third of the sirens of sycopation have long hair, No inexperienced appli- cants even had a chance of “getting by.” Incidentally, nine of the girls, or JANE DALY, Who plays in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “The Mysterious Island,” being made from a Jules Verne tale, has a studio mechanic help her into her costume. It shows parachute jumps from fly- ing planes, sensational maneuvers in the skies, thrilling first flights of stu- dent aviators and has thrills numerous to mention. It has also an entertaining love story combined with an epic romance of friendship between youths. “Suicide squad,” aerial acro- bats of the Navy, provided the thrill stunts. Actors’ jubilee week is ushered in also with the presentation of Wesley Eddy and the Palace Syncopators in John Murray Anderson’s production “Laces and Graces,” staged in a set- ting of mosques, minarets and desert lands, with the following entertainers: Cirillino and Fortunello, Llora Hofl- man, Nell O'Day, the Tommy Atkins Six and the Gamby-Hale Girls. Added attractions will include many well known stars in a talking film about actors’ jubilee week, the M-G-M News, short subjects, Charles Gaige at the organ and the Palace Syncopators un- der Harry Borjes. EARLE—"“The Wild Party.” “The_voice of youth.” With these words Robert Milton, New York stage director and expert in stage elocution, | describes the voice of Clara Bow, Para- mount’s star, who will be heard for th> e is usually quite 12 . is in first time in’ a talking picture in “The | AVerage stage vamp is ususly quite : Any seasoned fllm trouper will glibly w » Wild Party,” the feature to be presented | harmiess and a domesticated sort of s 1 A . 3 b d 'The Singing Fool this week only at the Earle Theater. | Creature in private life, just as the vl Kicking for a Figure. :;’,’,‘o\y.,",,,“g“;,:g,gs‘:;";;’”:. ey st o actcles means & soid (| _Adaee. PATHE soUND nEws. s MISS MARCELLE In “The Wild Party,” which deals with the loves and caprices of flaming vouth. Miss Bow is required to develop Alfred Santell, d that “turtles” it = | string pull 5 3 ) - P | most dangerous vamps are found in real ntell, director, makes this | 8D at “turtles” are squat boxes eov. that when ed make the hair | B i 3 VITAPHOME SKETCH, o Americanese” Inflection and. man- | e and they are not confined to any Satement, F means it iiterally. Tne |ring connections for electrical cables. stand out straight, & numpty-dumpty" C';{mc l.-Eli")' oo i phssosar e o 7 eminine an uni gent being, “professor” is | RGE B - 058 3 the near-slang dialogue with a discern- ?:l;pg;n“é og';:;;,';yg;f:-“c;g;y“dg,,“. form. ©and to be a little self-consclous in ex- | the orchestra leader and George Spel- ot L Concert Overtare ana ing intelligence that will be a pleasant surprise for those who have never heard her voice before, The added features _include mnew Vitaphone presentations, Miss Marcelle, popular comedienne, in Southern snyco- pated songs and Harry Hollingsworth and Nan Crawford in a short laughable sketch of a sleepy husband and a nag- ging wife, entitled “Bedtime.” The Earle Orchestra, under Danicl Breeskin, will contribute as an overture “Hits From George White's Scandals” and a prelude to the featured picture called “Tiger Rag. . METROPOLITAN—“The Canary Murder Case.” “Who ““The de- killed the Canary?” Canary Murder Case,” scribed as one of the most baffling de- lective, stories ever written, and now | before the mike. Chevalier s starred in e e e into an exciting moving picture | an all-talking, all-sin; cture, dur- - p 5 » . L <3 by Paramount, i the current séreen at- | ing the coursé of which he sings eight | [¥E WILD PARTY' beceme o P@77F7FF7ZZL 7 TIN JOHNSON." CONT. traction at Crandall's Metropolitan The- | different numbers. lamily affalr wheit Willam Bow TN T T, THE MOST ater. . Six men are suspected of the mur-|ture Chevaller, although he received | first all-talking picture. Willlam Bow A der of the flashing Broadway chorus|many offers, steadfastly refused to ap- |and Clara are cousins, both from BAFFLING MYSTERY queen, the Canary. One person | pear on the scréen. Likewise he refused | Brooklyn, where they were playmates, EVER PRESENTED : killed her, but circumstances and mo- tives are established during the investi- gation of the crime which point to each of six men as the murderer. Then the mystery seems to clear when the Ca- nary's chorus girl friend is accused of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson’s classic South African picture “Simba" is being too | Shown at the Little Theater this week. For four years Mr. and Mrs. John- son trudged the hot and dangerous country of British East Africa in search of material for their cameras and ob- jects for their guns. During that time they became fast friends with the natives of the land, learning their language and living their lives. By no means is “Simba” an ordinary film, made at the direction of a manned- megaphone. The picture is replete with battles between natives and the wild nimals who daily threaten their lives. ‘Simba” is really a photographic record of one of the most noted hunts for wild beasts and studies of native life in the wilds of Africa that has ever been made. A negative of “Simba” sealed in a vacuum tube was placed upon the shelves of the American Museum of Natural History, to be opened 50 vears hence. By that time it is believed many of the animals shown will have passed out of existence. Merely Reflect Real Life. WAVA ‘WHITE, burlesque star at the Strand Theater this week, says the lain of a melodrama is nearly always a real good and rather harmless chap o stage. “To my mind,” she adds, “the tantes are born vamps. The younger they are the more deadly their work. “It is & mistaken idea that a vamp to be successful must be at least 30 and very sophisticated. If you doubt it, just watch some little bobbed-haired young flapper get into action.” Co]t?éteel Audience. MAURICE CHEVALIER, Europe's favorite entertainer, has met and won over the most difficult audience of his career. That audience was a cold slender cylinder of black enameled steel—a microphone on the sound stages of the Paramount studios in Hollywood, It was the first time in his life that Eu- rope’s king of entertainers ever sang Before the advent of the talking pic- to sing over the radio. He insisted, and rightly, that it would be fatal for m, as an artist, to be seen and not heard, or to be heard and not seen. His gestures are an inseparable part of his songs. ON THE STAGE AT PALACE at the Palace Theater this week. THE Cirillino and Fortunello, siars of “Laces and Graces,” the stage production It Must Be rut to Be Held Over a Third Week LOEW'S oLomifl F 8t, At 12th BROADWAY MELODY TALKING-SINGING-DANCING _ BESSIE lW% CHARLES KIXG ANITA PAGE | ] about 15 per cent, claim college diplo- mas—a development that might have amazed the leg-of-mutton epoch, when brains in jumpers were undreamed-of commodities. An Odd Ambition. tion. . H'd like to learn to fly an airplane so well that he could shave in the air. This desire is the outcome of his flying lessons during the playing of his gl“? aviator role i “The Flying eet.” Novarro, under the tutelage of Lieut. C. F. Greber, U. 8. N, took an inten- sive flying course at the North Island naval aviation post, near San Diego, where the aerial scenes were made, and is now a confirmed flying fan. The new picture is a story of life at isea and in the air with the aviators of | the Navy. Among its thrills are ma-~ | neuvers with hundreds of naval planes jin_sensational “stunts,” the wreck of a seaplane in midocean, Novarro's para- lchuv.e jump from a burning plane and sensational rescue, and the remarkable | aerial stunts of the Navy's famous “sui- cide squad.” & T is the actress who does plenty of kicking that gets the good figure. “Every actress in Hollywood kno that slimness is one important mu:: “Kicl e best known to womankind. kg “Scrawny women are no more in de- mand on'the screen than elsewhere in life, but slimness which shrieks of exercise is imperative. The lens of the camera is tricky and has the tendency | to_ accentuate the curves of the fem- { inine form. | “Paris issued an edict that man- nequins must become plump or lose their jobs. This will never affect styles in Hollywood, where no actress dares become plump. “The higher they kick the higher they go,” says Santell. — A Family Party. was added to the casi of Clara Bow's ard pais all during their grammar and high school days. William Bow but recently arrived schooling in New York. He came to Hollywood with only one bit of film ex- perience, as an extra in the Glenn Hunter picture, “Grit.” Clara’s cousin is an amateur athlete of ability, having run theé quarter mile, the half mile and the mile in the New work metropolitan district. He holds the rank of sergeant in the 13th Regi- ment, New York National Guard Coast Artillery, and has been active with that organization, especially in an athletic way, for several years. Colleginte Faihich, “En, beg pardon, madam, but don't you think your ccat needs press- ing?” Any uniformed person who 50 rudely comments upon milady’'s wear- ing apparel will meet with cold shoul legiate fashion of not having the hem of one's coat or skirt touched by the tailor's “goose” seems to be just the ticket in fashionable circles. “Give your dress a homemade look” is the latest slogan in Hollywood, accord- ing to Edward Stevenson, who designs costumes for Colleen Moore, Billie Dove, Alice ite, Mackaill and other stars. er the vogue will remain is questionable. For new wraps and frocks have not that finish which is generally associated with well tailored products. M 1 RAMON NOVARRO has an odd ambi- from Brooklyn upon completion of his | | had stage experience, but having been Hollywood Jargon. Now that the musical shows, the vaudeville acts and the stage plays have come to the motion picture screen, Hollywood is struggling with new addi- tions to its already complicated vocabu- ary. Whereas in the past it was difficult enough to keep track of “broads” gobo” and “turtles,” the lay mind is apt to get groggy listening to conversa- tions punctuated with remarks about “grouch bags,” “snakes,” “cake money” and “hoofers. Even the players are having their vo- cabulistic troubles. Most of them have for some time in the land of “soup,” “truck shots,” “rough cuts” and “trail- ers” they have gotten rusty on the foot- lights vernacular, . ‘Then there are some who did not take the stage route to pictures and who few weeks ago did not know “hand sit- ters” from a “dumb set” or who had never heard of George Spelvin. To add to the vocabular difficulties | in the film capital, the talkers have a few pet terms of their own. There are and “interlock,” for in- ere is the “mixer” and the plece of heavy black cardboard set to cut off light from a section of a set, plaining that a “grouch bag” is the real or mythical receptacle in which a trooper carries his or her season's sa ings. or that a “smake” is a conto: tionist and “hoofers” are dancers. Charles “Buddy” Rogers is one of the screen’s luminarics who has learned plenty of new expressions with the com- ing of the talkies. Rogers went from | University of Kansas directly to. the | screen, so he missed contact with the “curtain raisers,” the “humpty-dump- ties” and the “allez-oopers.” He has a capable teacher in Jack Oakie. Oakie trooped in vaudeville and | did his turns in the musical shows be- | fore he went West to Hollywood. And | as one good turn deserves another, he | has voluntarily made himself Rogers’| vocabular mentor. COOLED BY REFRIGERATION ON THE STAGE WESLEY EDDY in Jonn Murray Anderson’s Unit “LACES AND GRACES” NRTION gy, Carl Laemmles @ QFPICTORIAL HOVIETONE PAGEANT 7% WiITH!Laura La Plante anc o ‘Buddy” revealed to his pupfl that “hot ropes” are electric cables carrying heavy voltage; “soup” is the chemical solution in which films are developed; the “front office” is the place where the company executives hold their con- ferences; “cut” is an order for cameras to quit turnin ‘hot points” are a sig- nal to beware of a camera being car-| ried through a crowd with the sharp ends of she tripod foremost; “trailers”| are bits of action from a film used by | theaters in advertising coming attrac-| tiol “barbering the mob” is putting | whiskers on extra players, and “save ‘em” is the chief electrician's way of ordering the lights turned out. The op- | portunity for pupil to turn teacher came | when the two were assigned Xenture; parts in Paramount’s musical play “Close Harmony.” This being a back-| stage show liberally sprinkled with vaudeville and chorus acts, Oakle was right in his element. As the production progressed he also learned t a “magic” is a magician, & “dumb” act is an acrobatic turn, working for “coffee and cakes” is play- | ing for & better break, a “ten percenter” is an agent, “fright| wig” is a comedy wig equipped with vin is a name used in many play casts to_bring good luck. 1t is easy to see that vocabulary dif- ficulties are in the offing. The Film Arts Guild Presents “SIMBA” T H E GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHICAL MAL LIFE IN BRITISH 25¢. and then show it in wrong. At best, such a process would yield nothing more than e talking newsreel of a play. The talking pictures are developing their own technique at a rapid rate. But, according to Fort, method differs much less expected from that Screen. with JAMES H. _BuSmiAn s FAL 6th & C ONE DAY ONLY in “THE RED DOLORES RS, DEL RIO PRINCESS in “THE HOI phone Aol T 'OUR than mig] be of the old silent BONS, FRANCIS X. Sts. N.E. t. NE. 1119 | 8¢ RICHARD BENNETT WNERS” i MEDY nd Bntternut Sts. R.C.A. Photophone 3 to 11 p. Probably .m., tomorrow, 6 to 11 your last chance to a TION (in Washington) of AL JOLSO! N JESSE THEATER ™%,.% J&* “COMPANIONATE _MAR! - BETT L BRONSOR A EoMEDY: Ist & Rhode Isia Ave. ERFERENCE.” 100 EDDIE_CANTOR o een in CTHAT, per cent all- ‘appearing on PARTY IN P] UTH EDD] 50 Shows Bunda; 3 to i1 p.m._Monday. . NEWS 7 continious {rom THEATER "Talking "AXI SPOOKS.” Mt Rainier, Md. THE NEWS. DUMBARTON %ot frb™ SIDNEY LUST'S HIPPODROME _ 7o8.,"Semtttow GARBO-NAGEL “MYSTERIO! 8_LAI DY."” North Cap. DARROW_ A baggage-room Romee and Mis mewsgirl Juliet mix it wp In a \%"?‘ The Brightest, Merriest - Revue of Song, Dance and Mirth In Towns, Featuring JOHN IRVING FISHER THE MASTER OF MASTER OF CEREMONIES BOBBY GORMAN GRACE DeFAY ELMIRA * SESSIONS ROY WALSH ALLYN REESE FRANK BOKAY JiM JAM JEMS 'GORGEOUS FOXETTES Dainty Divinities of the s IN 4 “ROXY” SETTING FOX MOVIETONE NEW, It Speaks for Itself Fla. Ave. nd BROWN DON'T MISS THIS the younger 3 3 Beautiful Show Girl? Paramount’s ot Bet. D & E EVERYBODY’S GOING! You don’t know the half of “IT” until you see and hear Clara speak from the screen in her latest wild adventure. CLARA BOW TheWild Pai A Bevy of Beauties in a mix-up of thrills, throbs and romance. tween sunset and sunrise—and how! And to Complete the Program 5 VITAPHONE presentations Singing Syncopated Southern Songs HOLLINGSWORTII AND CRAWFORD IN 1ORT Prelud Who Killed the *“Canary,” Broadway’s Most Powell as “Philo Vance” Solve the Most Th ing Mystery in Years S ANARY MURDER CASE’ All-Talking Picturiza- tion of S. S. Van Dyne’s Great Mystery Detective Novel ADDED FEATV MEDY Edward Everett “ASK DAD” ALL-TALKING HIT What set does and says be- See and Hear Wills liam rill- RES G N COME Horton 1in Matinee OPENING TODAY Col. 3 TODAY and TOMORROW—THELMA TODD and CREIGHTON HALE ir (SYNGHRONIZED). ' BOBBY VER- 624 H St NE. ~APOLLO TODAY - and Halnes 1n ARLEN; CLARA BogEns O R (mtf 9th St. Bet. D and E D NAGEL G SIN” VY CHASE SRRn e CHE ). COLONY 6 Ave: & Farrasut [T Y —N TALKING and SOUND PICTURES Sunday and Monday, “The Redeeming Sin” Tues. & Wed., “Abie’s Irish Rose’ Thurs. & Fri., “Alias Jimmy Valentine” EMPIRE 911 H St. NE. TOQDAY ind TOMORROW—SPECTAL FOREIGN CAST 'in “BEHIND HOME 1230 C St. N.E. TODAY snd TOMORROW-—NANCY CARRO] * ROGERS and HERSHOLT in “ABIE'S IR B (SYN NIZED). NEW 535 th St. S.E. TODAY and TOMORROW-—SPECIAL FOREIGN CAST |n * THE SAVOY 14tk & co. Ra. N.W. TODAY—GLENN TRYON in “THE ’ TIVOL[ ™t & Park Ra. N.w. YORK 6a- Ave. & Quebeo st. N.w. TORAY and TOMORROW-_RICHARD ERS 1 - N S¥NCARO: