Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 59

AMUSEMENTS. The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. T is popularly supposed that a movie critic is in a position to know all the latest scandal and gossip of | Hollywood. Every one of us who is dedicated to the humble task of reviewing events on the screen is be- | lieved to be a sort of father confessor for the film stars. Into our ears are whispered the most sacred secrets, the most personal yearnings of Corinne Griffith, Greta Garbo, Alice White, Vil- ma Banky, Clara Bow, Lupe Velez and , therefore, are apt to be envied, which is gratifying. It is al- ways pleasant for a toiler to realize that his job is considered a highly de- sirable one, even though he himself does | not share that belief. Bui if we are envied, we are also embarrassed. People will ask us questions, and if we can't| furnish answers we are accused of be- ing either incompetent or wilfully dis- honest. For instance, T received the other day & letter from a lady in Baltimore CUs= ing me of holding out on her. “The trouble with you hacks who write about | the movies,” she wrote, “is that you are too friendly with the stars in Holly- | ‘wood, and so you don’t want to offend them. If you would only write down all you know about what goes on behind the scenes, then your stuff would be | zeally worth readi 1 beg to inform this lady that she is | 1l wrong. The trouble with me, and | ith most others who write about the | ovies, is that we continually “write | jown” considerable more than we kno e have to do so. We know so little! | Another corresponde asks me to tell er, “How are John Barrymore and Do- ores Costello gett along together [supposed to around the back door of the old more mansion, bribing the serv tell me just what words were passed | over the breakfast table that morning? Those who want to know how John Barrymore and Dolores Costello are getting along together should send their Tequests for information to John Barry- more, inclosing stamped, self-addressed envelope for his reply. Or perhaps it would be better to send the question to Dolores Costello. Permit me to_quote from one more communication that has lately come in to my disordered desk: “Is it {rue,” asks S. P, S. of Boston, Mass., “that spirit- ualistic mediums have been in touch with Rudolph Valentino, and if so, what messages has he sent to earth?” My answer to that is as follows: wins; Babe Ruth’s best year was 1927, | when he socked out 60 home runs, beat- ing his best previous record (1921) by one circuit clout. * 'ALL that I know about Hollywood | secrets is what I read. Publica- | enlightenment of those readers who feel | tions contain a vast amount of fascinat- ing information and their pages are adorned with handsome portraits of in- | credibly beautiful girls dressed in eve- ning gowns, dressed ih riding habits, dressed in rompers, dressed in costumes of all ages and (most of the time) | dressed in practically nothing. There | are also pictures of handsome male stars for those who like them. | As a result of careful study T have unearthed a_great many important | facts, which I set down herewith for the | that T have neglected the more intimate | side of life in the cinema world. The | facts follow: Charles Farrell is very partial to blue | (the color). The blue draperies and up- holstery in his bedroom look like bro- cade but are really made of an inex pensive rayon and cotton fabric. It | seems that Charlie is simple and eco- nomical in his tastes. Joan Crawford and Douglas Fair- | banks, jr. speak to each other in a | private “love 1ingo” to foil eavesdrop- By putting the letters “OP" be- | ery vowel, they can disguise the | st ‘words, ‘For example, “I love when said by either of them (as becomes “Opi_lopove D fore sim you." it frequently is) yopou.” It gives a very cute effect. Nancy Carroll wears the darndest | garments imaginable. Alice White never wears stockings. Carmel Myers has her first name_embroidered on all her lin- gerie. Dolores De Rio eats waffles every morning for breakfast THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, JUNE 2 1929—PART 4.~ Stage Notes HAVING twice announced the closing ' of “Strange Interlude,” the Theater Guild appears to find the public_too much interested in it to allow its final curtain in New York. The engagement has been extended for a “final” two weeks. If it actually closes on June 15 it will have played 432 performances. Charles Hopkins has returned to New York from London with the promise of a play by A. A. Milne next season. “Becky Sharpe,” Langdon Mitchell’s | dramatization of “Vanity Fair,” is to be | the annual revival of the Players Club, | to be done this week at th> Knicker- | bocker in New York. The play was one of Mrs. Fiske's most successful vehicles. A list of well known actors and actresses adorns the present revival. “Show Boat” (stage version) is re- ported to have been doing record- breaking business at the Colonial in Boston. The advance sale last week | was over $45,000, which meant a sell- oul Also in Boston, Blanche Yurka, whose “Wild Duck” was seen in Washington some weeks back, and Eva Le Gallienne | with her Civic Repertory Group, have departed after good business for two and three wecks respectively. | Cincinnati last week. through the efforts of the Stuart Walker company, | saw the first American performance of | “Death Takes a Holiday,” an Italian play by Alberto Casella.’ It was well Teviewed. The dramatist inverted, in | a sense, the theme set forth in Maeter- linck’s “Blue Bird,” the symbolism here being that death, arch destroyer of mortals, believing that all is illusion, takes a holiday on earth to discover what is greater than death. He finds out that wither and shrink and fade before death except the one to whom Dorothy Gulliver has adopted a baby Shetland pony. Some of the girls in the “Fox Movie- tone Follies” wear a coat of _paint. | (Note: 1 don't believe a word of this) chard Arlen’s favorite dessert is peach cabinet pudding, prepared by hi lovely wife, Jobyna Ralston. She, how- ever, prefers tapioca. Mary Pickford's pet name for her | husband is “Tiller.” Douglas Fair- | banks' pet name for his wife is “Hip- per.” The why and wherefore in each case is & mystery. Dorothy Mackaill says, “I want to state right here and now that of all the men on the screen, Jack Mulhall is the only one I would want to be teamed with”” And Jack Mulhall says, “I like to work with Dorothy Mackaill because she is responsive. There is this, t0o, sbout Dorothy. She is such a whole- some girl.” Clara Bow has a small gymnasium in each of her California homes, but no swimming pool or tennis court. Her selection of clothes is dictated not by the fashon of the moment but by her | own personal whims. That will be about all the revelations for this week. But I hope to have more to tell my readers when the July issues | of the fan magazines come out. (Copyright, 1920 Subject to LTHOUGH one well known screen | actor is known as the “man of a thousand faces,” John Holland might | well be called the “man of a thousand | names.” He answers with equal readi- ness to James, Jim, Jimmy, John, Jack, | Clifford and_CIiff, thereby occasionally causing confusion on a set when he| replies for a half a dozen other people. Born James Holland, the scion of a | family that includes the late Clifford | Holland, builder of the Holland tubes | in New York, the actor began his| screen career as an extra some four | years ago. Qn_ his first picture the| ‘casting director had difficulty in under- standing his name over the phone, and after a dozen ineffective repetitions of | “James Holland” he had the inspira- | tion of borrowing his noted cousin’s | name, Clifford. The director “got” the name the first | time, and the youth remained Clifford for three years. For some reason Henry King, his later director, has an aversion to the name of | Clifford. He promptly changed the actor's cognomen to “John,” and so it | has been ever since. What Holland's | next name will be he has no idea, but as he claims to be fully satisfied with the present “handle,” it is probable John will remain John for some time. Maci“adden to Talkies ROBERT KANE has enticed Hamil-| ton MacFadden, late of the Thea- | ter Guild, and still a bit later of inde- pendent_productions, into the talking picture field. He will direct Constance Bennett, in “This Thing Called Love.” Mr. MacFadden headed the Theater | Guild School for many sessions, later | becoming the producer of “La Gringa.” with Claudette Colbert, “Buckaroo” and “Gods of the Lightning.” MacFadden hails from Boston. He| went to Cambridge and Harvard, and during his college career was not only a leading member of the glee club, but its manager during its American and | European tours. He drifted into the theater when he went to California. A young lady came | up to him on the street in Santa Bar- bara and inquired anxiously: “Do you want to play juveniles?” The thought had never occurred to him, but it seemed interesting, and| thus without premeditation he became | a member of the Santa Barbara Com- munity Players. It seems that the young man usually intrusted with such roles had become suddenly ill, and the company had been at its wits end on how to proceed when one of the mem- bers spied the unsuspecting MacFadden on the street. Studio Uproar. ONCE only did serious trouble arise among the hundreds of ild animals used in the filming of “Noah’s During that time a portion of the ‘studio was in an uproar and sev- | eral casualties among the denizens of the wilds resulted. A brace of crocodiles appeared to be instigators of the near-riot. Breaking | loose, they mixed in the mdidle of the | scene being filmed in the interior of the | Ark. Baring fang and talon, bellowing, screeching and roaring, elephants, lion: tigers and scores of sma of the animal cast joined the fra When the crocodiles fin: pried apart by a dozen a: tors, prop men and animal trainers, the combatants were found to have damaged each other considerably. A half hour was consumed in ccralling a miscellany of monkeys, wild fowl and domestic~ animals from their hastily | scquired ports of safety. A huge | python twined about a rude ladder was | the only member of the assemblage to | maintain calm. He hung. unconcerned, | apparently disdaining to add his 18| feet of sinuous body to the mele | Stepping Stones. T was Tennyson who wrote of men stepping stones of their things” The m one better and | ping stones of the other fellow, that other fellow being the radio, their mortal enemy of a few years back. Even now one can hear the echo of the plaint that the radio threatened the undoing of the movie by keeping its audiences at home instead of perm ting them to come to the movie palaces. adio listener-in may | icast of his or her favorite | movie mechanical geni progressing in the new art of bringing the pictures themselves over the air and into the home. Unable to abate the radio, the movie has harnessed it to movie uses, and First National-Vitaphone studios’ have ecently ins P a permanent radio et that will both receive t is to be utilized fir break up a vhoopee party” in “Fast Life.” a new film production, and later will be uti- d “to save the time of busy film tars, who are being heard more and pore on _the air, as well as some who ever before have been able to broad ast.” nd broadcast. | Crane's leading woman and was also To Be Heard Again. ONE of the classic voices of the American stage was recalled from temporary quietude ‘to be heard in sound pictures when Mrs, George Faw- cett was cast in the role of Maurice Chevalier's mother in the Paramount all-talking and singing production, “In- nocents of Paris.” Mrs. Fawcett, who is the wife of the beloved screen character actor, was well known for years as Percy Haswell, both in America and abroad. She be- the age of 16 years. Augustin Dally’s company for several ears and went with that troupe to London when Daly’s theater opened there. She later played as Willlam H. assoclated with Otis Skinner. Did He Miss Anythmg? 7TOM O'BRIEN, who plays William Boyd's chief adversary in “The Flying Fool,” is the son of T. J. O'Brien, for 32 yerrs manager of Barnum and Bailey's Circus, and made his first pro- fessional appearance in a tent show at the age of four. Since then he has played in circus bands, ridden with the 101 Ranch, played in the American | Boat Show from New Orleans to Red Wing, Minn.; appeared in dramatic stock, vaudeville and band shows, and has been in the legitimate with some of Broadway's leading players. For all- round experience in the various forms of amusement, O'Brien considers that pretty good. ST 9th Bet. F & G FILM ARTS GUILD —takes great pleasurc in pre- senting, for Washington approval, the film version of Gerhardt Hauptmann’s World Famous Play “THE WEAVERS” Continuous Performance Today NO ADVANCE IN PRICES! SO qwe cATRRNs] T "THE GHOSTLY WARNING; | & death.” love is _transcendant, “for love s reater than illusion, and stronger than | In London St. John Ervine will have | a new comedy, “The First Mrs. Fraser,” | apnearing toward the end of June. | Critics received none too kindly a play in London by A. M. ‘Thornton called “A Divorce Has Been Arranged.” dealing with “the hackneyed theme of | surburbia on a desert isle. Yvette Guilbert, French chanteuse, will appear in the United States next season in a series of recitals. She will visit New York and many other cities throughout the country. The Theater Guild's first production next season in New York will be “Kail und Anna,” Leonhard Franck’s play about two German war prisoners, a movie version of which was presented at the Little Theater in Washington under the title of ‘*‘Homecoming.” Alice Brady and Otto Kruger will have the leading roles in the New York pro- duction; Philip Moeller will direct. The work has been successfully produced in Berlin and is running at present ia Paris. . Outdoor Attractions GLEN ECHO PARK. Glen Echo Park, out-door playground of Washington, provides park diversion, fun and frolic to suit every tempera- ment, every age, with thrills on the| coaster dip and the airplane swing and a calmer, but more mysterious ride at the old mill. In addition, there are the skooter, the caterpillar, the carrousel, the midway and dozens of other diver- sions to give wings to the hours. Glen Echo Park also offers ideal picnic grounds. In addition to the free parking space, the management has provided parking space, where a fee is charged. Dance music by McWilllams Orchestra, will entertain dancers in the ballroom, and | the street car service along the Poto- | mac is always dependable. MARSHALL HALL. Marshall Hall, the river resort on the Potomac, has opened its season as an amusement place for Washington | families and Southern Maryland folks. The boat ride on the Potomac is de lightful and Marshall Hall offers an ideal place for outings and all-day | picnics, with many amusements, includ- ing the roller coaster, the dip, the car- rousel, the whip, aeroplane Tide and others. A large pavilion at the waters edge offers free dancing. The steamer Charles Macalester will make three trips daily and Sunday. It leaves the Seventh Street Wharf at 10 am., 2:30 and 6:45 p.m. except on Sundays the morning sailing is delayed until 10:30 o'clock. CHESAPEAKE BEACH. Chesapeake Beach, ~ Washington's nearest salt-water resort, announces a real sensation this season in Ralph G. Garren's Carolinians, seven peppy mu- sicians, who furnish music for over- the-water dancing and at the same time amuse with their clownish antics. Right, in the midst of a blues or stomps rhythm one or two of the musicians will break out in the Rubetown Frolics or a Lydia Pinkham burlesque. The Meditation Trio is another feature of the Caro- linians. It is composed of Max Alpher, saxophonist; Marion Wilson, trumpeter, and Philip Akre, trombonist. It is also a singing trio. The beach is in daily operation, with bathing beach and boardwalk amuse- | ments running full tilt, picnic groves | calling to the hungry, fish biting mer- | rily, kiddies cavorting on their free playground and everybody happy. The children’s round-trip fare is in effect again this year and every Friday is known as family day, when the round-trip adult fare is cut in half. From Screen to Stage. JVELYN BRENT believes that in a short while the tables will be turned and film plays will be made into theater productions. There has been much transferring of successful stage plays into the films, particularly so since the ‘talkies’ have come into vogue,” says Miss Brent. “There is every reason to believe that a new writing—that of writing directly for the ‘talkie’ screen, will come into being,” says Miss Brent. “That being the case, why shouldn’t the stories emanating from this in turn be_transcribed to the stage?” Miss Brent has made three talking pictures—two of them being made from well known stage plays and the third an original screen stor: ‘AMUSEMENTS.” 3 “The Squall.” LORETTA YOUNG, The feminine portion of a new starring team. Barthelmess in “Scarlet Seas,” and in First National's all-star production, only to find that within a few months She plays opposite Richard ’I‘H'ERE is no denying the fact that the chief obsession of the present- day motion picture director is fear— fear of authenticity. Modern-day picture devotees are of the cosmopolite order—college profes- sors, scientific authorities and learned men in other lines sit side by side with the grocers’ clerks, the bus driver, the middle-class family, enjoying an eve- ning's entertainment in their favorite picture house. Obviously the picture projected on the screen is at the mercy of the self- constituted judges and jury. In other words—and this is a matter of record— any slight flaw in story or action, and especially in authenticity, means a let- ter to the studio, calling attention to the supposed deficiency. ‘Thus it is the effort of every good director, writer, technical man, super- viser and the like to obviate any such contingency. In “The Black Wat bot Mundy's story, " based on Tal- g of the Khyber Authenticity in Films Rifles,” there is a battle scene taking place in Flanders with “The Black Watch,” nickname of the 42d High- landers, going over the top, led by the pipers, ‘The reserves are seen coming up, led by their pipers, and it is made very evi- dent that helmets are not worn. The casual observer may feel that dispensing with helmets is a technical error. 1If so, the error will be on the side of the observer. During the first year of the World War Scotch companies went over the top with their pipers playing, and the casualties among the pipers especially were heavy, z However, the procedure was con- demned by an official order issued by the British commander-in-chief in France, Field Marshal Lord French, and the practice of dispensing with helmets was discontinued early in 1916. ‘The particular incident of the pic- tured story happened in 1914, and is thus, historically and suthentically, cor- | rect. THE motion pictures, long one of the most remunerative sources of profit for the capital invested, has been made at least 50 per cent more attractive financially since dialogue and synchro- nized effects widened its scope. “And this considering the fact” ex- plains George Fitzmaurice, producer- | director, “that the so-called talking pic- | ture automatically limited itself to 10 per cent of the market it formerly en- joyed as a silent production. “So far only 1,800 motion picture theaters are wired for sound out of & total of 17,000 houses. Even with this narrowed field for distribution a quicker turnover and. larger gross is had and consequently & healthier net profit, thus scouting the anguished cry of sev- eral months ago that neglect of the small, unequipped theaters would ruin the industry. ; “By reasons of competitive selling or- ganizations and the fact that major cities have from one to ten first-run theaters, the average talking picture may be expected to show in 1,200 houses.” Prof@ in Talkies But the most remarkable thing about | the “talkles,” Fitzmaurice declares, is that they need to play in only 1,800 | wired theaters to return a larger net | profit than was ordinarily expected from a successtul silent picture that had | been exhibited 8,000 times. “However,” he says, “it must be re- membered that the theaters now wired are the largest in the country, return- ing grosses as in the case of Roxy's in New York of $150,000 on a week's run, and $100,000 the average weekly busi- ness of the Capitol Theater in the same city. Most of the larger sound theaters have a weekly gross income of from $60,000 up. The “talkies,” he believes, have brought a new impetus to the show bus- | iness and an era of prosperity for the | exhibitor that has never seen the like before. Fitzmaurice says that sound pictures can be produced for half the cost of silent pictures. He predicts that 5,000 additional theaters will be wired by the end of 1930. A CLAIRE, who started her theatri- cal career in Washington as a clever mimic, after having won histrionic fame in the drama, has now ascended to the talking movies as a philosopher, kind. Miss Claire is now on the Pacific Coast preparing for a Pathe screen pro- duction of an original play by Arthur Richman, and that, perhaps, accounts for her reappearance in print and in & new role. “People of the romantic ages,” in Ina’s opinion, “are undoubtedly the happlest.” And then she sagely adds, “People need & little {llusio The occasion for these remarks was the attempt of some unknown to in- terview Miss Claire, seeking an opening with & query as to the wholesome wis- dom of modern open-mindedness, the frankness of youth and the general re- Iationship of modern men and women. This is an intelligent age,” mused Ina in replying. “And it may be all to the good, but it seems to me that every- body, even those with the most cheer- ful dispositions, looks a little sad. I do not think that this is a very happy age. DUMBARTON ™ issaiiz & GRIFFITH and EDMUND LOWE in COMEDY, “SLIPPERY SIDNEY LUST'S ar oth RAMON NOVARRO, “THE_FLYING FLEET" (Synchronized). Today- RAMON NOVAREO. “THE_FLYING FLEET" (Synchronized). CAROLINA V Tiith & N C. Ave SE “SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN.” with THELMA TODD, _CREIGHTON HALE. __ _ _ 6th & C Sts. N P.M. K. N st & Rhode Nland Ave. N.W. “THE GHOST TALKS." With a special A FOX MOVIETONE All-Talking COMEDY, “DUMB WAITER.* APHONE presentation, ELSIE PATHE NEWS. N. with an AlL-§ “STRANGE _CARGO," tar col FABLES, TOPICS, Cast MEDY, NEWS. ___ i IRCLE B8 onte o5, “Fa. Ave. Ph. W. 953 KARL DANE, GEGRGE K. ARTHUR, JOSEPHINE DUNN, “ALL Tomorrow—"CANARY MURDER CASE" (Silent). VITAPHONE ACT, JACK GOLDIE. 'I' AKOM A 4th a Itel S House of R.C.A. Photophone Today at 3, 4:28, 6:07, d 9:25. ‘Tomorrow at 6. 7:40 20. Davie Lee in “SONNY BOY.” ‘R Mt Rainier, (Talking, Singing and Muste.) Also Pathe Sound News and Comedy. One Thing After Another. a thinking observer of man and woman |to be romance. And there isn't much “Openness and frankness and intel- ligence in the relationship of men and women simply don't go with romance, for there must be mystery if there is mystery about us these days. “As to the breakdown of the conven- tions regarding love and marriage, the general wildness that everybody is talk- | ing about so much,” she continued, “I do not think it is so different to what has happened again and again in the history of the world. One needs but little reading to perceive that. It is nothing new. “Life seems to be a continual succes- sion of outbursts and suppressions. In some ages people are more secretive and formal; in others they break loose a little too much. And then—well, then they simply swing back again. “T still cling to the belief that the age Fleeting Appearance. HAHPO MARX is the one player in talking pictures who is said to be fearless before the microphone, because, as has been his habit during his past 12 years on the stage, he never says anything. Harpo is the red wigged unit of the four Marx brothers who made their stage play, “The Cocoanuts,” into a moving picture. Harpo is amused by the fact that his first real part on the screen came after it had become audible. He relates the story of his previous screen experience when he appeared, for a fleeting mo- ment, in “Too Many Kisses,” with Rich- ard Dix. “I'd been coming over here to work and telling all my friends that I was in the movies” Harpo said. “I was quite excited the night the picture opened. I took everybody I knew down to see me on the screen. “But it seems the cutters had been at work on the film, and they hadn't figured my acting amounted to much. ‘We sat there waiting for me to come on and dominate the scene, and nothing much happened at all for a couple of reels. Then a short flash of me, looking through a door. “‘There he—' my mother started to say. Then I flashed off—‘goes,’ she finished the sentence. And that was all they saw of me. I had leaned over to pick up my hat just at that moment, s0 I never did see myself. T hope I am better off in ‘The Cocoanuts.’” Have Since Died. MANY of the natives who appeared in “White Shadows of the South Seas” have died, victims of influenza or measles which swept the tropics in two epidemics. This tragic fact was discovered by Ramon Novarro and his director, W. S. Van Dyke, when they went to the is- lands to film “The Pagan,” a sound | synchronized film with singing se- quences that introduce Novarro's voice to the screen. The director sought some of the for- mer native actors for his new picture the two epidemics had decimated their village. “The Pagan” filmed in the South Seas, is a romance of an island chief torn between the loves of a white charmer and native girl. Speeding Permitted. ROOKS will be crooks—whether ‘working in pictures or in real life. A band of gangsters, clad in bullet- proof vests and armed with machine guns, broke a strictly observed law at First National Studios, when with ten studio cops standing by, Jack Mulhall piloted a “liquor” laden truck through the streets at 70 miles per hour. This was the first time In studio history that any one had broken the lot speed limit of cight_miles per hour. In~ addition, Mulhali cut buttons, knocked over 'a safety zone sign and finally smashed the truck against & building. But he was not even arrested for reckless driving, for it was all in a story of racketeers then being filmed. LOEW'S CoLUmsiA ¥ St at 12th—Cont. From 10:30 NOW PLAYING ALIBI Sensational | All-Talking and Singing Musical Melodrama ‘With ‘All-Star Cast A United Artists Picture METRO MOVIETONE ACTS COOLED BY REFRIGERATION LOEW’S PALAGE F 8t at 13th—Cont. From 1100 WOW FLAYING of romance is the happiest and that life must have some {llusions.” N\ ) 24 DA 2 , The Dizzy, Whizzy Whirl of Modera Youth Gone Wild! William Fox Presents IRLS GONE WILD with SUE CAROL NICK STUART ROY D’ARCY “WHAT 1S THE WORLD COMING T02” Accompaniment Arranged by Symphonic For Mopietone *Rozy” ——ON THE STAGE— JOHN IRVING FISHER Master of Ceremonies, Introducing MURIEL & FISHER HEALEY & CLIFFORD MARIO & LAZARINE THE PEARL TWINS YO\ 77 TUMBLING CLOWNS FORTY FOX JAZZMANIANS Fourteen FOXETTES {1 y it )Y arhf /,’> uTH!.'RE are two kinds of magic— white and black,” says Henry B. ‘Walthall, screen player, who has made an intensive study of this subject. “Most people confuse these two phases, but there is a vital distinction between them. White magic is the harmless variety, consisting of spectacu- lar tricks and illusions; it includes what is commonly known as legerdemain or sleight-of-hand. Even in the Middle Ages, when any kind of conjuring was under suspicion, the practitioners of white magic were frequently raised to honor and their exhibitions were affairs of great public interest. “Black magic, however, has always been persecuted, for the reason that it es the sinister phases of the art. Sorcery, witcheraft, the laying of spells and incantations on another person, and any sort of enchantment for a malevo- lent purpose—such constitute black magic, and in the past many thousands of persons were put to death for prac- ticing this secret craft. Witch burning ‘with, &&.“—E x 3{;%%3:’?& o \ \ 'DOLORES'COSTELLC 'GEORGE O:BRIEN Warner Bros. Outstanding Achieve- ment of the Screen, Made Vivid as Reality Itself Through the Marvel- ous Voice of Vitaphone, Presented Ezactly as When Shown in New York at $2, With All Sound Effects and Musical Score. | White and Black Magic was & fairly common diversion in this country not so long ago, and has oc- curred in other countries as late as 1888, “This latter type of magic has been used as the basis of our picture, and considerable care was used to give an authentic representation of the real Papuan beliefs on the subject, inasmuch as an island off the coast of New Guinea is the locale of the story. Like many other primitive tribes, the Papu- ans are firmly convinced that their witch doctors can lay a “death curse” on any one they wish, and this theory has been applied with amazing effect in the film.” Henry Walthall portrays an impor- tant role in “Black Magic.” ‘The Moscow Art Theater, which sent its company to the United States in 1923 and 1924, is about to be “social- ized” to conform to the strictest politi- cal demands of the Soviet, on the ground that dramatic art must now help at the job of proletarianizing the Russian spiritually as well as materially. A ‘“plan” for future produsiions has been provided by the state. Jlantey, - Crandall; Theaters it Sensa- tional New York $2 Run Romance that Trans- s You Into Realms of Blissful Emotion, Drama With & World-Sweep, Colos~ sal and Sublime. Thrills That Grip Zvery Fiber of Your Being. Y. fo 11 P M. Sany Daily 10:30 A. M. to 11 P. M NOW HE’S HERE The Idol of Paris, London, Buenos Aires and New York Brings His Golden Voice, His Charming Smile, His Vibrant Personality to You. His Songs, 'AMBASSADOR 18th_Street and Col. Rd. Week of June SUN.—MON.—TUES. MAURICE CHEVALIER The Idol of Paris in Paramount's AU-Talking, Singing, Dancing Picture “INNOCENTS OF PARIS” WED.-THURS. CORINNE GRIFFITH “THE DIVINE LADY” VICTOR McLAGLEN in “STRONG BOY” SATURDAY Paramount’s All-Talking. All-Singing, All-Dancing Hit “CLOSE HARMONY” Ris Dancing, His ‘Wonderful fl(}nlcry Will Thrild ou. *INNOCINTS OF PARIS’ PARAMOUNT'S ALL-TALKING— ALL-SINGING—ALL-DANCING HIT. SUNDAY AND MONDAY All-Talking, Singing, Dancing “CLOSE HARMONY” TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY MILTON SILLS In First National's “LOVE & THE DEVIL" THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 100 Per Cent All-Talking “GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS” RIN TIN TIN DAVEY LEE In “Frozen River” (Synchronized) AMBASSADOR &i"si % TODAY and TOMORROW—MAURICE CHEVALIER in “INNOCENTS OF PARIS" (ALL TALKING, SINGING AND_DANCING). 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