Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1929, Page 46

AMUS EMENT THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 21, 1929 PART 4. Flashes From the Screen By C. E. NE of the very big problems of the motion picture in- dustry at the present time is the small theater. What is to become of the neighborhood house? What is to become of the 'enall theater in the small town? "For a time these questions did not .worry the producers to a large ex- tent. They were too busy merg- .ing, converting their studios and “buying up the palaces in the large “cities. Now, when matters have| scttled somewhat, and one may look over the battlefield, he sees sthousands of small theaters clos- ing their doors and cutting off | quite a portion of the profit of the manufacturers and distributors. The principal reason for the closing of the small theaters, it is -alleged, has to do with the enor- mous rentals being charged for “‘the new sound pictures. Neigh-| borhgod houses, many of them| unable to give more than two or three shows a day, cannot pay the large rentals, together with the | other expenses of conducting a first-class theater. Also, the small | theater owner must pay a score | charge. There is talk, at the pres- | ent time, of combining the rental | and score charges, then lowering both, in order that the theater Nelson. scene shall be wet, and it is the business of the moistener to see to this really important detail. He has other duties, of course, bul paper moistening is his chief oc- cupation. A dialogue stenographer also works in the sound pictures. She takes down the spoken words, and after a scene is completed she compares her notes with the orig- inal script of the story. * ok k¥ ! THE First National Co. an-| nounces a radical change of policy. No longer will it consider the “double,” either in voice or otherwise. To carry out the plan, a Vitaphone vocal academy has been established to train players in vocal affairs. The new rule will apply to stars as well as the most obscure members of casts. Fifteen instructors have been em- ployed for the academy, and Col- leen Moore and Alice White were ! among the first to receive instruc- tion. * ok ok ok Flashes From Studios. IT was announced by First Na- tional that on July 13 the| studios were working on 18 pic-| tures, all sound productions, and owner may make both ends meet. | In the past much of the “velve! from a picture came from the| ‘everlasting showings of a picture | in the small theaters. A produc-| tion was only good for a certain length of time in the large city houses, but in the provinces it might go on forever. seemingly. There is talk of the producers, distributors and exhibitors getting together and revising the rental -and score charges. Also, mention is made of charging a percentage for the use of pictures. This would | be fair to the small theater owner. | However, the distributors seem to prefer a guarantee as well as a| split of the box office cash. | . Of course, the motion picture| patron is not greatly interested in | the business end of the movies. | All he cares about is seeing a good picture, But, really, the fate of the | neighborhood house has a bigger meaning. The small theater is an | institution which has become very | ‘popular during the past few years. 1 It should not be neglected and al- Jowed to pass out. for it is quite close to the home itself—a part the neighborhood life. * % % X THILE he was the owner of the | largest chain of motion pic- ture theaters in the District of | Columbia, Harry M. Crandall es- tablished the first department ut! public service and education in the motion picture industry. This | was placed under the direction of | ‘Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher, a“d‘ticn it was developed until it became an important factor in Washing- | ‘ton’s community life. We note| wwith regret that this work has| been discontinued by the Warner | JBrothers’ organization, which has many with Technicolor. It is es- timated that 4,000 persons are| working on the Burbank, Calif.,| lot, and that the operating cost | amounts to $100,000 per day. Hollywood sounds the praise of | a new blond, Ethel Stone, who has a part in “Sally,” the Marilyn Miller picture. Miss Stone has a| comedy party, playing opposite! Jack Duffy. | Gertrude Astor has been signpd\ for a prominent part in “No, No, | Nanette.” Bernice Claire, known | as the youngest prima donna m', the American stage, will have the leading role. A motion picture division in the | p Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has been created to ex- pedite the handling of the in- creasing amount of work occa- sloned by the rapidly expandingl present and potential fureign\ markets for American motion | pictures. Clarence J. North, who| has been specializing in motion | picture trade promotion as a| member of the bureau’s staff, has| been appointed to direct the| activities of the new division. | Nathan D. Golden is named as| assistant chief. “Red” Grange, once a foot ba]l,< star, is a featured player in the! new Universal picture, “Varsity Show.” A slow-motion study of a pilot making a drop of 3,000 feet befor: his parachute opens is one of the dramatic scenes in “Happy Land- ings,” a new Visugraphic produc- g A Movie City. MMEDIATE construction of 13 addi: tional buildings at Fox Movietone | I i +City, Beverly Hills, has been ordered | I STAGE NOTES l WHEN Ethel_Barrymore decided to make a transcontinental tour in% “The Kingdom of ” and “The Love Duel” it was pointed out to her that shsi would not be able to do this unless she: sacrificed her Summer vacation, since she is due to produce “Scarlet Sister | Mary” in New York next seasofi. Ac: cepting this contingency, she stipulated only that her tour should begin in Colorado Springs, so £:a: the could have two days’ rest in tha‘ city. This wes arranged, but only by taking the entire company 1,900 miles from New York City without a stop. The journey was made in a special train consisting of | three Pullmans, four baggage cars and o diner and the necessary locomotive. | Morris Gest, accompanied by secre- | taries and a_ technical staff, Jeft ' New York to have dinners, lunches and divers conferences with the governors of Texas, Colorado and Nebraska and the mayors of Dallas, Denver and Omaha in regerd to the presentation next season under civic sponsorship of | “The Miracle.” Mr. Gest announced as he was leaving New York that the long railroad jumps on the tour will be devoted to dictating the first chap- ters of his autobiography, which at present carrles the title “A’ Fool There 8s." Florenz Zjegfeld has closed down ‘Whoopee” in New York for three weeks In order to give the cast a vaca- tion. The show re-opens August 5. Rachel Crothers, whose bright little comedy, “Let Us Be Gay,” has been doing well at the Little Theater, has written another one called “Let Us Be Good.” It will open under John Goid- en’s bannel Atlantic City in Septem- ber, going to New York later. ‘The Theater Gulld of New York has announced complete plans for the com- ing season. It will produce the foliow- of those which it Karl and Anna,” ‘The Apple Cart,” b; “The Game of | Rolland: by il | Mirror-Man,” by Franz Werf lonth in the Country,” by Turgenev; ‘The Motive,” als> by Leonhard Franck, and “Red Rust,” by Kirchon and Cu- pensky. ‘There is said to be considerable competition for the American rights to “‘Lazzero,” the Pirandello play, which vas produced for the first time two weeks ago at Huddersfield, England. Among those reported interested are | Mr. Hopkins. Mr. Belasco, Mr. Woods, the Theater Guild and Jed Harris. The lay. reviewed as one of the most pro- vocative of Pirandello’s dramas, is butlt on the conflict botween faith and obser- vation when an orthodox religionist is | witness to the scientific restoration to | life of a man supposcd to be dead. | Baron Henri de Rothschild, play: wright, producer, physiclan and finan- | cler, has erected in Paris the Theater | Pigalle at a cost of nearly $2.000.000 | and has turned it over to his son, | Phillipe, as a gift. It has recently been completed, after four years of construc- tion, and will be officially opened in October with “The History of France,” in 50 scenes, by Sacha Cuitry. The theater is reported to be one of the most modern in the world. containing four tages, which may be shifted about so as Tmit a change of scenery in 40 seconds. The theater. in spite of its enormous cost, seats only 1,100 spec- t e -~ Two Stars to Sm{. CIOSE upon the heels of an an-| nouncement that John Barrymore's singing voice would issue from the talki= apparatus when his first audible film came along comes a disclosure now that both Gloria Swanson and Lenore Iric will contribute dulcet melodies to their first talking vehicles. Miss Swanson's is to be “The Tres- passer” and marks her return to mod- ern rol Gloria Swanson (seated, sscond from left) as hostess to Hollywood writers for newspapers, proving that she does not Edmund Goulding, author and director, at right. have a double in her talking scenes. Trespasser,” a singing and talking effort. AMUSEMENTS The Moving Picture cAlbum HE toy manufacturers have to turn out fresh noveities for every Christmas season, due perhaps to the fact that chil- | dren are forever growing wiset #nd demanding startling sensations in I3 inment. A new type of doll may L be invented z‘mch can zs‘;v‘ munlga" " in an amazingly realistic !‘r:‘lanne‘;.ap-lt will be popular for a while | —and then will suddenly become obso lete, and its spoasors will have to dis- card it and offer a doll that can recite | the Decleration of Independence and | whistle all the latest airs. | he movie manufacturers now find | | themselves in a similar predicament. | i Lvery year or so they have to give the | public ‘another novelty to play with. ‘I'he Movietone was not the first of theze novelties, although it was cer. tainly the most sensational. It is now | 1o be followed, apparently, by a vastly | increased use of color photography. | Then will come broad-gauge “grandeur ' film,” and then stereoscopic depth, and thén, presumably, other innovations. | As soon as the customers have grown | weery of one mechanical novelty the | tireless engineers will attempt to turn out something else. ‘This is all very well as long as the supply of ingenuity lasts. But—what | it it should be exhausted? the engineers were suddenly to an nn"ux;. “We've invented the last nov- elty?’ | ‘This would be an appalling disaster. | It would mean that the movie pro- ducers would have to make plcturu\ good enough to stand on their own | artistic merits. In other words, it | would mean that the movie produce: would have to shut up shop. rs | [ | !'I"HERE are still many thoughtful | 1" people who believe that when the | talking-color-stereoscopic films have had | their day the public will arise and de- mand the restoration of the silent drama as it was known in the days before the Warner Bros. let noise be unconfined. The star is now working in “The Thiqgs_ About Pearl. HE'S a Southern beauty with North- | ern pep. . . . She was born In Nor- folk, Va. . .. but she doesn't say “suh"! . Several years as a chorus girl on Broadway eradicated the accent but not the charm. . . . She has blonde hair which she wears long . . . it looks like a pile of golden | coins ... i's so_curly. Her eyes are | blue . .. since she became a musical comedy producer and then a dancing director for RKO Studios . . . there's an extra twinkle in them ... an ex ecutive'’s twinkle. . , . Ever sce an ex- ecutive'’s twinkle? , . . Drop around Friday. . . . She's five feet three inches tall . . . but when you see her dancing you'd | think she was taller. . . . There is 50| much pep and punch to her steps. . . . | She began work tenographer . . . | but when her family moved to New | York from Washington . . . she found | tapping her toes more profitable than | typing with her fingers. | She’s an ex-Follies girl . . . and to| haye been a Follies girl . . . wokid knows the term . “Ziggy.” after casting you in one sea- son's revue . . . asked you to come back the next. ... There are hun- dreds of chorines who danced a week in the “Follies” , . . before they were fired . . . who now _call themselves “Follies Girls.” . . . That's one type Pearl Eaton dislikes. . . . Pearl was painted last year by a famous European artist as the “most Glory,” she played Charmaine, & French pr rl. beautiful blonde in Americ . . . and 's not only her head that's beautiful. 's a trick little costume . . . this ice clothes” business . very . . . very dainty . . . very re- vealing. . . She likes to tie bands It Pract| | ‘This, of course, is an entirely possible development—for who knows but thar some day s strictly silent black and white film will be offered as the latest novelty of all? |,, However, if such should be the case, there is one thing certain: The movie | industry can never go back to the position it cccupied in 1927. any more | than Russia if the Soviet government were to collapse could go back to the Del Rio and Carewe. DODORH DEL RIO will follow “Evangeline” with an all-talking picture in which she will be seen and heard in a French locale. The story will be one of two under consideration, either of which would require the star Romanof? regime. to talk with a Prench accent. 1In "1 the movie industry goes back at all “Evangeline” she sings a song, “Chan- | it will have to go all the way to the sonette.” in Prench. In “What Price | period of “The Birth of & Nation™” and | start all over again. It will have to [2 Edwin Carewe, producer of Miss Dfl! Rio's films, has been in New York con- | ferring about the star's next picture | with Joseph M. Schencic. president of United Artists, The decision to present | around her halr, too. . . . She chews Miss Del Rio in a full-length talking | gum . . a pencil . .. when she is figuring . . . draws well . . . drives as fast as Barney Oldfield . . . plays a stiff game of poker . . . doesn't like to have men take off ‘their hats when they ride in elevators_ with her . . . plays a bad game of bridge . . . uses purple writing paper . . . and wears &’ vivid yellow thing suit. She is a sister of Mary Eaton . . Charles Eaton . . . and Doris Eato: they’re nice, too. THE ‘Warner Brothers, moving picture producers and promoters, evidentl: are not believers in the doctrine of al- truism. Their business, next to making A Good Work Ended. | lightenment and instruction of foreign- | ers within our city limits, not only in | the item of language. but in meking | clear to them the gr principles un- | . uses a pen in preference to | picture resulted. Mr. Carewe, who directed Miss D Rio in “Resurrection,” “Ramona,” “Evangeline” and other films, will not personally direct the star in her first' all-talking picture. He has decided to continue his film activity as an_inde- | pendent producer, and he will produce pictures in which Dolores Del Rio is starred, but will engage others to direct them. Mr. Carewe, it is znnounced, does not intend to direct any more pictures. COOLED BY REFRIGERATION” NOW — comes of army life in revolution, S Bannister's Debut. ARRY BANNISTER, who spent the last year touring the principal cities of the United States in the New York Theater Guild produc- tion of “Strange Interiude,” in which | he played one of the featured leads, is making his screen debut in the pro- duction “Her Private Affairs.” | o you sound—the ezciting drama e thick of By Robert E. Sherwood. close a considerable number of its lavish theaters, discharge most of its em- loyes and deflate all of its extravagant ideas. What is more, it will have tc learn to survive without the aid of mechanical novelties, which are actually no more than temporary shots in the arm. ‘Whether or Bot. Garmen v, w. vive is & malier of relativety smalt fm- pariance. The real question is whethe: or not the moving picture will survive as & medium of entertainment. Jt has needed heroic stamina to live through its past ordeals and through the grue- some mismanagement, to which it has been subjected. When you consider the incredible number of feature ple- ures that have been produced in the past few years and the extent to Whicn they have been oversold and the stan- dard of mediocrity that they have main- tained and the burdens of wastefuinegs and bunk that they have carried you cannot help wondering how it happened that in this huge and dreary array there should ha appeared “Thi ‘Tol'able David,” or The film magnates have overdone everything. They have laid everything on too thick. They have plied with morphine the goose that lays their golden eggs and forced her to work" overtime. Up to now that goose hac miraculously avoided beinz cooked, but its luck cannot continue forever. T!!!RE was & time when it seemed that the movie industry had learned its lesson as a result of the terrific up- heaval caused by the talkies. It seemed that the business was going to be re- organized on a more sensible, more substantial basis. But “The Broadway Melody' has evidently spoiled all chances of that. For now every picture must. be made on the same scale as “The Broadway Melody” so that it wiil earn a staggering amount of mon There is no longer much likelihood that the producers will make some of their pictures so inexpensively that they ma. be limited to a small and appreciative audience. The old box-office story is repeating itself. It is my personal belief that the screen, given the addition of sound, color and stereoscopic depth. can ae- complish artistic miracles that now are beyend the bounds of imagination. But it is extremely improbable that any of these miracles will come to pass in Hollyweod. Perhaps we shall have to wait fon them until the mechanical novelties have reached Berlin and in The story is by Edmund Goulding, suthor of “The Broadway | Melody.” Robert Ames will be the lead- absorbed the Stanley Co. of Amer- | to accommodate the increase in produc- Jica, the latter organization having | tion scheduled for the coming ye: taken over the Crandall theaters| More than $2,000.000 will be involved and selling pictures, with all that goes | derlying the American form of govern- | with it, is conducted for the purpose of | ment. The popular actor was placed under | making money, and one of the ways In September, 1927. when the Cran- |contract by Pathe several months ago, | Pathe ® Picture dall theaters were taken over by the Hear—handsome Wm. Boyd some time ago. in the additions to the walled film city, n. Ulric's picture will be “Frozen of making money is to cut down the overhead expenses in the business you Stanley Company of America, such was terlude” lengthened its Los Angeles and | but the success enjoyed by “Strange In- | to Ddeautiful, blonde whisper tender love phrases Wi ACAN HALE Diane |'which already represents an outlay of | $10.000,000. The When the Stanleys succeeded the appreciation of the importance of |San Prancisco runs so greatly that it with dialogue by Owen Davis. this purely altruistic work are conducting, regardless of other con- Ellis. The rattle of machine Mr. Crandall the department of public service and education was enlarged. There was a continua-| tion of the city's Americanization School, carried on in the Crandall neighborhood houses, and the Saturday morning selected pro-| grams for children. Mrs. Locher work was extended to Pennsyl-| wvania, Delaware and New Jersey. | ‘Study groups were nrganiged with the club women of Washington, and the work attracted attention ‘all over the United States. The elimination of this feature 4s a loss to the city, but it has been given such a firm foundation “that it will probably be carried on in other sections of the country. B PR | NEWS dispatches to the effect that Adolphe Menjou, the de- ‘bonair attraction of the society dramas, was out of a job and walking the streets in an effort to | new structures will include a music hall, & cafe seating 500 persons, a wardrobe building, another double soundproof stage. a Movietone engineer- | ing building, a dressing room building, a scene dock and five bungalows of unusual design and purpose. H The music hall will be the home of | the symphony orchestra. In addition to offices, copyists' rooms and arrangers’ ;D.(;ll'n;, it will contain a large assembly ‘The Cafe de Paris, modeled after the sidewalk cafes of the French capital, | will accommodate 275 persons in its main dining room, 30 persons in each of 2 private rooms and more than 150 persons on the veranda, which will be | covered and surroynded with removable | glass panels. | Of perhaps the most importance will be the engineering building. In the research department of this building will be quertered 20 enginezrs. In the ting department all lights, cabl amplifiers and other equipment will be gone over at regular intervals. | A large building will house the largest | ‘Waurlitzer pipe organ on the Pacific cal number will be “The Right Kind of Man,” the joint labor of L. Wolfe Gilbert and Abel Baer. sequences. June, 1922, Harry M. Crandall then owner of the largest chain of theaters ever known in District of Columbia, with a public spirit rare in its quality, and Yurely as a side enter- prise for the welfare of the local pub- He, established what he called the De- partment of Public Service and Educa- tion, under the direction of Mrs. Har- riet Hawley Locher. institution of its peculiar type ever formed within the movie industry. But it became in time a contributing fac- tor in the city’s community life, and its accomplishments were of such mani- fest advantage to the city’s welfare that it became not only nationally but internationally known. It was not long before other localities were following in credit of initiating its endeavors. Among the outstanding movéments sponsored and encouraged to the limit by Mr. Crandall's Department of Public Service and Education, which was con- ducted without outside contribution so far as its expenses were concerned were the cause of visual instruction work for the benefit of the public schools and It was the first | its footsteps and also were claiming the | ifind some way to fight the pro-| Coast, a 10-ton affair now in stage 1. Iverbial wolf from his door, seem a | From its new home it will be possible | what was known as the Americaniza- tion 8chool. Under Mrs. Locher's un- | restrained guidance selected picture bit exaggerated, at least. Adolphe,; to furnish music to any of the 10 .just before he sailed for Europe, | signed a contract with the Ameri-| can Sound Studios for production of the star’s next picture. W w THE picture is a good one, but it | B might have been better. The| ‘'star is just as pretty as she can be, and she wears Paris gowns in a really delightful manner. So much for “Evangeline” and Do- Jores del Rio. As to the theme -song, the writer of this column stated many months ago that poor judgment was used in selecting Ai Jolson for that particular work. Fdwin Carewe came right back with a personal letter to the ef- fect that we would be agreeably surprised with the splendid song Jolson had written. Now, we are reaching away around and patting ourselves gently on the back, al- though we would have desired to| be “surprised;” S THE advent of the sound pic- 1% tures has created a number of mew jobs around the Hollywood studios. Among these are the “mixer,” the “echo-chaser” and ‘the “paper-moistener.” The “mix- “er” is really the most important ‘of the technical experts con- .cerned with talking films. He sits, during all dialogue pictures, with earphones on his head, regu- lating the microphones by which “the voices are recorded. He re- duces or amplifies the volume of sound absorbed by each of the in- struments. The “echo-chaser” works direct- 1y under the “mixer.” When the Jatter detects an echo (and, of course, the microphones record all | echoes), he starts the chaser on a hunt. When the later finds a spot, swhich may be a sounding-board he covers it with heavy felt and claps his hands, and if the echo _still persists he must continue searching and laying felt and clapping his hands until the pesky thing is hunted to its lal ‘The “paper-moistener” is an as- sistant 8’ the head ‘gruperty man. Dry paper rattles like a bunch of firecrackers at the slightest han- dling, as recorded by the micro- phone, so it is necessary that .every piece of paper used in a DANCING. | will be finished in accordance with the | wu!:ea of the star who will be its occu- ! | pant. soundproof stations through a tele- phonic process. ‘The dressing room building will be more like an apartment house. It will | contain 16 star sultes, consisting of | lounging rooms, dressing room and | bath. The interior of each apartment The three song-writing “teams” now under contract to Fox will each | have a bungalow, fully equipped musi- cally. Work already has been started on an especially designed bungalow for Will Rogers. Next door to Rogers’ bungalow soon will rise that of John McCormack, the Irish tenor, who will arrive in Septem- ber to fulfill his Fox contract. First construction work at this 140- acre city started on July 28 of last year. Gave Wrong Advice. ILLY' KELLY, who plays one of the undergnn in “His Operaticn,” a comedy in production at the Pathe| Studios in New York, once advised | Charlie Chaplin against entering mo- tion pictures. This was about 15 years ago, and he had come over from Eng- | land with Chaplin, each of them eager to seek his fortune in the American theater. Chaplin had received an offer to act in pictures and Kelly said, “Whatever you do, steer clear of them. They will ruin you forever.” i 8 “The Front Page,” the Hecht-Mac- Arthur melodrama concerning Chicago’s racketeers, blackmailers and machine- gun musketeers, has been offered to Berlin under the title of “Reporter,” and is reviewed by American corre- spondents as a none-too-successful rep- resentation of the Amerjcan press-room tempo, due mainly to the reason that newspaper men in Germany still call themselves journalists. Mid-Summer Fun rrom More Than Half Hundred Recreation Givers TODAY AT GLORIOUS AND GAY [FREE ABMIZSION ] MARILYN MORGAN, Pathe featured player, exhibiting one of the new Pacific Coast modes. The cont is of white woven wool with hand- embroidery in blue, green, orange and yellow. 6t .| WILLARD MACK in “THE VOl’gi OoF PRINCESS =027 %, %2k T R © b E THEATER "5.° 0 8 W%lo HAINES. Shows at 3:00, 4:39, orrow at’6: CLARA BOW in “THE WILD PARTY” (An_ All-Talking Picture). Also_PATHE SOUND NEWS. Arile N capito 7 alts TADIES PREFERRE 575 8th St S.E. programs were exhibited on Saturday when much was being said of his de- moralization by the general picture programs exhibited to the public, that the work became basic in the plans for similar movements elsewhere through- out the country. Representative women from the club life of Washington becoming interested in Mrs. Locher's efforts in this direc. tion and in her study groups, were soon enabled to contribute to their own or- g‘:ntnuam practical, constructive and ndamental information for the solu- tion of motion picture problems. Espe- cially did the Americanization School prove of inestimable worth in the en- Co AT 13TH. C LOEW’S LUMB from 1 FINAL WEEK DOLORES e “Evangeline” METRO MOVIETONE ACTS ALWAYS SEVENTY DEGREES é s ¥ ST. AT 13TH—Cont. frem 11:00 NOW PLAYING An M-G-M Picture LON CHANEY PHYLLIS HAVER—JAMES MURRAY ON THE STAGE T SRy SIDE -SBORET RAWLINSON ia “OVER THE TOP" featuring JOHNNY BURKE Mr. Crandall, with Mrs. Locher’ valuable assistance, that it was ex- | tended to the other theaters controlled | yania, Delaware and New Jersey, and | in introducing the work in these ‘three | States Mrs. Locher gave a series of | broadeasting talks by radio from Phila- tion at the time and aroused a new and wider interest in the work. Then came the Warner Brothers. en- thusiastic over their success with the Vitaphone talking pictures, and, ac- cording to the order of the day, ab- sorbed the Stanley Company of Amer- ica. Among the sweeping and radical changes that have followed their gom- ing been the rather abrupt ter- mination of Mr. Crandall's famous De- partment of Public Service and Educa- tion, which. of course, means the ter- advising and helping in the devel ment of the usefulness of motion | tures for community benefit. a service that has made for her and for the ple- | ture industry many friends both in ‘Washington and elsewhere. Next Week's Photoplays. PALACE — Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Mary Brian in “River of Romance,” a Par- amount talking picture. FOX—‘“Masquerade,” a com- edy drama, adapted from “The Brass Bowl,” by Louis Joseph Vance. COLUMBIA — Clara Bow in “Dangerous Curves,” a story of life under the big can- vas. augurated | was impossible for the film organization | by this powerful company in Pennsyl- | deiphia, whicth attracted wide atten- | 1mlnluon of Mrs. Locher's services in guns— to make use of Bannister's services un- | ADDED til the present time. { An interesting angle of Bannister's role in “Her Private Affairs” lies in the fact that he is not only playing oppo- | site but portraying the husband of Ann :I!rdlnl. who in private life also is his e. 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