Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1929, Page 59

. AMUSEMENTS. Flashes From the Screen By C.E. ILL HAYS has written a book. About the movies. He would have been| qualified, no doubt, to write of 'Managmg a Presidential Cam- paign” or Handlmg Uncle Sam’s Mail Business,” but he selects to write of the industry with which he is now connected, and whic he is supposed to rule as “czar.” Naturally, when writing upon such a subject, Hays is concerned with the growth of the industry, its wonderful strides from the time of the first “flickers” to thc‘are several little things in the| present noisy drama. As the Hays tome will not be selected by the Book of the Month | synchronization is a matter which | Club nor be on the shelves of the| circulating libraries, it may be given a bit of publicity at this point. And this seems an espe-| cially suitable way to start a book about the movies: “One stands on a high moun- tain and sees long lines of men, women and children moving slowly forward. They come from everywhere. There are rosy- cheeked girls from the farms and their paler-faced sisters from the cities, whose feet ache from long hours of standing behind bargain counters. There are plowboys and sons of millionaires and boys with the sallow cheeks of the ten- ements. There are old women with hands reddened and:coars- ened by work and with eyes grown listless with long waiting. There are old men who hobble on crooked sticks, and children with the flash of the sun’s gold in their hair and the happy laughter of innocence in their voices. There are the schoolboy, and the savant, and the man of no learning at all. There are men and women of every race and of every tongue, moving slowly forward, seeking something, seeking, searching, yearning—asking for a place to dream. All about them is the roar of the cities, the confused, jangled noises of life that is hur- ried, rushed, propelled forward at a breathless speed. Every min- ute of every hour of every day they come—millions of them. And over and above them, and in front of them, attracting them on, offering that which they de- sire, are billions of flickering shadows —the motion picture. Who shall estimate its impor- tance? Who shall attempt to say what it means to the world?” All this is quite readable, as a prose song. But it does not get down to the proverbial brass tacks. Mr. Hays does that a little later in his book. For instance, he tells of the first movies, how they started and how they have developed into the present sound pictures. The first real sound ex- periments, according to Hays, were conducted with the Para- mount - Famous - Lasky picture, “Wings,” in 1927. = “Then, the success of ‘The Jazz Singer’ was a signal for all producing com- pames to enter the sound field. * * Almost overnight, sound had ceased to be merely & novel- ty. It was no longer a develop- ment for the future. It was with us, alive, present. What followed is now history. Although less than two years have passed as this is written, sound has become a major part of the motion pic- ture. The balance has turned in favor of dialogue. Every studio has its sound devices for record- ing. A new technique in writ- ing and acting has developed. Changes have come with light- ning-like rapidity. Sound is in and on the air. Solution of the two major problems of synchro- nization of sound made possible the success of talking pictures.” Probably the most interesting part of the Hays book is the chapter headed, “The Future of the Industry.” The writer pre- dicts that “tomorrow a motion picture may be flashed upon the screen as large as the ordinary stage, the figures moving in per- spective, speaking naturally, all in the vivid colors of life. That day is just around the corner. In the past few months much has been | learned about the possibilities of | sound. Every new picture has announced an advance. Directors are learning how to save all the| advantages of the silent picture while they are adding the quali- ties of sound. Their progress has | been little short of dazzling. They have been forced to deal with a new instrument. They have had District of Columbia. THE EARLE—13th and E streets n.w. RIALTO—Ninth near G n.w. AMBASSADOR—18th and Col rd. a.w. APOLLO—624 H street n.e. AVENUE GRAND—G45 Pa. ave. se. CENTRAL—Ninth street. AVALON—Conn. ave. and McKinley. COLONY—Georgia ave. and Farragut. HOME—1230 C street n.e. TIVOLI—14th and Park rd. n.w. YOREK—Georgia ave. and Quebec n.w. STANTON—515 C street n.e. HAPPYLAND—1020 7th street n.w. Maryland and Virginia. MARYLAND—Hagerstown, Md. OPERA HOUSE—Leesburg, Va. RECREATION HALL—Indlan Head REPUBLIC THEATER—Annapolis, Md | UNIVERSAL—Ehady Side, Md. MARYLAND—Frederick, Ma. TOME SCHOOL—Port Deposit, Md. MARADA—St. Michaels, Md. BETHESDA—Bethesda, Md. MELVILLE—Sykesville, Md. STATE—Westminster, Md. IMPERIAL—Brunswick, Md. PALACE—Frostburg, Md. ASHTON—Clarendon, Va. JEFFERSON—Charlottesville, Va. COLONIAL—Winchestor, Va. STRAND—Staunton, Va. MASONIC—Clifton Forge, Va. OLIVER—Crewe, Va. COLONIAL—Fredericksburg, Va. VIRGINIA—Harrisonburg, Va. REGAL—Urbanna, Va. TOWN HALL—Trappahannock, Va. 'WEISS, Emporia, Va. RiTZ—Chatham, Va. STRAND—Strasburg, Va. NEW MARKET—New Market. Va. Nelson. yto master a new technique. At first we thought it necessary to have absolutely soundproof stu- ‘ Today we make sound pic- Lures outdoors. We have made mistakes, but we are getting rap- idly away from the early errors. Every new picture marks a really great advance. Today sound is |new. Tomorrow there will be ‘sumcthmg else — the enlsrged |screen, the third dimension.” This writer is convinced that | Will Hays knows what he is talk- ing about. But, naturally, there | movie industry that need special attention. The perfection of the will probably take care of itself to a certain extent; perfection| will come as a natural result of the use of sound devices in the studios. Slap-dash production | methods are the fault of pro- | ducers themselves, and there is a little illustration of this in one picture screened; in Washington during the past week. With in- telligent direction, “The River” might have been made into a first-class picture—not a world- beater, but a really good picture. Simply by the manner in which it was treated in the studio it turned out to be a fizzer. Another thing which requires attention from the producers is the need for novelty. A lack of reasons why the stage dropped to such a low status. The cash cus- tomers of the movies are really more difficult to please than the old-time theater patrons. They demand novelty; they must have it. The picture “Hallelujah” is an excellent example of novelty on the screen. In other pictures turned out by the same director, King Vidor, the novelty element has been uppermost. The short- reel subjects are showing more variety, better direction and even greater drawing power than many of the full-length pictures. And also the star system- needs attention. Not so much star; more and better picture. All the stars in Hollywood could not have made a better picture of “The River,” but a group of unknowns, intelligently directed, could have turned it into a success. Yes, we could mention a num- ber of other little points—but Will Hays will probably take care of them in the days to come. * % Xk % EWS AND VIEWS: David Wark Griffith has signed Walter Huston, well known stage and screen star, for the part of Abraham Lincoln in the forth- coming picturization of the Great Emancipator. Huston will leave New York for Hollywood the first week in January to start work in the United Artists’ studio. S. L. Rothafel, better known to radio fans as “Roxy,” has an- nounced the report that he is to leave the Roxy Theater, in New York, early in January, as “all bunk.” “Roxy” denies that he is to become associated with R.C. A. and take charge of its broadcast- ing chain, or that he is to become :o member of the board of direc- TS. And there is another report— that Greta Garbo has appeared in her last picture, “The Kiss,” on account of the demand for talk- ing’ pictures. However, if Greta wants to make silent pictures, we move that Greta be allowed to make silent pictures. She is an intelligent actress, popular with millions. It would be difficult to as a box office drawing card. Warner Baxter has a featured role in “Such Men Are Danger- ous,” studio. One big change made by the sound films is the cutting down of the love scenes. The latter do not seem to strike a high note with the audiences, as they did in the silent pictures. Graham McNamee has signed as an official announcer for the Universal news reels. You see the pictures, as it were, and then have an expert tell you what they are all about. The announc- ing voice with the news reel is a penny with a hole in it. It is estimated that 90 per cent of the complaints against the sound pictures are concerned with bad reproduction. . 5 wednesday novelty may have been one of the | find some one to take her place| started last week in the Fox | THE SUNDAY STAR,- WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 22 1929—PART FOUR. Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week WEEK _OF DECEMBER 22 Snnthy Monday Tuesday Wfllnndly Thursday Friday Saturday hatles Rosers “Half Wi Reaven” itaphone variety. Ambassad'r T Charles Rogers in Way, to Charles Rogers in Halt “Half Way, to Heaven Vitaphone variety. Moy n;m' Fhat Vitaphone variety. 5 Mgran and Mack in “Why Bring That Vitaphohe vartety Glenn Tryon in “Skinner fkeps Out." Vitaphone varfets. Paramount_reel ““The, Hollvwood Revue. Colleen Moore ! Apollo Colleen Moore n “FPootlights and Fools.” “Pootlights and Fools. Vil Vitaphone variety. Ro Wice Gir Topics of the ‘Da Marion Davies in Marion | Davies ‘Marianne." isney_cartoon. Disney_cartoon. Richard Dix_in *“The Love Doctor " Vitaphone variety. Great_Event_reei. Richard Barthelmess in “Young Nowheres.” Paramovnt reel ! ___Vitaphone variety. “The Gold Diggers of | Broa Aeson Fable. | Avalon John Boles_in “The Desert So Dolores Costello, in . “Noah's Ark." Maynard in “Marianne." Song cartoon. uSenor Americanc.” Sunny edy. Vitaphone_variety. couun Moore “The' Forward Pass.” “Bootlishts and Pools” VHABRORE varield: Vita) variety. Comeds. Ave. Grand Marion Davies in “Marianne.’ Marion Davies in “Marianne.’ e om Tn the Vh-phon- A fety. Tieen “Pnnlnflltl a Moore in Colles oore in e Moors. 1o “Footlights and Feols.” Vitaphone variety. - Heot Gibson “fn The Long. Long Trail Vitaphone variety. Comeds. Douglas Fairbanks. jr., | Cameo o Warner Oland n “The Mysterious Dr. T hu.” Warner Oland “The_Mssierious Dr. Fu_Manchu.” Buddy Rogers and and B Rancy, Carroll Nancy Cumll n “Tllusion.” e n “The Return of Sher- Inck Hobmes.” Ralob Graves in “'Sideshos Leila Hyas d a Hyams an Clyde Cook in asquerade.”. Carolinl Teila Hyams pog Ann Harding in b i “Paris Bound Nick Stuart and Sue Caro Lila Les 2 “The Man_in Patsy Ruth Mier in Hobbles. opical Nichts Central Mavnard “Senor Americano.” Vitaphone_varieties. “Masatiep Ken Mumm “Senor Americano.” Vitaphone varieties. Robert Montgomery nd Sally Star in s_Coltexe. carf vn.nnon- variety. Marion Davies in Eiga anvies, | AMUSEMENTS -8 Loew’s Festi OMETIMES a press agent, often | abused, rises to tho heights and scores a hit. Here is an illustration: It was a very busy day at the home office of Loew’s Theaters at 1540 Broad- way, which was not unusuai. However, this particular day was soon after the stock market crash, if you can recall that delightful event. Two busy execu- tives, who may or may not have lost | a roll in the Wall Street debacle, sat| and discussed prosperity, or the lack | of it. Perhaps you will be interested in their conversation. First executive—Did you see where President Hoover sent a message of re- assurance to the public? | Second executive—Yes, and I think | it woulid be a good idea if we !nllnwrd\ through his idea. The idea of depres- sion is only mental or psychological, idea that the the | what you m and we are in a position to re-establish | of ival Month. that conditions are 1 believe I can grasp Second executive—You wouldn't be a showman if you didn't. Now, then. let us have a month when all our theaters will present programe of super entertainment, when every effort will be made to restore pep and enthusiasm to the 20,000,000 people in our theater circles. Let's get the Nation off to & good start in 1930, First executive—You've said plenty. Let’s go! Which is the reason why Loew's Palace ond Loew's Columbia will make every effort to make Loew's festival month one to greet with much antici- pation and to remember with much pleasure. Every department will make it a special point to see that the public of Washington finds during the month January every day a_holiday at financially and First execut country is sound Loew's Palace and Loew's Columbia. Cirde Clive Brooke n “The Heturn of Sher- lock_Holmes.™ Josephine, Dunn in “Bis s Mo Tom Fattioots and David Percy 1 “Words_and M in S Ken Murzay end Enlony Flight.” Vitaphone variety. Lila Lee and Vitaphone variety. Karl Dane in_“The Voice of the Storm.” Vitaphone variet Paramount_re Jagk Holt in _Sunny It Zemeds. Eddie Quillan n ‘The Sophomcre " Richard Barthelmess in Young Nowheres." omeds. __Vitabhone varfety. "<.Glenn Tryon in ‘Skinner Steps OQut.” Vitaphone variets. ®aramount_reel “Hoot Gibson in “The Lons. Lonk Our_Gahs comedy. Charles Rogers and Nancy Carroll in “Dusion” medy. | Dumbanon Charles Rogers and Nancy Carol and _ St Carroll in Barry Norton in “Tilusion. ited Comedy. Natalie Golitzen n > “The Exalte “Napoleon's Barber."" ik i Comedy. Natalie Folitzen n ‘Napoleon's Barber."” Comed. Jack Holt and Dorothy Revier in d So Richard_Arlen in “Four Feathers.’ Richard_Arlen in "Four Feathers.” n “The Saturdoy Night Kil Clara Bow “Black Mal Mary Duncan in Dick Hatton in “Through’ Different Tyes. “Action Craver.” Family O'Brien in Geortg Hippodr'me William Haines in “Speedway." Speedway." n “They, Had to See wili Will Rozers “They Had (o flee Paris.” " Rogers ~Ciive Bfibxe “The Return of Sher- Tock Holm Clive Brooke n “The Return of Sher- Joapy Crawford in ame Vitaphone variety. Home Joan Crawford in “Untamed.” Vitaphone varlets lores Costello and D es 8 Brien n “Noah's Ark ' Vitaphone variecy. lddle Qulllnn in he Sophomore.” omedy. Pathe comedy. Paramount_reel Pl.fllne ’!’reflzrlrk in \'ltlnhnnz ariety. et Olhscn i Lone Tral B aran coms Vitaphone_variety Touise Fazends n “House_of Horrors.” Comedies. l.eader Charles_Morton n “The Far Call." Monte Banks Honf"mmn Abroas Comadi Comedies. es. Douglas Fairbanks in Dovglas Fairbanks in he Gaucho. he Gaucho. Eyelyn Brent in Edmund Lowe in “Womantrap.” i n Old Arizons.’ “Buddy Rogers and Ry Erron ' in Thiusion. Lnberty Buddy Nancy Carrel “Tus! in Monte Banks in fon.” “Week End Wives. Les Tracy in Ken Maynard in “Big Time.” g “Royel Roads. Clive Brooke in Not. “The Return of Sher- scheduled. lock_Holm i n T, Yot e, Goigen “West: Princess Goiden Wit George O'Brien in “Masked Tupe Velez in Emotions.” “The Lady of the News. Rod La Rocaue and Marceline Day in “A One-Woman Idea Annie Comedy Mome éfle in 3, Mente Blue x;: Maynard in omeds So News. Comedy._Review. Dark. l-(ichmnnd Buddy Rogers and Naney, Carroli Buddy Rogers and nncy| Carroll “Tiusion.” “Tilusion.” ,Belle Baker in [Belle Baker in, “Song cf Love.” ng of Lo George Bancroft in George Bancrofl in “The Mighty.” “The Mighty." Alexandria. Va. Eddie_Quillan in, “The Sophomore. Savoy adie_Quillan 1o B0 sGphomore Al Joison in “Bay_It With Songs.” ~*’Song_cartoon. Edward Everett Horton Josg Crawterd in n ur Modern “The Sap.” aide Comedsy. Paramount reel Tim McCoy 1n “Morsan's Last Reld." ety. Paramount teel Alice Calioun 1o ore Ulric_and Liohert. Frazer in ‘Frozen Justice.”” Tenore Ulric_and Robert, r'nur in “Prozen Justice.” The Marx Bros. in “The Cocoanuts.” The Marx Bros. “The Cocosnuts.” Dolores Costello and in Geoue‘ O Brien n “Noah's Ark Dolores Costello and George O'Brien in “Noah's Ark." -Tansmm“p Gam- ble: agon Master.” ool Dance. Takoma Tivoli O'Neill in proadway Bcandals.” ly O'Neill in “Broadway Scandas.” Sally O'Neill in “Broaaway £candals.” Marion Davies in Marion Davies in ria “‘Marianne.” ‘Marianne.” Alice White in “The Girl From Woolworth's. Marion Davies tn “Marianne.” Tieen Moore i - hts and Fools. T SR o York Just Came, Natural Like. MIOST screen stars who try the legiti- mate stage are limited by the per- | sonality developed through their screen technique. “Sunshine Sammy,” late of “Our Gang Comedies” is an exception. Having outgrown the pickaninny Toles | of his silent screen days, Sammy has | tepped from slapstick comedy to danc- fngpp:nfl with his two young brothers is | featured in “Fan Fancies” a stage pre- | sentation at the Palace Theater. This transition has been accomplished with success. In two years Sammy has risen to prominence solely by his clever- ness in tap dancing. His interpretation of Bill Robinson’s sensational stair dance is only one of many intricate | steps he is said to execute with perfec- | tion, Ted Loves Music. ‘[ everybody happy?” Ted Lewis talking—and in the event that you do not know who Ted Lewis is & few facts will be enlightening. Known as the “high-hatted !rlgedlan of jazz, Ted Lewis has been one of | vaudeville's most popular entertainers | for years. He began his musical career at the age of 9 in his birthplace, Circle- ville, Ohio, playing the piccolo in a boys' band when he received the only instruction of his entire life. Now he plays practicaly every musical instru- ment known and sings bendes His_first talking picture, “Is Every- body Habpy?” a Warner Vitaphone pro- duction now at Crandall's Metropolitan, features his singing, and his expert manipulation of the clarinet, violin and saxophone. “My success has been largely a matter of luck,” admits Lewis. “But perhaps there's another reason, too, I do love music. I am almost entirely self taught. and it never seemed like work to me. Practicing to me was always simply having a wonderful time.” Actors Aid Fire Victims. ‘THE roster of performers who ap- peared a week ago in a special per- formance at the Imperial Theater, New York, for the benefit of families of the chorus girls who lost their lives in the tragic studio fire, reads like a “Who's ‘Who" of the stage. Headed by a group of Albertina Rasch lglrls, the list read: Fred Allen, Romney | Brent, Fannie Brice, Marie Callahan, | Joan Carter-Waddell, George M. Co- han, Lily Damita, William Demarest, Dorothy Dickson, Jack Donahue, Wil- liam Frawley, George Gershwin, Jack Haley, Mary Horan, Libby Holman, Willie and_ Eugene Howard, David Hutcheson, Patsy Kelly, Gertrude Law- rence, Beatrice Lillie, Helen Lynd, Will Mahoney, Dorothy McNulty, Joseph Me- Cauley, Lucy Monroe, Gus Shy, Shirley Vernon, Milton Watson and Clifton THEATRE \. \ NY RUBIN ?‘P/‘a’?/fl ngs il OSWALD CARTOON -NEWS AND OTHER SPECIAL FEATURES OPENING CHRISTMAS DAY Dec.25t. « JAMES v LUCILLE GLEASON C Shannons Broad FULL DIALOGUE EROM THE ORIGINAL SYAGE SUCCESS “ ALL TALKING. AND AN ESPECIALLY PLAN INGING AND DANCING NED HOLIDAY Bxu. HEADE EER’ SUNNY JIM ~ XMAS Cl Colleen Moore “Footll Vitap) R SR Norma Lee and Roland Young * ghts and Fools” 4 “Wise Girls."” one variety. Doug Fairbanks, It in Pass.” Vnnbhnm Song_car Joan Crawford in “Untamed.” Paramount reel. Eddie_Quillan in Ken Maynard in “The Sophomore." “Senor Ame, Comedy. Vitaphone Vitaphone variety. VETERAN s iy B nu gy G OF STAGE RETURNS WILLIAM GILLETTE, Who comes to the National Theater for the week beginning January 6 in a | revival of an old favorite, Sherlock Holmes.” Ingenious Press Agent. HE box office value of recent prison riots is given expression in current advertising of the National Theater in New York: “Warning to prisoners,” reads the large paid notice, “at Dannemora, Au- burn, Sing Sing, Leavenworth, Canon City, Joliet: Further infringement on Martin Flavin's exciting prison play, ‘Criminal Code’ (Copyright, 1927), Wlth Arthur Byron and a desperate cast, now in its twelfth big week at the Na- tional Theater * * * will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” 10VE, llV[ w«tlAUGH in GUS MULCAY Jecturing a grou darlings who delf with the countless thousands who are now applauding GEORGE JESSEL For Fervor and Dramatic Brill His Emotional nce Since Singing, His Greatest Role “THE JAZZ SINGER” William Fox Movietone Version of LOVE, LIVE and LAUGH LILA bl o DAVID ROLLINS KENNETH MacKENNA Songs and Lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Abel Baer Again a stage program that offers the finest entertainment in Washington FANCHON & MARCO'S Idea In a Terplschorean Spectacle PANCE MOODS’ P ook SEcoptionally talented dainty, daneing ht with their exquisite dance techmique THE HIRSCH-ARNOLD GIRLS and this cast of all-star entertainers VINCE SILK BETTY & ROMAN KAPP & TISH ROBBINS TRIO FOX GRAND ORCHESTRA LEON BRUSILOFF, Conducting Spectal arrangement of Christmas Carols UCCESS of recent all-color talking | pictures has been so pronounced | that Technicolor, the large organiza- tion supplying the process to a growing t group of producers, has laid plans for a | fifth plant in Hollywood. The company at present has two ' | plants in the film city and another two | in Boston. In addition, a new plant is | to be constructed in London to take | care of the foreign demand. Some of the pictures that have in- ! creased the demand for color were: “On “Gold Diggers of Rita,” “Hollywood it The new Hollywood laboratory will be * | in operation within a month, it is an- | nounced. It will provide daily or “rush” ‘ prints for the producing studios. The singing picture will bring the | grand opera into wider popularity, in the opinion of Giovanni Martinelli, who | stars in Vitaphone short subjects. | “Grand opera as we know it today,” | he said, “will not disappear as a result | of the talking and singing picture. It | will increase the public interest in op- eratic and concert music, make the peo- | recital was in progre: the Provincetown Playhouse in New York because | of a lack of funds brought to mind high lights of its 14 vears of existance, which included a more or less constant brush with the law, with justice, most | times, siding with the players. The first legal contact, it was re- called by the attorney for the Province- town, Harry Weinberger. came over the question of Government tax. Wein- berger came to Washington to settle it. The players contended they did not compose a public instftution and refused to add any tax to the tickets. Officials of the Income Tax Division of the Go ernment remained unconvinced. But finally Weinberger found some one with |a more thorough knowledge of the theater here and abroad. Weinberger said that any such group as he repre- sented would. if organized abroad, be endowed by the government. He con- vinced the official that such a tax would end the theater's existence, as the theater was unable to pay it in be- half of the public. Weinberger's argument won and the matter was settled after payment of a small fee. The policy of Sunday evening per- formances caused an almost annual en- counter with the courts. arrests were made and three times the case was judges. Each time the court, returning a decision of au}\llttll warned the p lice not to interfere again. The play- ers, it was held. constituted a private group, and all who witnessed their per- formances were members of the cor- poration. # ‘The public, strictly barred. At the third trial the prosecuting at- torney happencd to be the same one who had unsuccessfully argued the case st preceding. Meanwhile he had joined the subscription list. The judge, after reading the decision in the pre- vious case, ordered the case “‘dismissed. [} was decided, was Three times | argued before sympathetic | Reminiscences. nd THE closing of | He informed the district attorney that | the police must be informed that they should listen to no further comnlllnu The opinion the judge read—dJudge Goodman read it. and it had been writ- ten by Judge Sim in New York Po- |lice Court—comprised a complete and mummmmz history of such plays a ‘'The Hairy Ape.” “The Emperor Jones, Inheritors” and “The Spring.” Several other times the players tangled with the law over the moral, |or immoral, tone of its productions. Among these were “The God of Ven. geance,” “All God’s Chillun Got Wings" sire Under the Elms.” “In the first case, Weinberger carried a jury conviction to the Appellate Di- vision and thence to the Court of Ap- peals. This last court wrote an opinion which has been a protection to plays ever since. It was that the manuscript of a play must be admitted in evidence and that any one who has ever seem it must be permitted to testify. Now, after 14 years, the group—which called’ itself the real experimental theater—has disbanded, unless some'®wne interested in keeping it alive stirs the former subscribers into action. DUMB ARTON 1343 Wisconsin Ave, CHARLES NCY CARROLL in Picture). Comedy. 11th & N. C. Ave. S.E. Direct ' fram MASQUERADE. L!‘IIiAIkHYA“s-cLYDE COOK. All_Talking STANTON Paramount, Present OMAN PRINCESS 1o H ST NE “SON OF THE GOLDEN WEST" New Idea in Entertainment. A PROBABLY completely new idea of a “combined” show has been evolved in New York by Fred Keating, the ma- gician, and Albert Carroll, impersona- 1 tor, both well known to the stage. They call it a “two-ring revue” for want of a better title, though perha no better one is needed. It is books yfor a two-week engagement at the { Forty-ninth_Street Theater. | The scheme of the thing is being ! kept secret, though the two artists have let it be known that it will be divided into three parts. titled Magic, Illu- slon and prestidigitation, Each will augment the other in his performance. The idea evolved when Keating dropped into a theater where a Carroll . It occurred to ple want to see in the flesh the singing { Keating that the sty es of performance shadows they have seen on the screen. | were really akin and that the imper- At the same time they are being edu- | clt!d musically, their standards being A Norma Tulmadge success of a past | f “science,” the motion picture, | | “Smilin® Through, ¢M«-Cormlck had previously popularized | in song, is to be done over as a talkie by United Artists. Howard Emmett | Rogers has been signed to prepare dia- logue, it is announced. The cast has not yet been selected. | A picture described as “an attempt to put the British Empire on the screen” is now being produced in London, ac- cording to reports from there. Its hero is a 13-year-old schoolboy, whose ac- ventures include a visit to Buckingham Palace with a London policeman. Pic- | tures of rooms never before photo- graphed are to be shown. It is reported that King George has taken a keen per- sonal interest in the picture, though he is not, of ccuru, shown in it. The plot has the boy, whose name is Douglas Beaumont, taken to the palace in a sort of dream. From there he is whisked on a magic carpet to all parts of the embire. L R-K-0 (Last 3 Days) BETTY COMPSON ‘Star of “STREET GIRL" as Sweetheart of with 7on Beginning XMAS DAY AT 10:30A. M. Radio's Greatest Personality in “THE Vagabond Lover With Sally Blane and Marie Dressler His Connecfinl Yankees (Direct From Its 82 Showing. Globe, N.Y.C.) * a title which John | sonator_could rightly be called a ma- ulflan ‘They did not know each other hen, but some time later they met at Lhe home of Jeanne Eagles. Keating ‘ broached his idea and Carroil promptly fell in with it. Separate engagements kept them from developing the plan until this cason. leads sings and syncopates in MIX in TR[]XTON - NORMAN KERRY HE WOMAN 1 LOVE." Pathe and_Comed: TAKOMA oy = rm Plrkm: Lot Talking Pictures at Their Best LENORE mmcr mm ROBERT “FR07EN USTICE" HIPI’ODROME GEG. O RICHMOND 42+ <. DRIA, V. Today* & Tomorrow BUDDY ROGERS in “ILLUSIO! king. . Capitol St. ROGERS 18 K Near 9th O'BRIEN in SYLVAN THEATER v fi; B RAG, RAG, o DI BARTH!LM 5:00._%:0 nd De Forest S cLyBE EROoK, "o e HERLOCK HOLMES. his famous band— IS EVERYBODY HAPPYZ Tuneful, Rhythmic, Joyous Jazz —Added Subjects— An Our Gang Comedy— nrrl AMBASSAD @24 B St NE. TODAY and TOMORROW_COLLEEN MOORE in “FOOTLIGHTS and __FOOLS" _(100% TALKING) “AVALON Conn. Ave. McKinley St. D. C. TODAY—"THE, GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY" (100% NATURAL COLOR). OLONY G»: Ave. & P TODAY and TOMORRO and JACK HOLT in 1007 TALKIN HOI TODAY and TOMORROW . JOAN \WFORD | AMED" (HER ey T TALKING PICTURE) SAVOY 14th & Col. Rd. N.W. TOMORROW—EDDI PALRING) LILA TUFLIGHT" U (100° AVENUE GRAND TODAY and TOMORROW. MARXON DAVIES in MARIANNE _TALKING PICTU! E 'HOMORE* 1ith & Park Ra. TOMORROW - SALLY “BROADWAY SCAN- TALKING) “TIVOLI TODAY “and QN in DALS™ (10 CENTRA 9th u. Bet. D and € R Toumer CANO" (A TALKING pxcxvu':“' Ga. Ave. & Quebes 8t. N.W. TQAY and TOMORROW-_coLLERN FOOLE" (oo TIRLKINGTS AND