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AMUS By C. E. Nelson. HE peopularity of a photo- play star among theater patrons parallels box office This is quite Populnrlty. natural, although there are many angles and features of a box office popularity. In going over the list m the Screen EMENTS. short time. No details concern- ing Mr. Skinner's first screen starring vehicle are available, but his story will be an original one. Technicolor will be used, and, of course, the picture will be an all- dialogue affair. THE SUNDAY STAR, W or WEEK T, JANUAR g Billie Duve 1 Ambassad’r rn® Beinbia* Alker Sunday Billle Dove in “The ASHINGTON. D. C.. JANUARY 5, Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 1930-=PART FOUR. Friday: AMUSEMENTS. inelegant way of saying Danjels and S : *Rio_Rits Bebs Dange 5 o Bl Dove ta ok n'“lf".m el Algel. e Painted Angel. “Rio_Rita" Laura La Plante in “Hold Your Man." 2 Vitaphone varieties. one. vari varisty. e P n “Bweete.” T} AT Bweeti Bally | O'Neil. “Broadway Sc: o Vitaphone srieis Joan Crawford Joan Crawford > ~Untemed. vmum-':‘rfo"fi'rmg. Vitaphone variety. Arliss 1 Avalon GO raeit eelgfxg Pauline Prederick In Douglas “Evidence.” banks, 1., Pass.’ in Cartoon. “The Forward Vitaphone variety. __Vitaphone. varlety: Moran and Mack Moran and Mack in “Why Bris 52" “Why Bring ThatUp?" Vitaphone vatiets, _ Vitaphons variets Dorothy, Mackaill n “The Love Racket." Vitaphone variety. Glenn Tr; 1 I : Morton Downey in % m Vitaphone “Lucky in Love. Joan Crawford in Joan Crawford Ao ow & SINGING extras are the newest ' idea of Hollywood, brought in of players who headed the 1151" during the past year (in box office | popularity) one gets a few sur- prises. Many of the stars who|by the ~ound films. Over 300 of ; made big money for the producers | these ext:-5 are being rehearsed and exhibitors are comparatively \now for the First Natipnal “spec- newcomers to the screen. And, in|tacle” in music of the Russian the opinion of this writer, they will | revolution, “Song of the Flame.” not be long-time leaders in box | The singing extra is paid from $7. office returns. This may be espe- | to $15 per day, and they are class- | cially true with the feminine ified into 26 groups by voice and leaders during the past year. |type. Warner Bros, Fox and! Clara Bow tops the list during Paramount make many demands | the past 12 months. She is fol- lon the Central Casting Bureau| lowed, not very closely, by Colleen |roster of singing extras, and this | Moore, who headed the list last has opened up a new field of em- | vear. Then comes Nancy Carroll, | ployment among those who have i Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, | no regular movie jobs. Bebe Daniels, Alice White, Laura | * & %is La Plante, Norma Shearer, Billie | { Ave. Grand Dove, Dolores Del Rio, Mary Pick- ford, Dolores Costello, Marion Davies, Betty Compson, Janet Gaynor, Sue Carroll, Winnie Lightner, Gloria Swanson, Vilma Banky, Mary Brian, Norma Tal- madge, Lupe Velez, Ruth Chatter- ton, Bessie Love, Anita Page, Lois Wilson, Renee Adoree, Evelyn Brent, Lillian Gich, Mackaill and others. The end of the list is taken up with such names as Ann Pennington, Esther Ralston, Sophie Tucker, Florence Vidor and Fay Wray. Among the man players Lon Chaney heads the list. He is fol- lowed closely by William Haines, and then on down the list we have Hoot Gibson, “Buddy” Rog- ers, Richard Barthelmess, Ken Maynard, Tom Mix, Richard Dix, Eamon Novarro. Al Jolson, George Bancroft, Jack Holt, Gary Cooper, Milton Sills, John Gilbert, William Boyd., Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, John Boles, Monte Blue, Ronald Colman, Tim McCoy. Con- | rad Nagel, Tom Tyler. Buster Keaton, Victor McLaglen and others. At the end of the list| come James Hall, Raymond Hat- ton, Lloyd Hughes, Fred Humes, | Buck Jones, Charles King, Hai|[DID YOU KK Skelly and David Torrence. Last year the leaders among the man players were Lon Chaney Dorothy | |a scene for grand opera for the | erot | “Ladies Love Brutes”? GlOVANNI MARTINELLI of the: | Metropolitan Opera Co. joins | his mellow voice with those who | | predict that the singing pictures | | will popularize grand opera. For instance, he is quoted as follows: | “There has been a big improve- ment in the singing pictures.| |Methods of photographing and !recording make it possible to record a complete grand opera on the screen, and this will undoubt- edly be accomplished. The chief | difficulty will be in breaking .up: the action into short ‘takes’ to| avoid the monotony of the same settings for entire acts. This can be done, but it will entail some difficulty in preserving the con- tinuity of the music. Rehearsing screen is more difficult than re- | hearsing the same passage for the stage, because the artist does not | have the same familiar surround- ings. The soundproof stage is so| much smaller than an opera house that thege is difficulty at! times in gauging the volume of | sound required. The singing pic- | ture, I think, will popularize! grand opera in America.” * i That Ruth[ Chatterton and George Ban- t are to be co-starred in The story Hippodr’me -Princen “Untamed Vitapnone variety. vUntamed.” Vitaphone variety, Gary Mary “The_Vifsinian " Carroll and g O AT A T and e im “Swe Vitaphone variety Jag “Gary Cooper and Al Ken Ma; ‘Mary, Brian (i through—and then what becomes of it? conviction that should Patsy Cain be seen around back-stage corners, it is equivalent to a bulletin-board state- ment, “Notice, this play is closing.” ‘When Patsy Cain “takes them awa; they seldom come back. Now and then he finds a producer so violently eager for sucess that he'll put up money for ‘Senor Americano.” Vitaphone varieties. “The_Virginian.* Dark. o gz = MeLaglen in Victo: Yicter “Cock- ‘Cock-eyed World.” r McLaglen in, ~eyed World.” the production—or late production—to be_taken on the road. But not often. The theatrical people attribute to Cain a sort of fantastical and mystify- “Trent's Last Case.” irley Meson in unaway Girls.” “rnld fi‘?rr:‘v and orma Terris in “hlavriea i Holly- wood.” Harold : rray and . Jaget T e TR, g Japet Gaynor and arry Norton Stephen Petchit 1 n Phie Fmet n “Four Bevite r_Devils Ciara Bow n ing personality. He seems to know “The Maturdsy Nisht when a play is going to bite the dust. Stephen Petchit in "Big Time. Ordinarily he’s on hand with his long, Beity Compson Betty Compson n “The Street Girl.” Comedy. Dorothy, Mackaill n “The Love et . D&Mh’l Mackaill ¢ Racky Vitaphone varie! “The Love Racket." Vitaphon Trene Eordoni in e_varietier. Ken Maynard ‘The Wagonmaster.” Vitaphone varisties. slim trucks, in which he carts the scen- ery and “props” away. If he didn't happen to be following one of Grover Trene Bordoni in “Paris.” Cartoon. n “The Street Girl." Comeds. Warner B Lois Moran and Gilbert Emery in “Behind That Curtain’ Warner Baxter, SRt B T “Behind That Curtain” No Tis and Vicior McLaglen and Wilter Catieu o L0 "ambta. 1n “Married in Holly- 3 wood." ‘The Cock-eved World." ties. Victor McLas Ty "Barn len and ta in “The Cock-eved World.” Whalen's police or fire cars, as one commentator expresses it, he is easily reached by phone, And he answers the Victor fil‘l?l;n and Lily Damita in Ken Maynard in “The_Cock:eved “The Wagon Master." orld.” i1 Vitaphone variety. “Disrael Vitaphone Moran and Mack n ““Why Bring That Up?’ Vitaphone foty. Moran and Mack n “Why Bring That Up?" Vitaphone variety. George Arli Edw. Everett Horton in in “The Sap." Comedy. calls personally. When a producer such as Ziegfeld or George White puts a production away, Mr. Cain knows he is going to be paid Ken Maynard in “The Wagenmaste Vitaphone variy “The_Hollywood Revue." Jason Robards. h_Beery and bumhrto- oal Virginia valli in “Isle_of Lost Ships.” Ian Keith and John Mack Brow; Dorothy Revier “Light Finger: Jean Hersholt and Ricardo Cortez in “The Younger Gen- eration.” for the storage space. His worries arise Douglas.Fairbanks. ir.. nd i | from the novice producers, who, up Loretta" Yeun, “Forward Pase i William _Powell Famlly “The Greene Mur- der Case. Vi cLaglen RO IR U Alice Calhoun in “Bride of the Desert.” Vit oc) William Bosd in T “The Leatherneck.” Rich in 's Wite." pretty frequent. This class of the mod- Clive Brooke in Ken Wilsos erately wealthy, who had made a little “Sheriock Holmes.” “The ‘Fellow Btronk. or McLaglen in “Girl From Favana.” “Girl From Hava 80 This 1s College.” -eved World.” "85 This Is College.” Joan Crawford in “Untamed.” Moran and Mack in, Home “Why " Bring That Up?" Moran .,n! Mack n, Mary Nolan in “The Bhanghai ady. Vitaphone variety. George _Arliss Oeoufnnrl\n hy Bring “Disraell “Disrael That Up?” Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Gienn_Tryon n “Skinner Steps Out.” Vitaphone variety. Carlotia King and John Bole: in “The Desert Son in Lelier Georee O'Brien “Noah's Ark." Phyllis Haver in TBattle of Sexen.” John Gilhert in “Shady Lady." Dolores Del Rio ia “His Glorious Night." ‘Revenge."” “Two Men and & Douzlas Fairbanks in Maid."” “Iron Mask.” Marx Brothers e Sotamute” Marx Brother: “The Cocoant Jack Holt Jack Holt in ther an “Pather and “Father and Son.” wmfimI| Powell *“Adventurer.” “The Greene Mure der Liberty ] John Gilbert i, “Desert Nights.” Comedy. News. Lila “The Brid L uis Rey: Comeds. News. Adoiphe Menjou “Fashions in_Let Comedy. _Ne 8 iiyer and ‘Corinne Grifiih in Bridge of 'san CBrasker lsoners. e Guite Decent.” rtogn. ? Comed: e Sue Carol in “Chasing T Europe. ul . Comedy. News. Dark. “Married in Holly- Marx Brothers in “Married iy Iy~ arried in, Holly The Coconuts." Marx Brothers in “The Cocoanuts.” Marx Brothers in “The Lady Lies.” he Cocoanuts.” Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel in The Vitaphone Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel in e ) he Vitaphore_variety. Sty Torelan cast in “The Scarlet Dare- Vitaphone_variety. Jack_Holt Lila Lee n “Pligh nd ““The Hollywood e Revue.” Tom Mix in “The Drifter.” Comedy. Morton_Downey in “Lucky in Love." Vitephone variety. Dark. “They_Had to See Paris.” Wil Rogers *They_Had to See Paris.” B, 0 Janet _Gaynor, I b Barey” Norton 'and jancy Drexel “Four_Dev! Richard Dix in “The Greene Mur- “The Love Doctor.” der Case.” Richard Barthelmess “Young Nowheres. in Richa R o rd Barthelmessin “Seven Paces. “Seven Faces.” agthel Thomas Meighan in ung Nowheres. “The Areyle Case.” Richard Dix in Thomas Meigh; “Jhe Love Doctor.” n “The Argsle Ci ~Harold_Liovd “Welcome Danger.’ Comedy. n “Welcome Danger.” o Gomea: George Bancroft Harold Tiovd "Welcome Danger. Harold_Liovd we mfincm Geori “The Michty." 5. Vitaphone varieties. Gary Cooper and 't !r‘l’:n virgini Vitaphone variety. Gary Cooper and 2 e " Virgini . taphone_variety. Nancy Carroll Jack Oakie, “Sweetie Cartoon. wnd in Pauline Frederick “Eyidence.” Comedy. Greta Garbo and onrac el in e Ki Vitaphone varieties. Jack Egan in “Broadway Scandals.” Comedy. O'Neil and Tom Mix “The Dritter Vitapnone varietie Title Hides Good Story. “Hell's Heroes” seems a rather rough monicker to infliet upon a good story, Tom Mix. John Gilbert, Harold IS based upon the Zoe Akin play, Lloyd, Richard Dix, William | “Pardon My Glove. Haines, Richard Barthelmess and _ That Laurel and Hardy are Hoot Gibson. | probably the most popular of the The money-making teams of screen comedy teams, and that the past year were led by Dane their newest picture is “Night and Arthur, Gaynor and Farrell. | Owls"? Hatton and Beery and Laurel and| That John McCormack will sing Hardy. |original numbers in his first Last, but not least. the big screen venture for the Fox com- money maker among the “dumb” | pany? players was Rin-Tin-Tin, followed | That the new Joan Crawford closely by Ranger, Rex (a horse) Dpicture, “Montana,” is being given and Flash. a big ballyhoo; that it is a musi- One of the big surprises of the cal film. and that others in the past season is the retained popu- 'cast include Karl Dane (who willi larity of “Westerns.” Hoot Gib-|be a cowboy), “Ukulele Ike” Ed- son, Ken Maynard and Tom Mix wards and Johnny Mack Brown? bold and brave heroes of the Wild | That Lon Chaney imagines he and Woolly, are real leaders among is a writer and that he has “au- the box office favorites. The thored” several articles recently? “westerns” were the first success- | That Cliff Edwards (“Ukulele ful movies, and they retain their Ike”) once worked at the pie c21l to the younger generation. | counter of a one-arm lunchroom Another surprise is the falling|on Broadway. across the street off in pepularity of some of the [from the “Follies,” old-time stars. For instance, later starred? Charlie Chaplin is away down in| That Cecil B. De Mille is pro- the list, but he is far ahead of ducing “Madam Satan,” and that Thomas Meighan, George O'Brien, | the single member of the cast so Rod La Rocque, Adolphe Menjou |far selected is Roland Young? @nd others who were great fa-| That the Maryland Board of vorites a few years ago. Madge |Censors has barred the Sovkino Bellamy, Corinne Griffith, Lillian picture, “The Village of Sin”? Gish, Vilma Banky and Norma' That George M. Cohan, whose ‘Talmadge are far down in the list | first screen production will star for the past year. Some of the Al Jolson. says the picture will old stars appeared in few pic- not be a “Mammy picture”? And | tures. This, naturally, cuts the that Cohan. about 15 years ago., box office popularity, for the lat- | wrote the first Jolson song hit, | ter is determined by the amount |« | where he : of cash brought into the till. * * x % ND, when one speaks of busi- ness conditions in Washing- ton and elsewhere, it is interest- ing to notice a statement from the financial district of New York. It is estimated that $2,000,000,000 are now invested in the film in- dustry of America. The number of persons employed by the in- dustry at present is estimated at 240,000 and their combined pay roll is figured at $470,000,000 a year. Wall Street says the out- look for the motion picture busi- ness for the next year is very good indeed. * x x (OTIS SKINNER has signed his first motion picture contract with First National. He is to make five pictures during the next four years, and he will start for the Pacific Coast within a Held Over Jecond Week RONALD adq LOUIS WOLHEIM Cee——) ADDED ATTRACTIONS Hearst Movietone News — ‘That Haunting Melody"”? | Sl G They Made History. ‘THERE must have been a barrage of | “‘remember whens” on the M-G-M lot in Culver City when the cast of “Hollywood Revue of 1930” was as- sembled the other day for the first color sequences to be made. Among the assemblage were Weber | and Fields. Louis Mann, Marie Dressler, | Fay Templeton, William Collier, Trixie | Priganza. Josephine Sabel, Barney | Fagan, De Wolf Hopper, Carlotta King. | | Buster Collier, Harry Lee and Benny Rubin. ‘The revue is to be a contrast between the old and new in theatrical presenta- tion. l Merivale K]ow a Star, | PHILIP MERIVALE, who appeared in | Washington recently in the leading | {role of “Death Takes a WHoliday,” has been designated the star of the com- | pany which is now acting the play in New York. . FESTIVAL but it is the title selected by the movie producer to carry Peter B. Kyne's fa- mous story, “Three Godfathers,” to suc- cess on the screen. Peter B. Kynk has won fame as an author, and his story of “Thrse God- fathers,” melodramatic in the extreme, perhaps, will rank with his most inter- esting work along that line, 1f, indeed, it is fair to rob a rough and rugged tale of, say, the Mojave Desert—for it was filmed on the Mojave Desert—of its romantic interest by linking it with a suggestion of the underworld. t Peter B. Kyne co-operated with the movie producer, and the latter did his darnest to lend to the interest of the story the red fire and thunder of spectacle, with all which that means, to attract. the attention of the movie fan. A baby has been left by a dying mother to & trio of “hell's heroes.” exactly clear, nevertheless the three worthies, hell bent perhaps, have prom- ised to deliver the child at a certain place, with the certain knowledge thst Judge Lynch and a stout rope await them after their highly noble deed has been achieved. A mighty fine movie cast was assign- ed the important duty of putting this story in picture form, and, just for curiosity's sake, if no other, fans should be interested in seeing how they did their part. There is no doubt that the Universal corporation did the rest, with- in its light. i M—;ic in the Air. strange instrument which tunes.” is to be demonstrated shortly in a sound film, produced by Pathe, according to word from the company's ' studios. It is the invention of Leon Theremin, and bears his name. cal sources of sound, but employs many of the principles of radio, such as tubes, antenna and loud speaker. Music is produced electrically through the movement of the player's hands around the vertical antenna and a looped antenna. The right hand, mov- ing about the first, regulates the pitch and the left hand, moving about the loop, regulates the volume. The film will reproduce Rudy Vallee's famous song. “Deep Night.” EL BRENDEL FIFI DORSAY We've Got the Whole Town in am Uproar Which Is Quite Nataral as Everybody Says IT'S FUNNIER THAN “THE COCK-EYED WORLD” Fox Presents the All-Talking Lansh Riot ‘HOT roR PARIS’ As We Hold the McLaglen Feature for A SECOND WEEK So Do We Hold wil HORACE CALIFORNIANS ‘Why hell should have any heroes is not | eaches into the air and picks up | It has no key- | board, strings, reeds or other mechant. | Dancing in the Talkies. F EOLESDE Selmie sy ht in talking pictures. More and | yet un! , T , for S fllflrlel'pl:)dumonl 'nrg ‘being made to in- | Maris, in the feminine lead, will dance clude sequences with close-ups of the | the Flamenco, a castanet dance; the feet in action and recorded with sound. | Carrotin, a 'gzpey dance, atop a cafe The popularity of the new dances and | table, and Goyesca of Madrid, a refived interest in old steps as a result | beautiful classic dance. Miss Maris was of their introduction in sound films are | taught by Juan Duval, regarded ,as sald to have led to a demand for the ?fi.”‘f&‘é’?‘ foremost Spanish dance in- inclusion of dan almost every new K Ragtime dancing may be obsolete now, Al ras ew Orleans e but 1{ is promised movie audiences’ feet | 1850s will be illustrated by Norma Ter- are going to help out when they see |is and J. Harold Murray in “Cameo Sue Carol do “The Grizzly Bear” dance | Kirby.” Miss Terris had a special in- in “The Lone Star Ranger,” a talkie | structor from New York. adaptation of the Zane Grey story.! Modern ball-room dancing and old- After Miss Carol shows how it is done fashioned waltzes will be danced by the scene is made with numerous other | Lois Moran, Joseph Wagstaff and others couples doing the same dance and show- | in _several scenes of “A Song of Ken- ing how easily it adapts itself for ball- | tucky.” Since the invention of revolv- room use. ing and moviMg arms with cameras at- Of course not every girl can wear a | tached it is said to be easy to follow grass skirt and a few strings of beads | dancers about and photograph the feet when she wishes to imitate Lenore|in movement and facial expressions of Ulric in a South Sea dance, but it is| the dancers. said the number will be popular with| Grandeur film will enable the public stage dancers after “South Sea Rose” | to see several of their dancing and is distributed generally. Miss Ulric | acting favorites dancing together in learned: the dance from a Hawalian | “Happy Days,” in which every Fox Mo- dancer. Steps are executed by Tom | vietone player but John McCormack Patricola also in the same picture. appears. Specialties are promised by More difficult to imitate will be the | several of the players, who may surprise Spanish dances executed by Mona Maris | fans with their dancing ability. It’s Up to the Ladies. MERICA'S “terrible lapses in drl-]women to lead men better than they matic taste” are due to the fact that | do.” women are leading the men to bad| plays in this country, according to Sir | his efforts to return to Elizabethan sim- Philip Ben Greet, English Shakespea: ;Dlltc“fleén ""!llth *fi:hnl?ughl)l‘w ch: . | acter] e staging of Shakespeare's ::“";“‘"" speaking in New York re ;uuy:n in modern dress, showing them in always maintain,” Sir Philip sald, | MOVIDg pictures or reciting them over hat men like Shakespeare more than | the radio as “sins made against the women do. It is the same with classi- | SPIFit: cal music. If you go to a Brahms' con- cert in London, you will find 2,000 men | and 1,000 women. And those who like | Brahms like Shakespeare."” | . Urging that women make an organ- | ized effort through drama leagues and other clubs to improve the theater, | which he styled “puerile and silly,” | | Greet observed further that * lot is the fault of women. The stage 'and art of every description wants 'EET are rivaling faces for the I!x;:e- Hollywood, having borrowed talent so | liberally from Broadway for sound pic- tures, is beginning to discharge the | debt. ‘Thirty - six Vitaphone chorus beauties have been loaned to a musical comedy producer for a new show. the SCREE. HEIDT'S rex Movietone News Performances Start Week Da; 1, 1,3, 8.7, 9 Sundays at 3651790 Romance in a Horse. NTO the web of light, sophisticated entertainment that Selwyn & Coch- n e et Kot | “The : o Serial. Review. money on the exchange, thought it would be rollicking fun to go into the “show game.” When resultantly, they went broke, Mr. Cain found himself having to give valuable storage space to & lot of scenery and things he sus- m,cnud would be of no further use to Occasionally some professional group, requiring settings of a more or less “stock” nature, such as easily repro- duced drawing rooms or the like, gladly STANTON °%,2nd. € Sts, POWELL "RICHARD ' ARLEN Ve CLI BROOK. | NOAH 1119 B St. N.E. JOHN GILBERT in IGHT! ‘omedy & News. AVER in Y. LUST'S K Near 9th Today & Tomorrow “THE COCKEYED WORLD' ALL TALKING. RICHMOND ALEIX}X'I’DIM. VA. Tomorro! Tuesdny “MARRIED IN HOLLYWOOD," All Talk- ine and Singing. ! W in All_Talking. ‘The actor, knighted by the King for | {§SYLVAN THEATER “i&'&% " ran have produced in New York under §'"ETERNAL LOVE.” JOHN BARRYMORE. the title “Wake Up and Dream” has been inserted a number labeled by the critics as “uproarious.” Being nothing more than a make-believe horse—a horse whose body and breath are the persons of two men—there is nothing really to suggest anything out of the ordinary. But, out of the ordinary it is—and very much so. | Romance is said to lie within the car- | cass of that hilarious animal, who struts his “stuff” mance of a highl, ing the essence of 3 The story goes that for a number of years these two have been strollin; through merry England completely un- identified beneath the costume that to outward_appearances is tl:: buffoon horse. The father is one end of the beast, the son is the other. The act is theif own creation—it is really a part of them, it has done }hc?‘nnmfl for | a flulmr of a century. not until fairly recently has their talent béen suf- ficiently rewarded. It was Mr. Cocl and De Forest Sound Reproducer RNER BAX1ER._LOIS MORAN, GIL- BERT EMERY, "BEHIND THAT CUR- DUMBARTON j38:} INIA in “THE All-Talki, CHANTE] ng _Picture). D FLUTE." D IN HOLLY- OLD MURRAY and 100% Talking and THEATER. M WOOD.” with HAR NORMA TERRIS. _ Singin ANACOSTL TALKING 'SHOW _BOA' an who found them on one of his tours through the “prov- | inces.” And inasmuch as “anything his | wand touches turns to solid gold,” it was no time at all before the “horse” had been installed as oné of the - cipal acts in one of his revues. success was 4s instantaneous in - don as it has been repeated, it is said, | in New York. Europe Likes Color. | FUROPE is so enthusiastic over color ESTagi5Th JANUARY | in its flims that Technicolor, Inc., is going to construct a plant in England . peve M0ioxe, in the immediate future, accord who has just returned to from abroad. He was accom) | Mrs. Kalmus, who was the ploneer di- | rector of color films. Several color pictures, he said, | now being shown in London and mee | ing enthusiastic res and “Gold D don and Berl especially enthusiastic over tinted ple- | tures. QLU KEITH'S th at GEE N. W. THE WONDER STAR o N SINGS AGAIN aen? we Comer ety o | Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, its_president, | lew York ! ied by | iponse. Among them | |are “Rio Rita,” “On With the Show" | ers of Broadway.” Lon- ! , Dr. Kalmus said, are | | wih, LAWRENCE GRAY BENNY RUBIN and the PALACE SYNCOPATORS i a Loew Productiorn. ‘ODDITIES" K= Walhalla of the Show. PLAY “folds up” is the somewhat take over and pay for Cain's leftovers. it is | Little theaters throughor ut a wide area near New York furnish their stages with scenery from Cain's ghost ware- cently disbands ham's g | they are said to have Around New York's theaters lurks a house. When the Provincetown Players, re- produced “In Abra- a Pulitzer prise plas, lered “$20 worth of scenery” from Cain. It de- veloped, however, that “$20 worth” was | more than the theater could hold. For scenery, once it's second hand, rapidly declines in market value. Cain's warehouse at one time was available for anything. The business had been established as one for gen- eral trucking and storage purposes by Cain's father, John J. Cain, who ha resigned from the New York police de- partmant. But the theater became more of a “big business” and Cain, as his father's successor, took it up in a serious way. Now, when a critic labels a play “a typical Cain success,” it means that his guess is that the play won't be around very long. Praneis X. Bushman, jr., began his screen career doubling for his own father 17 years ago, representing the older Bushman as a 'he son is y. T | now working with Van and Schenck for until the recent stock collapse, were | MG District of Columbia. — | THE EARLE—13th and E streets n.w. RIALTO—Ninth near G n.w. AMBASSADOR~~18th and Col rd. . APOLLO—624 H street n.e. AVENUE GRAND—645 Pa. ave. s.e. CENTRAL—Ninth street. AVALON—Conn. ave. and McKinley. COLONY—Georgia ave. and Farragut. HOME~—1230 C street n.e. JESSE—3100 18th st. ne. TIVOLI—14th and YORK—Georgi; STANTON~—515 C street n.e. SYLVAN—104 Rhode Island ave. n.w, HAPPYLAND—1020 7th street n.w. Maryland and Virginia. MARYLAND—Hagerstown, Md. | OPERA ROUSE—Leesburg, Va. Head, REPUBLIC THEATER—Annapolis, Md. UNIVERSAL—Ehady Side, Md. MARYLAND—Frederick, Md. TOME SCHOOL—Port Deposit, Md. MARADA—St. Michaels, Md. BETHESDA—Bethesda. Md. MELVILLE—Sykesville, Md. STATE—Westminster, Md. IMPERIAL—Brunswick, M& PALACE—Frostburg, Md. ASHTON—Clarendon, Va. JEFFERSON—Charlottesville, Va. COLONIAL—Winchestsr, Va. STRAND—Staunton. Va. MASONIC—Clifton Forge, Va. OLIVER—Crewe, Va. COLONIAL~—Fredericksburg, Va. VIRGINIA—Harrisonburg, Va. REGAL—Urbanna, Va. TOWN HALL—Trappahannoek, Va. WEISS, Emporia. Va. RiTZ—Chatham. Va. RELEE—Relee, Va. RE;’JdlEATION HALL—Indt: NEW-—Woodstock, Va. STRAND—Strasb va. NEW MARKFET—New Market. Va. METROPOLITAN It is every- BECAUSE 552 stage or screen has ever known. Warner BECAUSE 3" eclipsed _all “of . their previous efforts in “Show of Shows.” We ave %lg’;ni; o ?w;w‘@",gl‘_ Today and All Week Pirst National Presents The Beauty of the Screen BILLIE With Edmund Lowe in “THE PAINTED ANGEL” A Vitaphone Picture The Truth About Night Clubs E d__ TOMORROW-—BILLIE TOOVE th " THE FAINTED ANGEL 100 TALKING) "APOLLO ®¢ ® & NE. 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