Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1930, Page 67

AMUSEMENT Flashes From the Screen News and Comment of the Picture World BY C. E. IEWING many new pictures from all angles, it -would appear that the sound films are entering another stage. That is, they are dropping grad- ually from the experimental phase and just as gradually en- tering the artistic. Two pictures screened in Washington recently bring this to mind, the two being “Anna Christie” and “The Case of Sergeant Grischa.” Unusual thought and considerable talent were used in the production of these two excellent films. They| stand out from a mass of bad pic- tures; they show clearly what| may be done in the future. ‘The sound pictures, although they are considered quite new, have paessed the novelty stage. ‘The mechanical problems which Airst confronted the producers are fast fading into the background. ‘The best stage and screen talent is being selected for some of the newest efforts, and the artistic| standards will advance in spite of | all difficulties. Of course, the first | requisite of a picture, according to many Hollywood minds, is the “box office draw,” but when such pictures as “Anna Christie” and | [ “The Case of Sergeant Grischa” can be made and prove themselves money-makers art will not suffer. Also, the sound pictures clearly demonstrate the fact that picture patrons appreciate good music. If there were no demand for good | music, the producers would not‘ bother to sign such singers as| Tibbett, McCormack and Grace Moore. Such contracts require rather large box office receipts in order to keep pictures from going to the red side of the office ledger. ‘When such composers as Irving Berlin, Lehar and Straus go to Hollywood to write new music for sound pictures, it follows that the m:tm-tolng public is demand- tunes of a high -caliber. Among the orchestra conductors and song creators recently going to Hollywood is the well known Erno Rapee, who has signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He will direct the music of the studio, writing special bits as pro- duction goes on. Rapee, by the way, wrote the theme songs *Diane,” “Charmaine” and “An- gela Mia,” favorites when the first sound pictures came along. Anyway, it would seem that the Hollywood renaissance has been given a start. The “hit or miss” days are over; we may have more good pictures and fewer bad ones. * %ok * JFERENC MOLNAR wrote “The Swan,” a stage success. But you may not recognize it when see the screen version. It is Gish’s first sound photo- play, and the name has been changed to “One Romantic Night.” The picture was completed a few days ago and is ready for release. * % x *x ITis about the end of the stage season in New York, so Holly- wood is receiving the stage stars in bunches. This makes competi- tion quite keen around the stu- dios. From the West Coast comes the information that mm}r of the stage people will gradually fade from the Hollywood scene, as a coasiderable fumber of the old screen stars have gone. However, one of the big features of studio work is dramatic coaching. This is held necessary for many of the former screen players who had no e experience before taking up present; work and later en- tering the lo:m;l glctuxes. W .'I‘Emm e;!mn Richard Barthel- “It has been suggested that I do a sound version of ‘Tol’able David, one of the early screen !minute in which her voice will be NELSON | —shadow personality plus audible personality. “Recently I was asked the perti- nent question: ‘Does the voice af- fect screen personality?’ To that I must answer: ‘Yes and no. There are some screen personal- ities that have splendidly with- stood the ravages of audibility. Others have gained strength be- cause of it, and still others have suffered by having themselves heard. The talking screen is no longer a novelty, but it must still be handled cautiously and dis- creetly. Certain players in certain roles will destroy their chances of to be reproduced without sufficient thought before going over the im- portance of the voice character- ization. Others will achieve suc- cess and its attendant popularity by using their voices in accord- ance with their characterizations. Then, again, as I have mentioned with two pictures, there are cer- tain stories and characterizations which should remain untouched by the almost cruel realism of the reproduced voice.” =% T is reported upon good author- ity that exhibitors over the country are beginning to com- plain about the flood of back- stage stories being used by the picture producers. Since the com- ing of the talkies the back-stage idea has been the principal one in, use. At first these were novelties, but they have been repeated so| often that they have injured box- office receipts. Motion picture stories run in cycles, as has been mentioned be- fore in this column. As soon as a producer has made a success with a certain ty))e of production other producers follow suit. But the back-stage cycle has been over- done. * % %k % CYR]L MAUDE has finally ac- cepted an offer to make “Grumpy” for the sound pictures. A silent production of the play was made several years ago with Theodore Roberts in the leading role. Maude comes to America this Summer, and he will go di- rectly to Hollywood, where “Grumpy” will be made. It also is planned to ask the English stage star to.play the leading role in “Aren’t We All?” * * X % MAR‘I LEWIS, opera star, re- cently made an unusual con- tract to sing for the Pathe stu- dio. Those who are sharks con- cerning such matters claim that the contract is unique in the his- tory of business agreements. The obligations of both parties mak- ing the contract were recorded on a sound film, and no other con- tracts or written agreements were made. By the terms of the queer contract Miss Lewis will receive approximately $4,000 for every heard in her first picture. - 2 Short Flashes. IVE pictures are in production this week at the First National studios. They are “Numbered Men” (formerly “Jail Break”), “Sin Flood,” “Sweet Mama,” “At Bay” and “One Night at Susie’s.” In “Numbered Men” are such well known players as Conrad Nagel, Bernice Claire, Raymond Hackett, Ralph Ince, Tully Marshall, George Cooper and Ivan Linov. In “Sin Flood" we have Douglas Fair- banks, jr., Dorothy Revier, Noah Beery, Robert Edeson and William Courtenay. ‘“Sweet Mama” stars Alice White, with David Manners, Rita Flynn and Kenneth Thomson in support. “At Bay” features Loretta Young and Jack Mulhall, with Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn successes. I have been vehement in my denunciation of such an idea. I do not believe that David should speak in audible tones. ‘Whatever he might say would cer- tainly fall short of what the audi- ence imagined he would say. He is too universal in his appeal; much too idealistic and symbolic to be humanized in the sense that a talking picture would humanize him. David lived rather in the hearts of men than upon -the screen. The role of the Chinese boy in ‘Broken Blossoms’ is an- other over which I would hesitate lo- 7 before transferring it to the taiking screen. It might be a gem of poetic art, but the chances are sgainst it. On the other hand, the modern Chinese boy which I play in ‘Son of the Gods’ is au- thentically of the world we live in. “rTalking pictures are unques- tionably going to eliminate a num- ber of former screen favorites, and also bring into favor new ones Williams, Dot Farley and Winter Hall in the cast. “One Night at Susie’s” has Billie Dove as the star, with Douglas Fairbanks, jr., playing opposite. Helen Ware and Tully Marshall are in the support- ing cast. The same studio announces that “Mlle. Modiste,” the operetta, is being prepared for the screen. Other pictures to follow are “Heart of the North,” with Loretta Young; “Under Western Skies,” with Sidney Blackmer and Lila Lee; “The Fortune Teller,” “The Girl of the Golden West” and “Dawn- Patrol.” Several stories are under con- sideration as prospective vehicles for the Otis Skinner debut in sound pictures, but no decision has been reached. Actor Skinner goes to Hollywood as soon as his present stage tour is completed. Among the features planned for the World Fair in Chicago in 1933 is a gigantic movie story of world progress during the past who will be gifted with the new double requirement of the screen NO' s ON 100 years. vie SCREEN o0 + a0 60" success by permitting their voices | WEEK_OF MARCH 16 Sunday Tuesday D. C., MARCH 16, Thursday 1930—PART FOUR. Friday Saturday Winnie Lightner in Yahe Couldn't Say ‘Ambassador ie_Lightner in e Couldn't Say ot Comedy. nie_Lizhtner in “She Couldn't Say . Comedy. Monday ary_Cooper in n ogSien Days Leave.” T 4 Cartoon. Vitaphone variet artoon. Vitaphoue variety. o. 18th & Columbia Rd. ___Comedy. _ Apollo 624 H St. NE. Conrad Nagel in “Dynamite. uth Chatterton Conrad Nage] in = o “Dynamite.” Vitaphone veriety. n in “The Laughing Lady" “The Laughing Led: tterton Charlotte Greenwo Rith Chatter Charlotte ng. Letty.” v medy. Vitaphone variety. __Vitaphone variety. Dorothy Mackaill n “The Great Divide.” Comedsy. Ann_Penninston in “Tanned Lews.” Maurice Chevaller in Comedy. E . Vitaphone variety. ‘The Love Parade.’ Maurice Chevaller fn Mary Eaton in “Glorifying_the " ; de. vt i American Girl Vitaphone variety. Conrad Nagel and Rin-Tin-Tin s Tee’ i O the Border d Wite Comedy. omedy._Variety. __ Vitaphone variety. Harry Green Dorothy Mackaill Kibitzer “The Great Divide.” y. Comedy. Gary Cooper o Richard Arlen “Seven Days' Leave. phone ty. n “Burning Up." Comedy. ck Oakie in it e Deck.” Jack Oskle 1 Nagel 1 “HIE the Deck” o pamite. Green, in e bitaer. " Conrad Nagel in & b Cartoon. Bynamite. Vitaphone variety. _Rin-Tin-Tin_in, “On the Border.” Vitaphone variety. Comedy. €45 Penna. Ave. S.E. Cameo Mt. Rainler, Md. Dark. Janet Gaynor and Charies Farrell In “Sunnyside Up." innyside Act. _Comedy. Comedy. Basil Rathbone in “Bishop Murder hbone in !-'s'{:n:v;‘ Murder Wm. Collier, sr.. in_ “Harmony at Home Carolina 1105_11th_St. SE. Wm. Colller. sr.. in Gertrude Tawrence in “Harmony at Home." > “Battle of Paris.” etty Compson and Bty ok "Bakie Betty Compson and Tk Batie K 2 “gtreet GIrl" “Street Girl" Conway Tearle and Virginia Valll in “The Lost Zeppelin. Vitaphone varieiy. Central Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray in “No. No. Nanette." Cartoon. Conway Tearle and Virginia Valli in “The Lost Zeppelin " Vitaphone varietz. rnice Claire and Alexander Gray in, ‘No, No, Nanette. Cartoon Richard Arlen in Burning Tp. 425 9th St. N.W. % Norma Shearer. i Circle Belle Bennett a Lewis Stone in Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett and Lewis Stone in Mary Pickford and Douglas Pairbanks in “Taming of the Shrew.” dy Valiee and Sally Blaine In “The Vagabond Lover.” Pickford and Fairbanks in “Taming of the Shrew.” ‘omeds. Vitaphone varlety. s Barbara Stanwyck n “Mexicall Rose.” ‘ox Players. William Boyd and w0 Black Crows Dorothy Sebastian "0 Dick Crows in “His Pirst Ccm- mand."” Willilam Powell “Street_of Chance.” Serial. n “Why Bring That Bope “Hunting Tigers in Fred Kohiér Tndta " Hietla 3 Comedy. el ey S —— ____Vitaphone variety. udy Valiee and 3 Sally Blaind DRt Kmes “The Vi “Their_Own_Desire.” 2105_Pa. Ave. N.W. T Maurice Chevalier n “The Love Parade.” Cartoon. “Their_Own_Desire.” Maurice Chevalier in “The Love Parade.” Carioon. Lon Chaney In “Fhantom of the Opera.” Teila_Hyams Roland Youns in “The Bishop Murder Case. Vitaphone_variet: Jack Oakie and Ann_Penninston in d “Tanned Legs.” ne Comedy. Sportlight_reel. Bessie Love and Charles King in “Chasing Rainbows." rtoo! The Dunean Sisters “So Long, Letty." Vitaphone variety. 1935 Georsias Ave. ot sosn Richard Dix and Miriam gar in ‘Seven to Baldpate. Edmund Lowe Anacostia, D. C. __ “Ce = Sally O'Neil n Family “Broadway Scandals.” Piayers. in ‘ock-eyed World.” _ riffith and Ford in “Prisoners.” ‘omed. Jack Oakie and Fofls Sraiker 1n “Hit_the Polly Walker in Deck.” it the Deck.” Comedy. in “It’s a Great Life.” News. Ave. s s " Vietor, McLaglen and Victgr, Fred Kohler and Raymond_ Hatton “Hell's Heroes.” Comedy. n Harold Murray and X B in Holly- % wood.” _ Comedy. s Comedy. Jobyna Ralston Janet Gaynor . “College Coauette.” n ” “Sunny Side Up."” Eomeds: Sungy Side "~ Janet Gaynor n “Sunny Side Up." Comedy. _Lois Moran in “Song of Kentucky." Serial. Comeds. . $th_and G Sts. S.E. Hippodrome rner Baxter in- “Romance of the Janet Gayn ‘Warner Baxter in “Roman “Christin: ce of the hearer in Norma Bhearer in_ Taeir own: Desire.” “Thelr Own Desire- Sarteon: Cartoon. Ken Maynare “‘Viking." - Comedy. Cartoon. - Comedy. d in, ter.” Rio Grande. Act.__Comedy. 508 K St N.W. Home Marilyn Miller in “8ally.” nd Marilyn Miller in Conrad Nagel in Bty “The Sacred Flame.” Comedy. Vitaphone. William Powell and Helen Kane in “Pointed Heels. Comedy. _Vitaph L Co 1 in “The Bacred Flame " Comedy._Vitaph e Gary Cooper in “Seven Days' Leave." Vitaphone_variety. Rlchnlii Arien n “Burning Up.” Comedy. 13th and C S Ingomar Ruth Chatterton in “Laughine Lady.” hia 1 o Fox Flayers. Richard Arlen in “Burning Up." ‘Comeds. News. Bob Steele “Code of the West." “Man From Aatken.” Comedy. Cartoon, Comedy. News. Alexandria, Va. Leader ot N.W. in “Harmony_at Home." ‘Act.__Comedy. Alec_Prances in “Moulin Rouse. “Snepherds of the Comedy. MNew: in ‘Harmony at Home. Act. __Comedy. Monte Blue “No_Detense.” Comedies. Marceline Day in M waod ‘Comedy. “Rews. Norma Shearer in TR ey Comedy. News. News. Pauline Starke in ‘Viking." Buddy RBgers in “Halfway to Heaven, Ted "Wells in addle Jumpers.” Ken Maynard in “Lawless Legion." Serfal. ~Sasen Roberd “Isle of Lost Ships.” 10 Comedles. “Black Water: Comedy. Cartoon. N._Capitol _St. Richmond Dark. Mary Eaton in “Glorifying_the merican Girl.” Come: ary Eaton in “Gloritsing the, American Girl Comedy. _Act. Love and Bessie Love les King in Charles King in Bows.” “Chasing Rajnbows.” nedy. " Gartoon, _ Comedy. Cartoon. Warner Baxter in “Romance of Rio Warner Baxter in “Romance of, Rio Grande Comedy. _News. Alexandria, Va. Savoy Arthur Lake I “Personality.” Nagel in From o Congad L om Shaighai.” Comedy. John Barrymore Special in vi ight. “General Crack.” variety nig! ngral Ora “Oklahoma Kid.™ Bob Custer in Comedy. Comet 2030 14th St. N.W. ‘Vitaphone variety. Takoma Holt in k. s i ..Orant Withers in, g 1n 'the Headlines.” ght.” John Barrymore in ! Grant Withers i, John Barrymore in “In the Headlines. ‘Wm. Colller, sr.. in “Harmony at Home.’ ‘om~ Mix in, “Just _Tony.” John Barrymore in “Bhow of Shows.” Takoms Park. D. C. Tivoli Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray n Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray in “Bally.” Marilyn Miller and ‘Alexander Gray Marilyn Miller and Ramon Novarro Allx.n?ll’ Gray in n “Devil-May-Care."” Vitaphone Edw. Everett Horton Ramon Novarro in n “The Aviator.” Cartoon. “'Devil-May-Care.” Vitaphone variety. 14th snd Park Rd. v GRS Lon Chaney York Ga. Ave. & Quebec | Holmes Is Back I in “Phantom of the Opera.” Burton Holmes, travel lecturer, who comes to the National Theater for the next five Thursday matinees. Charlie True to the Silent. 'HARLES CHAPLIN, who has said time and again that he would never have anything to do with the new- fangled talking pictures, has recently issued an announcement which makes that fairly definite. A new film com- y, to be known as the Charles Chap- in Picture Productions, Inc. has been organized for the purpose of producing silent pictures and nothing else. This company, Mr. Chaplin says, will sperd between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 year- 1y on production programs. Besides Mr. Chaplin, it seems, this company is to star four or five of the foremost players in the industry. Just who they are likely to be is not yet known, although the comedian admit~ ted that he had “discussed the project with John Gilbert,” film actor. Inas- much, however, as Mr. Chaplin believes that pantomime is one of the greatest mediums of expression, and that he is willing to spend a seemingly limitless amount of time and money on i, it ap- pears as though the project should have the best that anybody can procure. Evergbodss: Ramon N in n A “Phantom of the “Devil-May-Care. Opera.” Cartoon. CHAEL!S J. COLUMBUS, managing director of the Advertising Club of ‘Washington, has announced that his wide-awake organization, keen to the sense of value of a splendid company of stock players in Washington during the Spring and Summer months to make pleasanter the doice far niente of | the season, is arranging a testimonial luncheon in honor of Manager Steve Cochran’s National Theater Players, to be held in the National Press Club Auditorium Tuesday, March 25, at 12:15 pm. . He adds that Manager Cochran has accepted the gracious offer of the testi- Ciub Welcom P ———————— Conrad Nagel in *'8hip From Shanghal.’ L Vitaphone variety, Comedy. Cartoon. es Players. monial and has promised that tfie com- pany will be on hand, with never a one missing; also that President Ernest 8. Johnston of the club has also invited a promising galaxy of guests to meet the players, including distinguished officials of the Federal and District Governments and the heads of out- standing representative organizations. It is the purpose of the Advertising | Club of Washington, by this generous gesture, to give the National Players of 1930 a send-off that cannot be mis- understood and which, it is hoped, will be the first forerunner of a grand and glorious theatrical season. THE imitations of the comic antics of the Colonial slaves used for mirth- making pu! shortly after the American Revolution seems to have been the basis and origin of what is now known as the “mingtrel show.” The first printed reference to a black- face act in the United States is to be found in the Boston Gazette of De- cember 30, 1799, in which attention is called to a Mr. Graupner, who, in black face, sang a song called “The Negro Boy.” Many imitators followed in his wake, and finally the first minstrel show was born in New York City during the month of February, 1843. It came about by accident. Tom Rice and Dan Next Week's Photoplays. FOX—“Let's Go Places,” musical production of the life of Hollywood, featur- ing Sharon Lynn, Walter Wagstaff, Walter Catlett and Lola Lane. PALACE — “Roadhouse Nights,” a Paramount sound picture, featuring Charles Russell. COLUMBIA — “The Rogue Song,” featuring Lawrence Tibbet, Metropolitan Opera star, a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer technicolor produc- LITTLE THEATRE, Hotay Moty ad Tatsday Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro STUDENT PRINCE Wednesday, Thursday and Friday LOVE OF CASANOVA G LAUGH S LR A about fltc‘&r;u“”u% picure Was seen Z’nq&m n several seasons ILLIAM AINES in “"(d'“'qaqun Mager Pictune THE GIRL SAID NO ALV TA'&'C,”"" LEILA HYAMS MARIE DRESSLER. POLLY.MORAN ColUMB STARTING NEXT SATURDAY *The Voice of Love* LAWRENCE TIBBETTVT winthe ¢ -Mayen Technicolor Piclne L) st~ THE(ROGUELSLONG~.! Blackface Minstrelsy. Emmett were practicing an act, one with a fiddle and the other with a banjo, at their boarding house, when Prank Bowers dropped in on them. For awhile he listened to the music and then joined in with the bones, or “clap- pers,” as they were called in those days. He was followed by Dick Pelham, who, with the help of a tambourine, com- pleted the musical quartet. And thus formed, they gave their first public performance as “The Virginia Min- strels” in Bartlett's billiard room. This black-faced quartet made such a stir that they were engaged as an at- traction for the Bowery Auditorium, after which they played at various New York theaters, went to Boston for an engagement, and eventually disbanded in London, where they had made suc- cessful appearances. “The V! ia Minstrels” were fol- lowed by “Christ| ley's Serenaders,” and “The Virginia Serenaders,” sembles of which did not number more than a dozen performers. Eventually, however, the ranks were swelled when Christie and Hooley com- bined forces and toured the country in the early sixties, After them came “The San Pranciscos,” “Carncross & Dixie’s Minstrels,” “Lester & Allen’s,” “Barlow, Wilson & Rankin's,” and finally “Thatcher, Primrose & West,’ “Cleveland’s,” “Corton’s,” “Hi Henry’ “Honey Boy Evans’,’ “Dockstader’s” and “Cohan & Harris' Minstrels.” Dorothy Mackaill n “The Great Divide.” Comedy. Alieen Pringle in “The Night Parade.” Vitaphone variety. rtoon. Another Signed Dudley Hawley, the newest player, signed by Manager Steve Cochran for the National Theater Players. Drifting Backward. 'OMES another of those tit-for-tat games with the talkies trying to get on the stage instead of the stage - ing to the talkies. In this case one might mention that Gloria Swanson has more than an eye on the possibilities of the New York footlights and that Jed Harris has finally captured the much-sought-after Lillian Gish for his Tehekov play. Then there are Irene Rich, who is trying to find refuge behind genuine Broadway wings; Lily: Damita, who re- mains with much credit in “Suns o Guns”; Herbert Rawlinson, who had much to do with “City Hall,” and Betty Blythe who is knocking them dead some- where in “House Afire.” Apart from these more scintillating , it is said that when a film actor gets out of a job on the coast he betakes himself to the Angeles stock company which helps him to ac- quire peace of mind and a knowledge of how to speak the English language. The Four Folks Who Made the World Ring With Laughter Are Together Again/, VERA (‘;dORDON al KATE PRICE ‘OU’VE seen them on the East Side and Fifth Avenue; in Paris; in Atlantic City. NOW see them in Scot- land, turning' over a deal in plaids . that will give yom more laughs than 'you believed possible. It’s better, funnier than all the others n-blld—.wilu:h";' saying just about all that can be said! SEE IT! ADDED HITS “THE LAND OF SAINT PATRICK” R-K-O NEWS of Current Events FRED CLARK ' and his d 5 R-K-OLIANS : AMUSEMENTS Nu{n‘A BALIEFF has announced that his Chauve-Souris will dis- continue the road tour of the Publix ‘Theaters circuit which had been booked for him and his company up to the end of May. The Russian director and the management of the Publix Theaters have come to a mutual and friendly agreement for the cancellation of the remaining contracts based on the reali- zation by both parties to the contract that the intimate nature of Chauve- Souris was hopelessly lost in the enor- mous reaches of the large theaters on this circuit. Large public response Russian when they appeared for the first time in eight seasons in this coun- try at popular prices in New Haven and Boston. Engagements of one week each followed at the Paramount in New York and at the Brooklyn Paramount. The route was fo have carried the com- pany to Newark and as far West as Chicago and Kansas City. When Balieff salls for Europe at the end of this week, however, he is not saying good-by to the America which has given him the most loyal and munificent support of any country in which he has ever played. As evidence of this fact, he is taking out his first American citizenship papers before his departure. After a period of rest and recuperation from the tour, which car- ried him to the Pacific Coast and back this Winter, Balieff will make an ex- haustive survey of the fresh and youth- ful artistic talents in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest and the other Euro- pean capitals, slooking toward the re- cruiting of a new company based on a wholly novel idea of theatrical enter- tainment. The exact details of this new project are not yet determined, bt he expects to return to America next sea- son with the results of his Spring and Summer in Europe. Baliefl’s return to America, therefore, will probably coincide very nearly with the tenth anniversary of the rebirth of his theater in the Western Werld in Paris in December, 1920, after a hiatus brought about by his long and difficult flight through the Near East from Moscow. Brought first to the United States by Morris Gest on the heels of his triumphs in Paris and London, Balieff and his “Chauve-Souris” achieved STARTING NEXT, SAT, “The Voice of Love” greeted the | prior has played seven seasons and has pre- sented seven whclly new programs. Opening at the Forty-ninth Street ‘Theater on February 3, 1922, Balief’s “Chauve-Souris” moved to the Century Roof on June 5 for its second bill. A third entirely new program was re- vealed at the Century Roof in October and a fourth on January 4, 1923, when the newly arrived members of the Mos~ cow Art Theater were guests of honor to their own premiere four days later. Continually until May, Baliefl’s “Chauve-Souris” set up the phenomenal record of 65 unbroken weeks, a record which has never been touched since then by any similar organization. In the intervening seasons, Balieff's “Chauve-Souris” has played New York engagements again at the Forty-ninth Street Theater, at Jolson's Fifty-Ninth Street Theater and at the Cosmopolitan Theater. In addition it has made three long tours and one or two short ones, two of the long tours carrying the company to California and back. Guiid Buys “Roar China!" 'HE Theater Guild announces the purchase of a new play called “Roar China!” by S. Tretiakow. It isa Russian play about certain phases of the treatment modern China has re- ceived at the hands of the imperialist nations which have footholds in her territory. It has been uced by Meierhold in Moscow and by Alexis Granowsky in Berlin, and in both cities it was suc- cessful Vitaphone's Comedy Hit “SHE COULDN'T SAY NO” With CHESTER MORRIS LAWRENCE _TIBBETT in & Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture THE ROGUE SONG with OATHERINE DALE OWEN STAN LAUREL—OLIVER HARDY Directed by Lionel Barrymere Entirely in Technicolor FAIRLA ANACOSTIA, D. O. in “THE COCKENED WORLDS STANTON “, and C Sts. N.E. atinee 3 P.M. GRETA _GARBO _in_“‘THE KI: ‘Warner Bros. ADOR coi*Ra 3w TODAY _and W LIGHTNER in "SHE COULDN'T SAY NO.” 624 H St. NE. TODAY and TQUORROW- CONRAD NAGEL in “DYNAMITE." Warner Bros.” AVALON WSS Bl TODAY—DOROTHY M. in “THE_GREAT DIVIDE.” s Ave. TODAY and TOMORROW — 'HIT_THE DEC] ] JACK K. CENTRAL ™ st Bet.DanaE 'ODAY and TOMORROW--CONWAY TORARE B IRE Yo ZEr- COLONY G- Ave & Farmsut st TODAY and TOMORROW—MAURI CHEVALIER i “THE LO PARADE. Wi Bros." ME 1290 © st NE. TODAY—JQHm ARTHUR in “PERSONALITY." ‘Warner Bros.' TIVOLL — i¢h & Park 2. X, TODAY and TOMORROW—MARILYN MILLER in “SALLY." Wi B JRK Ga Ave. & Quebee 8t N.W. YO BT, TN THE_OPERA." Gt TAKOMA ‘it A Talkie a Day via RCA SYLVAN THEATER 354w THE THREE PASSIONS,” Silent Pic- ture. 8hows 3, 5, 7, 9. JESSE THEATER “SONG OF LOVE,” Belle Baker. 3,579 CIRCLE szt okt PErRoRtn MR B R, LEWIS STONE. ROB! M- ERY in CINEIR OWN DESIRE" LITTLE THEATER +2%%a Continuous 3 P.M. NORMA _ SHE d_RAMON NO- VARRO in * N PRNOEY O “ROMANCE OF THE RIO ALEXANDRIA, VA. RICHMOND MARY !?l'ON ln'r“',a‘l%'lgml O"'g& AMERICAN GIRL.” N. "Hmo:i:fl? HOME.” in “SUNNY SIDE UP” Return l:?‘“m' E-wl-‘r‘ demand. LEROADWAY ANDALS.” OLLYWOOD GIRLS IN PERSON. : . DUMBARTON 15 Wiseensin av HE RALOPATE T All Talking, COM EDY. "LOOKOUT BELOW." CAROLINA ‘"B & K CawesE iR, WEEK ONLY! 4 _Wild and Wooly Romance of the Covered Wagon Days The FIRST, All-Color, All Outdoor, Talking Picture SONG OF THE WEST Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Triamph! wita VIVIENNE SEGAL JOE E. BROWN JOHN BOLES at the Sarle' ALL TECHNICOLOR~ TUNEFUL SO 3 6’”;,5’:;,- yoipi Marilyn MILLER District of Columbia. THE EARLE—13th and E sts. n.w. near G n.w. AMBASSADOR~18th and Col rd. n.w. APOLLO—624 H n.e. AVENUE GRAND—645 Pa. ave. s.e CENTRAL—9th