Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 42

MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HOLLYWOOD, Calif,, April 19 (N.A. N.A).—The place of sheer novelty and greatest financial result is & sort of paradise. Hollywood has novelty and financial Tesult. Therefore Hollywood is & sort of 1 arrived at this somewhat syllogistic conclusion after a luncheon with Oscar Straus. (Not related to Richard Strauss or Johan Strauss and spelled with one “s.”) The great composer sets you at ease about this almost with the first breath. You expect terrific temperament from the composer of “The Chocolate Sol- dler,” “The Waltz Dream,” “Marietta” and endless other examples of the art opera bouffe at its best. You find & vague and charming gentleman who, having set himself and his spelling straight, is quite content to study the menu and leave conversation entirely to you. Strange Transplanting of Genius. All the way to Culver City it had been striking me that here was & strange transplanting of genius. The Viennese Straus, continental to his fin- gertips, of late years of Parls, where most of his recent successes have been composed, installed in & studio bunga- Jow ready to grind out airs for the gelatin gods. He had written a death- | less thing in that waltz hit from “The Chocolate Soldier,” iet's see— Come, come I love you only, my heart is true, Come, come, my life is lonely, T long for you; Come, come, naught can efface you, My arms are aching now to embrace you, Thou art divine! Come, come, I love you only, come hero mine! o nd here in a studio commissary, I'h.Ah Jack Gilbert at the next table, Dr. Marafioti and Julia Faye across the Yoom from us, Roland Young, in jaun- dice-colored paint gravely inspecting a salad, on our left, sat the genius of ra bouffe with only one worry in world. o “Your American food perplexes me, ne confided with a slow wave of his hand. “I order something and it looks entizely different from what I ex- pected.” Life in Hollywood a Surprise. “Then, life in Hollywood is a continual ety “Exactly.” Oscar Straus brightened. xactly,” he supplemented in & satis- fled tone and turned back to the wait- ress. “Now this stuffed pig's knuckle: do you think I'l like it?” The stuffed pig's knuckle came. didn’t look as Mr. Straus had antici- ted. But on second thought perhaps ft‘lookefl lhilé, mot‘: b:‘:t::c!h;iy thlnp‘trn:- ination - as] e gl vlnslgreztep‘ume in for extensive admiration. And so we settled down. But not to conversation—to the pig's knuckle and the vinaigrette. ‘Come, come,” said I, half to myself (I was about to add, “this won't do”) when I saw a light in the eyes of the Straus: “Now that was a lyric. A man can write music when he gets a lyric like that. A man can write music in no time. Why I did the entire score of “Danube Love Song” in a fortnight It fiies, I tell nothing until the adaptation of Arthur Schnitaler's novel "D‘{;’{f“"T'; com- pleted. Until I get my lyrics. Then the music will come. It will fly. You shall A Another disastrous interlude, but I am not & woman to be beaten by a Elkx'lnrnncle. “And Hollywood? You Prefers City to Paris Atelier. It seems Oscar Straus not only likes Hollywood, he adores it. He would rather write music in a concrete cucible on a studio lot than in his Paris atelier. He cannot write unless the sun is shin- ing. The sun shines every day in Holly- ‘wood, 50 much work is done. The music Just flies. His son Irving has already Teceived acclaim for his modern work. Irving Straus, it seems, does excellent Jasz. “But father and son do not discuss music. They are of different composing worlds. Irving is coming to Hollywood ;:‘ compo for the pictures also. Irv- “Tonal production is magnificent, especially as heard in Hollywood,” says Oscar Straus. “And there is no saying where we will with talkies, because they o} the fleld of opera as well as opera bouffe to the entire world. Writ- ing for talkies is more demanding than merely composing the music for, say, “The Waltz Dream’ or ‘Marietta.’ ' “Marietta, now—that was done with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps. An artist, Guitry; and Printemps was never so alluring, but one needs only & couple of big hits and the rest just = along. In talkies that is dif- ferent. All the music must be hit mu- sic. In the screened version the music must have more quality to survive than on the stage.” May Explain Failures, ‘That Is an idea other composers have not_put forth about talking pictures, Perhaps it explains the failure of cer- tain stage successes to strike the same pitch in celluloid that achieved: in the legitimate, years of composing—25 years of | achieved success in his field—Oscar Straus should know something of what he_says. Director Fred Niblo and Joan Craw- ford scra) their chairs back at a nearby table. The waitress bore away the remains of the stuffed pig's knuckle with the haughty swing of a Salome. Black coffee and camembert replaced it and again claimed the attention of genius. Oscar Straus surveyed the scene slowly. On the fourth finger of his left hand he wore a broad gold band with six letters in black enamel ranged on either side of an imbedded square emerald. The ?enius smiled slowly as if coming out of a deep sleep “It is new—and different,” he con- fided. “Therefore valuable. It sets new measures running in my head. Themes that entertain me, for they A F WY, OO P (COLUMBIA RD.“AT18 ST [ OPPOSITR “AMmaccannp ™ 12 to 8 P.M. | 5-Course $1.00 | SUNDAY DINNER i i raie MA'T! ROAST MEATS VEGETABLE DINNER We Make All of Our Own Ice Creams and Desserts Special Salad Course for Those Not Desiring Regular Dinner not been like the ones that went It has e, and mu- And that is how I arrived at my somewhat syllogistic reasoning. Holly- wood is a sort of 3 (Copyright. 1930.) CENSUS ENUMERATORS TO SEEK MISSING MAN Islands to Be Searched for Utahan, Last Seen on Raft in Lake Sunday. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, April 19.— To “enumerate” Joe Guitteriez, railroad employe, missing since he was blown provised raft last Sunday, Harry 8. 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Graham, chairman of the Com- munity Center Council, has called a meeting for April 23, at 8 pm., in board room of the Pranklin Build- A contest of kites of all shapes and all sizes up to five feet, with awards for workmanship, design and perform- ance, will be held on the Chevy Chase fleld, Western avenue between Chevy Chase circle and Wisconsin avenue, next Thursday afternoon. Registration begins at 1:30 and closes at 3 p.m. Contestants must make their own kites. The event is held under the District of Columbia Model Aircraft League, Community Center Department. Central Center, Thirteenth and Clif- ton streets: Monday—8 am. civil service exam- ations. ‘Tuesday—7:30 pm., Citizens' Band rehearsal. ‘Thursday, Priday and Saturday—Re- hearsal for children’s festival at .m. Chevy Chase Center, Connecticut avenue and McKinley street: All groups will be discontinued during Easter week, except the class in dancing for juniors, which will be held as usual Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock. 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Bar SiI3-E51 Normal School, Eleventh and Harvard streets: ‘Tuesday—8 p.m., Capitol Tennis Club, Columbia Players, Wilnor Choral Club, Nomad Players. ythinie and "t Gincing. gEoups; 8 b an ancing groups; pm., Iadies’ 'ypmnx.smm“ Columbia Players, Ye Olde Folks' Dance Club, Oates’ Orchestra rehearsal. FPriday—10 am,, rehearsal of rhyth- mic and tap dancing groups; 7:30 pm., Boy Scout Troops Nos. 40 and 41; 8 pm.,, Nomad Players. Saturday—7:30 p.m., Court of Review and Court of Honor, B. S. of A. East Washington Center, Seventeenth and East Capitol streets: Tuesday—7:30 p.m., dressmaking, the Washington Boys’ Independent Band; 8 pm., Parents’ Club of Washington Boys' Independent Band, East Wash- ington Community Players; 8:30 p.m., social dancing. . Thursday—7:30 p.m., Woodmen of the World, Uniform Rank, drill; Boy Scouts, Sea Scout Ship No. 202; 8 p.m., basketry. 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Less than wholesale cost...,. Men’s Shoes Blacks, tans, Some @3 QF our own stock. D. C, APRIL 20, 1930—PART THREE. th, Thirty-fourth and Wisconsin ave- nue: Friday—10 a.m., rhythm group. Langley Center, Second and T streets northeast: Due to rw "‘”‘fi made at Langley, the Elks’ ' Band concert, formerly scheduled for Priday at 8 gc%lwfll be held at McKinley High Tuesday—3 p.m., rhythm. Macfarland Center, Iowa avenue and ‘Webster street: Monday—8 p.m., Woman's Benefit Assoctation. Friday—7 p.m., rhythm; 7:30 pm., Boy Scouts, Troop No. 30; 8 p.m., bridge, play group, community dance. M) Center, Second and T streets northeast: ‘Tuesday—7:30 p.m., North Capitol Citizens' Association card party. Friday—8 p.m., B. P. O. Elks’ Boys’ Band concert. Southeast Center (Hine Junior), Sev- enth and C streets southeast: Monday—7:30 p.m., Job’s Daughters Dramatic Club; 8 p.m., exercises and diet advice for women, drill team of D. of A.; 9 pm., instruction in games suitable for church and school sociables. ‘Tuesday—2 p.m., dramatic rehearsal for the Shadowgraph number of chil- dren’s festival. ‘Wednesday—9:30 am., rehearsal for dancing groups for the children’s festi- val; 10 am., operetta rehearsal by groups from Friendship House; 30 p.m., instruction in tap dancing; 8 p.m., ladies’ drill team of Veterans of For- | elgn Wars. Thursday — 12 noon, Shadowgraph group will meet to go to Central for re- hearsal. Entire Stock of 1 Sam - of Georgetown Bought Ou dancing instruction L, mffl chil- yors' Te- p.m., community Saturday—9 m., plano - instruc- tion for children; 12 noon, groups for children’s festival will meet to Central Community Center for dress rehearsal; 10 8.m., rehearsal of Shadow- graph group; 2 p.m., Jolly Junior Club. Takoma, Piney Branch road and Dahlia street. Tuesday—2 p.m., all rhythm groups meet. Saturday—7 to 9 p.m., social dancing. Thomson Center, Twelfth and L streets: % Tuesday—7 p.m. French conversa- tional group; 8 p.m. Choral Festival Association rghelrsl-\n, auction bridge, in- struction and practice. Wednesdny—pz pm., rehearsal _for chudren:"a (enivlé: 8 , Costello Post Pife and Drum Corp: ‘Thursday—7 p.m., adult tap dancing; 8 p.m,, social dancing for adults. Priday—2 p.m., rehearsal at Central Community Center for Spring festival Thomson Group; 7 p.m., French; 8 p.m., ‘Writers’ League, mej public speaking group; Ladies’ Fife and Drum Corps practice; Neumismatic Club. Garnet-Patterson Center, Tenth and U streets: ‘Tuesday—7:30 p.m., Recreation Lead- ers’ Instituf day- p.m., Amphion Glee Club recital. Thirty-ninth annual recital by the club, assisted by well known local talent. For benefit of Garnet-Patterson Community Center; general admission, 50 cents. 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