Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1930, Page 61

AMUSEMENT SECTION he Swnday Star, ‘WASHINGTON, | Theater, Screen ‘ . Motor, Aviation and Music sttt 5, 8 4, JAGE and, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 1 1930. e | (2 - Doromuy MackaiL . and BASIL RATHBONE In~Flli-ting Widow/ - Ear—le JACK MULHALL o MAE CLARK. - /r ~ The Fall Guy " RKOKeits VIVIENNE SEGAL and WALTER PIDGEON-/n N Bride o /[: “fhe Qey/meflf Me+ropo|i+an B Scene fom “Vour UNCLE DUDLEY, National Players NancyY CARROLL and PHILLIPS HOLMES - /n ~ The Devils Holidsy Palace, LOUISE BAVE - and LILYANTASHMAN - Palace Stage) In" Onthe Level “Fox METROPOLITAN—"The Bride of the| The Hearst Metrotone News and short Regiment.” | subjects, with organ and orchestra con- ROMANCE, action, comedy and song | tributions, round out the program. are delightfully blended in “The FOX—“On the Level” Bride of the Regiment,” the First Na- & | tional - Vitaphone - Technicolor produc- | \/ICTOR MCLAGLEN and Fifi Dorsay | tion now at War- are pictured at the Fox Theater in ner Bros. Met- | “On the Level” the latest episode in | Topalitan _ Theater. | the McLaglen career of “chasing dames.” It also brings to | This time we see the male star of Washington, for the {“What Price Glory” and “The Cock-| first time, the new | Eyed World” as an ironworker who goes | romantic idol of ‘ in for high financing under the guiding | B the singing screen, hand of a scheming and beautiful blond | Walter Pidgeon, | adventuress (Lilyan Tashman) and he | who heads the cast [ 3 | almost wrecks the ironworkers’ union. | with Vivienne Se- It is said to give this “he-man” star n Priof. unusual opportunities. Fifi Dorsay, who the fa- is shortly to be a star in her own right, mous stage musical sings, dances and keeps on loving the success, “The Lady | wild ironworker through all his troubles. in Ermine this AR ¥ | 'The supporting cast includes William screen production Harrigan, Arthur Stone, Leila McIn- was created on a tyre, Mary McAllister, Ben Hewlitt, lavish scale, hun- Harry Tenbrook and R. O. Pennell dreds of players On the stage, Hunter and Percival and gigantic sets Armand and Perez, Ruth Hamilton, Syl- b utilized to this end | via_Shore, Helen Moore, Joy Brothers e picture begins with a hint of the |and the Sunkist Beauties appear in s to come, as an Italian count and | Fanchon & Marco's Rhapsody of music bride are returning from the cathe- |and marching feet called “Uniforms.” to the count's castle they are|Which also introduces Sam Jack Kauf- rned that Austrian troops are march- | Man, the new master of ceremonies, who on the town near the castle, to|is heralded as a brilliant planist, as well -1l an uprising of the Italians, whose | The Fox Orchestra and the always in- age was subject to Austrian rule, teresting Fox Movietone News will he count is induced to flee to save complete the bill elf, leaving his unkissed bride in he care of a wandering eccentric artist | who agrees to pose as owner of the | ‘“THE FALL GUY,” adapted from castle. ~ The colonel of the Austrian the play by George Abbott and decides to stay at the castle | yames Gleason, is the principal screen tracted by the beauty of the|attraction at R-K-O Keith’s. It ran e. She cleverly evades his advances | for 42 weeks as a Broadway stage hit. | until (!d.ll‘ e 31! with the count, who | It starts with a laugh, is punrv.umed‘ they have captured. Inflamed with| yith near tears, and the climax leaves wine, the colonel threatens to shoot the - ¢ S tiiiesd i ‘Drife subIS o his | ¥ ok Ot hlyink been well ext erininec CLARA BOW @ FREDERIC MARCH - I In ™ True o the Navy “Columbia Svivia SHORE and DANNY JOY - Fox (S73ge) Stage and Screen Attractions This Week NATIONAL PLAYERS—“Your Uncle Dudley,” comedy. row evening SYLVAN THEATER—Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” and Friday evenings. GAYETY—“Record Breakers,” burlesque. evening. METROPOLITAN—“Bride of the Regiment.” and evening. FOX—"“On the Level.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—"The Devil's Holiday.” This afternoon and evening. R-K-O KEITH'S—"“The Fall Guy.” This afternoon and evening. EARLE—“The Flirting Widow.” This afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA—"True to the Navy.” This afternoon and evening. Picture Coloxt Work. HE Technicolor Corporation is tem- porarily refusing new contracts for McCAULEY- Ga)/e'/')/ Tomor- SAM JACK KAUFMAN- *Masterof Ceremnonies’ Fox g Thursday Power of Movie Fans. THE power of the fans is said to be responsible for many unwritten rules which guide the careers of popular players. | Producers, catering to the publie | preference, have placed some odd limi= tations on parts portrayed by the stars Among the more prominent examples is Victor McLaglen. It seems to be the wish of his fans that he remain an adventuring “he-m without_ties of matrimony on the screen. Their desire is to have him free to continue his strong-arm methods of winning a girl, only to lose her to some other man, As a result, McLaglen, since he played one | of the leads in “What Price Glory,” has always had the losing end In his screen love affairs From expressions in his fan mail, it 1s evidently the delight of fans to have McLaglen taken in by women who play This afternoon and Walter Pidgeon. presto—prima Donnn. 1 | LOUISE BAVE, radio songstress fea- | tured in the “Step Lively” stage | show at Loew's Palace Theater this week will match the story of her life | NATIONAL PLAYERS—“Your against any tale of fiction. | Dudle; Miss Bave, who comes from the C&D- | ~EORGE C. TYLER, identified with itol Theater, New York, after a long 7 " | some of the foremost productions engagement as & member of the world | R ‘ 0 {on the American stage, 'A“"““:,‘}“g“;‘,‘r‘l“ w;“;“amf‘:g“gum‘; 31 | shelved some of his revival plans last complete her vocal training. She | Lol “l“’g gf‘ studied opera under two of the leading 1 Loty g masters of- Italy. ey” which the Na- | juno, Miriam Bangs Hilton as Ceres | " One day, in Milan, the prima donna | tlonal Players will| apnd 'Gertrude Walters as Iris. Miss simile of the original. This is made|of the Milan Opera Co., who was sched- offer for the mew | Cole is one of the younger singers of possible by the quantitative method of | yled to sing “Rigoletto” suffered an ill- week beginning to- | washington who has achieved success changing the silver image to & dye|pess. Miss Bave was one of many song This afternoon th his dral Uncle | majestic vision” called into being by the magic arts of Prospero in honor of the marriage feast of his daughter Miranda with Prince Ferdinand. It is filled with music and dancing, with goddesses, nymphs and reapers, appearing through enchantment and peopling the wooded groves of Prospero’s isle. Frances Bingham Cole will appear as R-K-O KEITH'S—"The Fall Guy.” embraces. limax is unexpected, ca: Faze in pr nda, F no Lane. Fleming. Many of the \e picture were written screen ar-Universal amee broadcasting taphone Varieties com- Myrna Loy 1de events, plete the bil PALACE—"The Devil's Holiday.” | NANCY CARROLL is seen this week 4Y at Loew’s Palace in a surprise role in “The Devil's Holiday,” & picture di- rected by Edmund Goulding, producer of “The Tresspasser.” An unusual cast supports Miss Carroll, including Phillips Holmes, Hobart Bosworth, James Kirk- wood, Jed Prouty. Paul Lukas, Guy Oliver and Zasu Pitts ancy plays the part of a gold-dig- ging manicure girl, who, in addition to her regular duties, is employed by sev- eral farm implement salesmen to steer farmers their way to buy agricultural tools. Hallle—that is, Nancy—gets the men wild about her and then turns them over to the tools salesmen, who gets their signatures on the dotted line| While the process | before they recover. is within the law, it is not strictly open and above board. when she finally falls in love with the handsome son of a farmer. A series of interesting events finally heavenly ending guys, appear in a Capitol Thea- (New York) presentation, “Step Lively”; Loulse Bave, star of the Capitol Theater radio family: Georgie Tapps, ale toe tap dancer: the Samue! others i= ~~ ~. and a ballet Ch- Hallle realizes this | T | wi Johnny Quinlan, “the fall guy” (played by Jack Mulhall), is a_ white- collar man, who loses his job. The wolf howls at the door, and he listens to the “easy-money” offer of a bootlegging gang. A member of the gang is spotted carrying a “hot” suit case. To escape, he “plants” the grip with Johnny, who smuggles it home, and is forced to hide it under a chair when Newton, & Gov- ernment inspector, comes in. Newton is Johnny's sister’s sweetheart. He has been invited to dinner, and was intend- ing to propose. The dinmer scene, | wherein Newton sits within a few feet of the suit case his men have been combing the city for, is said to be a masterpiece. Ned Sparks, funnier than ever, is aided by & saxophone which makes the sweetest tones as sour as pickles. The cast also includes Mae Clarke, Wynne Gibson, Pat O'Malley, Tom Jackson Ann Brody, Al Roscoe, Elmer Ballard, James Donlan and Tom Kenned An added feature will be “Up the Congo.” which purports to disclose in | sound and_ picture the experiences of Alice M. O'Brien and her party on & 3,000-mile trip through the jungles of Africa, includes many scenes of native | African life. Short reels and Freddy Clark and his R-K-Olians complete the EARLE—"The Flirting Widow.” HE story of a girl who invented a| lover and then was amazed to see opposite him. This wish is fulfilled in McLaglen's latest picture, “On the Level” in which he not only loses his best girl to his pal, but is left holding the bag in & crooked real estate deal engineercd by the villainess His nearest approach to matrimony was in “Hot for Paris” in which Fif Dorsay admitted that McLaglen was the | man of her heart. But it is likely that, as long as the fans wish it, McLaglen will remain heart and fancy free. EavitianoriSionse: 'OM TERRISS' travels for material for the Pathe Vagabond Adventure | pictures have taken him to Angkor, the mystery city of the universe; to the un- explored jungles of Asia; to Rangoon, where he met the wild elephant and man-eating tigers; to Benares, the sa- cred city of India: to Persia, among the nomads of the wilds: to Singapore, with | its queer streets and strange cafes; to New Guinea, the strangest land of all, and to Agra, with its magic temples and strange rites. Indeed, the hidden corners of the world have been hunted by Mr. Terriss to bring to the eyes of audiences won- ders described in Mr. Terriss' original | and dramatic way. New Columbia Pictures. TEPPING along with the others, Co- lumbia Pictures has announced 20 S color pictures because its printing labo- | ratories in Boston and Hollywood will be busy to their utmost 24-hour capacity for several months completing some of the existing contracts with producers on productions _already photographed or now being photographed In making this announcement Andrew 3. Callaghan explains that companies planning & number of elaborate all- technicolor films at the beginning of thelr new season’s production have postponed these color pictures until later. “Popularity of color caused a serlous congestion in Techni- | color's release print department,” said |Mr. Callaghan, “because producers, | originally planning 100 prints for each negative, have invariably been obliged | to double and triple their original or- ders. This has thrown a severe burden upon Technicolor, which, single handed, has been called upon to supply the film industry’s demand for color.” And then, on top of that. comes this report from Colorcraft: Fifteen min- Utes from Times Square. New York, | stands a motion picture laboratory, con- ceived and built on William Hoyt Peck’s inventions in color photography. From its very opening, in June, 1930, the Colorcraft plant at Long Island’ Ciby | began humming on the first orders. | which by its first birthday are expected [ to_aggregate 90,000,000 feet. | The company has already sumd‘ work on a Hollywood plant having a capacity for 120,000,000 feet. These him come to life is the basis of the feature-length productions for the com- | first two laboratories will bring the pro- leads to a|First National and Vitaphone produc-|ing season. | tian, “The Flirting Widow,” On the stage Collins and Peterson, Dorothy Mackaill and Basil Rathbone | gzon; featuring | at the Warner Bros.' Earle Theater this| eek. In this picture Miss Mackaill gives| further proof of her great gifts as a 1s comedienne, cast as an English girl ghine who is forced to invent a sweet] (Erntinned Fram pfigm Among the prospective opuses are: “The Criminal Code," “Dirigible,” “Charley’s Aunt” (revamped for the sixteenth time), “Tol - able David,” which brought Richard Barthelmess all the fame he could han- dle, Last _Parade,” ubway Express” and “Virtues *"the last two highly successful duction of Colorcraft process film to a | methods of color photography | plants are projected for Paris, | and London. | " "Provision is made for the rapid pro- | production. Three thousand prints ca | be turned out every 24 hours, each of uniformity that makes g & perfect fa | chemically. pictures has| “Ari- | greater total than all other existing| image. They for hours. ber of secret tent of ali waste fluids Colorcraft film has been found to four to five times tougher than ordinary black and white stock. Rathbone Epigrams. *THE talking picture brings the au- | dience to the actor, instead of | the actor having_to ence” declares Basil English actor. Rathbone epigrams on stage: “It's easier to be broad in gesture and | graceful on the stage. be graceful in the cramped close-up. | “The great difference and screen is In lost player works into his right mood as the play progresses, all wif in the movies one minute, over a peri “You can cheat on expression in stage acting and on voice in the talkies you can’t cl ERT KALMAR an youthful son, Amos 'n’ Andy musical ‘This picture, as yet untitled, is to be “Rain or | duction of news films as well as studio| in point of financial investment and production values the among the Radio Pictures releases, as one may well believe. Colors are combined by secret | processes and are “locked” in each film cannot be faded, either by long exposure or contact with machinery, or by immersing in Water | chorus for the experience of it. Colorcraft involves a num-| was granted an audition and sang an | formulae, guarded by changing the chemical con- | Here aré a few other | he plays moods for five minutes at a time, or | Amos 'n’ An:ly Picture. writers and authors of | at least a hundred musical song hits, Similar | have been signed by Radio Pictures to Berlin | do the book, lyrics and music for the morrow night. The | jn concert work. This will be her first ?:‘:1“:3:? i:fi?“.:: | appearance in a dramatic as well as a that day in the hope of finding a place B singing role. Mrs. Hilton is a member with the distinguished Milan organiza- d New Yok and Ghl- 1 of the Arts Club and the Friday Morn- tion. She only wanted a chance in the | cago, though Wash- | ing Music Club. Miss Walters is & mem- She | ington ‘has been de- | per of the Women's City Club. nied the pleasure | = Alonso, King of Naples, will be played of seeing it before. | by Thomas Cahill of the Washington ‘ ‘éxr}:;f f’."fw,‘;‘k“’“'”' Club; Sebastian, his brother, By actual test sked after listening to t by Paul Alexander of the Columbia s poOuctOE (EHCH A e i) chap, madly in love | Plaers, and Antonio, the usurping Duke “Every mote,” she replied. | 1 with ohristine, 8 | of Milan, by Maurice H. Jarvis. TEaniont she sang. the leading role | Swedish girl, but| Arthur B. White will play the role of —a prima donna in her first public ap- | mm"’“:d csur?gnr(“;.‘ Gonzalo; Denis E. Connell, the part of pearance. |by a shrewish_sister who has taken | Wilson ot the Boat Werningion o - - ,.|charge of his household and made it | munity Players will be Adrian, and Rob- Greta Scores in "Romance." |her own. Dudlev can hardly call his |ert Miller, ir., Francisco. H. R. Bauk- | soul his ‘own, his only relief from his | hage of the Columbia Players will be NE of the most enthusiastic reports | intolerable pressure being his love for | the boatswain and Walter Thorne the that has winged its way eastward |Christine and the presence of his| master of the ship, while James Otis " in many & long day is that concerning [mother, a fine old lady with a delicious | Porter, Harry Welker, Robert Chase Greta Garbo's performance in sense of humor g Robert Halsted, Anne Ives and Taurs mance.” 3 Along witn Mabel Dixon Church, the | Barrett also wiil be in the cast, According to Clarence Brown, Miss |sister, are her two precocious children, | gir Arthur Sullivan’s famous musical Garbo's ditector, “she has given the |both of them problems for Dudley in | score will be played by the orchestra of best performance of her career.” But,|a lesser way. Ethelyn, the girl, | the United States Marine Band, con- according to others, she has done con- |achieves a trip abroad for her operatic | ducted by Capt. Taylor Branson. siderably more than that talents, but her love for Robert Kirby | Reserved chairs may be obtained at At its recent opening in Hollywood | happily frustrates this, and saves the |the Community Drama Guild office in | she 'is said to have almost catapulted way for her mother to leave the house- | Franklin Administration Bullding, T. intermittent | the audience from its seats. At any hold Arthur Smith's Concert Bureau, 1330 G Iate, she electrified all present. And| The authors of “Tommy” collaborated | street; headquarters of the A. A. A. and When “one pegs back the memory a |on this play, and in Uncle Dudley they |at leading hotels. notch or two and considers this grand are said to have carved a typically AT, old vehicle which Doris Keane played GAYETY—"Record Breakers.” TH tunny American citizen, & glad-han 211 around the world for year after year, |a joiner—that kind of citizen who is c {t is hardly & wonder that all this has |always giving his time and energy to | 1S week's offering at the Gayety, come to_pass. Certainly, of all roles public movements and whose amiability |, now declared always cool and com- that could have been chosen for the ortable, is described as one of the hits of the Mutual Wheel, Jerri McCauley and her “Record Breakers.” ‘Record Breakers” is sald to intro- often lets him be imposed upon. “Swedish Duse.” the opers singer in S B riday. e Y duce the “two happlest men in bur- “Romance” seems the ideal. “THE TEMPEST"—Sylvan " c 1w . | QHAKESPEARE'S “The Tempest” will | lesque,” “Happy” Freyer and “Ha) Old English” to Be Filmed.| SH! presented at 8 o'cloek, Thursday | Hyatt, as well as two (GEORGE ARLISS, who immortalized | and Priday mights of this weélat the | representatives, Joe Moss and Bobby Disrael on both the stage and the | National Sylvan Theater in the Monu- | Nissen, in a cast headed Jerrl Me- screen, recently returned from England, | ment Groumids, with more than 75 Blay- | Cauley, in a show full of bringing with him the consent of John |ers of this @ity in the cast. “The Wed- |fun and, frolic with & chorus wh! Galsworthy fo produce “Old English” in | ding Masque,” a spectacular feature'af | combines beauty and with & rare the talkies§fh the Warner Bros.' studio. | the fourtly'act of the s talept for acting, sad daneins. aspirants who called at the opera house which are gria from “Rigoletto.” “Could you sing the entire opera? Adelatde Hibbard. reach his sudi- | Rathbone, the the talkles and | It takes art to e between stage moods. A stage thin two hours; lod of months. silent movies; in heat at all.’ d Harry Ruby, Theater, | production. most important \ -