Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1930, Page 63

AMUSEMENTS The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. HIS is an open letter to the Hon. Will Rogers of Beverly and Fox Hills, Calif., who is a wide-open letter writer himself. Dear Will: You may not re- member me, but I was kind of cam-| ten out in an attractive shade of red, Paign manager for you when you were | running as candidate of the Anti-Bunk party in the big presidential ruckus of 1928. At least. I was the one who sent out the campaign buttons with your picture on them and the slogan: We had & Iot of tough luck in that campaign. Will. or we'd have had you in the White House today instead of in some equally sound-proof studio out around Hollywood. As it was. you and the Anti-Bunk party carried the Dis- trict of Columbia, but Congress being Jealous of you they wouldn't count the votes. There was some one else running about that same time that you may have forgotten—a man named Smith. | I remember that you stole his platform | right from under him, but he’s getting | back at you now: he's taken over your job as political expert. Another thing he's doing is building the highest sky- | scraper in the world with a Zeppelin | mooring mast for the top of it. Up to now. as he himself would say, he hasn't | been able to arrange for any Zeppelins | to us: the mast, but he’s conducting | secret negotiations with certain parties | in Chicago and don't be surprised if | you hear news that the mast is going | 10 be used as a permanent parking place for big Bill Thompson. However, this isn't what I'm sup- | posed to be getting at in this letter, | and I guess you've been wondering what | that is. Well, Will, the real reason I'm writ- ing you is because I want to talk to you ‘about your work. I dont mean your newspaper or your radio Work, but your performances in these talking picture contraptions I'm getting kind of scared that your boss out there, Mr. Wintlose-or-draw Sheehan, is trying to turn you into a movie star. I've been nervously watch- | “Keep that routine standing.” | same actor plays the same role in the | same story over and over again until He | Chews to Run.” | Tuesday " Wednesday Friday Saturday So the Dvmthy‘ Mackaill n “Flirting Widows.” Comedy. Ambassador 18th & Columbia Rd Dorothy Mackalll in “Flirting_ Widows." Comeds. ¥ Mackaill in “Flirting Widows." Comedy. Bert Wheeler in Bert Wheeler in “The Cuckoos.” “The Cuckoos.” William Boyd in Officer O'Brien.” Vitaphone variety. Ramon Novarro n “Gay Madrid." Vitaphone variety. pretty soon the magnate sees the re- il Winnie Lightner Ports from the theaters that are writ-| Apollo A S P . thing.” Winnie Lightoer Billie Dove in in ““The Other Tomor- “Hold ‘Every- _thing. “Paramount on Parade.” “Pazamou; Parade. Tow. Vitaphone variety. Barbara Kent in “Dumbbells, in Ermine.” Vitaphone variety. Monte Blue in “Those Who Dance." _Comedy. and he figures he'd better be looking around for some new talent. Of course, this sticking to routine is necessary in the case of most movie Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray in Song of the Flame." Norma Shearer in “The Divorcee." Vitaphone variety. Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray in ‘Song of the Flame." Norma Shearer i John Barrymore in’ b & “‘The Divorcee." he The ‘Man_ From Blankley's.” Vitaphone va Rin Tin Tin in ‘‘Roush Waters." Vitaphone variety. Comedy. John Barrymore in “The Man From Blankley's Vitaphone variety Bernice Claire and stars, because they're one-part actors. Al E. That's all they can do, and they have to keep doing it until they drop. TR Ave. Gran A 545 Penn _Flame Norma Bhearer n “The Divorcee." Vitaphone variety. Norma_Shearer in ““The Divorcee." Vitaphone variety. Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray in “Song of the Flame. Ramon Novarro in Gay Madrid." Vitaphone variety. Richard Arlen in_ “The Light of the Western Star But that doesn’t apply to you, Will You can do anything. I've seen you do it Dark. | Cameo | Mt Rainter, Ma. | Carolina 10 11n_s1, [ Central 425 9th st N.W Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. * ok ok % forget that show “Three Cheers” that you stepped into to pinch-hit for vour friend, Fred Stone You sang and danced and tumbled and told about a million jokes, all good. And you put on a different performance every night. A person could see “Three Cheers” at the Wednesday matinee and then come Kenneth McKenna and Joe Brown in Temple Tower " Jack Mulhall ‘LL never SE in “In the Next Room Vitaphone _ varieties Eugene Pallette in “The Benson Mur- der Case = William Powell and Benny Rubin in Lord Byron of Broadway." Knights_Out.” Kenneth McKenna and Joe Brown in _“Temple Tower. Jack Mulhall in the Next Room phone _varieties. Benny Rubin in “Lord Byron of Mary Brian and Frederick March in Broadway." ““Marriage Play- ‘Knights Out." __ ground." Comedy. Marilyn Miller and Mary Brian and Prederick March in “Marriage Play- b Come Hal Skelly in Joe Brown Men Are Like That." in e S, Sally. George Bancroft in “Ladies Love Brutes.” Comedy. George Bancroft in Ladies Love Brutes uster Keaton in “Free and Easy.” Marilyn Miller and Comgy. Hoot Gibson T “Courting Wideats. " erial Jour Crawiord and o SHAe o Carroll in Honey “Collegians." Comedy Buster Keaton and Anita Page in in e and Easy _“Montana Moon " Ramon_ Novarro Buster Keaton in in “Free and Easy." Madrid." Gay Vitaphone variety. Winifred Westover, Ben Lyon and Edna Murphy in “Lummox.". William Powell and Eugene Pallette in “The Benson Mur- der Case.” Winifred Westover, Ben Lyon and Edna Murphy in “Lummox." William Haines and Anita Page in “Free and Easy. Hal Skelly and Doris Hill_in “Men_Are Like That." Joan Grawford, Clift Edwards and Benny Rubin in “‘Montana_Moon." back and see it again in the evening and not know it was the same show, Between performances you'd read some- thing in the papers that caused you to rewrite your entire part. The doorman at the Globe Theater used to complain about you. because it was his job to tell chauffeurs of pri- vate cars what time they should come back after the show. He never knew what to say, because some nights you'd ring down the final curtain at 10 past 11, and other times, when you were in Colony Ga. Ave. & Farragut Pumbaflon sin Ave Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond.” Doris _Hill and Hal Skelly in Men Are Like That —____Comedy. L. George Bancroft Fairlawn Anacostia. D. C. Family 8th & G Sts. S.E. n “Ladies Love Brutes." Comedy. Revier in *‘Murder on the Roof. “Fads and Follies” Girls in person Maurice Chevalier, in Men Are Like That.” in Ladies Love Brutes.” Clff_Edwards in Clit_Bdwards in “Lord Byron of Broadway." Vitaphone _varieties. Tois Wilson in ““The Furies.” Comedy. “The Big Pond." Vitaphone _varieties. William Bovd in “Officer O'Brien.” Comedy Jack Mulhall in Buster Keaton and Anita Page in “Free and Easy." Comedy’ Eddie Buzzell and Alice Day in “Little Johnny Jones."” Comedy. Eddie Buzzell and Alice Day ia “Little Johnny Jon Comedy. in “Comedy Richard Dix and Lois Wilson in “Lovin' the Ladies.” News. James Gl John; Swellhead." Comedsy. Jonn"c.}}i—k n “The Sky Hawk." Comedy George Bancroft Constance Bennett in Jol ‘G'frrl‘c'k n “The 8ky Hawk." Comedy Comedy. ancyhgu}o‘u 37 Harold Murray in “Honey." “Cameo Kirby." Dorothy_Gulliver in “Troopers - Evelyn Brent in “Blightly Scarlet.” Comedy. Three." dy. Mary_Nolan in “Undertow." Double_comedsy. a really talkative mood, you'd keep the audience in their seats and hollering for more until midnight. Tioyd Hughes and Olive Borden in “Hello, Sister.” Colortorie Review Hippodrome 808 K St. N.W. Lioyd Hughes and Olive Borden in “Hello, Sister " Colortone _Review. Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette McDonald in “Love Parade.” Sportlight Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette McDonald in “Love Parade.” Sportlight Ruth Chatterton in “Sarah and Son.” Comedy. News uth Chatterton in arah and Son. Comedy. News. Virginia Valil in_ ““The Lost Zeppelin." That was why so many people came again and again to see “Three Cheers.” If any one ever had any doubts as to the wide variety of your appeal he Maurice Chevalier in “The Big Pond." SCSts. NE. Vitaphone variety. John Barrymore in “The Man From Blankley's Vitaphone. Comedy. Maurice Chevalier John Barrymore in “The Man From Blankley's.” Vitaphone. Comeds. Dorothy Mackaill in “Strictly Modern." Vitaphone variety. Comedy. in “The Big Pond." Vitaphone variety. Cliff_Edwards in “Lord Byron of [ William Bovd in ‘Officer O'Brien." would have had them knocked out by taking a look at the gang that came | to your dressing room to congratulate Ingomar Alexandria. Va Dark. Bob Custer in “Covered Wagon Trails. Come. Bob_Steele in Hunted Men.” Comedy. Cartoon. “Seven Faces. Cartoon. __Fable. “Fighting Gob." Comedy. News. Fable Tom Tyler in Kei ard in “Call chlhb Desert." ey Fadn Lucky Larkin you on the night “Three Cheers” opened. That gang was a typical Rogers Carroll in “Honey Jesse s 3100 18th st. n Claudette Colbert “The Lady Lies. “Tan Keith % in James Murray in Bebe Daniels in ide-out.” in “Prince of Dia- Rio Rits. monds.”" “Ken Maynard in Virginia Vaili in n “Parade of the West Guilty. group, consisting of Tommy Hitchcock, the prominent polo player: William S. et Charles Farrel and Charles Farrel and Warner Baxter and Janet Gavnor in Dale Owen in Warner Baxter and Janet Gasnor in Basil Rathbone in Eddie Dowling in_ AMUSEMENTS Mannerisms. HAT colorful, engaging, totally luminous pack of cards on which are stamped the visages of the National Players have been shuffied and tossed about by the director, Clifford Brooke, until some of them have become blurred in their own image. Blurred, however, as they may be, due to the shuffing. they wax more and more familiar, even under the disguising grease paint, no matter how submerged beneath the cloak of Thespian transfiguration they may be, by the give-away of a favorite mannerism. Thus when Romaine Callender, a quarter of & moon ago, was draped and sewed into the accoutrements of Count Dracula, due to what might be called “foot work,” or the process of walking about the stage. one beeame aware im- mediately that it was Romaine and no one else. Again, last week Walter Gil- bert, although completely —metamor- | phosed beneath a sylvan wig and a pro. tuberant mustache, could be “spotted at once by a slight lethargy of the hands, without which he would never be Walter Gilbert. Even Marion Wells, whose footlight moods are as variant as the clustered | pansies in Lafayette Square, may be recognized, even though adorned with Theater’s P. DUNNE'S worthy “World" col- | * umn gives interesting deductions reached by Brock Pemberton, Broadway impressario. Mr. Pemberton says: | “A six weeks' trip across the continent | and back with a company of ‘Strictly | Dishonorable,’ half of that period spent | in Hollywood, city of intermittent blondes and perpetual sunshine, has led me to certain definite conclusions about the theater and its future. * * “Business in every line is bad from here to the Pacific and naturally show business is bad too “The road is not dead for plays the public has heard about and has con- fidence in. But under the present con- ditions it takes a greater effort to at- | eyeglasses and the more detrimental or- naments to her sex, by the pensive ex- pression she assumes when pressing her left forefinger up against her mouth and adding something ltke “Well, I'm not quite sure.” Others who disclose themselves after the parting of the curtain are Edith Gresham, who has a single note in her voice which ts and is shattered be- fore the word is completed; Fraddie Sherman, whose smile is a contagion nece: to any or all of his roles; Dudley Hawley (whom motion pictures have now engraved more firmly on the mind), and Marion Sterly, easily de- tected in bib and tucker by the expres- sion of her eyes I, in fact, whether allotted the role of a prince or the role of a pauper, have an apricri mannerism that clings most pleasantly. But even with the most potent glasses, even with a sixth sense, even with a gift of insight sur- passing the great Buddha, Adelaide Hibbard. as sne appeared last week, gorgeously disguised in a serpentine wig, seductively leaning over an Italian balcony, speaking to the moon, defled the world And who will gainsay her? Pot Bpilin g. and must compete with it on its own terms. “Most of the dramatists doing time in Hollywood will be back on Broadway before long. 1 have talked to scores of dramatists who have been lured by gold to Hollywood. This is the burden of their song: ‘T'm doing it for the wife and the kiddies. Will T be back? Just wait till the last option's over.' The talkies have destroyed the arro- gant, ignorant, vicious hierarchy that was the Hollywood of silent pictures, When the microphone appeared and the movie mimes opened their mouths strange noises came forth. Most of the pretty, vacuous faces have gone back to the counter and oblivion. Read the Laurel s Mad World tract the public. | cast of any talkie and you will read & ing the fan magazines every month to Dale Owen in | High Society Blues.” “High Society Blues.” _*Temple Tower: “Temple Tow e see if they've begun to talk of you as ‘Will (“Buddy”) Rogers. Xk n A FEW months ago I saw you in one called “They Had to See Paris.”| It was very comical. Then along came your second picture, “So This Is Lon- don,” and again laughter was rife. | Your next one. they tell me, is “A | Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,” the story of which was written by the other great American humorist. | After that you and a flivver will be co- | featured in “See America First." | The way they're shifting you around the map any one would think you were Marco Polo, or the Cohens and Kellys, | ©or the Notre Dame foot ball team. | Not that you aren't good in any part of the globe, but it's beginning to look | to me as if this travel gag was going to | get to be a little bit monotonous, and | there isn't anything so fatal as mo- | notony, as a lot of ex-movie stars will be able to tell you. | When a film magnate sees an actor make good in one routine he says,| | and wife; Gordon Lamont, the promi- | want to take you Hart, the prominent Westerner: James Montgomery Flagg. the prominent ar- | L2urel:Md. Comedy. Comedy. Our_Gang_comeds. __ Our_Gang_co: Serial _Comedy Happy Dass. Our Gang in “Small_Talk" tist; Ina Claire, the prominent actress Leader nent banker; Ring Lardner, the promi- | %B & E Sts. N.W. Four Marx Brothers James Murray and Norma Terris in “Married in Holly- Comedsy. Four Marx Brothers in “Pour Cogonuts.” Act. _News. James Murr: d Norms Terris in in Holly- Comedy. in “Four Coconuts."” Act._ New: Sue Carol in Why Leave Home? Laurel and Hardy in “Brats.” Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown in “Montana Moon." Act nent wag, and Charles A. Lindbergh. There isn’'t anybody else I know of in the world who could have got such Joan Crawford John Mack Brown in “Men_Are Like That." Comedy. nd “Men_Are Like That." “Personality." “Montana Moon." Comedy. Cartoon. Comedy. Act. News Ar n “Border Romance." Serial Cartoon Eddie Dowling in “'Blaze o' Glory." Our Gang comedsy. a gathering into one back-stage dress- ing room. That gathering was just a specimen of your audience, Wil o Warner Baxter Princess i 1119 A St. N.E. n “Romance of the Rio Grande.’ Warner Baxter in “Romance of the Rio_Grande. Norma Shearer and Lewis Stone in ““Their Own Desire." Buster Keaton in “Free and Easy." Morton Downey in “Lucky in Love." Leonore Ulric_and Charles Bickford Oswalfl_cartoon K ynard in “Parade of the in “South Sea Rose." West 1—all kinds, all tastes, all degrees. So don't let them try to turn you into a specialist, limited to variations Richmond Alexandria, Va. Dark. Warner Baxter in Such Men Are Dangerous Comedy. _Cartoon, Warner Baxter in “Such Men Are Dangerous.” Comedy. _Cartoon Dixie Lee and Sue Carol in “Big Tarty. _Comedy. Review Dixie Lee and Sue Carol in “Bix_Party.’ Comedy. Review. Lenore _Ulric in “South Sea Rose." Act Sportlight Lenore Ulric in “South Sea Rose." Act Sportlight CIift Edwards in Lord Byron of Broadway. Comedy. of the same old gag. Don't let them make you out a “series” star, like Will Rogers in Egypt, Will Rogers on the Savoy 3030 14th 8t. N.W Dous. Fairbanks, jr., in “The Party Girl." Comeds Cliff Edwards in “Lord Byron of Broadway. Comedy. Dou. Fairbanks. sr.. n “The Party Girl." _ Comedsy. Lawrence Tibbett tn “The Rogue Song." “Around the World With the Graf Zep- pelin."" Vitaphone. Comeds. Mary Philbin in “After the Fog' Lower Mississippi, Will Rogers among the Gorillas, Will Rogers at Yale. Don't listen to the movie magnates Joan Crawford in “Untamed.” Sylvan 104 B. L Dorothy Revier fe Love in & Rainbows."” Jack Holt in Marion Davies in Flight." in Be “Murder on the “Chas “'Not 8o Dumb. Root! Vitaphone variety Mary Nolan in Ken M oMary Nolan in,, n Mavnard in “Senor Americano." when they tell you the public demands you keep on working in travel comedies. Believe me, Will, those magnates only for a ride. “8ky Hawk" Laurel-Hardy comedsy | Takoma Takoma Park. D.C. L William Powell Sky Hawk." aurel-Hardy comedy “Sky Hawk.' “Cohens and Kellys Laurel-Hardy comeds in “Benson Murder in Scotland. Case.” Rin Tin Tin n “Man Hunter " ““Three Sisters." *'Cohens and Kellys in Scotland.” Bert Wheeler in The Cuckoos." Vitaphone variety With kindest best wishes from an old | admirer. Tivoli (Copyright, 1930 14th and Park Rd. “Wheeler in Be ““The Cuckoos Vitaphone vari T Ramon Novarro in Gay Madrid.”" Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Ramon Novarro in ‘Gay Madrid." Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Barbara Kent in Dumbbells in Ermine " Vitaphone. Comeds. Barbara Kent in “Dumbbells_tn Ermine. Vitaphone Return ensagement o “The Gold Diggers Comeds Vaudeville Finds a Home. N the words of Dick Mansfleld, the “Happy Days” cartoonist, “who re- | members when“the last tenant moved out of the old vaudeville theater and they put up the sign ‘Closed for Good' 2" Well, the sign was a blunder. Vaude- | ville has not been closed out “for good.” | News comes from I. H. Herk, the bur- lesque magnate, that vaudeville has been formally adopted by burlesque and that next season a new partnership sign will read “Burlesque & Vaudeville” and | will adorn the ornate front of every palace heretofore devoted to burlesque | throughout the length and breadth of the Mutual Circuit All of which goes to prove that it is as hard to kill off a good thing as it is to down a good man. Mr. Herk has more to announce—a host of good things that will tickle the emotions and risibilities of fans of the primitive theater from the first of the coming September until the pussy wil- Jows bud on their long bare stems in the Spring of the year beyond. | Norma Shearer in The Divorcee. " Vitaphone variety, Norma_Shearer Maurice Chevaller Maurice Chevaller Billie Dove in in ““The Other Tomor- “The Big Pond." v, Comeds. in “The Bic Pond." Comedy. in “The Divorcee.” row Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variets. of Broadway. Richard Arlen Tn “The Light of West- ern Stars™ Comedy Monte Blue in “Those Who Dance. Comeds Fox Lowers Prices. [EFFECTIVE from last Friday is the following Summer scale of admis- | sion prices announced by Manager Hardy Meakin at the Fox Theater. From the opening hour at 11 am. until 1 p.m., seats for any part of the theater will be 25 cents; from 1 p.n. to acts being excluded. £ 6 p.m, seats in the balcony and the | In the selection of the principals for | balcony loges will be 25 cents and seats | the various shows, Mr. Herk explains,|in the entire mezzanine floor and the | preference is being given to those play- |orchestra will be 35 cents; evening | ers who know and can deliver the things | prices, commencing at 6 p.m. will be typical of burlesque, particularly the |for balcony and balcony loges, 35 cenls, feminine performers. Those Who have |and for the entire mezzanine foor and an acceptable specialty are given the |(he orchestra, 50 cents. These prices, first chance. It isn't proposed that in |it is stated, will prevail all day Sunday the merger of burlesque and vaudeville | and holidays. either type of entertainment is to| An added feature invites parents to be permitted to suffer. Rather each |pring their children to any and all per- type is to be brought up to the highest | formances for the modest admission fee | degree of excellence. of 15 cents. Monday, September 1, the new season | The announcement explains that will open in 45 theaters constituting the | these reductions will prevail only dur- Mutual wheel, although, it is added, | s tha several of the houses will have two of | there. will be o rurtaiing of the pen there will be no curtailing of the pro- more weeks of preliminary entertain- | , rather, it hey will ment to break their hands in. B bt eer and R e be bigger and betfer. Eighty vaudeville acts for the Mutual | Circuit are to be signed up by William | Morris, the great vaudeville purveyor, | and 45 of these have already been cinched. Only comedy, singing and dancing speciaities are being employed, says Mr. Morris, animal and acrobatic To Bar “Green Pastures.” JT seems that our 1930 Pulitzer Prize play, “Green Pastures” may be barred in London. According to Han- nen Swaffer, London dramatic critic, | this is more than likely. | In an article written for the New York Herald-Tribune Mr. Swaffer says: *“Lord Cromer, the British censor, will shortly have a shock. Marc Connelly, American dramatist, arrived on April 16 to submit to him ‘The Green Pastures,’ which has marked an epoch in New ‘York, aithough the Lord appears in it {n a'frock coat, & white tie and s tall at “English people will find it almost incredible to believe that a play in which God, managing the spheres from & roll-top desk and telling the sun not to be so hot. says to the Archangel G briel, ‘Being God is no bed of roses could be treated so reverently that it is being used as the theme of hundreds of sermons, and that it is spoken of as the most deeply religious play seen for years. “Now, what can Lord Cromer do? When ‘Everyman’ was acted 1 heard the voice of God coming from behind the organ screen in St. Anne’s, Soho, and in St. Paul's Convent Garden I have seen Christ represented as a boy with his father and mother, while in DOORS OPEN SUNDAY ot (45 PacAcE COMFORTABLY COOL NOW PLAYING NANCY W DEVILS HOLIDAY PUILLIPS LOLMES HOBART BOSWORTH Suckers ~ Sinners~ Saints ith t laughed at them-until b e e g b e o MADE BY EDMUND GOULDING DIRECTOR OF GLORIA SWANSONS “THE TRESPASIER COLLINS ina [ LOUISE BAVE “Cimarron” Under Way. **(CIMARRON,” Edna Ferber's novel now being converted into a mo- | tion picture epic of the rise of Okla- Canterbury Cathedral I have seen acted | homa, is on the march toward realiza- a nativity play especially written by |tion John Masefield. Biblical subjects are| Forges are blazing, grimy blacksmiths supposed to be barred from the London | are hammering metal wheel tires into stage. shape, wheelwrights and wagonwrights “Almost invariably the censor jibes|are co-operating with movie playwrights, at Biblical subjects. So, of course, “The | ploneer Oklahoma towns are blooming Green Pastures’ is far beyond po@s)-"intu being. and Wesley Ruggles, direc-| bility here. * * * It will never come | tor-in-chief of a huge staff of assistant | to London—except in Marc Connelly’s directors and cameramen, is sitting like trunk. Maurice Brown will read it, for | some great Indian chieftain on his it is to come straight to him, and he | throne at the Radio Pictures' ranch in will send it to the censor, of course. in | Hollywood, selecting hordes of Indians, duty bound. Then the censor will send | cowboy Mexicans, Spaniards, char- it back.” | acter actors and others as they pass in All of which seems very strange, since | review, literally in thousands, for his Britishers have heretofore taken every- production. thing to do with the Negro straight to Max Ree, Radio Pictures’ art director, their bosoms. | has already assigned a huge staff to the 7 task of supplying costumes by the thou- sands for “‘Cimarron,” while architects builders and mechanics of all sorts are busily engaged in carrrying out his lans for authentic sets. “Sap From Syracuse." ULLY recovered from having had his | appendix snipped and clipped, Jack | Oakie js working night and day starring for “The Sap from Syracuse” at Para- mount’s New York studio. Appearing opposite is Ginger Rogers, who has packed three important roles into her brief motion picture career. Others as- | sembled by the studio and Director Ed- | ward Sutherland are Veree Teasdale, | Betty Starbuck and Granville Bates, in aParamount Picture / FREDRIC MARCH ON THE STAGE the CLARA sing and. ETERSON Capitol Theatre New York revie 'STEP 23VELY "’ with GEORGIA TAPPS SAMUELS BROTHERS CHESTER HALE GIRLS, NOW PLAYING CIARA BOW "TRUE TOTHE NAVY’ The'\Vgin establishes the freedom of ord Itz’t/lc new LAURER ¢ sec3e. Her idea Wl BrEe Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, comedians, who have reached the top rung of movie fame by their work in two-reel sound comedies. They may also be eounted among the pioneers of motion picture players. 7 Cohar{aind 7@@_5 Tea VWWITH the breath-taking suddenness of a cyclone comes the report that Sam Harris and George M. Cohan are to become partners again, thus shatter- ing one of the most rclebrated breaks and grouches in the history of Ameri- can show business, A Hollywood dispatch to the Chicago News says: “Split nine years ago, when they differed on the outcome of the famous Equity strike, it has taken al- most a full decade to heal the breach. Successful as a firm second to m. knows them, went their separate ways following the Equity settlement. “Now comes word that Cohan and Harris will not only resume their pro- ducing partnership. but will invade Hollywood as a_picture-producing firm. Instead of working for the other fel- leasing their productions through the major company fortunate enough to get them.” but ,C / e F A Her Bridegroom’s Life Which Should She Choos band On Her Wedding HARRY GREEN Technicolor —ADDED— Vitaphone y “YAMAKRAW" “OFFICE STEPS” v.ififim.. N yia Vai HARDY Coi Burton Holmes' Talkies. URTON HOLMES, whose annual travel-talks in Washington for | many years have delighted vast audi- }pnces, has been signed by the talkies. | Word comes that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will release 15 one-reel travel subjects designed by Mr. Holmes for its coming season’s output The subjects to be included in this series are: China, Japan, England, Spain and Morocco, and throughout each picture the audience will see Mr. Holmes and hear his explanatory re- marks in much the same manner that the recent Martin Johnson film was accompanied by the explorer's own scene-by-scene story of his adventure: Hollyw;(;d ; Music Center. HOLLYWOOD is visioning itselt as the future popular music_center of the world, says Richard A. Whiting, com- poser of “Japanese Sandman” and “Till We Meet Again.” “Most_of the popular music of the future will be written for motion pic- tures,” said Whiting recently. “The hit songs of today are practically all from musical shows of the stage or screen. The films, because of their immeasur- ably larger audience range, are a far better medium than the stage for in- troducing popular melodis Whiting Wrote the melodies for Para- mount’s “Safety in Numbers.” Watch: the “Shorts:" | WWATCH for the “shorts” this week! | Particularly appetizing are said to be ti | the feature films at Warner Bros.’ Earle and Metropolitan Theaters. At the Earle the development of the motion picture, from the penny-in-the- | slot period to the latest jazz riot of the | moment, will be shown under the cap- low, they will work for themselves, re- | tion “Evolution.” And at the Metropol- | |itan a_picture called “Yamekraw" re- | veals Edmund Du Par's new photo- | graphic medium for the screen. LIRTING WIDOW FIRST NATIONAL AND VITAPHONE PICTURE il "Ofofhmncxlu What a Widow— Snappler Than Flaming Youth— She Puts on the Speed and Goes Husband Hunting Romance with a Roar —Comedy with Three-Day Hangover Her Own Disgrace— Torn From Her Hus- ight, Must She Give Her First Kiss to a Handsome Rogue? BRIDE o < REGIME A First National and Vitaphone Picture in with VIVIENNE SEGAL WALTER PIDGEON ALLAN PRIOR he additional subjects tagged to | “The legitimate theater has lost some of its patronage to the talkies, not be- cause the majority prefer the latter, but because of economic pressure, it cannot afford the former. * * ¢ “When the picture makers gave the screen a voice they at once paid the stage the greatest compliment and mined their own position. For the | talkie is a pallid imitation of the stage, roster of names from the dramatic | stage. “This cleaning of the Augean stables has left Hollywood a nice. quiet place in which to live. * * * These are | the observations of one who hated the | silent photoplay and has found pleasure | in such talkies as ‘“The Broadway Mel- ody' and ‘All Front.' " Quiet on the Western Detective Stories. | ETECTIVE and mystery stories, said | | to be the most universally popular | | of all fiction today, are the product of the last generation. This fact was re- vealed during research work for “The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu.” Although the originator of modern detective tales, Edgar Allen Poe, wrote | his famous Dupin stories more than two | generations ago, the universal vogue of | detective and mystery stories is com- | paratively recent | It is generally accepted that the be- ginning of mystery stories as a type | came in the United States with Anna Katharine Green's “The Leavenworth | | Case,” in England with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and in France with Gaboriau’s police tales. | “Detective and mystery stories meet | the recreational needs of all classes of | humanity from the college professor, | the scholar, the diplomat and the scien- tist down to the most primitive and un- tutored reader,” according to Florence Ryerson, who collaborated with Lloyd Corrigan in their adaptation of the Sax Rohmer thriller. | “The University of Chicago recently demonstrated scientifically that such | stories are a good tonic for tired nerves, | while it is an admitted psychological | truth that mankind always has delight- | | ed in self-torment. The frightening of one's self by reading mysteries does Jjust that. | Robeson ;o Play America. | HE London production of “Othell with Paul Robeson, American Ne- | | gro. in the title role, will probably be brought to New York in the Fall, ac- | cording to a radio address delivered by the actor at the beginning of the week. | “From all T can hear, the present | production will come to America.” said | Mr. Robeson. “I certainly do want to | play “Othello” in the land of my birth, | especially in New York, the scene of | my first artistic endeavors. | “1 am positive that in the enlight- | ened sections of the United States there can be only one question: Is this a | worthy _interpretation of one of the great plays of all times? I sincere trust that I shall see you in Octobe: | T GEORGE BANCROFT || _in_“LADIES LOVE BRUTES." CIRCLE 2.2 Aveiulns ¥ Home of the Mirror Ser See and Hear Better at the Circle WILLIAM POWELL. = EUGENE ~ PAL- LETTE. 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