Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 48

AMUSEMENTS. Flashes From the Screen By C. E. Nelson. | | SINGLE picture has|the cash already having been set changed the entire policy of | aside for the purchase of a site. one of the large produc-|There is no official announcementi tion organizations. “All iot the plans for the theater, but| Quiet on the Western Front,” a|they may come along a little later | war film, which has not yet|in the Summer. reached Washington, has made all ¢ S R g sorts of reversals in the Universal ])ISREGARDING the fact that| company, and now Carl Laemmle, | the musical revues have not | president of the organization, an- | been hits at the box offices dur- nounces that in the future Uni- |ing the past few months, the pro versal is “going in for quality, ducers are going ahead making rather than quantity.” It has been | them. Looking over the list on | THE SUNDAY American Organists Convene In Los Angeles This Summer HE twenty-third annual convention of the National Association of Or- ganists—the first national convention of the assoclation to be held on the Pacific Coast—will take place in Los Angeles July 28 to August 1, accord- ing to announcement made today by Harold Vincent Milligan, president of the assoclation and executive director of the National Music League of New York. Several musical events have been scheduled for the convention week. Warren D, Allen, organist of Stanford University, will give a recital at the university ‘at Palo’Alto on the Sunday afternoon preceding the convélntion. Sunday following the convention an- other special invitation recital for con- | vention delegates and their friends will be given by Dr. H. J. Stewart on the outdoor organ in San Diego. In addition to Mr. Allen and Dr. Stewart, the convention recitalists will the policy of the Universal rom~"the various production schedul pany, during the past few years, to manufacture about 50 specia ictures, together with a count- ess number of minor subjects, | each 12 months. In the future 20 specials will receive annual attention, with only a limited number of short subjects. one finds 50 pictures of this char- acter listed for manufacture dur- ing the coming year. The Fox organization heads the list with 14 planned, and 10 of them are to have color. Jack Norworth and wife, well include Palmer Christian of Ann Arbor, Mich.; John Doane of New ; Lil- lian Carpenter of New Y Frank | Asper of Salt Lake City; Clarence Ma. der of Los Angeles, Calif.; Richard Keys Biggs of Hollywood, Calif., and | Arthur Poistor of Redlands, Calif. | Mr. and Mrs. William H. Barnes of In | known to the vaudeville stage of | Chicago, who have made a special study other years the company spent a few years ago, are making a|of music for organ and piano, will give about twelve millions each year |series of Vitaphone comedies, and |® novelty program of music for these in production, and, according to the new plan, this same amount will be turned into 20 pictures in- | stead of 50. Material and players | worth comedies will be known as| “Requicm,’ are to be carefully selected. | This step of Universal may have an unusual effect upon the | industry, for the various produc- ing companies have been trying to outdo each other in the num- |turning actor again in the screen | ber of their productions. In some instances little care has been given to individual productions, side from putting a couple of well known players in the casts | The idea seemed to be to rush the pictures through, rush them to the distributors, and then rush them to the screens over the | country. A picture of quality stood out from the mass; it was, and went into the ranks of the direc- | is, something to write home | about. Too many pictures have | been produced, and too many are being sent to the exhibitors at the present time. Quality, in many instances, has been sacrificed in the rush of production. We quote Carl Laemmle: “The filming of ‘All Quiet’ has changed our entire organization, and the change came at a dra- matic and psychological moment in the history of the film indus- try. It will no longer be neces- sary, in order to supply entertain- ment to the millions, to spread thin over the whole country. It| has been discovered that the great number of picture-goer: are found in the cities. It is for the mass that pictures are and always will be' made. The large theaters seem to be, more and more, supplying the demand. It is clear that this calls for the production of pictures that will| first of all meet the demands of | the larger theaters, because the larger theaters, in their turn, are| meeting the demands of the pub-| lic. And the logical outcome of | the recognition of this fact is specialization in production—the making of bigger, better and fewer pictures. So we have started on our new policy, and we have al-’ ready proved its fundamental soundness. We plan to spend | about $400,000 on each spechl‘ picture. It is impossible to pro- duce quality for less than this amount. Of course, 4n some in- stances the amount spent on a| picture will be much greater. In the selection of material we have | cut loose from the previous rol-‘ icy, which was based upon the idea that the different types of pic- tures had to be made for the dif- ferent types of theaters, and we | i;_re shooting for the first-run pub- | ic. “Regarding color, we shall use it in a number of specials. For| television, another coming big de- | velopment, we are preparing, al- | though its commercial practica- bility is probably some distance | away., But we shall be ready when the time comes. We are purchasing television rights to stories and plays which we ac- quire for production. Our com- pany has been conducting experi- ments with the wide film, but we | are unable to announce our plans. “Our schedule for the new sea- gon includes a sequel to ‘All Quiet,’ and it will be a post-war sto: John Boles is now prepar- ing for his role in ‘The Gypsy Love Song,’ an original story. He | also will appear in ‘Strictly Dis- honorable,’ which will have a mu- sical background, and in ‘The| Love Cavalier” Lewis Ayres,| whose work in ‘All Quiet’ has cre- ated a sensation, will play with Lupe Velez in ‘East Is West,’ and he will be co-featured with John ‘Wray in ‘Saint Johnson,’ a West- ern story. Other scheduled pro- ductions are ‘Outside the Law, with Mary Nolan; ‘Little Acci. dent,” with Douglas Fairbanks, jr. and Anita Page; ‘Boudoir D&pfo-. mat,” with John Boles, and ‘The Lady Surrenders,’ from a novel by | John Erkskine. John Murray An- derson, who directed ‘The King of Jazz,’ is planning something en- tirely new along the spectacular * x ox TROM Hollywood comes the| startling news that Janet Gaynor has been off the Fox pay | roll for three months. And behind | it all is a little story. After completing “High Society Blues,” the little star decided that she was destined for more impor- tant roles_heavier roles and! heavier stories. Her employers consider her fitted for a special type of role, such as she has hoen; playing. The matter was not set- tled, and Janet took a trip to Honolulu. After some time she| returned to Hollywood, but she | was not called back. Silence from the studio. Silence from the star. And this nllnued! for some time. Janet was dropped | from the pay roll, with a contract | having three months more to run. | ‘Three months of silence and four | months more of contract, without making a picture, plus the nec- essary four or five months of choosing, making. cutting and re- leasing a picture % the public, | will keep Janet from the public for a period of one year. Hollywood is divided into two camps over the matter. One fac- tion is the Gaynors; the other may be called the anti-Gaynors. And, in the meantime, the pro- ducers have taken on a couple of sweet little players who may be required, later, to fill some of the roles intended for Janet. - x oo JT is rumored around Washing- ton that one of the big chain crganizations is planning a super- taeater for the downto?n section, | version of Victor Herbert's (cepted a role in “Renegade | Poli’s is about to be c the producer claims they will fill a place once held by Mr. and Sidney Drew. The new Nor- “The Naggers,” short pictures. x oxox % ALPH INCE, one of the pioneers of the movie industry, is and they will be version of “Numbered Ralph, a brother of the late Thomas H. Ince, was born in Boston in 1887, and he began his tage career in support of Richard Mansfield. He made his screen debut as Abraham Lincoln in the old Vitagraph Co.'s series on the lives of great Americans. After a number of years as a player, he Men."” tors, and now he comes back to the screen as a hard-boiled con- vict in “Numbered Men.” oo Short Flashes. AT least all the songs and inci- dental music of the screen ‘Mlle. Modiste” are to be the composer's own. Of course, the producers have changed the name of the stage hit, and the newest title is| “The Toast of the Legion.” Ber- nice Claire and Walter Pidgeon have the leading roles. Loretta Young and David Man- ners have been added to the cast | of the Otis Skinner picture, “Kis- met.” John Francis Dillon will di- rect. Marilyn Miller's new screen lay, “Sunny,” based upon one of er stage successes, is bein started at the First Natlonal studio. Jerome Kern has written new numbers for the celluloid pro- duction. Walter Huston is to be starred in a stage favorite, “The Honor of the Family.” Other new pictures: “Bright Lights,” with Dorothy Mackaill and Noah Beery; “The Girl of the Golden West,” with Ann Harding and James Renni “The Bad Man,” with Walter Hus- ton, Dorothy Revier and James Rennie, and “Adios,” with Rich- | ard Barthelmess. The new census shows what the | motion picture has done for Holly- wood. In 1910 the population of the West Coast city was 19,996, and the latest count of noses shows 153,294 persons in the Movie City. French residents of Ottawa are complaining over the historical in- accuracy of “Captain of the Guard,” which had a showing in Washington many months ago. The picture was once known as “La Marseillaise.” David Wark Griffith is placing noise in the 15-year-old “Birth of a Natlon.” It is announced that the new version will have a talk- ing prelude and a musical score Minterpreted by an orchestra of 60 pieces. Warner Baxter has been named as the leading man of “This Modern World,” which will be di- rected by Alexander Korda. The director is now in Biarritz col- lectlng facts for his production. Bret Harte’s stories have not made very good movies, but Buck Jones is trying again with “Ten- nessee’s Partne George Jessel has signed a con- tract to sing in Paramount two- | reel comedies. Ginger Rogers, Paramount fea- tured player, has been loaned to the United Artists for the Irving| Berlin picture in which Bebe Daniels is to be starred. Miss Rogers also plays opposite Jack Oakie in “The Sap om Syra- cuse.” The Ufa Co. of Germany an-| nounces that it is making 18 talk- ng pictures. Some of these will | | be_exhibited in America. Spencer Tracy and Louise Hunt- ington head the cast of the Fox picture, “Up the River.” Miss Huntington was once well known to the Broadway stage, and the Fox company plans to star her in a number of new screen attrac- tions. Vilma Banky has decided to do one more picture before she re- tires to domesticity. She has ac- in which Warner Ba: xter is starred. Theaterm HEN Lee Shubert came back from Europe recently, bristling with ex- citement at the new impetus that has gripped the theater on foreign shores, he mentioned the fact that he would enlarge his subscription program for the coming year and enumerated Washing- ton among his pet stamping grounds ‘The news of a possible Shubert in sion of the National Capital is not un- pleasant, considering that his wise and prolific offices during the past year gave us & chance to see “Death Takes a Holi- day” and “The Infinite Shoeblack” even before they reached the whitest and greatest of “ways.” ‘There is. however, something slightly puzzling about all this. If & subscrip- ton season s contemplated, in the | words of the unwise, “What are they going to use for & theater?” Are they going to remove the padlock from the door of the Shubert-Belasco and_pour the moth balls out into Lafayetie Park? Or are they golng to cry ‘“Presto, chango!” and raise a theater like Al din's magic palace? Certainly, sir arted off by governmental dump wagon, they cannot hope 1o find & theatrical nest on Penn- sylvania avenue. Nor may they knock for admission at Mr. Cochran's E street emporium, for that during the Winter months will be bursting with Shavian- Guild playlets or possibly more farewell tours for William Gillette and other celebrities. Meditation, therefore. should be be- sel the Shubert citadel, as far as Was! is concerned. —They may, of course, pay heed to the stern fire two instrumen’s together. An orches- | tral concert will be given in Hollywood | Bowl and there will be a spec per- | formance at Los Angeles of the Brahms sung by the Smallman | Chorus President Milligan announced today that special rates for convention visit- lors have been provided by all rail- | rouds, and that a specal trip Is being | arranged for Eastern and Middle West- ern delegates. The group will visit the | and Canyon, the Yosemite Valley Yellowstone National Park and the Ca- nadian Rockles. Convention delegates will make a special excursion trip to Santa Catalina Island, Sorority Chapter Notes. CATHERINE BENSON, president of Rho Beta Chapter, and Evelyn Scott, violinist, left Washington Friday for the biennial convention of the Mu Phi Epsllon National Honorary Musical Sorority, which is being held at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Mich. beginning today and lasting throug! ‘Thursd: Rho this year by being asked to send an ad- ditional delegate to perform at the formal concert of the Grand Chapter of the sorority. Evelyn Scott has been chosen to play. She will be sted at the piano by Miss Benson, who has been elected business delegate. They Al give “Larghetto,” b Handel; Moderato und Intermezzo,” arranged by De Boer, and “Am Springquelle,” by David. Rho Beta Chapter was proud of the five members who performed in a com- mencement recital at the Washington College of Music Wednesday evening—— Lena Kash, Betty Marie Gray, Celeste Pelton, Mary Gastrock and Catherine Benson. The following evening, at the commencement, exercises at the college, | Tamara Dmitrieff, another Mu Phi, | recelved her artist’s diploma in plano |and played numbers by Chopin, Rach- | maninoff and Balakireff, i ) iAmol n' Andy as They Are. | HERE is an opinion of those Amos 'n' Andy boys from one of the officials |of Radio Pictures, for whom they are soon to do a little “screening.” “These boys are the most amazing personalities with whom I have come in contact in all my years of experi- ence in the motion picture business. They are extremely level-headed, shrewd and sane business men. They study every word, every line of the dinlogue they speak into the mike. They seem to understand show business and show values. They swear they will | never go to Hollywood.’ And why should they, Mr. Radio | Bcreen Official? Isn't it necessary for them to stay where they are in order : k?eep this country’s home fires burn- g Lillian a 6ne-Reeler. PRODUWION of Paramount’s new one-reel “personality series,” star- ring contract players of the company, has just been launched at the New York studio, with Lillian Roth as the star of the initial production, tenta- | tively titled “The Picnic.” & | Miss Roth has been at the New York studio several weeks, playing the lead- ing feminine role in “Animal Crackers, the Four Marx Brothers' picture. | It is planned to produce a number of one-reel pictures starring Ginger Rog- | ers, Frank Morgan, Charles Ruggles and other Paramounteers, News for the Home Town. F W. CALLAN, a Washington player |** who has appeared here in vari- ous and sundry thespian degrees, is | present rehearsing in a new play in New York. The title is “Here We Are,” and it will come to light some time in the Fall with Mr. Callan in the cast. Louis Isquith is sponsoring it. Further authenticated rumor about Mr. Callan is that any evening he may be seen dancing at a new night club in Harlem. R-K-O's Outdoor Film. RADIO PICTURES' all-outdoor rail- road femture will be released as “The Record Run,” instead of “The Stalwart,” its original title. The entire company is on location in Montana, and before completing the picture will journey as far East as Chi- cago to obtain realistic railrond scenes. | "Louts Wolheim, Robert Armstrong and Jean Arthur are playing the lead- ing roles and George B. Seitz Is direct- ing. Rumor Crystallizing. JEWS of Maude Adams’ contemplated return to the stage continues. It | seems that John Colton, who wrote most of “Rain” and “The Shanghai Gesture,” is to be the author of her play. And the name of it is very likely to be “That's the Way With Them” when it opens in New York some time in Oc- ! tober | department and plant a steel or asbes- tos curtain in the innards of the Shu- | Bert Belasco, and thus salvage the soul of that now wiltering playhouse, unless | legislation interferes. Or, better still— and this should be spoken with bated breath—they might be saying to them- | selves, “Why not build a small, inti- | mate, boxlike th r in Washington's | wilds, where theater patrons may find suitable recreation during the Winter blasts?” “Why not interest a few able-minded humanitarians in the construction of a modern, newly equipped theater which | would be small enough to catch the wearlest voice and large enough to allow | knee joints ample room? Why not?" Such things, however, savor of one of these “talkie” dreams that flicker for a moment and are gone. Kipling or no Kipling, Washington simply has gotter | ferget, reams. Collegiate Distinction, IT is becoming almost conventional nowadays for prominent actors to have the laurel leaf of doctor of letters bestowed upon them. Last week Eva | LeGallienne was photographed for the honor in the traditional alma maver hat and flowing robes, and soon Alfred Lunt will he besporting himself in the same. ‘The Theater Guild has announced that Mr. Lunt is to receive this tribute ta Chapter has been honored STAR 1930—PART FOUR A “still shot” from Lon Chaney’s new sound version of “The Unholy Three.” This picture was one of the star's biggest successes of the silent screen. ** ALL-STAR casts are becoming more essential than ever in screen com- | edies,” says Director Mal St. Clair, Paramount’s expert on the lighter | forms of entertainment. | Mr. St. Clair acted and directed for Mnck Sennett in the old days, and he believes that more care is demanded in casting comedy than serious drama. “Every cog is important in the com- | edy machine.” he explains. “A melo- | dramatic story usually is carried by two | or three male characters of proven ability; the remainder of the cast forms the atmosphere or background. This is not so in comedy, especially since the coming of sound. Every character in comedy is utilized for laughs, and a bit of clumsy work can ruin a picture.” | Taking the cast of “Dangerous Nan " which he is directing at the New York studio, for illustration, Mr. 8t. Clair elucidates “Helen Kane is & marvel, of course, but the addition of such stage and Mulitples of Laughter. screen stars as Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin, Frank Morgan and Louise Closser Hale more than doubled the number of laughs.” Mack Scnnett's old recipe for comedy, the director added, “pretty girls and ugly men in ridiculous situations,” has become antiquated. “The public has outgrown that,” he explains. “It wants first of all a good, gripping story, and secondarily, actors who have more than beauty or ugliness to prove they are comic, “Even in the old days, Mack Sennett did not hold rigidly to his own theory. | Looking back over the years, you will realize that his most uproarious films had all-star casts.” The same thing applies to Charles Chaplin’s pictures, according to the St. | Clair idea. “Although his supporting actors are not usually well known when they appear with him for the first time, | a great many of them become stars shortly thereafter.” DO YOU REMEMBER THIS TRIO? It you have forgotten them, you have forgotten your American stage. photograph was taken last week in a Holl Oty Skinner, who is starred in the screen version of “Kismet’ who has The lywood photoplay studio, Left to right i George Arliss, ready made a couple of successful pictures, and Wilton Lackaye, who | was visiting Mr. Arliss when the cameraman came around. Photoplay Attractions (Continued From First Page) | Forbes doing the part of a ‘handsome young officer who is sald to love as flercely as he fights It is an East African tale and takes its title from a poisonous reptile of the land, to which Hersholt, & very wealthy but much-hated brute, is likened. With his money he buys a bride, who hates him from the beginning, and when war is declared, with the mobilization of the English and German troops and an uprising of the natives, the excitement begins and continues with thrilling ef- fects until the close of the drama The story was written by F. Schu- | mann-Heink and John Reinhardt, and the picture was directed by John Rogell. Its cast includes Josef ~Swickhard, Claude Fleming, William Staunton, Hazel Jones and Arthur Stone. It is an R. C. A. phototone production. 1 EARLE—Armida—“What a Man.” RMIDA, the singing and dancing star of “Qen: Crack,” “Show of Shows” and “Under a Texas Moon," is to be seen in person on the stage at Warner Bros' Earle Theater this week as the featured player of an elab- orate stage presentation presided over by Gu wards, famous composer and maker of stars, who discovered the preity Mexican girl two years ago. This | is her first opportunity to meet her Washington friends in person since her remarkable success in talking pictures. On the Earle screen is featured a comedy-drama_of adventure and ro- mance, with Reginald Denny as the star. 'This picture is titled “What a Man,” and describes the adventures of a_rover who for_guestionable purposes IlA.\'(!l.VH._ DAVISON’ f. TCHERNIKOFF - GARDINER | SCHOOL OF DANCING! . n German, Spanish e 8 . “No. osra, dons tramp's attire and wins the con- fidence and sympathy of & wealthy and eccentric old lady. The supposed tramp is brought to the patlatial home of his benefactress, and his presence is im- mediately resented by the younger mem- bers of the family. The developments follow in & fast, amusing and enjoyable manner Additional attractions will include Vitaphone Varieties, music by the Earle Orchestra and the Pathe and Para- mount sound newsree GAYETY—"Record Breakers.” ERRI McCAULEY, who is challeng- ing Clara Bow as “the original ‘it girl,” and her “"Record Breakers” are held for a second week at the Gayety Theater, where Miss McCauley scored & personal hit last week, assisted by the dry humorist, Hap Freyer, Boots Rush, Elsie Huff, Bobby Nissen and Syd Burke, with Le Costello, Syd Burke and Lew Petal in Important contributions. “Record Breakers” apparently has been delighting the burlesque fans, and its scenery, lighting effects and cos- tumes are said to be an important part of the sho CHAPEL POINT reduced rates kiddies’ day Mon. & Fri. Children 35¢ Adults 75¢ 9.00 a.m. Daily (except Tues.) WILSON N Institute of Musical Art Commencement Tomorrow HE Institute of Musical Art, Dr. C.E Christiani, president, announces the annual commencement recital and the awarding of diplomas, to be held in the recital hall of the school, 831 Eight- eenth street northwest, tomorrow at 8:15 pm. Those receiving teachers' diplomas in the class of 1930 are Hanna Booth, pianist; Anne B. Marley, violinist, and Stanley Smith, violinist. _The vice president of the school, B. Frank Ge- best, will present the diplomas to the graduates. Dr. Christiani will give the formal address of the evening The school orchestra will open the program with & performance of the andante from Tschaikowsky's Symphony” and close it with adaglo-allegro vivace movement from Beethoven's “Fourth Symphony.” Each of the graduates will appear in musical numbers on this program. Miss Booth will play the first movement of Beethoven's “Sonata, Opus 31, No. 3.” Miss Marley will play “Berceuse Amer caine” by Gotsch, and “Night by Drdla. Mr. Smith will play | prize went to 0 the Evening Star,” from Wagner's opera “Tannhauser. Movie Star "in Person."” RMIDA, the dark and diminutive Mexican beauty who flashed up- rd from obscurity to fame within two years, has the ideal microphone voice, according to Hollywood technicians. This means that Washingtonlans will have a treat for the ear as well as for the eye in the singing, dancing star of Warner Bros. Pictures who appears in persons at Warner Bros.' Earle Theater, with Gus Edwards and company of en- tertainers. ‘The remarkable quality of Armida's clear voice is sald to have established her as one of the very few actresses with an accent to obtain substantial recog- nition in talking pictures. Armida speaks and sings with a soft Spanish accent, acquired from her Spanish par- entage and in her former home in Mexico. Gus Edwards discovered her in a Spanish theater in Los Angeles almost two years ago and put her in his stage revue. Her success with audiences all over the country won her a motion pic- ture contract. Armida has been seen in Washington in “General Crack,” “S8how of Shows" and “Under a Texas Moon,’ three pictures in which peared. Mystenous Lon Chlney. OME illuminating remarks of Lon Chaney about himself appear in the current issue of the Motion Picture Magazine. Says the actor { _ "I care nothing about fi The less T have of it, the better for fie. I work | for money and I work because I am in- terested in the things I do. “I did not refuse to talk on the screen | because I feared the voice would lessen my own mystery. I refused to talk be- cause I am & business man and I did not care to pioneer. The thing was | impertect at the time. “Why should I, with my box-office as it is, risk all of that for something that | might have died stillborn? Things are different now. “I never read. For what I need 1 g0 to life direct. I have never been in the home of a motion picture actor or actress. I have never had an actor or actress in my home. Not because I am not fond of the people I work with, but because 1 want to forget my work and everything connected with it when I am through for the day.” NBux'{d;: a Iienl Athlete. | FFROM sports to motion pictures is an old story in Hollywood. From flms to sports is'a new version. Jack Dempsey, Harold “Red” Grange, Johnny Mack Brown, Georges Carpen- tier, Charles Paddock and Babe Ruth are among those who have found their athletic records stepping stones into pictures. Charles “Buddy” Rogers, however, has found the films & means of break- ing into sports. When he was a student at the Uni- versity of Kansas, the story goes, Rog- ers was too busy storing his mind for school tests to go out for athletics. As a screen star, however, he has become one of Hollywood's best athletes. Dur- ing basket ball season he plays forward on the Thalian quintet, an organization of young screen actors whose basket ball team competes in the Holywood Civic League. In the base ball season Rogers holds down an infield berth on the Para- mount studio team and is one of the leading hitters on the club. He also is one of the best hand ball and aquash players in the motion picture colony. i i Won Prize for Best Play. RESTON STURGES has been award- ed the Megrue prize of $500 for his play “Strictly Dishonorable” which has | been running and running and run- ning in New York since the Autumn | leaves began to fall This is the second of ten vearly awards which are to be made by the Dramatists’ Guild from a fund donated by Roi Cooper Megrue and Stella Cooper Megrue, his mother. Last year's “Little Accident, Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell. Under the terms of the award the prize is to be given to a member whose play, “produced in New York City, makes the ‘audience a little brighter and a little more cheered up when it leaves the theater than when it came in.” Sop]’ue Tucker Tries London. OPHIE TUCKER, “the last of the red-hot mammas,” sails for Lon- don Thursday of this week to appear in “Follow a Star,” a two-act musical show wrilten especially for her by Jack Yellen, Dion Titheradge and Douglas Furber. Jack Hulbert, who will be co- starred with Sophie, is co-producer with Paul Murra: This musical comedy will have its London premiere the beginning of Sep- tember at the Adelphi Theater in Lon- don, and at the completion of its Eng- lish engagements Miss Tucker hopes to | bring it to America. AT NO TIME IN THE HISTORY, OF PLEASURE RESORTS NEAR WASHINGTON HAS THERE BEEN SUCH GENUINE FUN AS THERE IS NOW TO BE FOUND AT THE BIG FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK EVERYTHING FOR YOUR COMFORT AND RECREATION FROM THE TIME YOU GET ON WASH. RY. & ELEC, CARS MARKED CABIN JOHN OR GLEN ECHO, ARRIVE DIRECT AT PARK ENTRANCE, EN- JOY THE MORE THAN FIFTY AMUSEMENTS IN THE PARK, AND LEAVE FOR HOME AMUSEMENTS. Pictures Almost Here. | Tm-: movie man who makes them | the picture is “a most unusual s | nd the manager who shows | of s girl and two men,” the girl bel idea that their 4 4 public always is looking for | ® }ady of the shops and the men, oné something eise, and that, per- | wealthy and the other a boy friepd | haps, is why next week’s pictures are | of the girl's own station in life announced before those for the current | A third Friday opening of the new week have been given & proper send-off. | week will occur at Warners' Man- | But who should worry? | itan Theater. It will bring “a love Warners' rle | story with a startlingly realistic backs | is going to have|ground of convict life" according to two picture stars, the announcement, which is entitled one in person and | “Numbered Men,” with one of one in a picture, | all-star casts including Conrad Nagel starting Friday. | Bernice Claire, Raymond Hackett Tully Esther Ralston, | Marshall, Raiph Ince and William charming blonde, is | Holden. ' An attempted “fail break" is the one who Wwill | its biggest thrill appear in person | Of the new week openers on Satur- on the stage, and | day, only the Loew theaters, the Palace it is said she has|and the Columbia, have come for wonderful talents | with announcements. The Pal them have a for singing and| | dancing. Billle Dove, assisted by Basil Rathbone, will get away with | the plcture honors | in_ “A Notorious Affair,” luridly de- | scribed as “a clever love triangle story with music” of PFirst National and Vitaphone creation The Fox also will hit off the new | week Friday of this week with “Not | | Damaged,” "enlisting the services of | Lois Moran, Walter Byron, Robert Ames and Inez Courtney, with the Fanchon-Marco Id the | Billie Dove. OTS of folks have started out to re- form the world. That is to say, not the cosmos in the abstract, but the peo- ple who inhabit some parts of it. And now Mr. Herk, the burlesque magnate, has an idea which, to a man up a tree, looks as if it might be a good one, Mr. Herk is going to reform the ghe- ater from the bottom up. It is true there is a hitch in his proposition, but | even at that it is worth the trial. Not | only is he going to reform his part of the theater, but he has already started in to do it.” If any evidences of failure have been noted in the past season, they | were due undoubtedly to the fact that the burlesque censor, in the particular instance, or instances if there were more than one, was a little nearsighted, which, with a tendency to deafness, tended in some degree to muddle his success in specific cases. It is claimed by Mr. Herk, even at the worst, that burlesque has been no worse than the big legitimate stage. “Because,” he says, and cites reasons, “if some of the things seen and done in the big revues had been tried in bur- lesque the policeman would immediately have entered into a state of activity not his wont.” He claims, as it would seem with some degree of fairness, that burlesque ought to be permitted to be as risque and daring as the big revue. But al- ways above and behind that idea, deep in ‘the silent reaches of his heart and his head, he has longed only for the pure, the true, the beautiful and the g0od. And If the other fellows are only made to behave, burlesque will become a | model among men. Mr. Herk’s idea of starting the reform of burlesque for the improvement of the heart, mind and morals of the bur- I have a romance of t “The Sea Bat.” n Metr, production, featuring Charles Bickford, who did fine work in “Annie Christies* with Raquel Torres, Nils Asther ant George F. Marion in the cast ané “The Hits of 1930." a sta; attraction from the New York Capitol Theater The Columbia. barring shits have “The Big House,” another Goldwyn-Mayer production, but featu ing Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Lefla Hyams, George F. Marion, J. (’, Nugent and Karl Dane. Sam Rubin’ ys it is “one of the greatest produes tions in years” and Sam is the ofecial announcer for the Columbia Theater. wilt Metro: lesque fan is really commendable, be- cause, he doesn't say, but rather insinu- ales, the burlesque fan is going to be one of the hardest things in all creation | to make draw his delight from the lily, his aroma from the rose—and that | means the delicate tea rose, because the ruddy variety might be thought to sug- gest passion, But, be that as it may, or be it not notice s served that highbrows and classicists are going to have to sacrifice ) their penchant for such -wicked, sug- gestive masterpieces of the olden time as “Lysistrata” and the like. They are ing to be compelled to throw over arl Carroll's conception of art and George White's fanciful dreams of what |1s and what isn't nudity—nay, more, even the delectations of David Belaseo, | which develop the triumph of virtue out |from the tortuous byways of vice by glving the little girl a chance. The world of theatergoers has got to | play fair with Mr. Herk. If it cheats. {1t must expect disappoiniment from him, because, while he is willing to run the gamut up and on to the highes: [heights of Mount Olympus, he in't | going to stand for any funny business. If the legitimate theater accepts the challenge, Mr Herk is honestly going to try to reform burlesque patrons. But at the slightest sign of trying to please the highbrows and the classicists with bunk of-‘the anclents that causes the | wicked thoughts to rise Mr. Herk and his burlesque endeavor, at the very in- stant, will become nondescript—that is to say, as far as the watchful policeman will let him. Mr. Herk isn't afraid of the plous reformer, but he finds the purifying policeman vexatious to the l.l lrrl: and an abomination to personal y. LACK and aday! Washington is now a parched and dried city, whose thespian muse has gone off to the seashore for the Summer months. Nothing remains of grease paint and footlights but the nebulous memory of the National Players, who, for the past 12 weeks, have been treading the E street boards with no small measure of sue- cess. ° Yesterday the final curtain swept these players off the stage and what is left looks llke a deep-dyed blackness occupying the seats which formerly contained the pleased counte- nances of pleased patrons. A startling thing is it to find that the drama hasn’t so much as a finger along ‘Washington’s boulevards. Even more startling is it to find that suddenly the National Players have departed for other and nether spheres. Those glad and gleaming faces that struck a dif- ferent pose every Monday night, those varied and voluminous idiosyncrasies that sprang into life six times a week. those mannered mannerisms and crisp, well-seasoned lines that were flaunted | nightly and struck pleasantly both the | eye and the ear—that they have gone seems something in the vein of an atrocity. Yet gone they have—bag and baggage. Last night saw them marching, en masse, out of the National Theate: Behind them, however, these player: have left considerable. Indelible be- come many of the characters and char- Acterizations which they offered. Wil | thirsty audiences ever forget Gilbert changing himself from “poet to peasant” in 15 seconds in “Brothers”? | Or Marion Wells romping about in| pajamas in the last act of ‘“Jerry"? Down Comes thefi Curtain. next year they will begin where they ' have just left off. Eh, what, Manages Here's hoping! Steve? (And Bteve, like the poor, is always with us. For which-heaven be praised!) The Uses of Adversity. EON JANNEY, that brilliant little 13- year-old kid who stole the Warner | Brothers picture, “Courage,” which was recently shown in Washington, right | from under the very noses of its stars and celebrities, has been signed up by the Warners to a long-term contract, as his reward. And then, just like the movie magnates do, they have assigned him “an important role” in “Handful of Clouds,” an underworld drama no in production. It is sald to be uncon- ventional in theme and its treatment also will be unconventional. But think of young Jenney in any kind of llt \ underworld story. New Theater Guild pllyl. THE acquisition of two new plays by American authors is announced by the Theater Guild. They are “Distant Drums,” by Dan Toteroh, & play of the ploneer conquests of the American Con- tinent against adverse conditions, and “Conjur,” a Negro play. ‘These plays, in addition to the re- cent American plays which the gulld has already announced, places the guild in the flattering position of ha seven American plays, besides promises from Eugene O'Neil, 8idney Anderson and Maxwell Anderson, for the coming season. Can any one forget Adelnide Hibbard | hobbing up the stairs in “Your Uncle Dudley” or Edith Gresham screaming | hoarsely in “Weoden Kimono"? What, | for instance, would “Dracula” have amounted to without Romaine Callen- | der’s bleached countenance? Or “Holi- | day” without Marion Sterly's pert prettyness and the stern puritanism of | H. Dudley Hawley? And would “It Pays to_ Advertise” have attained to & pro- verlial “row of beans” if Freddie Sher- man hadn't been blessed with a sixth “soap” sense? | One and all these distinguished players come back to the mind with the | speed of well-tried and well-remembered | friends. What happens to them in the | future depends upon that little demon “chance” who sweeps his actors before | him pretty much as he wishes. But atever, in the course of the coming year, is thelr fate, perhaps a kind one Will Teturn them Singly or together lurl our further contemplation and perhaps Spectacular Al A purchased bride, and a sold Jean Marshall Hall Excursion Every Day Steamer Leaves 7th St. Wharf 10 AM,, 2:30 and 7 P.M. 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