Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1930, Page 42

AM USEMENTS. Flashes From the Screen By C. E. Nelson. S there considerable hokum in the much-advertised salaries of the screen stars? We have long been given to understand .that the shining lights of the movie world were about the high- est paid of all entertainers. Not even Babe Ruth’s gigantic salary, received for swatting numerous home runs during the heated sea- son, was Supposed to compare with that of a red-headed favor- ite of the fans. Since the days when stars were first made in the “movie game, we thought the in- come taxes paid (and unpaid) by .the stars were about the largest on record—and all these ideas are shattered by Herbert Cruikshank, writing in the Talking Screen. According to this writer, the thousands-a-week legend is some- times necessary, but such stars of the talking screen as Jack Oakie, Clara Bow, John Boles, Alice White, Jimmy Hall, Helen Twelve- trees, Sue Carol, Buddy Rogers and others know differently—and it's all in the contract. For instance, take no the case of Jack Oakie. This s.ar was first seized by Wesley Ruggles and tied down to a $100-a-week contract. ‘Then he was sublet to Paramount for $250 a week, out of which Jack now gets only $150 every seven days, though he has refused a $1,500-a-week split with Para- mount. On the day that his fan mail broke the record established by Rudolph Valentino, Buddy Rogers was receiving only $400 a week. Sue Carol, rented out to another company for $1,200 a week, got only $200 when Satur- day night rolled around. Clara Bow's salary is sliced up, for she ‘has a contract with B. P. Schul- berg which forces her to give him a share of her earnings. Also, according to Mr. Cruik- shank, cutting salaries is a com- mon procedure around the well known studios. About a month thority. Moscow itself could not have produced a more subversive film. This continued uncensored exhibition, especially before ju- veniles, will go far to raise a race of yellow-streaked slackers and disloyalists. Domestic statecraft, common sense and plain everyday patriotism demand instant sup- pression of such vicious propa- ganda. It is important go act promptly. Accept, please, our every respect and thanks.” The telegram was signed, “Hollywood Technical Directors’ Institute.” Looking at the matter from a Washington angle, and keeping an ear turned toward the White | House, we have not yet heard that T Paving Stone Brings Fame. A CONVENIENT paving stone enabled Victor Moofe, fam com to start his stage i, oore appeared simultaneously in “Heads Up,” a Broadway stage pnid\u:- tion, and at Parsmount’s New York studio during production of “Dangerous Nan McGrew,” a farce-comedy with a feature cast headed by Moore, Helen Kane, James Hall, Stuart Erwin, Frank Morgan and Roberta Robinson. “My first stage appearance occurred in Boston when I was 18,” says Moore. “While working as a clerk in a store I saw a newspaper advertisement for 50 tall men to act as & mob in ‘Babes in the Woods' at the old Boston Theater, since torn down. About 200 applicants appeared. A casting director g‘md through the crowd outside the theater picking out the tallest men. 1 was the shortest of the lot and it looked as if I didn't have a chance. But as ithe director approached I stepped on top of a loose paving block and stood head and shoulders above the rest. In the crush my deception wasn't noticed and I got the coveted part.” Moore never deserted the acting game thereafter. At first he played character parts, then realized his boyhood {the President has taken a hand in the showing of “All Quiet,” | Which is said to faithfully repro- duce in pictures one of the world's best selling novels. ok % ;HAVING gazed upon many for- | eign pictures during the past few years, the American public has preferred the Ufa films to the' |others. And this German organi- |zation, from which the American | studios received Emil Jannings, | Pola Negri and other stars, is pre- | paring to make 80 talking pic- |tures during the coming year. | Naturally, many of these pictures {—the best ones, at least—will have English versions, and they will reach the American theaters. A Ufa version of “Darling of the Gods” is to star Emil Jan- nings, and another famous player, {Gerda Maurus, will have the lead- ing role in “The Shot in the Sound ‘Film Studio.” “Three at the Serv- ‘ice Station” will be a musical |comedy, with Willy Fritsch and |Olga Tschechowa, well known | German stage stars. | * ok % X "l‘HE motion picture division of the Department of Commerce, | which keeps an eye on film aflalrs‘ before option day the producers 21l over the world, reports that shun the‘i’r star. )Then. gvhen the |the Danes prefer their pictures| contract lapses after 30 days of this treatment, the zero hour ar- rives. The star is called upon the Preference. The entire country of on Marie Dressler. much-worn carpet for an old- fashioned lecture, told his work is “pretty awful,” but that out of the goodness of heart the company is considering retiring him—of course, at a slight cut in salary. A new contract is usually signed, the player naturally being much pleased because he is not cast among the screen’s driftwood. The much-advertised salary of John McCormack, paid by the Fox company for work in one pic- | ture, is claimed to be authentic. ‘The singing star was paid $50,000 a week for 10 weeks. The salaries of such stars as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks and Gloria Swanson are really not salaries at all. They are practi- cally their own producers; they‘ receive a share of the earnings/ from their pictures, while they | also share in the cost of their| production. * ok ok % 'THERE is a radical difference in | the making of stars for the| stage and the screen. In the| “good old days,” when a player became a star of the stage he or she usually remained a star until | old enough to retire. With the screen comes an altogether differ- | ent system. It may be that the | movie fans can be termed more | fickle than the stage fans, for they certainly change quickly when it comes to the selection of screen favorites. Many of the screen stars of 5 and 10 years ago have slipped from memory. Aside from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Nor- ma Talmadge and a few others, the stars of a decade back are only found in the record books. A few of the old-timers are play- ing minor character bits in some of the new sound pictures. Strange as it may seem, the feminine stars last longer with the public than the male, and yet the new femi- nine players who have gained stellar roles outnumber the men. * * x % O matter how far we travel in motion picture affairs, we cannot get away from the monkey picture, “Ingagi.” Again this film: which several months ago startled a blase theatergoing public, has reached the limelight, this time its owners filing suit for $3,365,- 000 against the Will Hays organ- ization. Congo Pictures, Ltd., ac- cording to the suit, has been “goaded beyond endurance by the concerted attack launched against ‘Ingagi’; the defendants are asked to pay $365,000 for actual damage to date and $3,000,000 as exem- plary or punitive damages.” The owners of “Ingagi” claim fhat the Hays organization “has passed many pictures far more objectionable than ‘Ingagi’ If we are forced to expose the film in- dustry, let us expose all produc- ers’ methods which permit the use of doubles both in action and voice miniatures and glass shots upon the screen and the employ- ment of many studio-made for- eign scenes and other trick and so-called travel pictures, and not confine it only to the independent roducer. We claim ‘Ingagi’ to e clean and extraordinary enter- tainment, and instructive as well | and that this effort on our part |} will clarify the situation and awaken the public mind to the evident purpose of the film trust —to destroy any attempt on the goart x&fit the independent producer it Although the R-K-O theaters are no longer showing the “In- gagi” picture, it is reported to be going = strong, drawing large crowds in the independent thea- ters. * %k k X Wl-mN a picture makes an un- usual hit, it is open to attack. This has been found to be the case with “All Quiet on the West- ern Front,” which has now been taken up by a certain group as a “pacifist film.” Efforts are being made t ohave stopped the pic- ture’s national showing, and the group has even gone so far, it is reported, as send a telegram to President Hoover as follows: “We solicit your great influence to help prohibit further showing, without drastic censoring and revision, of Universal's film, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ This is the most brazen propaganda film ever made in America.. It fihe’beller in the Army‘)npd “ | | will be turned into a movie under |silent. Language difficulties are |advanced in explanation of the | Denmark has only 61 theaters wired for the sound pictures, the' | hundreds of other theaters retain- ' | ing silent films and using many of | the pictures made in this country many years ago. * % % % Short Flashes. JFOR the first time on record, an attempt will be made to run |a motion picture all Summer in New York. The film selected for, |the trial is “The Dawn Patrol,” starring Richard Barthelmess. Grant Withers and Evelyn Knapp have the leading roles in the new Warner Brothers picture, “Penny Arcade.” Other recent additions to the cast are Joan Blondell and James Bradbury. The Fox company is planning to use the little Irish girl, Maureen O'Sullivan, in a role opposite Charles Farrell in “The Prince, and the Plumber.” The film will be based upon a story by Alice Duer Miller. The stage play, “Whispers,” the direction of Roland West. But its title will be changed to “The Bat Whispers.” | Many, many years ago Mabel Normand was starred in a silent picture, “Mickey.” Now it will be changed to a talker, with Nancy Welford playing the leading role. George Jessel is to make a series of short pictures for Paramount. A stir has been created in Lon- | don by two of the leading critics announcing that the talking pic- tures have “flopped.” They say: “The talkies have definitely col- lapsed in America and are on the verge of collapse in this country.! Picturegoers have known for; months past that the talking pic- | tures no longer hold the appeal of novelty.” Colin Clive, who played the leading role in the stage produc- tion of “Journey’s End,” will star isn a picture called “The Stronger ax.” The Tarzan serials are to have sound—all the noise of the j\mg]e,' |and a theme song. It is reported that Joe Brown and Winnie Lightner, well known cinema stars, are to be featured in a Broadway stage production in the Autumn. Warner Brothers will sponsor the show. The Eddie Cantor picture, “Whoopee,” is almost completed. Ben Lyon will play the lead in the new musical screen affair, “The Hot Heiress.” It will be di- rected by Clarence Badger. Joe Brown has the leading role in “Going Wild,” which will be completed this week at the First National studio. Others in the cast are Laura Lee, Walter Pid- geon, Frank McHugh, Ona Mun-| son, Lawrence Gray, May Boley and Harvey Clark. Edward G. Robinson is the fea- tured player in “Little Caesar,”| which is taken from a well known | novel. “Broken Dishes” stars two new- lyweds, Grant Withers and Loretta | Young. Extravagance Maybe. LTHOUGH the title has not yet been made official, Willlam Powell, is said, deserves to becom: even though Adolphe Menjou has returned to the film capital. Powell's sartorial perfection goes to these lengths: He buys 15 suits of clothes & year. He seldom wears the same necktie more than twice. His haberdasher has a standing order for two new shirts a month. His shoes all are custom made. His hats also are made to order. it tion of becoming a “heavy villain” and at last graduated into comedy, where he attained fame, both in legitimate shows and in vaudeville. What's anpenmg. ON the eve of her departure for Cali- ' fornia, Ginger Rogers found time to star in a one-reel ‘“personality sketch” entitled “Office Blues,” filmed at the Paramount New York studio. Johnny Weismuller and Stubby Kruger, America’s swimming stars, are to be featured in a Paramount noveity one-reeler. Herman Mankiewicz, Sid Silvers and Paul Gangelin, veteran scenario writers, arrived in New York this week from Hollywood to join the group of Broad- way dramatists and staff writers at the New York_studio. James Wilkinson, for three years chief film editor at the Paramount studios in Hollywood, has been given a new long-term’ contracy. Wilkinson was for seVen years a pro- duction supervisor at the F. B. O. studios. A $50.000 stock of jewelry has just been added to the property stores of the Paramount studios in Hollywood. The addition is but temporary, for the costly assortment of gold, silver and precious gems has been rented—not purchased, from various Los Angeles wholesale houses to stock a jewelry store for Willlam -Powell's new picture, “For the Defense,” which is now in production. e e Was Not “Caught éhort." AYBE, after all, the wicked stock market did not score a knockout ‘There is, indeed, strong reasons for believing she was not “caught short.” and that she did not have to go back to the washtub and dream of better days to come. Marie, as a matter of fact, has actu- ally been spending money like a drunk- en sailor. She has been on a European vacation lasting several weeks, and while she was abroad—if you care to verify the news—she was entertained for several days by no less than Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Kreisler in Berlin, and | a press luncheon was given in her honor in London. All of which goes to show that you can't rely upon a thing the movies tell you. Now, can you? APPY” WALKER, Who leads his orchestra for the moon- light dances aboard the City of Wash- ington each evening. Gary a "Slum" Eater. ‘OW would you like to eat 14 help- ings of “slum” at one sitting? “Slum,” you know, is what they fed the boys in the Army overseas. The recipe varied according to what the cook might have on hand, but it would most accurately be described as beef stew. For the most part it was beef and potatoes cooked in their own Jjuices. Sometimes carrots, onions or peas were added, but ordinarily it had no_embellishments. Fourteen helpings of “slum” are said to have been consumed by Gary Cooper in & dugout scene for “A Man from ‘Wyoming,” which Rowland V. Lee is directing for Paramount. It was due, of course, to retakes—of scenes as well as of “slum.” ———e Hog "Hogs" Scene. THE most audacious attempt on rec- ord to “hog” a scene in a picture was made in the Paramount picture, “A Man from Wyoming.” Gary Cooper was standing with June Collyer, to be married by the mayor of a small French village in war time. In the background was “Mike,” put there to add atmosphere to the scene. As soon as the cameras started, “Mike” {left his position and ran between Cooper’s legs, almost knocking the lat- | ter down and ruining the scene. “‘Hey!” yelled Rowland V. Lee, the di- the picture?” “Mike,” you see, is a pig, one of a pen full placed there to make a French village look homelike. e Luring the Literati. CHAR!E STARRETT, actor and for- " mer Dartmouth College athlete, has signed a contract as a featured pl-yebl-e gr P-nmoutm.. )lua first role will “The Best People,” a pictur- ization of the which Fred Newmeyer will direct month at Paramount's studio. Starrett is a native of Athol, Mass. k on the And all the rest of his apparel tallored to fit. 4 Observers a few da; inclined to be a bit Cfltln’:l o‘f"l”ow!u'l o dress. The feel aroun by he had become ]ul“tun b"tnmo eln’m “Claire 11 reported for work started when Powel in the morning at the full dress, complete with silk cane. What if he, too, sl his job? it. 3 dios wearing T and Will Osborne Again. *YWWILL arrive Friday. July 11, with band. Stop. ner Bros.' Earle “Will Osborne.” And so it would seem that the croon- i efurning o Washingion Tor n e irn! an en- ent ‘on the Earle , with his famous radio arrd 11. Al of which 4 good, i d lose . rector, “What are you trying to do, hog | | HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, WALTER PIDGEON AND CLAUDIA DELL, In a scene from the recently completed “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” which is a screen version of the David Belasco stage success of several years ago. Photoplay Attractions (Continued From First Page.) ager Hardie Meakin as “the combination of the talking picture the action picture.” In “Rough Romance” which was taken in the North Woods among the tall timbers and snow, O'Brien has the role of & lumberjack, who falls in love with & lonesome miss. played by Helen Chandler, whose father is the store- keeper., The trials and vicissitudes of these two before happiness comes to them carry them through a series of | episodes that bristle with action. The cast also includes Antonio Moreno and Noel Prancis. A. F. Erickson directed the picture. The Fox stage presentation offers Fanchon & Marco's “international” idea, which, in its run of 40-odd min- utes, takes the audience on a rapid journey around the world, to the ac- companiment of music, laughter and song, and is presented by a talented group which includes Markel and Faun, Jimmy Lyons, Frederico Flores, the | Osako Boys, Joe Rose and the Sunkist | Beauties, with Sam Jack Kaufman as | master of ceremonies. Leon Brusiloff and the Fox Orchestr: pay tribute to our national indepen: ence with a specially arranged patri- otic overture. Morton Floodas at_the organ and the Fox Movietone News with its views in sound of world events, complete the entertainment bill. COLUMBIA—"The Big House.” ‘*THE Big House” Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's spectacular production picturing prison riots, continues its sec- perfect and D. C, JULY 6 ond week at Loew's Columbia. It has an exceptional cast, which includes | Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert | Montgomery, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone | and George F. Marion. Kent, a weak type, is sent to prison for killing & man while driving under the influence of liquor. He is placed in a cell with Butch, a murderer, and Morgan, a forger. Kent, unable to stand the pressure of prison life, be- comes a spy. When Morgan has an op- portunity of being paroled Kent plants a knife in his bunk and Morgan is sent | into solitary confinement as punish- ment. Morgan escapes and goes to the | book store operated by Kent's sister. | In time they come to love each other. | But the police on Morgan's track stop | the 1omance when they recapture him. Back in prison Butch plans a jail break and when Morgan returns tries to per- | suade him to join it. Morgan refuses. Kent, who has been taken in, reports | all he knows to the warden and on | Thanksgiving day at the hour of noon | the prisoners who try to escape are met with machine gun fire. In one of the most exciting scenes the U. S. Army tanks arrive and batter down the con- vict stronghold. Order is established and Morgan is pardoned for his efforts. Laurel and Hardy appear as wander- | ing musiglans in the M-G-M comedy “Below Zero,” and the Hearst Met tone News, short subjects and the Co- Tabbing the Times. 'HE most constant habit of the screen seems to be to keep an eye glued to the daily paper, and when the headlines become thick, wide and black to shunt the news into the studios, call out the staff of writers and command that with- in the hour a picture shall be con- structed based on the current event. Many examples of this may be noted within the past few months. Chicago and Wall Street have been hashed and rehashed in front of the camera, and feats of the air and even explorations have had miles of film devoted to them. A certain gambler whose braggadocio has been made the subject of countless dramas and idols of the moment whose features could be molded satisfactorily under the grease paint have been sub- jected to the camera’s microscopic gaze. In other words, the screen has tried to keep up with the times. The Byrd film was an example of fine efficiency, for instance, in the Paramount studios. Within the hour of the commander's arrival this film was being shown at leading theaters all throughout the country. Furthermore, not content with mere flashes of events that transpired in the polar regions, Paramount sent its best cameramen to select 30 miles of film from which could be weeded the most significant and stimulating se- quences. The latest news event to be capital- ized by the screen is prison life and the rioting that has attracted Nation-wide attention. After a few false starts and unfortunate results by other companies, it remained for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to summarize, grimly and effectively, the situations that have transpired. 1In “The Big House,” armed with the ablest technical equipment and a cast well- nigh perfect, they have handled the | tionally good, these are really spoiled material before them discreetly and sometimes brilliantly. But—and this has been the Waterloo of so many fine pictures—they have in- sisted on weavifig Into this tragedy of prison 1ife a story of the 10-cent varlety which has neither conviction, rhyme nor reason. Right here be seen one of BIGGEST SHOW IN WASHINGTON! FOX P AT FOURTEENTH ST FOX'S GLORIOUS ALL-ACTION OUTDOOR ROMANCE 1 QEORGE O'BRIEN in “ROUGH ROMANCE” The “International Ides” by 2. "FANCHON & MARCO America’s Different Showman 3. “'SAM JACK KAUFMAN Just ¢ Funny Pair 4 MARKEL & FAUN 5. MMy LYGis Watch This Chap & FREDERICO FLORES Direct From Japas T OSAKA BROS. The Foz Grand Orchestra and He's Organistic—and How 10. MORTON FLOODAS Prices Today : ALL SEATS 38, 11 b 1 S0, 1 4o Closiag lumbia Orchestra complete the program. | the stumbling stones of the cinema ! world. Obviously, what occurred was this: A prison picture was contemplated, and after clipping front-page news for atmospheric background, a story to knit the whole together was found necessary. To thelr most capable scenarist, Francis | Marion, a lady of unquestioned ability | in her field, was confided the task of conjuring up a story. She did this— remembering from her experiences of | the past that there must be such a thing as a hero and a heroine. Follow- ing this, Messrs. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer inveigled Martin Flavin, author of “The Criminal Code,” to do a little of the dialogue here and there. And the result was, or rather is, that because Mr. Flavin knows his prisons thoroughly the dialogue is often very effective, espe- cially Wallace Beery's lines, and because Miss Marion obviously knows little about “love among prisoners” the story is| pretty awful. Hence, although the prison scenes are highly credible and the background and general atmospheric pressure are excep- by the proverbial theory of the screen that everything must have its milk and honey, and that the grand emotion, love, is as necessary to a screen story as a horse is to a buggy. ‘Thus may even the most faithful adaptation of a current event be shamed by the interpolation of extraneous ma- terial. As soon as Hollywood learns that truth is stranger than fiction, that gargoyles are not essential to an office building and that consistency should be the spice of cinema life, no doubt bigger and better talkies will be the result. 1930—PART FOU BELASCO SUCCESS | approaching debut in the talking film, | atmospheric investigation of mint juleps :Wl { minute.” R Sir James Talks for Screen.' IR JAMES BARRIE is at last on the screen. The shy little Britisher, beloved wherever English is spoken for his whimsical novels and plays, was finally caught by Fox Movietone News in & most natural and Barriesque setting. In his “talkie” debut Sir James is shown on a return to “Thrums.” The occasion for the return was the de- cision of natives of Kirriemuir, birth- place and scene of most of his quaint tales, to honor their famous son with the “freedom of the city.” Barriesque as can be are his re- marks to them: “Shakespeare’s Cordelia lamented that she could not heave her heart into her mouth, but my difficulty is in keep- ing mine out of it. “Sometimes I have met you, a few of you on the brae or in the square, and thought for a moment that you were my old friends, or parents, or grand- parents ever so like you but younger. “The greatest bond of all is that so many of your forbears now le with ml;\: in the sacred place so near this Atmo!pheric Beer. 1SS EILEEN CREELMAN, whose words of wisdom concerning the various vicissitudes of motion picture stars enlighten many a newspaper, has & good deal to say about Evelyn Laye's recent return to this country and her “LillL” Says she: “The English star is well pleased with the story, a tale of Vienna cabarets. While in Vienna this Spring she visited several beer gardens in order to study the atmosphere.” This news should put vim and vigor and & sense of the eternal fitness of things in many a downhearted star. For if Louls Bromfleld oan write a story for Miss Laye which necessitates her visiting beer gardens, think of the Ppossibilities of some southern yarns that during this time of year should demand and other southern liquid delicacies. Old P. T. Himself. THOUT changing even a letter of his name or doing more than shave his bean, Wallace Beery has been reconstructed more than any other fel- low by the movies to fit their various ends and_purposes. From Richard the Lion-hearted to P.T. Barnum is & big leap, but Wal- Ince has just stmply got to make i, Y Well, just because Grace Moore is going to make her first motion picture, and the story of that picture is to be based on the life of Jenny Lind, the immortal songstress of years and years ago. Ancient chronicles have it that it was P. T. who brought Jenny to America, hence— In case you don't know who P. T. Barnum was, the information is freely vouchsafed that he is the chap who first said “There's a fool born every GlEsNEEhBAB UatS e vice: EW bus service to Glen Echo Park was _recently inaugurated from Dupont Circle, and no passenger will be permitted to ride for whom a seat is not available. The route is from Dupont Circle out Massachusetts avenue to Q street, to Thirty-fifth street. to Reser- voir road, to Conduit road, to Glen Echo Park, returning over the same route. LEON JANNEY, Known as “the boy wonder” of the talk- ing pictures. He has featured roles in “Courage” and “Old English.” A Singing Villain. IME was when Noah Beery just looked and acted villainous. But since Vitaphone found his voice for Warner Bros. Beery has become the complete, 100 per cent villain and with the most villainous voice of the screen. It would have been a dire calamity for Beery had nature equipped him with a rugged face and figure and then handed him & piping tenor voice. But nature was kind to Noah. And his rascally basso-profundo, rich and deep, is a big asset to his performance in “Golden Dawn.” In this current film At Warner's Metropolitan, Beery is heard to advantage in the “Whip Song."” Previously he may be remembered as singing “One Little Drink” in “Song of the Flame” which established him as the screen's first, foremost and best singing scoundrel. NOW PLAYING RICHARD STRAIGHT With MARY LAWLER Dix at his very best in a rollicking romance—crashing his way through to the heart of a pretty girl — FREDDY CLARKE and HIS R-K-OLIANS £} and OTHER HITS - - AMUSEM ENTS. s Coming for Sure, Maybe! UICKLY upon the heels of the heralded attraction for the cur- rent week come the tidings of something bigger and better, maybe, for the week that fol- lows, which, however, will start in some instances on Friday of this week and on Saturday in others. Manager Hardle Meakin of the Fox, keenly alive to the importance of keep- ing things on the jump, announces that starting Priday the Fox will have the new Dpicture, “Women Every- where,” which _will introduce Fifi Dor- say, the vivacious little French come- dienne, who has made the top rung of the movie ladder of fame in one J. Harold who will gdbe remembered from Ziegfeld's famous galaxy of stage attractions, will play vis-a-vis. + Warner's Earle, starting also on Friday, will present a double bill, Will Osborn, “crooning and his Sweet Mam PR Dorsay. idol of the rad chestra, and (Alice White as the flapper and David Manners (he of “Journey's End"), Ken= {neth Thompson, Rita Flynn and Lee Moran also evidence. Alice is said ly as an emotional ac- eet’ Mama." At Warner's Metropolitan, also start- ing PFriday, “Recaptured Love” will stir and thrill with its emotional in- tensity and with Belle Bennett, John Halliday, Dorothy Burgess and Junior Durkin as the motive power. It 15 confided that “Recaptured Love” was ldlrud from Basil Woon's pl: “Mis- deal.” Those that will troop in on Satur- day to start their new week will be the Loew Theaters, the Palace and the Columbia, and Manager Corbin Shield's R-K-O Keith Theater. | “Inside the Lines,” with Ralph Forbes |and Betty Compson, is the brief an- nouncement for the R-K-O Keith. | The Palace will present Gary Cooper {in “A Man From Wyoming,” with June | Collyer as the girl. For good measure |1t will offer “Singing to the Stars” a new Capitol Theater stage bit of the revue type. The Columbia will replace “The Big House” with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production “The Unholy Three," fea- turing Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent and Harry Earles, with Lon Chaney, in his first talkie, as the star of the aggre- gation. Sporté and the Movies. "SPOHTS have played an important part in the progress of the motion plcture industry since its infancy,” says Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of Paramount. Lasky backs his statement with his- | torical proof, pointing out the foilow- ing sports high lights in the history ) of motion pictures, “Among the first subjects of Edison’s Kinetoscopes, or peep-holes, were athletic events. “The first exclusive star contract for film work was signed by a sports figure for a sports subject. “The first picture ever screened from a projector was of a sports event. “The first attempt at a scenario was for a sports subject. “The first feature-length picture was built around sports. “Because the success of motion pic- | ancestor of dramatic construction for films. “Soon, after this came the first | screening of a picture. The Lathams saw more profit in projecting the scenes against a wall for a iarge audience. They started work on a projector_and soon perfected the machine. Their first subject again was a sport event— a fight between Young Griffo and Bat- tling (Charles) Barnett and _was | screened at 153 Broadway, New York, on May 20. 1895 “From this we turn to March 17, 1897, when_Corbett and_Fitzsimmons fought at Carson City. Enoch Rector photographed 11,000 feet of film from that fight, the first time modern day screen footage was recorded from a single event. “Since those early days sports have been ever popular in pictures. The list of great sports films tells the story.” tures lay in recording movement, many | of the first subjects photographed for Edison's kinetoscope were of Eugene Sandow, strong_man: some trained | jumping dogs. Buffalo Bill in action, | marksmanship by Annie Oakley, famed as Little Sure-Shot, and Mme. Ber- tholdi, contortionist,” Lasky explains. | “The first fight film ever photographed | was a bout of 10 short rounds between | Michael Leonard and Jack Cushing. It was made in July, 1894. Six rounds were recorded and nearly a thousand | feet of film made. It was by far the | biggest venture then in motion pictures, | “It is noteworthy that through this | sports film & new scope was given these early peep-holes. Grey and Otway Latham and Enoch’ Rector, who staged | the fight film, conducted experiments which enlarged the camera maximum from 50 to 150 feet of film to accommo- | date a round. | “This_technical feat made pugilism the major influence of motion picture technical evolution for the entire first decade. “The Leonard-Cushing film encour- | aged the promoters to seek bigger names | and they signed James Corbett to fight Pete Courtney. Corbett's contract read | that he would not be photographed for any other kinetoscope, and this made it the first exclusive film contract. | “So that the match would exactly fit into six machines, the event was pre- arranged to conclude with a knockout | delivered by Corbett. 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