Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1930, Page 43

AMUSEMENTS. The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. The Moral Reform. understandable ambition to make’ If these worthies become con-| wish to see her name in print |y, takes ‘me severely to task for| DUt sweet cleanliness, then they will| give them (or, I should say. sell them) A my attitude of flippancy toward | Sive them « | . In fact, they will provide so' the meral code = formulated | mych soft soap that the public will be-| lately b 3 2 : 3 Teves Tha his, chde ot e poiea | Come sick ‘unto death of purty, and Tong telt a5, code of Jaws flls 8 will start shrieking for the restoration forcement will' elevate the tone of mc""t""' Shis has actually happened, movies to such an extent that respec- | 1°% Ofce but many times. table people will once more be able w\(_ ust at present the trend is unques- patronize them. (The correspondent | !ONably in the opposite direction. The adds that her fondness for the films MOVie market has lately been so thor- ended when she saw and heard “The |OUBNIY glutted with chorus girls in nat-| Cockeyed World.") | ural color that there is no longer any e At particular kick in a bare leg. This is THE SUNDAY .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 6, 1930—PART FOUR. PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Ambassado Vivenne Segal in “The Colden Dawn.” Comedy. r 4 Vivenne Segal in Vivenne Segal in “The Golden “The Golden Dawn.” awn.” Comedy. Comedy. Helen Johnson in “Children of ure. Comedy. Van and Schenck in s n “They Learned About e “Texan.” Pleas Vitaphone. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey n “The Cuckoos. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey n ““The Cuckoos.” Cartoon._Vitaphone. Women. Vitap) ety. ___Vitaphone variety. e Gomedy. Ruth Chatterton B n Claudette Colbert in Ruth Chatterton “Young Man of n 7 “Lady of Scards] ‘Lady of Scandal.” Vitaphove variety. Manhattan Cartoon._Vitaphone. Vitaphone variety. Claudette Colbs in “Young Man of Manhattan.” it Halrrd Ave. Grand .. . o #45 Penna. Ave. 8. ‘Manhatt: = Dark. Claudette co’)n}n’lm -Chud;n‘e “Colbert, Claudette Colbert n in Ramon_Novarro Young Man o Manhattan.” in “In Gay Madrid.” Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Clift_Edwards in “Lord Byron of Broadway. Comedy. Ramon, Novarro Jack Mulhall n “In Gay Madrid.” Vitaphone variety. “Strictly Modern.” n “The Fall Guy.” Vitaphone variety. Comedy. "Comedy. oung Man of Manhattan.” Lawrence Tibbe “Rogue Song. Comedy. Cartoon. Hays' code will be instantly forgotten. Do you mean to imply that the motion picture producers will dare to ignore the commands of the gentleman whom they have appointed to lead them?" gnies madam, T mean to imply just at. * | true also of the thinly-disguised bawdy isms with which “The Cockeyed World™ and similar comedies overflowed. The public has seen enough of under- | clothes and heard enough of blue-tinted | wisecracks for the time being. It is | now necessary for the celluloid mongers 425 9th Bt N.W. Louise Dresser in “Three Sisters."” Louise Dresser in “Three Sisters.” Dorothy Revier | " Dorothy Revier in “Call of the West." “Call of the West.” Comedy. Comed: hone variety. Evelyn Brent and William Powell in ““Darkened Rooms.” Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray in ong of the Flame." Vitaphone. Comedy. Bern) Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in ““The Cuckoos.” Fable, arion Davies | ““Floradora Girl.” Laurel and Hardy __comedy. Belle Bennett in & Mulnall Fanny Brice “The Fall Guy." Vitaphone varieiy. Matt Moore in 1l of West.” ‘Collegians.” _Cartoon. P . " riety. ‘Be_Yourself. ____ Comedy. Ken Maynard in “Lucky Larkin." “‘Couray _____Vitaphone Marion D i ““Floradora Girl."” Laurel and Hardy _Coerolmeet Constance Bennett and Robert Ames Com Serial “Satlors’ Holiday." Gary Cooper in “Only the Brave." Nancy Carroll in n “'Honey.” _____“Rich_People." aire and Alexander Gray in :'Song of the Flame." Vitaphone. Comedy. John Barrymore in “The Man From Blankley's.” Billie Dove in “Paramount on o Parade.” Sweetheart and Ramon Ne mon Ne o ~_ Willlam Boyd, Gen. Hays is not the commander of °f Hollywood to provide something else the great celluloid army. and Field &d to keep on providing it until that, Marshals Zukor, Sheehan, Warner and | '00. has been overworked. After which Schenck do not take orders from him. they can return, as they always do, to He is in reality no more than chief of 800d o0ld reliable, infallible sex appeal. the camoufiage division. It is his duty T ok to protect the operators of Hollywood's big guns from the scrutiny of enemy snoopers. _And let no one say that this isn't a difficult job. | edles are now emphatically on the wane. The phrase “sanctimonious smoke |The “all-singers, all-dancers” are be- screens” has already been used to de- COMIng obsolete. There will, of course, scribe some of Gen. Hays' operations, De many more jazz orgies on the screen and it fits this recent code all too well. [during the next few months, because It was not promulgated for the purpose | the film producers can't change their of reforming the movie magnates. In- Minds as quickly as the public can. deed, it is entirely possible that most ' However, they are being given convinc- of them have not bothered to read it|ing proof that “The Broadway Melody” TN which connection it is pleasant to observe that the movie musical com- through. It was promulgated solely to impress the public, and more particu- larly that section of the public which believes that the screen should be sub- Jected to rigid censorship. That it will be largely successful in its purpose is proven by the extent to which it has been taken in utter seri- ousness. (¢} = % ko NE of the strange misapprehensions that Gen. Hays has to combat is the theory that the film producers are| deliberately, diabolically’ attempting to eorrupt the public’s pure mind with obecenities or with incitations to crime. ‘These charges, it need hardly be said, are not exactly just. There is one pur-| Hays reform wave must be permitted| _ pose that animates the movie magnates in everything they do, and that is the | racket is virtually defunct. | There are also plenty of indications that last year's principal novelties, color | photography and double-width films | are not such sensational improvements as was at first hoped. The public is showing absolutely no inclination to insist that all movies be all-color, and it is being generally conceded that the, manifold inconveniences of the wide, shallow screen outweigh its few advan- tages. Thus, with yesterday’s crazes already worn out, Hollywood is wondering what | will be the cause of its enthusiasm and | the source of its profits tomorrow. | In the meantime, however. those re- marks about the negligibility of the | to stand. d (Copyright. 1930.) Then and Now. HERE is the hero of yesteryear? Where the heroine? And where the whiskered villain? Where are the hisses and_cat-calls tha entrance of the “heavy” “ums!” and the “ahs!” that circulated through the stalls when the wigged, simpering lady came into view And where the evidences of virtue tri- umphing over vice? ‘Where the If these symptoms of thespian tradi- | tion have passed away, if the eggs that used to come from the gallery are no | longer thrown on the wings of a for- gotten line, and if the hymns of hate that, unrestrained, followed the un- popular actor and rendered his career a series of miseries are muted and for- gotten, what has come to take their place? Or. one might say, what afe the qualifications of an actor in this day and age? Is the hero a monument of muscular iron, the heroine a mere “chit of a girl” and the villain hidden be- hind a drooping, horsehair-like mus- tache? Alas, no! This being a self-conscious era, in which brain is supposed to be triumphing over brawn (due mostly to Mother Volstead). little is left of our grandfather's ideals. The leading lady is now a bustleless object who wins her man not through the purity of her t marked the/ gold- | smile, attack. The hero no longer grabs his lady love from the arms of a beer-fum- ing villain, but resorts instead o | aenemic caif callings through a meg: | phone, bolstered up by a jazz band; and the villain, since he is no longer allowed | to reek of alcoholic sustenance, is a weak-kneed thing, gone slightly mad through his inabllity to hit the golf ball more than a hundred yards. Virtue, too, seems no longer indis- pensable. The most famous of our daily | heroines are mixtures of Cleopatra, | Texas Guinan, Carmen and Lysistrata. | To be good is to be uninteresting, and it doesn't pay to be uninteresting. There are no budding Mary Pick- fords, no spectacular heroes built by Strongfortism, no “heavies” brought up on the cigar plan. Polished and, as | Beatrice Lillie says, very ‘ree-fined,” | the leading players strut their littie |stuff in a whirl of incense and per- fume, and psychoanalyze each other instead of knocking each other out on the bar room floor. And although vice is head and shoulders above virtue, it has become too usual to attract much | whole-hearted attention. Life, in other words, is becoming a | great, big bore. Grandfather, as he | often said, must have been right. | Department Store Film. NO secret has been made of the fact that Joan Crawford's next picture will be “Our Blushing Brides.,” with Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian as the other brides. Robert Montgomery, Raymond Hackett and John Miljan will be_the three necessary young men. In this film also, in the words of Don- ald Henderson Ciarke, are what have been described as “palatial country es- tates and Park avenue apartments.” But the salient fact is that most of the action revolves around a department store and that Harry Beaumont, the di- rector, went out and borrowed one. Apparently the original plan had been to build a department store at the studio, but research disclosed that de- partment stores require a deal of elbow room and not a few odds and ends of merchandise to make them look prop- erly realistic. So Mr. Beaumont hired the May Co., one of the largest depart- ment stores in Los Angeles, expressly for the occasion. Along with the store Beaumont engaged its regular personnel as extras, and it was stipulated that he could make pictures as soon after clos- ing time on Saturday as he liked and |even continue on Sunday, but he had to have the store in its usual shape for the early morning trade on the following Monday. Mr. Beaumont first rehearsed his prin- cipal players in dummy sets at the studio, and when the time came he moved his sound equipment, lights and cameras into the store. Miss Crawford and the others worked side by side with | the regular clerks. Most of the pho- tography was done on Sunday, to escape the ordinary weekday downtown noises of Los Angeles, which were too much for the microphones. i Besides this department store episode there are others, including a bungalow built in a tree top on an island and a terraced garden on a Long Island estate. “Ultra-lavish” is the phrase used by the studio’s official observer in describ- ing these and other effects, but never a phrase at all to disclose the idea of bor- rowing a department store for a couple of days. And that's that. Songs Tailored to Fit. HIT songs of the future will be writ- ten to fit personalities, according to L. Wolfe Gilbert and Abel Baer, mel- ody creators for Paramount. ““The day of writing songs on general themes is gone, just as the reign of New York's ‘Tin Pan alley’ is ended.” say Gilbert and Baer. The audible gcreen has wrought both changes. Hollywood now is the popular song capital of the world, they declare, and melody creation has become a special- ized business in which writers work to- ward a definite goal. That goal is to turn out songs which fit film personal- ities and help tell screen stories. “Baer and I write songs to measure, like tailors fashioning clothes,” ex- plained Gilbert. “Only we strive to fit personalities rather than bodies. “For example, in doing song numbers for Clara Bow's new picture, ‘Love Among the Millionaires,’ our aim was not simply to write catchy airs and words. We tried to write songs which would express Clara Bow herself first of all, as well as to advance the story. “That second point is important. Putting songs into a picture just to prove that a player can sing is obso- lete. Melody numbers that stop action and hold up the progress of the story have no place in films of today. Only songs that do their part in telling the story and keep the action going are per- missible, ‘If properly done, personality songs will be popular for the same reason that the one who sings them is a favorite.” Important Announcement. HE movies rankle with envy when- ever anybody or anything seems to be putting something over on them. And they are equally prompt in re- sponding with a Roland for an Oliver. Paramount’s publicity man has not been blind to the iront-page stories of the naval pact, the recent crossing of the Atlantic by the English fiyers or the Lindbergh baby. Such things are a distinct infringement upon movie rights. It is not, therefore, to be won- dered at that he should strike quickly and severely, and he does. A recent flash from him brings the im; it announcement that the name of Charles Ruggles has been changed, and that “officially,” too. Hereafter Ruggles will be officially known in Par- amount literature as “Charlie Ruggles.” The idea suggests the fact that back in “the gay nineties” a little chap named Charlie Ross was stolen by kidnapers and his fate was never disclosed there- after. Might not some ruthless child snatcher steal the screen star under his new name? Isn't there a possible dan- ger of such a catastrophe? Berlin Borrows Ginger. BY arrangement with Paramount, Ginger Rogers, the young player who has made rapid screen progress this season, will play one of the prin- cipal roles in “Reaching for the Moon,” Irving Berlin’s initial venture as a mo- tion picture producer. “Reaching for the Moon” will be filmed at theu H‘:md M“sur; studio ‘1|n Hollywood. Rogers, who recently leading feminine role in Flux and Reflux. FTER a more or less uneventful but by the persistency of her | 3030 14t Circle Lottie Howell in 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. o “In Gay Madrid To, Dorothy Jordan and Ernest Torrence and Dorothy Sebastian in “Officer_O'} g Lottie Howell in “In Gay Madrid." Vitaphone variety. Richard Arlen and ry Brian in Lisnt of west- “Pa; ount on “Pa; lount on arade.” Parade.” rhe ] T “Paramount on Parade.” Colony Ga. Ave. & Parragut ohn Barrymore in “The Man From Blankle: Vitaphone “Paramount on Parade.” -afiiifl: “;V‘?;VU: and Dumbarton .33 ¥inersin. Comedy. 1343 Wises Fairlawn Anacostia. D. C. T Jack Holt and Llllt Lee o “Flight.” “Other_Tomorrow.” " Jack Holt and Lila Lee _Billie Dove and Jack Oakie in Grant Withers in “Pa ount on Parade.” ____ Comedy. Richard Arlen in “The Light of the Western Stars.” Comedy. Comedy. in “Flight.”” J. Harold Murray ani Norma Terris in “Cameo Kirby." F'm“’ Comedy. “The Racketeer.” Comedy. Cartoon. “The Racketeer.” Comedy. Cartoon. riety. Bert Wheeler and Bert Wheeler an Robert, Woolsey =X Robert Woolsey n ‘The Cuckoos.” Benita and _Jack Holt and Dorothy Revier in ““Venzeance.” John Barrymore in “The Man From Blankley's.” Vitaphone variety. Jack Oakic in “Paramount on Parade.” __Comedy. __ n e Sourage “The Cuckoos.” _ Vitaphone variets. v a Valli snd John Holland in “GuilLy.” ay. nwyck i nd a S exicala Rone.” Carol Lombard in “The Racketeer." __ Comedy. John Hollan Virginia V: Maurite Chevalier “The, K “Doing Phil a Favor." _“Sixteen Sweelies." Edmund Lowe and Constance Bennett in ““This Thing Called Love.” _Comedy. n Big Pond.” omedy u Comedy. £1h & G Sts. 8. - uster Keaton in o Hippodrohe i‘m. R %08 K St. N.W. Home IMhACSs NE. Jesse 3100 18th st. nee. Leader 9th & E Sts. N.W. rry Langd “The King. Dennis King n “The Vagabond Ring." Marx Brothers in ‘The Cocoanuts. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in “Sunnyside Up." Comedy. _Cartoon M “The Big Pond _Comedy. _Cartoon. _ n - “The Vagabond King." 5 i S Harry Langdon in . ‘omedy. he King News “Nancy Carroll in “Honey.” Comedy. News. i ell i “The River." Comedy. Comedy. _Cartoon. b Dennis Kk Ruth Chatterton n “Lady of Scandal." Vitaphone variety. ice Chevalier in John Arthur in Personality. Janet nor and Charles Farrell in “Sunnyside Up.” __Comedy. _Cartoon Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in “Sunnyside Up.’ Dark. Laurel Fox “Follies of 1930." Fox “Follies of 193 Comedy. Comedy. Ruth Chatterton Billle Dove in in -- “Lady of Scandal." . Vitaphone variety “Courage." Comedy. _ Comedy. _____ Vitaphone variety. Richard Dix in Ann Harding in & “Lovink the Ladies.” “Puris, Bound.” “Cohens and Kellys ghens and Ke . Ken Maynard in he Wagon Mester Georse Jessel in “ Hal Skelley in_ George Je: 2 “Men Are Like That." el in ve. Live and TFox “Follies of Laurel e oot Giibson “Trigker Tricks.” Comedy. Laukh. __Vitaplone. News. Polly Moran and Marie Dressler in “Caught Short.” Act._Comed and Hardy omedy. Robert Ames in “Nix_on Dames.” Comedy. News, Laurel. Md. Lyric Galthersburg, Md. o Joan Cri o Johnny Il‘ltl B A “Montans. Moon.” Dark. rown Princess mem st NE ord and Joan Crawford Johnny Mack Bre Dark. Richmond Alexandris. ¥ “'Soldlers d Savoy omen. ™" Comedy. AlleenPringle in Alleen Pringle in Duncan Sisters in "It's a_Great Life.”” edy. News. Duncan “It's a_Great Life.’ Comedy. News. Sisiers _Serial. elyn Brent in_ arkened Room." “Ta Helen Twelvetrees “Grand Parad r Gang comedy. News. nt in “Darkened Room. “Tarzon the Tiger, Cartoon. ) Cartoon. “Men Without n Women." *‘Montana Moon." =SS Norma Shearer and Norma nearer and Chester Morris in “Divorcee.” ___Comedy. Cartoon. Norma Shearer Cartoon oldiers and Women. Comedy. “The_Divorcee.” __Comedy. Kenneth McKenna Constance Bennett and Marceline Day and Regis Toomney B “Rich_People.” Dennis King and’ Jeanette McDonald Mary Nola in “Undertow.” Rod La Roque in in ° * _“Temple Tower." ‘Beau Bandit. Dennis King and Jeanette McDonald Dennis King and Jeanette McDonald in in “Vagabond King.” “Vagabond King." Clive Brook in James Gle “The Return of Sher- lock Holmes.” ___Comedy. Hal Skelley in “Men Are Like That." Comedy. ne News. ason fn Francis X. Bushman in “Call of the Circus Vitaphone variet R ““The Swell emptation.” Vitaphone variety. omedy. __Comedy. James Murray in “Hide Out.” Comedy Cooper in Helen Kane in Dass’ Leave.” ) “Pointed Heels. “Journey's End." Laurel-Hardy comedsy. Polly Moran and e Dressler in Caught Short.” Vitaphone. Sportlight Dennis King in “The_Vagabond King." Ga. Ave. & Quebee Laurel-Hardy comedy. " Polly Moran and George Bancroft “Journey's End “Ladies Love rutes.” Marie Dressler in “The Return of Dr. ‘Caught Short " Fu Manchu.” aphone. Sportiight _ Vitaphons. Comedy Dennis King Claudette Colbert in 3 “Youne Man of Manhattan in “The_Vazabond King. Vitaphone variety. Warner Oland in Johnny Arthur in Personality.”” oot Gibsos in wm. Collier. ir., in Mel “Courtin’ Wildcat . James Murray in elody Man. “Hide Out.” Edmund Lowe in “Born Reckless.” George Bancroft Rin Tin Tin in ‘Rouch Waters." James Murray in “The Hide Out.” ald “Denny n “What & Man." Our_Gang_comedy. in Edmund Lowe in adies Love “Born Reckless.” Brutes arner Oland in The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu,” Vitaphone. Comedy Claudette Colbert in “Younk Man of Manhattan Vitaphone variety. Buddy Rogers in “Safety in Num- ers. Vitaphone variety Dorothy Revier in “Murder on the Buddy Rogers | “Safety in Ni Pleasu Roof re Vitaphone. Comedy Vitaphone variety. Satisfying Audiences. HE comfort and happiness of audi- | ences were discussed at & Tecent convention of the Loew picture interests in New York. Nicholas M. Schenck opened the con- vention with the prediction of bigger and better things in the future. Vice President A. E. Schiller of the Loew Theaters presided, and, it is reported, brought up every possible subject whick: entertained. Louis B. Mayer forecasted a number of remarkable pictures in production and to be released by the Metro-Go'd- wyn-Mayer Corporation. Leo Fleish- man discussed at length the theme of air conditioning and the development of devices to control temperature and humidity, especially the latter, ing efforts to prevent the atmosphere from becoming ing the theater. Sound equipment, it was siated, developments may be available. Nothing in the reports from the con- vention, however, indicates that there was any consideration of the topic of seating improvement, to prevent wait- ing crowds in the theater .obbies and long queues of people that string from or more away, waiting patiently to get in the theater. The suggestion of re- serving seats for the various perform- ances doesn't seem to have been con- sidered. Players Playing 'Possum. W HENEVER you see any one reading Galsworthy, Shaw or Strachey on they are doing it merely to create an effect. Verree Teasdale, cousin of Sarah ‘Teasdale, the poet, and Edith Wharton, the novelist and author of a play her- self, seem to be of this opinion. Miss ‘Teasdale made the observation during a free moment at Paramount’s New York studio, where she has an impor- tant comedy role in Jack Oakie's new picture, “The Sap from Syracuse.” “I've tried both the deep and the frivolous types of literature, d I know,” the blonde voung actress chuckled. “There is so much confusion | and noise on a picture set and so many interruptions that it is next to impossi- | ble to read anything ‘heavy’ there. I | brought down a volume of Wells the | other day and found myself reading the | same line over and over, unable to make heads or tails of it in the din. “So hereafter I will stick to ‘studio literature,’ the lightest, fluffiest fiction I can find, and do my serious reading at a motion picture set you may be sure | NEW VERSION made for keeping the patron happily | touch- | “sticky” withcu: cmn-i i | being installed and tested in Loew's | theaters everywhere, so that the atest | the theater doors to as far as a block | Colman is the star of the production. KAY FRANCIS, | Who has the leading feminine role in i Sherriff's New Play. | | R, C SHERRIFF, rowing coach, in- | #¥* surance clerk and more commonly | known as the author of “Journey's End,” has written another play. Under the able direction of the now familiar James Whale it is being presented at a London | theater. Called “Badger's Green." it is | evidently a light, amusing comedy, far afield from the war drama that came from Mr. Sherriff’s pen. _Ward Morehouse tells that its recep- | tion was & kindly one, but that “the critics didn’t get excited about it.” One | of them called it “just a rustic little | comedy. of simple theme and unpreten- | tious humor,” and said, furthermore, | | that it is “a Vvery, very slight affair, but Mr. Sherriff has a pleasing gift for easy | dialogue, and he can certainly assert his claim to that sense of humor which | has been denied him.” OF “RAFFLES” | Thus and so, although the original | | printed pages probably will not be bound | | In morocco and given to the Nation as | |one of its proudest treasures. it does | | seem nice to think that Mr. Sherriff is a versatile gentleman who can be amus- ::g.:.bom a play as well as just plain Puu’ Over l”ant’One. i (CONTINUING that never-ending pol- | ™ icy of plueking Broadwayites from thelr native nests, Untversal announces that it has acquired the services of Genevieve Tobin, who until a week ago | was the most lithesome of ladies in ' “Fifty Million Frenchmen." Since the musical show in which Miss Tobin was featured is owned by the | Warner Bros., it would seem as though | Universal had put over what is known as “a fast one,” for sneaking a leading |lady from under the Warner banner must be something of & feat. | The name of the screen opus in which | Miss Tobin_spon will begin work ls “The Lady Surrenders.” Films Get Stuart Walker, |A GAIN Columbia Pictures announces | they have signed Stuart Walker, of | | the sound version of “Raffles.” Ronald Gaithersburg in Star Box. FTER the fashion of the radio ex- change announcer, The Star wel- comes to its family of “neighborhood houses” outlying theafers that make the big talkies possible in the big cities, the Lyric Theater of Gaithersburg, Md., whose list of attractions for the coming week will be found attractive. Manager Hobart Ramsdell states that his Lyric Theater is equipped “to pre- sent to thelr very best advantage” the finest of talking pictures that come, and which, he adds, are “almost as popular in Gaithersburg as is The Evening home.’ A “fling” in the talkies, Lenore Ulric is heading Eastward again, and will be seen in the Fall in a new play by Wil- liam DuBois, the title for which is a deep and dark secret. ‘Thus the Hollywood migration begins to turn tide, and one may safely believe that before long the train that carries disillusioned stars back to the sidewalks of New York will be a many-car affair. Miss Ulric, however, has a long and bright future ahead of her, and need not worry about her Saturday night beans. ' Last seen on Broadway in “Mima,” under Belasco's paternal wing, she drifted with others to California, where the producers gave her Rin-Tin- Tinian material, and now, after her new play, she will probably trot back there again and see what the directors have to say for a second time. Back and forth—that's the game now if your life concerns itself with following the grease paint. E— Liner Docks at Studio. pARAMOUNT has constructed a rep- lica of the promenade deck of the Cunard liner Berengaria at its New York studio as the background for Jack Oakie's new picture, “The Sap From Syracuse.” In honor of the picture plant’s loca- tion, the vessel has been rechristened the S. S, Astoria, the “ia” ending on the name indicating that it is a Cunarder. Uniforms of officers are the same 8 those worn on the Berengaria, and the furniture also is copled exactly. Another interesting feature is the shield of the German Empire, whlchl -qneln on one wall of the royal suite. Berengaria was one of, the Star.” WELD OVER THE BIG . HOUSE U TRUTH ABOUT PRISON RIOTS/ CHESTER MORNNIS WALLA ESBEERY ROBERT MONTGOMENY LEWIS STONE ~ LEILA HYAMS Added Attraction, ‘LAUREL & HARDY 2= . in e M-G-M Ce Eddie Cantor in Shorts. ,THE first of a series of novelty one- | reel pictures, called “The Cockeyed something with a flourish. It seems stock company fame, to a long-term contract. Not only is this company especially proud of having acquired this mogul director of repertoire for its studo staft, - | but it points with pride to his discern- | News,” will present Eddie Cantor in & |ing eye, which is said to have turned new type of entertainment. Just com- | many a humble Thespian into a gilded | pleted by Paramount, it is about to be | Cinderella. Among the Walker Cin- | shown as one of the short feature |derellas, male and female, have been | group. | Ben Lyon (Mr. Bebe Daniels), George It is described as a take-off on the | Kelly, Morgan Farley, Elliott Nugent, Paramount Sound News, with a great|John Wray, Kay Francis and Helen variety of travesty scenes. Twelvetrees. 1 coot A omeo cow Pl aTast Y AYING AMUSEMENTS,. New One Night Stand. THE most adventurous suggestion in a long time, as set forth by Mr. Frank Gillmore, president of the Actors Equity Association. is to the effect that for the benefit of the New York sub- apart for his delectation by raising the curtain a whole hour or more ahead of time, thus sllowing him to get to an early bed. This idea is one of those hot-Summer- weather brain children that may o may not blossom fruitfully in the Fall. Mr. Gillmore says that he is very, very serious. And so, perforce, must every one else be, It is Indeed an extremely benign idea —that of giving out-of-towners their full eight hours sieep after theater time, and one which might possibly travel through the country. One wonders what might be its fate in Washington if suddenly the theaters reserved say Thursday nights for commuters from the wilds of Rockville, Staunton and Chevy Chase or even Baltimore. Cer- revellers would be cut once more in the open air and home, considerably before the crickets began their pre- morning chirrupings. There is, however, danger—as Stephen Rathbone points out—in the fact that absent-minded diners, inclined to do the best by their unabstemious guests might arrive ‘at the theater to find it ‘OU can tell which way the wind is blowing by watching the drift after & New York official reception. And if you can't get to the meiropolis, you can Ruess right here in Washington by watching where the congressional bills go_that do not pass More _especially speaking of the movies, the curious who love to speculate are wondering If those “maggots” who run things are losing confidence in their screen actors and actresses. Nearly everything has been tried as & substitute | by them except trained seals in & love story, and, be it said, there have been horses which have fairly galloped away with the pictures in which they appear- ed, while all the world knows of Rin Tin Tin, the famous dog actor. Now, however, they seem to be lean- ing to all-animal casts, as & substitute for the “all-star” affairs, for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer is going to make an- urbanite, one night a week shall be set | tain it is, that by 9:30 these indoor | Losing Confidence‘? | dark and the performance terminated. | And that actors, suddenly out of work at such a childishly early hour, might \mrm themselves and dissipate years of habit by turning in before 1 or 2 o'clock, These dangers are mild though com- pared to the satisfaction to be reaped, according to Mr. Gillmore, by tne now delighted commuters. The Joy of col- lecting the family at 6 Instead of 7, cramming them skillfully into the an- cestral Ford and trotting them down to & 630 egg-salad supper at Childs, before seeing & 7:15 show, are such torrentially satisfying thoughts, that the possibilities of perhaps having to work late at the office and missing most of it are easily forgotten. One lady, in fact, from Hyattsville, reports that if this system is adopted. she will be at the theater promptly every Thursday night, all of which should start the season with a bang. Others, too, are said to be ready to follow. The man whose wife takes three hours to dress is of course, eliminated from ever hoping to attend. Bv the time the last hook has grappled with its mate, the performance will be over and done with—and the family next door | coming home, gloating over the early | curtain—and talking about it, over the ice box, until 2 in the morning. After all, a staunch suburbanite, snaps his fingers at such trivialities ar sleep—or doesn't he? | other all-dog comedy. Its title, as announced from the head offices, is | “All Quite on the K§ Front.” There |15 comedy even in the title—K9 being |a very cute hint at the word canine, | And this fifth of the series of “all- ‘lml‘kh- comedies more cute comedy, you will observe, has two directors, Zion Myers and Jules White, while the pie- | ture 18 to be a “combination of terrier, bloodhound and pekingese stars and synchronized voices,” to quote the lan- guage of the announcement, It would be sad to lose the human element from the talkies, but if it isn't meeting with box-office approval, per- haps it will have to go. The doggies have made some fine pictures including | “Hot Dog." “College Hounds,” “Who | Killed Rover?” and “The Dogway Mel- | ody,” all, you will notice, with cute com= | edy injected Into the titles. But the-pes- | simistic will be sure to ask: Is humanity getting tired of humans in pictures? Rod LaRoéque’sW Romance. OD LA ROCQUE'S career on stage and screen was not instigated by a rebellion against the family hearth He didn't have to run away from school, switch or broom. Unlike many now pulsating cinema stars, he began his footlight activities with complete malice aforethought. At the age of 7 Willard Mack politely implored Rod to fill a role left vacant by a measles-ridden child. And since, in those days, there was no law which pre- vented babes in arms, or even younger, from doing their bit on the stage, Mas- ter La Rocque complied readily, and forthwith began acting as only a boy of 7 can. After that it seems that fame came in snatches and in between these snatches there were momentous doldrums of de- spair and impecuniousness. However, young La Rocque, seizing opportunity in that strangely vaporized town of Chi- cago, applied to the ancient cinema firm of Essanay and there amid the distant mooings of soon-to-be-butchered cattle, learned the art of the motion pictures, too idolized gentleman, but bloomed into manhood's pmgortlons. played not the handsome, breath-taking hero, but the role of the dark. mean, oily villain, whose sad lot consisted in watching Bryant Washburn woo the girl of his heart. Even the all-import- ant part of a villain in those lack daisical days, however, id but a small pittance, so when Essanay studios sud- denly closed its doors, Mr. La Rocque had to borrow his buggy fare to New York. New York for Rod proved to be. strangely enough, the land of promised dreams. No sooner had he stepped off the train than he was literally rushed to the studios and told to make love to Billie Burke in the picture, “Let's Get Married.” Following this he made five productions for Samuel Goldwyn, a few opposite Mabel Norman and Mae recently DUMBARTON i govs ihe GRANT WITHERS in_ “OTHER TOM- QRROW." Comedy, “TICKLISH BUS- CAROLINA 'ty [ SISTE! with LOUISE_DRESSER PRINCESS "7 S5,N% The Northeast JOAN CRAWFODRD JOHN MA( B in_"MONTANA MOON." L R L A JESSE THEATER '3, ¥ R GicvaPhotophone. #th Continous from 3 NCROFT in “LADIES LOVE APOLLO 4 m s NE TODAY and TOMORROW — BERT WHEELER aud ROBERT WOOL- in_“THE_CUCKOOS." COLBERT __MAN_OP_MANHATT Warner Bros. #th St Bet D and & TODAY and TOMORROW — DOR- QTHY REVIER in “CALL OF THE 7" Ga. Ave. & Farragumt 80 TODAY and TOMORROW . ALL. STAR CAST in “PARAMOX Ol RADE." Warmar Bree 0 B AR TODAY and TOMORROW--DENNIS KING in “THE VAGABOND KING.” Warner Bros.” W 14th & Cel. R4 N.W. SAVOY TODAY and TOMORROW_AILEEN PRINGLE in “SOLDIERS AND WOME! X Warner Bros. & Park R4 TODAY ' and TOMORROW__POLLY M ORAN and MARIE DRESSLER in_"CAUGHT SHORT." Warner Bros. YORK G ave: & Quebes 8t. N.w. TODAY “and TOMORROW-—DENN KING In “THE VAGABON FAIRLAWN _ ANACGSTIA. D, 0. HT.” JACK HOLT in Typheon Cooled. “IN GAY MADRID.” RAMON NOVARRO, DOROTHY JORDAN, LOTTICE HOW- e e g ICHMOND romoriow & Tuesdsy. DI 'NORMA SHEARER Al Mt. Rainier. Md. Tomorrow" and Tuesday “ROGUE SONG." LAWREN At that time, the slim, not . Marsh and then played opposite Alice Brady in the stage version of “Alice Ascends.” The more imminent accomplishments of Mr. La Rocque are current table talk Probably his most notable achievement is the fact that in the face of the stern- est competition he succeeded in chang- ing Vilma Banky's name to his own. Mantillas, supposed to be distinctavel |local in San Salvador, are now bel made in France and shipped to thy country. COME_WHERE IT'S COOL WARNER BROS. AR R —_—— 15th_St. Just Below ¥ Reckless—Daring—Hard Riding —Hard Fighting Men—That's ZANE GREY'S “THE BORDER LEGION 4 Paramount Picture With RICHARD ARLEN JACK HOLT FAY WRAY — ADDED — NDY CLYDE MARJORIE BEEBE in “THE CHUMPS" A Comedy Hit VitapRone Varlety LOTTI LODER in “LONELY _GIGOLO" EARTE NEws WARNER BROS. METROPOLITAN “GOLDEN DAWN” The Conflict of Fierce Passions —the R”"“”“.'":' Young Love VIVIENNE SEGAL WALTER WOOLF NOAH BEERY —added— Vitaphone Varleties JOE FRISCO in “THE SONG PLUGGERS" D! NEELY 8. HER _RELATIVES" Graham McNamee News (*) Indicates Where Film Is Being Shown Today. District of Columbia *THE METROPOLITAN—F st. n.w. AMBASSADOR—I18th and Col. rd. n.w. APOLLO—624 H st. n.e AVALON—Conn. ave. and McKinley AVENUE GRAND—645 Pa. ave, s.e. CENTRAL—9th st. ne. SAVOY—3030 14th st, STANTON—515 C st. n.e. VAN—104 Rhode Island ave. n.w. TIVOLI—14th and Park rd. n.w, TAKOMA—4th and Butternut sts. *YORK—Georgia ave. and Quebec. n.w. Maryland and Virginia MARYLAND—Hagerstown, Md. ARCADE—Crisfield, Md. ARCADE—Hyattsville, Md. ASHTON—Clarendon, Va. BERKELEY—Berkeiey Springa: ] eley Springs, W. Va. CAPITAL—Cumberland, MI."’ CAPITOL—Winchester, Va. COMMUNITY—Ridgely, Md. CREWE—Crewe, Va. EMPIRE—Pocomoke City, Md. FIREMENS HALL- 'S HALL—Willard GLOBE—Berlin, Md, shham IMPERIAL—Brunswick, Md. JEFFERSON —Rrookneal, Va. LYRIC—Fishing ¢yeek, Vo, MARADA—St, Michaels, Mt.. MARYLAND—Kitsmiller, Md. MASONIC—Clifton Forge, Va. Hll.vll.l.l‘—Sylnl:Ilfn, L vi s NEW-—Aberdeen, Md. Sy NEW—Elkton, Md, NEW VIRGINIA - fiarrison A—Hal burg, Va. OPERA HOUSE, Leesburg, Va. OPERA HOUSE—Piedmont, W. Va. PALACE—Frostburg, Md. PALACE—Hagerstown, Md. RAMONA—Westminster, Md. REPUBLIC THEATER—Annapolis. ROCKBRIDGE—Buena Vista, Va. STATE—Bethesda, Md. STATE—Westminster, Md. STRAND—Staunton, Va. WALLACE DALE—'