Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1930, Page 55

r AMUSEMENTS. The Moving Pi. e Moving Picture cAlbum By Rolert E. Sherwood. NE of the many odd things|and hears any of the standard thinly about the movie business is| veiled obscenities, what can its members that, whereas you can have|do? Suppose one of them should speak up and announce: “I object to that. ‘Har-| That is only another way of saying bor” you cannot|so-and-so.” In protesting thus the permit a character on the screen to use the word “hell.” In the communi- ties where censorship laws exist the hibitions against profanity in all its :;’ns are strict and definite, and the éelluloid merchants are bound to re- t them. “This has caused all sorts of embar- rassment to those producers who ha essayed to make pictures which repre duce the talk of soldiers, sailors, Ma- rines and other varieties of red-blooded, loose-tongued he-men. The dialogue of such rough fellows, to be realistic, ires at least a sprinkling of salt. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is ly conceded to be the most vio- tly outspoken of all screen dramas. It presents the stark, naked truth. And get, even in the moments of greatest @tress, of most unbearable horror, none ef its characters can burst out with any of the words and phrases that provide the meat in every soldier's ‘Vocabulary. Similarly, “The Big House” which | deals with jailbirds, contains an amaz- ing demonstration of understatement. We see murderers, forgers and assorted thugs running wild, but we never hear ene mildly ugly word escape their lips. can throw gas bombs at each ether, but they mustn't use rough lan- | guage. How different it is on the uncensored stage, where the most brutal and un printable epithets have become as us and therefore as innocuous as “Oh, stuff | and nonsense!” or “You old silly, you!” | | * X ok % T is not the intention of this weekly | column to start a crusade in be-| hailf of more and louder blasphemy on | the screen, but it would seem that eertain improvements might be made in the restrictions now imj L The trouble is that the nimble-witted dialogue writers in Hollywood are man- aging to find substitutes for all the eommonplace oaths and vulgarisms, and these deceptive substitutes are apt to be far ]vvru than the forbidden words ves. I should like to reprint herewith some of the remarks that I have heard recently on the screen, but I don't care to do so, for I know that they would be deleted by watchful editors before they could possibly sneak into print. Edito:s aren't so easy to fool as censors are. Editors are realists. ‘When a censor board is inspecting a $im in the privacy of a projection room | of feet of film would have been saved, | have “All Quiet on the Western Front” censor_would be telling nothing less than the truth, but he would also be advertising his own evil mind—admit- ting his knowledge of some of the com- monplace but unlovely elements in our language. can and do get away with all sorts of furtive tricks. Ninely per cent of all the audiences recognize them for what they were intended to be and are pro- voked to outbursts of coarse laughter. Perhaps it is from the remaining 10 per _cent—the innocent, bewildered mi- nority—that the censor boards are re(‘Prulted. ersonally I wish they'd speak out and be done with it. If, for r:'nsunc?. impersonated by Edmund Lowe) had been allowed to give vent just once, and in no uncertain terms, to the thoughts which were unmistakably uppermost at all times in his mind, then hundreds and the audience would have been spared an inestimable amount of ob- vious circumlocution, Also I doubt very much whether we would ever again have to see Mr. Lowe Lnt:.lnm’partwuar part—which would be essing. We've e Sy had about enough of * K % % ACERTAIN Maj. Pease has met with scant success in his attempt to banned in the United States on the ground that it is subtly pernicious Soviet propaganda, intended to wreck the structurc of our democracy by dep- recating the glories of military service. | There has been a widespread tendency | to file Maj. Pease’s warnings under the general head of “What of It?” In Germany, however, the public in- dignation against “All Quiet” is assum- ing formidable proportions. At first it was feared there that Universal would not make the picture a faithful tran- script of Remarque's book. Now certain patriots have decided that it is alto- gether too faithful. It represents young German soldiers as cowardly neurotics and is therefore a studied insult to the entire Teutonic race. It might be added that there have been precisely similar objections in Eng- land to the scrupulously faithful film verson of “Journey's End.” Which just goes to show that, in the judgment of some people, Holiywood can't possibly win. (Copyright. 1930) — Eddie Can Tn ‘most energetic actor in the world is the gentleman who appears to- . tomorrow and the day after—in fact, up until Saturday—on the stage of the Earle Theater—Eddie Cantor by name, age limit 36, married and has five children, all girls, and whose home 18 now near the city of mimic but audi- ble shadows—Hollywood. Mr. Cantor is said not to have been & well brought up child. That may have been because he was born over a Russian tea room, where possibly the fumes of vodka dissipated the purity of his milk. Purthermore, he is said to Bave added considerable to the chaos and bedlam of New York's East Side By dancing and singing and playing all over the crowded streets. At a tender age Eddie became a stock clerk, and from then on life looked at him with increasingly friendly smiles. Not long afterward Eddie turned him- #elf into a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer garden, and shortly after that Gus Edwards saw him and booked tor’s Saga. George Jessel, Eddie Buzzell, Lila Lee and Gregory Kelly. Nineteen hundred and furteen saw Mr. Cantor in love, married in London and appearing in “Charlot’s Revue.” The war sliced the engage- ment practically in two and Eddie re- turned to New York. Again he heark- ened to the call of vaudeville. Earl Carroll “spotted” his act in Los Angeles and reported to Oliver Morosco, Who with much gusto propelled Cantor into his musical show “Canary Cottage.” Thence to the “Follies"—Ziegfeld™, in- cidentally—was but & jump, and then Mr. Cantor romped through more “Fol- lies,” “The Midnight Rounders” and “Make It Snappy.” “Kid Boots” was a pleasant little in- terlude of two vears for Eddie, and it was_followed by stardom in the “Fol- lies.” Mr. Cantor wound up in “Whoo- | pee.” which has kept him busy ever since—its picture version has just been completed. There you have it. and if you don’t believe it, trot around to the Earle and Rim for his 1912 “Kid Kabaret,” along with other struggling artists, notably ask Eddie himself. L Invented the So it is that the wary film prnducvrs! the bawdy sailor in “The Bad One” (as | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D C, PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK AUGUST 3, 1930—PART FOUR. g AMUSEMENTS. 3 that the radio is WEEK OF ¥ r 2 i 5 Natst's Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday S talking pictures, Well, there are | the lassies. Constance Bennett Constance Bennett Constance Bennett Dolores Del Rio Dolores Del Rio Marion Davies in Richard Dix in some who are equally sure it is Ambassador n n in in in ., 'The Floradora Girl.” “Shooting Straight. not. “Three Faces “Three Faces “Three Faces “The Bad One.” Come: Vitaphone variety. Ever since the movie first crept out Imlkc-lnm. Rd. East.” Ei Ea: Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Comedsy. of nowhere and planted itself in aban- A Buddy Rogers In Gary Cooper in Gary Cooper in ‘Billie Dove in Reginald Denny Richard_Arlen and | doned stores to the tunes of a tinkling | | Apollo s 4R i ik SRk The durions «what'E Man» The Boraer Lesion.” | PlAno—even now after it has conquered €24 H St. N.E. me Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Variety. Comedy. the earth—it has Richard Arlen and and Lillian_Gish in the South “Byrd at the South Reginald Denny had one ambition. Fay Wray in : ntie Po ole. in ¥ Avalon T L T W “Ong Roma Vitephoou varlety. Vitaphoue variets, _what's Man." That _ambition, 5612 Conn. Comedy. _Variety. Comedy. _Variety. __Comec ___Cor g Vitaphone variety. long since de- “Buddy Rogers in Buddy Rogers in John Barrymore in Billie Dove in veloped into a firm “The Man From L determination, has Ave. Grand _ 5" “True to the Navy.” 615 Pa. Ave. S.E.___ Vitaphone variety | { Carolina | ith & N.C. Ave. S.E | Cameo | Mt._Rainier, Md. El Brendel in “Follies of 1930." Clara_Bow in ‘Safety in Num- “True to the Navy.” ber 5. Vitaphone variety. " vari El Brendel in Fl Brendel i “Follies of 1930 “Follies of 1930. Chester Morris and Chester Morris and “Safety in Num- ers Vitaphone variety Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey n Blankley's.” Comedy. Bei Robert Woolsey n ““The_Cuckoos.” rt Wheeler and “The Noforl Affair o Comedy. Resinald Denny 1 been to nock out” all rivals. ‘When first it be- gan to dicker, 1t walked along the “Embarrassing Moments Edmund_Lowe in “Born Reckless.” Richard Arlen s and v Mary Brian in favorite Gary Cooper in Central & Polly Moran and n Gary, Marie Dressler Polly Moran and Warner Oland in *The Return of Dr. Fu hu.” *The ‘Return of Dr. in sight. n e Social Lion Marie Dressler ““The Texi 4 e 1 in Manchu.’ Manchu.’ L 425 9th St N.W. Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. “Caught. Short.” “Caught_Short.” Jomedy. omeds. vitaphone Vari be a clothing store, . El Brendel and T _Brendel and Warner Oland and Marie Dressier and Marie Dressler and Nancy_Carroll a popular drug Circle (Mariorie White in Marjorle White in , Jean Arthur in Polly Moran Polly Moran picts 74 store, a jewelry W Movieton vietone - turn of . In n . L] 2105 Pa. Ave. NW. _ “Follies of 1930 “Folliss of 1930 Pu"Manchu.” “Canght Short." “Caught 8hort." Holld bR seh e narbiatare, Dolores Del Rio Dolores Del Rio Gary Gooper Gary Cooper Billie_Dove in Fanny Brice But whatever it was, it simply disap- Colony n in in in *“The Notorious in | o Loty 3 % “The_Bad One.” “The Bad One.” “The Texan." Affair “Be Yourselt." | peared, and very soon thereafter the Ga. Ave. & Farragut Comedy omedy. Vitaphone vatiety. ___ Vitaphone variety. _ Vitaphone. Comedy. _Vitaphone variety Comeds. music of its punky piano could be | Dumbarton o s ity ik OGN Lm0 g e che Wit Brigt he RS oRRR AT Reselh, ARHAR | poure inl the doprs! Why. they were Tan an elen Johnson in “With Byrd at the X alph_Forbes in poured into the doors! Why, they were Skeets oL t] y in < i v b | 343 Wiseanstn ave, e meASpAr fn Children of South Pole. South Pole. Lagy of Island.” "blggcr and crazier than ever. Why? . Warner Oland and O] Bebe Daniels in Hoot Gibson in “Tom Moore and Marguerite Churchill (Simply because now there was a movie | Fairlawn .. Jean Arthur in Jean Arthur in “Alias French Gertie." Mounted Blanche Syeet. in " “Chas. Eaton in | inside. “The Return of Dr. “The Return of Dr. ‘omedy. [ “The Woman Racket.” armony at Home. The proud and haughty theater looked Anacostia, D. C. __Fu Manchu. Com.__Fu Manchu.” Com. __ Comeds. Comedy. _Review. ‘Sporting Youth-"_ | qown upon its petty competitor with 2 Victor McLaglen George Bancroft i George Bancroft in i Family «Ladies Love Brutes.” “Ladies Love Brutes.” “The Big Hop."” Sistun, even conlempt. . Nellher Xk o i Comedy: ‘Ack. gers nor players could see it for a 8th & G Sts. SE. Sartoon: y . moment. And now look at them! . Charles & and Mary Brian and Mary Brian_and hrilling_Western, ley are wiped out. And the ovie Hlppodrome wgESisle Love in oBessie Love in Frederick March in Frederick March in Fardon My Gun." | did the “.‘pm%' e m 808 K St N.W. Comedy. A ety toon: round:. Gomedy, __ round." Comed. Comea: 1o Sery Ume anything, no matter what Vivienne Segal Del R lores Del Ri lata_Bow orothy s a fa Home Wlll(!!{dlida‘E?:.flxd Dnlorelh‘ io Doaulm el Rio Jack L‘."“"“ GClara Bow D ,.T,‘,dp,,,; . }mme wxlth the great mass of rest- o “Bride of the “The Bad One.” ““The Bad One."” “The Fall Guy."” “True to the Navy."” less people who inhabi 13th & C Sts. Regiment." Vilaphone varieiy. __ Vitaphone varieiy. __Vitabhone varieiy. Comedy. : every time 1t mhbe;bxfm‘hfie::nxz' :’y‘.': A - A e C o T ‘Tearle ') Jesse Ruth Chatterton 1n Olive Borden In _ Charies Murray fn 0o By ooy Evelan Drest in SRS | s ey came tncyprcictiv i - al. “Dance Hall.” “‘Around the Cq Y “Case of Se “Slightly Scarlef “The Lod| — = . 300 18h st me. i T T gk b . Zeppelisr The latest in the line of deadly rivals Victor McLaglen Victor McLaglen George Arliss_in George Atliss in_ Charles Murray and Charles Murray was the radio. The radio was certain Laurel Dark. and Fifi Dorsay in and Fifi Dorsay in “The Green Goddess.” “The Green Goddess.” _George Sidney in George Sidney in _ |to annihilate the flickering phantom | “On the Level." i Level.” itaphone_act. Vitaphone act. “Around the Corner.” *“Around the COTNer.” | o¢ 4no'coraon ov P | i T vitatons, Gama omedy. oSN St Gamedy. Rad bogun to/ make. 1 talk and et e | “Boul_of France.” Helen Morgan in n Kenneth McKe: Comdr. Byrd Comdr. Byrd anag ac Leader Comedy. “Road House Nights." emple Towi “With Byrd at the “With Byrd something keenly alive. And now what 9th & E Sts. N.W. AlSYimsons Comedy. Vitaphone act. South’ Pole.” South Pol has_happened? : . N.W. act. ___Cartoon. X Comedy. Vita) . _Comedy. Vitaphone. The movie has started to devour the 0 Buddy Rogers in Edmund Lowe in Edmund Lowe i v Cooper y radio. And how! c Dark. “Young Eagles.” “This Thing Called “This Thing Called The Texan. he Texan. Peshang st dio's Galthersburg, Md. Colortone Review. Love."” ve. “Tarzan the Tiger.” “Tarzan the Tiger. ps the radio’s greatest gift bl < il New: 3 Comedy. News. Comedy. _News. Cartoon. Cartoon. from heaven is Graham McNamee. Thrilling Mary Eaton in TLoulse Fazenda in Ruth Chatterton in Evelyn Brent in Western feature. Ton Chaney in |Oh, ves! Fellows that follow the Pahcg ‘Western. “Glorifying_the “House of Horrors.” “The Laughing “Slightly Scarlet. Comedy. “Thunder. broadcast of prize fights don't like him. Comedy. American Girl.” medy. Lady.” ‘Cartoon. Fable. Neither do those with shots 307 9th st. n.w. _Cartoon! Comedy. Fable. Cartoon Comedy. News. News. bt S e el b i . Polly Moran and Polly Moran and v Eddie Gribbon and vl % . Princess Marle Dressier Marie Dressler Lois Moran in “Young Man, of 'Kndy Ciyde Gary Cooper in | Who think the chap from Atlanta dou- In i & Manhattan.” in “The Virginian.” 1119 H §t. N.E. “Caught_Short.” 2. “Midnight Daddies.” e D: Fox_Movietone Robt, Armstrong and _ Robt. Armatrong and _ Vitaphone. Comedy. Victor McLaglen Dark. “pollles.” Barbara Kent in Barbara Kent in “'On the Level.” “On the Leve On West Rlchm°l|d Vitaphone act. “Dumbells inErmine.” “Dumbells in Ermine.” Vitaphone act. Vitaphone act. COHSI Alexandris, Va. R = < __Comedy. Vitaphone. Comedy. V! ne. Comedy. ____ Comedy. Comedy. “Lowell Sherman in, Wi, John Gilbert and John Gilbert and George Durves in George Sidney in savoy He Knew Women.” “He Knew Women.” Renee Adoree in Renee Adoree in “Pardon My Gun.” = “Around the Corner." omedy. Comedy. “‘Redemp!ion. “Redemption.” ‘Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. 3030 14th St. N.W. _Vitaphone varieties. Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Comedy. ‘Toples. Comedy. Charles Murray in “Around the Corner.” Duncan_Sisters The Gleasons n “It's_a Great Life.” n “Shannons of Sally Starr_in “Buddy” Rogers in * 2 “Pardon My Gun.” “Youns Eagle: Jack Holt in Evelyn Brent in “Vengeance.” “Slightly Scarlet.” Norma Shearer in Takoma Park, D. C. “The Divorcee.” Brosdway.” jorma Shearer in N Evelyn Brent in “The Divorcee.” “Framed.” Dressler_and Marie Polly Moran olly n “Caught_Short.” Evelyn Brent in “Framed.” Marie_Dressier and _George O'Brien in Polly Moran “Rough Romance.” n “Caught_Short.” ~voh Lillian_Gish in Lillian_Gish in Vivienne Segal Vivienne Segal Gary Cooper in ary Cooper in T rlen in Tivoli o aompntic “Ong Romantic n in “The Man From he Man From “The Border Leglo & Park RA. sht.” ght."” “Golden Dawn.” “Golden Dawn.” yoming.” Wyoming. Vitaphone variety. AR S Fark e Varlety. Cartoon Variety. Cartoon. Comeds. ___Comedy. Vitaphone. Comedy. _ Vitaphone. Comedy. Comeds. Buday Rogers in Buddy Rogers in Mary Astor in Billie Dove in York “Safely in Num- “Safely in Num- Dolores Del Rio in Dolores Del Rio *The Runaway “The Notorious “Byrd at the bers. ers.” “The Bad One.” ““The Bad One.” Bride.” flair. South Pole. Ga. Ave. & Quebec Cartoon. Review. Cartoon. Review. Comedy Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. A Screen Blonde “Goofus.” 'O brief years ago, during a week of rain the University of Harvard disgorged upon a callous world, 600 or more youths eager to take the world by storm. Among these was an ardent de- votee of the piano, Charlie Henderson, ose soothing tintinabulations on this wvery instrument and his Iyrical musical eompositions had done much to put the Harvard Hasty Pudding Club musical @omedies on the map. This young man who, as they say in “Holiday,” could “charm a bird off a when bending low over the that made him ambitious. “It In-! spired me with vim and vigo this very modest young man, “as well | as with ‘Deep Night.'” It was just| about this time that he settled down and wrote_the popular melody, which has been floating melodically on the breezes ever since. After that fate touched his ' pleas- antly on the shoulder. He enlisted in Waring’s Pennsylvania Orchestra to make the world happier for democracy, and since then he has been playing, composing and generally attending to sprang into spotlight fame the invention of an instrument known as the “goofus,” the playing of which brought him no less than eight encores every time he appeared with it on_the stage. 1t was the “goofus,” Mr. Henderson | elaimed, when interviewed recently, | able than_almost any other on the being famous. Charlie is the author of “So Beats My Heart for You,” the tune which is doing more to make the torrid heat bear- | market. He's at the Palace this week, where he’ll tell you about the if you ask him. | too, oofus,” Rudolf Priml had not shivered| through the cold of a Bohemian| Winter when he was 4 vears old, he might not be numbered today among the world’s virtuosi composers of light Ta. The creator of an amazing list of| Mght operatic hits is now living in a gardened retreat in Beverly Hills, Calil. writing original scores for Arthur Ham- merstein’s series of full-length musical features for United Artists, the first of which is “The Lottery Bride.” About that epochal Winter back in Prague when Priml kept his 4-year-old fingers warm by banging them on ivory Keys he says: “My parents were very poor. weather was harsh, biting, and m: sister and I_human hud dying fire. The family budget allowed enly $10 for coal and wood. ther went out, determined to drive the best possible bargain for fuel. He came back an hour later—with a piano. t was a battered piano and the Reys were yellowed. Ten dollars worth = of piano. Mother scolded a bit, of eourse, but father said he had always eherished an ambition to play, and this was his chance. He discovered it was more difficult than he had surmised, and so the piano became my toy. 1 was very happy. The cold didn't matter.” to pluck Priml’ dish fingers began @ut simple little tunes. Neighbors would érop in to applaud the infant concerts. ‘when he was 7 his parents, they had & prodigy in the fam- iy, scrimped to pay for lessons. Their fond belief began to come true. Tt was a proud day when at the age of 14 the boy was admitted to the Prague Conservatory of Music. In the forma- tive years that followed he made in- eredible progress, so that at 18 he made his debut as concert pianist with the great violinist Kubelik. It was in England that Daniel Froh- man, the impresario, listened to & con- eert and signed Kubelik and Friml for Friml was him. His first s few musicianly men. They it. Steinway el him Damrosch conducting his New udience of music lovers. r is a high-steng, rest- He longs to be "eon- It is tole at Hammerstein on many occasions had to tinually on the move. t a time, i Friml and a"’$710 Piano. | Th;g dier” and other operettas, who was re- erto_was played plano conc to appear ngaged at Camegie Hall, and, with Walter York sSymphony Orchestra, Friml mesmer- 1zed ked bag, plays medicine ball, eats a hearty breakfast, and sits down to his piano. He plays for an hour to get himself in the mood. Then he begins to concen-| trate.. “And,” he explains, “my sub- conscious mind does all my work. I have been able to concentrate for one | minute and write a melody in the next five. Or I may concentrate before go- ing to sleep at night and awake the next morning with the score in my mind.” Straus Music for Jenny Lind (JSCAR STRAUS, noted Viennese composer of “The Chocolate Sol- dles before & cently placed under contract to Merto- | Goldwyn-Mayer, will contribute original numbers to Grace Moore's first screen vehicle, & story suggested by the career of Jenny Lind. This picture is now in production under Sidney Franklin's direction EDWINA BOOTH, One of the prettiest of the newer screen stars. She has the leading role in “Trader Horn,” which was filmed in the jungles of Africa. Five Pathe Talking Serials. ATHE, erstwhile maker of scores of serials, will re-enter the continued- in-the-next field with five talking pro- ductions. Plans are being completed so that the first 1930-31 Pathe serial will be ready for release in September. These plans call for detective, animal, railroad and outdoor serials, the kind that Ruth Bo- land used to break her neck in. BIGGEST W | H ASHI | | i i i The World’s Premiere The greatest, grandest, most glorious funfilm of the year . . . bring the kids! Bring the grannys! It’s a picture for old and young . . . See it and for- get your troubles! | JJARKING back to what stars did be- fore they were stars, in the days when they had very little more than ambition, is a theme so common among story teliers of this machine age that it seems as though one might find a really eminent subject before beginning again on such a “tack.” What better, therefore, than Ronald Colman? Mr. Colman’s romantic tendencies have been dwelled upon at length, the suave, human genialities he brings to all his roles have been eulogized to such profound degrees that a little family history seems not at all out of place— historical beginnings in his grease-paint profession—as it were. Like all great men, Ronald had a beginning, and a very low one, theat- ricaily speaking. His first professional role was a blackfaced role, a Jolson role, but unlike Jolson he didn't have any- thing to say. In a playlet by Tagore called “The Maharanee of Arakan,” h? was & black-as-coal herald who stood around and around. That was in 1916, after Colman had served with Kitch. ener’s “contemptibles,” the “first hun- dred thousand” of England's army to land in Prance, and after he had been wounded and fihally discharged from the army by the medical board. Although Mr. Colman began treading the proverbial London boards in a slightly off-color role, next part took a different spurt upwards, since he as cast opposite Gladys Cooper in 'he Misleading Lady.” | he had a principal part in “Damaged Goods” and then, when everything seemed especially Tosy, he hearkened to in a primitive two-reel comedy, which, | as a matter of fact, was never released. | However, the taste for the cinema | seems to have gotten into his blood, for from then on he had a part in a great many, even appearing in one as a Jewish pugilist. In spite of the many films in which he had appeared prior to 1920, Colman considered himself ;reuy unsatis- factory screen actor and he continued, at the same time, to act on the London Screen Showing of “THE WORLD’S FUNNIEST MAN”! BoETofo ~with LOUISE FAZENDA m. JOAN PEERS About Ronald Colman. Following this | | the eall of the silent movies and acted | g in his repertoire “The | Live Wire,” “The Great Day” and “The Little Brother.” In 1920, however, due to general unemployment throughout England, Colman decided to leave the mother country. He arrived in New York with $37, three clean collars and a letter of introduction in his ket. Thereafter, he was more or less in the depths until Robert Warwick gave him a part in “The Dauntless Three,” which was followed by important roles in “The Green Goddess, ’.with George Arliss, “The Night Cap,”™ “The Silver Fox” and “East Is Wesf In the Fall of 1922 he appeared in “La Tendresse,” playing opposite Ruth Chatterton. There's fate for you. When 'Henry King saw him he offered him the leading role in “The White Sister” op- posite Lillian Gish. No sooner said than done, Colman went to Italy, where the filming was to take place, and from then on—presto—fame, fortune and what have you. Mr. Colman this week at Loew's Co- lumbia is giving a fine performance in “Raffles,” which, due to the force of public opinion, is running its second week. stage, includin Ailes Slgned by Radio. VAUDEVILLE has again surrendered & son to the talking pictures. Roscoe Alles, vaudeville headliner of the major circuits for the past 15 years, has affixed his_signature to a long-term contract with Radio Plctures. In addition to the new contract, Aile has been given an outstanding comedy I role in “Cimarron,” Edna Ferber epic of | the rise of Oklahoma, starring Richard | Dix. Ailes has already had considerable | movie experience. He has had promi- nent roles in “Caught Short,” “The Big House,” “Remote Control Where Film Is Being own Today. District of Columbia EARLE—13th st. n.w. *METROPOLITAN: AMBASSADOR—18th APOLLO—624 H st. n.e. 'AVALON—Conn. ave. and McKinley UE GRAND—645 Pa. ave. s.e. RAL—9th st. COLONY—Georgia ave. and Farragut EMPRESS—416 9th st. n.w. 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REPUBLIC THEATER~—Annapolis, ROCKBRIDGE—Buena Vista, Va. Screen Economics. WHEN Frank Mandel conceived the idea of adapting his firm's musical comedy he was told it would run the conventional feature picture Jength. due to the complexity of its action and plot. | Retiring to his office, Mandel set & stop watch and started enacting the various roles of the play at motion pic- ture tempo in his mind. When he had finished he found he had occupied only | 1 hour and 15 minutes. He insisted, therefore, that “Queen High" could be| translated to! the screen without delet: ing a single line from the original script. Such was found to be the case when | the production went before the cameras. Scene shifting and intermissions were| eliminated, of course, thus saving much | | time. On' the other hand, action and| dialogue were maintained at a pace which would have been meaningless on | the stage. But “because motion picture | actors appear much nearer their audi- " as it is_explained, this actuall; to the screen and when the picture was completed it was found that all the original comedy situations contained in the three-hour stage performance had been compressed into an hour and & quarter of hilarious screen entertainment, although a num- ber of new episodes had been added e This beach pajama outfit is a West Coast idea, Hyams, who is featured in Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer pictures. | < Body of a Goddess—Face of an Angel—Lips That Yield “Q i - and Yearn—Yet Her Beauty Cloaked a Relentless Purpose That Meant Death to the One She Loved & . FACES EAST A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Thriller With CONSTANCE BENNETT ERIC VON STROHEIM Love Was the Prize— Death the Penalty o et » O T oo\t T 2 s VTR Join the Thousands He Has Made Happy! All Washington Tried to Cram War to See Ameriea's Greatest Funster . Jein He'll sing ‘snd’ laug} away! Last Stage A rance of Cantor Betors Retarming fe Hollywood for 3 years stay! POPULAR PRICES! On the Screen The Intense Drama of a D: d to Reveal Her F: Dare DOROTHY' ‘MACKAILL and the wearer is Leila| To Talk for Three Years. OME folks have an idea, perhaps, | bly discounts him. But—the fact re- going to hurt | mains Graham does go strong with And it is a fact no one may dispute that the broadcasts, with | McNamee behind them, from soap to street or highway, |to broadcast the news T Hne Ble House e pis House. Harry Langdon in Light of West Tegion “The Big House." “The Big House.” arry Langdon 4 stern Comedy. Cartoon. Comedy. _Cartoon. “The_8hbrimp."” “The Shrimp.” Stars.” _Comedies. Our_Gang_comedy. and picked out the | Evening Star-Universal Warner Oland in Jack Oakie most crowded spot | make | | i | | J | sion of “Peer Gynt.” | | yeast-cakes, are always the most popu- lar that come over the air. He gets the results or_he wouldn't be where he is in the official line of the biggest broadcasting institution in the world. But—for all that—the movie has cap- tured Graham McNamee and tied him up hand snd. foot for a triad of time cycles. Noi to make sentimental pice tures. nor to be the film hero to harass the villain in a thriller. nc ¥ pos for his personal beauty with the div- ing deities. Nothing like that. Bu: fe three long, solid, eventful bstitute—Gra- years—a.1d without a s crowded | ham has been tied up by a contract nts of The Newsreel, to them bristle with sensation, shiver with thrills, or pathetically weep with the sad and the sorrowful. Everything that creeps into these lead- ing picture reporters of the 0 whether from the crowded city, or from the quiet countryside, Graham |now has to invest his personality, his wit, his humor and his irrepressible and unmatchable gab. He is going to tell the world all about it, whatever “it” may be. And now, if you dare, say that the radio is going to do up the movie! The Big JFROM the wild and wooly regions of Bakersfleld, Calif., comes an electro- graphic message from that Fox director of directors, Raoul Walsh, who has been flooding the market with verbal de- scriptions of “The Big Trail” activities since the picturization of this film be- gan. Says he in this well nigh final lyricism: “Leaving here on the last location Trsii" Again. | trip the end of the big trail stop desti- | nation big tree tnunglry ke in mariposa where trail ends and where original pioneers who struggled so long and so faithfully got their reward in the valley of dreams their new home in the west stop john wayne marguerite churchill and tully marshall are the principals in this inspiring episode of the big trail stop the same spirit of optimism and hopefulness that must have aciuated the original pioneers seems imbec.led in the hearts and minds of the entire company stop we tackle this final epi | sode happily and i am sure that emo- tlon will register on the screen stoj expect to be in the big tree country T about ten days and hope to secure some ‘wonderful scenic backgrounds of this great country stop will notify you defi- nitely of the exact date we end the picture and then back to the studios for tougher job of cutting many thousand feet of film to the footage you require stop please emphasize for it is true that the entire production was made on loca- tion and not a foot of film shot within hundreds of miles of studios and Holly- wood stop regards Raoul Walsh.” Most of this should be fairly clear. —_— " “w e The New Moon Rxsmy. PRODUCTION s going on apace on “The New Moon,” the screen ver- sion of the operetta of a season or so ago, in which Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore are to do the featured singing. Besides Mr. Tibbett, who will be re- membered as the first Metropolitan op- era star to transplant his talents to a full-length movie, and Miss Moore, who, besides being a Metropolitanite, was once a stellar appendage of the “Music Box Revues,” the cast will include George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy and Gil- bert Emery. Jack Conway, who directed Lon Chaney's recent picture, “The Unholy Three,” is wielding the megaphone. . o gy “ Cyril Maude in “Grumpy. AFTER portraying Grumpy approxi- mately 1,300 times on the stage, Cyril Maude is taking that character to the audible screen for Paramount. It is Maude’s first experience in talking pictures, following almost half a century of stage stardom. Maude made his first appearance as Grumpy in Glasgow ‘in 1913. 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