Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1930, Page 45

AMUSEMENTS. The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. T IS a wide-open secret that the film business has not been pros- pering to any appreciable extent of late, and the financial wizards who control the industry are hard at work trying to think up alibis with which to kid themselves. Almost any explanation for the slump will serve— any explanation, that is, which does not involve the admission that it may be due to the lamentably low quality of the entertainment that Hollywood has been providing. The novelty of sound having worn off, the motion picture is now return- ing to the groove (or chute) in which it was traveling dismally three years @go. It is becoming once more. as it was in the last days of the silent era, a steady flow of monotony. The movie moguls are trying to hold the support of their restive and in- creasingly discerning public by feeding them imitations of imitations of imi- tations. A study of the production schedules of the various leading companies indi- cates that during the forthcoming sea- son we are going to see some dozens of carbon copies of all the pictures that ‘were even mildly successful last season. | Or perhaps we'll have sense enough not to see them. Perhaps we'll prefer to seek diversion by watching flagpole- sitters, who, at any rate, make no pre- tense that there is an element of va- riety in their act. Almost anything is preferable to Wil- liam Powell in another murder case, Warner Baxter as another accented bandit or the latest proxies for Moran | and Mack in another war. x o % % FTHERFE. is, of course, much under- standable exultation among those | who darkly predicted that talk would | ruin the screen. They are saying that the industry’s only hope is to return at once to the manufacture of silent pic- tures, with printed subttitles and musi- cal accompaniment. It seems hardly likely that salvation ean be achieved as easily as that. The | silent screen was dying a natural death back in 1927, when the Vitaphone and Movietone arrived to deliver the final blow. It was afflicted with the same form of rigor mortis which is now de- vitalizing tRe vocal screen. ‘The trouble, then and now, was not with the motion picture itseif, which remains a worthy and honorable me- dium. The trouble was, and is, with those who guide the motion picture's destinies. They have persisted in the out of the ordinary as the Remarque novel. But the realization of the pic- torial potentialities in this great war book set the two young men afire, and they managed to convey to the screen the flames of their enthusiasm. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is a work of art. It is also an enormous box office success. The same thing may be said of “The Big Parade,” the outstanding exception | to the slump of five years ago. It, too, | was the work of young and idealistic | men, Irving Thalberg, King Vidor and Laurence Stallings. You will find further proofs in any ist of the major triumphs that the movie industry has known: “The Birth |of a Nation" (David Wark Griffith), “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram), “Blind Husbands” (Erich von Stroheim), “The Covered Wagon' (James Cruze), “The (Douglas _Fairbanks), and all the Chaplin and Lloyd comedies. They were the accomplishments of | Melville’s Hero k of Zorro” | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK Sunday K OF it ) Monday Tuesday D. C, AUGUST 10. 1930—PART FOUR. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday William Powell in Ambassador ror ihe Detense’ y. 18th & Columbia R4. _ Vitaphone variety. William Powell in_ “For the Defense. William Powell in “For the Defense.” Comedy. Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Chester Morris “The Big House.' Vitaphone variety. Chester Morris in The Big House Vitaphone variety. Loretta Young in “King of Jazz." “Road to Paradise.” Cartoon, Comedy. Vitaphone variet Marion Davies i Apollo in “The Floradora Girl." 624 B St. NE. Comedy. Marion Davies Bernice Clatre in in en. “The Floradora Girl." Comedy. “Numbered M¢ Comedy. Vitaphone variets. Bernice Claire in Vivienne Sezal “Numbered Men." Comed: in “Goldea Dawn. Vitaphone Cor iriety. “Lawful Larceny." Richard Dix in Comedy’ “Shooting Straight." Vitaphone d: Come variety. Vitaphone ancy Carroll in “Devil's Holiday."” omedy. Vitaphone variety. Avalon Carroll in Holiday." i Comeds. Vitaphone variety Dolores Del Rio Nancy “The Bad One." ‘Comeds. Dolores, Del Rio Lowell Sherman n “He Knew Women." Comedies Buddy Rogers in Richard Dix “Safety in Num- n bers." “Shooting Straight.” __Vitaphone v Comedy. | 5612 Conn. Ave. ! Ave. Grand 645 Pa. Ave. S.E. Gary “The Vitaphone v: Gary Cooper in . Marion Davies in “The Man From “The Florodora Wyomi; Vitaphone 3 Marion Davies in “The Florodora 1 Vitaphone v Vivienne Seral in “Bride of the Regiment.” Vitaphone variety. Van and Schenck in “They Learned About “Inside the Lines.” Women Comeay. __Comeds. Will Rogers . “80 This Is Tondon.” ! Carolina { U1th & N.C. Ave. S.E. Will Rogers will Rogers n “80_This 1s London."” n “80 This Is London.” Blanche Sweet and Ruth Chatterton Tom Moore in “The Lady of in ““Woman Rac Scandal” i Dark. Gaynor_and Farrell in “High Society Blues.” Comedy. Act. Gaynor_and Farrell in “High Society Blues." Comedy. Act. Helen Morgan in “Road House Nights.” Comedy. News. Helen Morgan in “Road House Nights." Comedy. | Lois Wilson in “Temptation.” Comedy. Central Lots Wilson Naney Carroll in, “Devil's Holiday.” Vitaphone variety. Marie Dressler and Polly Moran n R L CCaustsishastt McKenna in Hoot Gibson in Temple Tower § The Mounted Langdon comedy. Stranger.” Cartoon. Georse Bancroft in “Ladies Love __Brutes.’ Helen Johnson in “Children of Pleasure.” one. Comedy Nancy Carroll in “Devil's Holiday." Vitaphone variety. Billle Dove in Serial.__Comedy. _ Reginald Denny in “The Notorlous “What & Man." Comed: Chales “Buddy" n “Temptation.” Com oon. Plante and John Boles in Laura Lal John Boles te amdoge and in the “'Captain of the ogers in “Safety in Num- bers.” " Guard.” “Captain ers.” Gi Marion ““Floradora Girl.” Gang_comedy. Laurel-Hardy _com. Marion Davies in Davies in “Floradora Girl.” Gang_comedy. Laurel-Hardy _com. Afair. __Vitaphone. Comedy Chester_Morris. Wallace Beery and Leila_Hyams in “The_Big_House." George O'Brien. Helen Chandler and Antonfo Moreno it Clara Bow Clara Bow Nancy, Carroll n s Holida: n n “True to the Navy." “True to the Navy ‘“Devil' Comedy. Comeds. Vitaphone_variety. Ga. Ave. & Farragut Nancy Carroll in “Devil's Holiday." Vitaphone_variety. Van and Schenck in “They Learned About Women." “Rough Romanc Richard_Arlen and ay Wray in *The Border Leglon. Comedy. “The Sea Bat. Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Lois Wilson and Lawrence Gray Charles Rogers and Kathryn Crawford in “Safety in Num- bers.” Dumbarton n 1348 Wiseonsin A “Temptation.” Clara Bow and Frederic March Clara Bow and Frederic March n n “True to the Navy." _ “True to the Navy." “With Bryd at the South Pole.” Comedy. ~Review. Screen_song. “With Bryd at the South FPole.” Comedy. ~Review. Screen_song. Catherine Dale Owen and E. Torrence in “Strictly Unconven- tional.” Comedy. Fairlawn Anacostla, D. C. Marion Davies and Roscoe Karns and Lawrence Gray in Dorothy Gulliver in “Troopers Three. Comery. Gary Cooper and Fay Wray in “The Texan.” Comedy. Gary Cooper and Fay W Lawrence Gray and Ken Maynard in Helen Johnson “Song of the Cabal- lero.” Comedy._Cartoon. George Bancroft in “Ladies Love Brutes. Charles Farrell and Blue eel George Bancroft in “Ladies Love Brutes.” Comedy. Newsredi, BN Nancy Carroll in “‘Devil's Holiday." Vitaphohe variety. ‘Gomedy. Vivienne Sesal Vivienne Segal n in “Golden Dawn.” Comedy. Home 13th & C Sts. N.E. °°133$e%;7"‘ Warner Oland and Jean Arthur in “Return of Dr. Fu u. Comiedy. | Nancy Carroll in Billle Dove in ““Devil's Holiday." “The Notorious Vitaphone variety. air.” r omedy. Vitaphone. Comedy. Lewis_Stone n “Btrietly Un ventional J Lawrence Gray esse in ot 3100 18th Children of George Sidney and Charles Murray in “Around the Corner" Vitaphone. _Comedy. Lillian_Gish in “One Romantic ight.” Comedsy. Lon Chaney “Buddy’’ Rogers n n “Phantom of the “Safety in Num- Opera bers." Blanche Sweet in Richard Arlen in “Woman Racket.” g “Border Legion. Willlam Haines and William Hi Leila Hyams in Lef “Way Out West."” Vitaphone. Comeds. urice Chevalier and Kathryn McDonald in “Love Parade.” Dark. Laurel Laurel, Md. Leader $th & E Sts. N.W. Vitaphone. Comeds. Maurice Chevalier ai Kathryn McDonald in “Love Parade. Metro_ac Comdr. Byrd in “Byrd at the South Pole Comedy. _Vitaphone. Metro Grant Withers in Floor Mystery.” .__Comedy. Grant_Withers in “Second Floor Mystery.” Act.”Comedy. Louise Dresser Tom_Patricola ““Three Sisters.” Comedy. _Cartoon Ken Maynard in “Parade of the est.” Serial. Comedy. and in Helen Morgan in “Road House Nights.' Vitaphone act. Helen Morgan “Road House Night; itaphone act. Comedy. Bessle Love and Charles King in “Chasing Rainbows.” Langdon _comed: Paul Muni ““Seven Face: Vitaphone act. Comedy. Wm. Powell and Wm. Powell and belief that the films they produce are articles of commerce instead of works of art. That is the sole reason why | their periods of prosperity Lave been | #0 distinctly temporary—breaks of phe- | nomenal luck rather than deserved | triumphs of achievement. | I shall not attempt to define the term “work of art.” To go into defini- tions is to get into difficulties. But it is reasonably safe to say that a work of | art is the result of an enthusiasm—and | JOHN BARRYMORE As the hero of “Moby Dick,” the screen story from Herman Melville’s novel. Heien Kane in “Pointed Heels.” Comedy. _News Lyric Dark. Gaithersburg, Md. Helen Kane in “Pointed Heels."” Comedy. _News. William Haines in “The Girl Said No." Comedy. News! William Haines in “The Girl Said No." Comed: Rocaue “Delightful Rogue.” Rod La Rocque “Delightful Rogu rial Serl Aesop_Fable. al. Aesop_Fable. Tawrence Gray and Helen Johnson in “Children of Pleasure.” El Brendel in “Fox Movietone Follies_of 1930.” E n‘und‘{l in Fox Movietons Follies of 1930. Princess 1119 H St. NE. Tom Moore and Blanche Sweet in ““The Woman n “Ladies Love Brutes.” Racket. lerrori;m and Ken Maynard Mary Brian in in “The Fighting “The Kibitzer." Legion.” Will Rogers in “So This Is London.” Vitaphone act. Comedy. Will Rogers in “8o This Is London.” Vitaphone act. Comed: Dark. Richmond Alexandria, Va. “Paramo Parade. Vitaphone act. Cartoon mount on Parade.” Vitaphone act. Cartoon. t on Wallace Beery and W, ery and Chester Morris in 'he Big House.” e medy. ._Comedy. _ Vit ‘Marion_Davies in “The_Florodora. Girl.” Comedy. Bernice Claire and Bernice Claire and Conrad Nagel in “Numbered Men.”" Comedy. _Variety. Savoy 3030 14th St. N.W. m'mnn" Novarro n “In Gay Madrid.” Vitaphone variety. “Inside the Lines.” Comeds. “Song of the Caballero.” Comedy. Msr?’ Nolan n “Young Desires.” Comedies. nEr{-}‘(.(rlen n “Light of the West- ern_Stars.” Bert Wheeler “The Cuckoos.” Bert Wheeler “The Cuckoos.” Sylvan 104 B. L ave. n.w. Mary Philbin in Buster Keaton in “Girl Overboard.” i “Free and Easy.” Conway Tearle ryon in Glenn T ‘Di Ahoy. in “Dames “The Lost Zep- pelin.” Takoma Jean Hersholt in Takoma Park. D. C. S Jean Hersholt in Ruth Chatterton in “Mamba.” “Lad ady of Scandal.” th Chatterton in Ru fn Ramon Novarro in “Lady of Scandal.”” i “In Gay Madrid. iE Buster Keaton Ramon No 0 in - d “In Gay Madrid.” Will Rogers in “So This Is London.” Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Toretia Young in “Road to Paradise.” Vitaphone variety. Comeds. Toretta Young in “Road to Paradise. Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Tivoli 14th & Park Rd. _Sue Caral and Grant Withers'in, Will Rogers in “So This Is London.” Vitaphone varieties. Comedy. tty Compson in | “Midnight Mystery.” Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Nancs _Carrol n “Devil's Holiday.” Comedy. Nancy Carrol Vivienne Segal in n “Bride of the “Devil's Holiday."” £ Comedy. York that is just what most movies (silent or | enthusiasts. They were all works of sound) aren't. They are the works of art. And they all made fabulous sums tired, bored, dulled men. ‘The proof of this rule is to be found in the exceptions. As a current example: “'All Quiet on the Western Front,” which | is defyi.g the present slump and plling | up colossal profits. “All Quiet on the Western an!“l ‘was not ground out in the usual man- | ner in the Hollywood mills. It was not | part of a “production schedule” ar- | ranged in a paneled New York office. It was produced by two young en. thusiasts, Carl Laemmle, jr., 'and Lewis Milestone. The older, wiser, cooler and therefore less imaginative bMins of the business advised them that they were | insane to try anything so completely | have maintained their original stand- | of money. Unfortunately, in Hollywood young men don’t stay young very long. ‘Their enthusiasm is put through the machines and comes out as thin as a film of emulsion on celluloid. The impassioned artist of yesterday becomes the veteran hokum merchant of tomorrow. ‘There are exceptions, of course, like Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, who ards because they have never lost sight of the fact that each new picture is a new creation—hand-made, rather than machine-made—a work of art. But there again is proof of the rule. (Copyright, 1930.) How’s This for a _Studio? Ga. Ave. & Quebec Regimen Vitaphone variets. Viyienne Segal in Gary Cooper in “Bride of the “Man_From, Wyo- Regiment.” o ming.’ Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Richard Dix n “Shooting Straight.” Comedy. Gary Cooper in “Man_From Wyo- ming. Vitaphone variety. Pathe's Star Gazer. BABIEB born on this day are likely to be baldheaded. With Neptune as the leading factor, it's in the bag that the child will evidence nautical fen- dencies. This is the deduction of Ed- die Quillan, the Pathe “star gazer.’ “Those whose birthday it is,” he adds, “will have a birthday every 365 days or thereabouts. This is because Mars is in adverse aspect to Saturn, believe it or not. ) “Persons born on this day should be successful financiers and unusually skillful at playing the piccolo. “After 3:39 p.m. conditions will im- prove somewhat, but I doubt it. From 4:01 pm, to 6:11 a.m. such things as theft, forgery and murder should be avoided. Otherwise a long journey may be in store. “The improvement over the preced- ing pertod will be more noticeable after 1y 2,000 employes on the pay- THAT modeérn motion picture studios | has n and the Paramount New York of the larger type are small indus- | roll, 11 p.m. especially in such places as Chicago, New York and Hoboken. By trial cities in themselves is indicated in a survey just completed by Jesse L. Lasky for Paramount Publix. “Few persons outside the industry realize the magnitude and completeness of a large studio,” says Lasky. “It has been said that, given a day in which to 'k up. a studio could withstand a ng siege. “We have at the Paramount studios a cafe where every employe could be fed. We have a large building of dress- ing rooms, with all the accommodations of a hotel. There is a huge wardrobe department, with clothes enough to equip our personnel for years, “Neither is it generally known that our studio comprises carpentry shops, paint rooms, a plaster shop for the making of statuary, machine shops, garages, foundry, plumbing department, electrical shops, a nursery to grow all of our plants and shrubs, and scho.l- house and hundreds of other such de- partments.” Lasky states that at the present time the Paramount studio in Hollywood | plant has 600 others. This does not {include those hired for a few days in | rush periods, nor the large numbers of | | extras used in scenes. | " Figures show there are 200 carpen- | ters employed steadily at Hollywood. | Other employes include 167 laborers, 17 | workers in the art plaster shop, 25 men in the property making department, 73 in the grip department, 44 handling properties, 46 scenic painters, 134 stage electricians, 48 in electrical co.struc- tion, 45 in the mechanical department, 43 in general offices, 47 in the account- ing department, 85 in the music de- partment, 6 in the engineering depart- ment, 48 in the camera department, 48 cutters, 188 at work in the laboratory, 85 scenarists, 19 directors and 15 as- sistants, 122 handling stock equipment, 50 in the transportation department, 64 handling wardrobes, 100 in sound re- cording work, 36 in the restaurant, 10 in the nursery, 42 in publicity and still departments, 22 in the machine shop, 14 architects, 10 in the print shop, besides | many others in various lines of work. Claud No Friend of Cats. LAUD ALLISTER has no appeal for cats, ment, he tried for half a studio day to | inveigle a cat to follow him for a scene | in “The Floradora Girl,” but failed. | “I was suposed to stroll along non- | chalantly unaware of the cat at my heels,” said Allister. “But since the | beastly animal showed no desire to fol- | Jow the script I had to wait to assume | my nonchalance until I had sneaked a | glance over my shoulder to be sure I was being followed. | “When it became evident that the | cat seemed delighted to follow anybody | else in the company but me we | smeared fish over the back of my | shoes and cat-nip along the back crease | of nlx(y trousers. But even this wouldn't | work. | “The cat, apparently strenuously op- | posed to my personality, had no inten- | tion of ‘complimenting’ me in any wa! unti! we attached a fine cord to hi and I dragged him through his big scene.” Allister has three pictures held for | ‘They are “The Czar of “Monte Carlo” and “Capt. Fall releas Broadway Applejack.” Louis the Barber. ONE of the latest recruits to the talk- ing screen is Louis Mann, an out- standing figure of the stage of other days, who makes his initial screen ap- pearance in “Sins of the Children.” Mann, who is a member of that ploneer troupe of the American theater, Weber and Fields, Barrett and Mc- Cullough, David Belasco, De Wolf Hop- per and David Warfield, recently ad- mitted that he never thought he'd end up in motion pictures, but when Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer invited him to come West to appear in the old-timers’ sec- tion of their forthcoming revue of the past, present and future, tentatively titled “March of Time,” Mann re- mained to play the central figures of “Sins of the Children.” The story is that of an old German barber, who comes to this country with his wife and spends his entire life try- ing to give his children every oppor- tunity for success and happiness, with mixed results, and Louis’s the barber. Ed Wynn Signs Contract. ED WYNN, famous stage comedian, will make one starring picture for mount Publix, through a special arrangement with Florenz Ziegfeld, who holds a long-term contract on the star’s services. Simultaneously, ~Paramount concluded purchase negotiations with George White for “Manhattan Mary” as Wynn's vehicle. “Manhattan Mary” was one of the outstanding musical comedy hits of the 1927-28 theatrical proved to be one of Wynn's Mml?‘.e successes. He will pla E‘m Dart when the play is According to his own state- | ¢ New Vitaphone Stars. A NUMBER of Broadway stars were signed recently at the Eastern studios to appear in Vitaphone Varie- ties. George Jessel will record his songs in a two-reel drama; Vivienne Osborne will appear in “The Nightingale,” di- rected by Roy Mack, and Otto Kruger, star of “The Royal Family” and “Will Shakespeare,” was engaged for “Mr | Intruder,” a_comedy. Willlam Demarest also was given a contract for a new comedy, and three vaudeville teams were signed—the Three Sailors, recently in Earl Carroll's “Sketch Boak"; Yorke and King and Morris and Campbell. EVERYBODY who keeps in touch with | screen production through the | newspapers and magazines knows, or | ought to know, that John McCormack. the famous Irish tenor and singer of folk songs of old Erin, has made a pic- ture that perpetuates in view and sound | much to keep the great singer in mem- ory. This picture has been titled “Song o' "My Heart.” and it was in_this pic- | ture " that little Maureen O'Sullivan came out of the Emerald Isle to pro- vide a new screen celebrity. Hardie Meakin, who regulates the operation of the local Fox Theater, is ! authority for the announcement ti the picture will open an engagement his playhouse “late this month.” Sophie in the Swim. SAYS the news note: “Sophie Tucker, who is being en- tertained in London in the most lavish fashion ever accorded an American star. was the guest of honor on Sun- day of the Duke of Manchester at a party given for her at his home, Bat- tlemeade on the Thames. “Sophie is spending 10 hours a day at rehearsals of ‘Follow a Star’ mu- sical show, which will open at the Adelphi Theater, London, the begin- ning of September.” And yet some folks over here are this time the sun will be shining in | China, thus leavi the Western Hem- isphere under the uence of Luna or moonshine. during this period. “At 5:35 a.m. comes the dawn.” "Tuning. Canaries. ‘“TUNING"” canaries for interior scenes, ‘“‘tuning out” suburban trains, steam shovels and barking dogs, Caution is the main factor | and shooting “walking-talking” scenes were just part of Robert Z. Leonard's job when he directed Norma Shearer in “Let Us Be Gay,” so states the Rubin Press Bureau, The canary-tuning episode happened when the breakfast room sequences in the last part of the picture were being fiimed. To add cheeriness to the sun- streamed room, Leonard had several canary cages piaced about. When the scenes were recorded, however, the obbligato of chirpings was not only dis- cordant, but quite disconcerting. In an effort to “tune” the birds to an even pitch, Leonard sang, whistled and ran his hands over the piano keys, but to no avail. Eventually a musician was summoned and by trilling his violin ANOTHER BEAUTY IN MOVIE LIST CLAUDIA DELL, | Newly acclaimed star of the Warner Brothers studio. She stars in the screen story | | of the Belasco play, “Sweet Kitty Bellairs.” New Theme for Talkie! EUREKA! It has bobbed up at lnlvi And what? Why, simply a new theme for a talkie story. Now a Woman Prison Story.| The Fox Newsreel man grabbed it for | . ol LAUDIA DELL has been assigned the | its news value, and maybe the senti leading role in “Bad Women,” the mental and romantic, or the under- forthcoming Warner Bros.' story of a|world department of the Fox organiza- woman’s prison, written by Melville | tion, probably, may be considering its Crossman. This story has been adapted | availability. But be that as it may, and to the screen by Maude Felton, with |then some. The mix-up of those babies dialogue prepared by Arthur Caesar.|in the Chicago maternity hospital does Martha Mattox, Vera Gordon, Blanche | seem to offer possibilities unmentiona- Frederici and May Boley are to appear ble to the vivid imaginations that in the cast. | create story material for the movies. strings at a high pitch he persuaded the | birds to follow the key in unison. | “Tuning out” suburban trains and | the other technical difficulties pre- | sented themselves, but the story is too | long already Ruth Learns Apac]’\c Dance. UTH CHATTERTON had to learn “Anybody’s Woman,” her new Para- mount picture directed by Dorothy Arzner. Miss Chatterton's dance will be a slight burlesque of the real Apache rit- ual, but in order to originate the varia- tions she had to learn it as it is really performed. In “Sarah and Son" she was seen as a vaudeville tap dancer COMFORTA ‘ OEW’'S l & STREET a- TWELFT h- | e NOW PLAYING 4 METRO- G0N O JSMARTER than MRS.CHEYNEY RE-.. f DRAMATIC than THE DIVORCEE! NORM L SHEARER in a story of a man who fell n love with his ex-wife . . . . . not interested. ———— Chevalier's Wife. 'VONNE VALLEE (Mrs. Maurice Chevalier) will join Maurice in the the French version of his next picture, now called in’ English “The Playboy of Paris.” She will be his leading lady in that version, but Frances Dee will re- tain the lead in the domestic version. —_— Anders Randolf, well knowp to many theatergoers, died a few d{l ago in e o a heavy, appea Ark” and “The Show of Shows.” o R [ * [T US BE GAY’ | MARIE DRESSLER ROD LA ROCQUE- ADDED Arrucfl'ck MGM SONGWRITERS REVUE SCREEN SNAPSHOTS i gx the Apache dance under the in- | | struction of Joyzelle in preparation for | Cortez Back With Pathe. ICARDO CORTEZ, one of the play- ers in “Her Man,” featuring Helen Twelvetrees, Marjorie Rambeau and Phillips Holmes, made his screen- debut with the Pathe company that is pro- ducing “Her Man.” ‘The picture “The Fringe of Society” was nrade in New York under the direc- tion of Robert Ellis, now one of the screen’s leading character men. Fea- tured in the cast were Ruth Roland, Milton Sills and Eileen Percy. Later Cortez signed a five-year con- tract with Paramount which led to stardom. Among his outstanding pic- tures then were “Sorrows of Satan,” with D. W, Griffith; “The Pony Ex- press,” directed by James Cruze; “Feet of Clay,” directed by C. B. De Mille; “The Spaniard,” directed by Raoul ‘Walsh, and “Society Scandal,” with Gloria Swanson. Cortez also had the distinction of be- ing Greta Garbo's first American lead- : ing man. “The Tor- rent.” Since the advent of talking pictures Cortez has played in “The Lost Zep- pelin,” “Montana Moon,” “New Orleans” and “A Grain of Dust. Shapes of the P:st! HATPINS. hairpins, whaleboned cor- sets, camisoles, starched shirt walsts, petticoats, pompadours, sailor hats and high-buttoned shoes are in the offing as accessories of the pull- down-the-skirt styles, which the fashion kings, not queens, are desperately rush- ing in feminine attire, according to the news from the New York Paramount Studios. When the bobbed hair began to vanish the skirts began to drop, ac- cording to Fred Graf, the lady's hair- dresser, “and the interest women are developing in hair lengths,” adds Mr. Graf, “is very gratifying to us hair- dressers. We must satisfy their whims. and right now they want a change of coiffure. Just as soon as it grows long enough to put up, however, they'll de- cide to cut it again. We are here to please them.” EinMaleraibi s Belliet ARRY GIBBON and Vivian Oak- land, leading players in the Pathe comedy, “Big Hearted,” was once mem- bers of the Ziegfeld Follies. Miss Oak- land, now prominent as a screen comedienne, played in the Follies of 1915, in which Mae Murray also ap- peared. Harry Gribbon was a member of the Tollies of 1913, the same year Frank Tinney, Leon Errol and Ann Penning- ton were part of the distinguished cast. ‘The picture was LE _AND COOL NOW PLAYING CThe True Srory of a Fam//_l/.’ SINS OF THE CHILDREN mast human and_ lovable picture of the year... eith L ROBERT ELLIO 1S MANN O%AONTGOMERV’ TT NUGENT LEILA HYAMS ON THE STAGE JACK PEPPER <A Washington 7 Capitol Theatre New vorite in & York revue ‘CET HAPPY' BOBBY CILAEVTE e Banjo- Playing M C JACK WOLF & PAUL CARNER Two Waskington Bos made 700d 15 s 74 enth Consecutive weeh Ok AENBER W Ueld over three timer by popular demand bresenting At 1ginal organ creations AMUSEMENTS Why They Celebrate ELEBRATIONS in honor of birth-|“The Dawn Patrol” with Richard days, weddings and other notable| Barthelmess as its star, a tense story jevents in the lives of those we love|of the war in the air: “Bright Lights, jand those we wish to honor have be-|shown last weck at the Earle Theater, come so numerous and so frequent that| and an underworld love story, “One the man up a tree is apt to overlook | Night at Susie's,” featuring Billie Dove, some of the most important and to| Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and Helen Ware. wonder what all the fuss is about. | Vitaphone, of course, contributed very Since the Warner Brothers, film mag- | materially to the production of these nates, have taken over the Crandall pictures with its mysterious devices for chain of motion picture houses, which | the natural reproduction of dialogue, were founded by our own Harry Cran-| song and instrumental accompaniment. dall, a highly respected and well re-|In other words, the sounds of life were garded native of Washington, these| its gift to what otherwise might merely Warner folks have in a way become one | have been a panorama of photographic shadows. The local announcement states that | all_these splendid productions may be | looked for during the current month | at Warner Brothers' outstanding thea- | ters in Washington—the Earle and the | Metropolitan. Th.e” Director'siniu:. | AS a rule it isn't nice to tear a rose to | £ pieces to see how it is made, and | in a majority of instances only a vicious | vivisectionist tears to pieces a picture DOUG FAIRBANKS, JR., Who has a big role in the screen version of the comedy drama, “Little Accident.” The same picture has two “leading ladies,” Sally Blane and Anita Page. of us, and it is not only right but per- fectly proper that we should be inter- ested in them and their doings. | By public announcement, that doubt- | less has reached all the boundary lines | of the District of Columbia and to re-| gions far remote therefrom, the world| has been told that Warner Brothers| have set aside the current month n(: August as their silver jubilee month,| during which they are celebrating both | the fourth anniversary of talking pic- tures, an institution that revolutionized the motion picture industry and in which they played an outstanding part, | and also the twenty-fifth anniversary| of their own business connection Wl!.h‘ provided purely for entertainment. Still, there are a lot of “Helen's babies” in the world who want “to see the wheels go 'round.” Joe Cook and his picture, “Rain or Shine,” which has been delighting ca- pacity audiences at Keith's the past week, will long be remembered as one of the timeliest diversions to make one forget the weather that Washington ever had in a day of trial. The picture has been fully and freely described, along with its funny story of making & circus carry on in the face of e direst obstacles. Picture fans who did not miss it last week know pretty well how and by whom that circus was kept in operation, the right was vindicated, the hero and heroine were made happy ever after and big audiences were de- lighted with sheer nonsense. But_those same fans do not know that Prank Capra, a picture director who has already won fame with his di- rection of ‘Submarine,” * “Flight” and Langdon's and “The Strong Man, rector of Joe Cook's picture, “Rain or or_Shine.” Mr. Capra is entitled to as much credit for its success as any one in- dividual that had a part in it. He can never see the laughing faces of its de- lighted audiences nor hear their plause. Don't you think he ought get some of the reward (outside money dividends) which goes to a ser- vant who has well performed his duty? “Animal Crackers." WHY “Animal Crackers?” “Eet ees veree simple,” explained dapper Chico Marx, who plays the Italian musician in the picture and has grown attached to his accent. “Eet ees because animals they make such funee cracks. The horse-laugh has become synonymous for boisterous humor. If there ees anything funnier than a eat, that wild beast of the jungle, pretend- ing to be chummy with men so she may get free meals and a warm place the industry in general. to sleep, I have not seen ee | ‘Their claims to general recognition| and their reason for celebrating are| that they were the first to develop talk- ing pictures to the point of being a popular success; they were the first to “bring order out of chaos” in 1905 by opening a film exchange as an interme- diary between producer and exhibitor, and they were the first to discover that the public would like and accept five and six reel pictures in preference to the humbler one, two and three reelers, through which the motion picture had crept out of its primitive state to gen- eral attention. Their claims also in- clude that of being the first to discover the availability of successful novels as| material for motion picture stories, and also to produce pictures in technicolor. Now, each and all of these claims not only merit attention but entitle those | who justly make them to the privilege | of celebrating to the limit fixed by a discriminating civilization. Nay, more, | they entitle the celebrators to wide and | popular attention and to the heartiest support and co-operation of the public “That’s not the reason at al = bled Groucho. “It is because ‘Animal Crackers' fits so nicely into the electric signs in front of theaters. “The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece’ would have been too long for the signs, and we would have had to change it to ‘Haunt- ed Love.” We took no chances.” Harpo, the silent brother, interro- gated next, made no verbal reply, but began imitating & small boy taking something out of a sack and cramming it into his mouth. “That's partly right” interrupted Zeppo.” the serious member of the quar- tet. “Did you ever see any thing more ridiculous than a box of animal crack: ers? Shake the box and anything may come out. from a giraffe to an iguana. We figured the title would intrigue the people so they would fight to get into the theater just to find out what . th play was about. We were righ Clara Bow'; ‘Wedding Nigh!' in general. i“HER ‘Wedding Night,” the amusing It is the most natural thing in the| and romantic adventures of a world, therefore, for Warner Brother: ‘Hd-h:gded mm;i:dxt‘ll; e;ll;o 'm: :'ohx to make memorable these accomplish-| cape the men, ments on their part and their suver}hdy friends make life miserable {e'r jubilee to crown their effort by pre-| him, has been selected as Clara Bow's paring and releasing for the public| next screen vehicle. benefit what they claim to be the finest| Ralph Forbes, whose last appearance pictures ever produced by their organi-|in a Paramount picture was in “Beau zation. And in the aim to do this they | Geste” several years ago, will be Clara have co-operated with their affiliated| Bow’s leading man in the Avery Hop- organizations, Vitaphone and the First| wood farce. Charlie Ruggles and Skeets National Pictures corporations. The pictures announced by them for August release include their production for the sound screen of David Belasco's memorable stage success of years ago, “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” with Claudia Dell in the title role played by Henri- etta Crossman in the Belasco play: “The Matrimonial Bed,” a farce, with Lilyan Tashman, Florence _Eldridge, James Gleason and Beryl Mercer in important_roles; “Three Faces East, Anthony Paul Kelly's famous war spy | mystery drama, already seen at the Metropolitan Theater in this city, and| “Viennese Nights,” a romance of Aus-| tria’s once famous capital by Sigmund | Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein. | First National Pictures contribute (*) Indicates Where Film Is Being Shown Today. District of Columbia EARLE—13th st. n.w. *METROPOLITAN—F st. n.w. AMBASSADOR—18th and Col. rd. n.w. APOLLO—624 H st. n.e. AVALON—Conn. ave. and McKinley AVENUE GRAND—645 Pa. ave. E- SAVOY—3030 14th st. n.w. *STANTON—515 C st. n.e. *YORK—Georgia ave. and Quebec. n.w. Maryland and Virginia MARYLAND—Hagerstown, Md. ARCADE—Crisfield, Md. ARCADE—Hyattsville, Md. ASHTON—Clarendon, V. AUDITOURIM—Onancock, Va. BERKELEY—Berkeley Springs, W. Va. CAPITAL—Cumberland, Md. CAPITOL—Winchester, Va. COMMUNITY—Ridgely, Md. CREWE—Crewe, V. EMPIRE—Pocomoke City, Md. EMPIRE—Saxis, Va. FIREMEN'S HALL—Willards, Md. GLOBE—Berlin, Md. IMPERIAL—Brunswick, Md. JEFFERSON—Brookneal, Va. LYRIC—Fishing Creek, Va MARADA—St. Michaels, Md. MARYLAND—Kitzmiller, M MASONIC—Clifton Forge, V. MELVILLE—Sykesville, Md. NELSON HALL—Lovington, Va. NEW—Aberdeen, Md. NEW—EIk{on, Md. NEW—Hancock, Md. NEW VIRGINIA—Harrisonburg, Va. OPERA HOUSE, Leesburg, OPERA HOUSE—Piedmont, W. Va. PALACE—Frostburg, Md. PALACE—Hagerstown, Md. 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