Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1930, Page 47

Theater, Screen and Music Part 410 Pages AMUSEMENT SECTION The Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MOR) BE_BF_ DANIELS one I?Ax_pu HAQOLDE R-K-0. KEITH'S—“Dixiana.” &« IXIANA,” Radio Pictures’ music drama depicting the glamour and romance of the Old South during the Mardi Gras carnival in the 50s, | before the Civil War and when New Orleans was at its zenith as a gathering place for the so- cially elite, is the e story present- by a notable cast of stage and stars _ in- Ralf Har byna Huwlnnd Marguerite Padt Bebe Danlels and Bill greatest tap dan ‘world" P cer. Miss Danlels sings “Magnolia,” “A “I Am Your d | clude Gilbert Emery, soulherla'mel- odies by Hall’s Negro chorus; “My One Ambition Is For You,” sung by Bert Wheeler and Dorothy Lee; “You Seem 8o tial,” ;a Robend v:“ooueyl “Cayetano,” by ymone ure 'Cg:nl March” and “Creole,” by the ensemble. The amry highly romantic and at times even m:flc nevertheless has an ending that will send the audience away in a h.nppy mood. It is as inter- esting as & high-powered fovel, in a brilliant_and beautiful setting. The Mardl Gras scenes are gorgeous in technicolor. rAuCl—Quunm‘h '—Herman ‘Timberg. e % !kor t:fi 50, ismu sold in New York af NOW Loew’s Palace in it picture version with Chnr]es Ruggles, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith and Frank Morgan cast in the leading gl& and with new music and song The story concerns two partners in the garter manufacturing business who | cannot & . Their lawyer suggests that they play a hand of poker to de- termine who shall run the business and who shall become the butler in the win- ner’s home. Ruggles as T. Boggs Johns Joses and goes to work in his partner’s home 8s a butler. His nephew, Who is in love with his partner's meice, Polly, suggests that Johns pay a lot of at- fention to his partner's wife. Follow- ing this course makes things miserable for George Nettleton, the winning part- per, and he is soon glad to discover that their contract is !w! legal as it was based on a game of chance. 'nm clan Timberg appear on the stage in a Capitol Theater revue. It includes Herman, “star of comedy stars”; Sam- my, his brother, a well known composer l.nfl pianist, and Herman's son, Herbert, following in his father’s footsteps. Bar- ‘bara Blair, they call her Snoonie, again also appears with Leo Chalzell, Oliver Harris, the Chester Hale Girls and Loew’s Palace Syrtu:opnmn as the re- mainder of the cast. Dick Liebert has something new in the way of an organlogue, and the Hearst Metrotone News, short subjects and the Palace Orchestra under Harry Borjes complete the program. FOX~—“Common Clay”—"Trees Idea.” SOM.ETHYNO serious in the way of screen drama'is offered this week in “Common Cla; Movietone, featuring Constance Ben- pett, Lew Ayres lnd ‘Tully Marshall. | “Common Clay,” an original Harvard | play by Cleves Kinkead, was an established stage success 20 years ago. In it Jane Cowl established herself as an outstanding actress. Miss Bennett’s work in the Jane Cowl role, that of a fun-loving girl buffeted by fate, will be looked forward to with interest. She is said to be ex- tionall: u?fll’ !h:!‘enumlnmrn! is headed by Prankie Jenks, now “Washington's Boy Friend,” as master of ceremonies and also in entertaining with his trombone. The Fanchon-Marco “Trees Idea,” an- other stage feature. presents Jack Mc- Bride, assisted by Flo Clark and Kath- Jeen Goodwin in “What Next?” Mc- Bride is sald to be an entertaining comedian; Alice Heller, “the Whistling | Girl”; Naynon's Birds, a troupe oK\ feathered talent, featuring “Andy,” the counting cockatoo. Terrell and Hanley, Reicard and La Vine, Mavis and Ted and & new group of Sunkist Beautles | complete the units of the “Trees Idea.” EARLE—“The Dawn Patrol.” "Tfl DAWN PATROL,” First Na- tional and Vitaphone's epic of the war in the air, starring Richard Bar- thelmess, has gone into its second big 'eek at Warner Bros.’ Earle Theater. This stirring story of men and ma- chines in ‘war has.gripped the imagina- tion of Washington. It is a tense and exciting picture, from which thrills spring spontaneously, especially from the serial photography of daring air vences. awn Patrol”- concerns an un- equipped squad- | him. 4 /n™ Dixiana er, his nerves shaken by mounting casualties, is relieved and Barthelmess, in character, of course, takes his place. But the spectacle of seeing the school- boys he sends up in rickety planes shot down from the skies unnerves His best friend, a fellow fl:!’t learns that his younger brother been assigned to Barthelmess’ lq“ld?on He pleads not to send the boy into dangerous air battle. The young col mander, however, has no choice. The boy goes up and is killed. The friend breaks off with him, but the command- er finds a way to nmge the death of the lad in a grim an flight over the Gemm ¥oes, The climax is stark realism, um drama. Douglas Fairbanks, jr.; Nell Hamil- ton, William Janney and clyde Cook also are in the cast. Additional features Incl\lda Vl!aphone varieties, the Earle to] news music by the Earle O3 COLUMBIA—“Let Us Be Gay.” NORMA SHEARER, in “Let Us Be Gay,” continues this week at Columbia, where 'l&h erh cast as an eccentric hdy lhe has been delighting. -udleneu week. Rod La Rocque ncum husband, and others in the cl.lt in- Hedda Hopper and Raymond Hackett. The picture, an adaptation of the play by Rachel Crothers, revolves about Kitty Brown, the dowdy wife of Bob and very much devoted .to him and her children. When she discovers him in the arms of a more attractive wom- an she divorces him. years of her life she feminine charms un R et s i rs. Beaucica her to vamp the man who is paying court to her granddaughter. Kla finds this man to be her ex-husbal He is more_than surprised to see the change in Nis former wife and falls hopelessly in love with her once more. Humorous episodes lead to & climax in which the granddaughter is saved for the man who really loves her and Kitty forgives Bob. An M-G-M songwriter’s revue, Holly- ;ood nna cgm'::o lumbfiemt Metrotone ews and the Columbia Orchestra, un- der Claude Burrows, complete the program. lI!TIOPOHTAN—"'In'Iu Matrimonial spice and pep of the original French stage farce, it is announced, have been retained in the film “The Matrimonial Bed,” now holdlnz Idflll at Warner Bros' Metropolitan Theater. As a laugh maker it is said to be a constant scream from opening to fade- out. It gives a unique twist to an an- clent story. Adolphe Noblet, supposedly killed in a railroad accident five years before the opening of the story, returns to his home in the capacity of a hairdresser, but suffering from loss of memory, and like his former self only in his ability to surround himself with femi- ninity. A hypnotist restores his mem- ory and he recalls his first wife (now happily remarried), but forgets all about a lately-acquired wife and two sets of twins. What happens when the women get going makes the A Lilyan Tashman, Florence . Vivian Oakland, Beryl Mercer, Marion Byron, James Gleason, Frank Y, Arthur Edmund Carewe md James Bradbury, sr,, are in the In addition the mm‘ement hn booked “The Stein Song,” a special car- toon singing novelty wlth Rudy Vl.uoe and his Connecticut Yankees. Rudy is not only heard singing, but also sup- plies the music of the foot ball game caricatured. Harry Fox, well known musical comedy star, in the Vitaphone Variety, “The Playboy,” and the Met~ ropolitan newsreel complete the tertainment. en- . Gayety to Open. THE Gayety Theater opens next Sat- urday with a matinee, under the management of Jimmy Lake, and with “Broadway Scandals” as its attraction. Dynamic dancing by the featured femi- nine players and a high-grade vaude- ville act are stressed among the inter- lul.;l':* e oan a “bi new in this field, mfiffi"’m stepping brigade, while the variety entertainers include the Four Life Boys, said to be sensational in the speed of their offer- ings. Others with the show are Harry “Pep” Pearce and Jack Erickson, com- ical buffoons; Ray King, straight man, Buddy Wood, eccentric juvenile; Dolores Greene, ingenue; Nazarro Hallo, red- haired soubrette number leader; Loulse Miller, a song bird of unusual attain- ments as the prima donna, and a wel trained, good-looking chorus. ta Pe Trail” and “Garden of Girls” are two of the scenes. . Exclusive Right to Name. DARAMOUNT PUBLIX CORPORA- > TION was upheld in Just handed down in the State of ‘Washington Superior Cot in its ex- clusive right to the use of the name Pnrnmount, for theaters and other pur- Thz court dismissed a sult brml.hl by W. F. Code, an exhibitor who a motion picture theater in Seat llnee 1021 and called it the Paramount. - Re- cently the Paramount company changed the name of its theater ln Bfilfll to “The Paramount.” Code claimed the mlw confused the two m and t he had lost money \l'y forces in Prance ‘fllllh‘ the WWK War, Its R.K.O.Kerths NG, AUGUST CHARLES RUGGLES - /n “Queen High” Fsloce A NopMA S HEARER ar/dl?AYMOND HACKET T= /7 LetUs Be Gay” = Columbiis Fox Lobby Exhibit. THE popular ment” lobby exhibits at the Fox Theater this week are from.the Bureau of Standards. Few people realize the important part | the Bureau of Standards plays in the every-day life of the American public, | this_exhibit is intended to en-| and lighten them in part, The bureau,! known as “Uncle Sam’s official test bu- | reau,” is under the direction of Dr.| George K. Burgess. ————e Newman's Traveltalks. M. NEWMAN, trayeltalker, one of * the annual entertainers at the Na- tional Theater, announces that he will| bring this season an up-to-date group of scenes, with a different story, entitled “Seeing Europe.” He pron to show his best ccl!ecuon of nm and matlnn pictures of places familiar, scenes of many things that are new to most of us. ‘The traveltalks will be shown in the following order: “Seeing Italy” (from Naples to the Alps); “Rome and the Vatican City,” “Oberammergau, erland,” and “La Vie de aris.” Amos 'n’ Andy Started. A'MOS ‘'n’ Andy, blackface kings of entertainment, now rehearsing their first picture for R-K-O Radio Pictures, had been on the lot but two days when the I)‘:iou studio personnel “went Amos n’ y. The King’s English has gone by the boards, anc, strangely enough, though the elite of word composers are to be found on the lot, not a soul is “re- gusted.” Even the “yes-men” have changed. They now articulate “Oh sho, sho!” Melville Brown, who will direct the Amos 'n’ Andy production, shocked some of his associates by announc! the “sicheation” as perfect. Pear Eaton, dance director, wu heard de- manding “mo” pep from her be..utles, The studio cafe has installed the “check and double check” system, and it is notable that Andy himself was the first to squawk when he got two checks for the price of one meal. One of the studio chauffeurs has de- cided to call his car “the fresh-air 11 | taxicab,” and even made so bold one morning as to paint that name on hh machine, an expensive car. It is reported that during the da the car blew out two tires, ran out o{ oil, and burned four times as much gas as usual. Once Ziegfeld Dancers. NOT many screen fans are aware that, Lon Chaney and Lee Moran were fomurly musical comedy dancers. The 't leaked out during the production o( “Pardon My Gun,” Pathe's comedy of the great open spaces. According to Moran, he and Chaney first went to California as a dancing team in the Ziegfeld musical comedy, “The Girl i.n thfl Kimono.” They left the show in les, and although Moran im- -om modlnu stepped into puzmu ‘work, a split-reel comedy for the his~ lestor Film Co., Chaney appeared in several Kolb & Dill produc- tions before he mm definitely to cast “his lot with the allent screen, | “Know Your Govern- | SCREEN AND STAGE ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK R-K-O KEITH'S—“Dixiana.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—“Queen High.” This afternoon and evening. This afternoon and evening. ‘This afternoon and evening. FOX—“Common Clay.” EARLE—“The Dawn Patrol.” COLUMBIA—“Let Us Be Gay.” METROPOLITAN—“The Matrimonial Bed.” and evening. GAYETY—(Burlesque) day afternoon. The Fifty Best Pictures. PICTURE magazines, motion picture editors and free lances generally for a long time have annually under- taken to inform the fandom of the mo- tlon picture world as to “the 10 best pictures of the year.” Recently David Wark Grifith, famous | Kin director of “The Birth of a Nation” and | generally considered the dean, if mnot uw greatest, director of them all, has given the world his opinion as to the “50 finest films of all time.” Through the courtesy of the New York Evening Post, for which the selection was made, | The' Star is enabled to give this list,| nonq ‘with Mr. Griffiths’s running com- menf nd here 1t is: | “Modesty,” explains Mr. Griffith, “un-| der ordinary circumstances, would dic- tate that one shoul not include his own works in such a list as this, but I hlve included those of my own which think rightfully belong, not because I think they are great, but because the public and press have generally ac- claimed them to be such. It will be noted that Mr. Griffith selected but four talking pictures—“The Valiant,” “Disraeli,” “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Hallelujah.” He has just completed his own first talking icture, “Abraham Lincoln,” with Wal- r Huston starred. Prior to its public exhibition Ml'“ Grifith would make no comment on it. Of his own outstanding films Mr. Griffith considers these the best: “The ation,” “The Avenging Con: ‘Intolerance,” “Broken B ‘Way Down East” and “Orphans ew‘m‘" Lilllan Gish was the .m most, of o‘u.m “The Kld" as the best of “Broadway Scandals.” rile Chaplin's pictures; 'Tho Mark mm&n lpn “mb;‘(‘ Hood" FRANK FAY - /7 5 Scenet/rom * The Matrimonial Bed” /Wefropo//f'/'an LICE HELLER - Fox (Stsge) 17, 1930. CONSTANCE BENNETT ond |LEN AyrzF_s /n ~Common Clay “ Fox This afternoon and evening. This afternoon Opens Satur- “Smilin' “Through” as Norma Tal- madge’s; “Stella Maris” as Mary Pick- ford's, and “The Four I'orsemen” and “Monsieur Beaucaire” as the best Ru- dolph Valentino pictures. Mr. Griffith names three directed by Vidor, three by Henry King, three by nst Lubitsch and two each by Erich_von Stroheim, Herbert Brenon, Fred Niblo, F. W. Murnau, Cecil B. De Mille, Frank Lioyd and Sidney Olcott. Here is the list of pictures, together with their directors and the companies that distributed them: “Stella Maris,” directed by Marshall Neilan (Paramount-Artcraft); “The | Birth of a "Nation,” directed by D. W. Griffith (Epoch Producing Co.); “War Brides,” directed by Herbert Brenon (Selznick Pictures); “Intolerance,” di- rected by D. W. Griffith (D. W. Griff Co); “Quo Vadis,” produced by the Cines Co. of Rome, luly‘ “Avennn: Consclence,” directed by D. Griffith (Mutual Film); “The Four Honqmen of the Apocalypse,” directed by Rex In. gram (Metro); “The Miracle Man,” rected by George Loane Tucker (Para; mount-Artcraft); “Broken Bl directed by D, W. Grifith (D. W. G fith Co.); “Passion,” directed by Erns! Lubitsch (Paramount); “The Mark of Zorro,” directed by Fred Niblo (United Artistis’ Corporation); “The Dark An- gel.” directed by George Fitzmaurice (First National); “Driven,” dimcted by Charles Brabin (Universal); “The White Sister,” directed by Henry King (In= spiration Pictures); “Greed,” by Erich von Stroheim (Metro-Goldwyn= Mayer): “Way Down East directed by D. W. Grifith (D. W. Grifith, In¢,= United Artists); “Smilin’ Through,” ith by King Vidor (Metm-(}oldwyn) Memories of the South, Rm of the R-K-O Keith Thea- ter are vibrating this week to tune- ful chants of cotton fields and sorghum pateh. Hall's Negro Chorus, 40 voices strong, provides the choral and atmospheric color in “Dixiana,” Radio Pictures’ original operetta, Bebe Daniels’ latest singing vehicle. "Old Black Joe,” Heart melodis “Suwanee Rive: 5 Chariot” and “Dixie” form the muxlul undercurrent of this colorful story of the old South. Among the Negro male singers are 9 baritone and baritone-soloists, 1 up- per register baritone, one tenor-robusto, 1 dramatic tenor, 6 bass and bass- 2 concert singers and 3 lyric- tenor soloists. The women of the chortis are classi- fled as 6 mezzo-soprano soloists, 8 con- fralto and. contralto-soloists, 1 L Seep mmlw one alto, 2 dramati and lyrn: and drnmlflc loprmo wlom.u !:ml Chorus sang in “Hit the Deck,” produced by Radio Pictures, in me spi u-lm sequence, Singing lelujah” and other Negro spirituals. Artists); “Orphans of the Storm,” di< rected by D. W. Gr' ‘th (D W. Grif- fith, Inc.-United Artists); “The Cov- ered Wagon,” directed by 'James Cruze (Paramount); “Merry Go Round,” di- rected by Rupert Julian (Unlveml}. “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” di- rected by Wallace Worsley (Universal) ; “Down to the Sea in Ships,” directed by Elmer Clifton (Hodkinson); “Little Old New York,” directed by Sidney Ol- 00"4 (Paramount): “The Sea Hawk,” teg by Frank Lloyd (Pirst Na- Llnml), “Monsieur Beaueaire,” directed by Sidney -Olcott (Paramount); “The Marriage Circle,” directed by Ernst Lubitsch .(Warner Bros.); “The Ten Commandments,” directed by C. De Mille (Paramount); “The Kid,” directed by Charles Chaplin (First National); “The Merry Widow,” directed by Erich yon Stroheim (Metro-Goldwyn); “The Last Laugh,” directed by F. W. Murnau (Universal) ; “The Big Parade,” dlrgg};l; ‘allant,” directed by Richard Harlan (!ox)‘ “Wings,” directed by Willlam Wellman (Paramount); "V.rlety," i~ rected by E. A. Dupont (Paramount). Geste,” directed by Herbert ; “Stella Dallas,” lesh,” Victor Fleming (Paramount) ; Fred Niblo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); ted Frank “The Crowd,” rnrected by King Vidor (l‘:tm-cold -Mlyer). "l’ho King Kings,” ted by C. De Mille (Plt.\le) "Dllrlel! " directed by Alfred E. Green (Warner Bros.); "Hlllelujsh » directed King Vldnr (Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer); “Grass,” directed by ck (Paramount), and y Sydney Franklin (First Na- B “Tol'l-blc David,” di by King (First National); 'a:qemny‘n.'nmm-d_ “All et the Western Front,” di« ua.?"‘i:'h ‘Slestons - UDi on ;luul Walsh (Fox); “The Way of All(W: “BenvHur." directed by | production, Motor, Aviation and Radio n News Neit HAMITTT JheDavwn RPatr Earle Ideas From New York By Percy ‘Those of little faith in the press when it inveighed against “Lysistrata” and ‘.l.'ha ‘Vanities” are now warned of thetr danger by a more trustworthy The church, through the CC'-\wlll: Tae- ater Movement, declares these plays to be outrageous and admo: its mem- bership to avold uum dishonor and a disgrace. ullefin in which '.he alarum is noundzd also denounces condition of the Broadway stage mlenenl and it can find but two en- are heavy footed and the accessory rather than a d temper 5 caution. - Confronted with an organized boycott against exce-ua prevalent and the may be per- to flllexl their exposures, whether dramatic or spectacular, and make attendance more generally com- fortable. Already, it is said, its re- straining influences are modifyin, manners of plays now in rehearsal and in changing the plans of entertainers whose pleasure is to see how far they can go in publlc. * k% “H. W. G.” wflm from his office, 40 WLH ltl'eet, that he “cannot understand why a play such as * ta’ is per- mitted to run in New York.” He de- scribes 1f as & modern man of average culture, interested in life and the drama and hitherto unshocked by his e ices with the stage. Though “Lysistrata,’ " he is broad- minded enough to wonder whether it is his own fault or the play’s. 'rhe prepondennce of evidence is that W. G. is himself to blame for not ll.kinz “Lysistrata.* He is the sixth person besides myself who has com- I have listened to thousands indorse it as a great preachment, an uproarious comedy, or both. Let H. W. G. emerge from the sordid precincts of Wall Street to mingle with the peop)e of artistic predilections and he will find that it is us, not they, who are out of step. I |:give him Gilbert Seldes, the adapter, for instance—a virtuous if not saintly man, addicted to mischief rather than wicked- pll.lned of it within my hearing, while | nasal I Hammom‘]. ness. Had Mr. Seldes the least picion that “Lysistrata” is benefice he would not not be suspected of participation in a sinful play. As a man o! average cul- ture, H. W: G. must be --nnhipc of Walter Damrosch, whose ministra- uomonbeha.u usic have ed him as the most it Dl’fllulndlthelfll.m one of the more a8 t,munr;muncm. first performance, during & moment mwhuhxmcprucuhnyuh-cd. . Damrosch turned to me and ex- Tosch may be cited as ano ) m-:k of George Adu. & man’s and religion may theater-going is hll ovn fault, * ok k Belasco's Pllr?ner e ouervge:hemnnu olmm the | with delicate evasions, and is one of the politest things of the kind. Youw depend upon the old maestro to know when and where to stop. In “Dancing Partner” Lynne Overman European e is to be to win a bet that, given a month’ portunity, he can seduce a careful ingenue (Miss Iren In an earlier reeord of the play I in re] t the lldy his advances -nd ghm - ung women. though fond e inted o take-carobat It seems, from a more deliberate of the phy. that she was ready and eager to surren an airship en rouu from ritz, when, melted by helplessness of her sex, overcome her. So they are married as the eurtain ll.l!l with somewhat adult Mr. Overman. breathing &v; m';f:.l into Tl_lhul Puxceu“: young pretty ears. The comedy from Hungary, adapted brightly sometimes awkwardly by Frederic Fanny Hatton, with & cruwd of unes- sential characters hall action and making burlesque t.hc scenes. Miss Purcell's piquant face and her vivacity and her expert know! of the better tricks pi long she will be a Belasco celebrity. Lady Luck HETHER you belleve it or not, there are many who believe in the existence of a Lady Luck, just as there were those once who believed in Alad- din’s famous lamp d the wonderful wand of the fairies. Things have hap- pened that are all out of reason other- A recent check-up in the Fox studios at Hollywood is said to have disclosed remarkable things. Here are some of one year ago little Maureen Osumv-n, the Irish colleen who owes her ' appearance in America to John McCormack, the famous Irish tenor, was living quietly and unostentatiously at her home in Dublin, with never a thought of fame. She hadn't even ever seen a camera. Frank Borsage, the flm director, saw and tested her out, and immediately thereafter Mer future .was assured; for she was given an impor- tant role in the McCormack picture, “Song o' My Heart,” and also in Will Rogers’ picture, “So This Is London.” Now, mark you, she actually heads the cast in “Just Imagine,” tbe new De Sylva, Brown and Henderson musical screen comedy. Fifi , also only a year ago, was jumping around on a motion picture uhle circuit, singing and dancing her eart out, but merely billed t.hu unavoidable entertainers of the pro- gram. You probably will recall '.be “earth-wide search” for a good-lookin Three New Season Pictures. lm United Ar'.l.su Pictures, all set for indefinite runs and two for $2 twice-a-day showings, are to be seen in New York within weeks, and possibly, sooner or later, in “Eyes of the World,” Henry ..ing's with Una Merkel, Nance O'Nelll and John Iolland in a Harold Bell Wright at the Rivoll. the Gflef.y ‘This $4,000,000 luction, three and a half years in is declared undoubtedly '.hl most stu- pendous film gver to reach the screen. “Abraham icoln,"” Au‘un 25, at the Central, in New York, with Walter Huston as the Lincoln of this D. W Grifith film. Una Merkel, Henry B. Walthall, Lucille La Verne, noh.rt as one of | Rogers’ the next three| Edward Whit “Hell's Ann.hz at the Criterio.. and| hound on the Job. Vel e for Wil Ro “”P.cm“' e, well as for “So This Is London.” Wel flnllly found Fifi for the job. lholalmlyl'.omlm from lctull stardom. Up in Sing Sing Prison lived 8-year- old Joan Marie Lawes, daughter of nu warden. John Ford, who is to direct “Up the River,” was sn¢ around in quest of color and atmosphere only a few months ago. He saw Joan Marle, who was loved b{l in Sing g and was called “Cherie” by them. "chnrla" Joan Marie Lawes 18 NOw un- der contract with the Fox Film poration, and will have an important p-‘x;z in ;‘(U? mths Rlve;."cu A ane Keith, one of icago's blond girls whose daily avocation was to say “Mr. Dobbs is in conference” and to do his typewriting when he wasn't, was seen by Director Alfred Santell, who also discovered she had enough acting ability to take the lead- ing feminine role in Jack London’s “The Sea Wolf,” which has Milton Sills for its star. George M. Cohan, a theatrical man, whom everybody knows, has an attrac- tive daughter, Helen, who went to Hollywood, playing s minar role in the stage production “June Moon.” Helen now hn the romantic IMT};’W say t and ture, “Lightnin’.” wmnzm sheehlu, vice general manager of the Fox cwpon- tion, is responsible, but there are and lots of folks who say it was M Luck and no one else. John McCormack also brought from th him an 11-year-old kid, named Tommy Clifford, to appear in his picture, “Song o' My Heart.” Now Tommy is to have a featured fu:,ndfl;.:' Ste tory of & , & [3 dub golfer and a woman golf ahn‘;mn. John' couldn’t land the whole of Ire- land in the movies, and it must have mm y l.n:.‘k who looked after for along with Tommy new picture there is to be a without family tree or hitherto unloved. making, | f atudios 'ere compelled to truth and if all the shini Bosworth, Kay Hammond, Jason Ro- bards, Frank d Ian Keith virsal, -hoaanmcfl"““ ke