Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1930, Page 45

Theater Screen and Music Part 4—12 Pages CLARA ove QS?:ene fiom *LeTs Go N/.mvs. e Palac.e the talking version of one of hil silent successes, at Loew’s Colum- assumes two dis- guises, but gives five vocal characteriza- tions and also makes a dummy sing by the art of ventriloguism. The new Metro- Lee, Harry KEarle, John Miljan, Ivan Linow, Clarence Burton and Crau- ford Kent. ‘The story is based on C. A. Robbins' urn of a side show ventriloquist who comes involved with a circus giant and midget in an amazing criminal Eleb ‘The ventriloquist fools the police yrunmnznpecuhopinmdi*u!.se an old wéman, while the rAZet Lon Chaney. [ PANACE—Tety Go Neitve—Dniec- JACK OAKI.I ll starred at Loew's Palace in the Paramount screen production “Let's Go Native,” which features a cast including Jeanette Mac- Donald, Skeets Gallagher, James Hall, Willlam Austin, Kay Francis, David Newell and Eugene Pallette. Oakie as a “hard berled” taxl driver from the “Bronn! th! front of the pnunxer America ge with modiste who I.l w mlt on a fllhlul for some rich gentlemen of the Argen- l‘sllm'd ‘l’l;‘ey are lhlpwr;x.'d’! hfln an and where a group from Brooklyn have been stranded and a merry time is had by all, On the stage Arthur Knorr under the personal direction of Louis K. Sid- ney staged a spectacle, "'l'he Under- sea Ballet,” whlch is said to more sensational and massive '-hll'l that created originally at the Capitol Theater, New York. It features Rly!, Ellis and La Rue, Ray Collins, C. Lmdemm and the Clpiwl Ballet Corps Tlu Hearst Metrotone News, short subjects and_the Palace Ore under Harry Borjes, complete the pro- lmpexsonmu a baby. The clerk in the | #™m. store, kno nothing of their activi- tles, is “framed” after a murder, but the ventriloquist’s love for a girl who pleads for the boy’s vindication finally prévails in a dramatic court room scene. Interesting scenes in the production Include the pet shop, where a wide variety of animals and birds is shown, and the circus sideshows, in which tual circus freaks play prominent parts. The short subjects include Benny Rubin, the Brox sisters, Marion Harris and the Albertina Rasch Girls in “Hits of M. G. M.” the famous Our Gang in “Pups Is Pups.” and the Hearst Met- rotone News. The Columbia Orchestra fenders a popular overture, comprising hits from the latest Metro picture: METROPOLITAN—“The Bad Man."” O‘TH! Bad Man, Porter Emerson Browne's well known play, is the feature at Warner Bros’ Metropolitan Theater, where it §s to be seen this week, with Walter [Huston in the title rloe. ‘The story concerns a pleasant-man- hered but determined bandit who thrives upon villainy. He comes to rob ®n Arizona ranch, where he finds a young girl and her husband, guests of the ranch owner. The girl, it seems, o longer loves her husband, but re- fnains faithful to him., The husband, on the other hand, treats her rather This i5 the situation Pancho | s when he comes to raid the | e determines to take the girl to his mountain retreat and keep her gor himself “personalle,” What makes him change his mind and decide to make the girl a widow in order that she may be happy with the man she geally loves, and how he settles his own affairs, will be found to be interesting grama. Walter Huston, recalled for his finely etched characterization in “The Vir- nian,” has the role created by Hol- rook Blinn in the play. Supporting layers include Dorothy Revier, James Efnnle, O. P. Heggle, who played on the stage with Holbrook Blinn; Quinn Williams, Arthur Stone and Johnny Arthur. A two-reel comedy, “The Boss' Or- ders”; a Vitaphone variety, “Yacht Club | Boys o Bnd ‘The Evening Star-Universal Newsreel, with Graham McNamee as the talking reporter of news events of | 1.2 world, will comn'nte the 1 & screen version of | EARLE—“Love Among the Millionaires.” CMRA BOW, with her new bob and slim figure, this week, at Warner Bros.’ Earle 'rhelter. will be seen in her hlfl! picture, “Love Among the Million- A.l 8 waitress in a small railroad res- taurant, Clara meets Stanley Smith, Who appears as a brakeman. They fall in love, but Clara later learns that Stanley is the son of the president of the railroad. It is then that their ro- mance goes on the rocks. Stanley’s fa- ther (Claude Kin) thinks his son should not waste his time with a poor girl; and Clara’s father (Charles Sellon) thinks his daughter is too good- for. a rich man’s son. While the old chaps get things muddled up, Clara and Stanley have a misunderstanding of their own. But things are patched up and every- thing ends happily. Little Mitzi Green, who won the hearts of movie goers with her talented impersonations of Maurice Chevalier, appears as the saucy little sister of Clara and makes things warm for every one in the picture. Mitzi also sings and glves an imitation of Clara Bow and Skeets Gallagher, who with Stewart Er- win, also appears in the cast. Clark and McCullough in & two-reel comedy, & Vitaphone Variety, “The New Racket,” & novelty cartoon and the Earle newsreel complete the bill. FOX—“Common Clay”—*Trees.” ‘CAPACITY crowds still coming to see | M4 “Common Clay,” the Fox Movie- tone production, &t the Fox, are hailing it for a second week. Constance Bennett is its star. She | enacts the part in which Jane Cowl made her first bid for fame in the original stage production. Supporting Miss Bennett is an excellent cast, in- |cluding Lew Ayres, Tully Marshall, Beryl Mercer and Hale Hamilton. The Fanchon & Marco “Trees Idea” stage Producth’n 1is also held over, with Frankie Jenks as master of ceremonies for his farewell week. Jack McBride, assisted by Flo Cllrke and Katheryn Goodwin, presents featured act in the “Trees Idea.” TM’- rell and Hanley in “Embarrassing Min- utes,” “Naynon's Birds, Reicard and La Vine, pleasing singers; Mavis and Ted, adagio stylists; Helen Newcombe and | the Sunkist Beauties make up the re- maining talent. | Fox Movietone News and the Fox Orchestra_complete the 9 | A new lobby exhibit, the “Know Page.) { ed on AMUSEMENT SECTION The Sundwy Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, N apd S‘rANLE ITH-/ ? onyifi/re /W////ona/rszM % Earle I~ The Unholy ol Bese DANIELS s EVERETT MARSHALL - /7 /n R-K-O to play opposite banks in “Reaching for the Fox is to cofeature Warner Baxter and Edmund Lowe in “The Cisco Kid,” to be made under the direction of John The “Kid” has gone well in the past, why let him go? Premier openings of Ufa’s flrlt talking German-English production, “The Mel- ody of the Heart,” is for Au- gust 29 at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, in New York, where the English-speak- ing version will be shown, and at the J.| Eighth Street Ph{houu 'll'wte the Ger- man dislogue will be displayed. ‘Three notable United Artists produc- tions are announced as ready for release in the near future—"“Du : Woman of Passion,” starring Norma ige; “What & Widow,” I!ll"nn‘ Gloria Swan- son, Cantor. Bram Stoker's vampire story will find its way to the screen, under the direc- llon of Tod Browning, in a production to be made by the Universal Picture Corporation. Terry Ramsaye has ( completed two of six foot ball shorts for Pathe, “The Last Yard” and “The Hidden Ball,” which were directed by Clyde xmmt. with the famous Knute Rockne of Notre Danie assisting. Young Carl Lummle ir.,, has sounded | *, the alarm about “marqueée names” in pictures. That means names that will attract when illuminated by electricity. He contends strongly for the develop- ment of players “within the ranks” whose names are familiar in a degree, to drafting new talent, nwerly ‘unknown. And maybe he is rl[ Film Daily, the movie Bradstreet, says Mary Pickford hasn’t deserted the screen entirely. She is merely going to try it out on the stage legitimate between pictures. Mary feels that & brush on the stage will improve and freshen up her screen abilitie: ‘Willlam B. Frase: neral manager of the Harold Lloyd ploture Corporation, is authority for the statement that $225,000,000 will be spent the coming year in making motion pictures. This, he adds, is $50,000,000 more thln the pre year. The movie seems to up and doing anyway. Joe E. Brown is going to make six fiuoml appearances with “Maybe It's ve,” but none of them in Washing- ton, it appears. Janet Gaynor has ironed out her dis- agreement with Fox, so says PFilm Daily, and appropriately she will re- turn to talking pictures in “The Man ‘Who Came Back,” with Charlie Far- rell as her vis-a-vis and Willam K. Howard as her director, The report that already the motion picture producers have bought the screen rights for 22 novels and plays would seem to indicate '.hll “the great writers” recently engaged in had fallen down on their jobs. Hollywood s said to be sharply re- senting criticism of its methods, lyhhh writers for the films are cha: do notl help the art of motion making, IxiSna “ and “Whoopee,” starring Eddie |d R K.O.Keiths Stage and Screen Attractions This Week COLUMBIA—“The Unholy Three.” This afternoon and evening. mOPOLITAN—"The Bad Man.” ning. This afternoon and eve- PALACE—‘“Let’s Go Native.” This aftenroon and evening. EARLE—“Love Among the Millionaires.” evening. FOX— This afternoon and ‘Common Clay.” This afternoon and evening. R-K-O KEITH'S—“Dixiana.” This afternoon and evening. GAYETY—(Burlesque) “Broadway Scandals.” and evening. This afternoon New La Gallienne Season. Civic Repertory Theater, Eva Le Gallienne director, and her com- pany, will open its fifth season Monday evening, September 29, in “Romeo and Juliet.” Five new productions will be made the coming season—"The Nobel Prize,” a modern comedy, by Hjalinar Bergman, translated by He: Be! Josephine Hutchinson as Alice; “Rosmersholm,” with Miss Le enne as Rebecca West; “Gruach, new play by Gordon Bottomley, will be presented wit “Ardvorlich’s Wife,” a one-act play, also by Bottomley, as n curtain raiser, and one other piay, to be announced later. Gordon Bottomley is a new figure in the theater for Americans. Well known ln mhnd he gained his first success 'rha mphuon of the Carroll story s by Fiorida Friebus, one of the acting members of the Civic Repertory com- pany. Miss Friebus played Tootles in “Peter Pan” last season. In addition to the new productions, revivals will include “The Cradle Song,” Sierra; “The Master Builder,” Ibsen: “John Gabriel Borkman,” Ibsen; Locandiera,” Gold ni; “Three Sisters,” Tchekov; “Inheritors,” Glaspell; "'l'h! Good Hope,” Heijermans; “The Stone,” ;__ “Improvisations I.n une,” ; “Hedda Gabler,” Ihsen. ‘Twelfth Night,” Shlkupenre, “The Would-Be Gentleman,” Moliere; “L'In- vitation au Voyage,” Bernard; “The Cherry Orchard,” Tchekov; “Peter Pan,” Barrie; “The Lady From Alfa. Quintero, and “Katerina,’ The company this year will include Jacob Ben-Aml Donald Cameron, Paul Beyssac, Egon_ Brecher, Sayre Crawley, J. Edward Bromberg, Walter Beck, Robert H. Gordon, Josephine Hutchin- son, Leona Roberts, Alma Kruger, Bea- trice de Neergaard, Florida Friebus and Mary Ward. “Going to MAmLYN MILLER is packing up to make ready for her return to New York, where she is to be starred by nm: Ziegfeld in a new musical stage ’I‘hll eastward movement is part of a ro'rlm which Miss Miller describes in our words—"I'm going to oscillate. ‘To be more specific, she will swing between Hollywood and Broadway, be- tween screen and stage. After making » picture she will appear in & musical comedy, then will come the turn of the s en again, and so on. Thus she hopes to be able ‘0 make the best of both amusement worlds. “Sunny,” now nearing its final stages 8t the First National-Vitaphone studio, is her second picture. The first was “Sally,” which ran on the screen of the Winter Garden for about 13 weeks dur- ing the past Winter. Both pictures are based on musical comedies that carried Marilyn Miller's name to stellar re- nown, but where “Sally” was made en- tirely in technicolor, “Sunny” is being photogiaphed in black ,and white thmu.haut Also “Sunny,” whilc em- hracing, cast and an entire tented Blrtul will not present the elab- orate chorus numbers so prominent a feature of “Sally.” The musical side of “Sunny” been planned and executed after the newer manner of the nast few months. will be, according to advices from studio, only four songs, three hav- ing been written especially for “Sunny" | el in its new edition by Jerome Kern, now A L has | aters Oscillate.” under contract at the First National studio. The single number retained from the original stage production is the tuneful “Who?” which also was the work of Mr. Kern. Joe Donahue plays in “Sunny” the role that was enacted on the stage by his elder brother, Jack. Lawrence Gr.y has the part formerly played by Pl\.l] Frawley. Inez Court ey replaces Mary Hay, and O. P. Heggie plays the Joe Cawthorne character. ‘The selection of “Sunny” for Miss Miller came as a pleasant surprise. Be- fore leaving New York for California last Spring she confided to friends nhe would rather do “Sunny” next anything else she could think of. At that time it seemed settled she was to appear in “The "ad Good Girl.” Nego- tiations for “Sunny” were successfully concluded after she had been on the Coast for .everal weeks. “Sunny” in its screen edition will be shown in New York in the late Plll or Winter, concurrently with the stage appearance in the new zie[teld show. UFA, the German producing corpora. is said to have p!;velud 34, WDOOO in eql::ypln[ and preparing UFA the- it not be forgotten that UFA is devoted to that Schufftan process of filming hu- man and other action against a back: nl:“nfl 'pared in advance from mod- phl lnd vlv,h optical mir- rors and SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1930. Three” umbia Stage Notes. first casualty of the New York theatrical season. . has occurred. ‘“‘Suspense,” a noted London war play, has bitten the dust after an almost minimum :_tn 'porlommeu. “Too tame,” said the "mp-uwmuflmm hll tfully. same, except some of the children hav- Motof, Aviation and Radio Rave, ELus Ll News and LARUE - lace. (Stage) cene From > COMMON Fox» Letter From New York By Percy Hammond. and to be blossoming The cast is pretty much the | week’s unhaj mmmuplmumphflnmh- last venlle substitutes of urements have been a Lee Shubert has announced that he to rumor device his the screen. th Shubert has contemplated branching | SPOnso! ceord off into the films. he will employ a new recol invented by Oscar Lissau in talking picture productions. ‘What seems to have attracted the at- tention of the London critics more than anything during the past week is the Rudolph Besier play, “The Barretts of Wimpole Staeet,” which is the first se- rious attempt to dramatize the lives of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After weeks of mulling and milling to find thn right lady for Jue Oookl imminent production, “Pine a Dandy,” che new musical farce which will soon be launched on Broadway, Alice Bouldon of *“Hold Everythin fame has been chosen as the epitome of all that a leading lady should be. October 14 is the date set by Jane Cowl of her repertory season under the management of Macgowan and Reed When Hell Froze” will be the first lay and three days later “Twelfth nght“ will come to light. Needless to say Miss Cowl will be the star. Drama, according to William Faver- sham, is dead in Australia. All of which would probably indicate that his tour of that pearly isle may not have been as successful as anticipated. “Dancing Partners,” the new David Belasco tidbit, is m'onounced & hit, Rumor has it that Zoe Atkins is in New York keeping an eye on the re- hearsals of her new play, “The Greeks Had a Word For It,” which- Willlam Harris, jr., will bring to Broadway Sep- tember 15. ‘Theresa Helburn, grand mofiul of the Theater Guild forces, is back from Eu- rope with two French plays, L by Alfred Savior, and “The Coward,” by H. R. Lenormand. Both these are to appear before Broadwayites during the Guild’s coming season. Plays of the week that have sprout- ed along the Great White Way include “Through the Night,” with Helen Mac- Kellar, “Hot Rhythm,” a negro revue; “Lost Sheep,” “Young Sinners” and the above mentioned “Topaze,” the last three hauled out of last season’s theat- rical grab-bag. Maurice Chevalier is pausing at the moment in New ‘York on his way from Hollywood to Paris. His plans for the future seem more cinematic than theat- rical, but you never can tell—eh, what, LaFayette? Now they say Al Jolson is to be starred in a German dialogue feature to be produced in Berlin by Fred Zelnik for Jolaph M. Schenck. The other in- wafl-l.nl newz- connected with this re- that ith and for sound pictures. Let | port is Dunning pros whereby l ucer mqy‘lhuert action nqhnluu ready made, ':g:;mun--oluuanm«:’ge oroam; - ‘:l‘:nm-r on me and run prosperously for years. * Kk K ‘When of the expert class of Charles Dillingham and Lee Bhllbm pense’ " mdch"mmuxh the Night, nure g . mhm‘l. such as you and I, fear that the drama is not in safe hands. witty, sophisticated and intelligent. His record as an impresario is remarkable for its numerous hlh and its infrequent misses. He has added to the drama lovers’ gayety. Why, then, did he im- port “Suspense”? A reading of manscript must have told him that it it was noz right. That, compared to the credible valor, sentiment, romance, cowardice and drunkenness of “Jour- ney’s End,” it was but a chflp and dv mvl:uaevflk ‘Where Mr. blmd to its faults, the nflnl-?no—hrlmln first-nighters saw them at once, and walked out on them. * k¥ K its | Seats all around - me mrlnnumn mm t“t I & calloused “oldtimer, viewed fi‘z awkward antics of “Through the !g- with m ':-nqu\lm' of & drama inured: to disappointment. In the best. vrtnlcd in l(ony. and me_ be- tween the acts if in all ‘my I had ever seen a play so Mr. Dillingham had taken the|im) b4 “idea” of the play to one of wwm relentless nnl&u and had said to him, “rewrite it and make it true,” he might have found a drama in “Suspense. Here were a troop of humble British soldiers bivouacked in a dugout be- neath which what used to be known as for those who attend ' never lnin vfl! flny Awelruvgt a show. Wodehouse Comedy. P G. WODEHOUSE, writes D. H. Clarke, one of Hollywood's most astute observers, had an attack of neu- ritis and two Pekingese dogs when he landed at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio to begin turning out humorous screen material. Mr. Wodehouse (pronounced Wood- house) had the neuritis with him, but the two Pekingese were at his home in England. He would have preferred to have had it the other way around, as he is very fond of the dogs, and not so_passionate lbwl the neuritis. Before he salled from England, there was an exchange of cabled messages between Mrs. Wodehouse and the film company about the entrance of the Pekingese into the United States, their journey to California, and their prob- able enjoyment of the California climate. Upon his arrival in New York, Mr. Wodehnuse 'u again ‘about mflm tting the dogs back to d vllfihwt having to undergo the us\ul six months dog quarantine. He said, “that T am sure I -wua my hero wghnx about with a sling.” _Chances are Wndehounmredmtnhm arm in a sling, he George Arliss, and that in the Favies, Ho thought Miss Devise wy es. He g0od in “Not 8o Dumb," have been delighted to have some | speal one take a his neuritis and put that in ununfl‘n‘n{w«mm-nl&lc. and other laugh creating English, m“‘wrlm the 4 ‘Three Prenc signment saved llr. the bo'.hu of having to worry about letting his neuritis or his dogs play leading roles. “Just now are so full of this nuurmn m the author §