Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1930, Page 25

AMUSEMENT SECTION he Sunday Star. MORNING, Theater, Screen Motor, Aviation _ 7apd Radio News Part 4—8 Pages | D. AUGUST 1930. and WASHINGTON, DAY SCREE BusTER KEATON- /" Dough Boys” Pslace L. JOHN MCCoORrRMACK MAUREEN B O SULLIVAN and ToMMy CLIFFORD- /n Song\o My Heart” fox /*“"‘”“*«\ *OneN ight A+ Susie’s “Lorle GRETA GARBO a7d GAVIN GORDON- /n Y Romance ¥ Columbia BILLIE SAUNDERS- Gayety == Cpic JOUNSON, LOTT! LODER ‘#nd OLE OLSEN= /rr > Oh,Sailor Behave ” A Kemble Cooper's title role of | Me—fro/Jo//fan Lysistrata, since Miss Cooper has to hearken o the contract call of the Theater Guild. Stag'e Notes. } LetterWFro_m New York MONG the more publicized up- heavals alonz Broadway this . . week is the news that Blanche Picture Gossnp Yurka will fall into Violet | ECTURES on motion pictures will | be given at the University of | Michigan, starting October 2, by | Prof. Ray K. Immel, and will cover the technical as well as the | phases of the talking picture. By Percy Hammond. From the wind-racked shores of Lake Michigan comes the rumor that Pritz academic Leiber and his Shakespearean lads and | lassies are busy preparing themselves _Paramount, it is rumored, s to have a | for the Winter's toll. After eight weeks “Prosperity week,” beginning October 5, | of Shakespeare in Chicago, beginning with all sorts of advance publicity ex- “The Ninth Guest,” the first of | morning after. N It is enough for him the season’s flesh-creepers, Owen to know that the showman has put his puppets back in their box and that they will emerge tomorrow night and repeat their written performances. It has been sald that dramas stop but CLAUDETTE— . ] COLBERTarns FREDERIC MARCH- Davis strives to frighten us with one of the most fearful false-faces | that has ever disguised his benign physiognomy. For so gentle a man, » " 2 % October 27, they will betake themselves ploits. /7" Manslaughter i | e, e and mouia” et R.K.O. Kerths COLUMBIA—Greta Garbo in “Romance.” Bob West comes from & long and suc- '3 RETA GARBO in the Metro- |Cessful engagement in Publix and Fox Goldwyn-Mayer screen produc- | theaters throughout the country tion “Romance” is this week's |Organlogues are of the highly entertai feature at Loew's Columbia, |i08 type. Eddie Peabody is called the due toa late change in b g | “King of the Banjo. et KRR “Romance” is an adaptation of the | The Fanchon and Marco “Sunshine stage play, which was a suc \ two Idea, another important unit, features continents, and which features Lewis Vince Silk, clever monologist, with Bar- Bianc, ‘Gavin' Gordon: Kilio igent | ton and Ycung, clever comedians; and Clara Blandick line Langan and Norman Sell in the supporting cast. On New Year eve young Harry Arm- trong rushes to his grandfather, Bish: Armstrong, to him of his gre love for an actre whom he intends to marry. The bishop| tells him a story Wally as “the human pool table” A new bevy of Sunkist Beauties rounds out the “Sunshine” Idea, and Fox Movie- tone News completes the program. —*“Manslaughter.” [N “Mansiaughter,” the feature at R-K-O Keith's, Paramount has brought together three unusual person- alities of the stage—George Abbott, the director; Claudette Colbert and Fredric arch, 'in featuring the Alice Duer Miller story, which, since its first ap- pearance in 1922, has been a best seller Manslaughter” is' the story of a wealthy gir], careless and thoughtlessly | selfish, who falls in love with a seriouis- minded and ambitious district attorney - | but_resents his criticism of her mode tells | of life. Then tragedy overtakes her re: and she faces a term in prison, with the Tom attempts to | district attorney fighting against her. Rita tells him it is tr 7ear | Her love turns to hate when she finds . 8 | her wealth and influence, her beauty | and her wiles are unable to save her minister, whose devotion is denied her | from justice. In prison she finds & because ‘of her past. Tom, wandering | ruthless system among people who rec- blindly through the night, his mind tor- | ognize no social distivetions, and learns ment:d by desire, makes his way to her | the true bitterness of isolation. Then apartment, where she is preparing to|:he becomes more fiendly and finds leave. They are swept away by passion | life easier. Freed from prison, her one until the midnight chimes remind them | thought is revenge ajainst the district of Tom’s ministerial duty. Rita sends|attorney, but when sne meets him she him away to his church. The bishop | realizes that she loves him. tells his grandson to marry the actress | as he fingers a newspaper clipping tell- ing of Rita's death in a convent. e Hearst Metrotone News and lected short subjects complete program. R-K-0 KEITH in his own life years back. Tom had become madiv infatuated with Rita Cavallin him that Rita has b ke tearful one, e loves se- the | 2nd a riot in the women's prison. Claudette Colbert as the willful, capri- | cious heroine is said to be magnificept all the way through. John McCor- !'Z‘]‘;‘E”‘—'o"‘ Night at Susie’s. tenor, | B = | Firsi National and Vitaphone produc- | tion, | at Warner Bros. FOX—John McCormack, “Song o' My Heart.” “Song o' My Heart” , the famous Irish lyric sings 11 numbers, logically introduced n the action of the lyrical romance ‘Song o' My Heart,” which is the cur- rent attraction at the Fox Of the entire repertoire, Calling_Me,” “Rose of Tralee “Little Boy Blue” are perhaps th: num- Other songs are “A Fairy Talé by the Fire” “Just for To- | ay,” “I Feel You Near Me, y, gx: Love,” “Loughi Sereni e Carl,” “Ire- | featured In the chorus, i 1and, Mother Ireland,” “A Pair of Blue | by Helen Ware, who is a Eves” and “Then You'll Remember Me.” | {riend of rival gang: and gang leaders The great tenor has ¢ fine supporting t, including da'nty : fo Tommy oliffora, John Garrick, J. | hflzfig ir) Farrell MacDonald and J. M. Kerrigan. | T The supplementary program will in- *roduce Bob West, organ enteriainer ex- v..aordinary, and mark the return of | Earle Theater. 1 Hear You the stigma of past associations. Billie Dove is Merchan: 0 (Continued on Second Page.) Eddie Peabody as master of ceremonies. | room dancing team; Mary Lou in synco- | pated songs and dances, and Richard | | ereated out of Remarque’s book. Re- | marque o | Griving his own car. He had come from | “Manslaughter” is a gripping story, | | with exciting aquaplane racing, palatiai | homes of the wealthy, a thrilling auto- | mobile accident, a dramatic court trial | por TV frct gaw Remarque. DOVE and Douglas Fairbanks, have the leading roles in the | One Night at Susie’s,” this week termed 1 th iaent production, termed one of the strongest |y ; Yo | dramas screened this season, fringes on | % parp Picture which the underworld, and deals with a duo of lovers who hope to leave behind them seen as & girl who s fe is played fence” and | | Whatever her own life, she has ambi- | th 1o e & e e S PDSUllls | tions for her foster son (Douglas Fair- | weye ioors o, Liose teats —why he al surrounding program will in- ¢lude Charles Ruggles in “The Hot-Air a Looney Tune cartoon, Y SUNKIST GIRLS o7 Parade Fox <Y faye) TAGE AND SCREEN ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK| COLUMBIA—Greta Garbo in “Romance.” This afternoon and evening. FOX—John McCormack in “Song o' My Heart.” noon and evening. R-K-O KEITH!S—“Manslaughter.” evening. EARLE—"One Night at Susie’s.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—“Dough Boys.” This afternoon and evening. METROPOLITAN—“Oh, Sailor, Behave.” This afternoon and evening GAYETY evening. “All Quig’;” andfiamerad” This after- This afternoon and (Burlesque)—“Bare Facts.” This afternoon and ALTHOUGH Washington have been given the go-by by that|war comrades, that the old schoolmaster inspirational ; film, “All Quiet on the|called him and his classmates to war Western Frgnt,” there are still vague|even as Kantorek does in the film and rumblings @s to the possibility of jts| book. Remarque answered the first call coming in-to town, and therefore—or | ana at the age of only 16—he had the not, s you will—the story that James | worst of war. He was terribly wounded V. Bryson offers below may be of gen-|in the side. eral interest “Although Remargue told me little of “It is pe indeed, I can say no|‘All Quiet,; he had much to say on his speaker was Erich Re-|next wor It is tentatively called 2-year-old author of “All| ‘Kamerad' It is to be delivered to Quiet on the Western Front,” and the | Universal for filming on Otcober 1. writer, | Mr. Bryson. “We were seated| “In ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,' at luneh in the fashionable Kaiserhof | he said, ‘I allowed Paul Baumer to die. Hotel, in Munster. |1 had no peace of mind to continue “Half an hour before Remarque and |the story of my own battles out his charming wife, with one or two|there . . . most of my comrades were film executives, had sat in a theater |killed, but those who were not live in in the little town of Munster looking | ‘Kamerad.” It will be their story and at the film which Mr. Laemmle had|my story—the story of many young men who went to war from the school and came home to what? “*All, Quiet’ is the beginning. few knew where. When we parted, later | erad’ carries on the story to & in the day, he set off again for the quiet | point. Iam sure you will agree.” spot where he has buried himself away| “As to the man himself. He is sad. from notoriet; He is shy and as timid as a gazelle— “It was 10 o'clock in the morning | almost too timid to shake hands. 1 had . - | flown from London to Berlin and from ) R | the German capital fo Munster, the | National Activities. little town in Westphalia. I admit to | intense surprise when I saw him. He | is 32, admitted, but he looks 10 years younger, and fs Paul Baumer in the utiful he marque, the had arrived at the theater, ‘Kam- reater Theater open on September 22 the attraction will be “The Pagan Lady,” featuring Leonore Ulric. This is to be followed by the Fred Stone extrava- ganza, “Ripples,” the week of Septem- ber 29. October 6 will see the premier of “Night Owls,” a new musical comedy sponsored by Gearge W. Lederer. Other productions will follow in close suc- cession. Incidentally, word comes from the E street managerial helm that requests for weekly reservations are being filed care- fully and will be filled in the order of receipt, patrons being notified in due um'e. as to the exact rluon of their o “We shook hands quletly and walked into the theater and took our seats in an atmosphere charged with electricity. | It was Remarque's first glimpse at the has grown out his book. We might have been turned to stone for all that passed as the film flickered through its tale of glory, war |and death. “And when it finished Remarque got up and walked out. There were tears in his eyes. He could not speak. | “Later, in the Kaiserhof, he told me | ways looks so sad and never smiles. | He told me a heartrending story tha for 14 years he had kept to himself and then immortalized in the book of ‘All | Quiet on the Western Front.’ “He told me, through his interpreter, |on Washington some time around be- | fore or after Santa Claus. After saying that golf has broken up more homes and .idowed more m fed |ladies than prohibition and other things, A gossamer-like Teport from _the Film Daily quotes Mary Pickford 2- say Shubert office has it that Madge Ken- |ing: “Decug’s only ambition now is to nedy may play around the country in |break 70. I told him I wished he would “Michael and Mary,” since the play, | hurry up and make 70, so we could live | to | Maude Adams will appear. “On the Q-T,” which had been pre- pared for her, proved not at all adequate. Washington may be on her touring chart. Helen Ford, one of the more comely ably more famous since Jack Oakie | Broadway comediennes and _consider- | beautiful | played with her (in the chorus) in |qualities possessed by the original Pearl. “Peggy Ann" is to emerge once more from the silent shadows to appear in a musical play which has for its sub- | ject the land of the harp and the green. | Other important recruits to the mu- | sical comedy stage this Winter will in- | clude Bernice Claire and Ginger Rog- ers, both of celluloid fame, the latter | | booked for grease-paint service under | the Aarons & Freedley banner. At last a name has been attached | the John Colton play in which | > Ada 1t is to be called “That's the Way With Them," | and is said to be of fantastic nature | and to be divided into five episodes. seems to|that the boys of ‘All Quiet’ were his | | should be more than tickled to hear | that the famous D'Oyly Carte Opera ’Jnnuary 1, and may travel as far South VWWHEN the doors of the National | | |1s apt *o be truthful. openings of the past week included ‘“The Ninth Guest,” a blood- | curdling melodrama by Owen Davis; | | Artht Hopkins' production of “Torch | Song” and Marya Mannes' new play, | “Cafe.” i Most spectacular of London theatrical | news is the report that Tallulah Bank- | | head was recently given an ovation | when she appeared in the leading role | | of Rachel Crothers’ “Let Us Be Gay.” | Sam H. Harris, whose first production | of the new season will be “Once In Lifetime,” the work of George S. Kauf- man and Mos: Hart, has acquired a | second play, “Oh, Promise Me,” by | Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson i A Washington opening of note will occur November 3, when “Tonight or | Never,” the Hungarian drama by Baron- i'fi Hatvany, will come to light. In {the cast will be Helen Gahagan, | Ferdinand Gottschalk and Warburton | Gamble. Gilbert & Sullan _enthusiasts Co. of London will open on Broadway as Washington afterward. Frank Craven, author of the immi- | nent “That's Gratitude,” is to have the. | principal role in his own play, which John Golden will produce. Others in ' | the cast will be Marie Nordstrom, George | Barbier, Marie Reed and Thelma Marsh, ! Philadelphia Is to witness the initial | performance of “Bad Girl,” the drama- tized version of Vina Delmar’s novel This Robert V. Newman production 1s scheduled to blossom theatrically on September 8 before sailing into Broad- way. The cold-blooded report of the trade Journal, never burden | with sentiment, Film Daily says: “When you used to wi 't around a Coast studio you had to be careful not to step on a song writer, but now you have to take hours off duty to find one, if you're interested.” It adds. “Tin Pan’ Alley is returning to noisy normalcy.” tury ago, on the screen. is 1) create the settings, Tom Barry to write a modernized version of the story and Bradley King to make the scenario. normally again.” It is said Pathe proposes to comb the country in search of a new Pearl White as star of their revivals of “Perils of Pauline” and “Exp’ ‘ts of Elaine.” She must have athletic ability, figure and other box-office Ann Harding has begun rehearsing for her next picture, “The Greater Love,” with Harry Bannister, her hus- band, who is to play opposite. Eugene Walter wrote the original play, and Tollo Lloyd, New York stage director, made the adaptation for the screen and will direct. Emmett Flynn, who directed “The Shannons of Broadw .” has joined the Fox scen.rio department, and his_first | assignment is “The Connecticut Yan- kee,” in which Will Rogers is to be starred. The Modern Drift in Shakespeare— “Easy Mark” Antony enters. Sez Cleo: ‘Why didn't you come home to dinner tonight?” Sez Mark: “Well, er—you see —er—an _out-of-town buyer came in; had to take him to chow at Childs’ and to a talkie.” Sez Cleo (operating her cooiing system): “Oh, yeah?” Fadeout as she laboriously lifts an edition of the Film Daily Year Book from table and hurls it at Mark, who collapses. in technicolor now un way include Fifty Million Frenchmen” (Warners), “The Barba- y), “East Is West” (Uni- , ‘Rose of the Rancho” (Para- mount), “Babe in Toyland” and “Heart of the Rockies” (R-K-). Fox it is announced, has decided to retain the title of “Liliom” for the Ferenc Molnar play, which will have Charles Farrell and Rose Hobat in the leading roles i the rlm version. Jack Oakie will have Harry Green with him in his next Paramount pic- ture, which is to be called “Sea Legs.” Loretta Young, who has been made a star by First National, will appear next 8ix nroductions with Conrad Nagel in “The Right Way.” | di yalbes | ‘The Ohio censor board has required | the title of “The Matrimonial Bed,” the | Warner Bros.’ picture, to be changed to “The Matrimonial Kiss" for showings in Ohlo. The pjcture was seen here recently. Following the wake of (Buddy) Rogers, who has signified his wish 'hereafter to be called simply Charles Rogers, Eddie Cantor bobs up with the requ hereafter to be c:.d Edward Throckmorton Cantor—and why not? Fox is to put “East Lynne,” the fa. mous old heart-breaker of nearly a cen. Joseph Urban The names of Anr Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel and J. M. Kerri- gan are mentioned in connection with the cast and k Lloyd will do the directing. g coura se, | Charles | ® will have and on occasion, so fine a dramatist, Mr. Davis is strangely satanic at times, seeming to take delight in causing our | knotted and combined locks to part in fits of terror. He is much happier in | saying “Boo!” to us than in scaring us | gradually by such plausible tales as “Detour” and “Icebound.” While I was not among those who whistled on Monday night to keep from being afraid, there were moments during the | many ‘murders when I feared that “The | | Ninth Guest” itself would perish, the | victim of its own poisons. * Kk ok x Mr. Davis is the author of hundreds | | ot works. | ber the combined census of Bernard | Shaw, His output exceeds in num- Edgar Wallace, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Pinero and Harry B. Smith. Yet seldom has he been guilty of repetition. “The Ninth Guest" explores a new field of what Mr. Walkeley used to call the drama of curiosity and horror. Eight characters find themselves at a Borgian dinner party given in the city’s loftiest genthousc by an absent and mysterious ost. As they wonder what, in the phrase of the playwrights, is the mean- ing of it all, he speaks to them over the radio, dooming them to Every means of egress from this alarm- ing roof is closed, and there they are, as one of them observes, caught “like rats in a trap.” Death, the radio tells them, is the ninth guest. One by one they expire by pistol shot, poison or electrocution until at the end only two are left—an endearing newspaper boy (Owen Davis, jr.) and an anemic and upright artiste from the California film lands (Miss Brenda Dahlen). As the curtain falls they are to be seen leaving the slaughter house arm-in- arm, on their way to the marriage de- partment of the City Hall. * k% x The true drama lover never won- ders what happens to the characters in a play after the author has finished with them at half-past 11. He is not interested in the developments of the | never end. That the persons involved have no future and are dismissed the playwrights just as their problems become acute. StiM, I was content on Monday nifht to _be unworried by the prospects of Miss Dahlen and Mr. Davis, Jr., when after a most anguish evening, they went out into a rainbow dawn, leaving seven corpses behind them. * K In my infrequent consultations with authors and producers I have hinted that a good show might be made of a mystery play in which the murderous villain would be frankly supernatural. It is a practice of mystery melodra- matists to blame the butler for killing the old banker, while causing suspicion to fall upon every one else, from the ingenue to the gardener. Occasionally it is the hero who is handcuffed by the detectives and carried away to prison, confessing his crimes. The cooks, the chauffeurs and the leggy chambermaids are often indicted for assassination, and as in the case of “The Ninth Guest,” the most pleasant role in the cast, the sane and maniacal college professor, played by Alan Dinehart, expires at the conclusion, killed by his own capricious deviltries. Mr. Davis does not request me to cor- rect his plays, desiring no suggestion from every-day journalism. Neverthe- less, one is bound by one’s duty to one's public to criticize the Davis habit of making the theater falser, by artificial speech and spurious action, than it ought to be. The art of the playwright is to_make incredible things credible. Mr. Davis fails to do this in “The Ninth Guest,” and his efforts to fool us are onerous and mechanical. “The Ninth Guest” would be a more startling entertainment if its heinous crimes were committed by a horrid and unexplain- able ghost. instead of by such an eti- quette actor as Alan Dinehart. I hope that some day Mr. Davis will be game enough to give us a show in which haunted houses are really haunted, and the evil spirits thereof will be spooks instead of actors. Theateri éuild Pr;spects. ting the theatrical appetite, comes a report from the National Theater, where the New York Theater Guild Acting Co. plans to hang out its banner uring the coming season. It seems that the Theater Guild will present five productions in their second subscription year, the company includ- ing such favorites as Alfred Lunt, Ivnne Fontaine. Earl Larimore, Tom Powers, Henry Travers, Violet Kemble Cooper, Albert Carroll, Helen Westley d many others. ‘“Green Grow the Lilacs,” a new play by Lynn Riggs, “Borned in Texas” will also be produced this sea- son by Arthur Hopkins, will be the first Guild presentation of the season, com- ing to the National the week of Octo- ber 13. This will be followed—no date set as yet—by Maxwell Anderson's “Elizabeth, the Queen,” in which Lynn Fontaine will assume the title role, Al- fred Lunt, Percy Waram, Albert Car- roll being also in the cast. Coming afterward, at unannounced | intervals, the Guild will offer “The Ap- ple Cart,” Bernard Shaw's latest con- tribution to political satire, in which Tom Powers and Violet Kemble Ooo&ekr the leading roles; “Garri ed not only of the savi | vance subscriptions to these play: |of the allotment of the bes* seats for | subscribing early. {may be secured at the National Thea- ter or from the Theater Guild 345 ‘g:n Pifty-second street, New Yorx S a considerable stimulus to Whet- | Galeties,” the Summer's best intimate revue, launched on its first tour, and either Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” Way,” Schnitzler's “The Lonely Lenormand’s ““The - “Lul,” Tretoakow's ‘“Roar or Behrman's “The Second TS are remind- in cost by ad- but Man.” Washington theater, Subsaption_blanks Y. Paramount at Fox. RUIH CHATTERTON and Clive Brook in “Anybody's Woman,” soon to be shown at the Fox, is now in its second week at the Paramount The- ater in New York City. This, inci- dentally, will be the first Paramount picture ever to be shown on the Fox mount. with Richsra . Atlen. and Fay moun! wi ichare len al Wray, 8lso is booked for the Fox for an early n,m 4 “The Sea God,” another Para-