Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1930, Page 26

AMUSEMENTS. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. called upon to lend their assistance “to draw the crowds.” The current threat | in this direction scems destined to spoil the creative art of the writers that have been drawn in formidable array to | Hollywood. ~ And ns goes Hollywood, it {is a moral certainty, so will go New | York, where stage 'entertainment is | now presumed to criginate. | MR ® | (RETTING down to details, with a | specific ilendency, it is belleved “the 50 best pictures of all time,” which | are included :n the list of fine public entertainment selected by David Wark | Griffith, the distinguished screen di- | rector—it was recently published in a Sunday issue of The Star—furnishes as fine a guide to the maker of screen en- | tertainment as can be offered offhand in the type that will appeal to the largest audiences of the general public. It will be noted, in a careful perusal of that list, that the underworld is strangely conspicuous by its absence. | In many of the productions there may | be incidents that are not designed to at- | tract the interest of children or the im- | mature Naturally life drama involves | much that requires the sophisticated mind to fully appreciate. Whether that | should be meted out to the young and | immature as entertalnment must be de- termined by wise discretion. The evil of it has been in emphasizing and | spectacularizing the meat that should | be fed only to the sophisticated stomach |in & way that tempis the appetites not | yet fitted with the proper masticatory and digestive attachments. It is a se- | rious evil, inexcusable from any stand- | point. That which delights the heart | of the tough and hardened sinner is not the fare upon which to develop the stamina of the younger generation. If it must be made by the movie maker, it should be tagged conspicuously both in the making and in the exhibition. Be- yond that, if not the law, the parents in the homes must provide the restric- tions. The entertainment maker for | | the public always must be limited in his | exploits to the demands of decency and GRETA GARBO, Whose fine artistry in the film version of “Romance” has won a beautiful tribute from David Belasco. Personalities. ' pERSONALITIES are still the big, through,” recalled Mr. Schenck. “Then factor in motion pictures. It is|we made him a United Artists' star ridiculous for any one to set a definite land produced pictures which were tre- limit on the life of a star. }mendously pepular. Twice the ‘proph- “Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge,|ets' have said Glorla Swanson was Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Al | through. The first time she came back Jolson and other world-famous stars | with ‘Sadie Thompson' and the second can easily go on for many more years. |with ‘The Trespasser.’” ““There is nothing to be alarmed about | Mr. Schenck voiced the opinion that in the thatrical situation.” ‘Mlss Pickford and Miss Talmadge can These are some of the statements g0 on for at least another decade, and made by Joseph M. Schenck, dominant | possibly longer. in the entertalnment world as head of | “Certainly,” he declared, “neither has the United Artists’ Corporation, in |any intention of retiring now. Miss Tal- spiking rumors of the “retirement” of | madge has just completed one of the certain stars. | biggest pictures of her career and will As examples of his contention that start another as soon as she returns outstanding screen personalities are | from Europe.” what the public has always wanted, | The answer to conditions in the the- wants today and always will want, Mr. |ater, Mr. Schenck said, is: “Make good Schenck cites the cases of Rudolph |pictures, with real personalities, and Valentino and Gloria Swanson. | the public will flock to where they are Everybody said that Valentino was |showing.” “Hold Anything”: the Vitaphone vi riety, “Yacht Boys' Club,” and the Serious Business. | *“THIS business of being funny s/ serious work,” say Olsen and | Johnson, the stage and screen exponents | of monkey business. | They work harder to make other | people laugh, they claim, than most | folk do in an effort to make their first million or to meet the next payment | on the radio. Their quest for mew “gags” funny | situations, and comedy lines even sur- passes the earnestness of a stock ex- | change floor operator trying to unload | lon a falling market with two minutes (to go before the exchange closes. Their countenances assume & rigid | serlousness when working over a comedy | situation with which later they hope | to throw audiences into gales of | laughter. | On the screen or stage every one will | agree they are a singularly merry pair. But off screen they are all business, for they are constantly inventing new | laughs, thinking up funny things, and | observing comic occurrences that hap- | pen to themselves and to other people. | Both carry a pad and pencil and | jot down any funny idea they think of or observe. When they have time they ' rehearse it. Earle News Events, _» PALACE—"Dough Boys.” #])OUGH BOYS." a comedy of mili itary life presenting Buster Ke By W. H. Landvoigt. “ candidly believe the film industry has reached somewhat of an impasse.” This is the frank personal opinion of Carl Laemmle, fa- It is a bit inaccurate in form, however, because all the world knows that American life actually has changed, public taste has changed, and it is not to be wondered at that the film industry, high in rank wants. But Mr. Laemmle, who says he is seeking the opinion and &avice of the critics of plays and photoplays,. evidently wants to get his bearings, so that in the making of his form cf public entertain- soling balance on the right side of the ledger. It is a large job that | he has assigned to the critics, or at least, at first blush, it would seem to be. And each must roll it over and over, as he would a tempting * ok ok w | be one blemish, above all others, ti THE outstanding problem, of course, | now disfigures the motion picture in- is what does the public really want? | ustry it is its persistent and deliberaie esitatingly to most of those who guess | With plctured real and suggestive wick- 8t the ‘matwer 15 that the public docsnt | edness. It seems to prevail from the @l vant the sanc thing. The public | 1OP to the bottom of the picture-making that colossal and mysterious collective | exhibition department, for if the pic- houn ‘wants what he likes best, so that | tUre maker has not reached the desired beyc;,1 the peradventure of a doubt the | #1d in his theme and its presentation, certain what the public wants is to find out for whom the purveyor of en- tertainment must cater. Manifestly importa%t units, at least, that wonder- ful collective noun “the public.” This done, we must endeavor to fix the this way certainly we may ascertain what most of the public wants. The very large number of people who go to plays, especially those 0 attend the picture houses, warrants the inference that they include persons of all degrees ards. Refined, cultured people are apt to prefer for their entertainment that which has something of an intellectual are, in a sense, sophisticated, and also that they have some knowledge of pro- priety and of impropriety. The great the theater, and especially the movies are merely floundering in letters, arts and perhaps in morais. (It is not that tionably they have a curlosity to know bout and actually to see things which are usually classed as “the forbidden.” o e public, probablv the largest of them all, and this group constitutes what are known as “the middle classes,” matters, who are generally clean of heart and mind, but like to laugh, even at the risque, if it be not too raw, and cares and the trials of the day. They want to foregt trouble, and, if they cannot be happy, at least they want to hour or so. The others who go toward making up “the public” need not bother the heads of the movie executives be Jeast, that they are not further schooled in depravity, but are led gently and pleasantly to higher ground, away from the bright sunshine of truth and clean living. Now there are the four big | politeness, if nothing more, unit groups of what is known as “the ol T i groups, it ought not to be difficult, if | I' o the duty is performed with Bonesty | done to meke o ‘.’X’uu‘fi‘.‘ e and sincerity, to provide proper and | ful to the American public, it might be | ©One standard will not fit them all. fairly succeeded in supplanting the W2 ey Stage as public enteriainment, it might THEEE is one tawth, however, which | be well to look close to the literary | from its concealment and fix firmly |ideas and expression of gift and everlastingly tn its memory de- | rather than remodel hem tl‘:\d‘::“:}l;: partment. That tinth is that in mak- | ruse of “adapting” them for screen pur- groups of the general public the upper- | crease the endeavor to prod high Tost idea must nev be merely “the box | art generally in prodactions. . Art docs | office appeal.” O} gourse. the industry not begin and end with shapely women, primarily it is in duty bound to make |office eduction in art sees t] roper entertainment for the public. | have clung fo that potion. l?w‘::;u:: here is never an excuse for making |and art have never been accordsd their icture, no matter how much money | entirely to the pressurs it will draw to the box office. If there | hunch. ettt Photoplay Attracti — | adventure story of romance and in- | trigue, presents Olsen and Johnson as |two goofy gobs who raake things hap- | mad antics. In search of A man with | & wooden leg, they carry on their non- | sense until one’s sides split with MERICAN life is changing, public taste is changing and I mous as the directing head of the Universal Pictures Corporation. among the industries, should be up in the air as to what the public ment he will not wreck his great corporation, but will leave a con- marsel of tocd and endeavor to reach a conclusion as best he may. And the response that will spring t=.. | Attembt to lure money into its coffers Pas mo singie scandard. — Each unit of | effort. and even to extend out into the first *hing 1o do in endeavoring to as- | the Press agent and the exhibitor feel the first thing to do is to break up into standards for each of these groups. In the theaters to see plays and photo- of intelligence, culture and moral stand- appeal. It must be assumed that they mass of young people who patronize they want to be immora}; but unques- There is yet another very large group those who do not aim high in literary who go to the theaters to forget the rest peacefully and pleasantly for an yond the moral obligation of seeing, at the ways of the underworld and out into general public. And knowing these | FURTHER respondiag to Mr. Laemm- paying entertainment for all of them.|suggested that, the Screen having the screen industry should drag |value of its product and to preserve the ing entertainment for any one .of the |poscs, and, it might be added, to in- is in this business & make money, but | scantilly ciad, although the average box an unclean, ggestive. demoralizing | position in motion pictures, due almost “‘Oh, Sallor, Behave,” described as an | pen quickly and to the point with their | lnughter. ton as a millionaire’s son who enlists | in the Army, is the attraction an- nounced for the new week, starting Saturday at the Palace Theater. Ed- ward Sedgwick, who directed Keaton in “Spite Marriage” and “Free and Easy,” supervised the new comedy and also played the role of the camp cook, staging with Keaton and Cliff Edwards comical song parody number. There | several song hits in this production, one of which deserves mention both be- cause it was composed by Edward Sedg- | wick and because it is put over by CIiff | Edwards. It is entitled “Mister Military | Man. | The program will include also one of - the popular Snap Shots, Hearst Metro- tone News and Charlie Chase in his | newest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy, | “Dollar Dizzy.” | METROPOLITAN—"Ob, Sallor, | Behave.” LSEN and Johnson, “America’s nut- tlest comedians,” in the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone comedy, “Oh, Sailor, started the new week last Fri- Warner Bros’ Metropolitan | | " The supplementary program will in- clude the Vitaphone variety, “At the | Round Table,” featuring James J. Cor- bett, De Wolf Hopper, Damon Runyon (and Mark Hellinger; “Boss’ Order,” a two-reel comedy-drama, and the Gra- h"x" McNamee Talking Reporter news- reel. GAYETY—"Bare Facts.” ‘*“IBARE FACTS,” the current attrac- tion at the Gayety Theater, called whatever you please, is described as a happy combination of the essential elements of fun, singing and dancing, indeed a formidable attraction of mirth and music. The 1930 edition has two stars, Joe Yule and Lolita, the Spanish dancer. Other artists of high rank include Johnny Mattise, Mark Lea, Billy Harris, Ollie Nelson, Tessle Sherman, Alva Baker. Betty Roberts, Billle Saunders and Gary & Evans. Tae two most im- portant scenes are called “Featherland” and “Holland.” An exceptionally fine chorus is promised, garbed in snappy costumes. Selwyn Raids qulilywood. SN his quiet way, Arch Selwyn seems to have been raiding Holly- wood for screen stars to appear in per- | son in Broadway plays,” says Charles | Darnton, prominent New York dra- matic scribe Colleen Moore, to bolster this state- ment, has just_arrived in New York to | start rehearsals in a Benjamin F. Glazner comedy called “Foam.” Rod La Rocque is in New York and Vilma | Banky will sail for New York on the | Tie de France September 4. She has | been visiting her parents in Budapest. | “Having watched Miss Moore act, &s | well as play around in a Hollywood | studio, T am satisfied she will make new friends here when Mr. Selwyn trots her out,” Mr. Darnton continues. “She is a ‘nice kid’ unspofled, light hearted and thoroughly,alive. We have | Do one on the American stage quite | lke her, and if only for this reason ! she should find a place “And, incidentally, little did I su- spect that Mr. Selwyn would be able | to entice Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque away from the screen, But he did, bag and baggage, and we shal have them in a comedy ent!iled ‘How to Be Happy, which John Emerscr and Anita Loos have adapted from the Hungarian Likel lookmg !o?fl! Aznel.(fu LURAY CAVERNS by BUS And_the Proposed Shenandoah National May Seen e Dy Park $6.00 Ea Ave. Round Trip to Luray, i rerminad) 0 A 2 e P viier“Panorams a Busses Chertered f oL By i, leading men are so scarce that Mr. Sel- wyn deserves a hearty ¢lap on the back for hcisting Rod La Rocque out of the movies. I don't :now how you feel about it, but if there's one thing I can't stand it's on English leading man in an American role. Mr. La Rocoue comes at & time when he is needed, and, wi is more, he brings with him stage experience gaincd here before Hollywood claimed him. The same is true of his wife, who acted on the stage in Budapest. Not that this mat- ters so much as Vilma Banky's whole- some_personality, the healthy glow of which should warm any stage. And I like, too, her accent, beautiful as her- self, and just odd enough to keep your ear on edge. TR Chevalierioni Yasktion, MAUR!CE CHEVALIER, who has just completed his latest talking and singing picture, “Playbcy of Paris,” is en route to France for his vacation in Paris. He will be gone for three months, returning to Hollywood in November. £ - _ . -3 SPEND LABOR'DAY GREAT FALLS, VA. Dancing Afternoon aad Evening Plenic Grounds—Outfioor Sports Amusements—Roating—Fishing, Ete. Adults, 50¢ BOUND J 4 s Every Few 1:1.«-«- m on & Old Dominion Ry. Terminal South End Key Bridse Pictures En Route. CCORDING to present plans four new First National and Vitaphone pictures will be nationally released next month. These include “The Right of Way,” from the novel of Sir Gilbert Parker, with Conrad Nagel and Loretta Youni 'he Naughty Flirt, White; “The Lady Who Dare Billie Dove, and “College Lovers," Jack Whiting and Marion Nixon. tober’s releases will include “Toast of the Legion,” with Bernice Claire, Wal- ter Pidgeon, Edward Everett Horton June Collyer and others, and “The Go- rilla,” with Joe Frisco and Lila Lee, Menjou in "New Moon." DOLPHE MENJOU'S first role un- der his contract with Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer will be a leading part in “New Moon. rence Tibbett vehicle which was adapted from the operetta of the same name and is now under way at the Coast under Jack Conway's direction. William olden, who appeared in “Holiday” and ‘Weary River, the cast of “New Moon." A REAL ST GEORGE ARLISS, Distinguished actor of stage and screen, whose next notable picture will be “Old English.” . 'THO WITH BUT ONE MORE WEEK TO ENJOY THE MORE THAN FIFTY DE LUXE CYCLE OF AMUSEMENTS, THF. MANAGEMENT VERY POLITELY ANNQUN” "~ MUCH WHCOPEE AT GLEN ECHO FREE AD. :SSION AMUSE..ENT PARK 2DAY&2 MORROW AND THE REMAINING DAYS AND NIGHTS OF FUN AT THIS GREATEST OF AMERICAN AMUSEMENT PARKS 19 WHICH ADMISSION IS FREE the Grace Moore-Law- | D. C, AUGUST 31, Maggie and Mac. OHN MCcCORMACK is generally credited with having brought the art of enunciation to & point as near per- fection as ever has been attained by any singer, and thereby hangs a tale. When McCormack was a student in Summerhill College, Sligo, Ireland, he was invited to appear at a concert to| be given by some of the townspeople As a special inducement he was i formed that he would receive the mu nificent sum of 5 shillings ($1.25). He had never sung in public beforc and was somewhat diffident as to his abil ities to entertain an audience, but he could make good use of the five shil lings, so he decided to accept the prof- fered engagement. At the college there was an old cook who was very fond of young John, She attended the concert and was among | those who shook his hand and congrat- ulated him after the concert. “And did you really like my singing, Maggie?” asked McCormack. “Shure, an’ it was | fine, Johnny Darlin’,” she answered, | “but why did ye sing in them foreign languages?” | He made no comment on her remark at the time, but it sank deep. All the songs had been sung in English. 80 he determined to perfect his enun- ciation. It was not a little task. It was not a brief one. But he set him- self to work resolutely and in the end the simple remark of a humble cook in Sligo bore golden fruit. Go to the | Fox this week and see for yourself Belasco Opens September 29. | »N!WS comes from Manager L. Stod- dart Taylor of the Belasco The- | ater to the effect that this theater will reopen its doors Monday night, September 29, for a season that prom- ises a number of fine attractions. The first will be “Broken Dishes,” which remained on Broadway for a long time last season, and was accounted one of the outstanding successes of New York. ‘This attraction will be followed by Madge Kennedy in “Michael and Mery," the week of October 6. There is some question about the week of October 13, but it is possible that Miss Ethel Barry- | more will appear in a new play, and in which her daughter will be a mem- ber of the cast. The week of October 20 Gilbert Miller, the London and New York producer, will present a new play, “The Weaker Sex,” and the week of October 27 “The Blue Ghost” will be the attraction. In November, David Belasco, it is thought, will present a new play, the first time he has produced in his own theater in Washington in some e sons. Lillian Gish in “Uncle Vany: “The Sketch Book” and Katherine Cornell round out November. —_—— In the Offin‘. THE Washington motion picture pal- aces have evidently been having a hectic week, with even their booking conditions more or less out of kilter. ‘The Fox and ‘the | 4 Rl ning on an even { : keel and now # comes the en- F nouncement _that i ' the Rialto will open next Satur- day with the pol- icy of showing i only outstanding { ; productions, in- cluding. maybe, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” now that all the “road shows” of that picture have been_closed. Beginning_ Saturday of the current week, the Rialto will open with “a | laugh riot” “entitled “Little Accident,” with an attractive cast including Anita Page, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Za Pitts, Sally Blane and Roscoe Karns as its outstanding members. The picture |is_the screen version of a play with which Washington, possibly, is less fa- miliar than New York, where it ran %o highly delighted houses, A Hardie Meakin, for the Fox, an- nounces for the new week, starting Pri- | Anita Page. day of this week, Zane Gray's “The | ¥ | Last of the Duanes,” a Fox Movietone production, with George O'Brien cast as “Buck” Duane and with a suporting cast that will include Lucille Brown, “a lovely blonde”; Myrna Loy and the in- imitable Frank Campeau, who after many years wili still be remembered for | his famous characterization in “The | Virginian. | Manager Corbin Sheild of R-K-0O Kelth's will open his new week Satul y “Monte Carlo.” not “Monte | Christo,” with Jack Buchanan and | Jeannette McDonald as joint stars. It is a Paramount picture, but beyond this | Mr. Sheil gives nothing more for pub- lication. | S HEh 51 | Stage Show at Palace. | N the same year that George Wash- ington was crossing the Delaware, it is said, there was an acrobat in Italy crossing the Tiber to regale the gool folk of the Eternal City with his amaz- ing physical prowess. That was the 'd_among other things the “roll ove be the most difficult feat in hand to hand balancing, and five generations of Ghezzis have made their hows before the footlights since that distant day. Each has contributed something toward the perfection and evoluiion of the *roll over” The present Ghezzis, Paul and Nino, are featured in_“Frozen Kapers.” the stage show at Loew's Palace Theater this week. They are now presenting | their variation—the slow motion “roll | over.” Those who saw them two years ago in the Ziegfeld Follies may recall | the feat in which one brother lyh\z‘ prone, balances the other hand to hand | while rolling across the carpet. A com- | mittee of world-champion acrobats in | Paris sufficiently appreciated its tech- | niee intricacies to present the young | brothers with a gold medal after they hau performed a continuous slow roll over for 6 minutes and 45 seconds. The World’s Most BOB ‘orking Wonders at the Waurlitzer FANCHON which is said to | JOHN McCORMACK “Song O’ My Heart” With Maureen O'Sullivan \X{’EST PEABODY “SUNSHINE” IDEA The Biggest Show in Washington 1930—PART FOUR. GETTING INSPIRATION Sigmund Romberg, noted composer, catching the highlights of romance from Vivienne Segal for AMUSEMENTS. Le Gallienne Honors. MANY_distinguished and interesting honors have come to Eva Le Gallienne since she dared to turn her back on the commercial theater to found an_institutional playhouse. In 1928 ex-President Coolidge se- Jected Miss Le Gallienne next to Lind- bergh as the most outstanding person of that year, but, like Lindbergh. she seems to be concerned with plans for the future, rather than rest on the hon- ors of the past Last Spring Miss Le Gallienne re- ceived a degree of D. H. L. (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Smith Colleg In presenting it, President Neilson said: “Eva Le Gallienne, founder and di- rector of the Civic Repertory Theatre, an actress of rare distinction, sympathy and Insight, who by her own high ac- complishment and by the imagination and courage of her management has brought new life to the American stage, and is leading the way out of darkness toward a splendid future for & great profession.” She also has an M. A. (Master of Arts) from Tufts and a Litt. D. (Doc- tor of Letters) from Russell Sage Col- Miss Le Gallienne, who has just turned 30, is ‘probably the youngest woman in 'America to receive these de- grees, and certaintly one of the very few actresses. Paramount Announces. ULIETTE COMPTON, formerly of the Ziegfeld “Follies” and more “Viennese Nights.” . Oncein a J'UST about once—or maybe twice— in & lifetime a great and rare per- sonality attracts the attention of lh!v theatrical world to the seeming oblivion of every one else. This, of course, is never actually the case. But just as the past prides itself on reminiscences of the “divine” Sarah Bernhardt, when such flambuoyant personalities as the great Duse were still very much in the foreground, so this age has taken a particular actress unto itself and for the first time not an actress of the stage. ‘To say that Greta Garbo is the most arresting theatrical personality of the present moment is not an exaggera- tion. Never in all the annals of grease paint activities was there more breath less speculation than over Miss Garbo's voice, when her first talking picture, “Anna Christie,” was released. There is no doubt now that this was an im portant event. For with the revel tion that her artistry was heightened by the quality of her voice, Greta im- mediately found secure that peculiar niche she had prepared for herself in silent pictures. Although Miss Garbo is for the mo- menk world is far-reaching. When a | lic eye—surely at that moment came ment confined to the films, the effect of her. rked power on the entertain- ity such as David Belasco, a man Life'gime. theater make him an outstanding ar- biter and critic, when such a man can compare her with the most striking actresses of the past, when he can liken her to the best there ever has been, | then surely it is time to stop and | ponder—if not to agree. If anybody knows his theater, it is David Belasco. Last Sunday Maj. Bowes of the Capitol Theater, New York, read —over the radio—a really brilliant _tribute of Belasco's to Garbo. This quiet retiring little lady— she has never allowed herself to be interviewed or held up before the pub- into her own. Whatever the cinema world may say about her greatness is more or less of a juvenile opinion—just as it_is a_juvenile industry (altRough the fifth largest in the world). But when & man like Belasco pufs the | wreath of fame on the brow of a per- son technically without the pale of the | theater, then there has occurred an event of real importance. Miss Garbo has taken her work seri ously. Each part, from “Anna Christie” through earlier roles, some of which were not the type that could bring out her best, she has created in- dividually and’expertly. Her character gallery IS a series of masterpieces. They in “Romance” she has reached the ll;l:lgms—mvld Belasco said so—it must true. % P MAN who looks well in overalls or evening clothes, who makes love convincingly and wrestles professionally, who can sing and act, too; who com- bines ability, appearance, voice and physique under one hat is always at a premium in the picture colony. So Paul Gregory was a bundle of good news to producers when Ziegfeld brought_him from New York to Holly- wood. Warner Bros. have recently tried out all his usual list of accomplish- ments in twol picture: As a romantic lead in “Sit Tight,” with Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown A Man of P‘irts and Claudia Dell, Gregory had to be; handsome, big enough and stron enough to be convincing as a wrestler, able to sing well and capable of wear- ing clothes like a Barrymore. In “Children of Dreams” his voic and his appearance has to make itself felt from the screen without the help of fine settings.or well fitting clothes. He plays the part of an itinerant apple picker, & happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well| who can sing and make love. | The two pictures represent a big or- der for one man. But Gregory is ad- mittedly a man in a million, who can| fill the bill to perfection. U. A. Pictures Coming. | QELEASE dates on three United | Artists Pjctures have been an-| | nounced by Al Lichtman, vice president and general manager. “Eyes of the World,” based \on the Harold Bell Wright novel ahd directed by Henry King, maker of “Stella Dallas,” will be generally released August 30. Septem- | ber 6 “The Lottery Bribe,” first Arthur | Hammerstein film, will be released. | Jeanette MacDonald Joe E. Brown, | John Garrick, Robert Chisholm, Zasu | Pitts, Joseph Macauley, Harry Gribbon and Max Davidson are in the cast. Ru- dolph Friml contributes his first origi- nal score for the talking pictures to it | and Herbert Stothart is the author of the original story. September 27 “Whoopee,” first Florenz Ziegfeld-Sam- uel Goldwyn production, all technicolor, | with Eddie Cantor starred, will be | brought to light. It is the first produc- tion Mr. Ziegfeld has supervised per- sonally. NOW THRILLING THOUSANDS Famed Tenor, in. EDDIE The Banjo King MASTER OF CEREMONIES & MARCO e e e s e e ————— Paging Miss White. HERE, oh where, is there another lately with British screen productions, has been signed by Paramount as & featured player as the result of her recent work in “Anybody’'s Woman” and in “Morocco.” So well did G. Pat Collins portray a strong arm of the law in “Man- slaughter” that Paramount has elected him to play mewhat similar role in “Social Errors,” with Leon Errol, Rich. ard Arlen, Mary Brian and Stuart Erwin. Willlam Boyd, four hours after com- pleting his featured part in “The Spoilers.” with Gary Cooper, entered the cast of another Paramount picture which has just started. The new film, starring George Bancroft, is “Typhoon Bill,” a thrilling story of the sea. way's 15 musical comedies will appear on the screen when “Animal Crackers,” the next starring vehicle of the four Marx_brothers, is released by Para- mount. The names of none of the girls will appear in the cast. “Realife” Makes Its Bow. A NEW type of film providing wide film effect on the screen without the necessity of special projection ma=- chines has been announced by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. The new film, known as “Realife,”” will provide the wide film effect hitherto possible only by the use of special projection machines a cost prohibitive to the average theater. Its use requires only a few changes in the ordinary projection machine now employed throughout the world. The same projector will handle both new and old types of film. “There are several advantages to be derived from ‘Realife’ film,” said Louls B. Mayer recently. “First, there is the common availability of the wide screen, or of a picture filling all the screen space in the theater. Second, there is a three-dimensional approach, or the creation of better perspective through greater- depth of focus. In the third place, we will have greater naturalness, avolding the loss of realism that often follows a shallow focus. We will have a greater sweep and scope in motion picture photography, permitting the effective screening of mass spec- tacl The first picture to be filmed under the “Realife” process is M-G-M's ‘Billy the Kid,” King Vidor directing. Rockne to Fnlm HIS Hobby. HEN the All-American Board of Foot Ball meets in New York Sep- tember 2, Knute Rockne, “the grand old man of the gridiron,” will announce his entry into the sound picture field to perpetuate the master plays of the game to which he has devoted his life. A serles of six foot ball classics su- pervised by Rockne and produced by Terry Ramsaye for Pathe, will be shown in a Broadway and possibly Washington theater with notables of the game as guests and_ critics. The series was di- Tected by Clyde Eiliott, himself a player f considerable reputation with the University of Nebrask: GAYETY THEATRE 9th & F Sts. Phone District 9324 Mutual Burlesk ED DALEY PRESENTS “BARE FACTS” with Joe Yule TWO WASHINGTON ;)\ TOMORROW Pearl White? | For a girl with beauty and the nerve to re-create the spectacular film career of this erstwhile blond illuminator as of | screen serials there awaits a rich re- ard of fame and fortune. Announcement has been made by President E. B. Derr of Pathe Ex- change, Inc., that the remembered se- rials of daring romance will be pro- duced with sound. So far as Pathe ex- | ecutives are aware, there is no girl in the studios of Hollywood at the present | time who is capable of emulating the | beautiful Pearl White in her career of | “emarkable cellu'cid courage. The new “Peiils of Pauline” and| “Exploits of Elaine,” titles that were | known to millions in 1913-15 will be modernized, of course, to meet me| current situation. and TUESDAY CAMP MEIGS SHOW GROUNDS Sl o PRESENTS TWICE DAILY DOORS OPEN SEATS NOW ON SALE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION, MILLS BLDG. Those Who Have Already Seen It—Those Who Will See It—Rate It As the of the New S Dramatic Sensation how World Created By Talking Pictures Once a decade there is written a story of such dramatic power . . . ab- sorbing interest . . . and great human appea! ; . . that it is hailed as a frue masterpiece . . . Such a story is Alice Duer Miller’s. 'MANSLAUGHTER' A Paramount Picture with Claudette Colbert Y F dric March The prettiest girl from each of Broad- *