Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1930, Page 55

AMUSEMENTS. R-K-O KEITH'S—Amos 'n’ Andy, . “Check and Double Check.” MOS 'N’ ANDY, pictorially, are in town. Their “much - heralded “Check and Double 1s_here, lining up the crowds at R-K-O Keith's eater. “Check and Double Check” brings Amos 'n’ Andy to the screen for the first time. It presents their famous radio entertain- ment in more elab- orate, .more dra- matic and, if possi- ble, more comic form, with sight as well as sound. Caught in the in- tricate meshes of their taxicab busi- ness, harried by dates with the sweet women, Ruby and Mme. Queen; bothered by their lodge duties, advis- amused by the shiftless and dila- tory Lightnin’, Amos ’'n’ Andy bring into real life the characters that before this were represented in voices only over the radio, leaving the rest to imagination. Humor there is, and much of it; the kindly sympathetic stuff you've come to recognize from Amos 'n’ Andy over the air. And pathos, heart- ‘warming simplicity and drama, with a little music as well—all thoughtfully Freeman G. Gosden. as Irene Rich, Sue Carol, Charles Mor- ton, Ralfe Harolds and others. Duke Ellington and his Negro Jazz Orchestra dispense “hot tunes,” among them ‘Three Little Words,” as a musical something to tickle the melodic fancies. FOX—Nancy Carroll in “Laughter.” ANCY CARROLL in a new dramatic production, “Laughter,” is now to' be seen at the Fox Theater. “Laughter” is said to give full op- portunity to Miss Carroll to display her emotional capabilities. She portrays an ex-Follies girl, who, as the wife in & mismated marriage, tries to be loyal, and is, but always seems to be victim- by the irony of circumstances. Frederic March, as a young pianist- composer who had been in love with her prior to her marriage to a rich broker, pops into the picture as a ro- mantic menace, a sort of a Bohemian heart thief and trouble maker. Others | in the cast are Frank Morgan, Diane | Ellis and Glenn Anders. The Fanchon & Marco “Good Fel- lows” idea is the stage offering. It is set in a Heidelberg background, and is made up of male choruses, a talented quartet, a beautiful girl dancer and a comedy pair, Included in the cast is| Lucille Page, Fanchon-Marco star; Bud Averill and male chorus, the M-G-M Quartet, Seben and Eleben, “two boys from .Cork,” and Helen Burke, dancer. ‘The Ron and Don organ novelty and the latest Fox Movietone News com- plete the program. METROPOLITAN—College Lovers.” - LLEGE LOVERS,” a new First National and Vitaphone comedy,| based on campus capers and foot ball fun, is the feature this week at Warner Bros.” Metropolitan. It is heralded as a departure from the usual run of college stories and foot ball antics, in that it concerns two young men who fall in love with the same girl, each believing he is the favored one until he learns on the gridiron that the girl loves only one of them, and then each thinks the other is the lucky one. During the last two minutes of play in the big game, instead of seeing the hero dash across the line with the winning touch-| Cows, the audience finds the two chumps arguing about the girl. The ending is sald to be most unusual. The leading roles are played by Marion Dixon, Guinn Willlams, Jack Whiting, Russell Hopton and Frank McHugh. The surrounding program includes a | Johnny Hines comedy, “Johnny's Week End”; “The Wanderer,” a Vluphonlf wel known 'S “Pive Minutes From the Station,” Lynn Overman, Sylvia Sidney and Bur- ton Churchill, :nd the Graham McNa- mee Talking Reporter Newsreel. PALACE—“Way for a Sailor.” LAYING “low-brow” roles in talkies is said to be much harder than accomplishing similar characterizations i. silent films. John Gilbert and Wa lace Beery discovered this during re- hearsals of their roles in “Way for a Sailor,” Gilbert's latest starring vehicle, which now celebrates the twelfth anni- versary week at Loew’'s Palace. Not only did they have to-learn their dialogue for this production, but they had to be taught to speak with a cock- ney accent, in keeping with the nature of their characterizations, that of two| hard-boiled sailors on an English freighter. The actors were assisted in learning the Limehouse dialect by Jim Tully, the hobo-author, who makes his initial screen appearance in this pic- ture and who picked up his cockney accent while living in Liverpool. Polly Moran of “Caught Short” fame also is in the cast. Leila Hyams has a leading role, while Doris Lloyd is seen 25 one of the “girls in every port.” | “Way for a Sailor,” ‘a new Metro-| Goldwyn-Mayer production, was adapt- ed from Albert Richard Wetjen's two- | fisted sea yarn by Lawrence Stallings, who wrote “The Big Parade.” Sam ‘Wood directed. ith A sumptous feast for the eye and| “Birthday Party Revue” the| ’I'ALLULAH BANKHEAD, noted young stage specially prepared, has been brought to Loev's the twelfth anniversary i3 this | der the personal supervision of Louis K. Sidney. EARLE—"The Doorway to Hell.” "THE DOORWAY TO HELL,” an- nounced as the first drama to present -the human side of underworld life, with a stage show headed by Ken Murray and Rae Samuels, are the fea- ture attractions at Warner Bros.’ Earle Theater this week. Lewis Ayres, whose fine performance in “Common_Clay” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” will be recalled, has the leading role in “The Doorway to Hell, a Warner Bros.’'-Vitaphone drama, in which he appears as a baby- face gangster whose power for organi- zation brings together all the rival rack- eteers in order to eliminate killings and increase spoils. This accomplished, he retires, but the gangs again break up and hi-jacking is renewed. Ayres, how- ever, refuses to return, until his kid brother is killed, and he then returns to wipe out the stain in the only way he knows how. ‘The cast includes Leon Janney, Dor- othy Mathews (a newcomer), Willlam Cagney, Noel Madison, Kenneth Thomp- son and Robert Elliett. Ken Murray, “The Original Funster,” well known musical comedy actor and star of “Leathernecking,” with a large company of Murray-Makers, as he calls them, provides comedy throughout the time they are on the stage. Rae uels, “The Blue Streak,” well known character songstress, and Foster, Fagan and Cox, Washington’s own stars, are others who will entertain. ‘The Earle Orchestra prelude, “The Servant Problem,” a Vitaphone Variety, with Vivian Oakland, John T. Murray and Mary Stauber, and the Earle News Events complete the program. COLUMBIA- illy the Kid.” THE largest Western town ever built for a motion picture, it is claimed, was constructed for King Vidor's “Billy the Kid,” M-G-M's tale of wild west history that inaugurates the “Realife” screen now at the Columbia. This extensive construction was nec- essary to duplicate the town of Lincoln, N. Mex., seat of the famous “Lincoln County War,” in which Billy the Kid was an active participant. The entire town is said to be visible at one time on the Realife screen. Thi dimen- sion, the impossible of a few years ago, is now declared a reality. to give the moviegoers an added thrill. Lincoln today, of course, is quite dif- ferent from what it was in the late sev- enties. Therefore the town was bullt complete, exactly as it was when the Kid was rated the most dangerous man in the entire West. The construc- tion was based on existing sketches and photographs of the New Mexican center of storm and strife. Vidor has assembled a cast of excep- tional strength for the production. John Mack Brown won the assignment to play Billy. Wallace Beery, fresh from his triumphs in “The Big House” and “Way for a Sailor,” is seen as Sheriff Pat Garrett, and the leading feminine role is played by Kay Johnson. Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing, Russell Simpson and Aggie Herring also have prominent roles in the production. “Billy the Kid” is the first Realife production to be seen in Washington, and Loew’s Columbia is among the first 10 houses in the United States to in- stall this new device that is hailed as the biggest stride the motion picture industry has taken so far to put real flesh-and-blood attractions on the screen. RIALTO—“A Lady Surrenders. ONE of the outstanding features of “A tinue this week at the Rialto, is the cast. Each player has been a success on the legitimate stage. Conrad Nagle has the stellar role, and he is sup- ported by Genevieve Tobin, Rose Ho- bart, Basil Rathbone, Vivian Oakland, Carmel Myers and Frankling Pangborn. Miss Tobin is a New Yorker by birth, and reached Hollywood by way of the musical comedy route. She won bril- liant success in “Fifty Million French- men,” and also in “Polly Preferred,” in which she was starred. Rose Hobart studied music abroad. Her father was a conductor of a sym- phony orchestra while her mother was one of the stars in the San Carlos However, outstanding successes was “Death Takes a Holiday.” Basil Rathbone and Franklin Pang- ‘born both are products of the legitimate stage, while Vivian Oakland was starred for many seasons on the largest vaude- ville circuits. She also had consider- able experience on the variety stare. One of her successes in the talking pcllet;xru was & role in “The Floradora LITTLE—"Unguarded Girls.” "UNGUAHDED GIRLS, which has been running on Broadway for 12 weeks, will be presented at the Little Theater this week to woman audiences exclusively. In addition there will be & stage attraction. The picture, which concerns the police department’s “bureau of missing per- sons,” pictures tragic experlences of one of the many girls reported missing in a large city. It is announced that al- though it is propaganda for the better- ment of metropolitan conditions, fits story, an original by a newspaper man, 15 told interestingly. Showings will be given exclusively to woman audiences all this week, starting tomorrow. On the Dotted Line. actress who has won especial dis- tinction on the English stage, has been celebrate week. Montrose and Reynolds, come- to a contract by Paramount. signed dians; May Joyce, a petite mistress of | Miss Bankhead, who is at present in song; Mordecae, Wells and Taylor, | London, where she has been appearing dancers, and the 13 Chester Hale Girls| in “Let Us Be Gay,” is due in this! | country around January 1 to start her comprise the cast. The production was devised and staged by Chester Hale un- first Paramount picture. MMW:WM&J«. for aSAILOR’ ey Lady Surrenders,” which will con- | NDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D €, OCTOBER _26. 1930—PART FOUR. The “chart” of photoplay attractions in Washington theaters this week appears on page 8 of this section. p]ny to the First Row. ‘*PLAY to the first row rather than the last.” That is the advice which Harry D'Arrast, author and di- rector of “Laughter,” Nancy Carroll's starring plece, gave his actors. D'Arrast employed a cast three mem- bers of which (Frederic March, Frank Morgan and Glenn Anders) are both stage and screen actors. For this reason he stressed at all times the fact that repression of ex- pression is absolutely essential in mo- tlon pictures. “Stage actors need to be told more than anything else to.forget the tra- ditional back row, when they change over to the screen medium,” he ex- plained. “There are no back rows, technically speaking, in motion picture houses. The slightest gesture, the faintest inflection is caught by every- body in the house.” “ . . w Variety Is the Spice. **T MUST have a new leading woman in each of my pictures,” says Mau- rice Chevalier. “It would be terrible to be accused of a lack of imagination in lovemaking. This would surely hap- pen if I played opposite the same lady every time. For each woman must be made love to in a different way. But the method, the technique, can never be changed for the same woman. You see what I mean?” Chevalier’s rule is proved by his rec- ord. Sylvia Beecher played with him in his first American picture, “Inno- cents of Paris”; Jeanette MacDonald was the Queen in “The Love Parade”; Evelyn Brent was his romantic inspira- tion in “Paramount on Parade,” and in “The Big Pond” it was Claudette Col- bert. In his newest picture, “Playboy of Paris,” he has Frances Dee, Holly- wood's newest discovery among the ex- tra girls. In Stage Show MAY JOYCE, One of the shining lights in “Birthday Party Revue,” the stage show at the Palace this week. Elsie and Edmund. LSIE JANIS, a writer who used to act, is working with Edmund Gould- ing on dialogue that will be heard dur- ing the course of Douglas Fairbanks’ “Reaching for the Moon.” Miss Janis recently announced that she would de- vote her time entirely to her pen, type- writer, quill or dictaphone. Many of her stories and articles have sppeared in magazines and she is working on a book now. Miss Janis and Mr. Goulding have collaborated in at least one notable prior incident. “Love, Thy Magic Spell Is Everywhere,” sung so successfully in “The Trespasser” by Gloria Swanson, had its music breathed into it by the versatile Goulding and its words were inscribed by the equally versatile Miss Janis. the first real American cookery. “TONIGHT OR NEVER.” A NEW Belasco production, always & matter of dramatic interest, is scheduled for the Shubert Belasco The- ater next Monday evening, November 3, when Mr. Belasco will present his second production of the season, “To- night or Never,” written by Lili Hatvany, the au- thor of “The Love Duel,” the English version being by Frederic and Fanny Hatton. Miss Hatvany is said to have evolved a unique play, which under | the able direction l of Mr. Belasco should prove a happy dramatic event for the thea- ter patrons of this city. The play will mark Mr. Belasco's 375th production, a | long and honorable record which prob- ably will not be surpassed. | For the central character Mr. Belasco | has been indeed fortunate in securing the services of Helen Gahagan, who has | been in Italy studying music for the | past three years, having abandoned the | stage in 1928 to embark on a contem- | plated operatic career. She sang in gala performances in Central Europe during the past Spring and Summer, | but canceled all other engagements | when Mr. Belasco finally persuaded her | to return to America. | Although the play is written around the life of an opera star, Mr. Belasco is the authority for the statement that | its plot does not concern the tempera- ment and tantrums of an opera prima donna, but the play will rely solely on | its love story and dramatic interest. | An exceptional cast selected to sup-i port Miss Gahagan includes Melvyn Douglas, Ferdinand Gottschalk, War- } burton Gamble, Robert Greig, Kath- | erine Stewart, Greta Meyer and Ed- mund Loewe. P Ferdinand Gottschalk | “SUBWAY EXPRESS.” ‘QUBWAY EXPRESS" a mystery play, opens a week's engagement at the National Theater next Monday evening, November 3. It ran for eight months in New York last season and was hailed as the best detective thriller of the year. It was written by Eva Kay Plint and Martha Madison, two young women of the theater, and staged by Chester Erskin, and is novel in a way for all the three acts take place in a subway car. | When the curtain rises this car, part | of & 10-car New York subway train, is | leaving the Brooklyn end of the subway | and running under the East River. It's | | an_express train and makes only desig- | nated express stops. But a half dozen people are in the car when it is first seen, but by the time it reaches Times Square all the seats are taken and there | are many ‘standees. As the train is | pulling out of Times Square two half- | tipsy men start a fight, a shot is fired FOE the first time since Ed Wynn became a full-flledged star, he has condescended, in “Simple Simon,” to per- mit equal billing for another artist. He has insisted that Harriet Hoctor be co-starred, and so she is. And who is she? Well, it seems that at the age of 11 she was astonishing the people in Hoosick Falls, N. Y., by her ability to stand on her toes. An aunt happened to visit her one day, took an interest in Miss Hoctor's pronounced ability, be- gan to give her lessons and later sent her to New York to study. After five years of study, Miss Hoctor gained a place in the ballet of “Sunny.” Then she toured in Keith vaudeville, finally breaking into Broadway in “Topsy and Eva,” which so delighted Wynn-Hoctor, Co-Stars. the New York public that she won rec- ognition, and after two years she was engaged for the “Review a la Carte.” When this production opened in Bos- | ton, Florence Ziegfeld saw her. Straight- away he engaged her for “The Three Musketeers” and later for “The Show Girl.” She scored such triumphs that her contract was prolonged in “Simple Simon.” When Ed Wynn purchased this production from Florenz Ziegfeld for a road tour, he immediately re- engaged Miss Hoctor. And Ed co- starred Harriet. Miss Hoctor was recently chosen for the second year in succession as the | best “ballerina” in the country by six leading professional dance directors in the “all-American cholce of dancing” for 1930, held by the Dance Magazine. CARL LAEMMLE What Isabel Refused...! They Dared to Love! A Misunderstood Husband—A Woman of the World— § A Philandering Playboy—A Wandering Wife! Peep Into Their Intimate Secrets—Unlock Their Forbidden Doors! B DER{ with CONRAD NAGEL And a 7-Star Cast Sincerely a Life Lesson for Every Woman AS CAPT. JOHN SMITH’S GIRL FRIE LELIA HYAMS, Blonde star of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in the role of Pocahontas, demonstrating | most ingenious murder which necessi- and a man is killed. Two home-going policemen aboard the train quickly | subdue the fight and summon a medical examiner, What looked likg a common, ordinary homicide turns out to be a tates the calling of detectives to solve. Each passenger is subject to an ex- amination until the guilty person is finally found. It all goes to make first- rate drama, punctuated with many Iaughs and dramatic situations. Besides Leo Curley, who is seen as the inspector, others who take promi- nent part are Jack Byrne, Hugh Dufly, | Virginia Curley, Maria Pettis, William | T. Hayes, Edward Everett Hale, Wall Spence, James Young and Maud Nolan. “DIMPLED DARLINGS.” NDER the alluring title of “Dimpled Darlings,” a smart, fast moving show, comes to the Gayety Theater next week, offering laughable comedy, plenty of pretty girls, talented comedians and specialists in the line of song, dance, diversity and art, with all the ingredi- ents mixed by experts from the flelds | of musical comedy and vaudeville. The two featured players are Bob Startzman and Fritzie White. Other principals include Lee Hickman, tramp comedian; Harry Connors, juvenile; Evelyn DuBois, soubrette; = Marcia Compton, ingenue; I. J. Irving, straight man and magician; Jack Strauss, black- | face comedian and singer, and the | vaudeville headliners, Robert, Bent and Driscoll, “Two Hops and a Miss.” a trio of versatile entertainers, as well as a| good-looking, high-stepping chorus. Eddie Cantor may change his mind about returning to the stage, and this comes about through his idea that his movie success can be determined by | stage presentation. That is, he may try his movie ideas on the stage before they are taken to Hollywood. - chtures Announced DMUND LOWE in an ultra-smart comedy drama entitled “Scot- land Yard,” will entertain the Fox Theater patrons starting Friday, with Joan Bennett and David Torrance in his support and reinforced by the latest Fanchon- Marco “Idea” as the stage attraction. “A Soldier's Plaything,” a Warner Bros. Vitaphone production, with Ben Lyon, Lotti Loder, Harry Langdon and Noah Berry in the cast, is announced for Warner's Metro- politan, which also begins its new week Friday. It's an American-A r m y- in-France picture, with a story by Vina Delmar, au- thor of “Bad Girl.” For those thea- ters which begin their new week on Saturday, the fol- lowing _announce- ments have been made: Edmund Lowe. starring Norma Tal- with Conrad Nagel, Willlam Farnum and Hobart Bosworth in sup- porting roles of prominence, a United Artists’ production, will come to Loew's Palace, and will have Harry Santrey and 31.5 band as a supporting stage attrac- on, To Warner’s Earle will come “The ‘Truth About Youth,” a First National Vitaphone production, featuring Loretta Young, Conway Tearle, David Manners and Myrna Loy, along with a stage show | Ph: featuring Borrah Minevitch and His Rascals and Aunt Jemima. “Whoopee,” - Samuel Goldwyn _and United Artists' screen counterpart of Florenz Ziegfeld’s notable joymaker of the stage legitimate, will follow “Billy the Kid” at Loew's Columbia, with Eddle Cantor deing his usual in the audible screen production. Manager Corbin Sheild has “The Sil- ver Horde,” featuring Louis Wolheim and Evelyn Brent, a Radio picture, “under- lined” at R.-K.-O. Kelth's. Lubitsch on Screen Airs. 'ONGS and fine music need not be ex- cused when introduced into film storfes. It is only when the songs are attempted by people who cannot sing and when the music is inferior that apologies should be made by the pro- ducer of the picture. So says Ernst Lubitsch, maker of the currently suc- cessful “Love Parade.” In that picture, | Lubitsch had Jack Buchanan and Jean- ette MacDonald sing when and where- ever it seemed to him that a song would fit nicely. “It is as reasonable to expect players with a talent for singing to sing from | the screen as it is to expect newsboys | with a talent for whistling to whistle on the street,” Lubitsch feels. “We go to the theater to see a musical play and we do not question it when the prima donna, apropos of nothing at all bursts into song. If the story has to wait until that | little song is over, well—then the story shall wait.” Tracy Has New Role. LEO TRACY has been signed by James Cruze Productions for the leading role in “She Got What She Wanted,” the first Tiffany special under the direction of Cruze, Tracy has received recognition for his portrayals in “Lilliom,” and “Big Time.” He also has many stage ap- pearances to his credit, including “Broadway,” and “The Front Page.” The cast of “She Got What She Wanted,” includes Betty Compson, Gaston Glass, Alan Hale and Dorothy Christy. The story is adapted from the stage production of the same title by George Roosner. R-K-O KEITH'’S NOW PLAYI NG/ . . . SCREEN EVENT == Here They Are! OF THE AGES! / AVMOS~ANDY "WCHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK ” Flashing from the Heavens into Frenzied Life in Th Talking Feature Motion Picture! IRENE RICH SUE CAROL Charles Morton — Ralf Harolde Rita LaRoy — DUKE ELLINGTON and HIS COTTON CLUB BAND Y Show Starts Daily 10:00 a.m- Show Starts Sundays 2:30 p.m" REALIFE PHOTOGRAPHY ON GIANT EALIFE SCREEN ‘more amazing invention, than :Inlkigtum/ é NOW PLAYING /ou have watched exciti es in Motion B L RING HNGING / COLOR./ But now comes REALIFE ™! 1) T MAALING ORvRIOpMe ALL SCREEN HI e N ity o Sty BIL Y THE KID A METRO-COLOWYN-MAVER, PICTURE~ with JOHN MACK BROWN WALLACE BEERY EAY JOHNSON KARL DANE n and iron. courage? A .. lovér unafrai Dinected Kxix‘ngdor. who made I,% ted by fr’ln‘:"nfs !z.r LOEW L/ u'rgnce Stallings igngu to the end id”/ AMUSEMENTS,’ Washington’s Players What Various Dramatic Organizations Are Doing and Propose to Do. ST. GABRIEL'S PLAYERS, Tomorrow. | \HE St. Gabriel's Playe: open- ing their sixth season, 1 pre- sent “The Cat and the Canary” | tomorrow night and Tuesday at | St. Patrick’s Hall, Tenth and G streets northwest. This year's offering | is expected to be of special interest to amateur dramatic groups here, as it | will be a real test of ability for the non-professional. Effective production of this play re- quires deft stage management, lighting and shifting to make the spook-ridden old mansion of the story convincing. Past performances of these players, doubtless, while an assurance of good results now, prove of value to the play- ers in their somewhat difficult prob- lem this year. Good work may always be expected from Justin Winkle, Mary McCarthy and Paul Murphy, along with others who will guide the play through the throes of mystery. These young people are working ulti- mately for the building fund of the new St. Gabriel's Church in Petworth. Full of surprises, action and unusual turns, the story unfolds in an old, spook-ridden mansion one stormy night. The cast includes Kathleen Baker, Dorothy Colliflower, Richard Collins, Kenneth Collins, Matt Fenton, Harold Hamill, Margaret Frawley, Paul Mur- y, Mary cCarthy, George and Justin Winkle, COLUMBIA PLAYERS. THE_Columbia Players will present “Bellairs” at the Wardman Park ‘Theater in December. The title role of “Bellairs” will be played by H. R. Baukhage. Aurora Pos- ton will play Mrs. Bellairs and Helen | Burton, Dorothy, the daughter, Barclay, the keeper of the “pub,” has been as- signed to Charles Dickson: Glovanni, the young Italian in love with Dorothy, will be played by Willard Miller; Morti- mer Scrope, the minister, by George Odell, and Diana Martin by Elizabeth Dyer. The part of Betty, the inn- keeper's daughter, had not yet been as- signed when the announcement was | made. | THE MASKS. 'HE MASKS, one of the oldest dra- matic groups In Washington, have been planning for the annual one-act play tournament to be held early in 1931. At its first meeting this Fall it decided to have a one-act play tourna- ment within the group and, at the con- clusion of this, to choose the best play to represent the Masks in the city-wide contest in the Spring. A one-act play, “Suppressed Desires,” was_recently given with success over WJSV, local broadcasting station. In the cast were Irma Patterson, Sue| Shorter and Harold Vatter. | The new officers elected for 1930- 1931 are: President, vice president, i treasurer, Katherine Griffith; secretary, Dorothy Golladay, and publicity man- ager, Leonora Combs. THEATER GROUP ORGANIZING. A LITTLE THEATER group will be organized this week on Wednesday evening at Macfarland Community Rec- ;ffil"fi%% OFh o Week Beg. Monday—Cont. 11 to 11 Direct From Earl Carroll Theater, New York DO NOT MARRY Blindfolded! Into the “Mysteries of Life” MOST DISCUSSED TOPIC OF TODAY EXPOSE OF UNHAPPY MARRIAGES A_LFETIME EDUCATION EXCLUSIVE SHOWS FOR WOMEN ONLY A Daring, Thrilling Story of Careless Youth and Neglectful Parents UNGUARDED GIRLS First and Only Showing in Washington % Something New and Different reation Center, to which all adults de- siring opmnunn{ for acting, stage lighting and deslgn, costuming, play reading and all technical branches of the modern stage are invited. Ruth Harsha McKenzie, a profes- sional player and director, with 10 years' experience in stock and repertory companies on the East and the West Coasts of the United States, who spent last season at the Yale Theater work- ing with George Pierce Baker, will be the director of the new group. which is expected to affiliate with the Com- munity Drama Guild of Washington when its organization is completed. Mrs. McKenzie has played leading roles in many dramas, including “A ‘Woman of No Importance,” “Arms and the Man,” “The Thief” and others. She has been associated with the Philadelphia Civic Theater and with “Plays and Players” there, with the Maitland Players of San Francisco and other Little Theater companies in Cali- fornia, and has played also in stock in Boston and with a repertory group touring New England. The new dramatic group is being sponsored by the Community Center Department, represented by Mrs. A. L. Irving, community secretary at Mac- farland Center, from whom all infor- mation may be obtained. Mrs. Irving’s telephone call is Cleveland 5003. “w “ Sz o New “Menace” for “Kiki." ARGARET LIVINGSTON, the blonde menace in Gloria Swan- son's “What a Widow!” has been as- signed a prominent supporting role in Mary Pickford's “Kiki.” Nacio Herb Brown, whose “Pagan Love Song,” “Wedding of the Painted Doll” and “Singin’ in the Rain” have been whistled, quartetted and moaned, lo, these many moons, is composing & musical number for the Pickford film A First olsomal laphone 1 MARION NIXON GUINN WILLIAMS liso Selectea Short Subects. m vemy ween .un?gmmvf A Warner 8ros Vidaphone Smasi bl LEWis AYRES gy B2/ I creened, - ONTHE — nis- KEN &% MURRAY AND HIS MURRAY-MAKERS SAMUELS FOSTER, FAGAN | BESSIE FAGAN & cox MARTIN SANDS Wubagiws Ovs Surs” | MILDRED LAND ~AND OTHER ATTRACTIONS DIRI ON _SIDNEY LU HIPPODROME rods,"f5motrow <QUR BLUSHING ~BRIDES, CRAWFORD. Mt. Rainier, Md. DUMBARTON s 5o, HELEN KANE AND VICTOR in_“HEADS UP." Comeds, DI “JILL, HAPPEN." JESSE THEATER § ‘:'"sf.f N C. CLAY.” CONSTANCE BEN- MICKEY'S WHIRLWIND. OORE 'ACCI- R. “COMMON NETT, 11th & N. STANLEY SMITH. 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