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AMUSEMENTS. RIALTO—"Extravagance.” 'XTRAVAGANCE,’ “E ‘The cast includes Owen Moore, Do- rothy Christy. Jameson Thomas, Nella Walker, Bob- by Agnew, Gwen Lee and Joan Standing. “ Extravagance concerns a beauti- ful young girl who had never been de- June Collyer. nied anything ex- cept a sable coat. All her life widowed mother had given her every- thing—even though she saw her mone; dwindling to nothing. Nature had been most lavish in giving her beauty. and she was the darling of her crowd. en- gaged more times than she could re- member. Then she met Fred Garlan and loved him enough to marry him. Fred is a young man of only comfor able means who finds the financial de- mands of his growing business so great that he cannot afford his wife's ex- travagance, and Alice asks him for a sable coat. Beautiful gowns, coats and hats are worn by June Collyer and Dorothy Christy, and a fur fashion show is a feature of special interest to women. FOX—"Oh, For a Man!" M H, FOR A MAN.” the Fox current screen attraction, presents Jean- ette MacDonald in the role of a success- ful operatic prima donna, the toast of the town for rare beauty and a golden voice, her hand sought by men of wealth and social standing. She has no time for affairs of the heart, however. And then, in the dead of night, her apartment is invaded by a burglar, there to rob her of her jewels. S matches with him, learns that he is an admirer, yearning himself to be a singer, and she ends with his consent to sponsor his operatic career. From then on the story is sald to be inter- esting. ‘The Fanchon and Marco Idea, “See ing Double,” with 11 sets of twins in its cast, provides the stage attraction. Headlined in it are Claude and Clar- ence Stroud, “The Aristocrats of the Stage,” with Marty White (two men), the Miller Twins, and the twins Elea, St. John, Clute, Falla, Nolay, Holly, Parker and Maltby. Leon Brusiloff and the Fox Music Masters, Ron and Don at the organ, John Hix in “Strange as it | T and the new Fox Movietone | Seems™ News will complete the program. R-K-O KEITH'S—“Fast and Loose.” S*EDAST AND LOOSE.” new angle on present day youth, its laughing gayety, its scorn of conven- tions, its freedom and constant joy. And 'a great cast of moderns portrays the lively characters in the Avery Hop- wood_play, which made a_ tremendous hit on Broadway last season. , “Best People,” a laugh and love drama of middle-aged conservation versus beautiful, youthful light-footed- ness. Long Island is the setting. The story concerns the socially established family, represented by Frank Morgan, Winifred Harris, Herbert Yost, Miriam Hopkins and Henry Wadsworth, who carty on the battle of casts. The two youngsters, Miss Mariam Hopkins and Henry Wadsworth, shock their elders immeasurably by becoming involved in affairs of heart, the former with the family chauffeur and the latter with a pretty chorus girl. A family movement to disrupt the ro- mance of Wadsworth and the pretty chorus girl, Carole Lombard, comes to grief when old Mr. Lenox himself, suc- cumbs to the girl's charm, and Miss Hopkins announces her undying and not-to-be-denied love for the chauf- feur, who hesitates at taking to wife such a useless ornament as the socially g::mxnem daughter. Insulted at the inuations, the family right-about- faces and gets behind the dual ro- mance. The youngsters take advantage of the situation and then—well, that would be telling—but all ends well. Short subjects round out. METROPOLITAN—“Captain Thunder.” Tl'm adventures of a swaggering heart crusher form the basis of the a Tiffany pro- duction, with June Collyer and Lloyd Hughes heading the cast, will be the attraction at the Rialto Theater for her the current | attraction at R-K-O Keith's, is a | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 14, w B DECEMBER 14 and the Earle News Reel complete the Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 1930—PART FOUR. PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK Friday Saturday entertainment. Fay Wray and Victor Varconi in “Captain Thunder.” Vitaphone variety. COLUMBIA—"Grumpy.” Ambassador (8th & Columbia Rd. Fay Wray and Victor Varconi in “Captain Thunder.” Vitaphone variety. Fay Wray and Victor Varconi in “Captain Thunder.” Vitaphone variety. E1 Brendel and Marguerite Churehill n ““The Big Trail.” El Brendel and Marguerite Churchill in “The Big Trail Joe Frisco and Lila Lee in “The Gorilla.” Variety. _Comedy. John Mack Brown in “Billy the Kid." **(YRUMPY,” this week at Loew's Co- lumbia Theater, offers what will likely be the last appearance on either mund Lowe in “Scotland Yard." Vitaphone variety. edy. Apollo 624 B St. N.E. Edmund Lowe in “Scotland Yard.” Conrad Nagel in “A_Lady Vitaphone variety. Comedy. Sur- renders.” Cartoon. onrad Nagel “A_Lady Sur- rendars.” Cartoon. Bert Lytell n “Brothers." Comedy. John Gilbert in “Way for Vitaphon Joe Frisco and Lila Lee in “The Gorilla." a_Sailor.” e_variety. Vitaphone variety. stage or screen of Cyril Maude, one of the best known of the old school of actors, who chose it for his farewell as the play that had brought most of his Ashton Clarendon, Va. Dark. Al Quiet on the Western Front.” fnort ATl Quiet on the Western Front.” subjects. fhort subjects. Joan rd in Hoot Gibson and - i Sally Eilers O igegir “The Concen Short n' Hugh Trevor Eeul:‘ Lo n “Conspiracy.” Tewis Avres in “The Doorway to Hel Vitaphone variety. fame in America. Maude came to this country in 1913 and has played the title role of Avalon 5612 Conn. Ave. Lewis Ayres m “The Doorway t9 ariety. Conrad Nagel in “A_Lady Sur- renders.” el Vitaphone Cartoon Helen Kane in “Dangerous Nan cGrew Vitaphone variety. Conrad Nagel in “A_Lady Sur- renders.” Cartoon. Milton Sills n “The Sea Wolf." ety. 2 Vgt sesgand yere “Grumpy” no less than 1,300 times. In the supporting cast are Phillips Holmes, Frances Dade, Ralliwell Hobbes Lewis Ayres in “The Doorway to Ave. Grand Hel 645 Pa. Ave SE Variety. Comedy. Lewis Avres in Helen Twelvetrees in “The Doorway to “Her Man Hell” Vitaphone variety. Variety. Comedy. Comedy. wieR Twervetrees i Farola Bell Wrghts i Her Ma; Eyes of the Worla.” Vitahone Tariets. medy. Cartoon and Paul Cavanagh. Paul Lukas prob- ably has a prominent role A selected group of short subjects will Dark. Cameo Mt. Rainfer, Md. Clara Bow. “Her Wedding Comedy. in Clara Bow_in ight.” “Her Wedding Night.” Comedsy. News. round out the program. Carolina th & N.C. Ave. S.E. _ GAYETY—"Peck-a-Boo.” Budds Rogers In Billie Dove and Puddy Rogers in Dour. Fairbanks. ir., “Heads Up." in “One t at T Grant Withers and 3 Harold Murray and J. Harold ffurray and Fifi_ d'Oreay in Everywhere " Novelty. reel. Fifi d'Orsav in “Women Everywhere “women Comedy. Novelty reel. _Comed Helen Ka. “Dangerous Nan McGrew Comedy. Robert Frazer in “Beyond the Law." Comedy Serial Spencer Tracy fn Up the River.” Spencer Tracy in “Up the River." ___ Coredy. Lupe Velez and John Holland n “Hell Harbor." Evelsn, Knapp n “Sinners' Holiday." ()NE of the highly regarded units on the Mutual Burlesque and Vaude- Charles Bickford " ville circuit, “Peek-a-Boo" is gladden. Central in “River's End.” | 425 oth st. Comedy. N.W. Cn&rlnlmckwm n “Rivers End." Comedy ing the hearts of patrons of the Gaye this week. It is one of the attractions that has attained wide popularity with its_elaborate production details The cast presents Mae Brown, a sou- brette of restless dancing reputation, who is featured: Harry Evanson, a dry | Circle 2105 P Ave. NW__ Colony Ga_Ave. & Farragut Kay_Johnson. Reginaid "Denny 'and Lillian Roth in ‘Ma Satan.” Amos ‘n’ A Check and Double heck. Vitaphone variety ndy in— Kay Johnson. Reginaid “Denny and Lillian Roth in “Madam_Satan " Amos ‘n' Andy in “Check _and Double “Playboy of Paris "A_Lady Sur- he renders Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Maurice Chevalier in Maurice Chevalier in B man fn Paul White “King of Jaz?. “White_Hell ot Pitz Paiu.’ Harold Bell Wright's “Eyes ot the World." Vitaphone variety. Conrad Nazel. asil Rathhone and Carmel Myers in A Lady Surrenders. Eddie_Cantor in “Whoopee." Comedy. “Playboy of Paris John Mack Brown “Billy the Kid." _Vitaphone variety. renders.” Vitaphone variety. humored “bocb” comedian leading the Maurice Chevalier fun division, and Jean Bedini, in his d famous specialties. Others are Kitty Dumbarton n “Playboy, of 1343 Wisconsin Ave. Paris.” Maurice Chevalier Milton Sills and Dorothy, Mackaill n “Playboy of n Paris." “Man_Trouble " John Mack Brown and Wallace Beery n “Billy_the Kid." John Mack Brown and Wallace Beery in : “Billy_the Kid." Guinn Williams and Marian Nixon in College Lovers. Comedy. _Veriety nrad Nazel Bert Lyvtell in “Last of the Lone Wol __Comedy. Variety Helen Kane and Victor Moore_in angerous Nan ___ McGrew." Bert Lytell in “Last of the Lone Wolf.” omedy. 3 Bennett_and Joe E. Brown in “Maybe It's Love.” O Basil John Mack Brown i “Billy the Kid." Vitaphone variet Bpencer Tracy and Claire Luce in “Up_the River." | Warren, "a noted burlesque luminary, with a new repertory of snappy buck Maurice Chevalier rdancinr Tommy Miller, one of the n “Playboy of Paris.” Comedy. Fairlawn Anacostia, D. Maurice Chevalier Pauline Siarke and n n Yyon “Playboy of Paris.” Comedy. n “What. Men Want." Comedy. ~Cartoon George Bancroft George Bancroft n in “Derelict.” Come “Derelict. Comedy. Armida and Rex Lease in ‘Wings of Adventure." Comedies. John Gilbert in | 2Bozo" type of “zanies”; Harry Ryan |and Elsie Huff, juvenile'and ingenue; | Lew Denny, Dotty Alexandria, with a | diversified musical act, and a chorus Trene Rich and H. B_Warner in “On_Your Back.” Comedy. Other_reels. Family 8th & G Sts. S.E. Chester Morris and lace Beery i “The Big House Comedy. _Ac Chester Morris and ‘Wallace Beery in “The Big House." Comedy. _Act. Neil Hamilton and Dorothy Sebastian in “Ladies Must Play. Comedy._Cartoon. Nancy Carroll and Buddy Rogers in . “Follow Through.” Comedy. Act. Fancy Carroll and y Rogers in “Follow Through." Comedy Act West.” Comedv. Serial. Cartoon | that is frequently and pleasantly in evi- dence. Special_attractions are provided on Mondar, Wedneszay and Friday nights. ; Georgs Fenerit in | Hippodrom: S s S N.W |Home | 18th & C Sts. N Ingomar Alexandria. Vi Jesse S100. 18t ‘Snanihots The _Life of the CLAEA W. McQUOWN, Friday. taphone variety 1SS CLARA W. McQUOWN will e give her weekly talk on Questions of the Hour in National and Interna- tional Affairs Friday morning at 11| oclock in the assembly room of the | | Washington Club, entrance 1010 Seven- | teenth street. Miss McQuown will re. | Dark. Bert Wheeler Robert_Woolsey in “Half Shot at_Sun- rise.” Com. News st._ne. Winnie Lightner in Vitaphoi ____ Comedy. nd Richard "Atlen in Not scheduled. “Santa Fe Trail. ‘Winnie Lizhtner in The Life of the n “'Scotland Yard." Vitapnone variety Walter Jiuston in ‘The_Bad Man.” ariety. Jack Holt and avie Lee in “The Squealer."" Act._Serial Bert Wheeler and Bernice Claire i Robert. Woolsey in “Spring s He: Half Shot at Sun- “The Song Plug: Com. News. __ animated cart “Reno ™ Comedy. Act. rise Fdmurd Lowe Edmurd Lowe Helen Twelvetrees "~ Lois Moran n “Not Damaged.” Comedy. _Cartoon. Richard_Arlen in “Santa Fe Trail." Comedy. Act “Her Man." Vitatnane variety. Billie Dove in ht at n “Scotlard Yard." Vitaphone variety. valter_Huston in “The_Bad Man. Comedy. Act. Lois Moran “Nor Damaged.” Comedy _ Cartoon. Loretta Young in “The Truth About ou'h " ___ Comedy. Billie Dove T “One Susie’s. Comedy. Richard Arien and v Wrav in _ Comedy’ John Mack Browne Billy the Kid " Comudy. Hoop,_Gibsen in Spur; Comedy. Act irene R'ch and H. B_ Warner in “Good News." “On your Back." Comedy. News Comedy. Tlessie Love and Stanley Smith in view legislation before Congress and | | questions of outstanding importance in the United States. Especial reference will be made to questions of unemploy- ment relief and taxation. Among other subjects to be discussed Dark. Laurel Laurel, Md. Leader 9th & E Sts. NW. Milton Sills in ‘Sea Wol a Comedy. = News. Serial ~_irene Rich and H “Reno " Comedy Comedy Snapshots. Bnapshots. ews. fews. Irene Ri H_ B_ Warner in “On Yeur Back Comedy. Review B_ Warper in “On_your Back." Comedy. Review. | will be silver as a factor in world de- pression, forced labor in Liberia and | elsewhere and the results obtained at the Geneva meeting of thé preparatory disarmament commission. This will be Miss McQuown's last Lyri IC Gaithersburg, Mé. Palace Charles Ruggles in Charles R “Young Man, of “You ' of an iary Nolan in “Youne_ Desire.” “Young_Desire. Comeds. Comedy. Act | talk until Friday morning, January 9. | 303 9th st. n.w. 1 Richard Arlen in Princess “The Banta Fe Trail ST Richmond g 'HE modern woman of the business Richard Arlen f “The Banta Fe Frail.” poug, Faitbanks, it in “Th e Dawn_Patrol Marie Dressier and _ Marie Dressler and Mo Beer’ln Waliace Beers in “Min_and_ Bl ‘Min_ard_EAll Comedy. Cartoon. y. Cartoon h and Joan Craw! ich an: 7 uggles in ~ T Mary Nolan in Richard Barthelmess Edmund Lowe and Gary Coover and joan Beanett in “Scotland _Yard." Comedy. _Cartoon. ](\‘;llbn; l}’lnlu’v'm in “Men of the North." Man Troubl, Tim McCov' in Lone Dafender.” “Indians AreComing." _Charlie Chase comedsy. Dorothy Mackaill in Gary Cooper and Petty Compson in “South of Sonora.” ‘The Spollers.” Comedy. Serial. Comedy. “Joan Crawford in Our_ Blushing Brides.” v Com>dy. ford in lushing " Lewis Stone in ~“Dorothy Jordan Dorothy Jordan n “Loye in_the Rough.” “Love in the Rough." iin" the” Prog" Fiip" the Frog. Richard Dix in “Seven Keys to Baldpate. med: Tt Richard_Dix in “Seven Keys to Baldrat e Comedy. _Cartoon. Coi Marle Prevostand Four Marx Brothers ugh Trevor in n ight Parade.” “Animal Crackers.” " "Comsdy Richard Biflrlhelmess an Doug. Fairbanks., Jr. in_""The Dawn Patrol” “Soup to Nuts.” Milton_Sills tn’ Hoot,_Cib “The Sea Wolf." ot gpurse ™ Ann Harding in “Girl of the Golden West.” A est.” Act Short_subjects Short_subjects. Cromwell and Richard Oro Peers in J bl2 David." “Tol'able David." Short._reels Comedy. Short_reels and professional world leads a ;douhle life, and her greatest enemy is| | tatigue, according to Nancy Carroll, ap- | SaVOy . Va. Alezandria. Tois Moran in “The Dancers.” Comed: Eric von Stroheim and . Constance Bennett in “Three Faces East. in “The Dancers e Faces Dous. Fairbanks, Jr.. tar cast in n EME of Jazpt “The Little Accident.” Vitaphone variety. Buck Jones in “Shadow Ranch." Vitaphone variety. edy Pauline Garon in “The Thoroughbred." Vitaphone variety. | pearing at present in “Follow Thru” 3030 14th 8t. N.W. omedy. with Charles Rogers. | “After work' fatigue is the bogey of Dark. Barbara Stanwyck in ) “Lades of Leisure + “subjects. William_ Haines in y Out We: Lunsdon comeds. Helen Ty elvetrees in ng_High" amor subjects Withers " “sinners' Holiday.” Serial’ Gri CcOo v ing, Md. women actively employed during the | Shref SPFIS day,” says Miss Carroll “In spite of| i Dark. |long hours of work, the woman who| State George_Arliss in eore Arlias, Bid “Enzlish.” BiE Ensiish.” Gloria Svanson in Gloria Svanson in Glorla Svanson “What a Widow d Jack Mulhall in n_the Next Room. pring Is Here." Mackai!l in Deroth, PRfe Ofice. Wite. | emerges in the evening into the social | Beth Mmd. swim must appear fresh, rested, charm- |ing and vivacious. To achieve the Jove- | Sylvan Gary Cooper in “The Spoilers. Cartoon. (75 Gooper 11 Gary Coover OBi Goohers” vBhe’s My, Weal Eartoon News. Comedy. Moran and Mack in “Anybody's Wa ‘Talkartoon. News. Moran and Mack in ““Anybody's War." Talkartoon. News Benny Rubin “'Leathernecking. “Lone Defender. Comedy. “The Escape.” Tim McCoy in “Indians AreComing.” Comedy. - News. E1 Brendel an liness of a debutante after eight hours 104 R. L ave. . Marguerite Churchill of wage earning presents a problem to| mv. 1o | the girl of today, but one that can be TWO[I i Brendel and lh';"luenu Churchill “The Bif Tral: Talmadse in i DU Barr Wallace Beery and Marie Dressier in “Min and_ Bill." Comedsy. Norma Talmadge in, “Madame Du Barry. " Variety Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in “Min and Bill." _Variety. Comedy. Charles Bickford 5 in solved.” 14th & Park R4. “The Big Trail” A 15-minute restorative schedule has = | been worked out by Miss Carroll and | Takoma Jghn_ McCormack in | employed by her to remove all traces of | yayoms Park. p.C. ¢ ° M7 4 “All Quiet on ¢ “All Quiet_on the AU, Quiet on ¢ he Western Front B "All_Quiet_on the Elste Ferguson in Western Front. “Scarlet Pages. " Egmand Tons *Goor ntentions." Betty Comj “Inside the guson in Elsie R R Winnie Ligntner in The Life of the Party.” Vitaphons variety. | fatigue from studio work before the social events of the film colony. | Yfll’k | “Take a warm bath, of course,” ad- | vises Miss Carroll, “adding bath salts Ga. Ave. & Quebes i that tend to stimulate circulstion. Fol- low Wi a cold shower and a very & | brisk rubdown with a rough Turkish Christmas Week Fare. | towel. erings in the S i datii oo ok i agivec: Lo itte | 1L B UMAS Switk Gl “;‘ i | eyes, for they reveal the ravages of a| moving picture houses have |day's tofl most quickly” the actress announced as follows:™ | warns. “Abraham Lincoln,” the David 'Wark Her solution for this is an eye bath with a solution of boracic acid, After | Griffith production, with Walter Huston this Miss Carroll places pads of cotton | and Una Merkel in imautened with the solution over each the outstanding |eye and rests in a horizontal position roles, is scheduled for five minutes. for Loew’s Colum- | ““After the rest she applies a skin tonic bla, which begins |to her face, neck and shoulders to aid its new week on circulation and bring ‘a rosy glow to | Saturday. | the complexion. The tonic is followed % “Along Came | by a quick ice rub. Youth,” with — “Buddy"” Rogers as the Paramount studios, will be the Christmas week offering at Loew’s Palace, also start- ‘Wflshington Players' | Guild "Opportunity Night"‘ 'HE Community Drama Guild's “op- story of “Captain Thunder.~ the ‘War. | . Portunity night” will be staged Tues- mer Bros.-Vitaphone romante mecsonid |08y evening of this week. at 8:15 this week at Warner's Metropoiitan | O'Clock, 2t Columbia Heights Com- Where it will rematn until meat PLiat | munity Center, Eleventh and Harvard day_night. aptain Thunder” concerns the af- | streets northwest—not at McKinley Au- | ditorium, 2s originally_announced ing Saturday of this week. The Warner Metropolitan, which starts its week Fr aughty Fiirt, Walter Huston. Robt, Montgomery in _ Tightper in T WiFRe” Lite of the Party. ough.” Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Robt, Montgomery i ol e ‘Love in t iy s ver.” Cartoon. oug Vitaphone variety. | Christmas—Her Birthday. ‘ ELEN TWELVETREES, the bril- [ liant little Pathe star, who at | tained her high position on 'the screen | 50 swiftly, when Christmas rolls around | will observe a double celebation, for it |15 also her birthday anniversary. |~ Miss Twelvetrees was born in Brook- llyn, N. Y., and was educated at the | Brooklyn Heights Seminary. Later che | enrolled at the Art Students’ Leagu | and was also a student at the American | Academy of Dramatic Asts. She began her stage carecr | company work with the Stuart in_stock Walker its star, both of | players in New York and piayed lead- |a very simp! |ing roles in “An American Tragedy,” | “Yen,” “Roulette,” “Broadway,” “Elmer | Gantry” and other Broadway produc- tions. In addition to her stage work, | she did considerable work as an artist’s |model, whieh began during her Art | Student League days and continued through her course at the Academy of | Dramatic Arts and after she began her she scored hits in “True Heart” and | “Blue Skies.” Her lovely voice, photo- | graphic perfection and dramatic ability | Rave caused her to be regarded as one | of the “best bets” recruited for oral pic- tures from the stage. Her petite stat~ Ure—ehe 15 5 feet 3 inches in height |and very slendej—as_well as her deli- | Cate features, turquoise blue eyes and | Wealth of golden hair, have earned her | the title of “the prefect ingenue.” | Quiet, dignified and cultured, Miss | Twelvetrees has won many friends dur- | ing her sojourn in Hollywood. She lives | le life and does not figure | largely in social events. She has taken | a little bungalow in the Hollywood foot- hills, has a roadster which she drives | herself and spends a great deal of her |leisure time at the beach. She is, in- cidentally, an expert swimmer, plays a fair game of golf, rides horseback and | occasionally likes to devote an evening Also she likes to cook, Spencer Tracy in |to dancing. | makes many of her own dresses and is 1 career. e |an expert in fine needlework and em- Miss Twelvetrees was brought to Hol- Bert_Lytell in “Brothers.” Vitaphone variety. Back to Normal. in “Scotland Yard.” Comedy. fleld for outstanding play and story material designed for screen treatment, | declares Jacob Wilk, head of the story | department of Warner Bros., following !'a survey of the fiction and drama situ- ation in Germany with a view to cap- turing the best literary talents and the most significant artistic output there. Mr. Wilk finds that during the re- construction period in Germany fol- lowing the World War, a new genera- tion of creative writers has sprung up. They have, he discovers, a more normal slant on the emotions, and are no longer under the influence of the first crop of writers who were touched to the quick by the horrible experiences they had undergone, and who used them as morbid themes. The new generation is shrewd and daring as the old, but their emphasis is on the nor- mal emotions of the normal man and woman of today, rather than on the ebnormal and exceptional cases that were the themes of their predecessors. (GERMANY s fast becoming s fertile AMUSEMENTS. The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Josef von Sternberg, should come as a mt of reassurance for those who have lately been de- pressed by the justifiable con- viction that imagination is dead in Hollywood. It is a real moving picture, taking advantage of the extraordinary opportunities for dramatic e: ion that the camera affords, making full and appropriate usage of sound and | D‘fl“énl a negligible emphasis on spoken | words. As a perfect demonstration of the unimportance of dialogue, and of the | supreme importance of sound, Mr. von | Sternberg shows us a scene at a ban- quet at which is being celebrated the engagement of the vaudeville singer (impersonated by Miss Marlene Die- trich) and the wealthy. nobleman (Adolphe Menjou). A French colonel is delivering a graceful, congratulatory address, in his native tongue. The majority or whole of the movie au- dience can't understand his words, but they know just about what he is saying. ! He is obviously saying just the right ! thing. As he talks, from the distance come the strains of martial music— the bugles and drums of the Foreign | Legion returning from -a campaign against the Rifis. In that approaching regiment may be the hero, Gary Cooper. Or he may have been left in the Afri- can interfor wounded, or dead. Miss Dietrich wants to find out. She jumps to her feet. interrupting the col- | onel’s g:lne speech. And as she rushes from the table the pear] necklace which Mr. Menjou has given her catches on the chair and_b—ela,:the pearls clat- tering to the floor. Che ignores them. Without a word to her flance or to the assembled guests, she runs down to the strect to look for her lover. This is a long sequencs, and an ex- tremely dramatic one. It contains no talk whatever, except for the colonel's speech in French. No talk is needed. | Nevertheless, the fact that the talk | is potentially there contributes enor- mously to the dramatic strength. Hav- ing heard the colonel's speech, even though unable to understand it, you are all the more vitally impressed by Miss Dietrich’s el nt silence, and bfv the approaching beat of drums and clangor of bugles. i “‘Morocco” which is not equally artful in its capitalization of the advantages of sound. It never is allowed to inter- fere with the essential pictorial quali- ties; but it amplifies and enriches them to -an incalculable extent. One must congratulate Mr. von Sternberg on the best job of direction —of imaginative conception—that has been performed since the screen found its voice. It is incredible to me that any one can see the results he has achieved in “Morocco” and still say that the old spell of the movies has been broken, However, T know that there are some who will disagree. There are a few die-hards left who persist in the be- lief that one should go to the movies primarily for the purpose of catching some sleep, and that the noises from the loud speakers should be outlawed because they force one to stay awake. S e JN_a recent issue of his journal, the Film Spectator, Welford Beaton utters the following ~despondent re- marks: & “Motion picture lots are rather sad places these days. Everyone seems o be wondering what should be done next. Morale is low. Unrest is rampant. In- spiration has gone off-shift. Initiative is lacking. Pessimism spreads into the executive offices where the leaders sit, dispirited because they have come to the end of imitating one another without having brought box offices back to life. The industry is in a rut with high sides, and its vision ahead is blocked by box- office failures.” ‘What is to be done about this shock- ing etate of affairs? Says Mr. Beaton: “The industry should meke itself well by trying-the experiment of doing taings it hasn't d bettlncl done for a long time. It shoul to make motion res again. should get back to the farm and away from speakeasies: it should give us fac- tories where things are made, tead of courtrooms where men are unmade; it should take us.into the sweet-smell- ing atmosphere of small-town -homes, instead of the polluted air of rich homes of intrigue and infidelity.” While agreeing with Mr. Beaton's statement of the maladies with which the industry is afflicted, I can not quite indorse his guack nostrums for a cure. Sometimes farms are more interesting and wholesome than speakeasies, and sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes the atmosphere in rich homes is compara- tively free from impurities, and some- times small-town homes are polluted with intrigue, infidelity and other things. What is of major importance is that There is hardly a single scene in|says Sherwood. rooms, the trenches, the White lhunm;nmmunh:\.m‘ those mere backgrounds have been paltry significance. What has is that directors, actors, writers cameramen nsible for them men and women who knew their and performed them well. D . 'HE igh-po ] 3 Cooper is far better than ever been before. Adolphe Menjou 1s ‘ad- mirable, though his major taients are wasted In a truthful but lackluster role. Every one of the minor characters is vividly real. Miss Dietrich’s employers are doing all they can to soft-pedal her widely proclaimed resembiance to Greta Garbo. In spite of which, someone has unwisely counseled her to try to look as much like Garbo as she can. When she is first shown, in “Morocco." the likeness is startling and altogether deceptive. But it doesn't make any difference. There is plenty of room in the movia world for Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo both—and for many more of th¢ same caliber. For Miss Dietrich sharet with her Swedish sister one quality which is rare and infinitely desirable— that is, a tendency to avoid the obvious. She is never for one instant the usual, standard, Hollywood vamp. She is su- perbly subtle. She should be heartily welcomed to the American screen. (Copyright, 1930.) Cannot Compete With Stage. ECAUSE the stage has an in-the- flesh appeal, the talking screen cannot hope to compete with musical comedies in dance ensembles, accord- ing to Laurence Schwab. Schwab, who with Frank Mandel produced such stage musical hits as “Follow Thru,” “Queen High," “Good News,” “New Moon” and “The Desert Song,” is now in Hollywood co-direct- ing the film version of “Follow Thru,” “A dance number will not en- hance the entertainment value of a screen production if it is merely an ensemble presentation, no matter how lavish or how expensive. Choruses in stage shows appeal because the girls are in the flesh. They may be singled out and watched. There is a personal appeal. “Strangely enough this feeling of reality which is ¢o remarkable in-the characters in the story part of a film, is not carried to the screen in chorus work. On screen the chorus seems far away and lacks a personal m“fi-. ' 1!:]1&\; i ml:}ltn lnmn cing 8| y s, ‘There we get the ?l.linen of reality with one or two dancers which we cannot get with a large ensemble. — o0 fhouing ‘CAPTAIN THUNDER: AWARNER BAOS.WTARONS PETURE AY FAY R VICTOR VARCONI ANDY CLYDE COMED™Y VITAPHONE VARIET Y’ McNAMES fairs of & man who falls in love with | Robert D. Chase, chairman of the |day. will present the screen can now be just as worthy broduction, | lywood by Fox early in 192! In Arizona's Desert. 8 girl who loves another man. committee in charge, will act as mas- | First hero, however, promies the girl that | ter Of ceremonies. The program will | any time she needs him he will be | include highly original “singles,” as well ready to help her. He also makes the | 8 EToup acts, by players from all parts same promise to the villain of the piece, | Of the city, many of whom bave had ‘The mixup that results is said to_make | Professional experience | an amusing and thrilling story. In or- | The McFarland Players, recently or- der to carry out his promises he is|g2nized under the direction of Ruth forced to aid the girl to marry the | Harsha McKenzie, will be seen for the villain, unmarry her, and then see that | first time as a group in a public per- she marries the man she loves. Thus |formance in “The Man in the Bowler within a short space of time she is a | Hat” and “The Man in the Stalls,” | maiden, a wife and a widow | each with an entirely different cast of Fay Wray has the leading role oppo- | Players site Victor Varconi: Charles Judels, Elizabeth M. Phillips of Clarendon, characteristic comedy role: Robert El- | Va.. will offer a program of impersona- liott is the villain, and others in the | tions: E. S. Sawyer will be heard in National-Vitaphone with Myrna Loy and Paul Page in out- standing roles. The Fox will charm its Christmas week patrons with “A Devil With Women,” in which Victor McLaglen, Mona Morris and Humphrey Bogart are expected to shine, and which will have its first showing Priday of the current week. EOR Long-Distance Kiss Record. THE longest kiss on record was regis- tered at the Radio Pictures studio cast include Natalie Moorh=ad, Don Al- varado, Robert Emmett Keane, Frank Campeau and John Sainpolis. The pic- tur: was directed by Alan Crosland. An Andy Clyde comedy, “Racket Cheers”; the Vitaphone variety, “Where ‘There’s a Will,” and the Graham Mec- | Namee Talking Reporter news reel com- plete the entertainment. PALACE—"Passion Flower.” "pASSlON OWER" is the current attraction 1t Loew’s Palace Thea- ter. Kay Francis, Kay Johnson, Chearles Bickford, Lewis Stone, Zasu Pitts, Winter Hall and Dickie Moore have leading roles. The production was directed by Wil- liam De Mille, and is based upon the novel by Kathleen Norris that has to do with the love of two sisters for one man. Allan Rogers proves his popularity by remzining for a third week and he | heads the unit “Golden Rhytnm" that | includes Buck and Bubbles and mln)“ well known Broadway performers. EARLE—Winnie Lightner and “Divorce Among Friends.” | INNIE LIGHTNER, vivacious stage | IV " and screen star, skyrocketed to| fame in “The Gold Diggers of Broad- | way,” “Hold Everything” and “The Life of the Party.” heads in person the foot- light festivities this week at Warner | Bros. Earle Theater. The screen offer- ing will be the Warner Bros.-Vitaphone | comedy, “Divorce Among Priends."” i After Miss Lightner's appearance here she will return to her New York home | for a brief vacation and the middle of | January she will return to her screen | “Harmonious Harmonica Happenings”, by Anthony Bushell and Mary Astor, Ernest F. Littleton and Edward Morric, an East Washbington team, will do a blackface act, and Charline Springsguth will appear in a classical toe dance and a tap number. Other acts will be announced after the | completion of the routine by Mr. Chase, Mrs. Yvonne Levy Kushner and Mrs Edwin Paul. | Members of the Drama Guild, mem- bers and directors of affliated groups and friends of the performers are in- | vited. Members of the Drama Guild | also are invited to “the Clinic in Make- | | up,” Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, at the Women's City Club, 22 Jackson Place northwest. Denis E. Connell, di- rector. will be in charge. playing sweethearts in “The Queen’s Husband." the world, they did it in a split second. They kissed before one of the largest mirrors ever used at the studio. Direct- Iy opposite was another mirror. Reflec- tion made them appear to be kissing for miles and miles. Applying Einstein’s theory, the end of the kiss “was at the point in infinity where two straight lines meet." A photographic record of the oscula- t'on has been made for posterity. or She had the world at her feet . . BUT she wanted a man in her arms . . . With the lead in “The Ghost Talks.” Later 9 to_play | broidery. All in all, a most unusual record. 'OSEPH SANTLEY, who “in the old | days” was one of the princes of !song and dance in musical stage pro- ductions, after rounding out more than a quarter of a century as an outstand- ing footlight favorite, has stored his | make-up box away with the avowed de- termination to confine his future ac- tiviti*s to directing pictures. | It'must be confessed that Joe doesn't look a day older or one whit less hand- way successes as “Stop, Look and | Listen,” “A Pair of Queens,” “Oh, Boy” and Irving Berlin’s “Music Box Revue.” It isn’t that he fears the camera, it's Jjust that he's happier behind it. “It's such a relief,” he says, “not to have to worry about the part in one’s hair or the crease in one’s trousers or the necessity of singing a love song | wh2n you'd much rather be home read- - Santley to Act No More. | ing & good book.” And so this former | Broadway favorite at the Pathe Studio, | where he is writing the story for Helen | Twelvetrees' next picture, delivers the ipse dixit, “I would rather direct than | act.” Since I was 3 years old I have | spent, the greater part of my life in theaters. |any other human being—work at re- | some than he did when he set femi- | sp:ctable hours, eat at respectable hours, | lthough it was the longest kiss in |nine hearts a-fluttering in such Broad- |sleep at respectable hours, | spectable hours. “Although we still have our home in Long Isiand, Ivy and I love California and the home life that being a director affords us.” Ivy, you know, is Ivy Sawyer, who shared her husband’s success on Broad- | way and in vaudeville when Joseph | Santley and Ivy Sawyer formed one '['hr stage sensation of years brought to the Screen with its Original Star... .. | of the most popular teams on the stage. Now 1 can live my life like | play at re- | IRECTOR HOWARD HIGGIN, on location at Tuba City, Ariz, for the production of Pathe’s “The Painted Des- ert,” has completed several wesks of preliminary work, including the con- struction ‘of villages, picking special Iccales and writing the continuity and dialogue on the spot. ‘With the arrival last week of Bill Boyd and Helen Twelvetrees, who head the large cast, Higgin has started the main sequences of th's outdoor special being produced by President E. B. Derr. In order to take advantage of the pic- | turesque backgrounds of the Arizona | desert country, Higgin and Tom Buck- ingham, author, went to the scene of “The Paintsd Desert” story to write their scene-by-scene continuity. Higgin, has becn responsible for the direction of some of B'll Boyd's most successful Pathe productions, in- cluding “Skyscraper” and “The Leather- neck,” is being assisted by Bert Gilroy, who has been associated with him. R-K-0 ieing, }g:pf““' ated Rom ot th Gay Mod ance e erns with Jaushte® of attention as it ever was, and the fact that it isn't 1= due either to a scarcity of first-class talents or to an inability on the part of the movie moguls to make adequate use of those talents. Pictures like “Moroceo,” “Holi- day,” “Abraham Lincoln,” "All Quiet on the Western Front.” “Men Without Women,” “The Big House” and “Her Man” have proved what can be done. The scenes of these pictures have been in dives, millionaires’ drawing DECISION > gdm the Bwo woment | %lz‘flmmfr,fieol/ur THE STAGE 62 B St NE. TR JoNanaY g Warner Bros.' . ©. TODAY AND TOMORROW—I AYRES 'In_“THE BOCRWAT 70 AVENUE GRAND to 1 T%% Y AND TOMORRO! W} ¥s i TRE CBOORWAT 10 n TO ‘cvé'fiTRBAL 9tb. 8t. Bet. D and & Conn. Ave. and b p—— TODAY, | AND, | TOMORROW.. in “CHECK AND I CHECK." Warner Bros. 1250 C Bt. N.E. TODAY., fl%flm AN OF Warner Broi " OY 14th & Col. Rd. N.W. 1ith & Park Ra. N:W. ND _TOMORROW . A MA om0 Bros. Ga. Ave, & Quebeo St. OMORROW.— “THE LIFE 105 Pa, Ave. Ph. W 083 jome of the Mirror Sereen REGIN, ENNY, RO PooNG: ANACOSTIA, D- FAIRLA MAURICE CHEV. IER in_“PLAYBOY OF PARIS. IRECTION SIDNEY LUST. 4 K near 9 HIPPODROME . MONDAY TUESDAY CTARA B R oW, WEDDING ICHMOND ALEZANDRIA, Warne YORK TRRMTRER PARTY."” NITE. VA, ONDAY-* AY MARIE D ER. “MIN JEANETTE MacDONALD REGINALD DENNY, MARJORIE WHITE & WARREN HYMER work at the Warner Bros. studios. The spirited red-headed comedienne ‘will sing here her inimitable songs and offer a rapid-fire of drolleries. Other Allan Rogers attractions on the stage program will include Dave Harris and Co., with Frankie: the Garvin sm.g:.m.m! home type. Besides, the wife's feminine friends are always trying to make love to_the husband. Irene Delroy a) rs as the wife, James Hall as the husband, Natalie Moorhead as the friend and Lew Cody as the always intoxicated friend of the family. “The Hollywood Theme Song." “See ing Th “The Voice of Hollywood' Onthe Music Masters. Ron & John Hix’s “Strange Stage Fanchon &Marco’s SEEING DOUBLE IDEA featuring C. & C. Stroud . .. Marty White . . . Martin Twins other Sets . . . Brusiloff and the Fox " Don at the Organ As It Seems” [ . ¢ HER F:&'MESS’ w HILLIPS HOLMES FRANCIS DADE Now Playing HOPKINS Star of Broadway's Stage Hit, “Lysistrata” “GOLDEN RHYTHM” BUCK & BUBBLES & Other Big Loew Acts D EW/S DUMBARTON " isatinAve ;Y%g%nggmm Y l" Cartoon. News.