Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 59

AMUSE Photoplay Attractions EARLE—Ann Suter and “Going Wild.” HIS week, at Warner’s Earle The- ater, Ann Suter, 'S -own comedienne, tops the stage show, while Joe E. Brown, pic- tured in “Going Wild,” provides the giggles in the screen attraction, & First National-Vitaphqne picture, with Brown as a timid soul who impersonates 2 noted fyer and is forced by circum- stances to.take a plane into an aero race. The high spot comes when, fright- other pilot out of the race by his wild flying. The support- ing cast includes Laura Lee, Ona Munson, Lawrence Gray, Walter Pidg- eon and Frank Mc- ton after four suc- l.‘l.lx’\)ml hy“{:d ‘ln pe, is noted for nn Suter. her injmitable mim- jcry and comedy songs. This well known girl from Dixie has won fame with audiences around the world as few Americans ever have done. She left the States for one season only, and it was four years before she could return to an American stage. Harry Burns and company appear on the same program. Burns, former Zleg- feld comedian, provides an Italian char- acterization well known to musical com- edy lovers. He will be assisted by Helen Lockwood and Tony de Lucca. Tommy Manahan and His Six Girl Friends ap- pear in a fast presentation which in- cludes Tess Nowell, the Melvin Sisters and the Terry Sisters, Bill Talent, come- dian, and Flo Merit, songstress, with the “Thank You Girl” Maxine Doyle, as mistress of ceremonies, complete the rogram. The Earle Orchestra, under ;‘red Clark, the Earle News and the usual short subjects are included in the entertainment. S—“Madonna of the treets.” R-K-0 KBITI;' " M adapted from the story, “The Ragged Messenger,” by W. B. Maxwell, now at R-K-O Keith’s, is a Columbia release which features Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames and Josephine Dunn. “Madonna of the Streets” presents Evelyn Brent in an extremely interest- ing characterization in the story of an unserupulous woman who went to every extreme to_satisfy her own selfish de- sires and her phenomenal change in character and outlook on life when she falls in love with a man whose every thought, deed and action is noble. It is pictured against the varying back- unds of the Barbary water front, a uxurious San Prancisco dwelling and & modest California country dwelling. Evelyn Brent is considered an ideal ehoice for her role. Robert Ames plays the leading male role. Ames has played leads opposite Screendom’s most famous woman stars. John Robertson, an out- standing director, handled the produc- tion. Short subjects round out. RIALTO—"“The Storm.” ‘Universal screen version of Lang- don mrml‘;_kh': éw(zd p}&yt m?t some_years 8go, * torm,” featur- ing Lupe Velez as the little Prench Canadian girl of the dramatic story, by Paul Cavanaugh Boyd, is the week's attractios suj ADONNA OF THE STREETS,” n cast Pierette. The Universal News Reel, with McNamee the news; a screen comedy, and Otto F. Beck at the organ supply added fea- tures. FOX—"A Devil With Women.” nts_Victor McLagi With Women,” with Mona Maris, and | to MENTS. Mona Rico and Humphrey Bogar.. In “A Devil With Women,” M len continues the woman chase which started in “What Price Glory” and con- tinued through “The Cockeyed World.” The scenes take place in Central America, where McLaglen as a soldier of fortune is a general in the army and the idol of the populace. Humphrey Bogart, the “Steve” of “Up the River” the affairs of the heart. Another screen feature will be the interesting and exciting three-reel subject depicting the voyage of Penn- sylvania’s Governor-elect, Gifford Pin- chot; Mrs. Pinchot and their son “Giffy” to the South Seas. This picture was made under the auspices of the Na- tional Museum at Washington and the Philadelphia Academy of Arts and Sciences. Subjects rarely photographed, including battles with giant man- eat! sharks and other surprises are found in this picture, The screen pro- gram is rounded out by the Fox Movie- tone News. # The stage show is the Fanchon and marked by a breath-taking finale, with four ponies with fair riders partici- pating in an exciting race. The head- line act in the “Country Club” Idea is Masters and Grayce. Others are Mc- Grath and Deeds, Ray Samuels, Leonera Cori, Frank Elmber and a bevy of Sunkist Beauties. Leon Brusiloff and the Fox Music g;.sm:d%floy a Chrlstgu overture, and n al n, organists, have a pleasin; Yuletide novelty. P PALACE—"“Along Came Youth.” THE adventures of a young American sportsman, broke in London, is the theme upon which “Along Came Yout] Buddy Rogers’ latest starring vehicle, at Loew's Palace, is based. Buddy finds many close calls when he carries a sign for a tailor shop during the day and makes love to London heiresses in the evenings. Stuart Erwin, Frances Dee, William Austin and Betty Boyd have prominent supporting roles in the production, which is based on the novel “Molinoff,” by Maurice Bedell. George Marion, jr., adapted the piece for the screen with Lloyd Corrigan and Norman McLeod directing. On the stage. Allan Rogers enters his fourth week as master of cere- monies, and heads a show titled “Knick Knacks” which includes in its program the Trado Twins, Coscia and Verdi, Phyllis Rae, the Ambassador Octette, the Chester Hale Girls and the Palace Syncopators. Harry Borjes has made a special arrangement of Christmas music to serve as an overture. METROPOLITAN—“The Naughty **NJAUGHTY FLIRT,” a First Na- tional-Vitaphone picture of gay debutantes and frisky boy friends, is the attraction this week at Warner Bros.' Metropolitan Theater and until ‘Thursday night of next week. The story concerns a wealthy debu- tante who has both the money and leisure to indulge her every whim. Men in general are her particular hobby until she meets a young attorney who doesn’t reciprocate.” She then embarks upon a series of with the avowed purpose of her attorney the altar. Myrna Loy has a leading role and “the hero” is portrayed by Paul Page. Others include Douglas Gilmore, Robert Agnew, George Irving, Marilyn Morgan and Thelma Hill. A Bert Roach comedy, “Expensive Kisses”; a new Looney Tune, a Vita- phone Variety, “The Guest of Honor,” and the Graham McNamee Talking News Reporter complete the bill of en- tertainment. COLUMBIA—*Abraham Lincoln.” ON February 12,1909, & boy is born to Tom and Nancy Lincoln in a during . The boy Abraham. It is really here that the story of Abraham Lincoln begins, not during the trying days of '61, when he was the at- tention of the whole world. Lincoln as 2 won who loved and who fought with all the zest of his soul is the nating theme of D. W. Griffith’s pro- duction, now at Loew's Columbia ‘Theater. ‘Walter Huston has the title role in ; production, which is hailed from corner of a one-room log cabin storm. America's P! lere , Merkel supplies the heart interest Ann Ruf , Stephen Vincent Benet, author of “John Brown's Body,” wrote the story from which the picture has been adapt- ed. Gerrit Lloyd is responsible for the “vehicle from a story into a screen a 5 Ann Harding’s Romance. 'ANN HARDING, one of the leading luminaries of the New York stage, ‘who also bids hlrmw be :l‘ equally sen- the on them. Miss Harding read the books in the eveni) and remained after working hours in her office at the Metropolitan Life Buflding to type her synopses. These she returned from time to time to the film organization during her riods. Her strenuous mode of . lving left little time for fun. Miss Harding then heard of the Lit- tle Theater movement operating under the name of the Provincetown Players. She sensed an opportunity for the sort of companionship for which she hup- 80 one evening Ann eliminated redding of her usual book and jour- neyed to the Provincetown playhouse. She wanted only an opportunity to carry a spear or walk on the stage to announce to my lord that “His carriage waited without.” Instead she found herself immediately selected for the feminine lead of the next play the Lit- tle Theater was to produce, for which her delicate features, wistful youth and long, ash-blonde hair happened to make her the ideal type. Two weeks later she ted an offer to become a perma- nent member of the Provincetown Play- ers at a salary of $35 per week, which exceeded her total earnings from her two former occupations. Miss Harding remained with the Provincetown Players until their sea- son closed. Then, after a_venture in “Like a King,” a play that flopped, she accepted an offer and went to play in . | stock in Detroit until a better job pre- edgerow sented itself at the H ‘Theater in Philadelphia, under the - ment of Ju'%er Deeter, formerly with wn Players. The actress speaks with enthusiasm of the tutelage of Deeter and the part he played in her role season. epeal “Stolen Fruit,” and after a Summer with stock in Detroit she came back to Broadway to play the title role in “The Woman Disputed,” and: then followed her sensational triumph in “The Trial of Mary Dugan.” Meanwhile she had married Harry Bannister, and when he was sent with “Strange Interlude” to the West Coast she preceded him to California to es- tablish a home for the run of the play. She had already made plans for her return to nase work within a few months when five motion picture com- panies began bidding for her services, and Miss Harding agreed to play the lead in “Paris Bound.” She then signed a contract with Pathe for several pic- tures, among them “Her Private fair” and “Holiday,” which served to ular admiration of her fame, proves to be his main obstacle in | CI Marco “Country Club” Idea, which is] THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©C, DECEMBER 21, 1930—PART FOUR. kK OF UECEMBER 21 Tuesday Wednesday Tharsday Friday Saturday Joe_ E. Brown n “Going Wild.” Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Ambassador 18th & Columbia R4, Joe E. Brown In “Going Wild."” Vitaphone variety. Grace_Moore “A Lady's Morals.” Vitaphone variety. Eddie_Cantor . ““Whoopee. Vitaphone variety. Eddie Cantor in THig Money. Eddie, quillan in Vitaphone variety. % Lew Aytes in ““The Doorway to Vitaphone ‘variety. Apollo Helen Twelvetrees n Hell. ‘Her Man." Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. n Twelvetrees Marilyn Miller n oy - “gunny.” Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Marilyn Miller Bert Lytell in ; B “Last of the Lone “Sunny. Vitaphone variety. Comeds. Dark. Kenneth Harlan n Marie Dressler in “Under Montana Hfites Sisters.” Skcies”” - Mary Pickford and Helen_Twelvetrees in Douglas “airbanks in “Her Man.” “Taming of the Shrew.” _Serial. Betty Comoson in “Czar of Broandway." mashinrd P ix 1 “Shootin' Skraight.” Bpencer Tracy n “Up the River.” Comedy. Amos and Andy in Helen T “Check h‘nfl ‘poublu Wi ;r"“m' “Her Man." eck. Cartoon. Vitaphone variety. Charles Bickford in “River's End.” Comedy. Helen Twelvetrees John Mack rown in “Billy the Kid." Vitaphone variety. Ben Lyon in “A Soldier's Play- thing.” Vitaphone variety. Charles Bickford n “River's End.” Vitaphone variety. Charles Bickford in “River's End." Vitaphone variety. Warner Baxter n “Renegade: Vitaphone variety. Eddie Cantor n ““Whoopee. Vitaphone variety. Joe Frisco Lila Lee in “The Gorilla. Comedy. Eddie Cantor in ““Whoopee." Vitaphone vatiety. Dark. rles Furrell and c.“;lng Hobart, in Doug. Fairbanks, Jr. and Anits Page in % 4 “Litile Accident.” Comedy., News. Comedy. _Gartoon. Doug.” Fairbanks, Jr.. and’ Anita Page in “Littl medy. _Cartoon. Nancy Carroll and Prederick March in y. o Betty Compson in “"Outside the Law.” Comeds. Sportlight. Tom Tyler in_ *‘Near th:’k-lnmw'l | Capitol Capitol Hts., Md. Robert Armstrong in Allan_Hale and Allan Hal Dark. “Sailor's Hollda: ‘Serlal.” Cartoo on. nce Bennett in “Sin Takes Holiday." medy. Song_roveity. Dark. Phillip Holmes and on in Carolina Uth & N.C. Ave. 8.E. Chatles Bickford and Onarl Klflu!{n'rflml R es_Bickford and aquel Torres Ro % . {Ronald Colman iy “Sea_God."” lidog Drummond.” nd “The Devil's Pit." in e o T ol or “Half mm"-fsur?- sty Hse. % “The Aviator.” d Warner Baxter - in “‘Renegads Central 425 9th St. N.W. El Brendel Warner Baxter in “Just Imagine.” Comedy. n “Renegades.” Vallace Beery snd Marie Dre “Min and BUlL” vitaphone variety. T Brendel n “Just Imagine.” ‘Comedy. Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in “Min and Bill." Vitaphone variety. John Gilbert, Vitaphone variety. George Bancroft. Jessie Royce Landis and william Boyd in “Derelict."” Circle o and W berelict. Vitaphone variety. orge Bancroft, ipencer Tracy, and aire Luce William Gollier in “'Up_the River.” Robt. Montgomery. Dorgtiy Jordan an u “Love i the Rough.” Bpencer Tracy. Glaire Luce snd William Collier in “Up_the River. Walter Huston, Kay Francis and enreth ““The_Virtuous Sin. ‘Wallace Beery and Polly Moran in ‘“Way for_a_Sailor." 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. Helen Telveires Colony I e 5 Vitaphone variety. Helen. Tyeivetrees “The Cat Creeps.” Vitaphone variety. Helen Twelvetrees n Helen Telvet: in ““The Cat Creeps. Vitaphone variety. ndal e in “The Big Trail.” Vitaphone variety. El Brendel and Marguerite Churchill in “The Big Trail.” Vitaphone variety. Edmurd Lowe n “Scotland Yard.” Comedy. Ga. Ave. & Farragut Dumbarton John_Barrymore and John Joan nett g Charles 1) Fetene “Favior joan Bennett in n “Lilliom.” “Moby Dick.” Trene Delroy and ‘Towell Sherman in - “Oh, Sailor, Behave. Ann Harding and Edward E. Horton in “Holiday.” Trene Rich and nnymm? Hackett in “On_Your Back." 1343 Wisconsin Ave. Fairlawn in “‘Moby_Dick.” Ror Towell Sherman and e Marion Nixon in “Raffles.’ ““The Payofl.” Comedy. Joe Cook Joe ook o “Raip cr Shine.” P21 oimeds., n “Rain or Shine.” Comedy. Bpencer Tracy and ‘arren Hymer in “Jp the River.” Comeds. Anacostia, D.C. A e ‘White in ind.” Family o rath: i A Comedy. i Milton 8ills a1 hy Mackaill in n Trouble.” ton _Si! d oS Wacketle in Do ‘Trouble.” Comedy. _Cartoon. Ton Chaney “Unholy Three.” Comedy. _Cartoon. Oharies Farrell and inbart, in Lon Chaney in, “Unholy Three. Comedy. _Carts Comedy. _Cartoon. Richard Barth 8th & G Sts. S.E. Hippodrome ddy Rogers and ancy Carroll in Keaton B i ehboya.” Comedy. Cs: rtoon. Amos and Andy in Dixie Lee ALiieer Uy an Smile." Comedy. Act. and ke 1 el in “Dawn Patrol. Comedy. ‘Act. Warner Baxter “Dawn Patrol. Comed: Act. Amos and Andy in 808 K St. N.W. Helen Tyelvetrees in “The Cat Creeps.” Comedy. Helen Twelvetrees Robt. Montgomery in “Love in the Rough.” n “The Cat Creeps.” Comeay. Vitaphone variety. Robt. Montgomery n “Love in the Rough.” Vitaphone variet: “Check and Double Check.” Vitaphone variety. “Check and Double in @ “Renegades.” i ety. ec! Vitaphone variety. 13th & © Sts. N.E. Dark. Kenneth MeKenn Conrad Nagel in “Numbered Men.” Comedy. News. Temple Towe) Marion Nixon in “College Lovers.” Serial. al. Comedy. Marion Nixo: Jac 1t and “Col Ralph Graves in “Hell's Island." Comedy. Fabie. _ Helen Twelvetrees Nangy Oarroll in “Laughter.” Talkartoon. Comedy. News. Bpencer Tracy and Claire Luce in, p the River. Comedy. Stanley Smith 1n Vitaphons variety Cartoon. ““The Escs Sl Sertal. " Comedy. nce Bennett & and “Chester Conklin in_"8wing High." Serial. _New: $100_18th_st. me. Laurel Dark. Laurel, Md. medy. : Cha Trell and el "' Wote Hobar, in he | Leader “Love Amo: ‘Millionai edy. Seri Clara Bow in “per Wedding Night.” ‘Comedy. Liberty A ) Mary eml']'e'gnum.:fil ) ang TRl Y Co Ca N “Ingagl.” St aies & Koliaay. Sertal. Comeds. .oan": Rathbone in Comedy. Sportlight. 1 *Lilliom. Comedy. n Richard Atlen and Fay Wray in Serlal. Comedy. News. ‘Act. Dark. Dark. “In Old Arizons.” Cartoon. Dark. 1419 N. Capitol 8t this William Powell 1n . d of shadog et the Law. Clara Bow in “Her Wedding Night.” Comedy. News. t May “Strange as It May m. Cartoon. Gary_Coover and Gaithersburs, Md. Palace thers in, Nl Crackers.” ‘Comedy. Ne T pson_and R ven BFerman in, “Midnight Mystery. Comedy. Cartoon. . Lowel “Mid o Mulhail i1 Jack Oskie in a5e Ringu,? LS Go Native.” Comedy. Cartoon. Comedy. Fay Wray in “The Texan.” Comedy. _Cartoon. Cartoon. Bebe Daniels. 307_9th st. Princess Myyrice Chevall in ‘Bebe Daniels. oLt Vst ia asboy of Pa “Dixiana.’ and Ken Murrs; nn Josephine Mayrice Chevall ne it “Leathernecking.” - Bob Steele in Regingld Denny fn m Satan.” “Oklahoma Oycione.” 119 B 8t. N.E. Richmond Dark. I Gulet on e ‘. i Cstern, Front.” Avre! Az o ‘Act. _Comedy. s in A Setpfn it m_ Pront. Vet: comedy. Av] 1 Joe E. Brown in Vet "oomeds. Gartoon. Joo E. Brown in Joe Cook in Vitaphons act “Thiebons aet. Garioon." " News. Alexandris, V8. Savoy 3080 _14th St. N.W. Seco d Lowe in, «Eon4 “tntentions.” y. Vitaphone variety. Dark. Edmund Lowe in, Edmund entions.” Ramon Novarro in «~Gail of the Flesh."” Ben Lyon In “A Soldler's Plal thins Variety. Comedy. Bessie Tove in “Good News.” Winnie Lightner in “The Life of the Hoot Gibson in “Concentratin’ Kid."” vi arty. Variety. Sportlight. itaphone variety. Comedsy. Paul Whiteman The Love Trader.” Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Teatrice Joy e Onggles Bickiord,, ‘Short_subjects. = enneth Harlan in K Bhder Montana Rex lum . “3 d Skies.’ T rbyects: Short_ subjects. jort_subjects. Silver Sprinz, Md. State Dark. "Ohn :{ogflm.{g “iOn, Ssilor, Behave.” Olsen and Johnson in ril Maude, in Closed. ol Mases . Betty Compson in “The Kine'of Jazz” Rowss Serial. Richard A7 in iSgnta Fe Tral “Bittfns Swido Buck Jones in Constance Bennett in “Three Faces East.” Bethesds, Md. Sylvan 108 B. L sve. n.w. Tivoli 14th & Park R4. e t - it o 5 elen Twelvetrees 11 H"Th! Cat Creeps.’ Comedy. Vitaphone variety. OB Helen “The acy and T, Throlttes 1o 5 m Cori ith and Ke Harlan in G Fithers, i “Montana Skies.” 3 g Ve molds_in News. “Borrowed Wives.” Variety. Stanley Smith in “Boup to Nuts.” to N “Men’ Wiihout Law.” Berial. ews. rise’ hoy ! News elvetrees in "Cat Creeps. yn Brent in wFe Bilver Horde.” Comedy. vitaphone variety. lyn Brent in wefoe Bilver Horde.” Comedy. Vitaphone variety. El Brendel in “Just Imagine.” Richard Cromwell “Tol'sble David.” Comedy. rendel in H B “Just Imagine.” Comedy. Vitaphone varlety. sgrouR R Ann_ Harding n -~ { the Golden Girl of the, lier fn Maurice Chevalier in Ml o Baris. " | “Playboy of Paris.” 08 and Andy in Marion Nixon 1 MGotlege Lovers.” Ken Maynard in “Song_of Caballero.” Bert Lytell in Maurice Chevalier in “Playboy of Paris.” Amos and Andy in HENRY FONDA, Who plays the part of Tom Ganty in the Junior Theater’s production of “The Prince and the Pauper,” Monday after- noon, December 22, at the Theater. Joe Brown a Ball Clown. 'OE E. BROWN, picture star of “Go- not only talking screen known comics of the stage, but Joe has talents. He is an accomplished acrobat. His first stage work was as & boy acrobat in a small and very badly paid troupe. From that he went into base ball and for some years was a semi-pro and town, Toledo, Ohio. Eventually he landed with the St. Paul club of the American Association. 4 His clowning, as well as his ball play- ing proved quite an attraction and for that reason was signed by the New York Yankees. Later he returned to the stage and for years was in vaudeville, appearing in such musical comedies as “Listen d_“Twinkle Warner_Baxter in Gharles_Bicklord End” Laemmle “To the German people: «Will you listen to my side of the ? the first place, I yleld to 1o one love to the fatherland. The fact ik to America as s boy, and ture in America, has never | tion for one moment, caused any_ cessation cflrwlo"mrfhehndo(mybm. ‘Therefore, nations e mined to extend the good his book by making & motion picture 1 d“r'{-u one in Germany, I believe, can ever know how much good the glcture has done for Germany as a n. It completely changed the mental pic- ture of other peoples; it was revolu- tionary in that respect. nations suddenly re were two sides to the story. So I made the picture. “The picture follows the book faith- it tells the plain and horrid truth sbout war; it strips war of its lory and shows the horrid fessional ball player around his home | real year, is further Warner Baxter in ‘Renegade: Vitaphone Explains. yourself and not on the misrept ot o Y o ks ot a1 T ciaim a0 no for ni::om;u w’l’thdrlw it from exhibi- tion o Am “Check and Double Check.” Vitaphone variety. P Contract Writers at Work. \VE stories are in preparation at the Radio Pictures studio at this time, “with eleven contract writers at '::dlo' according to reports from the With the g of Ralph Spence to new wril con- Pictures is embarl on period of story construc. . Miss Murfin’s contract was re- newed, making this her third year. Dur- the t two years she has com- has been signed for an ad- to a ult t{:r production within the next six play is not anti-Geman, because this dlfnmed Academy would never lend it~ self in any way to an insult to Germany or_Germans. I ask to_judge the picture for R-K-O KEITH'S NOW PLAYING A Dramatic Thunderbolt STARTING CHRISTMAS DAY The Kings of Hokum BERT ROBT. WHEELER and WOOLSEY in LINE AND SINKER A Radio Pisture HOOK, l FRANCES DEE WILLIAM AUSTIN )l 1 A CHEST HAL FALRTE", ing the pas leted eight scripts, with numerous col- Faborations o “Check and Double Check."” i Vitaphone Variety. Comedy. Title Hides a Good Story. SNRY twists and surprise punches most unusual are disclosed in “Naughty Flirt,” the picture at the Metropolitan this week. The story concerns. a rich girl who has-a fine time at the expense of mas- culine hearts. She isn’t fooled a bit by knowing that all ‘men are after her money. Paul Page, the hero, however, meets her in night court, where she is hauled up with a gay party of society friends for wrecking a fashionable cafe and dis- turbing the peace. The hero is a very straight-laced young attorney, and_ in the employ of the heroine’s father! For the latter reason the heroine thinks she has a “cinch,” but he refuses to jump any hoops. He soon celebrates their acquaintance by forcibly taking her home and pre- “Last of the Lone you gu careful in your guessing, for the hero is a real he man. . Bobbie Studies the Stars. “I CONSIDER myself very fortunate,” says Robert Ames, “to have had the opportunity to play with four such ex- tremely talented as Vilma Banky, Gloria Swanson, Ann Harding and now CE SYNC Evelyn Brent in the last four pictures i ] OFATORS AMUSEMENTS. N the old days of the silent drama it was said frequently and truth- fully that the best movie were children and animals. possessed which makes for naturalism, the lessness that is the highest form of art. Children and animals didn't know that they were acting. They were never bothered by the presence of a camera. No one could persuade them that the little machine on three sticks contained the eyes of countless millions of people. ‘With the advent of talking pictures, seemed that this condition must end. It was no trick at all for a tiny tot, or a fox terrier, or a horse, to pealing and win the audience’s sym- pathy. But it is not so easy to memo- rize and recite lines of dialogue written by famous and high-priced playwrights. In the case of the animals, this obstacle has been an insuperable one, and some of the biggest stars—Rin Tin Tin, Rex the Wild Horse and the Selig toothless lions—have been forced into reluctant retirement. (It is true that the Selig lions found employment in “Ingagi,” but that was only a temporary job.) The children, however, appear to be unterrified by the difficulties of dia- logue. . In “Tom Sawyer” a large num- ber of them demonstrate that they can deliver their lines with sureness, with conviction and with an astonishingly acute sense of timing. In this respect they are far more skillful than are most of the so-called adults of H 5 in “Tom Sawyer.” accurate to describe any one of as & child phenomenon, as they are all old troupers with plenty of stage experience behind them. So their com- petence is not entirely unexpected. But there is one small boy named Jackie Sear] in the cast whose_ talent is solutely extraordinary. I don't recall ever having seen or heard of Master Sear]l before, but I cdn't wait to see him again. There is hardly an actor in Hollywood today who couldn’t fit by close study of this boy's performance and the alertness which he picks up his cues. Perhaps a goodly share of the credit for Jackie Searl's excellence, as well as the charming quality of “Tom Saw- yer” as a whole, is attributable to that able director, John Cromwell. * K K K SPEAKING of talented children, there is always Ed Wynn. His first ap- rance on the vocal screen in “Fol- ow the Leader” has turned out to be a delightfully happy event. Ed Wynn is the ultimate among stage comedians. He is the exact of a wisecracker; indeed, he glories in the dullness and pointlessness of the actors | the ‘Th PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK ||| The Moving Picture cAlbum | By liobm E. Sherwood. as are the sharp gags as Groucho Marks or reason that they is the sublimation of humor. and chorus girls and concentrate Ed Wynn. He demonstrates his vai inventions (inclu " " to protect thdelflml ap- | lai e are er” when the old roars of out from the audience—th full-bodied roars that haven't heard often enough in movie in recent years. I hope Ed Wynn go on making pictures, for I that he can bring to the screen thing which at this time it needs—the perfect foolery. * K k% HEN “All Quiet on the Pront” appeared first as and then as a picture and carried enlightening message to uncounted lions of le throughout the many wm;u souls expressed happy opinion that Erich Maria Re- marque had fashioned a mighty on against war. It seemed un that mankind could read and see *“. det,” “Journey’s End,” “What At E‘i?{fé Itl?ilnm‘]lm'thnt) souls (including myself) were deal too a force for the guarantee of 4 peace, “All Quiet on the Western Front”, may turn out to be a vital -factor in- promoting the-next war. A The sho of the film in Berlin oodshed, the opposing oog | political with | 85 Jjokes that he tells. His funniest lines (like “Ask me " and “I who, Prank, love the woods”) aren't worth quoting, (Copyright. 1030.) Christmas in Hollywood. HOLLYWOOD will enjoy a modern- istic Christmas this year. at work, living in phere of planes, angl of which have left an ine- in fa- decided vor of a Christmas tree to be made I have made—‘A to Love’ Trespasser,’ ‘Holiday’ and ‘Madonna of Trick Photography! CLARABOWNMI&'&.M of a magnificent Rolls Royce—at| least, so the story goes. She was about to drive out of the garage opposite the Paramount New York studios for a scene in her new picture, “No Limit.” In front of the car, in‘the door- 5 was to diffuse :ltl:rm sunlight that fell upon the As Clara was about to start her car one of the bystanders was heard to ay: %It she does that trick T11 hat! g ‘Does what?” asked another of the wd of onlookers. “Makes that big through that little hoo:aw i CAROLINA_ BH&E Sifeckk GOD.” BEBE DANIELS. WHEELER SEY in “DIXIAN; A O AMBASSADOR m“'l.."-‘-.:. TQDAY AND TOM! BROWN in “GOING Warner Bros.” 4 B 5. NE TODAY AND TOMORROW-—LEW A in “THE DOORWAY TO Warner Bros.” AVALON .Gt 'v TODAY- Warner Bros.’ 0. “or fllh Ave, TODAY AND BICKFORD in X Warner Bros." b St Bet. D and B COLONY G ve & Feersens ot TR VA TRES T EE AR HOME ™ 10 o st w2 Y in ou 14th & Park Rd. NW. A ;oii“; BTgs. Ave. & Quebes 80, N.W..