Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 53

MUSEMENTS FOX—“A Connecticut Yankee.” HIVALROUS days and hilarious knights provide the background for “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,” Will Rogers' latest starring picture, now at the Fox. Written by Mark ‘Twain, and bristling with his own in- genious humor in a travesty on King Arthur's time, this new talk'e version ‘props.” In a sense, the story brackets the twenticth cen- tury with a period 1,400 years earlier, of the present day. Ruoxzrs‘ a undio salesman, gets mix- % o b Wi arank Will Rogers. inventor's scheme to recapture historic events of the past, and before he knsws it finds himself strutting through King Arthur's court, with all its panoply of glamour and self-conscious dignity. Re- fusing to take all this court atmosphere seriously, he ingratiates himself with the King by doing some good American tricks, awes them with his patent ciga- rette lighter, strikes them withfear when he apparently brings on an eclipse of the | sun and then, when the King has made him bcss of the palace, he proceeds to turn everything upside cown by lassoing the prime minister in open tournament and turning the palace gardens int> modern American machine shops capa- ble of turning out anything from saxo- | phones to filvvers. It's all done with a high sense of hu- mor, and the result is both exciting and funny. Willlam Farnum, staging a r¢ comel ; Myma Loy, Maureen O'Sul- livan and Frank Albertson are in the m%pvrtlnl cast. David Butler directed. n the stage is Panchon and Marco's “Seasons” idea, an extravaganza dealing with climatic subjects, and thought to different from other things seen on 'F” street during the past year. Bril- liant backgrounds, dazzling costumes, the glow of colorful lighting effects and the magic of beauty in motion all com- bine to depict the four seasons with harmony to eye and ear. production ures Frank Melino and Company, including Harriette Powell and Alfred Melino; Lottie Loder, Ada Broadbent, Russell and Marcons, and the Mack Bissett Dancers. RIALTO—“Gentleman’s Fate.” 'OHN GILBERT is said to attain a new eminence in his new Metro- Geoldwyn-Mayer picture, “Gentleman’s Fate,” at the Riaito Theater this week, returning to the romantic and dramatic type of role of former successes. int of characterization and Lella | the Jovable traits of the everyday boy, cut the program. “y EARLE—“June Moon.” UNE MOON,” a comedy romance {rom the famous stage play, is the screen attraction at Warner's than miles per hour allowed by the speed laws. Jack Oakie, the star, is aided by Frances Dee, a newcomer; 1|an unusual number of the Army, Navy | | role. |the current first-run attraction at ‘The story concerns a song writer who tries to gain reccgnition on Broadway, and about all he gains is knowledge of the latest forms of gold-digging. The stage show is headed by Dora Maughan, “The Bad, Bad Woman,” who presents a cycle of songs. The Honor- able Mr. Wu and his Chinese Collegians in an American and Native Revue; the Five Maxellcs, novelty entertainers, and Maxine Doyle, mistress of ceremonies, complete the stage show, and the Earle Orchestral Prelude, Fred Clark, direct- ing; the Looney Tune Cartoon and the Graham McNamee Talking Newsreel round out-the program. R-K-O-KEITH'S—“Cracked Nuts.” T R-K-O-Keith's Theater this week Bert Wheeler and Robert ‘Woolsey, reigning monarchs of mirth, hold forth in Radio Pictures’ latest laugh provoker, “Cracked Nuts.” In addition to Dorothy Lee, the cast includes Edna Mae Olivér, Leni Stengel, Stanley Fields, Harvey Clark and Boris Karloff. With a setting befitting a comic opera, a story with sustained appeal, a hectic medley of comic situations and catch lines keeps the audience laugh- ing and provides excellent entertain- ment. It concerns an imaginary king- dom where the life of the reigning monarch is brief but merry, where rev- olutions flourish and royal executioners impatiently await their chance, two ciack-brained Americans with a couple of pretty girls to inject the necessary touch of romance, hold forth as two rival kings amid thrilling episodes where airplane bombs are dropped by a cross- | eved aviator. The feature is supplemented with Aesop’s Fables, the fifth of Johnny Far- |rell's golf series, the current Pathe News, a Vagabond travel seties, “Thom the Unknown” and Willlam R. Bishop's organ special. A benefit for the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ Club will run all ths week and | and Marine Corps contingent are ex- pected at all performances. COLUMBIA—“Unfaithful.” UTH CHATTERTON'S latest picture for Paramount, “Unfaithful,” is the current screen offering at Loew's Columbia Theater. “Unfaithful” is the story of a woman ‘who finds her life hopelessly entangled with the life of her brother, whose wife is engaged in an affair with another man. Miss Chatterton, as the sister, attempts to put an end to the intrigue and in so doing finds herself also com- promised. Paul Lukas plays the leading male role, with Paul Cavanaugh, Emily Fitz- roy, Juliette Compton and Donald Cook in"the more important supporting roles. A selected group of short subjects com- pletes the Columbia program. PALACE—"Skippy.” «QKIPPY,” the screen offering this week Loew's Palace Theater, is Percy Crosby’'s comic strip “brought m; with Jackie Cooper in the title Robert Cocgan, Jackie Searl, Mitzi Green and Enid Bennett are also | in the cast. The story, while performed by juve- niles, is one that also has an appeal for adults, for Skippy is the son of any typical American family. He has all with a particular ability of getting into trouble. On the Palace stage Al Wohlman will head » revue titled “Nifties of 1931,” which contains no less than eight Loew acts and is one of the pretentious shows of the day. Felvols, John and Mary Jennings, Norma and James, Cecil Blaire, Pred Sanborn, Warren and Harriman, Hite Cas®v and Kenny are among acts on the bill. METROPOLITAN—*“The Single Sin.” Bm‘l‘ LYTELL and Kay Johnson head the cast of “The Single Sin,” e rise to we by a former associate. The outcome is said to be interest, pathos and romance. Others in the cast are Paul Hurst, Mathew Betz, Holmes Herbert, Geneva Mitchell and several others. The story was written by A. P. Younger and the picture was directed by William Nich. ‘The Graham McNamee Talking News- reel and the Vitaphone short subject| “Lost and Found.” a comedy drama, ‘Wynne Gibscn and June MacCloy. complete the program. Collegiate. ’AHONO the personalities of the screen are many who eagerly read news of their universities, follow the athletic careers of the teams representing their alma maters and boast the title of “alumnus.” " & Gary Cooper spent two years at Grin- nell College in Iowa before he decided to become a newspaper artist. He soon gave up that career, however, for a chance in the films. Regis Toomey holds a degree from the University of Pittsburgh and often finds news of in the Sigma Chi Fra- ternity Quarterly. He began his theat- rical career in stock at the Empire The- ater in Pittsburgh during vacations, Norman Foster spent two years at Carnegie Tech before the call of jour- nalism took him from his studies and (v!l::tuflly landed him before the foot- ts. University of Wisconsin professors st’l remember the dramatic exploits of Fredric March while he was earning & degree there. He was a member of the track team and won his “W” as man- ager of the grid team. March also served as president of the senior class and was among those in the senior honorary society, Haresfoot: Beta Gam- ma Sigma and Alpha Delta Phi. ‘While the collegiate list includes many | ment of the hope to become an actor. Phillips University of Chicago when & vacation in Hollywood provided an_ opportunity for her on the screen, and June McCloy, who had been at the University of Mich- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 19, 1931—PART FOUR. FEK OF KR % Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Jack Oakie {n “June Moon.” Jack Oakie Jack Oakie in “June Moon.” “June M i Doulas Fairbanks in _ Douglas Faitbanks in “Reachine for the hing for the Moon. " % __Short_subject. Short_subect. “Moroceo.” S Pour Marx Bros Sportilght reel. “Animal Crackers. Chase comedy. Douglas, “Reaching ! irbanks 24 B St. NE. T the Douglas Fairbanks Helen Twelvetrees in “Reaching for the Moon." e. Vitaphone short subject. Boles and David Manners in “Bweet Mamm: Comedy. Short_subj, Grorge O'Brien In “Fair Warning.” Our Gang comedy. subject Arcade Hyattsville, Md. Mary Pickford and Reginald Denny in ‘News. Mary Pickford and Reginald Denny in “Kikl.” Comedy. ‘News._ Comedv. Charles Warrell and Elissa Landi in “Body and Comedy. Soul. Dark. Ashton Clarendon. Va. Doug. Fairbanks. Betty Compson in 1n “Outward Bound. > “Not Damaged. Marion Davies a "Ralph_ Forbes n “Bachelor_Father." d Dorothy (Sebastian n “Ladies Must Pl Leon Janney and Lewis Stone in Avalon Tt Son.” 5612 Conn. Ave. 3 Leon Janney and Lewis ‘Stone in “Father's Son." medy. Beln_Lurost “Dracula.” Vitaphone short subject. Mary Nolan and Edw. Robinson i Outiide the Law. Comedy. Act. Serial. Richard Atlen and Fay Wi Mary Astor and Ames in Comed Betty Compso Montagu Love 1 ‘Inside_the Line Serial Telen Twelve racul ilfe. Vitaphone short Vitaphone ‘short _ subject. subject. Jack He “The Lash Pa Vitaphone short subject. our Ave. Grand 645 Pa. Ave. S.E. Ann Harding in “East Lynne.” Leon Janney and Stone in “Father's Son.” Chase comedy. Ann Harding in “'East Lynne.” Janney and 15 Stone in her's Son.” Chase _comedy. Conrad Nagel “Free Love. Short_subject. Boy Friend comedy. Teor L Bernice Claire | ner Oland 11 o g rile Chan C: Wi ss Me Agai “Cha ‘Short sublect. Cartoon. Cameo Dark. Mt. Rainier, Md. o Lim ew Comedy. _News. Dorothy Mackaill & Joel McCrea in “Once s Sinner.” , Comedy. _News. Edmund ) Jeanette MacDonald in_“Don'l on Women.” Comedy. 4 0 Marle Dressler and Carolina Polly Moran n &N.C. Ave. SE. Reducing.” Grace Moore and anren?n ‘Tibbett n “New Moon.” Marie Dressier and Polly, Moran John Boles an Evelyn Layes in nly Paul Lukas and Ruth Chatterton Joe E. Brown and Winnle Lightner n it T T Joe E. Brown and Winsie Lightner alter Byron and Carmel Myers in “The Lion and ‘Central 425 9th St. N.W. n “Reducing. Waiter Byron and Carmel Myers in “The Lion and the Lamb.””Comeds. Helen Tuelvetrees in “Millie.” Vitaphone ‘short subjects. Helen Twelvetrces in Warner Oland_in e. “Charlie Chan Car- Vitaphone ‘short On. subjects. Dorothy Mackali] and Joel McCrea in «Kept Husbands Comedy. Bh't sul Warner Oland_in “Charlie Chan Car- Ties On." Comedy. & Ga Lewis Stone and Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. Greta_ Garbo, Lewis Stone and Marjorie Rambeau in_“Inspiration.” Constance Bennett. Ado'phe Menjou and Anita Page in ““The_Ea: Way.” Constance Bennett. Adoiphe Menjou and Anita Page_in “The Easiest Wa Clara Bow in “No Limit.” Clara Bow “No Limit.” Greta Garbo in ““Inspiration.” ‘Vitaphone subie Colony Ga. Ave. & Farragnt Greta Garbo “Inspiration.” Vitaphone short subject. Telen Twelvetrees in “Milliee” Vitaphone short subiect. oes in ok Helen Twelvel i n_*Tiici Vitaphone short subject. e. Vitaphene ‘short sublect. Conrad Nagel and Jeanette MacDonald . Loretta Young in nd Joe. E. Brown in “The Right of Way.” “The Lottery Bride.” Boy Frien1 comedy. _ Cartoon. Sewial Buster Keaton and Charlotte Greenwood “Parlor, Bed Room ‘and Bath.” Dumbarton 1389 Wis. Ave. N.W. Buster Keaton and ariotte Graenwood arlor. Bed Room and Bath." Billie Dove and Doug. Fairbanks, ir., ne Night at usie's.” Cons Bennett ‘and Anita Page n ““The Easiest Way." Constance Bennett and Anita P n 'he Easiest Way." Lois Moran and J. Hatold Murray n “Under Suspicion. v‘/:.'"el’ ln‘y‘mn f Kl Myers i «The Tion and the Lamb. Richard Dix Fairlawn in “Cimarron.” 5:30. 7:30. 9:30. Edmund Lowe and Una Merkle in*“Don't t on Women." Comedy. Eleh-‘r;‘-l Dix’ “Cimarron. 30. 0. Constance “The Easle Comed: Cartoon. 3. Harold Murray & Lois Moran in “Under Suspicion.” Comedy. Anacostia. D. C. Hippodrome 208 K St N.W. Home “TenCents a Dance. Vitaphore short subject Stanvyck i ] George O'Brien in “Falr_ Warning.” Comedy. Act Lowell Sherman and Marion Nixon in ay Comedy. George O Bricn “Fair_W: Neil Hamilton luu: Comedsy Act Una Merkel ‘Commend Perform- snce.” Com. Cart'n. Ronald Colman and Loretta Youne in “The Devil to Pay.” ance “Sons of the Saddle.” Comeds. Cartoo Comedv. _News. n. i t in Parsde.” short. Jack To “TenCents a Dance.” “The Last Vitaphone short Vitanhone subject subject. 13th & C Sts. Ingomar Alexandria, Va. Dark. Wally Wales and Vir-_ _Amos and Andy in ginia Brown Faire oubl *Check Doubi ect Comed. 8h't subects. Richard Dix and Irene Dunne in “Cimarron.” Ne: Jesse 18th nr. R. Laurel Laurel, Md. Leader George O'Brien and Marion_Lessing, in Beneath.” Gaithersburs, Md. Richard Irene Dunge, in Cimarr he Easies! Fable. Comedy. _Novelty. " Richard Dix and Jack Holt Irene Dunne st P ~ “Subjeet. Amos and Andy in ‘Check_and Double Check."” Com Sublects. n __“Cimarron Richard Dix and irene Dunne Ralph Forbes in eau Tdeal. Boy Friend comeds. . " T Serial. orse Bancroft in Hob Steele and “The, Derelict.” Lafe McKee rlll') Comedy. UNear the Rainbow's nd.”_Comedsy. Act. Ril Fay “Conquer Travelogue. Bernice Claire and Waiter Pidgeon in Robert Woolsey and Nancy Carroll a Phillips Holmes “Stolen Heaven. Serial. _Comedy. e Helen Twelvetrees & Neil Hamilton in “The Cat Creeps T 00k. Sinker. Lo neim and Jean Arthur in “Danger Light Comedy. _Act Vireinia_ Cherrill_in Girls Demand E; citement Comedy. Greta Garbo i nspiration Review. ok, X~ Roval Bed. Comedy. _ Act ota Garbo in Inspiration.” n "“Review. Virginia Cherrill in George Bancrof “Girls, Demand Ex citement.” Comedy. Réview. George O'Brien “The Seas Beneath. Seri; Palace 307 Sth §t. N.W. I Greek e Riga Carmi and ris Lucas in, Greta Garbo, in ‘Romance. W. Baxter in “Such e. June Collyer and Kenneth McKenna in Three Sisters. t'n. es Parrell and net Gaynor in The Man Who Came Back Princess 1119 H 8t. N.E. Charle Janet “The Man Came Back. Star cast rothy Mackaill fn “Once a Sinner. Raquel Torres n “Aloha.” Dark. Richmond Alexandria, V gavoy orothy _Mackalll 8 Joel, McCrea in by Hushands. Eomeds Bernice Claire and Bernice Claire and Walter Pidgeon i ‘Walter Pideeon in “Kiss Me Agi “Kiss Me Again c Jack Holt and Doro- thy Cummings in . Last Parade.” Act. Jack Holt and Doro- thy Cummings in “The Last Com Comedy. Tawrence Tibbett in “*The Southerner.” Comedy. t_subjects. Tence Tibbett ‘he Southerner. Comedy. ain Sh't subjects. __Com._ 8N't subjects ackaill M Biue 1 “The Flood Stort subject. Doroth and Joel McCrea in ™ Comed ept Husbands. "Comeds. onte Blue “The Flood 8hort _rubject. Comady. 3030 14th &t. N.W. Dark. xid Sally O'Nell and ¥. Montgomery Molly, G'Dey in n % avid Manners and Do Mackaill Helen Chendler ‘Once a Sinner. “Dracula.’ Damita i - ingCaravans.” News. Comedy. Gar: Lily. “Fight! News. Cooper and il & Damita_in hbone ingCaravans.” Comedy. “Rango.” Comedy. Buck Jones_in The Texas Raneer.” Short subject. and Bath Boy Friend comedy. __ Bh't subject Reginald Denny and " Bow - Fin D'Orsay in ‘Those Three F: e Fifl D'Orsay and Brent and vely Reeinald Denny in Louis_Volheim 4 ““Those Three French “The Silver Horde.” irls. Tial._News. Dark. bt. Montgomery in n Robt. Monteomery tn Robt. Montgomery I “The Easlest Way. ancy Carr N in “Stolen “Stolen Heaven.” Dorothr Peterson in Eddie Qifillan 1 “Mother's Cry. "Bl Sones. ™ Davies and Mazih Forees in «Bachelor Father.” James Hall and Trene Deiroy in_ “Divorce ¢ Priends.” Dorothy Mackail & Joel M ‘Amon: Variety. Humanette. cCrea in s Binner.” Tna Clalre and Pred- eric March in “Royal Family of Broadway.” Comedy. News. Gary Cooper and Lily Damita in “Fighting Caravans.” Comeds. Lotis Wotheim and ‘Jean Arthur in an A D Lights.” ‘omedy. Serial ai. ‘Com. New 108 R. I. Ave. N.W. _ Aesop Fable. News. Takoma Ronald Colman fn “Devil to Psy.” Richard Dix in “Cimarron.” Constance Bennett Richard Dix in o in "Easiest Way.” ““Cimarron. Marion_Davies in Constance Bennett in “Easlest Way." Takoms Park, D. C. Tivoli rk R4 Marion Davies in - “It's & Wise Child. Short_sublect. Cartdon. Tawrence Tibbett & ‘Esther Ralston in “The Boutherner. Comeds. Harold Liovd in “It’s & Wise Child." Hort t ‘Short_sundect. Vitapione s Cartoon. Subject. Harold Tioyd in Feet Pirst. Vitaphone short subject. 146h 8 York Ga. Ave. & Quebec ster Keaton in e Bed Room short subject. Youngest Cast Ever. TH.E youngest cast ever assembled for a feature-length motion picture will be presented in “Skippy,” Para- mount’s production from the famous cartoon strip by Percy L. Crosby. The juveniles are all under 10, even to the extras. Until “Skippy” began production the record for youthful acting talent in a full-length picture was held by “Tom Sawyer.” That production comprised & cast of children up to the age of 15. Many of the minor players were as Wfiggm?n," in “Skippy” all are still in the gsters grammar gcol‘::ol class. The majority of them are 6 and 7 years of age, with a o years old. Ninety-five children under the age of 10 were assembled for minor parts. m'!x'he é:npg headed by Jackie Cooper igan_a year when an offer to appear | in George White's Scandals won her| over. | Charles Rogers was about to become a haughty senior at the University of | Kansas when Paramount’s Picture School took him from a journalism | course and his fraternity brothers of Phi Kappa Psl. { Leon Errol knew nothing of collapsi- | ble knees when he spent three years at St. Joseph's College and Sydney Uni- versity, in New South Wales, Australia A degree from Dartmouth is among | the possessions of Charles Starrett. Skeets Gallagher started out to be a | civil engineer at Rose Polytechnic In-| stitute, but switched to a law course at Indiana, University before he decided upon a stage and screen career. Stuart Erwin was in the throes of a sophomore curriculum at the University of California when he left school to become an actor. Martin Burton put aside his law books at the University of Indiana when he met Ina Claire and received encourage- Holmes was a student at of the male contingent. two former co- eds have just registered their names in| motion picture-—FPrances Dee, who was | ready to begin her junior year at the Princeton when Prank Tuttle, director, came to film scenes for a college picture and gave him & . Holmes immedi- ately signed a picture contract. Twain’s Inspiration. A BULLET hole in a suit of armor standing In the British Museum furnished the idea for a world-famous literary mesterplece. Although Mark Twain never defin'te- confided to thé read'ng public how ot the idea for his popular satire, Connecticut Yank-e in King Arthur's pt,” he gave a fairlv good clue in revord. He told in it of a visit m. where, among of the past, he saw many Iy cated the s'xth jabeled the fighting cos- ‘Str Sagramor,” especially ntercsted the sightsecing American because of & bullel hole right | culminated in “A Connecticut Yankee | cver the heart. Twain's curiosity was stirred end he asked an attendant for explanation. .n”Thzt armor was worn long before the invention of gunpowder,” Twain | posite Paul Lukas in Bkippy and Robert Coogan as S0oky. .‘vickuml’:’ only 6 years old and Robert Cocgan, younger brother of Jackie Coogan, celebrated his fifth birthday last December. othlgA (l:'ndlngs child ar Mi reen, 9 years E?":.effl: bs’em. 8, and Donald 1! Haines, 9. 'All three have been in pic- tures for more than two years. Of the entire cast only one is making his film debut, Robert Coogan, aged 5. —_— Eleanor Boardman has been signed to a long-term contract by Paramecunt. | She will have the fominine lead op- “Women Love Once,” from a screen play by Zoe Atkins of the Greta Garbo in v Keaton in Do Hea *Thapiration “Parior. Bed Room and’ Ba short_subject. Conrad Nagel and Loretta Young in, “The Rich: of Way." Short subject. Joe E. Brown Jeanetie MacDonald in “The_ Lottery Bride.” Sh't sub. and i n “Fair Warning.” o T, was obviously Mark Twain's idea | 4 to contrast the customs of the Knights lof the Round Table with those of the times of his readers, when he wrote “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s | Court.” For this reason it always will lend itself to being brought up to date. “A Connecticut Yankee” was written | in 1889. Those who read it then, lived | quite a different life to those who read it today. To convey Mark Twain’s idea in the clearest and most accurate way, according to the notion of the makers of the Will Rogers film, is to substitute the most modern appliances for those | of -notazr s bmc;zur.‘:u“é fll:; Corporation Toug! story to date, once in 1920 and again this | year with Will Rogers in the title role, | in the form of a talking picture, in ! itself a modern touch. The theme of the story, of course, could never be changed, but & com- parison of the innovations introduced in the silent film and the talking pic- ture of today, form an inte) ng con- trast with the story. The first instance of modernization is the choice of occupation for the | Connecticut Yankee, Twain's Yankee | | picture, he was a wealthy man with | | an ambition to do some good in life, and in the current version, Rogers | plays the role of a radio engineer. The first Yankee was transported to the | times of King Arthur when he was hit | over the head in a fight with a fellow | worker. In the silent picture he is| | stunned by a burglar with a blow from | ASHINGTON theatergoers of two decades ago will remember Ed- w and the Mouse.” : “So This 1s London” and “Blucbeard'’s Eighth Wife” marked his last appear- ance here on the stage. Since then he has become equally weil known in pic- tures. N Edmund Breese made his first mo- tion picture in a barn, th'n known as the Lasky Studio of Hollywood. It was “The Master Mind,” and will be remem- bered by manv who went to pictures during the ecarly days. He went back sald, “and I can't understand how a knight of the sixth century could have been killed by & bullet.” The phlegmatic attendant smiled. | “Of course, we don't know, sir,” was | his explanation, “but it s supposed to have been the work of vandals in the time of Oliver Cromwell. They took the greatest delight in destroying historie relics, and it is probable that one of his soidiers saw the armor dis- r'aved in a mrscum and put a bullet ho'e_through it.” “That explanation.” remarked T “lecks con-idercble in imaz He thereupcn set about sup: 1 explanation for the bullet hole in_ the cixth century kn'ght's armor, which ain, | In King Arthur's Court.” The reading | public of 1889 and of the years that | have followed evidently has found the | celebrated humorist’s explanation en- tirely satisfactory. Actors Do Count. ACK BENNETT explodes M may be & explosion of it is per- how—real under- standing of the nuances hllnior—ll falls flat as a pancake. T don't comedy the theory why to be as one | ng an to Broadway after this, and was leading man in such successes as “The Lion and “The Invader,” “The Third " “Why Marry?” and “Strong- heart.” ‘Three ye ago he decided definitely to cast his lot in Hollywood. “All_the actors who lsughed at me when I made that first film are now in pictuzes,” the vcteran actor says. “We all were a bit ashamed of working in Hollvwood a few years ago: but it is a decided advantage these day: works of art, in which any of the old- ad to appear.” Mr. Scnnett has boen featuring | three and sometimes four com:dy pur- veyors in one picture. | Andy Clyde, Harry Gribbon and Mar- | jorie Beebe cre his favorite trio. In | “Cowcatcher’s Daughter” and “The Ghost Parace" Clyde, Gribbon and Beebe work -together for the best laugh results, and, not stopping at such ex- pensive casting, Mr. Sennett a'so in- clua{. ina and mlhf “Regardless of what tions may be added to enious inven- screen, the hove reached the stige wicre they are | nt films featuring Ed- | An Old_éctor’s Beliefs. mund Breese are “Tol'able David,” “Kis- met,” “The Painted Desert,” and “Holly- | mund Breese and his work in “The Liony g05q4 Gold Diggers.” “I have seen films develop from the | crudest attempts at entertalnment to| the finished products of today,” Breese says. “The first talking pictures made | were far better than the first silent ones, |and the perf<cting of the sound produc- | tions is going forward much more rap- |1dly than that of the silents. “We need more sophisticated stage plays made into pictures for some; such | storles as “Huckleberry Finn" and “Tom tures for others. Different elements ent day pictures as before. LOEW'S LAC N Pa E NOW PLAYING JACKIE COOPER ROBERT COCOGAN MITZI GREEN - "PERSONALITY Weey on THE STAGE AL WOHLMAN %109 onire 815 CTS wNVFTIES OF 1931" G) LOEW!'S LuMBIA NOW PLAYING | & l“-i'l'l-l _ PAUL LUKAS 'Unfaithful AL aramount ~ CLure) 5 - Brought Up to Date. was a factory mechanic; in the silents the noose by the timely arrival of the | the-minute members of the band arrive | Sawyer,” for children, and musical pic- | cannot so easily be combined in pres- | an old lance. Will Rogers makes the lightning-like trip back through the ages after being stunned by an electri- cal outburst in a gigantic and mysteri- | ous radio set. Quoting from a description of the | silent film in comperison with the book, “the only point of divergance between | the book and the fllm is where ultra- modern methods of conveyance are used—and this is done in a way that heightens the delicious fun of the story. Accordingly, we have Harry Myers, who plays the Yankee, riding forth in full armor after the siege of Queen Mary LeFay's, castle, oommn.; ably seated in a Ford car, while all | about him, fully accoutred for war, | King Arthur's Knights ride on chug: ging motor cycles.” Rogers installs a practical service station for his knights where thelr armor can be washed, ofled, polished and generally serviced, and their rivets checked. ‘The most striking instance of mod- | ernization occurs in the climax scene where the Yankee, the pretty princess, played by Maureen O'Sullivan, and King Arthur himself are saved from rescuers. Twain's rescuers came on bicycles. The silent film impressed a Ford car into service at the head of a battalion of motor cycles . Some of Rogers’ rescuers arrive in bombing planes. Others cross the moat in caterpillar tanks. The most up-to- in 174 Austin midget automobile cars.| The knights carry machine guns and sawed-off shotguns in place of the pistols of the silent picture and the story. Another change will be found in the sixth century dress of the Connecticut Yankee. In the silent film he appears before King Arthur in a tail coat, shorts in place of trousers, his garters remaining, and in a silk hat with an ostrich plume in it. Rogers is said to look every inch s knight, although there was trouble convineing him that tights should be worn in place of overalls. With the tights he wears a doublet and cape embroidered in gold lace and a velvet hat trimmed with an ostrich plume. He enjoys himself in teaching the knights to chew gum and to perform | various later day miracles unknown in the_year of 528 A.D. “TRADER HORN"” is announced as | the next attraction at Loew’s Co- lumbia, to follow Ruth s new picture, “Unfaithful.” ture recently ha tional Theater as a “road sho Harry Carey Edwina Booth are the plavers who are outstanding in A " with Dorothy Jordan and Marjorie Rambeau in sup- porting :oles. will be shown at Loew’s Edwina Booth, Palace starting the new week next Saturday. “It Pays to Advertise,” Paramount's screen version of the noted play, will be presented at the Earle Theairr begin- ning Saturday, with a cast including Norman Foster and Carole Lombard in the leading roles. “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” is sched- uled for the Metropolitan Leginning Saturday. R-K-O Keith's announces “Bachelor Apartments,” with Irene Dunne, Lowell Sherman, Mae Murray, Norman Kerry and Ivan Lebedoff in the cast, starting day ing. 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WITH STAR CAST *LOUIS WOLHEIM | . #LEILA HYAMS # ANITA PAGE #*MARIE PREVOST AMUSEMENTS The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E ANY laughable statements are made by those who acknow- ledge themselves to be shrew: analysts of the movie fan’ mind, but the most thoroughly asinine of such statements is this one: “The great clean-minded public does not wish to see displays of crime or vice, debauchery or lawiessness, on the screen. ‘The public demands sweetly sentimental stories with a hgh moral tone. ‘Whenever some imoortant film pro- ducer makes a remark like that, you may leap to the conclusion that his company is about to embark on an am- bitious program of sex or crook dramas. And when Gen. Will H. Hays'says it, as he did recently, you are safe in as- suming that the movie industry as a whole is wallowing in an orgy of un- restrained jazzmania and gang warfare. ‘The pompous tribute to the purity of the public’s mind is bunk, and those who utter it know it's bunk, and feel that by proclaiming it they can mask their true estimate of the negligible height of popular taste. ‘The most conspicuous and successful dramatists, from _Aristophanes to Shakespeare to Ben Hecat and Charles MacArthur, have been those with the most wholesome contempt for consti- tuted authority, legal and logical as well. And what has forever been true of the traditional theater is equally true of its offspring, the cinema. Dur- ing the past 10 years this established truth has increased incalculably in potency. When the average virtuous patron journeys from his modest, unexciting home and ventures to pay In h's money at a box office he hopes '.iat he will be given in return a look at the more sensational, mor: romaatic, more de- praved phases of life. The colder his own existence, the hotter must be his entertainment. If he happens 1o be law-ridden as well as emotionally starved, then he will applaud most leudly those plays or pictures which thumb their noses at the symbols of law and order. » i GEN. HAYS. has pointed out that the whole tendency of the modern movie is to make the outlaw look unim- pressive, to slay with the bludgeon of ridicule the ominous forces of crime and immorality. Perhaps this is true in the cases of such farces as * Gang Buster” and “Mr. Lemon of Orange,” but in most other cases the tendency seems to be all the other way. “The Front Page” makes no secret of the fact that the mayor and police force of a great American city are knaves and at the same time dim-wits. ‘The heroes of the piece are newspaper men with complete and devastating . Sherwood. ‘That traditionally . upright fellow, ichard Barthelmess, impersonates in ‘The Finger Points,” a reporter wlio makes a fortune by grafting on the side. In the end he pays the penalty for' his sins. He is mowed ‘the ma- chine guns of h:ho'n Dlicit associates. a one, he would have continued to live and prosper. stances: and “Skippy.” as representative in- stances of the triumph of lawlessness. “Skippy,” of course, is a children's picture and a fine one, but its hero is, from a strictly moral standpoint, no better than a juvenile Al Capone. He is furiously active in disobeying his pa; ents, attempting to gain money under false pretenses, circumventing the edicts of the board of health, making g windshields—the sort boy, in fact, that everybody loves. * k% % is no denying that the hymns of hate against all manifestations of authority are now altogether too loud on the screen. They will therefore, provoke a temporary reaction toward sweetness and light. But when the public does demand less violent vicious- ness out of Hollywood, it will be because the public has become fed up with the monotony of excessive racksteering; it will not be attributable to “the inher- ently pure taste” of the great movie audience. The first motion pictures to achieve vast popularity and to lay the founda- tions of the industry's ity were “The Birth of a Nation” and the Key- stone comedies. In the former epic a band of southerners, oppressed by the incredible perfidy of the United hands. However noble their their actions suggested nothing nor less than gang . And in the Keystone comedies the dignity of the law was subjected to & vast number of swift kicks from the toes of Charlie Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin, Mabel Normand and o“t_::‘: lovable escapers from official justice. Will H. Hays may sanctimoniously announce that, in the long run, erime on the screen does not pay—but the xnow that it maike pictures that are frankly intended to appeal to the baser impulsés scorn for everything that they should revere. in every blessed one of their patrons. (Copyright. 1991.) Miss Beatty’s Career. OW Miss Roberta Beatty of the National Players, got her stage start sounds like a fairy tale. It was like this: Before the World ‘War, Roberta had visions of great suc- cess on the concert stage. So, even in her early girlhood, having a voice, she studied voice culture for a career. In concert and op:ra meant long, hard and intensive study. Later she went abroad and studied in Paris, Ber- lin and in Italy—where a grand opera career must have its start. And when this charming young singer was getting her start on the concert stage, the war came along. Undaunted, Roberta offered her serv- ices and went abroad with the Ameri- can Red Cross. For six months she drove an ambulance in France. The war over, Miss Beatty returned to find the concert stage about gone. It came back afterward, of course, but riot as soon as it was needed for Miss Beatty. Church singing ered tem ” | to the office of Charles Dillingham, the d | famous producer, Miss Beatty waited in offe porary outlet, and she joined a professional choir in New York. One day while accompanying a friend the anteroom, where most of the good singers and dancers wait, until called by the impresario. A girl from the inner office came, looked over the candidates, and asked: “Are you looking for work?"” “No,” replied Miss Beatty, explaining that she had accompanied a friend who was in quest of a job. p ?"” she her she not. A bit later & woman walked through the door and introduced herself. It was Anne Caldwell, who had written more books and lyrics than Broadway had theaters. “Are you in quest of stage work?” asked Miss Caldwell? “No,” said Miss Beatty. Miss Caldweil became confidential. It | seemed the Dillingham offices were just then in the throes of casting “Good Morning, Dearie.” - Everything was in readiness save one part—“an in-be tween” affalr, it was explained, “too big for a chorus girl and not quite large enough for an experienced ac- tress.” Miss Beatty looked the part. Would she take the role? She thought she might. Miss Caldwell escorted her back-stage | and introduced her to Edward Royce, poser. 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