Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1931, Page 47

AMUS EARLE—“It Pays to Advertise.” T Pays to Advertise,” a comedy 1mm the noted George M. Cohan play; the first of the series of Bobby Jones Vitaphone subjects, “How I Play Golf,” and the stage show headed by Frank and Milt Britton are triple attractions to be found week at Warner's Earle ‘Theater. Paramount made the picture, “It Pays to Advertise.” €« llette have the leading roles. ‘The first of the Bobby Jones series is entitled ‘“The Putter,” and in i the unks W assisted s ass! Bobby Jones. by Richard Bar- £ thelmess and Joe E. Brown. Frank and Milt Britton and their gang head the stage show with 20 min- utes of entertainment. Other acts are Ray and Harrison, formerly of Earl Carroll’s Vanities; Annie, Judy and Zeke, three Georgia Singing Hillbillies, in their first stage appearance; the Andresens, in a novelty, and Maxine Doyle. The Earle Orchestra, under Freddie Clark; selected short subjects | and the Graham McNamee Talking Newsreel complete the entertainment. COLUMBIA—Ruth Chatterton's “Unfaithtul.” RUTH CHATTERTON'S latest pic- ond week at Loew’ “Unfaithful,” remains a sec- Columbia. In “Unfaithful” both press and pub- !lc proclaim that the first lady ol the screen has a role that allows her more opportunities for her great dramatic wers than her former pictures. She tes the wife of a hero-wor- shiped soldier, who is much- sought-after companion soclety women. Upon discovering the truth she decides that the only way to cope with him is to w_discretion aside and lead the same sort of life as her husband. In her attemot to compete she meets an old friend who, it seems, has always loved her and who eventually saves her from self-destruction, which she has planned. Paul Cavanaugh plays the role of the errant husband, with Paul Lukas in the chief supporting role as the lover. Others in the cast are .Juliette Comp- ton, Donald Cook, Emily Fitzroy and Leslie Palmer. A series of selected short subjects complietes the Columbia program. PALACE—"A Tallor-Made Man.” BIG business mixes with love; an ad- venturous American youth mixes both and, like Don Quixote, battles windmills in & whirl of mirth in William Haines’ new comedy romance, “A Tailor- Made Man,” now at Loew's Palace ‘Theater. 1t is called ultra modern in pictures, as far as America is concarned. It in- cludes a remedy for business troubles in l tabloid lession wedged into a collection of hilarious situations. It also depicts a delicate love story, it is said, and a very dramatic adventure of a youth who lies good old American grit to a bad ition. mxmwnccmtynumrwhn i ‘becomes an executive of a big col and who high-pressures himself into Lha heart of the lady he loves as well. Dum'.hy Jordan plays the heroine. ot.hm the cast are Joseph Cawthorn, jorle Rambeat, wunm Austin, Ian Kei Hedda Hopper, Hamilton, Henry Arénem, ‘Walter Wllkm’ Joan Marsh and Martha Sleeper. On the Palace stage Chester Fred- ericks in guest master of ceromoniss in & Loew revue titled “Lets Go Collegiate.” FOX—’MI Wives.” NE of the most human of situations, and yet one that has never been by the thorough-going W"u," the picture current at the Fox. | ‘Warner Baxter and Joan Benneit play the leads and Frank Borzage was the | director. ‘The situation revolves around a phy- sielan’s sense of duty to his patients— even to some of his very pretty and not always ailing patients—while his young | wife I.I left alone to find other interests. ' EMENTS.. Quite naturally, in the circumstances, the young wife (Joan Bennett) reaches certain conclusions. She feels sure her husband (Baxter) is untrue to her. So, in a mcment of pique, she entertains thoughts of other men, with the result that she finds herself whirled away in a cyclonic romance. The time comes when her husband has her lover's life in his hands. What he does with it is sald to form as powerful a series of in- cidents as Washington picture fans have experfenced in a long time. Others in the cast include Cecelia Loftus, Victor Varconi, who plays the lover, and Helene Millard. This week's program is further dis- tinguished by a quartet from the Roxy Gang, a group long since well estab- lished in favor here. These four—Ade- laide de Loca, Dorothy Githens, John Griffin and Harold Clyde Wright— among the best Roxy has ever offered. hcwever, are not from the original “Gang. Fanchon and Marco's ‘Gondoliers” idea, a colorful, glamorous stage presen- tation featuring the Romeros, “Aristo- crats of the Dance”; Jazzlips Richard- son, Moro and Yaconelli and the Sun- kist Beauties as the third feature, on the whole add to a very worth-while RIALTO—"“The Vir{uous Husband.” 'HE VIRTUOUS HUSBAND,” with Elliott Nugent in the. title role, is the current screen offering at the Rialto Theater. The story concerns the trials and | tribulations of a young married couple, with the husband abiding by the advice contained in letters from his dead | mother, the letters being delivered pe- riodically, Jean Arthur is cast as the young wife, and Betty Compscn, one of the most beautiful women in motion pic- tures, as the worldly friend of the “wronged” wife. The principals are supported by J. C. Nugent, Allison Skip- worth, Tully Marshall, “Sleep-'n’-eat” and Eva McKenzie, under the direc- tion of Vin Moore. Graham McNamee with the Universal News Reel, selected short subjects and ?\:wblfi Beck at the organ complete e R-K-O KEITH" 5—"llch=lor Apart- ment.” ITH Lowell Sherman and Irene Dunne heading an “all-star cast,” Radio Picture'’s "Bnchelor Apartment” is announced as the featured attraction at R-K-O Keith’s Theater this week. In addition to these two stars the cast includes Mae Murray, long absent from the screen, and a quartet of former Follies’ girls, Claudia Dell, Noel Francis, Arline Judge and Kitty Kelly. The male contingent includes Norman Kerry, Ivan Lebedeff, Punnell Pratt and Charles Coleman. “Sophisticated and daring, as well as only for adults,” this picture is heralded as “one of the sensations of the 1931 season.” It is built around a wealthy philanderer, who is the target for half a dozen charming women, in a story as “modern to an extreme and withal to provide a background of romance that is unique and convincing.” ‘William Bishop's number, “The Or- ganist of the Air”; the final installment of the Farrell Golf Series, the current issue of R-K-O-Pathe News and Walter Catlett in “Ants in the Pants” round out the program. MZTIOPOIJ';A.)\—"I‘M Nights in a attraction at Warners' Metropoli- tan Theater this week is “Ten Nights in a Bar Room,” screen version of the old play that has made history the American theaters. The second episode of the series of "Advtmum in Africa” will also be sho The leading roles in Ten Nights in & Bar Room" are played by William Farnum and Tom Santschi. They will be remembered for their famous fight in “1he Spoilers.” The two again will stage a similar fracas in “Ten Nights in a Bar Room.” Farnum is seen as a loving father and an ideal family man, who is saved from ruin by the love of his small daughter. Santschi is his evil influence. Others in the cast include Robert Prazer, Phyliss Barrington and John Darrow. ‘The first episode of “Adventures in Africa” caused no end of comment the past week. The second, entitled “An African Boma,” shows Wyant D. Hub- bard completing arrangements for his trek into the jungles. Weird customs of the natives, the making of rope from bark and the thrilling capture of a puff adder are among the exciting situ- ations in this subject. Additional short subjects and the Graham McNamee Talking News Reel round out the pro- gram. “Married ON! of the most interesting stories | imaginable has come from that wonderful place, Hollywood, in relating | the advent of Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt into EEllulnid taklieland. | ‘The recent visit of this dlmngulshed couple to Washington in “Elizabeth the Queen,” one of the most notable pro- ductions of the stage during the past season, it unnecessary, even for the benefit of the most casual reader, to say more than that they are virtual | stars of the first magnitude in the New | York Theater Guild, which one of the notable critics of the metropolitan press bas but recently declared is “the best there is in the American theater of today.” - Hollywood, while admitting they a: good, perhaps, is not contented, ho ever, to chronicle that possibility, cot pled with the fact of their motion }-,u ture adventure. It must needs go fur- ther, because greatness that attaches to the theater that once was is not by any means an assurance of greatness in the audible cinema, which, by reason of the llimitable eye of the camera, has sub- | ected all nature to its command and licked the so-called “speaking stage” to a frazzle. Hence, one of the charitably disposed writers of movieland has graciously un dertaken to provide ths Lunts wi something unique, always the big de- mand in pictures, as the excuse for their being admitted to the circle of the elect. And that something is indeed unique. | “Their acting,” says the kindly writer, | “should be a revelation in team work to | motion picture—not actors, ah, no, but audiences. Generosity is the keynote of their work together, and that offers in | moral instinct, this generosity of theirs Acting.” its own way the key to the talents they | possess and the pleasure they provide. | “This generosity of theirs,” continues the writer, “is among the major virtues of their acting. It is not based upon the non-esthetic principles .of philan- thropy. Its source, its solitary source, is the unerring instinct for the theater which they both possess and from which it springs. As a theater, and not as a departs from the noble Christian doc- trines of unselfishness by balancing it mutual giving with its mutual taking. But though this give and take of the Lunts may have no connection with the Sunday school moralities, it is none the less subservient to that good old Bible ; precept which contends that charity be- | gins at home, for the Lunts, as every one must know, are man and wife.’ And here comes the startler. “Individual as they are and innocent as their performances are from the blemishes of domestic stuffiness, their acting is none the less ‘married acting,’ if one can call it that. But it is mar- ried acting that tekes advantage of its status, that gains a new freedom from its bond that puts marriage, as it puts all things, to the use of the theater. * * * It is 80 truthful in its minor de tails and £o0 uninhibited in its affection- ate slaps and caresses that it once czused a dignified woman to remark, after one of the love scenes in ‘Caprice it nice, my dear, to know that And Walter Hampden complains that critics are not sympathetic, that by their insidious sophistication and oblique sneers they actually mislead the public into believing that there is something Zrong with plays or players when there n't. Talkies Turn to Ballets. HOLLYWOOD has claimed lnolher] world-famed artict, and Adolph | Polm now s working on his ballets for & second picture. | Mr. Bolm is completing four ballets for “The Genius,” John Barrymore’s | picture. A chorus of 40 girls was| utilized. Bolm will use them for the next production. The first ballet in “The Genlus” is | called “The Spirit of the Factory,” and is named for the musical score written by Mossolow. Human beings are trans- formed Into mechanical figures and factory sounds dominate the music. ‘The second ballet is a Berlin scene. with toe dancing and other forms of Russian dances to the fore. The third dance number is a re- . | the most economical to film-makers, re- history of the anclent race. John Barrymore and Michael Curtiz, | star and director, are said to be en- thusiastic about the ballets for “The Genius.” Public Wants Color Films. 'HE theater going public is sald to be showing & renewed interest in all- color motion pictures, according to of- | ficlals of Multicolor, Ltd., the Howard | Hughes concern. ‘The new $2,000,000 laboratory in | Hollywood, operating on a large-scale | basis, is sald to be turning out enor- | mous quantities of its all-color photog- | raphy both for entertainment and for | | industrial film projects. Multicolor, claimed to be the most popular color | process yet developed, is also said to be quiring neither special cameras nor lighting to produce. { The McMillan Expeditio North Pole will be filmed in multtcolor and a number of other 1 “Old Mill,” installed at a cost of $30,- THE SUNDAY WFER OF __APRIL_26 STAR, WASHINGTO! Tuesday D. C., Wednesday Thursday APRIL 26, 1931—PART FOUR Friday Sl!lrlhy Bkeets Gall Lo} Ambassador 18th & Columbia Rd. Skeets Gallagher and Cerole Lombard in “It Pays to Ad- vertise.” Ruth Chatterton in, *“’Anybody’s Woman." Short_subject. Comedy. “Ruth Chaiterton in. nybody's Woman.” "Short ludluect e Tawrence Tibbett and Esther Ralston “The Southerner.” Bovd and Hel I-n Tvexvnre:tl in o comeds ainted Dese: P [ on "Rty aiitlon Frenchmen. Short_subfect Apollo 624 H St. NE. Gisen and Johnson “Fitty Million e E_Brown an: .yunm- MacDorald in “The Lotters Mmunu‘fifi in Men on Cair” Vitaphone short Etanar nonam-n m “Thy Great Meadow. Dark. Arcade Hyattsyille, Md. Ralph Forbes and Loretta Young in Beay Idsal Ralph Forbes and Loretta Youne in “‘Beau Ideal " Comedy. News. l"\elvn L 0 lnfl John B “One Heavenly Nmm Hen\rnly Nilh! Comedy. _Serlal. Comeds. Le on el apd Mitzl Green in “Fign and Hattle.” Comedv Act. Ashton Clarendon. Dark. yon -m quue | Torres oha Will Rogers in “Lightnin’."” Lormfinun- nml Dayid Manners in “Truzm:flhoul Tawrencs Tibbeti and Grace, Mocre n “New M Mae Clark and Robert Ames in “Nix gg Dlm!! - 'y _Cooper an« Mlllene nrm-. in ““Morocco.” Seri: as Fairbanks in “Reaching for the Moot Short subtect. Avalen 5612 Conn. Ave. Douglas Fairbanks in Ann Harding “Eagt Tynne.” Comedy. “Reaching for the Short_sublect.” David Manners in “Sweet Mamma.” “Enst Typne.” améz sublect. Comedy. ha— Victor Motagten in “The Three Rogues. Ave. Grand “Reaching for the 645 Pa. Ave. S.E. Moon.” rlas Fairbanks '-Rucmn- for the Helen Tw-lumn m vmvnnno shon Helen Tw-lvnrzn n vmnhnne short P Short _subject. Ralj n rorb-; n shon fubect. Ann ’Hnmm( and Ann mrmn- and Conrad Nagel in Bert Wheeler and .Boert Woolses in k.. Line _and Shakes dome News Bert Whevlex and Robert’ Woolsey in “Hook. Line aznrf Fievand Flon Lessine T Fair Warnine spn'Lyun and James Hall 13th & N.C. Ave. S.E. Ben Lyon and James Hall n “HI's_Angels.”, s nnett Adolphe Meniou siest Way. Jack Holl 3 n *“The lnu gnrlfll 2 Central 425 oth 8t N. in “The Last Parade.” 'mchna Dix and rene Dunne 5 “Clmarro; ter Keaton and cn Flotte Greenwood in "Patior, Bed Rool Jack Holt r-irbmk: in gl Reaching for the Moon.” smm nuhlul rrO Douslas Fairbanks in “Reaching for the Moo Short sublet Joe E. Brown and Jeanette MacDonald in “Lottery Bride.” . Comedy. TLawrence Tibbett and Ralston utherner. Shiort. sublect. R-‘nh rorhn n “Beau Ideal !hnn uudhlvct Circle 2!05 Pa. Ave. N nn Hard AE Bidok wnd Conrad Nagel in “East Lynne.” Ric len and Fay me in *“The_Conqueri Ann Harc Glive Brook and Byl Ll‘yz and n Conrad Nagel in & ‘ Lynne. E\el!n Laye and Jghn Holes Ga. Ave. & Farragut a An ding i in East Lynne. “Reaching for the Vitaphone short Moon.” _subject. Elis: ndi in +Tody" and" Soul." inn Hordir Vllluhnne nmn Short_subiect. John Mack Brown & jeanor Boardman in “The Great Meadow.” Short st Dumbarton 1349 Wis. Ave. N.W. Toreita Young and Congay Tearle in ut Fout George Bancroft in “Scandal Sneet. A H'\rdlfil : and Ann Harding and Cor gel nne Eyelyn Brent rt Ames nd Rol n “Madonna, Stre Buck, Joes “The Desert Vengeance." Fairlawn Ronald Colman In to Pay.” D Comeas. e Grant Withers and Mary Astor in “Other Men's Wome: “Rango." Comedy. Cartoon. Bela Lugosi and David Manners in “Dracula.” Greta Garbo Comedy. Anacostia. D. C. Comedy 5. SFaer Mt i “The Bat Whispers." Comeds. ct Chester Morris in “The Bat Whispers.” Comedy. Act. George Funcron and Kay Francis in .Scardal Sneet " medv. Cartoon. Lois Moren and_ J. Harold Murray in “Under Suspicion.” Comedy. _ Act, anpodrome g Hagaime i 208 K_St. East Lynne. Hnme Vitapho. ve short 13th & C Sts. NE. subje i Ana Harding in East Lyni El Biendel Tn nne. M of \nanhnnet short » sub. El Brendel in “Mr. L ot n “Inspiration. .Cal erial. Clrra_Bow i David Manne “No Limit Comedy. N ‘Ben Lyon d Ona_Munson in ““The Hot Heiress.' Comedy. _Serial Ronald Cglman and Loreta Young in “The Devil to Pay.” Ingomar Alexandria, Va. Tom Tyler in “Red Fork Range.” Comed: Joan Crawiord and Robt. Armstrong in “patd."” Cartoon Jesse 18th nr. RLAvNE. Tawrence Tibbett and Charles Ruggles and June Collver in “Charley’s Aunt." Comedy. Serial. Walter Huston and Mary Doran in ouCriminal Code Sh't cts. Charles Ruggles and Tom Tvier in June Collyer in~ “Riders of the Plains.” */Charley’s Aunt Comedy. Comedsy. i Bhort_sub; Winnie Lightner and oe E; Brown, in Grace M ew T Variety. Earioon. gore {n Alice White and David Manners in eet Mamma.’ Comeds. Buster Keaton and Charlotte Greenwood in “Parlor. Bed Room d Bath.” _Comedy. idie Quil nd Sally Starr |~| “Night Work."” Wor Berial. Com. Cart an Laurel Laurel, Md. "~ Lupe Velez and Comedy. Act. Ronald Colm: John Boles in “Resurrection News. Conrad Nagel and Genevieve Tobin “ALady Burrenders.” George Sidney ma Charles ‘Murra Coticns and” Relys in Africa .’ Com. Act. Buck Jones “Dawn T Comed: Berial Gegree Bancroft and Eay Francis in “‘Scandal Sheet." Com._News. Serial. Leader 9th & E Sts. N.W. m; Jeanctte MacDonald Edmund Lowe and _Edmund Lowe and Jeanctte MacDonald “Don't on Act > A%k d x- Johngon {n e.” Dorothy Mackaill and Joel McC: “Once a 8 Comedy. Richard Dix in “Cimarron.” Comedy. Serial. News. Dark. George Bancroft in Bancroft in “The Derelict.” eor, “The Derelict.’ Pathe News. Joan Crawford In ““Dance. Fools, . anec Comedy. Ken Maynard in “Plepting Thru.” Jack Oakie i, “Gang Buster.” Comedy. ‘Serial Clara Bow in “Love Among the ‘Millionaires.” Comedy. Act. Teatrice Joy Tn “Most” Immoral Comedy. _Act Teatrice Joy In “Most Trmoral Comedy: " Act. George Bancroft n “The Scandal Bheet H_ B Warner in Cooper a “Wedding Rings." ene ml:'r? medy. in «Morocco.” Cor Se! Eamon John Boles and Evelyn_Laye in “Ong, Heavenly Charles Bickford and Greta Onrbo and Francis Lewls Stond n Dark. Alexandria, Va. Gisen and Johnson in Gisen and Johnson in ity ‘Million Frenchmen. Com. 8t sublects. “Fifty Frenchm Com. Bh't subjects Million TLouls Wolheim and Jean Arthur “Danger Lights.” Georze, nnnu and Sally Star: in “Pardon My Gun."_ d Jopl McCrea, in o Limit." Com. Bht Rublects. Teon Janney and Lewis Stone in Len l"“fl‘l 11 i3 “Sto Father's Son. " o “Father's Son.” Com._8h't subjects. Mary Astor_in “Benind Ofce Comedy Savoy 3030 1ith St. N.W. M]ry Astor_in ‘Behind Clagdette Colhert, i Office Manslaughte Vitaphone short subject. Claudette Colbert in ““Manslaughter.” Vitaphone short ubject. Com._Sh't subjects. R Doulas Fairbanks in “Reaching ?or the ‘Moo; Short sibject. Dark. Seco Gary Cooper Jopn Gilbert and Wal 1 “Fighting Cara- vai ace Beery or & Satlor " _Alice White and Dous. Fairbanks, ir., Lloyd Hughes in “Bweeth on n “Little Accident.” Wonder film of the ungle. Ranaor Serial. Marion Davies and Rllgh Forbes in Silver Spring. Md. Stanton 6th & C Sts. N.E. e Nancy Carroll and Eniliips Holmes in Nancy Carroll and Phillips Holmes in “Stolen Heaven. Dorothy Mackaill and Sidney Blackmer in “Strictly Modern. Tawrence Tibbett and Lupe Velez and Grace Moore in i = Jean Hersnolt 12 Dark. Greta Garbo in eta Garbo in “Inspiration.” Inspiration.” Mitzi Green and Leon Errol in “Finn and_Hattie." News.Serial. Marie Dress Polly Monn n “Reducine.”_ Edmund Lowe in Lawrence Tibbett in “New Moon.” “On the Level.” Marie Drsssier” and P Marie Dressler and Louis Mann and Robt. Montgomery in “8ins of the Children.” Comedy. Novelty. Polly Moran in ducing. ews. Comeds. Lois Moran and J, Harold Murray in 'vmm-d uspicion. Buck Jones in ““The_Avenger.” Serial Comedy. _News. Jackie Coogan and Mitzt Green in “Tom Sawyer. Short_subject Gisen and Johnson in “Fifty Million Frenchmen.* subject. Com. Joan Crawford in “Dance, Fools, Dance."” Vitaphone short Bublect. Oisen and Johnson in ifty Million ,Frenchmen,’ subject. Com. Marx Brothers in “Animal Crackers.” 14th & Park Rd. York Gs. Ave. & Quebee Joyd in Harold 4 irst.” “Feet Blonds Easy to Hypnotize. IT is Thurston's bellef that even if | magicians do prefer blonds, and he has a number of blonds in his sup- | porting troupe, there is a legitimate rea- son for it. To begin with, Thurston declares that | he possesses no occult powers other than | a limited ability to hypnotize. Blue- | eyed girls with light hair in his troupe | are the easiest subjects of mesmerism, he says. The opposite is a red-headed Russian Jewess, whose will is in con- stant opposition to the hypnotist. It is | practically impossible to gain control | over the mind of the latter, he finds. ‘Thurston has no belief at all in the | return of departed spirits. Most me- diums pursue their art for gain, he in- | sists, and in some places, mediums buy‘ ghosts that they “bring back” at $4.25 | for a large one and $3.25 for a small | one. | The more educated and intelligent a | person, the easier it is to mesmerize him or her. The reason is that a fertile | mind will not concentrate long encugh on a single subject. | Glen Echo Park to Open. | IP anybody doubts that Spring is here, the announcement that the one and only Glen Echo Park will swing wide | its hospitable gates on Saturday, May | 9, should dispel such doubt. Yes, the blu'rlrk is to open in a | blaze of glory, with more improvements | than can be described in a short space, | among them the Grand Canyon scenic, | 000; a thrilling “dodgem” ride, with 20 | cars and front wheel drive; a brand- new shooting galiery, said to be the | finest in America; new and more thrill- | ing dips to the coaster, and additions to the zippy whip, tc start with. | The entire park, from top to bottom, | has been gons over and now, it is de- | clared, shines like a good deed. Park | Director Leonard B. Schloss is now en- tering his twenty-first year as amuse- | ment purveyor of Summer fun features | at Glen Echo. e onnel as Stephen Ashe. NE of California’s most colorful figures of the criminal courts is said to have inspired the characteriza- tion of Stephen Ashe, the lawyer who “never lost a case” in “A Free Soul,” the Adela Rogers St. John's novel from which Metro-Goldwyn is now making A picture, Lionel Barrymore returns to acting | to portray this powerful character, and Norma Shearer is starred in the role of | his emancipated daughter, cver at his | side, fighting the biggest batitle of his career against a weakness that poisoned his brilliant mind. According to Barry- more, the part is a fascinating one and served to entice him back into make- up after a two years' absence and | avowal never to act ;z's | Clarence Brown is vctlw the new Shearer picture from John Meehan's adaptation of the book which has as its background the night life, criminal courts and underworld of San Fran- | cisco. TO !!lMAflGS WAS A SIN.... AN EMBRACEA Buddy Rogefs in Follow Thru.” Vitaphone short subject. Harold Llovd in “Feet First. Buddv Ru ers in ‘Pollow Thru Vitaphone short sul Helen Twelvetrees vxtanhone (short NANCY SHERIDAN, the National Theater Players. tion of Leneta Lane. | Who has been selected by Manager Steve Cochran as the new leading lady for She takes the place made vacant by the resigna- —Photo by White Studio. MIRACLEOF e (mERTAINMENT VIILLIAM FARNUM —ADDE = MNAMEE COMEDY o "ADVENTURES IN o MUV RICA” " DOORS OFEN TODAY 2 P.M. IANK 0 u|L1 o:mon 8 GANG RAY & HARRISON ANNIE. JUDY & ZEKE THE ANDRESENS WMAXINE DOYLE R BOBBL 0N WIZARD SHOWING now | PLAY QOLF el ot “THE PUTTER ¥ 1:3 women on his trail...and the one who mattered just couldm be bothered... Warner Oland_in “Charlie Chan Car- ries Comedy. Bht sub. *0. K. Colonel™ Comind. HIL COOK, said to be radio’s high- est paid artist, famous as a “one- man show” and the man who made Richard Arlen in “The Santa Fe Trail.” ‘omedy. Cartoon. | “0. K. Colonel” a byword, is coming to Washington for a week's engagement |at the Fox Theater Friday. AMUSEMENTS. The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. rules for box office success in the movies are revised from day to day, depending upon whether a gangster melodrama, a lurid lesson in sex or a two-reel comedy achieved the highest gross last week in Topeka, Kans. If it's the gang film that did the biggest business, then every studio in Hollywood will send out an order for another thousand Thomp- son sub-machine guns and Al Capone will be called upon to deny 118 fresh rumors that he has been signed to a | movie contract. If it's the sex lesson that gathers the greatest number of customers, then all scenarfo supervisors will be ordered by their bosses to get in touch at cnce with Ursula Parrott and find out how much she will accept for an option on her next unwritten true confession. Whereas if the comedy springs a aurnrlae and tops them all, then the major corpora- tions will immediately begin to bid against each other for the services of the youthful members of “Our Gang." As the verdict rend-red yesterday by Topeka may be completely reversed to- | morrow by the verdict of Spokane, and then again the next day by the verdict of Jacksonville, it is small wonder that the great moguls of Hollywood are in a constant state of indecisive bewilder- ment. There is one thing, however, that is reasonably sure: Whatever are the current rules of box office success, George Arliss has violated all of them. The fact that his pictures, “Disraeli,” “The Green Goddess,” “Old English” and “The Millionaire” have been profit- able while many sure-fire hits have been flopping should give one the dark suspicion that perhaps the rules mean nothing. It is true ‘that all his offerings have been adorned with a modicum of sex 1. In “Disraeli” it was Joan nett, and in “The Millionaire,” the latest, it is Evalyn Knapp, who resem- bles a composite of all the Bennett sisters. But this desirable element has been so effectually subjugated as to be negligible. On top of all this, in “The Million- aire” Mr. Arliss commits the arch- crime of impersonating a typical Amer- ican self-made man, a true disciple of the homely Coolidge philosophy, who talks with a scholarly English accent. Can you tie that, folks? It is as though the Archbishop of Canterbury were to play opposite Charlie Murray in “The Cohens and Kellys in Arabia.” Perhaps you will find the answer to Cook 1s known in radio as composer, | comedian, humorist, singer, guitar play- | er and voice artist in mimicry, for in | his broadcasts he has created 13 dis- | tinct characters. During his stay in Washington, it is announced, Cook is planning to visit Walter Reed Hospital to entertain the vets at the institution. Phil Cook has acted hundreds of dif- ferent parts during his career before the microphone. Just recently he has completed a number of engagements in theaters in and around New York. New Fox Manager. HAERY CRULL, new manager of the Fox in this city, last Monday took over the reins at once, and David M. Idzal, who has been acting man: for the past five weeks, returned to E-n"mmem post as manager of the Fox Philadelphia. ‘The new manager of the Fox Wash- ington comes accredited with experience in theater operation. He has been with Fox for the past vear, as manager of the Audubon in New York City, and prior to that held executive positions w1m the Stanley Fablan and Keith Wasn't waped 'UDGE F. J. COLEMAN of the United States District Court declined to grant an injunction for an accounting to Ivan Abramson in his suit for al- leged plagiarism against the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corpora- ton, prioducers of the moton picture “Reducing,” in which Marie Dressler and Polly Moran appeared. Mr. Abramson contended that part of his screen drama “Enlighten Thy | Ol Daughter” has been pirated by the de- fendants, but after viewing both pic- tures, Judge Coleman said tha‘ funda- mental differences existed and that a trial would be a waste of the court’s time. . Oscar Strauss in New York. )ISCAR STRAUSS, famous Viennese composer, has arrived in New York to confer with Ernst Lubitsch at the Paramount studio regarding the music for “The Smiling Lieutenant,” now be- ing filmed, with Maurice Chevalier as the star. Five new Strauss songs are in the film now PLAYING cou.mum WI. WII.I.IAMs *ATAILOR MADE MAN' N THE STAGE M CIIESTER FREDERICKS 4 *LETS GO COLLEGIATE”, NINA OLIVETTE LOEW'S CoiLtiniEn the mystery of Mr. Arliss’ success in the faces of the crowds who go to see his pictures and cnjoy his charm and his distinction. They are the faces of people who aren't ordinarily to be ob- served in flim parlors. They form the great reserve audience, whose existence the film producers ordinarily ignore, * ok ok x N “The Woman's Angle” corner of Variety appears the following blanket indorsement of “Strangers May Kiss": “Has everything—sex, clothes, interest- ing conflict, appealing moral and a favorite star.” With the first, second, third and fifth assets mention=d, no one can possib’y disagree. “Strangers May Kiss” un- questionably has sex, clothes, interesting conflict and a favorite star. What bothers me, however, is that term, “appealing moral.” Just what i3 | it? Presumably it is a moral that will appeal to women—but in what way? Let us examine briefly the of “‘Strangers May Kiss” and see we can discover the secret. Norma Shearer is a stenogranher with advanced ideas. She doesn’t believe in contempt for this ancient institution is heightened when sonfebody’s aunt com- mits suicide because her husband has been unfaithfu), while the guilty hus- band goes on living, g and en- joying himself. Po].lou‘lng which Miss Shearer dashes off gayly to Mexico with a man who | turns out to be married to some on@ . elze. She doesn’t mind lhlt though she | 1s a little upset 'h-n he deserts H | She then goes gh Burope like & * fine-tooth’ comb, l"findlnl b“l’{ casinos 2nd bullfights and ha wha! every onc will vote a glorious time. the end, in payment for her violations of the 10 commandments the Hays Moral Code, she marries the man she loves and lives happily ever | afterward. Having gone through this dull recitae tion of the plot. I can see exactly '!ug the editor of “Ths Woman's Anlu meant. “Strangers May Kiss” cere tainly has a moral, and it is one which should be beautifully, indefinitely ap- pealing to women. * ok ko USUALLY it is my policy to lend & sympathetic_ear to those who shout insults at Hollywood, but I eon- fess to being offended by the uncouth !nol.su that have lately emanated from Theodore Dreiser. About five years ago Mr. Dreiser sold the screen rights to “An American Tragedy” for the neat lum of mooo He ‘signed the contract ace ccpted the check and l:uhu fin Fol- lowing which, Mr. Lasky did s great deal of worrying while Mr. Dreiser was having a look at Russia. The fll-lll::s of “An American Tragedy” {nvol seemingly insuperable difficulties and, furthermore, talking pictures came in and the dialogue rights had to be pur~ chased from Mr. Dreiser, Patrick Kear~ ney, who had written the stage drama= ’t‘}zauon and Horace Liveright, the pro- ucer. | At last “An American Tragedy” has been reproduced, under the direction of Josef von Sternberg. And now Mr. Dreiser announces that he intends to | get out an injunction against the show- |ing of the picture. “I am going to fight,” he says. “I have a literary rll:.l{nlc}t;er to m-lntxdn and I contend thal ave a mental equity in prod- uct and the character of mln;l’vdnn. Law or no law, I believe I can go be- fore the courts of equity, the Mgml courts and get a decision, and I will ° go if it takes years.” (Thua quota- tions, by the way, are from an mm- view by Eleanore Kellogg in the New New York Herald Tribune.) |, It would seem that when he sold “An American Mr. Dreiser had never heard that the film people are apt to make changes in the novels '’ and plays that they adapt to the screen. It would seem that he had understood ° that his massive work was to be corded word for word. Apparently, Mr. Lasky was flendishly adroit in deceiving the great, gullible novelist. most people bel Lasky was guilty of m His coll-agues laughed at him. They said - that he had been stuck. But Theodore Dreiser was not among who con- demned him then. Mr. Dreiser wisely reserved his protest for s later date. ness, Western Fron “Journey's En “Pront Fage.” intelligent renderlnc o! “M ‘Tragedy” are far greater in 1931 they were in 1026, when the deal closed. Nevertheless, its beguiled author must fight for his rights. I think Mr. Dreuer is take in golnc the courts. should do is take the $90,000 ington, spend it on the formation strong political lobby and force gress to repeal that odious law compels authors to sell their works | the movies. (Copyright, 1931.) Children "A SCENARIST'S erest critics are his children,” says Herman J. Mankiewicz, playwright and motion pic- ture writer, who has just completed the adaptation and dialogue for Para- mount’s “Ladies’ Man,” starring Wil- liam Powell. “A film writer should tell his plots and ideas to his children in place of bedtime stories, if he wishes to succeed,” Mankiewicz says. “I have ridden to many a fall before my two boys, Donald, 8, and Frank, 6, but always have gone away and conceived a situation which was far better than the first because of their criticisms,” Mankiewicz explains. “Adult memories fail in details more 5 | rapidly than do children’s, and often I have conceived some pet wise-crack only to have my youngsters shout: ‘Oh, dad, that’s old as Noah,’ when I've told it to them. “A child will assimilate everything of interest he hears or sees more quickly than adults. All of us can recite poems or detailed action of books we read when youths while we can hardly recall an incident of a novel we have only two years ago. “Children also are capable of diecern- ing weaknesses in stories. They have an unconscious ability to detect those faults which most adults overlook, because they always search for the simplest solution | to everything. It is a well known fact | that a magician dreads to display his new tricks before an audience of chil- dren, but will choose a gathering of professors and scientists eagerly, rather th;‘n appear before a group of 10-year- “There is also the added fact that & story told to children must be simple A Doctor, His Wife, and His Pretty Patients DOCTORS Direeted by Frank Borsage with WARNER BAXTER JOAN BENNETT Prrconshes 4 GONDOLIERS IoEA Featuring THE ROMEROS Jazzlips Richardson Moro Yaconelli Ben All's Blue Devils Sunkist Beauties ROXY GANG IN _PERSON as Critics. and effective. 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