Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1931, Page 53

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 17, 1931—PART FOUR. AMUSEMENTS. | l PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK ||| New Play by Miss Crothers d Sylvia; Rose Marie Carter, Wooding’s “Half Pints” and the Sun- kist Beauties. R-K-O KEITH'S—"Subway Express.” Wrn{ the current vogue for mystery storles at its_height, Columbia s ' Sunday Amb dor Dor::::mmck-m 18th & Colombia Rd. Husban: Will oxers “A Connecticut Yankee.” Monday Dorothy, Mac n “The Party Husband.” Will Rogers Tuesday Dorothy, Mackaill n Wednesday ‘Will Rogers in “A Connec Yankee. Thursday ‘Will Rogers “A Connecticut Yankee.” Friday Saturday By Percy Hammond. [ Bert Wheeler and Mary Pickford B e aeket ety 1P lN WRITING “As Husbands Go,” | ters—the hick Middle West banker and iR ‘Cracked Nuts." Comedy. Cor ject Miss Rachel Crothers was con-|the purple London poet— “come to fronted by a puzzle in method. Her | grips” in a sober scene, interrupted by Ben Lyon snd “Raiph Forbes -'sflc-u‘"mm A chief characters, a woman and two | bootlegging. Ona “The Hot Heiress.” Shor ct. __Comedy’ George Sid ¥ Charies Muxray" “Cohens and Kellys in Africa.” Com. Ser. Milton_8ills in ““Man Trouble - “Spe’t of the Astor_in ce Doors. Palac: ‘Behind Offic Vitaphone short sublect. e years coopehr e flm;!me “ {‘r‘-‘ (.hr;e Pict: ‘Sub Express,” the fea T appears dressed through- | Pictures' “Subway S5, e fea- o i i out in clvmanmfiothu, niforms and | tured attraction at R-K-O Keith's this ederic March deric March and el and Nancy Carroll and garb being week, ought to be popular. Based on Dark. Clpudett rin ¢ ieve Tobin hilips Holmes omitted" for this a TL:'T:;“] play, Madrui]zld 1;:“3‘9“‘::3‘; le. Ma. e ko mong Lov- , % Stolen Heaven cture. este name, an a e Rarel g S p‘"cny Streets” is What Is said o be one of the most bal- Dark. Claree Garnor I described as_being fling murder mysteries ever screened. e Man W strong melodrama, A 26-mile ride in a Broadway subway centering _around car, with a double murder, a crime that the romance of appears unsolvable, provides the locale Cooper and Sylvia of the plct for the story, and mnerve- Sidney, his leading ting'ing developments in rapid succes- woman, & new- sion are said to lead up to a startling comer to the climax. i screen. Cooper, Jack Holt plays the detective who | operator of a finally unravels the mystery. Alleene shooting gallery in Pringle has the leading feminine role, | ® a _street carnival, and others include Jason Robards, Fred falls in love with . n the girl, who is in- | Reaching for the | Kelsey and Willlam Humphrey. | _Added attractions will be Loui . Ave. 8.E. volved ' with the Fazenda in “Second-Hand Kisses,” a| = o i Bosi beer-running rack- lpopu)nr Mickey Mouse cartoon, the , im & he Flood.” eteers. ‘The girl, Pathe News and Willlam H. Bishop's P b L lgnmed 'byththe e;.s’yfl mg:ney ennéed byicrznn specialty. . N.W. S oms” ar er stepfather and friends, urges Cooper i _ i Toget I on it He Tetuses, Db, "lfen" EARLE—“Party_Husband"—Blanche Exther Ralstor the girl is framed and sent to prison Sweet. o for a murder of which she is innocenty A PROGRAM featuring Dorothy Colon P AT he turns racketeer and beats the “bi Mackaill as the screen star in | WOIOMY “Cracked Nuts.” boys” at their own game. | “Party Husbands” and Blanche Sweet |Ga. Ave. & Farragut Cor Dashiell Hammett, the author, is & |in person as the star of the stage show former Pinkerton detective. He is said | is being presented at the Earle Theater. to use incidents and settings for his| “Party Husband,” & Warner-Vita- storles from his own experiences. Rou- | phone picture, deals with advanced ben Mamoulian directed the produc- | theories of marriage, with a special les- tion. son for those who may be thinking of On the Palace stage Mitchell and | getting married in the near future. Miss Durant are featured in a Loew produc- | Mackalll is supported by James Rennie, tion, “Rivera Revels,” with Dolores, | Donald Cook, Dorothy Peterson, Mary Douglas and Eddy also on the bill. | Doran and others, O—"Seed.” Blanche Sweet, famous screen star, RIALTO-="Seced. will be seen in & novel act, entitled n Ln!w(r;-‘;ee Tibbett and lew{;nce;lrl‘hbtnz and ar 5 n 3 The Boutherner. The Boutherner But being & lady of sho © subiect men, were in distress because the | theater, Miss Crothers feels that her lady in the case had fallen in love with | audiences are entitled to a little serious an English poet, though she retained a | burlesque, and she gives it to them deep regard for her husband, an Ameri- | with the reluctance of a proud artist. can banker. During a visit to Paris | bending for a moment the hinges of « she had become lost in the miasmic | her knees. 5 aL OF . glamour thet arises from the Seine, | Beri Wheeler and n Crawford_ and Johnson in Mary Piekford Williaw Hnines 7~ | And £he vas preparing fo abandon the | I R atera Nets T R Nate. e o D, Fsnmen Kk “ATgllor-Made Man. | MiCnCtonous security of her Main street | 1 these parts, since duty called me to 8612 Conn. Ave Com' Bh't subjéct. __Com. Bnt subsect. _Short. dubiect Cartoon o e et Uar authar " The | Florida from Broadway last Winter . A G d Joe F. Brown and Conrrd Nagel and Bill Bovd and | sity~tion was rife with heartbreaks, | Guring the drama's most productive ve., Gran Charles Chaplin in e MacDonald, Loretta Young in elen Twelvetrees in | 51t B o “weve in. | monthe. Therefore, I am not entitled W5ies Thaptin “The Risht of Way." 'Tha Painted Desert™ | S:n%e 21l the persons involved were sin- | - i " Bhort rubject. ' Comedv Short rublect cere end likeble. How, then, was Miss | ©0 sbesk with my customary suthority Mary Astor and Mary Ajor and ™ Vicior Mclaglen in | Crothers, a conscientious comedian, to | 02Ut the plays that have contested for Rovert fimes in Robert Ames in “Not Exactl® Gentle- + re th> Pulitzer prize. I have not seen Mr. “Benind Office Doors.” “Behind Ofce Doors. ™ extricate them from their predicament | > PUIliet prize. 1 have 1 Comeds. ~ Act Comedy. ~ Act without. resorting to the easy violences | BATTYV's | b o 3 of tragedy as practiced by Mr. Bern- | instance, an entertainment which many otemn i Metoh and by Mr. Heyward | €ritics have nominated as the season’s i “Bress AnKie"s ? | richest * product. However, I believe e {that if T had been a member of the I can imagine her wrestling with the | pulitzer bench T would have voted for problem in her studio, now determined | “As Husbands Go" as the best of the to clarify it in this way. then deciding | Broadway crop. It is four-square thea- to solve it in that. Eventually rhe |ter and its few compromises to the adopted the plan of getting both the | boneheads are shrewdly and deftly lover and the husband drunk. She put | hypodermic. Its characters are cast them under the influence of liquor and | with Miss Crothers uncanny preclsion Buddy Rogers in R Cimon o |thus their souls were exposed to one | avery actor being ftted to his part, “Foliow Thru, Orange™ another and also to the lady herself, | with perhaps, the exception of Miss Wence Tioheit an T Tann persi—— | RNC; drobping in on the orgy, learned | Catherine Doucet, whose familiar ex- Esther Ralston MiEr Green'ana | that even bankers and poets can be | aggerations are box office, if not n a8u Pt n disgusting when in their cups. In wine | esthetic, Are you interested in perfect Finn and Hatt: there is truth, or as John Golden, the | impersonations upon the stage? If so eunar Bosrarm s T EashQit 0 %mdugerltgz the ;las‘ x_:l?:}!;ufhs it, “In |1 recommend most of the players in “The Great Meadow.” Dogville. comed. no veritas” and so with the ald of | A5 Husbands Go,” and especially of Comedy. Serial. alcohol the mists are cleared away and | Miss Marjorie Lytell, a newcomer, the comedy ends on a comfortable note. | the ® wise onild of & Toslisn . mather Ong suspects that Miss Crothers, in | Here is a promising comedienne. The 5o disposing of the dilemma, was urged | play and its players were so entertain- by motives of showmanship, It would |ing the night I taw them that I was have been just as easy and more legiti- | sorry when the curtain fell. I could subject Nancy Phillips Holmes in “Stolen Heaven." Comedy. _Act rica Speaks ™ hantom of the Wert."” Clarendon. Va. . Bert Wheeler and * ko % 4 AM more or less of a stranger in rion_ Davies Tn ario: Charles Chalin in “It's a'Wise Child.”" “It's a Wise Child. “City Lights.” Vitaphone short Vitaphone short sublect. ubject s Ralph Forbes and Loretta Young in ““Beau Ideal." Comedy. Ne o Douglas Fairbanks Do Dark. and Bebe Daniels in and Bebe Qaniels in “Reaching for, “Reaching for the Moon." Com. News. _ Moon.” Com. Ne Douglas Fairbanks Douglas Fairbanks n “Reaching for the ‘Moon." __Comedv. " Serial Bernice Claire in Clera Bow ir C'sra Bow in George O] e Richard Bert % Richard Barthelmess Olsen and Johnson in _ Ofsen and Johnson in “Fifty ‘Million “Fifty "Million Frenchmen.” Frenchmen.” Comedy. edy. w o d, Eversti Horton n and L “The Pinger Points” “The Finger Points” in L onets Wi subject. Short rubject Short_subject Dorothy Mackaill.~ and Mary Carr | _ Tover: Kept Husbands " Naney Carroll and El Brendel in Gary Cooper. Claudette Colbert & Frederic March in "Honor Among. Claudette Colbert & Frederic March in Charlie Chaplin in te," onor _Among. Charlie Chaplin in “Cit i “City Ligl Charlie Chaplin, in ¥ Lights. “City Lights.” 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. ¥ = Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Cracked Nuts. Comedy. Joan Crawford in Joan Crawford in Ben Lyon and “Dance, Fools, “Dance, Fool Danice Short_subject v nd William Powell and Rich and At ombara i Carole Lombard in Fay Wray in “Man of the “Man of the ‘The_Conauering World. orld." Horde." ar! nt ‘harley’s_Aunt Robert Ames and Norman Foster and Mary Astor in Carole Lombard in “Behind Office Doors.” "It Pays to Advertise " Comed. Comed: Ann Harding Charles Farrell ‘-ni ¥ John Mack Brown& Jack Holt in in n Certoor Heien vetrees ner Oland and and James Hall in June Collyer in “Millie. +“Drums of Jeopards s Comedy v, Travelogue Jeanette MacDonald and John Gerrick in “Lottery Bride.” Comedy. _Act. Dorthy Mackaill and Joel McCrea in “East Lynne. Cartoon. _ 1 Gary per and i Lily Damita In U7 Sarena ne “Fighting Caravans. ” ns.'" Comedy. _Act Comed t Harold Liovd | n == e ‘10 Will_B« in T Olsen ani osers Slaepgpd o T OBeLand Jghy S T Frenchmen ankee. ill_Rogers in “’A Connecticut Yankee. Short_subject. Short_subje Joe E. Brown and Jeanette MacDonald in “The Lottery Bride.” Short_subfect. ¢¢QEED,” Universal's problem drama | which opened a week's engage- ment yesterday at the Rialto Theater, is said to be an unusually interesting offer- ing. In a word, it is bodly claimed to be “Snobbishness.” Other stage acts in- clude Jack Randall and company, with | Jean Renee and Alice Logan, in an | offering titled “Adagio Dancers From | Hollywood"; Helen Lynd, comedienne, in Dave Kramer 13th & C Sts. N.E. Ingomar Alexandria, Va. Claudette Colbert & Jesse Frederic March in Frenchmen” Com. Sh'tsubject. Com. 8n't subiect J9hnny Mack Browri & Jghnny Mack Brown & Eleanor Boardman leanor Boardman in The Great Meadow.” Com. Serial g i Comeds. Sallagher \ Poster to Adve William Boyd and mate to make ths conflicting charac- have e ved all over again Helen Twelvetren: “Painted Desert Come s n Maynard in Fighting Thru.” Serial Music From the Screen. one of the best talking pictures ever | “Something Differen made, and “will make a strong bid for | and Jack Doyle in an original sketch, first honors as the outstanding picture of | “Happy-Go-Lucky,” and Maxine Doyle, 1031 | mistress of ceremontes. The Earle or- | Laurel Adapted from Charles G. Norris | chestra, under Freddie Clark, and short | pgurel, Md. much-discussed novel, the principal roles | subjects will complete the program. L;l ol are enacted by a trio of well known | — players-—Jonn Boles, Genevieve Tobin | COLUMBIA—"Dishonored.” and Lols Wilson. The supporting cast | ¢ )ISHONORED,” starring Marlene includes Raymond Hackett, Bette Davis, Dietrich and Victor McLaglen ZaSu Pitts, Frances Dade and Richard | is the current screen offering at Loew' ‘The earlier sequences require | Columbia Theater. nce of five children, among | “Dishonored” is a story of espionage . them little Dickie Moore, aged 6 years, | during the Russo-Austtian war, with Prmcen n aan e ‘whose performance is outstanding. Miss Dietrich as a spy working against | 1119 g s L “Finn and Hattle " A 3 ell’ = era Lo 41 B ¢ One of the most ambitious pictures of | the government McLaglen serves. Many | pye 3 _ ¥ e e L g (O B o 3 s 5, Errol and its type since the advent of sound on | thrilling and dramati~ scenes are shown | Richmond Dark. s Munsor o 2 Darice.” “Finn and Hattle” “Finn and Hatti the( screen, “Sced” is luxuriously | in the film, with the girl saving her | Ajezandris. Va. __Sh't subjects Sh’ ct. Com. 8h't s Com. e miounted. It was produced ubdervthe |solier lovers life atithe ri of her| 2 Ea Plante and direction of John M. Stahl. own. Savoy L Cal” P tto F. Beck at the organ, Graham | Gustav von. Seiffertitz, Lew e S A et short subject. McNamee with the Universal Newsreel (Warner Oland and Barry Norton have | 3% - Constan: ne and selected short subjects and come- | the important supporting roles. 3 Dark. ‘Adolphe Menjou in dies complete the program. A special added attraction will be | J€CO h Laurel and Hardy's latest' comedy, | Sliver Spring. Md. “Chickens Come Home.” Stanton METROPOLITAN—*“Dirigible.” 2 «[)IRIGIBLE,” declared oo eo au- | O & C Sla NE thentic and thrilling drama deal- | State ing with Antarctic exploration by means esds. MA. of modern aircraft, which was shown to | Bethesds: Md. an enthuslastic and appreciative audi- | Sylvan ence on Thursday at Werner Bros.’ 104 R. I Ave. N.W. Com. Sportl't. News Metropoiitan Theater, will be presented e s S at the Metropolitan twice dally, at 2:30 | Tak, Apn Harding in and 8:30 p.m., with all seats reserved. oma SRRSEILDE: Thursday night, May 21, the picture will be shown for the last time here. It is a tale of adventure and courage, with much of its action laid at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J., or in the wastes of the Antarctic regions. Ralph Graves as a daredevil fiyer mokes an exploration trip to the South le, crashing his plane. Drama enters the p'ot when Holt, commander of a huge Navy dirigible, goes to his rescue. The Navy Department is said to have “Honor Among Lov- Cor 18th nr. R.LAv.N.E. _ers.” Com. Dark. oIt Pa “The Ce Com. Cartoon. News. __forman oo 5 g vetrees G Douglas Fairbanks Ben L it M1 R “Reaching for the oha.” Comedy. = Comeds. News. Comedy. " iNe Moon." Com. Act. _Moon Com. Act. __Comedy. Act Sevial “Alice White and "Mh;(e ,‘;llme“ln‘d Durn]!hy )fiaf‘kalll ot Eredertc Mc.;fix: and T gk AN ofe- <Show GIFlin Holly- “The Great Divide de” “Honor Amone Lotr | " CAT- | way back” says Samuel Goldwyn, compositions more carefully selected, E Sts. N. “omedy. Act. _wood.” Comedy. Act. Comedy. _News. SOmERY. - I Comedy. Act._ Col ews. al. | United Artists’ producer, “as an integral and certainly mors pleasing to TR = P ;s;fl kford and Oflefi;f_‘ o S Sigese &E,’.‘a’:’ér'x"nfl L.Jeck Perrin in part of film making, to be employed senses that music may edd its charm Palace “Rango. B ; t “Roush Romance.” “Rough Romance." Romence of the | only in pictures whose stories are actu- | to the drama of the screen. Ol dy. Act. Comedy. Sertal. _ | ally motivated by the rendition of a| The day of the familiar all-talking 5 v he d_of the . | vocal or instrumental air.” | picture thus fades into the “good-by Moner Ol 42 ) Sl Recent pictures coming out of Holly- | forever” night of oblivion. ang wood seem to prove this, according to | . Mr. Goldwyn. “It is evidenced in the . . cese of vocal music in ‘Indiscreet, | Keystone Cops in Action. Gloria Swanson's latest United Artists' "J"HE world's most famous police force, picture.” he says, “and in the case of Mack Sennett's original Keystone instrumental music in Charlie Chap- | Cops, have thaken ti= moth balls out lin’s City Lighte. In the former it is |of thair tattered uniforms, polished the - B i th2 rendition of a song which brings on | rust off their badg>s and are uphold- Marguerite Churchill ~ Slim Summerville in the climax. In the latter it has been ing the forces of law and order in 3 in ‘See America 3 n estimated that the underscoring of |“Stout Hearts and Willing Hands.” In ‘The Big_Trail Thirst Stolen Heaven Chaplin's picture adds 30 or 40 Per cent | ag stirring a chase as ever they staged Tod La Rocque and vieve Tobin and Halen Twelvetrees & Ronald Colman and |to its appeal. | - uf Lillian Gish_in Lilyan Tashman in oan Bennett in B in davs of vore, Ford Sterling, Chester “One Romantic Night."” “Millie “Bulldog Drummond.” When the movies first began 1o |Conkiin, Mack Swain, Hank Mann, News. _Comedy. Co Comedy. Serial. _News. visualize, music became one of the prime | Jjimmy Pinlayson, Clyde Cook and Grant Withers urges of Hollywood. Every major pro- Bebby Vernon rush to the rescue of e B3 HiRalre PUUARETRRMULORRAT. | ducer did nis share in importing Tin | Prany Fay and Leurs Le Plante, the : e Hatte” | Pan Alley from New York, and soTgs | embattied hero and heroine. g and dances were dragged into mearly | Lew Gody is the villain. Other prin- every picture. So-called musive’es 500N cipals are Mary Carr, Alec Prancis and began to dominate a'l schedules. And ‘fha’ Moore brothers. Matt, Tom and the result was inevitable. It didn't take | Owen. Bit and extra players maks up long for the moviegcing pubiic to be- | spnroximately 100 stars and featured cEe sated. and Hclly\'.;o‘dh(oudr;d 8 new | actors major problem upon its hands, for it 3 . not only had severa) musical DICtUTeS | fochioned mortesged e coar oy upon its shelves but it also found itself | is the first of a series to be mads by the :‘;“"d:n'd with scores of unwanted music | Masquers, an organization of Holly- TS. v & i “The pendulum which had swung so | nogag, SCTeen actors. Bryan Foy di- far in one directicn was then given a | 2 predigious push in ihe other direction, | and most producers eliminatzd music * from thein schedules entirely. The very word ‘music’ became arathema in some | studies, and a number of producers director of the United States Marine 7 E | . . : : |Band; Miss Charlotte Klein, wets accorded the producers of the picture [ How a Crime Film Is Made | {Doug's Lead to Be Starred | youidn Y uch 1t with the proverblal| \\5um organist and cholr director. ané full co-operation with the resources of | | JUNE' McCLOY, the blonde beauty | “Now. howev | Bdward de S. Melcher, music writer of . ent. s e Y| “Now. however, the prccess of read- ke iy S of the T R O%Kwy?.?;? o1 cx:‘e;?::e: | |J brought from Broadway to play a [ justment has set in and a return to | The Star, have been announced by t= Hoeding the cast are Jack Holt e athentic_background. for “The | | featured role with Douglas Fairbanks | music is noticed, but on'y in cases in | Management as judges of the musW - Ralph Graves, stars of “Flight and | supply au s new picture featuring in “Reaching for the Moon,” has been | which stories are aided rather than im- | Week activities at the Fox Theats BUNacine ", sumoEtd by B e | Sace SR, i Kay Yesnols | placed under a five-year contract by |peded by its incluion. In Miss Swan. | Where 20 local instrumental and choral Bosworth, Karns, Harold Good- | of the secret operations of a fictitious *Atcording to Charles R, Rogers, pro- | ubon the seren. e enf e Douglas Fairh VI USIC in films, whose appeal had its own So with characteristic initia- been practicaly tive the studios are getting rid of their o £l od producers bent upon cavitalizing army of Tin Pan Alley song writers and Jarner Oland in ~ | the novelty of the talkies, is finding its | instead are assembling smooth-fit Janet Gagnor and Charles Parrell in The Man Who Came t. N.W. 307 9th James Hall and RS g, H 8h't subjects. Richard Arlen in *“The Santa Fe Trall. Fdmund Lowe 1n “Men on Comedy. Short _rubject. __Short_subject. Harry Langdon and Ni nd. Phillips Holmes Betty Compson and Tan Keith in “The Boudoir Diplo- mat.”_Comedy. e Colbert & Claudette Colbert & Claudeste daren in Frederic March in «Honor Among Lov- “Honor Amon om.‘News. __ers." Com FOX—"“Young Sinners.” Tov- News George Bancroft in ¢ in Dark. Gegrse Bangrott § “Scandal Sheet. “Scandal Sheet.” ance Bennett & Helen Twelvetrees Montgomery in and Robt, Ames in and Rebt, | “The Easiest, Way" Millie. Com. Sportl't. News. _ Variet - Al i Cert George_O'Brien and 11 Louise Muntington in Alarm” “Fair Warning." ri'n. Serial Com. Cart'n. n velvetrees Bernice Claire and rnice Claire and L0 T“E‘Amu in Walter Pids d"m: in and Elissa Landi n “Body _and Soul." Willlam Haines 1 “Tajlor-Made Man." Vitaphone short subject. Cha; 2l Elissa Landt n “Body and Soul." Willlam Haines in ““Tailor-Made Man." Vitaphone short T om. subject. Nofms Talmadge in Norma Talmadge in “Du_Barry. Woman ry, Woman Ann Harding in “Eas! Vigtor McLaglen n t Lynne. “Th 4 Victor McLaglen in ree Rogues. “Th) g Gal in "It Pavs to Advertise.” ‘Three Rogues.” uck Jones in Takoma Park. D. C. Claudette Colbert and Frederic March in “Honor Among Lov- e s om. Taudette Coibert and ederic March in “Honor Among Lov- 8h't sub._ Com. ancy Carroll and Phillips Holmes in “Stolen Heaven.” Comedy. News. Will_Rogers in “A _Connecticut Yankee " Nahn)rfi Hn‘loll l‘ d g “Stolen Heaven." en and J n 4 Olsen and Johnson in SR g apneon 8 Oeenand aher Our Gane comedy. Our Gang comedy. Will_Rogers in +'A_Connecticut Yankee Bhort_subject Gary Cooper i “Fighting Caravan Our Gang comed subject. _ “Short_sub Prederic March and Bob Custer i MaryBrian in of the North of Passion.” Family 3. Richard Dix ‘in Comedy. Comedy. _Act. ~__“Shootin Straight.” "~ Marion ies in Marion Davies in 3 ncDonal Bill_Boyd and “It's & Wise Child." “It's & Wise Child.” e d Helen Twelvetrees in Vitaphone short Vitaphone short “The Painted Desert." ‘subject. subect. Comedy. - couple in love, with the face of obstacles Mifaio: WAk I 'APT. W. H. SANTELMANN, retirun £ y Wiy Short subject. Ga. Ave. & Quebec win, Emmett Corrigan and Al Roscoe. | metropolitan law-enforcing organiza- | duction chief, it is proposed to star her \ “In Chaplin's ‘City Lights' it is the | |first_in a series of two-reel comedies | musical undersccring which builds up based upon the exploits of the modern | mcst of the comedy <ituations, and in gold digger. Between appearances in |some instances, it is b-lieved, it even these featurettes she wili be assigned | works upon the emsilons, For the most | important roles in R-K-O Pathe fea- | part, however, it is done subtly to reach tures. the audience through its subconscious June McCloy first attracted attention | mcods.” at the Club Richman in New York.| If you can harken back to the nickel- | With a unique voice and manner of [odeon days, when the chase, that great | delivery, she became a national radio | institution of silent players, linked more | favorite, and subsequently was selected | than seven or eight reels on the screen, | . “Dirigible” was directed by Frank Cap- | tion. The collection of newspapers was 11arco's “Soclety Circus,” with the Har- | ra, who directed “Flight” and “Snp. ired by the fact that within a few ris Twins, Tabor and Greene, Betty, | marine. ¢ il iflfi?,‘{fif p¥gcedlhg the writing of the | story, investigations into alleged cor- The Moving Picture cAlbum Tuption of crime-fighting forces had By Robert E. Sherwood. been under way in a number of large American cities. The findings of such bodies were of extreme interest in build- ing the story, because it had & basis of fact. From the newspaper Teports were | |gathered revelations that were said to CIRCLE fiom.si 4he" mliior Sercen LATOR RoLAND, TOUNG: i _WARDS. “THE 8O e o by George White as one of the stars of | you will remember the girl at the up- N that easlly forgettable film drama, | Wellman, who directed If, 15 an avistion | 12 Cinsted wide open” many 1o0c| P his recent “Scandals” Tight piano just underneath the screen ;Born to Love' is & demonstra- | enthusiast (you will remember that ne | o PUaUOnS I r stool pigéons, | The Gold Digger Comedies in which | that hammered out accompanying musi- tion of the evils that ocour When | Was responsible. Tor “Wianr Ly Lo Vith confessioms of stool Piatons | Miss McCloy will be starred is & new | cal snatches. truth is sacrificed for the benefit | has long wanted to produce an epic of | Fe oot o ine pians of police raids to series of six 2-reelers. When “the villain pursued her” there of a solliary star. We see Miss | the balloon corps. His ambition was | & o u s ranly dramatic sory e was sinister music, stealthy and insidi- Constance Benniett as & wWar nurse.|about to be realized when his empioyers | 2Ke UP 8 highly : e Early in the picture she falls in love | the Messrs. Warner, jotormed mo el | e T TR Spring Cleaning Barred | yhen love was in the offing, and a thun- | vith a handsome young leading man the balloon picture was postponed Directs With a Mashie derous roll for the oncoming Indians, ¥ho 1s about to return to the line in | definitely. In view of the sueces ot i SPRING cleaning is not allowed inan approaching storm or a scoundrei France. Later she hears that he has “Little Caesar,” gangster films wers o [EDWARD SUTHERLAND, it is said the Paramount property room.| with no good intent. been iilled. However, a singularly 'great demand, and o Mr Weae directs his motion pictures with a There s no attic into which broken | All this was called “mood music,” and oo T noble and broad-minded British officer | was ordered to make one as much 1k | 80lf stick instead of a megaphone. chairs, old dressers, vases and worn-out | was played from a single volume, en- o Raimier M4 ETomorrow, marries her and all is well—until the | “Little Caesar” as possible |7 A director long before taiking pictures toys can be tossed. titled “Photoplay Compasitions"—that ‘TuesdsyDOUG FAIR- griginal “lover returns unexpectedly | Mr. Wellman was highly incensed at | came in, he was accustomed to hold a J In motion pictures an old broken- |is, if the pianist could read music. Many jrom Dowhere. Following which her | this order, and railed against if. byt | megaphone. Having nothing in his| B | down chiffonier is often as serviceable | of them merely hammered away by ear husband turns mean and divorces her, | his bosces were firm “Forget aboyt | hands during the direction of a talking - [ |as a well preserved Chippendale. For | at popular songs. AR Al Uhereby enabling her in the final fade- | the belloons,” they commanded him | fcene made him uncomfortable. —In screen plays laid in earlier generations | Today, after discovering too much | ALEXANDRIA. VA. out to merge with the man of her first | “and get by ™ | order to have something to handle, he | old furniture in good repair is valuable, | dialogue is out of place on the screen | e e o ¥ ke bicgraphy of o cheice, PR e e Phy ot R | e i o' mikenic: | and when it has had all possible service | and that beckground music is a real L To carry out this preposterous plot, | go Mr He still has the same golf stick, rusty it Js not relegated to the junk heap, but | asset, mood music is coming back into | NDUMBARTON & ‘Tissents Ame and also to give Miss Bennett all the and m with age, which he has carried on all| is stored in the property room, to be GAROL LOMBARD in *“MAN OP THE| WORLD."™ &udience’s sympathy at all times, it is | I; dug out when a new use is found for it. necessary to warp and distort the im- ‘Di,»,”:‘n'vu R e X I portant “character of the British offi- | 1) e o s Bt e tive enough to gain her affection: and | C/C1J time anybody even mentions the | ("\LARA BOW has retumed to the tive enoughs ' er affection; and | word ‘beer’ o them.” Paramount studios in Hollywood to then, o good reason. he Tepulsive | ¢ i then went ahead and made good |resume work on her next picture, “The mon'smerm. g rd beglnn!né e must;that] t_hxeat, with the result that his Secret Call,” which_will follow "K?Ck justify Miss Bennett in marrying him | CTPIOVers are due to collect & hand- | rnv to the screen. It is an adaptation Wellman gritted his teeth | ttered to himself. “All right. I'll give ’em Clara‘ Bow U‘p ;nd Going. A large part of the so-called junk turniture was dragged from iis_ hiding places to one of the sets of Clara Bow's R = picture “Kick In" It was used R T HONOR AMONG LOVERE represent the aftl of a home. Comeds. "woveliy " Carionn. Alter these “props” had been placed lstg & B L Ave MW on the set & heavy layer of fing dust SYLVAN ittty i Vrmaie, was blown into the room and allowed EOBERT AMES in “MILLIE." Comeds. to settle over everything. The com- and clinging to him; and in the end he must justify her in loathing him | and leaving him It is small wonder that throughout “Born to Love” Miss Bennett gives the impression that she hasn't the faintest idea what it is all about. She walks through the picture in a dazed sort of way, obediently fulfilling the terms of her contract, doing as she is told, being shot by the camera in one emotional ene after another, but indicating at 1l times that she doesn't know what the shooting’s for and, furthermore, doesn't much care. ‘There is another instance of unfortu- nate character manipulation in “The Becret Bix.” This is a highly moral melodrama, urporting to show how the bootlegging industry in a great city is wiped out by a group of patriotic vigilantes, aided by noble newspaper men and gallant policemen. It would be all very stirring some profit from “The Public Enemy” —a far bigger prcfit, in all probability, |than they “would ever have realized Ir.’xmdthc balloons. on't vouch for this story; it's true. Por it 18 my beltel thnhzg: quality of motion pictures would be raised inestimably if all of them were made by directors who were fighting mad. * o ox o EVERAL sterling performances are now visible on the screen, includ- ing John Barrymore’s delightfully original interpretation cf the sinister mesmerist in “Svengall” (by weird, but thoroughly legitimate means, Mr. Bar- Tymore actually manages to endow the despised Svengali with an_irresistible charm), and Tallulah Bankhead's en- noblement of a stupid role in “Tarnished Laiy.” Miss Bankhead has not received | the best of the breaks in this, her first | Paremount picture, but she has made of the noted play William C. De Mille, which was pro- duced on Broadway years ago by David Belasco. It will present Miss Bow as 8 tele- phone girl who becomes enmeshed in political intrigue. New Stow for Constance CHARL!S R. ROGERS, R-K-O Pathe | production head, announces the purchase of “Dangerous to Love” an original story by Austin Parker and Charles Beahan, as Connie Bennett's next feature. Austin Parker will go to Hollywood to write the continuity and dialogue. Heralded as a brilliant young_play- wright and short-story writer, Parker | also is the husband of Miriam Hopkins, well known Broadway star. One of his latest contributions to the screen is ‘‘Honor Among Lovers,” starring Clau- “The Woman,” by | IRENE RICH, | Long a favorite with screen audiences, poses with her pet parrot. Irene, in a signed statement, says her bird will nct eat crackers, preferring breakfast food the bird's proud owher is appearing in three new " “The Mad Parade” and “Five and Ten.” from a spoon. But, anywa: plctures—"Strangers May K Born a Dancer. GIRL who never had a dancing natural grace. her share of the honors in the current ' the is a featured danseuse. Fanchon_and Marco's “Society Circus” idea at the Fox. - | She is Betty Diane Martin. When | she went to Fancho and Marco for a job, all she had was good looks and a They saw her possibili- lesson in her life takes more than | t'es, put her under training and today pleted result was an eerie place, fit for | the tragic events which take place there. ROMANCE SUBWAY EXPRES! Mad Youth of 1931, se thrills. and fAnding réality of life “YOUNG CAROLINA “E&NS /58 5% MOOI with DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS. TAKOMA % *Bidat Froasien a: 'y Sunday at 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, Monday 10 PRINCESS MITZIE GREEN 1119 H st NE. Line. 2600 nd _Z. i From Matinee. 3 P.M. CRREE ‘raé:;'z DOWRTOMN SROR AMONG LOVERS. 18th and Col Rd. N.W. AMBASSADOR R Nw TCDAY and TOMORROW—| OTHY !‘[AC}(‘"XLL in “THE PARTY HUS- w"(")'iLO T 62 B B NE and the audience would doubtless be | her impression and it appears to be a moved to cheer the triumph of virtue | deep one. ‘were it nlo; l'l"ntv}:fi !m’gn of vicious- | ‘h‘NeVEH:APXQM. mthvorlu film stars 5 = e ness are led by ace Beery. s week are not Mr. Barrymcre, Miss 1 The trouble is that Mr. Beery is 3o |Bankhead or even Br. Beery. . They Drafting Actors From Stage. much more alive, more hearty, more |are two non-actors: Mr. Robert Tyre RANCES MOFFAT, noted Broad- ! lovable than any of his righteous op- | Jones, the Georgian giant, and Mr. way ingenue, has just arrived in ponents that, despite the strenuous|Alfonso Bourbcn, the ex-King of | Hollywood from New York to start her efforts of the scenario writer to repre- | Spain. moton plcture career under a Para- | sent hi.m as a contemptible cur, the | In “The Putter,” his inaugural two- | mount- contract. | crowd's sympathy is all with him. | reeler, Bobby Jones proves himself to| Miss Moffat is the first arrival of a His stance | group of 10 Broadway players signed | * x % x be a model of gracefulness. evolve | as a screen celebrity is perfect. He is| & short time ago by that company. dette Colbert. SHOWS TODAY-3 SINNER 5 2:30—5:30—8:30 P. M. | Foz Speed Drama OLUMBIA PICTURES: with 1 Conn. Ave. and “anlGlBlE" THOMAS MEIGHAN A B DOROTHY JORDAN WATELER and CRORERT. 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He i5 obviously one per- | has been signed by Paramount to play | should work just the other way around. | son who can say to himself, “I know |in “Women Love Once,” the screen For characters are apt to assert their | I'm champion of champlons—and what | version of Zoe Akins' play “Daddy's Tight to live their own lives: they re- | of it!" Aiding him in his triumphant | Gone a-Hunting,” which Edward Good- fuse to fit into the mechanical plots debut as a professional is that kindred | man is directing. devised for them. | spirit Frank Craven, whom Hollywood - e Ruth Chatterton's Next One of the finest of all examples of | should use & lot more often. honest, ‘forthright character develo -1 As Ler ex-King Alfonso; he has been ment is in “The ic. emy.” e | seen frequently of late in the news- UTH CHATTER’ 2 chief protagonist of this remarkable |reels, and his every appearance evokes R for Pulmount?g i."::‘.zm." melodrama is permitted to shift for |outbursts of applause from audiences | ton of Leonard Merrick's novel ion himself, with the result that the record |of demotracy-loving Americans. One | rels and the Lady. The story is one of his progress upward and downward |might think that the citisens of this | of intrigue and strange love in the Kim: i relentlessly consistent and logical. great republic would cheer for the berley diamond flelds. Ralph Bellam; The authors haven't tried to make him Spanish revclutionists and hiss the | s newcomer, will be Miss Chattertons turn sweet for the sake of sentimentel | fallen monarch: but if one did think |1 man. effect, or to realize the error of his|that, one would be wrorg. : ways for the sake of @ happy ending.! TIntellectually, Americans may ap- lives like a rat, and he cies like & prove of the new democratic regime in rat, and the audience knows that the | Spain, and wish it well; but their emo- hi juctice has been done. tonal alleglance is still devoted t> the | _ LOIS WILSON TOBIN Mare “SOCIETY CIRCUS” ‘ X with SAVOY ien & cou ma. mw. fi'vb'u ith & Park Ba. MWL ”%E“‘n N B RRECTIO ADDED FEATURES A Deily at 10 2. | fl)’i‘" 'Ga. Ave. & Quebes Bt N.W. e 151 1. 'm.i 356 6 5:30 TODAY | and TOMORROW_OUSEN sod, oxliEo ok n. . | BOB HAMILTON { ANBHE € “LOCOMOTIVE” e SLANGE SMEET | LAUGHS b e «-LEW CODY - WARNER OLAND : £ ey el naney ‘GUSTAV VON SEYFFERTITZ.. ¥= way, 1 have heard an inter- | last of the Bourbons, who, whatever kis [ Ail .\ :’.‘ o ! 55 e S ':-'.:‘ Cz‘"““’ € .3; but possibly thentis - e LAUREL and HARDY €, Pinsuon of the surprising excellence | Sl d":u:‘“ Sy YA o 'HEIER Y H°'S ‘ & “Cuicens cont HoME * g _ ©f the “The Public Enemy.” Walter (Copyrisht, 1000 — s