Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1931, Page 49

- llusionments. AMUSEMENTS. Photoplay Attractions METROPOLITAN—Barrymore in “Svengali.” wm BROS'. METROPOLITAN i this week presents, under a con- tinuous run policy opening at 11 am. and closing at 11 p.m., Warner Bros.' version of the fdmous classic “Trilby” retitled “Svengali,” with John Barry- more as Svengali, the evil, mysterious music master with hypnotic power. Stepping out of De Maurier’s famous classic “Trilby,” which won such sensa- tional acciaim in its day as a play, Svengali stands as the embodiment of evil, a Mephisto. The part of Trilby, one not ‘only of rare charm, but of dramatic appeal, is played by Marian Marsh, a “screen find of the year,” who makes her debut in the role. Others in the support of Mr. Barrymore are Bramwell Fletcher, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare, Carmcl Myers, Luis Alberni, Ferike Boros, Yola D’Avril and Paul Porcasi. ‘The program will be completed with specially selected short reel subjects. COLUMBIA—“Strangers May Kiss.” NORMA SHEARER returns to the screen after more than six months in “Strangers May Kiss,” a new Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer - picture now current at Loew’s Columbia Theater. During her vacation, Miss Shearer was honored by an award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for having contributed the outstanding performance of last year in “The Divorcee.” Ursula Parrott who wrote the story from which that film was made, also is the author of the nowel from which “Straagers May Kiss” was directed by George Fitzmaurice. Robert Montgomery plays oppos Miss ‘Shearer, with Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich, Hale Hamilton and Jed Prouty. The story concerns the career of & woman who follows the man she loves to the four corners of the earth and | wins out despite a series of bitter dis- FOX—“Six-Cylinder Love.” TH! humorous and very human “Six- Cylinder Love,” a. 1931 version of the play which had such widespread popufiri y a few years ago, is the cur- | rent attraction in a screen version at the Fox. Fanchon & Marco's “The Dance” ; idea and the cheerful Johnny Marvin on the stage program are vying with the i for first place with the cus- ers. In “Six-Cylinder Love” cre seen a young couple living within their means and quite contented with their old Ford untll a high-pressure salesman crashes through their fence with the latest and biggest model country car on the mar- ket. The very sight of such a car whets the young bride's ambition. She ‘wants it, and though they can't afford it she gets it. What happens after that is the expected thing, but it's often done in the unexpected way. They find new friends—people with one-way pockets and thirsty throats, people who can find all sorts of ways for this young couple to spend their money, and soon the couple are floundering quite beyond their depth. Then there is the acci- dent, and the shadow of the jail for the young wife, the theft of some money, threatened financial and social ruin, and the realization. It all sounds rather serious, but, in fact, it’s mostly humcrous. Spencer Tracy, Edward Everett Horton, Bert Roach, Una Merkel and El Brendel help make it 50, not to mention William Col- ler, sr. Quite as important is the ce of one Sidney Fox, who is said be a real “find,” as the young wife. “The Dance” idea offers Everett San- R-K-O KEITH'S—“Donovan’s Kid.” '‘ROM the of gne of the great- F est of Wamm books, “Big Brother,” with Richard Dix, who reached the heights in “Cimarron,” and little Jackie Cooper, whose “Skippy” Et him at the top of the juvenile stars, Pictures* “Donovan’s Kid” is cur- rently featured at R-K-O Keith's ‘Theater. All the thflnmmne marked the story, with & of the old East Side when the “Car Barn Gang” a Hot Time Old Town " was machine-gun type, “Donovan's Kid” is said to be a fascinating human_ story of a gang leader who on the death of a pal was left a 7-year-old waif to foster and decides to “go straight.” Marfon Shilling, daughter of Stage Director Edward Shilling and who has several screen successes to her credit, has the leading feminine role. Frank Sheridan, a stage veteran of 50 years: Boris Karloff, Fred Kelsey and Bob Wilber are others in the cast. Fred Niblo was the director. Additional attractions include an R-K-O Pathe two-reel comedy, “Twisted ‘Tails”; screen snapshots, Aesop's fables and the R-K-O Pathe News. RIALTO—“Hell Bound.” ¢JJELL BOUNI a James Cruze production, this week’s attraction at the Rialto Theater, is described as another “gangster story with an unusus ngle.” It introduces a new type gang leader—a sentimentalist—and a fast- moving melodrama with a smashing climax. Leo Carrillo as the gang leader loves the girl who falls into his care wien she is mistaken for a wounded girl killer. She proves to be a chorus girl, nniless and desperately ill, and he to hope to go straight and live a quiet life in the country with her as his wife. But there is a gang war on. Lola Lane, the girl, sweetly sympa- thetic and lovely, sings a tuneful song. Lloyd Hughes is the doctor who is the girl and then falls in love with her, Ralph Ince plays the rival-gang- ster, Dorgad. Others include Richard Tucker, Gertrude Astor, William Law- rence, Marty Faust, Harry Strang and Helene Chadwick. rected the picture, an adaptation by | Julian Josephson of the story “Plati- | num, | Adele Comandini. Beck at the organ and Graham M Namee announcing the Universal News Reel complete the program. PALACE—"“Ladies’ Man.” W!LL!AM POWELL and Kay Fran- cis are seen this week at Loew's Palace Theater in a screen romance titled “Ladies’ Man,” the tale of a suave cosmopolite whom the moneyed ladies of New York are “mad and whcm many of the cld men of the town are “mad about"—kbut in a differ- ent sense. It is Powell's “way with the ladies” which causes the jealousy among New York's elite which even- tually brings disaster to the fortunes of a cool and calculating hero-villain, As the favorite of the daughters of wealth, Powell, who neither works, sells bonds, nor has an independent income, gets ahead in life by accepting gifts from his admiring female iriends. Of the three more important women who fall in love with him, there is one, Kay Francis, whom he himself loves, and it is her arrival on the scene whici calls for the danger signal. The de- nouement is a fight for iife between Powell and a husband. theonhth' stage l;rgbbi Gric2 headlines show composed of 62 young ladies in “An All-Girl Revue.” forced at the point of a gun to attend | 1349 Wis. Ave. Walter Ling di- | £08 K St. N.W. by Edward Deal Sullivan and | 13th & C Sts. N. | Stanton EARLE—“The Maltese Falcon.” TH.E Earle Theater is now offering | what its management announces s | one of its finest stage and screen pro- | grams for some time. Bebe Daniels and | Ricardo Cortez are co-featured in “The Maltere Falcon,” a Warner Bros. | Vitaphone picture, while the stage pro- | gram is headlined by “Uncle” Joe| Laurje, jr., assisted by a company of capable artists. “The Maltese Falcon” concerns the amazing Misc Wonderly, an adveaturess who uses all the wiles known to femi- ninity to lure different men who are try- to find out whether she is or is not the head of the most a erton detective. In support of Bebe Daniels are Ricardo Cortez, Dud- ley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Aptel, Duigat Frye, Wallet Long. aoce: p! e, Walter . Agos- tino Borgato and J. Farrell MMMDWAA' d. On the s a fine program is head- lined by the famous “Uncle” Joe Laurle, jr., and company of six in a new offer- ing, * vity.” The acrobatic danc- ing comedian, Maurice Colleano, and his family; Vernon Rathburn, billed as ‘The Paderewski of the Saxophone,” and quintet in “Hi Elmer,” a comical ruled and “There’s in the ‘Tonight' popular, and yet a far cry, it is claimed, from typical crook pictures of the racketeer and ! offering, with Fred Clarke’s Earle Or- chestra music and short reel subjects, complete the bill. “Trilby” Now “Svengali.” | ;) “Svengali,” one of the most successful novels and plays of a generation ago, du Maurier’s Teappears in aclw dramatic form and with a new tle. The “Trilby” of e du Maurier ‘was published in 1894, after having run serially in Harper's Magazine. It caught on like wildfire and for many months Jed all contemporary works of fiction as | 2 best seller in both England and the | United States. With due Maurier’s con- | sent Paul M. Potter wrote a dramatized | version which was presented for the| first time on the stage of the Park The- | ater, Boston, during the week of March | 11, 1895. It was acted by A. M./ Palmer’s famous company and the orig- inal cast contains & number of cele- ted names. ‘Wilton Lackaye created the role of the sinister hypnotist Svengali, now | played on the screen by Mr. Barrymore. The part of Trilby, the beautiful but | hapless heroine, was enacted by Virginia Harned (who was for a time Mrs. E. H. | Sothern). In the picture the role of | Trilby is sssigned to Marian Marsh. | Little Billee was the late Alfred Hick- | man, now succeeded by Bramwell N John Barrymore’s new Mcwre,; Fletcher. Gecko was played by Leo | Ditrichstein; the latest incarnation is Luis Albernl. Taff was Burr McIn- | tosh; in the new Warner Bros. produc- | tion he is Lumsden Hare. e first | dramatic interpreter of the Laird was | John Glendinning and the latest is| Donald Crisp. Carmel Myers portrays | Honorine, the opera singer,.in the pic- | ture. following in the footsteps of | Lucille Nelson. | Later, in 1895, a London edition of Potter's dramatization was produced by Sir Herbert ‘Beerbohm Tree, and for | several seasons companies were playing | “Trilby” in country. Twenty years after the origi- | nal production, April 13, 1915, “Trilby” was revived in New York at the Shubert | — theater and once more Wilton Lackaye | played Svengall, Burr McIntosh was | Tafly and Leo Ditrichstein was Gecko, | with a new Trilby in Phyllis Neilson- Terry. Others in the cast were Bran- every English-speaking | photoplay studio in Hollywood. don Tynan, George MacFarlane, Cyn-| thia Latham, Rose Ccghlan and Taylor Holmes. | The screen version was adapted by J. | Grubb Alexander from the novel and the production was directed by Archie| Mayo. | Improving on Joshua. 'HE story of “Six Cylinder Love’ which Thornton Freeland directed, is a comedy with many of its scenes Jaid in and about two houses in the suburbs of—any large city. This might seem to be one of the least expensive Joeations possible. The rest ought to be easy. And it was—that is, except for the sun. Some of the scenes were laid in the early morning, some in the afternoon. It seems hardly necessary to point out that the movement of the sun supplies a constantiy changing ilght and causes widely varying shadows 2t a given spot In the cufting of tre film, this change of light and shade is enough to spoil a picture; for it shows vp inuch more than a layman would belleve possible in_the completed film The pioneer motion picture producers | golved this problem in their own way, | good thing also to give some considera- | girl; with & revolving stage upon which were | constructed interior rooms with remov- zble walls and no ceilings. As the sun moved the stage revolved with it, for the actors to go on with their parts. Reflectors in the form of large mirrors or composition board covered with tin- fofl threw the sun’s rays to parts of the room that might be left in shadow. Rain, of course, would make work im- possible. Freeland decided to build both his ‘bungalows on'one of the large ctages, one of Colonial type and the other a Cotswold cottage type. Within the veumcomp elel Q‘Ven wo'ir:g and water and gas piping. n “outside” ers planted hundreds of bushes, flower plants, even small c‘- trees, in specially prepared they ht last for 3 m:‘{efli he shi | actually growing in size throughout the | period of filming. | To simulate his sunlight effects, Free- land used “terraces” of powerful studio | lights set at varying levels, in addition | to hundreds of “scoops” festooned across the top of the stage for vertical light- |'ing. 'Thus by turning on the proper “terrace,” the angle of the light and | the ensuing shadows could be main- | tained for any desired’ period and the in;x:jkrpvn Joshua-like, at the right time of day. WEEK OF MAY 2 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Bebe Danlels n “The Maltese Falcon. Ambassador 18th & Columbia R. Bebe Daniels in ““The Malts Patcon.” Bebe Daniels in rene Dunne and Lowell Sherma; “Bachelor Api ment.” Sh't subje Dunne and Sherman in “Bachelor Apart- ment.” Sh't subject Leon Erroll anc FeBu Bitks “Finn and Hattle.” ‘Shor b Bert Wheeler and bert Woolsey Cracked Nuts. Short_subject Arcade Hyattsyille, Ashton Clarendon. Va. Dark. Bert Wheeler and Bert Wheeler ar, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in “Cracked Nuts." hort_subject: Robert W ioolsey in ‘Cracked Nuts. Comedy. N y in Evelyn_Brent and Louis Wolheim in “The Silver Horde.” Will Rogers n “A Connecticut Yankee.” Avalon 5612 Conn. A: will Rosers n “A_Comnecticut ankee. “Will Rogers in “A_Connecticut _Yankee.” Ave. Grand 645 Pa. Ave. S.} Cameo Mt. Rainier, Md. Dark. Will Rogers “A Connecticut Yankee. o Laye Johin Boles in Heavenly Nieht. ‘Comeds. N Joan Crawford in “Dance. ls, Dance,’ Short_subject. Laye and Sne Comedy. Leon Errol Mitzi Gr n Pinn and Hattie. Carolina L 11th & N.C. Ave Central 25 9th St Circle uis Wolhetm The_Sin_Ship. _Comedy Marion James Gleason and Polly Moran in alls s0 in love with her that h2 dares | 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. 1t's a_Wise Child." 1ie Chaplin in ity Lights.” Colony Ga. Ave. & Farragnt Dumbarkonw Claudette Coll Frederic March in “Honor Amon| er: Mary Astor and £ Leon Errol and Mitzl Green in d Hattie.” Meadow.” Mary Astor and Wil Rogers in uis Wolheim in Connecticut Yankee ’ne Sin Ship.” Bobby Jones seri Comedy. __“'How 1 Play Gol: Marion Davies. William Powell & James Gleason and Carole Lombard Pol y n in “Man of the “It's a Wise Chil World * Eleanor Boardman in “The Great ‘Finn a Ruth _Cactterton in “The Right to Love." Bobby Jones series. ow 1 Play Gol Mary nd Robert Ames in “Behind Office Doors.” Chaxlie Chaplin in “City Lights.” [ Colbert & Frederic March in “Honor Among Lovers.” d John Meck Brown& Ni . Will Rogers in o Leila Hyams and ‘Miilionaire. Norman Foster i Vitaphone short “Men Call It Love. subject. Comedy. g Orange. ° Boy Friend comeds, Ruth Chatterton and aul Lukas in ‘Unfaithful omedv. Ne: Ruth Chauterton and Paul Lukas in “Unfaithful Comedy. News. Charles Rogers in “Alone Came Youth.” _ and Mary Nolan Owen_Moore Barthelmess i e Pinger Points.” b es. L o Crawiord in ance. Fools, Darice. Short_subject. Dorothy Ma-kaill & el McCrea i Kept Husbands omedy. News. anc Philtivs Holmes n tolen Heaven Carroll and Nancy Carroll and Phillips Holmes “Stolen Heaven T Conrad Nagel and in “Outside_the Law.” Serlal Snort sub'ect. William Haines i “A Tatlor-Made Man.” Sydney Poxe 'in_ entures in “The Bad Sistes ° Sh't subject. Norman_ Foster and Carole Lombard in “It Pays to Advertise.” Comedy. _Act. William_Powell Kay Francis Man of the World Comedy. Serial Lupe Velez in “Resurrectior Mary Pickford in “RikL" Comedy. Ruth Chattert Paul Lukas Connecticut Yankee Bobby Jones serie: “How T Play Gol William: Powe'l and Carale Lombard in “Mas of the orld."” irene Dunne and Lowell Sherman in “Bacheler Apart- __ment™ Cartn Ber Warner_Baxter and nnett b Bobby 2 “How 1 Play Golf' Bert Wheeler and Robert, Woolsey in “Cracked Nuts."_ Doctors Short _subject. _ Bert Wheeler and Robert, Woolsey n Cracked N vies and Sidney Blackmer in “It's a Wise Child.” 0 Teon Janney and Fairlawn Stone Anacostia, D. C. ed Hippodrome Fhiilosoiser iy’ Chonon lppo r !lnlgn Heaven. _Comedy. News. George Arliss | ““The Millionaire. oy Priend comedy. Snortlieht Reel. Home 18th nr. R.LA: Com._Cartoon. Nov. Princess 1119 H St. N.E. Richmond Alexandri Richard frien and Fay Wray in “The_Conailering Horde.” Dark. Leila Hyams and Foster in, about | 3030 14th 8t Seco Silver Spring. Md. Frances Dee in June M 6th & C St State Leon - Lewis . uth Chotterton and Short reels and a comedy, Oftto F.| Jesse Faul Lukas i Jack Oakie and “Claudette Colbert Ruth Chatterton n “Unfaithtul. Comedy. nney and Stone in “Father's Son.” Dogville comedy. Jack_Oakie Jac in in “June Moon. omedy, Oland_in Chan Car- Warner ‘Charlie Ties_On. Nancy Carroll and Philiips Holmes ‘Stolen Heaven Comedy. News. _ George Arliss in “The Millionaire.” Boy Friend comedy. ‘Sportlight Reel. Ben Lyon and Ona_ Munson in “The Hot Helr Comedy. _ Nevs. Richard Atlen and Fay Wray in ctor_McLaglen in ot Exactly G emen. Comedy. Act. Gary Cooper and Marlene Deitrich in ““Moroce _Short_subféct. Kay Johnson Star cast in oA - a ‘he_Conauering cula. rde.” i ines and Willlam Haines and Porothy Jordam i Dorothy Jordan in Dorothy Jordan in o -Made Man “Tailor-Made Man. o, bt Com. _8h't subjects. Comedy. : co"nmficf Bennett n “Sin Takes & ‘Hotiday ~Jack Oakl G s e ‘Montgomer: inspiration. Comedy n n “Honor Among ‘Hopor Among Lovers.” Lovers.” _ Comedy. _Cartoor e 'cl-u'um;e “Coibert Leon Errol and Mitzl Green in “Finn and Hettie.” Comedy. _Act. Victor_McLa “Not Exactly Gen- . tlemen." Eomedy. Act. ary Cooper and Marlene Deitrich in ““Morocco.” hort_subject. Moary Astor and Robert Ames 1 “Behind Office Doors.” Comedy. News. role Lombard an of the Worl Serial. _Comed: John Boles and Lupe Velez Star cast in i “Resnrrection.” “Dracula. William Powell and ey 100t Gibson in ‘Clesrine the Range. Comedy. Act. omedy. Act. Serial john Gilbert in by 7. Brothers i Mar> Brothers _ subject. Oakle and “Animal Crackers.” __Sportlight Re JToha Mack fona Mack Brown & The Great Mead~w.* ~__Serial. Comedv. Comedy. william Powell George O'Brien I “Falt Wetnine. " Joe E. Brown and Jeanette MacDonald, in“The Lottery Bi 8Short “John McCormack evieye Tobin in in A‘Lady ‘Sons o' My Heart.” Lady Surren- Mary Brian and John Holliday in Bela Lugos! in “Dra “Captein Apolejack.” ____ Serial. Charies Farrell and rna Loy in ai ries On." Comeds. Walter Huston n Phillips Holmes in “The_Vi Man {o Man si uous Buste: 0 and chatlotte Greenwood in “Parlor. Bed Room d_Bath." Merguerite Charchil and Warner Oland in “Charlie Chan Car ene Delroy n “Diyorce Among Friends.” Joan Crawiord and Joan Crawford and_ ‘Robt. Armstrong in "Paid " inie Lightner and Robt. Armstrons in wn, in “Paid, Comedsy. _Variety. Ruth Chatterton in “Unfaithful.” Takoma Park, D. C. Warner Oland in “Charley Ch Carries_On. Ruth Chatterton in “Unfaithful.” Jackie Cooper and obert Coogan in “Skippy " Tivoli 13th & Park Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett in “Doctors Wives.” Short subject. Jackie Cooper and ert Coogan in “Skippy." Comedy. tte MacDonald ette MacDon: '-'ffl:Eom Garrick in John Garrick in 7 3 Bride ria and Wipnie Lightner and oe E. Brown in ‘Sit Tight." Variety. Novelty. Eddie Quillan and Sally Starr in “Night Work. Serial toon Nancy Carroll and Phillips Holmes in “'Stolen Heaven.” T 3 Richerd Arlen Fay Wi i Warnef Oland ~Frederic March n “Charley Ch Carries_On. d Lowe in “Don't in “Honor Among Edm’ T.overs.” Bet_on Women “Warner _Baxter and. Joan Bennett in “Doctors’ Wives.” Bancroft in dal Sheet.” Serial Short_subject George Bancroit in “Rango." “Scandal Sheet.” Charles Chase snalt comeds. ctors 8hort subject Gloria Swanson n “What & Widow.” Comedy. " Gloria ’!mnnso; n “What & Widow.” Comedv. Dgrotay Mackaill in el e “Once a Sinner.” “Arizona Kid." Comedy. Aidniaht Mystery.” __Comedv. _Serial. Bert Wheeler and obert. Woolsey in “'Cracked Nuts.” Rich'd Barthelmess in “The Pinger Points.” Vitaphore short Jones golf series ject. i Vitaphone short subject. Rich'd Barthelmess in Pickiord in ““The Finger Points.” 9 Vitaplione short Dorothy Lee In “Laugh and Get Rich.” Comedy. ary Cooper in ‘The Spoflers.” Vitaphone short subject. Jones golf serie: The arrival of Big Bill Tilden at a The former amateur champion will pose for several two-reel sport features. Rose on Merit Alone OLA LANE is one of the screen stars whose career has been mete- oric. She has neither a beauty contest nor a “pull” to thank for it. Three years ago, in her small home town in Iowa, it was forbidden by social ethics to be Interested in the show — | world. Her college professor never at- tended shows, nor would he permit his pupils to see a movie. Lola felt the urge of the stage and she ran away from home, with New York, mecca for all stage aspirants, as her destinaticn. After a few trials she Janded in the Ziegfeld Follies, thence into vaudeville and finally she found her way to Georgie Jessel and “The | War Song.” There she was discovered |as good screen material and went to | Hollywood with a Fox contract. | Miss Lane’s current picture, a James | Cruze production, “Hell Bound,” at the Rialto, is a picturization of Edward | Dean Sullivan and Adele Comandini's | story, “Platinum.” | It is an underworld story. |66 | WHXLE we make stars of our new- | tion to making them actresses, finished | competent players. Training, not pub- {Nieity, is what these newcomers need,” | says Samuel Goldwyn. the movies, but it is reasonable. the past few days, ) 1::& been signed wit oungsters. 3w, Crosby, 15 coun! tour to visit stock com d ic and music schools theaters in every major cit the beginners who ent Fra iress, who ibbery |played her first picture role with Ron- f in “The Devil to Pay” 17-year-old St. Louls did a rope dance in one ald Coleman Betty Grable, who of the' ear) of * One would scarcely expect this from | y. have come “for a in' luster t0-the drab aluminum,” Stars Should Act. |a small stock company in Oakland, comers, I think it would be a|Calif.; Florence Ames, Boston society Ina Slocum, statuesque Chicago | mannikin who “looks like Vilma Banky and talks like Ann Harding,” and Vir- | ginia Druce, English sportswoman and | amateur jockey. New faces and new talent are to be| An Art Hint From Haines. systematically recruited by Goldwyn in | a nation-wide plan to develop a group | of junior stars-for his pictures. During | ~term contracts | as an interior decorator, & number of | t the same time, ptasting on s cross- interior decorating establishment es, little ILLIAM HAINES, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer star, also has a reputation Indeed, he is said to operate a successful antique and in Hollywood. ‘ Out of his fund of knowledge and for the information of ladies who like to paint furniture, he makes the following , | suggestion: “When you trim with gold paint, try mixing it half and half with aluminum powder. It will remove ‘the gaudiness of the gold’ and the gold will sdd GLEN ECHO PARK. HE thrill that comes once in a [ lifetime” is promised patrons of Glen Echo Park in the new crystal pool, which is expect- day, Saturday of this week. “The sea- shore at your .20:;:" is the way the management, pu! Ho‘g:ver, there are many things to be enjoyed “right now,” as the popular Frenchman says. The Old Mill, for in- stance, a gem, with its $30,000 worth of scenery, the illusion of rugged moun- tain life and many illuminated scenes and surprises; the “Dodgem,” all new; the coaster, airplane swings and Ferris wheel, that seem new to old patrons because they pack plenty of thrills. New amusements appear also in the Midway, the shooting gallery is a “crackerjack,” with tricky targets, and there are always plenty of chairs and { tables available for picinc parties. McWilllams’ enlarged orchestra plays in the ball room every evening from 8:30Q until 11:30 except Sunday. Day or night, there is something doing all the time at the popular frez admission resort. SEASIDE PARK. SEAB!DE PARK is now prepared to entertain visitors from Washington, Baltimore and nearby points. With the opening of its season yesterday new train service went into effect, which makes Clesapeake Beach readily ac- cessible from Washington, as the trains land passengers at the very gates of the park. For the early season trains will leave District Line Station (reached from the ‘Treasury by District Line cars of the ‘Washington Railway & Electric) at 9 and 10:30 am weekdays, and 2:30, 6:45 and 9 p.m. Sundays. A delightful trip through the rolling hills of Maryland is a prelude to the many amusements at the park, which include the open-air swimming pool, so popular last season; the dance hall, ed to be opened Decoration | [ OUT OF DOORS ] e i e S g the various rides, always enjoyable for !mc children, and numerous other op- portunities for rest and recreation. MARSHALL HALL. THE steamer Charles Macalester Sat- urday at 10 a.m. will make its in- itial trip to Marshall Hall and officially open the Summer season of 1931. The ement has announced a al schedule for the holidays. The Charles Macalester on Saturday, Decoration day, will leave Seventh Street Wharf at 10 a.m., 2:30 and 6:30, and on Sun- | day at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 and 6:30. The steamer has been repainted, dec- orated and thoroughly overhauled, and at Marshall Hall all the amusements of the seashore resorts, including the dip, half-mile ride, scooter, merry-go-round and many other ‘thrillers will be in op- eration, Including the large dancing pavilion situated at the water's edge, and the usual large picnic groves, which have be:n prepared for the pleasure of families wishing to spend the holidays. There will be dancing-at the Hall all day. On week days the Macalester will stop at Mount Vernon to and from the Hall on the first two trips. MORGANTOWN-ON-POTOMAC. R G. CRAERIN announces the open- * ing of the season at Morgantown- on-the-Potomac for Decoration day. Known in past days as Lower Cedar Point, which name describes this resort perfzctly, it is one of the oldest of the popular Potomac River excursion and outing places. Its great cove of stately cedars and hundreds of tables through- out the grounds make it ideal for picnic parties, and has suggested the slogan “Maks" Morgantown Your Motoring Meeting Place.” Real salt water and a fine sandy beach, with several hundred new bath houses, provide ideal bathing conditions. Boating and fishing from wharf, rowboat or fishing boat, crab- bing, new ball fleld and other sports, with Berryman's Dance Orchestra in the pavilion are’'among the many at- tractions. ] .OS ANGELES, Calif.—It is a long hike from Pike's Old Opera House in Cincinnati to the Theater Mart in Hollywood, but out here little Alice daddy's theater in Cincy, has pro- duced, directed or sponsored more plays in the past two years than have the Shuberts. She pleads guilty to 70 years today and some call her “livest producer in America.” Alice Barney came to Hollywood a few years ago, blessed with ample means, much artistic understanding and ail the social graces. She was a Jeader in Washington, New York and Bar Harbor for 40 years, yet always craving the artistic as might be ex- pected of Whistler's prize pupil. And so the Theater Mart in this community. Let me quote a few ex- tracts from its published reasons for existence: “The Theater Mart is a creative center for theater people.” . .« “It is a link between the artist and the commercial theater.” . . “Only new plays, professionally di- rected and rvrofessionally cast.” . . . “Here the «{mmercial manager may buy new plays” (and has). . . . “Here the directors may find talent” (and have—plenty). . . “The brains of the creative world are in Southern California . Theater Mart gives them a place fcr activity—an oppor- tunity to realize their dreams,” etc. Physically the Theater Mart is tractive. It is reconstructed resi- dence with a seating capacity of three or four hundred. The st: is ample in size, the equipment adequate and the productions in most instances well directed. This month will.see a new play by Upton Sinclair dealing with the life of O. Henry. Then comes a return engagement of “Mata Harl,” by Alice Barney, and “Napoleon Had It, Too,” which’ is & new ccmedy by Madeline Blackmore and Sada Cowan dealing with life in the film colony. The leads are Lionel Belmore and Betty Plerce. Other well known professionals in the cast are Dustin Rhodes, Florence En- right, Alfred Cross, Carlo. X Sylvia Picker, Stewart Wilson, Rabinowitz, Arline , - Alan Wardell and Ernest Shield. Frank Conroy is the directcr. The produc- tion will run for a week unless, as often happens, popular demand for Pike, who once romped the aisles of | Barney’s Thea;te{‘ Mart. | _ However, to get back to little Alice ike. Many an actor, playwright, | musician, directcrs and hosts of others, |have had their opportunities created for them by this delightful lady. I just noted a girl in a Duffy cast for this week whom I saw a few weeks ago in “Mati Hari” at Theater Mart. Many wise men who read this wiil ask “how much has it cost Alice Pike?"” My brethren, plenty! But after all, what are a few dollars compared with opportunities for the artist. Hundreds of picture palaces turn up their ncses today at the mere thought of Pike's Opera House, but the ideals of the theater live on. (By Sherman Danby (TPR), in “The Quill). LOEW'S Co!,ulél»ugmA SHEARER «z-ROBERT MONTGOMERY e ERS MAY STRANGER 65 NEIL HAMILTON MARJORIE RAMBEAU A METRO-COLDWTN: MAVER. LOEW'S AL AC ”jg@owm KAY FRANCIS »L ADIES MAN; oanamunt Bretuns ON THE STAGE Real Platinum JEAN HARLOW, Known to the movies as “the platinum blonde.” During the past few months her studio work has been confined al- most exclusively to the gangster pic- ures. Hedda Happer Hustling. HEN Hedda Hopper completed her role in “Rebound,” with Ina Claire, she merely moved over to another stage on the R-K-O lot to join the cast of “The Common Law,” Constance Ben- nett’s new picture. Her new role is that of a sophisticated and snobbish society woman. Miss Hopper played a feature part in “Holiday,” with Ann Harding. She is now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, having been borrowed from that company for “Rebound” and “The Com- mon Law.” A former stage luminary, Miss Hop- per has been devoting her talents to the screen since 1921, and has been fea- tured In scores of important productions. Laughter Take ] Wings n with An All-Star Cast o ncuding pencer Tracy Edw. Everett Horton Sidney Fox Wm. Collier, Sr. STAGE Fanchon § Marco's JheDANCE Idea featuring EVERETT | ARNOLD SANDERSON | GRAZER Johnny Marvin “At the Ukulele” Bob Hamilton Recalls “The Gay 90's" Fox Movietone News AMUSEME “Bird in Hand.” the National Theater Players revive John Drink- r's comedy, “Bird in Hand,” the week of June 1 they wili attempt one of the finest character studies ever tackled by a repertoire company. It calls for adroit handling first of all, and this Clifford Brooke, director, says he is prepared to give, backed by his ex- perience in the treater and be- cause he s “a Englishman bern. Mr. Brooke and John Drinkwater, the playwright, it is said, are friends, and Mr. Brooke spent an entire Summer in the very environs wherein Drinkwa- ter set the locale of his J)! y, “Bird “isom, in Hand.” Mr. Brooke, aside from direct'ng th= play, will also play one of its characters, “The Man Who Miss Warren- NTS. ‘Travels in Sardines.” | has an outstanding part and exacling roles are assigned to Roberta Beatty, Raymond Bramiey, Burke Clarke, For- 'xl'ze‘az Orr, Nancy Sheridan and Stanley i ‘Two members of the original “Bird in | Hand” company are now with the Na- tional Theater Players. These are Miss | Daphne Warren-Wilson and John War- | burton. They played at the Belasco on | two occasions last season and their per- | formances in this sterling comedy English provincial life were credited |with being among the outstanding charms of the play. “Bird in Hand" takes its name from a quaint old English tavern in a little | town outside of Manchester. “Hindoo Belles.” {INDU_ WASSAU and her Hindoo Belles will be the attraction at the Gayety Theater next week. Ma | Lake of the Gayety states that | Wassau s to play a return | with a splendid company of entertain- ers, singers, dancers and other per- | formers. Costumes, scenery and light- | ing effects will be up to Mutual stand- ards. ‘éebe on Naughty Roleé. ((TOO much character sweetening may spoil the finest theatrical ple,” says Bebe Daniels. The proper dash of spice may serve to increase the publiz appetite, she admits, but she has no doubt that the public is quickly satiated with the player who is contin- ually featured as “the sweet-and-unsus- pecting. “A star may cerry simplicity to ths point of mere simpleness,” says Miss Daniels, “but eventually she will suffer the fat> that has overcome the Laura Jean Libbey novels within the last gen- eration. “I welcomed the chance to play the part of the startling woman of world in “The Maltese Falcon,’ the screen ver- sion of Dashiell Hammett's mystery ro- mance. There are no mollycoddles in this story. You don’t know at the end of the first reel whether I fall into the arms of the hero and prove myself an | unsuspecting little ingenue, and you are in the same quandary at the final fade- out. Every woman wants to keep people guessing. I certainly do, as the amaz- |ing Miss Wonderly of ‘The Maltese Falcon.” Miss Daniels believes that many stars have lost their popularity because of their unwillingness to sacrifice their | cinema reputation for austere morality; | “that is, they would never take a at a role that indicated, even slightly, that they were not all that Elsie Di..s- more wanted to be,” as she puts it. “I am not calling for end- ,” Miss Daniels adds. “They are idom necessary. Life isn't all made up of ‘lving happily ever afterward, nor is it an uninterrupted procession of disaster. Human beings are not often vary, very good or very, it the n to be either, they are fearfully teresting.” “Make ‘Em Believe!” BY CARLISLE JONES. WINNIE LIGHTNER calis “Holly- wood, the land of make 'em be- lieve you're good.” Winnie ought to know. She has so many people believing she's good that nlo'l;dfilyl it's “just as good as being |pe good. Winnie has returned to Hollywood, but not to the old Warner Bros. Jot. While away the studio moved, bag and baggage, to the great First National plant in the San Fernandino Valley, where the combined studios spread over unnumbered acres. It isn't just like home to Winnie. On the old Warner lot, over on Sun- set boulevard in Hollywood, Winnie's morning_arrival was something of an event. When her midget car caromed off the entrance gates and skidded into placs there greetings fell from every window and hands waved on all sides. lace, but homier,” says Winnie. But from the time she backed inelegantly out of the little car her progress to her dressing rooms or to the stage where she was working would be a succession of gay greetin given and received. . Charley,” “Morning, Peggy,” “Howdy, Jake,” and “s'everything Millie?” every few steps. I found Winnie wandering rather disconsolately about the new grounds, the main production plant for the combined Warner Bros.-Pirst Na- tional studios, where she had come in her new Cadillac roadster. “I've lost my voice and my way and my temper,” she confided. “I've walked a hole in my new stockings, and I've only seen four people I know. I hear everybody's out here, but gosh, they're scattered! And there’s a loi of cool space between friends. Do you see any place nearer than the Los Angeles City Hall where we can sit down? “I like crowded places best”” com- plained Winnie as we neared the studio restaurant. “I never liked big rooms at home because they were so much emptier than small ones. They moved out here to expand,” she added, bitterly, 1 thought. “Well, I won't just expand. Il blow up! Once seated in the “green room™ with the menu before her, Winnie's spirits revived. I asked politely about her baby boy, her sister who is her business manager about Bim, the giant St. Bernard that used to ride in the bantam car with her, and finding them all in good condition started to ask Winnie about her opin- ions of the “land of make-believe.” “Hollywood hasn't any exclusive it to that title,” Winnie declared feeling. “I've lived in that country a long time, ever since one night in Buf- falo when my first audience thought I was trying to be funny singing them sad _song. “Ever since then I've been ‘making believe’ I'm a comedienne at heart. los«mettfiea lpf)eep l;:yself foohxd (m‘wez ng e. r a few years I pl plenty ing believe. I thought it was great fun.” ‘Winnie bit viclously into the spinach sandwich. “Now I'm making believe I like to diet and stay thin and not eat. It's in my contract that I can't gain weight, and, Lord, how I'd love to get fat and stay that way! “Hollywood isn’t the land of make- believe any more than New York or Oskaloosa, Iowa, or Peking, China. It would be a drab world if nobody in- dulged in personal camouflage. “I don’t know that there’s any differ- ence between being great and having the public think you are. The second qualification elects more presidents and probably pays more stars’ salaries. “Hollywood is the land of make 'em believe you're good! If you put that over, it just follows that you've got to good to live up to your early EARLE. promise.’ NOW ; EVASHINGTON'S GREATEST STAGE AND SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT its. B C. . 2 sn AN m&i- & R. I Ave. H.‘. AMO u:;:m:' LAUREL 11th N. E ive. B.E. PO (- RUTH o?fi l:l,"h “UNFAITHFUL” SBunday at 3:40, §: ‘0 Monday at_6:00. PRINCESS L2 %= M and !’AY WRAY fn STANTON rth 4585y mnu%- FProm Metinee. 3 P.M. 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