Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1931, Page 49

EARLE—"Gold _ Dust -Gertie"—Stage Program. IE LIGHTNER is the wild, dizzy star of “Gold Dust rtie,” the current screen attraction at Warner Broth- ers' Earle Theater. One thousand and one laughs are guaranteed by the management to all those who make a visit to the Earle this week to see this Warner Brothers and Vitaphone production, which is being presented along with a stage program headed by the two musical comedy favorites, Glenn and Jenkins, presenting a new act entitled “Work- ing for the il Gertie” concerns the wild adventures of two bathing-suit salesmen who marry twins and are thereafter hounded by hard- hitting Gertie, who wteviously has been married to each of the men. A yacht eaptain turns up who also has been married to Gertie. She winds up by capturing the crochety erstwhile con- servative head of the bathing suit manufactory and becoming general manager. Supporting Miss Lightner are Doro- thy Christy, Claude Gillingwater, Charles Judels, Charley Grapewin, Arthur Hoyt, George Byron, Vivian Oak- land and Virginia Sale. ‘The stage program features two musi- cal comedy favorites, Glenn and Jei kins, in “Working for the Railroads,” and includes Phyliss Rae and the Am- bassador Octette, featuring Lord, Duke and Lord; Joe Phillips and Company, the company being a pair of clever and attractive young women, in “Under the Bridge”: China’s great sensationalists, Dack Shing and Company, and Maxine Doyle, the “Thank You Girl,” with music by the Earle Orchestra. FOX—“Always Good-by.” OTH screen and stage attractions are provided at the Fox this week. “Always Good-by,” a sophisticated, emotional and adventurous photoplay, ngs Landi in her . second American-made film. In the cast also are Lewis Stone, Paul Cavanagh, John Garrick, Frederick Kerr, Herbert Bun- ston and Lumsden Hare. The picture had two directors, Kenneth MacKenna and William Cameron Menzies, win- mer of the annual trophy offered by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. On the stage, outstanding, is Fan- chon and Marco's first production put on by the famous Sammy Lee, who staged big Broadway hits, like “The Cocoanuts,” “Rio Rita” and “Show Boat.” Lee was with Ziegfeld for six seven years, and staged several of “‘Follies.” “Topical Tunes” will present Coscia and Verdi in “Music Glorified, Classi- fled and Mortified”; the Alexander sis- ters, “Sweethearts of the Stage”; Niles Marsh, in “Feminine Fancies”; Bob and Eula Burroff, “Personality Dancers”; Don Carroll and Dorothy Thomas and & new troupe of bright-eyed and nimble- footed maids frcm Hollywood. Bob Hamilton and Brusiloff's Music Masters will provide serious musical themes. R-K-O-KEITH'S—"White Shoulders.” A,R!:NGLY frank and in a modern- istic setting, portraying th 8- old love triangle, Radio Pictures 'anghelu Shoulders,” with Mary Astor, Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez and Sidney Toler fea- tured in the cast, is being shown as the attraction at R-K-O-Keith's ‘Theater. Ad from the Rex Beach novel “Recoll.” and said to have been inspired by a‘marriage in real life between a multi-millionaire and a chorus girl, the story moves swiftly and with a series of dramatic surprises. In the picture ver- slon, speed, action and heart interest Winnie Lightner, are said to have been relained, with a glamorous and colorful setting. The locales, far-reaching. include scenes in South American gold mines, Monte Carlo gambling houses, Parisian fashion salons, Monaco villas and lux- urious New York pent houses. The story is built about an impetuous love, a violent hate and a strange revenge. Bupplemennony attractions will in- clude R-K-O Pathe News, 's Fables, “The Fly Guy,” R-K-Omz two-reel comedy; “Disaj mfln{ Ene- mies,” staring Rex Btfi: Radi - tures’ “Humancttes” and Bishop's organ specialty. METROPOLITAN—"Quick Millions.” ‘Warner Bros.’ Metropolitan Theater is presenting as its featured screcn subject this week the Fox productien “Quick Millions.” Spencer Tracy, who made an unusual debut in talking pic- tures a short time in the comedy of prison life “Up River,” is nld’ to demonstrate in “Quick Millions' that his success in that picture was no accident. The story: “Bugs,” a truck driver with social ambitions as well as commercial ambi- tions, launches a business career and is soon boss of the city. Evi g runs smoothly until he falls in love with the sister ‘of the man who has been forced to become his partner. Things strike a snag when the girl re- jects his proposal. He plans to revenge himself on society by kidnaping the girl at the time of her wedding to college boy. Supporting the star are Sally Eilers, Marguerite Churchill, Wamer Rich- mond and Robert Burns. Short reel subject which complete the entertainment include a new issue of the “Adventures in Africa” series, a Vitaphone short entitled “Revenge Is Sweet” and the Graham McNamee Talking Newsreel. PALACE—"Daybreak.” ETRO-GOLDWYN.MAYER'S pic- ture of Ramon Novarro's “Day- break,” now at Loew’s Palace Theater, marks the most recent appearance of a great character favorite, Jean Her- sholt. Hersholt began. a long-term contract with M.-G.-M. wih ‘“Daybreak,” an adaptation by Ruth Cummings and Cyril Hume of Dr. Arthur Schnitzler's | much-discussed romance. Hersholt plays Schnabel in “Daybreak,” the money lender who becomes a thorn in the flesh of Kasda, a gay adventurer, played by Novarro. He needs no intro- duction, for, a great actor in Denmark, he came to America years ago as a feature of the San Francisco World !‘:lr and has been in pictures ever since then. His work in “Daybreak” is not his first with Novarro, for he appeared as Novarro's tutor in “The Student Prince” and more recently he has played in “Alias the Deacon,” “Hell Harbor,” “Mamba” and “Viennese Nights.” And, of couw he will be remembered in “Greed” and his Ed Munn in “Stella Dallas.’ “Daybreak” has as its feminine lead Helen Chandler of “Outword Bound” nd “Dracula.” It was directed by Jacques Feyder. Other players include C. Aubrey Smith, William Blakewell, Karen Morely, Kent Douglas and Glenn n. On the Palace stage Hal Yates and Block and Sully are featured in a revue titled “Breezing Along.” COLUMBIA—"Strangers May Kiss.” Norma Shearer with Robert Mont- gomery in her latest picture, “Strangers May Kiss,” ccntinues at Loew's Colum- bia. Scme believe the picture the crowning achievement in this dynamic star’s career, many claiming it to be even better than the prize-winning “Divorcee” of last season. Robert Montgomery, recently ele- vated to starcom by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Pictures, heads the suj 4 cast. Neil Hamilton plays the role cf the newspaper reporter with whom Miss Shearer falls in love. “Strangers May Kiss” is by Ursula Parrott, who wrote “The Divorcee.” George Fitzmaurice directed. Screen Gets Tamara Geva. 'AMARA GEVA, colorful modern- wstic dancing star of ‘“Whoopee,” Baileft’s “Chauve Souris” and the cur- rently popular “Three’s a Crowd,” is now appearing before the motion pie- ture cameras for the first time. The Russian danseuse expounded her ideas on an art which has made her famous on two_continents recently at the Paramount New York Studios. Miss Geva is dividing her time between the theater and the studio, where she is| playing one of the leads in a Charlie Ruggles picture. Geva believes that a classical dancer should not depend upon inspiration from performance to performance, and certainly should not endeavor to pre- sent a single number that she has not worked out in the most minute detail. “At the birth of a new dance,” she eontinued, “a dancer shculd allow her- self free rein. She should stand be- fore a long mirror and, according to her mood, improvise the dance, a radio or phonograph supplying the music. She should remember the steps that come to her spontaneously and use them when such a mood is needed in some future show.” ‘When she first came to this country with one of Bailefl's editions of his perennial “Chauve Souris” Miss Geva's dancing both puzzled and startled the eritics. Some admitted they failed to understand her weird, grotesque crea- tions, while others were quick to pro- claim her a genius. Although one of her greatest ambi- tions is said to be to evolve a ballet in jazz, she is, at the present time, more intent upon a career in pictures. She believes that her tragic experiences in Le) , where she lived with her family during the revolution, have pre- pared her for a career as a dramatic actress. Road Has a New Recruit. 'HE buoyant comedy, “Private Lives,” from the pen on Noel Coward, con- tinues its merry way at the Times Square Theater, New York, where they say it has been playing to capacity audiences ever since its premiere more than 14 weeks ago. Gertrude Law- rence and Noel Coward headed the original cast, but Madge Kennedy and Otto Krufer have since replaced them in the stellar roles. Arch Selwyn, who is sponsoring “Pri- vate Lives,” it has been announced, has arranged present Madge Kennedy and Otto Kruger in the play on the most extensive road tour in recent the- atrical history. “Virtually every town 2nd city across the broad stretch of the continent, under this booking arrange- ment, will be afforded the opportunity to see this exhilarating eomedy.” Gil- bert Gabriel, veteran critic, has de- scribed it as “an immensely witty primer on modern matrimony.” “For years,” states Arch Selwyn, “pro- ducers all about me have been shout- ing from the housetops that there is ‘no road.’ They assert further that the smaller cities and communities will not support a show, no matter how excellent its cast and how sterling its dramatic qualities. I have held a reverse atti- tude. “It is my belief that the cities throughout the country want legitimate attractions, if they are of a high caliber, and in ‘Private Lives' I believe I have one of the finest plays ever written. It is because I know the countless cities in the country will appreciate and sup- port a show such as this that I am in- cluding in my itinerary many of the small cities in the Nation.” Late New York News BY MARK BARRON. EW YORK, May 30 (#).—The fantastic, crooied streets of Greenwich Village have sent forth another explosive play into the Broadway Theater. Just as the ramshackle playhouses of the Village gave the firsi start to Eu- gene O'Nelll, the Theater Guild, “White Cargo,” “The Grand Street Follies” and other successful enterpriscs, so it has sent uptown to the bright lights of Times Square the play called “Preca- dent,” an angry, indignant drama based on the Mooney-Billings case of Call- fornia. Its premier was staged a couple of months ago on the same village stage where O'Neill's plays first were acted. This play became 3 hit, receiving ex- traordinary support from audiences made up of delegations from labor uniohs. Its reputation spread every w¥ay, znd th:s week the drama was brought to one of the major Broadway plthua. The play largely has to do with the trial of Mooney for the bomb- ing of the Preparedness day parade in San PFrancisco in 1916. Whatever its merits concerning the case, “Precedent” certainly has become the principal topic of conversation around Broadway. L'UIGI PIRANDELLO has become musical comedy author as well as laywright. In collaboration with Irma American writer, he has turned out.“Just Like That,” a musical show which has its setting in a New York boarding house. Miss Bruce also is the guthor of “A Hypothetical Divorce” and “The Little Reporter.” The musical show dpmbcbly will be produced when Pirandello comes to this country some time in the Summer. TH!B is the time of year when critics begin selecting the 10 best plays and the 10 best performances. Reviews show that the following 10 performers received the most enthusiastic praise from critics during the last season: Lynn Fontanne, for her role as the faded queen who let her mind rul her heart in “Queen Elizabeth. ‘Eugenie Leontovich, as the world-weary dancer who found love again only to lose it in “Grand Hotel.” Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. as the sophis- ticated neurotics who weren't happy to- gether or separated in “Private Lives.” to the short-lived “The Katherine Corn beth eryihing | Colony e 8 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Ambassador 15th & Columbia RA. ir tne @?{{3&.&.‘?» 1t ne short ubjects. TR subject hgner in, fe." Tt B0 Vlllln“ #;m e Holt In “The Jack Holt in ubway Express.” Bubway Express omedy. 3 Short_subjeet. 8hort_subject. iam es in wpjosn Mepan in | ‘A Tatlor;Made rls 5 Com. _Sh't subject. in “8Kkippy."” €4 m St NE. Apol Jackle Ce o quvx"éufi’m in ce. Jones golf serles—3. Joan G T Mary, Pickly “n-n&: Tpols, "R o 2 Kiki Jones golf series—3. B~ Vil 3 “ el - upigte wors 355 B Bt “A Tallor. n. Serial. “William Habe & t.” Sh't sul i\ Dark. Ashton Clarendon. Va. Q'fvsu Sitahes Tn “Eugathearis on “Blue Angel." ra Otcrnn‘Ml- “The Millionaire.” Boy Priend comedy. Robert Woelser In ““Oracked 4 Our Gang comedy. Avalen 8612 Conn. Ave. Ave. Grand 45 Pa. Ave. S.E. Alice White and Edward Robinson in “"The Widow Prom Chicago."” Constance Bennett & t. Montgomery ““The Easiest Way.” Ed wynne in » # e % ind ope MR 2 Ml i 5 Syl Vg e Lew Avres " Ruth Chatterton in “Th Love.” n “The Iron Man.” Comeds. e Right ve. Vitaphone short subject. 'rient RO ‘Cracked Nuts." ““The er Points."” Our Gank comedy. 8hort lub)uhtl.u Rich'd Byrihelmess Rich'd Brthelmess Leil: “adtn call 3 Lov Short subject. ““The Finger Points.” sul Jones golf series—3. Short_subject. Cameo Mt Rainier, Md. Dark. Walter ‘Walter Huston and el Un: “Abral y. “Abraham Lincoin.” Comedy. _Ne Ruth Chatterion and _ Ruth Chatterton Taul Lukas in Bal Luk and n ul “'Unfaithf Comedy. News. Tk gk T Serial. Comedy. Caroanso" Carolina Ernest Torrence 11th & N.C. Ave. 8.8. “‘Pighting Ca: Gary Cooper and . Gary Coope: r_and nest Torrence “Pighting Ci S bt ans.”__““The Lottery Bride." edy. News. Bl 1 Relen Somndier Pl‘ iy and Holkt a ldfiéflfieo ‘";f‘:l‘ Rich” Central Rafert Woolter 10 “‘Cracked N 425 9th St. N.W. 8h't subject. Com. Josn 4 1 rt Basce. Fools, Cracked Nu Sh't sublect. Com. Comeds. Warner Baxter and + Joan Bennett joan “Doctors’ Wive Short_subject. W "Mt Lemon of Cartoon. _Serial. Cir de Walter Husto) and Una Merkel in 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. . W. Grifith’s « ABranam Lineoln.” Walter Huston and G, Merkel in . W. Grifith's “Abraham Lincoln." R tlnllfl Denny i M 1ok d Pl l'" Pickford ane lg“ ‘u (g'flml‘l;d T} 3 510153 Toevetrees and Wm. Farnum in “"Painted Desert.” eginal in <Rk Bill_Bovd. Helen Twelvetrees . Faroum i £ Mok B B gx!'lb Great Aeadow: WIll Rogers “A GConmecticut Ga. Ave. & Farragut Yankee. Will Rowers in “A Connecticut Yankee.” Rich'd Barthelmess ““The Pinger Points.” Comedy. Rich'd Barthelmess *The Pinger Points.” Comedy. th _Chatterton oha Fayl Lukas in “ynfaithtul.” Dumbarton Ruth Chatterton and Paul Lukas n <'Unfaithful.” *Kept Husbands.” ‘Doroth: R W oty A Lewis Ayres and Dorothy Mathews in “The Doorway Hell."” Doroth: Aathews *The Ay to 1349 Wis. Ave. N.W. Fairlawn Joe E. Brown n, “Going Wild." Comedy. Joe E. Brown " Edmund Lows In “Going Wild." medy. Comedy. ‘Me) ell Mary Pickford Mary Pickford n | in “KIkL" rtoon. Rkl Cartoon. Tion Dayies in 3 Maron Dt Ay e Enfla” d: ‘seriat Anacostis. D. C. Hippodrome 208 K St. N.W. o Chapiin, i onezlls Thents: o com Paramount News. Charlle Chapiin in s'City Lights." Two comedies. Paramount News. Edm "Men on-Cl. Cgmedy. " Bdmund Lowe “Men on Call. Comedy. Fable, n Jack Oakie in “June Moon.” e Cartoon. oung in of Way.” Lorett ‘ouns in “The Right of S ‘Comedy. Beriels " Gomedy, Oharles Chaglin in Home "City Lights.” Sts. NE. Tames @ Eerd Woods i, “The Public Enems." Charles CI in in g g FR AN BvicEe James Cagney and Edvard s in “The Public Enemy.” Short_subject Helen Twelvetrees in Vitaphone short Subject Express.” Comedy. Conrad Nagel and dney Foxe vdne: n, “The Bad Sister.” Jones golf series—32. 13th & . T Oland In Ghan Car- On." Nov. Ralph Forbes and Loretta Young in “Beau Ideal.” Comedy. _Cartoon. nd in alph Forbes a) Eoteha Yo d ‘omed: Ben Lvon and Harlow in s Angels.” Comedy. Ben Lyon and Jean Harlow in Jean “Hell's “Hell's Angels.” Serial. Buck Jones in g dones I serm.“‘c‘:m‘;sey' Cartoon. James Hall and Anita ““The Third Alarm Serial. Com. Cart’ Galthersburs, Md. Comedy. Ne: 4 ly. News. &illy 8ymphony. Silly_8ymphony. Clara Bow Clara Bow “No Lis “No Limit.” L Comedsy. Ken Maynard “Lucky Larkin." ial_ Comedy. Fahle. Jack Oakie in “June Moon.” Princess 1119 H St. N.E. Frederic March and Jack Oakie in Claudette Colbert “June Moon.” in * Al Frederic March and Clandettc Colbert Marion Davies in in “Honor Among “It Lovers.” 's & Wise Chud.” Clift Edwards in Walls Wal ““The Southerner.” Renee. “Red Fork Range.” Richmond _Alexandris. Va. Dark. ‘Wheeler and Woolsey in “Cracked Nuts." Comedy. _News. Woolsey in “Cracked Nuts." edy.News. Claudette Colbert & Frederic March in _Honor_Among Lov Claudette Colbert & = T n v n Wallace Beery and Marjorie Rambeau in "The Secret 8ix.” Comedy._Fable. Mafiotie Rumbent ir *he Secret Bix" Comed. Fabie. Conrad Nagel and ey Foxe in ST Bad Bigter Com._8h't subject. Savoy 3030 14th St. N.W. Conrad Nagel and Sydney Foxe in, The Bad Sister.” Com. _8h't subject. Charles Chaplin in “City Lights.” Vitaphone short subject. Gary Cooper and Marlene Deitrich in “City Light: Vitaphone short ““Moroeeo Subject. Short_subject James Hell and Dorothy Sebastian in *“TheLightning Flyer " Comedy. _Sportlight. Joan Crawford in “Dance. Fools, Dance " Comedy. ince, Dark. Seco Gary Cooper John Wayne and Marguerite Churchill “Fighting Ca in" “Girls. Demand van Excitement.” Ruth_Chatterton and Panl Lukas “Untaithtul Ann Harding, Clive Brook and Conrad Nagel in “'East_Lynne.” Hapold Murri 1d Pois Morrey and ciive ar S Moras “Under Buspicion.” Serial i Conrad Nagel in “East Lynne." Siiver Spring. Md. Stanton Ruth Ohatterton and Bavh Lukes i ““Unfaithful Comedy. Ruth, Chatterton and aul Lukas in “Onfaithful " News. _Comeds. Mary Nolan and n Johin Mack Brown [Eleanor Boardman in “The Great Meadow." News Constance Bennett & Robt. Montgomery in “The Eastest Way." Comeds. Edmund Lowe and “Men on_Call News._Serial Buck Jones in T 6th & C Sts. N.E. State Dark. Ruth Chatterton in Ruth Chattert in % iihid “unfaithtul “Unfaithul. Harry Langdon Jack Oakie in n, “June Moon." “Soldiers’ Play~ thing." Evelyn Lave and John in “One Heavenly Toee: Bt Night." “Isle of Escape.” Beth Ma { Sylvan Cart’ Barbara Stanwyck & James Rennfe in Tilicit Varlety. Sportlight Greta_Garbo and Robt, Montgomery in “Inspiration.’ Com. Cart'n. News. William Powell and Carole Lombard in, “Man of the World. “Serial. Dorothy Lee and Hugn Herbert tn “Laugh and Get Rich." Comeds. Charles Parrell and igsa Landi in iy and Soul.” Claug Douela: *Bod: ! Ri Serial. Comedy. Serial 108 B. I Ave. N.W. Takoma Picktord in Mar R Marion Davies Mary Pickford in “RIkL." “It's a Wise C in, hild.” Jack Holt in Marion Davies in “Last Parade.” “It's a Wise Child.” Richard Arlen in “Conauering Horde." ..y Dorothy Lee in Laugh and Get Rich." Jack Holt «Last Parade Takoma Park, D. C. Tivoli | 14th & park ma. Robt, Montgomery ~ghipmates.” - Our Gane comeds. James Cagney in *“The Public Enemy." Jones golf series—3. Short Fobt. Montgomery in subject. George Arliss n “The Millignaire. Serial James Cagney in *“The Public Enemy." Jones golf sertes—3. Short_subsect Georre_Arliss in “The Millionatre.” g Sei Short_subject Charles Chaplin in York Vicaghore hort subject. Ga. Ave. & Quebee Chatles Chaplin in Crawford in city Lisnts Fools, Vitaphone short o> subject. Joa “Danee. Dance. Bhort subject. Tella Hyams and Norman Foster in “Men Call Tt Love." 8h't subject. Com. Joan Crewford “Dance. Fools, Dance.” Short_subject n Buddy Ro; “Helen “Heads Up. 8hort_ subject. Gary Cooper ers and ane in in » “Fighting Caravans.” Serial | Universal and Foot Ball. AMUEL FREEDMAN, Universal short subject supervisor, has been con- ferring with Glenn “Pop” Warner, famous Stanford foot ball coach, on the production of a forthcoming serles of gridiron films. The pictures will go into production within a few weeks and will depict the famous Warner system of foot ball play. Director Albert Kelley and & Uni- versal production unit were also sent to South Bend, Ind., to film a similar series cf pictures that demonstrate the foot ball technique of the late Knute Rockne of Notre Dame. It is Univer- sal's plan to slternate the release of the Rockne and Warner pictures so as to contrast the two famous foot ball sys- tems, according to Stanley Bergerman, head of the company's short subjects t, and Christy Walsh, who for filming the subjects “All-American Dredging for Ancient Bones. PATHE NEWS camera men were re- cently lowered in a water-tight caisson, with glass sides, to film the recovery of bones of a 2 ,000-year-old mastodon at Wakulla Spring, Fla. About 35 years ago a few large bones were found in the spring and placed cn exhibition in the Walker Library at Tallahassee. The Florida Geological Survey made further investigations and recently Pathe News was permitted to make the picture of the raising of various bones of the prehistoric fossils. A member of the Geological Depart- ment of the State ¢f Florida explains that the teeth of the mastodon are most commonly found, since they with- stand the ravages of time much more successfully than other parts of the skeleton. It is, however, not unusual to find varicus complete bones and many fragments. In rare instances practically the complete skeleton has been recovered in Florida. Three have been taken from this spring. Norma's Newest. INORMA SHEARER'S newest picture, “A Free Soul” will begin an in- definite engagement Tuesday evening of this week at the Astor Theater, New York City. Clarence Brown directed it and the cast includes Leslie Howard, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore and James Gleason. Adela Rogers St. John wrote the story of “A Pree Soul,” which. appeared in 1926 as a novel. William Brady pro- duced it as a play in 1028, with Kay Johnson in the lead, The screen adap- tation was made by Becky Gardiner, with dialogue by Jonn Meehan. Knows How .to Pick ‘Em. IT is said of Sammy Lee, producer of Fanchon and Marco's ~“Topical Tunes” idea at the Fox, that when he was staging “Smiles” for Ziegfeld last year he studied the tions of 5,000 girls, from whom he selected just 25 as “ladies of the ensemble.” Incidentally, the group of Sumkist Beauties on the Fox st this week are the first “squad” to picked by lee since he joined Fanchon and Marco. Frogs Witi\ Accents. MORE than two dozen frogs with English accents arrived in Los An- a Paramount picture. Their only pay will be all the flies they can eat. will work in the London sequence of “Let’s Play King,” which is based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of a child screen star and & boy king. The , obtained from the lake | country of Minnesota, it is told us, have English croaks and look English. { No Londoner would ever be deceived by the California variety. geles recently to play talking roles in | Its presen “WHISPERING FRIENDS.” OR the last week in “the subscrip- tion season,” the National Thea- ter Players will present George M. Cohan's comedy “Whispering Friends,” beginning tomorrow night, with matinees Wednesday and Saturda: One of the most amusing of the many comedies written and produced by George M. Cohan, “Whispering Friends” contains situations, lines and happen- ings that are “built solely for laugh Soherse £ test out scheme to test ouf Stanley Ridses. ShEME B0 OO S ingenuousness. The complications that arise make an entertainment that caused New York and Chicago play re- viewers to declare this comedy to be one of the best ever written by Mr. Cohan. tation tomorrow night will be the glly 's first appearance in this city. . pering Friends” furnishes ample scope for the varied talents of the Na- tional Theater Players. “BILLIE” DIAMOND COMING. EXT week’s attraction at the Gayety Theater will be “Billle” Diamond as guest star, with an all-star cast. Miss Diamond is the newest to blaze across % JANET GAYNOR AND WARNER BAXTER, Co-stars in the screen version of “Daddy Long Legs,” echeduled for & Washington run. the burlesque theatrical sky, and the fans are promised a week of genuine enjoyment. Miss Diamond's associates are declared of the quality demmdedi by the Mutual organization, and the singing, dancing, scenery and lighting effects, it is promised, will be in keep- | ing with high-class producticn. e Half-and-Halfs Con-fing, “THE proportion of dialogue to ac- tion in the coming motion pic- ture will be about 50-50,” according to Carl Laemmle, president of Universal te | Pictures, talking with interviewers in New York recently. “There will be decidedly less ‘talkie’ and more ‘movie’,” he continued, “and that is precisely what we are working on now. “When the ‘talkies’ came in, the pic- tures took up dialogue at the expense of action, but they are going to swing back again —and quickly. We have found that the public still wants motion pictures, and the future Universal pic- ture will contain that motion in every sense of the word.” EARLE CYCLONE Winnie. LIGHTN Tn Wanr Bon & Tests—Screen and Film. FILM test is not a screen test. A screen test is given an actor for the purpose of testing his make-up, his voice, his acting ability, while a film test is given the cameraman for purposes of checking up his work. Each morning on the set at Para- mount Karl Struss, head cameraman, is presented with a test of every scene he shot the day before. The strip of each scene is composed of 11 frames, each printed with a different strength of light. The Ideal motion picture, photo- graphically, :s one in which every scene has the same amount of light for print- ing. But differences in development, lighting or the speed of the film cause this to vary a point or two either side of perfection. If the variation from normal be too great, the camera work is at fault, and adjustments must be }mldz in the lens or the lighting. ‘When the picture is completely ed- ited the negative of the various scenes is patched together for printing and run through a machine, where a man with a chart regulates the light accord- ing to the schedule made by the cam- eraman. Regulating the light is hair- trigger work, but it must be done with- out error. e Most_Murdered Man. ROBmT PERRY became the most murdered man in the world when he was slain for a scene in Paramount’s “The Lawyer's Secret.” This marked the 112th time in his screen career that Perry has been mur- dered for his art. Figuring ‘“retakes,” he estimates that he has undergone the experience of being killed more than 1,000 times during the past 13 years. He has been slain by guns, knives, dynamite explosions, bombs and auto- mobiles. In accumulating this unique record," Perry has been murdered twice in the same picture on several occasions, usu- ally once with a beard and once with- out. He also murdered himself on two occasions in motion pictures made by shoestring producers. A scene would show him shooting from a window and another would show him with a mous- tache and a different costume falling in_the street before his own hail of bullets. 's career has been devoted al- most exclusively to the portrayal of underworld characters, bad men of the West, gambling house keepers and other heavies. Never at a Loss. AKE-UP for Turks, Hindus, de- butantes, Indians is a simple matter at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. A make-up order for a scene in “Son of India,” however—the latest Ramon Novarro picture — had the powder and paint department up the well known stump. ‘The hue of an elephant, it seems, did not blend with the other colors of the scene. ‘who had kept the wheels turning on the trip to Africa to film “Trader Horn,” put some of his “African knowledge” to use and ultimately gave the elephant the coat of gloss necessary for the shot. oune . GOLD DUST GLENN S JENKINS GEmE PHYLLIS RAE & OCTETTE JOE PHILLIPS CO. POLITA SPENCER TRACY ‘ADVENTORES W AFRICA” Comedy - Vitsphose MARY ASTOR JACK HOLT « RICARDO CORTEZ HE LIVED TO HATE! Never has the screen . more gripping interplay of human emotions. KEITH'S Harry Albiez, the prop mln.l AMUSEMENTS. HERE is always a Hot contest for the coveted distinction, “worst picture of the year.” The field hi and filled with 13,48 Egiég-g 3 H week she would be suspended by her| .., eyelashes over a cauldron of boil- id in the secret retreat of some Some of the serial flavor is apparent in “Reno,” but it contains, I et to say, none of 1s. Miss Roland again | ous daughter of the rich cla PARAMOUNT announces: “The Smile x.\euwnmmz; mvmn Maurice “succumbing marriags with plain mwmu . bd then seeing don’t pay the - ‘SBecrets of & Secretary® “This beautiful, bejeweled girl invades ths loves, scandals and intrigues of high: y."” careers, “Strangers and Lovers.” cent-wise 19-year-old charmer in a “No One Man.” *“I danger- ‘whose romances begin at Palm Beach and end at Reno. This heroine yearns for one great love with one greaf, godlike man. Tempting life and love. Taking and giving. “Morals ard Marriage.” “Sparkling, the | 1avish, intimate drama of love, mar- logue—and - f dialogue one would expect Vanderbilt, jr.—the charm is dissipated. There is a big moral in “Reno” to the effect that after all we're only hu- man and apt to have faults, so why not kind of will pay heed to it and forget at once that there ever was such an offering. Unfortunately, there are other films in prospect on the same theme, and these may act as grim reminders. One of them, entitled “Merry Wives of Reno,” is now in production, and the rumor is that its star, Loretta Young, will com- bine pleasure with business by ol her own divorce while on location in Nevads. Miss Young certainly has a remarka- ble flair for news value. Her runaway marriage to Grant Withers was so un- utterably romantic that movie-mad maidens all over the world swooned with vicarious ecstasy. Now she threat- ens to make an equally good story out of her divorce. * ok ok * Wn.b HAYS has promised that next segson will witness & great revival of morality and there will be no| further intimations of sex or erimi-| nality (kindred subjects) on the screen. I have examined the published plans of some of the leading producing com- panies, and I can only conclude that news of Mr. Hays' promise has not yet reached them. Indeed, the announce- ments indicate that the coming Sum- mer and Fall are due to be hotter than| ever. Here are a few selections from the| Fox program: “Bad Girl,” featuring Sally Eflers, which is described as the| story of a “red-lipped shopgirl. Tumult | in her heart. She wanted things.| Clothes. Boy friends. Fun. Gayety. glues. Aching with suppressed emo- “The Yellow Ticket.” “Modest maid, chaste, lovely—caught in the avid clutch | of ignoble nobles—lured to luxury,| branded by this sign of shame.” “Wicked.” “Gun moll with a baby. | Felled by fate. Was she wicked or| weak? Primal woman at grips with law, love and decency.” | “8kyline.” “Eyes flash—lips touch— scandal smirches—regrets follow. Was it she who paid?” “In Her Arms.” “Oriental pride yields to Parisian kisses in a duel of mfl’;‘h migllr: -cnd‘!e;mle chArmWh “The Hysterical Age.” “Whoopee making on the primrose path—where only primroses are prim. Kiss-as-kiss- can comedy of the younger generation— petting and partying. “Why did she go “Rogues' Gallery.: hay- m? Was it flame, finery or fame?” “A Ticket to Hell” “A girl lifti herself by her shoulder straps palflnl:' she went and .went far.” i Other titles on the Fox list are “Sugar | Daddies,” = “Human _Toys,” “Devil's Daughter,” “Some Girls Are Dangerous,” “Honeymoon.” “Champagne,” “Alimony eens,” “Cheating,” “She Wanted a Millionaire” and “Disorderly Conduct.” * i E 'HE Universal program sounds even more alluring to those who, as P. G. Wodehouse puts it, “like their bed- time stories a bit salty.” There will be several follow-ups of “Dracula,” includ- ing “Frankenstein” (“No man has ever seen his like—no woman ever felt his white-hot kiss”) and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” By way of proving that the gangster era has passed, there will be “Baby. Faced Gangster” (the hero of this “cut his teeth on a sawed-off shotgun”), “Bullet Proo{” (a “high-pressure, true, honest melodrama of men, women and guns”), “Homicide Squad” (“murder on the loose—blazing bullets”) and “A Lady of Resource” (“she was queen of the bootleggers, and what a queen!”). “Barbary Coast” will tell of the land “where men kill for a smile, ang die for a kiss. Leering facas—slippery fin- gers—figures that once were men.” “Derailed,” concerning “men hard as nails who take their women where they find them.” “Heaven on Earth.” “Raging rivers of r'gvmlnce! Turbulent tides of pas- “Waterloo Bridge.” “In spite of her lurid past he loved he: There will also be ol Spirit of Notre Dame,” in Knute Rockne.” and the incomparable “Back Street,” from the novel by Fannie | Hurst. | | .‘l.‘:;l story of a w‘:mn men worsh - but only ene could give her the love she craved. ON YHE STAGE Fanchon § Marcos, To%ms with Coscia and Verdi and .-p-lnl‘v:‘. Bill of Hamilton’s “Westward, Ho!” Exclusive Movies: Washington Cadets Drill W un-marriage.” w and Tomorrow.” With Ruth Chatteron as a ‘‘courageous, un- conventional wife, to whom marriage is not _enough.” f"!ventnas for Sale.” “The love story o a gigolo.” = “Shop “Pretty girls with rigge and Girl.” youth’s eagerness for excitement and luxury and dependent largely on men for them.” “This Is New York.” “Drama in lux- urious hotel suites, night clubs, night courts, speakeasies, private apartments. Packed with the type of excitement that splashes the papers with sensa- tional headlines.” “Daughter of the Dragon.” “A tin- gling thriller of a beautiful Chinese girl used to entrap men.” “Uncertain Women.” Concerning “clever, beautiful ladies of mystery who have high positions in society and de- tectives on their trail.” “Cheated.” “When a strong-willed man, used to his own iron way, at- tempts to make a beautiful, proud and high-spirited woman his own ite flashes.” In addition to which the Marx broth- ers are due to provide some needed ex- hilaration in “Monkey Business,” a production to which this correspondent looks forward with hope. (Copyright. 1931) o R-K-O Pathe Romance. CONSTANC‘E BENNETT has just ccmpleted “Common Law,” which will follow “Born to Love” in the thea- ters, and now Connie will vacation at her Malibu Beach bungalow. Bill Boyd's combined vacation and honeymoon is over. But Bill should worry. His bride, Dorothy Sebastian, is with him in “The Iron Chalice.” Ina Claire is taking a brief rest fol- lowing the completion of “Rebound,” her famous stage success. It is her third picture. Eddie Quillan is completing “Whoop- Te-Do Kid.” Marion Nixon plays op- posite. She appeared with him in “Geraldine” a while back. Ann Harding is busy, tco. Ann is rehearsing for “Devotion,” which should be before the sight and sound cameras within a_week. Helen Twelvetrees is still on her va- cation-honeymoon. “A Woman of Ex- perience” is Helen's next release. Then she is going to do “Pick Up.” The R-K-O Pathe lot is simply » land of romance. Hoboes and Gigoloes. ILLIAM HAINES, at work on his new picture, “Just a Gigolo," )mmissary at- pposed nobleman,” he explained to Jean Her- sholt. “You know—one of those fel- lows who never works or anything.” “Yes” quickly answered Hersholt, “we have 'em in this country, too, only we_call them hoboes. SIDNEY LU! 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