Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1931, Page 47

AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA—"Indiscreet.” LORIA SWANSON's latest pic- ture for United Artists, “Indis- creet,” 1s the screen feature at Loew’s Columbia Theater this Gloria Swanson, week. Gloria Swanson's productions, since always been popu- lar, In “Indiscreet” sumes the role of a world-wise young definite jdeas con- cerning _men and works tc a good end until she her life and then it is too late to Ben Lyon plays the leading male porting cast com- prises Barbara Owsley and Arthur Lake. ’ An all-Dogville Barkie, “Dogville Big | ture on the Columbia program. It is a burlesque on the recent screen hit, “The | FOX—"“Daddy Long Legs.” | A ture to catch at the heartstrings. and a stage show that brings home just cent cool theater these warm Summer | days, introduces the allurgnents of the Fox Theater for the current week. | The new master of ceremonies is #mile, & mellow voice and a wholesome | respect for his audiences, Al Mitchell, | lieus of the larger metropolis to give Washington theater-goers something to The picture is “Daddy Long Legs." | an adaptation of Jean Webster's play Henry Miller and Ruth Chatterton, with | Janet Gaynor as the little orphan girl | benefactor. One eminent critic, it is said, has already proclaimed this plc- Heaven. | Theater-goers of a generation ago Legs” that Ruth Chatterton scored perhaps the most appealing character- Younger ‘“old-timers” (who may Te- member the “days of the silences™), will | “Daddy Long Legs’ Mary Pickford added to her stature as a winsome, voice recording beautifully,” now fol- Jows in their footsteps and it is claimed | Una Merkel, Louise Closser Hale, Claude Gillingwater, sr., and Kathlyn On_the stage Fanchon and Marco's “Tcy-Hot” Idea, will leap nimbly from Janguor of June. Big Bill Blomberg's Aleskan Huskies are featured, the Le Grohs, Heras and Wallace, Helen | McFarland and the Sunkist Ensemble | R-K-O KEITH'S—"The Good Bad Girl.” OMANCE, comedy and thrills, set New York’s underworld, with smart dialogue sn swift-moving action, are and gripping interest to “The Good Bad Girl.” Columbia Picture's featured the advent of talking pictures, have Miss Swanson as- woman who has morals. Her theory meets the man of change the past. role, and the sur- Kent, Monroe ‘House,” is added as a special short fe: Big House.” | NEW master of ceremonies, a p\c-' how lucky folks are to have a magnifi- | described as “a man with an engaging who has been sent here from the pur- | be_thankful for.” that was made famous by the art o€} and Wamer Baxter as her unknown ture as “greater even than ‘Seventh | will recall that it was in “Daddy Long ization of her entire career on the staze. recall that in the subtitled version of wistful actress. Janet Gaynor, “her she too, distinguishes herself. Willlams also are in the cast. the frigidities of last January to the prezentation also including the Three from the boulevards of Hollywood. against the colorful background of promised to give a stirrng tempo screen attraction at R-K-O Keith's ter. A girl is the central figure of the story. Wanting a chance at happiness, with decent living, a home and babies, she find herself enmeshed in a web of eftecumstances from which it scems im- possible to escape. How she fights for this happiness is disclossd 1n dramatic episodes that follow in 1apid sequence. Mae Clarke, whose Molly in “The Front Page” brought her to big notice, has, for hery present opportunity in emotional actlng, the role of “the girl” in the pictur{. In the suporting cast | are James HAMll, Marie Prevost, Robert Fllis (as the villain), Nance O'Neil| | Eleanor Gibson. | American capital. | with her. and Edmund Breese, both stage celeb- rites of other days. The picture was directed by R. Willlam Neill. Other features are Radio Pictures’ “Mickey's Stampede,” starring the great Mickey McGuire; “Play Ball,” one of the popular Aesop Fables, the R-K-O Pathe News and “Screen: Snapshots," with Columbia's array of Hollywood stars. PALACE—"Kick In* Wu..LARD MACK'S stage sensation, “Kick In,” has been brought to the talking screen and is the cur- rent feature attraction this k at Loew's Palace Theater, with Clara Bow in the leading role. “Kick In” is the story of a big city police department that stops at noth- ing to frame a man for graft and its own personal gain. Regis Toomey has the leading male role, with Wynne Gib- son, a Paramount “discovery,” in & supporting_role. On the Palace stage Irving Aaronson and his Commanders are featured, with Jay Flippen, formerly with the second “Little Show.” Many consider Aaron- son and his Commanders the premiere dance orchestra of America, especially in the realm of ball room music makers. Many other featured Loew acts are in- cBllufled in the revue titled “Bag of ues.” EARLE—"“Big Business Girl.” N enjoyable program on stage and screen is promissd by Warner Brothers' Earle Theater this week. The screen feature is First National and Vitaphone's production of the magazine story, “Big Business Girl,” in which Loretta Young is starred. The stage program is headed by a breezy revue, “Broadway Affairs of 1931, in which Bob Nelson, Broadway funster, is fea- tured with Ken Harvey, Jean Pajet and others. “Big Business Girl” concerns the ex- periences of an attractive co-ed who is torn between love of her husband and love of her boss. Loretta Young is said to be charming in the role of the modern big business girl. She is supported by Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez, Joan Blon- dell, Dorothy Christy, Nancy Dover, J. C. Nugent and Virginia Eale. The stage _entertainment presents “Broadway Affairs of 1931 described as a clever, tuneful and snappy revue. Bob Nelson, humorist, is assisted by Ken Harvev, Jean Pajot, Elsa Green- well, Dorothy Morgan, Roy _Sisters. Betty Bear and the Six Friedland Beauties. Joe Young and company continue the festivities with the help of Myra Langford, Billy- Reddle and Galla-Pinl and sister offer a novelty musical act, while Frank and Eddie Monroe, “two of the idle | rich,” offer more comedy. ‘The program is completed by the Earle Orchestra prelude, directed by | Freddie Clark, and selected short reel subjects and the Graham McNamee talking news reel. METROPOLITAN “Lady Who Dared.” BILLIE DOVE'S newest picture, “The Lady Who Dared,” is the attraction | this week at Warner's Metropolitan Theater. The leading men, Conway Tearle and Sidney Blackmer, support Miss Dove in this First National and Vitaphone attraction. The story concerns the neglected wife an American consul in a South ‘With time on her hands, she drifts easily into an acquaint- anceship with Jack Norton (pla; Conway Tearle), a smuggler of dia- moncs. At first his idea is merely to further his criminal courses through contact with the consul end his wife. But in time he falls violently in love The climax Is said to be of thrilling. The supporting cast includes Juditn Vosselll, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew, Lloyvd Ingraham, Ivan Simpson and Mathilde Comont. Completing the program will be “The Buffalo Stampede,” & Vitaphone thrill- packed “Adventures in Africa” series. The title of the short was received from a single close-up of a stampede which took Wyant D. Hubbard, adventurer and explorer, two weeks to make. Other short reels and the Universal News reel, with Graham McNamee announcing, will also be shown. LATE NEWS NOTES EW YORK, June 8 (#).—When | Noel Coward's sophisticated comedy, “Private Lives” 1is sent on tour to the larger cities | this Fall it will have Billie| Burke and Hugh Sinclair in the lead- ing roles. These are the parts origi- nated by Coward and Gertrude Law- rence, with Otto Krueger and Madge Kennedy replacing them when the Broadway run of the play was extended. It is expected the Krueger-Kennedy | team will tour in a second company of the play, being booked at towns nat touched by the Burke-Sinclair duet. Krueger and Miss Kennedy also may take the play on & tour of the South and Pacific Coast. The red-haired Miss Burke appeared as comedienne last Winter. 'WO revues and two plays arrived last week with the third “Little Show” being the first entrant. It at- | tracted mild reviews from the critics, they confining themselves to unre- astrained plaudits for the performance | of Beatrice Lillie. “The Band Wagon,” | which begins its Tun with a 12-week | buy from the ticket brokers, is the| other arrival. | Broadway before Christmas. | with Anita Loos. “Unexpected Husband” is billed as “a comedy with 1,004 laughs,” but the critics seem to have missed several hundred of them. Glenn Hunter open- | ed in “A Regular Guy,” which is mer ly a revival of Patrick Kearney's play, | A Man's Man."” "THE Abbey Players are coming over from Dublin this Fall for a Broad- way engagement. The last time they visited these shores they caused riots | in Boston, New York and Philadelphia | by presenting “Playboy of the Western | o) Worl John Emerson has written two new plays which will give him three on One is “Cherries Are Ripe.” which he wrote When it arrives here, it is said, Basil Sidney and Mary Ellis will have the parts played on tour by | Rod la Rocque and Vilma Banky. Jeanette Loff, blonde movie actress, | will_play opposite Jack Haley in the forthcoming musical comedy, “Free for AlL” Ethel Barrymore and Jane Cowl both have returned from their tours with high praise for=the enthusiastic audi- ences they encountered in one-night Janet Now “J udy.” ¢(()NCE upon a time” as the chil- dren's books phrase it, a little Chicago girl named Janet Gaynor hu: ried through her school work and, ac- | companied by her mother, she went downtown and with wide eyes watched Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in a tender and wistful play—one that made a deep impression on her youthful mind. The play was “Daddy Long Legs and on the way home little Janet de- cided that some day she, too, would be an actress and make people laugh and cry. But never did she dream she would appear in the very rcle that first cap- tured her childhood imagination—that of Judy in “Daddy Long Legs.” Her mother smiled tolerantly. It would be years before her daughter could seriously consider an acting career. And in those years Miss Gay- nor, moving from Chicago to Ficrida and from Florida to California. seemed to have forgotten her early inclination. Her stepfather, however, remembered her juvenile tendencies, and persuaded her to go to Hollywcod and see what sort of a future might lie in walt for | her on the screen. It was only six and a half years ago that she bravely started out to the studio casting offices. The name Janet Gaynor then meant nothing. But a | haunting wistfulness in her face soon wen her an extra role—then another— then a “bit"—then a succession of small parts—then a few comedy and Western leads and, finally, featured parts in |such films as “The Johnstown Flood,” “The Shamrock Handicap,” “The Mid- night Kiss” and “The Return of Peter Grimm.” ‘Then came & triumph such as few actresses ever had—the sensational role of Diane in the “Seventh Heaven,” which lifted her overnight to world- wide fame. Janet Gaynor had arrived. Her progress from then on is known tg every one—"Street Angel” “Four Devils,”” “Sunrise, “Sunny Side Up,* “The Man Who Came Back,” just to mention a few of the high points. Woman as ONDON (#).—A Michigan girl who used to mimic the actors she saw on the stage has become one of London's important theater directors. She is Ellen Von Volkenburg, born in Battle Creek, Mich., and a graduate of Michigan University. For three years she has been in Yondon—she loves it—and at present she is director of the London Theater Co. and of Maurice Browne, Ltd. When she was just a little girl she used to mimic—she calls it imitate— actors in plays she had seen, remem- bering lines and situations with a kind of knack. This she continued, for her friends, during her college days, until “a woman in Detroit” saw her. The Detroit woman hustled her off to an agent and she toured the States with her imitations. Soon, however, she was an actress and later became interested 4 the Little Theater movement. a Director. 8ix years she spent in Chicago, where she was one of the founders of the first Little Theater. Then she was in San Francisco for two years and before com- ing to London lived in New York. Originally she came to London with her marionettes (she does that, too) to operate them in “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and then stayed on when the Arts Theater asked her to direct “The Unknown Warrior.” She also directed Paul Robeson in Othello” and at the moment is re- spensible for “The Venetians,” a deli- cate comedy. She Still acts, and she likes it, but | direction she believes the more difficult, even the higher art. She still is intensely interested in the Little Theater movement in the United States, and thinks it highly important that they encourage thet{ own writers. by | THE SUNDAY FEK OF * VioRE 9 Sunday STAR, WASHINGTON, Monday Tuesday D00, UNE T, Wednesday Thursday 1931—PART FOUR. PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK Friday Saturday Loretta Young n “Big_Business o ‘Ambassador 18th & Columbla Rd. Toretta Young Toretta Young n n “Big_Business “Blg_Bust ‘Girl. T K Ruth Chatterton in Ruth Chatterton in “Unfaithful.” “Unfaithful.” Tallulah Bankfie: “Tarnished L Jackie Cooper and hone bert Coogan in Harry Carey and Edwina Booth in “Trader Horn." Apollo Rich'd Barthelmess in ““The Finger Points.” “Vitaphone short subject. Harry Carey and Edwina Booth in “Trader_Horn." Rich'd Barthelmess in Conrad Nagel and “The Finger Points.” Sydney Fox in “The Bad Sister." Short._subject. Vitaphone short subject. Teon Janney and Lowis "Gtae nt Arcade Hyattsville. Md. Will_Rogers in “A_Connecticut ankee. News. " Comedy, Will_Rogers in “'A Connecticut Yankee.” News. Comedy. William Powell and ), Kay Francis in “Man of the World."” Comedy. oo Willlam Powell and Kay Francis in “Man of the World." Comedy. _Carioon. Ashton Clarendon. Va. JuneCollyer, Lioyd Hughes and ‘Owen Moore in, “Extravagance.” Harold Murray in “Cameo Kirby.” Harry Richman and Joan Beunett in “Puttin’ on the Buper-film of the Jungles, the Ritz. Rameo a4 “Capt. Thunder . 8o Waiter Byron in “The Lion and the Tamh " Btar cast in v 1t Faynto Adver- © houy WP tise. Comedy. _ Fable. _ rial. Cart'n, John Barrvmore in ‘Moby Dick.” Dick.” Jackie Cooper and Robert Cooman' in DDy 8hort_subiect. Avalon 5612 Conn. Ave. _ Jackie Cooper and ‘Robert Coogan in “Skipp: Short._sub: Rob’t Montgomery in “'Shipmates.” Short_subject. Jones wolf 2. Jackie Gooper and Robert 'Coogen n “Skinpy.” Ave. Grand 615 Pa. Ave. 8. Conrad Nagel Sydney Fox in ““The Bad Sister.” Com. Short subfect. Robf Montgomery “Shipmates Short subject. Jones rolf serie Gaty Cooper in “The_Snatiers.” Serin Short subiect Jack Holt | “The Subwa: Express Short_subject. Jackie Cooper and ‘Robert, Coogan n “Skippy.” Short, James Cagney and Fdward Woods in, “The Public Enemy.” Short_subject Ona Munson and Ben_ 1. in Dark. 1 Cameo Mt. Rainier, Md. Jackie Cooper and Mitzl Green in “'Skinpy." _Comedy. Jackie Cooper and Mitzi Green in kippy.” Comedv News Charlie Chaplin in “City Lights.” Carolina 11th & N.C. Ave. 8.E. Charlie Chaplin in Esther Ralston “City Lights. in he Sor Harry Carey and dwina Booth in “Trader Horn.™ Short_subfect. | Central Sth St. N.W. Harry Cerey and Lew_Avres i Edwina Booth In “Trader Horn." Short_subject. 1. awrence TibYett Claudetts Colbert Frederick Merch in “Honor Among Lov- ‘Hop ere rs.”_Comedy. Lowell Sherman n “The Royal Bed.” Comedv. News. Lowell Sherman “The Royal Bed A Jones kol neky ones golf series Short_sublect T Betty Compson in, ‘The Iady Refuses.” Comedy. 8hort_subfect. Conrad Nagel and Lo Toretta Young and Joan Mars Ona Munson an Ben Lyon in “The Hot Heires Com. Serial. Cart'n, arner Oland and Marguerite Churchill “Charlie Chan Carrles On. John Gilber n “Three Girla Lost. retta Young in Right of Way." William THaines in “A Taflor-Made n R ‘Gentlemen's Fate Jack “June Onkle in ‘Moon.” Circle Jack Oakle in = une Moon. ‘Will Rogers Fdna May Olive Hugh H in “A Connecticut " Yankee." ferbert _in Laugh and Get Rich.” H é'l'ro]e Lomb--d and “A Connecticut FFare 1o, Yankee.” 2105 Pa. Ave. NW. 2 e George Arliss in -She Sufonatre.” Vitaphone short 5. . & Farragut ‘subj Grorge Arliss 1 “The Milllonaire Vitaphore short subjects. mes Cagney in ““The Publio Enemy." Jones Rolf series—2, Short_ sublect. Colony Ga. <. ok Z Winnie Lighter and Joe E. Brow 1349 Wis. Ave. Fairlawn Anacostia. D. C. Hippodrome 208 K St. N.W. Home 13th & C Bts. NE. News Comedy. _ Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey {n Cracked Nuts." Short_subjec Lawrence Tibbett & ‘Esther Ralston | “The Southerner m. Cart'n. News. Dark. ary_Plckford in KiK. " Lawrence Tibbett and Winnie Lighter and Joe E. Brown leanor Boardman in ‘Sit Tieht” Crarlie Chaplin Monte_Blue and eanor Boardman in “The Flood.” Comedy. Mary_Pickford in K <Rik)" News Comedv. Comedv.__ Cartaon Bert Wheeler and Constance Bennett in Raobert. Woolsey in ““Born to Love.” Cracked Nuts." vitaphone ‘short Short sublest Subiect Victor McLaglen an ther Ralston In, Fav Wrav in ““The Southerper.” The Three Rogues.” Com. Cart'n. News. Comedy. Grorge Bancroft in Grorge Bancr 8 eet.” “Scandal 8h Comedy. News. Charie Chaplin in “City Lights. Princes: S 1119 H_St. N.E. Nancy Carr Chaplin tn 7 “Stolen Heave: Charlle “City Lights." ”.vghn Mack Brown & Olsen and Johnson 1 he Great Meadow."” Elissa Landi and Flissa Landi and < X! " Olsen_and Johnson oft in et Lew_Ayres in “The Iron Man." Vitaphone short sublert. ames Cagney in ““The Public Enemy " Jones golf serles— Short_subiect. 'k Holt in e Bubway Xprass - omedy Olsen and Johnson ty Million n “Fitty Milli Frenchmen.” Frenchmen.” Cgnrad Nagel and Sldney Foxe in “Bad Sister. Comedy. Charles Farrel “Bodv_and Comedw, Crricon Constance Bennet| ““Born to Love. Vitaphone short Rubiect. n o Vitaphone short Subieet in “Pifty Million in Frenchmen.” Com. Review. Ne: rence "The Sout| Boy Friend comedy Lawrence Tibbett in The Southerner.” Boy Friend ey comedy Gharles Farrell Elissa Landi and Naney Carroll in “Stolen Heaven.” in, “Body_and Soul” Dark. Richmond Ruthy Chatierton in TR “Unfaithful. Comedy. News Robt. Montgomery & Robt. Montgomery & ¥ Dorothy Jordan in Alexandria, Va. _ Savoy 3080 14th St. N.W. Seco Silver Spring. Md. State S | R - er Oland and Matgderite Churenill Sylvan in "Charlie Chan Car- {104 R. I Ave. N.W. riesOn.” Comed | Takoma | e mic. Tivoli 14th & Park Rd. York Ga. Ave. & Quebee “Collegiate, Not Collegians. (QLSEN and Johnson first met at Northwestern University in Evans- ton, Tll, where Chic was working his way through college by waiting on ta- ibles and Ole singing fllustrated songs | at the local nickelodeons. They formed | a triendship which has lasted for more |than 15 years and bids fair to last for 50. | ""While still in college they got up an | act and went to & Chicago cafe, where they took tables as patrons. ‘Without | the manager’s permission, they stood up | | and went into their act. ‘The outraged manager tried to stop them, but the amused crowd wouldn’t let him. They | | Were such a success that they applied |to the astonished manager for & job ot it. |ln£alar they went on the variety stage {for the major vaudeville circuits and became one of the outstanding comedy | | combinations behind the footlights. Unlike most variety stage headliners. they refused offers to enter musical comedy. but remained loval to vaude- ville and toured Australia for two years. Upon their return, talking flim pro- ducers approached them to appear in short subjects. They didn’t, but pro- duced their own stage show, “Monkey Business,” instead. i . Trene Dunne and Lowell Sherman in “Bachelor Apart- Shrt suby't. . harlle Chaplin in CrAEy TheRts™ arry Corey and “E’awmr Booth 3 “Trader Horn." Will Roger: Connecticut Yankee series—2. Jones golf ‘Short subject Not a Financier. [ [EDMUND BREESE says he has not signed a check since the year of the actors’ strike in New oo Count back how long that has been! Breese is one man who admits that his wife is the better business man of | the two. Long ago. he says, he turned | his pay and check book over to Mrs. | Breese and she hires and fires for the | family. “An’artist, it T may call xm]'.sell("ont.; is not supposed to be a business man.” | ils tha hoted actor. “I¢ I had a fi- nancial brain, T would not have been |an actor.” The reason we are comfort- Iably well to do today is that my wife | handles the money. “I used to write checks for every- thing, like so many of my profession do, but when she got that pen and ink in her charge, things were differ- ent.” i i e o | ! o " | | Heaven on Earth. | ANITA LOUISE has been selected to play the feminine lead in “Heaven | | on Earth,” Lew Ayres' newest Universal icture. 4 PINiss Louise, recently seen in “Millle” and other R-K-O pictures, has been loaned to Universal by Charles R. Rog- ers to play the character of Towhead, a struggling, uneducated shanty-boater of the Mississippi River flood area. whose love is the one inspiration in the [life of States, an adventurous youth, layed by Ayres. |p “Heaven on Earth” is adapted from | Ben Lucien Burman's prize-winning novel, “Mississippl.” Ray Doyle has | prepared the screen play and dialogue | and Maurice Pivar is supervising the production. { Studio authorities believe “Heaven on | Earth” will be one of the most human | and colorfu! dramas produced since the advent of the talkles. A Canary Comedian. ¢«N/IKE” a unique member of the| cast of “Politics,” in which Ma- rie Dressler and Polly Moran are to appear, is a trained canary that can whistle at command, and with it the two comediennes stage a comical chase when it gets out of its cage. ‘“Mike” is 4 years old, and Is said to know as many tricks as a trained dog. —_——— — Wayne for “Arizona.” JOHN WAYNE, who attracted much| attention in “The Big Trail,” has been given a five-year contract by Co- lumbia Pictures. His first assignment will te to Columbia's adaptation of Augustus Thomas’ American classic, “Arizona. ‘Wayne, y Raoul Walsh during the filming of “Louis Beretti,” after a screen test was given the lead- ing role in “The Big Trail,” in which he achieved a personal triumph. An:her in the Fold. ‘HE screen has snalched another from the ranks of “the enemy” to further hamper its movement in recap- turing “the road.” Herbert Bragiotti, whose talents were displayed in the New York theater per- | formances of “My Maryland,” “Dis- honored Lady” and “A Woman Denied,” and who also played his first motion | picture role with Gloria Swanson in “What & Widow!” has signed on the | dotted line for five years with Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. ; ! Trene Dunne and John Gilbert in Lowell Sherman in % “Gentlemen's Fate.” “Bachelor ADAr! Vitaphone short ment.” Sh't subj't. subject John Boles and Alice Day and Lupe Velez Johnny Walker “Resurrection® % “Ladies in Love™ n “Pifty Million Frenchmen Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyvon in My Past.” Comedy. n “Fifty Million ___ Frenchmen” Alexander Gray in “Viennese Nights.” Comedy William Boyd and Helen Twelvetrees Charlie Chaplin in “City Lights, . “Painted Desert " Harry Curey and Ed; Booth vengall Vitaphone short subjects Irene Duune and Lowell Sherman in * Apart- " Comedy. Oisen and Johmson Ofsén and Johnson Vivienne Sexal and V; i John Barrymore in Joh Buddy Roge: ““Heads U Vitaphore short subiect John Gilbert_in “Gentlemen’s Fate." Vitaphone short Sublect rs in D “Norman Foster and Betty Compson Carole Lombard in und Ian Keith "It Pava to Adver- tiseo ~ Ronald Colinan n N ““The_Devil to ““The_Deyil to Pay Pav." Vi e Bezal and Lowell Sherman and Mary Astor_in “The Roval Bed oy Serlal Mary Astor and Ricardo Corter in “Behind Office Doors " Consta n Alexander Gray in “Viennese Nights.” Comedy. News Willlam Boyd and Helen Twelvetre n “Painted Desert” Barrymore in “Svengall " “Born t Lov Serial Georse Bancroit dal Sheet " Vitaphone short subject Vitaphor subects irene Dunne and Lowell Sherman in “Bachelor Apart- ent.” Comed: short Dorothy Mackajll in ST, Pk (G T " Olsen_and Johnson i Ben Lvon and on: Bennett - Fman Poster and er. d Tole Lombard ih © - Py Weay 0 It Pays to Adver- “Not Exactly G tise: tiemen - Willism Bovd and elen Twelvetrees in e Painced Desert: Comedy Serial Winuie Lishtner and T ‘Kept Husbands. Sportlight. Sonk_sketch. Winnie Lightner Brow __Serial.”Sh't subject. ____ Comedy._ Ropald Colman and Bob_ Steele in “Headin' North.” Serial Kay,_Francls in *Raffes.” _Berial._Comeds. Comedy. African picture, African pictyre, “Raneo. Aneo."” Serial. Serial. _Dogville comedy. Dokville comedy. Warner Oland in Tom Tyler 4 “Charlie Chan Car- “West of Chevenne.” _~ries_On Robert Woolsey in Bert Wheeler and “Cracked Nuts.” medy “Buck Jones in Fighting Sherifl. ‘omed: 2dy ort_sublect Lawrence Tibbett in “The Southerner.” Willism Powell n n “Men of the “It Pays to Adver- World " ot John Mack Brown in “The Great Meadow. e Comedy. a_Munson in “The Hot Heiress." _Serial._Comedr Mary Astor and Ricardo Corter in “Behind Ofce Doors™ nce Bennett i __Edmund Lowe in Cons Richard_Arlen in “Gun Smoke." Boy Friend coniedsy. Bhort subject William Haines in” A Tailor-Made “Born 1o Love T Berinl Loretta Yourx and Joan Mersh in “Three Girls Lost.” Ma Short subject Serial, Sk Al A R s e S e Robert Montgomery and wife attending Hollpwcod's farewell party to Norma Norma will spend some time in Europe. 1| Shearer and her husband, Irving Thalberg. B gt I:Iughes’ _;‘Ground Hogs:” FTER nearly a year of preparation of the comedy-dramatic sensations of production has begun on Howard |the new film year. Several sp: tacular Hughes' aviation comedy, now tenta- tively titled “Ground Hogs.” Edward | | flying sequences will be incorporated in it and these will be filmed in co-opera- Sedgwick will direct. He also had n"flon with Army air officers and pilots part in writing the story, along with |at March Field, Riverside. A number | Robert |of authentic war-time planes, includ- and Garrett | Ing a glant United States Army bomber, | James Starr, Ebba Havez, Benchley and Carroll Graham. Spencer Tracy, Sidney Toler and George Cooper will play the leading roles. Lola Lane is the leading lady and Renee Marvelle will have an im- portant role. “Ground Hogs” is designed to be one —e 'WARNER BROS. Yeres: HEATTHFOY KOOL A . Lorette Youns 3 B “gROADWAY AFFARS o 1973 EA\u-l{:l‘lfl . l?l YOUN! hos. BOBHY JONES have been reconditioned for use in the sky scenes. J. B. Alexander, chief of aeronautics {on “Hell's Angels,” will have charge of the flying sequences and several stunt fiyers who performed in “Hell's An- gels” will also take part in the new film, QVE.. MAKES GOOD CIALS BAD.. -AND BAD GIALS cooo! M'G'M to DO "Tarzan." [ VERYBODY knows that Edgar Rice Burroughs is the author of the| story “Tarzan of the Apes” and its va- | rious sequels of African adventure, in which the incomparable and incompre- | | hensible Tarzan links up a talking alli- | ance, offensive and defensive, with the | wild beasts and other uncanny things | of the mysterious African jungle. | Well, with its characteristic astute- | | ness the film-producing firm of Metro- | | Goldwyn-Mayer has commisioned | Edgar Rice Burroughs to piepare an | original screen script woven about the character of Tarzan, and jungle or no jungle, the Tarzan thrills are to be fur- ther perpetuated in their march toward immortality. other screen exppedition to Africa. Who | knows? | " Meanwhile, after three years of globe trotting, Director W. 8. Van Dyke, who directed “four consecutive pictures on location. ‘White Shadows in the South | S2as,’ ‘The Pagan. ‘Trader Horn' and ‘Never the Twain Shall Meet,' " is going to try his hand at putting Bayard | Veiller's play, “Guilty Hands,” in the celluloid, for the creator of screen | thrillers has to keep his hand in, or it | will forget its cunning, even with “au- thentic locales” to help out. - . = | Good Advert;sing Value. (CALIFORNIA TECH has yielded her [ “leading threat for the American | Olympic team in the 440-yard hurdles” that outstanding athletic event, to the talking screen, Dick Pomeroy, who is all that has been said of him in the preceding para- graph, has been nafled down to & movie contract for duty in Metro-Goldwyn- | Mayer's novel track and field picture now in coures of production. | Dressler's New Picture. ; ARIE DRESSLER fis to be starred | in “Emma,” & story written espe- clally for her by Frances Marion. Miss Marion is the author of “Min and Bill.” in which Miss Dressler was seen with Wallace Beery. She also wrote the scripts of “The Secret Six" “The Big House | “Emma” is said to afford a finer op- portunity for unusual characterization than any of Miss Dressler's earlier roles. It will be directed by Charles F. Reisner, who directed “Reducing” and “Caught Short.” Oriental Mynic Engage’d. AL CHAND MEHRA, said to be an authority on Far Eastern matters, | has been signed b supervise technical Sphinx Has Spoke; A native of India, Lal Chan Mehra | is considered one of the foremost speak- | ers on the subject of his country. He acted as technical director of “Kismet,” “The Black Watch” and “The Green Goddess. “Between pictures” he lec- tures st schools, colleges, clubs and @ orth. Radio Pictures to details of “The | REGIS TOOMey - R ¢ GIBSON | ON THE s1a IRVING NS COMMANDERS 25.Co FLIPPEN &nd Othen big acts “«"BAG OF BiUiEs~ | the “Spring subscription season.” Maybe there will be an- | and the present American champion in | AMUSEME not appear to have changed much since the days when the surrounding gaunt hills echoed with the words, “Yes, Mr. De Mille.” Of course, like everything else in and about Los Angeles, the cinema citade: lies expanded prodigiously. The | elaborate filling stations, the rondeterias, the gaudy little shoppes, the reaitors’ kiosk and all the other architectural | features have been breeding at an ap- palling rate and reproducing their own kind. " But that is progress, not change. | However, those who care to probe | more deeply into the soul of this| fantastically improbable community will find that there has been another kind | of advancement, and of an impressively | beneficial sort. | Hollywood has not only been growing | out, in all directions. It has also been growing up. It has been putting on | maturity, savoir faire and long pants, | and losing the horrible self-conscious- | ness of adolescence. Because of its sun- | kist location, Hollywood always had | plenty of climate; now it is beginning | i to possess & semblance of cultural at- mosphere. Needless to say, all the credit for this improvement is confidently claimed by the newer arrivals, the herds of Broad- wayites who have thundered westward since the introduction of microphone.s. But it seems to me that they are takin; much more than they deserve. have given a more cosmopolitan aspe: to Hollywood society and, by their con- | stant comings and goings, have kept it in a state of flux. They have not, how ever, contributed much in ile way of | intellectual stimulus. ‘The fact is that the film colony has been subjected forcibly to the inevitable process of evolution. The fittes: have survived. The old school of pretentious hams has been exposed and discredited, and those celebrities of the silant era who are still celebrities are th:ose v hose intelligences were superior to their surroundings. One excellent example of this is Richard Barthelmess, who has always had the sense to avold makinz a pro- fession of the role of movie star. An- other is the divine Miss Garbo. More of the same enduring stuff are Norma Shearer, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford and Harold Lloyd. Examine, too, the new school of directors—Lewls Mile- stone, Wesley Ruggles, Josef von Stern- berg, Edward Sutherland, Walter Well- man’ and Ernst Lubitsch. Such &s these | Btia Naney Sheridan. play, The Moving Picture By Robert E. Sherwood. NTS, cAlbum T first glance, Hollywood does | are :he leaders of progressive thought in the film world. Not one of ther can be classed as a product of Broadway. Not one of them is in any way typical of the old Hollywood tradition. One may find further evidences of the new order In the Present studio bosses Irving Thalberg, WAliam LeBaron, Carl Laemmle, jr.; Ben Schulberg, Harry I. Brown, Howard Hul and Waite Wanger. These are not men who, ac- cording to the ancient formula, “kn~" what they want, but don't know how to spell it They are literate, cultivated and aware that there 's a world of ideas outside of their own weird domain. In one respect. Hollywood has mot altered. It is \§ti'l an extraordinarily busy hive of rumors. There ere more choice bits of gossip than there are “For Sale” signs—and that, in these times, is a large statement. If you be- Iicve all you hear in the course of your peregrinations from the Brown Derby restaurant to Malibu Beach, you will gather that: Paramount. Metro-Goldwyn, Univer- sal, Fox, RK.O.-Pathe, Warner Bros and United Arlists are all about to cut salaries drastically in & hystetical at- tempt to avert bankruptcy. Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn and all the others previously mentioned h: | been refincnced and are beautifully solvent and will rais the line, particularly Louis B. M: ] Mr. adn Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks are that way. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks are this and that way. Jack Barrymore and John Oakie are among the unemployed. ‘Warner Bros. have fired 800 employes, thereby saving $32.000 a waek, but they are paying Constance Bennett $30.000 # week, which brings the net down to & mere two grand. ‘There are many more rumors, but vou will already have read them in your favorite movie news colimns, and you will also have read the contradictions of | them that invariably follow. If any one is interested to know what your correspondent is doing in Holl wood, of all places, I may fully that I came here to h: ‘The first day on the concrete tennis courts something went wrong with the right knee. In consequence of which. T am now wearing a splint and working for Howard Hugnes, producer of “Hell's Angels” whi®h was praised 30 extravagantly in this column. (Copyright. 1931) “Strange Interlude,” the Players at once enter the realm of the mighty. The play, & Pulitzer prize winner, was adjudged by critics all over the world as America’s finest contribution to uni- versal drams. On two previous presen- tations in the Nation's Capital it com- manded $4.40 for seats that will now be sold for $150. Manager Cochran teels that this is “the greatest bargain ever staged in any theater.” Director Clifford Brooke had his principals rehea past two weeks, also has had the co- operation of the Theater Guild, the original producers of the play. ' The script used here is identical with the original—not a word changed. The parts are said to be the longest ever given actors or actresses. Stanley Ridges and Nancy Sheridan will play in the lead roles, and among those to be seen in important roles will be: Burke Clarke. Mrs. Hibbard, Raymond Bramley and Forrest OrT. “HOLLYWOOD HONE INEXT week's attraction st the Gayety Theater on Ninth street will be “Hollywood Honeys.” Manager Lake says he has arranged for an all- siar cast. with many surprises, clever performers, preity girls, new songs, snappy dancing, light effects, costumes, scenery, etc., etc. “STRANGE INTERLUDE.” N Monday, June 15, at 5:30 pm | the National Theater Players, beginning s new phase of their career, will present Eu- gene O'Neill's masterful drama, “Strange Interlude.” The current week marks the last of Ten weeks of assorted drama constituted that period. Next week the Players %0 on & week-to- week basis. Popu- lar demand has held them over in the National Thea- ter. No repertoire company in the Nation, it 1s claim- ed, ever received such _satisfactory support. The com- pany was judged by press and pub- lic to be on a par with any like or- ganization that ever played Wash- ington — some ranking 1t -the greatest of them all. Prospects are .aid to indicate that the National Thea- ter Players will establish & new con- | tinuity record. In undertaking O'Nelll's | THERE seems to be no age limit for | movie stars these days. The latest star reported is mot old enough even to have “that schoolgirl complexion.” She has yet to be & candidate for kindergarten. | | _For just a day Joy Crews, a 4-year- {old tof. smiled her winning smile be- | fore a battery of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | cameras, and she was at once listed | as a star, & goal sought by thousands | of earnest, but unsuccessful, workers in | the cinema world. | | Joy was made a star because she | could do her bit in a way that no one i else_could approximate. | | "When she ran _out to the edge of the picturesque Santa Barbara Bilt- more an _ excitable spectator | screamed, “Don’t let that baby go nenr‘ the water. She will fall in.” But little Joy had other ideas. She| | climbed up to the edge of the high { spring board, glanced once at the slow | and regular motion cameras trained on her, stretched her tiny arms and did | a perfect swan.dive into the water far below. Joy was & star. She was do- ing what no other could do. The tal- ented baby was & finished swimmer at the age of 3, doing the jackknife, swan and running dives so wonderfully that | when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, looking' for swimming experts for an aquatic picture recently completed, little Joy was & first choice, Lt 2 YOU WILL ACCLAM This Inspired Production | JANET GAYNOR | WARNER BAXTER DADDY_ o IONGDI EGS! Gaiety. . .Wistfulness ~—in One of the Sweetest Stories Ever Told STAGE, —= Fanchon ¢ Marco’s ICY-HOT % BIS BILL BLOMBERG AND HIS ALASKANS 3 More Big Acts 'AL MITCHELL “ersonality Plus” BOB HAMILTON Supreme at the Organ Zoa Movietons News - And so Joy played & stellar role with such champions as Georgia Cole- man, the only woman ever to hold all the ‘women's diving records for the United States at one time; Mickey and Johnny Riley, both national cham- plons; Buster Crabbe, world record holder in the 880-yard. mile and 300- yard medley races, and others of na- tional renown. DUMBARTON "%z WINNIE LIGHTNER AND JOE E. e i JESSE THEATER 3.5 N5'™ R._C. A._Phonteph ‘*THE SOUTHERNER. WRENCE TIBBETT. ESTHER RALSTON. COM- _EDY. CARTOON. NEW SY] st ITY _with CHARLIE CHAPLIN. TAKOMA *i%,nd Butigraut sts. No Parking Troubles CHARLIE CHAPLIN in “CITY LIGHTS” 10:20. Continuous From Matinee, 3 PM. RONALD COLMAN in “THE DEVIL To Warner Bros. 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