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AMU SEMENTS. Photoplay Attractions FOX—Women of All Nations.” LAGG AND QUIRT, as represent- ed by mt Lowe, are on the loose again, this time in a torrid nar- rative called “Women of ~All Nations,” now at the Fox Theatar. With Victor McLaglen and Edmund Iowe in their familiar roles, the two “famous Marines” through the tropics, the Pan- ama Canal, the Brooklyn Yard and a his mind on. As a complicat- ing feature, El Brendel appears to himself into the tender graces of the most desirable i In this picture he is said to im- part a mad humor which makes it qui impossible to take the situation too seri- ously, even when Flagg and Quirt are up to tneir most vindictive chicanery. It's a fighting, loving, roystering yarn of he-men and sh:-women, done throughout in Raoul Walsh's lustiest style. The principal women in this continuous quest from Brooklyn to the harems of the Ori‘nt are Greta Nissen, Fifi Dorsay and Marjorie Whit2. Fanchon and Marco's “Prosperity Idea, Al Mitchell as master of cere- monies, Bob Hamilton et and the Fox Movietone N:ws complete the program. The “Prosperity” Idea features Lucille Page, billed as “Ame ica’s foremost acrobatic danseu Jack La Vier, “the Air Male”; Danny Beck, “the boy who makes faces and beats it"; the Aaron_ Sisters, Tommy Harris and Danny Daniels, with a chorus of California beauties. EARLE—"Up Pops the Devil.” “UP POPS THE DEVIL,” the fa- mous Broadway play, is the chief screen attraction this w-cek at Warner Bros’ Earle Theater, where it will be shown in conjunction with four vaude- ville acts. Five stars have the major roles in this Paramount version of “Up Pops the Devil.” The story concerns a young modern couple who determine to be as happy 10 years after their mar- riage as during their honeymoon. The irl goes to work, while the husb~nd ceps house.” A mix-up takes place when hubby steps out oi the kitchen “to_play house” with the girl next door. Carole Lombard is se'n as the wife and Norman Foster as the husband. Supporting roles are played by Skeets Gallagher, Lilyan Tashman, Stuart Erwin and Joyce Compton. Tha stage entertainment is headed by the “Tiny Town Revue,” featuring Bust‘r Shaver and his seven dimin tive entertainers, headed by Olive Br: no. Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers, a femily of musicians from tha Ken- tucky hills, will present a song and comedy offering; Serge Flash, dsxtrous manipulator of rubber balls; Maxine Doyle, with other personalities, com- plete the footlight bill. An orchestral prelude, conducted by Freddie Clark: the Graham McNamee talking news- reel reporter and short subjects round out the entertainment. RKO KEITH'S—"Three Who Loved.” ‘ ITH characters said %o have been taken from real life, “Three Who Loved.” the latest offering of Radio Pictures. is making its initial bow to the public at RKO Keith's Theater. It is described as a. gripping love drama, packed with thril's and dra- matie episodes, a story. that centers about thrée people—a girl with the modern tendency to have her fling, a man whese compelling love for her leads him to theft and the sacrifice of an innocent man and a s:cond man whose infatuation ruined his life. Greta Nissen, The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. S an avid devourer of the in- timacies purveyed in the movie fan magazines, I have for years wanted to visit such cele- brated spots as the Brown Derby res- taurant, the Embassy Club, Malibu Beach, one hotel's coconut grove, the | Blossom room at another hotel and the Mexican resort, Agua Caliente—for it is in these favored places that the ornamental film stars are said to fore- gather and swap gossip on their own time. I have now been in Hollywood for three weeks and have (at vast ex- pense) visited all the meccas mentioned above. Perhaps there's something the matter with my eyesight, or perhaps the stars don't look like stars when off duty, but the disappointing fact is that all I have seen to date is one young lady who looked like Evelyn Brent, but vho, it turned out later, was not Evelyn Brent, and a genial gentleman who might_possibly have been Leon Errol. So I have nothing of much personal interest to report. Shamed as I am to admit it, I can't tell you who was seen dancing with whom the other night. 1 have managed to eavesdiop on no one other than a lot of unattractive looking people whose romances are of no interest to any one but themselves (and even then not so fascinating). However, the quest for information has not been entirely fruitless. led me across the Mexican border, and though I saw no stars in Agua Cali- ente (“the stars’ week end play- ground”), I did succeed in agreeing with the roulette wheel on the selec- tion of several lucky numbers, and con- sequently returned to the United States in possession of my skin. Agua Caliente is only an hour and three-quarters from Los Angeles by airplane. By the old-fashioned auto- mobile, it is anywhere from 4 to 11 hours, depending on how many wrong turns you take and how many trucks you collide with en route. Crossing the line at San Ysidro, the eye is instantly assailed by masses of billboards adver- tising various obeolete beverages bear- ing such quaint names as “beer,” “rum” and “whisky.” It seems that Mexico is still in a state of comparative bar- barism, which means that you can get anything you want, provided you pay for it, and pay pretty. The champagne retails for the sum of $18 a quart and is almost as good as the current pro- duce of New Jersey. Having passed the Mexican authori- ties, who give you no more than a markedly hostile look, you enter the historic town of Tia Juana and (if you take my advice) pass rapidly through it, with fingers clamped firmly upon the nostrils. Tia Juana resembles mnothing so much as an old street scene in Universal City. From all sides comes the merry din of mechanical pianos and the clatter of the slot machines, ‘whch no one has licked yet. There are also hm-ldrfi o{, !lr;!‘l:l, ‘]avel!- flo'fl!';;%: oung , shyly inviting passers| ztep up'nnd buy another round for the bunch. ‘The street of Tia Juana is jammed with cars bearing California license lates, and all the various emporia— glrl. e shops, dance halls and gam| dens—are jammed with ex- uberant _emigrants from the Golden State. . Every week end an American expeditionary force crosses the border and takes Tia Juana—or, rather, it would ‘be more accurate to say that Victor McLaglen and Ed- 2, he organ | 1t has | l Betty Compson- is the girl, connd‘ Nagel the husband and Robert Ames | ! new-type villain, Th: story is by Martin Flavin and the direction by George Archainbaud, | who has many successes to his credit. ! In addition is another of RKO Radio Pictures’ Toby and Pup cartoon serizs, “Tob; Halloween’ RKO Pathe | comedy, “Against the Rules,” featuring Franklin Pangborn; a journey with Co- ilumbll'l Rambling Reporter titled | | “Father Nile,” and the current issues | of RKO Pathe News. ! PALACE—“Vice. Squad.” I“VICE SQUAD” is the flln'en!, 1 screen attraction at Loew's Pal- ace Theater. Besides being an expose ! of city vice and the workings of a | crooked police department, it serves as the first starring picture for Paul Lukas, whose recent performance as Ruth | Chatterton’s leading man has won him a contract to star on his own. Lukas plays the role of a former soclety man who has turned s.ool | pigeon. - He loves the magistrate's sis- ter, Kay Francis. Besides Lukas and Miss Francis the cast also includes Helen Johnson and Rockcliffe Fellows. On the Palace stage .a “home-' coming celebration” is being held for | ‘Wesley Eddy, who heads the stage revue titled “Bouquet of Melodies,” with ‘the Three Sailors. Olive Sibley and other Loew acts featured. METROPOLITAN—“Misbehaving Ladies.” | JRIRST NATIONAL - VITAPHONE'S | come.y drama, “Misbehaving La- | dies,” is th's week's screen attraction at Werner ros. Metropolitan Theater, with Ben Lyon and Lila Le> co-featured. ‘The cast includes Louise Fazenda, Lu- {ck'n Littlefield, Julia Swayne Gordon, Emily Fitzroy, Martha Mattox, Virginia | Gray and Oscar Apfel. | “Misbehaving Ladies,” from a story by Jullet Wilbor Tompkins, concerns a small-town beauty wio goes abroad, marries a _prince, and after a few years returns hom-, - widowed. Her old friends who expect to see her in all of the regal splendor of silk robes and | gowns of royalty, when she app:ars find | her simply clothed and subdued in man- | mer so that she is taken for a seam- |stress and at once put to work. The [ picture is sald to provok: no end of | Iaughter. |~ An exciting unit of the “Adventures |in Africa” rerics, titled “Jungls Flames,” | showing a veldt fire, with th> wild life | fleeing before it, will be an added at- | traction. Graham McNamee's talk'ng n-wsreel and a Vitaphon~ short “Nine O'C'ock Folks,” featuring the Mound City Blue Blowers, will complete the: Fregram. COLUMBIA — “The Lawyer's Secret.” CLIVE BROOK'S forcefulness, Rich- ard Arlen’s appealing youth, Fay W:ay's loveliness, Jean Arthur's ear- nestness and Buddy Rogers’ nowly dis- covered dramatie ebility are said to give “The Lawyer's Secre'.” now current at Loew’s Columbia, all the talents neces- sary to make up one of the hit pictures of the year. “The Lawver’s Secret” is described as an extraordinary drama, really three ' | vital stories with one sweeping motivat- ing frrce. Brook, a lawyer in love with | Pay Wray. as the press agent pu's it, unwittinglv becomes the confidant of the girl's brother, Rogers. Rogers has essisted against his will at a murder, | for which a young saflor, Arlen, is be- ing tried for his life. Brook's lips are scaled because of professional ethics 2nd because of his love for the girl, | Rege in fear of his life, refuses to ! | confess, Arlen is convicted, in spite of | a brave fight for life. assisted by his | sweetherr., Jean Arthur. The solution | is said to be tremendously exciting and surprisingly effective. The story was | written by a reporter who formerly eov- | ered the “court house beat” for a Los | Angeles paper. | _The supporting players include Francis MacDonald, Harold Goodwin, | {Llwrenra La Mar, Robert Perry and ' hid! Wilbur Mack. | luxurious limousines and dwelling in | stately palaces. On the contrary, when |they don't use undernourished horses | for getting about they use 1907 flivvers, | jand their residences are just what the | homes of Mexicans are traditionally ! presumed to be. Probably thev have | sense enough to soak their money away against the next revclution. Agua Caliente is a brief mile beyond Tia Juana and very different. It is a ' rezent development, promoted by Ameri- can capital (much of it from Holly- | wocd) and done on a lavish scale with a_ surprising amount of good taste. | There are an enormcus and pleasing | ;huul. surrounded wi‘h bungalows, an elaborate gambling casino with disdain- | ful croupiers, and swimming pools, sul- ! phur baths. tennis courts, a golf course |and two race courses, one for horses! |and one for dogs. There is plenty of entertainment, and ¢l of it is costly. | | _ I can't imagine why there aren’t more {film stars about the place. After the | | general avidiiv of Hollywood (and I'm | not speaking so'ely of elcoholic liauor) | this handy oasis should be a great | gathering place. It has evervthing that |a bored cinema celebrity should love, including the atmosohere of continental | depravitv. Nevertheless, those who were there when I was there were emphat- ically not stars. They looked more like | | truant Baptists from the environs of | San Diego, escaping from the surveil- lance ‘of the local pastor and determined ?w?,m“ Mexican beer stocks to a new I should like to dwell on Agua Cali- | ente and tell how I planked the ulti- | mate dollar on No. 13, and it came up | —but, after all, the avowed purpose of | this column is to provide the vast reading public with information rela- tive to moving pictures, so perhaps I'd | better return to my subject. As I haven't first-hand knowledge available, I must turn to the ever-reliable fan magazines. In the current issue of Screen Play is an article called “Love Came in the Nick of Time,” by Norma Shearer (“As told to Walter A. Rashick”). In the course of her remarks on her marriage to Irving Tha'berg, and on the son with which that Western urion has been blessed, Miss Shearer says: “Love in my. life is my audience. Baby's coming doubled by audience.” “Everything I do now I do with the hope of pleasing these two I'm in love with. I want them to applaud me, to be ;zm‘:d of m;. :rl;dmm oW r{“"txl wan! do—an Tren an good things because of the! This is s%lendm, admirable! Miss Shearer is obviously a t rarity in this cynical age, for e values the respect ‘of her home folks above the plaudits of the great, gross multitude. But what I want most to know is this: Just what were Baby Thalberg'’s re- actions to mother’s performances in “The Divorce,” “A Free Soul” and ‘Strangers May Kiss?” Did he real- ize that “great and good things were being done solely for the benefit of him and his brilliant father? Or was he just the least bit puzzled? (Copyright, 1931.) Gettin¢ Out of Underworld. Tommy Boy - his principal uine actor; Ernest Torrence Brabin has gone 1o Letingion, Ro 1o e n, Ky., film scenes o‘logfloueflefll.’rw i Brabin is also taking a battery of camera men and a sound crew di from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cal fornia studios, and expects to spe | b5 Sunday ool bt qd Ambassador LR Monday Tuesday Wednesday Saturday orman Foster and — Norman Fosier and Oarole Lombard in arcle Lombard in ! he Devil” *Up Pops the Devil John Boles and Lois Wilson in Short_subject. A Serial. Cartoon. and Wall SR "!:thw Secret, 8ix. ort_subject. Apollo Johes g0l seriesd. __Joes Holt serie-s. m Bores an Jean Hai Lois Wi in Wallace Beery and e Bt B d Short_rublect. . Soe Vitaphone zjiort 8hort_subject. subject. Willism Powell In i "Hadlty Man siv-Cofinder Love.” Vitaphane short Serial. subject. Comedy. Ashton Clarendon. Va. ort. sublect: n Gilve Brook in “She's My Weak- ““The Scandal Sheet Georae O'Brien in “The Seas Beneath.” Joan Crawford “Dance, Fools, Da Avalon 5612 Conn. Ave. Conastance Lowell 8herman Trene Dunne “Bach, jor_Avart- ment."" _§3't sub. Copstance Bennetf in ‘Born_to Love." obby Jones serles, “How I Play Golf.” . il Boyd ang Al Jolson in nflen Toelvetr “'Big Boy. n ““The Painted Desert."" Jack Oakie in “June Moon.” Serial. Sect Comedy. 645_Pa. Ave. Vitaphone short subject. Frank Fay gad Lauj La Plante in Gift to Women. Short_sublect Copstance Bennett in VBorn to Love." Vitaphore short subject. “Dorpthy Meckaill ind Bes James Hennio in b “‘Party Husband." Boy Priend romedy. ed in Arc/ie, he Viking.” “Adventures in Africa.”” No. 5. Carolina 11th & N.C. Ave. 8.E. Conra: “Free Pickford in Nagel in Mary R Love.” Ruth Chatterton Ruth Chatterton and Paul Lukas and Paul Lukas “Unfaithtul.” Marion Davies Joan Cra~ford an ster Vail in “Dance. Dance. Central Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. “The Sub Exi Jack Holt m Ja ok Holt In Apn Harding In “The Subway “East Lynne.’ Express."* Jones golf seriei—3, Short _sublect. Short _subject. in “Unfaithful.” Ann Harding In Wi “East Lynne.” Jones golf series—3. Short_subject. - Loretta Je Joan M “The_Bec sihree Girls Lost. Com Serial. Sh't sublect. sndel and H Carey, “Mr. Lemon of Duncan Renaldo in 5 “Trader_Hor arry Carey. ina Booth and Renaldo, in Horn.” H Edw! Gonred Richard Arlen, Colony “Svengal Jces golf reries—3. Comedy. Tofctta Youns and ngal Joan Marsh in Jones zolf series—3. “Three Girls Lost.” Comedy. Short ject. Borol Kaill and James Rennie in “Party Husband.” Comeds. Ga. Ave. & F Dumbarton 1349 Wis, Ave. N.W. ice Olaire and ;Rf"lw?" Horton in “Kiss Me Again.” Warner Oland ani MeTEnerea Sharenin in ‘‘Charlie Chan Carries On." Beriice Olaire and Edw. Everett Horton in “Kiss Me Again.” Vivienne Segal a; Walter Pideeon in “Viennese Nights.” 7 to 9. Adolphe Menjou and Leila Hyams Jackie Cooper and n in Fairlawn Anacostis, D. C. Comeds. Jackie Cooper Bela Lugosi Coogan in e P Will_Rogers in “A_Connecticut Yankee.” an Olsen_and Johnson Wty Minion "l“ehmi: H John Barrymore in “Sven ome Vitaphone short subect. 13th & C Sts. N Thomas Melghan and Dorothy Jordan in “Young Sinners. 8hoy e 2m Poy dies’ t Vitaohone, short subiects. Thomas Meighan and Dorothy Jordan in “Youne Sinners.” well in o4 Shert_subieet menBerial. ey Bacimet ST Wise Chiid.” a Com. News. Cart'n. Jesse 18th_nr. R.LAv. George Arliss T “The Millignaire.”" Vitaphone Variety. News. Geor, in, “The Millignaire.” Vitaphone Variety. Audio_Review. Will Rogers in “A Connecticut Yankee.” an Novelty. e Buck Jone< in ““Th Fighiing Sheris Berls). = Comedy. . Dark. Lyric Edmund Lowe in “Don’t Bet on Women Comed Bdmund Lowe in “Don't Bet, on ‘omen, Comedv. News. _lleu_r “Doctors’ Wives.” Comedy. Warner Baxter Warner n “Doctors’ Wives.” edy. Gary Cooper in “Fightins Caravans.” Oswald s Ftoon. Gaithersburg, Md. Princess 1119 H St. NE. ¥t Wheeler and PRovert (Woolsey n “Cracked Nuts." Conred Nael Bert Wheeler and 1 and Ann Harding Robert Woolsey n “Cracked Nuts.” Nagel and Hording “East Lynne.” Courad ‘Ann Rzlph Forbes fn “Beau Ideal.” Tom Tyler in “God's Comntry | and_ the Man.T Dorothy Mackaill and James Rennie in “party Husband." 8hort_subject. Savoy cy and hurehill fllions.” ects. Dorothy Mackaill and ames Rennie in - Mareuerite “Party Hisband.” in “Quick M| Short_subJect. hort_sul Fra k Fay and Laura La Plante in “God's Gift to Women Short_subsect. Boenc and Mareuerite Ghurchill in “Quick Millions.” Short_subjects. William Haines in A ‘Tatlor-Made Comedy. Man Short_snhfect. 8h't subiect. 3030 14th 8t N.W. Seco Dark. Warner Oland n “Charile Chan Carries_On.” Johnny Mack Brown n “The Gr eadow Marion Davies in “It's & Wise Chila.” Charlie Chanlin in “City Lights." Charlie Chaplin in “City Lights.” Silver Spring. Md. Stanton Ben Lyon and 1 HE R Ben Lyon and s Wilson and Jean Harlowe in ‘Hell's Angel News. Loi: La Conrad Nagel and Bette Davis in "Bad Sister. medy. Edmund Lowe and Jeanette Ma-Donald in “Don’t Bet_ on Women.” News. Com. George O'Brien and Marion Lassing in “The Seas Beneath.” Comedy. 6th & C Sts. N.E. State Dark. Bernice Claire n Me Again.” Jones_classic. nermé‘r’cmu in “Kiss Me Again." “Kist Bobl Bobby Jones_classic. “Rango."” Mary Pickford in “Field and Siream.” + “KikL" Ben Lyon in “The Hot Heiress." Bethesda. Md. o and Rutl, Cnatterton ukas in i neaiintal” Corm. Carzoon. News. 3 RobertAmes in Untaitntur “Behind Office Doors."” Com. Cartoon. News. ‘Comedy Leon Janney and Lewis Stone Fathers o Comedy.~ Ne: Vicior McLaglen and on Errol and Fav W Will Rogers “A Connecticut Yankee." Will Rogers John Gilbert and bl v Louts’ Wolheim “A Connecticul n A Sonkee “Gentlsmen's Fite" William Powell _John Gilbert and Lout n “Man of the 5 s Wolheim. in “Gentlemen's Fate." Thomas Meighan and Dorothy Jordan in “Young Sinners. 14th & Park Rd. Short_subject Richard Dix and Jackie Cooper in “Donovar’s Kid.” Short_subjects Thomas Melghan and Dorothy Jordan i “Young Sinners.” Short_subect. Mariene Deitrich and Victor McLaglen in “Dishonored. " Berial Richard DIx and Jackie Cooper in “Donovan's Kid." Short_subjects. Marlene Deitrich and Will Rogers Victor McLaglen in in “Dizhonored.” “A Connecticut Vankee."” Boles and o Rlsenin See Short subect. York Ga. Ave. & Quebee James Cagnes and Edward Woods in “The Public Enemy." Short_subject. John Bol ‘Lots, Wil es_and son in e Short subject. Jemes Cagney and Edward Woods in, “The Public Enemy.” Short_subject. oan Pennett octors’ Wives.” Shor:_subjects. Ben Lvon and Ono_Munse in, ““The Hot Heires: Short subject: Lew Cody and Victor McLaglen in “Not Exactly Gentle- ial. Com. men.” Serial. Art and the Director. “BLIND directing” is cropping up &s the latest directing vogue in Hol- Iywood, according to studio reports. Harry Beaumont, pi-neer mega- phoner, is credited with being the origi- | nator. for in his latest picture, "The; Great Lover,” featuring Adolphe Men- jou for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he adopted a policy of “hiding” frcm his players. That is, when a soene was about to be shot he would turn his chair around behind_a camera or & “flat,” so that he could see the action, but not be seen by the players. “I know that experienced players say they get used to the director in full view,” says Beaumont, “but I do not elisve this is so. The presence of some one as close to an actor as a director | gets when he is in front of the camera is bound to affect the player, subcon- sciously at least. If the effect is sub- conscious it may cause the player to ‘blow’ in his lines. “I may be wrong, but scenes seem to have gone more smoothly since I have deserted my old chair, in full sight of the players, ing.” W}:ere—_Are the Ghurkas? “ Y kingdom for 25 Ghurkas! M This is the longing of Lal Chad Mehra, high-czste Hindu, technical ad- visor on_Oriental matters and actor in Radio Pictures’ “The Sphinx Has Spoken.” It_seems that Mehra summoned all he East Indians, Arabs and Hindus in | t Hollywood, but no Ghurkas were forth- c-ming. Since the Ghurka is notice- ebly shorter than the other tribes of Indie, Mehra tested a group of Chinese 2nd Japanese to use them as Ghurkas. But their facial characteristics elimi- nzted them. Then a call went out for Filipinos and Hawailans. They were perfect. and are now being put through the drill and arms manual of the Ghurka soldier of the Himalayas. Ccrporal Lal Chad Mehra says they will be as fit_as their counterparts of Indian when ttey appear in the picture, “The Sphinx Has Spoken,” being di- rected by Victor Schertzinger. —_— Vindicating a Fish Yarn. lT may be a fish story when papa comes home with a string of what have you, when all the finny cnes show the earmerks of being fresh from the butcher shop, -but, declare -the studio reports, it is no fish story about the 50- pound halibut Leila Hyams landed on T duym‘cfl during the filming of 1-BibL.” Just meet the old fishing smack that docks at Malibu in front of the Hyams home any day that the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer actress has off, and the odds are that the demure blonde of the screen can show you a batch of big ones still giving a few last kicks.” st e B Britain to Help Garbo. CECIL CUNNINGHAM, the English comedienne, has been signed for a role in Greta Garbo's new picture, “Susan Lenox—Her Fall and Ris> in production under the direction bert Leonard. at the M-G-M studios. Nile Style and have gone into | | i MARIAN | leading feminine role in “The Mad Geni Russian bailet. MARSH, | Who played opposite John Barrymore in “Svengali” and has been assigned the | ‘The screen play is a story of the jus. A FEW seasons ago & mere half- | dezen Summer theaters functioned casually at widely scattered resorts, where Broadway actors repaired for the Summer season, to appear in “tryouts” of hopeful new plays or in established XBl’l:deI)' successes. The idea of gain- | Ing experience in a variety of roles, flrv the same time enjoyirg a vacation i the country or at the seashore, had a natural appeal to actors. The Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Cape Cod, which opens its fifth season on June 29, is probably one of th> most successful of the Summer theate: Its owner and managing director is Ray- mond Moore. When Mr. Moore was an art student at Provincetown, he bought at a bar- gain a seventeenth contury church in the little town of Dennis. He consid- ered using it as a studio and art gal- lery, then he bescame interest>d in the idea of a theater. Artist friends as- sisted him in designing a stage. . He wrote to certain actors whose work he admired and asked if they would lik2 to come to the Cape and act that Sum- mer. Acceptances came promptly from such Broadway well knowns' as Basil Rathbone, Janet Beecher, Peggy Wood, Minor Watson, Robert Montgomery, Violet Kemble Cooper and Laura Hope Crews. The transformation of pulpit to stage was hastened, and the success of his first season amazed no one more than the youthful Mr. Moore. e Cape project, which began so humbly five Summers 8go, now ex- tends—in actual real estate—over 27 acres. Besides the Playhouse, young Mr. Moore has another theater, the Cape Cinema—called by art critics and ‘The Temperature Is Just Right KEITH'S Betty ‘Com pson Conrad Nagel ROBERT AMES & Drama of Love “THREE WHO LOVED” An REO Radio Picture A T 1 ‘Rambling Teby, the Cartoon “Against the » Comedy Summer architects the most beautiful small motion-picturs playhouse in America. This year garden lovers have come from far and near to see the gardens surrounding the theater, for Mr. Moore has already developed six acres of gar- den and landscaped woodland. The Summer’s program for the Cape Playhouse, which may be taken as rep- resentative fare of the best Summer companies, includes the appearance of Arthur Byron in Megrue's “Tea for Three,” . Crystal Herne in “Craig’s Wife” and in Lonsdale’s Last of Mrs. Cheyney,” Edith Barrett in Molnar's “The Swan” and Henry Hull in Milne's “The Perfect Alibi,” with the later half of season’s rchedul> still to be decided among Philip Barry's “Holiday” or “Paris | Bound,” Grace George in “The First Mrs. Fraser,” and ibly starring en- gagements of Basil Rathbone, Madge Kennedy, Edith Taliaterro, Basil Syd- ney and Mary Ellis and Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas. BN NOW PLAYING Onwe$TAGE | () e SCREew WELCOME O SRy § {115 LUKAS KAY FRANOS WESLEY EDDY %o Ol THREE SAILORS . o NOW PLAYING . - §yAR PROPUCTION QLs (CUIVE BROOK-CHARLES ROGERS RICHARD ARLEN- FAY WRA; JEAN ARTHUR* JAWYERS | THE best way for an actor to build | the ranks of featured players is by the Theatric Art. himeelf up towasd ‘stardom from role route, according to who expressed his views “Vice Squad,” now at “character” Paul Lukas, while filming Loew's Palace. “I haye always said I do not care what sort of a part I have been asked | to play as long as it requires marked characterization,” Lukas said. “A role which requires definite characterization always has plenty of possibilities for the P! r to ‘stand out.’ “On the other hand, a leading man often does nothing but appear at the right moment, make love, and finally win the girl. “I have always found that most of the great stars,of the screen insist upon character roles. George Bancroft, Marie Dressler and William Powell are classiz examples, not overlooking Lon Chaney, who, of course, was always ‘a character.’ “Besides aiding in getting the player recognition, a character role compels | him to disclose his talents, his skill and his theatric art—and that is all there is to acting. Answer to Prayer. ADIO PICTURES, be it said to its | credit, is the first unit of the great motion picture army to resort to prayer in time of distress. o ‘William Le Baron, who had to post- pone the date for the opening “shoot- ing” of “Consolation Marriage,” the picture in which Irene Dunne is to be starred, e;%nngl_v announces the prob- {lem has n solved. Pat O'Brien, h» states, is thé answer to prayer, for Pat is going to be the first masculine lead | in the picture—a hole that scemed to| gape hopelessly at all plens for the| completionsaf the film. o Moreover, but probably not in answer to prayer, Arline Judge, who has been | rapidly climbing into film favor, the re- port states, will play the second femi- nien lead in the Ruggles-Estabrook metropolitan tragedy, “Are These Our Children?” ; Thes; “All-étar" éasts. HEN is an “all-star cast” really an “all-star cast”? According to mctiog picture ethics, a | Dicture may be advertlsed as having an 11 st when its principal players nking prestige” on either stage or screen, ‘or both. Strictly speaking, however, an “all-star cast” should and does mean that the players are all star contract players. ! “The Lawyer's Secret,” now current | at Loew's Columbia, boasts an all-star | cast in the strict sense of the term. | includes Clive Brook, “Buddy” Rogers, | Richard Arlen, Fay Wray and Jean | Arthur, 5 The Mighty Fallen. | A FORMER prince of royal Riffsian | blood today earns a livelihood in slapstick comedy roles. David Mir, he is listed on the credit sheet of Radio Pittures’ two-reeler, “The Gland Pa- arade.” In the archives of old Russia, it is said, he was listed as Prince Vladimir Serannin. .overlord of many fine estates, godson of Grand Duchess Ma- rie and cousin of Prince Yousopoff, who dispatched the powerful Rasputin. “I am quite hippy in comedies,” modestly says David, “for through them my mother and I live in this beautiful country.” In the days of silent pictures Mir was featu in & number of Elinor Glyn productions. AMUSEMENTS. About Myself and Others By Percy PHILADELPHIA newspaper grieves editorially over the im- perfections of New York play- goers, and is inclined to blame the sorry state of things on the drama critics—this one in particular. “How much taste may be expected of the ordinary playgoer,” it asks, §‘when Percy Hammond, for instance, devotes the greater part of a column to sneer- ing at one of the acinowledged master- pleces of English -comedy—Congreve's “The Way of the World?’ ... With comparatively few exceptions—an out- standing one being J. Brooks Atkinson —these writers too often reveal little comprehension of the fundamental principles of drama, and simply record their personal reactions to the work of the dramatist or actor.” Rebuked thus paternally for record- ing my own reactions instead of those of others, I set out to discover what had been said in the near past about “The Way of the World” by holier re- porters than I. It was my intention to amend my carpings by substituting. therefore, such praise as I might find in the cpinions of A. B. Walkley, Wil- liam Archer, Clement Scott, Max Beer- bohm, Bernard Shaw, James Agate, C. E. Montague, Hannen Swaffer and sim- flar wise. men of the English stage. But nowhere in my library of their collected reviews was there to be seen any mention of Congreve or “The Way of the World,” save & short paragraph | by Mr. Beerbohm. I read again my American books of drama criticism— the works of Burns Mantle, James Huneker, Walter Prichard Eaton, Rob- ert Benchley, Willlam Winter George Jean Nathan. In them, also. there was a silence about “The Weay of | the World.” It scems that the writers dismiss the mastrpiece—perhaps it is too great for their comprehension. So here I am still unable, despite my arduous investigation of the book sh=lves, to replace my own impressions, how- ever little, with great products from the less mildewsd of the archives. Con- greve himself admitted to Voltaire. if one may believe a statement made by the classic Mr. Taine, that as a play- wright he was not so good. “I am not a dramatist,” Congreve confessed; “I am a gentleman.” According to Mr. Beerbohm, en aloof critic whose sane reactions are not to be heckled, “great srtists are never gentlemen”—a remerk that might be objected to by such art- ists and gentlemen as Walter Hamp- den and Otis Skinner. Mr. Beerbohm asks in “Around Theaters” (Knopf), “Who really and truly, in his heart of hearts, wants to see a play by Con- greve or any other Restorationist? They are dead utterly and a theatrical pro- duction of them is a mere rattling of dry bones.” It may b2 that Mr. Beer- bohm. when he wrote this, was filling the Philadelphia newspaper’s naive pre- scription for drema reviewing, and in- stead of narrating the adventures of and | Hammoud. his own soul in the theater, as coune seled by Anatols Prance, was repeating the observations of some one else. Drama reviewers, like women and princes, have few friends, and even their closest pals sometimes are cruel. Last week F. P. A. publicly uobraided | me, his ancient Chicago crony, for be- ing cbscene and incomprehensible in my sentences about the acting in “Prece- dent” and “Crazy Quilt” I had said that Mr. Mooney, the innocent and per- secuted hero of “Precedent,” w2s, ac- cording to his acquaintances in, real life, something bzneath a noble martyr. That even if he did not throw the bomb he was the type of refcrmer who would have done £0 had he thought of it. Mr. Adams complained that this was gibber- ish to him, as was my description of Mr. Phil Bsker’s ridicul: of American Big Business in “Crazy Quilt” es a humor- ous “hoi poilci.” I meant to say that it was a hodge-podge, but in the hurry of newspaper composition I got the sylla- bles mixed and was guilty of a ludi- crous lapse in concentration. Eager to improve my style, I make pilgrim:ges to F. P. A’s “The Conning ‘Tower,” there to learn lessons in clarity, conciseness and deep-thinking. In it 1 find the appended example of limpid English—a sentence of 81 words, five commas, a semicolon, a dash and, eventually a full stop: “The Conning Téwer has a gocd deal of respect for Mr. John S. Sumner, sec- retary of the Society for the Suppres- sion of Vice, end we share his opinion that the tableid press cverpublicises crime 2nd criminals, and that head- lines like the Mirror’s ‘They Killed a Cop—But They're Not Afraid’ with a picture of three Chicago boys eged from 13 to 15, mak-s heroes of criminals; or make adventugous znd romantic & life | ¢t gun-play #nd of triumph over au- thorit; Also this neat model of blended words and thought from “The Conning Tow- er” will help me, I hope, to remedy my pen’s confusions: “Our recent tcnant, Mr. Sinclair Lewis, failed to take with him three cr four books. all terrible. If the Yale Library, which, no matter what the f2cts were, hes not in its possession the Nobel Prizz: medal, wants to do scme- | thing handsome, it will send somebody to our farm—New Haven to Bridgeport, then teke the Black Rock Turnpike to tre Blue Bird Inn, turn left on Lyons Plzin—and take away those fcur books, which ctherwise will b: chucked into the incinerator to pay storage charges.” | The late Kyrle Bellew once gave his | manager, George C. Tyler, a cigarette " case on which is inscribed the following | prayer: *Dear God: Please make me a | etter actor, fr George C. Tyler's szke. { Amen.” I have ordered a similar gift | for “The Conning Tower,” and on its jeweled surface will be engraved a peti- tion, pararhresing Mr. Bellew's. F.P.A.” it will say, help me to be a be | Dram?2’s 82 Greta Nissen’s Accent TALKI'NG pictures sent Greta Nissen into a concentrated course of elocu- tion to remove a charmirg Norwegian accent which, she belisved. would handicap her success cn the screen. After a year of constant application, amplified by vaudeville and stag> en- gagements, she succeeded in eliminating all but the slightest trace. Then, anxious to make up for lost time, she esgerly accepted the leading feminine role in “Women of All Na- tions,” which is now showing at the Fox. Arriving cn the set for the first day's rehearsal, Greta was astounded when Director Raoul Walsh asked her to use her accent, only to find that she had done such a thorough job of elimi- nation that it was really a t>sk to re- gain her criginal accent, that had been lost in the shuffie. Her knowledge of languagss, it is explained, had made the perfection of English easier. Before coming to this country Greta Nissen had established herself as a dancer in the foremost theaters of the | European capitals. Fokine, leading Continental dance teacher, regarded her as his prize pupil and personslly ar- ranged her act. The Queen of Den- | mark, it is said, looked upon her as a | prodigy. Her work on the stage in this coun- | try heiped to conquer her original ac- |cent. She made her debut in “The | Beggar on Horseback” as the Princess |end caused a sensati-n. So much so | that she was sought by many producers —the movies then being silent. When | she embarked on her picture career she already had won a large following, and then came the advent of sound. Now the is off to a new flying start. Rioul Walsh, why directed her in two silent pictures, “The Wenderer” and “The Lady of the Harem.” personally | selected her for the leading role in | “Women of All Nations.” In her next picture, “Transatlantic,” Miss Nissen will have the real oppor- tunity to display the accentless English she worked so herd t> perfect. Pirandello Explains 1 'HE perplexities of Luigi Pinndello'li play, “As Ycu Desire Me,” which Washington already has seen and which in all probability will come again next scason have penetrated the fastnesses of France, where the play has not yet been produced. Fhilip Carr, well known correspond- ent, it appears, bearded the licn Piran- dello, in his den on th= taigne in Paris, and the New York 'r‘lemes subsequently printed this inter- ian w: “I tried to lead him on to tell me something about h’s play ‘As You De- sire Me,’ but he would not be drawn. ‘Which is the real wife, or, rather, w{’}l(‘;l do you consider to be the real wife?' “‘The one who believes herself to be the real wife,; cams the answer. “But the real wife, physically? I continued. At ttat he smiled and threw up his hands. ““The theme of all my work,’ he said, ‘s that imagination is stronger than actuality. What is real for each one of us is what he or she believes to be real'—and he would say no more. “Other things Pirandello was quite ready to tell me. He told me that the Shuberts had commissicned him to write five plays, of which ‘As You De- sire Me’ is the first. The titles of the others—of which two are already writ- ten—are “Tonight We Improvise, ‘The New Colony,’ ‘The Giants of the Moun- ‘When You Are Somebody." Victor McLaglen Edmund Lowe Greta Nissen El Brendel Fifi Dorsay Marjorie White venue Mon- | “He also told me that J. J. Shubert | was thinking of taking to America an Italian company, headed by the famous | Martha Abba, to give a repertory of six or seven of his plays in North and | Cenfral America and perhaps after- |ward in South America. The tour | would probeb'y start in October, and he himself would perhaps accompany it.” SYLVAN -Biefrdirte ™ Nt CHATIERTON, PAUL LUKAS. Com- edy. Cartoon. News. CAROLINA *i et Llar 4th and Butternut Sts. No Parking Troubles . WILL .ROG!RS in “Connecticut Yankee” Sunday at 3:20, 5:25, 7 Morkday_at 600, 8:00. fob. 8.0, 30,00+ PRINCESS 1119 H St. NE. Line. 2600 WHEELER and ROBERT WOOL- “CRACKED NUTS." . C. Ave. SE. with MARY Continuous from Matinee, 3 P.M. 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