Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1931, Page 34

AMUSEMENTS Strange Are the Ways - - Of 'Hollywood’s Colony ' So Writes "'Bo b" Sherwood, Who Is Peeping Into the Studios to Find Out What Is Really Going-on in' Movieland's Gapital. By Robert E. Sherwood. : HE other day Douglas Falrbanks was in his dressing room with a group of gentlemen with whom he was about to engage in a serious game of golf. The usual bets were being made and the usual prognostications of disaster on that tough thirteenth hole, when Doug | was suddenly called from the room. | When he ‘returncd he announced | cheerily to his playmates: “A tabloid | newspaper in New York has just pub- | lished the statement that Mary and I | -are to be divorced, to be followed by | my marriage to Edwina, Lady Mount- batten, and Mary’s marriage to Charles ! -Buddy Rogers. Come on, let's get out, to_the first tee.” | ‘This is an ordinary occurrence in the life of a film star, who must of#neces- | sity crave publicity and at the same | time dread it as one would dread the | bubonic plague. The extravagant at- | tention lavished by the world press on | Hollywood's idols takes the form either | of silly adulation or venomous malice. I Once Charlie Chaplin's press .xent} told me, “My job isn't to get Charlie's name in the papers—it's to keep it out. | I'm not really a publicity man at all. I'm an expert rumor denier.” So colossal, so grotesquely dispropor- tionate, is the important of publicity in the movie business that it n!lurllly’ has become a major weapon in the hands of the racketeers. H The story of Clara Bow and her | recreant sccretary has been aired in court and become a matter of common knowledge. But there are countless other instances that are never exposed. | If a Wickersham Commission were to | conduct an investigation of criminal oconditions in Hollywood its report | would surpass in public interest the | most sensational literature ever pub- | lished. Every conceivable form of black- | mall flourishes in the film colony. The | annual expenditure of hush money | must reach staggering figures. It is small wonder that the bigger movie stars wear hunted looks as they 80 _furtively about their own business (which 1s, of course, everybody’s busi- ness). They can't trust their servants, or their associates, or even their bosom friends, for there have been innumera- ble instances of best pals selling gaudy secrets to the professional scandal- | mongers. | It is generally assumed that the | members of the film colony are all im- | moral and that if half the truth were | told about them they'd all be ruined. | In the opinion of the average fan,| ‘whenever any one opens a closet door in Beverly Hills four regiments of skele- | tons fall out. This is not so. The film folk are far too dull, too unimag- | inative, to be effective libertines. And over Hollywood hangs the oppressively | virtuous atmosphere of Main street. | As long as that remains grimly im. gnetnb!e the town can never hope to another Babylon. ‘The ardent fans, however, refuse to believe this. Their keenest desire is to be told the worst of their heroes and heroines. Since the moving shad- ows are the vicarious instruments for the gratification of millions of sup- ressed desires, it is demanded that the .~ %stars must be just as sexy in private as they appear to be on the screen. | ‘This is the circumstance that enables the racketeers to conduct their mani- | fold nefarious operations. They know | that even though Miss Leila Lovely's | In the London Theaters BY EDWARD STANLEY. ONDON, June 29 (#).—While June didn’t seem to be bringing any- thing to the London stage de- manding international rejoicings, two American actresses have been delighting the theater's connoisseurs ‘with their finely etched cameos. - They are Ruth Draper and Cornelia Otis Skinner, who have been giving matinees. Miss Draper is held in the same es- fetm in England as in America, which makes her almost the Bureau of Stand- ards discuse. As the English critic, Ivor Brown, wrote, “It is idle to praise Miss Draper nowadays.” Miss Skinner, now returned to America, perhaps is nct so well known in London, but her work achieved a fine applause. Besides sketches such as an English lady lecturer in the American hinterland, and American tourists in Venice, she presented imaginary portraits of the wives of ‘Henry VIIIL “DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY” has replaced “Wonderbar” at the| Bavoy and seems likely to repeat its New York success, although perhaps a little heavy for the time of year. Ernest ‘Milton is the grisly gent; Rcsalinde Fuller, the girl who preferred life, is really too beautiful to die, and Fred Culley quite satisfying as the dreadful old baron. Other plays have been slight or dull and some withered as dawn came. “A Knight Passed By” was a twittery bit by Jan Fabricus, in which an ad- | been vociferous in my assurances that home life is above reproach, her ad- mirers in the great audience are eager to think otherwise. So that if the chiseling boys can lay hands on some bit of gossip about Miss Lovely, which might conceivably be distorted into a lurid revelation, then they have ob- tained the combination to her safe. If T were a movie star—and Dame Nature has decreed, alas, that I mever shall be—I would spend my spare time running the gamut of the seven deadly sins; for I should feel that I might as well have the fun of wild living, know- ing that I'll be accused of it, anyway. EE THDMAS GEDNEY PATTEN, who formerly was with the Will Hays office, was interviewed by the Los An- geles Times and offered several answers to that recurrent question: wrong with the movies?” “Worst of all,” he said, “they make pictures for 14-year-olds. Now, I hold that the intelligence of the world, and especially of America, is far beyond 14 years.” ‘This is an argument with which I have tried religiously to agree. I have reiterated my great faith in the intelli- gence of the public at large and have if the movie producers would only make their pictures to appeal to persons df superior intellect, they would make far more money. But the discouraging facts always seem to prove otherwise. In the pictures released this year the most infantile hokum has been as profitable as ever, and the few, daring attempts to rise above dreary medioc- rity have resulted in financial loss. It seems that Phineas T. Barnum's l%védemmnu of his patrons still holds good. A * ¥ k% NEW triumph in California boost- erism has been achieved by M rs, & San Diego geologist and archeologist, who has announced discoveries which tend to ve that the Pacific Coast was inhabited some 20,000 years ago. In the course of his statement on this subject he said: “So primitive were these first California settlers that their like in primitiveness is found nowhere else in the world ‘This high degree of primitiveness in the Golden State was undoubtedly at- tributable to the climate. * ok & % DONALD OGDEN STEWART'S play, “Rebound,” has been transplanted to the screen with marked success by Edward H. Griffith and Horace Jack- son, who were responsible for “Holi- day. swift pace is set in the early stages of “Rebound”—too swift, in fact, for the picture begins to pant and falter along toward the end. But the im- portant thing is not the plot, nor Mr. Stewart’s gay dialogu I have seen Miss Claire in the Zieg- feld Follies and in Lonsdale comedies and various other entertainments, and I have always been bowled over by her beauty and her unfailingly deft skill; but I think that “Rebound” is her fin- est performance to date. She is due to be an asset of inestimable worth to the needy film industry. (Copyright, 1931.) venturer seeks to provide drama within three hours—on a bet. He uses the other man’s wife to do it, wins the bet, but falls in love with her. She sticks to her clod of a husband and the play folded. David Horne, the clod, took the slender garland of honors. Edith Evans and Robert Loraine squeeze everything pcssible out of “Tiger Cats,” a tragi-comedy by Karen Bramson, translated from the French by Michael Orme. It works out the problem of the philosopher who marries & red-headed woman. He doesn't win. Marle Tempest is appearing in “Marry at Leisure,” by Frank Vosper, which is funny when Miss Tempest ap- pears, but otherwise needs pushing. Out at Hammersmith the Ballet Club, Mar- jorie Rambert and Sir Nigel Playfair have combined to provide a short Sum- mer season of ballet. IT is possible that “Late Night Pinal,” the English version of “Pive Star Final,” will turn out to be the season's excitement. It opened June 25. The cast is mostly English, but includes Carol Goodner, who was Ursula Jeans | in “The First Mrs. Praser” in New| York. New Yorkers who saw it last Win- ter will be interested or annoyed, as the case may be, to learn that King George and Queen Mary have chosen “The Ad- mirable Crichton” for the command performance at Holyrood Palace in July. Esme Percy will be -Crichton. Other news includes Shaw's announce- ment that he is working cn a new play —"Too Good to Be True"—on the war aftermath. O’Neill on Theater’s Need 'ACI‘ORS must come up to the stand- ards of playwrights if the Amer- |gon dcan theater is to maintain its superiority. Eugene O'Neill told this to the Associated Press while preparing for his holiday trip to California, “While the American theater is in splendid shape,” he said, “and it far ‘surpasses the European theater, it must maintain its progress of the last two decades if it is to retaln its throne. ““he theater on these shores has de- veloped a group of playwrights who | Tave progressed in their art while the | ON THE . IKE Tennyson's “Brook,” the orama of the screen does not nger long, but, ever changing, goes on and on and on. Friday of this week, for in- stance, R-K-O Keith's will swap its .eurrent bill for a new one featuring the bla Pictures drama, “Lover Come Jack,” with Constance Cummings, Jack Mulhall and Betty .Bronson featured, later par ticular i 4 | d Fanchon- 4 4 1 Constance Cummings. | > lo,” with William Haines as its star. ' & Bert Fropman stage show titled ' t Smiling. i “Never the Twain Shall Meet” fea- Leslie Howard and . Conchita & , if you. happen to recall her, will come to the Earle, with Norms stage orkthe rest of the world has e “But, the American actor is be: ginning to lose much of the fruit of what these playwrights have been de- veloping for us. There are hundreds of good actors in this country, but there are too many type players. “More permanent acting companies and repertory tropes are needed to de- velop players who will understand all the facts of performances.” O'Neill departs with his wife, Carlotta Monterey, shortly for the West Coast. HORIZON Gallo and Paul Tissen heading a “Gypsy Ensemble” in the stage show. ‘The Metropolitan announces ‘“Chil- dren of Dreams,” a romantic_ story of Californla, written by Arthur Hammer- stein, 2d, and Sigmund Romberg, two brilliant compose Norma Shearer's “A Free Soul” will be followed by “Five and Ten,” with Marion Davies as its star, at the Co- lumbia, when and if Normas picture leaves. The Belasco Polish. HUMPHRI’Y BOGART, who plays an important role in “A Holy Terror” at the Fox Theater, was for- leading man in David Belasco's 's & Wise Child.” His superb act- attracted the attention the Fox m_Corporation and he was imme- diately engaged and has played in se: eral recent productions. MARSHALL HALL STEAMER Charles M cdut:r Col S | confe S 9 Sanday Monday Tuesday *+ Wednesday | Thursday Friday Saturday Ambassador h & Columbia BE. Bobby Jones_series. “How I Play Golf"—8 I e o b7 A be: Ef,',’,r“ Wfifuv in, 'Se: Ifin y. Claxs i Vitaphone short subject Apollo VA biee Vitay u"n-i short subject. RS Y ' in &3 gtbject. ‘Women ' t. Short sublect. Sheare ‘Cooper in 3 rial. ovarrg T Richard nd & Mary' Briag i commmny%m. 624 R 8t NE. Dark. ed Lady. 2 subject Constance Bennett & A AR Comedy. Cgastance n.g..:.fir—fl. Star ca “Capt, Ap:{, ac Berlal. ig) nored.” Bobb: > B AN ) o B arog 3612 Conn. Ave. Ave. Grand Tigmas Melenn 1 Tjomas) Johy, Barrymore “'Svengall.” Vitaphone sh sub, John, Bartymors In Bnsal " eyittuous Vitaphone short ibjeet lortone . rd_Dix and oty Vitaphone short subject. 615 Pa. Ave. S.E. Dark. Gary 5o idney “City 8 Comedy. N nd William Powell and n Kay Prancis i n.' "hfl.I;l' n. Comedy. R Ralph Forbes and retta_Youns » Ralph Fo Comedy. News. th Ml -Drfi"n:‘ln Tea “Kept Husbands.” ety Foune n “Beau Ideal.” “Kept Husbands." 11th & N.C. Ave. S.8. “June Central Yinnie Lig) C‘T::{I n g *‘Gold Dusi B8hort _subject. Jones golf series—4. htner il 2 “Thom H an and Magl it 425 9th 8t. N.W. Circle T Richard Dix and J¢ 11 o Ve le, Richard Dix and acl T k2 le Coope! oung Donovan's 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. e = Tiomes Melshan Er"“” i Short_subfect. omas Melg! “Yiny i d an Jones golf series—4. niels 1n, n, G e Dix and in [ Jones rd_Ba MRy Weay “Pinger Points."” Lomedy. Richard_Barthelmess e RN ey Wrey retia Youne and . John W “Pinger Polnts.!" s—4. . and rt Loraine ant B SR Alibi."* e o el ay Francis n “Ladtes” Man.” “Men_on_Call” ““Three OPYII Lost." Joe E. Brown and a La Lee i HHop epsed.’ omeds. a - and Richard Barthelmess Richard Barthelmess Al i y and Dous ,ng:m nks. Se! i ‘aesar.” N 4 Jackie Cooper and Anacostia, D. C. Hippodrome Baxter and Wll’ll'l'..u ett Warner Baxter and “Joan Bennet TS’ omedy. Ne: N gl Hamilton an e ackie Cooper and ‘Robert b Coogan in Oomn% ly. ".:rlll, Cflm‘.d!',”, 808 K_St. N.W. Home in Marlene Dietrich in ishonored.’ Vitaphone short ubject. LRy, Vitaphope short vita 2ub - :i’:"': Sts. N.E. T in, ‘Adgiphe Meniou wnd Lella Hysms in | en Cail It Love. Talmadge in Sy R Comedy. Novelty. s of Passion Cartoon. News. Richard Bai in “PFing Berial. * retta Youns and ary T and John Wa; in s, BROEE 18th nr. RLAVNE. Lyric on Errol and 7 Y Leon Errol and » “Finn and Hattie.” Re: ews. it “Fian and Hatt Revue. _Buck Jones in he Lone Rider. Dogville comedy. Serial Seri Sty Btreels “DF::{m: mfiz'::'» Sertat o Gaithersburs, Md. Princess LK. Joan Crawford “Dapce. Fools, Bance.” El Brendel Joan Crawford bre “Mr. Lemon of Orange.” “Dance, Fools, Dance.” Doroth: L AT 3 “Kept Husbands." Mary pickford in Lew Ayres In s o “Tron Man." 1119 W St. N Richmond Dark. Witinie Lightner i :&'e':t'u'.“ --ogfi'mugdmnu." Winnie Li “'Gold Dus! Dus Shovt subjects. Comedy. Short sublects. Janet Gaynor and Janet Gaynor and Waner Baxior in Watner Baster in “Daddz Long Less.” medy. “Daddy Lone Legs.” Comedy. Paul Lukas and Kay Francis in “The Vice Squad.” u: Comedy. Comedy. _Act. _Alexandris. Va. Williag Powell in_ Savoy . o'Q.m ‘World. n e short " sublects. Billie Dove _in “The_Lady Who Dared. Short subject. _Com. William Powell i “Man of the World.” Vi ne_short subjects. Billie_Dove _in “The, Who Dared.” Short subject. _Com. Vg:ngm short subject. Winnie Lighti Yool st Bestie Vitaphone short ‘Subject. 3030 14th St. N.W. Seco i Wheeler and Woolsey fr “Hook. Line and "“&Wu‘“ e Binker. - “The Single Sin." Wheeler.and Woolsey in “Hook. Line and in Sinker.” “Body and Soul.” John Gilbert in “ -%:F-.'r.u." Berial. Comedy. Silver Spring. Md. Stanton Taw avres and Jean Harlowe in *Tron Man." Comedy Ao Harding rad “Bast Lynn Newe. Comedy. Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett “Doctors’ Wive: i Jack Mulhall and y_in My Asts “In ‘the Next Room.” LA Comedy. T “Behing Office Doors.” News. Serial. 6th & C Sts. N.E. News. State Dark. i “Trader Horn." ““Trader Horn.” Douslas Pairbanks “Reaching ‘Moon P nks “Reaching for the Moon.” MUSEMENTS. Picking the Worst Play Of the New York Season Crown of Poison Ivy Is Awarded to “The Wooden Soldier"—The Plays of Miss Bankhead. Radio Dranfa Impressions of Mr. Hamilton. By Percy Hammond. R. drama critic, turns morbid on the rim of his outing and affiicts himself with memories the season's worst plays. Consulting the tablets of his recollec- tion he finds that the crumpled petals in a reviewer’s bed of roces are numer- blemishes was most e 0V’s presen ¥ in the Mind” was the unforgettable limit of theatrical incompetence. GARLAND, a New York |liest infant in Hollywood. Miss Bank- head achieves these abrupt transfer- ences magically and with incantations that defy analysis. It is my habit to actors who are showy and arti- ficial. Nevertheless I revel Miss Bankhead's reticent veneers and var- nishes and agree with her managers in their pronouncement that she is as mysterious and as potent an influence on moving picture civilization as Will Hays or any of the Warner Bros. 'l‘Hl following telegram from Bijlie Rose, - producer of “ it” As one whose playgoing was ‘infre- disposed to dis- | quent x:c Winter I am nmwfl, to withdraw my rec- and to call it a dead heat. However, I still belleve that *“The ‘Wooden !Oldlel; a:\m:ld‘hlve won. sts BANKHEAD and her grave- and-gray drama “Tarnished Wom- an” are not news to urban cinema- lovers, since they have been exhibited extensively in the metropolitan photo- graph galleries. But to suburbanites such as I, who seldom get to town, they come as a hot wiff of life as it lived by the butterflies of New York. pen is in the arms of an ugly racketeer; then she is the patrician wife of a stiff-shirt financier, and again & shopgirl and the mother of the home- : Moeditating em your crit- icisms of the Broadway revue “hits,” I thought that it showed a tendency to t “The Band Wagon” and “The 5| Third Little Show” in this category, and to ignore 8o seething a rumpus as my “Crazy Quilt.” By any system of weights or my Roman or McBride’s, sprig of th BILLY ROSE. * * x % ON! of my more intelligent recrea- tions is to listen to Cosmo Hamil- ton as he breaths his impressions of the drama and its actors upon the radio. Mr. ton is gentleman, essayist, novelist, flaneur and play- wright, and whenever he speaks I hearken. He perhaps, a little ad- dicted to hallelujahs, preferring to Srer Bl aivaye teendry s . _he ways friendly, m interesting, in a manner of speak- . | ing; sincere. If now and then his giih usiasms and complaisant enth seem & trifle bizarre, it is well to know that he is one of God's few gifts to the theater, ® boosting and constructive yes-man. “Adolohe_Menjou John Mack Brown g, in n Call It ve.” “The Gri Mei Bethesda. Md. Sylvm ‘ation ) Will_Rogers | “'A Connecticul Yankee." Comedy. Will_Rogers in 3 A Connecticut aakee " Comedy _News. Conrad Nagel and “Te Rient of War. y. Cartoon. nrad Nagel and retta Young in «The Right of Way." Com. Cart'n. News. ow. Bob_Steele in Sunrise Trail.” al Comedy. News. Ronald Colman and Loretta ¥oung in “The Devil to Pey.” Serial. Comedy. 104 R. 1. Ave. N.W. Takons William Haines in “Bkippy.” “A Tailor-Made Man." Richard Barthelmess “Bkippy.” “The Pinger Pols Richard Barthelmess B Louls Wolheim in “The Finger Polnts.” Buck Jones. § nes” in “Desert Vengean: Tivoli g .3 Short_subject. ihearer in Loretta Youns and Nogiangers May icardo Cortes. in, Rl “Big Bustness Girl.” Short_subject. ~Short subject. B [ Glorja Bwai “Indiscreet.” “Adventures in ximu Yount and Africa.” No. hort _eubject. R s Gloria “Ind] Our Gang comedy. “Adventure: Africa.” Ne 14th & Park Ba. . Tichard Dix an York Jackie Cooper in oune Donoyane Ga. Ave. & Quebes Kid.” Com. f. lichard Dix nce nnett in Tpekgumeerle “Rert o Tate Kia " Scom. Goit. Subject: Tonstance Bennett in Tallulah Bankhes to Love. T Paniined Vitaphorie short g subject. ‘Gary Cooper in mcer ‘Tracy in Ty Sireets. "T:';‘cmnnu Tove: Vitaphone short ortony subject. 'HE motion picture palaces of Wuh: ington are finding the “warm wave” an unusual reinforcement to the pro- grams they have provided for their pa- trons. The reason? Those artificial cooling systems that defy the ther- mometer and really lower the tempera ture inside the auditoriums to the poin! of luxury, no matter what the screen | may present, if you are particular in that respect. U. S. Army éand With Gudiner Dancers A JOINT program by the United States Army Band, conducted by Capt. Willlam Stannard, and the Gardiner Dancers of this city will be presented Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, at the Sylvan Theater in the Monument Grounds, under the com- bined auspices of the Community Cen- ter Department, the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and the National Capital Civic Fund Commit- tee. The public is invited. A limited number of chairs will be provided, at 50 cents each, to pay for the transpor- tation and placing of the chairs. Besides the concert numbers played by the Army Band, the dancers will be seen in an unusual of classic and modern numbers never seen here before, as well as several “re- quest” numbers, among them Thg Beautiful Blue Danube,” Schubert's “Moment Musical,” and the “Jota Ara- gonese,” by Tavan, & regional dance of Spain. A special arrangement of the ballet from. '?le’cflnce Igor,” by Borodin, will be presented as the climax of the pro- gram. Goldwyn's First Five. THE shooting of the last sequence of Ronald Colman’s mnext picture, “The Unholy Oll'den.u “fl;fi:}ly uel 1 studios recently of com- g:'g:“me Charles MacArthur-Ben Hecht adventure mel 8. The interest of Samuel Goldwyn and his production staff was then imme- diately changed to the adjoining stages and tge King Vidor picturization of the Elmer l!sk:e"ree tPnllun" -winning drama, *“ Scene.’ cludes’ Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, 1hoedt, Geo: cast, also David Landau, Russell H ton, Louis Natheaux and Greta Gran- stedt, iman will remain in Hollywood in erence with Goldwyn and his staff un‘é.‘ha Sinclair Lewis story, “Arrow- George Fitzmaurice, who directed “The Unholy Garden,” is now preru- ing production plans for the new Gloria Swanson picture, “Tonight or Never,” which is to begin early in August. Eddie Cantor's new comedy, “Palmy Dlye:’,"ll.s in the fourth of its five-week schedule. These five pictures comprise the first part of Samuel Goldwyn's production program for United Artists for the 1931-32 season. Ruth Gord;;l or “Bust.” UTH GORDON, who scored a hit in “Saturday’s Children,” is to have all of Jed Harris’ rmdnctkm plans laid aside to star her in a French comedy, with Henry Stephenson playing oppo- site and under the Harris management. Mr. Harris, it will be remembered, bought “King's X” for the sad-eyed lady, but it proved a flop. She did bet- ter, however, in “Serena " and better still in “The Wiser They Are. After is ducer as “Once in a Lifetime. Temperature Just Right. KEITH'S Sersen’s Tribute to the Turfl EDDIE QUILLAN JAMES GLEASON Alse MICKY MOUSE CARTOON RKO-PATHE NEWS Tnat's Hows 1o MP = H Its cast in-|is BY MOLLIE MERRICK. OLLYWOOD, Calif, July 4— Since movies have learned that days of complete rest in salt of the disturbing telephone do | more for them than all the beauty of stars are deserted today. But the various colonies popular with acting folk, which stretch from La Jolla to north of Malibou, are thronged with the gelatin gentry, enjoying & quiet Fourth. The big parties of yes- terday are no more in this village. Less a concession to general depression than a realization that depression gives movie folk an opportunity to take the rest and qulet they have longed for. A lot of canvas has been unfurled since Thursday—and all the seaworthy gang will return on Monday grinning sheep- ishly through their lobster red. If it's too red, they will return with much misgiving, for directors have said their say quite frankly about some of the sunburned effects. When too heavy, they photograph black, so that when the beautiful heroine, who looked like & magnolia in the opening scenes of the story, looks as if she had just re- turned from a long dusty drive you can know it’s too much sun and Sum- mer. Along Malibou way, Lilyan Tashman and und Lowe are entertaining in their brand new red and white home. ‘The “Dick” Hylands are having in some of their friends. Louise Fazenda the new Spanish home which has just been completed on the site of her old Malibou cottage, de- in the fire some time back. Frances Marion and George Hill pre- fer Arrowhead Lake district—the charm of high mountains and tall redwood trees. Their new home is in the build- wikh & arous o rlends Superving Sons a group of friends supe: con- struction. Vilma Banky and Rod La e have built Denny has a real log-cabin lodge on the edge of a great gorge, which makes one feel that the whole world has been cut away and that hothing but vast primitive stretches of creation reach out into infinity, At Laguna, Director E. H. Griffith is host to a house party, and Arthur Caesar has forsaken the warmth of Bev- erly Hills for a cottage on this tree- shaded shore. Emerald Bay is the only beach hereabout which can boast eucalyptus trees—great gorges thick BROWN "BROAD MINDED' o e o el air and far beyond the reach | parlors in the world, the usual haunts |{ How Stars of Movieland Enjoy a Studio Holiday Flock to the Hills and Seashore Over the Fourth. Well Known Players Entertaining ifl Th:if NBW Homes. with them, between the smooth dunes of beige-colored sands. Neil Hamilton, who has scored a re- cent hit in his appearance with Norma Shearer, and who has just signed a nice, long, fat contract, celebrated the occasion by the purchase of a 32-foot boat, which he took on a maiden voy- age over the Fourth—the first time studio work has given him an oppor- unity. » Hamilton has from time to time con- tributed priceless characterizations in cinematics. But, as is the fate of same actors, without at all achieving the type recognition which the usual successful characterization brings. Each time Neil Hamilton has been given due credit, dignified acclaim, he has been pigeon- holed in the minds of cas tors as a possible person for,a ult mo- ment when it arose. But not singled out for personal development. In the somewhat difficult role of the young lover of “Strangers May Kiss,” he proved that a man may get all the wrong lines and_situations, apparently do the disagreeable thing to a beauty who has one of the most rabid fan fol- Jowings of any actress living (I refer to Norma Shearer) and yet keep her love and the sympathy of the audience as well. (It's a difficult role to play— play well and convincingly, without be- coming a villain with ‘the audience.) And Neil Hamilton did it. Enter the t. ead often follows upon E'Am things, but I think with Hamilton, who has watched this colony from the wry angle for & good many years, this will not happen. Carmel Myers and Ralph Blum' dis- pensed Fourth of July hmnlhllthy from A sprawling shingled cottage, well weathered and with a marigold yellow gate, the way to it is known by all the interesting h ones uts. The four Marx brothers are to be found on the beach of the Ralph Blum house any Sunday afternoon. 's wife, Marian Bends of the Follies, is one of the most dramatically beautiful new girls to join this center of beauty. And Groucho’s wife is as lovely in & blonde way. But Harpo is the darling of the colony— Harpo and his trained cat. leaping into her lap in a popular res- taurant, whispering intensely. “I'm mad about you,” she whispered and made to put her arms about his neck. Harpo was all blushes in' a moment. He loves to plague others, but at heart is really exceedingly shy. (Copyright. 1931. by the North American ‘Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) | Compliments Local Man. Loms A BROWN, & native of the District and formerly connected with the press, has been selected by the Fox PFim Corporation to succeed the genial and talented Edgar Waite, who has been called higher, as pub- licity representative of the local Fox Theater, according to the announcement :luunmrflmw.crunotmt ouse. Wanna Bl:y a Duck? Tfim'sueuyuymmncnu you should happen to be interested in such a thing. Riches may be the root of all evil, but oh, they are so handy to have around a home of wants and gimmes, The way to get riches, now in mind, is an honest way. One doesn’t have to hold up a bank, or break into a jew- eler's window, or steal somebody's 3 is so much easier, so n.ach simpler than that. Just sit down and think up some- t make people , or Joe it thought of the silly question, “Wanna Buy a Duck?” Is Joe rich now? be. At any rate “Wanna started Joe on a theatrical career tha has never stopped careering. He thought up “Wanna Buy & Duck?” years and years ago. Realistic Polo. JDESPERATE riders of sporty ponies who wallop something larger than & croguet ball over the greensward to a well guarded goal are promised one of the most realistic polo games ever perpetuated in celluloid in “A Holy Ter- ror,” on the Fox screen this week. Po- tomac Park poloists would hardly ex- pect to have their favorite sport buried beneath so ungallant a title, but the Fox press agent says it's there. and also with it some of the finest horse- back riding and exciting action shots known to game. DANCING. PEMBERTON STUDIO OF DANCE S ERCI SUMNER RATES 1124 Conn- Aves Phone North 3323 10 A taughto ny the - DANGING "OPn A st floor. Met. 3050. Cupid Fire Hi. 'SALLY EILERS GEORGE O’BRIEN , STAGE == FANCHON & MARCO’S FIVE VAUDEVILLE HEADLINERS MEL KLEE De Mille Talks Shop. BY DONALD HENDERSON CLARKE. CWIL B. DE MILLE, free from pro- fessional obligations for the first time in 18 years, finds freedom more ;rgumu than the confinement of a job. Interviewed in his hotel suite in New York recently, Mr. De Mille discussed ictures, past, present and fu- , religion, Russia— & few pertinent comments “yes-man” legend, which has grown up about his name. De Mille is a sofe-spoken, well read gentleman, whose every word and ac- |the tion belies opinion of him as an autocrat of the cinema n’a’mu—. He was discovered writing at a desk in a |will ntral from room over] Cei which mem‘mrmg of the Zoo could ns ‘in the be heard. He greeted the interviewer with a humorous comment | ji about the lions, and remarked that their presence seemed most appropriate, as he is under contract to Metro-Gold- wyn-unznnyer, whose trade mark is a roar- Mille explained he was stopping in New:York on his way to Europe, and that he had hoped to spend most of his time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but that various circumstances had prevented him from visiting the museum, even once, since his arrival, & week before. “I understand, Mr. De Mille, that you Wwere once quoted as having said that ‘All great art is hokum?’” was a ques- tion indirectly propounded at the in- terview. “It all comes down,” Mr. De Mille Teplied, “to the use of the word hokum. I have so often been accused of stress- ing hokum in my films that I set out | made 1: one day to discover just what h is. I canvassed my friends. B ‘‘Are crime stories hokum,’ I asked them. +No’ they told me. S ‘)A‘:;e‘ gangster stories hokum?’ i'Is rape hokum?’ “ Now “Then I began questioning them about the more beautiful things in life. I asked if mother love was hokum. if el was _hoki Their affirmative g:{,les wer: ok;x:; definite on this point. I asked if the beauties of truth and love were hokum. “‘Oh, yes, indeed,’ they said. ‘'TILL 11:30 P. M. SWIM IN THE CRYSTAL POOL WITH SAND BEACH AT GLEN ECHO FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK &Mm FOR THOUSANDS NIGHT BATHING . AMID SURROUNDINGS' BRIGHT AS DAY “So right there and then I decided that what they meant by hokum was the use of the more human and beauti= ful emotions in stories, pictures and : plays. To me it seems a matter of how well you handle the hokum whether it 'mlkuh: great art or not,” Mr. De Mille/ As the director had praised Harold Lamb's various studies of the Crus ::ggs. the interviewer was moved to “WIIl you ever make a picture about Crusades?” “I haven't any such picture in mind now, but it is possible that some day I do a motion picture with a back~ ground of the medieval Crusades. “But I thought that costume pictures '::rt:ddenmuly out,” the interviewer ob- “That's what _they always tell/ you,” De Mille said.” “But I have never known a costume picture or a play to fail in the last decade. If you go over :hned list of the costume plays, dperettas ; of Wimpaie Street’ and countless historical pieeum N .;‘oaxu:en}' find it hard to record a single t‘;:g"m like to méke costume pic- “It 18 very comfortable to make th for then you know ‘they will never% out of style, whereas a picture made in 1910, with the characters in modern dress, is laughable today. I Just experienced a very vivid example of thlt!inmi'he Squgwman,” which I 0. ; the 1931 sound plctar e same play by like a comedy because of the cost: of the players.’ TAKOMA “%,%2 s ‘WILLIL AM “A TAILOR-MADE MAN" flufl“fll! at 3:4D, PRINCESS = JOAN CRAW! “ AN CRAWFORD in “DANCE, FOOLS, Matinee 3 PM. ST_LYNNE." &',"Lfi,fi" TR Jr—— THOMAS MEIGRAN and DOROTHY O St. NEB. ICH, “DISHONORED.” & Col. R4, N.W. E] “MAN OF THE Warner B 'l'lVOALI ifth & Park R4 N.W. ER. “STRANGERS