Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1931, Page 24

2 AMUS EMENTS. THE This Reviewer Takes on Rather Emb arrassing J ob “Bob™ Sherwood. Who Wrote “Waterloo Bridde. Says It Is a Good Pictu re—-The CSSG Of Clara Bow and Several Other Hollywood Stars. By Robert E. N view of eertain circumstances which need not be gone into here, it is difficult for me to_consider dispassionately the new Tiniver-al picture, “Waterloo Bridge.” Did I say uifficule? 15 VauLy ean’s 3 If I express conviction that “Wa- terloo Bridge” is a fine picture, I mall; expose myseif to embarrassing charges ' of partiality for an offering with which I myself am remotely identified. Aiid if. on the other hand, I say it's a punk picture, I shall rightly be called a liar. So what am I to do? Shall I keep my mouth shut? That, too, would be impossible. However, there are some things which may sately be said about “Waterloo Bridge” as it appears on the | scrcen: It has been directed with high sensi. ttiveness and admirable taste by Jzmes | Whale, who came from Engiand two years ago with the first stage produc tion of “Journey’s End” and taen at tended to the reproduction of that ma: terpiece on- the screen. Mr. Whale now heopily a fixture in Hollywcod, for which Hollywood is to be congratulated | emphatically. | Thanks largely to Mr. Whale, “Water- loo Bridge” is beautifully acted by a | cast composed largely of players wko have previously enjoyed no particular degree of rrominence. The leading lady., Mae Cl: has appeared incon- spicuously in ublic Enemy” and *The Front Page" but I suspect that her fame and fortune are now assured. She demonstrates the intensity of pow- er which is essential in a real actress, and the control over that power which | is even more essential. The otlers, es- | pecially Ethel Griffies, Doris Lloyd, | | Kent Douglass and the infallible Fred- eric Kerr, are all eminently right. I repeat that “Waterloo Eridge” isn't ezsily reviewed by this prejudiced critic, but I still feel justified in recommend- | ing it to you in the most fulsome terms. ok w SEE by the pA[) rs that the Para- mount official v indicated to the exiled Clara Bow ld'u they might agree to forgive and forget and take her back | into tre fold if she were to spend some | time on voice cultivation and also to “catch up with the times.” This latter stipulation interests me. Presumably it is an admission that be- fore her retirement Clara was begin- ning to become a trifle out of date. She was still enacting flapper roles in an age when, as every one knows, flap- pers are obsolete. Granting all of which, the question srises: Who was to blame for Clara's | ¢ Sherwood. obsolescence? Did she continue to go | on being flapperish on the screen de- spite the protcsts of her employers? Did Mr. Lasky and Mr. Schulberg re- peetcdly beg her to lengthen her hair and her skirts and behave like 1931? I gravely doubt it. | On the contrary, I believe that if | the Paramount officials had shown bet- | ter judgment in their selection of roles for Clara Bow, she would still be a box-office attraction, regardless of the! t that her private life was continu- elly being made public. What the movie bosses did to Clara ! Bow is just what they have done in| | tke past to Theds Bara, Charles Ray, Adolphe Menjou, Colleen Moore, John | Gilbert and countless others. They compelled her to become a type. They gave ker no opportuniiy for the devel- pment of versatility. They forced her to repeat the the same act, in practi- lly the same story, over and over again, until she beczme monotonous. Thus, wiien the moguls reques’ Clara to, “eateh up with the times,” they | might have t! goad grace to add that they will do their par. by rcleasing ker from the bondage . e early suc- cesses, k. o, S 'HE best narrative that I heard in Kollywcod was Eddie Contor's d seription of his visit to the residen of Al Capone in Miami. { Colony Sunday SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, B C, SEPTEMBER 6, PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK Tuesday Wednesday 1931—PART FOUR. Saturday Phillips Hnlme: and Ambassador i i Al raved t8th & Columbia Rd. fifllu Holmes and 7ivia Sidney in Ramon Noyarro in “8on_ of India. Come !hon lubl Friday Holt Jack Oakie in “Dllfl. ne Bhore subject an o 6 ‘ \e‘- in Fave -3bmu bl Apollo mfi i 8t NE, Ashton Clavensan, an. Va. Jw:)""ovll laines jn Edna live: Just & Ml aren i vn-plhne short Cravford in Marion Davies in “Laughing Sinners.” “Five and Te Avalon Branw yok 18612 Conn. ave. Ave. Grand " 645 Pa. Ave. ST Central Circle 2105 Pa._Ave. NW__ “iracte, Woms! “‘“c.m..n. Fip Drossicr and M Ui ook and 1 oster 10 px ?"';»541,-« 2 Mot Diforan 1n Politics. Ga. Ave. & Farragut ect. Edni ll Ol n in Dumbarton e 1340 Wis, Ave. N.W. “Forbi Jones ot & Shott subiect. Jogn Bepnett In e an ugh Money. Jones golf serier—10. 8hort_sublect Short sublect. _ ,1,;‘ o n\’ o h irde the Comedy. Polly, Moran, in Tt o Short xumm Ryels, Hpwerd, I ity Biall et Polit short sublect. Lew Avees in o, iblect o nien ol § ‘ooper and it ‘flhnnnon 1 gty C Lombard in ara Stanwyck in “Miracle Woman.” Cartoo __short sublect. Jom Beanett {n Money." Jones' 1:° f series—11. Norman r d Sargle Lomnra’in o1} M ops the Devil.” Jonu -n( Comed; Gan) and Cargle | Lam erd in his n . Betty Bronson in T Ve ‘ome Back. % Short subject. A and Robt. Montgomery in vll Sidney in “‘Man in Possession." onfessions ulfl‘ Vit ,‘!orQ !)lafl u ie Dressier_ and “Tolly Moran 5"1 A, Benneit | e Ty on L Jones golf, nulu——w 5 Oliver and _ Edna May Oliver and gt Green in B n- i ul Lu{- “Women Love on ek Onkie | “Bude Rarnch.” Comed: Fairlawn Barrymore T “Brengall.” Comedy. Py ances Rn dy. 2=arostin, D. C. Home 11h & C 8te NE__ and e mnn\zun m “Laughine S e “New Gotrershirs, Md. Prmcess M9 I st N Savo! Warner Oland 1 i “The Black Comel William_Poyd and Lilyan Tashman in n; ‘Smart Mone. c Marl Dl Follp tty Bronson in 'ome Back." i hase o= W zv-r Jehing Bobby Jenes golf 58 glortone Reel. ub; Beatrice Lillie ¢nd John_Garrick i) En--m G. Rod 5 “Are You ‘fh@u?" James Gagaes in Be'n sone. Newa Janet Gaynor Warner Baxte P omeds " Suews lers 1 +he Black Camel.” comeds Comedv." Serint 1 Rogers n ou Feel." Colortone Review Cartoor Money. dv. New serial. a Richard Arlen in rd _Arlen “Gun !vr ke. un Smoke.' Eerta Serial. Somedy. Comed VTcTor MeL Edmund Lowe Women of Al Natlons. Co _short sublect Victor McLaglen Chatlotte Greenwood 1 “Btepping Out " Colortone Reei Warner Oland in “The Black Camel.* " Comedy. Joe E Brown Maynerd in Ren, n The "Tvo-zun Man." “Gofng Wild. Boy Friend comedy. Comady. New_serial Tolnhe‘ Menjou n “Front Page.” Car*oon Ken Maynerd i ““The Agizona Terror. v, Co 2020 147 8t Shor b eet. There were more than 60 guests pres- lent at this function, approximately 40 of them being regular members of the Capone household. An atmosphere of cordial good cheer prevailed and all thoze at the gathering were in an ex- pansively merry mood—with the excep- | tion of one gentleman, named Machin Gun Jack McGurn, who was seated at he host’s right. Machine-Gun Jack was not listening ! to the brilliant repartee that was flying hither and yon. In his capacity as principal bodyguard to the Big Shot, he was constantly looking. out of the corners of both eyes, for trouble. He was an ominous presence et the frast. At any moment, one feit,'the machine gun would be produced from his vest pocket end put into action. During the course of the barquet. Al Capon= “happened to remark politely to Eddie Cantor that he elways srgatly enfoyed hearing him sirg. “Just then,” said Eddie. “I happened to catch the eye of Marhine-Gun Jack McGurn, s0 1 jumped to my feet and sang 11 songs without breath.” (Copyright, 1931 Photoplay Attractions METROPOLITAN_“An American ARN!RS METROPOLITAN | THEATER has reopened for | v season of screen hit rst of which, Para mount’s screen version of Theodcre Dreiser's much discussed “An | American Tragedy,” is the current | attraction. This i story, ever since its publication sev eral years ago, has caused no end of | comment becaus® 4 of the realistic q | manner in which th~ leading char- P \ acters are pre- sented. “An American | “Tragedy,” dezcribed as “the story of | youth in this m | ern age.” shows 4 how ambition vies with love and how three wemen, a mother, a sweet- heart and a third girl 50 affect the life of a young man | that he is forced 1o extremes in order to kezp the girl he loves and to discard the one he no long:r cares for Pre-vicw criticisins have ctated that “An American Tragedy” has momer that have never been equaled for drama, | suspense and in‘ensity. Its court-room | scenes are said to be the most graphic | and sincere pages from life the screen | has captured. Jesef von Stornberg. | Wwho dis-overed Marlene Dietrich, is sald to have achieved another screen tri- umph in its directton A special program of short-reel sub- jects has been selected for the recpen- ing program | RIALTO—"Waterloo Bridge.” (CAPACITY audiences have been the | rule since the Rialto Theater re- | scason Friday wim‘ ' the Robert E. Sher- wood play es picturized by Universal | Pictures, with Mae Clarke and Kent Douglass in the leading roles. { Continuing for the current week, “Waterloo Bridge” should interest, if not delight, Washington with its skill: fully directed sequences as drawn from | the Broadway play under the direction | | made “Tom Sawyer” | Witness,” | nearly wre famous. Panchon and "Marco_bring to the stage their “Olympic Games' idea, & (or'-runntr of the 1932 Olympic gam°s o be held in Les Angeles. It presents | Bat’ Femos nd his. (Vonder Midge | Hal Halg, former Olympic swimming | champion: Franci; Sunny and Vina Jean Rooney and the famous Olympic | Dancirg Girl Al Mitchell's orchestra will plav | “Kiss Me Good Night, Not Good-by,” | the song hit from "*‘(vrelv Mary Ann,” the picture starring Janet Gaynor end Cherles Fr'ell wnich comes to the Fox Pri September 11. A new epi- sode of The Vanishing L’zmn 111 be screened at the 11 a nd p.m. shows only. Fox M | also will be shown. EARLE—“The Star Witness.” OE E. BROWN one of the screen’s most ujar comedians, may be seen in [he esh at Warner Bros. Earle pausing for | (L, Seco Dark. SverMprbnag. . State Bethesda. Stanton 6th & C Sis Sylvan 108 R 1 Ave. NW._ Ma. “Robt. umu, Dnmm Jord; unmm-mfl Gary Cooper Takoma o1 Talle Thie Takomn Park.D.C.__ Tivoli & Park Rd. York o Aoh Graves in R aible.” will Cornecticut Yank, n Barbara Stanwyck ine John Bolu in Bobby Jones at golf. Dogville_comedy. nn Haiding in il ot the, "Solden Bera n i Rowers in obby Jones in ‘“The 5.2 Tron and 8poon.” Richard Dix and = 1 Jackie Cooper in Young Donovan's Kid." News Bo! No. 2 Iro Dorothy Peter; Helen Chan fler “in Mother s Cry.” —_Comedy. _ Lesite How ard Chlrlex s Rusgles and “Never the Tyain 51 smu Meet in “Charley's Aunt.” Betty Compson and pilbert, Emery in “The Lady Refuses.” ___Comedy. Charles Ruggles in~ he Giri Habit.” Comedy. Aectai Btar cast ““The Perfect MIN af Com»dy. __Novelty T Robert Montgomery “Man 1o Posses- fon.” o1 Take This Woman Compson” and n Darrow in 3 Refuses." com “ 8¢ 0 sone. News Bennett and Bpencer Tracy and idney Fox_in “Six-Cylinder Love." Comedv. _ Serial Paul Lukas and Kay Francis in “The Vice Squad.” ‘Barox -sunu yek in a Dance.” Werner Oland in “Up | Pnps the “Drums of Jeopardy.’ Jack Holt and Ralph Craves in Madge “Dirigible.” 8Bortine Bloo ot ralerleeat Lesiie Howard and Conchita l(onun £ro ‘n-lrum Ca.lmtfly . Cartoon Night Nurse. Bobby Jones ot series. No Edmuhd xwe in May Pobson atiantic.” in “Mother's’ Millions.” Cartoon. T Edna May Oliver and 21 Green wly Rich.™ Comeds. vmy in " hiort subi cnm- 5 shiort sul it Ave. & Quebec On the Horizon Pictures Announced to Fol- low Current Attractions [ | and 1" which won the Har- vard prize, will be shown at the Warner Earle Theater, beginning next Saturcav, along with a stage show headed by Lew Pollack, who has won fame with his song wriling. Lest you | may have forgotten, Philio Barry also | wrote “Holiday" and “Paris Bound,” | both of which have created some atir | in the wotld of en- | tertainment. Lew's Stene and Doris | Kenyon are the stars of “The Bar- gain,” and the sup- porting cast in- | cludes Evalyn i Knapp, Charles Butterworth, Um\‘ Merkel, John Dar- and Oscar| HE BARGAIN,” a First Na- tional-Viianhone version of Philip Barry's play, “You pf; i Poliack will pre- | sent a number | titled “Theme | Theater this vcek. His pictures hive brought no exd of merriment to screen fans. Now, however he will show him- { #2'f as he is at five complete shows on Monday (Labor day) and at four shows daily during the wee! The screen attraction, no less impor- tant than the engagement of Joe E. Brown, i3 the s~reen Grama, “The St r row in iis fifth veek on It is_described s “a d f a happy family that w: ~d because tiey looked out of their window and became_embroiled in a cotastrophe over which they had no control.” Though melodramatic, it is suffused, it is said, with heert-warming comedy enjoyed by all. Featured in a trilliant cast are Walter Huston, Charles (Chic) Sale, Dickey Moore, Frances Starr, Gront Mitchell, Eiliott Nugent and Selly Blane Supporting acts on a stage are “An Impromptu Revue,” with Sis and Bud Roberts and a cast cof five entertainers; Bert_Walton, Broadway comedian; Al- frad Latell, famous animal fmpersonator presenting “Bonzo,” and Maxine Doyle. COLUMBIA—"This Modern Age. JOAN CRAWFORD app:ars Columbia Theater this we atest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pio ch “This Modern Age.” It is based | en the story by Mildred Cram that ap- | peared recently in College Humor under Broadway. namic stol Lewis Stonme. ngs” in which he will be supported arge ca: and there will be other good th | besides. “PAP.DON US,” Laurel and Hard! first feature length screen com- edy. promised at Loew's Palace n-xt Saturday, together with a New York Capitol Theater revue titled Fiesta” as the stage show. | AMUEL GOLDWYN'S screen pro- O duction of “Street Scene.” the widely discussed play of the legitimate | stage, with Sylvla Sidney and William | Collier, the vounger, featured. is erheduled to follow “The Modern Age” st Loew's Columbia, when the latter fades out—when not soerified. Som eritics have pronounced “Street Scen |the greatect talking picture ever produced. ! “Merely Mary Ann."the screen version | of an old sand delightful, i pathetic, | with Jenet Gaynor and Charles | Ferrell ‘s its_outstanding performers, | #nd the Fanchon-Marco Idca “Russian | Art,” heading the stage nttractions, is the bricf but s'mple announcement of what will eccm» to the Fox Theater next Friday in its new bill. | | An unusual Columb'a Pictures love | H story, “Fifty Fathoms Deep,” with th famous Jack Holt as Its star, port: | raflway, Diversions at the Parks | WEEK end with a double-header ought to call for & vast outpour- A nic and the outing parties and the seekers after delights that once thrilled the soul of Izaak Walton | or the human hides that love the water. Nearly everybody seeks some specl diversion for the rest day of the week, but Labor day, coming tomorrow, calls for a special display in honor of the rugged toiler of the land, besides fur- nishing the mere recreationist with an | excuse for celebrating two holidays, one | chasing on the heels of the other. Be- ! sides—and It is & sad reminder—the out-of-doors season is rapidly drawing | to & close, and soon there will be no leasant oppertunities for a moonlight t trip. a plunge in a sanitited pool or a thrill on the roller coaster, Glen Echo Park. - QPECIAL provision has been made, s always. at Glen Echo Park for the entertainment of the h-ppy hundrads | bent upon two days of real outdoor pleasures. The Crystal Pool. which | draws thousands each week, and has done so since its first waves began to | ripple, or the thrill of the roller coaster, the airplane swings. the docgem or even the dancing. which goes on from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. week nights, to the rapturous music -of the MacWilllams Molody Makers: or, if cne be in ths quieter mood, the Old Mill and the Midway, haven ol juvenile delight—all, lall will be in full operation both today and tomorrow, save only the dancing. The electric cars from the heart of the city, marked “Cabin John” or “Glen Eche,” will whirl you quickly to your goal elong the river borderland ‘and under the trees, whila thos¢ who motor up will find a good roadway and plenty of parking space—and. withal, there is free admission to the park. Seaside Park. NESTLID on the shore of the hk~ toric Chesapeake Bay, the new | | Seaside Park. with its many deushu including bathing pool “with salt water,” pienis grounds, cmbb'ng. fishing, bost- inz and whatnot, vet with the miniature the cozster and other park amusements in full blast, awaits the cchorts from Washington and B more equipped with everything for a good time and a memorzble outing. From District Line Station, out H street vay, fast and frequent trains are flying to #nd from Seasid> Park, with the big ing of the week-enders, the pic- | warm again—and then, once more, tht Marshall Hall. AO less famous in its day and genera- tion than old historic Marshall Hall, whither it takes you, the steamer Charlss Macalester, on the dot at 10 am. (10:30 on Sundays) and at 2:30 and 6:30 pm. daily, sets sail, with a mighty good steam engine for its motive power, for one of the pleasantest rides in the world down the Potomae, which is dotted here and there along the route with places familiar in the Nation's history. The beauty of this trip is that | the gallant steamer makes a breecze, if there be no breezes, and the water and the scenery supply addition2] charm for a day's outing. At the Hall, it is said, everything to give a good time to everybody, from the smallest youngster | to the oldast graybeard, may be found. The trip to Marshall Hall has been famous since beyond the memory of |the oldest inhabitant, and yet the steamer and the Hall are thoroughly up-to-date in catering to the pleasure of the day’s outer. WILSON LINE OUTINGS. O you long for a daylight trip down the river to Chapel Point, with its many diversions des bathing and a good time generally, or do you prefer a moonlight ride in the evening, with no thought of a dastination, but with bright lights, dancing and delightfuliy :emp}mg music to conribute to & good ime? The Wilson Line steamer City of Washirgion will take you to Chapel Point, leaving her wharf at the foot of Seventh strest at 9 o'clock in th» morn- ing and returning at a pleasant hour in the afternoon. At 8:45 o'clock this evening and to- moirow evening, for the last time this s2ason. the steamer will leave her wiarf for the final moonlight rides by lvalPr this year. INA CLAIRE “REBOUND” Robert Ames Thousands have en- Burlelqug Begms Today ITH every promise of a ‘“bang-up em.ern!nment " _Sam Ravnor bl’ln'l his “Gang” to the Gayety The- | ater this afternoon to open the new season with a matinee, presenting the newest Columbia burlesque offering. Rich in its line-up of leads, it has several brand-new faces and a scatter- ing of favorites of other seasons to lend balance, with Sam Raynor, as comedian in chief, to lead his troupe through the mazes of a merry musi- cal hodge-podge of laughs, dances and songs, aided by pretty chorus girls. Besides Mr. Raynor, others who have impertant parts include Fay Tunis, a Dallas. Tex., beauty contest winner; | Gertrude Reed, red-haired and from Hollywood, who for two seasons was in pictures; Dolores Green, late of & Fan- chon-Marco unit; Rae Reed, sprightly acrcbatic dancer; Frank Mallahan, character comedian; Ray Parsons, straight man: Joe Costello, juvenile singer, and George Lake, the season’s cccentric dancing “find.” ‘The chorus mlnhl]l 18 girls. Camera Art Recogmzed. (ARL STRUSS, who rcse to fame through his photographic effects in the late F. W. Murnan's masterplece. | “Sunrise.” has been assigned the chief cinemutcgraphie duties in filming Para- mount’s picturization of Robert Louis Stevencon's “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” With Director Rouben Mamoulian, Struss is working out the secret transformation scenes of Frederic March in his transition characters. Struss is & recognized leader camera work, and has “Skippr." “Wemen Love Once” “Up Pops the Devil” ard “The Road to Reno” te his credit this year. TRE T. TH BUREAU 5 AT s e PHULADELPHIA ORCHESTRA in & series of Four Evening Concerts ot aaN MAR uuuu STOKOWSKI. F: | Bernardino MOLINARL ¢ “ SyBsCRIPTION IC] 3¢ PHILHARMGNIC SYMPHONY Soclety of New Yeork KETS o\" rEADY 55.00, $1.00, at r L. Kit AMUSEMENTS. 'Producer Looks Forward To Perfect Talking Film But He Admits That Much Work Must Be Done Before It Becomes a Reality—Closer Alliance of the Stagc and Hollywood. . By Mollie OLLYWOOD, Calif., gestures ade in Hellvw. toward the legitimate theater | wes the brlnumx 0. Herman | Shumlin, producer of “Grand Hotel the outstending success of Brold\uy this past season, to talking picture production. Such a step is a concu-‘ sion on the part of gelatin producers to the idea which first animated talkle production—an admission that the technique of thp stage must, of necessity, strongly in‘uenu the tech- nique of the talking screen, in order to bring it to its highest functioning. I learned, in the course of some fif- uen minutes’ chat, that: “Screen effects are more easily ob- | tained than stage effects.” ‘ “The theater is still the most tell- ing medium in the world.” “Artistic failures are out of intelli- gent reckonin A thing may be fine | and box-office, and every producer should work from this r.ng]e without patronizing his medium.” “The man who is ahead of his gen- ! eration is a fallure: If ke is a creative artist he is producing for the greatest number of that generation. If the majority do not understand what he | is about, he has failed in the first requisite of his arf The highest art | is that which travels within the com=} cept of its own generation.” | “The greatest thing which can be | done now for pictures is to give suff- clent time to preparation and rehnrs-\ ing before shooting them. talking piciures call for a cleverly | handled type of second-rate art.” “The day will come when talking | pictures will give the world first-rate art, although the screen is no more flexible than the stage and suffers all | the limitations which the theater suf- | fers with a few notable exceptions. The theater taxes the Ingenuity of the producer to the utmost and because of this often brings out sunsuspected | qualities. In the theater the thing !which is inferred cften has greater { power than the thing which is shown. | A crowd indicated by outside shouts and cries is invariably teling in the theater: The camera must travel to a window and show a crowd on the screen, because the microphone is not vet convincing about the thing we do not see.” As ascofate producer on United Artist’s lot, Herman Shumlin has, at the present telling. two pieces of work to his credit. He is responsible for the production of “The Unholy Gar- den,” although I belleve not respon- sible for its choice. And he is respon- sible for the choice of “Arrcwhead™ {for Ronald Colman. At the present time he i5 sclecting a future vehicle | for Gloria Swanson. He is brilliant ard unassuming: usassuming that when I welked his office directlv without being an- nounced and without waiting fifteen minutes in an antechamk°r (the con- ventional time required by associate producers in this village) I was £ taken aback I could hardly pull myself together. Even when he is sp-aking most reriously his eyes are laughing a little at life, at himcelf—at movies perhaps—perbaps even at the idea of the intervie He has no sympathy for famous authors who toil out here for two thousand a week or m thinks they are lucky beyond dreams ard should turn out beiter is 32 years o!d and the highwater mark for mcdern stage procustion His ambi lon in talking picture fields is to find anctker story | ""s SEETEMBERPARADE 50 OF WITS in the two! in —onthe A CAPITOL THEATRE NEW YORK lE\ILE CoLumpiA E Tt 1% ~ow PLAYING AN > &bt S caomm I age’ PAULINE FREDERICK HAMILTON NEIL /’.bnd.m_ WILLIAM TILDEN Il 7% THE SEconD o a raies WU 2 September | which will hit him the w 5.—One of the most ambitious Merrick. “Grand Hotel” did and make a ‘different” movie. He believes if he does not find such & story, another producer will; that | the “different” movie will be made by somebody eventually and point the way to all sorts of developments and chanfiu in the present art. Strangest of all, he finds most interesting the mechanical departments of movies— departments which most dyed-in-the- wool producers (I almost sa!d aged- in-the-wood) accept ghite casually as part of the routine of picture making. “There i3 no need for the spending of fortunes on ordinary talking pic- tures. The best things in the theater are seldom the things which cost the most. Some of ths great New York successes have been produced from $1,200 (a minimum) eighteen and twenty-five thousand, according to the nature of the plece and the treatment it must have. “‘The Last Mile' was produced for | some $8,500. I know of a good motion picture being made at the present time which will not top $40.000 and which will be on a par with many Ihlch 0 far over the 8200 000 mark. “But, Mr. Shumlin,” I protested weakly, “you will: have to train our | yacht-owning, poloaplaying, town-and- country-housing execwtives to a simpler standard of living. TQose salaries are charged up to the pictilies Which they supervise.” “Qulle 50" sighed Mr. Shi in— hen his eyes beg.n to twinkle agaM— “In their present stage, box-office | !here is work to do in Hollywood bé==s_ fore \that perfect talking picture 15 (Copyriaht, 1931, e North Ameriean Ine.) Newspaper Alliance, PICNIC Dancing—Amusements—Sports Bathing—No Sea Nettles at SEAS!DE Round Trin: Adults. 50c: Children, Trains Leave Disirict Line Station Sundas. Labor Day 9:30 Reason Closes Surdas. Seot. 13 10¢ % GINAAAN MORE THAN FIFTY AMUSEMENTS DANCING SWIMMING IN ONE OF THE FINEST POOLS IN AMERICA With 10,000 Sq. Ft. of SAND BEACH Picric Groves, Ete. AT THE 40-ACRE _FREE ADMISSION AMUSEMENT PARK GLEN ECHO THE IDEAL PLACE FOR LABOR DAY RECREATION it Sts. bles TAKOMA 4% aafes GARY COOPER in “l Take This Woman" BRINCESS WARNER CLAND CAMEL R’ TANTON Continvens uckm €OQG rner Bros.' AMBASSADOR PITLITPS HOLMES in N __TRageDY bt Warner Bros.' 62 B St NE RALPH GRAVES 6th C Finest "Sound 'E atinee 3 P M “TOM SAWYER " 18th and Cel R4. N.W. and_SYLVIA AMERICAN JACK HOLT and __in_“DIRIGTB! to twelve and ! THREE AFTERNOON CONCERTS Dec. 15, Jan. 26, Mar. 8 Constitution Hall at 4:30 Arture 'I‘OICAXI‘ -Bruno WALTER of James Whale, who made “Journey's the title “Girls Together,” which con- End.” cerned a girl whose happiness is threat- Miss Clarke and Mr. Douglass are | ened by her mother's refusing to believe supported by an imposing cast, includ- | that she is geiting old and insisting on ing Bette Davis, Frederic Kerr, Ethel | £0ing everywhere with her daughter. It is Criffies, Enid Bennett and Doris Lloyd. | cnly when too late that the m-ther The picture takes its unusual name| realizcs the error of her ways and be- frem one of London's historic spans, a | gins to take stock of things. Neil Ham- b-idge dominat ng a section of tha city’s ilton, MMonrce Owsley, Marjorie Ram- shadow world, where “madcnnas of the beau and Hobert Besworih support streets” seek re.uge afier faded beauty Miss Crawfcrd in this picture. outlaws them from the fastidious pre- | _An added attraction will be shown in cincts of Piccadilly. the form of tennis lesson No. 2 of the KEITR'S—*“Rebount Willizm Tilden ser. | CLAIRE, one of Washingten's PALACE—“Secrets of a Secrefary.” rare contributions to the legiii- | (YLAUDETTE COLBERT'S first star- mate theater and noted for her clever- | ring production, “Secrets of a Sec- ness in smart comedy. is the star of the | retary,” is the screen feature at Locw's acreer vezsion of Donald Ogden Stew- | Palace Theater this weck. In it Miss ;n}g o' Rebound. '., now showing at | Colbert depicts a young lady who be- -K-O Keith's Theater. | comes the secretary of her former lover. L Miss Claire's stage successes include | now married. She becomes involved in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife.” “Grouna ror | 3 scandal whereby she must sacrifice Divorce” and “The Awful Truth.” She | herself or ruin the life of the man she appeared in the West Coast produc- | loves. Herbert Marshall and Georges tion of “Rebound” and the play was | Mexta head the supporting cast. selected as a starring vehicle for Miss | ¢ Claire by R-K-O Pathe e In the cast with her ere Robert iypricty Re In it are several well Ames. Myrna Loy, Hedda Hopper. Rob- | iyewn Lo that have found favor ert Williams, Hale Hamilton, Walter | v M. v Yo musical comedies and ker, Louise Closser Hale and Leigh,| yaudeville Edward H. Griffith directed tae” e — e. ‘ WARNER BROS. THEATRE FOX—"Huckleberry Fini ““ UCKLEBERRY FINN,” Mark m COME EARLY Twain's immortal romance of American boyhood £nd a story probatly ‘ DOORS OPEN AT 1: Myrna Loy Hedda Hopper An REO-Pathe Picture pool w>iting to cleanse and to ccol you [off as zoon as you mrrive. "Motoriste i k> | who dare the dangers of the road wi l;xchard” Cl;om_vlt,le“l’lx._ 'i,';‘f e dl,,fl * | find 8 safe haven and plenty of parking e et J | space. Seaside is especially catering to e support'ng cas | the f°mily parties for these days of sur- B cease from work and petty cares. and BZC]( th !]'IB chnxmate. over in the open pavilion Bill Strick- land's Band will stir your melodic soul { ATHRYN GIVNEY, one of the most | gng set your feet amYng until you get populnr players that ever graced | mem——tour—co PEOTE Stove Cochran's famous Summer stock comvenies, has homed from Hollyw:od to the ]l’glflmlfi" a and will b2 fecn with Glenn Hunter at the Nat'cnnl in the Myron C. Fagan col “Peter Flies High.” i Warrer Broe.' AVALON wiimiey's. %" !ARBIP'} STANWYCK. 645 Pa. AVENIE GRAND o %y MARIE DRESSLER and POLLY MO- o TS CENTRAI‘ 9tb St. Bet. D and B _LEW AYRES in “UP_FOR MURDER" “Warner Bros. COLONY Ga. Ave & Farrarut st Mflvr DRESSTFR and POLLY MO- 12 the movies, Keith's Theater, starting rext Friday. Coming “FIFTY FATHOMS DEEP” with JACK HOLT ulscnrno\' r,l‘gl(:n NOw READY 21050 G 80 I Homer L PRI POLITICS."” " Warner Bros.’ NAT'ONAL WEEK BEC. Mon Se ti4 LEONARD BERGMAN preicnts Armtericass Brilliant Young Star GLENN UNTER 2 MYRON C. FAGAN'S new PEETER FLIES I-IIGI-I” i BRIAN DONLEVY EILEEN ADELAIE% HWBILSOND CLARKE e FORREST " ORR. i tal Orie oo e, ® A . O P! o POPULAR PRICE' MATINEES: Week Bex. Mon., Sept. 21. Mall Orders Now Arch Selwyn presents MARY ELLIS and BASIL SIDNEY In 8 Comedy by Jobn Emerson and Anita Loos “CHERRIES ARE RIPE” Nighiai Orch., $2.50; Bal. §2.00, $1.50 & $1.00: 24 Bal, Soe. TWO POPULAR PRICE MATINEES: Wed., 50c, 77c & $1.00—Sat., 50c, $1.00 & $1.50, Mall Orders Now presems MADRE KENNEDY and 0 Nozl Coward's “PRIV ATET IB VKE.S'"CEI lr 0I|llll-‘|-l ('nl!ti: Su Nightw Oreloq $2.50; ;:l». $2.00, 3150 & .l‘“- L TWO POPULAR PRICE MATINEES: & $1.00—Sat, 50c, $1.00 & 150, INA 2 % 1250 O St. N.E. WILLTAM BOYD and LILLIA L CRoER BN T APRE JUNIOR DURKIN * JACKIE (QOCAN MITZI GREEN *JACKIE SEARL® UCKLERERRY FINN inthe M'OONHGHT DOROTHY ' MACKAILL, in “THET! MAD MOMENT." FRIZND _w.nm nu VOLI '*tb & Park ma. N.w. HOLT mtd RALPH GRAVES ARcors AMES CK _in_“DIRIGIBLI ve. & Quebee 8t. N.W. BARBARA, s?&vgmsog’u NIGHT ERTES. No MATTHEW CROWLEY P WM. T HAYS ron “TARNISHED TADV." with -ru.km familiar t> every man, woman and | 3 o i child; is the screen attraction st the L Fox Theater this week. The picture | has its stars Junior Durkin as Huckleberry Finn; Jackie Coogan as “Tom Sawyer, MitzizGreen as Becky _'I'hlbchtr and Jackie Sezrl as Sid Saw- These are the four children who GAYETY. --BURLESK OPENS Tkiz Sunday Matinee September 6th Box Office Now Open »They Saw .+« »They Praised! Thousends Thrilled To—And Applavded Screen's Most Stortling Drame mmu»@ Weany anp asuamenp sue FACED THE CLEAN LOVE OF THE BOY WHO WAS HER VERY LIFE. 22 ROMANCE SO FINE YOU (AN NOT ESCAPE IT's MAGIC SPELL of sensational dy #uraan Gears” A MAY B 18E_FA- AR Ta rR: OLIVER MITZI GR ZENDA and JACKIE _ADVENTUR RIS SR ol joL2 ] ol . COl Y. & R._I Ave. NW. “SHIPMATES." OB MONTGOM sz R mnmm COM) I:D DIRECTION LUl westetn Flectric, Bownd B Today-Tomorrow HIPPODRO “DADDY LONG JANET GAYNOR in LEGS " Moiint Raibler. Md. norrow-Tuesd poORS OPEN TODAY—2 P M. Populer prices Gnfix -&;muu VITAPHONE SHORTS -Skotws-§ TOMOR (Lebor Day) FIRST ri 'remomw M) in Va. uesday. “MAN IN 11th & N. C. 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