Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1935, Page 30

B—-14 AMUSEMENTS. Motion Picture Theaters Urged toTone D(lv_vn Sound Complaint Made That Musical Films Are Almost Deafening When Shown at Neighborhood Theaters. ¢ BY E. de S. MELCHER. HIS seems logical: “Dear 8ir: I should like to join some kind of an audience-pressure movement to secure a much more I moderate volume of sound in the moving picture theaters. “Last night I attended one of the best-known neighborhood movie houses. A musical film was in progress as I entered, and the sound was almost deafening. On many of the notes, particularly the | high ones, there was that metallic sodhd that one gets on a radio loud | speaker that is putting out more volume than it was intended to handle. The voice of the news reel announcer clattered all over the place. “After 1 had been there a while | these troubles did not seem so bad, but I am not sure whether somebody\ in the control room toned things down a little (still not nearly enough for | real comfort), or whether I had just | gotten used to the din. Anyway, I left the theater with quite a head- ache, apparently due to two hours | of ear strain “This is not an isclated experience. I haven't had a chance to measure how many decibels of sound are cus- tomarily put forth in the various | movie houses, but my impression for | a long time has been that the usual volume is much more than is needed for comfortably filling the hall. The | excess is not only wasted power, but the source of distortion of the sound and a distinct detriment to the health of the listener. I haven't attempted any canvass of people’s views on this subject, but some views which have ! been told me, or have been over- heard around me, have been in agree- ment with the view exprssed above. Perhaps you are in a position to check up on the accuracy of my observation. Sincerely yours, “GEORGE W. HODGKINS." * ok ox % ’I’HEY hung from the rafters last night at the Roadside Theater. Miss Catherine Pritchard, making her welcome and breathless morning ap- pearance at 8:21 am. said that two youths literally had to be swept off the rafters last night during the per- formance of “To Die at Dawn.” How they got up there nobody will ever | know. But just as the villain began to go “Boo!" at the hero. similar “boos” were heard from the theater's ceiling. During the intermission Miss Pritchard and the Roadside fire squad somehow fished them down. *ox % x "['OMORROW night's Variety Club moonlight cruise, being organized by Skipper Carter Barron, is causing a considerable rumpus. Tickets went way up into the thousands yesterday-— and the report that Irene (Fox) Weber would be given & romnlne set of new EARLE GETS BIG FILMS | FOR SUMMER BOOKINGS Juhilee Pnnod to Be Marked by Entertainment of Outstand- ing Quality. ].‘I\E special productions, of the type usually held by moving pic- ture theaters for Fall and Winter re- lease, will be presented at Warner Bros.' Earle Theater during the five Foreign accent in some of the conversations in the feature got | 80 tangled up in the excessive sound as to be quite unintelligible in spots. tin sails to tinker with has sold a lot more | | tickets, too. The only trouble now is that since the steamship Potomac is a liner| which scorns sails in the first place and has never had them in the second | place, Miss Weber is in a dither to know just what to do with them. Rumor has it, however, that if she | can't get the sails on the Potomac she | will hire a wind-swept craft of a| smaller denomination and hook it on to the mother boat. Thus she will fly down the river whether the sails work or net—and get. too. the echo of the | fine music which is to be supplied not only by Jolly Coburn’s Rainbow Room Band, but by Ina Ray Hutton who swings almost as mean a baton as our own Dr. Hans Kindler. R “['HE FARMER TAKES A WIFE,” | new Fox film with Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda, has already received a couple of raves from the West Coast Wini Shaw and Phil Regan packed them in at the Earle last week in Philadelphia. Marsha Hunt continues to be the | wonder girl of Hollywood. Her two aunts, incidentally, live right here in D. C.—and are talented members of the musical colony. When Miss Hunt was here this Spring she stayed with them. Mrs. Osgood Roberts is taking a well-earned vacation. Incidentally, | she has written a screen script Jfor | Ben Bernie which is said to be a knockout. Ina Ray Hutton will present a silver | trophy at the American Legion Char- ity horse show tomorrow afternoon in Montgomery County. ! Ted Tiller is a member of the Gloucester, Mass,, Little Theater this Summer. He will have a leading role Under the Gaslight” next week. Lewis Lofton Moneyway is fishing | in Florida “Escapade” will be back on F street next week. It will be shown for a third week at the Columbia. Shirley Temple's latest — “Curly Top“—follows “The Scoundrel” the Palace. | Plays With Band NG STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. C, Is nearing one hundred weeks of service as mistress of ceremonies at the featured film player, now in Hollyw ‘March Plans But W111 Go to Movies * Actor All Fed Up on ward to Cottage Fishing With Friends. - { Editor's mnote—Frederic March, an actor who has made siz pictures during the past year, substitutes for Mollie Merrick to tell you just how he intends to spend his vaca- tion this year. BY FREDERIC MARCH. | Special Dispatch to The Star HOLLYWOOD, Jily 19 (NANA). —Here's one little man who's had a busy yvear and is just aching for a vacation which I've been promising him for & long time and which I'm goinz to give him. You know, being a movie actor seems like the grandest thing in the world | to everybody but the movie actor. sounds glorious to have nothing Lo do | all day but to make love to beautiful girls on the screen. But people forget that we get up at 6 in the morning; have to be at the | studio at 7 a.m. to be made up; work | under burning hot lights, while the | Il’ | AUDREY SEIBER Earle, She succeeded Maxine Doyle, 0od. CONCEHT THIS EVENING | Vacation, CONCERT by the Community Center Band, James E. Miller, | director, will be given this evening at Meridian Park, Sixteenth and Euclid | | streets northwest, at 7:30 o'clock. The | Work and LOOk% For- ' program is as follows: March, ‘““The Washington ost"" usa Along Coast and Ppribine. wie b > Waltz. O Pruhling. wie bist du s0 | schoen Lincke | | Cornet solo. “Stars in a Velvety Sky" Clark | James Nicholas. | “Tannhauserg - Wagner | H!’t-l‘lrhluler - -=«.Chambers | ;Black Ever “The Thu Selection. O. P.” meaning “don’t talk of pic- | tures!” They'll join me in a little deep-ses fishing. We're all addicts and it's one of the grandest sports I know—except, | maybe, for the fish. We take a boat iu | | the morning, carry lunch with us, and | sit out on the ocean all day waiting | for yellow-tail, barracuda and tuna to come up and laugh at our bad jokes. When they do we get a good catch as long as the jokes hold out. | Don't et poor vision hampee Foul "{,_,, | After the fishing we return to the been sivine vov trouble | cottage, where I have a big open grill. Consult Our Optometrist i And we indulge in a “fish fry,” broiling For an Eye Examination the fellows—and it's the grandest eat- M A LEESE Optlul Co. ing in the world. 614 9th St. N w | of R. 8. V. P. these letters: % | mn;‘non motion pictures by the way I talk— | but doesn't a bookkeeper try to keep | away from the red ink on his vacation and a reporter try to keep away from | the “city rcom"? Well, confidentially, T will admit that | 1 hope you won't think I don't like — ‘ | | FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935, DISTRICT CAST TO OPEN | IN “ROMEO AND JULIET” Barthfield Players to Make-First Week End Stand at An- napolis Tonight. 'I‘ON!GHT the Barifield Players of ‘Washington, composed of many well-known actors and actresses of the Capital City, will present a version of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Jullet,” directed by Esther Galbraith, with settings by Howard Whitfleid, and costumez by Christine Stewart, in’| Annapolis, Md., as the first stop in a | series of week end tours to nearby Maryland and Virginia towns, in the Summer holiday season. Edythe Goldman as Juliet, head the cast, which includes Maurice Jarvis as Priar Lawrence, Mabel Oweas Wii- | cox as the nurse, Esther Galbraith as | Lady Capulet, James M. Rawls as Paris, Harry Crow as Montague, Stan- ley Protheroe as Peter, Willlam J. McLean as Escalus, prince of Verona: Hugh C. Smith as Capulet, Robert Duke as Mercutio, A. L. Diket as ‘Tybalt and Willlam Milton as Ben- volio. Others in the large cast are Natalie White as Lady Montague, Donald | Windsor as the page to Mercutio, Christine Stewart, Dorothy Mznning, Marjorie Beall and William Goche- nour as guests at the Capulet bali. Following their initial appéarance in Annapolis tonight, the players will | present their second performance at | Catholic University here, on July 26. | 5 P Government Criticized. Criticism of the government is be- coming more outspoken in the Nether- Reckville Pike, Past Georgotown Pres This Week and Next—R:40 P. M. | “TO DIE AT DAWN” 'y Leaves Dusent Girele W —can 1. 42 e and 550—Mrs. in Droops. SWIMMING .. .. DANCING . . AMUSEMENTS .. Day In and Day Oué At the 40-Acre Premier [FAEE ADMISSION | Fun—Frolic—Frivolity Ac 'ADEMY * hnnu Sexnd annln ! E. Lawrence Phillips T re Beautitul | ontinuous Prom PM 1 BING CROSBY and KITTY tl.'!ARLl!Ll in | Also MR. and MRS, o%lmm JOHNSON'S JUSTICE. CLARENDON. VA BOB STEELE in “WESTERN *__Serial and Comedy. it o | CAROILINA 112 and N. C. Ave. SE. {CAROLINA % acihie bt __PENED IN NE PENED IV NEW Yorko o 1 M ClRCLE 2105 Pa. Ave. Ph. WE. Mat. Tues.. Thurs., Sat.. s-n Vl(Tl‘OR. I(cLAGlN HEATHER ANGEL in Cartoon. News. DUMBARTON 1343 Wl-unu. ‘,, Hou MESS in “FOUR News and Comedy. Howard Whitfield as Romeo, and i AMUSEMENTS. WENTWORTH SINGERS IN “TRIAL BY JURY”| ONI of Washington's finest. groups of singers, the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group, assembled last evenjng | at the Sylvan Theater under the au-| spices of the Community Center De- partment to present Gilbert and Sul- lvan's sprightly operetta, “Trial by Jury.” The lyric soprano voice of Kathleen Lawler, who played the part of the | plaintiff ir the hreach-of-promise suit | around which the operetta is bullt, was probably.the outstanding treat of the evening. Miss Lawler's voice was very sweet and not the least Lit blurred. and, in addition, she brought to her eat deal of dramatic ability. Ray Baine, tenor, did very well in the role of defendant, although a bass was taken by Ira Myer, baritone. His heavy robes and wool wig did not in the least interfere with his fine sing- ing, end his mellow voice could be heerd leading the others, even in the full choruses. Anothsr major part, that of the usher, was sung by Harry Yeide, bari- tone. He almos: stole the show with his antics, trying to quiet the court room and carrying notes for the judge. | _ Two other excellent singers— Thomas Zepp, tenor, and Walter Perry, bari- tone—gave excellent renditions in thelr roles of counsel for the plaintift |and foreman of the jury. Noticeabie amonr those in the jury wes Severio Pissclotta, ex-Pox Theater usher, wha has a very clear and easily heard voice. The singers were directed by Miss Estelle Wentworth, who also accom- panied them on the piano. Before the performance a concert voice would possible have fitted the | was given by the United States Marine weeks starting July 26, according to an announcement made today by John J. Payette, Warner Bros. general circuit manager. The success of “Love Me Forever,” | Grace Moore’s new musical produc- tion, which just completed a record- hreaking week at the Barle, prompted the theater to bring other outstanding films to Washington in Midsummer, Modern air-conditioning, which makes the theater most comfortable, no mat- sun, at 95 degrees, helps out—and We | T will ‘spend my evenings at Laguna have to spend our evenings learning | g the movie theater there—because, | ter what the weather, has completely changed the old idea that special at- tractions will not receive the proper patronage in July and August. The five attractions, grouped as “Warners' Midsummer Jubilee,” in- | clude four films from the Warner- | Pirst National-Cosmopolitan Studios and one from the Paramount Studios. | Heading the list is “Broadway Gon-| dolier,” Dick Powell's new picture and the Earle feature the week of July 26. Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Louise Fezenda, Ted Fiorito and his| band, the Mills Brothers and other | popular screen and radio performers | appear in “Broadway Gondolier,” | which has been hailed by West Coast | pre-viewers as Powell's finest screen | work to date and one of the most | pleasing musicals ever presented. | Bette Davis and George Brent are | co-starred in the second jubilee hit, “Front Page Woman.” a fast-moving wise-cracking story of the rivairy be- tween two newspaper reporters. Wini- | fred Shaw, who made so many friends in Washington during her recent per- sonal appearance at the Earle, heads the supporting cast in this production, | which was based on the magazine story, “Women Are Bum Newspaper Men. Another Warner pioduction on the | list of Midsummer specials is “The Irish in Us” which presents again | the pals of “Devil Dcga ™ James Cag- ney and Pat O'Bri Frank McHugh | and Olive de Haviland are alsc in| the cast of this film, which Daily| Variety described as “grand, neart- | stirring, fine, unashamed senumemi gusty comedy, -tiomely reality and | slap-bang action all geared for v.he greatest amount of entertainment for the greatest number of folk.” | The Paramount picture to be of- ! fered during the jubilee is “Accent on | Youth,” based on the Broadway hit und starring Sylvia Sidney and Her- bert Marshall, wita Phillip Reed and an outstanding cast. “Accent en Youth” is the first of two films based on Broadway hits to be offered during | the five-week period. The second Broadway hit in film form is the rollicking “Page Miss Glory,” which is Marion Davies' first production for Warner Bros. release. Mervyn Le Roy directed and Miss| Davies, supporting cast includes Dick | Powell, Pat O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lyle ‘Talbot, Patsy Kelly and many others. “Page Miss Glory” is said to be a comedy riot and a perfect vehicle for | the screen’s premiere comedienne. Stage attractions in keeping with these ace-high screen offerings are now being booked, according to Mr. Payette's announcement. Leo Car-| rillo’s personal appearance is siready arranged, while contiacts are being signed to bring an cutstanding radio orchestra to the stage during the Jubilee. Announceme:ts of other at- tractions soon will be made. WHERE TO DINE. Jennie’s Special Chicken Dinner One Whole Fried Chicken $ Mo 1 Corn Fritters and Hot Rolls ENOUGH FOR 4 PEOPLE DELIVERED IN 30 MINUTES 6 AM to B P M. Phene Decatur 4588 1914 13th St. NW. ® L GRANVILLE BAGEANT, Young cornet soloist, who will play tonight with the Elks' Boys' Band | at St. Gabriel's carnival. The band will give a special “Old | Timers’” concert, featuring music | of the “‘gay nineties.” - Where and When| Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. Palace— The Scoundrel,” at 11:33 am, 1:35, 3:40, 5:40, 7:45 and 9:50 pm. | Earle—"College Scandal,” at 11 am.| 1:25, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:50 p.m. S\‘BK) shows at 12:30, 3:20, 6:15 and 9 Loew’s Fox—"Sanders of the River. at 10:45 am. 1:30, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:55 pm. Stage shows at 12:30, 3:20, | 6:10 and 8:55 p.m. R-K-O Keith’'s— Keeper of the| Bees at 11:15 am. 1:01, 2:48, 4:35, 0.2 8:09 and 9:56 p.m. Metropolitan—"Triumph of Sherlock Holmes,” at 11:45 a.m., 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 5 p.m. Columbia—"“No More Ladies,” at 11:30 am.,, 1:35, 3:40, 5:40, 7:45 and | 9:50 pm. Tiveli—"0Oil for the Lamps of | China,” at 2, 3:50, 5:40, 7:30 and 9:20 pm. Ambassador—"“The Flame Within,” at 6:15, 8:05 and 9:50 p.m. Roadside (Rockville pike)—“To Die at Dawn,” at 8:30 p.m. Odeon (Forest Glen, Md.)—"“The Bride the Sun Shines On,” at 8:40 p.m | Air Excurslom Started. Air excursions to tepnis matches | have been inaugurated in Scotland. LANK BOOK A Complete Selection in Stock See Us for Your Blank Books | E.Morrison Paper Co. 009 Pa. Ave. Phone NA. 2945 BOAT TRIPS Big. M ity of Was 1 MT. VERNON 50c Lv. Daily 10 A. M.-2 .M. (Round trip) 2. MARSHALL HALL 50c Lv. 10 AM.-2 P.M.-5:30 P.M. (Round trip) 3, SUNSET CRUISE Steel rton™ m Plate rv-l Free Danciug te Stephen Le 4, MOONLIGHTS ! to you now! the next day’s lines. Will Go to Cottage. But here's what Frederic is zoing to do for himself as soon as I finish “The Dark Angel” for S8am Goldwyn: I'm going to get right out of Holly- | wood, throw my grease paint into the | attic and hibernate (even though it's Summer) at my cottage at Laguna. | It's a one-story rambling sort of cot- | tage high on the cliffs overlooking the | blue Pacific Ocean in a small, small | community near Laguna Beach; and if any one mentions the motion pic- | tures to me I'm going to shoot him and | plead not guilty by reason of insanity. I've got a great big front vard, | with plenty of shade trees, and a lot| of swings, chairs, pillows and rugs—| and I'm going to loll on every one of , and relax and make faces al every movie star I can think of. Also, | I'm going to call up every executive |, “pqL right at his busiest hour, get him on the line and then say: “I can't talk I'm too busy resting!” T've always wanted to do just that. May Receive Few Friends. Ralph Bellamy, John Cromwell, Harlan Thompson, the director, and Ainsworth Morgan, the writer, may come down and spend a few days with me, but me, but my invitation included, instead invitation included, instead IVERY DIAMOND OAB us:s il | ,%’,_gm be Gowl! A SHERWOOD BROS. PRODUCT COAL SACRIFICE PRICES 2,240 lbs. to the ton Wi arge sizes of 1 rEinia White Ash Hard Cosl We must our mine rumning te an I-rn crln on small sises. Order now befors: our surnius is sold. Special Furnace Size. . $8.00 Special Stove Size . $8.25 - STOVE, $8.95 CHESTNUT, $8.75 Egg, $8.95 Pea, $6.90| BLUE RIDGE COAL CO. Alexandria Rd.. So. Washington. Va. | Me. 3548 Wal, 8478 But | after al, I am a movie fan. you'll understand that. (Copyright. 1035 by the North American Newspaper Amunu Ine.) oLD TIMERS’ music Elks' Boys’ BAnd to Present Un- usual Program Tonight. Boat Making Trips to IATHING BEACHES! CHAPEL POINT Saturdays and Wednesdays ’I‘HE Elks Boys' Band of Washington, | ~ having mnearly completed nightly | concerts during the past two weeks at St. Gabriel's carnival, will present a special “Old Timers’ " concert tonight. The program will include numbers popular in the “gay nineties.” The | concert is believed to be the first of | its kind presented since 1917. The | music has been arranged by Lawrence | Leer, assistant conductor. The band ! will be under the direction of James GOLOIIAL; BEACH Saturdeys ond Sundays 5e; Aduits, 81 MOONLIGHTS . . . 60c | | | AMUSEMENTS. 7o KEITH’ S TODAY! 45:0- DOOPS OPEN | B s amM AMUSEMENTS. _a—s————— ALWAYS COOLED COMFORTABLY Opposite U. 5. Treasury on 15th A GIRL ACTS A MAGNIFICENT LIE! A GREAT NOVELIST'S L LAST,BEST ANPMOST Dircction of Sydney l.-ul NEIL HAMILTON BETTY FURNESS EMMA DUNN ® EDITH FELLOWES HOBART BOSWORTH CHARLES (BUDDY) ROGERS » "OLD MAN RHYTHM" NORTH BEACH @& CHESAPEAKE BEACH AT - THE: SEASHORE Shady Groves—Sand Beach FREE PARKING | FAIRLAWN », | __TO_TOWN." Com!dy and_ Cartc : PRINCESS s mse Completely Air Cooled Open 1:00 and wm!! PAZENDA in [CKET." Also MONA Conllnunux PFrom 6:00 P.M LUKAS in CASINO MURDER CASE.” | Cartoon. "No Sentiguous Prom 5:d d PATERSON Also _ SIDNEY HA SLEEPER in in 4th an: Sta. ARCH and CHAS_TATIGHTON. FREDRIC M, “LES MISERABLES.” Tomorrow. Continuous From 1:00 PM SALLY EILERS in “ALIAS MARY DOW "~ OE ATES in 3 | HIPPODROME X %o Beery in “West Polnr. "ot the l’f lAl]\I’!l MD. Last Times Today MAE WEST in __“GOIN’ TO TOWN.” ARCADE IYA'ruvll. mcmru Cromwell Hchdutn s RICHMOND ALEXANDRIA. VA. | Today-Tomorrow Ben Bernie and George Raft in | “Stolen Harmony." Air Cnllun ING. HERBERT MAR- ., in_"FLAME WITHIN. 624 H St_N.E. 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