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AMU SEMENTS Movies Give War-Bound Natives Their Excitement Madrid’s Residents Remain Unshaken Through Bombardment, Then Watch Action Photoplays for Thrills. By Richard Watts, Jr. ADRID.—There is a type of personal journalism that this department has always objected to with particular vehemence. It is the sort of thing in which the correspondent insists on telling you of the dramatic and perilous circumstances precious words for your delectation under which he is setting down his I have laughed at it, sneered at it, and snarled at it with scorn and indignation. Yet the fact remains inescapable | that at the moment this is being writ-«< ten in my room at the Hotel Florida, Madrid is undergoing a very definite and decided night shelling at the hands of the enemy. It certainly isn't s exciting an experience as the bom- bardment several mornings ago, when for over an hour shells whistled omi- nously over the hotel and one of them crashed into the dining room, three floors below. And it isn't as pictur- esque as an air fizht over the city, with the anti-aircraft guns making little clouds against the sky and the snub- nosed government planes darting after the invaders. But it does manage fomehow to remind vou of the grim- ness of this war in Spain and of the dogged heroism of the people of the valiant city of Madrid. If you stand on the balcony of the twelfth floor of Madrid's embattled skyscraper, the Telefonica, but a few kilometers in the distance you will see enemy territory on three | sides of you. As all the world knows, the city has undergone nir of the terrors, perils and hardships of modern warfare's refinements of be- leaguerment. It has undergone weeks and months of artillery bombardment and, until the government became powerful in the air, of murderous avia- tion assault. Shells of every variety | conceived in the war factories of Nazi | Germany have rained into its streets | and against its buildings. Perhaps 6.000 civilians have been slain, whole districts have been razed and some- | thing like a tenth of the city has been | destroyed. The Gran Via one of the main thorough! far from a s phone building al by exactly 117 shi €0 quietly and ness of th eve as carefree as if th land of song a tourist cir was the tele- | one has been struck Yet the people about the busi- ir Spain was the that the ist that it ighter ed to JT MUST be clear to the commanders | of the Fasc forces that no great military purpose served by the thelling of Mad The only answer, outside of attributing the artillery at- tacks to sheer spitefulness, is that their purpose is to break the morale of the populace. And in this it is obvious that their failure is as miser- able as the Fascist failure to capture the city at the beginning of the siege, when eve g Gen. Miaja—thought that its fall was tnevitable. In fact, the whole enemy procedure has had exactly opposite effect. It n ¢ has made |h9 peo- is Daniictee the population of Madrid remains ap- proximately the one million that it was at the begi of the war, and, for all the strain of long and arduous siege, the people remain unshaken and unafraid, a tribute not only to the courage of the men and women of Spain, but to the dogged determination and genius for adjustment of the human spirit. Half | An hour after a fierce bombardment the people are calmly walking through | the streets once more and the chil- dren are again playing unconcernedly on the sidewalks. Then, fust for excitement, ple go to the “movies” or see a very bad vaudeville show. Thirty picture theaters and 16 of the so-called “legiti- Today's Film CAPITOL—"You Can't Have Everything,” bright musical with a lot of Ritz madness, at 2, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm Stage shows at 3:40, 6:25 and 9:10 p.m. EARLE—"Mr. Dodd Takes the Air,” & crooner surrounded by laughs and good songs, at 3:10, 5:25, 7:45 and 10:10 p.m, Stage shows at 2, 4:20, 6:55 and 9:15 p.m. PALACE—“The Good Earth,” superb translation of Pearl Buck's novel to the screen, at 1:45, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:30 p.m. KEITH'S—"The Toast of New York,” in which Jim Fisk makes and loses millions, at 2, 4:25, 6:55 and 9:20 p.m. “March of Time,” at 4:05, 6:35 and 9 p.m. METROPOLITAN—"Marry the Girl,” farce done up as in- sane slapstick, at 2, 3:55, 5:55, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. RIALTO — “The Man Who Could Work Miracles,” Roland Young having fun in an H. G. Wells yarn, at 2, 4, 6, 8:10 and 10:20 p.m. COLUMBIA—"Saratoga,” Jean Harlow's last picture, at 2, 4, 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. LITTLE—‘Rose Marie,” at 2, 8:40, 5:40, 7:40 and 9:40 p.m. TRANS-LUX—News and shorts. Complete show runs 1 hour and 15 minutes, continuous from 2 pm. the peo- Schedule and look | months | and seem | authority—save | undergoing a | | the safest places the rebels can shoot at it from only | mate” variety are crowded every afternoon and evening—there are no night shows, because Madrid becomes a ghost city after dusk. For thrills | the Madrilenos, who have been :hFlled the night before and have watched air battles in the clouds above them that moming, attend *“The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” or James Cagney in “G-men.” Nothing seems to enter- tain them more than to watch a lot of actors blazing away at each other with blank cartridges, and the scene in “Top Hat,” where Fred Astaire, in one of his dances, uses his cane as a machine gun and shoots down a male chorus, is received rapturously at every showing. You might think that the Madrilenos weny to the films for escape and would hardly enjoy pictures that dealt with a close to home as, say, an air battle. Yet “The Hawk and the Eagle,” a Paramount film of perhaps four years 8g0, Which had some pretty grim scenes of aerial combat, is a great su s here, and a picture showing an air raid, wherein the actors being bombed behaved unrealistically, be- came a local laugh riot, with the audience calling out ironic advice to | the players on the screen 1y, several German films and such an | Imperialistic photoplay as “Rhodes” are being shown, and that at least two Il’hlld vaudeville actresses are billed as “The Spanish Shirley Temple.” ’I‘HERE is so little that is encourag- ing in any account of modern war- fare that i worth returning to that aforementioned topic of the telephone building. In tales of the next war and can preparedness horrendous are invariably given to Manhattan Island being wrecked by bombs and our magnificent skvscrapers collapsing | about what are left of our ears when struck by enemy shells. You are led | to believe that nothing could be so | unsafe as the caverns of Manhattan !and that in case of war you should | immediately fiee for the countryside. Now the Telefonica is an American- | built skyscraper; it has been the out- standing target for enemy shells, can be bombarded from three sides and, as I have said, it has been struck squarely 17 times. Certainly it has been se- | verely damaged, with great holes torn in several of its floors and walls, and its facade damaged in many places. Yet it still stands boldly and essen- tially intact, work has never ceased within its walls and as yet no one has been Killed in it. Its courageous staff, who have lived in the building since the outset of the siege, have had enough time on their hands to figure that, with the amount of damage the 117 shells have done, it would take at least 6,500 shells to destroy Tele- fonica. In case of war move to the Empire State Building. TRULY Madrid did seem a ghost city when Mr. Neville, the reformed bridge expert, and I arrived at 1 o'clock in the morning, just two weeks | ago. There wasn't a light in the | streets save that made by the head- lights of our car, and no one seemed | stirring in the city save a few assault guards, armed with rifles, who pa- trolled the sidewalks, silently and slow- Iv. In the moonlight the amount of wreckage seemed overemphasized and | Madrid appeared as an ancient, dead city, deserted by its inhabitants cen- turies before. There was still some ac- tivity at the press office, however, | the bushy-haired woman in charge | suggested that we stay at the Florida | Hotel, since she knew there were va- | cant rooms there and the place was | probably safe, as it had not been shelled for several days. I am grate- ful to her for recommending the Flor- ida, since it is the sort of hotel Robert | E. Sherwood might have thought up for a Spanish version of “Idiot's De- light.” It certainly is in the line of fire, they are being fired by the besiegers or the defenders. The men who work at the hotel insist that it is one of imaginable. two sides. Furthermore, they remind while the place next door has been struck 35 times. killed in it, although the room occu- pied by Sefton Delmar, the corre- spondent of the London Express. was demolished when fortunately he was absent. The Florida is situated just off the favorite shelling ground of the enemy, the Gran Via, and the enemy can shell you from a couple of excellent vantage points. In fact, there is a school of thought which holds that the very existence of the hotel gesture of contempt toward the en- to the hotel as Shell Chateau, al- though those of us who eat there regularly prefer to think of it as Olive Oil Manor, In New Goldwyn Film Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles are co-starred in “Stella Dallas,” now has remade. Loew’s Palace Theater. a Samuel Goldwyn success as a silent film, which he “Stella Dallas” is due for showing soon at 4 topic so | Incidental- | it is rather curious to note that | various narratives advocating Ameri- | accounts | and | anyway, and when shells whistle over | Your head you can't be sure whether | since | you that it has been hit only 16 times, | No one has yet been | emy. These people sometimes refer | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 15, 1937—PART FOUR By Jay Carmody. OLLYWOOD.—A pale cast of incredibility lies over most of the things you see in this sprawling suburb of the most sprawling city in the world. But the most incredible of them all is the premiere of a new picture. Beside the premiere, a bunion derby or a husband calling contest looks as logical and rational as if it had been carefully | devised by the National Academy of | Sciences | It is our good fortune (and we mean that “good.” premiere for anything less than lobar | pneumonia) to arrive here during the open season of premieres and previews. Most of the larger companies are about to release their first pictures for the Autumn season and & necessary gpre- Jude is a kind of delirious' baptismal ceremony conducted on an astronomic scale. Hence premieres. 80. M.-G.-M. has had one for “Fire- | fiy” with Jeannette Macdonald and Alan Jones. Warners sprayed colored lights in the eyes of any downward glancing gods in behalf of *Varsity Show,” with Dick Powell. Paramount put the electric company back on its feet and the public on the seat of its pants with a premiere of “High, Wide and Handsome.” After you have seen that many, plus a preview of “Souls at Sea,” you have developed callouses in all the right places. To get the full value out of the callouses, you have to keep right on going to premieres. A premiere begins, 5o it seems, as a | mad glint in the eye of some one in the publicity department. With the same feling that used to inspire kings to | | proclaim weeks of feasting and revelry, the radio and local journals are in- voked by the company to announce | the festival. So the news travels from ear to ear, eye to eye, and mouth to mouth that the gods are coming down from Olympus with cans of cel- luloid in their hands to make the | people happy. Every one begins to feel as if Hans Christian Andersen had assumed the dictatorship and in | one gigantic W. P. A. project was go- (Ing to convert the country into s beautiful fairyland. The stars start drawing vesterday's old minks and ministers out of the trash, looking them over, rejecting them and ordering new minks and ministers. The people start sharpen- ing their pencils and figuring just how early they should set the alarm clock that certain morning in order to get a choice seat. Not a seat for the pic- | ture, understand, but in the stands erected along the streets just like they do at coronations, inaugurals and sim- ilar functions. THE little people of pictures, the ones who expect some day to have the reputations and the mink which goes with a reputation, consider ways and means of extracting passes for the affair. Or possibly even buying tickets. The public that will be there to see these little people, after all, is the one they will take over later when the old stars dim and die. It is worth the money to be seen by the TOURNAMENT DA MARSI?:\%?\;‘ HAL; Marshall Ba VERNON Twe Round Trips Daily 10 A. M—2:00 P. M. Adults, 50c—Children, 25c Admission to Grounds 25c M&@NLIGH Nishtly 8:30 Round Trip Cruise . ren G Washington's finest and most modern ezcur- WIlSON LINE NA 2480 TTh STREET WHARVES 71 years of buying, selling and lendingondiamonds, jewelry, etc. Libera) Loans at Loewest Possible Rates CASH FOR OLD GOLD iment License) Retai) Store 1215 H St. N. E. HEIDENHEIMER Rotablished 1888 [ for we would not miss a | masses. So they pay if there is no other way out. On its part, the power company which is going to light the affair, starts rubbing its palms together in the gesture of a Roadside Theater vil- lain about to foreclose a mortgage. The hysteria of a premiere is a com- municable germ which affects every one happily with the exception prob- ably of the police department. The latter, which provides 100 men in ad- dition to the approximately 50 studio officers, just gets a headache instead of a thrili. The actual spectacle of the premiere | is unbelievable. Washington's “Holly- | wood openings,” which are effective | | affairs with a fair simulation of the props used out here are none-the-less diluted versions of the original. (One takes a deep bow to Carter Barron, | Hardie Meakin and the other special- ists in the same line in Washington). New York's are similarly attenuated. Hollywood alone can do it the Holly- wood way for it alone has the stars | 1 to play the roles of the gods coming down from the mountains. Actually, of course, they come out of high-walled | studios and high-fenced palaces, not to mention heavily curtained automo- biles; but actually means nothing at & moment like & premiere, Hours before there's a chance for a | materialization of the celluloid faces | and figures which have driven the spe- cies mad, the maddened ones gather | at the scene. You can't help remem- bering how Katharine Cornell came | into Washington with less recognition 'lhnn a first-term Congressman from | the wilds, or how one night you walked | out of the Martin Beck Theater in | New York with her to find only one | ! person waiting there. That one person was a bum who wanted a dime. Seats are provided for the first com- ers, temporary stands like the worst of those arranged on the Avenue when something unspectacular like an in- auguration is going on. They fill quickly with as exact a cross-section of humanity as you'd get anywhere. Some of them look like persons you might meet behind the stables at Bowie late at night: others like the ones who sit in the boxes at the same | | place during the afternoon. The same goes for those who were | too late for seats, but are happy to find aisles made of rope strong enough to moor the Queen Mary in a tropical storm. For a moment these sitters and standers are going to have the experience of nearness to the most orous industry. AT “FIREFLY,” for instance, they saw Jeannette Macdonald, Alan Jones, Edward G. Robinson and a host of other idols. The appearance of each gave the audience the chance for which it was waiting, the chance to with Chorus of 18 . Vocal ensemble of 24 voices ] Loew's PALACE Now Second stirring week “The Good Earth” @ Alice FAYE ¢ RIT: with PAUL MUNI LUISE RAINER | standing room somewhere along the | glamorous members of the most glam- | He Finds the Gala Debut of a New Picture the Most Incredible of All Hollywoods Incredibilities. clap blisters on its hands and to shred its vocal chords. “Souls at Sea” gave what might have been the same crowd 30 far as we could tell, a chance to see Gary Cooper, Olympe Bradna and 8 score of others who too long have been idolized merely as celluloid im- ages. Irene Dunne and Randolph 8cott were the honored stars on the occasion of “High, Wide and Hand- some’s” premiere, and Dick Powell, when Warner's showed ‘Varsity | Show" here for the first time. ‘The stars of a premiere picture, however, are not necessarily big shots with the mob. As a matter of fact, the premiere show can be stolen almost any time any one else in pictures who | happens to have a larger fan following Every one gets a hand, of course. 1tis | the Gables, the Eddys, Coopers, Pow- | ells who could take a million bows if the human back could stand it. ‘The applause which begins the mo- | ment one of the brighter stars is | sighted continues until he actually is | sealed in the theater. When he is sealed, another comes along (it's all carefully spaced that way), and it | starts all over again for the new- comer. If the public really feels that way, and it rings true as well as ter- ribly loud, the Republican and Demo- cratic parties are fools not to do something about it when they need | candidates The Democrats might take Clark Gable, the Republicans Paul Muni. What fun! It begins along about | 6:30 and lasts until midnight or later You really ought to get out and see it sometime, for that is the only way you | | ever will believe it. . = “Drunkard” at Sylvan. ] HE DRUNKARD,” most famous of | all the old-time melodramas, will be the next item on the Summer festival program, presented Tuesday night at the Sylvan Theater by the Langley Lambs Club. The cast, directed by M. Forney Reese, will be headed by Kathryn Dengler, Mary Evelyn Puqua, Joanna | the new medium would prove a se- | conservatives in the producer ranks | ADOLP ZUKOR, then president of Anderson, Jane Lawrence, Paul Tay- lor, Larry Lawrence, Ben Smart, | Enoch Chase. jr.; Prank Anderson, | Robert Burdette, Robert Fain, Wulmm Draper and Albert Sauer. This will be the tenth Summpr festival program, THEATRE TRANS-LUX .50 NEWS — HOLLYWOOD ; SHORT SUBJECTS ~ THEATRE PARKING ‘Tam 35e CAPITAL GARAGE 333 % £ srecuunr saecico iace e Magical Musical So NEW il's a year ahead ROBERT TAYLOR ELEANOR FRIDAY Th, Rudyard Kipling’s stirring drama "Wee W////e Winkie SHIRLEY TEMPLE VICTOR McLAGLEN [ ] 6 é(d ON THE STAGE The surprise hit of 1937 ‘GOING NATIVE 5th annual all-Washington revue 60 sparkling personalities A Binnie BARNES Buddy EBSEN Sophie RAYMOND WALBURN ROBERT and many olhe s Loew's CAI’ITOL “YOU CANT HAVE EVERYTHING with Tony MARTIN © Louise HOVICK® Plus on Stage JIMMY DORSEY and his orch. < Z Bros. ® Don AMECHE @ Jean HARLow Mr. Carmody Becomes Premiere-Minded|/ Talkies’ First Decade Ends and Recalls Panic AMUSEMENT “The Jazz Singer” Started It, “Lights of New York” Sounded Death Knell of Silents, and Hollywood Went Mad. By Harold OLLYWOOD (N.AN.A).—The talking picture celebrates its tenth an- niversary this month, but it will be a quiet observance, limited to immediate members of the family. For once, Hollywood will those wild, hysterical days when the new electrical ogre suddenly lashed out from nowhere to heave long-accepted movie customs into the ashheap. that Warner Bros., It was in August, 1927, phone, completed “The Jazz Singer,” trail blazer of a new era in the amuse- ment business. Screen audiences saw and heard Al Jolson sing and talk from the screen. They looked and listened in open-mouthed amazement, They went back again and again to| marvel at it. And while movie audiences were being amazed by this sample, all Holly- wood producers were staging a mad | scramble to readjust their plants and resources. It meant a complete changeover in technique and per- sonnel, and only a pitifully few ex- perts were available to supervise the transition. All had heard rumbles of the ap- | proach of talking pictures, but few realized, until the public's enthusiastic | reception of “The Jazz Singer,” that | the time had actually arrived when rious competitor for the silent drama Even s0, there were many die-hard Only the Warners and William Fox, { who had been struggling for years with his movietone, foresaw in talkies the complete elimination of | silent pictures. As late as 1929—more than a year | after the release of “The Jazz| 8inger"—some of the industry's| pioneer producers declared talkies | could never complev.ely oust silent | pictures. “The talking picture has its place,” said Jesse L. Lasky, vice president | of Paramount Pictures, “but this| doesn't mean that the silent picture is doomed. On the contrary, it will| remain the backbone of the industry's ! commercial security.” the same company, ndmuted; talkies were a ‘“vital screen force” for | interpreting the best writings of the | leading dramatists. “However,” he added, “there always have been sub- | Jects which could not be augmented in value and strength by the addition of sound and dialogue. Such sub-| jects will always continue to be made in their natural form: Silence.” *iso . SWIM | 2exnire DANCE WEEK _NITE! 1 P TO MIDNITE DAILY MORE THAN FIFTY FINE AMUSEMENTS (FREE PICNIC GROVES) [FREEAOMISSIoN ] GLEN ECHQ [ AMUSEMENT PARK ) 20 MIN. MOTOR MASS. AVE. OR CONDUIT ROAD FREE PARKING—N O TIPPING CABIN JOHN OR GLEN ECHO STREET CARS IN 40 MIN. HENDERSON’S FREE—NEW—FREE PARKING | 457 Eye St. N.W. 1 Beginning Aug. 16 we will park your car all day for the entire week free of charge. | We are doing this to get acquainted with you. HENDERSON’S 457 Eye St. N.W. GEORGE MURPHY the new M G-M tind TUCKER Judy GARLAND BENCHLEY Loew's COLUMBIA Now Clark GABLE “SARATOGA" Heffernan. not go gala. It would rather forget developers of the vita- A few years later, 90 per cent of | the Nation's theaters had been wired for talking pictures In the early months of 1928 other movies with talking interruptions were hurried to the screen—and the | public continued to jam the theaters | equipped to show them. There were | “Tenderloin,” “Glorious Betsy,” “The Lion and the Mouse” and an un- counted number of shorts made in New York and Hollywood. The name “talkie” came into general use. Non of these, however, was an “all-talkie.’ Each had dialogue sequences and a synchronized score. Today, those early talkies seem un- believably crude. The microphone was usually stationary, hidden in a bunch of flowers on a table across which | two people were talking: in the chan- delier, inside a decorative lamp and | occasionally right out in the open— | the latter by oversight, of course. For |a time it appeared the addition of | sound would take all the motion out | of movies, 'I‘HE birth of the first all-talkie is traced to the fatigue of the Warner brothers. Worn out from their | long struggle, they went off to Europe on a vacation, leaving a pair of sub- ordinates, Bryan Foy and Frank Murphy, to continue the production | of shorts. The two decided to make & | feature that would be all talking. RIALTORso" Teday Washington Premiere Pvllond Yorong H.G.WELLS COMEDY TWEMAN WHO Coyp \WORK MIRAC1gs ALEXANDER. KORDA product ion_. THRONE OF THE GODS™ Narration by LOWELL THOMAS 4 ImRLING 720K RO THE 25 OF Twt WORTS UMZOmH =T AR Wmn 3 hour cruise on S S, POTOIAG LEAVES 8:45 . Musle by Bernie Jarboe’s hthaw! 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STATE NOQ_PARKING ORI roMoRROW VMT.NX ”UCE “THE GABLE snd LOY w m DTRECT 10N OF SlDNEY LUST A small amount of money had been allotted for the making of a short to be called “The Lights of New York,” but Foy and Murphy continued to add sequence after sequence, going outside the studio to raise the addi- tional money necessary. When the bosses got back they found awaiting them a complete feature that was “all talkie,” some- thing they had about decided they would never attempt. It cost less than $40.000, and, when releasad, it netted mare than two million—in spite of the fact that thousands of houses were not yet equipped to play it. Crude as it was “The Lights of New York,” released a year after “The Jazz Singer,” sounded the doom of the silent picture—and the beginning of the end of the part-dialogue, part silent film. Only those who were in Hollywoot at the time can ever know the panis that reigned for the next few months Established favorites faded out over: night. 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