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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
COME HOLE IN THE WALL"

"THE HOLE IN THE WALL" .
l. spirit mystery play. entirely in
dialogue, will be the next picture to go
into production at Paramount's Long
Island studio, according to Jesse L..
Lasky. Robert Florey will direct the
production. His last work was the all
talking comedy, 1.-THE Pusher-in-tlle-
Face" recently completed at the same
studio with a cast of Broadway stars
The cast for the new play has not
been announced, but it is expected to be
drawn from the speaking siege, follow
ing Paramount's picture policy of casts
with actors that can talk" This dia-
logue will be staged by Irving Rapper,
formerly with AL Woods
1.-THE Hole in the Wall will be made
from the play Of the same name by
Fred Jackson, which was produced sew
eral years ago with the leading roles
played by John Halliday and Martha
Hedman. Jackson also is the author
of 1.-The Naughty Wife" la, La,
Lucille" and "A Full House" The play
is being adapted for the screen by
Bartlett Cormack and Pierre Ceilings.
Monta Bell, production executive on
Long Island, will supervise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Real Heroes.

TWO members of Corinne Grifith's
supporting cast in SATURDAYS
Children" the First National produce
ton, are declared not only distinguished
screen heroes, but are also real heroes
in private life.
Grant Withers, the young Coloradian
borrowed from Warner Bros. to play
opposite Miss Griffith in the role of
Rims O'Neill. typical American
clerk in the same firm where Corinne,
as Bobby, has the part of a private
secretary, was awarded medal for dis
tinguished service in the Pueblo flood,
during which tragic event his father
lost his life. Young Withers saved the
lives of several women by rescuing them
from the upper stories of their homes
and rowing them in boat to safety.
Lucien Littlefield, who has the role
of Miss Grifith's brother-in law, is
hardly hero in Saturdays Children"
but he received high decoration dur
ing the late war for distinguished
service under fire.
Saturdays Children" is the Max
| well Anderson drama of modern mid
die class social life, which won the
Pulitzer prize as the best play of the
season in New York last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
A He Alimony Hunter.

NOV we have the alimony-seeking
male in the movies. He makes his
appearance In Columbia's "object-
Alimony" in the person of Douglas
Gilmore. recently engaged.
Although his type exists. this par
ticular one is based on recent Cali
fornia case.
"Obiect--Alimony" stars Lois Wilson
in a story of the predatory females who
make marriage highly paying business
venture. The new production marks
Gilrnore's return to the screen after an
absence of more than year. Recruited
from the stage about two years ago he
has had a spectacular rise as a leading
man. which was suddenly ended by an
accident that made him an invalid for
more than a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Pupil of Huerta.

ONE of the featured players In "The
~ Desert Song" the operetta now
being produced by Warner Bros. Vita
phone, is Robert Guzman, former Sec
rotary to Alfred de la Huerta, former
President of Mexico.
Five years ago Guzman. it is claimed.
did not sing note of music. but
when he met De la Huerta that gen.
tleman told him that ne could be
trained.
Now the former President Of Mexico
is looked upon as among the foremost
developers of voice in the United States.
His studio in Los Angeles is a school
for prorc cling artists. Guzman Is
claimed to - the best singer that
De la HUcrssa has tutored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Called a Hot Dancer

THE insurance business has lost a
bright young man, and the screen
has gained one, because of the educated
feet of young Paul Dugan, formerly en-
ployed in Los Angeles insurance office.
He has just been skyrocketed into the
prominence of part in Colleen Moore's
next picture, That's a Bad Girl"
So proficient is Dugan said to be at
the Collegiate stomp" and the var
sity drag" and variations Of the "crazy
rhythm" that he has won 28 dancing
cups. After watching him execute a
series of intricate steps at the Cocoa
nut Grove, John Mccormick offered
him the part in That's Bad Girl
in which he will be Miss Moore's dane
ing partner, and he and Colleen have
collaborated on a number Of red hot
maneuvers that will introduce Miss
Moore as a particularly torrid young
stopper in a dance hall sequence of the
picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Has Faith in the Stage.

capacity houses cannot keep q show on
the road from losing heavily.
But whether a show of mine ap-
pears in public on Broadway or In Kala-
mazoo she must be fully gowned in her
proper glory. My show is my show
mine! That means something to me.
and hope 1t does the same to the
public.
THE loss Of thousands Of dollars
can't lure me away from seeing that
wherever my shows play 1t is played
by the best cast can find, with all the
scenery, props. trimmings and the en-
tire staff of mechanics, electricians and
what-nots. including myself, present. It
is Just one Of my DeculiariTieS.
My other one is a firm fajtE a. -
immortal theater. whatever happens. i
feel exactly 81. My best work is ahead
of me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT E. SHERWOOD.

"HE other day. in the course of a
brief visit to the Fox Movie
tone Studio in New York,
saw and heard King Alfonso
of Spain addressing few re-
marks to the American people. / also
saw Chic Sale impersonating an old
Civil War veteran who had known Lin
coin. MuSSolini delivering a fervent
speech to a wildly patriotic mob in
Rome, an episode in the career of Ma
poleon Bonaparte, Notre Danes final
and overwhelming touchdown with at
tendant bedlam) in the game with the
Army and King George of England
speaking, in perfect taste. at the open
ing of a new bridge over the Tyne at
Newcastle
Now it is a we'll known fact that
movie critic, having to see so many
Pickering films, becomes surfeited with
entertainment and therefore cynically
disdainful of everything that comes
along Unlike the fan who goes to
the theater for pleasure. the critic
goes for purely business reasons, and is
therefore expected to develop cold
and f1Shy eye.
Nevertheless, and in spite of these
familiar theories, I may say that the
Inovietone show described above failed
main there. in the projection room, all
afternoon and all evening and see and
hear a lot more.
Instead of crying. Hold, enough,
I wanted to demand that Fox employees
bring on other movietone orators. such
as Babe Ruth. President Won linden
burg. Texas Guinan, Senator Hef1in
and Clarence Terhune.
* X * X
OF all the talking pictures that saw
at the Fox Studio-indeed. of all the
talkies that have ever seen anywhere
the one involving the King of Spain
is by all odds the best. both from the
angle of news interest and from the
angle of good. clean fun.
Alfonso XIII is revealed on the
screen with the United States AmbaS-
sador. Mr.. Hammond. who introduces
his majesty in a we'll turned but some
what obvious speech. If ever screen
star was born to blush unseen, Mr..
Hammond is that unfortunate individ-
ual. His remarks are literally over
whelmed by the extraordinary person.
atty of the King, who is standing at
his side.
D. Alfonso is, above all else, come
diana charming and gracious gentle
man who likes his little joke and is
supremely anxious to share it with
every one else He tries hard to deliver
a serious speech, stressing the need for
peace and good will among nations
THAT being what is expected of him),
but he just can't help being comical,
and doubt that Charlie Chaplin him.
self could get more laughs out of one
reel than does the occupant of the
throne of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
DAv1D BELAsco has some interest

L AAV1O bELASCO has some INTEREST,"
ing views on his faith In the
theater as expressed in the following:
us the theater going to the bow
vows? Not so long as there is human
voice beautiful enough to bear listen
ing to.
wall. I heard it first about 40 years
ago. It worried me little more then,
II have heard it 35 years ago and
20 years ago and 10 years ago. and in
deed, in all the intervening years until,
instead of alarming me or my colleagues
in the theatrical profession, it has come
to have a positively soothing sound TO
us, like some dear. silly old lullaby
the theater is going to the bow-woWS-
going to the bow-wows."
"Of course the theater gets diseases
just like anything else. Just now 1T 'as
the disease of extravaganza. There are
too many tneaterS. The theaters are
in the hands of landlords instead Of
showmen. The mirute a New York
business man begins to feel rich now
adays he buys a theater. Then he sits
down and Weeps. Where are the plays?
Where are the actors?
plays pour in - under nourished.
half baked plays. He gives them to
professional readers. office boys or tele-
phone girls who tell him which one to
produce. Then come the actofs-green
actors, over-ripe actors They are i'm
mediately engaged. At that point the
laymen see for themselves full-hedged
theaterical producer. The public comes
to see his spectacle. The public is dis
tressed. What is happening to the
theater? it asks.
Then there is the problem OF the
musical plays. Just now in New York
one good tune and 20 pretty girls can
play to any amount. The managers
get positively panic stricken If their re-
ceipts sink so low as $4,000 week.
Finally, when the New York manager
pours his wrath on Broadway until you
think you should no longer breathe, he
turns on the road. The road IS in
sane, paralyzed dead, or what you will.
But whose fault is it? This same man.
ayers. He has exasperated the roads
with his try-outs. And where Broad
ways disease is extravaganza the
disease of the road which feeds it Is
economy.
Manager goes to a warehouse and
fits his new show with secondhand
scenery. He throws together hap
1lhZdlu Cdobs CuAo CECAy POooADIC CEN-
pense, and sends his show to the
provinces to see if it's a go knowing
nothing of the theater himself, he
doesn't trust his own judgment, doesn't
dare spend money at the start.
when I produce play, I know no
more certainly of its ultimate success
or failure than he does. I produce it
because 1 like it myself. I know as
we'll as the other manager that even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Trixie Friganza
In Talking Act
TR1x1E FRIGANzA, a leading COM

TRIXIE FRIGANzA, a leading COM
edienne of the variety stage and
musical comedy star, is the latest celeb
rity to be signed by Vitaphone. Miss
Friganza's Vitaphone presentation will
be called My Bag O. Trix."
One of the most popular stars ever to
appear on the screen or stage. Miss
Friganza began her career more than 20
years ago and was one of the leading
musical comedy queens of her day. The
people of the United States remember
her as one of the outstanding perform
ers of the variety stage, upon which she
has been appearing with consistent sue
cess.
Miss Friganza has appeared upon the
screen also in a number of important
pictures. She had featured roles i'll
The Road to Yesterday and THE
Coming of Amos"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
.AVID BELASCO

DAvID BELAsCo has from time to
- time disposed of the moving pic
ture rights to number of his plays
following their New York runs and
road tours 1t may be interesting,
therefore, to know Mr.: Belasco's views
on the cinema drama.
There are great truths" says Mr.
Belasco that can only be expressed
by silence. So said st. Martin long
time ago. 1t was this thought in its
relation to new way of telling story
that lured me into moving pictures.
THE motion pictures have come to
stay. They have possibilities of amaz-
ing delicacy and power. and they have
come into a consciousness of their pur-
pose.
IT think there should be no rivalry
between the stage and the screen. They
each have endless possibilities for ex-
pressing their story of the human soul,
and they can each do it from totally
different angles.
Every artist wishes to tell his or
her story to the greatest number of
people. That, I suppose, is the humane
tartan motive back of all art. How
wonderful it would be if only we had
a screen record of the greatest and
most glorious of actresSes-Sarah Bern
hardt-during the early part of her
career-Bernhardt as she was in Paris
when she first played Camille!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Author Helps Film Novel.

THE charge often brought against
moving picture producers that a
favorite novel or story has been twisted
out of all resemblance in the screen
version will not be made against THE
River" the Saturday Evening Post
serial by TriStram Topper.
Fox Films. which made the picture,
employed the author from the time the
scenario was started until the picture
was cut. titled and completed. to help
the molding Of his principal characters
into the action of his story. Even the
black crow. symbol of evil, plays his
sinister role in The film as it did in the
novel.
In every step taken by the director.
Frank Borzage. it is claimed, upper
was called in to give his advice.
So pleased is the author said to be
that he has engaged to write several
other stories for Fox directly for the
screen. One of them. Christina" al
ready in work. Topper wrote especially
for Janet Gaynor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02

The Lew Fields show, Hello. Daddy"
will open in New York Christmas night.
Theresa Maxwell Conover is succeed
ing Josephine Drake In the cast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Coming Attractions.
NATIoNAL-"Jim the Penman."

| NA11ONAA<@ TIC ECunA6Hs
"Cissie" Lotus, William Faversham,
Jacob Ben-Ami and other noted figures
| in the theater return to Washington
December 10, when Jim the Penman,"
George C. Tyler's revival Of the famous
old melodranla, appears at the National
| Theater.
Theatergoers who remember Mr.. Ty-
ler'S production of Sardou's "Diplo-
macy" last season will have another
opportunity to see a number of the
| actors who took part in the presenta-
ton of that famous classic, for the cast
includes Charles Richman, Helen Low
| ell, Reginald Mason, Vernon Steele,
! Cecile Dixon, Lawrance D'OrSay, Ed
ward Emery, Marguerite st. John, Full
| Ter Mellish, Frank Hearn and Harry
Joyner. Frederic Stanhope, one Of Mr..
Tyler's directorial staff for years, staged
the production.
Jim the Penman" was one of the
most celebrated plays of the 80s, both
| on account of its cord-breaking run
| of more than year at the famous old
! Madison Square Theater and on &C
| count of its innovations. It was the
| first drawing-room play ever written to
center about the gentleman crook, and
so may be considered to be the lineal
ancestor of all the crook melodramaS
| which have appeared since its day.
Its author, Sir Charles Young, was
| responsible for a number Of noted
thrillers of that time. Jim the Pen
| man" was at first but slightly regarded
either by its English sponsors or by the
Madison Square Co., but when put on
for short run to fill gap In the rep
ertory it startled every one by achiev-
, ing longer run than any other cotem-
porary play.
The extent of it's fame is indicated
by the fact that it was chosen for a
special performance before President
Cleveland and all official Washington
! in 1887, with the company being rushed
from New York to Washington in a
special train for single evening.
Charles Coghlan, Agnes Booth and
William Davidge were among the noted
actors who played in it. 1t was last seen
in this country when William A. Brady
revived it in 1910, and appeared last on
any stage at the Haymarket Theater,
in London, in 1918.
STRAND-"Mischief Makers"
Next weeks offering at the Strand
Theater sails under the provoking title
of Mischief Makers" heralded as a
WOW" from start to finish. The fea-
tured members of the cast are Ruth
Price and Bob Startzman, who are sup
ported by some of the foremost players
on the burlesque stage. Mischief Max
erS' is replete with original songs and
dances, clever lighting effects and costly
costumes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02

/ / don't mean to convey that hi.
InajeSty's humor Is Of the unconsciou;
variety. On the contrary. the audience
does not laugh at him, but with him.
In the course of his recent presiden-
tial campaign Will Rogers observed that
he is one politician who is funny inten-
tionally. King Alfonso of Spain is an
other-and, like Mr. Rogers, he is super
latively effective in putting over a gag
Compared to him all the other cele-
brated perSonages who have appeared
in news reels on the screen are SO many
Small-time hams.
* X X
"Napoleons Barber" which has just
been released. is the first attempt to
express historical drama in talking pic
lures. Although it is only a half
length feature picture, it qualities, in its
small way, as something of spec
tacle." 1t was directed by John Ford,
who was responsible for The Iron
Horse" -Four Sons" and many other
Fox superfcatures.
1t proves to be tremendously interest
ing in spite of the fact that much of its
dialogue is just shade too heavy. The
street scenes in a French village are
beautifully done and are augmented
considerably by the addition of crowd
noises, the clang Of the town crier's
bell, the clatter of a passing troop of
cavalry, bugle calls, etc.
'Napoleon's Barber" represents a
rather daring experiment in the talkies,
and a commercially successful one. The
character of the mighty Corsican man.
ages to come through the movietone re-
cording apparatus without serious dam
age, thereby indicating that there will
H. itry fASs YAfs 10
biographies in this new medium.
Chic Sales new Marching
On" it is called-is. in my estimation,
the supreme dramatic triumph to date
of the movietone. 1t provokes a great
many loud and lusty laughs, but its
real value lies in the great honesty of
its sentimentality.
In one scene we see the old veteran
telling of the Abe Lincoln that he had
known when he was a grocer's clerk in
Springfield, H.. before the great man
had gone to be President. They never
did appreciate him down in Washing
ton," says Mr.. Sale. They couldn't APP
preciate hinl-jeSt because he was too
darned human!" And with that Mr..
Sale eXpectorateS vehemently.
His eulogy of Mr.. Lincoln ends up
with the appropriately simple words,
He Jest suited me-"
While he talks we hear the village
band in the distance playing John
Browns Body"
These who haven't already seen
Marching On" are urged to do so at
once, and if they can refrain from sob
bing when Mr. Sale says, He jest suit
ed me-" then they are made of sterner
stuff than than this calloused critic.
downright 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
BelascO Views on Movies.

ANY belief that exists in the mind
writes itself in the eyes; in fact, on
the entire body Moving pictures can
and do show the inner spirit. They
can visualize the life of the human
soul.
THE stories, 1 think, will change;
even now, they are changing. Audi
ences today are more analytical.
Therefore, they seek logic back of the
emotions. The trend of the new plays
and photoplays will be to represent
normal human beings as they are,
whose actions spring from their char
acters, rather than from the old idea
of serving the plot"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02

ISABELLE SHERIDAN, 18 and a
pretty blonde, recently was discov-
cred working as an obscure member of
a mob with the John Barrymore
Ernst Lubitsch company at the United
Artists studio. She is said to be a
cousin Of Mary Pickford. but she says
she would rather not have people refer
to her as Mary'S cousin, for she wishes
to succeed, If she can, on her own
merits.
II have done extra work in several
pictures" explains Miss Sheridan, land
I intend to continue as an extra until
I get recognition through my own
ability. So far as picture work is con-
cerned, would rather forget I am
Miss Pickfords cousin Casting Offices
and directors are interested only in
what one can do, not who ones rela-
tiveS are"
The picture in which Miss Sheridan
is working is King OF the Mountains"
a romance of the Swiss Alps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
WEEK END
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SPECIAL
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SALE-AUTOMOBILES.

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Their entire savings account for
a used car. But they usually
look for a guarantee "in writ
ing" They play safe.
Gold Seal Used Cars cost no
more than ordinary used cars