The Washington times., 1928-02-16
The Gate-Post
BY FRANK BAER

The advance glow ana gutter or
The Three Musketeers' begins
TO completely ill the horizon.
Ziegfeld announces q cast that Is
prodigious in talent vitamins, and
one looks forward to b session
with the Rudolf F'rimI music that
adorns the Bill Anthony Mcclure
version of-the Dumas classic.
Frirnl, still very much under
the SO mark In years, has done
so much for romantic music in
America, that someone has sug-s
gested the country strike off q
medal and present it to Bavaria
for letting him come overseas.
IL memory can be trusted,
Frfr11 has been in the United
States for about II years, and
In his residence.period has conn
posed some Of our finest light
music. Gifted with an astound-
ing pianistic virtuosity, he Ii q
veritable geyser Of tunes. Who
among operetta composers can
point to such enchanting themes
as When A Maid Comes Knock
ing At Your Heart" from ''The
FREELY" ''Rackety-Coo'' from
''Katinka:" 1.-THE Thoughts That
Wrote on the Leaves OF Ny
Heart from Tumble I'M High
Jinks;" You're in Love" from
You're in Love-" Smoke Rings''
from 1.-THE Blue Kitten: the un.
sung numbers from Kitty Oar.
lin;" or "Give Me One Hour"
from THE White Eagle. =
This nervous Bavarian was the
one man in all America to write
The Three Musketeers'' score.
Heard in theater Hobbies: ''The
Doves" one Of Norma's best.
Did you hear the jazz music that
Fellow Harling wrote for "a Light
from st. Agnes" q one act
tragedy? No, well, you missed
something. /. Look, there goes
Corbin Shields, the press.agent
with another new hat. Say, pal,
how about q couple OF seats for
Broadway" you know the man
ager, don't your. Helen Of
Troy? See 1t. my boy, but re-
member you've got to have q keen
bean to get the subtitle points.
See that man over there-he's
novelist, who writes yarns for John
Gilbert. -. Yeh,a saw "The Co
rilla" on the stage, but I think
the movie version at the Earle's
got 1T beat. Come on over here,
Al, l want you to meet Colby
Hartman, the light expert, who
dolls up productions for the Loew
people. Those two chaps ~ the
one on the outside is the boy who
put the Crandan houses on the
map; did publicity for them; now,
he's over on the Mclean sheet
doing a film-chatter column.
I'd like to introduce you to that
girl, but don't know her. But
IL you want to see her dance,
she's up at Club Lido, and her
names Stevens.
With the return to New York Of
Lillian Gish, her impresario an.
nounces her next picture as "The
Miracle W0man"--which stresses
my lifelong suspicion that motion
pictures are usually developed from
titles-with as directors guess
who?
None other than Max Reinhardt,
the Teuton, who built a revolving
stage in Berlin some years ago
when his production plans ex-
ceeded his technical equipment.
Miss Gish, the actress, never
Intrigued my interest half as much
as did Miss Gish, the reported
fiancee OF George Jean Nathan,
the clustering critic.
She is MaeterIinckian, tits true,
but a picturesque figure minus the
palpitant quality.
Recalling her in 1.-THE Scarlet
Letter." drawn from the Haw-
thorne classic, it Is difficult to
grow frantic over the projected
Gish- Reinhardt collaboration.
On the surface, the linking of
the two famed cognomens APP
pears to live up to the typical
film producers complex--the more
big names, the merrier and bet
ter the picture. All of which
listens like so much twaddle!