The Washington times., 1929-05-16
.GLEANINGS
-= AND Es.
SCREENINGS
By ANDREW q. KELLEY

gang may be worth $500 .
week to the Fox Theater, Brook.
lyn, but down here in Washing
ton the Guinan name tagged to
a talking picture wasn't strong
enough to land in the F Street
firsHrun houses.
'If all the ice cream used in
performances Of last weeks
show were laid end to end on
the sidewalk in front, nobody
would eat it," says DIR. Phillips
in the National Theater Green
Room GIimpses.
You're right, Harold, and II
the cocktails consumed in
single season on the legitimate
stage were sold by one boot.
logger, what q prosperous cold
tea merchant he would be.
Pease and Gilman, Inc, an
nouncs they have leased q pent
house apartment ut 80 Fifth
Ave, New York, to Monta Bell,
motion picture director. Gosh:
And remember the Paramount
sound picture supervisor in the
days when he said the talking
films were only q fad.
I hope Jeanne EagelS, who
has q reputation for getting
mad over little things, doesn't
discover how the Washington
newspaper ads have been SPELL
ing her name this week.
Jimmy Quirk's Photoplay tells
the latest Eagels story rs fol-
lows:
There's q big laugh in one
of the Jeanne Eagels stories
that have slithered out Of the
Long Island plant. One day
she caught = stage hand petting
her handsome police dog and
burned up. Who had the au-
dacity to even touch the dog Of
the great Eagels? How dare
he? And so on, and so on, ad
nauseum. The next day this
notice appeared on the bulletin
. board:
PLOYES: Nobody working in
this studio is permitted to speak
to Miss Eagels' dog"
Paramount felt impelled to
deny some of the tales of the
Eagels temperament (including
this one) and explains that the
said dog was vicious and liable
to nip unwelcome PETERS.
$50 this is Hollywood. Well,
well, well, well, well, well, well.
Love and kisses. Len"
The above postcard to this
department particularly the
kisses) shows what the Gold
Coast atmosphere has done al
ready to the estimable Leonard
Hall.
Bill Ewing brings this one
back from Broadway. With each
chicken salad sandwich served
in Gray's drug store, they give
free a new rumor of a movie
merger. With q club sandwich,
= rumor guaranteed to last "a
hours without a denial.
One Of the regular patrons of
the BelaSco Theater, now that
the season is over, finds time
to ask whatever became Of the
Swiss bell ringer who used to
sound the chimes before the
curtain. Now that think of it,
he's been missing for some time.
There is q rumor he was asked
TO Join Paul Schwartz's union,
and again the story he is hang
ing around the Hollywood sound
stages waiting for a call to
play his masterpiece-Mendel-
sohn's Wedding March-for the
first talkie that provides q we'd
ding.
It is Corbin SHIELD, Of the
Rialto Theater, who reminds
that Gene Markey (who wanted
to become Mr.. Ina Claire but
lost to Jack Gilbert) is the au-
thor Of "Syncopation," the film
musical starring Warnings Penn
sylvanians, which opens at the
Ninth Street theater on Satur-
day.
ina Claire, herself, lets the
world know that her present dip
into the movies is not . film
debut. Quite . few years ago
she made feature for the dear
departed Metro pictures called
"A Wild Goose Chase" and also
Appeared in the first screen ver-
sion OF "The Prisoner Of
Zenda." Pathe didn't like it
for . cent when she brought
this matter up at q press, con-
ference. But Ina insisted sha
liked to talk about them be-
cause some Of her friends told
her they were good pictures.
Her first talker for Pathe
will be "The Awful TRUTH"
which served her for a full sea-
son rs q play.
To various Wesley Eddy
mourners and correspondents:
Your letters will be printed in
the r. S. v. P. column in these