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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
Doug Was Thrilled.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS was a,

nOUGLAS FAIRBANKS was as ex-
cited as child with a new toy
during his first day on the sound stage
where he made the talking prologue OF
his new United Artists picture The
Iron Mask"
II feel the old first-night thrill" he
said as he sat in the 'playback" room
listening to his own voice speaking the
words which he had uttered into the
microphones a few minutes before
With the representatives of Western
Electric. who installed the sound equip
ment, the executives of the United
Artists Corporation and his own COM
pany as an audience, Doug dedicated
the new sound stage with his soliloquy
of invitation to join him in the
romantic spirit of his new picture.
After each shot" the company moved
into the sound projection room, where
Dougs voice, with its musical accom-
paninent, was Immediately played
back.
The use of sound has developed a
new Technology on the Fairbanks lot.
The ''playback" room, where loud
speakers project the voice as soon as
1t has been recorded on the stage; the
glass Enclosed monitor room" where
director and technical staff are sta
toned, and the camera cage" where
the camera men shoot through a glass
window and are fed their air supply
by rubber hose, are among the newly
coined terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
Films in the Schools.

EDUCATORS have for some time
= realized the value of special educa-
tional motion pictures as an aid to
learning. 1t has been found that not
only 90 the students grasp the salient
features of a subject more readily, but
ma 1t easier to remember, If seen on a
MIN rather than read from book.
Proof OF this was strikingly shown in
some tests recently conducted by the
Cambridge CMass) Museum for Chill
dren.
Ruth Crawford. the director of the
museum, selected two pictures from the
Pathe Science Series edited at Harvard
University-"The Sculpture of the Land
by Rivers and Glaciers" Five hun
cred elghth-grade pupils were tested on
the hrst mentioned film and seniors in
the normal school on the second
Miss Crawford says that in the class
OF seniors. who were first given a test
to see how much they knew of the sub
1ect then saw the film, and then again
LOOK test, the per cent of gain was
amazing The average score for all
before seeing the film was 5.25. After
seeing the film the average score was
llo, or an average gain of approx
mstely 135 per cent.
Mrs. Elizabeth Richey Dessez, head
OF the Pathe Educational Department,
IN discussing this and similar tests, eX-
pressed her conviction that within 10
years visual education through specially
prepared motion pictures will be general
throughout the United States, and as
much part of the curriculum as text
books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
Ask Richard Arlen.

NO fights on the motion picture
screen are real. A double is Away.
used for the star. The opponent is
always Set-up. He knows he'd lose
his job If he hit too hard.
That's why Richard Arlen recently
had black eye, slashed cheek and dis
jointed hand.
In The Man Love" the high spot OF
the story takes place in ring pre-
sumed to be Madison Square Garden
Charles Sullivan, a professional light
weight, was signed as Arlen's opponent
Under instructions from William Well
man, the director, Arlen trained for six
weeks prior to the bout. During this
time he was. under the charge of Nate
Slot, former trainer and Sparring part
ner Of Benny Leonard the lightweight
champion.
And then. also under instructions
from Wellman, Arlen and Sullivan went
into the ring on the last night of the
picture-a schedule planned most obvi-
ously. 1t was in the third round that
Arlen received his black eye from a
straight left driven with all of Sulli-
vans power. The hurt hand came from
punch a few seconds later a punch
delivered by Arlen, that sent Sullivan to
the canvas.
Screen fights are always faxed, the
cynicS say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
Mobiles Rescue Shown.

IS RASSIN." the picture feature al
the Little Theater this week, pur-
ports to show, in minute detail, all that
occurred during the expedition organ
lied by the Russian Soviet for the res
cue of Gen. Mobile, the Italian Arctic
explorer. and the survivors of the ILL
fated polar dirigible. the Italia
The rescue expedition, it was said,
was organized within five days, and the
tri-motored airplane Red Bear, which
was carried to the North on the Kras-
sin, the relief ship, penetrated sector
OF the Arctic never reached before by
ship or plane, so far as it is known.
The Red Bear was plotted by Boris
Tschuchnovski, and as all the world
now knows, it located not only on the
camp Of Mobile and the survivors of the
Mariana and Capt. zappi, who, led by
DR.. Finn Malmgren, made a dash to
reach safety on the bleak shores of
Seven Islands, in the Arctic Ocean. D,..
Malmgren persisted, but his companions
were saved. 1t will also be recalled that
after locating the survivors of the Talia
the Red Bear was unable to RETURN to
the Krassin, because its fuel became
exhausted.
These views of the expedition were
photographed by camera mem of the
Krassin, the Malyghin and heIPerseus,
the rescue ships as well as from the
airplane, the Red Bear. The pictures
also show the important part played by
the radio in accomplishing the rescue.
It will be remembered that while
stranded on the ice foes six of the sur
vivors managed to rig up I'm impromptu
receiving set, which enS. bled them to
listen to concerts taking. place in Ber-
lin. London and AmsO .rdam and one
night from studio fin q New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
ON THE NEW YORK STAGE
Review of Theatrical Affairs Along the White Way
BY Percy Hammond

ing their village ceremonies with metro
politan parapheraalia, he now shows
them in the Hippodrome.
All that New York can do for Pas.
sion Play is done by Mr.. Gest. He has
worked Broadway wonders upon g
manifest festival. His expenditure ir
the process is so extravagant that il
might we'll worry an expert accountant
In his belief that Adolph Fassnacht
or any one else could be satisfactory
approximation of the Son of God he
is perhaps mistaken. I did not see
Henry 3. Warner as HollyWood's idea
of the King of Kings. Mr.. Nathan
however, has said that it was that of a
Lambs Club ham pretending to be holy
with the assistance of false whiskers
and SNUG personality. Adolph Fass-
nacht at the Hippodrome is neither
SNUG nor ham; he is nothing but a
puppet.
That, however has little to do with
Mr.. GeSt's proves as a prlncely eX-
travaganzist. He displays at the Hip
podrome many of the Scriptures facts,
including the election of Adam and Eve
from the Garden of Eden. Da Vinci's
Last Supper, GethSemane, the Court of
Pontius PLATE. the Crown of ThornS,
the tragic Hill. the spear thruSts, the
sponge of vinegar. the nails the bitter
cross and the resurrection. 1t is not
an easy job even for Mr.. Gest and the
Fassnachts, and that they get away
with it entities them to approval
Many playgoers will revel in its sights
and sounds. Others, among whom
reluctantly enlist myself, will regard it
as a halloWed bore.
ONLY a stones throw from the
~ churchly Hippodrome. and the New
Testament. is a pagan piece entitled
Carnival" In this the author. Mr.
Doyle, endedvors to excite the ennuied
drama lovers with spasms from life as
lived by small-town carnival folk in
contact with the rural population. It's
heroine miss Anne Forrest) is dancer
in street show Though she has loved
Blackie, the barker of the outfit, she
falls in love with Lincoln avenue
youth Norman Fosterl, who also falls
in love with her. What shall she do to
save her innocent sweetheart from his
yearning to marry her? She hits. of
course, upon an ancient device. She
will dance before a stag party. thus
proving to her lover that she is I'M
worthy of his affection.
The author, Mr.. Doyle, himself a car
nival follower. knows more about the
gvpsies than I do. AS a traveller in
their caravans he has accumulated
to think that his adapta ton is more
with the theater than with
what is known in critical circles as life.
All there is to Carnival" is its pro-
ducers' deterplination to shock and to
please. 7
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~ ROADWAY'S tamperlng with TIT
Passion Play Is less impiou
than might be expected. con
steering the remotenesS of the
Hippodrome from the cathedra
streets of Freiburg. Directed by such
devout men of the theater as Mr.
Belasco and Mr.. Gest, it becomes a
combination of circus and sacrament
seldom offending the Times Square
sense of reverence. Some of its gaudiel
scenes are indeed obvious things of tan
bark and tinsel. sheer manifestations OF
spectacular shoWmanship. When, for
instance, the actor who plays the
Nazarene rides through the gates OF
Jerusalem he is accompanied by all the
ford encourage of Ringing process
sional. Trombones blare. the crowd
cheers, parade is organized and passes
across the stage, representing the doubt
full art of the supernumerary in its
most ostentatious manner. But it is
merely a joining of the naivete of
Broadway, N. Y, with that of Frieburg,
Baden. The few tirnid Kisses that greet
ed Herr Fassnacht's pompous entrance
on Monday evening were bit clock
like in their insincerity, and did not
seem to represent any important indig-
nation.
podrome Passion Play with tremors.
Persons who are otherwise liberal in
excusing reporters from error grow white
hot with choler at a casual mention of
holy things Once wrote that in Sid
ney Towards play, Lucky Sam Nc
Carver" the hero, hearing of a murder
in his night club. breathed prayer in
which he spoke the name of the Cali
lean Immediately dozens of my most
faithful subscribers turned against me.
I was denounced and demands were
made upon the journal for which I
worked that ] be run out of town.
Oddly enough Mr.. Atkinson of the New
York Times, who also recorded the eX-
preston, heard nothing from it except
in praise. Therefore, am fearful that
Freiburg- Hippodrome Passion Play
shall again affront some readers. If
they will but bear with my awkward
efforts to be inoffensive, I shall hint
that the proceedings at the Hippo
drome, though treating of celestial
topics, are not of kind to dignity the
Christian religion.
THE Fassnachts are family of sacra-
mental players founded in 1850 or
whereabouts. Every three years in the
public square of Freiburg they go
through the events in the life of the
Saviour. casting themselves in the
principal roles. In some mysterious
way they got to America not long ago
and while wandering prosperously
through the interior were discovered
by Mr. Gest. The most alert and
courageous of the big show impresarios
fetched them to Broadway. Amplify-
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Latest on Ta1kies.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN does not inter

4 NHARL1E CHAPLIN QoeS uoI ulCeI4u
~ to talk in pictures.
Mary Pickford does not intend to
make silent pictures any more. Co.
ouette" is said to be the forerunner OF
MANY all-talking pictures she will make
D. w. Grifith thinks the talkies will
ruin the theater in five years.
Roland West, director of "Alibi,
thinks the talkies have concentrated in
terest on the actor who can talk, and
thu: they have benefited the theater.
Also he cites the demand in Hollywood
for stage trained performers.
Joseph M. Schenck, president of
United Artists, declares his company
next year product will consist chiefly
of all-talking pictures.
Norma Talmadge, Wilma Banky,
Gloria Swanson and Ronald Colman all
are talking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
FoX-"The Donovan Affair."

The Donovan Affair" the all-talk-
ing mystery drama at the Fox thN
week, was called the perfect talking
picture" following its showing, las
week, at the Roxy Theatrr in New York
, City.
The story is from Owen Davis sue
cessful play of the same name. Il
T gives Jack Holt his first talking role
and reports give this actor praise for
his performance 1t also marks the
| bringing together of Mr.. Hollis first
director Frank r. Capra, and himself
in the newer field of the takers.
The plot deals with. mysterious
murder Jack Donovan is attending a
! banquet In the midst of that banquet
the lights go out and when they are
again switched on Donovan is dead.
Then develops the question, who
killed Jack Donovan?" Its mystifying
twists, its almost certain solutions that
develop into nothing. all lead to a most
effective dramatic climax.
A Maytime. revue the stage portion
of the program, will bring Patti Moore
and Sammy Lewis as headline artists
master of ceremonies. Others will in
clude Bobby Gillette and his banjo;
Nancy Decker, personality singer who
is proving a sensation in the Fox
Theaters; Wee Willie" Robyn, star
of Roxys gang; George Schreck. an
original comedian in a new offering:
the truly gorgeous FoXettes" and Leon
Brusiloff with his 40 Fox jaZzmanians
EARLE-"A Dangerous Woman"
"A Dangerous Woman" said to be
the first African talking Aim with ex-
periencedFstage actors to appear on the
local screen. will be the screen subject
this weel; at the Earle Theater. 1t has
Africant atmosphere, dramatic plot. ro-
NANCE rollicking comedy and 1t Is said,
unparalleled acting.
The story is based upon a tense tale
of the jungle country by Margery H.
Lawrence which appeared in the Cos
nc politan Magazine and deals with a
modern Russian woman who falls under
the dreamy spell of prirneval Africa and
turns her energies to stalking the white
men who come within her ken in the
outerpost village in which she lives.
She captures and relinquishes each in
turn for the thrill of ensnaring a new
one.
Baclanova, Russian dramatic artist,
formerly with the Moscow Art Theater,
Hamilton and Leslie Fenton are colo
NAL residenters who fall before the ro-
mantle onslaughts of the siren, and
Snitz Edwards and Clyde Cook provide
comedy relief.
The set for "a Dangerous Woman"
was constructed, 1t is claimed, by a
studio architect, Hans Dreier, who lived |
for three years in the jungle and veldt
of Africa. 1t is said to be as large as
a city park
Gerald Grove staged the dialogue
and taught the members of the cast =.
the native African language, "Swahili," ,
which is used in many of the sequences /
Of the Aim.
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"Evaneeline" With Song

EDWIN CAREWE, United Artists pro-
ducer-director, has capitulated tc
the progress of sound pictures.
Mr.. Carewe will have Dolores De-
Rio, the star, sing three songs in
"Evangeline." While Mr. Carewe is di-
recting Miss Del Rio in the last episodes
DR.. Hugo Reisenfeld is arranging the
musical score for the Aim play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
COLUMBIA-"The Iron Mask. /"

Douglas Fairbanks, romantic and ad-
venturous, in The Iron Mask, remains
for a second week at Loews Columbia.
Doug portrays the role of D'Artasnss..
that was a success in THE Three
Musketeers." In this United Artists
sound production he is heard speaking
on the screen for the first time in the
prologue and the APPLIQUE. Also the
audience hears the singing of Doug
and his three comrades.
The first part of the picture takes
place during the reign of Louis XIII,
when the four musketeers WELD their
swords in defense of their king and his
infant son. The second part occurs 40
years later, during the reign of the
Continued on Second Page.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
PALACE-"GentIsmen of the Press,

This is farewell week. for Wesley
Eddy at Loews Palace, where the pic
ture is Paramounts talking production
Gentlemen of the Press adapted
from the play of the same name and
featuring Walter Huston as a veteran
newspaper man torn between the love
OF his work and his family ties. There
is variety of human characteriZations
purporting to be drawn from newspaper
life. Laughs ripple through the drama
and Charles Ruggles, comedian, is said
to make a minor part stand out. Betty
Lawford and Katherine Francis are pic
tured as the daughter and sweetheart
of the newspaper man.
On the stage Wesley Eddy will make
his final bow to Washington in his sew
enty-f1fth consecutive week as master
of ceremonies. The latest John Murray
Anderson production. Say It With
Music" will hold forth. It features
Charles Irwin, English nionologist:
Stadler and Rose, burlesque adiago
team; Henry Garden, operate tenor:
krevoff, tap dancer; Three Wainwright
Sisters, harmonists. and the Foster
Girls. Short subjects, the Fox Movie
tone News, the M-G-M News, with
Charles Gaige at the organ and the
Palace Orchestra, under Harry Borjes
will complete the program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
PhOtoplays This Week
SCREEN ATTRACTIONS OF THE WEEK.

FOX-The Affair." This afternoon and evening
EARLE-"A Dangerous Woman evening.
PALACE"Gentlemen of the Press" This afternoon
evening.
RIALTO-"Show Boat" This afternoon evening.
COLUMBIA-"The Mask" evening.
METROPOLITAN-"C Harmony" This afternoon
evening
LITTLE TEEATER-"Krassin" This evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05

ROADWAY'S tampering with the
Passion Play is less impious
than might be expected. con-
steering the remoteness of the
Hippodrome from the cathedral
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05

the university. the wardman Park
Theater, or Edith Reeds music store.
Following the performance on Friday
night, the annual Vodvil will be given
as midnight show, In which the fra
ternities and sororities will furnish the
acts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
RIALTO-"Show Boat"

Show Boat" Carl Laemmles singing
and talking movietone picture, combin-
ing the romance, color and drama of
Edna Ferber's novel and the popular
musical hits of the Florenz ziegfeld
stage production, has proven such a
hit at the Rialto that the management
is holding it over for a third weeks
showing starting today.
From the very opening of the picture.
showing the old Mississippi show boat,
Cotton Palace, steaming around the
bend of the river, the audience lives In
the days when river towns looked for
ward to these nomad troupers in good
old-fashioned "mellerdran1a."
SHOW Boat" as the name implies,
has to do with troup of river barn
stormers, supposedly performing their
thespian labors for Capt. Hawkes., skip
per of the Cotton Palace. but In reality
under the watchful, Unconditional ewes
of his wife. Laura La Plante as Mag
nolia and Joseph Schildkraut as Raw
email head the cast of players.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
STRAND-"Darktown Affairs"


After successful run in New York
and elsewhere, "Darktown Affairs"
! plays at the Strand Theater this week.
/ The large cast headed by Garland
Howard C"Hot Stuff Jackson'), Mae
Brown and Speedy Smith is out to
break records in the laughter league
in Washington, and if Hattie Noels
keeps up her dancing speed perhaps
she may dance of some of her 2l5
pounds. The ID Harlem flappers have
already attracted the attention of
dancing managers. A young dancing
lad. Red" Lincoln has some new
steps for Washington fans. while an
other does all his dancing while seated
| in a chair.
"DarktoWn Affairs" has plot with
the scenes laid in the Negro section of
a Southern city. The book is by Gar
land Howard and J. A. Shipp, who also
staged the comedy. The songs that
please include Eliza" sally Ann
wedding Day" Your Sins Will Find
You Out" Telling My Troubles to the
Moon" and Kicking the Mule"
Stanley BENEFITS Orchestra of is
men play the music as it should be
played. Mr., Strouse has made an am
bilious production with elaborate seem
cry and gorgeous costumes. The enter
LdulfISUU ID ClGdI1, bIIC IOA4AOAJ SAAoPPJ
and the dancing is fast.
EASTERN'S MAY PLAY-Thursday.
Eastern High School will offer as its
annual May play, Adam and Eva" a
ttree-act comedy by Guy Bolton ana
George Middleton II will be presented
at the school Thursday and FRIDAY
evenings under the student direction OF
Lou Snyder, Myrtle Thorn, Ronald Van
Tine and George Didden, with the fac
ulty supervision of Miss Ella Monk, Miss
Olivia Taylor, Miss Ethel Prince, Miss
Lillian Wines and Miss Gertrude Walter.
A double, alternating cast will be
used with Robert Mccormick, Ronald
Van Tine, Mildred Duryes and Gwenl-
Ian Davis in the Leading roles. support
ed by Newell Lusby, Richard kelSo'
Ruth Heintz, Helen Magee, Blaine Har-
rell Lou Snyder. Esther Hughes, Har-
riet Ryder. Alice Law. Howard Lady
Judsor Harrison, Donald Martin, Clark
Harper and William Waikart.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-08-03
CEODET|C SURVEYING |s DECLARED ID ADD
 TO NATIONAL NEAL HI

WASHINGTON, Aug, 3, (P- Comparing arcs in triangulation in the mapping and surveying of the United States to the steel frame works of large office buildings, pr. William w. Bowie, chief of geo. desy of the coast and geodetic survey said they were adding to national wealth and helping in the elimination of waste in the indus try
 He told of the impairment of land titles by uncertainty in loca- tion of boundaries, of the import ance of precision of political boun- diaries in maintenance of friend ships, and of future importance of the work accomplished by the coast survey in it's century of operation.
 THREE NATIONS COOPERATE
 Both Canada and Mexico, Dr. Bowie said, will make their trian- gulation nets so as to tie in with the network of triangulation now spreading over the United States. The United States government, he added, has been progressing in this nation-wid work, giving protec- tion to the owners of private pro- perty, enabling counties and cities to have accurately determin- ed boundaries, and aiding in many ways in engineering projects thru out the country.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-08-03

meeting of that organization on Thursday night elaborate plans were made to entertain the prominent Seattle visitors along with Nobles from Anchorage, who will bring Novices to Seward to trod the hot sands. Efforts are being made to bring other out of-town Shriners here, also. The Anchorage Shrine Club reports that at least 50 of {. the Nobility will make the pilgrimage to the Oasis at Seward and partake of Stewards hospitality and bathe in the famous waters of Resur- rection Bay.
 Numerous entertainments are
 being planned for Sunday Aug ust II, among which will be a
 barbecue, bean feed, porcupine stew, chicken, etc.
 Invitations have been sent to all surrounding towns inviting the Nobles to come and help Seward entertain the Potentate and other officials of the Nile Temple.
 Noble McMullen has also re- ceived a letter from Past Poten- tate Wm A. Eastman advising that he would make the pill
 grimage to Alaska. i'll place of lPotentate Douglas Ball who will
 be unable to come at this time
 This will be the first time since the organization of the To- cal Shrine Club that ceremonial will be staged in Seward and Seward Shriners are now working to make this one of the banner events in local Shrine history. President McMullen appointed Ia number of committees SC as to make this affair an outstanding success. A committee of ladies
 was also appointed to enter tain the ladies of Seattle, An lchorage and Cordova Shriners
 who are expected to accompany the Nobility.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-08-03
CATCH FREAK FISH

Dick Downing and Tim Eckstrom of Cordova, caught freak fish on the flats. The fish, which some describe as a rey and some as a skate, has a long tail, wing like fins, two large openings in it's head, and is all told fearsome creature in appearance. The fish is said to have had salmon eggs and parts of crabs in it's inside when opened up.