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Smyrna times., 1929-07-03
CHESWOLD
Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned About Town

terest Cleaned About Town
Cheswold. July 2.-Mrs. N. L.
Remley and children have returned
from a visit with Mr.. Remley's
brother, at Havre Gle Grace, Md.
Edward Turner and sister, Miss
Helen, attended the Shriners meet
at Rehoboth.
District superintendent Rev
Johnson, preached in Central M. F.
Church Sunday afternoon and made
a fine impression.
Marian Shackell is visiting her
sister, Mrs. c. f. Davis, at Cherry
Hill, Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Carpenter,
and Clarence Sammons of Will
mington, were recent guests of Mr..
and Mrs. E. j. I.afferty and fam
ily.
Smyrna times., 1929-07-03
.John P.Jefferson has been

John P.JefTerson has been on the
sick list but is better.
Mrs. Alice Reynolds has been
spending a few days with her
granddaughter, Mrs. Archie Con-
ner at Wyoming.
Mrs. Cannon, of Baltimore, is
spending the summer with Miss
Mary Williams.
Smyrna times., 1929-07-03
BLACKBIRD

Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned About Town
Blackhird, July 2.- Miss Ruth
Watson and Miss Cornelia Ander-
Smyrna times., 1929-07-03
WANTED

Boys and Girls to sell flavoring
extracts after school; send for free
sample. Wakefield Extract Co.,
Sanbornville, N. H. 6-19 At
Smyrna times., 1929-07-03
TEMPLEVILLE

Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned About Town
Templeville, Md, July Resi-
dents of this town are joyful over
the prospect of a hard surfaced
road from here to the Delaware
line to join up with the Hartly-
kenton road. John F. Fleck of
Sudlersville, has the contract. The
road is expected to be completed
this year.
Smyrna times., 1929-07-03
JOHN FORAKER
Y. H. Collins, auctioneer
SPECIAL

Suits Cleaned and Pressed, S1.25.
All kinds of Hat Cleaning and
Blocked. Mems, 75c; women's, 81.
DEACON RILEY, the Tailor
7-3 1t w. Commerce ST., Smyrna
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Expensive Wardrobe.

INA CLAIRE, during her career In the
theater, earned the reputation of be-
ing the best dressed woman on the
American stage. And it looks as though
the star is going out after the same
laurels on the screen. Miss Claire will
wear $4,000 worth of gowns in 'The
Awful Truth" in which she makes her
debut on the spoken screen.
Miss Claire personally supervised the
making of every gown she wears in the
picture. Some were Partisan creations
obtained for her through a well known
New York modiste, others were from
Fifth avenue and still others were made
in Hollywood.
"It doesn't matter where gowns come
from or how much one pays for them"
explains Miss Claire, "a woman is never
really we'll dressed unless she knows her
defects as we'll as attractions and selects
clothes which will minimize the former
and emphasize the nice points. Every
woman knows best what she should
wear. That is why always supervise
the making of my own clothes. My adj
vice to other women is, II you would b.
well dressed, never let anyone talk you
into wearing cut and dried, made-by-
the-dozen gowns. Study yourself, then
act accordingly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Moissi Film Nears End.

TNHE filming Of THE Royal Box" the
first all-talking motion picture In
German, in which the celebrated actor,
Alexander Moissi, is the star, is rapidly
nearing completion. Within q fort
night the cameras viii have completed
their work and the film will go into the
cutting and editing departments.
Moissi is recognized as one of the
finest actors on the stage, and the play
selected for him is one that is known
the world over for its romantic charm
and dramatic qualities. Those who re-
call the play which has frequently been
given in this country know that its big
scene is the one In which the hero,
a celebrated tragedian, gives a per-
Torrance for the Prince of Wales. AS
Bryan Foy has directed the play, the
Prince Is shown in his box-the royal
box. The theater is crowded and the
curtain arises on a scene from Ham
let" Moissi playing the melancholy
Dane, and Camilla Horn, Ophelia. This
scene is said to have been filmed with
great artistry and viii have much to
do with insuring the success Of the
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30

PARAMOUNT took definite stand on
talking and silent motion pictures
with the announcement by Jesse L,
Lasky, first vice president in charge OF
production for that film organization
that -Four Feathers" which represents
the makers most pretentious work for
the year, will be released with sound
effects and music synchronizaticn only.
Lasky made the announcement alter
viewing the production in rough-cEt
form in New York.
THE Four Feathers will be released
in its natural FORM" LaslSy said. '.Dia-
logue can augment the dramatic pas
cannot help-and it might IMPAIR
production of such sweeping action q nd
emotion as this story. Talking would
have injured The Covered Wagon,
which picture is in the same category
as this drama of the African wilderness.
Therefore the characters in The Four
Feathers will not talk. Action, as tie
old saying goes, speaks louder than
words"
All the atmospheric sounds of ma
lures forces clashing in the African
setting of the story will be included in
the synchronization, which will be per-
sonally supervised by co-directors Meri-
an C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoed-
sack. The noise of the crowded streets
of Suakin; the pad, pad, pad of hun
dredS of camel cavalry racing across
the desert: the crackle of British rife
fire, and the wild cry of thousands of
savage warriors charging a bristling
British square with only swords and
spears-all this will be reproduced on
the screen. There will also be heard
the cries Of jungle beasts, which are
used as part Of the menace Of the story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
The Snoring Picture cAlbnm
By Robert e. Sherwood.

almost entirely to the spread Of jazz
music (Which is not genuinely American
at alb and to movies (Which are largely
| initiative of European models. In all
other respects. If the editorial writers
and professional patriots only knew 1t,
the Americarization of the world is of
! infinitely less significance than is the
| Europeanization of America.
| It Is impossible to say at this mo-
ment, to what extent American talking
movies will be accepted on the CONT
nent of Europe.
| There are, so far, only six theaters
| that have been equipped to show sound
| pictures, four of these theaters are in
Paris, another in Marseille and another
| in Berlin.
THE Jazz Singer has been running
| at the Auber Palace in Paris for nearly
| five months. and has been phenomen-
ally successful During the one brief
| dialogue sequence in that film sub
| titles in French are thrown from Ian
| tern slide to a corner of the screen to
! inform the audience as to the subject of
| the conversation that is going on. The
| French audience seems to enjoy this
| strange talk enormously and to wish
| that there were more of it.
| 1t is expected that THE Jazz Singer"
will continue to run in Paris for four
| VI live AlOIlbAlo ~ Aido d1oO I'LL
umphed in Marseille. where it was
shown first as silent film and later
as talkie. In its talkie form it broke
all records.
1.-The Singing Fool" has lately opened
in Berlin and has made profound i'm
| preston. 1t will not be shown in Paris
until THE Jazz Singer" has run its
| course.
The two Jolson pictures are the only
talking features that have been released
! in Europe up to now. This is due to the
restrictions that have been placed on
American films in France and Ger
many and to the retaliatory warfare
| that is going on between movie pro-
ducers on both sides of the Atlantic. In
deed, in the past few months, no new
| American-made pictures have been sold
in the European market, which means
that most of the theaters in France
and Germany are running the old pic
lures over and over again.
In so far as I have been able to OBJ
serve, the principal attraction in 80
per cent of the cinema palaces from the
English Channel to the Black Sea Is
Charlie Chaplin in Carmen"
(Copyright, 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30

TN Vienna, was informed by an Aus
TRAN professor, English is about to
become the universal language
i 1.-THE talking cinema will make us
all learn English" he announced
ut viii be the final step in the Ameri-
canization of the world"
1t seemed that the professor had
lately been to Paris and had attended
there a performance of THE Jazz
Singer"
ut was onderful-inspiring!" he ex-
claimed. II could see your great artist,
Jolson, and I could hear his exquisite
voice When he spoke I could under
stand only little, because, you see, ]
do not speak we'll your language. But
I will learn English so that can APP
preciate the subtleties of the talking
cinemas that America is giving to the
world"
tried to explain to the professor
that America is not giving its talking
movies to the world; it is selling them
for as much as the world can be forced
to pay. Furthermore, no matter how
well the professor might learn the Eng
lish language land he speaks it better
than do most of our movie producers)
he would still be unable to discover any
subtleties in THE Jazz Singer" or In
most of the other conversational films
CLldL are now spreading Tie SLoIlOuS gus
pei of Americanism in the heather
countries Of Europe.
AS matter of fact, the professor
prediction should not be taken too seri-
ously. There is no immediate prospect
that English is to be adopted as the
universal language. In the southeastern
corner Of Europe-in Austria, Hungary
Jugoslavia and Rumania-English is
being taught to an unprecedented ex-
tent in schools and even over the radio
But the citizens Of these countries aren't
studying English because they want to
be able to understand the wise cracks
delivered from the screen by Bessie
Love or because they want to be able
to read Shakespeare in the original;
they are animated in their studies BY
the hope that some day they will BIZ
given the opportunity to do bushes:
with Americans.
In Germany and France there is moi
the slightest trace of interest in the
English language, except among those
who Of necessity have dealings witt
tourists.
THE Americanization of the world
is one of those phrases that is used cas-
lily by editorial writer's and professional
patriots in all countries. 1t is applied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Judith Vosselli.

JUDITH VOSSELLI, who is in the
cast Of 1.-THE Awful Truth" all
talking screen version of the stage
success. was born in Barcelona, Spain,
of French and Spanish parents. Her
father, Andre VoSSelh. who was in the
Spanish diplomatic service, died when
she was six months old and when she
reached the age of years her mother
brought her to America. Both Judith
and her mother are now naturalized
Americans.
Since she left her native land Miss
Vosselli has made IS trips across the
Atlantic, visiting her grandparents and
being educated She has studied at
Notre Dame in Paris: In Vienna, Aus
tria; in Geneva, Switzerland, and in
London. England, besides living for a
time in Belgium. AS result she speaks
fiuently Spanish, French, German and
English.
Miss Vosselli has played almost every
nationality but German In Broadway
stage successes. In Ladies Night" she
was a Russian actress, In Casanova
she played a Spanish courtesan, in La
Tendresse" she was smart Parisienne
in "Hoosiers' Abroad" she was an Aus
tralian countess, in "Bluebeard's Eighth
Wife" she was an opera singer, pre-
sumably continental, and in Crashing
| Through" last season, she played 9
| Newport society woman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Thornton Wilder's Tale.

THE rise of an American Anatole
France, as Thornton Wilder has
been proclaimed by some literary critics
of America, Is signalized in one OF the
latest dramas of the screen, THE Bridge
of San Luis Rey," based on his Pulitzer
prize winning novel, and filmed with
dialogue and talking sequences.
Raquel Torres, Ernest Terrence, Lily
Damita, Jane Winton, Henry B. Wal
thall. Emily Fitzroy. Tully Marshall.
Mitchell Lewis, Mikhail Vavitch and
many others of note are in the cast.
The vivid scene In which the great
bridge breaks, done with a structure
200 feet long across deep chasm; the
impressive cathedral scene and other
vivid details fill the elaborate romance.
Special lighting and Photographic eff
fects, designed to carry out the spirit
of the original story. intensity its eff
fectivenesS under Charles Brahms deft
direction. Cedric Gibbons impression
istic settings also are powerful factors,
it Is said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30

THE new week starts today with three
- links missing in its chain OF pub
lie entertainment The natural aSsump-
ton is that there Is q reason for 1t. The
usual excuse advanced Is that Washing
ton is so hot in the Summer. And the
truth Is that for some reason the folks
who might do so do not like to give
the facts.
Dark" is the billing this week for the
National Theater, where for more than
four years. every week night, the bright
lobby told better than words that there
was entertainment inside. During the
Winter months 1t was the entertainment
Of the road attraction. During the
Summer months 1t was the National
Players repertory company. After four
years of successful operation the Ma
tional Players now find q Midsummer
vacation necessary. Their latest pro-
gram gave assurance that it Is only q
vacation until August IL. 1t is to be
hoped so. for the company is widely
popular with many whose incomes are
attuned to stock prices and deplore the
threat Of this years additional over
head expenses" which Manager Cochran
states were forced upon him."
Another dark house will be the Rialto
Theater, which made a brave bid to
resume after long tdleness. The Rialto
in its present shape was erected in 1916
II and had its gala opening December
8, 1918, under the management of Thorn
as Moore, who leased the theater to Carl
Laemmle, president of the Universal
Corporation, in 1924 for 121z years, it is
said, since which it has been conducted
it'll varying success. Here again, it
is said. the overhead expenses" and
possibly the failure to properly gauge
the Washington taste In pictures have
done their deadly work, although it is
hoped resumption Of the theater will be
possible later on.
The Little Theater on Ninth street
the home of the Motion Picture Guild
also has Succumbed, not to the weather
but because of waning patronage. TIL
Little has staggered along with varying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Breaks a Vow.
WJILLIAM COLLIER. sr,

WILLIAM COLLIER, ST., one Of
w Broadways famous playwrights
and stars, will be breaking vow made
two years ago when he steps before the
cameras at Fox Movietone City soon to
portray the chief role in the all talking
version of Harmony at Home" 1t is
reported.
Golfers determination to give up
acting, although at 49, height of his
success, faded a few months ago when
he saw all his friends leaving New
York for Hollywood to write, direct or
play in talking pictures.
Fox Films offered him q contract and
he signed it in hurry, gossip has it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Movie Battle Scars.

A DECIDED limp. and more sore spots
a than he could count are the cas-
ualties suffered by George Rigas in the
high Sierras while playing the part of
an Indian In Paramount's thriller,
wolf Song"
The limp and the bruises were sus-
tanned In a rough-and-tumble battle
with Gary Cooper, which was staged
in wild mountain glen while cameras
recorded it. Almost nude, he had to
thresh and roll over the brushy ground.
literally strewn with rocks. From one
of the sharp stones he suffered deep
cut in his left heel, which caused him
to limp.
Cooper was In better shape for the
fight, as he wore buckskin garments,
which constitute his wardrobe in this
picture of early pioneer trappers and
fair senoritas.
Lupe Velez has the feminine lead in
''Wolf Song" which was directed by
Victor Fleming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Dolores Comes to Town.
INA CLAIRE,

one Of her very best efforts so far, say
ing that she felt the poetic and dra-
matte spirit of the work keenly. The
New Orleans premiere, too, she had en-
joyed tremendously.
IN bet you spent most Of your time
inson said, and Miss Del Rio admitted
ruefully that the antique shops along
Royal street had won her admiration
and depleted her purse. Work on loca-
ton In the Louisiana Teche country,
where the Acadians had settled after
the long flight from Nova Scotia, had
Intrigued the star, she said, though 1t
rained and rained and rained when
they first got there.
Miss Del Rio was accompanied on her
Washington trip by her mother, Mrs.
j. l.. Asunsolo. and by John Leroy
Johnston, publicity representative for
the Edwin Carewe productions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Costly Deletions.

PRODUCTION of talking pictures
costs money. Recently Pathe Audio
Reviews editorial and technical staff
spent two hours and $500 worth of
laboratory and pay roll time getting
the tiny proposition "of" of the end
of a sentence on a sound strip record
ing remarks by Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt. The repunctuation of a
speech recorded on film is one of the
major problems of the talking picture.
Pathe has invented a device for peg
ging the precise syllable as it goes
through the machine, but three experts
are required to work 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Dialogue Tabooed

1.-THE Paramount program for the
coming year will not present dialogue
ing talking pictures" Lasky continued.
The story has been, is now and always
will be the most important thing
Judgment will be exercised in deciding
on silent or audible treatment Of each
story"
Cooper and Schoedsack, in complet-
ing THE Four Feathers" brought to
an end nearly two years of directorial
work, including year in the African
wilderness. This is their third produc-
ton for Paramount, their previous pic
lures having been Grass" and Chang"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Green Goddess" Filmed.

A HIGHLIGHT among Warner Bros.
Vitaphone pictures during the COM
ing season will be THE Green God
dess," william Archer's famous play in
which George Arliss was starred with
great success through many seasons.
THE Green Goddess it is announced
has just been completed, and its screen
version is declared to be even more at
tractive and effective than the stage
play. with the added advantages of
massive sets and spacious interiors not
possible in stage productions The play,
it will be remembered, is swift NOV
ing melodrama laid in the Himalayan
Wilderness near Tibet. The cast that
supported Mr.. Arliss in the screen ver-
sion includes Alice Joyce. H. B. War
ner, Ralph Forbes, David Tearle and
Nigel de Brulier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Takes Cohan to Hollywood.

LDDIE BUIZELL has forsaken Lady
~ Fingers and Broadway applause to
take George M. Cohan, through the
medium of his Little Johnny Jones, y
TO Hollywood.
1t was Little Johnny Jones" who in
troduced to the world those famous
Conan song hits Yankee Doodle
Dandy" and "Give My Regards to
Broadway" and BuZzell is to put it on
the screen as one of those film impos-
sibles described as an "all talking, all
singing, affairs to emphasize the fact
that the players shown in 1t will both
talk and sing. And Little Johnny
Jones" is to be Eddie BuZzell's FIRST
offense in talking shadowland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Mike Overcoats. -

HOLLYWOOD has now invented
Il overcoats for the microphones used
in making of all-talking pictures.
The overcoats are not designed to
battle cold; they defeat the wind.
In making sound pictures In the open
air on a windy day the breeze whistling
across the opening of the mikes Is
plainly recorded. wind cones" q de-
vice that clamps over the mouth of the
microphone, have been designed by the
sound experts at the Paramount studios
to meet this emergency. They were
used the first time and with perfect re-
suits during the recording and filming
of street scenes for the new William
Wellman production, Woman Trap"
in which Hal Skelly. Evelyn Brent and
Chester Morris are featured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Art of Kissing Changed.

"TNHE art Of kissing for the motion
picture love scenes has changed
since the coming of the talking film, +"
says Leatrice Joy, the screen star. who
ought to know.
I'm the silent days." says Miss Joy,
some of the accomplished kissers of
the screen mingled souls in long, in
volved contests that seemed to have
been gustatory instead of osculatory!
Now, thanks to the screens new
dimension, sound. the kiss has changed
character 1t must be more artful. It
mustn't sound like a fat man with a
walrus mustache drinking soup, nor yet
like the smack of wet towel on the
bathrooms tile floor, nor yet
But, after all, who can describe
music in prose?
1T will sound the knell of the old
silent screen kisses which brought fame
to various matinee idols and cinema
vamps."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Cause and Effect.

degrees of success and many fine pic
lures have been shown there in the
past. While the seating capacity is
small, such as is adapted to the init
mate theater" type, the overhead ex-
penses' will not prevent it's reopening,
according to Manager George Shute,
later in the year, when a series Of I'M
usual pictures will enter into its pro-
grams.
Meanwhile, 1t may be declared with
the sound conviction of truth, that
washington weather AT this time is
ideal and unsurpassed even in the To-
calities that have a vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Harpo's Language.
HARPo MARX got that way by pla!

L i ing the harp.
In his first moving picture, the talk
ing screen musical comedy sensation,
1.-The Cocoanuts," starring the Marx
brothers, Harpo carries out his famous
stage tradition of talking only with his
harp and, from one end of the picture
to the other the only communication
from Harpo cometh from his gifted nm
gers. But Harpo is active, II not talk-
alive, and he furnishes q wealth OF
laugh situations.
In one sequence of 1.-THE Cocoanuts
Harpo proceeds to pull the buttons on
the coat of an ornate hotel bellhop and
eat them. He knows from experience
how these buttons taste. He used to be
bellhop at the Hotel Seville, New York
City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Next Weeks Photoplays.
COLUMBIA-Eleanor Board

S<6O4N A0411-- IACdI1OL Dual u
man in "She Goes to War"
a United Artist picture.
METROPOLITAN-"On With
the Show" Warner Bros.
first natural color picture,
with talking, singing and
dancing sequences.
FOX-"From Headquarters"
a Warner Bros. talking pic
ture, featuring Monte Blue,
Gladys Brockwell and
Henry Walthall.
PALACE - Adolph Menjou's
first talking picture, 1.-THE
Fashions of Love-"
EARLE-Dolores Costello in
1.-THE Glad Rag DOLL" a
Vitaphone picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
LEAP INJURIES FATAL.
Woman Who Jumped From Hotel
to Join Pet Cat Dies.
Jpecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, June 22.-Mrs.
Dorothy Davis, who last Thursday
capped 40 feet from the roof of a hotel
1T Chatham because she insisted her
1et cat was poisoned, died at 2 O'Clock
his morning In Memorial Hospital
The mystery surrounding the young
yoman, who had been beautiful, was
,artly cleared in death, H. o. Nance
II Winston-Salem arrived here not long
fter her death and identified her as
us estranged wife. According to him,
he left him last August and he had
rot seen her since. The body was
AIKEN to Winston-Salem this morning.
Several hydroelectric schemes are
'Nninn deuelnnad in Menu Zealand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Tales of Well Known Folk
! In Social and Official Life

(continued Prom Seventh Page.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

Several hydroelectric schemes are
Deing developed in New Zealand.