The Washington times., 1929-03-11
IGLEANINGS
SCREENINGS
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81 ANDREW r. KELLEY

One of the late Savoy musical
comedy actors turned scenic
painter when the ghost missed
walking a couple Of times. and
as knight Of the brush got
his money instead Of promise.
Robert Capron and Thelma
Parker, of the Savoys, win team
up for q tour Of the vaudeville
and picture houses in a dancing
act, according to the latest
communique.
Bessie Love was considered
Just about through in pictures
and then Broadway Melody"
came along. She registered so
solidly in tho film musical
comedy, Bessie has just signed
a long-ter1n contract at more
money than she ever dreamed
Of collecting weekly.
What does a good picture
mean to the box office? Well,
the Merrill theater in Milwaukee
played to $500 in one week
with Bebe Daniels in What q
Night" and came back the fol-
lowing seven days with $4,000
showing "In Old Arizona"
Clark and McCullough's lat
est short Movietone, called THE
Diplomats" is the funniest
screen comedy they have yet
made. It has the bespectacled
Bobby working in his best bur-
lesuue mood and Saturday
afternoon at the Fox, projection
was, perfect. The result was
plenty Of laughter and q big
hand at the finish.
Mae Allison, wife of Jimmy
Quirk, owner of Photoplay,
tells of her weakness in the
current Cosmopolitan. She likes
to play the market and de-
scribes how easy it is to lose
$4,000, if you've got $4,000
to lose. Mae is ticker-taping
with her own savings, accumu-
lated when picture star.
After twice bucking the line
in an effort to see Richard
Barthelmess in Weary River"
at the Metropolitan, along
comes a special passport from
Bill Ewing making it easy. 1t
is duly vised by John J. Pay
cite, supervisor of the Stanley
Theaters, which makes it official.
"Rosalie" with Marilyn Mil
ler and Jack Donahue will close
in two weeks, after completing
the Chicago engagement. Radio
Pictures will make q screen
musical comedy Of the Ziegfeld
show but without the stage
stars.
The Messrs. Shubert plastered
the Keith box-office with an
attachment Saturday to collect
$645 alleged due. But Colonel
Thompson Of the Keith inter-
ests had his own man in the
box-office for the start of the
Savoy engagement and the first
$1,50O passed through the win
dows by the Inaugural crowds
went to pay the landlord. The
Keith interests also guaranteed
salaries for musicians and stage
hands, but they haven't been
paid yet.
According to members Of the
musicians union, Joseph A. Plum
kett, new Inanager-director of
the R-K-O theaters, has Keith's
Washington on a list Of play
houses scheduled to soon resume
two-a-day vaudeville shows.
Nothing But the Truth"
the merry farce which paid
dividends for Willie Collier and
Taylor Holmes, will be the Ma
tional Players next attraction.
The engagement beats the movie
booking of the play by about
one month. Paramount has
made it into a talker. Harry
Frazee transposed it into a
musical and opened it on the
National stage q couple of sea-
sons ago. 1t was called Eyes,
Yes, Yvette." with Lynn Over
man in the star part.
"As long as you advertise the
fact when I'm at leisure, drop a
line in your column I'm going
to work again," phones Charlie
McClintock. Which means that
Irene Bordoni will close her New
York engagement in paris"
within q fortnight and will take
to the road, chaperoneG by Mr..
McClintock.
A. r. Pinci is the author of
. play about Woodrow Wilson
scheduled for early production.
Concerning it, the author wrote
to Jeffery Holmesdale. of the
New York World:
"The author deemed it best to
let q decade pass, so as to per-
nit time to mellow political
bitterness and also to bring to
his side essential information
not readily available. The vari-
Gus scenes depict Wilson in his
most dramatic and tragic mo-
ments, and his character, out
lined largely by his own words,
arranged SC as not to be a YER
batim copy, reveals the late