The Washington times., 1929-07-10
|GLEANINGS
SCREENINGS
By JIM RING

and overhead.
The astute "Red" Kann, edi-
tor OF the Film Daily, views re-
cent movie bankruptcies with
cool assurance that everything's
going to be all right.
Hard times are not upon
u.s." says he. 1T is the soft
times that are going" And
again;
"Many fingers will be burnt,
until this new-fangled husky
called Sound is whipped into
line. In the meantime, the vail
ings will rend the skies"
The new Broadway gag,
"What would you charge for.
haunting a house on Friday
and Saturday nights p, which
is being used this week at Herb
Rawlinson at the Palace, bids
fair to give way to one sprung
by Ted Healy and his gang in
IA Night in Venice" summer
attraction on the Big Street.
Ted hauls huge brown bear
onto the stage, and calls for
volunteer wrestlers. Planted
in the audience is Shemp
Howard, member OF the
Healy troupe. He waits until
Ted has had opportunity to
overcome the sales resistance of
would-be bear wrestlers. Then
Shemp rises and comes toward
the stage. with grim determine
tion stamped upon his noble dead
pan.
A dead hush falls over the
audience as Shemp addresses
Healy with the immortal line:
.I'LL FIGHT DE TIGER"
Advices from London indicate
John GaIsworthy has gone
wrong with a big idea in his
new play, "Exiles," his first
dramatic work since Escape
seen here at the BelascO last
season.
"Exiles" was received half
heartedly at its premiere in
London, and yet it had mag
nificent theme. 1t shows the
changes consequent to industrial
evolution in England.
A baronet, forced to sell his
ancestral home to q ruthless
coal king; a group Of miners,
jobless when the industralist
closes the Improbable coal
mines; bookmakers, driven out
of business by the hard hand
of business efficiency. and sew
eral other elements of life -all
exiles. The point is that En-
gland is overcrowded, but the
Old Master didn't get the point
across the footlights.
Booked into the Fox next
week is highly touted picturi-
zation of Earl Derr Biggers'
thriller, Behind That Curtain" "
Raves on the talker, now in its
second week at the Roxy in New
York, have filled the newspapers
and trade journals for a fort
night.
Featured is Warner Baxter.
who starred SC. deservedly in
Through Different Eyes" and
an Old Arizona"
Earl Carroll and Eddie Can
tor are being raped plenty
Z for smut in the Carroll Cantor
revue, "The Sketch Book" The
black-outs, say the critics, are
downright dirty
Invidious comparison is be-
ing made between the Carroll
production and the magnificent
ziegfeid production of "Show
Girl" from which the sensible
Ziggy has banned the old-fash-
ioned nude posing numbers,
which literally besprinkle the
Carroll attraction.
What's become of the feller
who usta 60 to a movie on an
afternoon to snatch a snooze
He can't sleep any longer,
with the racket from the erst-
while silent screen, 80 now he
goes in to cool off. After all,
life has its little compensa-
tions.
The new international News
reel for the week brings AL
Smith back to the screen, and
the applause is not lacking. He
appears as an interested on
locker at the launching Of the
10,000-ton cruiser Chester at
Camden, N. j.
Fred Kohler's great perform
ance as the Machine Gun Ter
rOr" in Thunderbolt, viewed ere
last week, has won for him q
good, steady job with Para
mount.
It is to be hoped that in the
future the big blond will con-
tinue to throw obstacles in the
path Of gigantic George Ban
croft, as was so interestingly
the case in The Drag Net"
The Show Down" and "Under-
world"
In Saturdays column mention
was made Of the recent pro-
nouncement Of the American
Chemical Society that air-cooled
residences are on the way.
That was somewhat behind
developments The mornings
reading informs US that Sam
Katz, Publix chief, is having a