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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
The Snoring Picture c4lbnm
By Robert e. Sherwood.

having a strangle-hold on one Of the
largest, most important and most IN
fiuential industries In the country.
Unless further legislation is
passed. 1t is only question OF time be-
fore American film nagnates, by their
monopoly Of cinemas, and largely by
the power of the money they have OBJ
tanned from this country, will dominate
the British Empire with films whicSs
many people consider to be alien to
British ideals and ideas and detri-
mental to the best interests of British
people from an educational, moral and
mental point of view"
In other words, the primary object
OF censorship would not be to keep Inn
moral films. but American films, from
the British public. In the minds of
the British "die-hards," however, the
words immoral" and American" are
practically synonymous.
1t should be said, that this attitude
is not the attitude of the fans who
flock to the cinema theatres In London,
Manchester and Glasgow to see "Show
Boat" Close Harmony" and 1.-THE
Broadway Melody 1t makes no diff
ference to the average fan whether
such films are "alien to British ideals
and IDEAS" all that he cares about is
whether or not they will be worth the
price or admission.
One of the more absurd beliefs pre-
valent among the patriotic "die-hards"
is that every American film is designed,
oellberately, as an advertisement of
America and represents one more step
toward the proposed American DONNA
ton OF the world. If such were the
case, 1t Is unlikely that the United States
would go out OF its way to represent it
c q NJ
jazzmaniacs and cutthroats. If the
subtle purpose of American films is to
proclaim the virtues of America, then
the movie producers in Hollywood are
making a serious botch of their job.
The British patriot on seeing such
orgies of criminal violence as "Uunder-
world" or "Alibi" or The Voice of the
City," should be content to murmur,
How unlike the home life of our own
dear Queen" and thank benign Prov
idence that he Is permitted to live
and love and labor within mailing
distance Of Scotland Yard.
THERE are certain forms Of Ameri-
can accents that are utterly in
comprehensive to British audiences.
When Fannie Brice appeared In Lon
don in MY Man." her miltgrosseries
fell fiat because no one could under
stand them. Similarly, the genuine
Negro dialect and idiom cannot be
fathomed in Great Britain. The play
"Porgy' and the picture Hearts In
Dixie" have both failed as completely
as they they had been performed in
the Esthonian language
These facts provide important points
for those who are considering the ac-
cent problem as 1t affects the showing
of American films in foreign countries.
(Copyright 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Exalts Ronald C,olman.

"GIRL movie fans are making more
fuss over Colman's voice than
IL " did about Valentines profile" r.
=. Cruickshank, New York correspon-
dent, cabled to the London Daily News
after seeing Bulldog .Drummond." Con-
tinuing, he said:
Ronald Colman, the British film
star, has won the greatest pc: 'nal IT.
umnh that the talking films have
brought to any actor It looks as II
this picture will make Colman the most
ponular of all LOWE stars.
II had to battle my way to seat
through a crowd of more than 1000
women besieging the theater In the
hope of catching glimpse CT Colman
who watched the Aim from box. The
theater was crowded with stage and
film stars, and Colman was given an
almost delirious reception, an unusual
thing in New York, where audie:: ces
are colder than in London. Frequentls
parts of the f1lm dialogue were inaudi-
BILE because of the laughter and ap-
plause of the audience"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
The Tickle Public.
A NY ONE who can forecast the fic

A NY ONE who can forecast the tickle
public's taste in screen entertain
ment Is worth q million dollars in
Hollywood.
Ask a producer who has failed to fol-
low the trend. Fortunes are lost in
this way overnight. Changes come
quickly.
Today the mystery story is in favor
Lenore Coffee has been assigned the
adaptation, continuity and dialogue OF
THE Bishop Murder Case" to be made
by Metro-G oldwyn-M Mayer. The box
Office gives favorable reports Of other
mystery plays.
"Vicarious thrills are always inter-
esting," says Miss Coffee. Mystery
plays are not ordinary We do not live
them ourselves, and the public always
likes the unusual. feel that the trend
toward this type story will be stronger
than ever SOON"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

"The activity of women these days
naturally tends to make them thinner.
Knowing they are doubly attractive this
way, they themselves are helping things
along through diet and special exercises.
1t is not unusual these days for women
to wear clothes Of the same measure
ments Of 14-year-old youngster."
Director Webb contrasts the 34N-
inch bust measurement of Venus with
the 80 and 81 inch measurements of
the 1929 girl. The 281a-inch waistline
of Venus has been reduced by the mod
ern maid to % or "a inches. The So
inch hip measurement of the famous
statue Is an interesting contrast to the
3312-inch hips Of the present-day girl.
Girls have never been so attractive as
now" Webb saws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Nasel Stase-T rained.

CONRAD NAGEL. romantic lead of
~ THE Idle Rich" received his the
atrical training on the stage and was
thus in fortunate position when mo-
ton pictures began to talk.
Born In Keokuk, Iowa, Nagers f1rst
ambition was to be an architect, but he
abandoned that on account of the long
apprenticeship required. Meanwhile,
the urge to entertain asserted itself and
he became prominent in his college glee
club and dramatic society. On gradu-
alton, his warmly sympathetic voice Sc
cured him a contract with the Redpath
Lyceum Bureau. After successful sea-
son as reader, he joined the Princess
Stock Co. in Des Moines and then went
into vaudeville, where he stepped to the
Broadway stage In THE Natural Law"
When the United States entered the
war Nagel enlisted as a seaman. After
he was mustered out of service he had
his first screen role in Little Women"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Not Really English.

TT Is the general opinion that Evelyn
= Brent, who has been scoring success
fully in motion pictures of late, is an
English girl. As matter Of fact, Miss
Brent was born In America and lived
In England for q period Of only i've
years.
Because her first screen work OF note
was done for q British company Is per-
haps the reason for her being consid-
cred English.
Evelyn started in pictures in New
York playing extra, bits and leads, then
left the screen to make trip to Europe.
In London she was chosen to play the
lead in THE Ruined Lady" on the
speaking stage and was offered a con-
tract by a London motion picture COM
pany.
After making series of pictures she
was given the lead In Spanish Jade"
the first Laslzy picture to be made in
Europe. She then returned to America
and was hailed as an English actress,
merely because she had registered her
first success in British films.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Music Helped Players.

But how the talking picture has in
troduced an era of silence into the film
studios, since nothing must be heard
except the dialogue of the characters,
and the synchronized musical score
which accompanies picture is added
after 1t Is entirely completed.
One screen star, however, who rather
welcomes the change is Lois Wilson,
who plays one of the leading roles in
the Warner Bros latest all-talking pro-
duction, THE Gamblers"
The playing of dramatic musical
selection for a dramatic scene" says
Miss Wilson, always had q tendency
to transmit to my own actions the
tempo of the music, and I found myself
inclined to act in time with it, so to
speak. prefer music between scenes,
rather than with them, as it is restful.
Under its influence I can relax easily
and naturally and keep thoroughly in
the mood of the story"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

T%HERE Is much discussion in
Great Britain of the urgent
need for censorship Of talking
II pictures, particularly in view OF
the distressing fact that all
talkies, at the present time, come from
the other side of the rapidly narrowing
Atlantic Ocean. Were Britain produc-
jne her own vocal films, for her own
consumption, the demand for censor
shin would not be nearly so acute.
The situation as regards the officlal
regulation of dialogue on the screen is
exactly the reverse IN London OF the
situation as it exists in many parts OF
the United States and Canada. In New
York, for instance. there Is censorship
of motion pictures, but none OF stage
PLAYS. Thus the question has arisen
farsd Il is still, in so far as know, un-
answered) Can the law which was
drafted to provide the censorship OF
silent films be interpreted as covering
also the sounds with which hlmS nave
lately been equipped"
In Great Britain stage plays are sub
feet to censorship by the lord chamber
lain, but motion pictures are not. Inc
lord chamberlain decided that Tnc
Shanghai Gesture" was not passabie as
entertainment for the British public
and he therefore placed on 1t his ON
cial ban, as a result Of which The
Shanghai Gesture" cannot be perform
ed, other than privately, IN any part
of the United Kingdom, and yet II The
Shanghai Gesture were brought out
as q talkie, with all its dangerous dia-
lonue recorded and even magnifled on
the Movietone, the lord ch0nberlam
would be powerless to prevent 1t from
being seen and heard.
There Is In existence an organiza-
%ioy, ky,ou,o &c the British Board of
Film Censors, and the certificate of this
board must be placed on every film,
silent or noisy, before its release. But
the British Board of Film Censors has
no connection whatever with the Brit
ish government. Its president is ap-
pointed and his salary paid by the
movie people themselves, and 1t Is
doubtful that his conscience could be
strong enough to compel him to bite the
hands that feed him. Were his con-
science to assert itself too vigorously
there would unquestionably be a, new
president of the British Board of Film
Censors.
+ UNFORTUNATELY, the agitation
for censorship in England is not
based entirely on moral grounds.
Patriotism and the ancient desire to
keep Britain British are exceedingly
important factors in the campaign of
protest that is now going on.
Reginald Wilson, general secretary Of
the British Empire Union Zone Of the
"die-hard" organizations, has written
to the London Morning Post as fol-
lows: 1.-THE time Is certainly overdue
when there should be some official CEN
sorship Of films - when some steps
were taken to prevent foreign firms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
The Ritz Rebuilt for Billie,

SCENES in Billie Doves new picture,
Her Private Life" are laid in the
Ritz Hotel lobby, ballroom and tea
rom. It was not possible for the star
and her company to go to New York,
so First Ne+'onal architects rebuilt the
New York hotel and furnished 1t ex-
actly like the original for her.
"Her Private Life" deals with the
experiel. IS Of an English noblewoman
who is divorced by her husband and
who goes to New York, where she be-
comes poverty-stricken and pawns hel
last pearl so that she may buy food. It
said to be a dramatic and forceful
story.
Walter Pidgeon will play opposite the
star, and the cast includes also Mon
tagu Love, Holmes Herbert, Thelma
Todd. Roland Young and Zasu Pitts.
Alexander Korda is directing, and 1t i.
a First National Vitaphone picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Belle Baker Succumbs.
RELLE BAKER, internationally kno'

pELLE BAKER, internationally known
~ vaudeville headliner, has signed
with Columbia Pictures to appear In an
elaborate special entitled "The Cradle
of jazz talking singing dancing pro-
duction, written especially for her. 1t
will specially provide for her varied tai
ents and particularly her special talents
for the rendition of sentimental ballads
and songs with a throb.
Miss Baker, it is said, has heretofore
consistently refused to face the cam
era, and 1.-THE Cradle of Jazz" will mark
her first appearance in motion pictures.
Miss Baker is ranked as one Of the
worlds greatest entertainers. For many
years she was one Of vaudeville's fore
most stars.
Born on the East Side Of New York,
she made her entrance into the amuse-
ment world as child actress on the
Jewish stage, with such players as Jacob
Adler, Bertha Kalich, Thomashefsky
and David Kessler. She has been Zieg-
field star in her time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Standards of Beauty.

rs the slender beauty Of the modern
girl as attractive as the more gen.
erous curves of the Venus de Milo?
More SO, says Willard Webb young
director who is engaged in the filming
of "Glorifying the American Girl" for
Paramount. Scores of both screen and
stage actresses were weighed and meas
ured for the leading role in the pro-
duction. Mary Eaton was chosen as the
one most nearly IMPLYING in every re-
spect 1.-The American Girl"
Despite the general acceptance Of
Venus as the standard of bodily beauty
for women, believe the average per-
son would rather look at modern SLIM
ness than at the Venus proportions"
declared Webb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Lays Bare the Fight Game
WHAT takes place behind the scene.

WHAT takes place behind the scenes
in the flight racket" where
money is paid to commit assault and
battery, is exposed in Paramount's new
talking picture, 1.-THE Man Love-"
Richard Arlen, featured with Mary
Brian in this romance of the boxing
ring, Is shown as a young and I'M
trained fighter who first battles for
recognition and then, having won it,
discards it for the girl he loves.
All characters in the story are said to
be taken from life, and suggested by
persons known to Herman Mankiewicz,
former New York newspaperman, the
author. They include managers, pro-
meters, press representatives and hang
ers-on. interviewer Is delightful
thread Of boy and girl romance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Movies Get a Fine Voice.
UyAITER wOoIF. the distinguished

w light opera star, has been assigned
by Warner Bros. to make a Vitaphone
production for their 1929-30 program.
Golden Dawn" the successful oper-
eta produced last season by Arthur
Hammerstein, has been selected as the
vehicle In which the singer will make
his Vitaphone debut It will be "a 100
per cent color, talking, singing and
dancing production" Its songs will af-
ford Mr.. Woolf an opportunity to dis
play to the motion picture public the
Golden Dawn was one of the sue
cessful light operas Of recent years.
Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein,
I'd, wrote the book, and Emmerich Kali
man and Herbert Stothart composed
the music. The score will be rendered
in the Vitaphone production by the
Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

GET orchestras have disappeared from
motion picture studios. One of the
marked changes brought about in film
production by the advent of the talking
picture is the elimination of music
which was formerly played during. the
photographing of each scene-niusic
supplied by q little two or three piece
orchestra which remained constantly
on the set.
The selection played accorded with
the sentiment and feeling of the scene,
and greatly assisted In inducing the
proper mood on the part of the actors
There was different type of music for
comedy, pleasant scenes, dramatic ac-
ton or suspense, mystery and hurry
scenes-and every actor, called upon to
cry, could usually suggest to the or
chestra some selection which. because
Of its association or its theme, would
assist in bringing forth the desired
tears. @F
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Age Abets Youth.

the mental buoyancy of his own early
EOS. His voice, it is said, took on
the querulousness and actual cunning
of shrewd money lender.
Two Pathe executives saw the play
while on visit to New York and were
much impressed with the histrionic
ability Of the youth whom they had
seen the previous season as a dapper
young movie idol in Excess Baggage, /"
role differing in every particular from
that Of THE Money Lender" Nego-
tiations were opened and within a few
weeks contracts had been signed and
young Clark was on his way to the
West Coast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

to Hollywood" says Gleason. snow
that my boy Russell has presented me
with swimming pool for my birthday,
we will swim in our own backyard. My
wife thought she would give me another
excuse for staying out in the sun. so
she presented me with a saddle horse
for another birthday gift"
At the rate in which James Is ac-
quiring tan he says he will have to wear
a sandwich board down Fifth avenue
when he goes back to New York to
visit his stage cronies, reading, James
Gleason. Caucasian, as Usual"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Unpopular Cupid"

THE most unpopular woman in Holly
i wood, at least among the fair in
habitants of the screen colony who are
trying the keep their weight down to
certain proportions, is Cupid" Aims
worth, the 250-pound vaudevillian, who
has arrived at cinematic headquarters
to play an important role in big News. u
Cupid also has figure to maintain,
but the treatment 1t demands is diff
ferent from that Of her more sylph-like
sisters. When she lunches at the Mont
marie Miss Ainsworth demands plenty
Of butter, the richest salad dressing in
the place. coolies Of whipped cream and
the biggest piece of chocolate cake she
can wheedle out of the waiter. Small
wonder, cry the girls who sit at neigh
boring tables nibbling on lettuce leaf
and slipping unsweetened tea, that they
hate Cupid bitterly. Thir lot is hard
enough, they declare, without the tor
ture of watching Cupid's very evident
enjoyment of her feast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Equipped for Sound Films.

THE last word in entertainment that
l. will place the most beautiful club
house In the country on a par with the
largest and best equipped motion pic
ture theaters Is announced for the new
home of the New York Athletic Club,
which has arranged with RCA Photo
tone, Inc, for an elaborate sound-mo-
ton picture installation.
Fronting Central Park south, in the
center of the metropolis, the New York
Athletic Club will be palatial in pro-
portions and furnishings.
The equipment will permit the syn
chronous projection of sound and talk
ing pictures on film and disc and will
provide additional apparatus for con-
tinuous electric photograph operation
on non-synchronous discs. The turn of
a switch will food the great gymnasium
theater, seating 1000 persons, the dance
floors and the dining halls of the new
clubhouse with flow of music or
speech.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Praise for Ina.

WHEN 1t was announced that Ina
w Claire was to be starred in q
talking screen version Of THE Awful
Truth" Variety, that e5er-alert book
of wisdom of the show world, recalled
what 1t believed to be Miss Claire's
most fiattering press notice.
It occurred when Miss Claire ap-
peared In the Follies Bergere. an Amer
lean reproduction of the celebrated Pa
risian theatrical novelty, where the
audience is seated at tables and is en-
tertained while 1t eats and drinks. The
show apparently was not sensation,
and the audience paid little attention
to it until Miss Claire. making one OF
her first appearances on the stage,
came on. She sang couple OF songs,
and Variety, predicting great things
for this actress, said:
"She made the audience lay down
their forkS!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Voice of the President.

TERRY RAMSAYE, editor -in-chief of
= Pathe Sound News, credits Presi-
dent Hoover with having the best
movie voice of all the modern celebri-
ties. Pathe Sound News has presented
many of the worlds great men and
women via their talking news reel in
the last year and Mr.. Hoover has been
subject several times. Never has
the Presidents voice failed to record
naturally and perfectly" says Ramsaye.
land every word he has ever uttered
for the movie microphone could be I'M
derstood perfectly. He would make a
great actor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

r. you could b ~1ust twenty-one"
again, what would you like to doa ri
Monte Brice, supervisor Of comedies
for Pathe, has written q play called
Just Twenty-One." He believes that
this Is the most interesting time In a
boys life. Also. Brice claims it Is the.
most critical, and his play gives advice
to parents about helping choose careers
for their sons. "a
Brice wants to star young RUSSELL
Gleason IN the play and later make it,
into picture. 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

TN this day of youth-worshiping cults,
= Herbert Clark, young stage actor,
stands out as q rarity.
Clark won his film opportunity, plus
artistry with which he essayed the role
Of character Is years older than him.
self
The part In question was that of an
English Jew nearly 40 years old, who
figures prominently in the story of ''The
Money Lender" q Broadway play of
last season. Not only did Clark succeed
In adding years to his appearance, but
middle age and entirely separated from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Big Outdoor Boy

GO TIMMIE GLEASON, the big outdoor
boy. That's me. Hollywood and
the motion picture industry did it."
The famous writer-actor- producer
played his first game of golf in Pathe
picture recently. Now he has gone in
for athletics-in Hollywood.
Born in New York City. Raised in
the theater. Two busy writing plays
and acting in them to have time for
the things always wanted to do" This
explains the situation.
"The Gleasons did most of their
swimming in bath tubs until we came
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Musical Comedy Expert.

JOSEPH SANTLEY. who elaborated
with Robert Florey In directing
1.-THE Cocoanuts," was one Of the favo-l
rites Of the musical comedy stage be-,
fore turning to moving pictures.
Stanley Is an expert In stage musical
comedy, having been connected with
many outstanding hits both as star and
director. During the four months pre-
vious to starting work on THE Cocoa :,
nuts" he studied and directed talking
films at the Paramount Long Island
studios.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Runaway On a New Run

The subject Is unusual not only n ~
camera, instead Of focusing On the train
itself, catches the passing landscape.
creating the illusion Of the danger In
the offing by the rapidity with which
the scenes lift by the eye and the dizZing
angles ct which they are taken.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-09

There is some strife over the flexible provision OF
the tariff, the difficulty being to bend it enough ways
to suit Observation-Disclosures News.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-09

Answers 10 Foregoing Questions
!. Bibb Graves; Alabama: Demo-
cratic.
2. French revolution.
3. Jews.
4. Psalms. xxx s.