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The Moying Picture cAlbnm
By Robert e. Sherwood.

from which to make their own selec-
tons.
If any one style has predominated. il
has been that which Is heard most fire.
quently in the night life of New York
1t is the hardboiled language Of cab
aret artistes and plain clothes men of
wise -crackers and gangsters.
Rare indeed is the talkies in which
the following bit of dialogue is not
uttered:
"Oh--is Eat SOP"
"Yeah-zat's sol"
"Yeah?"
"YeahI
THERE have been some interesting
examples of put on" accents on
the audible screen.
In This Is Heaven" Wilma Banky
make noble attempt to make her Teu-
tonic infections sound rather Frenchy
and piquante, but now and then she
slips. When she says, "Doan you
baleef lahf you, darleengh?" she comes
perilously close to the Milt Gross.
In "Alibi," Pat O'Malley seems to feel
that it is up to him to justify his name
with rich brogue. In the first scenes
of the picture, this brogue is as thick
as Mickey Kelly's pig. Later. it disap-
pears mysteriously.
In another picture (the name Of
which I have, luckily, forgotten) the
good old French Foreign Legion ap-
pears. To indicate that its members
speak French to each other, they all
talk with phoney French accents. ex-
cept one of them, who is supposed to
be an exiled English aristocrat This
Britisher, played by William Collier,
1r.. talks the quaint patois of Great
Neck, Long Island. The accents of the
ARABS who appear in this film are
either Mexican or Montana cowboys
In The Trial of Mary Dugan" the
judge has very meticulous English
accent. This is outrageous-and it
causes one to sympathize with the ex-
hibitors who are complaining Most of
the judges in New York City (where
Mary Dugan was tried) have Irish &C
cents; there are others with German.
Italian or Jewish accents. and even one
or two with American accents. But 1t
is absolutely unthinkable that an Eng
fish accent should ever be heard from
the New York bench. What did we
fight the Revolution for? What did we
fight the War of 1912 for?
by the way, why did we fight the
War of 1922
The movie actors and actresses whose
voices and accents have fallen most
on the ear are Corinne Grit
fifth. Ronald Colman, Douglas Fair
banks, William Powell, Mary Pickford,
Norma Shearer, Richard Tucker, Mar
ion Nixon, Warner Baxter, Bessie Love
and Lewis Stone.
If We could be given a composite
with sound of the artic-
ulatory processes of these ladies and
gentlemen, we would have an excellent
model of speech for the world to follow.
Copyright, 1929
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Coming Attractions.
NATIONAL "Smilin'
r rough"

Next week, beginning Monday, June
3, the National Theater Players will
present one of the Sweetest of all
old-fashioned love stories, ''Smilin'
Through" which is so intimately asso-
ciated with the name of Jane Cowl, who
created the role of its heroine.
"Smilin' Through" is not at all the
conventional type of romance that used
to make our mothers weep. only to
eventually enter the adorable state of
smiling happiness. 1t is a love story
apart from the commonplace. An ex-
quisite girl is devotedly loved by and
adores the man she marries, but her
romance goes all awry simply because
Of the mad love of another who feels
that he cannot give her up, and in a
wild fit of desperation does that which
ends everything for three lives. 1t is
tender, touching, beautiful romance of
universal appeal, and one of the splen-
did things of the modern theater that
is seldom, If ever, repeated.
Under direction of Addison Pitt, Miss
Edith King and Roger Pryor are being
thoroughly rehearsed in the leading
roles, and Charles Squires, the builder
of Aladdin palaces for the National
Players, is preparing a setting Of lowell
ness for one of the loveliest of romances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

WASHINGTON closed its season of
burleSque the first week in May,
and recent announcements would seem
to indicate that other interests have
taken over its sole surviving home in
the National Capital. But Saturday,
June l, is announced by the Mutual
Burlesque Association as the real close
of the 1928-29 burlesque season for the
country at large, and in making the
announcement the promoters OF bur-
lesque by the sole surviving institution
engaged in the business submit some
facts that may be of interest to theatre
cal patrons generally.
The Mutual Burlesque Circuits sea-
son began August 20, 1928, and, it is
stated, "a careful check-up of all of the
regularly organized travelling companies
of all kinds that started last Fall dis
closes the fact that not one of them
continued beyond 80 weeks, and large
majority Of them failed to reach their
thirtieth week.
Years ago. when there were not one
half as many theaterS in any city in
America as there are today nor any
a 4O-Week season was not at all I'M
usual. In those days, as old showmen
can verify there were actually hundreds
of good, dependable 'one-night stands
which in the aggregate would provide
highly profitable weeks. They played
one or two shows a week, one night
each, and were closed the remaining
nights.
THAT was before the invasion of the
show business by motion pictures.
1t is then set forth that nowadays
these theaterS go in strongly for mo-
ton pictures and are open both after
noon and evening every day in. the
week. They will not book travelling
company for SATURDAYS, Sundays or
holidays, which are reserved for attrac-
tive pictures that draw big audiences
without the heavy outlay in percentage
of receipts that would have to be given
a travelling company, to say nothing Of
the outlay for stage hands. orchestra
and other employees not required for
screen exhibition. In other words, prof
liable "one-night" stands have been
practically, if not wholly, wiped out, so
that 40week season is extraordinary.
The Mutual Burlesque Association,
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Pirates and Divines.

TLKA CHASE has an interesting
ancestry.
The stage and screen actress. who is
now playing In Paris Bound" is the
great granddaughter of John Woolman,
a famous Quaker divine. This worthy
was the author of the well known book
John Woolman's Journal" which IS
regarded as the most authentic picture
of life among the early French settle
ments.
Balancing this good man in her heri-
tage is Long Tom" Coffln, famous
pirate, quite as well known for his mis-
demeanors as Woolman was for his
good deeds. The Chase family still
possesses a blackthorn cane which was
carried by this blood and thunder indi-
vidual on his cruises under the black
flag.
Miss Chase has also the distinction of
being the daughter of Edna Woolman
Chase, editor in-chief Of Vogue and a
prominent figure in the literary and
magazine world.
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Jannings' Picture Ideals.

HUMAN interest. comedy, some
= pathos. logical suspense building
situations and beauty. Those are the
essential elements for the ideal motion
picture story, according to Emil jan
nings.
First of all the star places human
interest. The ideal story must be about
natural people and have a fundamental
appeal that goes straight to the heart
Of humanity.
Next, it must have some wholesome
comedy and some tears. Laughter and
tears are part of every ones life, Jan
nings points out. Comedy and tragedy
are also closely allied.
There must be strong situations which
build up suspense. These situations.
Jannings emphasizes, must be logical,
for the story should ring true in every
respect.
There should be beauty, picturesque
background, colorful wardrobe. since the
eye must be pleased as we'll as the mind
and the emotions
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The Well Dressed Crook.

TO have the gangsters in Dark
Streets" as correctly dressed" as
possible Director Frank Lloyd has or
dered 10 bulletproof vests, which will
be worn when they go into action.
Lloyd has been questioning police
officers and habitues of the underworld
to get the correct wearing apparel Of
various types of crooks, so that his
players will be properly dressed He
found that the modern gangster fire.
Quently wears light bulletproof coat or
According to Lloyd, the modern crook
is wise enough not to act in any I'M
usual manner or wear anything that
will set him apart. This would make
him remembered and more easily iden-
tilted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

T@HE expected has happened. The
movie exhibitors in small towns
are beginning to complain be-
Il cause of the number of English
accents in current talking pic
lures. Our patrons" they say in eff
feet, want to see and hear actors who
talk American" Oddly enough, the
same complaints come in from some
parts of Canada-especally the west
while loyal to the British flag, are not
addicted to the correct Oxonian mode
of speech.
These protests, however, don't seem
to have affected the film producers to
any appreciate extent. Jesse L. Lasky,
for one. believes that the talkies are
due to improve the accents of us all,
and he has dedicated himself to the
task of teaching proper articulation and
correct grammar through the medium
of Paramount all-dialogue pictures
Already Mr.. Lasky has sponsored a
great many broad AS" in Interior
ence'' and 1.-THE Letter" Indeed, the
most excrutiatingly English accent ever
heard was that of Jeanne Eagels in
THE Letter" Miss EageiS, being a
native of Boston, Mass, has natural
head-start on other Americans who try
to talk in the Mayfair manner.
1t is my belief that Mr.. Lasky is
overoptimistic in his claims that the
talkies will improve the speech of the
populace; but there can be no possible
question of doubt that they will influ-
ence speech, just as the movies have
previously influenced styles of dress,
compartment and point of view.
When the late Rudolph Valentino sp-
pea~ed for the first time with side
burns in BLOOD and Sand and THE
Sheik." similar whiskers suddenly start
ed to Sprout on the cheeks of young
men on both sides of soda fountains
all over the continent of North America.
Today, when you study the current
crop of young ladies, you will observe
that an astounding proportion of them
wear their hair, their hats and their
eyelids in the manner of Greta Carlo.
1t is the old story Of nature attempt
Ing to initiate art.
DERHAPS the talkies will eliminate
= sectional accents and cause all peo-
pie in Florida, New Hampshire. Iowa,
Alberta, Arizona and even in England,
ireland. South Africa and Australia to
talk alike. AS Hollywood speaks, so will
speak the world.
If such proves to be the case, what
will be the nature of this common, uni
verSal manner of speech? Will it be
the flawless English of Ronald Colman,
the Broadwayese of Al Jolson, the faint
Cockney of Charlie Chaplin, the Okla
homa drawl of Will Rogers or the
apologize Swedish of Greta Carlo?
Up to now. there has been no indication
that Hollywood itself has settled on a
standard of speech. Most of the talkies
that have seen to date have been
veritable Towers of Babel. which offered
the spectators a wide variety of accents
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Built by Laughter.

THE house that laughter built!
This is the new estate in Beverly
Hills Calf, which the Gleasons will
occupy soon. The laughs and chuckles
and snorts and outlaws of thousands of
people in this country and in England
have made possible the honey" home
where the Gleasons-James and Lucille
and their 21-year-old son Russell
will entertain their friends and write
their new plays and scenarios.
This will be our first real home,
says Jimmy proudly, recalling the years
when his nearest approximation to a
home was a hotel room "All my life
I have looked forward to just this.
Lucille and have travelled about all our
married lives. We get a thrill from
saying the words our home"
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Getting Darker.

RUBBLES, the taller of the team Of
~ Buck and Bubbles, now playing in
Pathe's wildcat" comedies. isn't so
sure he prefers the screen to the stage.
Pictures is all right" he explains.
but it's these here lights that causes
trouble After All worked week on
the first picture, this here Black Mar
cissus,' NAH own mothah didn't know
me. All was burned three shades
darkar-and that's dark"
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story of the little. Southern coquette
with bits of gayety and youthfulness.
The efforts of the younger brother,
Jimmy, to achieve manhood in the
smoking of his after dinner cigarettes
and in his disgust at the coquetries of
his sister and her friends will bring an
understanding smile to all men who
were once boys.
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Touches of Comedy.

TOUCHES of quaint and whimsical
comedy in Mary Pickford's newest
picture, "Coquette," are many.
Director Sam Taylor, graduate of
ne Harold Lloyd school of comedy. has
ightened the drama of Miss Pickford's
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Next Week S Photoplays.

PALACE-Ramon Novarro in
THE Pagan" a Metro
Goldwyn Mayer sound
picture.
FOX-Sue Carol in "Girls
Gone Wild" will be the at
traction to follow the Fox
Movietone Follies," possibly
next week.
COLUMBIA-"Alibi," adapt
ed from "Nigntstick," by
John Wray and J. C. Nu-
gent, a United Artists dia-
logue picture.
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NY RODNEY BUTCHER
tNEA Service Writer

: Washington, Sept. 4.-The ladies OF
The educational division of the pro-
hibition unit, though their wings are
clipped, are nevertheless pursuing
their work with as much zeal as IS
permitted.
This division Is the captaincd
by Miss Anna B. Suffer. which re-
Gently started 10 push out pamphlets
designed to aid school teachers ~ IN
Structing their pupils concerning what
q splendid thing prohibition had
turned out to be. Education Of this
sort was TO be worked into courses
in drawing, history. arithmetic, music,
geography and other subjects. Presi-
dent Hoover is supposed to have hit
the ceiling when he heard abou ~
At any rate. Miss Suffer Il her
girl associates we're hastily called OIL
and the pamphlets DESTROYED.
Miss Suffers head is unbowed. She
has had many sympathetic letters
from school teachers. The next pro-
duction from her office for scholastic
and other use will be a substantial
pamphlet on alcohol.
This work will not undertake 70
d that alcohol as a beverage Is
an evil thing, but, OFT understands.
will rather tell OF its industrial use,
the governments supervision G u
and other things Of interest about al
cohol which no n will object 70
when impaired to students.
More pamphlets will follow the al
Cohol pamphlet. In these It IS aimed
only to tell the plain facts OF pro-
hibition enforcement and matters GER
maine. The facts. that IS, that the
government prefers to talk about.
Among the things at least tenn
porarily held up since tho s%auelchlng
Of Miss Suffers propaganda efforts
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): TRIBUNE'S PAGE OF IONIC TRIPS N FEATURES ::
!. 4, WASHINGTON
WIZ TER

IS the matter OF a prohibition poster
which was to have been broadcast
over the nation. But other diff
culties than objection by superior Of
ficcrs interpoSed here. OF a large
number Of posters submitted by art
lists not one really clicked with Miss
Sutter, Commissioners Doran and
others who viewed them. Also, the
estimated cost OF placardlng the ma
ton with such q poster is about So
0Go. and the educational divisions APP
preparation from congress Is q mere
$4,000.
II o seems established that Mrs.
Myles Poindcxtcr vas not alone re-
| sponslblc for tho Peruvian govern
rcnt's dismissal OF DR.. Alfredo Con-
zalcz Prada as first secretary OF its
embassy here. 1t seems that h
Prada family in Lima has not been
keeping on the right side OF President
Lecuia. Alfredo's father is a PERU
Wan Journalist OF note and the elder
Prada has been sounding sour notes
on his editorial bazoo over Pcrua
Tacna-Arica treaty with Chile.
The most interesting angle OF the
incident from the Washington view
point was that ii presented the spec
, taclc OF an American N pro-
testing directly TO the head Of q Tor
eign government about tho loss OF q
servant to ono OF It's diplomats. For
ii appears that Mrs. Poindexter wrote
straight TO President Leguia when her
| servant Cornelio, imported from Lima,
went into Prada's service for higher
| wages. The Peruvian foreign office
told Prada to return the servant and
apologize and Prada told 1t to go
| chase itself. Prada Is heading for
Europe, which probably is good judg-
ment, as one of Pcru's bastiles for
political prisoners doubtless yawns for
him at home.
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New York, Sept. 4.-Ycs. things like
this really do happen III New York.
Il was on the stage just the other
day during Earl CAROLS chorus
call" Some five or six hundred
maidens had gathered. in and out OF
bathing suits, for the tedious business
OF selection. With the fine thespian-
ism he displays on such occasions.
Carroll had been striding back and
forth on the semi-circular rim OF the
orchestra pit. urging the young Wom-
en- to turn now to the right and now
to the left.
Hours are required in wedding out
q few from the many. Suddenly, an
attractively faced and figured girl
who had been waiting in a line near
the back Of tho stage left her position
ana approached the producer. She
was wearing 4 trim white bathing
suit, which matched we'll the tan OF
her fair skin and her ~sun-burned
blond hair.
Mi. Carroll" she began, I'm going
to ask you If you'll pass on nc right
away. I've got to be going, and !
can't wait much longer"
Such Interruptions are mot done"
A girl Is presumed to take her turn
with the others. Naturally, he asked
her: Whats your hurry?'
Well, I have to be at another re-
hearsal.'
"Oh, you already have a job. Where
arc you working
The girl blushed. which is al for
Z chlorine, and finally mentioned the
name of a second rate burlesquc
house. OF course. WI all raised our
eyebrows. For in such company. a girl
Of her type was completely out OF
place. On a tough burlcsque route,
ste would have been miles off her
true course. For she seemed young
ana fresh and without much stage
experience.
How much are you to be paid
theYe7" the producer inquired.
Thirty . week."
wen pay you o than twice that
much II you're taken
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i know. but at least l know l have

n know, but at least l know | have
it,"
"H-mm. and you have to do from
IA to l8 shows a week, you know ..."
There was a pause. Tears had
gathered IN the youngsters eyes.
"Oh, I might as well tell YOU the
truth. They told me if l came for
rehearsal today. they'd give me an
advance on my salary she admit
ted.
How much?"
twenty-five dollars -"
Hmm -. that's not much III New
York ..."
Not much-but it'll keep me from
being thrown out III the street. Here
it is tho middle Of the month and l
haven't paid my o rent. I haven't
and / can't. And unless | get some
money, well-I'm tired Of lodging
the landlady. I've been trying to get
4 chorus Job, and / haven't landed
! yct-and l can't pay my bills. And
l won't go back home without a Job.
I've been down from upstate for two
months noW-and my moneys run
Out ...
You wouldn't go homc-but YOU
would 60 out with a bunch Of bur-
lc5quc wigglers-"
X y \
Well. that may not seem much OF
a story. Carroll told me he was 60
ing to hire the grim all probable
ity.
The point is. there are hundreds
such i'll Broadway. Clean cut. trim
ly figured girls. hitting II back
stage after another in search Of a
Job. No money In their pockets
Sailing the landlord and getting boy
friends TO buy their lunches-and
desperately winding up in a cheap
Wigglc dance.
And I hope that somewhere. q
stage-struck girl reads It. and learn:
the iesson-don't come to New York
unless you're prepared to meet thu
landlord on the first Of the month.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1929. NEA Service. Inc
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garten teacher that she needn't ex-
pect Buddy this year-then We hold
back. because under it all We feel
vaguely that there must be a reason
and a good one for kindergartens.
Why do other children go?
Something more than just play
said one of the neighbors. We wish
we knew exactly what that some
thing is. Then we'd be able to
think it over more intelligently.
These arc a few Of the things we
need to know about Kindergarten.
kindergarten can .children's
garden It is a German word. Froe-
bel. one Of the worlds greatest hui
m~anitarians and educators. started
the garden for little children years
ago in Germany.
The games and plays In kinder
garten are not merely time killers.
Neither are they purely for the pur-
pose of amusing the children. They
are carefully and scientifically
thought out to develop every mental
process. Some games develop the
power of selection. Some develop
QulCh tIl1IlhlllS. OIllclo 4A16G1AuANys VI
iginality and reason.
Coordination Is Aim
Coordination also is aimed at In
| their plays. Thought. with quick
muscle reaction. Eye and al i'm
pressions with quick mental reaction.
Thought and ingenuity combined with
cleverness Of the fingers. Co-ordina-
ton again. The little things they
make are not SO innocent as they
look. They all represent Fundamental
processes Of brain and fingers.
Then there is the character side
the most important Of all. These lit.
tie children are learning group liv'
ing that is. being with other chill
dren. Their highest social instinct!
and emotions are thus trained at ,
time when they should be trained
Children are more plastic before 81
years Of age than after 1t. !
OF course not all children Of fou
or five can so to kindergarten. Som
are not well. perhaps the distance
too great, or they are still too physi
cally tender to be away from = moth
er's care for two and 0ne-half hour
every morning. These things the par
euts themselves must decide.
The above facts, however. may bel
some perplexed mothers to make
decision.
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now In use and the water viii b.
pumped from the LAKE - thu new
tank Mhere II Win - chemically
troated % so1ten 4 and than pumped
70 the Old tank from wh1ro 4 viii
- taken ~ the engines.
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400.l27 was paid ont In teachers sal
aries. o67y602y00 was spent for per-
manent improvements. and there II
still : balance o. approximately to-
90 n the treasury.
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- acres Of wheat when his comhine
caught fire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-14

ments. and sweet love story tha grips at the heartstrings. Whilo the period covered by the story includes the Civil War, there are no war scenes in the picture.
 "The Little Shepherd of King dom Come" was directed by Alfred Santell, who was also at the mega phone for Barthelmess' great story of the World War, the Patent Leather Kid" Molly O'Day. his leading lady in that picture, is again seen opposite the star in this film.
 A cast of ability has been pro vided in support of Barthelmess It includes such well-known play CTS as Claude Gillingwater. David Terrence, Doris Dawson. Martha Mattox, Nelson Mcdowell, Victor Potel, Mark Hamilton, Walter Lewis, Gardner James, Ralp h Yearsley, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Bob Milasch, Walter Rogers and Eulalie Jensen.