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The Washington times., 1929-06-26
HALF AND HALF
FEATURES
RAPED
By RAYARD YEILLER

Now that have returned to
the screen to make talking pic.
lures, am confronted with an
amazing fallacy.
There are a large number Of
people who consider the advent
of the tallSies, a heavsn-sent cp.
portunity for stage-trained artists.
Personally feel that any stage
dramatist who thinks he can
make talkies before he has
learned basic movie technique-is
just insane.
know that I wouldn't have
dared to consider personally
directing THE Trial Of Mary
Dugan" for taIl6ies had 1t not
been for my long and earlier
experience with silent picture
technique.
OF course the stage playwright.
director or actor has certain adj
vantages for talking pictures, but
[ am not SO sure that picture
trained people Of the same profes-
sion won't progress faster In this
new subdivision Of the age-old
art of expression,
am inclined to think that the
picture director will leaEn the
technique of the stage and OF
dialogue much mora quickly than
the stage director or playwright
will absorb picture technique. The
technique of the screen Is much
more complicated. Much Of the
technique of the stage can be
put in written rules. This is not
so true of the screen. Only long
experience and a trained eye can
tell a director when a certain
lighting effect Is right-and photo-T
graphy will always be an all i'm.
portant part of the whole bust.
ness Of properly putting drama
on the screen.
On the whole question of talk
ing pictures / am convinced that
we must drop for all time the
idea that we can make "mongrel
pictures, |. O., pictures which
are part talkie and part silent.
We must make pictures all the
way through with talkie tech.
nique, or all the way through
with silent technique. The two
must not be mixed or q half
breed product will emerge which
will lack true dramatic punch"
because Of the mixture Of
qualities.
Please understand me correctly
in this matter. l do not mean
that a picture necessarily need by
100 per cent talking. Silence on
the stage is used as effectively as
conversation. You will recall,
eerhaps, that several minutes of
silent passing back and forth of
players occurs at the start of
The Trial of Mary Dugan" be.
fore q single word Is spoken. In
one of the big scenes of "The
Thirteenth Chair" not q word Is
uttered for a long interval. The
same can happen in q talking pic.
ture. l can visualize talk3ng pic
lures in which whole reels would
be silent. But those silent reels,
instead of being made with silent"
technique, would be produced
under pure talkie rules.
If you mean by 100 per cent
talking picture" picture which
talks necessarily from start to
final fade-out, / can think of few
stories which would fill this re-
quirement. The perfect talking
picture, like the perfect stage
play, will have its characters talk
only when they have something
to say which will develop the
story or advance an individual
character. When silence will do
this more effectively than dia-
logue we will use silence, but we
will fit that silence as an in.
tegral part Of the whole.
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GLEANINGS'
AND 49,
SCREENINGS.
By ANDREW q. KELLEY

mY A1NOAeA4" ~ AAAAANtfNA@
Herbert Rawlinson win be
missing from the Palace Theater
stage next week. There Is really
nothing mysterious about the
departure-he win be gone for
a week--merely the facing Of
cameras and sound booths IN
the Metro-Goldwyn studios
while a new short talker Is
recorded.
The Metro Movietone will be
interpreted by some as mark
ing the early departure Of Mr..
Rawlinson for other footlights.
His predecessor, Wesley Eddy,
prefaced his transfer to Pitts
burgh by taking a week off to
make a Movietone and using the
clustering film for his Smoky
City debut. However, Manag-
ing Director Cullen, invariably
given to speaking the truth,
says the Hollywood Ambassador
of Joy will return to Thirteenth
STU pbACEbo @ALCE bHo nbuuL6
stunt is completed.
The weather man seems to be
doing his best to advertise
Maestro Cochran's production of
"Rain." Which reminds that
David Belasco closed NINA"
which was the stage picture of
Mephistopheles' steam heated
apartment for the reason that
theater-goers would not patron.
ize in the summer months some
thing supposed to be hot as
Hades.
Betty Grace Tucker, who be-
gan her theatrical career by
winning a Washington Herald
contest to find beauties for Earl
Carroll, has settled down into q
ni.s footlight engagement, ac-
cording to a letter to this de-
partment from one who Is more
than an admirer.
Miss Tucker-known profess
sionally as Loris Taylor--has a
singing role in the Shuberts'
broadway Nights" = revue
which Cleveland critics declare
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About Zazu Pitts

Zazu Pitts, who plays the role of
the servant girl in THE Squat"
now at the Earle Theater, was
born in Parsons, Kan. She was
educated at Santa Cruz, Calf, and
began her screen career in Holly
wood eight years ago.
Miss Pitts il best known for her
work in unusual character studies
and will be remembered in several
Won Stroheim features. She Is five
feet six inches in height and
weighs lis pounds. She has ligh:
blue eyes, brown hair and a light
complexion.
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is the greatest girl and melody
entertainment ever staged by
j. ]. and Lee. Her stage name
is a tender tribute to a de-
parted sister of Betty Grace.
The Messrs. Shubert expect their
latest revue to run at least a
full season on Broadway despite
the competition of the movies
remember Miss Tucker as
the young charmer who came to
thu editorial sanctum to see
this paragrapher and when he
was pointed out backed away.
81 guess | won't mind today.
He looks too cross" she told
Sports Editor Kirk Miller. 1t
just would happen on the day /
lost my aspirin tablets.
Maybe times are hard but
Warner Brothers has just de-
clared q 100 per cent stock
dividend to be distributed
July 2.
Heaven help me. Heaven
help me-" sobs Zazu Pitts
when she discovers the loss of
900 crowns in the Earle's film
feature, "The Squall." The audi
ence's reaction to the frenzied
sorrow is tittering. A scene
which might have been moving
and effective in silent sequences
becomes a laugh through inept
dialogue.
Having a vivid recollection Of
Blanche Yurka's Interpretation
of the role Of maria" in the
play, it was pleasant to find
Ali.e Joyce gives a capital per-
Torrance of the mother in this
much harassed household, al
though she too suffers at times
from ineffective lines. Myrna
10y is immensely good as Nubi,
although l think the smashing
finale of the play wherein the
vamp-'em-all siren is dragged
off the scene by the hair of the
head and vigorously dashed. has
been sighted by the screen
director. Audiences are said to
dislike seeing women handled
roughly, but after watching
Nubi nabbing = all the eligible
males within sight, | doubt if
many would object if the naughty
girl was gwen an old-fashioned
padding for deeency's sake.
saw "The Squall" twice.
The first time for duty's sake,
the second because l couldn't
resist the cooling blast which
came from the open door of the
Earle Theater as / passed by on
the way to an ice cream soda.
If the new prohibition edu-
cationaI campaign goes into
effect, it is George Shute who
suggests the national anthem be
changed to read "O'er the Land
of the Spree, and the Home Of
the Grave"
Released to all master of
ceremonies while the fight RACES
as to who launched it first;
81 spent four days in Mon.
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ball well, either occasionally or
consistently. The man who can
occasionally hit the ball we'll can
hit it well all the time-the oc-
casional-hit proves the fact.
The reason he doesn't is most
likely traceable to the fact he
let's his mind wander off the job.
The struggling golfer does that
badly, and the pro does it now
and then. He has so much con-
fidence that he occasionally for
gets. The average shooter has
50 many things in his mind he
thinks of ell Of them and for
gets his objective, which is to hit
the ball. So on many of those
bad shots, analize q little and
see if they aren't due to letting
the mind wander off the job
Copyright, John r. Dnle Col
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like that. Sad
golf shots al.
most always
are due to the
fact that you
let your mind
wander away
from the par
ticular job of
the moment,
which was to
stroke t h e
bail. This is
assuming that
van hovo
something of
2 swing, and
have hif the
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Famed Musicians

Concert master and first violins
from some of the most famous,
symphony orchestras in the coun.
try play in the 30.piece orches-
ira accompanying the four Marx
brothers in the talking screeE's
first musical comedy 1.-THE Cocoa
nuts" now playing at Loew's
Columbia,
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BABE NEARS
HOME RlJN
GOAL
By Babe Ruth

Une OF the newspaper uuyS
asked me a funny question the
other day.
Babe" he said, you've set a
lot Of records in baseball and you've
done a lot of things that no one
else ever did. I'm wondering II
there's anything left that you'd like
TO do before you quit. Any records
you'd like to SET"
Eyes" + told him, there are.
Before I'm through with the big
Aagueg rye. got three more ambi'
What are they?' he asked.
do you want to set a new home
run record?" was his first guess.
My answer to that was mo"
Il. j don't believe ] can ever better
my go mark that ] made in
1927. And. frankly. don't
4 think anyone else win beat it
! Tor . long time either.
But ] have an. ambition as CON.
Germs home runs at that. I'd like to
make 500 home runs before I end
my big league career. And
ought TO do it easily. ! already
have $50 in regular season games.
That leaves 203 to go. And IL I
want to count the Is homers hit
In world series games that leaves
me only seven more to 90 for the
300 mark
lions.
! Another is to play in 10 world
series before ! quit. And that's one
that ] think viii realize too. i've
already been in nine-and !t We win
this season that will make 10. And
don't think we're out OF it yet, we're
not. Not by q long shot. We've
stu got 81 ball games to play and
df the Athletics can pile up the lead
they have now in so games there's
no reason why we shouldn't be able
to cult down in twice as many. Any
how that's my second ambition.
The third one had the boys guess.
ing . bit. The newspaper man
guessed and guessed and never hit
upon 1t. As matter of fact . it
hasn't anything to do with baseball
records at all. Maybe I'll realize It
and maybe / won't. But my third
ambition IL to play at least one sea.
son at q. salary of 100000 q year.
OF course I'm not kidding my.
self. My recent Illness proved
to me that I've reached the place
now where I've got to take par.
tlculaFly good care Of myself. A
lot Of the boys have been kidding
me because they said that Illness
scared me to DEATH" Frankly,
1t did scare me, and I'm still
scared. hope stay scared to
the point where / never forget
that taking care Of myself Is the
most important thing in my life
I from now on.
J When I'm playing I'll be out there
giving the best I've got, and here's
one fellow who doesn't figure the
Yankees out Of the race. And there
are q lot Of others who don't. too.
s can name twenty-five OF them off
hand. They all wear Yankee uni
forms.
Copyright, 1929, by the christy
III Walsh gyndicate)
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But even MS greatest boosters
insist that he has certain faults.
One is that he cannot get much
power into his left hand and de-
ponds mainly upon his right. That's
all okay when fellow is meeting
merely n set of palookas. But no
one-fisted ringman is going to get
to the top. Schmelihg must learn
to use his left.
Reports from his camp are that
his handlers have been drilling that
idea into him, day after day, and
that the big German youngster is
improving rapidly in the technique
Of left.handed punching. If that is
so, then he sizes UP as truly dan
gerous ringman because with an inn
proved left and q great right hand,
he has two weapons that he caa
call upon.
I'm told that he is q counter
fighter more than a rushing. tear.
ing type. If so, that is a handicap
to him. For Schmelling Is not a
great boxer and only a great boxer
can play the old counter game with
real success.
Slugger that he is. the better
thing for him to do would be to tear
in and make 1t a survival OF the
best puncher.
SchmeIing struck me rs be-
ing a smart y0ungster when
met him and one with plenty OF
battling instinct. That's what
helps a man to the tOp-the old
instinct stuff.
When q man has that, 1t means
that whenever he gets into trouble
CIR when q fine opportunity 10 in
front Of him. he knows exactly
what to do. when to do 1t, and he
does It automatically.
Those who are inclined to be a
tricks, insist that he holds his
right hand too low and that it
never Is really useful as . guard.
That's something which his trainers
perhaps win correct before Max
mixes It with Pauline, for the fellow
who cannot guard his chin from
left-handed drives will be in plenty
of trouble when meeting the left
hooking Basque. r.
The sleuths OF Kingdom insist
that Schmeling, whose record shows
that he never was knocked out,
actually was bumped off three times
and by comparatively light hiders.
That doesn't sound so good for
Something's ability to take sock
ing.
But, on the other hand, let
US not forget that many ring
men were knocked out early in
their careers, got over the habit
and became champions anyway.
As said at the beginning OF this
article, Schmeling is pretty much
of a riddle to me. When / met
him four years ago, he was Just
out. What he has done
since then has been noteworthy.
His boosters insist that Max has
Just struck his real stride, that the
rough edges are now being polished
off, and that he will step out in that
Pauline battle and prove to the
world that he is one of the greatest
battlers that the game has pro-
duced in the last 20 years.
They may be right.
Sehmshng has the "mAI<inRs."
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c. j. NET ACES
SURVIVE

HAVERFORD, Pa, June 26.-
Western collegiate tennis stars are
having their own troubles In the
annual intercollegiate champion.
ships now in progress At the
Merton Cricket Club courts here.
Johnny Doeg. blonde Pacific Coast
ace, being eliminated yesterday
when he lost in straight sets to
Eddie Jacobs, the Baltimore youth,
now playing for Pittsburgh UniVer.
sity. The score was SIS, 6-l, and
marked the second time within a
week Jacobs had defeated Doeg as
he had eliminated him from the
Delaware tournament. II also
marked the passing of the second
far western star to be eliminated
in the past two days Harrison of
Oregon, going out in the first day
Of play.
Jacobs defeat of the youth seeded
No. Q in the tourney was the only
upset Of the day. The other six
seeded players entered the fourth
round, Julius Seligson, the Lehigh
youth who is the defending cham.
pion, eliminating Henry Neer, of
Oregon, while Ben Gorchakoff, last
years runner-up. trounced Walter
Thomas, of Princeton.
Berkeley Bell, the Texas
COllegian, eliminated a former
team-mate when he defeated e,
G.. Mather, American Rhodes
scholar at Oxford, but Paul De
RicOu. the Frenchman playing
for Oxford, Jared better, elfmi.
mating Kenneth Appel, Prince.
ton star.
Donald Cram. of Vanderbilt, came
through again eliminating Gus
Feurer, of Florida, while Gregory
Mangin, of Georgetown. whom
many favor to win the title, de.
feated Harry Dunlap, of Texas.
in straight sets, 6-4, 81. Henry
Almquist, of Oregon, was one of
the few Western stars to survive,
defeating s. HARRISON, of Prince
ton. e. Avory, of Cambridge, kept
his college in the race by eliminat-
ing r. Ryan, of Yale.
Emmett Pare. of Georgetown
University, entered the fourth
round division yesterday. He and
Mangin, one of the favored doubles
combinations. \ gained the third
round by disposing of Harrison and
Lockwood, Oregon, 8-6, "a, yes
terday.
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Ny LAO NOAhtACS0 o0AuAIN40s
Four years ago / met Schmeling
in Germany. He was just starting
on his career then! a tall. rather
slender youngster, with plenty of
that fighting spirit and an ambi-
ton to get somewhere. He was
very green" then and eager to
learn. l gave him a few little
pointers on how to hit ard get the
body into the punch.
l have not seen Schmeling In
action since that time.
All / know about him Is what
l have been told by others, or what
have read concerning him.
He stepped along at q fast clip
since 1925. He whipped about
everybody worth while in Europe.
came over here. beat some men on
points and knocked oHt Joe Monte
and Johnny Risko to climax his
achievements.
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Dempsey Says Schmeling
Has the Real Makings'
BY JACK DEMPSEY

Max Schmelng stacks up right Of the puzzles
Of Kingdom He be truly sensational rngman destined
for the real heights of the the other hand he
gaop along the fstc trails ways that hoped for
bx,h odu
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BESS ISSUES A
PARCHESI
Def
By DOROTHY HERZOG

BY DOROIhI HEhLOG
Copyright 1929. Premier syndieats)
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. June Is.
II there's one spot in the u. g. A.
that suns q blistery, summer
glare, it's Hollywood. Even good
eyes blink temperament. subse-
quently. four out Of five wear
dark glasses when driving curing
the day. A facetious soul once
told me that Mexican diplomats
wore dark glasses when plotting
a now revolution, ali. ha, maybe
We make headline whoopee in
the colony yet.
Joe z, Brown, the emo.ing
comedian, has taken unto his his
trionic self a mule. A very sad.
very NANCY critter that should
answer to the alIuring moniker Of
Cleopatra. To background the
story. be It known that Cleopatra.
Is associated with Joe In The
Song of the West" wherein the
aforementioned Mr.. Brown enacts
q mule skinner in the covered
wagon-not bootleggy-days.
Whilst locationing, VlvienDe
Segal, the fem in the flick, was
fascinated by CIeopatra's utter
disfnterest in the activities.
What makes your mule 80 sad?"
she asked Joe.
WELL" shaking doleful head,
ito tell the truth, q snobbish
equine just gave her the horse,
said 1t would be impossible for
her to have children
Bess' Pen
Bes Meredith, according to the
letter she has dispatched to this
flick bureau, Is slightly ruffled
by Edward Everett Horizons
comments on her parchesi rep,
not to say prowess. She meets
his open challenge to play for
the oeoident and Orient cham
plon with nary a shiver of pre-.
monition. Writes Bess:
Dear Mr.. Horton:
II wish to assure you, in re-
Spouse to your insinuations
printed in this column yesterday,
that IL l have acquired the title
of 'parchesi champion of Califor-
MA il emanates from anything
/ may have said but from the
Threats of the many who have
gone down to defeat before me.
Any claims / may have to this
fame can be substantiated by my
victims names and addresses fur.
nished upon request).
II make no wild assertions
about myself, nor do I drag in
unknown maharadjnis and unex-
plored sections of Staten Island.
OF course. ] do not actually
doubt your story. but it does
seem a bit--sball we say--imagi-
native.
/ am more than willing to meet
you on the field of battle.!. pro-
vided that an impartial third
party will select an equally i'm.
partial judge or referee. In &C.
ceDting your rush challenge. /
feel I am taking an unfair adj
vantage Of you, but. after all, it
IL your own doing. II is not too
late TO reconsider and / assure
you that there will be nothing
practically nothing) more said
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INSIDE.
GO II.
BY Chester Horton
W@

When you make bad golf
shot the explanation, for your
own purposes, too often is that
Won looked un. or did something
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screenaIitIes

SeEeenauLle8
Betty Blythe 10 in town again.
Betty has been gone 20 weeks.
UNI. Playing voodyil.
Elsie Bartlett schildlxraut and
Mrs. Goldwyn motoring to the
beach to forget that summer has
came with sunburns and
sun,baths the current fad. the
flickerites have taken to q new
mixture of powder yclept sun.
burn powder. By their tan ye
shall know 'em. Lila Lee,
incidentally. has one Of the swell
est tans of the colony.
Ditto Evelyn Brent. Re-
peat Viola Dana. Mrs.
Gregory Lacava, wife of the direc-
tor, painting portrait Of her son
at Malibou. Before her marriage,
Mrs. Lacava was very well known
in New York for her art exhibit
tions, her pastels, ct cetera- Greg.
by the by. has just signed a years
contract with the Pathe outfit.
Ben Lyon has a beautiful
collection of George Believes
etchings. Billy Sunday, the W. K.
Evangelist. autogra pied the one
depicting him in pulpit action.
Jack. Dempsey did likewise on the
one wherein F'irp Is shown knock
ing him out of the ropes in that
memorable fisticuff exchange.
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International League

YEsTERDAY's RESULTS
Rochester Orioles lrain).
Buffalo Reading (rain).
Toronto. e. Newark, :.
Montreal'Jersey City (rainl.
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1t was the RisISO victory that
gave him his present fame; that
triumph lifted him out of the
class of promising youngsters"
to q point where he now is in
line for a crack at Gene Tun-
ney's vacated title. He may
arrive there.
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GLOBE YARNS
Bv Harry Green

A few years ago, when I went
to England to fulfill q theatrical
engagement. I dropped into the
bar at the Oxford Theater in
London and ordered q whisky
and soda. The barmaid handed
me the drink. 1t was hot. I
asked for ice. She said there
was none.
why in the world don't You
keep ice?'
MY dea' man." she explained
patiently, I'VE cawn't keep ice. II
melts."
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When the Feature
Is Shown OnSCreen

FOx-Jack Holt and Mickey
McBan In Father and Son" At
11;42. 2.si. +:;lz, 1:ls ard 9:s7.
COLUMBIA-The -Four MARI
Brothers IN THE Cocoanuts." At
II. 1907, s1s. S;25, 7;at and sAS
p. m.
PALACE-Conrad Nagel and Bes-
sic Love In 1.-THE Idle Rlch.9 Al
Lbs. 2:so. $40, 7;s5 and 1855
p. m.
RIALTO-Laura I.aPlants ana
John BoIes In Scandal" At 1870
1870. $50, $40. T:3O and $50 ,. m.
METROPOLTTAN--H. B. War.
ner and Lois Wilson In the Vita
phone all.talker, THE Gamblers"
At IL. 12,45. ESQ: AIS. sos, 1855
and s:46 p. m.
EARLE-Alice Joyce and Myrna
10y, in "The Squall." All taIker.
At 1045. 12:4S, S:01, sos, 7:19 and
9.32 p. m.
LITTLE Simba," wild animal
feature with Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Johnson. At il:S0; 1;s0; $3.50, $50,
7:30 and $50 p. m.
about IL IL you withdraw your
challenge.
Awaiting your reply with deep
est interest. sincerely, tsigned)
BESS MEREDITH.
What say you now, Eddie?
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Released to all master Of
ceremonies while the fight RACES
as to who launched it first;
81 spent four days In Mon.
treal-So they told me-"
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If the new prohibition edu-
cational campaign goes into
effect, it is George Shute who
suggests the national anthem be
changed to read "O'er the Land
of the Spree, and the Home of
the Grave"
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My answer to that was mo"
i don't believe can ever better
my go mark that / made in
1927. And, frankly, i don't
think anyone else will beat it
for . long time either.