davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
InvOkeS the Radio.

cupied last season. they simply must
telephone, write, or notify the National
box Office not later than Saturday,
February 8, for on the following Mon
day all seats will be placed on general
sale
During the season, seats always will
be on sale one week in advance. But
it is important to remember that seat
reservations for the season will be held
only until the day preceding the per-
Torrance for which they are issued.
This is a new kink and should not be
forgotten, because it is imperative.
THE box Office will be open daily
from 9 am. until $50 pm. and, for
public convenience, calls will be re-
ceived over the telephone at Main SOL
and Main 835.
THE reason for this special an
nouncement is due to the fact that our
office is being besieged with applica-
tons from new season reServationists,
but we do want to accommodate our old
friends. If they will let us"
Manager Cochran says also that the
new company is being rapidly nodded
into form and that due notice Of the
new roster Of players will be announced
as early as 1t Is safe to do so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Americanizine Wilma.

WHEN Wilma Banky, star Of Samuel
w Goldwyn's United Artists picture,
THE Awakening" arrived in these
United States, she was, although quite
charming enough to delight hard-boiled
New York, about as much as American
as Mussolini. Now that the Hun
garian Rhapsody" as the world knows
her. has arrived at the height of in
dividual stardom, she has also arrived
at complete naturalization in the land
of her adoption
To begin with she has married an
band with whom she forms one OF
Hollywoods favorite pictures of happy
married life. In spite of his Gallo
name, La ROGUE was born in Chicago
so that the honor of the final conquest
of the young woman whose possible
romances were the gossip Of all Los
Angeles for two years after her arrival,
belongs to the United States and not
to any of the multitudinous foreign
nations whose sons flock to the motion
picture capital of the world.
Miss Banky'S quaint version of Eng
lish, as much as her striking blonde
beauty, formed the subject of much
comment in this country when Samuel
Goldwyn rushed her over to this side
of the Atlantic to play opposite Ronald
Colman in THE Dark Angel" Now, by
dint of much earnest reading and sky
practice with Americans of all accents
| and ancestries, she has succeeded in
being able to express herself in English
There is still ghost of an accent, but
1t succeeds only in being charming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Inadvertent Reunion.

IN the casting of their newest all
l. talking Vitaphone production, THE
Little Wildcat" the Warner Bros. have
inadvertently brought about a very in
teresting reunion. For the role of the
irascible, testy but lovable old Civil
War veteran they engaged George Faw-
cett, and for his battling pal Robert
EdeSon was placed under contract.
This appearance of the pair marks
the first occasion they have played to-
gether on stage or screen since that
memorable event in September Of 1897.
when Charles Frohman produced that
exquisite forerunner of all j. M. Barrie
successes, THE Little Minister" and in
troduced to her enormous and devoted
following as star" Miss Maude
Adams. This event occurred at the
Empire Theater, with Mr. Edeson as
Gavin Dishart. the title role of the Bar
RE play. and Mr.. Fawcett as the hard
ened but likable old Bow Dow.
The latter was a typical George
Fawcett role, tipping, cantankerous
Scot, displaying alternate tenderness
where his boy. Micah Dow, was con-
cerned. and stubbornness where his
habits came in conflict with the strict
rulings Of the church elders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Fleet Maneuvers.

A MOTLEY feet of sea-going hacks
~ was assembled for the filming of
Scarlet Seas" the new First National
feature staring Richard Barthelmess.
The Barthelmess company was at Cata-
lima Island off the California Coast
shooting the sea sequences of the South
Seas narrative and score of strange
vessels were gathered by John Francis
Dillon, the director.
The flagship of the fleet was the
Southern Cross, rather weather-worn
but graceful craft formerly the yacht of
Leopold, late King of Belgium. Ac-
coroing to rank and distinction the
others are: An old tramp steamer (Which
was wrecked for the climax of the pic
ture), fat barge (used for cameras
and technical work., three powerful
speed boats Zone of which acted as a
regular taxi-boat between location and
San Pedro, the nearest port to Los
Angeles and Hollywood and IA sam
pans, a curious nodescript craft made
by the natives of the South Seas.
Scarlet Seas introduces q new
Barthelmess leading lady in the person
of Betty Compson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

GOOD screen plots, like good stories
- or plays, do not age, but are GER
tain to win the same commentator
from audiences of the futur, as those
of today, in the opinion of Jack Con-
way. director Of Alias Jimmy Valen-
tine"
Sustained popularity of striking or
unusual dramatic themes is proved by
efforts of picture companies to make
successive versions of the same story,
Conway declared. He pointed to Ca
MILE" Madame x" and Anna Ka-
renine" as stock illustrations.
"Alias Jimmy Valentine" which is
Metro Goldwyn- Mayors first film con-
tanning dialogue, has been done on the
screen before and was successful as
play and novel, but this is its intro
duction to the medium of Movietone
In the added realism thus obtained and
in many other respects. according to
West Coast pre-viewers the new film Is
very distinct entity.
William Haines, whose forte, as all
picture fans are aware, has been a Sc
ries of light comedy dramas, has
different type Of role in Alias Jimmy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
CINCE the announcement in The Star

CINCE the announcement in The Star
last Sunday that Manager Steve
Cochran's new stock season for the
National Theater Players would open
Monday, February Is, long before the
yellow jonquil shoots its tiny leaves
above the frozen ground of Winter, the
news of the fact has been spread to the
four corners of the earth by the
"raddio" as Gov. Alfred E. Smith is
wont to call that modern method OF
broadcasting.
News travels of its own accord, once
set loose" said Manager Cochran dur
ing the closing hours Of last week. but
while even Comdr. Byrd at the South
Pole and the fur-clad Eskimos of the
frozen North have been handed The
Star announcement, there are still
many in Washington who are holding
out until the last minute to make their
reservations for the coming season.
"Of course" he continued, lit may
be possible to secure seats for any per-
Torrance during the season, even on
the night Of the performance, but II
our enthusiastic patrons of previous
seasons wish to secure in advance, for
every performance, the seats they &C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

a NEW idea in the making Of photo
"A plays Is announced by Carl
Laemmle, president of the Universal
Pictures Corporation. From now on
crowd psychology will be applied to the
selection, preparation and production
of Universal Pictures. DR.. William M.
Marston, noted psychologist, author and
university lecturer, is the man selected
to apply it.
while we have always made pic
lures with the box Office as an I'M
portant determining factor, and by box
Office I mean drawing power and au-
dience popularity" says Mr.. Laemmle,
explaining his new departure IN screen
technique, I'VE have not always been
right in our estimate of the publlcs
probable reaction to our stories, incl
dents. titles and other picture elements.
LAS a matter of fact. think we have
been more in the habit of judging pic
lures on the say-so of a selected group
of individuals Fortunately, their
Judgment of what the public wants is
usually right. It is a Judgment built
up by long experience In picture max
ing and selling.
However. / believe that the motion
picture industry has always neglected
to take one fact into consideration, ana
that is the fact that when people gamer
together in the auditorium of the
alter, they cease to be individuals and
take on mental attitude which
prompts them to act and react as one
body.
Now science long has recognized
that a crowd or a mob reacts differently
than an individual. 1t responds TO
ideas or to a stimulus that the indi-
viduals making up the crowd probably
would ignore, il alone. This tendency
has been dubbed crowd psychology"
In its more dramatic or violent forms,
i is called mob psychology
cit occurred to me that in the plan
ming of pictures, 1t might be better To
FOCUS our attention on the probable
crowd psychology reaction of certain
scenes, ideas and incidents, rather than
on their merit of appeal to individuals
In other words, we had need OF an ex-
pert on crowd psychology to direct us
along lines which would make for pic
lures with the maximum audience
stimulating value.
therefore. I investigated and found
that the man I wanted IN this ca
pacity was DR.. William M. Marston
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
nous Alhambra Steppers and COM
pany of 20 all told.
NEWNIAN'S Germany 1925" Today.
E. M. Newman's traveltalk, Germany
1925" will be presented this afternoon
at the National Theater.
Mr.. Newman brings different Ger
many, not a cut and dried presentation
of the country as it was, but living
picture of the evolution and progress
made in a new republic. Restrictions
in pre-war days made impossible
comprehensive or complete story. This
year, with all obstacles removed, Mr.
Newman shows for the first time many
places which have never before been
photographed by travel lecture.
art, forbidden interiors, all, it is promis-
ed, will be depicted with an intime
that will be revelation even to those
supposedly familiar with Germany.
This traveltalk Is said to open a new
chapter In an amazing tale which could
not have been presented had Germany
not changed materially. Many noun
tain resorts were found by Mr.. New
man which were unknown even to him.
He also includes everything of interest
in cities such as Munich. Nuremburg,
Dresden, Berlin, Cologne and other
large centerS, in addition to odd hooks
and quaint corners In the Black Forest
and elsewhere.
WARDMAN PARK-"Little Women"
Little Women" Louisa Alcotts ia
nous story, with Its characters dear to
nfe l.
in the Junior Theater at Wardman
formances, on Friday afternoon at $50,
at Saturday matinee at $50 and Sat-
urday evening at Sis o'clock
Who has not loved and lived with
10 and little Amy, with Meg and Beth
and Laurie, John Brook and DR.. Bhaer
and Laurie's grandfather to say moth
ing of Mother and Father March, in
this idyl Of American family life. as
the young folks learn to grow up sud-
denly because father has gone to the
Civil War and mother has been sent for
because he is i'll?
The Junior Theater will bring three
artists from New York this week to be-
come part Of the organization for the
Spring season OF plays-Frank Arundel.
who first came to this country In
"MilestoneS" and an actor of broad ex-
perience, who played in George Alexan-
der's company in London and also with
Forbes Robertson and Beerbohm Tree,
Cambridge man, who served as one of
the eight on the Cambridge crew in the
Henley regattas; Elizabeth Valentine,
well known as a member with the
Sothern- Marlowe company, and Louis
Cruger, for two years with the Theater
Guild in Bernard Shaw's saint joan"
To the staff, for scenic design, is
added Marian Edwards, who comes
from the Yale Theater, where she
was assistant to DR.. Baker and
Ornslager. She also was with the
Laboratory Theater In New York.
Leslie Kent, Shirley Horton, Maxwell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Laemnle's New Idea

Accordingly I induced him to give up
his other work, including courses OF
lecturers on psychology at Columbia
and New York Universities, and to join
the Universal organization. He has
lust arrived at Universal City, Calf.
where our pictures are made, and Is
now bending his efforts toward the Sc
lection of stories, treatments and screen
presentations that his training and
knowledge tell him will delight audi
ences.
Il think this is the first time that a
practical psychologist has ever been
called into the motion picture industry,
especially for such far-reaching and
fundamental purposes. DR.. Marston Is
very enthusiastic over the possibilities
of his new field of endeavor and has
some interesting ideas on the subject"
DR.. ,Marston's title with Universal Is
director of the public service bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Movie "Two-a-Day."

DOLORES COSTELLO recently did in
motion pictures what vaudeville
calls "two-a-day." Though still en-
gagged in her starring role in "Noahs
in her latest stellar vehicle. 1.-THE RE
deeming Sin," with Conrad Nagel In
the leading supporting role. This gave
the lady the distinction of being the
first talking picture star to appear in
two audible films at the same time.
THE Redeeming SIM is Vitaphone
special, in which talking sequences fig
ure prominently. Miss Costello's role
is that of dancing girl in the apache
haunts of Paris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Popular Short Reels.

COLUMBIA has never been identified
~ exclusively with short-subject pro-
duction, but its short-film product is
said to be unique in its field.
Screen Snapshots" q two-reeler,
which it has produced and distributed
for many years, Is popularity known as
the fan magazine of the screen. It is
composed of intimate scenes of the
stars at work and at play. Radio
grams" recently acquired. is novel
reel, offering the cream of wise
cracks" from the pen of Ralph Spence,
one of Americas high-priced hunorists.
The new series of Columbia talking
shorts, it is said, viii include in it's
casts many prominent sage and vaude-
vile names.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Old Stories Survive.

Valentine" In donning before the
camera land within the new sound
proof stages the mantle worn by H. B.
Warner in 1910, when that celebrated
actor made Jimmy Valentine a stage
tradition, Haines renounces-for the
nonce, at least-the athletic hero part.
Leila Hyams has the chief feminine
role, the part played at the old WAL
lacks Theater in 1910 by Laurette
Taylor. Jack Conway. who made
While the City Sleeps" is the direc-
tor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Tinv But Prolific.

GERTRUDE SHORT, tiny but pro-
- life screen comedienne, has been
signed by Columbia to supply the farci-
cal note in Trial Marriage" in its
revelation of the dilemmas of temporary
unions. Gertrude started to contribute
laughs at the age of 5, it is said, as a
child actress for Morosco, and later
added to the merriment of other shows
for three years.
She made her screen debut in 1908,
and counts among her best vehicles
"Beggar on Horseback" "Tillie the
Toiler" and 1.-THE Show" In Trial
Marriage" she plays the wisecracking
friend of the much-married heroine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Pioneer In "Talkies."

JACK MULHALL, First National star,
who has just signed new contract
at an advanced salary, calling for. a
series of First National Vitaphone Pfc
lures, although still a young man, Is
pioneer of talking pictures. for he
worked in some of the early Edison
efforts 10 years ago, when still in his
teens. He is thought to have mar
velous voice for the Vitaphone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Asiatic Popularitv.

A CABLEGRAM to Dolores Del Rio,
a United Artists star. from E. Kauf-
man, editor of "Roubej," weekly IL
Illustrated magazine published In Hardin,
Manchuria, informs the star that she
is the most popular screen artist in
Asia. This conclusion results from an
Asiatic survey made by "Roubej' in
December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Out in Cleveland, Mrs. E. L. Gross
man, president of the motion picture
division of the Federated Women's
Clubs, is protesting vigorously against
the censorship of dialogue in motion
pictures by the censorship board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Photoplays This Week


EARLE+"Scaret Seas" This afternoon and evening.
FOX-"The Little wildcat" This afternoon and evening.
PALACE-"The Awakening This afternoon and evening.
COLUMBIA-Aas Jimmy Valentine This afternoon and eve
ming
METROPOL1TAN-"The Redeeming This afternoon and
evening.
LITTLE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tales This afternoon and
evening"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
PALACE-"The Awakening"

Wilma Banky In her first starring pic
ture, THE Awakening" is the screen
attraction at Loews Palace this week.
In this latest United Artists syn
chronized picture Miss Banky is sup
ported by Walter Byron and Louis
Wolheim.
The story concerns the acknowledged
beauty and idol of village, whose
love Is sought by Won Hagen, a cavalry
officer, who is in the village with his
troops. He is on the verge of success
when he discovers that he really does
love the girl. In the meantime, the
people of the village. having seen Marie
enter the quarters of the officer, assume
that she has done wrong and drive her
from the village. Won Hagen has made
the discovery of his real love too late
as the girl cannot be found. During
the war in the midst Of heavy bonn
bardment, however, he meets the girl,
who is in a convent, about to become a
nun. She refuses to listen to his
pleading to 60 with him, but when he
is brought back wounded, she decides
she does love him, and with the aid
of Louis Wolheim, whose hand she has
Spurned, her lover is saved and they
are left in their happiness.
On the stage Wesley Eddy and the
Palace Syncopators are presented in
Boris Petroff's Loew-Publix production,
Barcelona" featuring Jack North with
his ukulele, Billy Gilbert and his violin,
Joe and Jane McKenna, dancers; Renee
and Evelyn, tangoists; Borge Moller,
accordionist, and the Dorothy Berke
Dancers Added attractions include the
M-G-M News, the Fox Movietone News,
the Palace Orchestra, Charles Gaige at
the organ and selected short subjects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
CURRENT HTSTORY-Friday.

Maria Corda. the beautiful blond
star in Helen of Troy" has made four
pictures in four countries in as many
months Now she is back in Hollywood.
The Hungarian actress last picture in
Europe was "A Woman In the Night"
adapted from the novel by the Baroness
Oreczy: World Wide Pictures has
brought In to America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Greta Carlo, now in Sweden, Is
scheduled to return to Hollywood on or
about the 1st of March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Davis and Mason Hardy, with others,
| will complete the cast.
THINGS TALKED ABOUT"-To-
morrow.
| The weekly review of Things Talked
About" will be held at the willard Hotel
! tomorrow morning at 1880 O'Clock by
Mrs. Wolfe Smith and Mrs. Swain
Reed. Mrs. Smith will discuss tariff
and taxes in relation to the budget and
prohibition. Mrs. Reeds subject Will be
Love and Marriage Under Russian So
Wet and the Fascist Grand Council"
PLAYERS GUILD-"THE JONAH"
Tuesday.
Front Line Post, Veterans of For
eign Wars, will present the Players
Guild Of st. Patricks Parish in THE
JONAH" musical farce, at Carroll Hall
Tuesday evening, the organization an
nounces. Proceeds of the performance
will be devoted to needy veterans, their
widows and orphans.
THE Jonah" has previously been
presented. under the general direction
ceived by public and reviewers. The
play is from the pen of E. Lawrence
Dudley, and concerns the morning
after" remorse of a down trodden hus-
band who has INDUCED in a forbidden
evening of gayety. The action Is built
around his efforts to unravel the oc-
casions consequences. There are many
musical numbers.
DR.. BRUNO ROSELLI-Thursday..
The Community Institute of Wash
ington will present DR.. Bruno Roselli,
distinguished speaker on Italian art,
literature and archaeology. in an illus
trated lecture on 'Leptis Magma"
Thursday evening at BIS o'clock, in
the auditorium of Central Community
Center, Thirteenth and Clifton streets.
This will be the seventh event in
the Winters series offered by the In
stitute.
Tickets may be had at the Willard
newsstand. the A. A. A.. the Commune
ty Institute Office and the doors of the
center.
CURRENT HISTORY-Friday.
Miss Clara w. McQuown will give
her weekly review of important public
questions Friday morning at IL o'clock
in the ballroom Of the Washington
Club, 1910 Seventeenth street north
west. She will take as her principal
subjects THE China Of Today" and
THE Problem Of Porto Rico" but she
will also discuss pending legislation and
other matters Of importance, both home
and foreign.
These talks are given every Friday
morning and are open to the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
FOX-"The Little Wildcat"


Two sisters love the same man in
1.-THE Little Wildcat" the one Gin
derella, the other the wildcat, in the
story of the Warner Brothers Vitaphone
talking picture, shown at the Fox The
alter this week. 1t Is true comedy in
every sense and depicted by talented
cast, including George Fawcett and
Robert Edeson, upon whom falls the
burden of the story, together with Doris
Dawson, Audrey Ferris, James Murray
and several other Warner stars.
The picture is said to be strictly mod
ern and to move in fast tempo, with
novel dialogue sequences that enhance
rather than retard the action.
On the stage the Fox Vanities will
be offered, presenting a flash of gay
color, laughter, song and dance by stars
such as little Sunshine Sammy of Our
Gang" comedies and his two brothers;
Chaz Chase, an eccentric comedian; the
Lathrop Brothers. dancing marvels;
Hines and Leonard, two youthful girls;
Elray and Cooper, from the Broadway
revues; Frankel, O'Dair and Davis and
a trio of dancers from Roxy's Gang.
Last, but not least, will be new i'm
portation, The Fox Boys and Girls En-
semble Dancers.
Leon Brusiloff is making special
arrangement of the better known
Tschaikowsky melodies as the overture
and the program will be completed with
the Fox Movietone News.
EARLE-"Scarlet Seas"
Richard Barthelmess is the star of the
program at the Earle Theater this week,
east as the man who str0lled into the
crater of madness and death, and
merged with an inner renaissance; the
girl is Betty Compson. Scarlet Seas,
the feature picture, was written as an
original screen sttry by Scott darling
The bulk of the picture was filmed at
sea- There Is said to be thought in
Scarlet Seas" a thought that deals
with the regeneration of a mans soul.
The story concerns Steve Donkin, who
roaned the Seven Seas and took what
he wanted where he found it. When he
shanghaied a girl and took her to sea
with him; when the ship burned and
the two were left alone and adrift in a
lifeboat. Then death stared them In
the face and hunger tested his faith in
life and himself; rescue (the strangest
ever screened) was effected and how he
finally found himself These are the
high lights of Scarlet Seas"
COLUMBIA-"Alias Jimmy Valentine. !"
william Haines in alias Jimmy VAL
entine" is the screen attraction at
Loew'S Columbia this week. The pic
ture, produced by Metro-G oldwyn-
Mayer, was adapted from the famous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Current Attractions.

Davis and Mason Hardy, with others,
will complete the cast.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-06

FOR -Outboard motor and
boat equipped with center board, sail
and oars. Will sell at a sacrifice. Motor
is a standard Johnson. Boat was built
by Toppan Boat Co. S. M. d. Marshall,
Milford. s6-2tp
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-06

WANTED-Married man to work by
the year, on farm. Must understand
tractor, comfortable house, fuel, truck
patch supplied. Position open at any
time. L. l. Carlisle, Frederica, Del.
114-tf