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Evening star., 1930-06-15
Flashes From the Screen
By c. E. Nelson.

yet they failed to draw the cash
customers.
Short Flashes.
GALL Quiet on the Western
Front" the war picture
which has not yet appeared in
Washington, is claimed to be
drawing record crowds wherever
exhibited.
The musical comedy star, Irene
! Delroy, gains movie prominence
in one jump, for she is to have
the leading part in the first musi-
cal screen play of Jerome Kern
and Otto A. Harbach. First Ma
tional is producing, and the pic
ture will be known as THE Call of
the East"
Richard Barthelmess is about
ready to start work in his new
picture, "Adios," with Frank Lloyd
directing. Fred Kohler and James
Rennie will be members Of the
supporting cast.
Alice Whites new picture, "The
Widow From Chicago" has been
completed. Neil Hamilton has
the leading male role.
Otis Skinner starts work within
a few days on screen version of
"Kismet." John Francis Dillon
will direct.
Three pictures are being made
at the First National studio in
Hollywood They are THE Bad
Man." starring Walter Huston;
Queen of Main Street." with Lila
Lee, and Broken Dishes" with
Loretta Young. Ben Lyon plays
opposite Lila Lee. Dorothy Revier
has the leading feminine role in
The Bad Man" and Grant With
ers has the role opposite Loretta
Young.
Mary Lewis, opera star, is en-
route to the Pacific Coast, where
she will play the leading role in
the musical picture, THE Siren
Song" She has just returned
from a tour of Europe, and her
contract is with the Pathe or
ganization.
These things really happen.
Dorothy Mathews, comparatively
unknown bit player, has been
signed to play the lead in a War
ner Bros. production, in which
she was formerly an extra. AS
yet the picture has not been
named.
The Universal company is plan
ming to produce Tolstoy's novel
Resurrection" with Edwin Ca
rewe directing. 1t will be remem-
bered that the same director pro-
duced the story in silent form
number of years ago. The role of
MaSlova, which was played for
years on the stage by Blanche
Walsh, and by Dolores Del Rio in
the silent picture, will be played
by Lupe VeleZ in the sound YER
sion.
Ona Munson. who is the wife Of
Eddie Buzzell, has signed a long
term contract with First National.
She is well known musical COM
edy singer, having appeared in
several Broadway successes.
Peggy Wood, actress who Gre
ated the role of Sara in Noel Cow
ards operetta, "Bittersweet," will
play the same part in a film to
be made in England. The pic
ture also will be made in French
and German.
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"LySistrata" on Broadway
By Percy Hammond.

shrewd Lysistrata's exposure OF the de-
ception and Miss Hopkins discontinue
thereat provide the audience with one
Of the plays most comic thrills. Mean
time Ernest Truck, that fireside man
and artist, is dashing to and fro across
the stage like an excited pony. II is
all very frank and unashamed, and 1t
should add tmmeasurably TO the sum OF
htgh-clasS entertainment You may be-
as the pious Salisbury was, "stifled by
the smell of sin," but the "Lysistrata" is
so engaging an orgy that in It's mildest
moments perhaps you will And material
for refreshment.
The devotional Mr.. Littel, a New
York critic, is irritated by those who
blush at the "Lysistrata. Himself a
man Of cleanly mind, he has no pa
thence with persons who are shocked
by the ribald ceremonies In Forty-f fourth
Street. ANY one" says he. who can
think OF 1t as a dirty show had better
change the linen wrapped around his
own little soul" wonder II Mr.. Littell
is as just as is his habit when he hands
down that angry denunciation. 1t is not
difncult to despise one who willingly at
tends the "Lysistrata, knowing what
1t Is, and then abuses II for filthiness.
But some playgoers are notoriously un-
aware OF the contents of plays they are
about to see. Invited to 20 to a show
by Aristophanes, they innocently ACCEPT,
not suspecting that in 1t there will be
remarks and gestures unsuitable to in
experience. Others, less ignorant, will
still be startled by its deliberate en-
phasis upon points whose only purpose
Is satirically TO cater to the rougher ele-
ment. These unfortunates. I submit to
Mr.. Littel, are not necessarily dirty
little souls" I am acquainted with one
or two OF them whose souls are as large
and white as mine or Mr.. Littell's.
AS one who is sympathetic TO embar-
rassed innocence, l put my hand pater-
nally on Mr.. Littell's shoulder and ask
him to retract the epithet, dirty little
souls" One of my arguments that he
should do so is the belief that he him
self would not print the leering details
that make the "Lysistrata" a Broadway
hit. And I convey to Mr.. Littell nv
impression that on the first night At
least there were more dirty little souls
enjoying the "Lysistrata" than there
were dirty little souls who did not.
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order to obtain her fathers permission
for the marriage of her younger sister.
Accordingly Dorothy gives out the word
that she is engaged to an army offieer
who had just sailed for Arabia. In the
complications that follow this we'll in
tentioned lie the girl is induced to write
and mail a letter to her supposedly
imaginary lover, later announces his
death, and inserts q death notice in the
newspaper to carry out the plot.
Shortly thereafter she Is amazed on
encountering in her home q handsome
army officer who says he has some
intimate personal effects of her late
fiance. He proves to be the man.
In the cast are Leila HyamS, William
Austin, Claude Gillingwater, Emily
Fitzroy, Flora Bramley. Anthony Bush
ell and Wilfred Noy.
Additional features include Vitaphone
Varieties, the Pathe and Paramount
sound newsreels and music by the
Earle Orchestra.
COLUMBIA-"True to the Navy"
CLARA BOW in True to the Navy
- is the feature attraction at Loew's
Columbia. 1t is romance in which
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South Pole Colder,

HE South Pole is much colder than
the North" So says Willard VAN
DER Veer, Paramount cameraman, who
has visited both places.
We often experienced temperatures
OF 75 degrees below zero in Antarctica," ;"
says Wander Veer, who was a member of
rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's recent
South Polar expedition, while at the
northern extremity of the globe Byrd's
previous party seldom found tempera-
lures lower than so below.
The difference is accounted for by
the fact that the South Pole is located
on plateau 10000 feet above sea level,
while the other is on an ice field exactly
at the waters edge"
On the other hand, Wander Veer said
that flying conditions were much better
South than North.
In the Arctic we often would drop
300 feet into air pockets" he declared,
but on the recent South Pole trip fly
ing conditions were ideal whenever the
sun shone during periods of calm
weather"
Wander Veer and his companion. Jo-
seph T. Rucker, first of the Byrd expe-
dition to return to New York, brought
with them 80 miles of film, which is
being edited for release by Paramount
under the title With Byrd at the South
Pole"
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Words From Carol II,

HIS MAJESTY CAROL II of Ruma-
MIA, who only last week assembled
his throne, is greeting the citizens of
the United States and promising them
a visit IN the near future in the Fox
Movietone News.
Il am happy" he says, "to address
today through your channel, the peo.
pie Of the United States. Some time
within the near future, I hope that it
will be possible for me to visit again
your great country and not only to meet
many friends, but also to thank you
personally for the lasting friendship
which the United States has always
shown toward my country, Rumania-
friendship which is so necessary for
maintaining throughout the world a
complete and equitable feeling of ever
lasting peace"
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kind to me, but I miss my Broadway.
When FL Brendel is asked in which
direction the eyes of Broadway were
turned when he was there, he wakes
eloquent.
For is years" says Brendel, 1T was
vaudeville trouper. going from city
to city, often staying in no place more
than three days at time, living out of
a trunk the year around. The only
home had was q Pullman coach or q
theatrical hotel. What I don't know
about split weeks and lay-offs without
pay hasn't been told. Now I have a
permanent home and don't have to dash
out at 2 or 8 am. to catch a train to
the next jump. can go to prize fights
and shows, go to the beach when 1
want to, take week end trips in my au-
tomohile, even plant flowers and know
III be there when they come up and
bloom"
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who played with Will in They Had
to See Paris will play with him in
the George IL Cohan funny fantasy
about London Town.
Manager Cullen, at Loews Palace.
also has courage, but there is a reason
for 1t. He knows that the fair Nancy
Carroll is always with us. and that
Lillian Gish is not. So he Is swapping
Nancy for Lillian the coming Saturday,
for a week at least, in her screen ver-
sion of The Swan" which is called
"One Romantic Night" after the fash
ion of the movies. There Is further
reason for the swap in the fact that
Rod La Rogue, Conrad Nagel Marie
Dressler and o. P. Heggie are in the
cast OF the new picture with Lillian
When Clara Bow comes in anything
she stays put. And 90 Loews Colum-
bia is going to keep Clara and her
True to the Navy picture for another
week, because, suggestive of the deep
Evening star., 1930-06-15

TINE odor Of birthstone that sig
nailed the approach of Aristo-
phanes from Philadelphia to
Il Broadway has changed to in
cense, and the community Is now
inhaling it greedily. The Ilysistrata
proves to be both artistic and sanctified,
deserving the homage Of young and old,
a trihe bawdy in its ancient manner,
Its character seemingly is pure, and as
such 1t makes its way into the hearts
OF New York's most virtuous playgoers,
an esthetic memory of great and fallen
Greece.
For the benefit of older readers, It
may be recalled that in "Lysistrata" the
females of several pugnacious tribes
band together to stop the foolish war
fare of their males. Until you quit
f1ghting, they say, you are banished.
Unless you agree to sheathe your swords,
they decree. there will be no more ca
resSes; marriage will become a bore.
Lysistrata's proposition is frowned upon
by her sisters at first and accepted re-
luctantly after a while. But 1t requires
all the leaders eloquence and magnet
ism to keep them In line.
In the illustration of their idea sew
eral satisfactory geniuSes, aside from
Aristophanes himself, are employed at
the Forty-fourth Street Theater. Gil
bert SeldeS. the adapter, goes almost
as far as he dares in his transcription,
covering prudence with a coat OF hu-
morous and literate bravado. 1t Is said
that Mr.. Seldes so adores the works of
Aristophanes that, like ST. Chrysostom,
he sleeps with a copy of them under his
pillow. Norman Bel Geddes. the local
Gordon Craig, builds stimulating and
beautiful background to the playa fine
example Of the stages spurious archi-
lecture. Representing Lysistrata, Miss
Kemble-Cooper calls the ladies away
from their men in a fashion statuesque
and clarion. The blond chill of her
appearance, however, gives one the i'm
preston that the crusade is more Of a
lark than a duty. But Miss Muriel
Hopkins and Miss Hortense Alden, i'm
personating brides deprived OF their
heroes, are validly afame and admirably
unabaShed in exhibitions OF the fever
ish urge.
The role of Miss Hopkins, for In
stance, is so anxious to resume romance
with her lord that in order to reach him
she feigns approaching maternity. The
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Another Donahue Bobs Up.

Toe DONAHUE, brother of Jack DON
> ahue, will be leading man for Mari
lyn Miller in Sunny" when that late
New Amsterdam musical comedy betakes
itself to the screen.
Word has it that it will not by any
means be the first time that Mr.. DON
shue has played opposite Miss Miller.
For when Jack was cavorting opposite
the lovely lady in Sunny" Joe often
substituted for his brother So much
do the two brothers resemble each other
that Joe would walk on for Jack with
out any announcement to the audience,
and 1t is not recorded that any of the
cash customers demanded their money
back
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Free Government Films.

1.-THE finest lot of road films we ever
saw" was the verdict of a group
Of engineers after seeing a series of films
produced by the office of Motion Pic
lures, United States Department of Ag-
riculture, for the Bureau of Public
Roads, and shown throughout the two
week session of the second Pan-Ameri-
can Highway Congress at Rio de
Janeiro.
Two of the films, Concrete Road
Facts" and "Low-Cost Road Surfaces
First Stage and Second Stage" had
their world premiere in Brazil. They
are now available to the general public,
as we'll as to State highway depart
ments, road organizations, automobile
clubs, schools, colleges churches and
other agencies.
In common with all Department of
Agriculture films, they are free to bor-
rowers except for transportation charges
to and from Washington, D. c.
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Coming Attractions

French Follies"
Next Weeks Gayety Show.
a SNAPPY big revue entitled French
Follies" is announced for appear
ance next week at the Gayety Theater,
"Washington's cool and comfortable
burlesque house" In French Follies,"
as might be expected, much of the fun
and frolic, dancing and singing, has a
Partisan flavor, because antics from
gay Paree" always 60 over big with
the fans An outstanding list of prin-
cipals is promised, male and female,
whose names loom large on the Mutual
wheel, and chorus of Trenches"
noted for their beauty.
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Tiller Girls Chaneroned.

MARY READ. noted dance director
the chaperon, is held responsible
Tor the Tlller girls, now at the R-K-O
studio, on passports from England.
She makes quarterly reports to both
the British and United States govern
ments on the girls department, resi-
dences, sicknesses, marriages and gen.
eral status
In addition she has promised the
families of the troupe to personally
supervise all social activities, answer
phone calls and frown on dates"
Ttller's Sunshine Girls will spend sew
eral months in Hollywood, where they
Will appear in three Radio Pictures.
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Paramount Pushing En-,

4 VERY HoPwooD's play. THE Best
"A People" has been added to the list
of forthcoming productions at the Para
mount New York studio. 1t will begin
TO function before the camera some
time around July l. Fred Newmeyer
will be In charge of the production.
At about the same moment Nancy
Carroll will begin Laughter" which
would seem to indicate that Heads
Up" "The Sap from Syracuse" and
Animal Crackers" will be finished and
ready 20 take flight from the home nest
to give place to the two others.
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Directs Stallins's New Film.

2 OBERT MAMOULIAN, whom I'M
~ side" Thespians of Washington were
privileged to see laboring over "A Month
in the Country" when that delightful
Tchekov opus opened here, has been
awarded one Of the most important di-
rectorial assignments for the coming
year. He will command the players as
signed to the forthcoming Lawrence
Stslling adaptation of Hemingway's "A
Farewell to Arms"
Incidentally, those who know their
cinema A B C will no doubt remember
that it was Mr.. Mamoulian who stepped
from nowhere into the camera breach
and directed Helen Morgan through
Applause" with such evident success
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Movie Widows Multiplying.

HOLLYWOOD's golf widows have a
: = sister in distress. She is the loca-
ton widow.
With outdoor pictures growing in pop
ularity, location widowhood is on the
unchecked during the silent screen era,
when from one to ten units from the
various studios were continually on To-
cation. Then came the outdoor talking
films. and location separations have
grown rapidly since.
Departure of a unit from the Para
mount studios for the Sierra Nevada
Mountains to film Zane Grey's story
The Border Legion" as an ail-talking
picture left 100 location widows in
Hollywood.
Evening star., 1930-06-15

adopted by strangers. Altruism prompts
her to do this, for she is aware that
Norman is soon to wed, and she is
against any move that will compro-
mise him in sight of his affianced. A
happy twist in the story provides an
eminently satisfactory climax.
The play is in three acts and enlists
the talents Of 18 people, one OF the
biggest casts of the season.
Evening star., 1930-06-15

"the bigger and
better" to warrant
their rush.
Will Rogers
would attract a
crowd in a ceme-
terry If he were
h / m S e elf, so to
S p e a X, and so
M a n a g er Hardie
Meakin isn't TAX
ing any chances
in announcing $50
This Is London!"
with Will Rogers
as its star in the
Fox M owl e t one
production for the
new week, begin
ming Friday of this
-
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Youth Catches Comedy Slant

Joan MARUE LAWES, 8-year-old
daughter of Lewis E, Lawes, warden
OF Sing Sing prison, has been engaged
TO act in pictures under a long-term
contract with the Fox Film Corporation.
Her first appearance on the screen
VIII be in up the River" a comedy
OF prison life, written directly for the
screen by Maurine Watkins, and to be
produced under the direction of John
Ford,
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his marriage, gets
q telegram inform.
ing him that one
Of his past affairs
has imposed seri-
Gus responsibilities
upon him.
Norman Over
beck. the man In
question, hurries to
the maternity hos
pital in Chicago,
interrupting re-
hearsals for his
approaching mar
riage, to learn that
Isabel. mother uf
his chtld, has
waived all claim
to the baby in or
Evening star., 1930-06-15

are the times in the
movies when, If picture makes
a hit the management showing
l. 1t hesitates to let it go. The
array of attractions scheduled
for this week look so good, so very
good, when all things are considered,
that the coming bills must be among
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Outdoor Attractions
GLEN ECHO PARK.
Glen ECHO PARK, Washington,
hiv free admission amusement "a

uLEN EN1O FAhNs
Glen ECHO PARK, WaShington's
big free admission amusement re-
sort, may be reached by q cool ride
along the banks of the Potomac or by
motor over the Conduit road.
This resort has more than half a
hundred amusements always in full
blast. Crowds at all times are riding
on top of the world" in the big coaster
dip, the derby racer, the aeroplane
swings, operated something like a real
plane, and the big Ferris wheel, an
addition to the park this year.
Something little less strenuous may
be had in the old mill, the penny ar
cade. the midway. the caterpillar, the
carrousel, the whip and the FREELY ride,
which is also in the midway. A free
attraction is an electric fountain
throwing colorful water sprays every
night.
In the ball room dancing may be
enjoyed every evening, except Sunday.
from $50 until IL 80 to the tune of
McWilliams' Band of IL musicians.
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Vic a Little Short.

VICTOR McLAGLEN, who is 6 feet 8
inches tall, is the shortest of eight
brothers He fought Jack johnson, the
heavyweight champion of the world. a
no-deeision draw in Vancouver, British
Columbia
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Little Accident"
At National Next

hI NdtIUHdI NtAI WEEK.
~ UT of an embarrassing dilem-
ma Floyd Dell and Thomas
Mitchell fashioned one of the
~ outstanding comedies of the
past Winter season. Little
Accident" is its name, and the dilemma
concerns itself with the predicament of
an engaged male, who, on the eve of
Evening star., 1930-06-15

NEW YORK audiences have
turned thumbs down on the
motion picture revues, leaving
the producer and exhibitor in
somewhat Of quandary for the
ceming year There are a num-
Der Of big musical pictures listed
for manufacture during the next
few months, and the musical COM
edy Is one of the problems of the
future. Wide open purse strings
have failed to put over many of
the big revues, and big names
have failed TO draw the money at
the box Offices Statistics show
that not single one of the big
revues of the past few months
king of Jazz" Paramount on
Parade" Hollywood Revue" or
'Movietone Follies s"-can be reg
istered among the seasons hits
They were produced at great ex-
pense and the players were stars
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which becomes hard Is stone with the
fish inside. Here 1t lives until the bail
10 dissolved by rains The specimen
TO be shown here Is ~ inches long.
The most sinister Of the recent rep-
tile additions Is the Gabbon viper, from
West Africa. This Is the largest Of
the vipers, short, thick, active snake
about 3 inches In diameter, whose
bite Is very dangerous. All these crea-
lures are being kept in storage until
the new quarters are ready for them.
Palawan Pheasant Acquired.
The rarest Of the recent Zoo acquisi-
tions is . Palawan peacock pheasant
from the isolated island of Palawan, In
the Philippines, which contain many
biological specimens not found else
where in the world. It came as q gift
from Mrs. w. B. Smith, wife of an
Army officer now stationed in the Phil
ippines. The only other specimen Of
this bird ever brought to the United
States was valued at 81 500.
Dr.. Mann also secured this week one
Of the rarest Of all known monkeys,
the Saki, from the upper Amazon. Q
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tiles Of the District Of Columbia. A
group Of red rattlesnakes has Just been
obtained from Southern California, to-
gether with q bail python, an excep-
tionally gentle snake of the constructor
family which rolls itself into q perfect
ball with its head In the center when
frightened.
one of the striking exhibits In the
reptile house viii be an electric eel
from Brazil. The most pugnacious Ct
these fishes in captivity is being kept
In storage for the opening. 1t carries
what corresponds TO q battery in its
tail. When minnows are thrown in its
pool It sends out . current which
shocks the whole lot into insensibility,
eats as many as it wishes at leisure
and leaves the rest to recover. It car
ries Q charge powerful enough to cause
great discomfort to q man and has
been known to knock down cattle.
From the same region comes the
South American lung fish, the nearest
Of all the fishes to the reptiles. It
breathes by mean Of lungs, and in
dry, weather builds itself COCOON Of
mud. which It lines with slime, and
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ZOOS NEW REPTILES INCLUDE
MOST FANTASTIC LIVING TYPES

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rennsylvania Dr. Mann has received ave
more Galapagos turtles, collected during
O South Seas cruise last Summer and
since kept at Tahiti. These live longest
Of al animals, and most of them prob
ably viii be at the Zoo century from
now. ~
Many Specimens from Florida.
Florida, whose swamps yield some Of
the most curious Of American reptiles,
has provided many specimens through
Foster Benjamin of the Bureau Of En-
tomology, who Is engaged in fruit-fiy
determination work there. These in
clude several varieties of rattleSnakes,
chicken turtles. rare water moccasinS.
brightly colored, and several kinds OF
harmless snakes. DR.. Mann also has
secured an American crocodile, rare
species occasionally found in the brack-
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isla waters Of Florida 1xivers, which has
not been exhibited before.
The most fantastic Of the new rep
tiles are from Australia. where. cut on
for thousands Of generations from the
rest Of the world and In o favorable
environment, creatures survived out OF
past geological eras. Among these are
the laced monitors, giant lizards about
6 feet In length with long, forked, yellow
tongues and swollen neeks. Water
dragons have been secured from Aus
tralia and the Philippines, al fright
some appearing animals with toothed
creStSI
FROM the Upper Amazon region came
q pair Of Togo lizards, large reptiles
which prey on chickens: two boa con-
strictors and Ave caimans, close rela-
tives Of the crocodile, which are found
In the Amazon. From Southern France
DR.. Mann secured . European green
lizard.
Section for ID. C. Reptiles.
A special effort is being made to Sc
cure o complete collection Of North
American reptiles. One section Of the
reptile house win be set aside for rep.