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Federal question. which does not exist in my case. will serve my time"
 A bitter personal enemy Is held re- sponsible for the dramatic conviction of Reyes. But for the hate-inspired activity of this foe, Reyes today might be free man.
 He might be a respected citizen, even a prominent high public official, enjoying life in his Beverly Hills home with his wife, Mrs. Lillian Reyes, and his two daughters, Elizabeth and Annis.
 This enemy, according to friends, was Bert Ramsey, once a close friend of and investigator for Reyes. For some reason the men fell out and Reyes discharged Ramsey, who became investigator for the Los Angeles
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fenced to two years imprisonment, After being held in the county jail two days he was paroled. Reyes and Police Chief James E. Davis, of Los Angeles, signed the parole order. Kim merle was promptly brought into court again and re-sentenced. Again he was paroled.
 fingered, Loeb and his wife threat ened to avenge themselves. Working with Ramey they learned that Reyes was paying frequent visits to little tailor shop in the heart of the Los Angeles financial district.
 Milton Pike, a salesman in the shop, they discovered, had kept dairy of Keyes's surreptitious con- ferences with A. L. Lasker, wealthy head of an auto finance corporation, who was then under indictment for violation of the California State Corporation Act. The cases against Laskcr were dismissed in court.
 Ramsey had the Pike diary entered into the hearings of the Los Angeles grand jury and Reyes, with seven
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other men. was indicted on charges of bribery and corruption.
 Following the indict- ments and moving with dramatic swiftness, the grand jury investigated other official acts of the district attorney and un- covered a bribery ring involving plots and counter-plots to corrupt public officials and dis curage crusades against vice.
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OVN-IVy IlIUIJl4VV IAI V1A'
 As an investigator for the bureau, Ramsey learned that one Arthur Loeb, q Julian Petroleum Corporation stock
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eS aggregatng SlOO,OUO. The y of it all was that he was con- ad by District Attorney Burton 5, his former deputy and now ndidata for Governor of Cali ia.
 eyes was born in Wilmington, California, ffty-two years ago. He is the son of Charles Reyes, for several years county clerk of Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of California, he was admit ted to the bar in 1899 and practiced privately until 1903, when he became 8 deputy district attorney un- der John D. Fredericks.
 In 1924 he was elected district attorney of Los An geles.
 "I do not fear them" he said, referring 10 some of the Evolves" he had sent up. If some of them figure they
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4SA KEYES, uho sent more than , 1000
 men aud pomen fo prison during the tpenty-fire years he rous assistqnt prosecutor and chief prosecutor of Lo, Angeles County, has q ne,o job.
 He is no,o 'counsel for the cons," in San Quentin Prison, California, uhere he is serring from one to fourteen years tor accepting more than SIOO, ,O0O in bribes to go easy" ,cith the defendants in the molodorous IOO,OOO,OOO Julian Petroleum Corporation scandal.
 Although Reyes, only No. 482I8 nom, is engaged in giuins legal adrice to felons, Warden Holohnn has throen erery sofegudrd about him, fearing some rerengeful conrict sent up by Reyes may attempt to kill him.
 Reyes speaks 10 the adrice-seekine ronricts through an hon-bnrred pindoo in the office of the captain of the yard Alert guards stand by, ready to sape Reyes from sudden, ricious attack. Warden Holohon is taking no chances.
 For many of the pery men uho now seek his adrice on their ciril rights or chances of securing q parole uere sent to "stir' by the once.proud and pouer- Jul prosecutor of Los Angeles County.
 No. all the 5000 sent up to San Quentin by Reyes bear him i'll uill, James J. McNanara, serping q life sentence for murder in connection ygzgs pith the bombing ot the Los An. gele's Times Building, nas prose. cuted by Reyes. Yet ,ohen the iron gates shut behind the er-district at. torney, he found q piIloro and q pair of slippers, gifts from Me Namora, in his cell.
 But there are hundreds of "the boys" in San Quentin mho nould uelcome the chance to slip q knite bet,oeen Keyes's ribs or slam q blackjack oper his heud.
 The prison authorities hare heard &saaRa foo many aduance rumblings of this storm of Uenomous hate against Reyes to leore him unguarded eren . for an instant. &S&s a
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hate at him and W h o s e lips curl in to a venom ouS snarl as they listen to his words of counsel.
 When Reyes a rriv e q at ! II e pI lSOn, Warden Ho- lohan W as standing at the main en- trance. Sev- eral hundred c 0 n V jets.
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No Reflection on Soup.

FEW there are among princes and
peasants who will sniff their noses
and turn aside from tempting dish OF
soup when the appetite is demanding
its own on a Winter day. And what
follows must not be misunderstood as a
reflection on soup. 1t is merely an ex-
preston of opinion Of the value Of serv-
ing soup ingredients to the best ad-
vantage
Strange to say, the story really doesn't
concern soup. or even the ingredients
of soup, at all. Indeed, soup has been
dragged in only in an analogical way.
THE World War has played the devil
with the theater." So writes a thinker,
perhaps a philosopher, whom the SUBJ
ject interests.
Sometimes think 1t wasn't the war,
but the movies" he continues. Ever
since the movie has come into exist
ence the fellows behind it have moved
Heaven and earth to destroy every other
previously known form of stage enter
tainment. Not for the purpose of an
Inhalation, but simply later on to try
to drag it in and incorporate it as an
accessory to the fitting sound pictures.
Say what you like, but grand opera
and vaudeville have been dealt deadly
blow; the stage of play acting is stag
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Another Hollywood.

DERHAPS it is because the spires and
pinnacles of New York, representing
many varied interests, stand out so
clearly just across the East River that
few people stop to think of Astoria,
Long Island, as the second Hollywood.
Yet nowhere else in the world outside
of the Pacific Coast motion picture
center can one find stars of such mag
nitude as Nancy Carroll, Ina Claire,
Mary Brian, Maurice Chevalier, Frederic
March, Claudette Colbert, Ed Wynn and
dozens of others working on produc-
tons of such Importance as THE Royal
Family" and Follow the Leader" And
nowhere outside of Hollywood Is there
such a Mecca for screen ambitious girls.
Outside the Paramount studio in AS
toria does not look the place of dreams
and enchantment that In reality it is.
Its severely plain entrance does not at
all seem the door through which so
many have entered to fortune and
worldwide fame.
But down long corridors Of Offices
just like of1ces the country over
through a door, and you are in the land
Of make-believe.
On queer, long arm reaching out
from the side of the room a cylindrical
object, perhaps foot in length and half
that in diameter, is suspended above the
actors heads and moves with them. 1t
is the microphone which picks up their
words and translates them to the fllm.
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Praises American Stage.

deed the home Of one Of the great arts
the art CT acted drama. But it must
be more; it must be the home of good
fellowship and amusement. That Is
where the American theater offers so
much more advance to its audience.
In my own mind the advance in the
thcater is a symbol Of closer rap
rorten1ent in Anglo-American rela-
ticns. For Anglo American affection is
strengthened by informed opinion and
the Interchange of the best products
CT the art5. Literature for people Of
similar language is the best meeting
ground, and drama that branch Of lit
erature that most swiftly brings under
standing between people. From the
theater, then, we must look for the
source Of a constant and amiable ex-
change, not only between the West End
OF London and Broadway but between
the wider ranges of the United States
and Great Britain.
The level Of the average Broadway
and West End play is higher than it
was not only Is but even 10 years ago,
MIR. Drinkwater declares. largely
through the aspirations and success of
the repertory and little theater. These
rise or fall because of financial factors
which are easier in the United States
than in England. Whether you like
good theater or not, you must understand
that o manager needs money to hold
on TO any play. Costs Of production
have risen phenomenally, and only the
man with heavy reserve can hold on to
even good play. The repertory thea
terS, either by subscription or by sub
sidy, have been able to continue pro-
auctions. even though individual plays
lose money. In this way commercial
managers have discovered some of their
most lucrative pieces of the last decade.
Bird in Hand, you know, was first
seen at the Birmingham Repertory be-
fore a London manager would put 1t
on"
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Misses Audience.
MARJORIE RAMBEAU, whose S

MARJORIE RAMBEAU, whose sue
cess in pictures has brought her
an enviable contract with M.-G.-M.,
misses her audience-the audience she
can sec and whose applause ever has
been music to her soul.
With years of sensational success on
the stage, where she had the advan-
tage of reaction of audiences to her
work. Miss Rambeau misses that ad-
vantage.
THE technical movie staff is the only
audience we have while acting before
the camera" says Miss Rambeau. Nat
urally one wants as large an audience
as possible-so I'm for bigger technical
stats.
THE attitude Of the staff toward me,
what each says to me and how he says
it, even when concerning casual things,
and what sense in their attitude
while doing scene are my stop and
go signals.
THE staff is the most difficult audi
ence to impress. but I have found 1t
amazingly accurate on the stage. The
motion picture staff on the set helps
lot"
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GIRLS IN BLUE"

High above the actors, where the cell
ing of the room should be but isn't,
men are stationed at numerous huge
lights, and at the side where the room S
fourth wall should be are two cameras
mounted in Soundproof boxes and used
for recording the scenes which audi
enceS throughout the world will see on
the screen a few weeks later.
On the floor below this main 3tage
are five Others soundproofed from each
other. On these stages similar scenes
are taking place, many Of them for
short comedies. Behind soundproof
doors carpentry shops, machine shops.
scene painting departments and devel-
oping rooms ere humming with activity.
Paramount has inaugurated a new
policy which will bring its Eastern
plant to greater prominence as pro-
ducing center, for 1t believes II is good
for both directors and stars to get away
from Hollywood and to absorb new
ideas in New York, and so they plan to
rotate their productions, making IL big
pictures in the East this year. Ernest
LubitSch, Paramount'S greatest director,
who never before has worked in New
York, is to make two or more pictures
and at the same time to act as super
viSing director for the studio.
Because Of its nearneSs to New York
it is planned hereafter to make the more
sophisticated and adult comedy pictures
at the Astoria plant.
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gering to knockout, and If somebody
doesn't unhinge the combination il
won't be long before every Joy that we
once knew in the theater is wiped of
the face Of the earth.
Now, soup'-here's where the soup
comes into this appeal to Caesar sober
soup repeated merely to make the
idea clear is q good thing, a delicious
thing. and everybody likes soup. But
would we want all cur meals of the fu-
ture to be crowded into just soup?
Well, that's just what has happened
with sound pictures. Delightful things
served in style and apart from other
things, in due season help to make a
delightful meal. But I'll be eternally
DANCED If can see where the stage
and screen programs Of the present day
make up for the varied entertainment
each served separately and at its best
that used to delight theatergoers before
the Wcrld War.
why won't somebody give us back
our play acting by live actors, our
vaudeville in vaudeville theatsrs that
knew how to present it, our burleSque
If the taste be gamey, and our grand
opera before it has been mechanical"
Can any one help the complainant?
He said lots more, but space forbids
publishing it all.
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Christmas Gift for Dix.

CHRISTMAS this year viii mean the
fulflllment of lifelong ambition
for Richard Dixl The Radio Pictures
star, one Of the outstanding PERSONAL
ties of the silent and talking screen, is
to be both star and director of Rex
Beach'S Big Brother"
This announcement has been made
by William LIE Baron, vice president in
charge of Radio Pictures production,
the man who originally gave Dix his
greatest opportunity on the screen.
Not only has Dix long cherished q
desire to direct pictures, but for many
years he has had his heart set on play
ing the Big Brother" role. When the
Beach story was filmed as silent pic
ture several years ago Dix was under
contract as star to the studio which
produced it. He did not have an op-
portunity to play the part, however. as
Big Brother" was not considered a
starring vehicle. He has just COM
pleted his work in Radio Pictures
"Cimarron," and after brief rest he
will launch his first acting directing
venture.
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Eyes That Did It All.

FAY WRAY, who is featured in
Capt Thunder" at the Metropoli-
tan Theater, is said to owe much of
her success in pictures to the scintil-
lating, magnetic power Of her eyes.
When a high school girl in Holly
wood. Miss Wray's eyes fascinated her
friends. Then they attracted attention
of prominent personalities of the Aim
colony, and the next thing she knew
she was flashing them in front OF a
motion picture camera. 1t was not
long before she became leading lady
in two-reel comedies. She played after
ward as the heroine in a series Of
Western pictures.
When Eric Won Strcheim cast her
for the feminine lead in THE Wedding
March" Miss Wray reached the i'm
portant turning point in her career.
Since that time she has appeared in
over 20 productions, half of them PROV
ing talking successes.
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HE future or the drama lies In the
hands of American rather than
British producers, and the progress
made in the last 10 years on this side
Of the Atlantic should bring optimism
into the hearts Of all devotees Of the
theater. This is the gist Of the mes
sage given to the public by John Drink
Wate-, whose comedy, Bird in Hand. &"
Will be seen at the Belasco Chris mas
night.
The drama, like all other living
arts, must be nursed carefully" says
Mr.. Drlnkwater. And nursing needs
money. with which the managers and
producers in the United States are gen
eTously provided. My impressions of
the current New York theater are neces-
sarily superficial as yet, since I have
been on these shores only five days,
and my absence from New York since
nv first visit in connection with 'Abra-
ham Lincoln lasted nine years. How
ever, in that time I have seen many
Of your plays in England, and I have
been wildly aware of the advance in
the American theater 1t is without
any intention of flattery to my Ameri-
can friends that 1 congratulate this
country on the great stride ahead, at
least in this art, since 1920.
The general artistic and economic
conditions which exist in England are
similar to those here. But you Ameri-
cans attain greater efficiency because
you have more money to work with.
The best in both theaters Is much the
same. We have our 'theaters Of the
Imagination in which men like Nigel
Playfair, Sir Barry Jackson, Miss
Horninan, Granville Barker and others
work. You have your theater guilds,
your lie Caffeine, your Actors Theater
your Stuart Walker and other artistic
groups. You take from us the works
OF our Synge. and our GalSworthys, but
in return you give us your Eugene
O'Neul-a fair exchange.
1t is not only in the realm { tn +,
intellectual artistic drama such as these
men write thf England and America
must meet. The theater should be in
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Doings at Fox Studios.

, ing. Give Brook and Conrad Nagel head
the cast.
John Ford is rapidly finishing "The
Seas Beneath" the first "he and she"
romance revolving around submarine
warfare TO reach the screen. The BEAU
tiful blond Viennese player, Marion
Leasing, is the heroine, with George
O'Brien, Mona Harris and Warren Hy-
mer prominent in the cast.
The effect of Latin love on Anglo
Saxon beauty is illustrated in This
Modern World" which presents Warner
Baxter as handsome Basque and Dor
othy Mackaill as an English girl visiting
in the Pyrenees. Chandler Sprague Is
directing this story. adapted from Flea
nor Mercein's novel "Basquerie."
That there are woman haters even in
modern colleges is shown in Girls De-
mand Excitement" featuring John
Wayne, hero of THE Big Trail" and
Virginia Cherrill, for two years Charles
Chaplin's leading woman in city
Lights"
Raoul Walsh has given all but the
final touches to THE Man Who Came
Back" the story of the climb by a rich
mans son from the bottom, with Charles
Farrell and Janet Gaynor co-featured.
The Shanghai sequences, high lights Of
the story and play, have just been COM
pleted
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Screen Actors Always Fresh,

Screen Actors Always Fresh.
THE belief held by many in the the
atrical profession that screen actors
could give much finer performances if
they had time to work into" their
parts is all nonsense, according to
James c. Morton, one of the actors in
Follow the Leader" an Ed Wynn pic
ture.
THE salvation of motion pictures lies
in the fact that the actors always are
fresh contends Mr. Morton. every
one not blinded by tradition knows that
f1rst-class stock company can give a
more scintillating performance after a
week of rehearsalS than a faded cast
which has played the same show for
months.
Its just human nature to lose in
terest after routine has become habit
ual. Mechanically long-run show
may be perfect, but it hasn't the life
and spontaneity of motion picture or
stock performance"
Morton added that work in stock is
the best training for motion picture
actors because it makes ,lem quick
studies" that is, able to menlorize and
understand parts in a short time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14

FROM the sixth century to the twen-
tieth, from the Basque country to
production units now driving at top
speed at the Fox film studios in Holly
wood.
Will Rogers, with Director David But
Ter and notable cast, is bringing Mark
Twain's classic, "a Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur'S Court" to life on the
talking screen. Maureen O'Sullivan is
the princess, William Farnum Is King
Arthur, Myrna 10y is Queen Morgan
LIE Fay, and Brandon Hurst is Merlin.
East Lynne" the emotional drama
which made hearts ache and tears flow
ages and ages ago, is being brought to
close under Frank Lloyd. Ann Hard
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G. B. and George.

JACOB WILK, head of the story de-
> partment of Warner Brothers, is
the subject of an interview by Gray
Strider in the October issue of Screen
land. Entitled How About the Au-
thors?" it confines itself to Mr.. Wilk's
impressions of his recent visit to George
Bernard Shaw. In commenting on the
changed attitude Of the writer, Mr..
Wilk says:
Another reason for Shaw's friendli-
ness toward the screen as 1t now Is, is
because Of the fact that George Arliss
is one of his closest friends. He admired
Arlis very much in his picture, Dis
rael,' and at present Arliss is trying
to persuade the great dramatist to write
a play for him, taking the life Of Vol
taire as the hero. In this connection,
have recently sent Shaw a working
manuscript Of our version CT 'Disraeli'
to let him read it and see how the pic
ture script varies from the play. 1 look
forward with much interest to his reac-
ton"
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Colman's New Foil.

CONSTANCE CONIMINGS, a COM
parative stranger to the Aims, has
been selected as leading lady to Ronald
Colman in his next picture for Samuel
Goldwyn.
Miss Cummings has reddish blond
hair. She was born in Seattle May Is
1910. Her education was at Coronado
and her first dramatic and dancing eX-
perience was in the high school of that
Californian resort.
During her work as a chorus girl in
1.-THE Little Show" Sam Harris saw in
her a possibility as an actress. And
so when June Moon" went into re-
hearsal he engaged Miss Cummings as
understudy to Miss Linda Watkins
Constance had only one opportunity to
"emote," but she did her work we'll.
And so, along came Ronald and the
Sam Goldwyn staff and snapped her
up in the twinkling of an eye.
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between the old regime and the new,
between youth and age. The keepers
pretty daughter revolts when her ira
dition-bound father objects to her COM
panionship with nobility. The mother
Is drawn into the melee. also the lover
and his father. Presently, casual over
night guests at the hosiery find them
selves hopelessly enmeshed in the do
nestle conflict. From such premises
Drinkwater proceeds to evolve an eve
ming of sheer robust comedy. Bird
in Hand" is reputed to be at once
witty and wise, mellow and trenchant
The company to be seen here and
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Talks British.

AN American girl whose enuncia-
ton Con the stage at least) gives
enc the impression that she is a native
Briton plays the leading female ro-
mantle role in Cyril Mande's Grumpy"
the current screen attraction at the Co.
lumbia.
The girl is Frances Dade. Miss Dade
gained her acting experience on the
stage. She was brought to Hollywood
by Samuel Goldwyn to appear in Raj
fles" with Ronald Colman and Kay
Francis She also has played the lead
ing ingenue lead in the audible film,
He Knew Women"
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SOrSh1p, wise heads are needed in
the production end of the indus
try. Motion pictures are not an
art; they are business.
SHORT FLASHES.
HAROLD LLOYD nnounce S
that he is one of a group in
tereSted in cutting down the
amount of dialogue in a picture.
He certainly proves this by his
dialogue in Feet First" His cries
for ''Help!" just about sum up his
total contribution to the modern
talkie.
1t is announced that Joe
Browns next picture will carry
the title of Broad Minded"
A Rex Beach story, big
Brother" has been selected as a
starring vehicle for Richard Dix.
Two Warner Brothers pictures,
Illicit" with Barbara Stanwyck
and James Rennie, and Divorce
Among Friends" with Irene Del
roy, James Hall and Lew Cody,
are scheduled for early releases.
Wanda Hawley, remembered by
older theatergoerS, returns to
the screen in 1.-THE Pueblo Terror"
Lew AyreS and Genevieve Tobin
are starred in the Monta Bell
production, Fires of Youth. "
Dorothy Peterson is a member of
the cast.
Janet Gaynor is to play the
title role of Merely Mary Ann"
which Henry King will direct for
the Fox company. Work on the
picture will start as soon as Miss
Gaynor returns from a short va
cation in Honolulu. Cecilia LOTUS
and j. M. Kerrigan are the only
other members of the cast Sc
lected.
The title Of the stage success,
Mile. Modesto" has had its name
changed again for screen produc-
ton. At the present time, it is
known as kiss Me Again." but
the title has been switched so
many times that no one really
knows how it will finally appear
on the screen.
Loretta Young, who has been
elevated to Stardom by First Ma
tional, will be featured in big
Business Girl"
George Arliss will select the
title of his new picture, which
was written by Booth Harrington.
Then the star will take the lead
ing role in the Franz Molnar
play, THE Devil"