Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02

Sabel, Fay Templeton, Barney Fasan
and Others Of her day to movieland.
Lydia Titus sang Honey, You Stav
IN Your Own Backyard" in the days
when spirituals were having an inning.
but not the nanny kind. 1.-TWO Little
Girls in Blue" was. another. of her
| favorites.
She was making talkies on the local
lots up TO- six weeks ago, when a sudden
illness ceased all activities.
William lie Baron makes an interest
ing announcement regarding R-K-O's
program for $780, 1t is, in brief mo
more program pictures" For the bene.
mt OF the uninitiated, let me add that
program pictures are inexpensive
stories, quickly shot and with economy
casts. They feature q popular PLAYER
and group of mediocre ones. or thew
play fair story in the hands of players
OF the same caliber.
AT any rate, such pictures keep the
nrms schedule moving and roll up
money. without doubt. They also give
rise to the line so often heard as the
crowd leaves the theater-"Well. II I'd
known 1t was going to be that kind of a
picture, would have stayed home and
read my book"
All Of his coming years products will
be OF the magnitude of Rio Rita ;"
Sergt. Grisha", and others recently
made in that studio.
We've dipped into the prize-winnine
literary group. We've bought war books
without love interest. We're planning
Hemingway'S "A Farewell to Arms" for
Jack Gilbert, and there's even mention
OF @. B. Shaw's THE Devils Disciple. -
Well, the first grand opera has to be
screene4, the f1rst cotemporary bio
/ he 10
woman picture to be planned
Frederic Henry, the Hemingway hero,
IS a role which fits Jack Gilbert per-
1ectIy-at glance-if his voice is
capable of fulfilling this square-jawed,
many-bottled boy to whom war was an
adventurous background for red-blooded
love. It's rare tale, with a glorious
panoramic setting Of an army's retreat:
frontier about which little has been
master whose hand one will miss in
the gelatin version; strong meat, the
original, and not available for movie
use In It's present form, but written in
the bare, clean diction Of the Bible.
JACK Gilbert looks the part Of Frederic
Henry, but his voice mustn't play him
false.
X. H., Buffalo: Address colleen
Moore, Hollywood, Calf. NV mail
comes safely that way. so I daresay a
celebrity may be reached with similar
methods. This applies to any and all
stars in Hollywood. -
L. s., Kansas City: Have not Sea-
Greta Carlo pre-view of Anna Chris
tie" myself, but am told the first show
ing at San Bernardino, Calf, met with
splendid audience reaction. NY infor-
mant states that the lady spoke with
little or no accent. Producers are verv
slow at letting the correspondents hear
the finished product. and Greta's an
tipathy for visitors kept the stage in
communicate when she was at work.
N. r., Detroit: am not a man writ
ing under a woman's name, sorry to
say. I'd like to 60 out and ring door
bells tonight, but little lady lust can't
skylark and stay that way.
Suggested New Year resolution: Don't
send scenarios or ask for an opinion re-
garding the honesty of various producers
when exposed to the contagion of a
good story plot. have to 20 on living
here. Anyway, happy New Year,
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