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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

THE report. recently published, that
only % per cent Of the "old guard
Of cinema actors are being employed by
the budding talkies, and that the other
81 per cent are recruits plucked from
here, there and everywhere, is a Situa-
ton that may carry both dismay and
good cheer alike to the limpid shores OF
California.
If such q statement had been made
five years ago, how loud the human
oracles would have laughed. and how
warranted would have been their laugh
ter. But i've years ago the public was
less le-minded than now. The stars
most prominent on the screen then were
stars that had earned their right to
popularity by persistency Of effort and
the long and continued approval OF
their audiences. Gloria Swanson had
battled upward from the Mack Sennett
days-beginning her serious roles in
that most famous OF screen misnomers,
Male and Female" otherwise Barrie's
1.-THE Admirable Creighton" Bebe
Daniels had done likewise, and Pola
Negri had triumphed in Berlin and was
trying against odds to do the same over
here, while Corinne Grifdth, Carol
Dempcter. Blanche Sweet and Mary
Philbin were at the very top Of their
cinema ladder.
6eIOTe Cnenl, II Is true, the SHADOWS
Of such popular stars as Anita Stewart
Mary Miles Minter, Olive Thomas
Ruth Roland, Mabel Normand, Lew
Cody, William s. Hart and William
Farnum had begun to fade. And even
before these, Francis x. Bushman
Beverly Bayne, Dustin Farnum and the
Essaney crowd that included Bryant
Washburn also was rapidly vanishing
But nobody in those early days ever
supposed that a wholesale" fading
would take place-that Bessie Barri-
scale could be forgotten, or that Mae
Marsh. who appeared in q new picture
almost daily, would fade into innocuous
desuetude.
The talkie revolution, however. as
everybody nov knows, has thrown more
actors than everyday ghosts into OBJ
livion.
In evidence today are new faces that
one can readily imagine vial not last
The new stars have less chance Of per-
manency than the stars of yesterday
The public's taste seems to have grown
more vacillating What pleases today
will certainly not do for tomorrow
Even the blind can see that. Constant
interplay between Broadway and Holly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Wells Hawks Good News.
IEUT. COMDR. WELLS HAWKS IT

/ A6O4. COMOtS. WELLS HAWKS. u,
s. N. r., president emeritus of
the Theatrical Press Representatives OF
America, Inc, and one of the best
press agents ever, reports he Is all right
again after q long illness, which began
three years ago, when he was employed
In the Ringling Bros. press department.
His condition was considered very seri-
Gus and he was admitted to the United
States Naval Hospital in Brooklyn.
While he was In the hospital he was
visited by Miss That's Magrane, a we'll
known actress, who asked to be allowed
to take charge Of him. This request
was granted and Miss Magrane took
him first to her home in New York
City and later to her country place at
"Thaisvtlle," Pomona, N. Y. There is
said to be no doubt that Mr.. Hawks
owes his recovery to the constant care
and attention Miss Magrane has given
him.
Miss Magrane, who has played for
George G. Tyler and other prominent
managers, is planning to return to the
stage In September and Mr.. Hawks
says he will be her press agent.
In the war, Miss Magrane was active
as a nurse and later she was elected
president Of the American Legion of
New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

NOAH would do well to have couple
Of Hollywood carpenters along In
case another flood should inundate the
world. They, with q hammer, saw
and nail or two, could build it up
again without plan to work from.
The Hollywood motion picture car
penter Is true internationaliSt. On
Monday morning he builds a Chinese
pagoda; Tuesday he erects q Pyramid;
Wednesday he constructs a Rhenish
castle; Thursday the Casino at Monte
Carlo; Friday a village of Navajo
hogans and on Saturday a pent house
apartment done in the modernistic
manner for millionaire who next week
will be a chauffeur.
Hollywood's studio carpenters form an
aristocratic guild closely organized
clan Of artisans who know, 1t Is said,
more Of far lands and of history than
the average Cooks tourist; They even
have distinctive dress. It consists of
white bib overalls and a blue shirt.
That outfit is the carpenters identify
ing garb and no other studio workers
dare appear in 1t except the painters,
who add o distinctive white cap, and
thus have q uniform Of their own.
The speed with which q trained crew
Of motion picture carpenters can work
Is one Of the chief naarvels Of the mo-
ton picture colony. For example, q
crew Of less than SO men built in 90
hours a duplicated interior Of the gam
bling casino at Monte Carlo for use In
q current Paramount production.
Not only was this huge setting built
In that time, 1t also was furnished and
decorated complete with carpets, dra-
peries, roulette tables, light chandeliers
and hardware fixtures on the doors and
windows. On the third day after blue
print plans had been completed and
orders to build 1t had been given, Di-
rector Ernst Lubitsch and q company
OF players were at work in the set for
scenes Of his new production, Monte
Carlo"
Other speed records equally as star
Ting are the order of the day at the
paramount studios. An entire court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Takes the Easiest WAY.

NO! Glorious Gloria, she who was once
miss Swanson, before royalty
hagged her for its own, Is not going to
appear upon the stage-the speaking
stase-or to make it clearer, the stage
where the body itself must accompany
the voice.
From the. United Artists Corporation
comes the information, and the de-
, ciSion. Is said, to have been announced
by Gloria herself.
There was great danger Of 1t, though.
GloriaS singing in The Trespasser" is
said to have flooded her with demands
l'for concert and operate appearances
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orches-
ira invited her to appear Is guest So
loist." 'the first time any film player
has been so honored." The orchestra
Is located in Los Angeles and knows
Aim players.
And so the dreams of the little girl
who once worked for Mack Sennett, "
as David Belasco might we'll have said
it, land who had her voice cultivated to
prepare for an operate career"-well,
the little girl herself is going to stick
to the movies or. more properly speak
ing. to the talkies.
The foregoing is an outburst from the
art-embalmed star organization headed
by Mr.. Schenck in Hollywood. But to
put it as Gloria might put it herself,
Gloria has humdinger of a comedy,
called What a Widow!'" and she is
putting all her art and her artifice,
and then some, into. it for an "all-
talkie, all-singie, etc." and it is going
to be one Of the early Fall releases
which may or may not reach WASH
ington before the snow flies, barring
luck and the Vaccinations Of the pow
ers that rule here.
In it Gloria Is going to sing three
new songs, especially written for her
by Vincent Youmans, composer Of "No,
No, Nanette," and "Hit the Deck"
They are Love Is Like a Song" a soul
stirring beauty: Say Out, Cherie,'" a
cute one, and ITO the Only One" that
The @rs sto yVu of What 'e Wdew
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have several novelty offerings and Leon
Brusilon Will offer an overture by the
Fox Orchestra and the Fox Movietone
News VIII complete the bill.
EARLE-"Road TO Paradise"
WILL OSBORNE, radios original
W crooner, is back at Warner Bros.
Earle Theater, in person, as the result
Of his notable success at the Earle sew
eral weeks ago. He Is accompanied by
his radio band, with a program of new
song hits, which he presents in his
inimitable manner.
The Earle screen feature, Road to
Paradise" a First National and Vita
phone action romance, with Loretta
Young in a dual role, is described as
an exciting drama concerning q beau
tiful orphan, brought up by two crooks.
but inclined to be honest despite her
environment. The crooks notice that
she bears striking resemblance to q
wealthy heiresS and persuades her to
assist them in r0bbing the home of the
heiress. She completely deceives the
servants and the members of the fam
lily by her amazing similarity to the
wealthy girl, until a strange discovery
Is made. The outcome of the picture
is In doubt to its very end. The action
is swift, leading rapidly from one COM
plication to another
In the cast are Jack Mulhall, Ray
mond Hatton, George Barraud, Kath-
Ign williams, Fred Kelsey, Purnell
Pratt, Ben Hendricks, jr.; Dot Farley,
Winter Hall and Georgette Rhodes.
Additional features will include new
Vitaphone Varieties, music by the Earle
Orchestra and the Pathe and Para
mount newsreels.
PALACE-"A Man From Wyoming"
GARY COOPER, hero of THE Vir-
ginian" and 1.-THE Texan" Is now
pictured at Loews Palace In the Para
mount production, "A Man Prom
wyoming" with June Collyer and
and Regis Toomey in the supporting
cast.
Patricia Hunter, a spoiled society
girl in search of thrills, according to
the screen story, wanders up near the
front line of the trenches in wartime
and draws the enemys fire. Capt. Jim
Baker, an engineer, rescues her from
her plight and places her under arrest,
conducting her back to headquarters. He
also falls in love with her and later
they are married. Ordered to active
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Educational Talkies.

GEORGE ARLISS, stage and screen
star of "Disraeli," now contemplat-
ing picture version of the Galsworthy
play, "Old English" recently spoke be-
fore the Alumni Association of the UNI
versity Of Southern California on the
subject Of the educational value of the
talkies.
IT think" said Mr. Arliss, there can
be no doubt about the educational DOS
sibilities to be derived from the talking
picture. 1t Is, in fact. difficult to real
lie the immense stride that has been
taken from the silent to the talking
screen.
To tell stories by means Of pictures
is suppose, the most primitive stage
OF education, whereas the literature Of
any country Is its crowning glory. And
just as soon as you get talking pictures
you automatically get literature.
There has never been, In my opinion,
such a stimulus to the drama as that
which Is offered by the mechanical de-
vice which permits the best that the
country can produce to be seen and
heard In the most obscure corners Of
the United States.
The greatest authors in the world
will soon be turning their attention to
writing especially for the screen. In
TACT, they are doing so now. The great
mass Of the movie public is quick to
learn, and will grow to appreciate style
in writing, as they have already to APP
preciate good music.
"The educational value of the talking
screen Is without limit. look for the
day when there will be talking that
shall set the standard of good English,
good diction, perfect delivery of speech.
don't mean pedantic English or the
English with the so-called English &C
cent, but the best English. which be-
longs equally to England and America.
There is no doubt that there is q
decided tendency today toward slip
men are rather ashamed to speak we'll.
They look up it as unmanly-rather
as the wearing of the wrist watch was
regarded before the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Theme Songs Swan Song.

= " ~$@S
THE theme song is ended and the
melody won't linger on.
Thus speaks, from Hollywood, DR.,
Hugo Riesenfeld, erstwhile maestro of
the Rivoli and Rialto Theaters, in New
York, the musical head Of United Ar
lists, whose most recent work was done
in connection with THE Lottery
Bride"
DR.. Hugo says that the theme song
Is dead because 1t was chiefly vain.
able as accompaniment to silent pic
lures. Now In the talking Aims Il Is
replaced by one Of several song num-
bers. either the "hit" number or q
selection that has q definite relation
ship to the main story situation.
Scoring is obsolete, too, the GOOD
doctor announces. He scored 'SThe
Covered Wagon" and dozens of pic
lures thereafter.
Among the theme songs that It is
said achieved prominence were "Ra-
mona" Diane" "Charmaine." and
Where Is the Song of Songs for Me?"
Such songs as Love-" sung by Gloria
Swanson in THE Trespasser," "Sonny
Boy" sung by AL Jolson In "The sing
ing FooT; and Putin on the Ritz "
sung by Harry Richman In his Aim of
that name, are not theme songs. They
are just Songs-or are they?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

lures, due to the difficulty Of moving the
great camera booths about the stages.
This was overcome by introduction Of
"blimps," or suit case-sized camera 81
lencers and dolly. shots again were
made, although their movement was re-
stricted. due TO the fact tnat micro
phones, cameras a2d light reflectors
must travel. together. dragging theis
power cables behind them.
Desiring to give audiences an impress
sion Of the size of an ocean liner, Di-
rector Edward Sutherland solved the
problem by mounting a "blimp" on a
small ruNoer-tired truck, together with
a microphone, reflector and three-man
crew. All she cables in the studio were
collected, spliced and wound on drum.
When. all was in readiness two men
pushed the truck after the actors, while
others stationed in long line beside the
drum gripped the cable every IS feet
and tiptoed after the camera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Dolly" Shots and "Blirnps''

4 WEIRD snake dance was performed
in absolute silence by 80 employees
Of Paramount's New York studio when
one of the longest dolly" camera shots
ever attempted in talking picture was
accomplished during the filming Of Jack
Oakie's picture, The Sap From SYRIA
cuse."
A sound camera Travelled 500 feet in
two minutes along the deck of an ocean
liner, while behind 1t tiptoed 80 work.
men carrying the three 1k-inch electric
cables attached to the machine. The
camera followed group of actors from
the royal suite of the vessel, along the
transverse passage which extended from
rail to rail and down the entire length
Of the promenade deck with no stops en-
route.
Dolly Shots" which used to be COM
mon in silent days when there were no
microphoneS, were practically aban-
doned with the advent of talking pic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

written around Gloria's own PERSONAL
ity by Josephine Lovett, but James
Gleason and James Seymour wrote the
dialogue, meaning the wise cracks. And
be It. heralded near and far, the pur-
pose of it all is not to uplift anything
nor to point a moral, but simply to
amuse and entertain. Allan Dwan is
directing 1t and Owen Moore, Lew Cody
and Margaret Livingston are In the
cast
OF course. it is going to be all that
Gloria wants 1t to be, and she de-
serves 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Howard Still Up and Doing.

HOWARD HUGHES, whose vast ex-
l. penditures and patience over his
production, "Hells Angels" in the
course of It's three-year evolution, was
something more than table talk, an
nounces that he has bought the Multi
Color Films, Inc.
Not only has Mr. Hughes bought this
large and interesting concern, but he
plans to build In connection Herewith
q 100000 laboratory In Hollywood,
which he will allow other countries to
use If they are DESTROYS Of INDUCING
their fancies in this color process.
Nice fellow, what?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Studio Wizards.

room was built for william Powells
new picture, For the Defense" in IL
hours. An Alaskan village Of three
blocks of stores and homes is under
construction for Edwin Carewe's forth
coming production, 1.-The Spoilers" and
1t will have been finished in less than
one week from the time of the first
hammer blow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

After all, there is nothing essen.
italy manly in half-formed words
Nothing particularly clever in clumsy
speech. I say nothing against slang: /
rather admire 1t. 1t Is apt to enrich
the language, but I can see no excuse
for q lazy and careless delivery Of
words"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
DANCING.

CARMODY STUDIO
1l30 Connecticut Ave. NSrth l6ze
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13


First National Pictures sends me
an itemized list of the food con-
suhed by movie stars in the Hol-
lywood restaurants - so many
pounds Of beef, so many heads of
lettuce, etc. The list would not
make good reading, so I am turn
ing it over to the Department of
Agriculture for it's reference file.
Dorothy Peterson, known to the
stage for her work in "Dracula, :"
Subway Express" and other late
plays, Is the newest recruit for
featured role in HOLLYWOOD, She
is to appear in First Nationals
Mothers Cry" which is certainly
a poor title for any picture.
The Rafael Sabatini story, "Cap-
tain Blood" Is going into the
movies, with Frank Lloyd direct
ing.
And Douglas Fairbanks, jr.. has
signed a long-terln contract,
Four ships have been chartered
for John Gilbert's starring vehicle,
WAY Of a Sailor" Leila Hyams
plays the feminine lead.
Nancy Carroll and Frederic
Marsh are starred in Laughter, /"
now being made in the Para
mount studio. Other new pictures
being made in the same studio are
Reaching for the Moon" Heads
Up" and "The Best People"
Grant Mitchell, popular stage
star, plays the lead in Barber
Johns Son." Two others in the
cast are Lucille Powers and Rus
sell Simpson. Allan Dwan is d.
recting.
Harry Gribbon plays the Detec-
tive Mulligan role In the screen
version Of Gorilla"
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
BOY THEFT TRIO
IS SENTENCED

Alleged TO have been members
Of q band whose activities. &C
cording to police. included strip
ping accessories from automobiles,
three boys yesterday were sen.
fenced in, Juvenile Court by Judge
Kathryn Sellers.
The boys are Harry Hazel, 49,;
George Lilly, Is, and Joseph Gala.
han. Hazel Is the SON of Mrs.
Marie Elizabeth Hazel Lowe. who
IS herself on $500 bond on a
charge of receiving stolen prop
erty. Mrs. Hazel and the boys
were arrested together q short
time ago, following a police in
vestigation which, detectives al
lege, disclosed $500 worth. of
dresses. silks, automobile aecesso-
ries and other goods in her apart
Inent.
Judge Sellers placed Hazel on
probation, turned Lilly over to the
Board Of Public Welfare and sent
Callahan to the Industrial Reform
School. s
The Washington times., 1930-08-21

LONDON, Aug. 81. Outspoken
views on the newer tendencies
In morality were expressed BY
leaders at the Modern Church.
mems Conference. DISCUSSING
Problems Of Personal Life" ct
oxford.
The REV. J.. C.. Hardwick, vicar
of Partington, said:
s'Tt would be no exaggeratiOn
to say that many people nOW-
adays are as afraid Of repres-
sion as they are Of bad drains
and contaminated milk. Just
as the fear Of hell frightened
our grandfatheTs from the
raths Of vice, so the fear Of
completes scares us from the
path of virtue.
Practice. fortunately for us
all, does not follow too closely
ON the heels Of theory. People
who hold extremist views often
are excessively harmless In
practice. The believer In Com
munisln is fidgety about his
money, and the theoretical free
lover Is afraid Of his wife. The
advanced thinker who advO-
Gates the new Chicago won't
speak Of the new Jerusalem
won't tell us how to get there.
what part is the church
playing in the creative epoch
lying ahead? The bishops have
been talking, but the leader
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
KIDNAPERS:
STILL SOUGHT

Police Of Rockville, Md, are
searching throughout Maryland
and the District Of Columbia for
Christopher C. Campbell and "an-
other man" who, they say. kid
rlaped 16-year-old Retha Smith
from her home near Unity, Md,
and took her to Mt. Airy, Md,
The police refused today to di.
vIilge the name Of the other man.
They declared that they took the
girl in an automobile to a board
ing house In Mt. Airy last Thurs
day and left her there. Campbell.
the police we're told, gave the
girl SO.
Last Sunday the woman opera
tor Of the boarding house, read In
the papers about the disappear
ance Of q Unity girl.
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Wires in MGnKOle
Badly Burn Worker

William Lanahan, %. Of the 300
block Thirteenth st. N. g.. was
burned on the face and arm when
wires in q manhole In which he
gas working at Fifteenth Street
and New York Avenue Northwest
short circuited. I
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
ADvERTIsEmEMT
ITCHING TORTURE ENDS

.sUhsn soothins ZsmO 10 used
It's remarkable how quickly sum.
mer itching vanishes when Zemo
touches the skin. Use It for rashes
bites. tvy.poisoning and itching
peeling toes. This far.famed anti.
septic draws out heat and pain
and quickly soothes away irritG don
Use safe. healing Zemo freely to
clear Lp ugly pimples and dandruff.
It's invisible and odorless. Just the
thing for sunburn and other sum.
mer skin irritations. HaYe Zeno
handy always. Any drug list. 35c,
6Oc, S1,OO.
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
DEATH. IS NEAR
FOR PRISONER

Harry Moore, colored. 43, who
was shot through the chest when
he attacked q guard at Occoquan
Workholise early yesterday. is not
expected to live through the day,
physicians at 0allinger Hospital
reported today.
He was serving q sentence Of
$50 days for having cut a man in
q fight near Center Market, April
81. He struck John A. Tyers, a
guard. who entered the dormi-
tory, over the head and Tyers
shot him.
Capt. M, M. Barnard. superin.
tendent Of penal institutions, alb
solved Tyers Of all blame.
YOur travel" worries can be elm
mated through the purchase Of q car
Of your own from one Of the reliable
dealers advertising In tOday'S Classified
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Aged Auto Victina
Still Lies IN MOrgue

The body of an unidentified col.
ored. woman, about so, is in the
District Morgue waiting an In.
quest today. The aged woman was
knocked down by an automobile
operated, according to police. by
James e. Ryan. Is, of the 1900
block Brentwood Rd. N. e.
Taken to Freedfnen's Hospital,
the woman died without regaintng
consciousness. She suffered a
fractured skull and internal in
1uries. Ryan reported the acci.
dent, but was later arrested by po-
lice Of the Twelfth precinct and
held pending the inquest
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Consider African
HO8DitnL In Paris

PARIS, Aug. Il (IN.S) The
need of the $4,000 North Africans
living in France for q hospital OF
their own is being recognized by
the city Of Paris.
The Municipal Council is con.
sidering the project Of building
such an institution, as proposed
by Pierre Godiin. This hospital
would be built on city property
and would accommodate at least
200 beds,
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Gloria Denies She
VIII Go On tStn0e

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 81 G.N.SD
Gloria Swanson, film actress, to-
day denied reports that she would
appear in "a Paris Divorce in
New York this fall. under the
banner of Arch Selwyn, stage
producer. She said:
II have had no communica-
tiOn regarding such . proposal,
and / know nothing Of IT,"
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
Fear Complex Is Blamed
For Sins of Moderns

ship and Initiative have passed
from them. They are fighttng
B rear.gIiard action" $.
The Rev. A. Myers, who said
it might amuse the conference,
even II IL did not interest 1t, TO
hear he was from Tennessee, but
none the less believed In evolu-
tion, declared:
aAt the same time / believe
man evolved ont Of himself, not
out Of any lower forms Of hfe."
The Washington times., 1930-08-21

New York Ave. N. W. Margie
Livingston. colored, 5, 5000 block
Karl Fl. N. e., suffered internal
injuries yesterday and was taken
to Emergency Hospital. n
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
CHILD STRUCK BY CYCLE

Knocked down BY a motorcycle
as she ran from the curb towards
safety zone at Ninth st. and
The Washington times., 1930-08-21
NeU!
Extra
Weight!

M a d e especially for
the women who prefer
q real h heavy, soft,
smooth W cave. We
know women who haNS
had the old Fruit e
the Loom sheets to
wear from, 10 to Is
years then just
imagine the life of an
extra-weight sheet!