The Washington times., 1930-02-20
THIS AND THAT

Ea~Ie TneaCer the first week In
April. Mary Loane, laSt
seen here as ingenue with the
National Players has an i'm.
portant role in the Ethel Barry
more company, due here Mon
day. "A. H. Van Buren, who
old-tirne stock fans can recall
as F Street favorite, directed
the dialogue of Lone Star
Ranger" the talking feature
coming to the, Fox Theater
Saturday.
Helen Morgan's first talking
picture Applause" failed to
make the grade or an r Street
showing -" over at Ford'S
Theater, Baltimore, they esti-
mate the Washington visitors
for Shaw'S Apple Cart" at
about 200 nightly the
Palace Theater has begun the
installation of a new steel cur
tain, All the construction work
will be done between IL p. m.
each night and 10 a. m. next
day" Happy Walkers
Orchestra doubling in brass as
q band will meet Robert l..
Believe 1t or Not) Ripley when
he arrives at Union Station to-
morrow for his Earle engage
ment.
Ethel Barrymore'S best pal
and severest critic in Washing.
ton lis Alice Roosevelt Long
worth 2" and the E. M.
Blythe programmed as director
of the Barrymore play is Ethel
herself when Babes in
Toyland" plays Polls week
after next it will give three
performances on Saturday. The
extra show will be at 10:30
Saturday morning for children
-" George r. Holmes. I. N. S.
Journalist, back from the Lon
don conference saw "CinderS"
while he was over there and re-
ports it's just fair. c. B. Dill
1ingham will do this musical
here next season.
The present week marks a
slump in business for all the
movie houses. The box office
Is expected to come back strong
with the holiday weekend. -.
William Haines is the best
money-maker on the Metro
Goldwyn payroll at present, out
Greta Carlo as a screen talker
is expected to edge the fresh
boy off the top rung very
soon. Criminal Code" which
comes to Polls early in March,
has a special drop curtain
weighing 1890 pounds. Me-
chanics arrived yesterday to
make the special stage rein
forcements necessary to hang
it properly. N. B. C. has
started it's legal department
after theaters using the. Amos
m Andy radio act as a feature
through the loud speaker sys-
tenn. N. B. c.. claims some
sort Of infringement and will
60 to court to protect theaters
playing the Correll and Gosden
act in person.
In certain circles that pre-
sumo to know they are saying
that Paramount and Warner
Brothers will merge just as
soon as the quotations on both
circuits are even in the stock
tables. Which ought to be
very soon. Leon Navarro, the
M. C. who comes to LoeW'S
Palace Saturday, has the repu-
tation of being the finest piano
player in the ranks of the
M. C.'s. Not excepting John
Irving Fisher. .R-K-O Keith's
will play THE Case CT Sergeant
Grischa" after the Pathe fea-
ture which opens tomorrow.
Which means that R-K-O won
the race to be first on the
screen with the first war pic
ture in sound. Journeys End
and "An Quiet on the Western
Front" are boom.boom pictures
Of other producers due to come
along any minute.
Evelyn Strimple, Of lilo M
st. N. W., wrote the best review
of Chevalier's Love Parade" in
the contest held by Loew'S Co
lumbia. For her literary effort
she gets new Philco radio.
q Irving Shapiro is in
London buying films, according
to a postcard to this desk
!" I" Florenz Ziegfeld, who
spends 500 a day on kilograms,
will come up from Palm Beach
for the Washington opening of
SHOW Boat" This ought to
make Western Union glad.
Charlie Warren, who
often sets these lines will be-
come an |, actor next Monday
night playing in THE Patsy"
with the Nativity theSpianS >"
George Wintz called me Arthur
Kelly and twisted the "Sari" re-
view to make it a puff and then
the printer who made the cor
rection left out the middle ini-
tial and final "E." So what's
the use.
Also most of those who write
this department call it Screen
ings and Gleanings" instead of
GleaningS and Screenings" Why
is that? . First National
has cut loose from Dorothy
Mackaill. But in justice too
the blonde actress 1t ought to
ba told that she was the first
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