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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
Huston an Actor.

WALTER HUSTON always swears by
w his beard, because no beard has
ever toresWorn him.
AS Ephraim Cabot, hand-picked by
Eugene O'Neill, he achieved tremendous
success on the New York stage in DE
sire Under the Films" Now, as Abra-
ham Lincoln, in the D. w. Griffith pic
ture production just completed, he has
done so well that United Artists have
signed him to a long-term contract,
Huston has done some good things on
the screen, as we'll as on the stage. In
playing a power role" ne doesn't rant.
He gets more out of the knuckles of
his bony hands than three day thun-
derers get out of ripping fiStfuls OF
thatch from their skulls. He refused
to emote when he went into the talkieS,
and instead of playing such roles as he
had on the stage, in THE Barker" and
Elmer the Great" he tackled the job
of the haraSsed reporter in Gentlemen
of the Press" and the intellectually
honest and mature father of THE Lady
Lies" The power was indicated by
sign somewhere along the highway, the
works were never turned on, and the
movie audiences liked the restraint they
have always liked. Even his bad man
in THE Virginian" was Thor pulling
punches.
Arthur Hopkins thinks he's pretty
good actor. So does Eugene ONeill. So
does George M. Cohen. They've all
hired him and all praised him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
The Snoring Picture cAlbum
By Robert e. Sherwood.

1t is my privilege to present herewith
an exclusive announcement from one of
the hugest organizations of them all
the Colossal-Lavish-E Epic Corporation,
of which Sol Colossal is president, Max
Lavish, vice president; Moe Epic, vice
president; Howard DietZ, vice presi-
dent, and John Held, jr,, vice president
1t is from MIR. Held, who is also public
relations counsel, that the announce
ment comes.
Colossal Lavish Epic was formed
writes Mr.. Held, in the infant days OF
the fifth largest industry (Which was
then only the fourth largest) solely IN
the interests of exaggeration. 1t was
really the realization of the dream OF
one man, Sol Colossal, who had come
all the way from his native Latvia to
these United States to engage in the
pants business.
When Mr.. Colossal drifted from pants
into pictures, he took with him as part
ners his brother in-law, Max Lavish
and his nephew Moe Epic. 1t was Mr.
Lavish who coined the new company's
immortal slogan: eff it's a Colossal
picture, it's big!"
Later came the gigantic merger where
by Abe Stupendous joined the firm
which came to be known as Colossal
Lavish pic-Stupendous, Inc. This was
only temporary, however, as Mr.. Stupen-
dous skipped to the Riviera with some
of the company's funds and one of its
a direct violation of the Will H, Hays
code of morals. So Abe was voted out
by the majority stockholders.
Now the company has purchased q
sound Synchronization device which just
misses infringement on other patents
and is going in for production of talk
ing pictures on a grand scale, under the
trade name of Colossal-LaviSh-E Epic
"Pix-Tox." Their wonder program for
1930-'31 includes 1896 Super-superior
features, 365 outdoor romances (pre-
viously known as westerns" or Cow
punk Operas"), a number of unthink-
able musical revueS (the exact number
will depend on how many tunes are left
over from other pictures) and 2,8Sa
"PiX-Tox" short subjects.
The first of the big features is g
Kohinoor- Ruby Emerald special en-
titled THE Blue Pastures" featuring
Norma Lavish, personally supervised by
Sol Colossal, jr., from the story by Moe
music by Milton Lavish, Cecil B. Epic
production.
Following this is Sable Ermine-
Mink Chinchilla special, titled Jour
ney's End in Scotland" a sequel to
Journeys End in Atlantic City" This
will be all-singing, all-dancing, all-color
all-cockeyed, featuring Buddy" Epic
personally supervised by Sol Colossal, jr.
with dialogue specially written by George
Bernard Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, w
Somerset Vaughan and Samuel Ship
man, all of whom are now employed on
the Colossal lot, with additional dia-
logue by Harry Lavish.
In fact, as Mr.. Held puts 1t, This is
going to be a Colossal-Lavish-E Epic year.
(CopyFight, le30)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

T%HERE is nothing so desirable in
the eyes of movie producers as
punch finish" If a genuine
i Knockout Wallop can be packed
into the last reel of photoplay,
then all sorts OF weaknesses and insult
ficiencies in the preceding five or even
10 reels are apt to be forgiven.
IF you can send 'em away with a
smile or tea, or both-then you've got
o hit, So runs the Hollywood maxim.
I can recall very few punch finishes
as thoroughly effective as that which
has been tackled on to Marion Davies
new picture, THE Florodora Girl" The
ending is in the form of a musical COM
edy number, photographed in Techni-
color. AS such, it should be stupidity
initiative of all the colored chorus festi-
walls that have been splashed on the
screen since THE Wedding of the
Painted Doll" But it isn't. 1t is re-
production of the loveliest, most melo-
dious, most thrilling girl-and-muSic
number that has ever been staged, the
Floredora sextette, rendering Tell Me
Pretty Maiden, Are There Any More at
Home Like You?"
Most of the picture "The Florodora
Girl" seems to me to be drearily dull.
Some of it is actually painful. A bur-
lesque-romantic tale of the, gay nine
ties, it is filled with Luxurious and lam
entably unsuccessful attempts at slap
stick humor.
In the last reel, however, when I saw
Miss Davies and her colleagues come
tripping forth to the strains of that
eternally popular song, I forgot all the
crudities and vulgarities and frailties
that had gone before. I forgot such
trivia because there was so much OF
vast Importance to remember.
George Jessel once said of the late
Sam Bernard that he was so sentimental
he would cry at card tricks. I can I'M
derstand that degree of sentimentality,
for I cry at the very thought of the
Florodora seXtette. Whenever I hear
that tune played or sung-and there
are some old dodderers still alive who
whistle it on occaSion-my heart is
overwhelmed with beautiful thoughts OF
my home town New York City as it
was in the vanished days of its charm
and simplicity and genial gaiety.
There were a few other scenes IN
"The Florodora Girl that aroused nos
talgic emotions - one of German
band, blaring away on bright corner,
and another of singing walter, war
bling My Mother Was a Lady" while
the boys in the back room Sobbed into
their schooners. Both these scenes and
many others in the picture are copies
of the tenderly humorous drawings by
X, v. Gutter, VINO originated TIE HlSIlly
appropriate term, The Gay Nineties"
and who recorded so skillfully the glories
of that golden epoch.
\
A LII the big movie producing compa-
MES are now issuing their
schedules for the coming season. The
number of pictures that they are to
manufacture is positively appalling
and so, perhaps, will be the pictures
themselves. That, of course. remains to
be seen and heard.
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Flying in white Weather"
Dreaded.
''XNH1TE WEATHER" is the nemesis

"XNHITE WEATHER" is the nemesis
Of aviators in the Antarctic, &C
cording to Willard Van der Veer and
Joseph T. Rucker, Paramount camera
men, who made many flights with Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd during his
South Polar expedition.
white weather" may come suddenly
at any time. The sky becomes over
cast. The sun disappears. Instantly
the horizon and all shadows vanish,
and your plane seems flying in a void,
for the snow-covered ground cannot be
seen.
"One has to ny blind and land by
instinct in such weather." Van der Veer
explained, "for it is impossible to see
the ground even at a distance of 25
feet. man walking along the snowy
wastes may fall into a hole or stumble
over a hillock without being able to see
it at all.
"Our planes never went aloft in such
weather. If it caught them before they
could land, the pilots dropped pieces OF
board painted black or any other dark
object which would lie on the snow and
give them an idea of their altitude"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
Photoplay Attractions
Continued From First Page)

Behrman, is described as a smart So
ciety drama of love in the four hun
dred, with q number of amusing and
effective twists. Its four major charac-
tiers are q writer, a rich widow, rich
chemist dabbler and a poor girl friend.
Trouble arises when the impecunious
girl friend puts out her hooks for the
petted poet. Director Hugh Herbert Is
said to have provided novel opening
and a refreshing climax.
Short films and Fred Clark and his
R-K-Olians round out the bill.
FOX-"MovietOne FOIIies of 1890"
THE management of the Fox Theater
launched its new policy of starting
"the new week" on Friday instead OF
Saturday, as heretofore, and its attrac-
ton. 1.-THE Movietone Follies of $780,"
featuring FL Brendel, the vaudeville
comedian: Frank Richardson and Mar
iorie White. will continue through the
current week.
The new "Movietone Follies" is not
revue type, but rather farce COMEDY,
whose music, songs, dances and other
incidents are interviewer into the story
the management states, las never be-
fore on the screen"
Ell Brendel, known as "the Swede
comedian" is, as all the vaudeville ad-
mirers of America know, always and
originally funny, and against his rugged
hilarity Marjorie White, beautiful and
talented in the lighter accomplishments,
fits admirably in contrast. The cast
also boasts of other players who have
their large and admiring following, in
GLIDING William Collier, jr., Miriam
Ssegar, Noel Francis and $50 other
singers, dancers, comedians and girls
whose beauty is thought to furnish a
fair setting for their varied accent
pliShments.
Benjamin Stoloff directed the pro-
duction, William K. Wells wrote the
dialogue, Joseph Mccarthy. James +,
Hanley, James Brockman, Con Conrad,
Jack Meskill, Cliff Friend and Jimmie
Monaco provided the varied and beau
tiful music.
On the stage Carnival Russo"
Fanchon-Marco idea, provides Rus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

THERE is a pretty fable which says
- that man must have his war every
80 years to prevent the earth's becom-
ing too crowded That war is a his
torical habit which has proved bene-
fetal throughout the ages.
The last war certainly did its bit
toward wedding out the two-footed ami
NAL. Now along comes the screen, and
in one of its most realistic moods,
shows the details of some of this
butchering in the most powerful of all
war dramas, 'All Quiet on the Western
Front" This picture, promised TO
Washington for an early release and
now relegated to a late harvest presen-
tation, can be, perhaps, should be, seen
by the film enthusiast through the SIM
pie expedient of an hours train ride
to Baltimore. 1t should be examined
at this time, because in most cities 1t
is being shown at rival theaters with
Journeys End" and because one finds
in the two distinct evidence Of dual
war--or rather two mirrors held up to
different sides of the same war.
"AiI Quiet" makes this "weeding
process" one of the most trying night
mares ever; Journeys End" shows it
in a more kindly vein, touching 1t up
5 with the flavor of romanticism. Jour
I ney's End" builds a slow picture Of
heroism, "All Quiet" gives flashes of it,
but bears more at length upon the fun
damental spirit of fear-eVen cowardice
that was more often present than not
in the front-line trenches. The futility
of such a war--the historical necessity
war" envsaged by some fanatics APP
parent in"All Quiet" as it is in Jour
neys End" AS a promoter OF peace,
however, the former is more potent.
1t is more potent because the posi-
bility that such atrocities will ever &C.
cur again seems utterly absurd and be-
c";lse the sacrifice of so much unknow-
ing youth, as pictured with the utmost
brutalness, is theme that will not
stand repetition. To have seen this
picture once is sufficient, just as one
war of this kind is sufficient.
The gentlemanly side of the oticers
war, made sometimes bearable ny the
whisky mug, and the heroic struggle
that went on in the officers quarters
has made Journeys End" seem SYM
bolic of what went on at the front. The
screen has dealt with it in direct, but
never inspirational fashion. 1t has
t5ken Mr.. Sherrif1s play and literally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
Drama Old and New
By Percy Hammond.

adept every once in . while. what
more could be expected2
y
WILLIAM A. BRADY, having won a
w Pulitzer prize, is, after the fash
ion of most heroes, q little contemptuous
Of his badge. He writes me as follows:
My dear friend: Last Sunday. In
chatting about the Pulitzer prize and
other interesting theatrical matters,
you said: when Street Scene was
in peril from non-attendance 1t was
saved by the Pulitzer award"
May be so bold as to correct this
statement. Street Scene" played
to the absolute capacity of the Play
house for a full year, never hav-
ing an empty seat either before or
after the Pulitzer award.
Happy to correct you, remain,
WILLIAM A. BRADY.
THE players revival of 'Milestones'
\ inspired F. P. A. of the World to
write a semi-mournful song in ballade
form, reminding the middle-aged that
they are growing older. Recited by
Edwin Milton Royle, himself q hoary
milestone, 1t made many of those pres
ent conscious that there are silver
threads among the gold. Where, Mr..
Adams asked, are the mines OF yes
terday? Gone, he answered, as Villon's
girls and SHOWS are gone. Peter Daily
and Elfie Fay" He might have In
quired about Jerome Sykes. Thomas @.
Seabrooke, Dan DAILY, Johnny Slavin,
Blanche Ring and Wilton Lackaye, all
of them lively in his younger days, but
now dead or dormant. Among the gone
and forgotten he might have included
Weber and Fields, Lillian Russell and
the legs of frankie Bailey. Mr.. Adams
should have showed interest in the
whereabouts of Lulu CHASER, Mabel Bar
rison, the Dolly girls and Carmencita.
Does he not remember Honey Boy
Evans, George Primrose and Lew Dock
stader, Glen Macdonough, Julian
Mitchell, Henry Blossom and George
AIDE? Lolita Faust, Julia Sanderson,
Billie Burke, Donald Brian, Klaw and
Erlanger, the Rogers Bros. and Pinero?
Well, the winds, as Villon
says. have blown them all away. So
here we are left, with Gertrude Law
renee, Buddy de Silva, Bert Lahr,
Frances Williams, William Mahoney,
Earle Carroll, Butler Davenport, David
Belasco, Myron Pagan and others, in
Guiding the everlasting ziegfeld.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
Mother by Profession.

RACK in the buggy-riding days of
~ 1906, Emma Dunno was screen
mother to Mary Pickford. Cecil B. De
Mile and Charlotte Walker. That was
In 1.-The WarrenS of Virginia" After
that Miss Dunno almost mothered the
life out of herself on the stage. Now
she is doing the same thing for the
screen.
Since she was Is, Emma Dunno has
specialized In the maternal side OF
character parts. She has always re-
fused to be q flapper. She has always
played parts far in excess of her actual
years. She thinks that mother parts
are the ideal relaxation for any woman
blessed, or cursed, with theatrical
flare. Twenty-four years of her life
have been devoted to grease-painted
motherhood-and she loves it.
In THE Texan" Miss Dunno thinks
she is the mother of Gary Cooper, al
though every other member of the cast
knows she isn't. That's the story. II
you don't believe it, trot around to the
Palace and see for yourself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

the unbearable stage, when Ethelyn, her
daughter, completes for and wins an
operate prize which calls for sojourn
abroad. Dudley sees rescue here from a
situation that is becoming intolerable,
but Ethelyn jams the works by decid-
ing to stay at home and carry on her
own affair with one, Robert Kirby, with
whom she is in love. Fate, in guise of
a happy circumstance, comes to the
rescue by dispatching the sister abroad,
and Dudley and his mother are left,
facing a freedom they have longed for.
This surface sketch of the theme
gives but little idea of the situation
and line that the authors devised for
8 laughable evening.
The New York Evening World said
of the play; Your Uncle Dudley
wins the comedy loving if only
for the reason it is about wholly human
and thoroughly amusing people"
Shakespeare's Tempest"
National Sylvan Theater, June 1890.
CODDESSES and woodland nymphs
will mingle with William Shake
epeare's imaginary fifteenth century
kings and princes in the spectacular
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
Reaching Out to Broadway

THAT the hand of Hollywood may
soon be rocking the Broadway
cradle is foreshadowed by the announce
ment that two musical shows are to be
financed by Warner Brothers Pictures,
Inc, the coming Winter. Neither the
exact type of the productions nor their
authorship has been decided upon, but
the emnently successful firm of Con-
molly IL SwanStrom is to do the pro-
ducing.
This news comes four days after a
speech made in Atlantic City by Harry
M Warner, in which he told executives
of the Warner Brothers that his COM
pany would seriously enter the Broad
way theatrical field after a little more
experience in New York play produc-
ton.
Unknown TO many, during the past
season the firm financed Fifty Mil
lion Frenchmen," Top Speed" and sew
eral plays presented by A, H. Woods.
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Coming Attractions

presentation of 1.-THE Tempest at the
National Sylvan Theater, in the Monu-
ment Grounds, Thursday and Friday
evenings. June 10 and 20, at $50 O'Clock,
where the Community Drama Guild
promises to exceed in artistry and
charm the beautiful production of
Sherwood" given last June, which at
tracted no less than the First Lady Of
the Land herself.
The guild states 1t has assembled the
finest cast of players, singers and dane
ers that the Capital City can produce
for all out-of-door ShakeSpearean play.
The three goddeSses, Juno. Ceres and
Iris, will be played by Flora McGill
Keefer, Miriam Bangs Hilton and Fran
ces Bingham Cole, who will sing the
marriage song, composed for The Tenn
pest" by Sir Arthur Sullivan. A chorus
of Sprites will include Helen Bury, Mar
garet Barnhart, Frances Cooper Pauline
Grindle, Alice Neal, Mary Ready and
Helen Smeltzer.
The entire score Of Sir Arthur Sui
livan's THE Tempest" will be used by
the orchestra of the United States Ma
rlne Band, under Capt. BranSon, which
also will play the incidental and dance
music for the spectacle.
Lisa Gardiner will direct the Tcherni-
koff Gardiner dancers in two groups
the reapers, who will offer an old Eng
lish Morris dance, and the nymphs,
who will attend the goddesses-and the
imps, attendant on Caliban.
Anne Ives will have the leading FEM
mime role in the play, Miranda, and
Laura Barrett will portray Ariel. 9th
er groups will include Judy Lyeth, Lo-
retto Murphy, Ivy Randall, Helen Eel
Ter and others.
The audience will sit on the grassy
slopes at the base of the Monument, but
there will be a limited number of re-
served chairs available Wednesday, at
T. Arthur Smiths Bureau, 1880 G.
street; the American Automobile Asso-
citation, Mills Building. and the Drama
Guild Office, in Franklin Administration
Building, Thirteenth and K streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
A Gruesome Experience.

and heard the nails being driven. Then
came the reaction. There was Just room
enough Tor me to lie i'll a cramped posi-
ton. Air holes had been bored into
the box, of course. but they seemed
frightfully inadequate. For moment
experienced the terrible sensation OF
suffocation. I was gasping, almost pan
icky. Then relaxed and forced myself
to breath naturally.
IT was unspeakably glad when / could
crawl out and drink in big gulps OF
fresh air. For the first time / could
comprehend the true horror of Edgar
Allen Poe's tale wherein the hero be-
lieves he has been buried alive"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

REING nailed up in box is William
- Powell's most uncomfortable motion
picture experience. Powell has been
dragged by lariat. knocked down,
trampled upon and thrown overheard
from a ship during his screen career
but he unhesitatingly lists the coffin
imprisonment episode as worse than all
those experiences.
1t occurred during the filming OF
escape scenes for Shadow of the Law"
his new Paramount starring picture.
ut Is really very curious" says
Powell. There was no danger attached
to the experience, and not nearly the
physical discomfort that has come with
others have undergone in pictures. 1t
was the psychological effect of being
imprisoned in a near-coffin that got
me, 1 guess. Doctors call the feeling
claustrophobia, think.
II did not give a thought to the busi-
ness until I had crawled into the box
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Lonsdale Story for Colman.
rprDrp1cx 1oNsDAIE sailed on

the Mauretania recently for a short
visit to England. The noted English
dramatist is returning from Hollywood,
where he wrote his FIRST original screen
play for Samuel Goldwyn. Ronald Col
man is TO be its star.
Between now and late July Mr.. Ions
dale plans To complete the dialogue and
finish production details OF the play.
ON his return he will direct the dia-
logue for its production on the Samuel
GoldWyn stages.
Mr.. LonSdale explains that his screen
play is a distinct departure from the
adventure and melodrama type of story
with which Colman has been associated,
notably Bulldog Drummond" and
"Ratfies" His is modern romantic
tale, a love story"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
SEASIDE PARK.

SEASIDE PARK, the new amusement
resort which has replaced the old
boardwalk and concessions at Chesa-
peake Beach, is located just few steps
from the Chesapeake Beach Railway
station, to which rapid and convenient
train service is provided from the Dis
trict line station. A new bus service
from Ninth and Pennsylvania avenue
supplements the service provided to the
District line.
Typical outdoor amuSementS are to be
found at the new park-from thrilling
roller coaster to a miniature railway that
offers a unique ride about the park A
new swimming pool will be completed
shortly, one of the largest in the East,
with accommodations for $4,000 bathers
daily.
In the new ballroom every evening Joe
Lurell and his famous musicians from
the Grand Central Palace, New York
make whoopee for the dancers. In the
afternoon when the band Is of duty,
dancing is possible by an excellent
broadcasting arrangement that has been
installed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
D'Annunzio Screen Interview
GABRIELLE D'ANNUNZIO, Italy's &C.

4 EAhNIEI4E D ANNONA1Oi AVuEJ CO
~ centric and picturesque poet, nov
elist, soldier and statesman, is to be
introduced to American audiences VIA
the Fox MoVietone News.
picture interview with the italian
patriot Is featured subject in the cur
rent release of this dialogue news col
umn. The locale of the interview is
D'Annunzio's Vittoriale sea castle, which
was once battleship. Naval routine
is maintained on the beached man-o'-
war, with each visitor receiving the
cannon salute due his rank and posi-
ton in life. A great mountain forms
the background.
The Movietone News pictures disclose
the poet listening to an orchestra. After
the music he chats informally with his
guests and then recites q line of verse
for the camera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
CHAPEL POINT.
Glenn Hunter Goes Talkie.'

ELENN HUNTER, famous as Merton
Of the Movies" has returned to the
motion picture field and will make his
first talking picture at the Tiffany
Studios. Phil Goldstone, chief studio
executive, has signed Hunter for the
leading masculine role in why Marry"
a farce melodrama. Frank Strayer will
direct. Vera Reynolds has been signed
to play the leading feminine role.
Others in the cast include Nita Marian
and Paul Hurst