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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

under, and he can exaggerate charac-
tiers without fear of first-night con-
tradiction The tenor, for instance. in
That's Gratitude" is delectable bur-
lesque, and the hotel doctor in the pro-
logue is a sly travesty The play is full
of Mr.. Craven's caps and bells. and 1t
should not, despite the hallelujahs Of us
dramatic critics, be taken as more than
a minor wonder work. One of the dis
advantages of the theater is that its
successful plays are always overtouted
in the newspapers. Correspondents COM
plain to me that even THE Green Pas
lures" is not as good as advertised, and
that they are disappointed by Strictly
Dishonorable" and Street Scene.
Drama reviewers who see the ruck Of
the bad plays are inclined to be over
enthusiastic when a fair one comes
along, and their hosannahs should be
listened to with suspicion. / advise the
calmer theatergoers to attend That's
Gratitude" in pessimistic spirit. 1t Is
a shrewd comedy, a good show well
acted and cunningly produced. But
even the most fervid Of drama lovers
should not expect faultless miracles OF
art in the Times Square drama. When
they get so believable show as That's
Gratitude" they should be more than
satisfied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Old Order Changeth.

4 SURVEY of Hollywood film studios
"A discloses that three traditions as
old as the industry itself no longer are
observed-megaphon have been dis
cardeo: cameramen never wear caps
with the bills turned backward, and
directors do not affect Knockers and
sport shirts open at the throat while at
work or at any other time than on the
golf links.
The modern electrical 1oudspeaker
system has replaced the megaphone as
an aid in directing big outdoor scenes.
When the action takes place on the
soundproof stages at the studios the
director need not raise his voice to in
struct his players before they go before
the cameras and microphones.
The cameraman's cap, often pictured
in cartoon and story, disappeared long
ago. Camera experts in the old days
did wear caps and turned the bills to
the rear because most of their work
was done out of doors close to the focus
finder Today a different camera de-
sign makes it easy for the cameraman
to peer through his finder without plac-
ing an eye close to the instrument. This
makes for easier and better photog-
raphy.
As for the third vanished tradition,
few directors ever did wear Knockers in
the best manner while at work Today
men like Lubitsch, Frank Tuttle, Row
land " Lee, George Abbott, John Crom-
well, Victor Schertzinger, Josef Won
Sternberg and Richard Wallace, all
leaders in their profession, invariably
appear in neatly tailored business suits,
white collars and natty haberdashery
while engaged in their work. Nice
what?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Laugh Missionary.

AS master of ceremonies of Happy
"A Landing" this weeks Capitol
Theater New York stage show, Dave
Schooler has the pleasure of introduce
ing Rene Riano, who has covered more
miles in strange lands than any other
missionary on record.
For all her fame as a coincidence,
the word missionary is no misnomer
when applied to Miss Riano. Where
no single emissary of religion has gone
for converts, Rene Riano has gone to
spread the gospel Of laughter. She has
Travelled nine times around the world,
covering approximately $50 900 miles by
ship, train, auto and wagon in the
course of her wanderings.
Wide mention was made of her COM
mand performances before the present
King and Queen of England, the late
Dowager Queen Alexandra and the
Prince of Wales. Since 1919, when she
played her first lead on Broadway in
Honey Girl" the press has paid tribute
to her skill in convulsing audiences
with her glib eccentricities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Erlanger Interests.

THE Erlanger Offices in New York an
nounce that they have taken long
lease of the Ohio Theater in Cleveland,
Ohio, from the Loew interests, the own
ers of the property The Ohio is one
OF the finest and most completely
equipped legitimate theaters in the
United States
Other theaters on the Erlanger cir
cult include the New Amsterdam, the
changers, the Globe, the Avon, the
Liberty and the Fulton. in New York;
the Colonial, the fremont and the Hol-
lis Street, in Boston; the Erlanger the
Broad Street and the Garrick in Phila-
delphia; the Erlanger, the Illinois, the
Blackstone and the Studebaker, in Chi
cago: Ford's in Baltimore: the National,
in Washington; the Nixon, in Pitts
burgh: the Grand Opera House, in Gin
cinnati; the Erlanger, in Buffalo; the
American, in st. Louis the Erlanger, in
Atlanta; the Tulane, in New Orleans;
the Biltmore and Mason, in Los An
geles: the Erlanger and the Columbia, in
San Francisco, and the Metropolitan, in
Seattle
In all these theaters, It is announced,
the highest class dramatic and musical
comedy attractions produced in America
will be played exclusively"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
New Civic PLAYS.

THE CIVIC REPERTORY THEATER
announces the American premiere
of "Siegfried," by Jean Giraudoux, on
Monday evening, october 20.
Jacob Ben-Ami will have the title
role. played in France by Pierre Renoir
Miss LIE Caffeine will play Genevieve,
played in France by Valentine Tessier,
and Egon Brecher will also have an
important part
"Siegfried" was first produced in Paris
at the Coincide des Champs Elysees in
1928 and proved to be something of a
hit. 1t ran for year It is a modern
story against the background of Ger
many and the frontier of France di-
rectly after the World War.
Jean Giraudoux, the author, is one of
the best known writers of the contem-
porary French stage. The English YER
sion which Miss lie Gallienne will use
is the work of Philip Carr
1t is said that Max Reinhardt may
produce "Siegfried" in Germany during
the coming Winter
The Civic Repertory Theater opens
on, Monday evening, October 6, with
Romeo and Juliet" Five new plays
will be produced during the season.
These are, besides "Siegfried," THE
Nobel Prize" by Hjalimar Bergman
Alice In Wonderland; "Gruach," by
Gordon Bottomley; "Ardvorlich's Wife,
also by Bottomley and Ibsen's "Ros-
mersholm." In addition to the new pro-
auctions, the revivals of last year will
be included.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

MRS. FIsKE this season is realizing
a long-cherished dream-the estab-
lishment of permanent repertory COM
pany. in which her famous roles of
other years, as well as new ones to be
added as soon as suitable material is
found, will be brought to her audiences
throughout the country from season to
season.
Under the direction of the Erlanger
Productions, Inc, and George c. Tyler,
the distinguished American actress is
touring with repertoire of seven plays,
six Of them from her sheaf Of peerless
successes and one that she has not yet
played in public. No other actress or
actor of her time has paralleled it.
Washington playgoers are to have the
unique privilege of selecting the plays
for Mrs. Fishes engagement of one week
at the National Theater, commencing
Monday, October 81. Only three of the
seven plays can be given, and those for
which the most requests are received
will be presented, staged by Harrison
Grey Fiske. Readers are invited to
select three of the seven plays in Mrs
Flske's repertoire and mail their re-
quests to the National Theater or to
George c. Tyler, 214 West Forty-second
street, New York City. The vote will
be closed october 13 and the three plays
selected by majorities,
Mrs Fiske's latest New York success,
which enthused the critic of the New
York Evening World to hail her as
queen of the stage and queen of the
whole dramatic world was Ladies Of
the Jury" Fred Billiards. comedy, that
kept New York in laughter last season.
Other performances from which to Sc
lect include Becky Sharp" Langdon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Rough Atmosphere.

EGGS selling at $12 a dozen, the
simplest Of meals at the rate of 81,
a special order of ham and eggs being
worth $3.50, and no guarantee as to
the freshness of the eggs-these are
said to be some of the economic situa-
tons that fitted Nome. Alaska. 80 years
ago according Il the recollection of A.
S. Halstead, who served as one of the
technical experts for Paramount during
the recording of The Spoilers" Rex
Beach's thriller, now showing at R-K-O
Keith's.
Halstead was in Nome during the
period around 1900 and saw the town
boom from a struggling mining camp to
a crowded city of 10000 inhabitants al
most overnight.
Each arriving ship from the States"
ne says, brought hundreds of gold
seekers, the majority of the wholly I'M
prepared for the conditions as they we're.
Most of these men, without much
money, went broke few days after
reaching Nome, and crime was rampant.
Bostmen made as high as 5000 and $50
a day with lighters and surf boats,
transporting freight and passengers
from arriving ships to shore. The beach
at Nome at that time was very shallow
and ships were forced to anchor far of
shore"
Out of these conditions Rex Beach
evolved what perhaps proved to be his
greatest story of rough adventure and
thrills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
No Retakes-Thank You J.!

GETTING UP exercises are all right
- but not on the end of a swaying
gaff IS feet above the deck of a rolling
schooner a couple of hundred miles
from land
At least that's Raymond Hacketts
opinion. Hackett, who plays the juve-
nile lead of the shanghaied youngster
in THE Sea Wolf" had his first taste
of genuine seagoing on the 3,000-mile
cruise taken while filming the sequences
of the noted Jack London story-and
he's quite sure he doesn't want to be
sailor
For some reason" Hackett says,
they make a schooner's masts about a
mile high and they insist on putting
the gait clear up at the top of it. It's
easy for these scenario chaps to write
in scene making me climb way out on
the gaff, but it wasn't so much fun
doing it. BY the time got there I felt
like an aviator trying for an altitude
record and that SIS feet down to the
deck looked like 65 miles. Anyway, I'm
glad that Director Santell didn't call
for any retakes. Once was plenty"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21


T OOKING into the future, here
are few short reviews of
new photoplays which will reach
Washington one of these days:
'Liliom" From the stage play
by Molnar. Directed by Frank
Borzage, who has assembled an
excellent cast, including Charles
Farrell, Estelle Taylor, Walter
Abel, Lee Tracy, Lillian Elliott, H.
B. Warner and a newcomer, Rose
Hobart, who gives an unusual
performance. The Photographic
work is especially notable, ard the
story is that of Hungarian car
nival barker loved by two women.
Sweet Kitty Bellairs." From
the novel of Egerton Castle and
the stage play of David Belasco.
The cast, with numerous good
voices, includes Claudia Dell, who
plays Kitty, and Walter Pidgeon.
The play is light one, thor
oughly entertaining, and the
spectator is carried along by a
charming eighteenth cen fury
story. The English settings and
costumes lend themselves we'll to
the use of technicolor.
"A Peep on the Deep" Clark
and Mccullough in new comedy
The two comedians are placed in
command of boat, and they
know nothing of the sea-thereby
producing a really funny picture
"Playboy of Paris F" Starring
Maurice Cheyalier and directed by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Smokeless Fire.

NECESSITY is certainly the mother
~ of invention in the motion picture
world Mind must triumph over mat
ter-supposedly.
During the filming of "Old English"
the need arose for heatless, smokeless.
hearth fire. Since the parlor interior
to be pictured was built on a closed
sound stage, no chimney was available
and consequently smoke was taboo. And
since Southern California weather in
the early Summer is such that building
a fire is like adding salt to dried cod
fish, the heat could be dispensed with.
Warner Bros technicians solved the
problem by filling the CRATES with Jumps
of glass which had been smoked until
they resembled coal. Among these were
hidden gas tubes, which at the touch
of a match Immediately threw out
CHEEKY tongues of smokeless flame that
heated the room no more than an ordi-
nary gas kitchen stove.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Ethel's Premiere
in Columbus

In Columbus
ETHEL BARRYMORE will give her
first performance of the title role
Of Scarlet Sister Mary" the play made
by Daniel Reed from the novel by Julia
7eterkin, in the Hartman Theater in
Columbus, Ohio. Thursday night, Sep
TENDER IS. She then will appear for
one week in Cleveland and one week in
Pittsburgh, opening in New York in her
own theater Tuesday, October IA.
Nothing in the theater in recent years
has surpassed in interest the announce
ment of Miss Barrymores intention of
acting Si-Maye, the Gullah Negress in
Mrs, Peterkin's unusual story 1t will
be her first characterization of a
Negress. and should reveal her art in
sharp contrast to anything she hitherto
has done in the theater.
The world premiere of Scarlet Sister
Mary" also marks the stage debut of
Miss Barrymore's daughter, Ethel Bar
rymore Colt. Except for a group of
singers, the supporting company is COM
posed Of white players, including Estelle
WILDWOOD, Beatrice Terry, George Drew
Mendum, Anita Rothe, Ethel Barrymore
Colt Walter Gilbert, Horace Braham,
William B. Mack, John Roseleigh, Leo
Kennedy, Burke Clarke, Malcolm Sol
tan, Marcel Dill, Alan Campbell, Dan
Bagnen and Wilbur Cox
Watson Barrett designed the scenes
for Scarlet Sister Mary" from sketches
he made in South Carolina last Sum-
mer. Maurice Mike, musical director,
has arranged the music. used from
themes and songs he collected during
several weeks spent on and near Mrs.
Peterkin's plantation, in South Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Prosperity Backs Films.

THE growing receipts of theater box
Offices throughout the United States
indicate definite trend in public enthu-
siasm for the modern type of talking
picture entertainment, according to Jesse
L. Lasky.
Lasky also expresses qualification over
the improvement of general conditions
in every industry and predicts that an
era of genuine prosperity is rapidly APP
preaching.
Reception being accorded such pic
lures as 'Anybody's Woman and Ami
NAL Crackers Is complete evidence that
the public wants modern productions"
he said with this fact definitely es-
tablished through increased theater re-
ceipts, I am confident that we are en-
tering a new period of entertainment
prosperity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
One of the Young Sisters.

CALLY BLAME, featured in Little
- Accident" at the Rialto Theater,
was born at Salida, Colo, and is the
sister Of Loretta Young and Polly Ann
Young, both prominent in pictures.
Miss Blame first appeared in films as
a child, and then abandoned pictures
to go on with her education in Los An
geles Her first important work was in
Universal's "Collegians" series. Her pic
lures include "Outlawed," wolves of
the City" Half Marriage" THE Vaga-
bond Lover" Show of Shows" and
Tanned Legs"
Sally is feet Az inches in height,
weighs 118 pounds, and has golden
brown hair and hazel eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
What Do You Wish?

MitcheIrs great dramatization of Thack-
eray's Vanity Fair: Miss Nelly of
NJ Orleans" Laurence Eyre's dream
like comedy of moonlight madness and
make-believe; "Erstwhile Susan" an
amusing comedy of the Pennsylvania
Dutch, by Marian De Forest and Helen
r. Martin; Mrs Bumpstead-Leigh," of
which the New York Sun reviewer
wrote. I'VE are in the thrall Of the
consunmate actress who has lifted
Harry James Smiths comedy into that
bright place where only laughter mat
ters" Noel towards Hay Fever" de-
scribed as two and one-half hours of
extraordinary smartness, and Ghosts,
perhaps the strongest Of all Ibsens
plays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Prosperity Week.

ON the basis of reports received from
~ all sections of the country that bus
mess conditions are on the upgrade,
Paramount Publix Corporation has de-
cided to celebrate Prosperity week In its
numerous theaters throughout the
United States from October to IL.
Organizations and merchants are being
enlisted to join with Paramount Publix
in Signalling the upward trend. Spe-
cial features for the programs are being
MANNED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-22
BY A. PETERSON District y.

let us not be mistaken by thinking that the
successes we had in all these demonstra-
tions, Katovis' funeral, March 9Th and May
LIST, were due to our great capabilities. In
fact these demonstrations showed our weak
ness and that our American Party and our
Party apparatuses have to be improved to a
great extent in order to be in better posi-
ton to lead the American workers in their
daily struggles and to their final struggle for
the abolition of wage slavery.
One of our greatest shortcomings is the
fact that we are tagging behind the masses.
Instead of realizing that it is our duty to
study the daily needs of the workers nation
ally and locally in their industries, shops and
home; to educate and develop the fighting
spirit of the workers on the needs and evils
confronting them Instead, we usually wait
until the workers are already developed and
then we come to the workers to plead for
help and to lead their struggles. This is true
in our trade union work and in our general
Party work.
Our Sections.
When we turn to the activities in our sec
tions of the Party we see that although our
section committees are fulfilling to a great
extent their role as leaders in their terri
tories still it was only committed to the Party
membership in the section. Outside of this
sphere our section committees failed to great
extent to assume their leadership Of the toiling
masses in their territories.
How are to be explained such facts as that
a section committee is not taking steps to
have the Labor Unity" in the section to see
that Party members shall be members of the
TU.U.L.? 1t is because the organizer of the
section, who is reading all national and inter-
national Communist periodicals, does not find
1t necessary to read Labor Unity" Same is
true about the majority of the section com
mittee members And this is in the biggest
nAetion of the biggest districts of our Party.
developing of Leading Cadres.
In my estimation most of our Party mem
bers can be developed to a certain leadership.
There is no reason why the organization de-
partment of the c. c. should not have written
material on the duties and practical tasks of
certain functions in section and why the
ore developed comrades in the section could
not train and assist to develop comrade in
the course OF performing a certain function
To bring this to realization, our leading com
rades have to root cut the sentiment of our
departmental basis of work. The idea, that as
head of department | have to worry to make
good my department. Let us more coordinate
our work Have in our leading bodies more
reports especially from those functionaries
who are to reach the workers, and let us not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-22

organize their own defense corps independent
ly.
The Workers Defense Corps must be or
ganized on broad basis 1t must be organ
lied in the shops, in the trade unions and in
the workers organizations. 1t must be organ
lied on a united front basis lie. on the specific
demands of the factory or organization. Each
organization OF factory, which can be reached
by our Party, should organize its workers de-
tense corps. The duty of this corps is not
only to defend that organization, but the work
ing class as whole. The defense corps of
each organization or shop must, therefore, be
a unit within that organization, under CEN
tralized leadership of workers defense corps.
Each unit should have it's own captain its
own instructor (if it is large one), and its
own headquarters. Each city should have a
general captain (under the direct supervision
Of the District, Section or City Committee of
the Communists Party, who should be able to
mobilize the units of the workers defense corps
within any short period of time. In a large
city with hundreds of such units it is neces-
sary to divide the city into territorial sections
and have captains in each section (under the
supervision of general captains and re.
spective Party committee).
Physical Training.
Every member of the workers defense corps
must have a physical training for that pur-
pose. Large units should have their own in
structor. Several small units should unite to-
gether and choose an instructor from their
ranks or the city committee should supply one.
Every member must be under the strctest dis
cipline The City Committee, which should be
composed of the general captains and about
to of the best loyal members of the workers
defense corps, should have the right to expell
any member from the workers defense corps
even if the organization the member belongs
to is opposed to it.
In order to train the members of the work
ers defense corps in the spirit of centraism
and discipline, it is necessary to have regular
meetings on city or section scale.
The space does not permit to deal concretely
with many organizational and political ques-
tons as the methods of organizing the defense
corps, the role of the Communist fractions
within the W.D.C., ETC., etc.
The organization of workers defense corps
must not be an isolated affair. 1t must be
linked up with the daily struggles of the work
ers and must be means of modifying the
workers for the struggle against imperialism,
for the overthrow of the capitalist system and
for the establishment of the Dictatorship of
the Proletariat.