The Washington times., 1930-02-03
GLE.ANINGS
SCREENINGS
By ANDREW r. KELLEY

do their blackface comedy act
in person at the Washington
Auditorium, the second week
in March. There is no dispute
over the Correll and Gosden
salary, which will be $4,000
flat for four shows q day. There
will be a Meyer Davis band and
vaudeville acts surrounding the
comics and the downStairS hall
of the Auditorium will house
radio show. A $4,000 bond
will protect the National Broad.
casting booking office, which
Is agent for the act. The after.
noon admission price will be
80 cents and two night shows
81.
One of those behind the cur.
tain tragedies which are kept
from the audience but Sadden
the folks back stage occurred
at the Palace Theater Satur-
day. Billy Wills, q veteran
member of the local stage
hands union, dropped head i'm
mediately after assisting In the
task Of moving in the new unit
show. Heart disease was given
as the cause of his sudden
passing.
Marjorie Joesting's (MiSS
Washington of 1926 debut
In the pictures is inauspicious
at the Columbia this week. She
is one in a group Of eight show
girls who surround Charlie King
while he MARBLES Love Is Moth
ing but the Blues" The usual
optical irritation which makes
1t impossible to pick out
blurred features in the color
films makes it also necessary
to state "She looks something
like Marjorie although she
might be somebody else"
The two harmonizerS seated
ut. the Earle organ this week
who inject their voices with
"Sleep" and Smiles" for the
Daniel Breeskin overture are
the Dawson brothers. Con-
ductor Breeskin, incidentally,
has another musical entree
which registers a goal with the
Earle customers. It is a mem
ory test of hits from the musi-
cal comedies Of the past, neatly
introduced by OrganiSt Milton
Davis via the loud speaker
system.
Maybe I'm wrong, but my i'm.
preston of the Lou HoltZ mas
ter Of ceremony appearance at
Loew'S Palace - gathered at
Sunday nights second show
was, I'm too good for this au-
dience." In which case Mr..
HoltZ can be told that he got
less applause than any M. c.
who has uncorked q routine
thus far on the Loew circuit.
And If he wants to keep up
with leaders, the Laceland unit
offers him q good opportunity
to get down to work. It needs
more and better comedy than
nc S11O"cO 4dSC 44ASAI"
William .Powell's new Para
mount starring feature, Street
of Chance" Is actually a film
version of the Arnold Roth
stein case with Powell as the
big-stakes gambler. It Is not
advertised as such but there is
no mistaking a parallel OF Incl
dent in the celluIoid tale and
the hectic life Of the take-a'
chance king, The picture. ends
as did the RothStein case
with the identity Of the mur-
derer q secret.
Otis Skinner left for other
climes with about $4,000 Of
good Washington money gath
cred in six days. A great week
for Papa Juan" and more
than twice as much as Balti-
more gave the play.
Sally with Marilyn Miller
has q good chance to break the
Earle Theater box office record
held-unless I'm mistakenly
Colleen Moore in Lilac Time"
Friday midnight business was
capacity plus standees and the
weekend trade kept In the
prosperity groove.
Leon Friedman, ace pub
licity marksman for Florenz
Ziegfeld, hoped into town over
the weekend and then hoped
right back to Pittsburgh when
he found that "Show Boat"
had been moved back for
Washington to, the week OF
February "a. Nobody had
taken the trouble to notify the
advance courier of the change
In booking.
From the big city comes the
news that Irwin Shapiro, erst-
while Washingtonian and man
about the movies" sailed for
Europe Friday, aboard the Bre-
men, to gather bigger and bet
ter foreign films for Soph1Stl,
Gated Americans.
irwin, as you may remember,
is the founder Of the Little
Theater movement in Washing
ton at the Wardman Park The
ater several years ago, and now
exercises a poignant movie ir-
fluence in New York. For a
while he managed the Little
Carnegie PLAYHOUSE where he
introduced several novelties in
art cinema entertainment.
London, Paris and Berlin are
his immediate destinations. but
-. ,,,;O9 ,a..nLN IAI1, find irwin