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The Trader Horn" Film.

Twenty-year-old Edwina Booth, Sc
lected from hundreds of aspirants to
play the part of the blonde white god
dess in Trader Horn" roamed the
wilds of the Uganda Forest, climbed
the trees clad in a native grass costume
and proved herself fearless in the face
of hardships and dangers that would
have terrified even brave men; and to
her indomitable spirit, no less than to
her grace and personal magnetism, the
troupe owed much of the success OF its
hazardous journey.
Hundreds of thousands of feet OF
motion picture sound film were brought
back from the jungles Of Africa. Near
the Uganda Falls one night, a terrific
storm broke loose and the flood that
followed swept away many of the sup
plies of the camp. Every one made a
simultaneous rush for the stored mo-
ton picture film, and even though
some personal baggage was lost in the
river not a single can Of movie flm
was destroyed.
In Trader Horn" the screen receives
for the first time a gripping and graphic
narrative of the Dark Continent-the
Africa Of Livingstone and Conrad and
Andre Glide. other expeditions have
selected bits of locale and detached
shots of wild animals, but never before
has any group Of camera adventures
attempted to depict the true majesty
and terror of the Heart of Darkness
in amazing pictorial sequences from the
other side of the globe obtained only
by unflagging patience and intrepid de-
fiance of the jungle, a pictorial record
authentic and indelible to the last de-
tail Of sound and color.
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Cites a Bit on History.

for year was page in the Department
OF State. Naturally. he recalls his early
association with the White House and
legislative branches of the Government
with considerable pride.
During his service in the Senate, he
came into close contact with many of
the political giants of those days and
counted among his friends such men
as James c. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling.
Tom Plat, Senator Eomunds of Yer
mont, Senator Hoar of Massachusetts,,
william NJ. Evarts and Thomas B. Reed.
The Senators liked young Harvey and
advised him to study law as a means
Of carving out a political career. He ac-
cepted the advice gratefully and spent
the periods of the year when Congress
was not in session studying the funda-
mentals of international law at Cornell.
Il came to know President Arthur
very we'll" says Harvey, land found
him always a man Of gracious manner
and charming amiability. He would
have stood out more conspicuously had
he not been surrounded by some of the
greatest men who were ever In the Serv-
ice of the Government.
when I reached the age limit for
pages, I was employed by the law firm
of William M. Evarts, Whitelaw Reid
and Joseph H. Choate in New York"
Harvey did not remain long with the
law Arm. He had engaged in amateur
theatricals and ultimately found the
stage to his liking His success is a
matter of stage history. He has ap-
peared in many of the famous comic
operas in addition to the Victor Her
bert and Reginald de Koven operas,
also in such favorites as "Girofle
Girofla," Die Fledermaus" and THE
Bohemian Girl" He has played all
kinds of roles, and, when necessity
arises, can dance with the best Of
musical comedians.
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Now for the Plays!

Wife" landing the laurels for him. 1t
wasn't an easy thing to get this play for
stock: but Steve landed the bacon
and there you are!
Season before last our own Helen
Hayes. one OF the sweetest little come
diennes of the American theater, found
what was generally considered the finest
role of her career in "Coquette," and
"Couuette" is the third of the an
nounced plays for the new stock sea-
son-and with Leneta Lane In the title
role.
There isn't a soul who has any inter-
est at all in the theater who doeSn
want to see George Kauffman's satir1c
comedy THE Royal Family" which was
quickly gobbled up by the talkies and
appeared as THE Royal Family OF
Broadway" Everybody knows what
family is meant, veritable tribe OF
genius and shall we say eccentrtcity,
led in the present day by one OF the
most admired, even beloved, actresses
of the world And so, too, everybody
must know the brilliant genius oil
George Kaufman, who has given the
American stage some of the finest and
most enjoyable plays it has ever known
Well. George Kauffman's THE Royal
Family is one of the outstanding plays
that will enter into the repertoire Of the
National Players this season.
There are more, OF course, many
more. But Manager Cochran, with his
showmanS instinct, isn't letting go all
his surprises at one time.
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TN bringing Trader Horn" famed
= story Of African adventure, to the
talking screen, Metro-G oldwyn-M yer
recruited the biggest photoplay eXpedi-
ton to go aboard since the filming Of
"Ben-Hur" in Italy.
Sixty players, staff officials and
technicians, in sailing from New York
for Africa. represented new departure
In picture production. Never before
had sound-equipped unit gone out on
such an ambitious venture.
Under Director w. S. Van Dyke,
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan
Renaldo and the big staff Of the picture
reached Mombasa, British North Africa,
after an arduous journey Of Is days.
There the cinema brigade joined an
advance unit and made preparations to
invade the jungle.
Eighty tons Of equipment had to be
moved through territory that was at
times almost impenetTable. This In
cluded a complete miniature studio,
with every facility for housing and
feeding the troupe and the most up-to-
date sound-recording apparatus. Among
the accessories carried were a nine-ton
frigerator, a complete wireless and
radio outfit and more than several
thousand individual items ranging from
chicken wire and cosmetics to insect
exterminator. Members Of the expedi-
ton were inoculated against fever and
sleeping sickness before starting from
Mombasa inland toward Nairobi and a
British staff physician accompanied the
party
When the Trader Horn" brigade had
reached Eairobi and set up camp to
make came sequences the adventure
had barely begun. Diplomatic negoti-
ations with governmental officials
Belgian, English and French-had TO
be completed. Interpreters, native boys,
hunters and divers had 10 be obtained
and further preparations made 10 pro-
tect the health and well-being of the
travellers.
From Nairobi and the shores Of beau
tiful Lake Victoria the Trader Horn
adventures struck out for the danger
Gus Businesses Of Tanganyika territory
with its bizarre pageant OF wild anil
mails. From there the itinerary called
for trips TO the widest parts of the
Uganda country and TO the heart OF
the Belgian Kongo, with its famous
tribes of African pigmies.
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ONLY a little more than a month
~ away. It is but natural that the
dominant interest in the local tneater
at this time should be the new repertory
season of the National Players.
Manager Cochran already has fioated
a few announcements of what the COM
pany is likely to be, and the thrills nave
not yet had time to die away. There Is,
of course, a keen desire to know VINO
the new leading man may be- also what
added surprises are in store concerning
the complete company. But there is
equal curiosity as to what this company
is going to play, for after all the stock
fans are keen as to the fare that Will
delight them when and after Easter
Monday morning arrives and the sew
enth annual Spring and Summer sea-
son of the National Theater Players
begins to unroll.
Four plays are now announced as on
the bill of fare. The first on the list
and. perhaps, the opening play OF the
new season will be Rachel Crothers
comedy of love, misunderstanding and
reconciliation, Let Us Be Gay" when
was produced for the first time by John
Golden two years ago-to be exact, In
February, 1929 under the direction oil
Rachel Crothers herself and with Fran
cine Larrimore as the star, at the Little
Theater in New York City, Wnen IL was
declared to be che Of the most brilliant
and witty, sophisticated and amusing
offerings of the season. 1t Is the story
Of a young couple who felt that true
happiness for them lay in divorce, but
who soon found that more than a d.
vorce they needed each the other
Norma Shearer had the story for one
of her pictures and the play has also
been seen on the stage here.
A little more than a month or so ago
George Kellys play, Phillip Goes
Forth" had its premiere at the National
Theater, and the local critics gave il
a fine send-off. But when it got to New
York, the sages of the dramatic press
there, for some unacccuntable reason
lambasted it beyond measure. But
strange to say, the theatergoing public
fairly ate it up and the play is now one
of the reigning successes Of the Broad
way stage, at the Biltmore Theater, and
is being considered serious contender
for the Pulitzer prize. George Kelly, the
man who wrote it, has had the honor OF
being a Pulitzer prize winner twice, his
plays, THE Showoff" and Craig:
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| CLARENCE HARVEY, who has par
~ ticularly interesting history and who
supports AL Jolson in The Wonder
Bar" was page in the United States
Senate from 1876 to 1881, and speaking
of those eventful days with the veteran
actor is like reading vivid pages OF
history-from a familiar angle.
At the time of the Platt and Conkling
designations from the Senate. Harvey,
1t is said, was the bearer of the formal
| note of resignation from the two
statesmen.
Those were busy days for the pages,
says Mr.. Harvey, especially were they
busy DAYS for me. The country was in
a turmoil over the fight growing out OF
| the appointment of the collector OF the
| New York port. Early in the day OF
| the famous resignation, Senator Platt
| called me to his desk. I remember the
situation in detail because OF the
changed appearance of the Senator. For
weeks he had appeared nervous and
worried. This day he smiled and was
good natured. I half leaned over his
desk to ct his message. He handed me
| two envelopes.
Sonny, stick close to here he said,
! laying a hand on my shoulder. Keep
those envelopes in your pocket, and DO
not deliver th:m to the chair until ]
| give you the signal from the cloak room
| door, 1 will wave my hand to you
before leave. That will be the signal.
81 was a youngster then" continued
Mr.. Harvey, land I nearly burst with
importance. OF course, knew the en-
velopes contained the designations. Only
once or twice during that fearfully long
! day did I step off the Senate floor.
Finally, toward 4 o'clock in the
| afternoon, Senator Plat arose from his
seat and walked into the cloak room
The gallery followed him hungrily with
| its eyes After a bit he appeared at
the cloak room door. I was eagerly
awaiting signal from him. AS he
appeared, he spied me- standing near
his desk, smiled and waved his hand.
"As he did, I started at trot for
the presiding officers rostrum and
handed over the envelope. A f:w min
utes later, the important news was
spread over the country"
Harvey was later transferred as a
page to the White House during the
term of President Arthur, and later
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Coming Attractions

and the strange tribes and animals
encountered during the 14.000-nlile trek
through the African veldt and Jungles,
the principal roles in Trader Horn"
are enacted by Harry Carey 80 the
picturesque Trader Horn himself, and
Edwina Booth is seen as Nina, q beauti-
full white girl who reigns as . tribal
goddess far in the African interior.
Duncan Renaldo plays the role Of Peru,
young South American seeking ad-
venture: Mutia Omoolu is Rencharo,
the stalwart native gunbearef. who be-
friends the party OF whites in search
Of the missing girl and who eventually
gives his life to save theirs, while Olive
Golden appears as the widowed mission
airy. confident that some day the
daughter stolen in childhood would be
restored to her.
The picture was directed by W. S
Van Dycke, who directed The Pagan"
and white Shadows in the South
Seas"
All seats will be reserved for Trader
Horn" in Washington. Mail orders
accompanied by check will be filled in
the order of their arrival The local
premiere takes place. at the evening per-
Torrance next Sunday, commencing at
$50 O'Clock. There will be no matinee
that day, but thereafter the photoplay
will be shown twice daily, matinee
showings commencing at $3.50 pm.
STEP LIVELY GIRLS"
NEXT weeks attraction at the Gayety
Theater will be the step Lively
Girls" with Harry Bentley, Dutch
dialectitian, whose shattered English
is productive of merriment; Charles
"Bimbo" Davis, humorous tramp:
l..
also a skillful dancer; George Levy
comical tramp impersonator; Jack La
mont baritone. and Edith Bates, pretty
and youthful prima donna.
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showed Under.
GARY CooPER's company of 81

GARY COOPER'S company of 500
while making Paramount's produce
ton Of the Zane Grey thriller, Fight
ing Caravans" was showed in by a
blizzard 81 miles from civilization.
Newspaper editors bombarded the
studio with queries, Associated, United
and International Press correspondents
besieged the officials during the long
hours when it seemed that disaster had
overtaken one of the most important To-
cation groups sent out by Paramount
this year. Telephone wires we're down.
trails we're made impossible by the
storms. Finally Cooper and half the
troupe made their way to Sonora, a
mountain. hamlet, and Cooper called
the studio.
Hello" came Cooper's voice. Say,
we've had some thrills not in the
scenario. 1t showed the other night.
Then a hurricane came along and blew
snow from the trees down on our tents,
and our camp was buried underneath
enough snow to give Admiral Byrd
the shivers"
How did you get out?" Cooper was
asked?
Made a trail by driving the stock
of cattle and mules ahead of us, an old
cattleman's trick. Had to leave the
sound trucks and lot of equipment
But we're out"
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Good Actors Today.

Her Al years on the stage have con-
= WINGED Henrietta Crosman, known
and loved by two generations Of thea
tergoers that actors make shows. She
expressed this sentiment while resting
between scenes Of Paramount's THE
Royal Family of Broadway" at the New
York studio. Miss Crosman plays the
queen mother of the theatrical family
around which this picture is built.
They say the plays the thing, !"
Miss Crosman explained, but that's
only half of what Shakespeare had
Hamlet say. Hamlet was explaining
that the play was the thing with which
to catch the conscience Of the king.
lie wasn't laying down theatrical COM
mandments. Players make or mar the
play"
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or evening performances, that the COM
plete story may be told in unbroken
continuity.
A group of actors and actresses left
Hollywood over two years ago to bring
Trader Horn" to life and thus enable
theatergoers to experience the thrilling
adventures narrated in the novel.
The Trader Horn" company Travelled
a total distance Of rs, 900 miles suffered
great hardships and met with adj
ventures even more thrilling than those
contained in the original scenario pre-
pared from the novel prior to their
departure.
In addition to thousands of the native
men and women used in Trader Horn"
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Trying for the Real Thing.

EVIDENCE of the unihcation of the
stage and screen during the past
two years through the medium of the
talking screen is offered in the cast as
sembled for the filming of Lonely
Wives" forthcoming Pathe comedy
which boasts "a real all-star aggrega-
ton of players"
Appearing in the principal role is
Edward Everett Horton, whose activi-
ties during his entire caresr have been
almost equally divided between the
footlights and the studio incandescents.
Sharing honors in the feminine roles
are Esther Ralston and Laura La Plante,
both leading favorites among film fans.
Patsy Ruth Miller. another young act
reSs who first achieved her popularity
during the days of silent pictures, also
fills an important role.
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America Left Out.
prominent weekly n

IMAGES" prominent weekly news
paper of Cairo, Egypt, has selected
an Englishman, an Italian and a
Frenchman as 1.-The worlds three most
popular men,"
The first choice is Edward, Prince of
Wales, because he personifies the Prince
Charming of childhood books and also
sets the fashion for the masculine
world"
Mussolini is second because he
averted revolution in his country and
placed Italy in the first rank of world
powers
The third selection is Maurice Cheva-
lier, Paramount film star, because he
is one of the few international stars of
the talking screen to be unaffected by
his success"
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What Might Be.

THOUGH there is not a hint Of war
in action or plot ''Dirigible," the
new Columbia picture, will give close
up view of what might constitute the
first line of national defense in the
event of another war All of the aerial
resources Of the Navy and many of the
huge vessels of the fighting feet are
brought into the picture, but in peace
full capacities.
Stellar roles are taken by Jack Holt
and Ralph Graves, with Fay Wray in
the leading feminine part. Roscoe
Harms and Hobart BoSworth are other
important members of the cast
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lUCQ StlBdBCIIlCllb az
the National The
alter next Sunday,
March 8.
Already acclaimed
by critics in New
ork and Los
Angeles as t h e
finest e n I e rtain-
ment of its type
ever achieved. 1t
will be shown in its
uncensored entirety
at the National
Although the run
ming time of the
picture Is slightly
over two hours,
there will be NO
intermission during
aAI 49, - . NsrR ar
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kllA Va -
Give Brook in the
role Of Capt. Levi
son and Conrad
Nagel as Robert
Carlyle. Others in
clude Beryl Mer-
Ger, David Tor
renee, CisSie Lof-
tus and o. P. Heg-
gle. The director
was Frank Lloyd,
and settings for
the picture were
designed by that
master craftsman,
Joseph Urban.
East Lynne" as
doctored for the
screen, is the story
of Lady Isabel's
49,, ,-,-{n.a - Doh
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FOX--"East Lynne"

~ Asst LYNNE" the feature pic
IS ture at the Fox Theater this
week, is described as a love
IL story of today, tomorrow and
of all time. Its picture star,
beautiful and talented Ann Harding,
,1o1travs the role of Lady Isabel, with
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ert Carlyle, her jealousy, her elopement
and the aftermath. 1t carries you
through her adventures with Capt.
Levison. after her husband had forced
her to leave his home, but always in
the background is her love for her
young son, still in England, whom she
cannot see.
Fanchon and Marcos Southern
idea" is described as a revue with
lowdown shuff1es and crinoline ruff
fles. 1t brings to the stage cast in
Guiding HIATT and Herman, Jimmy
Lyons. Helen Warner, Joe Rose and
the Sixteen TIMES. The locale is in
the Southland among the cotton fields
and the rhythmic music of the South.
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TRADER HORN"

TRADER HORN"
ADER HORN" Metro
- Goldwyn- Mayors picturiZa-
ton of the unusual novel
i that amazed the world sew
eral years ago and which
made a noted literary figure of a pre-
viously unknown itinerant merchant
plying his adventurous way through
remotest Africa, will commence a linn
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; "Th'
Easiest Way"

I'D EDUCING," the latest comedy cut
N up of Marie Dressler and Polly
Moran, will be seen until Wednesday of
this week at Warner Bros. Metropolt-
tan Theater.
This all-comedy production shows the
two funsters in a series of situations
set in a beauty parlor that specialized
in making stout women thin. The sup
porting cast includes Anita Page. Sally
Eilers, william Collier, jr., and William
Blackwell.
1.-The Easiest Way" newest starring
vehicle of Constance Bennett, will hold
forth at the Metropolitan the latter half
of the week, beginning Wednesday.
Supporting Miss Bennett are Robert
Montgomery, Adolph Menjou, Anita
Page, Marjorie Rambeau and j. Farrell
Macdonald.
Selected shorts will be found on each
program in addition to the Graham Nc
Nance talking news reel.
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R-K-O KEITH's-"MiIIie."

ONE of the real dramatic screen hits
- Of the season is promised in Wash
ington this week in Radio Pictures
"Millie," now at the R-K-O Keith's
Theater. Starring Helen Twelvetrees,
whose sensational rise in fllmdom has
brought her into the national spotlight.
this picture, adapted from the novel of
Donald Henderson Clarke, brings five
ether featured young players to the
screen-Robert Ames, remembered for
his fine work in Holiday" and THE
Trespasser": Lilyan Tashman, who Gre
ated sensation in Gold Diggers OF
Broadway and more recently in "One
Heavenly Night; Joan Blondell, who
attracted favorable notice in THE Of
fee Wife: John Halliday of Capt
Applejack" fame, and James Hall OF
''Hell's Angels" and the comedy Maybe
It's Love-"
Starting as red-headed village girl,
Miles heart carries her into marriage
With a philandering New Yorker, whose
affairs shake her faith in men. Her
second venture is no more successful
and she becomes an advocate Of indie
pendence, with all men as fair game
Through an orgy of parties, hirtatlons
and love affairs she breaks hearts until
near middle age a man strikes back
through her daughter. In the closing
scenes she rises to dramatic heights:
Of gripping interest, the story Is de-
ciared superbly acted.
PALACE-"Fighting Caravans"
WEIGHTING CARAVANS a thrill
ing and spectacular drama OF the
battling pioneers who beat new trails
across the continent, is this weeks at
traction at Loew's Palace Theater. Gary
Cooper and Lily Damita head a large
cast in this epic picture of the fore
fathers of the great west, which has
been filmed on the same gigantic scale
as 1.-The Covered Wagon" The char
acters, the dangers and privations OF
those forward-pushing days, all have
been reconstructed and brought back on
the screen in this Paramount produc-
ton. Into the atmosphere of the from
tier is introduced a tender romance be-
tween the two principals Of the picture
Ernest florence and Tully Marshall
are seen in the roles of scouts that made
both famous in THE Covered Wagon"
Eugene Palette has the comedy part
and Fred Kohler plays the bad, bad
man who would deliver the entire train
into the hands of the hostile Indians
but for the ingenuity Of the dashing
Cooper
Fighting Caravans" is a screen
adaptation of Zane Grey's famous novel
and depicts the West at about the time
of the Civil War, when food and sup
plies are necessary to the many fanli-
lies that have already crossed the peril
Gus trail in the search of new-found
gold in California.
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Photoplay Attractions

On the Palace stage Capitol Theater,
NJ Y, stage revue is presented under the
title Broadway Revue" Many well
known Loew acts also are on the bill.
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COLUMBIA-Greta Carlo in I'm.
Spiration."

CRETA GARBO remains another
~ week at Loew's Columbia Theater
in her latest picture, Inspiration, y
which has proved so successful that a
new attendance record is rapidly being
approached, due to the drawing power
of this popular star Robert Montgom-
cry plays opposite Carlo in the role Of
a provincial student upon whom she
lavishes her love when she is the toast
of Paris. Lewis Stone, Marjorie Ram
beau and other well known actors are
listed in the supporting cast.
Inspiration" is laid in modern Paris
and in it Miss Carlo displays many
new gowns, believed to be slated for
American appearance sometime in the
Summer