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ONE out Of. every six marriages Is
said to be wrecked on the reef Of
divorce. This and other statistical data
were obtained by Richard Wallace.
Paramount director, when he began
preparations for filming In Hollywood
of the up-to-the-minute play Of Arneri-
lean life, 1.-THE Road to Reno" now
shown at the Warner Bros. Earle.
The last year Of the tabulations
shows that 1,2s2,559 marriages were
performed and 2o1. AIS divorces granted
In the United States, Wallace said. In
1887 there were SIS divorces to every
hundred marriages; in 1901, 81; by
1908, o; 10.4 in 1915; 1914 in 1920, and
In 1926 the steady increase OF divorces
reached percentage OF 10 ana In 1880
It was estimated at 1876.
The high mark numerically in we'd
dings was reached in 1920, despite Q
large increase in population since. The
divorce figure has made new records
yearly, Wallace said.
Reno has the highest divorce rate per
population of any city in the United
States. At the current rate at which
split-upS are being granted, 1t Is posi-
BILE that Reno viii issue 10000 divorces
this year. This will affect 10000 per-
sons.
The recent bargain counter divorce
laws of Nevada inspired the story Of
1.-THE Road to Reno"
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Belasco Closed Tonight.

FOLLOWING the cancellation during
the week. first Of "Melo," then Of
1.-THE Vinegar Tree" and then again
the cancellation. in their turn. Of both
those plays. comes the announcement
that the single performance Of 1.-THE
Unknown Warrior" which was to have
been given tonight, with Martin
Browne, the distinguished founder OF
the Chicago Civic Theater and pro-
Queer Of Journeys End" at the Shu-
bert-Belasco Theater, also has been
Cancelled.
Little, II any. explanation has been
offered for the fiuctuating temperament
Of the Shubert booking Offices In New
York for this treatment of Washington
theatergoers, and Manager L. Stoddard
Taylor appears to be as much in the
dark as anybody as to the cause. al
though, with his accustomed loyalty, he
intimates that Mr.. Browne may appear
here in THE Unknown Warrior" after
his return from the Pacific Coast.
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Things Are Not All They
/: Seem in the Movie World
This Writer Touches on Personal Appearances,
Lurid Advertising Seasons Business and the
n. Stars" Who Pose for Screen Magazines
Bv Robert E. Sherwood.

| not inspired by clamorous public pro:
test, but by unmistakable evidences OF
acute public indifference.
THERE Is much lamentation among
william Powell's admirers because
in his first Warner Brothers starring
picture, THE Road to Singapore" hs
INDUCES In that form Of acting which
| in an elder and more brutal day, was
known as ham" He struts, he leerS
he poses, he flicks cigarette ashes as
much as to say "out, out brief candle.
He disgorges rayon epigrams, he COWS
| jealous men with disdainful glance
and he has a perfectly glorious time ir
which, unfortunately, his audience does
not share.
What is liable to happen to Mr.
| Powell II he goes on like this Is some
thing that has happened to many others
| in the past More than one excellent
actor has been utterly broken by the
heavy mantle Of stardom.
Consider Richard Dix. He was one
Of the best until Paramount boosted
him to the rank Of star and made him
the focal point Of every picture In
which he appeared. Then he became
one CT theNworst. The same thing hap
Se1N
| Of Bebe Daniels.
Happily, both Mr.. Dix and Miss
Daniels have come back, but not to the
artificial eminence of stardom. Con-
slider also Adolphe Menjou, who scored
such personal triumphs in "A Woman
Of Paris, /" 1.-THE Marriage Circle" 'For-
hidden Paradise" ETC., that they made
him q star, and temporarily ruined
him. 1t was necessary to md stories
with leading parts suitable to Mr..
Menjou's peculiar measurements. They
couldn't find such stories, so they pro-
duced the same one over and over
again.
Among the worthy actors and
actresses whom Mother Nature never
intended to be big individual stars may
be named Wallace Berry, Give Brook
Marie Dressler, Janet Gaynor, Charles
(Ex-Buddy) Rogers, Chester Morris
Nancy Carroll, Charles Farrell-but this
list could 60 on for columns. Personally
should add to 1t the names Of such
glowing prospects as Robert Mont
gomery. Douglas Fairbanks, jr.; Clark
Gable and James Dunn.
No-if william Powell were to take
the advice Of this member Of his legion
of admirers he would tear up his
starring contract with Warmers and re-
fuse ever again to appear In an heroic
role. It would be the surest guarantee
Of his continuance as popular idol.
There are always plenty Of dashine
heroes hanging around the casting
directors outer Offices. What this coun-
| try needs Is more competent villains.
DOWNRIGHT 1891
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mates his life. Marian Marsh, Donald
Cook, Charles Butterworth and Louis
Albernt are in the supporting cast.
USDEwALKS OF NEW YORK"
featuring Buster Keaton, is the
announcement OF Loew's Palace for the
new week. starting Friday. with Dave
Schooler heading a new revue, MAX
ing Hay" as the outstanding feature Of
the stage program.
UCRIS ABOUT TOWN." a gay
comedy Of q couple Of gold dig
gers, Q Paramount production. and
James Hall, screen star, In person, are
the attractions announced for the
Warner-Earle. starting Saturday. Joel
McCrea, Eugene Palette and Allan
Dinehart viii be found in the cast of
the gold-digger merriment. James Hall
probably viii do something to celebrate
his perSonable appearance, but the ad-
vance notice didn't chronicle it. save
to say that he viii be backed with a
fitting bill.
WCUSAN LENOx; HER FALL AND
~ RISE" win bring the great dreta
Carlo and Clark Gable to Loew's CO.
lumbia screen, beginning Friday, In q
picture long anticipated and very much
discussed In its making.
0CoNsoLATIoN MARRIAGE" with
Irene Dunn as its star. Is the
tempting attraction, held out by Man
ager Hardie Meakih to patrons of his
R-K-O Keith's Theater. starting Fri
day. Is usual. Manager Meakin has
much to say Of Miss Dunn and her per-
Torrance in "Cimarron," and she will
be supported by Pat O'Brien, a Front
Page" hero; Myrna 10y and John Hal
hday.
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Hegeie a Fine Actor.

n p. HEGGIE, who has leading
W role in 1.-THE Woman Between"
now at the Rialto Theater, will be re-
membered by many for his unusual
work in Molnar's Fashions for Men."
His was q mystifying and compelling
role In play that baf1led even many
critics, yet perhaps did not add much
to the great Molnar'S reputation.
Though the Molnar play had short
Broadway life, Heggie, who halls from
Australia, was survivor. His real fame
took form when he left the stage to en-
ter pictures.
In THE Woman Between" Heegie IL
paired with the flashing Lily Damita
and provides only q fine contrast. His
playing, however, offers the proper re-
straint to her dashing, hoydenish per-
sonality. In other words, he IL de-
hghtful balance wheel.
Reggie is a finished actor, man Of
extraordinary intelligence and always
brings to his role genuine note Of re-
ality-a player in whom interest never
flags.
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Light Comedy Does Not
Please Movie Audiences
Producers and Directors Unable to Get Away With
This Type of Picture Account of Too Much
Dialogue-Plans for Marriage Circle"
By Mollie Merrick.

logue Of the day, has reduced our pan
tomimic play to a mere nothing And
after dipping back into the eye-rollings,
coy finger curlings and broadsides of
wrath We are ashamedly grateful.
So one understands something Of
George Cukor's contention that light
comedy has not yet found itself on the
the most part. have not learned to put
comedy lines over" says Cukor. "They
labor too much. They do not give the
line the correct emphasis. They have
not yet come to understand that quiet
play Of line behind an almost unreveal-
ing countenance. They want to give
the audience all-and for such comedy
the audience requires only half"
"One Hour With You" will be the
story, then, of the gay Viennese flirta-
ton which was, in its day, a daring
thing, but which seems rather tame and
quite a lot of ado over nothing today.
But where music found its place in a
pantomimic version of kiss Me Again"
with the organist following as best he
might to create an effect of realism,
five song numbers will brighten the
talkie Of "The Marriage Circle"
Since human nature changes very
little and life changes practically not
at all save in its externals, the story OF
the piece is as good today as then"
says Cukor. Whenever problems Of
story hinge upon human sense of
adventure and their effort to fulfill 1t
within their scope of life and through
their instinct for variety and thrill, that
story is as easily made in 1891 as in
1891. There are only the externals Of
living to alter. The basic theme goes on
unchanged"
The story will be dialogued with re-
gard only to giving it the best possible
presentation, and without that effort to
shorten the speaking footage which has
resulted In some sorry gelatin today.
Copyright, 1891. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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Washington $
Players
NEW DRAMA GUILD.

w YTTH 1.-The Trial OF Mary
AI Dugan" in rehearsal for
wv presentation on November
20 and 81. the newly or
ganized Drama Guild OF
Washington has tackled the practical
contribution to the theater locahy.
Leaders Of the movement have ex-
planned their ends with the frank
acknowledgment that they are, In
some respects, feeling their way. Tney
say they will supply better than aver
age-run commercial productions from
the outset, and that they expect finally
to supply another force that may De
felt beyond the local boundaries.
A four presentation program mas
been agreed upon for the year. Fol-
lowing the three-act melodrama Mary
Dugan," the Drama Guild will present
two of the following plays: The
Devils Disciple" by George Bernard
Shaw: 1.-THE Squall," by Jean Bart;
wake Up, Jonathan" by Hatcher
Hughes and Elmer Rice; MARY, MARY,
Quite Contrary" by st. John Ervine:
"Sun-Up." by Lulu Volmer, and NED
ard It will close the season with II
I Were King" by Justine Huntley NC
Carthy, In the Sylvan Theater.
The selections represent the genre
in which the players expect 70 Work.
They have chosen well known pieces
because, much as they yearn to en-
bark on some serious original selec-
tions, they believe they first must eS-
tablish o record Of professional stand
ards In recognized material. In this
connection its leaders are emphasizing
the group wiz be taken seriously
enough to merit serious criticism.
Serious people-young and older-fu
the roll OF the group; virtually every
one established in some profession
many of them allied with the drama.
They are volunteering their efforts for
an end they both desire and believe
attainable. Each Of these earnest peo-
pie has had dramatic experience, some
Of them professionally.
AS the first play went into produc-
ton under the direction of william =.
Baker, the Drama Guild created q
Scouting Committee to watch other
local groups. From these, or from
wherever else It Is available, they hope
to draw new talent, perhaps to dis
cover another Ina Claire, indeed an
embryo O'Neill, at least to be an alenl-
bic Of local dramatic potentialities.
The original group will be enlarged as
the program advances.
rOE tAIC UCIC1lO Va OA1OOC OutcAOS WIZ
wish to be In, 1t has been explained
the route Is through membership in
the organization or through consulta-
ton with any of the administrative
council. Pursuing the provocative Of
new talent, the group win be inclined
to give ear to newcomers. For the
present, however, 1t win require some
demonstration Of experience to partici-
pate actively In the making Of the
productions in acting, stagecraft or
directing.
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TRUTH ABOUT HOLLYWOOD.
BURTON HOLMES has yielded tc
~ the spell Of Hollywood. He went
out to I'LL "talkie" engagement, re-
manned to acquire hilltop villa and to
become so enthusiastic about the place
that he is determined to tell US all about
it in those two common languages
words and pictures. He says "the trou-
bic with most travellers Is that they
travel too far" Southern California
Is comparatively close at hand, easy OF
access, and filled with all those things
of which good travelogues are made.
Mr.. Holmes camera Impressions OF
the movie capital will carry his hearers
behind the scenes and among the stars;
showing how they work and play, where
they live and the places where they en-
Joy themselves. There will be trips to
Aqua Caliente, Santa Catalina, Santa
Barbara and other adjacent communi-
ties where the architecture runs to wild
fantasy, the flowers and colorS to ex-
travagance and where the climate Is IN
q constant condition of being unusual.
1.-THE Real Hollywood" Is to be pre-
scented at the National Theater Sunday
afternoon, November /. This will be
followed on Sunday afternoon, Novem-
Der 8, with New Trails In Switzerland. F"
REUNION IN VIENNA, November O.
THE first Theater Guild production
= Of the third washington subscrip-
ton season, Reunion in Vienna" will
open at the National Theater Monday
night, November 8. This gay comedy
of Vienna was written by Robert e
Sherwood, who has given the theater
THE Road to Rome" THE Queens
Husband" and Waterloo Bridge"
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne will
head the cast, which will include Minor
Watson, Helen Wesley, Henry Travers
Eduardo CiannelN, Leonore Harris, Ed
ward Fielding, Phyllis Command and 80
others.
The story of the new play, which is O
gay and audacious comedy, revolves
around an impoverished Austrian arch
duke and his mistress Of former days
The time Of the play Is 1890 and Vienna
| is without mobiles save a broken-down
impoverished group which has desper-
ately tried to adjust itself to the new
conditions. For this group Frau LucheI
| is giving a party in remembrance Of
older days when she ran the gay eStab-
| liShments wherein the Hapsburgs rev.
| eled. The archdukes former mistress
is invited. Her husband, a great
! psychoanalyst, urges her to 60. The
archduke himself is an exile from
Vienna and If he Is caught he is II
danger Of his life.
Alfred Lunt will be the archduke
Lynn Fontanne the lady, Helen Westle,
the Frau Lucher and Minor Watson thu
husband.
washington Miner directed this The
alter Guild production and Aline Bern
stein designed the costumes and set
tings.
las Husbands Co." the second Of tn,
Guilds subscription season, will follow
Reunion at Vienna" at the Nationa
the week beginning Monday, Novem
Der Is.
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Exc are lew I8IbS obOhS bAAS
movie business which you may
which vi may you mot %.y t or MAX 'n not Be
interested:
whenever you hear Of some big
HonywOod star going on a tour OF
Spersonal appearances" usually in con-
xection with the showing OF his latest
Lacture, you may be reasonably sure
That this star is just about through
ws Q popular attraction. Ine per
sonal appearance" Is usually the last
aasp; u,..,r. advertised
IN a lurid manner, with such phrases
1Ss "daringly frank" "a sensational ex-
oosure OF the vice trust" or flaming
I3assion behind once DOORS" you are
entitled to assume that che picture is
disappointingly innocent Of dirt. When
a Aim does contain dangerously sexy
elements its sponsors are usually care
full to soft-pedal that fact In their
advertisements.
Similarly. when you hear repeated
statements from some big movie mag
nate TO the effect that business with
him has never been better; that his
current productions are cleaning up In
all the big cities; that his program Tor
the coming season Is certain TO achieve
record crosses, then you have ample
grounds for the guess that business
with him Is rotten. When the movie
ueople are really making big money
they're too complacent to feel the need
Tor calling attention to 1t.
When you see, In the fan magazines,
repeated photographs Of certain
cutie playing leap frog on the sands
mt Santa Monica, demonstrating O
new kind OF kiss-proof lipstick, prone
i1ading with her pet pelican, or hav-
ing her emotions tested by some emil
nent psychoneurologist, you may sus-
pect that she Is q failure as q Aim
actress, who was signed up on her
looks alone and is now working out her
contract posing for the publicity de-
partment.
whenever q film producer announces
that as q result Of exhaustive tests Of
the public's taste throughout the
United States and Canada, he Is about
10 tnaugurate q new policy which will
fevolutionize the entertainment world,
you may be sure that he hasn't really
been consulting the public at all; he
faS been talking to, or rather listening
90, some wall Street bankers.
When q startling new star u an
nounced to make his or her screen
debut you may safely assume thas
his or her first picture will be punk.
And, above all. whenever the movie
moguls announce, en- maSse, that they
have decided to abandon CANISTER pic
lures Cor musicals, or Westerns, or
society dramas) In difference to public
protest, you may take my solemn word
Of honor for 1t that their decision was
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o. Henry Knew I'm.

WHILE o. HENRY will always be
w known for his incisive stories about
New York, which he christened Bag
dad on the Subway" his tales Of the
Southwest are just as good. One Of his
immortal characters "the Cisco Kid" is
now impersonated to the life by Warner
Baxter at the Fox Theater.
o. Henry truly had the camera eye,
for he caught life in series Of snap
shots. His characters are reproductions
Of persons he encountered In actual ex-
per1ence. Many think this field Of ex-
pertinent was confined to New York,
forgetting that o. Henry as a young
man lived on the Texas range and
knew Lee Hall, the famous Ranger who
taught him to ride, rope and shoot
Western creations.
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Mystery Intrisues.

GONE wiseacre among the medical
- authorities has said that "a good
scare is a great nerve tonic and mental
stimulant."
Perhaps that accounts for the popu-
larity of the stage and screen mystery
thriller that seemingly never loses Its
popularity.
It isn't only the average" man and
woman to which this type appeals.
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Will
son, were known as avid mystery story
enthusiasts.
"a Dangerous Affair" now at R-K-O
Keith's Theater, Is said to have all the
elements of q mystery story and then
some to make the heart action quicken,
the eyes and ears more alert and the
mind to race ahead in trying to solve
the marvellous.
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/T<HERE Is at yet no place on the
80 screen for light comedy. be-
cause this type Of entertain
Il ment has not found its true
place in talking picture an
nails" George Cukor. stage director
who has become a brilliant figure in
the motion picture world, attributes
much of the screens failures to this
lack in placing subtle laughs. Nine out
of ten other directors lay the mistakes
of moviedom to "overmuch dialogue"
When Maurice Chevalier makes his
next talkie 1t will be talking version
of THE Marriage Circle" a famous
silent made by Ernst Lubitsch, with
Monte Blue, Marie Provost, Adolphe
Mentou and Florence Vidor in the cast.
Ernst Lubitsch will supervise the story,
which did much to establish his fame in
Hollywood, but George Cukor will be
the man directly responsible for the
making of the picture.
One Of the most interesting features
Of revivals is the establishment in our
minds of the impression created by the
first version and the ensuing disillu-
sion which q glimpse Of the original in
variably evokes.
Before seeing the silent version of
Marriage Circle" you'd swear that
here was the perfect movie; that moth
ing ever topped 1t; that for economy
Of gesture, swiftneSs of tempo, excel
lence Of Interpretation, it could not
have been surpassed. Often think
those not circumstanced to have ac-
cess to such things are the ideally
happy. They can write letters literally
bristling with fury over the sins Of
talkie producers. Bulwarked by mem
DRY as they are, they can invest their
diatribes with that certainty which
comes from retrospect. But oh, the
awful glimpse Of the picture of 10 or
Is years ago!
We find the comedy which registered
as something subtle and infinitely pro-
vocative in those days to be frankly
ham" today There was a good deal Of
exaggerated tip-toeipg, mounting, elab-
crate and outlandiSh gestures and all
the accompanying parsley Of the old
regime. It comes to us with o shock
that dialogue, the much-opposed dia-
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A T the end Of the FIRST two months
"A Of the present season Of Columbis
BElesque, ]. H. Herk, president of the
corporation, reports lone city only, of
the 20 constituting the Wheel has been
eliminated on account Of unsatisfactory
business due to the unemployment stu
alton"
"At q corresponding time q year ago.
Mr.. Herk states, ten cities had been
abandoned for that reason. Our seven
theaters in the Greater New York area
are doing larger business than at any
time in the past three years"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

TheaCer, starting
Friday night at
$780, o'clock, at
what Is described
as % gala Holly
W cd opening"
The event Will be
broadcast by radio
and there will be
no extra charge for
admission. THE
Mad Genius" is
described as the
story Of q man
who. prevented by
o physical handi-
cap from becoming
o great dancer,
K 4 d n aps q boy,
teaches him the
AVk A~ea AtaA~. H.
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Ter. Is me director
0R the organha-
ton.
The engagement
wiz begin with the
production Of THE
Merry wives OF
windsor" on Non
day evening, Mo-
venaber 2. Then
win follow king
Lear" Tuesday eve
ming: "a winters
Tale" wednesday
matinee: "KtMg
Henry the Fourth"
(part one). We'd
nesday evening.
twelfth Night"
Thursday evening;
ssa NRaAaVtVsaVTaNP
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the privilege Of being among the first
cities TO hear this world-popular author,
upon whom, it Is said, the mantle of
the great French master, Dumas, has
fallen.
He will speak on Fiction in History
and History in Fiction" and will deal
especially with the myths enshrined in
history, explaining the conditions upon
which history always has been written.
Tickets may be had at the T. Arthur
Smith Concert Bureau, the Willard, the
A. A. A. and the Community Institute
ONCE in Franklin Administration Build
ing.
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JANET RICHARDS-November 3.

JANET RICHARDS-Novembe 3.
MISS JANET RICHARDS announces
Ava that she will resume her Talks
on Public Questions, Home and For
eign." Monday morning, November 2, at
the willard Hotel.
The FIRST talk win be q so-called
Hilltop Survey" of the most interest
ing and important political develop
ments in the worlds work during the
past Summer. These talks will be given
every Monday morning in the Willard
room or red parlor, on the main floor,
beginning at 10:45.
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ENGLISH PLAYERS-Shakespeare.
T%HE stratford-upon-Avon Festival
Co., an org, 1nlzation unique In
the world Of the theater, comes
III TO the National Theater Mon
day night, November 2, from
Rtratfosd, the town Of the master DRAM
akigt,s birth. The company comes to
WashifRto In Its entirety. w. Bridges
Adams, director Of the Memorial Thea
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"SUGAR BARIES.n

HARRY HELLO, JAKE!" FIELDS
4 i and his Sugar Babies" with Joar
Collette Is the announcement of the
Gayety Theater of its burlesque attrac-
ton for next week, beginning with Q
matinee next Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

John BARRYMORE in THE Mad
Genius" Warner Bros dramatic
Vitaphone production. will be the at
traction at the Warner Metropolitan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
Coming Attractions
TRUTH ABOUT HOLLYWOOD.

1.-THE Trial Of Mary Dugan' and 9TH
Barretts Of Wimpole Street."