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Evening star., 1931-06-07
The Snoring Picture cAlbum
By Robert E. Sherwood.

A T first glance. Hollywood does
~ not appear to have changed
~ much since the days when the
4 \ surrounding gaunt hills echoed
with the words, 'Yes. Mr.. De
Mile" OF course, like everything else
In and about Los Angeles, the cinema
citadel las expanded prodigiously. The
elaborate filling stations, the roadeterias,
the gaudy little shoppes, the realtors
kiosk and all the other architectural
features have been breeding at an ap-
palling rate and reproducing their own
kind. But that Is progress, not change.
However. those who care to probe
more deeply into the soul OF this
fantastically improbable community will
find that there has been another kind
Of advancement, and Of an impressively
beneficial Sort
Hollywood has not only been growing
out, in all directions. 1t has also been
growing up. 1t has been putting on
maturity, savoir faire and long pants,
and losing the horrible self-conscjous-
ness Of adolescence. Because OF its SUM-
kist location, Hollywood always had
plenty Of climate: now 1t Is beginning
to possess a semblance of cultural at
mosphere.
Needless to say, all the credit for this
improvement Is confidently claimed by
the newer arrivals, the herds of Broad
wayiteS who have thundered westward
since the introduction of microphon.s.
But 1t seems to me that they are taking
much more than they deserve. They
have given more cosmopolitan aspect
TO Hollywood society and. by their con-
slant comings and go!ngs, have kept 1t
in q state Of f1ux. They have not, how
ever contributed much in TIE way Of
intellectual stimulus.
The fact is that the film colony has
been subjected forcibly to the inevitaJl
process Of evolution. The fittes: have
survived. The old school of pretentious
hams has been exposed and disccedited,
and those celebrities of the. silent era
who are still celebrities are those whose
intelligences were superior TO their
surroundings.
One excellent example Of this is
Richard BarthelmesS, who has always
had the sense to avoid making q pro-
fession of the role of movie star. An
other Is the divine Miss Garbo. More
of the same enduring stuff are Norma
Shearer, Ronald Colman. Joan Crawford
and Harold Lloyd. Examine, too the
new school of directors-Lewis Mile
stone, Wesley Ruggles. Josef Won Stern
berg. Edward Sutherland, Walter Well
man and Ernst Lubitsch. Such as these
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are The leaders Of progressive though:
in the film world. Not one Of them can
be claSsed as a product of Broadway
Not one of them is in any way typical
of the old Hollywood tradition.
One may find further evidences Of the
new order in the present studio bosses:
Irving Thalberg, William LeBaron, Carl
Brown, Howard Hughes and Walter
Wanger. These are not men who. ac-
cording to the ancient formula. "kn/.
what they want, but don't know how to
spell It," They are literate. cultivated
and aware that there is world Of ideas
outside of their own weird domain.
In one respect, Hollywood has not
altered. 1t is NSti,l an extraordinarily
busy hive Of rumors. There are more
choice bits of gossip than there are
For Sale" signs-and that, in these
times. is large statement. If you be-
lieve all you hear IN the course OF your
peregrinations from the Brown Derby
restaurant to Malibu Beach, you will
gather that:
Paramount Metro-Goldwyn. Univer-
SAL Fox, R.KO.-Pathe, Warner Bros.
and United Artists are all about to cut
salaries drastically in hystefical at
tempt to avert bankruptcy.
Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn and all
the others previously mentlOneo nave
been refin: need and are beautifully
solvent and will raise wages all along
the line. particularly Louis r. Mayors.
Mr.. adm Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks are
that way.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks are
this and that way.
Jack Barrymore and John Oakie are
among the unemployed.
Warner Bros have fired 800 employees.
thereby saving $32 900 week, but they
are paying Constance Bennett 100000
n week, which brings the net down TO a
mere two grand.
There are many more rumors, but
YOU will already have read them in your
fayorite movie news columns, and you
will also have read the contradictions Of
them that invariably follow.
II any one is interested to know what
your correspondent is doing in Holly
wood, OF all places I may say truth
fully that came here to have good
time The first day on the concrete
tennis courts something went wrong
with the right knee. In consequence of
which I am now wearing a splint and
working for Howard Hughes. producer
OF "Helrs Angels" which was praised
80 extravagantly in this column.
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"Heaven on Earth.

A NITA LOUISE has been selected TO
"A play the feminine lead in Heaven
on Earth" Lew Ayres' newest Universal
picture. ,,,,,u.,,
Miss Louise, recently seen In Mile
and other R.K-O pictures, has been
loaned to Universal by Charles r. Rog-
ers to play the character of Towhead.
a struggling, uneducated Shanty-boater
of the Mississippi River flood area.
whose love is the one inspiration in the
life of States, an adventurous youth,
played by Ayres.
"Heaven on Earth" is adapted from
Ben Lucien Burman's prize winning
novel Mississippi" Ray Doyle has
prepared the screen play and dialogue
and Maurice Pivar is supervising the
production.
Studio authorities believe Heaven on
Earth" will be one Of the most human
and colorful dramas produced since the
advent of the talkies.
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LATE NEWS NOTES

Unexpected Husband" Is billed as
"a comedy with 1.004 laughs" but the
critics seem to have missed several
hundred of them. Glenn Hunter open
ed in "A Regular Guy" which is mere
ly revival of Patrick Kearney's play,
"A Mans Man"
THE Abbey Players are coming over
from Dublin this Fall for Broad
way engagement. The last time they
visited these shores they caused riots
in Boston. New York and Philadelphia
by presenting "Playboy of the Western
World"
John Emerson has written two new
plays which will give him three on
Broadway before Christmas. One is
Cherries Are Ripe" which he wrote
with Anita Loos. When 1t arrives here,
it is said, Basil Sidney and Mary Ellis
will have the parts played on tour by
Rod la ROGUE and Wilma Banky.
jeanette Loft blonde movie actress,
will play opposite Jack Haley in the
forthcoming musical comedy, Free
for ALL"
Ethel Barrymore and Jane Cowl both
have returned from their tours with
high praise for-the enthusiastic audi
ences they encountered in one-night
stands
Evening star., 1931-06-07
Janet Now "Judy."

her Juvenile tendencies. and persuaded
her to go to Hollywood and see what
sort of future might lie in walt for
her on the screen.
1t was only six and half years ago
that she bravely started out to the
studio casting offices. The name Janet
Gaynor then meant nothing. But a
haunting wistfulness in her face soon
wen her an extra role-then another
then "bit"-then a succession of small
parts-then few comedy and Western
leads and, finally. featured parts in
such films as THE Johnstown Flood, "
"The Shamrock Handicap" THE Mid
night Kiss" and THE Return of Peter
Grimm"
Then came a triumph such as few
actresses ever had-the sensational role
Of Diane in the Seventh Heaven" "
which lifted her overnight to world
wide fame Janet Gaynor had arrived.
Her progress from then on is known
to every one-"Street Angel" -Four
Devils" Sunrise. Sunny Side Up
The Man Who Came Back" just to
mention a few Of the high points.
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Owsley and Arthur Lake.
An all-Dogville Barkie, "Dogville BIZ
House" is added as a special short fea'
ture on the Columbia program. 1t Is
burlesque on the recent screen hit, THE
Big House"
FOX-"Daddy Long Legs"
A NEW master Of ceremonies, a pic
"A ture to catch at the heartstrings
and stage show that brings home just
how lucky folks are to have magnln-
cent cool theater these warm Summer
days, introduces the allureNnents OF the
Fox Theater for the current week.
The new master of ceremonies Is
described as "a man with an engaging
smile, q mellow voice and wholesome
respect for his audiences. Al Mitchell
who has been sent here from the pur-
lieus of the larger metropolis to give
Washington theater-goerS something to
be thankful for"
The picture is Daddy Long Legs.
an adaptation of Jean Webster'S play
that was made famous by the art q
Henry Miller and Ruth Chatterton. with
Janet Gaynor as the little orphan girl
and Warner Baxter as her unknown
benefactor. One eminent critic, 1t is
said, has already proclaimed this pic
Heaven"
Theater-goers of a generation age
will recall that 1t was in Daddy Long
Legs" that Ruth Chatterton scored
perhaps the most appealing character
ization of her entire career on the stage
Younger "old-timers" (who may re-
member the days of the silenceso, will
recall that In the subtitled version OF
Daddy Long Legs" Mary Pickford
- efak yF-iVN 10
wistful actress. Janet Gaynor. "her
voice recording beautifully" now fol-
lows in their footsteps and 1t is claimed
she too, distinguishes herself.
Una Merkel, Louise Closer Hale,
Claude Gillingwater, sr., and Kathlyn
Williams also are in the cast.
On the stage Fanchon and Marcos
"Icy-Hot" Idea, will leap nimbly from
the frigiditieS of last January to the
languor Of June. Big Bill Blomberg's
Alssk Huskies are featured. the
lie Grohs. Heras and Wallace. Helen
Mcfarland and the Sunkist Ensemble
from the boulevards of Hollywood.
R-K-O KEITHS-"The Good Bad Girl "
p OMANCE. comedy and thrills, set
AZ against the colorful BACKGROUND OF
New YorkS underworld, with smart
dialogue en- swift-moving action. are
promised to give a string tempo
and gripping interest to The Good
Bad Girl" Columbia Pictures featured
screen attraction at R-K-O Keith's
Theater
A girl is the central figure of the
story. Wanting a chance at happiness
with decent living, home ard babies
she find herself enmeshed in web of
circumstances from which it SEEMS i'm
possible to escape. How she fights for
this happiness is disclosed IN dramatic
episodes that follow in rapid sequence.
Mae Clarke. whose Molly in The
Front Page" brought her to big notice
has, for her present opportunity in
emotional acting, the role Of the girl
in the picturN In the supporting cast
are James Hal, Marie Provost, Robert
Ellis (as the villain, Nance O'Neil
Evening star., 1931-06-07

"0NcE upon a time" as the chill
dren's books phrase it, little
Chicago girl named Janet Gaynor hur-
ried through her school work and, ac-
companied by her mother, she went
downtown and with wide eyes watched
Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in
. tender and wistful play-one that
made a deep impression on her youthful
mind.
The play was Daddy Long Legs"
and on the way home little Janet de-
cided that some day she, too, would be
an actress and make people laugh and
cry. But never did she dream she would
appear in the very role that first cap
tured her childhood imagination-that
Of Judy in Daddy Long Legs"
Her mother smiled tolerantly. 1t
would be years before her daughter
could seriously consider an acting
career. And in those years Miss Gay
nor, moving from Chicago to Florida
{ and from Florida to California. seemed
to have forgotten her early inclination.
Her stepfather, however remembered
Evening star., 1931-06-07
"Collesiate," Not Collesians'

OLSEN and johnson frst met a.
~ Northwestern University In Evans
ton. Ill. where Chic was working his
way through college by waiting on ia
bles and Ole singing illustrated songs
at the local nickelodeons. They formed
a friendship which has lasted for more
than is years and bids fair TO last
for so.
while still in college they got up an
act and went to a Chicago cafe. Wnere
thew took tables as patrons. without
the managers permission, they stooo up
and went into their act. The outraged
manager tried to stop them. but the
amused crowd wouldn't let him. They
were such a success that they applled
to the astonished manager for q Jon
and got it. ..oco
Later they went on the variety stage
for the major vaudeville circuits ana
became one of the outstanding comedy
combinations behind the footIghts.
Unlike most variety stage headliners,
they refused offers to enter musical
comedy. but remained loyal to vaude-
VILE and toured Australia for two years.
Upon their return. talking MIN pro-
ducers approached them to appear In
short subjects. They didn't, but pro-
duced their own stage show, MONKEY
Business" instead.
Evening star., 1931-06-07

A FTER nearly year of preparation
production has begun on Howard
Hughes aviation comedy, now tenta-
lively titled Ground Hogs" Edward
Sedgwick will direct. He also had a
part in writing the story, along with
James Starr, Ebba Havez, Robert
Benchley and Carroll and Garrett
Graham.
Spencer Tracy. Sidney Toler and
George Cooper will play the leading
roles. Lola Lane is the leading lady
and Renee Marvelle will have an i'm
portant role.
Ground Hogs" Is designed to be one
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Hughes "Ground Hogs"

of the comedy dramatic sensations OF
the new Aim year. Several spectacular
flying sequences will be incorporated in
1t and these will be filmed in co-opera-
ton with Army air officers and pilots
at March Field, Riverside. A number
Of authentic wartime planes. includ-
ing a giant United States Army bomber,
have been reconditioned for use in the
sky scenes.
J. B. Alexander. chief Of aeronautics
on "Hell's Angels" will have charge of
the flying sequences and several stunt
flyers who performed in "Hell's An
gels" will also take part in the new film.
Evening star., 1931-06-07
Woman as a Director.

Six years she spent in Chicago, where
she was one of the founders Of the first
Little Theater. Then she was in San
Francisco for two years and before COM
ing to London lived in New York.
Originally she came to London with
her marionettes (she does that, tool to
operate them in "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" and then stayed on when the
Arts Theater asked her to direct THE
Unknown Warrior"
She also directed Paul Robson in
"Othello' and at the moment is re-
spcnsible for The Venetians," a deli
cate comedy.
She still acts, and she likes it, but
direction she believes the more difficult,
even the higher art.
She still Is intensely interested in the
Little Theater movement in the United
States, and thinks it highly important
that they encourage theiE own writers.
Evening star., 1931-06-07
Good Advertising Value.

CALIFORNIA TECH has yielded her
~ leading threat for the American
Olympic team in the 440-yard hurdles
and the present American champion in
that outstanding athletic event, to the
talking screen.
Dick Pomeroy, who Is all that has
been said Of him in the preceding para
graph, has been nailed down to q movie
contract for duty in Metro Goldwyn-
Mayors novel track and field picture
now in coures of production.
Evening star., 1931-06-07

MARIE DRESSLER is to be starred
A'A in Emma" story written espe-
cially for her by Frances Marion.
Miss Marion is the author of Min
and Bill" in which Miss Dressler was
seen with Wallace Beery. She also
wrote the scripts of The Secret Six
and The Big House"
Emma" is said to afford a finer op-
portunity for unusual characterization
than any of Miss Dressler's earlier
roles. 1t will be directed by Charles F
Reisner, who directed Reducing" and
Caught Short"
Evening star., 1931-06-07
Not a Financier.

EDMUND BREESE says he has not
Il signed a check since the year OF
the actors strike in New York. Count
back how long that has been!
Breese Is one man who admits that
his wife Is the better business man OF
the two. Long ago, he says, ne turned
his pay and check oook OK over Nra. 70 for nh the !"
family. o
IAN artist. II I may call myself one,
is not supposed to be business man;
adds the noted actor. If had n
nancial brain. would not have neen
an actor. The reason we are comfort
ably we'll to do today Is that my vile
handles the money.
Il used to write checks Tor every
thing, like so many OF my profession n
do. but when she got that pen ano
ink in her charge, things were differ
Evening star., 1931-06-07
Another IN the Fold.

THE screen has snatched another
l. from the ranks of 1.-The enemy" to
further hamper its movement In recap
turing the road"
Herbert Bragiotti, whose talents were
displayed in the New York theater per-
formances of MY Maryland" Dis
honored Lady" and "A Woman Denied,
and who also played his first motion
picture role with Gloria Swanson in
What q Widow!" has signed on the
dotted line for five years with Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer. ~.
Evening star., 1931-06-07

T ONDON P.-A Michigan girl who
II used to mimic the actors she saw on
the stage has become one Of Londons
important theater directors.
She Is Ellen Won Volkenburg. born
in Battle Greek, Mich. and a graduate
OF Michigan University.
For three years she has been in
Iondon-she loves it-and at present
she B director of the London Theater
Co. and Of Maurice Browne, Ltd.
When she was just little girl she
used to mimic-she calls it initiate
actors in plays she had seen, remem-
bering lines and situations with kind
of knack This she continued, for her
friends. during her college days, until
20 woman in Detroit saw her.
The Detroit woman hustled her off to
an agent and she toured the States with
her limitations. Soon. however, she was
an actress and later became interested
h the Little Theater movement
Evening star., 1931-06-07
Baby Wonder Star.

with such champions as Georgia Cole
man, the only woman ever to hold all
the women'S diving records for the
United States at one time: Mickey and
Johnny Riley, both national cham
pions: Buster Crabbe, world record
holder in the 880-yard. mile and 800
yard medley races, and others Of ma
tional renoWn
Evening star., 1931-06-07

n YEw YORK, June 6 (P.-When
N Noel Coward's sophisticated
comedy, Private Lives. is
i sent on tour to the larger cities
this Fall it will have Billie
Burke and Hugh Sinclair in the lead
ing roles. These are the parts origi-
mated by Coward and Gertrude Law
renee, with Otto Kruger and Madge
Kennedy replacing them when the
Broadway run Of the play was extended.
It is expected the Krueger-Kennedy
team will tour in a second company of
the play, being booked at towns nat
touched by the Burke-Sinclair duet.
Kruger and Miss Kennedy also may
take the play on tour Of the South
and Pacific Coast.
The red-haired Miss Burke appeared
as comedienne last Winter.
TWO revues and two plays arrived
last week with the third Little
Show" being the first entrant. 1t at
tracted mild reviews from the critics,
they confining themselves to unre-
strained plaudits for the performance
Of Beatrice Lille. The Band Wagon"
which begins its run with a 12-week
buy from the ticket brokers, is the
other arrival.
Evening star., 1931-06-07
Wayne for Arizona"

John WAYNE, who attracted much
attention in 1.-The Big Trail" has
been given a five-year contract by Co
lumbia Pictures. His first assignment
will he to Columbia's adaptation OF
Augustus Thomas American classic,
Arizona"
Wayne, discovered" by Raoul Walsh
during the filming Of Louis Beretti,
after a screen test was given the lead
ing role in THE Big Trail" in which
he achieved a personal triumph.
Evening star., 1931-06-07

AWAyO DN'6Il pOpu~
lar. In "Indiscreet"
Miss Swanson as
SumeS the role of
q world-wiSe young
woman who has
definite ideas con-
cerning men and
morals. Her theory
works tc a good
end until she
meets the man Of
her life and then
it Is too late to
change the past.
Ben Lyon plays
the leading male
role, and the SUI
porting cast conf
prises B a r b a r a
KApf nr0
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Oriental Mystic Engaged.

I AL CHAND MEHRA, said to be an
- authority on Far Eastern matters,
has been signed by Radio Pictures to
supervise technical details Of THE
Sphinx Has Spoken"
A native Of India. Lal Chan Mehra
is considered one of the foremost speak
ers on the subject of his country. He
acted as technical director of "KiSmet, "
The Black Watch" and THE Green
Goddess. Between pictures" he lee
lures at schools, colleges, clubs and so
Evening star., 1931-06-07
A Canary Comedian.

HNTIKE," q unique member Of the
4FA cast Of Politics" in which Ma
rie Dressler and Polly Moran are to
appear, is q trained canary that can
whistle at command. and with 1t the
two condolences stage a comical chase
when it gets out of its cage. Mike"
Is years old, and is said to know as
many tricks as trained dog.
Evening star., 1931-06-07

that period. Next
week the Players
go on a week to-
week basis. Popu-
lar demand has
held them over in
the National Thea
ter. No repertoire
company in the
Nation, 1t is claim
ed, ever received
such satisfactory
support. The COM
pany was judged
by press and pub
lie to be on a par
with any like or
ganization t h q I
ever played Wash
ing on - some
I.,- a. ;, a
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PhotoplayAttractions

and Edmund Breese, both stage celeb
rites of other days. The picture was
directed by r. William Neill.
Other features are Radio Pictures
"Mickeys Stampede" starring the great
Mickey Mcclure; PLAY Ball." one OF
the popular Aesop Fables. the R-K-O
Pathe News and Screen Snapshots, "
with Columbia'S array Of Hollywood
stars.
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"STRANGE INTERLUDE." f"

~ N Monday. June Is, at $50 p m,
the National Theater Players,
beginning q new phase Of
~ their career. will present Eu-
gene O'Neill's masterful drama,
Strange Interlude."
The current week marks the last Of
the Spring subscription season" Ten
weeks OF assorted drama constituted
Evening star., 1931-06-07
PALACE-"Kick In"

fALACE- NlCk HI.
WILLARD MAcK'S stage sensation,
" Kick In," has been brought to
the talking screen and is the cur
rent feature attraction this week at
Loew's Palace Theater, with Clara Bow
in the leading role.
Kick In" is the story Of a big city
police department that stops at moth
ing to frame a man for graft and its
own personal gain. Regis Toomey has
the leading male role, with Wynne Glib
son, a Paramount discovery" in q
supporting role.
On the Palace stage Irving Aaronson
and his Commanders are featured, with
Jay F1ippen. formerly with the second
Little Show" Many consider Aaron
son and his Commanders the premiere
dance orchestra of America, especially
in the realm of ball room music makers.
Many other featured Loew acts are in
cluded in the revue titled bag OF
Blues"
Evening star., 1931-06-07

greatest of them all. Prospects are
aid to indicate that the National Thea
ter Players will establish new con-
tinuity record.
In undertaking ONeill's play,