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argument that the jazz age is going to be with
us. in one form another, for years TO ccme.
Musical periods like historical eras, have slow.
often indefinite beginnings and do not come
to an abrupt end, but rather are gradually
absorbed into the great musical tradition, which
reveals their influence in succeeding years
THAT has been true with the beginnings Of
jazz which I have indicated did not spring into
life fully formed, but gradually evolved from
the music that preceded It, end reason
why it should not be equally applicable to its
end, which certainly is NOT yet within sight
or hearing. For many more years. venture TO
say jazz will color the tones and syncopate the
rhythms OF American music IN easily
recognizable form.
ItI ELS consider the future of jazz from an
other ansle-its reflection Of the Amer
lean peoples spirit. For as long as I
member I have believed that music like all art,
is profoundly affected by the age in which it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
Latest Argument About the Jazz Age

f. Scott Fitzgerald,
the Jazz No0eHst
Thinks ThatJaz2
Died in 1929, but
George GerShoVin,
Composer, Thinks
HzzHas)nStBegnn
to Get Going and
1t WiU Go On for
Years to Come, and
Here IRE His
Reasons MY.
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three acts that they introduce the
nrfneipal players first in the Roaring
Enrties Of New York, thence to Pull
man car en- route to Hollywood. ana,
finally. in Los Angeles hotel ana
r1fctllre studio, all within the time IL
takes to tell the life story OF q trlo
of vaudeyiIlians played by Jean Dixon,
Hugh OConnell and Grant Minis, VINO,
with the encroachment of the talkles
upon their profession, evolve the plan
OF making inroads upon Hollywood 10
retrieve their fortunes.
Their principal coworkers include
Charles Halton, Marjorie Wood ana
Ruthelma Stevens.
The theme of once in a Lifetime
is really a page from Hollywood and
it's sources of livelihood. Fleeing from
their trials and fluctuations, George,
May and Jerry take up their habitat
in Hollywood and open a voice culture
school in the Herman Glogaeur Studio.
In this they are abetted by the pic
tuTe magnate after being promoted by
a female gossip writer. AS the period
IS the transition of the quiet to the
unuuiet cinema, and the importance
of proper breathing and articulation Is
being realized by the picture producers,
the time is propitious for teachers of
elocution. But the newcomers are as
untutored in the art of speaking as
are the heads and personnel of the
film industry
And that helps much in making a
very amusing play.
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New York Is Amused at
Display of Temperament
ing Their Artistic Ideas-News and Comment
on the Broadway Theatrical Situation

| HOSE who are unfamiliar with
the idiosyncrasieS of "tempera-
ment" marvel that the triuTi1-
Il plant first night of the Scan
daIs' should have been disturbed
by a public fracas between the author.
Mr.. Brown, and the producer. Mr..
White. The occasion was one suggest
ing cheerfulness If not contentment-
with the players, the audience and the
ticket-brokers making a magnificent
spectacle of themselves and human
happiness. But in the midst OF the
general glee, that oil devil Ego reared
its ugly head and there, surrendered
by the startled floral offerings in the
lobby. Messrs White and Brown smote
yicfously at one another.
The Scandals" represented victory
and fortune to both OF the comoatants;
They had manufactured brilliant rival
to the "Follies," The Band Wagon"
and the "Vanities," and they ewere being
lavishly approved for having done so.
therefore I was disappointed when,
outside the Apollo Theater, heard Mr..
Brown. Lvid with choler. muttering i'm
precautions against his impresario; ana
Mr.. White with cruel sheer upon his
face adjusting his diSarranged neck
wear and glaTing contemporary IN
the direction of his collaboration. The
SUSPICION J1ab u ptODicAi VI iOyd1SiCo
was involved in the discard Is disdatned
by both participants. 1t was simply q
matter of twin artistic temperaments ON
a iamboree.
Let us not be worried about this in
explicable eruption. 1t Is but one OF
the freaks of Broadway nature and
means little or nothing in what <Theo-
dore Dresser solemnly refers to as the
unreasonable triviality of life" Mr..
Brown has already transferred himself
and his pianist, Mr. Henderson, to Mr..
ziegfeld's rich pastures, and therefore
we shall not be deprived of their songs
and comedies. When. after a season
or two with Mr.. Ziegfeld they grow in
dignant with him also. they will return
to Mr.. White. who will receive them
again with all the copious welcomes
known to the forgiving and forgetting
show business.
| Mr.. Whites new play by Mr.. Brown is
out of the treasure-box of the Broad
way revues. Although Willie Howard
its most conspicuous comedian. is much
| frlnnier than is his won't, it is Everett
Marshall. a baritone emigre from the
Metropolitan Opera. who lifts it from
| the slums Mr. MARSHALL sings two
songs, 1.-THE Thrill Is Gone" and That's
| Why Darkies Were Born" both of
which belong in any anthology Of first
| class musical comedy poems. In case
| you suspect that revue audiences care
only for exhibitions Of pretty girls and
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sincere young lumberman. The role Is
said to be one of Miss Chatterton
stronaest Dramatic parts since she de-
serted the stage for the screen.
Ralph Ballamy, who plays opposite
the star, Is q young New York stage star
recently signed by Paramount. His
selection followed q long search In
Hollywood and on Broadway Tor the
ideal leading man to play the role OPP
poeite Miss Chatterton. Stuart Edwin,
also included in the cast, has IN The
MaGnif1cent Lie" his FIRST opportunity
of mixing dramatic acting with his well
known forte for comedy. Berthold
Viertel was the director OF the picture.
Fanchon and Marco will bring TO the
stage their Carnival" idea, filed with
mirth and melody. Featured IN the
show are Raynor Lehr and company. the
Andresens, Teddy the bear, with Louis
z. Goody, Cropley and Violet. and the
famous Carla Torney Dancers.
PALACE-"The Squaw Man"
"T'HE SQUAw MAN" the current
screen feature at Loew's Palace
Theater, with Warner Baxter in the
leading role, supported by Eleanor
Boardnan, Lupe Velez, Charles Bick-
ford. Roland Young.~Paul Caydnagh.
Raymond Hatton, Julia Faye, Dewitt
Jennings and J. Farrell Mcdonald, is
a Cecil B. De Mile production Of the
Edwin Milton Royle play made famous
on the stage by William Faversham.
The story concerns young Indian
girl who falls in love with a white man
who has fed from his home TO save
his family's honor. The two are mar
ried, and the climax of the story comes
when the Sqlaw Mans former sweet
heart comes to take him back TO his
former home.
On the Palace stage Helen Kane will
be seen in person, with revue direct
from the Capitol Theater. New York,
which also includes Walter Dare Wahl
and many other well known Loew acts.
EARLE-"I Like Your Nerve"
EIFI D'ORSAY. in person, and
Il Douglas Fairbanks. jr. as the
screen star, share headline honors at
Warmers Earle Tlheater this week. Fiji
headlines the stage program, while
Doug Junior will be seen In First Ma
tional and Vitaphone's Il Like Your
Nerve" a screen comedy romance in
which he plays a part similar to those
that made his father famous.
Fii DOrsay. who has appeared with
Victor McLaglen, FL Brendel, Will
Rogers and others sings and dances
and tests in her offering. Unlike many
of the Hollywood stars. Fiji loves TO
go behind the footlights and give the
audience all she has.
other acts on the stage program in
clude Joe Marks. with Mae Leonard
Eddie Ryan and Howard Mott, in Then
the Fun Began: the Three Gobs in
Cruising Along" Togo and Cherry
Blossom, Japanese entertainers, and
Maxine Doyle. mistress of ceremonies.
iS AZ NJ
breath-taking speed showing Doug as
4 wealthy young American involves In
political intrigue III a Central AMERICAN
republic How he averts a revolution
saves the finance minister and. incl
dentally, wins the minister's daughter
after a spectacular kidnapping on the
eve Of her marriage cause the excite
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ugly outhouses, you will be surprised to
see how rapturously they react to the
proud and clean efforts Of Mr.. Marshall.
Even the appeal Of 50 cosmic q crooner
as Rudy Vallee ebbs rs It Is contrastsd
70 MI. MarshalPs endeavor in the music
ana orama OF Mr. White'S-or Is It Mr..
nFoWns Scandals? What amazes me
- snat lyricist able to compose the dig
mined verses Of MFR Marshalls naalrns
should also be the author of sleh nee
wee tinkles as This Is the Missus, and
Life Is just Bowl Of Cherries" Per-
maps Mr. White wrote the more majestic
numbers OF the play, and was Jealous
o! Mr. bFoWns gfftedness in the man
uiactare or these little songs with
nothing In them
THE Negro players were active last
week, once In nondescript revue
calied Fast and Furious and again
in . Harlem melodrama bv .John Me-
Gowan entitled "SinRin' the Blues. s.
The hrst Is an expanded eolored floor
snow. saved from its initiative routine
Dy the presence among its authors of
Hosamond johnson, one of his races
most benign geniuses. "Sin9iu' the
Blues, however, is an up-and-up
thriller, depicting in the theater,s most
turbulent eolors some exciting items in
the lives Of urban Americans.
While not so conscientious as "Porgy''
nor so spectacular as Lulu Belle" it
combines in Snowy Broadway enter
tainment the best and the worst ele-
ments Of both of them.
\ x "a
TT is the whim of Alfred Savoir, in
his tolerable forgetabIe comedy He, >
to surmise what would happen to God
in case He were to come to earth as a
man and mingle with His puppets in
an Alpine hotel The result of his
fancies was performed last Monday
night by the Theater Guild as the salu-
tstory Of its fourteenth subscription
season. Although 1t was interesting y
as the saying goes, it seemed to stir
the first audience but gently, If at all
Its ironieS were neither whitening nor
lenient enough, and the scheme Of its
al1egory was too familiar. It was Just
q combination Of Anatole France, the
Guild M. Savoir and Chester Erskin,
its producer and translator.
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New Book May Dissolve
One Hollywood Mystery
But the Volume Concerning Creta Carlo Will
Have Limited Circulation An Effort to Tell
How the Cinema Star Spends Her Days.

friends of Carlo that the material took
on O turn which made it unpalatable to
the famous motion picture actress ana
distressing to those who have nurtured
the idea of her SequeStration. The new
idea OF Carlo paints her in far more
drab colorS than even her intimateS ac-
cusad her of. A lonely, weary woman
who sneaks out to the ice box, when
the servants have gone. for a bit OF
cold meat, a scrap Of cheese and some
Swedish bareback.
Or: when servants are away - the
mysterious Carlo stirring potatoes and
frying a steak, then sitting down at
the kitchen table to eat her solitary
dinner, when all over the world there
are thousands of admirers longing to
set the handiwork OF the greatest cher
before her"
Carlo riding horseback in the rain.
Carlo talking of returning to Sweden,
never to come back again.
These are some of the things Rilla
Page Palmborg tells in her expose OF
Garbo-the book that has caused some
commentary pleasant and much more
that is unpleasant in Hollywood.
Yet those who work in the studios
know. despite the careful efforts OF
employees to shield the Swedish star
from prying eyes as much as possible,
that Greta Carlo is weary woman
with a great art who wears on the sets
flat-heeled bed room slippers which are
kicked off only in those rare moments
when La Carlo is photographed with
legs and feet showing.
Yet when this same woman releases
her slow smile or lets some strange,
lovely light inform her long eyes the
whole world trembles. Genius isn't the
case in which we are born: genius Is the
light we turn on from inside, not the
finish that is put on from the outside.
And Greta Carlo, glamorous or not,
is an artist.
(copyright. 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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most eloquent in
praise of Five Star Final" which
seems to be the outstanding hit OF the
new season thus far.
Ann Harding at Kefth's
In Devotion" Next Friday.
MANAGER MEAKIN Of R-K-O
ANA Keith'S Theater announces with
degree of high enthusiasm that he
has secured the new Ann Harding
picture Devotion" for the new week
beginning Friday Devotion" is q
screen version of Pamela Wynne's well
known story, and it win be shown on
the Keith screen with cast Including
Leslie Howard, Robert Williams, o. P,
Heggie Louise Closer Hale, Dudley
DiggS and Alison Skipuorth. 1t was
directed by Robert Hilton.
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HOLLYWOOD. Calf, September
26,-Keeping the Hollywood
mysteries in their places Is one
of the most tremendous diff
culties ever encountered by q
locality accustomed to surmount the
apparently impossible. Despite threats,
exhortations and imprecations, the
private life of Greta Carlo is at last
off the press, and a lady who has been
the enigma of all gelatine history viii
soon be no longer enigmattcal.
Rilla Page Palmborg gets out a
so .OO0-word book, one hears, on the
strength of interviews with GaToo ana
interviews with friends of the Swedish
actress. The net result is a picture OF
a lady regarded as the most glamorouS
public personality in the world by the
thousands who see her on the screen.
but well known to be without personal
glamour, in the accepted sense OF that
term. by the residents of the f1lm
colony.
Although Greta Carlo refused to
meet Lady Mountbatten when she was
a guest Of the Douglas Fairbankses at
Pickfair. she granted the interviews to
Rilla Page Palmborg it seems, because
Mrs. Palmborg's husband is Swede
and Carlo said, 'Swedes understand
Swedes.''
The result was a magazine article
although the studio reluctantly grants
permission for such things, due to the
fact that the less said about their star
the better-complete mystery having
given her an aura which no amount Of
enthusiastic literature has been able to
give other professionals.
But rumor has it that the edition of
this book will be very limited due to
the fact that CARLOS producers have
threatened the publishing company.
The original article dealt largely with
Carlos youth in Sweden and it was
only when Rilla Palmborg returned to
HOLLYWOOD to interview some Swedish
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lives"


ONE of the red-letter events of the
year Is promised in the first pres
entatton on tour Of Noel Coward
which delighted both London and New
York last season. Arch Selwyn will
bring this merry and unconventional
play to the National Theater tomorrow
evening, with Madge Kennedy and
Otto Kruger starred in the roles Gre
ated in London by Gertrude Lawrence
and the versatile Mr.. Coward himself.
The Selwyn stars have brilliantly
proved Mr.. Selwyn's contention that
gayly and buoyantly as it ever went in
London. One Of the best Selwyn casts
ever assembled Is promised in their
support.
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne
are divorced and are ON honeymoons
with new mates, when they meet at a
French hotel and stare and scowl at
each other. Soon, however, they are
smiling and contriving to be alone to-
gether, and before long, under the
spell OF old memories and new moon,
they are on their way to Amanda S
Paris fiat, leaving a deserted bride and
bridegroom to solve the puzzle for
themselves. The second act. mostly a
duet for the lovers, sparkling with wit
and humor, is mellow with tenderness
reborn and touched of at the end with
tempestuouS quarrel-and into this
storm stroll the deserted pair. Then
comes a stroke of Coward's genius for
stage effects, an intensely amusing
breakfast scene, with the deserted ones
making every effort to forgive and for
get and the unabashed lovers smiling
at each other again under the flag OF
truce.
1t is all said to be good theater."
pointing a familiar moral, scintillating
with bright sayings and unbridled fun
and topped of with acting that won
unStinted applause for Miss Kennedy
and Mr.. Kruger during their New York
engagement.
GAYETY-"Dixie Beauties"
WITH a cast topped by trio oil
w popular burlesque fayorites. sup
ported by group of young singers and
dancers slated for stardom, Joe
Leavitt's Dixie Beauties" comes to the
Gayety Theater this afternoon for a
matinee 1t is said to be one of the
strongest attractions on the new Co
Mmbia circuit.
Jack Hunt, "the hobo herman" with
his trick cigar and wide trousers COM
posed exclusively Of patches, will pro-
vide the laughs. assisted by the nut
with eyeglasses" known as Clyde Bates
Kitty Warren. whose singing and dane
ing are popular with burlesque patrons
will be among the bright lights.
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skyline"
At che Fox, Friday.
MANAGER CRUIrS double bin Of
A'A stage and screen entertainment az
the Fox Theater, starting Friday, win
present the new picture Skyline" fea-
turing Thomas Meighan. after quite an
absence from the screen. with Maureen
Low.
THE Great Raymond" famous ma
gician, win be the outstanding attrac-
ton in the Fanchon-Mareo stage show,
assisted by the Sunkist Beauties.
Four Marx Brothers
in Monkey Business" at Columbia.
BEGINNING next Friday thes1amous
~ Four Marx Brothers, gifted and &C.
centric comedians. Will be seen In thet.'
newest picture. Monkey Business" at
Loews Columbia Theater. replacing
street Scene" the current attraction.
Daughter of the Dragon"
Comes to Loew's Pal-cc, Friday.
THE perturbation of Cox ROhmer's
famous novel. Daughter of Fu
Manchu," which for the purposes Of
the screen has been retitled Daughter
of the Dragon" will start the new
week Friday at Loew's Palace Theater.
Warner GLAND will be seen in the big
role, supported by Anna May Wong and
the famous Sessue Hayakawa of the
screens silent days.
"Splashes' is the name of the New
York Capitol Theater revue which will
be the dominant feature of the stage
program, ar5. true 10 its name, it prom
ises much in fancy diving and tank
work.
Tallulah Bankhead
In MY Sin," Earle, Saturday.
WARMERS Earle announces Tallu-
w lah Bankhead, international stage
celebrity, In her latest Paramount talk
ing picture, My SIM" for the new
week commencing Saturday. MY Sin"
is described as 1.-The story Of the re-
demption of two derelicts. almost sub
merged, one through wild living, the
other by the touch Of remorseless cir
cImStance"
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the star W oul d
have been perfect
" at ease. She
speaks, reads and
writes the language
1uently.
The Magnih-
cent Lie" based on
Leonard Merrick s
novel, ~Laurels and
the Lady" intro
duces Miss Chat
terton as the
Am eric an born
daught er Of French
parents, . cafe en-
tertainer In New
Orleans. Masquer-
aiding as q famous
French actress, she
~.~Es-r 4rNa 1rgA If 4
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yellow .UuTIldi-
ism, featuring Ed
ward G. Robinson
supported by Mar
ian Marsh, Frances
Starr, H. b. War
ner, and many
other screen celeb
rites. Is announced
to follow Alex =
ander Hamilton
the George Arliss
picture now at the
Warner Metropol-
itan Theater. Just
when the change
will be made has
not yet been an
nounced. The New
York critics waXed
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ON THE HORIZON

tn HE current week is already cold
IN point of time in the calendar
Of the motion picture palaces in
Il downtown Washington, the new
week beginning with most Of
mem en- Friday of the current week.
With this explanation it should be
clear to the reader when to expect the
new picture hits hereafter mentioned.
for the new picture season is also just
under way. when the most recent OF
the big screen attractions may be ex-
pected.
Five Star FinaH'
Next at the Metropolitan.
0EIvE STAR FINAL" the already
famous First Observation-Disclosures
production of the story of the evils of
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inal company and
production are
promised. T h l S
blue-ribbon show,
as all the world
knows, Is the work
of Moss Hart and
George s. Kauf-
man. and was pro-
dueed by Sam II.
Harris and staged
by Mr.. kaufman
Once in q Life
time" is of muSi-
cal comedy pro-
portions. 1t has a
cast of 40 people
o n d so rapidly
moving are the
zavay, scaneS of its
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1NabtNAANA = AAC0SNsA
for five nights, be-
ginning Tuesday
of next week, Oc-
to5er 6, with mat
inees Wednesday
and Saturday.
The origi a ]
Crichton in the
United States was
William Gillette,
who created the
title role ct the
.Lyceum Thsater,
New Yor'ss, in No
vember, 1903, and
after a long sea-
son took the COM
pany on the road
the following sea-
son for q tour Of 30
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FOX-"The Magnificent Lie"
. UTH CHApTERTON needed no
teacher apr the few words of
French she was required to
speak for her role in The Mag
nificent 3ie," the current at
action at the Fox Thester. In fact,
"a the entire dialogue been in French,
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ment. Loretta Young appears in sup
port of the star.
Short-reel subjects and an orchestral
prelude complete the program.
RIALTo-"Homecide Squad"
0HoMICIDE SQUAD" now ct the
l. Rialto Theater, with Mary Brian
and Leo GARLIC In the featured roles,
IL Universal Pictures production which
says something new in ganeland pic
lures 1t is claimed to be distinctly
different and was screened from an
original story by Henry La CosSitt, a
veteran police reporter.
Under George Melford'S direction,
the supporting cast include Pat O'Mal-
ley, George Brent, Noah Berry, Walter
C. Percival, Russell Gleason and j.
Carol Mash.
The extra attractions on the current
Rialto program embrace the Otto Beck
Organlog, the Universal News, with
Graham McNamee, and a short comedy
feature.
KEITHS-"Smart Woman"
0CMART WOMAN" now at R-K-O
~ Keith's, features several bona
fide stars in the Radio Pictures cast.
They are Mary Astor. in the leading
role of Nancy, q star in silent pictures
ward Everett Horton, who plays the
role Of Bill, the cut-up and hypo-
chondYine, who was starred for years
on the Los Angeles stage and has also
had stellar l1onorS in both silent and
taIkie films; Robert Ames and John
Halliday, stars in New York stage pro-
auctions; Noel Francis, a former Zieg-
field attraction, who has seen her name
number one" one the marquee boards
of Broadway.
with this cast Radio Pictures has
created a dramatic comedy, Smart
Woman" which the local R-K-O
Keithis Theater is sponsoring with
pride.
COLUMBTA-"Street Scene"
ELMER RICE'S Pulitzer prize drama,
n Street Scene" win remain q Sec
ond week at Loew's Columbia Theater.
sion of the famous play Of the theater.
has been hailed by washington critics
as a faithful reproduction Of the story
as 1t was depicted on the stage.
Sylvia Sidney heads an imposing ar
ray of players. many Of whom appeared
on the stage with the legitimate ver-
sion Buster" Collier, Estelle Taylor
and others will be seen in support Of
Miss Sidney.
METROPOLITAN
Hamilton"
ES A LEXANDER HAMILTON" star
ring the distinguished actor
| George Arliss, continues for q second
week as the major offering at Warner
BIOS Metropolitan Theater Mr.. Ar
liss' Characterization is not Hamilton
the financial genius which the play
deals with. but rather Hamilton the
man and his love for his wife.
! This Warner Bros. and Vitaphone
picture brings to light the great states
man and his experiences with pretty
adventures who temporarily held him
in her power and caused a scandal
which only his outspoken confession
! Of his infatuation cleared up.
! Directed by John Adolf. the picture
cast includes Doris Kenyon, June Coll
/ yer, Montaeu Love. Alan Mawbray,
| Dudley Digges, Rolfe Harolde. Charles
Middleton, Lionel Belmore and Russell
/ Simpson.
! Short screen subjects include Ripleys
/ Believe 1t or Not" Paramount Souve-
| mir. Paramount Pictorial and Graham
McNamee Talking News: