Evening star., 1932-04-03
Five Stars Crowd Screen
In Experiment With That
BaumNOvel, "GrandHOtel"
Picture Will Have Its World Premiere in New
York Next Week-Rialto Theater Goes In
for Vaudeville, With Star Attractions.
By E. de S. Melcher.

out of work on the M-G.-M. lot.
1t was taken in hand carefully
and tests made of many promi-
nent players to see who would fit
each part best. Miss Garbo, a
not too successful dancer in
"Mata Hari," nevertheless has
obvious assets for the all-impor-
tant role of the dancer Grusin-
Skaya, although it is this depart
ment'S belief that she could un-
dertake any role from Mrs. Wigs
of the Cabbage Patch to Salome
If she had a mind to it; Joan
Crawford has the pictorial as well
the acting qualities necessary 70
make Flaemmchen a figure OF
life and blood; and while Lionel
Barrymore will obviously be a
different kind Of a Kringelein
from what the stage knew, he and
brother John as the Baron should
put a great part of the fire and
thunder, aided and abetted by
Wallace Beery as PreySing, into
what should be one of the Signifi-
cant film attractions of the year:
Five StarS-and what next? If
this experiment" is successful
and temperament SlumberS peace
fully during its execution, the
next M.-G.-M film may have so
many stars that William Haines
(for lnStance) may be an extra.
ROCKETS have been going up
inside and outside of the
Rialto Theater since last Tuesday,
when it was learned that this
cinema palace will burst forth
April 9 with a stage show. And
what a stage show! Miss Lilyan
Tashman, plus trunkful of new
clothes, will appear there in per-
son to inaugurate the new system,
and following her will be none
other than the extremely good-to-
look-upon Dorothy Mackail. All
OF which reminds us that when
last interviewed in Manhattan,
Miss TaShman was so pleased at
being at the Paramount that she
was staying over a second week
and the box Office at the theater
was as pleased as she was. A
grand trOuper, an amusing per-
son, and, as some one has said
before, a "SWell-elegant arteeSte,"
and one to look forward to in her
latest Paris haberdashery at the
Rialto! She will be surrounded,
too, by that melodiouS orchestra
which plays nightly at the Ward
man Park Hotel under the able
tutelage of Herb Gcsdon.
Bursting forth with such Hca-
lyWood highlights, it is no wonder
that when Rodney Collier an
nounced this with bated breath
over the telephone one midnight
hour, he was literally jibbering
with excitement. This looks, in
fact, as though Ninth street should
rapidly turn again into one of the
major cinema boulevardS.
RUMORS of great activity in the
Fox studios continue to drift
our way. Smiling Lou Brown, one
of the most efficient of the local
press oracleS, and a demon for
work on odd Tuesdays, has handed
in a list between half a mile and
a mile long limiting at what goes
on under FoX'S Hollywood skies.
All is not just George O'Brien and
Ell Brendel out there. They've
got pictures and pictures and
pictures under way, with such
likeable players as Janet Gaynor,
Charlie Farrell and James Dunn,
who is said no longer to sigh for
Miss Garbo's double Miss GaynOr
and Mr.. Farrell will soon be seen
in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" and MY Dear" (now,
there's title). And other films
will include, Man About Town."
with Warner Baxter; Society
Girl" with James Dunn and
Peggy Shannon (which, it is
hoped, will be a better film than
it was a pIay); Precious" and
THE Killer" Incidentally, two
of the most interesting ones to
be looked forward to are Young
with Spencer Tracy and
Doris Kenyon, under the direction
of Frank Borzage, and THE
Woman in Room 49," with ELISA
Landi, who is now also known as
a successful novelist.