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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
NEW SEASON STARTS AT POLL
 PALACE THEATER SUNDAY

PALACE IHEAIEn SONDL
 The fall and winter season mas it's pre-Labor Day opening at the Poli Palace on Sunday with VIII Rogers designated to give the world a happy introduction Tn ms Down to Earth" Moreover, the new season price Scale will go into effect at the Poli Palace with this show. The night prices for the or chestra have been dropped. Instead of fifty-five cents. the basic admis- sion will be forty-five cents whlch with the government tax or nvc cents will make it the easy hair dollar. This means that the thea
 ter has practically absorbed the tax for the public. The very popu-
 lar loge section which has been seventy-five cents for years takes a big drop to forty-five cents, 100. Thirty five cents will be the admls- sion price for the balcony.
 The matinee prices will be in ef- feet every day including sundays and holidays right up to six o. clock. The former orchestra scale of thirty-five cents will be in erect
 while fourteen hundred seats will De available every afternoon at twenty-five cents.
 So, too, with the children's price. This will be ten cents at any hour of any day or night. This is in keeping with the Palace policy of promoting family attendance mak- ing it possible for the entire fam fly to share the big show at min mum cost.
 Lined up for early showing are s,,ot ricturas as "Chandu' with Edmund Lowe and Bella Lugosi; Charles Farrell in wild Girr"; a return date at regular prices of "Grand Hoter': Norma Shearer in "Smilin' Thru; Jack Oakie in
 Million Dollar Legs; "Red Dust"
 with Clark Gable and Jean Har- low; "The Age of Consent with Eric Linden and Airline Judge and a wealth of other "top" pictures to be shown at the new Palace low prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
CARD OF THANKS

We desire to express to our friends and neighbors our most sim cere gratitude for their kindnesses and expressions of sympathy; floral and spiritual tributes, during our recent bereavement, the death of our beloved wife, mother and sister, Mrs Mary A. Gilmartin Ryan. We wish to thank particularly mem bers of the Waterbury Fire Depart ment, Mother Superior and Nurses of St Mary's hospital. employees and office stan of R. F. Wordens and Dept. 42, Oakville Pin company.
 Sigped.
 FRANK P. RYAN < FAMILY.
 MISS BEA GILMARTIN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02

hours of the morning. After at- tending this dance you will be able to rest up Labor day and you will be in the pink of condition for the Labor day night dance. All in aii indications. point to three big nights at the Music Box. Bantam Lake. If you really want to spend the holidays nights. Come up to Ban. tam Lake for the week end and have the time of your life where there is always good atmosphere. good music, and the right kind Of a good crwd and last but not least d good time always assuced. Don't miss the barn dance. Something different. Sunday. Sept 2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
WHAT A MAN!

Yellowstone Park, Wyo.-You've got to hand it to George M. San- ford. At 79, he recently arrived here after a bicycle trip of 2.100 miles. He has been riding a bicy- cle since 1929. and has made as high as 72 miles in one day. He has been all through the Middle West. South, East and the Pacific C0oct
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
WHAT AN ACTOR THIS JACKIE COOPER CAN BE! DIVORCE IN THE FAMILY" PROVES IT AT POLL PALACE.

1t must have been pretty hard to decide on a title for Jackie Coop er's new talkie, now at the Poll Palace. It was finally called Div orce in the Family" We hear that other titles were After Divorce" and "Father and Son." The difficult ty comes ia getting a title that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
HOLIDAY DANCES AT THE MU:
 SIC BOX-BANTAM LAKE.

Box. Bantam Lake has made all arrangements for three big nights at this popular dancing resort.
 Saturday, Sept 3rd as usual al- ways . big. night, and on Sunday night. Sept 4th. a dawn dance will be in order. The fun will start at midnight ays lust until the wee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
FUNERALS

The funeral of Perry A. Shaffer, Sr., will be held tomorrow after noon at l o'clock at St Paups Episcopal church, Waterville, Rev Raymond Adams officiating Bur- ial will be in Congregational cem- etery in Kent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
WEATHER WARNING

Washington, Sept 2-(UP)-The U. S. weather bureau to-day issued
 a warning of tropical disturbance "of considerable intensity" central about 100 miles east northeast or Turks island, West Indies, anu moving slowly west northwestward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
DIED

this city, September ?, 1882, Mrs Mary Elizabeth Crane of 1112 West Main street. Funeral Monday morning at 8:15 o'clock to Blessed Sacrament church. Burial in new St Joseph's cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
LAST SHOWING OF "TOM ~ BROWN OF CULVER
 AT NEW GARDEN

To-day at the New Garden the- ater for the last times Tom Brown of Culver" and Almost
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02

The Last Frontier" set
  many years Yet used be famous that old when were who well known Tank Canu Pete Morrison Bnome Slim Doohy GuVer all all in spencer doing the directing Fred Mcconnell ng Just as they used been since the ks Hollywood weren't for this revival
 No foon, to take .@1 Charles BickfOrd-PrOduccr
 Another actor has decided that he going be
 
 up little he plans to produce and direct all of his write his stories IVY discovery made while wandering of the that really belongs was working of the scanty clad girls -o O~~'~-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02

BOWES-A first anniversary mass of requiem will be celebrated Monday morning, September 5th, at 7:30 o'clock at the Blessed Sacra- ment church for the repose of the soul of the late Thomas Bowes of 934 West Main St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
MASSES

WENZEL-In this city, September l, 1882, Louis Charles Wenzel of Woodbury. Funeral arrangements later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
BY DAN THOMAS
Interviews with Stars

AHtCTSICWS "llu oCdTS
 Hollywood-WithT Tallulah Bank heads recent statement that she never will grant another interview as a result of a story printed about her in a fan magazine, it is inter- esting to learn on just what sub- jects some of the stars prefer to be interviewed. Of course, most of them have little to say about that as the majority of us doing the in- terviewing have our subjects all picked before we ever see the vic tims. But at that I guess they really deserve some rights.
 Sylvia Sidney would rather dis cuss books than anything else. Clothes and houses do pretty we'll for a subject as far as Miriam Hopkins is concerned. Gary Coo per immediately launches into stories of his boyhood days or his recent hunting trip. But perhaps that's to ward off possible ques- tions regarding his reported numer- ous romances. Fredric March likes to tell what he would do if he were a director instead of an actor.
 
 Ghosts Returning?
 Most people don't believe in ghosts. don't either. But I came very close fo cho noioo x., ,-.;.a a
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Organizing for Battle

very promising one-as it did last week
in The Vinegar Tree" in which, de-
spite unusually fine acting by the en-
tire company, Leona Powers made local
folks sit up and talk about her and
Mrs. FiSke in the same breath without
thinking it at all unusual
However, New York waited a rlmor
down this way which made everybody
who goes to the theater sit up and
gasp. And since the first break con-
firmation apparently genuinely anthem
tic now makes them wonder If the old
theater is not about to grid on itS
armor and sally forth to battle with
depression and all the other ills Of
mankind with great hope of unusual
success.
productions have been so far In adj
vance of any other theater presented
In recent years, has decided to merge,
it appears, with the Professional Play
ers, an organization which has been
doing pretty much the same thing with
the great attractions that have been
launched under the Shubert banner,
Thus merged, each bringing its very
best to the mill for grist, 1t means the
basis at least for season Of the finest
theater this country has had in Q
mighty long time. starting the coming
Fall
The rumor indicates that all the plays
will be presented at the National Thea
ter in Washington, and forebodes a.
well the passing of the Shubert-B elasco,
which, If true, would be keenly re-
GREETED by local playgoers. More, 1t
also indicates changes of another sort,
designed to remedy "cancerous evils"
complained Of by theatrical managers
as "sorely hampering production" in
Guiding the elimination Of overhead ex-
penses that they have come to regard
as prohibitive.
The assurance comes with the rumor
that the theater is to have a new lease
of life under much more favorable con-
ditions than those of the past; also that
under new arrangements the patrons
may hope for much more satdfactogy
conditions h every way
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Outstanding Figures
Of American Theater
New York Sees Show Boat" Again, With
Couple Changes in Cast
By Percy Hammond.

by Mr.. Hammerstein II preserves some
OF its picturesque qualities. Such of
these as are missing from the Casinos
stage have substitutes in Mr.. Gershwin's
atmospheric numbers sung benignly by
the cast and choir. Give any opera
however moribund, the voices Of Dennis
King and Paul Robson and it will be
apt to pulse again. Mr.. King Is the
new gambler in the play, acting and
singing the role less lazily than his
predecessor, and Mr.. Robson does even
more than you expect him to do with
the big hymn Of the piece, "Old Man
River"
Shall it be said that the first night
circumstances attending Mr.. Ziegfeld's
occupation of the former Earl Carroll
Theater? Not with accuracy, perhaps,
but still there must have been those
present who recalled how triumphantly
Mr.. Carroll entered the house not long
ago. the proud proprietor of the worlds
most palatial music hall Mr.. Ziegfeld
was at that time his most despised op-
ponent, and he reveled in the belief that
he had supplanted the master as Broad
ways premier beauty Snowman. Al
though the occasion was festival,
could not refrain from sadness at the
thought of Mr.. Carroll. then so exult-
ant, now eating his heart out on the
Riviera while his adversary usurps his
monument. But they say show bust
ness is like that, and the Casino of to-
day may be the Aunt Jemimah of to-
morrow. At any rate, Mr.. Carroll him.
self will soon confiscate the theater
once dedicated to Oscar Hammerstein,
and will probably find comfort in chang
ing the name again.
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Back and Better Than Ever.
EREDDIE SHERMAN suggests a mod

ern touch to an old saying to
make it now read Sherman is right"
in rejoining the National Theater Play
ers this week, after an absence Of two
years.
For a large host Of admirers Of this
young actor, who during his salad days
was one Of the most popular juveniles
of the local stock company, are eagerly
clamoring to welcome him back.
And Freddie Sherman Is coming back
as a juvenile with a plum role in capt.
Applejack," at the National tomorrow
night.
Since leaving the National Theater
Players, Freddie mas been out on the
West Coast, gravitating between stage
and screen, getting all sorts of expert
ence, and it is confidently declared he
comes back q better actor than when
he left. At that time he was rated one
Of the best, and they are now saying
he is even better than that, which ought
to put him In the Big League Of Equity.
On the coast Freddie had q whirl doing
shorts. He also had a fling with the
celebrated Terry DUFFY PLAYERS and he
has also played in productions that car
ried him 9ll the way from San Fran
cisco to Vancouver.
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THE metropolitan, on the
L other hand, announces "a really
international motion picture produc-
ton, for the first time since the ad-
vent of the talking picture" And it
is titled Congress Dances and boasts
of an international star, Lillian Har-
vey, the toast of Berlin, Paris and
Vienna" Its story concerns Viennese
shop girl, who, like Nine. Pompadour,
determines to be Kings mistress, be-
comes entangled with Car Alexander
Of Russia when he attended the Con-
the regal pomp of his Oriental court,
and-the picture will disclose the re-
suits.
MANAGER MEAKIN of the R-K-O
A'A Keith's Theater announces that
the latest Ann Harding Pathe produc-
ton, Westward Passage" will be the
attraction at his theater for the week
starting Friday. adding that it was di-
rected by Robert Milton, presents Miss
Harding in a role like that she played
in Devotion" and the supporting cast
will include Laurence Olivier.
X X
THE Warner-Earl Theater, starting
next Saturday, announces with a
great deal of pride" the special en-
gagement of Horace Heidi and his
Calffornians, who recently took Paris
and Monte Carlo by storm, as its fea-
tured stage attraction, with THE
Strange Love of Molly Louvain," a
First National picture, starring Ann
Dvorak and Lee Tracy, for the screen
feature.
The story Of the picture concerns
a small-town girl, led astray by a
youthful lover, who eventually finds
happiness with a hard-boiled newspa-
per reporter, after a hectic career.
Heidi and his Californians will head
a bill Of varied and excellent vaude-
vile numbers.
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Keith's Side Feature. y
PHOTOGRAPHIC record Of

A PHOTOGRAPHIC record OF the
vital changes which are taking
place in the Soviet Union today, sub
Ject that is being widely discussed. is
announced as an extra added attraction
this week at Keiths Theater.
1.-THE Soviet F1ve-Year Plan" en-
braces a period from 1928 to 1893, and,
with the halfway mark passed, comes
what purports to be this authentic
version of its achievements to date.
THE Five-Year Plan: Russia's Re
making" depicts the creation of
new Russia, showing how the primarily
agrarian country is being trans
formed into a land of gigantic steel
mills, super power plants and vast
agricultural enterprises. Every phase
of Russias new development-in cleo
trification, fuel, metallurgy and ma
chine construction. chemical industry,
light industry and agriculture and its
reconstruction is said to be covered by
this film Pathe News is responsible
for the entertaining and instructive
lecture in English which is one Of the
high spots Of the fllm.
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tiOnable in its au-
thenticity." It is no
less than the epic
film, Flame Of
Mexico" which has
been in the max
ing for three years
and it Is said to
r e + ec ct gorgeous
beauty as well as
the artistry of the
Mexicans. 1t comes
under the sponsor
ship Of Mrs. Juliet
Barrett Riblee and
its heroine Is one
of MeXico's most
b e a u t iful girls,
Alicia Ortiz, while
Doland Reed Is the
hero.
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Y LIONEL BARRYMORE IS to
be a Senator in his next
IL picture. This will be called
Public Life" and while it
Is said to be an original story"
1t is also said to bear a close re-
semblance to a novel entitled THE
Claw" Mr.. Barrymore, whose
characteriZations are daily becom-
Ing more and more impressive and
who, in this departments estima-
ton, has shot up away out of
sight of brother John, will do a
complete about-face from his eX-
kringelein role in Grand Hotel"
Rumor has it, too, that the scenes
taken in it will be more authentic
than those devised, for instance,
for Warner BaXter'S Man About
Town" Reviewers of this polite
yarn of neo-croOkS in and about
Washington wondered what en-
baSSy had been opened for the
Hollywood cameraman, what
scenes were taken along Massa-
chuSettS avenue, what jewels had
come straight from ambassadorial
chests. The answer was, and is,
none. The nearest the camera
came to Washington was a flash
of the CapitolS dome. The near
est the actors came to social par
lorS and real wines and beers was
a lot on the West Coast.
The question of authenticity is
an interesting one. 1t is a curl
GUS fact that audiences nowadays
condemn films whose drops" are
painted canvases and trusSed-up
boards. The real thing, or the
next to it, or it won't go. Just a
sniff of a fake and the picture
Immediately loses ground. This
is true, of course, only in the case
of a film which purports to take
itself seriously. In the case of
Johnny WeiSsmullers "Tarzan, for
instance, there were such a be-
wildering series of fakes that it
didn't matter. Half of Trader
Horn" was turned upside down;
dwarf farms and crocodile farms
and lion farms in California con-
tributed their shares; cliffs were
pasted on to Adirondack scenery;
African rivers were devised in the
midst of Hollywood tanks, and
great swarms of mammalia came
straight from the nearest ZOOS
There was, however, no necessity
for making less light of "arzan's
plight. Being a fictitious soul and
having never existed at all. there
was no need of planting him in
reality.
Senators, however, are real-or
the next thing to it. For that
reason it seems as though the
camera would have to get more
into the center of things for Pub
lie Life" And, as though Mr..
Barrymore would, perhaps, have
to have a pretty close glimpse of
Capitol Hill. Whether or not he
will be shown having verbal
"fisticuffs" with brother Senators,
Is another question. Hollywood
says that Barrymore will not come
to Washington for the picture,
but that Washington will go to
Hollywood. In other words, the
scenes that are taken around here
will be placed in the hands of the
star and he will then see to it that
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he gets photographed in and
among them.
That's one of the most interest
ing of the movie tricks. Be some
where where you're not at all.
Point to Senator x, have him stand
right next to you, talk to him, and
then not be anywhere near him.
It's a grand game. Maybe that
wasn't Carlo in Grand HOTEL
you never can tell And maybe
she's not going to Sweden this
Summer, either.
THINGS are beginning to hap
pen so fast and so furiously
in Hollywood that this center of
cinema culture is beginning to
wonder just what is the matter.
First and foremost, Billie Dove is
to play second fiddle to Marion
Davies in Good Time Girl" the
saga of two chorineS-and then
again that very young gentleman
who has appeared to some ad-
vantage in certain films seen in
Washington recently, Eric Linden,
is said to be in greater demand
than many a higher paid leading
man, and he has every studio in
town trailing him. For why, we
for one cannot exactly see.
While the appearance of Miss
Dove in a role secondary to the
fast-waning Miss Davies is one of
the years major surprises. there
is another surprise which has
these cinema fields, in the words
of a wise man, "all agaga." This
is the exchange between M-G-M
and Paramount of Clark Gable
and Frederic March. M-G-M has
actually planted Gable in the
arms of the Paramount organiza-
ton and Paramount has done
ditto with their Mr.. March. This
is not a permanent lob" Butthe
idea of Gable off the Metro lot
seems so fantastic, and Frederic
March on the lot being the same.
that those way up in knowing cir
cles predict dire things for the
future. If such things can be
uOllC, UllCll Willy CdllllOU VOh CUlIl6
along and borrow Carlo to play
opposite Charles Farrell in a sugar
story like "PreciouS?"
The idea in this case Is that
Norma Shearer wants Mrs.
Marcli's boy Frederic to play OPP
posite her in "Smilin' Through"
and that Miriam Hopkins wants
to be co-starred with Mr.. Gable in
that curiously titled film, mo Bed
of Her own" AS soon as these
two films are completed the two
stars will run back to their re-
spective companies. But in the
meantime, it will be interesting to
see what another company can
make out of each. Somehow, we
can't help but think that Mr..
Gable will have the most fun.
X X
THURSDAY at the noon hour
and considerably past the noon
hour-a surprise party was staged
back in the refrigerated ~
dressing quarters of F streets
Beau Brummel, Wesley Eddy.
Here assembled the somewhat
undercooled members of the
daily press anxious to express
their good wishes to one of this
city's most popular MICS.
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Captain Apple
jack" W as the
starring vehicle for
the late Wallace
Eddinger. 1t was
written by Walter
Hackett and pro-
duced or Broadway
a decade or more
ago. Later it came
to washington.
Probably no other
comedy Of the past
20 years grips the
imagination as this,
Captain A ppl e.
jack" Though the
name has a famil-
lar tang, a ring and
a sound to it, the
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Washington s
Players
What Various Organizations Are
Doing and Propose to Do.
"HER GLOVES" Thursday.

THE SOUTHEAST DRAMA CLUB,
directed by Helen Webb Zeller. will
present three-act comedy, Her
Gloves" by Anthony Wills, in Buchanan
Auditorium, Thirteenth and D streets
southeast, Thursday evening, June 2, at
8 O'Clock, under the auspices of the
Southeast Community Center
Clara Kuell, Berthe Cline, Winifred
Watts, Brooke Burnett, Betty Whitfield,
Edward Sarbeau, Paul Colburn, Clar-
ence Ruebsam, Bill Rigney and Jack
Geiger will comprise the cast. and Har-
old Snyder of the Community Center
Department is in charge Of lighting ef-
fects and properties.
DRAMA GUILD OF WASHINGTON.
UINTERFERENCE" will be the final
production of the Drama Guild OF
Washington this season, to be presented
at Wardman Park Theater Friday and
Saturday evenings, under the direction
of William F. Baker. interference"
was thought to be particularly suited to
the warm weather. for its gripping plot
will hold the full attention of the audi
ence to the exclusion of any other con-
Sideration.
Sir John Marlay, an eminent physi-
clan of London, played by Maurice jar
Wis, is happily married to a younger
lady (Aileen Fowler, who had formerly
been the wife of Philip Voaze denis
ConnelD. This former husband had
been reported killed in the war, and
the wife felt warranted in marrying
second time. He suddenly appears on
the scene, however, as the lover Of
Deborah Kane, an adventures, played
by Anne Ives. Finding letters indicat-
ing his relationship to Lady Marlay,
Deborah Kane INDUCES in Matchmaking
operations, in the midst Of which she
is poisoned. Suspicion falls on each of
the principals in turn, until finally the
actual story is revealed. The action is
tense throughout.
Others in the cast include Thomas Ca
hill, Ray Montgomery, Edwin Bergman,
Helen Ryan, Helen Sheckells, Eldred
Wilson, Helen Burton, Roy Mckenzie,
Marvin Beers, Howard Frederick, Thorn
as Mcguire and Robert Miller.
The technical staff, under the direc-
ton of Col John, Otto johnson, has
completed the stage sets, which have
the same professional appearance that
has characterized the Drama Guild
productions throughout the season.
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Most Beautiful Showeiirl!

nOLORES REY, the blonde beauty
with brown eyes, who forced Flo
Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll to contract
jointly for her services, and who has
been hailed as 1.-The most beautiful
showgirl in New York." has signed a
long term contract with Columbia Pic
lures and hied herself to Hollywood.
With a fine singing and speaking
voice and unusual talents as a dancer.
she was one of the bright lights in
"Showgirl," Smiles" the Follies and
the Vanities. She Is only 10 and q
Californian. 2
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Beats Censors.

HOWARD HUGHES, young and rich
IL and a fighting movie maker, has
apparently won cut against the censors
in New York with his gangster fllm,
"Scarface." All this without having to
appeal to the courts. 1t is claimed by
Hughes that dishonest politicians"
caused the trouble because the picture
depicts unpleasant political truths"
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to do whatsoever with apple toddy or
applejack as such, nor with bootleg
gers or bootlegging, hi-jacking or rack
eteering 1t has to do, however, with
adventure, and in funny way.
It starts out to be just an ordinary
drawing comedy, and ends up in
a wild scramble for life and death
aboard pirate ship. 1t Is like this:
very demure gentleman, reading in