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Evening star., 1934-08-25

Walter Wanger's productions are
scheduled to start as soon as he re-
turns here from the East Coast. All in
all, there Is mere individual effort
going on in motion pictures today
than there has been since this form Of
entertainment began. 1t points to q
day when pictures will be made singly
or in small groups and sold on their
merits after being shown to buyers,
instead of being made in mass pro-
duction and sold on the established
name of the corporation making
them, built-up fan following Of the
star, or sold In advance sometimes
even before any one known who the
star is going to be. what the story is
about or even II there is story worth
making.
Clean pictures, If persisted in, will
be one Of the greatest deterrents to
some Of the established stars. Cleaning
pictures means building up story
strength and that, in most cases, in
wolves attention to casting and detail
not always observed when there Is
big box-office draw involved.
There is marked change in the
trend of fan mail An article about
Roland Young, for instance, brings in
q show of congratulatory letters I'VE
want to hear more about this type Of
read many Of these notes,
I'VE are gagged and fed up and bored
BY the constant and highly-colored
plugs about big stars which
meet our eyes on every hand. Mean
while, the true artists of the screen
are practically ignored in order that
cheap females whose only claim to
public attention is the l1otoriety they
receive, are given the breaks at every
hand"
Richard Bonelli. famous Metropoli-
tan opera barytone, now making a
screen premiere with Elissa Landi in
Enter Madame" thinks the debut of
grand opera on the screen in English
Is a definite possibility. This state
ment follows closely ON the heels Of
Daryl zanuck's interview given in
New York shortly before his departure
on his African hunt. Bonelh says:
THE Puccini operas offer the best
for screen presentation
than most because this composer knew
his theater better than his contem-
porarie. The screen would have to
train its feminine singers. Most Of
the male opera stars could come to
the screen without difiiculty, as there
Evening star., 1934-08-25
HOWARD'S ART
SHOWS in NEW
COMEDY ROLE
"Lady Is WHling'' Is
Presented as Neo,
Keith Film.

4 THOROUGHLY enjoyable film is
this "The Lady Is willing" There
Is something about 1t that tickles
ones fancy. There is no reason or
rhyme to its unfolding, 1t Just skips
about in q most fantastic and pleasant
manner. and with it skips most
pleasant young man and a beautiful
young woman. 1t Is a new Mr.. Leslie
Howard, who takes keen delight in
playing his various roles, which he
finds entirely necessary to his newly
found career Of private detective.
Even Ambassador Troyanovsky, who
attended q performance yesterday
afternoon, seemed to derive great en-
joyment from Mr.. Howard's unusual
and unreasonable skippings, If one may
judge from the broad smile that
wreathed his face when he left the
Keith lobby.
No one could possibly recognize the
Leslie Howard seen in "Of Human
Bondage" in this latest film of his,
nor would those who saw his leading
lady, Binnie Barnes, late Catherine
of Aragon in Henry VII" recognize
her. Mr.. Howard has dropped his seri-
business and become predominantly q
mock-serious young man, with an
amused CLINT in his eye, who derives
no end of fun In each Of his capricious
adventures as Private Detective La
Tour. 1t fits his personality so that
we should dislike to see him play any
other type of part. In Miss Barnes
case 1t is a matter of being unrecog-
nizable, though becoming American
lied and more fascinating because of 1t.
Returning to the subject Of the film,
1t has speed, 1t is clever, so very clever
and surprisingly amusing. No one can
ever be quite sure just what Detective
La Tour is going to find himself doing
next. Indeed, Detective La Tour Is
not quite so sure himself. And when
he kidnapS O beautiful lady to re-
obtain or ransom her for money lost
in one of her husbands fraudulent
stock deals and finds that he is quite
taken with the lady's beauty he Is
even less sure than before.
Even the villainous husband of the
beautiful lady Cedric Hardwicke) is
to be found more amusing than vii
famous, as is every figure in the cast.
As for the dialogue and continuity.
both have the delightful habit Of
bounding of to most any place re-
motely connected with anything in the
film, only to return and end in making
q perfect whole.
Featured also with "The LADY Is
Willing" is q short comedy, in which
little Shirley Temple is to be seen
being just as much little lady actress
as she has been in longer films.
j. N. II.
Evening star., 1934-08-25

graphs flowing like ink out of bottle
and some of the Going Native"
revue obliging with bows and smiles
. and what about that Ernestine
Gardner who was admired by what
visiting scribe who sings like a
nightingale and who will 60 away soon
. only to come back again in two
weeks what about her-J. N. H.
says she's swell.
Have you noticed those
brown panels at the Tavern Club
(atop WillardD which play background
for "The Drunkard" character
sketches? they were done by Hugo
linden, Arts Club idol and artist de
luxe =. speak of him in New York,
Washington or Germany and
people will nod and say "of course"
and say other nice things about his
brush and his palette (palette Is
not part Of your throat.
Most fashionable frequenter
of Ye Shoreham Terrace: Myron
Parker known for his smooth
mustache, his neat ties, his nice man
ners, his sense of humor accom-
plishment: he has never stepped on
a ladys toe yesterday, too, there
Evening star., 1934-08-25

moves along in agreeable, hot-weather
style, Ladies Should Listen" is no
bombshell. It will give you, however,
a fairly entertaining evening If you're
looking for such.
kHITZI MAYFAIR, whose back kicks
lv1 are among the high lights Of the
musical-comedy dancing world, is the
headliner on this weeks stage bill.
We recommend particularly that
sailor r-blue costume and the dance
which she does at the end Of her act.
She is, too, ably supported by the Ten
Aristocrats, who dance in trick forma-
tions and deserve the great big hand
which Is accorded them. Rita De Lano,
singer, is also in the act.
Others on the bill include Jack
Powell, who can get more music out
of a chair than any living drummer,
and whose sense of rhythm is some
thing to marvel at; Arthur Boran,
radio impersonator, whose limitations
of those way up in public life are way
out Of the ordinary, and George and
Arthur Domonde, cyclonic cyclists.
The stage show lasts for so minutes
the length that all good stage shows
should last.
HANDY ANDY" being one Of Will
Rogers better films, returns to
the Columbia this week full of age
and honor, having attained great
popularity at the Palace when it
played there recently for two weeks.
Mr.. Rogers has as good a time as
his audience has in this one, fiinging
the handsome Conchita Montenegro
across a giant ball room in one of
the amazing adagio dances Of the
year, and wearing lion skin with
apparently as much success as Johnny
Weismuller.
MIR. Rogers is no less effective on
the golf course in a pair of atrocious
trousers that Peggy Wood has pro-
vided for him. and, in fact, all the
way through the picture offers his
public" one surprise after another.
The picture is further enhanced by
Mary Carlisle's swirmishes with love
and by cast which is genuinely
excellent throughout.
Evening star., 1934-08-25

w - -
at the Shoreham,
what with all
those strapping
Mexican polo
players arriving
among them
Capt. Quin t l n
Reyes who
is, however, no
relation Of Eva
Reyes, that SEN
sational Rhuma
dance artist, who
with brot h e r
RaollI can mt IN
Evening star., 1934-08-25
TREASURE ISLAND
FOR ANOTHER WEEK

T oNa JOHN SILVER, Capt. Billy
- Bones, Ben Gum and sundry
others of every young mans imagi-
nary seafaring days have earned such
local popularity in their return to
life via the silver screen that Treas
ure Island" is to remain another week
at Loew's Palace for all to behold.
Garnished with picturesque dialogue
and handsome photography, the
cinema version Of young Jim Haw-
kin's adventures among pirates bold
and noble heroes has been made
into q pleasing dish for both wide
eyed youngsters and reminiscent
adults, who will find the tale Of
buried treasure and dark skulldug-
gerry ornately faithful to the original
None who have whiled away q
sunny afternoon in adolescent dreams
Of dirks, dubloons and excitement on
the high seas can fail to enjoy the
revival of Robert Louis Stevenson's
immortal yarn, and those who know
nothing about it should relish the
discovery.
With Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins
duQ WdldCc bccTy III Luc IOlc VI
that droll cut-throat, John Silver, the
picture succeeds eminently In catch
ing the spirit of colorful legend. If
it lacks the pace of modern machine
gun melodrama, the fllm offers in
exchange q flavor of quaintness and
musty mystery which is something
of q relief to speed jaded palates.
In addition to young Cooper and
w. Beery, both of whom play to the
last ditch the heart-tug sequence of
the friendship between Royerboyish
Jim and the bastard Long John, the
cast numbers such excellent actors
as Otto Kruger, earnest and suave
as DR.. Vesey; Lewis Stone, in the
part Of Capt. Smollett, and Lionel
Barrymore, who Is q bit on the
blustery side as Billy Bones.
The Palace program also includes
an animated cartoon and q news
reel. r. B. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening at $50 o'clock at
the home bandstand, John s. M. Zim-
mermann, bandmaster; Anton Point
ner, associate leader.
March, THE Lure of Alaska" Benter
Overture, "Militaire". :. .Mendelssohn
Suite, "Africaine" e"..........La .Lacome
"Bamboula,". "Khacidah," La
Nouba."
Excerpts from "Cavalcade" Coward
Popular, I'm the Valley of the Moon,"
Burke
Waltz, Beauties Charms. Tobani
Finale, stepping Along" i. Goldman
"The Star Spangled Banner
Evening star., 1934-08-25

There is nothing in this film that
will give you apoplexy and nothing
that is either startlingly good or un-
believably bad. 1t is one Of those ex-
Broadway French farces, dressed up
for the screen, given some new and
rather amusing lines and acted pain
lessly by an occasionally first-rate
cast.
Although we do not agree with
Douglas MacLean, who swears that
Cary Grant will some day be one Of
our best light comedians, we have to
admit that Mr.. Grant is forging right
ahead, and that as soon as he stops
turning up the collars of his dressing
gowns and wearing hats that are too
small for him, he will be near the
top. On the continent, 1t Is said that
Mr.. Grant already has q vast fol-
lowing.
u \
YOUR attention in this film should,
= however, be turned to a new
conner, Frances Drake, who, while she
may not be a bounding beauty, has as
nice a speaking voice and as nice q
sense of diction as anybody we have
yet come across on the screen. Fur
ther than that, she has the extreme
wisdom of not overacting and besides
that-ah, well-she's pretty good,
that's all.
Edward Everett Horton, who invari-
ably looks like some species Of fish
(maybe it's guppy), has only to walk
into the film, and the fllm is his.
His especial passion In this case Is
Nydia Westman, who, while she wears
glasses, is yet an amorous soul-and
in the end gets not only one man but
almost two Mr.. Horton and Miss
Westman together are very funny.
A word for Charles Ray. When he
makes his entrance, he gets what is
rare in the motion-picture world-ap-
plause. It was heartening yesterday
to see how many people remembered
him. Mr.. Ray was always noted for
his honest, clean characterizations. AS
far as we can remember, he never ap-
peared in Mae West film.
Other than the cast, and the bright
dialogue, and the fact that the picture
Evening star., 1934-08-25

MEL were BIOWluB bncIn plOn0
and beautiful out In the corn
belt when Eadie was born,
Il and they plowed under none
of the tough ones in the crop
that produced The Girl From Mis-
souri," q rsucous lass. imported this
week to Loew's Fox In the g1lise of
Miss Jean Harlow.
You may recall that in all the
songs invariably "Eadie Was Lady"
and the Eadie who Is the heroine
of this saga fights a noble battle
against class prejudice, the sly looks
gentlemen sometimes cast at plati-
mum blonds, and other injustices
welded against poor but honest girls
in this wicked world. Whether she
ever makes out conclusive case for
her ladyship. 1t remains for you to
decide, but at least, ere the final cur
tain, she has married q millionaire
squire, and that is a long stride.
In her tender youth, it seems, Eadie
decided love vas O bundle Of shooting
pains and money a commodity very
handy to have around the house.
Therefore she scorned romantic fancy
and pursued with acumen and her
girlish charms all that had the glitter
of gold. While hot on the trail of
gruff old millionaire, Eadie chanced
upon his lean and mildly lecherous
young son, who at first had no good
intentions toward her immortal soul,
but eventually succumbed.
" y
IF r. r. Paige, jr., fell for Eadie's
= insistent love Of the wedding ring,
his father distinctly did not. He
could not imagine the progeny of his
gilt-edged line basking on Baileys
Beach with a cotton-topped chlorine,
and he devised a little plot to pre-
vent 1t. Pretending to bestow bless
ings on his sons proposed matrimony,
he actually framed her with q greasy
stooge who hid In the innocent girls
boudoir and leaped forth just in time
to grab her in his arms for the benefit
OF a few detectives and those alert
fellows, the newspaper hocus focus
boys.
Not to be discouraged merely by a
few pictures in the paper, T. r.
Paige, jr., attempted to 90 to the
rescue Of his gay beloved, but finally
abandoned her In the Jail, when she
could not explain satisfactorily the
stolen jewel" gag on which she had
been incarcerated. For we forgot to
tell you, Eadie wore in a ring, q pair
of ruby cuff links presented to her by
Wall Street mogul just before he
ended 1t all and the detectives sent
by Herr Paige, ST., refused to be-
lieve her explanation that they were
simply the kind Of presents any one
might give girl. She was accused of
stealing them, and held in gaol for
the same.
A bibulous blade Of the Paige &C.
quaintance happened &ong as she
pined In her cell, went her bond, and
set her free into the world to carry
the story Of "The Girl from Mis-
souri," to its inevitable end. Since
the climax Of the tale Is amusingly
spun, it may well remain unrevealed
except to those who care to look upon
it themselves.
THE players in this cinema are un-
questionably its greatest virtue,
with Miss Harlow her usual lusty self,
Franchot Tone less frozen than usual
as T. r., jr., and Patsy Kelly q d.
verting foil for Eadie. Lionel Barry
more, Lewis Stone, Alan Bowbray and
other deal workmanlike care TO their
Evening star., 1934-08-25
CHORAL GROUP SINGS
SPIRITUALS TONIGHT
Program of Tempo Society, Post
poned by Rain, to Be Presented
in School Auditorium.

The Summer festival concert of
Negro spirituals, scheduled to be pre-
sented last night at the Sylvan
Theater under the auspices of the
Community Center Department ana
the office of Nationa, Capital Parks,
will be presented at pm tonight in
the auditorium of the Garnet -Patter-
son High School, Vermont svenue and
v streets. Rain last night postponed
the concert in which the Tempo
Choral Society was to have been as
sisted by the Community Civic Band.
The band will be unable to appear
tonight, due to a previous engage
ment. but in its place there viii be a
brief recital of piano music ry Ed
ward worthington. accompanist for
the choral society.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
Famed Rail Chief Dies.

CHICAGO. August as Cp).-Robert
p. johnson, u, who served tempting
delicacies to President Roosevelt on
his recent trip from Green Bay, Wis.
to Chicago, died yesterday after a
brief illness. johnson was the oldest
chef In point Of service on the Chi
cago 81 Northwestern Railway, and his
last assignment was on the presiden-
tial train.
Evening star., 1934-08-25

Is no particular demand for youth and
looks. But the woman would have
to be both young and beautiful to
conform to screen conventions and
there are but few in opera who could
give US this.
Opera on the screen would be
unlike any other picture. It would
not only be good for single round
but could be revived again and again
until it was outmoded by improve
ments IN sound and projection. Sound
pictures, % yet, are far from perfect,
but recording has reached q state Of
perfection where it can do justice to
operate music and voices.
Opera on the screen would be far
more satisfactory to theater -goers
and music lovers than opera on the
stage, for galleryites, under present
conditions, see little more than ami
mated puppets and lose all trace of
expression. Also o better-told, more
interesting story, could result, since
much of the dialogue could be spoken
with background of the composers
music and only popular arias sung"
copyright. 1884 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1934-08-25
Miss Harlow Is Plotter
In Girl From Missouri"
ground to Fox Fim-Radio
Stars on Stage.

less important roles. The Fox stage
bill this week includes Mert and
Marge, the radio stars, In o skit about
q little girl in night club; Daphne
Pollard, the tiny comedienne whose
costumes and antics seemed 10 prod
the audiences risibilities; Roy smeck.
banjoist. guitarist, ETC., with some
really magnificent trick effects IN his
repertoire, and the Lee Twins, Rio
and Elliott, dancers.
There are also news reel and o
short subject or two. r. b. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
Independent Ventures
Seen in Future Films
Men Concerned in Making Pictures for Others
Are Turning to Their Own
Productions
BY MoLLIE MERRICK.

OLLYwooD, Calf, August Is (NANA)-Making your
~ pictures going popular rolling
| | cigarettes, in Hollywood
Since Daryl zanuck broke away from Warner Brothers
began working his and of the
toward independent productions.
Hecht and Charles Macarthur ready to begin their
effort William Anthony Mcclure about to launch
ambitious project
that author Of hit after another tells that he and
George Kaufman thinking of doing picture what they
have proved they do the stagethat is Wow the
ways deecao why not Of the unorgeabe kind for
The
Evening star., 1934-08-25
on the screen, and all the instruments

on the screen, and all the instruments
were heard at once. -..
The bill Robinson tap dance" best
applause winner in the present act,
and really remarkable achievement
In imitation. sprang into existence one
evening when Smeck was listening to
Robinson's hoofing via radio. He
heard, remembered, and did it him.
self with his fingers and the ukelele
sounding board Memory Is his strong
point. He could sit down tomorrow
and play you hundred tunes without
sheet of music in sight. But he
carries with him skilled composer,
who writes down what Smeck knows.
Together they hare produced the in
struction books, Smeck banjoes, Smeck
picts and all that R. B. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
lIliIIIIIuIIIIIuulI

more regulated wiggles than any
dancers in town or in the country
for that matter =. Drama scribes,
and famed w. w., looked on the other
night and raised their typewriting
mits to the skies in admiration for this
smooth and lyric and my-christmus-
what-rhythm and hot-whatnots - Of
this young and talented couple.
Evening star., 1934-08-25

should breeze
past him b u t
the Duke and
Duchess Of Leeds
"Zoundsl"
said Teddy to
himself, visualiz-
ing the duke and
his duchess bow
ing low before
King George and
Queen May and
le Prince de Gale
at Buckingham
Palace and won
darin1 II thew
Evening star., 1934-08-25

would want tea at that hour of the
day, Mobility rises early, doesn't
it?" whereupon, he ushered them
to the Mayfiower's best chairs and
table, and in o minute Ininions were
flying here and there and the drinks
(not teal whooped out from the
pantry In a jiffy after lunch in
the dining room they whooped back
again not the drinks, but the
duke and duchess and later,
much later, when q caller called he
found the Leeds still ensconsed in
style looking at the lounge statues
and quafnng one to another not
tea otherwise.
Other nobility observed re-
Gently hanging about Ye Mayhower
lounge: Sir Henri Deterding, Count
Robert de BuiSseret and Lady Dexter
and who should that be not SO
long ago but Sinclair Lewis standing
without those glass door portals wait
ing for the clock to strike IL and for
the lounge to 60 boom and open wide.
sss A H-Hat (Ambassador) fan
writes to old man Spectator to say
that 1t is by far the most satisfactory
of the Summer cocktails haunts ..
a Carlton fan writes the same so
does an Arlington Roof fan now
what about the Powhatan? ah
well, Ramon is busy with his new
babe these days and Pete boats
up and down ye Potomac cast
ing wistful glances at the fish who
play whatchamadudle with other fish
I'D. and other habitues have such q
good time up there that they don't
have time to write.
In late Summer mourning
for one time Heigh Ho sideliners =.
a certain big, handsome caveman for
Christine Ekengren, now putt-putting
through New York State and visiting
Mrs. Alexander Forbes at Tuxedo
Park monster blond god for
handsome Laura Tuckerman, now
doing ditto small man with
pink cheeks for Alicia Rogers, who
sits in an Ogunquit cornfield =.
a British diplomat for Audrey Camp
bell, who visits Aunt Juliet Letter on
the North Shore little man
what now for Eliza Mitchell, who
entertains flock Of he-men in Bar
Harbor bungalow q. Corky Thom,
jr., for what Florida mamma?
Feat: Ask the Shoreham
Terrace Orchestra for any tune and
1t will be played.
- Who is that foreign poten-
tate who for four years has dined
nightly at the Shoreham either
alone or with a one-time debutante
never dances except when a tune
that he wrote is played always
sits in the same place has very,
very expensive tastes?
ss Daw-gone II Mrs. Campbell
Pritchett hasn't got the Most potent
smile in town Ye Spectator thought
he got one the other night out at the
Shoreham and almost fell dead
be smiled on by Mrs. Pritchett and
YOU feel like a May morning all the
way through June and September
- They should have played
"Come Josephine In My Flying Ma
chime" the other night atop the Club
Evening star., 1934-08-25
Troupers
Glimpses Of Stage Folk
in Washington

DOY SMECK woker in shoe fac
tory long before he dreamed Of
holding the spotlight at Loew's Fox
or any other theater. The insistent
beat of hammers sounded in his ears,
rhythmic, varied in tempo, by no
means musical. But young Mr.. Smeck
liked music. His father gave him a
guitar and taught him three chords,
all that he knew. Roy, aged ID,
practiced at home, slipped the guitar
Evening star., 1934-08-25

Wnicn nad JUST
come down from
Alaska very
popular were
t ose Alaskan
flyers who were
up there telling
Michelers about
them . and
very popular has
been the "jernt"
lately what with
Arthur Godfrey
bringing up the
great Of the land
and or,tn-
Evening star., 1934-08-25

to ork and
practiced som e
more when he
could sneak q
few moments on
the side. One
day his b os S
caug ht r o y
S t r umming the
guitar, in a very
peculiar plac e.
He was fired.
Like an arrow
shot from a bow
and unable by
Evening star., 1934-08-25
Jews and Arabs Clash.

BONE, Algeria, August 25.-(Jew-
ish Telegraph Agency and
Arabs clashed here yesterday In sew
eral engagements that finally were
quelled by police, who had been pro-
vided with reinforcements in anticipa-
ton Of trouble.
Evening star., 1934-08-25
After Dark
Smart People. Smart Things. Smart Places.
By the Spectator.
Trade Mark REGISTERED. o. O. Patent once.

Michel except that there were no
Josephines present there were,
however, lot of other neo-Josephines
who would have given their souls to
20 up in one Of those flying machines
Evening star., 1934-08-25

.R ROwNED heads are no novelty
in the Mayfiower lounge Cor
rather, heads that deserve
. crowns). T'other day Teddy,
the well-dressed head waiter,
" whom many an honest maiden
CHS, opened wide those flne glass
oors promptly at IL noon, and who