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6 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 2 193L MUSIC DRAMA'' AND THE GREEN Now Playing VAli)EVILLE AND PICTURES NEW SHAW PLAY SOON AT SALT LAKE THEATERS Director Lays Picture To Nancy and Her New Husband fig rr' Dramatist Putting On Finishing Touches Four Noted Feminine Stars to Have Own Theaters TTiis Season Edward Paramount director offers a Fun on Stage at R-K-0 Orpheum Comedy on Capitol Screen Romance at Paramount and Rialto By CRITIC panacea for the tils that are said is afflict the picture industry If Is plenty fun on hand for those visiting toe R-K-0 Orpheura these days where the current vaudeville bill Is being headed by Olsen and Johnson pfemler merrymaker! This ln- B-K-0 Ob the lUd Olsen and Johnson snd their company of 12 In a round of hilarity Nub and Fately and the Rabbins Trio On tho screen "The Good Bad with Mao Clarke Janes Hall and Marl Provost ON THE AUDIBLE SCREEN Marie Dressier and Polly Moran In with Reece Ates William Bakewell and Karen Marley Adolphs Menjow In Great Lover" with Irene Dunne Cliff Edwards Ernest Tor renee snd Neil Hamilton Victor Herbert's Me with Bernice Clairs Walter Pldfeon and Edward Everett Horten Ann Harding In "East with Clive Brook and Con rad NageL Bock Jones la "The Avon with Dorothy Eerier with Harry Carey EdWlna Booth and Dm-can Rlnalde By MARK BARRON -NEW YORK While Bernard Shaw Is visiting Russia he Is putting the finishing touches to his play Good to Be This news has come to the Theater Guild which has the drama scheduled as one of its first offerings of the fall season Shaw as Is his custom has been working speedily on the play It took him only six weeks to write Apple Where he looked at conditions In the future in the latter work he returns to problems of the world today In Qood to Be It is a comedy of post-war conditions and Shaw himself describes It thusly: Is a sermon with some of the usual music hall tricks to make people laugh and a dash or two of Wallace'" thoae within the businrea who are nng a princely Income therefrom would exert much energy on their Job and a much time to building liutead of demolishing the film business would find that It Is in a healthier condition today than perhaps any other business la the country avers Goodman premise lor the numerous attacks on the industry is laid by the In the declared Goodman a direct result el this condition these Indirectly concerned -with an eye to engendering distrust and lli-feel-ing here-made mountains rat of molehills public being ever eager to digest reading of a sensational character has been filled with tales of wrong with the picture Industry and hare had their confidence In this form of entertainment shaken are no more faults In Hollywood than In Spodttnk and certainly the picture business Is run on as an efficient basis Now in Follies lmltable pair have with them a company of twelve or so hilarity builders ana for 45 minutes or so the process of doubling an audience up In Ha seats Is carried on In addition to Olsen and Johnson and their crew there Is of course a feature film Qood Bad as well as two other acts of vaudeville The stage fare has Nash and Fately In a comedy skit and the Robins Trio fancy Just where Olsen and Johnson begin or leave off 9 one seems to know or care Suffice It to say that from the stage as well as from various nooks and comers of the auditorium there Is propounded every minute something of a decidedly explosive nature Good Bad is pulsating drama that leaves one deeply moved It Is the story of a girl the mistress of a hlgher-up In the world of gangsterdom who wants to quit and does only to find It almost Impossible to escape the nets of her former life Mae Clarke Is the girl In the case and she plays her role to the hilt The cast also Includes Marie Prevost who furnishes the comedy of the piece James HaU and others of expert selection The present bill continues through Tuesdsy night an entirely nevg program opening Wednesday The screen feature will be speed in writing however will not have the play finished in time to be produced at toe annual festival of Shavian works at Malvern England this month His own presence te assured as he plans to return from Russia in time to attend the event Katherine Cornell will take over the Belasco theater under an arrangement expected to be completed upe -v-w 4 Stars of Old Find Filmdom Little Changed '1 almost Immediately This indicates the steel or oil business The meaning of esprit de corps disseminated throughout the ranks of the film people would help considerably I think" eon eluded Goodman TIE Capitol bffers a new show Marie Dressier and Polly Moran In their latest laugh riot The new pic ture is a triumph in resounding comedy blended with a story rich In 1 nnnnn 1 ffl In human The two of Miss Cornell with her Barretts of Wlmpole 8 tree as a nucleus will InstaU that long-planned repertory company In toe playhouse presided over many year by toe late Belasco This does not mean that Miss Cornell will take over the Belasco organization as that machine disbanded entirely with toe death of its leader She has not yet decided whether she will take on tour before she produces a new play in New York The Elizabeth Barrett Browning romance continues to be one of toe most successful hits on Broadway To the backgrrand only has Halt W)L made by Anna May Wong and Beesne Hayakawp lately returned to the film colony after long absences The It years which have peeeed sines Hayakawa last worked to American films have altered Hollywood left In ae way the actor Mieo Wong's absence' from her "heme a matter of four years talking pictures have replaeed the silent film but the changes they broarht He MtJy In equipment she reports Both Orientals are renewing their film careers In Paramount's of the DIX SIGNING NEW CONTRACT GETS TWO ASSIGNMENTS Hollywood Is greatly titered bat personal Hollywood mys Hayn- -HOLLYWOOD Terminating weeks of conflicting rumors conoem tag hte film future Richard Dlx has signed a new stellar contract with the R-K-O-Radlo Pictures studio next two starring assignments Mr LeBaron announced are to be comparable in production value and story Interest to which I skyrocketed the star to new heights The first to be produced some time I In October is an outdoor spectacle dealing with the settlement of the Dakotas and the stabilization of the west is the see-ond picture specified In the new Dlx contraot This story Is based on the famous song by Victor Schertzinger Edna May Oliver will play Mustache" a role of sensational proportions in The part according to Howard Estabrook author of the original story is based on historical episodes in thfe life of this most unusual of pioneering women appeal get on the political bandwagon and the result is funnier than either or Marie appears in the sympathetic lovable role of a small town housewife with a great big heart who rebel against the racket-ruled city administration and finds herself a candidate for mayor herself with aU the women determined to elect her Polly Moran her volatile friend Is her campaign manager and'as such she has little time to devote to her husband the town barber Rosco Ates the stuttering star who has contributed funny bits to many pictures Is hilariously cast in this role and the irate husbands of the town demand that he do something about the situation The comedy gags are too good even to hint at without spoiling some of the fun Karen Morlev Wllillam Bakewell are the young people who complicate the affairs of the elders and contribute the proper flavor of romance John Mil Jan has another good role The Is right on this uproarious elect Marie and Polly with a landslide of laughs when you see A new Johnny Farrell golf feature the Rough" an interesting Burton Holmes travelogue of Nikko and Paramount Sound News completes the bill Farney has an entertaining new concert A CELEBRATED cast appears with Adolphe Menjou in Oreat current film at the Paramount Irene Dunne who gave an unforgettable portrayal as the heroine in Cliff Edwards the ever-popular "Ukulele Ike" Nell Hamilton Ernest Torrence and Baclanova making her first appearance on the screen since Its silent days have 4 colorful roles with Hale Hamilton and Rosco Ates also well cast With such a lineup of talent the star of "The Front Is called upon for hla best acting and he gives an outstanding performance Oreat was adapted to the talking screen from the New York success by the same name written by Leo Dltrlchsteln and Frederick and Fanny Hatton It depicts the romantic life of a "great lover" perhaps the greatest of his day a noted opera star Romance and love rivalry make the story absorbing enter talnment while comedy Is cleverly interwoven interpreted by remalne fcsws people are ideaijoal In character if not In appearance and In personnel Many have passed from the picture sines I left Holly-weed Ten years have changed some juveniles of my tins bate character actors of today Hollywood le still Hollywood I stiu see although In new faces the same players I seise knew There are the same handsome youths the gorreesuly beautiful women the ragged men and all ether types The former ones have only been replaced only difference I note Is In the eity Itself Studios sre now great parts of an industry The plants have grown Iris Adrian One of the beauties being by Florenz Ziegfdd In hi current is Iris Adrian daughter of Mrs Florence Hostetler and formerly of Salt Lake Miss Adrian lived here on several occasion several years ago She Is a niece of Mr and Mrs A McIntyre of 078 East Sixth South street and a cousin of Mrs Raymond Boep of Salt Lake In addition to Miss Cornell three other feminine stars will have their own theaters and own repertory troupes this fall Alice Brady has been given her theater the Playhouse in which to produce a cycle of dramas in which she will be starred The first will be already tried out In Atlantic City It I being rewritten before being brought to town Pauline Lord who quit toe stage for a while after her marriage te returning in the role of producer She ha one play In rehearsal now and is Making for a theater of her own Jane Cowl also will go Independent thi fall and manage her own plays She will produce a repertoire several of her appearances likely to be In Shakespearean works The new operetta being written by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach almost I completed and It has been titled "The Passionate The two principal role will be played by George Metaxa and Dorothy Debenham both well known on the London stage-but this marks their first trials In this country Metaxa a Rumanian by birth is quite a matinee idol In England After making a hit In "Wake Up and he played opposite Peggy Wood in Sweet" for two years Recently he arrived to play In talking pictures but will remain on the stage instead international Bluitrsted trows Phots Nancy Carroll red-haired screen star and her new husband Bolton Mallory managing editor of Life photographed in Chicago upon their arrival there from the east They were married at Newton Conn about a month ago Mallory stated that he was going back to his work In New lork and hte bride was on her way to Hollywood to make a new picture Difference in Taste FROM SEWING TO IMPORTANT FILM ROLE IS HER LOT Lewis Milestone Leads Ten Best Directors Poll HOLLYWOOD Credit Samuel Ooldwya with another discovery Deviating from his usual European trips- which resulted in stardom lor Vllma Banky and Lily Damlta Gold-wyn obtained bis newest protege from the studio lot Wandering through the wardrobe department of the United Artists SOME MUSICAL DAFFYDILLS For Ma direction of Quiet on The difference between the taste of the masses here and abroad is exemplified in the foUowlng anecdote related by a well known violinist on his return from a concert tour In Europe says the Musical Courier On the evening of a concert at the Singakademle ip Berlin the artist larly notable In that the twtrproduc- got Into a taxi with his violin At the 'tlons he directed were vastly differ- pptzdamer Plat where the cab was ent In origin and design in addition halted by the traffic the driver an to being produced on different lots elderly man turned In his seat and a Universal picture was asked his passenger what he was go-adapted from the war novel by Erich ing to play that evening -Maria Remarque while Front "Do you know asked the came from the stage hit of the unist same name and wm made under the I oh( yeg Mld the old man Howard Hughes banner for United Learj y0U piy the Brahms concerto Artists release 1st the Philharmonic two year studio hte eyes fell on Hazel Witter working behind a sewing machine you wait till said that individual te Travlata with a rather ordinary east but tomorrow they give Verdi's Fal-staff with Toscanini conducting and all the best artists On his return to New York our friend had occasion to go to an office building owned by and named after a prominent piano concern He entered the elevator and happening to think of the two experiences related above he thought he would try an experiment Accordingly he asked the operator: you happen to know whether the Stadium season has "The asked the youth concerts at the Lew-Isohn Stadium" guess you mean the Yankee Stadium" cam the answer It has but they have no concerts there- Only baseball and prize fights There's a great scrap up there tonight Butch Finnegan 1s going to go ten rounds with Slaughter-House Tim and knock him cold That fellow's got wallop -But the listener never discovered what toe was like far at that moment toe car reached the desired floor and ht took- precipitate flight the Western and Front Lewis Milestone walked away with firet place in The FUm Daily's poll for the 10 best directors of 1930-1931 MUeetone received votes from 352 out of approximately 300 leading motion picture critics who participated in the balloting Next after Milestone came Wesley Ruggles with 179 votes followed by George Hill 100' Joeer von Sternberg 148 Griffith 139 Robert Leonard 137 John Cromwell 111 Charles Chaplin 101 Howard Hawks 101 Howard Hughes 91 Milestone's achievement Is partlcu- The executive asked Miss witter if she would like to take a test The result was that she was signed to a part with an option which may lead to a long-term contract and featured roles Previously more than 3300 girls had been interviewed by the production department to find the 13 most beautiful girls in Hollywood Eleven had been selected to play in Eddie Cantor's and the search was on for the remaining one It is also Interesting to wte tost being told that the artist was go-whereas the usual screen wston of to plfty the Beethoven concerto Ith evening the chauffeur said rem- tag the majority of commrate rathe -poor dear old Joachim screen adaptation of Front aaapreuon how he eould play It! My wife and such experts as Cliff Edwards and Ernest Torrence Edwards appears as a press agent who bears the brunt of the operatic temperament with extreme good nature Another big feature on the current bill Is the Laurel and Hardy comedy Fans have grown to love these two laughable blunderers and they have one of their best vehicles to date In this rollicking story of romance Laurel Is sympathetic but very much In the way and In the hilarious climax the bride becomes his wife too! a scream A Terrytoon and paramount sound news are added features IT WOULD BE hard to Imagine a picture which more perfectly demonstrates the possibilities of the talking screen than Me which opens Sunday at the Rialto' The picture gives sparkling dialogue technicolor lavlshf-sets beautiful gowns and beautiful girls Bernice Claire as Fill the little salesgirl in Madame modiste shop who Tongs for the stage and eventually gainst fame 'under the name of Bellini after she has given up Paul dashing French army officer is enchanting Walter Pldgeon Is also highly effective and gives proof of all that might have been expected from him after of the and In which he had the leading role opposite Vivienne EegaL Ills highly pleasing personality is ably seconded by Edward Everett Horton who as companion at arms furnishes much of the amusing Intrigue as only Horton can do One of the comedy riots of the picture Is Frank McHugh who takes the role of the henpecked ex-husband of Madame Ceclle proprietor of the famous Parisian modiste shop McHugh one of the hits of the show June Collyer Is both beautiful and appealing In the second feminine role Claude Gllllngwater and Albert Oran as the two fathers one a gouty count and the other a deaf general also contribute to the good times Judith Vbsselll who was the adventuress in Lady Who has the part of the catty Ma dame Ceclle Page reted it haequal or superior to nrw muud a performance of it In in tho vr hla later years of course It was not For the first tllH6 til6 tlx ywrgliUo nw mnrp hi hft1 bi that The Film Dally has been con- hc olwed out of ducting the annual vote on directors pUiyea oul 01 Ernst Lubltsch failed to be Included nquently One misty morning In midocean a facetious gentleman from Detroit asked me says Leonard Llebiing editor of toe Musical Courier: does Thereafter these musical daffy-dills came to his mind Liebling says: If the Metropolitan revives ancient Verdi works will the Chicago Opera give Adam? If to Wolf Style of writing songs does not suit you why not try the Brockway? Meyerbeer owed much to Rossini how much did Gounod? If Liszt was a good advertising agent for Wagner whom did Essi poff? If you do not like Wagner poetry do you care for Converse? If Puccini got his wealth Rom opera what made Goodrich? If Toscanini perhaps Sir Henry Wood And If Sir Henry perhap Thome If Handel and Mendelssohn are profitable for English muslo dealers why Purcell? If Elman beats the devil whom can Kubelik? If Coslma was daughter who te Good son? If Frederick Stock bought a ooun try house what did Hubay? If hte parent stopped Ricci whom did Ondriczek? If LUU Lehmann darned stockings what could Caruso? If Georgb rules England where te Gieseking? SwSw him a ticket for thawing Comforts Retired Girl Joyce Compton had to dye her hair from blond to nd before she could be successful in the movies Bhe claims she has changed her personality and appear anoe more times than anyona else for the sake of her career Miss Campton Is a weU known water color painter on the west eoast and has had several paintings ex hlblted Bhe Invented a new was of painting on velveb and won oorrt-ment from established artists for her work- CARMEN BARNES WRITING NOVEL OF HOLLYWOOD ARIED film fare la in store for fans at the State Empire and Tower theatera At the former there la j'East Lynne" with the beautiful Ann only one production Carlo1 On thi picture he received enough mentions to make fourth place in the honor rolL Lubltsch howtver' stil leads a 10 best winner since he 1s the only director with flye citation Herbert Brenon and King Vidor made the grade four times each while Charles Chaplin and Clarence Brown have been among the toplinet three times in the six year Those who have won out twice include James Cruze Cecil da Mille Orlfrith Ingram Frank Lloyd late Mumau Malcolm 8t Clair Josef von Sternberg and Raoul Walsh Complete list of picture directed by the 10 best of 1930-1931 follows Lewis Milestone-All Quiet oq th Western Front Front Page Wesley The Be Bal Cimarron George HiO-The Big Hous Min and Bill Josef von The Blue Angel Morocco Abraham Lincoln Robert The Di In Gay Madrid Let Us Be Bachelor Father a Wise Cl John The Big Pon the Defense Tom Sawyer Sheet Unfaithful Charles City Llgh Howard Hawks The Criminal Code The Dawn Patrol Howard HelTsAngelSi EX-FIGHTER IN FILM Joe Rivers one time a leading figure in the prize fight world has been given a role in the R-KO-Patoe production "Slow Poison" one of the Rufftown series of comedle which are (tarring James Gleason Harding In the feminine lead and play ing opposite her CUve Brook and Conrad Nagel The Empire hai another new western -L Avenger" with the hard-rldlng Burk Jone and Dorothy Revler In the leading role The ace of African pictures Is at the Tower with Harry Carey In the title role and supported by Edwlna Booth and Dunran Rinaldo The usual short subjects surround all of these bills jt JOYCE COMPTON POLA READY FOR WORK Pols Negri has moved into her newly completed dressing room at the' R-K-O-Patoe studio In Hollywood It was designed especially for the star and 1s carried out entirely in black and white Her first picture will be A Woman Commands" by 'Ihllde Forster HOLLYWOOD Carmen Bsrnel 1 writing a Hollywood novel Die much publicized young lady who for Omt mysterious reason has never been allowed to make a picture at Paramount admit a much herself And while she denies it is about her own experiences it would not surprise IX the result made numerous ears burn In the film colony With eight to go before an option comes up on her contract the pretty young author who would also be an actress is taking a ten weeks vacation to write on her novel the time I signed the contract I thought I would be busy making pictures so I arranged for 20 weeks off to write explains Miss Barnes Despite the fact the has been announced and then withdrawn from several picture the young writer professes no bitterness She says her contract provided she was not to appear in the two atorlea she sold to Paramount "School and "Beau "I've been too close to them and I'd be etsle if attempted ah explain The itc-ry which was announced as hers ha never been Wife's Career Itobs Her Of Husband Says Writer Sinclair Lewis' ExWife DEAN DECLARES MUSICIANS STILL HAVE OPPORTUNITY GEORGE ARLISS SCHEDULED TO DO ROCKEFELLER I Way to Break Up Any Loving Scene PARI? Women mix mar-1 author of Street wss snd careers in the opinion of solved several years ago was formerly former wile of Sinclair Lewis who osmetic editor of a fashionable maga-hm p'unged into the writing field ztne and later editor of the house i i a nov-l for fall publication organ for a manufacturer of cos GREENCASTUS IiuL-Opportu-nltlee for person Interested In music still are plentiful according to Dean McCutchan who has completed twenty years as head of the De-Pauw university school of music here Dean McCuirhfin greed that ths radio and sound pictures have throw a large number of musician out of work but added that this loss vexes wuv eaxsvswx rare VU (yf STi 4 mencs Her plunge Into fiction came A little more than two years ago when stimulated by the conviction that and their children are always strangers to one the began an autobiography for her son A publisher friend who saw the first draft took the book later transformed into a novel Entitled a it depicts the experiences of offset by to excellent opening la the than a title according to Miss god deal of this talk of womens suers1 in double careers is t-or-en ssys Mrs Grace Hegger Tms now oil an automobile tour of lYpcre vrih her 14 year-old son a student at Andover nnien can be both wives and wo'itns for a little but they keep it up 11 ere comes a dav when your Ruth Chatterton and Ralph Bellamy were rehearsing a ro-1 mantle scene for Magnificent Their amours were interrupted by a yeU: of too hoi kill her!" Then it wae necessary to ex If present plan mature George Arllss will portray John Rockefeller Br on toe screen In a romantic epto of American business titled A story of the famous life I now being prepared by Lucten Hubbard associate executive of Warner Bros-Flrst National pictures When completed it will be presented to Mr Rockefeller for hi okeh The story te said to present In a graphic way toe romance and the human interest back of the -formation iillMl uucirb VBhh Vi juiiOHV Barnea (Copyright-1931 Premier Syndicate Inc) muMcal education field period of unemployment has had little effect on the music profession Dean McCutchan pointed out the time for placing of teachers does not arrive until August plain that an electrician was tell eUing a helper to turn off one lH whirring earners to her new environment and her titian lock have now reverted to toe shade that gentlemen prefer Miss Bow is shown above in an affectionate pose with Rex Bell toe owner of the ranch where she is recuperating A movie actor and husband to be according to announcement from her Temporarily retired from motion pictures after a career that lasted seven years Clara Bow toe famous girl has forsaken toe bright lights of Hollywood for toe peaceful seclusion of a cattle ranch She doesn't want anything to remind her lof Klieg lights bawling directors or SHANNON MAKES GOOD Peggy Shannon toe girt who took nearly all those who were graduated Clara role In "The Secret Call" of the sun arcs that threw too much light on the scene end thinks the most important ri the world is whether or not an author's wife a walk wJi him You ean't Mrs Lewis is a smiling blue-eyed lave a jnb and you have woman who believes the choice of a re- cho new hat 'is Important busi Le au-e marriage to the ness" i when Miss Bow became ill plays toe feminine fence" UIV lead in Paramount's one of toe biggest corporation! in toe world from toe DePauw school of music this year alreatv have been given.