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THE SIOUX CITY SUNDAY JOURNAL; JANUARY 11,1931. HELL'S ANGELS IS AT CAPITOL Spectacular Air Romance Features Ben Lyon and J. Hall A spectacular romance of the air, depicts with amazing realism scene's of thrilling battles In the clouds, IS the feature picture being Shown this week until Friday at the Capitol theater. Hell's Angels Is the bf the production. The picture the story of aerial Warfare thoroughly and completely.

Neither time nor money was spared by Howard Hughes, producer-director, In filming the picture. The picture was taken for the silent screen, but when completed sound pictures were the vogue, and so the entire production was returned with sound accompaniment. Three years were required to take picture, and more than $4,000.000 was Spent In Its production. More than 100 pilots and SO airplanes, many of which were of wartime vintage, were used in the picture, Aerial Drama Created Hughes attempted to create an aerial drama that should live because of its realism. There Is grace In the speedy air squadrons flying In formation, grazing mountain tops and disappearing into the clouds Drama marks the clash of those giants of the skies as they meet In combat, each crew sending a jitream of lead into the enemy ships Intensity marks the scoring of a hit, when the victim planes plunge In a flaming stream to earth with the crews dashing to their doom.

The story also la unusual and Interesting. Two brothers, one noble and self sacrificing, the other Interested only In wine, women and song, enlist In tjie royal flying corps. Following bombardment of a munitions plant, the enemy attacks, and the brothers' plane Is brought down and they are captured. James Hall Starred Despite threats of death, the brothers refuse to divulge the allied plans. The noble brother then Is given opportunity to display his character when he prevents his weakening brother from disclosing the plans.

A strong, dramatic climax reveals an agreeable conclusion. James Hall, as the stronger brother, and Ben as the weaker man, give good accounts of themselves In the production. Jean liar- low, a newcomer to the screen, plays the part of Hall's sweetheart. Others In the castlncluder John Darrow, Luclen Prlval, Douglas Ollmore, Jane Winston, Roy Wilson and Evelyn Hall. tana.

So Douglas Fairbanks. Ferdinand Oottschalk la The' Toast of the Town. William Morris was In Mrs. Temple's elegratn. Grace George starred la The Marriage of William Ashe.

Margaret Anglln starred In Zlra. George M. Cohan was touring In Little Johnny Jones, supported by his first wife, Ethel Levey. Although, of course, there were no motion pictures In 1806, various players who were destined for the new medium were appearing before the public. Mary Plckford was touring as a child with Uncle Tom's cabin and Eait Lynne.

Charles Chaplin joined William Gillette's company In the.London engagement of Sherlock Holmes, appearing as Blllie the Page. H. B. Warner came from London to join Kleanor Robson's company. Marie Dressier was at Weber and Fields' Music hall.

So was Louis Mann. Cecil B. De Mllle was In Lord Chumley. Al Jolsoq was In vaudeville. So was Ed Wynn.

They were lost in the shuffle. Among vaudeville headllners were Elsie Janls, Julian Eltlnge, Eva Tanguay, Grace LaRue, Leila McIntyre, Louise Dresser, Jack Nor- worth and James Thornton. Stars of 25 i Actor Idol of Boyhood in Film Hollywood, Jim Brldger, one 'of the west's most famous scouts, In Paramount's Fighting Caravans, Tully Marshall Is portraying an historical character who was an Idol of his boyhood. From his mother, Julia Mattie Marshall often heard praises for Brldger, At the age of 3, Marshall's mother was In a covered wagon caravan crossing the country from Tennessee to California In 1849. Near Great Salt lake, which Brtdger discovered, a wagon ran over the little girl's leg and broke It Brldger heard of the accident and stopped to set the fracture, doing such an expert jotf that the child suffered no 111 effects.

ORPHEtlAS LAUGH TALKIE Cohens and Kellys in Africa Is Current Attraction Four acts of RKO vaudeville the screen comedy. The Cohens Kellys In Africa, comprise the double attraction now being offered at the Orpheum theater; The Mam bill will be presented again Monday" The same players who starred In other pictures, i long before the era -premieres on Broadway Important events. I attended all the' Important first of 9905, along with Lillian IRUMell, Jesse. Lewlsohn, "Diamond" I Jim Brady, Edna McCauley, Abe lummeH and Mrs. Jackson Mrs.

Gouraud (now living In Princess Galatzlne, having her fifth husband) and I the sole nirvlvors of that plc- coterie! In 1910 I wrote a of short atorlea for Mrs. and they were 'published her. name, aa Moon Madness. 1005 David Belacco produced of the Golden West, of ch he was the author, and In vhlch Blanche Bates atarr owell Sherman had a few Ethel Barrymore (tarred In Allce- BUt-by-the-Flre. John Barrymore Appeared In So did Mary Lionel Barrymore starred In intaloon, by J.

M. 'Barrle. David Warfleld WM touring in he Music Muter. Jane Cowl played minor role, Florence Reed WM playing stock Providence and Worceater. Laurette Taylor WM in In tile, Ma, Narlmova WM acting with aul Riuilan company at lie Herald Square theatej, Ferguson touring in Dolly in which Lulu starred.

Francis starred In Father of the Wilderness. Stone WM touring in of Of, WM appearing in In The Blue Moon. Arthur Byron WM in 'Op o' Me Fhumb." Janet Beecher In The Educa- of Mr. Plpp. Wilton played Bvengali Trilby.

WM touring In Leah 'George WM in Tia.21, HELL'S ANGLES CAPITOL waiter ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE PLUM 0Eft at fte CC COHENS and KELLYS in, AFRICA at Me Charley's Aunt in Sound Film to Be on Orpheum Bill A screen revival of the famous! comedy. Charley's Aunt, with Charles Kuggles In the title role, will open at the Orpheum theater Tuesday for a run of four days. The story of play Is famljlar to most people. Ruggles' portrayal In the role of the maiden aunt Is 'Mid to be sidesplitting. The comedy begins at the opening of the picture when Ruggles Is persuaded by two of his college mates to disguise him.

self as the aunt of one of them. Accompanied by his two friends Ruggles attends a luncheon at 'the home of their sweethearts and his tl forte to escape detection are hllar IOWA OFFERS CLEVER TALKIE Charles Farrell anil Maureen O'Sullivan Are Featured side a theater at Broadway and Sixty-sixth streets. The bystanders were not of the uiuat night owl variety, but well dressed and Intclll gently Interested. At times expensive automobiles, filled with persons In evening clothes, probably return- Ing from parlies, would draw up at the curb to watch the proceedings. LINCOLN FILM AT PRINCESS i Walter Huston Portrays Life of Emancipator on the Screen Acclaimed by critics one of the best pictures of 1930.

D. W. newest production, Abraham Lincoln, with Walter Huston In the title rote, opens at the Princess theater today for a run of four days. Prom the time of the hirth of the great emancipator until his assassination, his life is retold In detail In the picture, which Is gald to be one of the most realistic stories of life ever filmed. Walter Huston Is Credited with the finest portrayal of his brilliant screen career In the role of "honest Abe." His size, appearance and general demeanor are almost Identical to those of Lincoln, according to historians.

Rise In Fame Shown Lincoln's rise to fame as ft country lawyer, a dehater and later a politician Is shown In the film. election to the momentous moments preceding the civil war, when the president remarked that "the union must be preserved at nil costs," and finally outbreak of hostilities between the north and south are recounted detail. The complete dominance of Lincoln durlnfr the years of strife, when the life of the nation was threatened, Is one of the highlights of the film, which Includes many of the lesser incidents of the time. Including the raid on Harper's ferry by John Brown and his abolitionists. Masterful as Huston's portrayal Is, the acting of the other players; most of them well known stars.

Is not entirely overshadowed. Kay Hammond as Mary Todd Lincoln, the faithful wife of the president who stood at his shoulder throughout tempestuous times, does i remarkable bit of acting. Una Merkel as Ann Ilutlcdge, Hobart Bosworth as den. Lee, Ivan Keith as John Wllkes Booth, Frank Campeau as Ovnf Sheridan and Henry B. Walthall, Who was one of the stars of The Birth of a Nation, drlfflth's first Brent picture, as Col.

Marshall give commendable performances. Moor Outpost Stitt Standing on Desert Hollywood, desert of the type which dot the edge of he Sahara now Among tftfe Guadahtpe sand dunes In cetttrftl California, a relic of Paramount's talking picture, Morocco. It consists of an arched Moorish gateway of solid watch tower, and half Adobe buildings In the single short street of the outpost town and on the sand dunes beyond the gateway, scenes of the production featuring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Men- jou were filmed. All materials for the setting had to be hauled In by tractor drawn sleds War ft ot sand. Thirty thousand ctJBIc feet ef dirt was transported to the Site as a solid foundation fof town, forty studio Workmen were 1 A w6ek constructing the setting.

One thing Anita Page Is afraid IS a pistol but she had to shoot db'ien so In the cllmatW scenes for, Gentleman's Fate, J6hn Gilbert's new Metro-doiaWyft-Ma yef Starring vehicle. Wallace Beery will show What well dressed gartgster wears Iti ro-Goldwyn-Mayer'S The Sseret now In production. He checked his wardrobe llst--4nd found that he had 6t suits. Spanish made typewriters ported to 70 different countries. Marlon Uavles has begun work on her new Metro-Cloldwyn-Mayer starring film, It's a Wise Child.

You Will Be Shocked! you will never forget Itt It stands alone as tire greatest of all talkies HELL'S ANGELS $4,000,000 and 3 Years to Produce! With BEN LYON, JAMES HALL and JEAN HARLOW Cartoon Paramount Sound News Now Playing In ancient Babylonia statuettes were used to protect the home against disaster. The Princess and the Plgmber, which Is being shown at the Iowa theater, Is a delightful melange of I comedy and rapid fire romance. Charles Farrell and- Maureen O'Sul- llvan portray the title In this Fox Movietone 'and The Story of a Dreamer Lover a MAN! excellent folia ftf'rri Ished by the male i Mr. Cohen and Mr. Kelly afe.miei 'as piano manufacturers, who.

being 1 unaTile to get Ivorjr for the keys on their pianos because of business depression, go to Africa to seek their supply personally. Their adventures while In the Dark continent, Inr'm'lng their capture by cannibals the abduction of their by of Arabs, form the of the picture, which Is to be the funniest in which Sidney and Muiray ever have appeared. Headlining the vaudeville offering Is a comedy, entitled A Night in Greenwich Village, which Is presented by Manny King and company. King a young violinist, who to to fame and la forced a Job In Greenwich York, to earn a livelihood. there are for many which.

Intermingled with dancing and make an entertaining A person, known Mllo, Is another feature of the vaudeville Whether MUo a-man or a woman not known to and there no advance publicity on the form of entertainment Mllo will offer. in The Tpklo. Wotf Hopper starred In dark WM Hopper WM tour- WM in stock at Tthe personality Snyder, who will several popular and Happy featuring Harrinon 1 out bill, which presented for the flrat Saturday. 800 Dance in Gay Mardi Hollywood, cat-Mardl celebrated in abandon at Paramount In Hollywood when carnival were filmed for Dishonored. floor of oJ in world.

WM jfc, into ballroom tor danced throughout end evening to froqj a or- ho Hmlney Clennan, Hush Phillip HmaUy, Jun'C Collyer and Doris TJoyd. 4' Are Djtnen Into Picture Los Angeles, are numerous ways of getting Into motion ilctures; having been born twins Is ne of the unusual. Beatrice and Bertha Barton, ages 9, were thrust Into Jack Oakle'i current Paramount picture. The lang Buster, for that because they happened to be starring by watching a scene being made. The Barton twins, as they are known back In Birmingham, happened to be shopping In Los Angeles' metropolitan district recently when the Oakte company at work at the Subway Terminal build- ng at Fourth and Hill Since they bad been In southern California only three months and had never a wreen star at work, they hurried to the of activity.

Tha director saw them among tha immediately concocted a "leelng double" comedy situation for Oakla. An aulstant director called to the twins and aaked them to work In a scene. Before they had time to catch their breaths, they were being driven to their apartment In a car (riven over to Jack UM. An hour later they, ware before the cameras iff Identical work- Ing with Oakli, Jtan Arthur- and William Boyd. young 'American' engineer, cent by I his firm supervise the Installation of a In of Darltzla, encounters that country's charming princess and In a mutual misunderstanding, neither realizes the other's Identity, How, under the hilarious handicap the romance Is successfully brought off, forms the exciting climax thla entertaining film.

Alexander Korda. who directed Women Kverywhere, also handled thla production, which bawd on Alice Duer Miller's Saturday Kve- nntne Poet story. Don't a tbow that 1 HKO In 35c to 2 P. M. Von Ain't Seen laid a gactt of) iaighlig whta naa eatln Cry Being Hade Into Picture Hollywood, Cal An pltice of American literature transferred to wreen, and movie wtll have the opportunity of it when Cry, general at an early Picture Reveals Underhand Ways of City.

Politicians Hollywood, Cal. lunch counter, with several cooks frying and 25 "customers" devouring them, waa the odd netting for start of Tha Secret Hlx, Metro-Ooldwyn- Mayer'a drama of municipal political life and the underworld, now In production. Wallace Beery. John Mack Drown, Ralph Bellamy, Paul Hurst, and other noted disported themielvea amid 1 odor of fry. ng meat tn flrat of the production.

The new play la a vivid of the of American city political and relation to underworld baaed on gathered In tome 10 American Wallace Beery tha principal character role aa Scorpio, house hand who a political Stoqe aa the crooked lawyer who tha. political machine, and a notable caht Marjprie Hambaau, 'John Brown, Witt Jean liar- low, Clark Gable, Fletcher and other Paul Hunt cowboy and stock worker Who mayor of a city In WALTER. UUtlOM COMBlrf AND NBWS A titanic spectacle mirroring the adventurous career of a great master of men. No picture made In tha last tan can compare with vital romaticn of great champion who lived with mercy toward all and toward none. NOW PLAYIKO PRINCESS RKO VAUDEVILLE ELLYS IN AFRICA! AND I MANNY KING MILO CIRCUS With GEORGE SIDNEY CHARLIE MURRAY RKO candle content announced on our today and Monday! COMING TUESDAY! Coming from a comparatively un- owji Cry rap- Idly name of Helen CariWe, who It, Lead- ot ICMODAM of Had depth of un- American gf to it, fc Codyparry When Romance Wax CHAS.

FARRELL King of FUmdom MAUREEN O'SULLJVAN H. B. WABNEB Ateo Fox Comedy Ad CHARLEY'S AUNT CHARLIE HUOOLES labyrinth ef crooked political moveg, Limit Company 1 Long New of production unit at Tork Paramount picture. No Limjt, probaWy broke all nzbrtiog tor conjlnu In at menU that eltvated o'clock afUmooo. on i Fifth of motberhood to posi- tol- tion it beauty, Icy at noon in Broadway md la of pro- tent admimWy to OB wwp 41 4 nurnlBg abort period, Strong Ctut Choten Furfy Ifwfeflml in New WT MA but rawBiad wben fltuart HUywood.

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