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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934 NORMA SHEARER IN 'BARRETTS minr umrTvlSt Curtain Calls IP uiii mi i i Eiirao mmr mmu mam FW 1 ws "By Wood- Soones (icrnDnrn jy A kTl THREE STUBS iLJlR FEATURED ND AT PARAMOUNT MUM IS HEAL HUNER FOR ORPREI nrrunuLU i hit guns in the political campaign, kwat with them for four years, here and in England and he subsequent coupled with the flinging of BALLET EH ly made many excursions into Shakespearean drama, as star and producer. So, by process of elimination, we reach Tom Moore, who really had so little to do with the role of- Bot- torn, playing it only once or twice I Feminine Star Crown's Trary Harriet Hector's Program At Curran Ranges From Classic Form to Carioca caustic darts and arrows seems to have sent ljoison coursing through the pensyfff the amateur critics and as a pesult Hollywood, affording the Twcest-target, ts getting more than--rK share. TheorVpre Bowie, a University savant, enjrVed a bit nf target practice the otherS day holding up Hollywood's sacrosanct to score for what he considered their inefficient participation in Max Reinhardt's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which he set down as "a vast disappointment" to put it mildly. "Snmeon chniil? have told Pgin- Film Into Background by Dint of Ingeniousness ill omi i Miiuiatu, mm. ins uilimpui i- ance as a great artist is while I am enough of a Shakespearean ritualist to be testy about the editing of Rerrihardt, and said so at the time, I must admit he made a better show of it than many a mumbling amateur, full of theory and empty of tech By WOOD SOANES LEEJTRACY may be the box office 'magnet at the 'Orpheum this week in "The Lemon Drop Norma Sliearer, Marcli and l.auhton Onen in 'The Barretts of Wimpole St.

"The Barretts of Wimpole Street," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's latest contribution to the screen, began ltd engagement, at the Paramount to- dav. This picture brings an immortal love story enhanced by the artistry of its three stars. Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Ilaugh-ton are the principal players in thil Kid but it Is a safe "ten to i wager that Jean Muir in "Desirable" will be the subject of the tea talk, if the cinema be abfe to crowd nique: Of course If Reinhardt staffs to put a dancing Danish ballet in "Hamlet" or adds a marching soldiers chorus to move Blrnam oolitics out of the lime-'ight as a leading chitchat tonic. woods to Dunsinane, I'll sharpen up my broadsword and begin hacking back to back with Bowie. Miss Muir's success is romance that brought genius into hardt that the Hollywood hacks who were hired as actors couldn't possibly read a line of Shakespeare with any intelligence, let alone grace and beauty of voice" he thundered, adding "we have had a combined product of super-Cecil B.

De Mille and the best that Hollywood can give." I leave Reinhardt to his own devices. His best answer seems to be: "Well, boys, hot or cold I taxed the capacity of your largest arena and tame out in the. black: I'm rated as an artist here, there and yonder. Let's hear what you've done!" But for Hollywood and its hacks. I think I should lift a timid voice.

the 'world despite barriers that EXITS AM) KINTRAINCKS lue to the fact that by he honesty. ingenuousness and the charm her performance, she Ises above the limitations of a fifth rate seemed insurmountable. Elizabeth Barrett, the role that brought fame to Katharine Cornell on the Mage, brings a poignant wist- ulness to her characterization. The film, as a production, has re- ceived unrestricted praise. Th characterizations of March and ol Laughton are finished and smooth.

story Tracy's failure is due to the other fact thai "he is Unable to pump life into a tenth rate story, no mat-ret how diligently he labors. As a matter of fact a little of Damon Runyon will go a long way. In some of his tales the studios by dint of lavish expenditure in cast and production have been able to piece out a tale of some proportions, but that is a formula not always practical, and "The Lemon Drop Kid" is an example. Here Paramount used a stock company cast to back Tracy and the Runyon tale had to stand more or less on its merits. It is, in brief.

TWENTY SEASONS AGO TODAY Rrth Taylor and Albrrt Morri-ton ore. playing 'The Dollar Mark" at Yp l.ibprtv. Menlo Park Seeks Cut in Water Rate' REDWOOD CITY, Oct. 26. Tht Mehlo Park City Planning Commis sion today opened efforts to obtain reduction in water rates on th anoiner weepy yarn or the race San Francisco Hetch Hetchy system.

The community at present is supplied by water from the Bear Gulch Water Company, which would con- tinue to serve the territory, but with Hetch Hetchy water. The San Francisco water is preferred because of asserted hardness of th present supply. Marian Marsh, who came into prominence when she was chosen to replace Dolores Costello as John Barrymore's leading woman and who subsequently was lost in the shuffle, returns on the Columbia payroll as a contract player. Sally Eilers also goes to Columbia to play opposite Lee Tracy and Jimmy Durante in "Carnival" from the pen of Riskin who wrote "It Happened One Night" Polly Moran is going out on another personal appearance tour starting in Kansas City next Clarence Brown is to direct "Ah. Wilderness" but M-G-M still ha-n't announced a star Jimmy Durante is being released by tint studio to go to New York for "Calling All Cars." a Lew Brown production for which Warners studio is the angel.

0 0 Barton MacLane, last in "Yellow Jack" and "Rendezvous" on Broadway, will be the heavy in Paul Muni's "Black Hell" Elmer Rice has moved "Judgment Day" from the Belasco to the Fulton to make way fdr "Between Two Worlds" Winter nf "The Shining fame will have his "The "Ringmaster" on London boards presently with Gilbert Miller as director. 0 0 0 Philip Barry's "Bright Star" Is ready but as yet there is no producer. Jed Harris wants it for By JACK MASON NO FORM of theater presents such handsome opportunities for the expression of the soul -as feebaWet; -neif-so many opportunities to drag in odds and ends by their ears and give them sequence and significance. Harriet Hoclor and her ballet revue, opening a three-night engagement at the Curran Theater in San Francisco last night, overlooked very few of. their opportunities.

Before the evening was over we had glimpsed snatches of authentic ballet, of the waltz, (he toe dunce, lltt-Carioca vd the Black Bottom; and been transported to a prison narret, a circus ring and a corner of green pastures. The combined effect was bewildering. Taken odo by end, it made a rather diverting evening. Laurels must go tffNMiss Hoctor for her dance, "The Bnven," inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's poem. In this number Miss Hoctor appeared in solid black against a blue drop.

It is a sombre setting; as she listens, reconnoitcrs, flies finally in a frantic circle about the stage all in dead silence, the melancholy effect is intensified to an exciting degree. The dance tapers off, like the poem, in a succession of gloomy repetitions, leaving a distinct impression of sorrow and recurring loneliness'. The HiKlle Ballet which opened the prolram was a colorful panorama in Jg'd and white, although too reminiscent of Fanchon and Marco Miss Hoctor appeared also with the ballet in "Poem Divine" by by Russell Bennett, a special arrangement of the "St, Louis Blues" and "Captivity" to music by Chopin, depicitinj Jeanne D'Arc interned at Beauvoire Castle. 0 0 0 The last number, like so many other ambitious acts attempted on ballet programs, suffered from on excess of props. It seems to me that an elaborate stage can only distract from the emotional effrfrt of the dancer, not illustrate and emphasize itf Thus it was Impossible to view the white horse which appears in a dream to the heroine in this act anything but a real horse; and the presence of a horse on a theater stage is always a jolt, from which even the art of Miss Hoctor cannot rescue us for several moments.

The program closed with the "Flea Circus," featuring Miss Hoc-tor, her ballet, and a voice in the wings. The ballet was assMrr by Ramon and Rnsita. dance duct, who performed the dances mentioned above with agility and arace; by Jose Manzanaries and hi South Americans, and Felix Knighl, tenor. The program will be repeated tonight and tomorrow night. tracks conecrniag the Inevitable tout who is tamed by an infant.

Baby Le Roy is less efficient in this capacity than Shirley Temple and neither Helen Mack nor Minna Gombell together or alone can fil. Dorothy Dell's pumps. In the case of "Desirable" Warner THERE was a certain amount of ham in the playing, I'll grar.t, but why blame it on Hollywood. Philip Arnholdf the came from England for the engagement; none of the lovers, except Evelyn Venable, are known to the studios. They were amateurs like Mr.

Bowie used to be, doing their poor durndest. I suppose the "hacks" were Walter B. Connolly, John Lodge, Otis Har-lar. Frank Reicher, Tom Moore, William Fa'num and Charlie Ray. And that charge seems a little unfa Ray rrjay be a hack now but he performed his chore as well as the next one In that burlesque role he had and it sounds little like kicking a man when he's down to rah him names merely because he has lost his prestige.

Evelyn Venable could read lines well enough to suit W.alter Hamp-dei. during the first two seasons of her stage career and if the daughter of a Shakespearean authority can't interpret the Bard with intelligence Brothers put a little more money into the tale with the result that Miss, Muij.had more of a chance to Lnas' -nr-n rrrtn-n- urn -ni inn ir i in mi iimiiii.i,1 flit create a creoiDie laie ot tne sugntiy 8333 pl shopworn story of an who ing, is visiting Oakland today. On the screen of the Paramount she'll be impersonated by Norma Shearer who is shown in this picture looking her i Thai frail Barrel! girl, llie one who lived on Wimpole Street and wrote poetry, you remember, wasn't her name FLIi.abclh, anyway she eloped with a gay young advcniiiier-poet named Brown has a grown daughter pop into her life and began playing havoc with Tier beaux by the simple expedient of offering wholesale contrast. Miss Muir gives an authentic portrait of a gauche convent bred most fragile. youngster, totally unacquainted Little Theater was established here in THE first presentation of the.

college A 1024, last year playing in "He Who Berkeley Playmnkcrs for the season! 1934-1935, last Friday Gels Slapped," and seven years ago acting in "Loyalties." Others in the cast are Frank Wilbur, Bonnie after having his works drummed into her from infancy, then there's small hope for the rest of us. She may not be tinged with greatness but she's scarcely a hack. Walter B. Connolly scarcely needs defense. His Shakespeare goes back to the productions of Ben Greet and includes Shakespeare as the Abbey Players of Dublin see it.

William Farnum, who succeeded him. made his stage debut in "Julius Caesar" way back in the eighties in Richmond, and did Banquo in a sptcial production of "Macbeth" in New York as recently as )92fl. I'll grant that no Shakenpeai'c shows up in Otis Harlan's career unless you accept a tour withxFrank Daniels in "Little Puck." but hhas been a dependable actor, a ruMinn niftnro nprtnn and a nrfW Margaret Sullavan, and Arthur Hopkins, who has done, most of Barry's plays, also wants it but has no star in mind, Gilbert Miller is also looking for a leading man for Ina Claire in "Out on Bail." 0 0 Max Gordon is bringing Douglas Fairbanks Jr. back 4o New York in February. Hb vehicle will be "Moonlight Is Silver," by Clarence Dane.

in. which he is now appearing in London with Gorlrude Lawrence. She will also appear in the Broadway production as will Barry Jones, once of the Colbourne-Jones English players. 0. 0 0 Dan Totheroh's "Mother Lode" has been revised by George O'Neil and is about to achieve production evening, the winners in Ihis year's playwriting contest were announced as follows: First prize, "Jewels of Larucci." by R.

Edmund of Victoria, second prize, "Jebcl Kalhir No. 1," by John S. Thompson of Beikeley; lied for first honorable mention, "The Boy Win Read Too Many Books," by Cornel Lengvnl of Mill Valley, and "So This Is Art," by A. P. Hendrickson of Berkeley; second honorable mention, "Crab Salad Before Bedtime," by Olney Huff of Berkeley.

These plays will all be produced A GREAT PICTURE GRIPS OAKLAND! A New Star Electrifies The World! Romance lives again in the adventurous pages of Alexandre Dumas' th'rillmg The Kansas Modern Language in New York Nolan Leary. once a iuvenilp nf the Fulton 1 nnw in r- duccr at various times since hei with the tinsel of Broadway and tht glitter of New York's middle 400, and In their way, Verree Teas-dale, as the actress and George Brent as the lover who leaps nimbly from generation to generation in his affections, are just as agreeable to eye and ear. The picture is chiefly useful, however, as a source of proof that Warners was not ill-advised ui placing faith in Miss Muir's promise as a youthful emotionalist after her work in "As the Earth Turns." Given some vehicles as well as encouragement, she should go far, but It will not be on such material as Mary McCall, Jr. provides in "Desirable." It is to be hoped that Miss McCall, Jr. does better by Shakespeare in her adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" than she did in this original.

And she, a Vassar girl too, tsk, tsk! Three Tracy Schools Closed by Measles TRACY. Oct. 26. An epidemic or measles among school children yesterday caused closing of Tracy'-! three grammar schools until the pi-deniic subsides. For several the daily attendance average has beVn decreasing and Wednesday 13.1 pupils were absent due to measles' and other illnesses.

The tentative date for re-opening has been set at November 5 a id the Spring schedule will probably be re-arranged to make up for lost class time. $546,792 Estate Distribution Asked SAN JOSE, Oct. 26. A petition Association will conduct a study of the six Indian dialects formerly oken in Kansas. fi.st adopted the stage in 18B7.

A comedian, if he knows Tiis business, cai do as well by Shakespeare stirelyas a college elocution TIIK IMMOrtTAIj I.OVK STOIiV I.IVKS AGAIN ON TIIK A ulorioM-i romance of two lovers, ti'iiHiiplumt a world Ined lo crush llu-ii" love rtcr.r Finkboliner and Henry Hobson, 0 0 0 "Fra Diavolo" fthe Devil's Brother) will be presented at. John Hinkel Park under direction of Ferdinand T. Kebely, direclor of the Berkeley Community Players, on Ihe afternoons of October 27 and 28 and November 3, 10 and 11. 0 0 0 One of the most active student clubs on Ihe Mills College campus is the Craftsman's Club, which is presenting two puppet shows in Lisser Hall tomorrow, the proceeds of the matinee to be added to the Children's Theater Fund and those of the evening to the club treasury. The president of the club.

Mtss Dixie Lee Bay. a sophomore from Tacuina. has bwii interested in puppetry ever since her high school years, when she was sent by the Tacoina Scout Council as dcle-eale to Camp Chaparral, the National Girl Scout Training Camp at the Big Basin. Calif. There siie learned how to fashion and manipulate Later, she and a group of girls proved so adept in the craft that they were asked to present some 50 shows in Tacoma.

Recently she presented a puppet play in San Francisco. The club, which includes a score of Mills students, plans to present Peter Pan, a more ambitious play, in the Spring. Yhe east of "Dodsworth" on Broadway The Curran gels under the gun with the first professional Gilbert and Sullivan season on Monday next. "The Mikado" is the choice. 0 0 0.

Will Rogers seems to have hit a lead. IraruU lb OIITY SEASONS story. AOO TODAY "The I'r 'n nle Srrrplary" is lie at-trmtion at the I'eoplp' this ireeA-. HE mmmi SHEARER mflRCH id -ia id id jd 1d -A mmv 0 by the Playmnkcrs during the current season. 0 0 0 The Footlights Club of Berkeley will present "The Ticket-of-Leave Man," under the direction of Norman Field, tonight and tomorrow night, in their theater, 2IUII Shat-tuck Avenue.

Berkeley, at p. in. In Hit. cast are many favorites i'f Berkeley and Oakland theatergoers: Eugene Berry. Ki lit rid, l.orin Scolt, Ernest Hriiheim.

Stanley Ul-rich, AUistuir Scott. Patricia Ul-rich. Thomas J. Backus, Siewait Malt ley, Melville llausam. Mjiry Hunter.

Louise Gould. Mary Perkins and other members of the Footlights Club. 0 0 0 The Masquers, an organization of local amateur dramatists. will open its Winter season with the presentation of "Come Out of the Kitchen." a three-act comedy, Thursday night. November B.

as a benefit for Ihe local Parent-Teacher Association. Harry Tripp is the director. 0 0 0 DeMarcus Brown, director of the College of the Pacific Little Theater, will play the leading role in the Little Theater's production of Mor-'daunt Shairp's play, "The Green Bay Tree," tonight and tomorrow night. This marks Brown's third appearance in the play since the Gay decorations CJtahtu 4 ravors Cover, 75c LflUGHTOn Special, 00 in M-fl-M'i Triumph new high in "Judge Priest." After a banner week downtown the picture moved to the Grand-Lake and now is to be held for a second week. Death Car Driver Must Serve 6 Years MARTINEZ.

Oct. 26. Sentenced for manslaughter on January 12. Wilbur E. Korby must serve lix years in San Quentin.

Notification of determination of his sentence has ben filed with County Clerk S. C. Wehs by the State Bpard of Prison Kirby was indicted by the Grand Jury on October 17 last year and was found guilty of manslaughter and driving while under the influence of liquor, after he allegedly ran down Aldo Cavaili, Brentwood schoolboy, on the high-, way near that eommuni'y on October 10, 1933. if nnnnrTTf 5 Dinner, with Cover, $1.75 JOHN LOEJCiE, it is true, can boast ofTio Shakesperean background it was achieved ini Harvard while he was studying the intricacies of international 'law and doing things in the Hasty Pudding Club. Yet even Mr.

Bowie convince me that Lodge! gave a bad performance or displayed himself a hack a- Theseus. He brought to the role, stature, sincerity, conviction, and a full chested voice that sustained the cadence of his lines and at the same time made them audible to the most distant listeners. That gets us to Frank Reicher, who learned his Shakespeare in Munich' under the tutelage of his father, a well known actor In his day, baclt in the eighties, who was brought to America by Mrs. Fiske for Engstrand in "Ghosts" and promptly seized by Julia Marlow for "Barbara Freitchie" and then joined out with the Sothern-Mar- LUimPOLE STREET I mm -MAl'rtKKN 1 Fire Suppression Station to Be Begun SANTA CRUZ, Oct. 26.

Start of work on a fire suppression' station at Saratoga Summit, expected to be completed November 15 as a cost of $4000, today assured the San Lorenzo Valley of protection. to distribute the $546,792 estate of the late Edward J. McScutehen, San Francisco attorney who died. June 27, 1933, in Los Altos, was on file in probate court, here today. The estate consists of stocks, bonds and real estate and is left to Schmieden, a step-daughter, her daughter, Miss Doris Schmiedell.

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