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SUNDAY, JANUARY 21. 1934 -Want Ad Hedanartrx. Court 490f Other Press Departments, Court 7204 SOCIETY SECTION THE PITTSBURGH PRESS DRAMA MOTION PICTURES HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP i I Repeal Pumped Life Into Dying Follies, Stage Again Who Are Lures Binney Duo Rehearsing New Play Love Theme Submerged In Talkies I LIU I I II! II III! 1 1 II IT! IT! I IT! I Hllli! II 1 1 ITU II! 11 I TO I'M 1 ItU ill On With The Show) Wherein Are Reviewed a Handful of Manhattan Comedies ri i 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 i 1 1 I.I iliill By FLORENCE FISHER PARRY III II 0 llim II NEW YORK, Jan. 20 Last week in this space I reported "The Green Bay Tree" and "The Lake," two of the more serious plays in New York; the first commanding thoughtful (and I fear unhealthy) curiosity because of its decadent theme and its extraordinary acting; and the latter because of the appearance in it of the most interesting figure 'Society Bunk' Nearly Drove Connie to Suicide, She Reveals By LIONEL HOUSER Special to The Pittsburgh Press NEW YORK, Jan. 20 Buckled again into the starry harness of Thespis, Miss Constance Binney, who in 1920 was considered "the likeliest successor to Mary Pickford," and Miss Faire Binney, who in 1920 was considered "the most serious rival to Dorothy Gish," are fluttering about in the gloomy interior of the Selwyn Theater.

There, come noontimes, they are rehearsing a new play, with the aid of a dented piano, 15 scarred chairs and a supporting cast, while both their husbands run errands, look on and pay the bills. Thinks Her Play 'Swell' Miss Constance Binney, whose aunt is the Comtesse de Camporealli, who learned the ballet under Cec-chetti and who is now 35, crammed a cheese-on-whole-wheat into her mouth. 1 "Ah, society is the bunk," she announced. "And it wouldn't even exist if it weren't for publicity. I was born a society wench, and I've resented it ever since.

"My first marriage brought me further into society Boston society. Why, it all drove me so furious and unhappy, this society bunk, that I nearly committed suicide up there by jumping off the Vendome roof." The Miss Constance Binney whose first marriage in June, 1926, at Lynne, was attended by society's top names, gulped coffee from a willing cardboard container. "I think this is a swell play that Laura Walker wrote for us. It's called 'Among Those Sailing. The Bait That Lured "Oh, I wish I had a dancing part.

When I die and they cut open my heart, do you know what they'll find? A little ballerina right there." Red-haired Miss Faire Binney, whose first marriage in October, 1922, in a candle-lit room of her mother's house here was what society terms "an event" and the same Miss Faire Binney who became a good boxer under Carpentier's tutelage when they worked together in a movie, squirmed a little at her sister's highly unkind references to the "best people." "I can't say I feel that way about society," murmured Faire Binney, who has been seven years off the knows; the rafters sizzle with their innuendo; but "She Loves Me Not" is the first show in New York I'd send my son to. It simply delights me just to contemplate the Pleasure that must have been Howard Lindsay's when he was doping it all out and believe me, it needed doping, what with four or five "settings" occupying the stage simultaneously! He must have used chessmen; for the stage mechanics are deliriously intricate. By the way, Dorothy Stickney is Howard Lindsay's wife you know who played the arty wife in "Another Language?" Well, you never can tell. Mebbe she HAS a sense of humor, Not for Drama Clubs oAILOR Beware" is a mouth-J ful I gagged on. It's funny, yes; hysterically funny; but I have a primpy little New England notion that plays you can't fully tell about in a newspaper column might just as well not have been produced.

And there's something just a Leetle too brash about "Sailor Beware" to put down in black and white. If you want to know about it you'll just have to See it, that's all. I can't help you out via The Press. Not that I didn't Roar and Die over it. I did.

I stuffed my handkerchief in my mouth, for after all, one must draw the line Somewhere. But all the while I kept picturing just what the Ladies of the So-and-So Drama Club in Pittsburgh would think if suddenly I were to launch forth into an explicit recital of the dialogue, when called upon to give a little Theatah talk. FANNY Return of Legal Liquor, Fanny Brice7 Explains, Puts Audiences in Mellow and Receptive Mood For Girls and Tunes Constance and Faire Binney, right, return to stage. By JAMES CANNON Special to The Pittsburgh Press NEW YORK, Jan. 20 The cast of the 1910 Follies has vanished into unsung oblivion, the grave or the side streets where Broadway has-beens live out their last years.

But Fanny Brice, who starred in the Follies 24 years ago, is still the darling of the critics, and in the current Follies her grotesque tomfoolery made their typewriter keys dance, in happy admiration. "This Follies is like the old days," said Miss Brice, whose native boards where she was last seen as the ingenue in "Meet the Wife." The bait that lured the Sisters Binney from domesticity and drawing-rooms is the promise that repeal will bring back, as the Miss Constance Binney who graced Back Bay's front parlors phrased it, "a new popularity for swizzle sticks and gayety and curves and feminine charm and grace on the stage." "I was educated all over Europe and finished studying in a convent in Paris," said Miss Constance Binney, reaching for the ham-on-rye sandwich, "and I left school to go I ATTRACTIONS ON THE 1 NIXON "Queen Christina." on me stage AND screen, Kath- anne Hepburn. It gratified me, especially after having delivered myself of a i i ed defense of this young star, to read the fol-lowing by Richard Watts, in the Herald Tribune: is my belief that she is being badly treated by her current detractors. It is true that she is technically i experienced, ms Mrs. Tarry nical excellence.

and that tech-whatever that is, is more important on the stage than on the screen, where striking personality is the vital requisite. I realize, too, that she has a monotonous and rather strident voice and that her lack of emotional pliability is a considerable handicap to her performance At the same time, that curiously gallant tenderness with which Miss Hepburn invariably invests her performance Is always present and she plays with a poignant loveliness. Also, in the theater she looks considerably more beautiful than she does in the films Above all, she possesses that quality of personal distinction which is the most vital virtue an actress can possess, and is more vital to her than all the gifts of mere professional competence." Hooray for our side! The Year's Comic Peak I HAVE seen five comedies: "She Loves Me Not," "Sailor Beware." "The Pursuit of Happiness," "Her Master's Voice" and 'The School for Husbands," if, indeed, this last has any place among the riotous modern offerings listed with it! Of these, I unhesitatingly place "She Loves Me Not" at the very top. In my opinion, this comedy i outranks any that I have seen in many years of theater-going, in pure delirious FUN. It is com-i pletely grand in every sense that this abused word has come to mean.

It is comic, convulsing and crazy; it. is healthy as an undergraduate's appetite; it is preposterous as a champagne nightmare; it is lively as a cyclone and it is far more tonic than even Repeal! I can't tell about it. No one could get by with its story and LIVE. It's completely hay-wire. There's no beginning, no end, no middle, no ANYTHING.

It is Five-Star Final," "Broadway," 'Strictly Dishonorable," "Grand Hotel," "Twin Beds" and "Twentieth Century" rolled into a jelly-roll. It is vulgar and innocent. It is sophisticated and disarming. It is a complete Let-down for the theatergoer, be he connoisseur or cattle ranger. "She Loves Me Not" is the show to see, never mind WHAT you pay the scalper.

They Consider the Lily IT'S ABOUT a floor-show dancer who flees from being a "material witness" to a murder and hides out in a Princeton dormitory. And what she and the authors' of the play do to Princeton before they're through, isn't worth recording. Maybe it's just as well that a lot of us CANT send our sons to a Grade A college this year although I must say that the undergraduates do right well by Our Nell in this play, and she emerges from their gruardianship no more denied than she was when she entered. That's why the comedy is so nice; it's a decent comedy. Full of broad enough lines, heaven Brightest Year Outlook For Wealthy Colorado Miner Finds No Qold In Them Thar Hills' Meaning Broadway Other Worthy Emotions Take Lead in Majority Of Movies Here The movies of late are side tracking the love interest to locus their attention on other vital affairs.

With a few exceptions, notably among them "Berkeley Square" and Queen Christina," the cinema seems bent on stressing other human emo tions which are just as worthy of inspection as the love theme. In the current movie fare at local theaters, for Instance, "Gallant Lady" at the Perm does away with the "I Love You" phrase to show Ann Harding as a devoted mother, The major footage is concerned with Miss Harding's constant affection for her child who is reared by fos ter parents. The Stanley's "HI, Nellie" turns the spotlight on the newspaper game and finds Paul Muni a hardboiled editor. At the Warner, Richard Bar thelmess portrays an Indian In "Massacre" who seeks revenge for the death of his father. Charles Farrell is a budding pharmacist in "The Big Shakedown" at the Davis, who wipes out a gang of drug racketeers.

El Brendel encounters a number of unexpected activities In the Fulton's "Olsen's Big Moment." The Pitt film, "East of Fifth Ave nue," presents the "Grand Hotel setting idea in a New York boarding house. So you see, not always does the eternal triangle provide the livelihood for our film makers. As for a more detailed summary: NIXON "Queen Christina," In which Greta Garbo is seen as a Swedish queen, raised as a boy by her father because he wants her to succeed him on the throne. Attired as a boy she is discovered by a young Spaniard, John Gilbert, in a nearby tavern. There their romance is born.

When forced to choose between her royal position and her love for Mr. Gilbert, she abdicates her throne. "Queen Christina" tomorrow enters its second and last week here. Ian Keith and Lewis Stone are seen in supporting roles. PENN "Gallant Lady," wherein Ann Harding, after the premature death of her fiance, wages a long battle to regain her son who has been reared by foster parents.

When she learns of his whereabouts and discovers that his foster mother died and the widower is about to marry again, Ann steps into the picture by becoming his bride. Neither he nor her son, however, ever learn of her true identity. Clive Brook, Otto Kruger, Betty Lowford and Dickie Moore furnish prominent assistance. STANLEY "HI, Nellie," in which Paul Muni is a former hard-boiled editor who turns to the writing of a lovelorn column. His boss, it seems, fired him from his earlier Job when he underplayed a sensational scandal.

It is later revealed that the publicity given the scandal would have involved his relatives. But he comes through with a bigger scoop before the fadei-out. Glenda Farrell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Donald Meek and Burton Churchill assist. Kathryn Sergava, Warner Brothers edition of Greta Garbo, makes her debut in this one. WARNER "Massacre," in which Richard Barthelmess as an Indian, is seen as a side-show attraction at the World's Fair in Chicago.

He-man action enters when Dick learns that his father's death back in the reservation was caused by the lack of care attended him. He swears that he will take revenge. And hence the title. Love interest in a minor way is first centered around Claire Todd, who Is enamored of the hero back In Chicago and then around Ann Dvorak, Dick's true sweetheart. Dudley Digges heads the supporting cast.

FULTON "Olsen's Big Moment," featuring El Brendel in the role of an apartment house janitor who on his night out becomes involved in a series of incidents that keep him quite busy during his brief vaca tion. The most important of them all Is the forthcoming marriage be tween a rich middle-aged bachelor and a young girl who resides in the apartment. When El discovers that she doesn't love him he sidetracks the nuptials through a number of clever misdeeds. Barbara weeks, Walter Catlett and Susan Fleming help out. DAVIS "The Big Shakedown," exposing the drug racket and the evil effects on its victims.

Charles Farrell, a newcomer in the phar macy business, soon discovers that not all drugs he sells contain the exact ingredients described on their labels. By careful investigation he discovers Ricardo Cortez at the head of a crime gang who defraud innocent patients. Law and righteous ness emerge victorious at the end. Bette Davis, Glenda Farrell and Allen Jenkins participate. PITT "East of Fifth the story of a New York boarding house and a few or its occupants Chief among its transients are Walter Connolly, Mary Carlisle, Dorothy Treex and Wallace Ford.

The en tire action takes place within the walls of the house. On the stage Count Bern! Vici, vaudeville favorite, heads his own unit labeled "Spices of 1934." He is assisted by Harriet Cruise, radio songbird, Joe Besser, comedian, Bobby (Uke) Henshaw, Mary and Bobby, Bodine and Car' roll ana Paul Button. Tunes are furnished by a 15-piece all-girls' band. HARRIS-FAMILY "My Lips Be tray," the Cinderella romance of i common girl and the king of an Imaginary country. They engage in a romance unaware of each other's identity.

When the girl does dis cover the truth and attempts to forget and forgive, she is surprised to find the king really in love with her, Jones Boles and Lillian Harvey play we roies. (Second Week). 1 PENN "Gallant Lady." Ann Harding, Clive Brook- STANLEY "Hi, 2fellie.n Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell. WARNER "Massacre." Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak. 1 FULTON "Olsen's Big Moment." El Brendel, Barbara Weeks.

1 DAVIS "The Big Shakedown." Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, HARRIS-FAMILY "My Lips Betray." Lilian Harvey, John Boles. ENRIGHT "Son of a Sailor." Joe K. Brown, Jean Muir. 1 SHERIDAN SQUARE "Design for Living." Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins. ON THE STAGE PITT "Spices of 1934" Also Feature Picture.

VARIETY Burlesque. tongue is the nimble argot of the $. stage alleys and all night restaurants, "We never felt it was the Follies, though, until we came into New York. In Boston it was just like any other show. But as soon as stepped out on that platform opening night in New York I knew it was the Follies didn't Del." DeL her Negro maid, who had waited in the wings with a gaudy kimono in ten Follies, looked up from stitching the weblike garment Miss Brice wears when she hops through her foolish fan dance.

Tour's Right, Says Del "Yeah," muttered Del, who was busy, "you're right." I used to think the Follies for mula was all washed up," Miss Brice said. "You know what I mean extravagant sets swell looking dames all that. But after this show I don't think the Follies will ever be washed up. There will always be a place for the big, gorgeous revue." Outside in the rain a huddle of autograph scouts, the eternally in quisitive who stop as soon as they see a crowd, and a scattering of what used to be called a Stage Door Johnny waited. There were five limousines at the curb.

Liquor brought the stage door guy back," said Fanny. "In the first place, they can take their girls out to drink much cheaper. In the second place, Follies glamour somehow needs liquor to make it authentic." Miss Brice said she could feel the difference when she walked out into the spotlight-dappled stage, choking and gasping in the gunpowder fumes from a previous sketch. "I tell you liquor had a lot to do with it. The mood was made.

People who never drank before had had a couple of cocktails. They wanted to laugh. No one can tell me different. I know. Those prohibition audiences were as cold as a second-string critic's heart." The success of the Follies has assured the return of the old-time clothes-manikin who strode the stages years ago with a hefty dignity.

"Mae West had a lot to do with it, I guess," said Miss Brice, who is thin. "But liquor and big show girls belong together. Anyway, it takes a big girl to wear clothes. Little ones are okay, but it takes a big dame to wear clothes with class and charm." Fanny has seen the most beauti ful of the Follies charmers In the glory of their youth, and some of them have come back old, broken women who wanted carfare home or the price of a meal or their room rent. She Knew Them AH "I've watched them all come and go," she said.

and the most of them were right kids. But I guess Dolores was the most striking. She's mar rled now, and she lives in France. It's hard to say which was the swell BRICE First Cigar! And Mary Astor Hopes It's Her Last! HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20 Mary Astor has smoked her first cigar.

And she hopes it will be her last one. It was not from choice that the -dignified and beautiful Miss Astor smoked the cigar. Nor was it in a spirit of bravado. was because this action was called for -in the new Warner comedy film, "Easy To Love," in which Miss. Astor is one of the members of an all-star cast.

The reason for the cigar Is that in her character of "vamp," she is visited by Genevieve Tobin. It' just so happens that Miss is at the time entertaining Miss Tobin's screen husband, Adolphe Menjou. He quickly hides in a closet, but in his haste forgets a freshly-lighted cigar. The cigar is a dead give-away, so to camouflage the matter Mary Astor picks it up and smokes it-herself, declaring it is the latest fad in the artists colony which she has joined. The cigar choked the actress Into a coughing fit and brought the tears to her eyes, but she kept gamely on.

"I felt a little dizzy, but that is all," said Miss Astor after finishing the scene. "It's lucky that the script had the character in the picture choke, however, else I should never have been able to put it over. It's also lucky that Director Keighley rehearsed the scene thoroughly without my lighting the cigar and there were no retakes necessary. Otherwise I really feared the worst." est looking but Jessie Reed belongs in any list you name." They belonged in the era of Dia mond Jim Brady and the big spend ers who squandered their money as though it were a profit-making business. Miss Brice recalled diamond bracelets on bouquets and $100 bills under the plates of every girl who went to a party when Stage Door Johnnies were in flower.

"The big naked things in the Follies wore bathing suits you see on the beach every day now and never give a tumble to," she laughed "They were much loner, even, than the ones we wear now but it was certainly something in those days. I used to think only the people change. But I guess times have, too." "Yeah," said Del, who has memories, too. thing of that trade or business or profession or art to himself. Something which shows In his face, in the manner of walking or speaking even thinking.

Good stories and good acting would not then be enough. Both stories and acting would have to be real, look real, be absolutely believable. Someday, Dieterle hopes to put his theories into practice. But for th present, he is a very practical director indeed, as well as a former actor. He gets the best actors he can a3 the nearest approach to the real thing.

Right now he is directing William Powell in "The King of Fashion" at Warners. "Pictures," says Dieterle. "should not be a play about life. The stag has done that for centuries. tuxes should be life itself." into a musical show when I was very fat and uncouth and looked 30, though I was exactly 17." Got What She Wanted Miss Faire Binney examined her scarlet finger-nails and sighed.

"I left the stage for children and now that I've got them, I'm dying to be back in the theater she explained. The vehicle in which they mark their reunion in divertissement is having a tryout in Philadelphia be fore braving two weeks later the Broadway scene. FOR THE WEEK 1 SCREEN Greta Garbo, John Gilbert. panied by the ship's band, of "Near er. My God, to Thee." My guess is that "Farewell, False Dreams" is a pretentious fakir.

Those Pulitzer Awards Mr. Richard Maney, a fervid dis ciple of the Drama, suggests that now Is the time for us to begin to choose our candidates for the Pulitzer Prize. As I look over M. Mantle's catalogue of the Pulitzer champions from 1917 to 1933 I am strengthened In a belief that the Drama is ephemeral. In the Mantle list of masterpieces there seem to be none, excepting "The Green Pastures," that has the stamina of a clsissic "Why Marry," "Miss Lulu Bett," "Beyond the Horizon," "Anna Christie," "Ice Bound," "Hell Bent for Heaven," "Craig's Wife," "In Abraham's "Allison's House," "Of Thee I Sirig," "Strange Interlude" and "Street Scene" are all In the ash-bin, dead and turned to clay.

None of them could be re vived. They are as cadaver as the Pinero, Sutro and show plays of an adjacent generation, corpses in the theater's imminent churchyard, Her Favorite in "(Jueen Christina' at the Nixon. An Old Spanish Custom "THE Pursuit of Happiness" is another comedy which, though vastly fetching and funny, I shall find difficulty interpreting to an audience of decorum and reticence. This sprightly and illuminating comedy of Colonial Customs rivets our attention upon a quaint and productive custom of early Revolutionary days, the custom of Bundling. Bundling (I speak, in purely dictionary terms) was the prevalent manner in which a Colonial maiden entertained her swain.

Houses were cold, kindling wood was scarce and costly, and the only place to keep one's fingers and toes from nipping was Bed. So, safeguarded by a Center-board between them, a jagged and formidable, and ever-present Reminder a maid and a man conducted their Sparkling side by side, enveloped in the cozy warmth of quilt and pillow. "What?" inquires our esteemed friend Joseph Wood Krutch in the Nation "what is more characteristically American than the old custom of Bundling?" What indeed! "Though changed the name, 'tis yet the same No act of legislature. No censor's sway, no NRA Can alter human nature." The Hessians Vindicated ANY rate, "The Pursuit of Happiness" earns its appro priate title because of this highly practical practice. Personally, I like the word "bundling" far far more than "necking." The Colonial Dames had an ear for pleasant cadences.

Now far be it from me to leave the impression that "The Pursuit of Happiness" owes its entire interest to this one Colonial eccentricity! It is a charming document, sketching enticing pictures of Revolutionary points of view; I was informed in detail of the true origin of the word "Hessian," and left the theater Proud to claim a Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Since 1929 Lady Cinema film, "I Am Su zanne." This is the picture in which the Piccoli Marionettes and the Yale Puppeteers were used, and it is these little wooden dolls on strings which make the film an outstanding attraction. They are positively remarkable and are stopped by no act which a-human being could perform. Gish Comes Back Lillian Gish is back on the screen again, too which should be good news to those Gish fans of yester day. Besides, she is very good wnicn probably will be a surprise to a great many persons But it's Roland Young who makes the picture, "His Double Life," a highly amusing bit of entertainment.

Girls particularly will find plenty of enjoyment in "Eight Girls in a Boat," a story of a girls' school patterned after the highly-praised German film of the same title. Practically the entire picture deals with life in the school and the reaction of the girls and faculty when it is discovered that one of the students is about to have a baby. All these films set a pretty high standard. However, if it is the standard at which our producers intend to aim during these 12 months, there need be no worries about the future of the motion picture industry. And.

what is even more important, it means that Mr. and Mrs. Public will be able to spend some thoroughly enjoyable evenings in movie theaters this year. He Is Backing 'Come of Age' Which Is Told in Rhymed Jargon By PERCY HAMMOND NEW YORK, Jan. 20 There are, according to an ancient essayist, "a thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth," ana Mr.

Delos Chappell, a pecunious Coloradoan, has selected the production of dramas on Broadway as the most facile. Disregarding the skulls and bones of his many predecessors in the Times Square desert, Mr. Chappell, with an eagerness w-orthy of a better' cause, organizes expensive expe ditions and conducts them hither. The latest adventure of this daring ore's-man (he is a gold and silver miner) is a tragic harlequinade, by Miss Clemence Dane of England, entitled "Come of Age." In it the legend of the poet Thomas Chatterton is revived with mystic speculations upon what would have happened to that sad and brilliant boy had he lived in the London of today. Unfortunately, Miss Dane stoops to translate many of the actions and emotions of the characters Into a rhymed jargon, patterned unsuccessfully after that of Mr.

Berlin, Moss Hart, Ira Gershwin and Mr. Kaufman. The result is that "Come of Age" is just another good play with bad habits. He's Unsung Hero It is, however, for Mr. Chappell that I kindle my present bonfire, We erect triumphal arches for the authors and actors of the Drama and shower them with the ticker tapes of our enthusiasm.

But we neglect to cheer the heroes who sign the checks that enable performers in the Theater to operate. I would like to celebrate, in my little way, the excursions of Mr. Chappell into Art's Death Valley and to assure him that his production of "Come of Age" is tops in its costly and es thetic details. Mr. Chappell is hereby welcome to Broadway as another Winthrop Ames, Morris Gest or Otto Kahn.

I have attended the funerals of many Longacre impresarios, amateur and professional; and I depend upon Mr. Chappell to remain, alive and solvent, and to prevent me from shedding tears upon his ultimate bier. By the way, the most gorgeous acting of last week was that of Miss Judith Anderson when, as the irresolute Cyprihne of "Come of Age," she stormed passionately for an hour or two upon Chatterton's door, pleading with him to let her in and to take her back. Mr. Stephen Hag gard, too (a nephew of The H.

Rider Haggard) was in all the crises, eloquent and unusual. Nevertheless, it seemed to me that Mr. Chappell and his silver mines were the most esthetic elements in Stars Assigned for Barbary Coast Film With the locale of the story switched to San Francisco's Barbary Coast due to an interest in the recent reopen ing of that colorful waterfront, casting of leading roles has begun for "The Man Who Broke His Dorothy Dell, Victor McLaglen, Pres ton Foster. Alison Skipworth and David Landau will have major parts under the direction of Alexander Hall, director of "Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen." By DAN THOMAS Press Hollywood Correspondent TrriT v-vvnnn Jan. 20 Not Harvey's latest the solemn extravaganza.

"Every man," the play says, "tells his secret once to a woman when he comes of age Here's Jittery Show Mr. Hugo Stange, after reading. perhaps, "The Good Hope," a Scan dinavian semi-classic, decided to make a spectacular and melodramatic copy of It. Therefore, in a jittery show entitled "Farewell, False Dreams," he presents at the Little Theater an agitated chromo of a big liner, sinking with all souls aboard, somewhere between Nantucket and the Nova Scotia snowbanks, i Through the black night and driving rain A ship was all In vain. Meanwhile a young bacteriologist (Mr.

Glen Anders) chokes his dis figured wife (Miss Lora Baxter) to death, and falls into the arms of a luscious cinema star (Miss Claudia Morgan). An American novelist drinks himself Into an obscene stu port at the ship's bar, and, to make the voyage more complete there -is a fine clergyman, who leads the doomed passengers in the Lord's Prayer and in the singing, accom A Queen and Greta and John Gilbert 1 i 4 II Bar Actors From Acting Is Director's Suggestion since 1929 has the outlook in the motion picture business been as bright as it is this year. And the credit, or at least a large portion of it, goes to our producers those men responsible for making the pictures. Judging from numerous pictures about to be released, the film moguls haven't waited for the industry to pick up as a result of generally im proved conditions Money is in circulation again and liiej ic some really entertaining films on 11 offer It- hi' miTTVintr the market. Greta Garbo's new production, "Queen Christina," approaches the point of being sensational.

It brings the Swedish star back to the screen in all her glory, after an absence of more than a year. Introducing Francis Lederer "Man of Two Worlds," the film which introduces Francis Lederer to the movie-coing public, is another strip of celluloid carrying some real entertainment on it. Lederer, already an established success in Europe and on Broadway, makes a strong bid for public acclaim in this oicture. No doubt he will get plenty of response. In "Man of Two Worlds" he plays the role of an Eskimo and does it beautifully, his performance going a long way toward making the picture an outstanding production Still another good bet is Lilian By The United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan.

20 William Dieterle, the director, believes actors are the last persons in the world who.should be allowed to act in pictures. Dieterle Isn't rabid about it, of course. He realizes there are a lot of actors in Hollywood, both those who can, and those who cannot act. His theory, Dieterle contends, would soon revolutionize the film industry. He wouldn't use actors at alL If he wanted a carpenter, he'd go get himself a carpenter.

If he wanted a fisherman, he'd get a fisherman. Or a mannikin. Or a cowboy. Or a soda fountain clerk, or whatever. The thought of Dieterle is that the man who has lived and worked at a thing, be it a trade, a business, a profession or an art, takes some I.