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RENO EVENING GAZETTE PAGE NINE Feature Attractions Offered Reno Theatre-Goers In Several atest Hollywood Releases Next Week 1UST ONE STAR AT MAJE1 ho Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Ruth Cbatterton and H. B. Warner In "The Doctor's Secret:" The Collegians; Talking comedy; News weekly in sound; Vita-phone vaudeville; Shubert Inspirations, in sound. Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Saturday "The River of Romance," with Charles (Buddy) Rogers, Mary Brian, June Colyer.

Henry B. Walthall and Wallace Beery; Talking Comedy: Sport-light; News weekly; Vltaphone acts, rll In sound. 3 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929 RUTH GHATTERTDN Tom Mix and his horse. Tony, In "King Cowboy," Wigwam. 1 Jilllf Majestic theatre patrons are; promised some real acting In the opening bill for next week, "Th-Doctor's Secret," for the cast Is madf up of former stage stars that promises, a finished performance.

Even In the days of the stage It was seldom that a cast of such names as Ruth Chat-terton. H. B. W'arner. Robert Edeson and John Loder could be gatherad together for one play.

Usually, there was a Btar and a principal eupport. and the remainder of the cast was mediocre. To the present generation the work of Miss Chatterton Is well knJtn. H. B.

Warner wade his blp gesitstage hit In "Alias Val- i entlne." Robert Edeson was the original "Squaw Man, and has en 3 H. B. Warner in "The Doctor's Secret," Majestic. Lila Lee 1: May McAvoy, 6tar In "Stolen Kisses," COURT PUTS MONETARY VALUE ON TEMPERAMENT OF PLAYERS Jetta Goudal's Verdict of $31,000 from De Mille Gives Definition to Vague Term as It Is Used by Artists Wigwam. Evelyn Brent lays her reputation for temperament to the incident when she refused to stand on a trapeze only ten feet high.

That seemed unreason able except that Miss Brent is a suf- ferer from vertigo and grows dizzy at any height. Nevertheless, she was labeled temperamental and drew a black mark from the bosses. Jack Gilbert. Reginald Denny and Jean Hersholt all maintain that charges of temperament usually are based on nothing more than a player's assertion of his rights. Gilbert has definite ideas about how his pictures should be played and fights every minute to carry them out.

His success indicates that usually he Is right, still he has built up a reputation for temperamental outbreaks. When Hersholt was loaned to another company at a figure reported to be three times his salary he figured he was not getting a fair break and said so loudly. That, too, was labeled temperament in the offices. But perhaps the strongest case of all is that of Greta Garbo, says the writer. When she arrived, unable to speak English, placid in emotion, wanting to please everybody, the producers decided that what she needed to attract the public was a reputation for temperament, and so they built one for her.

Gabo is moody, but it is negative moodiness, not fiery self-assertion. As temperament is generally understood, she Is perhaps the least temperamental of the outstanding players. RENO TO OFFER RINTY AS STAR Vilma Banky's first individual starring picture, "The Awakening," will be the opening attraction at the Reno theatre tomorrow for the new week. Miss Banky made as big a hit in this picture as she did while playing opposite Ricardo Cortez or Ronald Colman. "Homesick," a comedy featuring Sammy Cohen and Marjorie Beebe, will be the offering on Monday at the Reno.

A double feature will be the offering Tuesday, the I first- "The Man in the Rough," with Eob Steele as the star, and then Charlie Paddock, famous sprinter, In "The Fastest Human." "Rlnty of the Desert," featuring Rln Tin Tin. will be the major feature at the Reno on Wednesday. Olive Borden Is the star In the Thursday Charles Rogers, Majestic. Ruth Chatterton, Majestic. NEW SHOW WORLD HOLLYWOOD, Sept.

28. (Special) The greatest advertising drive In the history of the show business Is now being conducted internationally by one of the major motion pcture companies. The entire effort and expenditure stresses that: "It's a new show world," end acquaints the public with the meaning behind it. S. r.

Kent, a power In the picture industry recently said: "Every precedent of the show business, except the cne precedent of quality, has I been thrown aside." That is true. Tollywood, Broadway, even the circus business, have been turned topsy-turvy. Stage stars are screen stars. The latest popular songs are heard not from behind the footlights but via the screen. A new crop of Ziegfelds has sprung up In the west and they are doing things that no Broadway showman ever dreamed of attempting.

The greatest voices in the Metropolitan Grand Opera are heard In Osage, Iowa. Reduced to its essence "It's a new show world." means that the theatergoing public today is getting more for Its money than it ever got before SAYS PRODUCER Rin Tin Tn, Reno. 'ADORABLE CHEAT' WITH LILA LEE, AT Saturday and Sunday "The Adorable Cheat," with Lila Lee and Cornelius Keefe; Dorothy Devore in comedy: Pictf' patchwork; Travelogue; Vaudeville stage units. The West Coast varieties acts on the Granada bill today and tomorrow, both r-atinee and night, are made up of music, songs, plenty of comedy and some dancing. Headline honors will be Bhared by Frank and Vera Vardon and by La Fille.

Rove th nrpRs asent the Frank 'and Vera Vardon team Is one of the. best known comedy acts in vaude- Ivllle. It formerly played both the Orpheum and Pantages circuits. All 'of their songs are original material and they have some unusually bright patter. The title of the act is "Musical Capers." I La Fille is a clown, a queer little clown, who has the reputation for winning audiences.

He is a violinist. but the clowning is incidental. He is a clever pantomimist. Chris and Fannie Irwin are a pair of comics wft'- nave a recora on tne Coast. Their act is titled "The Tall Faced Romeo," and their comedy.

In jsong and story, is said bright and snappy. Eddie Klein's Sax Revue Is a musical act of five boys and one girl. It Is a headl" -er act, ys Bob Ray, and a most expensive one too. The Granada orchestra will also offer some new novelties. "The Adorable Cheat" Is the title of the picture at the Granada.

Lila Lee Is t'-e star, with one Cornelius Keefe as her male support. The picture is not a new having beea released early in 1928, but It Is Its first trip Into Reno. Mexico is teaching in the public schools th harmful effects of alcohol GRANADA "The Adorable Cheat," Granada. Marjorie Beebe, Reno. TALKING PICTURE INNOVATION IS TRIED An Innovation in talking pictures Is being inaugurated by Sono-Art In its next talkie, "Blaze o' Glory." in which Eddie Dowling wil1 again be the star.

According to announcement as soon as Dowling and his company finish each scene and leave the "set," Jose Bohr, a South American star, am! another company, speaking entirely in Spanish, will re-enact the same scene upon the same "set." As the director and screen adapter of the American version finish preparing each scene, it is turned over to the director and adapter of the Spanish. Thus when the picture goes into actual production there will be two complete versions. The plan is for jvling and his company to work in the daytime, and the Spanish-speak- lng COmpany to work at night If the scheme is successful, it will offer possibilities to the talking picture not heretofore realized, since an American-made picture may be translated into other languages and- be portrayed by actors of the same nationalities as the countries for which it is intended. The original cost of the story, Its preparation for the screen, the building the "sets," and other expenses of production, would be divided with the parent picture, thus enabling foreign countries to secure In their native tongues pictures better produced than they otherwise could hope to do. In a recent month more than five thousand tractors were exported from the United States.

Accurately cut. selected Diamonds of matched color and weight, perfectly set In platinum or white gold makes these rings best selections tevc my i-i Vilma Banky, Reno. COMEDY PREVAILS IN OFFERINGS AT Sunday and Monday "Campus Knights," with Raymond McKee, Shirley Palmer and Marie Qull-lan; Comedy; Variety; News weekly. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday May McAvoy. with Claude Gilllngwater, Edna Murphy, P.eed Howes In "Stolen Kisses;" Comedy; Western feature; News weekly.

Friday and Saturday "King Cowboy," featuring Tom Mix; Hodge Podge feature; Comedy; News weekly. A Chesterfield picture entitled "Campus Knights," a college yarn, is the opening picture at the Wigwag next week. Only occasionally is there a Chesterfield picture made, but they generally are good. The only thing unfamiliar about them are the names of the featured players, but these are always good although the names are not well known to movie fans. The fritured players in this story are Raymond McKee, Shirley Palmer, Marie Quillan and Jean Laverty.

McKee Is a screen veteran, but it has been a long time since he appeared In "Pown to the Sea In Ships." Miss Palmer and Miss Quiilan are newcomers to the screen. The story has to do with goings on at a girls' col the other is a rounder. The girl (students, out jat night on parties. meet tne brotner OI xneir leacner, and the latter gets into all sorts of trouble. The mess is finally cleared up when a most determined young wo- man gets the wild brother in her tolls and takes him back, determined, as usual, to make him marry her, while the professor's reputation, badly bent, is straiehtened out- by ex- WGWAM a 6tar In a half dozen big stage successes.

John Loder is an English actor of some reputation. The story concerns a woman, tired of her husband's treatment, who decides to run away with another man. The night of the runaway the man Is killed by an automobile and only a doctor knows the secret. He sends the woman home, later being a guest at that same home, And so keeps his mouth shut that the woman Is enabled to regain a nots she had left for her husband, and the situation saved. As a talking picture It offers one of the best vehicles yet screened and the dialogue is of a character that makes It most Interesting.

"The River of Romance," the Majesties offering for the last part cf the week, takes us back to the Juveniles, for Charles (Buddy) Rogers end Mary Brian are the featured players, the cast Including such well known players as June Collyer, Henry B. Walthall, Wallace Beery. Fred Kohler. Natalie Kingston and Walter McGrall. The title refers, as might be guessed, to the Mississippi.

The story Js a tale of the life, the love, the hates of southern folk of the colorful lan-tatlon days twenty years before the war of the rebellion. Rogers, as a young man, returns to his homo from the North, and refuses to meet another in a He laughs it off, and Is forced to leave home. Later. In Natchez, he knocks out a noted bad man and assumes of the title of "Col. Blake." and when he returns a year later his former challenger flees.

He is restored to his father's graces and marries the girl who continued to have faith in him. It Is a costume play of the period In which the action takes places and Is adapted from the famous play "Magnolia." by Booth Tarklnston. TOWN WENT DEAD WITHOUT TALKIES It Is no longer a question of whether the talking pictures have come to stay. They've come so far and fast In the past year that today they have the power to make or wreck the business life of an entire town. Consider, for example, this tale of two cities recounted by James R.

Quirk, editor-publisher of Photoplay Magazine: "Merchants of Temple, found recently that their Saturday night business had gone to pot," relates Mr. Quirk, "or rather hat It ad moved to Paris, about an hour away by motor car. The motion picture house In Paris was showing talking and sound pictures. The home town theater was silent. "Desperate, the local merchants went to the theater owner and urged him to put In sound equipment, and when told that he couldn't afford It, they not only offered to finance him but at their own expense rushed him to New York to avoid delay in getting his house as the trade calls It.

"One month later all was normal In the Temple 6hor. The audiences staged In town to see, 1 ear and buy." HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 28. One of the most popular motion picture corporations In Hollywood today produces pictures for every company but Itself.

It Is the Technl-color corporation. There are but eleven Technicolor cameras available In Hollywood. More are being built. It requires eight months to assemble one, bo delicate and exacting are Its lensea and adjustments. At present the majority of the Technicolor cameras are being used to photograph "The Vagabond King' and certain gorgeous sequences of the all-star "mystery production" that Paramount Is producing.

Recently, Hollywood has heard whispers of the invention of a rtw natural color photographla process, declared to be st.irtlingly simple. It Is reported to be accomplished by attachment of a small auxiliary lens to the present black and white camera. Another lens, equally as simple, will be attached to the projection machine In the theatre. Ordinary film will be used and after exposure, still according to reports that may or may not be authentic, it will not differ in appearance from negative taken from the common household camera. If this be true, the time may not Star distant when every motion plc-re will be in natural color.

And the third dimension of depth shortly will appear on the screen. Color, depth and sound. Who can tell beyond that? mux CAM A Am Mary Brian, Majestic. OLGA BACLANOVA BACK TO STAGE Baclanova, the Russian tigress Paramount was building up as Negri's successor the foreign-menace line, is leaving the big company in November, according to Photoplay Magazine. Grand artist though she is, the mechanics of the talking picture whipped her.

So Baclanova will probably go on a vaudeville tour, another film victim of that harmless looking little "mike." planatlons. McKee plays the double role of the professor and his brother. "Stolen Kisses," one of the most rollicking screen farces of the season, is the Wigwam's offering on its midweek program. May McAvoy is the star, and her support includes Hallam Cooley, Claude Glllingwater, Edna ana tteea iiowes. it is one of those farce comedies which contain both uproarious fun and real human appeal.

Miss McAvoy is cast as the young bride, who to escape criticism of the neighbors, sets sail for Paris with her rather Inefficient young husband, his cantankerous old father, and the latter's lamb-like male secretary. In Paris there are some unlooked for complications. Father and daughter, husband and secretary get mixed up and a young divorce attorney also comes In for a role that makes the farce move rapidly. Tom Mix Is back on the Wigwam bill in a picture entitled "King Cowboy," for the last two days of the week. The story is not available, but that does not seem necessary, for all of the Mix stories are similar.

Tony is with his master, as usual, and helps to keep up the Interest. It is a typical Western and a typical Tom Mix film. the following Sr Aw When Judge Leon R. Yankwlch awarded Jetta Goudal $31,000 of Cecil De Mine's money the other day at Los Angeles, after that producer had tried to break her contract on the grounds that she was too tempera- mental, he started something. First, he uputa monetary value on tempera mentn.

Second, he came close to glv ing that vague term "temperament" a definition. Said the Judge: "Miss Goudal's value was not her ability to obey slavishly for the humblest extra can do that but her ability to inject the force of her personality, experience and Intelligence Into the acting." Those words have given temperament a sharp boost in Hollywood, if fighting for their own best Interests and using their intelligence can be called temperament on the part of the players. For that's about all the temperament outbursts you hear of really amount to. Photoplay Magazine in its current issue gives a dozen of the better known film folk the opportunity to discuss temperament, wth interesting results. Miss Goudal reports that one director held up her picture two days because she wouldn't agree that his was the best way to play a scene, although she was perfectly willing from the beginning to play It his way while reserving her private opinion.

And is that, she asks, temperament? If so, on who's part? HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 28. (Special) Movlana's actresses aren't always what they seem, even off the screen. For example, we have Juliette Comp-ton, the well-known British film star, in our midst now. But Juliette isn't English at all.

She's a perfectly good American, having been born and raised In Columbus, Ga. It Just happens that some years ago Miss Compton went to London to appear on the stage with the Dolly sisters In "The League of Notions." After the show closed offers came so thick and fast she Just forgot to come back to America, that's all. She played on the stage there for several years and then spent five years In British films. A few months ago she cr.me to Hollywood to play with Betty Comp-son In "Woman to Woman." Now her permanent address is in Hollywood. MAE MURRAY STARTS ON TALKING PICTURE Mae Murray has Just started work at the Tiffany-Stahl studios "In Hollywood on her first talking and singing picture "Peacock Alley." Marcel De-Sano Is directing this picture which will be made on an elaborate scale.

Not since "The Merry Widow" has Mae Murray been seen on the screen. This was due partly to the fact that she was busily engaged In making personal appearances 'In vaudeville houses. chaneyIsIlu beery in place Lon Chaney is a mighty sick man, and one of the greatest troupers of them all has been forced to step out of a picture. Lon has been ordered to the Yellowstone to rest? up after a siege of pneumonia and a tonsil operation, and Wally Beery has been hurled into the breech to play in Lon's next scheduled production, "The Bugle Sounds." Where Lon would have, made It silent, Wally will do It as all-talker. at Insect "What have you there?" "Some insect powder." "Good heavens.

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"When I was a blond all I could get was goody-goody roles," Joyce declares. "I never did like that sweet sympathetic stuff. I wanted to be a girl with some fire in her. So I became a red head. And now I am getting the type of roles I like.

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