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YM. ir ilifcaiijiiiiii NOVEMBER 5. 1933. fPART II.T 10 SUNDAY MORNING FROM LESLIE HOWARD TO SHAKESPEARE "Inside Story" LATE E. H.

SOTHERNyS EARLY LOS ANGELES DAYS RECALLED of Prohibition "Do you know, something hap pened the other day. A great actor passed on. And all the papers ft -I complex. Philip Merivale is one of the finest today." 11 Mr. Wyatt comes of a family of managers, his grandfather having started the ball rolling.

He probably has known more great people of the stage than anyone in Los Angeles. His collection of pictures of the celebrities dating from Clara Morris and Booth is declared 3, talked about him as a Shakespearean actor as if he'd never done anything else." So declared William T. Wyatt, pioneer theatrical manager now entrepreneuring the Wll-shlre Ebell Theater. H. Sothern died in New York and he was a cosmopolitan actor efficient In any Pianist Prepares for Debut Homer Simmons, pianist and composer who lived in Inglewood and did his early studying in Los Angeles, Is in Lausanne, Switzerland, preparing for his debut in the spring as a concert pianist.

While abroad he has studied under Paderewski. He began his piano training in Los Angeles with Homer Grunn. 17 i 1 r7' $95 'urn form of drama. Of Shakespeare was his background." Mr. Wyatt became reminiscent.

"He comes of an era when every real actor was trained in the Shakespearean tradition as part of his cultural background. But Sothern was an all-round actor. He wasn't limited to Shakespeare. "Why, I remember when he opened the old Mason Opcrahouse, which my father. H.

C. Wyatt, built in 1902. He opened in 'If I Were King' and my father thought so much of Sothern that he bought the house out himself before the performance. And It played three days. That was the limit of a run In those days.

And the whole town turned out to see this great actor. It was like grand opera, and, by the way, Cecil De Mille played a part in that grand old production." And "If I Were King" was only one of his starring vehicles. "I've seen him play 'Lord 'Lord 'The Proud Prince' and 'The Highest And what an actor! He could tell more by the flicker of an eyelid, or by the i DORIS LLOYD, PHYLLIS BARRINQTON AND CATHERINE COTTER Miss Lloyd is to be seen with George K. Arthur opening tomorrow at the Music Box; Miss Cotter in the Leslie Howard comedy, "Elizabeth Sleeps plays the role of Jessica In Lucille La Verne's pro-Out," at Hollywood Playhouse; Miss Barrlngton duction of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" at appears with Alexander Carr irr "The Booster," the La Verne Mus Art Theater. SO- PlaicFs' a new MANY NEW PERSONALITIES IN "BROADWAY THRU A KEYHOLE" The crying need for new screen personalities is declared answered by Joseph M.

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The screen play by Manuel Seff and James Seymour is a story of backstage life, dealing with a young musical comedy director who loses his Job when talking pictures supplant musicals on the stage and turns to making prologues for motion pictures on a wholesale scale. Two teams of players furnish the loves Interest James Cagney and Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler and Dic-. Powell with Claire Dodd and Renee Whitney as the gold-digging, Pour musical numbers were staged Busby Berkeley, and Lloyd Bacon directed. a Broadway stage favorite, who scored his big success in "Bad Girl," the same stage production that brought Sylvia Sidney to screen notice. In "Broadway Thru a Keyhole" he is Russ Columbo's rival for the affections of Constance Cummings.

Another new screen personality, although known to musical comedy and vaudeville stages, is Blossom Seeley. Hugh O'Connell, a favorite of the legitimate stage, is also Introduced. For a year and a half O'Connell poked fun at Hollywood as the leading laugh-getter In "Once In a Lifetime." the incomparable Julia Marlowe, they toured in Shakespeare with fans are meeting for the first time at Grauman'a United Artists' The ater. Russ Columbo is familiar through Fin IlBip! The most Fascinating number puzzle you ever met! I won't leave YOU nor your friends bored moment! They're cr-rny ever my parlor tricks. You'll 'take me everywhere in purse or pocket! Tricky alone or with company, I dare you to match your wits ri with mine! 3 (STATIONERY Street Floor) his voice.

As a radio crooner he is enormous success. Sothern was one of the last of the great ones. He ranked with those mighty men of the theater like Booth. Barrett and McCullough. Otis Skinner belongs to the same grand tradition.

When playing his first romantic role in this picture and Is said to prove that he can act as well as he croons. Another newcomer Is Paul Kelly, they're gone, who'll fill their places?" Mr. Wyatt paused a trifle sadly. "I believe we are going to be obliged to train new actors. Of course, we have the Barrymores They are very fine, indeed, but they're touched with this picturt! aFOOTLIGHT PARADE1' WILL LTHEMAYCO.J BE PREMIERED WEDNESDAY "Footlight Parade," Warner Mothers! Whdt Buy in Tots1 Coat Sets It will follow the screening of "College Coach," which Is now showing at both the Hollywood and Downtown theaters, with Pat O'Brien, Ann Dvorak, Lyle Talbot Brothers new musical spectacle, will have its premiere Wednesday night at Warner Brothers Hollywood Theater.

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He told me not to be concerned about a mere letter from him, for all he wanted was a letter in reply to send to his constituent, explaining that the wish could not be granted. A telephone call Indicated a higher but not necessarily vital concern. But when he appeared in person I was to understand without any doubt that he wanted what he wanted. I found this to be the code generally followed. Hence I felt that this matter of Wark and Madden in Kansas was of high Importance to the two Senators.

Finally I suspended Madden when he refused to deliver certain documents to the United States Attorney at Topeka on the ground that he did not trust the attorney. Soon I received a summons from Vice-President Curtis, and repaired for my first visit to the ornate quarters he occupied, in the Senate Office Building. The Vice-President said he did not wish to Interfere with the discipline of my organization, but here were his friends In Kansas protesting, and a campaign was coming on. What could I do? I said I would go to Western Kan-as and hear the complaints at first hand. I asked the Madden supporters to meet me at Hutchinson, and the meeting was held In a church, with serious men and women the Inquisitors and I the defendant.

In the old days I could convince wet Juries that It was their duty to convict bootleggers, but I signally failed with that group of ardent prohibitionists. One woman rose and remarked to me, "you are as ignorant as a cowpuncher at a banquet." She Intended the most extreme condemnation language could convey, and profanity was barred. But the most stinging rebuke Is to be prayed for, as I was that day. I do not know how to meet that kind of attack. The meeting ended with' neither side convinced.

NEW YORK WORST FAILURE New York City is superlative in so many respects that it was perhaps only natural for prohibition enforcement to meet its worst failure there. Not until the spring of 1932 did I hav the opportunity to give Immediate and personal attention to the New York problem. Our forces there had been making a fair number of cases and. contrary to the general Impression, the city police had been assisting. But for the last year of my administration the average sentence In the southern district of New York, which includes Manhattan and the Bronx, was thirty-five days, as compared to 183 days for the entire country; and the average fine was $54, as compared to $154.

The police commissioner was reported to have placed the number of speakeasies at 32,000. Then a new form of violation, the cordial shop, selling by the bottle, began to spring up. One afternoon a cordial shop proprietor seeing me pass in the street handed me his card and asked me to come in. The incident shocked me. It showed how Ineffective were our efforts.

I decided to have a careful survey made of Manhattan. With 200 men assigned to the job, we found a total of 3494 places where liquor probably was sold. After discussing the matter with Mr. Medalle, United States Attorney, It was agreed that we would place the emphasis upon Closing the places by injunction. COURTS REVERSE RULING -Our campaign started out auspiciously, but soon ran into a big obstacle.

The courts reversed their previous ruling and decreed the actual owner of the business must be found and served before the injunction could be effective. It was almost impassible to find thi middle man. He misht not have been exactly nebulous, but was able to shroud himself In almost complete obscurity. No bartender, thereafter, ever had any interest in the or even knew his employer's name. It was a marvelous stat of Innocence and trust, but it broke the back of our efforts.

Our Injunction campaign languished, and though it did not die the work thenceforth was slow and difficult. Another difficulty was the crowded coirts, the reason given for the dropping or dismissal of nearly 400' cases out of 11,000 during one year. I had not Intended to write an for our failure in New York by passing on the responsibility to agencler over which I had no con-trc'. Indeed, I am not certain that, after ten years of very obvious want of success and with public opinion as it WBf, we would ever have succeeded in enforcing the law adequately. But we never had the deterring effect of prompt and fair punishment of the violators we caught.

The very hostility of public opinion probabl; was responsible. And people coming to New York would see the violations and carry the news home, which of course helped to lessen national respect for the law. Of course New York City and Nev Jersey were by no means the only places In which enforcement met difficulties. My own State of Maryland supplied some striking episodes in the early days of prohibition, and these incidents undoubtedly had considerable effect on tr? great shift of public opinion, which in the last analysis has been responsible for repeal. Next week, Col.

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