Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 11

BATTLE CREEK, WEDNE SD AT, OCTOBER 15, 19Z9. THE ENQUIRER AND EVENING NEWS ETHEL SINS OF THE FATHERS STARS EMIL JANNINGS New York's Famed Broadway Seen in Exact Reproduction House of Hits A Talkie Masterpiece Detroit Times ORIGINAL STAGE DIALOGUE! GORGEOUS SETTINGS DRAMATIC DYNAMITE! SONGS GIRLS VERY IDEA, WHICH IS ATTRACTION AT BIJOU, HAS AMUSING THEME linn Now Playing All Talking Singing muA Evelyn Brent Glenn Tryon Otis Harlan Merna Kennedy STARTING SATURDAY FOR ONE WEEK five Glhiostts "3 tj All Talking II Laugh Riot of The Season! I Brimful and running over with laughs! That is the film production of the stage success The Very Idea which will make its local debut at the Bijou theater Thursday. Coupled with an amusing theme the practical application of the eugenic theory is a sterling cast, most of whom are well-known to both stage and screen devotees. Two members who handle the chief comedy are seen on the screen for the first time. They are Frank Craven and Allen Kearns.

Craven plays an author who has written a book on how to lift the human race out of a rut through the application of eugenics. He proceeds with a plan to rovide his sister and brother-in-law Doris Eaton and Allen Kearns with a child they hope will be nothing short of a prodigy. To do this the author decides to hire parents, each of them shall measure up to specifications. He finds them in Hugh Trevor and Sally Blane and luck is with him when he finds they intend marrying anyhow. However, when the childless pair have gone away for a year and returned to claim their "bought" baby, they find the real mother won't give it up.

How they get out of the web of circumstances provides one of the most screamingly funny situations that has reached picture theater screens in many moons. The Port of New York is still the leading port of the world. A total of 10.108.000 tons entered the port of Atnwerp, during the first six months of 1929 which ranks second, in comparison with 15,165,000 tons for New York during the same period. Shows Start at 1-3-5-7-9 P. M.

Reverting to his own nationality for the first time since his original American-made picture, Emil Jan-nings now stars in Sins of the Fathers, which comes to the Strand theater Thursday. The current production is Jannings' fifth picture in this country and in it he takes the role of an American of German extraction, his actual status. In The Way of All Flesh in which Jannings first appeared after he came to Hollywood, he played the role of a German-American. In The Street of Sin he was a bully of the Limehouse district in London. In his last two pictures.

The Last Command, and The Patriot, he has been a Russian, a grand duke in the former, and a Czar in the latter. Jannings was bom in Brooklyn, New York, but when he was a year old, he was taken to Germany with his parents and he remained there until he came to Hollywood as an established motion picture star. Ludvig Berger. who climbed the ladder of film directorial fame in Germany, directed Jannings in Sins of the Fathers. The careers of the two ran strangely parallel in Germany, but this is the first time they have worked together.

When Jannings Ktiried in picturi-s, Berger was directing speaking stage and operatic productions. Minister Is Banker London Rev. F. J. Scroggie is a minister oa Sundays and works as a manager of a bank in South London during the week.

"In order to understand his people." he says, "a pastor oivght to take part in the work of the world. My work as a business man improves my work as a minister and contact with all kinds of men and women in business broadens my outlook." A Berlin engineer has discovered a new process by which colored films and pictures may be sent over the radio. eighth birthday a boy isn't funny," Mack explained. 'When I say -but what if another bird gets there ahead of him?" everyone laughs, yet few realize that this is a perfectly logical question from a child who can't get the idea clearly in his head. "Go right down the line of my pet remarks and you'll find the same thing true.

"That's why children understand our humor. They are the biggest buyers of our records. They learn 'em by heart." Moran and Mack's first talking picture has been made along these same lines, as you may see and hear in Why Bring That Up? at the Regent theater, this week. Last Time Tonight GRETA GARB0 in SINGLE STANDARD VITAPHONE-VAUDEVILLE WW i 0. Pleasant Job Wolverhampton, England.

A factory building here is one of the nicest places to work in that can be imagined. It is painted all colors of the rainbow, inside and out. Broad stripes of blue, cream, "red, yellow, brown and green cross the interior. Workers inside all wear shiny overalls of varied colors. The factory makes paints and varnishes.

Envy London. Wasps proc exceedingly obnoxious this time of the year in England. Last year they got so troublesome that the Ministry of Agriculture broadcast some ways of dealing with ibroi. The methods, all of which are being used this year, included cne ol putting beer in a bottle. Lured by sugar, the wasps drink the beer, fall intoxicated, and drown themselves.

'Eggs: wmao 7:00 o'clock p. HENRY GEORGE CIGAR rThe most quality to. nickel can buy CnieMiM Cirtf Con- New Tek Consolidated Cigar Grand Rapids Distributing Branch, 427 Ottawa Grand Rapids, Mich. Phone 86514 FAMOUS BAR FILMED IN PICTURE AT REX Enough beer to float the British Navy and enough "hard to drown the Chinese army once passed over the bar seen in the next attraction at the Rex thjater. The picture is a vitaphone drama called The Girl in the Glass Cage.

Loretta Young is the girl, and Carroll Nye plays opposite her. The bar, now wired for sound, once graced a famous old Los Angeles saloon. It was manufactured in 1S79. In the picture it is seen as a "soft-drink" bar in a slum speakeasy. Right across the street, visible in the mirror behind the bar and through the swinging doors is the glass' cage in front cf the little movie theater.

And Matthew Betz, Lucien Lit-tlefield. George Stone. Ralph Lewis and other film "villains" plot ruin for the little girl who occupies the glass cage from the bar. Part of the studio's stock of nearly a hundred thousand liquor bottles, empty of course, but of great value in these days of camouflaged "old stuff," figure in the same set. SECOND EFFORT TO TAR EPSTEIN STATUE MADE London.

Oct. 16. (AP) Another attempt to tar and feather an Epstein statue took place Tuesday when four men tried to smear "Night" in Broadway. Westminster. The men escaped after a police chase.

Last week "Rima," a memorial in Hyde Park by the sculptor, Jacob Epstein, was tarred and feathered. The memorial has been the center of much controversy chiefly because of its "expressionistic" character. CLASSIFIEDS FOR RESULTS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Moranecdotes and Mackisms Give Audiences Clean Humor Cost $1,500,000 to Reproduce It for Film by That YName Now Showing at fPost. -t It took years and cost untold millions to build Broadway, New-York, as the pleasure highway of all the 'world. To reproduce two blocks of Broadway in motion picture form cost proportionately just as much to be exact, $1,500,000 for three months.

The reproduction was made for the Carl Laemmle, super-production Broadway, the all-sound film version of the sensational New York play which is at the Post theater this week. In the exterior, the reproduction was exact; in the "atmospheric" interiors Broad-wav out-Eroadwayed Broadway. The lights of the Great White Way are famous all over the earth but. block for block, the myriad lights and brilliancy of the real Broadway are like a candle compared to the illumination used on the Broadway set. There were watts in the night club alone; enough to supply an entire city of 100,000 population, or to furnish an entire fleet of battleships with searchlights.

From Broadway Itself, where they appeared in their original roJfe-s of Dan McCorn and Nick Veuais throughout the entire New Tofff: run of the play, Mr. Laem-nTe brought Thomas Jackson and Paul Porcasi to play the same parts in the picture. Glenn Tryon is starred as Roy Lane, the "hoofer." and Pearl is played by Evelyn Erent with Myrna Kennedy as. Bil'ic Moore. THURS.

FRI. SAT. GLASS CAGE with Loretta Young and Carroll Nye All Talking Mystery you'll never fathom! Small town life big time love! COMEDY "Broadway Ladies" PATHE NEWS AND ILLUSTRATED SONG TONITE "The Wolf of Street" THE Secret of Success of 'Two Black Crows" Is Their Glean Kid Humor Which Always Appeals. Charles Mack, of Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows, the lazy voiced comedian who has never failed to produce laughs by merely remarking "well, what of it?" "Let him have It" and other commonplace utterances, becomes humorous by placing himself in the frame of mind of a boy from three to eight years of age. "AH of my questions and conclusions are exactly what might be said by a kid under eight years of age not nine or ten, for after his TONIGHT Dancing FUNNIEST FARCE EVER ON BROADWAY, NOW ON THE SCREEN TALKING 7 lJANK vjgj'' AUe" I sPeakin5 from the a Mi screen in a deliriously 'Ln.

I funny farce of unexpec- viPs? tant fathers. 7 YJmZM Rollicking Riot TONIGHT LAST TIMES TONIGHT World's Foremost Band of Roxy's Gang AMERICA'S FINEST KNOWN TO MILLIONS OF RADIO LISTENERS Southwestern Junior H. 8. Auditorium 8 P. M.

Single Admission Adults $1.00 Children 50c Buy a Course Ticket and Also Hear GRAHAM McNAMEE, ZELL-NER, ARTHUR PILLSBURY, and BURTON HOLMES for only $2.50 Plenty of Fine Seats Tickets on Sale at Door TEACHERS' CLUB ENTERTAINMENT COURSE Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians IN Syncopation PLAY SING I IS fbuTTn and1 1 Friday 1 Saturday 100 ALL Tonite and AND ALL WEEK Shows at 1-3-5-7-9 TtSP VITAPHONE -Vaupevill ALL TALKING SINGING COMEDY THE TWO BLACK CROWS moran mack fmSk ftffl 1 TALKING 1 GEORGE LYONS "The Singing Harpist" THE BILTMORE TRIO Vocal and Instrumental PHIL SPITALHY'S BAND REVUE THEY TALK DANCE A characterization so true, so and alone. An American role. AU Flesh" and "The Patriot." All Singing Playing "Musical Revue" 'Why Bring That EVEIVN BRENT 1 "ill 1 1 Qaramoum Qicture 4 Days Starting Sunday fp Harlem's glittering under- jj jj Raymond drama! Gripping! Sounds 1 k' r-l (TTTTa1 Vl lT Griffith and sights from the mys- I I IViTI 1 1 A 1 I "tV All-Talkinz terious half-world outside 1 IJ 'f3UJ 7" 1 9fy 1 I 1 Wonder of A DAZZLING SMASH.HIT OF THE NEW SHOW WORLD If I Now satisfy your curiosity. See 'and hear these convulsing comedy-makers in white-face and in black-face. See their side-splitting antics.

Hear their funny L.iialosr. A throbbing 4story of stage and "fcackslaje by Octa- vus Roy Cohen or Sator day Evening Post fame. Lavishly produced. Gay with girls and music. Coming Sunday Oct.

27th WfM Comedy A picture that I rk TiriTJ err takes yu Places! Shows I I ClSiSsi- you things! Grips your I I 7 Fox Movietone eart, Asstounds yonr II iews imagination! I I sfesatB World Events I fl FUR COATS Jannings surpasses Jannings! human that it stands high Greater than "The Way of Pathe Sound News Proud to Crow About It! Remodeled and Relined at Reasonable Prices. Also Collars and Cuffs Made to Order for Either Cloth or Fur Coats. Josephine Pettit 39 Cleveland Street DANCING lil TALKING I I IN COLOR SINGING The Dance of Life All With HAL SKELLY NANCY CARROLL.