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AKRON BEACON JOURNAL' TEN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1930 ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND-r-A Message From Santa By Bob Pilgrim GERMAN THEATER -Ahd here's -Trie ueffti? BAXTER WILL PLAY "CISCO KID" AGAIN Popular Role Renewed With Other Members Of Early Talkie So HERE'S -TWO LrflLt CH1L0R6N 1 HAME PICKEO OUT 10 AC1 SORT OP ON YOUR GiftEAt AOvJEHfURe 1 KNOW YOU'LL UKE "THEM OUT- LEt ME OFFERING BEST IN-TftOOUCE YOU "TO "THErA. THIS 19 DAN VVE JUST RECEIVED ft VERV iMORMf FOREIGN PLAYS Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel" Voted Leader Of Im-. ported Shows Ail ft" 1 rHD M. HAS IHvlfED WE "TO 'TAKE AU -THE Utile CHILDREN IN 1HE WORLD UP "TO HIS NORfrt POLE PftLftCE ANO SrtOW 1HEM ALL HIS WORKSHOPS, s-roRe-RooMs, candv aciories, mo iusi 1 KNEW VOL) WOUlON'-f WAHt t0 MISS SUCH A GRAND -TRIP, SO -fO-WORROW WE'LL SYAR1 RIGHT OUT ON OUR AOUErVTURETO SC6 DEAR OLD SANTA CLAUS-So UOMCH "THIS SPACE IH 1HIS PAPER, EUERV DAY" PROtA NOW OH, 'CAUSE "THERE WILL BE LOTS OF THE BEST SURPRISES- p.p HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22.

"Th Cisco Kid" of "In Old Arizona" fame Is about to be revived on ths screen with Warner Baxter again playing the part. Edmund Lowe will be teamed with Baxter in the film, which will be made at the Fox Films studios under the title, "Th Cisco Kid." Harvey Ferguson is now preparing the screen play from the O. Henry short story in which the romantic bandit was created. Ralph, Block has been assigned as associate producer of the production. Baxter recently completed a French Foreign Legion picture, "Renegades," and Lowe is working in an untitled film involving a golf romance.

Young Tommy Clifford, in the role of a caddy, has a prominent part in the latter. ANO 1rtlS IS DOT SHORT OF PHILOSOPHY 3s Burke Headlines Program At Palace SELLS STORY HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22. W. Scott Darling has sold an underworld story to Tiffany.

JOIN3 CAST HOLLYWOOD, 22. Ernie Adams has been added to the cast of "On The Spot." STAR'S VOICE HELD PLAY'S BEST FEATURE Reports Say Belasco Venture Drama Is Success As Concert Playwrights In Gotham After Work New Yorker Has Praise For 'Garbo' By WARD MOREHOUSE Beacon Journal Special Dispatch EW YORK, Nov. 22. Two afflu ent playwrights, now on visits By JOHN S. COHEN, JR.

Motion Picture Critic of the New York Sun NEW YORK, Nov. 22. It was about time for someone to discover and present another "Garbo" inasmuch as the vogue for the "divine Greta" has not only kept up its force but gathered in momentum for a good long time. It dates back, in fact, to her first American picture, in which she "was an instantaneous success. In each successive picture it has rolled along, and time and again she has been referred to by those who are supposed to know as "incomparable," "Duse like." In other words, she has been the main superlative exhauster In Hollywood.

She is a Metro-Goldwyn-Maypr star, and Paramount, evidently jealous, decided to have its own Garbo, one who would out-Garbo Garbo. "Found" By Director They found her, or rather Joseph Von Sternberg, the director of "Underworld" and "Thunderbolt," and Bacon Journal Special Dispatch NEW YORK, Nov. 22. The new star in the Belasco firmament, Miss Helen Gahagan, who has returned from studying and singing in opera and concert abroad, exhibited her' singing voice In "Tonight or Never" at the Belasco theater to the entire satisfaction of Tuesday night's audience. As a concert the play was a success.

Arias from "La Tosca" and other operas poured forth from Miss Gahagan's throat with much more ease than did the spoken lines of her part. In this Hungarian comedy by Lill Hatvany, Miss Gahagan plays the leading singer of the opera house of a continental city. No doubt Miss Gahagan sings as well, if not better than does the leading singer of the average continental city that has an opera company. But her first night acting was evidently marred by extreme nervousness. Her acting was certainly ragged and uneven.

This comedy by the author of "The Love Duel," in which Miss Ethel Barrymore starred, might be described as' a sophisticated idyll, with the emphasis on the By RICHARD LOCKRIDGE Dramatic Critic of the New York Sun NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Reflections cast recently by this reporter upon the quality of Imported plays must be modified to exclude the German. Our plays from the British Isles may be wistful bits of nothing In particular; our Importations from Hungary may be pointless and many of our French borrowings not much better "Mr. Samuel," for example, which came and went within a few days not long since.

But Germany, if "Grand Hotel" is a fair sample, may give us much. This play of Vicki Baum's, staged in Berlin by Reinhardt, was brought to New York by Herman Shumlin, to whom all hail. It Is ensconced in the National theater, where it is likely to remain for some months, and it is a vivid, arresting drama; moving smoothly at a dizzy tempo; piling up its effects with that dynamic force which we like to think typical of modernty. It is probably a play conceivable only as an urban product; It could hardly have come from any city which has not enthusiastically accepted the modern spirit such a city as Berlin or as New It is, truly, more significant in form than in content, like so many of the products of modernity. Although I am enthusiastic about "Grand Hotel" and though I feel it has done more than almost any other production of the autumn to arouse our somewhat drowsy theater, I cannot argue that Its comment on life is either new or profound.

Gives Sharp Pictures It has, indeed, no comment on life worth mentioning it is photographic in the sense that it sharply pictures the externals of life. It is a play for the mind rather than for the emotions; it seldom makes us feel deeply for Its characters and does not attain true tragedy, despite it- tragic form, because it does not go back of the obvious. Within these limits, however, it is a powerful and original work for the stage. It is more surely "for the stage" than any play I have seen for months. It is impossible to think of It as divorced for its presentation, its qualities being theatric and not literary.

It provides the brief, superficial but brilliant illumination of a bolt of lightning. This lightning I am only partly symbolic, since much is done in picking out various scenes with actual spotlights plays over and brightens a Berlin hotel. In flashing scenes there are given brief glimpses of those who are stopping in this hotel for a night and a day. We see them first lost in their own concerns an industrialist whose financial fate hangs in the balance, a dancer uncertain whether to go on, a bookkeeper who has Just heard a doctor read his decree of doom, a phty stenographter trying to get along. Tangle Of Life to Manhattan, and quartered in fashionable hotels, report that they've finished new plays.

William Anthony McGuire, speaking over the telephone from the Drake, said that he has. turned out a new vprsion of "Onward, Christian Soldiers," which he regards as the best effort of his career. Martin Flavin, who flew here from California in his own biplane, said at the Plaza that he has written the last line of dialogue on a new one which he calls "AchrMes Had a Heel." Mr. McGuire is an old hand at play-making, having been at it pretty steadily since he wrote "The Heights" Just after he came out of Notrje Dame. He is currently represented by "Smiles" at least, by the book of "Smiles." He said that the panning that he got or that his book gowlidn't bother him.

Mr. Flavin has gone in rather seriously for aviation. He is a licensed pilot and he and Mrs. Flavin expect to makie numerous flights in the east. Last season three Flavin plays were current simultaneously "The Criminal Code," "Broken Dishes" and "Cross Roads." Dwight Deere Wiman has, apparently, picked a live one.

His production of "The Vinegar Tree" sold out Thursday night, its second night. Winchell Smith, who staged it, was about the playhouse today- rfTs ONLY VAUP jLmEHJ JRj SGGESr SHOW TO VVA tLV Humor! I A Columbia Picture of JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER'S 1 jf Immortal Story f. 1 featuring JjSJM Jl NT" RICHARD CROMWELL 1STL: A The Screen's Latest Sensation! Jf ivaA "1 NOAH BEERY JOAN PEERS fMf AV George Duryea Henry B. Walthall Tpllf tVj One of the greatest fights in film history the mighty 1 1 I combat of a stripling boy with three ruffians I f- g' f'f' "SOLDIER MONOLOGIST" XL. 1 i- IN SUPREME COMMAND OF HARMONY XiiXVvVO "VERSATILE' Vf those Indiana girls JfP PMSONG and MUSIC 1 11 30to53-0 Wrrfffilll pgr-1 VV SSV SS.25f 35f- SO wtLvi cauons or oas" I "Morocco," her first American pic-J Johnny Burke, above, is featured on the vaudeville program offered at the Keith-Albee Palace theater for the week starting Saturday.

New Picture Is Featured At Keith's "Tol'able David" Screen Attraction Burke Tops Variety HUGE SALARY GIVEN MAURICE IN LONDON Frenchman Is Credited With Offer Of $20,000 Per Week smiling. And, for that matter, so OTHER ACTS LISTED lure, iouna ner not so long ago, in a musical show in Berlin. She is Marlene Dietrich, and she is almost a double of the Swedish star, as you must know if "Morocco" has already come to your habitat. At any rate, her critical reception here, when "Morocco" was shown the other day, was clamorous, obeisant, and for the most part, highly enviable. In fact, she was referred to so excitedly, so wildly-several of the critics immediately pronounced her the peer of Garbo that it is now time to examine in a colder, more critical light? She has almost the same deep, husky voice, a voice which tends to become monotonous.

Like Garbo, she is a magnificent, alluring and elusive actress in her pantomimic moments. And had "Morocco" been a silent picture Miss Garbo might have been a bit apprehensive over a rival who is almost her double. Lacks Tonal Color But In the dtaloguic stretches of "Morocco" Miss Dietrich is as completely lacking in light and shade, in the subtleties of "character creation" as was Miss Garbo in her first LONDON, Nov. 22. (INS) Maurice Chevalier, France's "laughing man," has been signed to appear in London for $20,000 a week.

This is the highest salary that has ever been paid to a musical comedy star in England. The reason that the smiling and versatile French star is able to draw this sum is because of his success in Hollywood. He will open the 1st of December at the new Dominion theater. His earnings will probably exceed a week in that the basis of his contract is 50 per cent of the takings with a minimum guarantee of 20 "grand." was Mr. Wiman.

George Kelly now has all his players for his new comedy, "Philip Goes Forth." Here's the official lineup: Anne Shoemaker, Dorothy Dorr, Thufston Hall, Dorothy Stick-ney, Adele Klaer, Harry Ellerba, Madge Evans. Flayers in the Theater Guild's "Green Grow the Lilacs," by Lynn Riggs, which opens at the Tremont theater, Boston, Dec. 8, will include Helen Westley, Richard Hale, Helen Coburn, James Patterson, Lee Stras-burg, Eula Guy, Edward Brandt, Tex Ritter, Al Bartelot and W. T. Hays.

THE Keith-Albee Palace theater introduces the talking picture version of one of the most famous of silent pictures "Tol'able David" as Its attraction for the week starting Saturday. Richard Cromwell, a newcomer to the screen, is presented in- the role that paved the way for the popularity of Richard Barthelmess. Included in the cast are Noah' Beery, Joan Peers, Helen Ware, George Duryea and Henry B. Walth all. Story of HUls The story turns to the elemental life of the people of the hills for its romance and drama.

It revolves about the youth upon whose shoulders the community in which he lived placed the responsibility for carrying on the blood feud that had wiped out the other men of his family. Johnny Burke, the "soldier monol- talie, "Anna Christie." As the brief scenes follow one another the paths of these persons cross and tangle in a pattern of love and tragedy. Beautifully acted, splendidly produced, it has a vigorous life on the stage which I cannot hope to do more than suggest in words. It is one of the few plays now in evidence which should not be Films Give Career To Oklahoma Girl HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22.

Oklahoma laws do not permit minors on the stage. That's why talented 17-year-old Rochelle Hudson came here in search of a movie career. She found it today. After seeing a test of the actress, William Le-Baron, vice president in charge of Radio Pictures' production, signed her to a term contract as a featured player. misxa us auy visitor new lors 't wno is interested in the theater in ogist" headlines the vaudeville bill more than frurely sentimental and ON THE BRINK OF HELL In her next, I am certain though that she will, Just as her rival star did in her second talkie, "Romance," gain in proficiency and therefore resemble less, in her audible acting, a Katherine Cornell without technique.

As a screen personality she is fascinating, and if handled properly, should be exceedingly popular. for one, in fact, am glad she is here for now we have two Garbos where only one grew before. topkicI'sWy dimmed by talkie Army Adopt3 Pictures As Means Of Speeding Rookie Training personrJhion. 'A, Sch a visitor probably will find Jolson Returning To Gotham Show NEW YORK, Nov. 22.

Al Jolson, who led the parade of stage stars into the talkies, is coming back to the stage as the star of a new musical show, Erlanger Productions, announced today. The blackface comedian has not played in musical comedy on Broadway since his first audible movie, "The Jazz Singer," was produced in 1927, although he has made intermittent personal appearances on the stage. His return, the announcement said, will be in a musical play which will come to Broadway in February. YOU CANT DENY LOVE! Starts Today at Akron's House of Hits that shares the attraction honors with the picture. In Comedy Turn In the secondary spot will be Falls, Reading and Boyce who combine dancing with acrobatics and a bit of humor.

Popular songs and comedy are offered by the Wilton Sisters. Rounding out the stage program Is Jarvis, Harrison and company in a comedy act. DEPRESSION CHANGES PICTURE AUDIENCES Movie Director Declares Fans Again Shopping For Stars Not Just Tonight or Tomorrow Night But Every Night EAGLES TEMPLE Offers the best entertainment program the best floor, and the most for the money, in the form of dance entertainment in the. city, Baumaii's Heroines! From all over America they flocked to the Front! Their story was only whispered until written book appeared to thrill the world. Now the drama of the girls who lived, loved and suffered on the Western Front has come to the screen, soul gripping, tenderly beautiful, daiingl that, although in form different, "Grand Hotel" a little suggests "Street Scene." In both a panorama is narrowed to particulars and to individuals, In both there is that sense of life rolling on, without beginning and without end the street of Elmer Rice's play existed before the tragedy of which he writes, afterward it was still there, unchanged.

So the Grand Hotel it is we who pass; tomorrow there are new hopes and tragedies and the drama has no final curtain. The German has not, to my mind, captured so clearly as did Mr. Rice this feeling of transience, which is in itself a philosophy. In "Grand Hotel" it is easier to feel that mere melodrama is filling the stage. But it is nevertheless grand theater and excitement.

And better acting will not be found anywhere in New York today. RICHARD DIX MADE CHIEF OF INDIANS Film Player Inducted Into Kaw Tribe At Big Powwow WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. (INS) And now the glory that was the leather lunged "top kick" of Uncle Sam's doughboys is to bow to industry's latest triumph the "talkie," and when spring trips north again the army signal corps will have several miles of film ready for the instruction of various outfits, according to Captain Fox, in charge of the army pictorial service. Instruction has been disseminated through army made movies for some time, but the "one-two-three-four," of the veteran drill masters HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

22. "Hard times have taught motion picture fans to shop for personalities," is the claim of Edward H. Griffith, 1 Week-End Dance TONITE Follow the Crowd EAST MARKET GARDENS Dance for a Dime Monday Nite Double Gala Frolic Wednesday Nite First Dance Thanksgiving Eve 8:30 Special 11:30 DANCING Second Dance Mid-Nite Whoopee Thanksgiving Eve DANCING Midnite to 3 A. M. I Ivomcii trim Orchestra (All Local Musicians) Play For DANCING Every Evening And special features are offered to add to your amusement nightly.

No Increase In Prioes Mat, 25c Eve. 40c METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER gave the world theijrans side of the War in "The Big "Now the woman's side of itl HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22. Meet heap big new Indian brave Gawani Owerll The director of "Holiday" and "Paris Bound" believes that never have names counted for so much as today. "People are not going to pictures every night," he says.

"They look at the papers and decide which theater to attend before starting, and they determine the picture by the cast. It is imperative to have well-known names in the productions today." The latest movement among producers has been to sell the picture, not the star, but if Griffith is correct, this has not been a success. "The public wants to know that Robert Montgomery, Ann Harding, James Gleason, Helen Twelvetrees or other popular artists are in the picture," he believes. BIG TREES HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22.

Many of the scenes for "Fighting Caravans" were filmed at Calaveras Big Trees, the first grove of Sequoias discovered in California. That's Richard Dix's new status and new name, which in English means Big Heart. At a colorful powwow this week. with several thousand Indians of all tribes in attendance, the star was inducted into the Kaw tribe given the blessings of the Great Spirit and presented with a blanket symbolizing the future protection of the race. has seen a universal standby In armies, since days beyond the wall of Jericho.

Captain Fox declares that the film to be made here in the army munitions building, will not displace any of the present methods of training, but will be used only as an adjunct in reducing the training period. Holiday Specials At Market Gardens "Doc" Perkins and his Iowans continue as the dance orchestra at the East Market Gardens ballroom for the coming week. Opening the week's program will be a bargain dance on Monday night. The ballroom will be closed Tuesday night and that will be followed by two dances Wednesday night. The second session will take the form of a Thanksgiving "whoopee" dance.

A matinee and evening dance are listed for Thanksgiving day. Mulhall, Daniels In Fairbanks Film HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22. Seven years ago Jack Mulhall was leading man frfr Bebe Daniels in her flvst starring picture, "You Never Can Tell." Now they are appearing together again in Douglas Fairbanks' new picture, "Reaching For The Moon," Miss Daniels playing opposite Fairbanks and Mulhall in an important role. Tuesday Musical Club Present DON COSSACK RUSSIAN The signal honor was conferred upon Dix, 'l White Eagle, Chtorf Yowlache and Mose SflJJaiiurd, assistant chief of Kaws, who conducted the ceremony, cause of his true characterization of the Indians in former pictures NATIONAL NOW PLAYING A Vivid Picture of Night Life in Havana Featuring Helm TweWelrees In the large cast: Robert Montgomery ROBERT AMES JUNE WALKER ANITA PAGE ZASU PITTS MARIE PREVOST ADDED OUR GANG in "WHEN THE WIND BLOWS" All Talkinf Picture MALE CHORUS FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 28 8:15 O'clock Tickets $1.50 and $2.00 On Sale at The B.

F. Harbaugh Co. BLackstone 1815 No one should mlsi hrln these wonderful Russian slnferi, LTourlrif the country tor the first time New York Concert Lasts Weeks Tremendous Success! I wwmmimni limn iwiai and his kindness toward the Indians who worked with him for the past few months. Vic Schertzinger Joins Radio Films HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 22.

Another "big name" went into the roster of Radio Pictures' directors today. It was the name of Victor Schertzinger, who signed a long-term contract to direct forthcoming Radio Pictures..