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THE MUNCIE SUNDAY STAR, NOVEMBER 4, 1923. Siar Gazing 1 bvc.k. v-J CONRAD NAGEL AT THE STRAND Co-Star With Renee Adoree "The Michigan Kid." BEING GROOMED TO FOLLOW MIX Young Rex Bell, at the Liberty, Real Westerner. STAR'S SERIAL STORY IN FILM Features Combination Program at the Wysor. MYSTERY PLAY ON VITAPHONE All Actors Talk in "The Terror" at the Rivoli.

On Stage and Screen at Local Theaters I I Mi i Oil v3v PACIFIC COMEDY FOUR YVJTH v-ONKAU Afatt KtlNtt AUUKtC I ry a Kir- nrvtnn kin iirur miruiiKi Kin" v--r iirur xicuiriM McEvoy's sec. fsion, is also a little mad. but lu icongruities are deliberate pavy-handed. ft opens with a Tab-y Murder, which some how or other into a burlesque of current mu- shows, and gives promise of more Vitaphone patrons of the Rivoli theater will have a great treat in store for themselves three days, start ing with the matinee today, as War- ner present their first all-talk- i HT'U ing' mystery picture crama, xjic Terror." in which the players all talk and live their parts, in fact you "hear" and 'see- everything in "The Terror." Vitaphone oddities includes the Six Brown Brothers, kings of saxo jazz JllUaiU. Ail J.1IG ivimto.

ing playlet, featuring Vernon Rickard and the "Black Diamond Four," and Leon Vavaka, comedy piano novelty I of jazz and popular selections. This I double Vitaphone "all-talking" play and the shorts hold forth up to and including Tuesday night when "Doc" i Arlington, manager 01 me kiuio, uas arranged for special service for election returns and a mid-night show starting at 11:30 o'clock. Keeps Audience Guessing. "The Terror" not only gets them euessine. but keeps them guessing.

and yet it does not break that old axiom of playwrights. "Never fool the audience." The makers of "The Ter- do not fool the audience. The audience fools itself. Character after character seems to be the one on whom the blame for the gruesome and ludicrous deeds of the hooded terror, should fall. Not until the last fade- out.

however, does anyone guess the identity of "The Terror." or the truth about the hidden loot and the looter himself. Director Del Ruth has outdone himself in the way in which he has I managed characters and situations, anu Hi tut? umaHiij cwmig, ivi Tha rfilartiriofprf ma- a tlUIlt nor house might well date from the dark ages. It has its sliding panels, its torture chamber, its shadowy pas- itertainment tftan the rest of the ening holds. Terrifically furious and several novelties trick the Sectator into believing that here is something more clever than later ical jid rows cal rnipo je iiomes naiysis corroDoraies. The new "Americana" is sadly arkmz in nersonalities one thought rtlnirintrlw at thp nrpmlerft Of CharlCS Krice and Helen organ who contributed so largely to success of Mr MCEvoy iirst mus offerine.

The present piece be- somewhat a burlesque of itself THOMAS MEKHANIL WIS WOLHE' receishe lamo'uTo Exlusive Centr.l Press Dispatch to The Muncie Star. New York, Nov. 3. Since Al Jolson has gone pappy from mammy in his newest singer-talker, William Fox, producer of long-run mother pictures, has gone simple lover in his newest. Fox has made a better job of it artistically, I think.

Both pictures will "clean up" Jolson's "The Singing Fool" already taking in a fortune. This new Fox is "Four Devils," with Janet Gaynor and Mary Duncan, and it had a $5.50 opening, against $11 for Jolson. "Four Devils" is a F. W. Murnau production, adapted by Betthold Viertel from a novel by Herman Bang.

It's a clown-circus-young-lover's-story, beautifully directed in spots, nearly always sentimental and absurd as well as draggy in some instances. Four children are saved from a cruel circus owner by a clown, who trains them to become famous acrobats at the indoor circus in Paris. One of the boys, at the height of his success, is diverted from sweet Janet Gaynor by temptress Mary Duncan, and there you are. The circus scenes are magnificent, scrupulously done. But when we come to the return of the vampire to pictures, a different story will have to be told.

It's too soon to revert to that recent ancient mode. Otherwise, most of the acting is delightful. School girls will go se'eral times. Charles Morton as the hero will cause many a sigh. i I don't desire to be high hat, but I'm reviewing onlx the movies that charge $2 up on Broadway.

I believe they may have something worthwhile for that price. Of course, you'll see them cheaper at home. One of the hits of "Four Devils" is Philippe DeLacy, 11. He is said to have succeeded Jackie Coogan as the highest priced boy star. If you ask me, I think he's better! his art is surer.

Philippe was a Belgian. Found, at two, in a ruined cellar of a bombed town, he doesn't know who his parents were. Mrs. Edith DeLacy, a nurse at the front, adopted him. She got him into the movies.

You might have seen him in "Without the Benefit of Clergy" or "Mother Ma-chree" (if that has come your way). Following film folks are going to Europe or are there already to make pictures: Louise Dresser. Louise Brooks, Mary Philbin. Gilda Gray, Dolores del Rio and Pola Negri. Hailing him as another Jackie Coogan, a motion picture company has signed Davey Lee, above, to a contract.

a real hit when he appeared in the cast of Al Jolson's latest pirture. 1 1 RACKET" ROYAL SUN. applause, it is sages, its vast nrepiace which iuc Terror" haunts. It is all cobwebs, and i t2dd.ntoSu3iD' W' Griff'th AUraCti0n 31 not off tothysteri- the Vaudelle Today. "inRedmayne's spooky mansion I Romantic realism and realistic ro-is supposed to be hidden vast sums of mance.

monev stolen from a certain bank jj, v. Griffith srems to have there," too. the purloiner is believed to achieved such a thing in -Drums of iurk. This story has been spread! attraction tVio ennf rnmo all sorts I am uau qiiu nit i-pv v. i of people, some to get well, but more jjary Philbin.

Lionel Barrymore, Don to get wealth. In and out among this Alvarado and Tully Marshall, open-hit-or-miss company glides "The vaudelle theater Terror" hooded and mysterious ln 8t Tne auaeiie ineaier io j. dealing broken heads and hearts with Though the story is essenaay a taDartial rest. I romance of a great and tragic love. Cast Is a Strong One.

The cast is a great one. Mar Mc-Avoy as the daughter of the house is a delightful and ingratiating person: Louise Fazenda has never been quite so ludicrously frightened: Edward Everett Horton lives up to his reputation as a comedian by his haif- crazy uppiiug i lrZ' addition of dash and Terror" would be making the picture Griffith de-complete "without mention of "Squee-j sd most of all to emphasize the the trained toad, who is a close! great love theme of Franceses da rival to the "trained fleas" of upon which the photoplay is dime museum. Squeegee is warted. based, and also to interject into the poutv puffv glassv-eved, a normal screen version enough color to make example of "the bufo lentiginosis. appeal universal in other words, the bov can act! Hell give you the he wanted romantic realism, iolt of your life Griffith has patterned his present "The Terror" is marked by very photoplay on the successful formula unusual photography, the supernat-! hich made "The Birth of a Nation" ri atmnsnhprf nf the niece being the great picture it was.

"Drums of The Strand Theater is bringing to Muncie for the first time, starting today for a four-day engagement, Rex Beach's tremendous outdoor romance of the Far North, "The Michigan Kid." It is gorgeous in scenic beauty and gripping in dramatic power. The photoplay is a massive production with two of the screen's most popular stars, Conrad Nagel and Renee Adoree, co-starring. Conrad Nagel has never appeared to a better advantage than as the famous Michigan Kid. notorious, honest gambler in Alaska during the mighty gold rush of 1898. This characteriza-' tion is one of sweeping verve the Kid being the type that is a Hell-cat gone mad when he has just cause for his wrath, but who otherwise is gentle and loving his friends, and much addicted to charity in the right place.

Some Exciting Scenes. Miss Adoree gives a sincere portrayal, of the girl from the States who comes to Alaska for the purpose of marrying a boyhood sweetheart who has become a rotter. The story carries the audience through the exciting days of the gold rush through dance halls, gambling dens, the boat-from the States, over Chilkoot Pass to the mines in the interior and back down a raging mountain stream by canoe through a forest-devouring holocaust. The picture is sensational in every way and is easily the best ever filmed around the Alaskan locale. The entire forest fire sequence is done in natural colors which adds materially to the menace of the flames and incidentally shows a river flowing down it and a fire ravaging its natural splendor.

This is easily one of the most impressive sequences in the season's photoplay offerings. Others in the Cast. Lloyd Whitlock is splendid as the weakling who in the mad rush for wealth is driven to theft and cheating. By his naturalness he raises his role from the ranks of an ordinary "heavy." Adolph Milar and Fred Esmelton are fine characters while the three children who play the leading characters in their youth are delichtful. They are Maurice Murphy, Virginia Grey and Dick Palm.

MAGICIANS HAIL RULER OF TURKEY Constantinople, Nov. 3 (JP) The. magician of the world have found a benefactor in Ghazi Mustapan Kemal. Such is the opinion of the vice-president of the New York parent branch of the Association of American Magicians. John Mulholland.

who has just visited Turkey on his tour of uniting the magicians of all lands. "The magicians of the world are overjoyed," said Mr. Mulholland, "that the new Turkey has been wise enough to realize that religious magic is trickery. It is the first country to put a wholesale ban on fortune telling, sorcerers' curse and such fake religious magic as that of the d3r-vishes. "In making these practices taboo the ghazi has done more to purify the profession of the magician than America has done, for only New York and a few other states have banished fortune telling and other forms of magical cheating." Military Attache of the Embassy there.

He is a great fellow "Sandy" McNabb. He is the one that Ambassador Morrow appointed as my "Aide" during my stay there, he speaks better Span- ish than the Mexicans, and is the best' pistol shot in the whole American Army. Thats why they had him protecting me while I was there. Oh! yes. Lady Astor was in the show and back to see me just before she sailed.

Oh! what a Dandy she is: I wish some of these women that have made these terrible Campaign speeches over here during the past compalgn could hear her. They would either quit or improve their style. You expect a man to make a poor speech, for W1 he has been doing it for years, -he dont know any better. He is supposed to be boring or he wouldent be a speaker. But we did kinder look for something out of the Women when they entered the Arena, but they took the.

whole thing too serious. They acted like the very backbone of the whole Country was leaning on them, and that they had "a great public responsibility to perform." Why there is no GREAT responsibility for anybody to perform in this Country. Every time we have an election we, get in worse men, and the country keeps right on going. Times have only proven one thing, and that is that you cant ruin this country with even politics. Copvrtsht, 1328, bv the McNaught Srndi-cate.

Inc. 38 A welcome addition to the ranks of Western stars is young Rex Bell, whom Fox Films are grooming to take the place of Tom Mix. This reviewer doesn't wish to pose as a prophet but if Bell continues to shine as in "The Cowboy Kid," which comes to the Liberty today starting a four days' run, he will very soon be the most popular Western ace in pictures. After seeing Rex Bell you will not think this such wild prediction. The youth has looks, pep, personality, and can ride and rope with the best of them.

He looks the part of a plainsman with his wholesome countenance and engaging smile. The term "drug store cowboy" surely cannot be applied to this boy. Striking at New Note. It appears that Fox Films are getting away from the old type of Western story with its hair-raising escape and gun play and are striving to strike a new note in Western productions that is a refreshing change. In "The Cowboy Kid" Bell enacts the role of a young ranch hand who becomes enmeshed in a daring plot to rob the Grover bank in a small town out west.

He sets himself to the task of bringing the bank robbers to justice, winning the bank president's daughter by his daring. This latter role is cleverly portrayed by Mary Jane Temple, a petite little blonde who really can act. There is one sequence in the picture showing Bell battling with the robbers in an armored car that is just about the last word in thrills and suspense. It's a mighty interesting picture and one that can be enjoyed by the young and old alike. Aside from the action, it's worth the price of admission alone to see a western star who is young, engaging, and really looks the part.

Keep your eye on Rex Bell. He's a comer. ROAD TO QUEBEC WILL SOON OPEN Washington, Nov. 3 A new international highway linking Three Rivers. Canada, with Portland.

will be omciaiiy opened tnis auuimn, George Barringer, vice consul at informs the Department of Commerce. The highway, named the Arnold Trail, will follow the route used by General Arnold when he invaded Canada with his troops after the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. It will shorten by many miles the distance between Quebec and New England centers and will pass through one of the most beautiful parts of Canada. FIRE ERADICATES OLD DICKENS LANDMARK London, Nov. 3 (P) Another link with Charles Dickens has disappeared in the burning of an old coffey shanty at Greenhithe on the banks of the Thames, known as "Henry'B Hut." For more than seventy the hut has provided light refreshments for seafaring men and it is recorded that Charles Dickens sheltered there from a blizzard.

He commended the proprietor on his excellence of the coffee. "Can't Ruin This Well, all I know is just what I read in the papers, and what I see as I gaze out over the footlights. How does it feel to be back in the old harness again trying to swindle the old public out of a few laughs? a lot of friends ask me. Well, to be real honest it feels pretty good. You know after all if you have ever been an actor, (or even if you never was an Actor yet still made a livin on the stage) why it just about ruins for any useful employment for the rest of your natural life.

They had ft big dinner the other night "here for DeWdlf Hopper celebrating his 50th year on the stage, and he seems as voung and line as he ever was during the 15 or 20 years I have known him. So I guess off and in as long as they will stand for me 1 will be telling what are supposed to be Jokes about Congress, and the Senate, and Nicaragua and all those things till my whiskers are longer and older than the jokes. We got our little show started and going along pretty good. We have had quite a few Notables and Horse thieves in to see us. and I ought to get me one of these Guests Books and keep it in my dressing room and I would have quite an array of names of the visitors that have come back, the Book would have got off to a flying start, for on the opening night Colonel Lyndberg was back to Dorothy and I.

I will have to tell you a little story about that. He was tickled to death when he came back after the show opening night because he had won twenty dollars off the fellow with him. He called me up about eight o'clock on the night of the opening telling me that he had just found that he could get out of a previous engagement and if it was possible to get him the seats he would come. I said "Possible! say you will get in if I have to pick some Guys pockets of his seats out in the lobby." Imaging Lyndberg asking if it would be "possible to make room for him to attend anything." But that just shows you the modesty of the fellow. I made a wild dash for the box office.

I had left some seats there for various friends, and I was in hopes that some of them had not called for them vet, as some of them were down in front. My wife had two seats for Viej-colf onrt a frtpnH awaw in t.hi hark. So she said she would stand up or miss the thing entirely if it was ior liinay. Now here is one I want Caryl Fisher, of Miami Beach, Fla and Montauk Point. New York, the best two real estate developments in the world.

(I have to put that ad in here for Caryl to make up for what I did to him that night) I had left him some seats in the second row center, and when I dashed Into the box office as luck would have it he had not called for his. So I grabbed his two and gave them to Lindy, and dug up two that come from Lord knows where and left them for Caryl. I dont know where he sat. But he will feel better I know when he reads this and finds out that he is really the fellow that gave up his seats for Lindy. Now here is about the twenty bucks.

Lindy says to me over the phone "now if I come dont you start any of your funny business on me." I. laughingly I A combination program which has ill the ear-marks of being one of the best bills presented In Muncie in many a day will be offered at the Wysor Grand theater four days, starting today. The Melody Lane Players, who have proven to be the most popular of all the musical comedies that have played here, will be seen in what 1 said to be their funniest offering which they call "The Cock-Eyed World. The screen attraction for the first four days of the week is "The Little Yellow House," the story which appeared in The Muncie Star and has created a great deal of interest locally. Judging from the number of inquirers as to when the picture would be shown.

It is described as a drama of the whirl of modern youth by Beatrice Burton. An Added Attraction. As an added attraction with the Melody Lane the Pacific Comedy Four, said to be a quartet of unusual ability, not only for their harmony singing for which they are noted, but for the comedy they introduce. These boys have finished a seven months engagement with one of the best musical shows on the road, and they will be retained as a permanent attraction with the Melody Lane Players. Several vaudeville specialties will be introduced by Johnny Ra-der, Betty Proulx.

Minor Reed, Ora-belle Clevinger, Earl Young, Audry Jackson, Paul Johnstone; Lester Ap-plegate, Madeline LaFere, Joe Barnett, and the Darling chorus. That a sweet, simple story of ei' love, ably directed and well acted comes near the heart of the average theater-goer is evidenced in "The Little Yellow House," which will be accompanied by Auditone synchronized musical score. This story, taken from The Muncie Star serial story by Beatrice Burton, deals with the problems of a gallant little mother who endeavors to make a home for her family in an old house that has little in its favor but the memories of happier days. Her husband, a wastrel and ne'er-do-well, does much to make things uncomfortable. Her daughter desires the things she cannot afford, and her son is a smart aleck.

But she loves them all and manages to bring everything out all right in the end with the aid of a worthy young man in love with her da ughter. Cast Deserves Credit. Of course there is a villian Iri the person of the wealthy young broker in whose office the daughter works. Tne entire cast deserves credit for its work. Martha Sleeper, a comparative newcomer to dramatic roles, does admirably, as does Orville Caldwell, who plays opposite her.

No mention need be made of such well known artists as Lucy Beaumont. Edythe Chapman, and William Orlamond, all old-timers. Edward Peil. is a very clever youngster, and Freeman Wood makes a convincing heavy. Election returns will be received at the Wysor Grand theater on Tuesday night over a special Western Union wire.

Next Thursday and for the remainder of the week the Melody Lane Players will be seen in an entirely new musical comedy and vaudeville revue, while Rin-Tin-Tin will appear in "A Race for Life," as the movie attraction, accompanied by Auditone synchronized musical score. RACKETEERS SEEN ON ROYAL SCREEN Police Rum Runners Feud Makes Exciting Picture. The barking of machine guns; the intermittent reports of. automatics: the excited howls of a mob gone wild, are some of the thrilling highlights of Thomas Meighan's latest starring picture entitled. "The Racket." a story of a feud between a police captain and the leader of a gang of beer runners, now the current attraction today, Monday and Tuesday the Royal theater.

As Captain McQuigg. Thomas Meighan gives one of his greatest characterizations in "The Racket," a melodrama of the underworld, adapted from the famous stage play by Bart-lett Cormack. a newtpaperman. Hard-boiled and fearless of all elements, Meighaft fights the gang leader Nick Scarsi: which part is portrayed by Louis Wolheim, one of the most able character actors in motion pictures today. Marie Prevost of Helen, the night club entertainer, who is the principal figure of a romance with John Dar-row, a reporter, also gives an outstanding performance.

"The Racket" is a colorful as well as powerful melodrama. Its author, a newspaperman, has written a vital drama of metropolitan gang life, taken from his observations and experiences. The story was first presented in play form in New York, where it ran for several months and which was followed by a successful road engagement. Mr. Meighan personally selected the story as being ideally suited to his ability, and critics have hailed his work wherever the picture has been shown.

Among others who contribute to the success of the performance are: Lee Moran, Skeets Gallagher, Lucian Prival, Tony Mario and G. Pat Collins, who also appeared in the stage presentation. The picture was directed by Lewis Milestone, who directed Meighan in "The New Klondike" one of the star's most successful pictures. PAVL0WA PLAYS REAL U. S.

POKER Rio De Janeiro, Nov. 3 (JP) Anna Pavjowa, the noted dancer, is a confirmed player of the American national game, poker, during her frequent sea trips. On voyages to and from the United States and Europe she does not have as much opportunity to enjoy the game, but on the longer voyages of nearly three weeks between Europe and South America there is plenty of opportunity for this pastime. Recently Pavlowi completed an engagement In Buenos Aires and Montevideo with her company, and on board ship rest and relaxation ruled. Every evening for several hours Palvowa, with her husband and three companions of- company, occupied the same table in the ship's smoking room and played, always poker.

Country; Not Even With Politics -BY WILL ROGERS' told him I wouldent. He said. "Well, don't think you will. But the theater might, by putting a spot light or something on me." I told him he needent be scared. Well I most generally introduce real celebrities and on an opening night it would have been a great point to point out the greatest one we have.

For I have so many things that I could have told of him while we were in Mexico, some of them jokes but all highly complimentary. But I says no I will just see if I have got the heart to lay off him. You talk about a struggle. There I stood with a pocket full of Gags that I had never used and I knew the audience would laugh at, es- skits made up oi accepiea revue jaterial the subwav. movie palaces, If mistakable rush of $tage talent toward the talking screen, and an equally unmistakable stampede of screen talent toward the stage.

The Vitaphone parade started by Al Jolson has been joined by such stage celebrities as Fannie Brice, Sophie Tucker and George Arliss and even the new screen ingenues are coming from the stage instead of the department stores. The latest discovery of William Fox. for instance, is Marguerite Churchill, who was invited to Hollywood because she showed promise on the Nefr York stage. Merging Personalities. Film folk, on the other hand, are rushing to the stages of legitimate theaters hereabouts to mold their silent screen personalities into personalities with audible appeal.

The play billboards look like a directory of cinema celebrities. And producers, far from casting aside the non-stage-trained youngsters they discovered in last year's search for 'youth and beauty, are organizing schools of their own to teach the boys and girls how to talk as they would have been able to talk in the first place had they come from the stage. Meanwhile the big New York theatrical producers threat-en to take over the movie industry's fattest profits by producing and distributing talking film versions of their stage plays to compete with Hollywood talkies. And Hollywood picture producers threaten to organize their own legitimate theaters as an independent source of plav material for their talking picture studios. Whichever side wins, the eut-come seems likelxto be a fusion of footlights and film that may turn out to be more important than either the stage or the screen has been in the past.

Hollywood. Nov. 3. Mabel Normand's first leading man is in training for the talkies. He is training a radio sta tion.

Broadcasting baseball games, announcing radio performers, keeping the radio audience amused between numbers, Harry McCoy is studying voices and people and personalities and learning the why and how of feeding them into icrophones without giving the microphones indigestion. i3 Harry McCoy McCoy is not planning to act in the talking pictures. He wants to make them for others to act in. he has done plenty of silent screen acting in his day. When Mabel Normand got her first chance, to play a leading role in a picture, back in 1912, Harry McCoy was the lad who played opposite her.

He also was one of the original Keystone Cops organized by Mack Sen-nett to make the screen safe for sprinting comedians. Utilitarian Tears. What this country needs, if Fred Niblo has it figured out right, is a good cry. It has been Niblo's lot to direct many famous film players in crying scenes, so his philosophy of tears is not mere armchair speculation. "My experience," he explains, "has been that after crying scenes the players are no longer restrained, and their work is improved generally.

Tears are intended to relax tension, and anyone who hardens himself against the impulse to cry is cheating his nervous system." Doubles for Bird Perhaps the oddest film job anyone has filled since the talkies came in was the parrot-doubling engagement recently completed by an actor whose sole duty was to stand behind a curtain and speak the lines of a parrot playing a bit in a talking picture. The parrot could talk, but wss not bright enough to memorize the lines the director wanted spoken. Bo a double was hired for the bird. "THE APACHE" IS CAST Margaret" Livingston and Warner Richmond have been signed to support Don Alvarolo in Columbia's "The Apache," a colorful story of Paris night life and intrigue. Richmond, a prominent "heavy," first came into the limelight in "Tol'able David." He has been featured in many big productions, such as "The Great Divide," "The Fire Brigade" and "Slide, Kelly Slide." PI i 'THE TERROR" AN ALL TALKING PICTURE RIVOLI ROMANCE, REALISM IN "DRUMS OF LOVE" LOVC.

in" feature Griffith, by his splendid insight into the emotions, is said to have St a realistic drama with none of the sordidness or drabness generally as-i sociated with realism. Instead. "Drums of Love" is one of the most colorful and entertain-j ing pageantries ever made by Grif fith. It has all the beauty of "Brok- its unfmsnrv nnd Love" has the same ingredients of spectacular splashes, of action, with the addition of emotional passages that are fated to be named among the finest examples of acting on the screen. The dramatic work of Mary Phil- bin.

Lionel Barrymore, Don Alvarado and Tully Marshall is said to be outstanding, as is the comedy performance of William Austin. Griffith made "Drums of Love" for United Artists. LEO MALONEY IS ON ORPHEUM SCREEN .1 Ci YellOW Contraband IS StOry of Early Western Days. Leo Maloney's newest Pathe-west- ern screen play, now showing at the Orpheum Theater, is called "Yellow Contraband." It is an original story by Ford I. Beebe.

who has constructed one of the most peculiar plots ever screened. Much of the melodrama takes place in a little Montana cow-town into which come several Chicago gunmen. They soon encounter a similar number of cowboys who do not approve the attitude of the gangsters, who soon realize it is to their advantage to go back to Chicago. They are followed by the cowmen. The mission of the gangsters is to smuggle a lot of dope across the border.

This attempt is combatted by the westerners. Other westerners develop into hijackers and they steal the dope away from the gangsters, then both the worth-while westerns and the gangsters are after the hijackers, which brings them all into Chicago. Beebe has constructed a marvelous story, one of plot and counterplot. Both the beginning and the end of the actual screen play take place several days aiter the actual developments of the middle or western sections of the story- "Yellow Contraband" is undoubtedly one of the most unusual screen plays ever written. GIRL BUYER'S CREED IS "BUSINESS ONLY" Vicksburg, Nov.

3 (IP) Miss Jeanne Raines says "a little hard work and a of luck," enabled her to rise from stenograpner to sales manager and purchasing agent of a chain of seven food stores here. To a girl just four years out of Mississippi State College for Women is entrusted the task of spending approximately $3,500 a week for groceries. Miss Raines says she enjoys her work. "But I do have to watch my step when those salesmen come around," she says. "They send me flowers and candy.

They want to take me to shows. They tell me I am pretty and end up by trying to sell me their goods, ibut I have learned when to quit laughing with them and get down to business." Hollywood. Nov. 3 From now on the bespectacled Harold Lloyd is going to run less and talk more. In deference to the desire of picture-goers for movies with a voice, the comedian of the hornrimmed glasses is onine down the breathless speed of his latest film adventure to a point where he will have breath enough now and then to utter a few word3 of dialogue.

"There'll no more 'chases' in my pictures from Harold Lloyd now on, he said during a lull in production. "I'm through with the pell-mell pursuit. "In this picture a background oi mystery, rather than speed, sets off the comic moments. We're not making it a mystery thriller; but the under ground Chinatown scenes will give us a chance to get thrills and laughs with microphone as well as camera." Lloyd is an eager young botanist in the new picture; a botanist who by accident becomes the star finger-print expert and criminologist of a metro politan police department. Hollywood.

Nov. 3. It is hardly likely that the man who killed an Austrian archduke at Sarajevo one one day in June. 1914, realized he was starting a world war. "How, then, could he have known he was firing the shot that would start one of Sarajevo's own home-town girls on the road to becoming a Hollywood movie actress? Still less did little Eva Von Plentzner dream that the commo Eva Von Berne tion in her home town that day would eventually change the whole course of her life and put her into those American movies she liked so much.

As a matter of fact, she had no idea what the commotion was about. Her father, a wealthy Austrian, believed firmly that all disturbing news, such as reports of assassinations or other fatalities, should be kept from the ears of children. When peace came, all this was changed. Her father's fortune crashed with the collapse of Austria. Want took the place of wealth.

The family was living in Vienna then, and it occurred to Eva that success as a dancer might win back for her some of the things she had lost. She entered a school for dancers and made such progress that her picture appeared as that of the most promising pupil. Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg, honey-mooning in Europe, reached Vienna just in time to notice this picture. Sarajevo First, i The visitors from Hollywood sought out Eva, agreed that the newspaper portrait had not deceived them as to her screen possibilities, and a few weeks later she was back in Hollywood with them, her name changed to Eva Von Berne and her occupation changed to leading woman for John Gilbert. One of her childhood dreams had been realized.

She was a heroine in those American movies she liked so much. But "In Sarajevo," ssid Eva, gazing out on an upper window of the studio, "the sky is blue; more blue than anywhere else in the world." Hollywood, Nov. 3. Mergers are the mode of the moment. Whether in motors or movies, the next development always seems to be another merger.

So it may be only natural to wander if all the excitement over talking pictures isn't, after all, just the preliminary phase of one more merger: the merger of stage and screen. Whether it is the screen that is absorbing the or the stage that is get Marguerite Churchill ting ready to take over the screen, is something elss to argue about. But anyone standing on the sidelines here can see an un- A I i if jf Mr i ism 5-. XT augmented by all sorts of startling effects gained by deft and tricky hand ling of the camera. FILM STORY READY FOR SOPHIE TUCKER "Honky Tonk" is the title of the first Vitaphone picture in which Sophie Tucker, vaudeville celebrity, will star for Warner Bros.

An all-talking production, it will mark the screen debut of this noted comedienne. Miss Tucker leaves this month for Hollywood, following her New York vaudeville appearance as a headliner. 'Honky Tonk" is a word of the show world originally used to de scribe western ana souinem hoki in the now half mythical days when vaudeville was known as "variety entertainment, and when miners, frontiersmen and the sturdy pioneers came to be amused. It is a slang word of stage troupers to describe towns where they make one-night stands. Incidentally, some of the best of our present day stars of vaudeville and musical comedy originated in honky tonks.

Leslie S. Barrows is the author of "Honky Tonk." Curiously enough, Sophie Tucker, who was recently billed at the New York Palace, as "the last of the red hot mammas." is herself a product of the tonk burgs. Her story is the glamorous rise from waitress in the little Jewish restaurant in Hartford, to vaudeville headliner. START ON LATEST "LONE WOLF' FILM Shooting started this week on Columbia's "The Lone Wqlf's Daughter." under the direction of Al Rogell. The most pretentious set ever erected on the Columbia lot is being used for the opening sequence of this production to introduce the principals, Bert Lytell, Gertrude Olmstead and Lilyon Tashman.

The set is an exact reproduction of the Duval art galleries cf New York probably the most famous, in the world. Curios, paintings and art treasures, valued at more than were' assembled for this set from the most prominent art dealers and collectors in California. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IS NEAR IN JAPAN Washington, Nov. 3 (JP) Miss Sus-aye Ichikawa of Tokio, who is touring this country and stwdying the part American women are playing in the national election, is much impressed with the determination of the women of both parties to win. "The future is good," Miss Ichikawa says, who is director of the Woman's Suffrage League of Vapan.

"Now all the men of Japan have the vote, whereas it used to be only men with property who could vote. Soon I think it will com to women also." Jaran, she says, has forty federated women's tlubs. with a membership of 10.000. i I IT TOOK MORE NERVE FOR ME NOT TO TALK ABOUT HIM THAN HE SHOWED FLYING THE OCEAN. 7 perially with him there.

But I stayed with it and dident say one word about him being there. Of course you couldent introduce any other Celebrity that night, for with him in a house there just aint anymore. So it seems this fellow with him kept telling him that he bet I make him get up and bow or do something, and they made a bet on it, Lindy betting that I wouldent, and when he came back in the dressing room afterwards he was as tickled as a kid tha he had won. I told him I was a bigger hero than he was; that it took more nerve for me NOT to talk about him than he showed flying the ocean. Now he has cone down to Mexico hunting with Colonel McNabb, the.