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55 PART FOUR PAGE TWO TAMPA SUNDAY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY. JULY 10, 1932 AMATEURS PUT centers and they are the same kind ot tickets given actors who need help. They are sold for a dollar and no one Hometown Girl Makes Good German Actor Prefers Comedy LEAN DAYS OF THEATER DON'T WORRY DANCER MAE WEST IN HOLLYWOOD TO MAKE PICTURE pivrrx iw4 A XV 5.. Fame Is Short-Lived With Many Stage Drama Authors Gftmany to play comedy roles in when he was cast as "Krinjreleln" production of "Grand Hotel." Rub ON STAGE PLAY AIMED AT REDS Serious Drama's Effect Just the Opposite (Continued from Page 1 Part 4) dialects, plays ingenue and character parts and Is quite decorative, is looking for something, too. Keep it up, gal." Acting in Africa Thus run the true to life stories from which whole careers -may be reconstructed by any one who knows actors.

Here Is another? "That very Stall young man who waves a towel at the cutlery (watch this) to, strangely enough, Charles Cutler Urquhart (get recently of Nairobi. British East Africa, where, as director, actor, press agent, janitor and production manager, his greatest comfort was that if the audience was bored with the show it would always spend money at the bar, which is customarily part and parcel of the theater in those parts. "This tall young man was sitting in the front office of his African theater one evening when a patron called up to cancel her tickets for the performance. 'My husband and I were bothered all last night by a1 lion in our front she said, 'and we want to stay home and shoot I have never been told so, but I suspect that if you wanted to arrange a dinner party at the Actors' Dinner club, Director Earl Boothe, who was one of its organizers, with Selena Boyle, would arrange a bit of entertainment on the side for ycu. At least, I notice that when 60 members of the Single Tax club had their cakes and coffee there the other day Flora Le Breton and Carl Treman of the "Cat and Fiddle" company helped their digestion with song and dance.

The chief work of the club to still to feed hungry and worthy actors without making a show of the charity. Tickets are distributed at various actor RlpRfcSHItJ6LY Today Monday! JOE E. BROWN FIREMAN SAVE MY with Kralyn Knapp knows who pays and who doesn't. Something over 50 percent of the meals are free meals. They number more than 50,000 to date.

Actors who are lucky enough to be working also help. Margaret Wycher- ley took all the members of the "Another Language" company there the other night. "Cissie Loftus, Guy Bates Post, Grace Filkin, Essex Dane, Tessa Kosta and Richard Madden, were guests this week," reads the bulletin: X-Ray Test Reveals Independence Hall In Good Condition PHILADELPHIA, July 9. (A.P.) The X-ray has assured visitor to Independence hall that the white-domed tower on the historic shrine will not topple over on their heads. As part of the annual renovation of Lthe famous old building the tower was subjected to the searching beams of the X-ray for the first time hi its history and showed virtually no deterioration.

Interesting details of construction, outmoded and almost forgotten today, were discovered, however, for the tower to the product of the old navy yard, which was located at the foot of Washington street and boasts a peculiar type of supporting beams and uprights. Those old carpenters chase their woods so well and did their work so skillfully that, 200 years later, the most up-to-date methods of science could find no sign of weakness. The X-ray inspection was only part of the overhauling given the cradle of liberty. Tests of every part of the structure were made, but since the general program of care-taking provides for an exhausttoe examination every spring little renovation was necessary. All the woodwork was given a fresh coat of white paint, several of the spindles on the tower balcony were replaced and the gold ball and Liberty cap atop the cupola were given new covering of gold-leaf.

Even Independence square itself came in for a house-cleaning. New shrubbery was planted and grass seed sown. fl attie SPARKS THEATRES tOr Mat. 50c Mghtl Last Day On the Screen "NEW MORALS FOR OLD" with ROBERT YOUNG TOMORROW! and Tuesday! Complete Chang-e of State Show and New SVrpen Attraction Nice Women with Sidney Foi Frances Dee :t.5i Mats. 4 Or Nichts TODAY and TOMORROW! LAWLESS LOVE Darin Bifr aa History, Ripped from the blazing- news heads that shocked the world RICHARD DIX in "ROAR OF THE DRAGON" with ZASC PITTS GWII.I ANDRE EDWARD HOKTOX also "His Week End" Comedy 25o 35 Mats.

Nights CHILD" 10c 25c 4 10c 25c Today and Tomorrow! THE APE MAN 3 fe- Ruth Harrison Scores Broadway Success NEW YORK. July 9. While( the world hears a lot of hometown boys who have made good. It to very rarely that a hometown girl crashes into the news in a similar manner. So it to refreshing to be able to record the story of a little girl from the west who, to steal the slogan of a well-known night club hostess, deserves a "great big hand." She to Ruth Harrison, 20-year-old Omaha, girl who to a perfect example of the truth of Emerson's famous philosophy that if one can do or make something (even a mousetrap) better than anyone else, the world will make a beaten track to one's door.

Miss Harrison does not manufacture mouse traps, but how she can dance! Coming out of the west, without press agent or any advance ballyhoo, the girl from Omaha has proved that she has something extra good where only the very good can survive. Her Boa.st Realized It takes courage of a very high order for an unknown aspirant to honors to storm Broadway cynically called "The Hardened Artery'" by those who can recall a long list of invaders who came to conquer, onjy to return whence they came, broken, the Will-O -the-Wisp which we call fame as far out of reach as ever. But Ruth Harrison had that courage, and. what is more, the ability to back It the limit. Ruth was only 14 when her mother took her to Chicago to fill her first engagement as a dancer.

Even at that age. and ignorant of how her offering was to be received, the girl told her uncle just before her debut in the Windy City "before long, you're going to see my name in lights on Broadway." That boast has been made by many. But for every thousand that uttered it about one has made the grade or. the big street. They either lacked the ability or the stick-to-itiveness that are absolutely indispensable to the stage aspirant in the big town.

Plenty of Hard Work Ruth came to New York and got her first engagement on one of the big theater circuits. She was far too wise to set the idea into her pretty head that stardom can be grasped in an instant, so she was content to play her "four-a-day" while she gained valuable experience. From city to city she went filling theater engagements and working to improve her dancing technique during every spare moment. They say that a rolling stone gath- ers no moss, well, mayoe not, dui the man who authored the old bromide neglected to say that the stone does acquire a brilliant pohsh. So when Ruth returned to New York she was equipped with all the weapons necessary to success youth, beauty, brains, experience and talent.

She played the vaudevillians' paradise. The Palace, appeared on the exclusive St. Regis roof and the no-less ritzy Sevilla Biltmore in Havana. But it was not until she appeared at the Roxy that her great dream was realizedshe saw her name in lights she had arrived. Steady Climb To Top Since then Ruth has steadily climbed the ladder of success.

Climbed is hardlv the word. Rather should one say flonted up the ladder, like a graceful piece of thistledown. No better illustration of the extent of her success can be offered than the fact that in these times, when the show business is said to be shot to perdition, she has more engagements than she can fill comfortably, proving as the eminent Emerson said, that if one has the goods the world to a good customer. For the past four years Miss Harrison has been teamed with Alexander Fisher, who came here from Europe, where he had been appearing in the Diaglieff ballet In Paris. He met Miss Harrison in the Chicago Civic Opera company and the pair rehearsed the classical dancing which has brought fame and fortune.

Success has not turned the head of the little girl from the west. She is still the charming unaffected person who. like Caesar, came, saw and conquered. So once again let's give her a great big hand. of Movieland Christian Rub.

who came from Hollywood films, found a serious part (large photo) in l.os Angeles' stage says he still prefers comedy. CHRISTIAN RUB YEARNS TO GET BACK IN COMEDY Left Slapstick "Grand Hotel" for HOLLYWOOD. July 9 Associat-d Press i FTom slapstick -Grand H.i-tel" that's Christian Rub career so far. Eleven years ajo Rub pronounced Rube was stamr.3 two-reel comedies in Hollywood. He had been 3 comedian since his boyhood in Germany.

He remained a comedian when V.e came back to Hollywood a year arri a half aso and ptayed in foreign, talkie versions. SeU Hollywood Talkinj Then the Los Anceles stae had a production of "Grand Hotel" and Rub, virtually unknown here, was rat ns "Kringelem wistful irnalid takir.c first and last taste of splendor f.re facing death. Before all Hollywood was talking about Christian Rub and his sincere performance. Hollywood did not know then that this was Rub's first serious drama'ic role." but the mov.e gateway swung wide, and Rub. the plav closed.

found himself eagerly received at th" studios. But he scarcely believes his success. Hopes To Get Along "I do not kni." he says shaking his head, and speaking with his marked accent. -Maybe now I will get ahead. Before I could not evn get an interview in the studios for an English part.

But they say there is a ehanee for a man to play characters now. and I hope so for I am no loneer young He is 42. has an shock rf pale brown hair, and a iace rather deeply lined. "I hated playing 'KrinKeUun' it 5s a terrific part, wears me out I rather do comedy, but 'Kringelein' gave me a chance to be seen, and I am glad." he said after his 138th perfr.rmaiu C'Ol'KT IS Bl.l'E RIBBON CU CINCINNATI. Ohio.

July iA.P. Cincinnati's municipal court has a "blue ribb.jn club" for prohibition iio-lators. Perv-i. conwt-d oi intoxication and giwn susjH-ndt-d si-nten--es are required to wear a buttonhole badge of blue ribbon to remind thm not to stray again. Some of Her Own Plavs Mav Be Filmed (Continued from Pace 1 Part 4) previously visited to film "White Shadows of the South Seas." All were successful pictures, but Van" Is equally capable of faking" them on the back lot.

Witness the current "Tarzan," made almost entirely In a synthetic Jungle In Culver City, and Lawrence Tibbett's "Cuban Love Song," taken In the same O. M. studio Van Dyke's abiiity to handle under the most adverse conditions and In the most trying circumstances said to be remarkable. He Is a ra.e combination of artist and disciplinarian. To Use Native Actors To Alaska Van Dyke took a crew of 17, but no actors as they will b-Esfcimos recruited in Point Barrow 50 tons of food supplies.

medical stores, thousands of pounds of raw film and equipment and a carload rf artificial snow The corn flakes, from which studio snow 1s made, are necessary to drape over the actors in the closeups. The real stuff isn-t heavy enough to withstand the wind, and besides it melts too fast. Swedish "Oriental" When the search for a leading man for Barbara Stanwyck In "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" had simmered down to Nils As- ther, someone con cerned pointed out Xthat he is swecisn. IW-jW I The character is Ian Oriental. And someone else recalled that Swe- (dlsh Warner Oland has impersonated more 1 a Is I than well.

So tin I or Sessue Haya- kawa I i I Anvwav. Asth.T I JK I has the part, il though I doubt if there was much NILS ASTHF.R argument, particularly if the director saw Nils' comeback in "Letty Lynton." This picture will give Miss Stanwyck a new kind of role. She wlU be a repressed American gut. caught under the spell of the wicked oriental tAsther). Instead of her usual lady-wtth-a-past character.

I have been deluged with letters well. 11 anyway, which is a small deluge) replying to a suggestion that the song writers do something with Ann Harding's classic line after snc and Harry Bannister were divorced. "It was the only civilized thing to do." Two a.krd if they should music. The answer is no. The o'hrs sent verses, one of which rhymed Bannister (meaning a balustrade) Harry Banmstrr.

I have concluded to make nr more such suegestions. Woman's Prerogative Incidentally Johann has decided to stay here a while, long enough at least to be an Indian girl in the same film. Mas Johann. a week or so ago. asked that a long term agreement with Radio be Invalidated because the objected to her first role.

Any New Song Today? Just about every time the mailman makes a delivery the Bing Crosby menage he leaves a song or two. They're unsolicited manuscripts. sent by would-be song writing admirers and song writers who would become admirers. Some send only music, some words and music, 'out most Just write the words. Crooner Crosby estimates his secretary has had to return between 500 and 600 so-called songs in the last six months.

He makes it a rule never to read the ditties people send him. There's less chance then of being accused of pirating an idea, and anyway, there usually are no ideas worth ptratlng or even buying. Few Song Are Hit Biii? believes folks still have the Impression one has only to write a song to get into the big money. A hot song, one that becomes extremely popular, in these days seldo.n nets the author more than $3000. Only a handful of the counties songs written each year become hits.

The drop in profits is accoun rd for by the decreased sale of sheet music and records. Bing says a few years ago a hit rrr-ord might sell as many as 3 ono.noo copies: today. 30.000 is considered pretty good. The sale of sheets hss dropped proportionately. Bing says.

He Jai Taught On' Crosby's sudden popularity is interesting and he is at a loss to explain i. He cannot date his ascent to any particular number, nor to his style of delivery any different from that of a few years ago when he sang in Fanchon Marco shows. "I Just happened to catch on," he explains. And one gathers he hopes he stays caught. Bing to here now to play the lead in a radio satire called "The Big Broadcast" and to make two more comedies for Mack Sennett.

He's already been starred In four Sennett two-reelers. Incidentally, his full name to Harry Lillis Crosby. He's had the nickname since grammar school days. FOLK COLLEGE 50 YEARS OLD GRANT. JIy colltge.

claimed to be the Stm.s. is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. Founded 1882. the Danlsh-Amertcan folk-ehojskole was discontinued in 1920 but reopened tn 192. Adult education is its principal atttuty Pupils and faculty arr companions and there are no tests or textbooks.

ON THE AIR SUNDAY 2I.V8 W1IAE. Tampa 1230 (Columbia Chain Features! 8 a. Junipr Bugle; 9, Madison Pincers; 9:30. Salon orchestra; 10:30. Voice of St.

Louis; 11:30, Ernett Hutcheson recital; 11:45. Street 5-inaer. songs; 12. Emery Deutsch and his orchestra; 12:15. Four Clubmen; 12-30, Community Center faculty recital.

1. Thirty Minute Men; 1:30, C. A J. Parm.entier, organist; 2, Symphonic hour: 3. Cathedral hour; 4.

Iienc Beaslcy with Roundtowners; 4 3n. Poet's Gold: 4:45. Little Jack Little; 5. Ballad hour: 6. Dr.

Julius World's business: 6.15. Chicaeo Knuhts: 6:45. Theo Karle: 7, Do Re Mi and William Hall with orchestra; Lewlsohn concert: 9:30. Columbia dramatic laboratory: 10. The Gauchos: 10:30.

Ozzie Nelson and his nrch. stra: 11. Gus Arnhein and his ore 11:30 California melodies. 183 VI LA-WSrX 620 (National Chain Feature) 8 a. Children's hour: 9.

Golden Ptrinc quartet: 9:30. Neopolitan days; 10 30. Mayor Bwes. capitol family; 11:30. Biblical drama: 12.

Mexican Marimba band: 1:30. Charley Asnew orchestra: 2. Piccadilly circus: 2:30, national Sundav forum: 3. popular! program: 3:15. Kremlin art qum-j tct: 3 30.

rop concert: feacoatn reveries: 5. Catholic hour; 5.30, Sweet -henrt davs: 5. Mountain men; 6:30, the Commodores; 7. MrCravy 7:15. Rubinoff's orchestra: fi.

David Lawrence; 8:15. American album of familiar music: 9 15. L. Heure Ex-quise; 9 45. Seth Parker: 11:30.

William Stvess and his Flyms; Dutchmen. Century Mark Passed by 38 Residents of Panama PANAMA. July 9. Panama har. 38 persons over 100 years of ace in a total population of 467,459, accord-inc to the report made by the director of the Jose Antonio Zubieta.

Of these citizens. 11 are men nnd 27 are women. Thev all live in small interior towns where life to anything but strenuous. Luis Ccrtes. 118 years old.

of Quebrada Grande in the province of Ls Santos, heads the list with Mrs. Trinidad C. de Ignala. three years tukinK s-cond place. Juana Mujica ranks third at ill years.

There are competitors for fourth place at 110 years of ape. Five have reached the of 108 years, and two are 07 years old. The a of the voiincer members of the group ramie from 101 to 106 years. There are 2-50 persons between the aeies of 01 ai 110 years i I i FIaprj he decided to leap on a mule's back. The mule, unable to appreciate such Barriesque gestures, went into a bronco-busting act.

Albert equally frightened, ran like mad into the pine trees." River of Tears Broadway is just a river of tears these days. Weeping because the Poxy has closed. Sobbing because the Palace, the last of the all vaudeville houses, is turning to "mixed grind." This means that six acts of vaudeville will alternate with a fea ture picture. At a chorus call for a new show the other day 2000 girls applied for jobs. Only 16 were selected, which gives you en idea.

In times like these, when unemployment to an acute problem, it is cheering to report that the plea of the in dustrialists to keep as many working as possible is being heeded. For spe cial commendation, I submit a dancer in one of the current revues who ap pears in two nude scenes. But she em-I ploys a dresser Frank Buck, the wild animal man has received several offers to become a movie star. He bears a remarkable rcsftnblance to George Bancroft. Rebuked It's a typical fable of a New York er rebuke, that tale of how two Tin Pan Alley celebrities put a Park ave nue hostess in her place Eager to impress her friends, she made a habit of inviting the newest stage, literary or musical celebrities to her parties and then asking them to perform gratis.

She got quite a reputation for this sort of thins, so when these two song writers, who had become popular overnight, were summoned to festivities in her parlor, they came prepared When she asked them to play some of their songs for her friends, they willingly obliged But the song they picked was a merry lay which pointed out that no matter where one goes on Park avenue these days one can't get a decent drink or an eatable sand wich because the hostesses are such tightwads Our hostess no longer invokes the sing-for-your-supper lm position. creeping In. Incidentally the Dutch take no profit from the island. Getti ng- Western Ways White cited this example: Tourists, with their cameras, ask the natives to pose, which they do willingly enough, expecting nothing in return. But, accustomed to paying for favors, they frequently tip the natives as much a.s two gold dollars each.

Two dollars is as much as some Balinese see in an entire year. Getting that much money for merely looking at a camera has had. White declares, a demoralizing effect. "The people of Bali are as childlike as any in the world, living like children in a place where there is scarcely any unhappiness and little illness," White said. "Bali is as near like a Utopia as a place can possibly be.

It would be shameful to spoil their happiness." The Huntington expedition, financed by Harriett E. Huntington, daughter of the late California railroad magnate, is engaged in filming native danres and religious customs in all parts of the world, and this work took them to Bali. No "Star" Expense A full-length feature, called "Man's Paradise." was filmed at Bali. No money was paid the natives for their work, the expedition instead donaing to the island's treasury, which buys the musical instruments nearly every native is adept at playing. The picture is one of a series, to be released principally for educational purposes.

(Continued from Page 1 Part 4) called "Week-End Bride." After a summer tryout at Cape Cod, It will be brought to Broadway. At the moment. Miss Daly to playing with Madge Kennedy in "Bridal Wise." Back to Chicago Here is this from M. E. an orchidaceous first nighter from Westchester county: "About 30 years ago the La Salle in Chicago was playing musical stock.

One of their hits was such a riot that they decided to bring it to Broadway. "The show came to New York with Joe Howard and Cecil Lean as stars. The plot concerned Chicago, and during the performance they crooned a song with a refrain beginning. "Let me go back to that dear old Chicago town." They got just about that far when one of these Manhattan madmen in the audience wisecracked: "Go ahead! Don't let us keep you." In less than a fortnight the show-was back on the banks of Lake Michigan. Correspondence "Tush.

tush, my dear professor." writes a Mr. Anderson, of Charlotte, N. C. "Your notes on Frank Buck and his ild animals do not awe us down here in the mountains. "It seems there are few Nubian lions now living in America (probably; because of economic reasons.

But Albert is of such a clan, weighs 105 pounds and to 17 months old. He lives footfree and chain-less on a farm in Aiken county, S. the property of Albert Wcathersbee. "Albert ithe lion was captured in Nigeria and purchased by Albert Weathersbee), who says that the lion is enjoying Carolina life. "Weathersbee loves animals and took on Albert to mother, or father, father, While Albert (still the lioni prefers Carolina to the veldt, he docs hate cats ana raooits.

oi wniciy tnerc are plenty hereabouts. "The Hon likes to chew up tin cans between meals, and only once has ne given trouble. In a whimsical mood George Brent Has Replaced Gable in Filmdom Spotlight (Continued from Page 1 rart 4) adopting another actor and giving him the same name? East Indies I'topia Modernization is threatening the colo. ful little Island of Bali, in the DutcVi East Indies. Its grow ing prom inence a.s a port of ea.ll for tourists is bringing about thus change, according to Tom White, Hollywood direc- tor.

visited thprp rprpnttv u-ith the Huntington ex- pedition. Until a very few years ago, Whit" recalls. Bali had very few visitors. Only a handful of white men, a few of them artists, the TOM WHITE rest representatives of the Dutch government, which controls the island, live there. But when it became known that this island of 60.000 inhabitants was virtually virgin territory so far as visitors were concerned and that the natives worked, played and worshipped as their ancestors did, untouched by civilization, it immediately became a stopplng-ofT place for 'round-the-world tourists.

The result of the "invasion" is becoming apparent. White says, although the Dutch agents are taking every means to prevent western ways from OM. "The Nevada liuckaroo" With P.oh Steele Dorothy i A 'ItiilMlnr Drntlm Comedy "Full Coverage" Cartoon "Alice's Little Tarade" i oc Tomorrow "Forgotten Women" 4 I I I I Starts Tuesday CiKORCiK O'BKIEN" in "THK MYSTKKY RANCH" In I'erson! "Hoir.o.y Mind-Kendiug Dog Here's the Three Musketeers TODAY K. TOMORROW THIS IS THE NIGHT with LILY DAM IT A CHAKLIK RltKU.KS ROLAND YOl'XO CARY liRANT Free Parkins Space TARZAN with JOHNNY WKlSSMt'LLER LAUREL HARDY In "MUSIC BOX" II 1 oS Alt hour thrr three tars Ihe nmirs h.txr met on many orrasions. thl Is the firt flmr they have hern pholocra phril tcetler.

Thev are. left tn nshl. Harold I lori. Charlie Chaplin, recently returnrH frnm a world tour. l.iiiti.ink.

1 hr are the onlv nurvivinc producer-stars, who still make pictures independent of the big film rnmp.niev serious for funny men, aren't they?.