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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1929 12 performance, It isn't acting, it is Starring In "Diamond Lil" collection of poses and tricks and voice ing of the sort enjoyed by burlesque patrons is offered by Oliva Ward. Flo Heynian, Nana May, Harry Connors, Jim Heyman and Abe Gore also are Mae West Stars In "Diamond Lil" inflections. She does a minimum of "Seven Year Love" Current Offering At Ford's Theater Play-Arts Guild Members of the Play-Arts Guild this week will continue their presentation of "Ten Nights in a Barroom." Ter. forniances will be given at tba Guild things, but she does them in a telling way. If one knew what it was one would say it was exceedingly.

At The Maryland capable entertainers. Hippodrome "Not Tonight, a comedy It would not be surprising to learn that Miss West created and acted "Dia Theater, 12 West Twenty-second street, farce by the Bert Smith Players, is mond Lil" simply to give expression to Comedy Produced By Brock Compendium Of Victorian the current attraction. Al De Clerq, her figure. And that at least has Vio Pcmhcrlon Includes Cath Vulgarities Offers Variety at 8.30 o'clock every night, beginning tomorrow. The revival of the melodrama ia the first of the season' productions by the Hoyt Smyth and Vi Shaffer take the leading roles in portraying the ex toriait validity and is extraordinarily romantic in the present day.

Besides her swaying saluesiiie domination of erine Willard And Frank Of Themes Built Around periences of stranded motorists during the stage the rest of the cast seems an Elliott In Cast Bowery In Heyday an in forced night's lodging at a country inn. "Woman Trap," featuring afterthought. Nevertheless, the other guild. It was accorded an enthusiastic reception on its initial presentation last week. actors are versatile and accomplished Hal Skelly, Chester Morris and Evelyn Brent, is the featured film.

One of the penalties incurred by Piamond Lil," with the possibly un enough and in the entertainine.it scene paralelled West, at the put on what amounts to a very Brock I'embcrton as the result of the Theater this week is a palpably low factory variety show. immense success of his current New lork hit, Dishonorable," is It would be a pity to make any brow play. It means to be. So low' brow, indeed, that it is very nearly his increased responsibility as an ac snooty about it. And it fulfills its in mistakes about "Diamond It hasn't a bit of refinement there are passages which are cheap, a few that I -'W e''e I credited eer and wizard.

The aden tenlion so well that there are a few TU- iV I ft 1 1 ill i Jff. 7, MnVkH -i timi of the theater world accordingly scattered moments when its low-brow are unpleasant. Its theme isn't smart or elevating; ifs treatment isn't either altitude almost rises into a high art, But there ia no denying thnt however especially imaginative or realistic. But is drops its brows it docs not depress it is a unique and vivid entertainment, its audience a considerable and seri happy, unaccountable, full of acci ous virtue in any theater. was drawn last night to Ford's Theater, where the producer undertook to da it a second time with a comedy by John D.

Haggert, called Tear Love." The verdict of a good-sized and extremely presentable audience, to break the news abruptly and briefly, appeared to be thumbs down. Mr. IVm-herton certainly has not here another Diamond Lil" purports to be some dents. All the rest is only Miss West and embonpoint in constant studied slow motion. And somehow that made the evening a full and amusing one.

thing like the dark red side of the I mauve decade. It is a compendium of Victorian vulgarities; a parody of Cur- A. D. E. ne and Ives prints; the rough and easy aspect of the age of bicycles and Foot Jugglers inhibitions; a burlesque on the family album; a period piece that features some old-fashioned roughhouse done up 111 quaint costumes.

hti, and it seems probable that no amount of reworking can Love" into anything but an ultra-smart, conversational affair appealing chiefly to a snuill and highly specialized section of the theatergoing public. Are Attractions On Keith's Stage It reflects the Polite fiaselte rather than Gorfei'f Lady Book of the verses fat I UfWMW'i of the Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson. Actually, of course, "Dia Six American Belfords On As it wns performed last night. mond Lil" is amusing because it coin- Program With Raynor LAST WEEK I J. C.

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urn-rimmed ofl-in line mats I hut hRv a hundred lnr-time ii Kvery wirni-nn will r-Aimire thU tt a rare find at AT THE MOVIES THIS WEEK istic slang, very patient color, a few- modern ideas about what the less re- Six American Belfords in an nn pectable of our forefathers were like usual foot-juggling act are featured llie comedy drew thirty laughs by aciiinl count during its three acts, ami the majority of them were weak and scattering. The applause was none too hearty, and it is likely that a large portion of the audience left the theater not quite sure whether they had witnessed a serious drama dealing with social problems in an epigrammatic way or a light piece intended to amuse by clever witticisms, dgepending overmuch on sllusions to the minor boredoms and infidelities of marriage. witness the remark that this week at Keith's Theater. The when on the loose, several gay situations and Mae West. One cannot for audience seemed to consider the per formance truly remarkable.

get her. "The Gold Diggers Of Broadway," With Finnic Lighlncr, At Metropolitan "The Trespasser," With Gloria Swanson, At Stanley Olyn Landrick gives an impersona She is credited with having put f29an tion in 1 on II Learn About Women Diamond Lil" together. Certainly as a play it violates all the classical unities from Me." Dick Nash and Midgie nd a lot more. It is not constructed; I'ately give a comedy act, and Buth sings "True Blue Lou." it is added up in a sacual, desultory. things and very bad things are so Boyd and Sennett make an impres The call to (lie colors Is sounded once more by Warner Brothers in haphazard fashion.

But none of that matters. However much it lacks au Ynuil be jint n- well plMfH with a TU Kt.n-O-U OOl, COAT afler ynu' Inn, hard wmt you rf when you NrM buy ll. The appHfll mnterin1 from wbirh It made at sturdy hi yon roil Id hope to find any- sion wilh accordian, violin and vocal "fidelity seems almost a new career opening tip for women." The first act introduced a number of people alike in tltta their talk was mi.xed up that it is difficult to say what llie total effect will be on any given auditor. selections of a comic sort. Harry thenticity, no matter how it ignores "The Gold 1'iggcrs of Broadway" at the Metropolitan Theater.

Like "On With the Show," this Vitnphone film Lehr is featured in a travesty on the precept a of collegiate drama labo wher an ntl JOC styles and manners of yesterday and ratories, it moves along and keeps one If has an undeniably powerful box- mart-looking. tomorrow. watching. No wonder it has so much is done in technicolor from start to smooth, literary and sometimes un usually clever. One gathered that I'r- Raynor Lehr with the Rocketeers.

it. Everything from gilded swan finish and the two pictures assay about tula Anne Catherine Willard) was a office apeal, wilh special attractions for the ladies. The star dresses exquisitely, after her brief period as a stenographer, and develops a great the chorus, and the Keithtonians, the beds to the singing of "Frankie and the same in entertainment value. If tage band, sings nhnnie." bit fed up with her husband, Oxhournr (Frank Elliott), after seven years of "On With the Show" had Betty Coinp-soii and more dramatic value, "The Raynor Lehr, the Keithtonians amount of mature charm, that never One might say it starts off in a and Rocketeers also give the opening happiness, and that she was about to act, Hello Everybody and the Gold Diggers of Broadway" has catchier songs and more lavish settings and shows considerable advance in the very begin an experiment in what she self called lewdness with the philan theless, is a little out of keeping with the nature of her role. Deserted twice by her husband, the heir to a powerful and unscrupulous business man, she Bowery saloon and that it is content to stay there.

Diamond Lil, of the day ana consort of the district boss (with whiskers), undertakes to win over a Salvation Army captain, derer, Keye (George Brent). And difficult business of color photography. ttJt finale, ''So Long Everybody," is given by the entire company. The featured motion picture is "Big Time," with Lee Tracy and Stepin Fetchit. thta they and a lot of other rulti Both films are.

wead in plot and both vated persons, pleasant and unpleas struggles to support her child, and is given many chances to suffer, and to make those sacrifices dear to the sedulously and mistakenly ape the big stage revues. and not to religion. Before she suc ant, were going away on an extended Gaieft ceeds there are an episode with a yachting party. Movie-goers, flocking to the North hearts of feminine film patrons. Her Gigolo, the return of an abandoned Clyde Bates, tramp comedian, and avenue filmhouse, are displaying more infant, tousle- headed and nearly 4, is Bebe Afmond, singer and dancer.

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Hut in Act crook lover, a murder or two, a caba.et entertainment scene, an incident closing the second act and coming like a Dostoievsky paragraph in a parody "Barriers Burned Away," and a raid by policemen in helmets. Put it altogether and its doesn't spell eilher drama or straight farce, but a downright amazing Bud enliven of the high lights of the show. Dane Not that men will not find much to II the play took a more scrioiis turn. enjoy ill iswnnson portrayal and general cut-up. Miss Eightner's antics center about her efforts to ensnare and shake down Mr.

Hliikf (Albert (ran), who weighs, at a guess, between l'7'l and 1'M pounds. She (reals him roughly and the There was no let up in the rapid fir There is an enormous anion nt of subtle illure in this soiartly-groiMiied woman, of smart phrases, with the result, that who combines sensual grace with ex I ArlTrtlinM)t. the serious moments were unconvincing and the lighter situations were overshadow etl by the iinniicnce of sad audience loves it. A forceful person treme cultivation. On the nlher hand, it is the effort to provide her with a proper selling which makes the present ality has Miss Liuhlner, an 1 she puts over Keep or perplexing events.

A lady wrought up emotionally hardly usses such a story at times unconvincing. ing the Wolf From the loor and phrase as connotation." This story is laid in the upper social one or two other snappy songs with ing evening. It hasn't been planned or written, it has been concocted with a rather shrewd ense of conventional dramatic effects, and wl.at people will laugh or stare at. Yet out of that it finds somewhere a spirit and glamor. All of this would be quite helpless without Miss West.

"Diamond Lil" is the exploitation of a personality. One scarcely knows how to describe her Four V'ASi LiiuUctls to the West The party had landed at Monte Charged with Laziness Gulltv Simply of Acidity! the manner of one who dares anybody to dislike her. Carlo, and Urtula, temporarily freed of her husband, off in Spain engaged strata of the Iop, wherein Miss Swan-son, as Marion Donnrll, is a trespasser, and wherein she may go wrong in a well-bred manner, under polite and powerful auspices. Those interested in in the obvious business of studying Who should turn up in a leading 1 about saints, continues her experi straight role but Conway Tearle, he of the raised eyebrows. He speaks ments, including a second possible 0ft.w3vy looking beneath the surface in such social pictures will do well to consider lover, Dorrith Von Mewling (Uuido the eitraordinarily muddled scheme of More (han one man today is mi" judged and mijimtly penalized beoaus with a cultivated tone harking back fifteen years to bis apprenticeship on the stage.

William liakewell has little to do as the juvenile. Nick Lucas. morals under which this one operates. Nadiso). There is a pleasant love scene between her and Acten, marred only slightly by their tendency to indulge in platitudes about the relative merits of a not understood physical condition rather than any lack of willingnesa or The picture opens in a novel man running the big hits to the music of of love and lust.

The modern sculptured bobs do wonders to bring out your personality. But like other present-day modes of rranirilir the hair, tliev call attention his own guilar, rates the most close-ups and pretty much carries the show- ahility. So many of nn are only half ourselves, only fifty per ent. effirient, be Then th play enters a period of confusion, with character of little on bis own shoulders. Ann I'enniiigton, the same as ever, Reproduction of Sheffield Silver Plate A wide selection, ranging from ntnart little pieces in Colonial design at $1.75, up to 11 I embellished waite and trsvs at JSfl.on.

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Nancy Welford, transplanted ncid system. Acidity is brought on by our nn lier, and the photography is often strikingly good. Supporting Miss Swan-son, and not allowed to do much elsp. are Tlobert Ames, TurneM H. Pratt and Henry B.

Walthall. So much does inline' suffer in the course of the action that the happy ending comes as a welcome salve to the sympathetic spectator. Artistically it is inexcusable, taking away all dramatic force, and making the whole business seem lather lame. The logical end is obvious, and the more discriminating patron will recognise it at once. At that point he may shut his eyes for three minutes and leave with his tears undried.

''The Trespasser" is shown 11.30 A. M. and 1.23, 3.3S, 5.41, 7.S1 and 10 P. M. P.

K. The play, indeed, seems to run away with the author in the middle of Act III nd has to be checked and brought to elne by main force. Toward the end the quips and quibbles are abandoned entirely for sentiment and dramatic situation, but it is too late; the chief characters go illogical ways toward an unconvincing solution. from Broadway to a leading part in one swoop, needs movie training and shows it. Her voice just won't do.

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