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16 SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 11, 1932 TPART mi i mdiliJmsy aaaataaaaaMaaaWaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ARTS WELDED IN r--7. LITTLE THEATER -t Original Type Music Drama to Be Presented I'DjStWlWwlIu I "AS HUSBANDS GO" HE'S PRETTY GOOD II lllWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIII)ll)ltlllllllMIllyilt I ITfy Whitney Williams "Seventy Thousand Witnesses" "Seventy Thousand Witnesses" RECEPTION SCHEDULED FOR OPENING Removal of Ryan Studio to Nrw Quarters Will Celebrated With Dance mi 1 "it 4 1 HELEN AH AG AN AND OLGA BACLANOVA Back to the Belasco ttage, a concluded, come Helen Gahagan and Olga Baclanova, for saking heavy drama for musical comedy, "The Cat and the soon a a San Francisco run is northern city. Miss Gahagan Baclanova in 4j Kenneth Thomson, Who plays the "other woman husband in "As Husbands current offering at El Capitan, with Pauline Frederick as star. School's Fall Term to Open at Playhouse The fall term of the Pasadena Community Playhouse School of the Theater will begin October 10.

next. the course oi study covers two years with a post graduate course available, studies Include history and literature of the theater, acting technique, voice and diction, mike.up, JV I French, Ger-v I man, social in 1 1, I il usage, current usage, current theater, euryth-mics, fencing, stage rehearsal, technical stage, scenic design, costume and costume design. This school is the outgrowth of years of creative effort and con tinuous development. Two out standing examples of the schooling offered by the Pasadena Community Playhouse in their school are Mary Mason and Onslow Stevens, graduates of the school, who are now under contract with and Universal studios, respectively. Miss Mason was seen recently in "The Age of Consent" and Stevens appeared in "The Radio Patrol." Both have appeared in many roles at the Playhouse.

If PAULINE PROTECTED BY PLENTY OF CHAPERONES Form Held Similar to That of Opera Bouffe Activities of Tributary Groups Reviewed BY KATHERINE T. VON BLON A sort of contagion of the Een alssance pervades the Tributary Theater, whose obsession ever the drama as a welder of the arts, and whose power of expression Is gradually expanding to include not only drama but every kindred art In this connection it Is Interesting to note the activities of a group of dramatic and musical artists who are steadily developing with very strong and permanent resources within themselves, an organization which shall present musically articu lated drama new and delightful contours. Cedric Hart, prominently with opera in America and abroad, has written the book and lyrics of "Napoli," and Oaetano Merola, director of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Company, is author of the musical embroidery. The composer and librettist feel that they are In the way of developing an original type of muslco-dramatic expression, romantic, gay, a utue fantastic, as is this bizarre age, and adorned with certain comic interpolations. The form is perhaps more or less on the order of the French opera bouffe, with lovely and distinctive music and gay Neapolitan theme and locale.

The leading part, a sort of "Marouf" type of thing, has been written, with Mario Chamlee, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, In mind, and Chamlee is very much Interested and hopes to be able to sing and act it. Hart has written an intensely dramatic part for Sheldon Lewis. Douglass Montgomery Leaves Douglass Montgomery leaves next week for New York, after refusing two very definite picture offers. The erstwhile Pasadena Community Playhouse favorite is considering "A Trip to Pressburg" with the Shu-berts, a modernly articulated drama done several seasons ago by Max Reinhardt. Though the play is in the "Grand Hotel" manner with its breathless, swift feeling of multiple tempos, it has an entirely original quality and plot.

The other play which intrigues young Montgomery through the tremendous drama of a sort of Jekyll and Hyde complexity is "Supper With a Fiend" by Hulbert Pootner. Also Montgomery is so enthusiastic over the vehemence and beauty of "The Dark Journey," a drama forged about Wasserman's "Casper Hoaser," that he has bought an option on the play, hoping that he may persuade a producer of its merits. He would also like to play "Love Story," a tender Idyll by 8. N. Behrman.

"The Passionate Pilgrim," a story of the questing youth of Shakespeare before he became known as a writer, has fascinating facets, too, accord ing to Montgomery. Porter Emerson Browne Play Porter Emerson Browne has Just completed a play written around the talents of that original mimetic artist and dancer, Jerre (Miles Mer-shon.) predicated upon the life of the Chevalier de Eon, of the court of Louis XV. Particularly Interesting is the fact that the chevalier was noted for his grace as a dancer and also that it was he who arranged the secret meeting with Elizabeth of Russia and who, after obtaining the papers of state, escaped in the disguise of a French demoiselle. The rumor Is that the play is to ohe (Smest CHOOL OF DAN "Seventy Thousand Witnesses' starts off with a bang and gathers momentum. It rates as one of the speediest audience pictures screened in many a week and offers a most novel twist in story construction.

A star football player Is killed during a long run down the field, before seventy thousand spectators, No one was near him when he fell. The doctors can find no explanation for his death. An autopsy gives no evidence of foul play. Yet it is apparent that he died due to no natural causes and therein lies the plot, which David Landau, as chief of detectives, clears up in satisfactory fashion in the closing reef of the film. High tension runs through the latter half of the production, cur ing those scenes and sequences par ticularly In which the detective or ders replayed by the two teams the plays leading up to Johnny Mack Brown's fatal run.

The audience is sufficiently keyed up by the turn of events to await almost breath lessly the final denouement. The picture has been given admirable treatment, both by the director, Ralph Murphy, and Garrett Fort, who wrote the screen play Irom P. J. Wolfson's and Allen Rivkln's adaptation of Cortlandt Fitzsim mons's novel. David Landau and Charlie Rug- gles share the greater portion of the personality interest.

Dorothy Jordan, briefly seen, and Phillips Holmes enact the romantic leads, with Holmes's role unusually dra matic. Johnny Mack Brown, Lew Cody. Kenneth Thomson and J. Farrell MacDonald prominently support with excellent performances Seventy Thousand witnesses' should by all means be included on your "Must" list of pictures to see. America" Another corking film you shouldn't miss is America the latest columnist screen effusion.

Lew Ayres stars, in a character that has gained widespread fame over the radio, and turns in a neat Job of acting. Taken by and large, tnis produc tion ranks next to "Blessed Event-In the heroizlng of a Broadway chatter writer. It is witty, brisk, with the columnist biting off, so to speak, more than he can chew, when he mixes in the affairs of the town's leading gangster. The closing reels are especially melodramatic and you'll follow Ayres through his various exploits with more than casual interest. The only weak spot in the characterization lies in the drearily dull gossip notes he dictates to Maureen O'Sul-livan, his secretary, for his readers to lap up avidly the next morning.

Tay Garnett. the director, has pitched his action in high tempo. William Anthony McGulre, the au- thor and dialogue writer, apparent ly anticipated Garnett's type of directing and wrote his tory with this in mind. Both are deserving of praise. Miss O'Sullivan engages as the secretary whom Ayres cannot consider romantically, and others are Edward Arnold, Louis Cal-hern, Walter Catlett, Alan Dine-hart and Rollo Lloyd.

Lloyd, particularly, gives a tip-top portrayal. "Thirteen Women" No doubt Tiffany Thayer's "Thirteen Women" was an interesting novel to read, but on the screen its picturizatlon Is an utterly implausible tale of mediocre worth. After the adaptors and director finish in their attempt to establish a mystic mood, only an episodic and hodgepodge story is left for popular consumption. "Thirteen Women." directed by George Archalnbaud. boasts no stars.

There is, in fact, only one striking performance. Myrna Loy's, and the plot concerns her mode of revenging herself on the girls, now grown into women, who shunned her at boarding school because she was half-caste. Irene Dunne. Jill Esmond. Mary Duncan.

Kay Johnson, Florence El-dridge, Julie Haydon and Peg Ent- whistle are among the feminine members of the cast, and Ricardo Cortez, unfortunately. Is lost in a minor role. All are capable enough, but the parts themselves lack color and conviction. Twins Launch Ninth Season as Instructors With the opening of the fall term tomorrow, the Misses Velma and Selma Lytell launch their ninth season of dance Instruction In Los Angeles, where they established their studio of the dance after several seasons of stage danc ing ranging from vaudeville to grand opera. Limiting their studio activities to the social and club circles the Misses Lytell have presented their students before Los Angeles' exclusive and cultural audiences and support of well known charities which include the Hollywood Children's Hospital, the Overseas Club, the Community Boys' Lodge and numerous church benefits, besides being called upon by various lead era to create dance pageants tor music, drama and poetry societies.

Fall Activity to Start Soon Marts Oatman, the founder of the Mart Oatman School' of the Theater, has recently returned from New York City to re-establish her studio in Hollywood and. in con-Junction with the Hollywood school, will maintain a branch studio at the Beattie Little Theater in Westwobd Village. While located in New York the past three years. Miss Oatman made an intensive study of the new phases of the drama and stagecraft developed the past few seasons and will introduce these la her teachings her. Formal opening of the Ernest E.

Ryan school of dancing will azt place Thursday evening with a reception and dance in the new quarters in the recently completed Cecil B. De Mllle Building on Souo Western avenue, near Wllshire. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ryan will officiate as hosts with a number of leaders of the younger social set assisting in receiving the guttta.

The school was moved from its former quarters on South Figue-roa street to the new location oa Western avenue in order to be mora accessible to the constantly increasing number of students from the Wllshire district, Beverly Hills and Hollywood who desire to master the latest steps in ballroom dancing. According to Mr. and Mrs. Ryan, the opening Thursday evening will set a new mark in the manner of presenting an event of this kind, with the same social background that ushers in the start of the au tumn social season at the flnen of country clubs. While the school's formal ooen- ing does not take place until Thursday evening private and claw instructions are now beinc civeu.

The letest steps In ba'lroom dic ing will be taught by Ernest Ryan, president of the Associated Dancing Teachers of Southern Califor nia, who recently returned from tha annual convention of the Danctr Masters of America. The Ryan school now locjta in the same building as the Erne Belcher Celeste School of Danclna. but with each organization operating Independently. Fifth School Year Opens at Murray Studio Entering its fifth vear. the Btul Murray School for Stage and Screen announces tap, ballet and acrobatic classes, which start Thursday.

Bud Murray is credited with a long list of stage end screen productions her and in New York and the teaching of many stage and screen stars. A special professional tab musi cal comedy class Dersonallv tansht by Bud Murray once a week is or of the Innovations for the year. a he same staff of instructors. B'j! and Gladys Murray. Marv Franrw Taylor, Byron Cramer and Madse Cleveland, who heads the hm 'rw theater in dramatics, will aeain eon.

duct the work. Children are eradai and put in their respective claae according to their abiiitv advanc ing according to progress of thlr work. brotdciftinf ftitecnft, ttlkinc-pichjre technique, theme nuntgemtnt, and all etsential lubitdi. Two year coure leading to diploma. Faculty under per-tonal tuperriiion of Gilmor Brown.

Enrollment limited. TTtit the General Manager for full information. HAMILL Collect Tha Thafra SCHOOL OF THE THKATBE Waw rmanentlr (orated In Rllr4 WU HOLLYWOOD BLVD. In Wtirwood Village El Encanto lldg. ba given tba flrtt week In Oeleber.

S3S5S. for profettional apptiranc. YEAR HE. 527-HE. 1471 i BOVLEVAKO CEeaUlew 1S Any Branch of DRAMA Stage, Screen Public Speaici'g Voice Building Musical Com a a Make-up.

Or Talcphon MAdinon 2UI DRAMA SCHOOL OF THE THEATRE ing, reported a sellout in the be tried out at Pasadena Community Playhouse later in the season. Playgnild Outdoor Theater At the Casa de Largo Vista Art Colony the corner-stone has been laid for the Play-guild Outdoor The Play-guild, a New York and Hollywood organization, composed of artiste, actors, playwrights and directors, is under the direction of Mme. Katharine de Justh, Hungarian writer and dra matist, and has to its credit a score of successful theatrical events. This week-end's program features the Indian singer Yowlache and dramatic offerings. Plays and Players The Play and Player Group of Los Angeles Junior College presented an Interesting group of one acts at the Pine and Star Open-Air Theater at Big Bear.

The plays were "Oh. Doctor." "Up from the Grave" and "The Valiant," directed by Harold Turney of the drama department of the Junior College assisted by Kay Brace and Dick Rltterbrand. First Year of Teaching Plan Held Success Paul Gerson, dramatic coach, an nounces the completion of the first year of his new plan of teaching. For twenty-seven successive years the Paul Gerson Dramatic Schools were conducted on the Pacific Coast and in Chicago. From these schools emerged graduates who have since become nationally known on the stage and the screen.

Four years ago Gerson decided to make a dras tic change In his method of teach ing. He closed his last local school and for three years went into re tirement, devoting the time to in tensive research work in voice, speech and expression. A year ago he began to teach again, but did not reopen his school. He now gives his entire time to coaching personally a limited number of ambitious young men and women in stage and screen work, as well as in the principles of drama and voice and sneecn and expression. cfyyaru DANCING TEL.

6721 roiNJoaf ARTISTS NOW FORMING FALL CLASSES. 4 Ctudrnti receie thorough prtflial tninint, tt well round rhforci-ical bidgiound, tt the Sihool of the Theatre. Curriculum ii httti on fiftrn yer' uccriiful thcitticil production. Couriet in diction, drunttic trt, ridio Pasadena Community Playhouse ms. tL molino vt Association mb.

OftMOg MOWN. fcwW OirH, CMAJ. MICKfTT, 0nr Manger, Fiddle," outstanding New York was last seen at the Belasco in "Grand Hotel," they made me pronounce 'nephew' all wrong. I fussed, but it didn't do any good. I insist there is a right and a wrong way to 'pronounce 'nephew I'm from Boston, you you see." Ramon Novarro paid her a visit after the show still in that violent red wig, that startling Tyrolean costume and alpenstock.

But when he kissed her hand, as Ramon does, she somehow managed to be the graceful Boston Pauline rather than the villgar Emmie Sykes of the play even if the effect was a bit boggling. Pauline says she adores the younger generation of today. "But I'm scared to death of them, too," she grinned. School Begins Sixteenth Year in Hollywood The sixteenth year of the Hollywood Community School of the The ater opens tomorrow. For the benefit of those in- terested Neely Dickson, direc- tor of the school, has on display rues listing the names of her I former students I whose names I are now fea tured In stage and screen pro- rmrtinn VT That the reputation of Hol lywood Community School of Diana.

LAvWTON the Theater is widespread is evidenced by the fact mat students from almost every State in the Union are already enrolled in the school, where classes open tomorrow in every branch of the theater, including acting, voice ana aiction, stage and screen tech nique, radio broadcasting, stage- crart. pantomime and dancing. Special drama and dancing classes are maintained for children. Under Miss Dickson's direction rasting has already started for the first group of plays to be presented as part of the course of study. Inasmuch as it is Miss Dickson's pol- uy wj give jier stuaenis opportunity to appear in public performances during their enrollment.

Among new students is Diana Lawton, daughter of Mme. Inga Julievna, opera singer, who plans to follow her mother's career. Play Event of Early October The production of "This Thing Called Love," by Edwin Burke, is scheduled to be presented by members of the College of the Theater early in. October at the Hollywood Playhouse, according to Katherine Hamill, director of the school. Many members of the cast of the play, the last to be staged during the summer semester, were formerly cast in A.

A. Milne's "Meet the Prince." which recently closed a successful run at the Hollywood Playhouse. A new junior class, which will begin studying the prerequisites of acting preparatory to all stage, screen, radio or platform work, is now registering at the College of the Theater in Hollywood. Gradu ates of this class are declared fitted for directing work under professional direction. Headline Spot Won by Dancer Merna Fortune, who received an of her acrobatic training under the direction of Sam Mintz, acrobatic director of the Mints and Dinus studio, makes her second appearance in los Angeles at Pantages Theater In Fanchon and Marco's "Veil" idea this week.

She wai seen at Grau-man's Chinese Theater about five months' ago. Bobby Root. Up dancer of the Mints and Dinus studios, has been placed by Mints with Larry Ceballos tn his production, the Fan chon and Marco -Sally Idea, hit of last season, is the offer "Tonight or Never," and Miss Cumnock Opens New Drama and Stage Classes On the 26th inst. Cumnock School of Expression begins its thirty-eighth year in this city. While the organization has undergone many changes consistent with progress, the principles established by its founder, Addle Murphy Grigg, and by her successor, Helen A.

Brooks, remain the same. From its inception Cumnock School of Expression has stressed the individual. Each pupil, therefore, is studied with reference to his or her needs, interests and abilities. Many major and minor productions during the year offer opportunity for each student to test him self in various roles for which he is being constantly prepared by classes in voice and diction, deportment, gesture, pantomime, make-up, interpretation, story-telling, public speaking, etc. Each teacher in the school has specialized in his or her particular line of work.

The list of graduates includes many names known on the legitimate stage, in motion pictures and in the educa tional world, where many are hold ing responsible positions teaching oral English and dramatics. SPEECH CORRECTION TO BE LECTURE TOPIC B. Lewis, a former associate of the Hajek clinic of the University of Vienna, and recent head of the de partment for speech defects at the University of Illinois school of med icine, is to lecture on "The Correc tion of Defective Speech" Tuesday evening at the studio of the Vienna school, on Lexington avenue, Holly wood. While in Vienna Miss Lewis le tured to more than 2000 American and European physicians on her method for overcoming stuttering, stammering and other forms of vocal handicaps and the restoration of lost voices. She has also achieved extensive clinical work in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Rome.

STUDIO PLANS FOR BUSY FALL SEASON One of the Instructors of the Norma Gould School, who is planning some interesting work for students during tha next few months. r' 0 i if -S fa "4 7r( XVM TpST i i I -i it Si fh .11 i. -i KaBMBBttaBBBvaaaaaaaaaaajBMMaaa Helen Cartwright i PI KATHERINE BY ALMA WIIITAKER With Pauline Frederick chirping before her dressing-room mirror as she dona a most reprehensible red wig for "As Husbands Go" at El Capitan, lt seemed perfectly rea sonable to And her cautiously chaperoned by (1) an adoring but watchful mamma, (2) a nice degnl-fled aunt, (3) a meditative bulldog and (4) her attorney, MaJ. Herbert. (It Isn only the doctors who en-Joy boudoir privileges these days.) "This red wig makes me feel so devilish." laughs Pauline, who is obviously having the time of her life in this play.

"Perhaps I make Emmie Sykes of Iowa a bit too slap-stlek. but I get drunk on the laughter of that Joyous audience outside and want to cut up with even more antics than I do. People want to laugh nowadays. I feel like a public benefactor and all that. "Oh, yes.

of course, I shall go back to tragedy If I find a good play and when the world gets brighter. But right now I'm all for giggles, preferably provoked by myself." It was, of course, irresistible to twit Pauline about the title of her play, Pauline having shed four spouses In her time. "Yes, we debated about billing it as 'As Husbands Go with Pauline she giggled. "Husbands have sort of been my silly streak, haven't they? I really am reasonably Intelligent In other ways. But at least I had the courage to walk out when I was unhappy.

I simply won't be unhappy." "Are mamma, auntie, the bulldog and the attorney on guard to see that the red wig doesn't lead you into any more matrimonial mischief?" we wanted to know. "I refuse to commit myself." laughed Pauline. "I'm in a dangerous mood. I rather think every woman should wear a red wig once in a way." "So far we've managed to restrict it to the theater," sighed mamma, as Pauline beamed at herself in the mirror and did some fond little satisfied pats here and there on this really alarming head-dress. I mean, even when It was resting on a faceless wooden block, it looked thoroughly naughty.

Above Pauline's reckless eyes these days. "She can still bake a good announced mamma as though as serting an extenuating virtue but we have to recall that that, too, is one of her most dangerous tricks that alluring dash of domes There was a charming note from Joan Crawford, whose mother she played In "The Modern Age," ad' dressed to "My darlingest mother "I adored boing Joan's mother in that picture" says Pauline, who has Just finished "Phantom of Crestwood" for a far more reprehensible role. "I was unhappy In that last picture, chiefly because SON OF FILM STAR NOW DRAMA PUPIL Jean Hersholt, Jr. Who is now studying and appearing in the productions presented at the Edward Clark Dramatic Academjr. -4 La GIN GO "Tk Ih.l t'tmt, fttjmiaittl rtoiuctiann in fffetiittU HtuM." egl.ler now f.r new fall term heflaalag Sept.

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