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MAY 1931 PART I. 1 WEDNESDAY MORNING. Cbeatcts 3nurscnicius entertainments; Actress Proves ersatility SCREEN DETECTIVE HAS UNUSUAL RECORD ARTISTRY OF QUARTET INSPIRING PLAYERS SEEK FOREIGN YARNS Edward G. Robinson to Join Searchers in Europe 3' FOR 5 years you have been' discussing Fine Musicianship Marks Initial Appearance Here of Brosa Players James Gleasbn Hurt in Fall From Polo Pony- Eric Von Strohrim III With his high-pressure methods, this screen menace Is in reality the mildest of men, a genial soul. Years ago, after five years on the stage, Kelsey started his screen career as a director, directing James Cruze, now a producer, in some of his earlier productions.

Later he decided to devote his entire time to the portrayal of the roles to which he is particularly suited, appearing with such stars as Nazimova, May Allison, Milton Sills, Mary Pickford, Rod La Rocque, Dolores Costello, Monte Blue, Evelyn Brent and others, in a career that has been unbroken since the old Biograph and Essanay days. Among Kelsey's best-known film appearances are "On Trial," "The Donovan Affair." "Tenderloin," "The Gorilla" and "Subway Express." He will next be seen as a police inspector in "Side Show," with Winnie Lightmr. One of Hollywood's unusual stories comes from Fred A. Kelsey, veteran film detective, who has been shot and killed for the 400th time on the screen and still lives. Eclipsing his own record as a target for blank cartridges, Kelsey also claims to have made about 700 arrests in his long career as a screen cop.

This is probably a conservative estimate, since the actor's grizzled mustache, derby and cigar have been well known to picture fans since 1909. Kelsey walks like a detective, talks like one and looks like one. He has often aided the police in solving real crimes. Yet he has never been inside a police station, and he has never been in a real jail. Known as "hard-boiled Kelsey" or "Kelsey the terrible." to countless audiences who have hissed (Reprinted from Tuesday's late edition.) BY ISABEL MORSE JONES The Brosa Quartet of London, making its first bow to Los Angeles, played at U.C.L.A.

last evening and left an unforgettable impression of fine artistry. Antonio Ptomaine Poisoning Brosa, first violinist, David Wise, sec (Reprinted from Tuesday's late edition.) BY GRACE KINGSLEY While native American stories tre, of course, all right, producers ee no reason for not taking a look ond. Leonard Rubens, violinist, and Anthony Pini. violoncellist, form the personnel. Again Mrs.

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the nation's foremost music benefactor, has generously shared her impeccable taste in chamber music with grateful listeners. Royce Hall was well filled and appreciation was expansive. The program consisted of the Mozart quartet in flat. Hunting quartet, the A minor quartet by Brahms and the minor "Death and the Maiden" quartet by Franz Schubert. It is not possible to say World Changes," which is a sort of around in Europe.

And producers aren't the only ones these days who are going abroad to look for stories. Various artists also are traveling or Astor in her pretty dressing-room the other day, and we learned that Mary is writing a novel about moderns, founded on a true story. liisr liiii Mpmi Msmmmm EJ MM gangless gang yarn, in which an entirely oblique view of racketeers is taken, with the hero a private and respectable citizen who is asso ciating with underworld characters that one performance was better JOE BROWN RETURNS IN ELMER ROLE planning to travel and have a personal talk with authors from a motive which furnishes an entirely fresh aspect and treatment and which might well become a Sunday-school story, if necessary. than' the other. Three composers so widely separated in expression must receive very different treat 2 and theatrical ment.

but each was permeated with 3 Gleason and Stroheim III Two of our favorite filmland folk an indefinable, pulsating life that producers in other lands. Mary Pickford, were on the ill and injured list is characteristic of the Brosa Quar yesterday. They are James Glea- tet. These players in ensemble are nearer the Kreisler ideal than any son and Eric Comedian's Admirers Turn Out to View Lardner Play at El Capitan one player, except that master. von oironeim.

James Glea have heard. Their intonation, mu historians will; make him one 0 this era's contributions to the record of the world. FRIDAY NIGHT you will come closer to him than you ever may again Friday night you will meet face to face this strange, ruthless phenomenon of contemporary times. We will present "THE PUBLIC ENEMY'' as the greatest contribution of the screen. We are sure it will astound you we know you cannot svoid its realism we know its stark, unadorned truthfulness will make you say "here is more than entertainment here is a human document of the very life of today!" Warner Bros.

UQllYW Friday at Ope p. m. Warner Bros. DOWNTOWN Friday at a.m. 3f THE SECOND OF THE BOBBY JONES SERIES HOW I PLAY tfOLF son was In bed, sicianship and innate taste can be taken for granted although it is unusual enough.

Subtleties of tone suffering from the effects of a spill from his volume, of almost imperceptibly changing quality or sympathy and nuance between artists, were of the pony while playing polo at the Riviera t- a rtr! i ri hi, jim Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin are all reputed to be looking for stories while abroad. The latest Hollywood star to plan uch a trip is Edward G. Robinson, tvho has just finished "Five-Star Final" for Warners, and who will travel in October, visiting Bucharest, wheri he was born; Vienna, London and Paris, on the lookout both for foreign screen stories and tage plays. In the meantime, the story just handed Robinson for reading, and tthich will probably be his next vehicle, gives a new angle on the gangland stories, for which the public 3s said to be clamoring despite the fight to keep them off the screen. The story is called "The utmost importance.

Country Club field Sunday. His ankle was These are young men with the flair of ambition and of power. That they could play Mozart with the pure restraint, the perfect Evalyn Knapp Is achieving unusual popularity in a wide variety of film roles, having appeared in eight features in less than a year's time. She has an important part in "The Millionaire," now at both Warner's Hollywood and Downtown Theaters. badly wrenched, and he will be phrasing, the modest deference t.

mm a few days, which they displayed last evening is nothing short of marvelous. True their Brahms was brighter in color than Brahms is when at its deep Von Stroheim ELR.ICM Von is confined to his home with a severe attack of est, but it was beautiful, masterful ntomaine poisoning, but was re playing at all times. (Reprinted from Tuesday's lata edition.) Like an army, Elmer Kane travels on his stomach. A good part of the way, at any rate. He is portrayed with gusto by Joe E.

(Elmer) Brown at El Capitan Theater, this week and next. The occasion is a return engagement, "by popular demand," of the stage and screen comedian (the one with the mouth) in Ring Lardner's comedy, "Elmer the Great." The premiere last night was virtually a duplication of the one on December 21 of last year. Joe admirers were out in full force to laugh. But about Elmer's stomach. Beyond eating and sleeping Gentry-ville's star baseball pitcher cares for little else.

This peculiarity compels Brown to masticate two meals in full view of the audience. For the rest, he goes, against his will, with the New York baseball club, pitches them to victory, and finally makes the "world serious." Back home there is a girl waiting. Elmer comes home. The first act is devoted to high Arliss Vehicle Breaks Records at Two Houses GANGLAND FILM RATED DIFFERENT ported as resting easily last night. scnuDert, as tney played it.

was indescribably tender and had the HE TOTSXOMoltROVV simplicity of greatness. All who would hear truly superlative quartet playing should par Heard on the Boulevard Met little Polly Walters yesterday, looking cut in a new sports outfit. She declared herself all out of take of Mrs. Coolidge's bounty on George Arliss in "The Million breath, both from excitement about Spicy drama of modern youth "YOUNG SINNERS" Fox Picture last Par Spencer Tracy 'Mulrk Millioni1 Laurel-Hardy Lou Koilnff and Hir Band Friday afternoon at 3, when the Brosa quartet will play Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy. Enemy' Reveah Inside Expose of Crime, Announcement Says WURRY! olferi Don't miss thi ArtS demand et the "The Public Enemy," starting at i return of th amp's Serenlh and irand "THE SECRET SIX" ff ALLY BEERY M.

Rambeau lewla Stone M-G-M Ptrinre Mickey Moune "THE MOOSE HUNT aire," now playing in the second and final week at both the Warner Brothers' Hollywood and Downtown theaters, promises to be one of the outstanding box-office successes of the season. Playing to large audiences since the dual opening ten days ago, "The Millionaire" continues to pile up new attendance records daily. "The Millionaire" affords Arliss his first modern role, as the aged financier who retires from business and then returns. ture th whole world talking obout Brilliant Warner Brothers Hollywood and f. tirst feature PERSON lighting Elmer's habits.

The second Mi. Downtown Theaters Friday, is de MR.0EORCE ARUU BOBBY JOfiGS turns to melodrama, with Elmer "in a jam" over gambling losses. But Warners taking up her option and on account of having just flown home from San Francisco, where she had been visiting friends. It seems that the studio heads thought so highly of her work in "Five Star Final" and "Smart Money," that they decided not to let her go. Silver King, the far-famed hcrse of the late Fred Thomson, will soon be seen in the films again.

I ran Into J. McGowan, our old friend of the serial days, at the Hollywood Plaza Hotel yesterday, and he let me in on the fact that he is starting production on a western with Ned Thomson, brother of Fred. Col. Tim McCoy also will play a featured part. If you don't meet Lew Cody in 4 most irJIilTM: a first of ths series he outsmarts his enemies and different -j ana BY MOLLIE MERRICK (Copyright.

1931. by North American Newspaper Alliance) Now that Jack Gilbert is going niiiionsfre i "how i nay golf- J. rl 1 Mm 1 Mm I 3 makes, as already indicated, the biggest league. 'pi underworld pic- 1 ture yet pro duced. IVllYN NP DAVID MANNERS JAMtS CAGNtY NOAH BitPT Brown's stylized comedy, his in ft THE PUTTER back to the subtle and sophisticated I Ignoring the thing, he has run the gamut during the stormy period of his talking- Hill STARTS TOMORROW WHEELER WOOLSEY Cracked Nnti" Last Day WARNER BAXTER "Diictom' Vi'lven" Slim Martin and Band picture career.

matter of-fact details that usually go to Lewis to Head Talent at Cafe 7 credible facial gymnastics, proved amply gratifying to his admirers last night. At the end of the second act, he stepped out of character long enough to express his delight with the audience. Producer Henry Duffy, clean plays and diet From the sparkling feathery quality of Molnar's "Olympia" which make up the his accustomed haunts, these days, gangland film The Public became 'One wonderful Night in movies, he has passed through the various stages of sailor, gangster and other he-man types. Now in ing as an abstract principle. He also told a joke about a "drunk" Enemy" is said Z.lb Time UaiIv it is because he is probably swimming out in the front yard of his new beach home near Malibu.

He has bought Pauline Frederick's house, situated near the home of to i Joe Lewis, cafe entertainer, will head the talent assembled for the reopening of George Olsen's Washington Boulevard Cafe, which will who staggered into a theater where he was appearing, five years ago. fAI'hrough the "Candlelight" he will come back to the gentleman who has nothing on his mind but his hair and nothing The drunk made a thorough LAST 5 DAI 4 JOHN BOLES LOIS WIL80N-GENEVIEVE TOBIN Aba Lyman and Band OR. 1104 and All Acencles Laura La Plante and William Set neart of the inderworld in an expose of E.DWAR.D Woods take place tomorrow night. nuisance of himself by shouting ter. He says that he loves the to concern him but the cut of his jjewiss tun-making talents are waistcoat.

crime and criminals, politics and said to have brought him consider solitude down there. Saw young Carl Laemmle walk able renown throughout the East Such a gentleman need not have a deep booming voice. He may be politicians. The cast of the new feature in Last season he was the featured ing about his studio domain the other day. and he said that he was snauow at win.

his tailor is more eludes James Cagney, Edward comedian in "The Little Show," musical comedy. feeling all swollen up with pride Woods. Jean Harlow and others. aloud at intervals. He culminated this erratic procedure by at length rising and demanding, in stentorian tones, if there were a doctor in the house.

In the rear a man stood up. "I am a doctor." he said. The drunk waved a hilarious hand skyward. "Hy'ah, doc," he greeted, and sat down. A large company is associated Sharing the program with "The CLARA BOW In important than his tone.

And com edy singularly light-footed com edy may be just the thing for Gil bert. The reason is that he had learned from the sport page of a New York newspaper that an eastern boxer had dropped his own unimpressive 'DISHONORED' TO Public Enemy" will be the second Bobby Jones golf picture. In this the king of golf shows how to play "KICK IN" ON THE STAGE START RUx TODAY lb1 CONRAD EM 6. 35c name and blossomed forth with the moniker, Carl Laemmle. The new the tricky off-the-green shots About Sylvia Sydney Sylvia Sydney looks about 16 UNA BASQUETTE in Pertonl Carl Is a featherweight, and his "Dishonored" comes to the United NAG EL sec BROOEC with the comedian in "Elmer the Great." chief among its members She's one of the girls imported by a studio to build up the sex-appeal weight is exactly that of the pro ducer.

Artists Theater screen today. Josef being Mia Marvin, Ruth Matteson Western Film Due Tomorrow angle. The organization has art in Ruth Chatterton, rugged virile As Lowell Sherman left the thea Helen Keers, Lottie Williams, Leon von Sternberg directed. Marlene Dietrich and Victor McLaglen are ter after witnessing Mrs. Leslie Car B9S1H KEUON (IIUUnirGKEllMSO fl BIG ijj quality in George Bancroft, and ard Strong.

Harry Hollingsworth, William Robyns and Joseph De Ste- tne leading players. ters performance of Mother God beauty in lots of young ladies, in The supporting cast includes Lew dam in "The Shanghai Gesture," the MARLENE DIETRICH In "DISHONORED" wilt VICTOR McLAGLEN eluding Carole Lombard. But sex fani. The play itself is "early Lardner, (1 EARING Cody, Gustav von Seyffertitz, War other right, he remarked to Lou thats another matter. And Sylvia ner Oland and Barry Norton.

Payne, "Well, Lou. I think the lit The Million Dollar Theater will present "The Conquering Horde" on the screen, starting tomorrow. Six bjaney nas peculiar allure. Only once, in Brown's "radio" speech, is there a flash of his later, tie girl's got a future." TYPEWRITER HISTORY We had a chat with Mary mad humor. The first typewriter introduced into England was by Sir Alfred 'BEIASCOXSS aI8'Sj She's a tiny little thing who looks as If she had escaped from her governess to come looking for a motion-picture Job.

She tells me she was born tn 1910. That she was at work at the Theater Oeatcrs amusements; entertainments Yarrow, the famous shipbuilder, Ptt TMI CUBREMT Mt VOM OUAMATlC SCNSATIQM "Street Scene" Actor Plans to wno has Just celebrated his nine 11 a rat. tieth birthday anniversary. He Guild school at 15. And a certain acts of vaudeville are also scheduled on the program.

The film feature has been adapted from the stcry by Emerson Hough, author cf "The Covered Wagon." The cast of players includes Richard Arlen, Fay Wray and others. The bill will also include a news-reel and a musical cartoon. bought the first dozen that came to this country from America sixty-four years ago. No one hi his cleanness of diction and effortless enunciation convince us that here is a lady who knows things about firm could use them, so he had to mu ii mm Call on Mayor When George Humbert, who plays the Italian musician in "Street the stage and not an escaped school child as we first suspected. advertise for a typist.

But as no one in England knew what a typist I IB rai AVI I 1 was, ne naa to advertise for "A When she gets to talking about herself and she tells me, by the way, that despite the very thorough iV shorthand writer who can nlav the Scene," having its final perform piano!" Eventually he found a young interview Diograpny which the stu 1 ance at the Mayan Saturday night, arrives in San Francisco Monday man wno quicKiy mastered the new dlo puts out about her, every inter wL7 lnhirumeni, mat is nowadays as viewer begins at the beginning with "Now, where were you born?" She commonplace an object as a foun tain pen. for the northern premiere of the Elmer Rice drama, he plans to make an early call on Mayor An- FI TWO WEEKS ONLY has a lot thats interesting to say, Repeals Story Often MOVING PORTRAITURE The newest thing in portraiture is a moving picture of yourself and it is made in a few minutes by a new automatic camera cabinet. You take a scat inside a brilliantly lighted inclosure and the attendant engages the patron in some conversation. At the right moment he touches a button and the apparatus is thrown into action. Your animated portrait is made on a film and the pictures are automatically developed and finished.

MAT. TODAY Born To It gelo Rossi. MR. SID GRAUMAN ANNOUNCES fiBE E. BROWN Humbert, who is a nephew or E.

W. writes and who are we to She tells me she's told the story of her career so often that she Ernesto Rossi, noted Italian actor, HATS (UN A I 5C 7S I doubt his story that while crossing discovered that he and the Mayor wants to moan "Why was I born?" me common recently an old lady live kijvn i.Litikit jJI BIHOLARDHtPX COMfPY SMASH when the questioning begins. Her noticed one of those men who go around jabbing a pointed stick into experience has carried her through hail from the same district in Italy and expects to check up to see if they are related, as the name Rossi is not common in that section of the Mediterranean peninsula, It is many Broadway plays in a singu scraps of paper to gather them up. SmE Transferred to a projector you are larly brief time. Into a Denver stock company where Fredrick stopping beside him, she said kindly.

"Don't you find that work very tiring?" enabled to see yourself apparently engaged in an animated said. IraHANITC SMHI 1 March was playing. She has been a hit since her graduation nlav. lilll The majority of the comedy of 'Not so very, mum," he renlled. 'Street Scene" is furnished by Hum 'You see, I was born to it mv fa "Prunella." done under the direction of Winthrop Ames.

ther used to harpoon whales." No Vamp Old Lady (in art museum:) And bert, who is a versatile actor, having sung with the San Carlo Opera ENCACEMENT "Bad Girl'' a Hit Not Changed Much this, I presume, is Cleopatra, the EXTENDED TO MAY 23rd Company, written, directed and acted In the films. As an ensign in "Bad Girl" by Vina Delmar in the Bostonian: You'd never think that Greta Garbo of her day. English Caretaker: On the con this street was originally a cow th: Royal Italian Navy he made three trips around the world under vehicle which brought her to the fore. She had made a brief flurry path. trary, madam, this is Venus de Milo.

Quite 'armless, madam, oulte 9 1 I t. command of the Duke of Abruzzi. into Hollywood once before and Visitor (with lowered gaze at girls hadn't found it such a great place passing:) It appears to be a good deal of a calf path, even now. armless, I hassure you. Heard on a Street Car "My husband is quite unmusical.

for unknown little girls. "SEED" CLOSES SUNDAY "Seed," Universal production. If 1 II 1 II ri 1 She has a tremendous sense of 111 I II 1 -I II 11 closes its run the Carthay Circle He can't follow the simplest tune." humor and a determined Idea of "keeping up on her reading." Four I I I 11 Gardening Note "It is extremely difficult to dis Mine cm, but he usually some Theater Sunday night. AND A LAVISH FLOOR SHOW 1 1 I if THE FIRST LACYOFTHETflfATRE I IN 4 STAGED BY AND PRESENTED UNMK SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH HARRISON GREY FISKE OPINING MONDAY VMNS MAY )5 MAYAN THEATRE ELEVENTH AND HILL PHONE WE. 7383 MAILORDERS NOW EVERY NIGHT EX.

SUN. 754 to 2.50 distance behind." I ntNuie PDCUIEBC months in Hollywood hasn't robled tinguish between weeds and voting KffltPttON IntWinqfawrl EMPiUlldl her of the Idea that this may still plants." says a correspondent. Our A Treat for Both A prominent playwright was In WASHINGTON BLVD. BEYOND MOM STUDIOS be done, so I didn't have the heart By Samuel Grins The librarian was asked for a neighbors hens seem to manace it to tell her. quite easily.

(Humorist. Washington supervising the production of one of his plays. One night "But I long ago abandoned trying to read on the sets," she said. "I book called "Cafeteria." After being shown several restaurant and hotel manuals, the applicant said A Suggestion W. O.

postcards: How about uslna iag do tapestry, to the great amusement of everyone concerned. somewhat peevishly, "No, no, it's a the daylight we are eoinir to save he saw an old scrubwoman bending over her work, and thinking to give her a treat he said, "How would you like to go to the theater tomorrow night?" "You see," she confides, "I ratti literary work," The cue was sufficient. The attendant. rromrtly replenishing business which has had the daylights knocked out er a flat sort of personality so far as the public la concerned. I've brought tho volume, "Sclf-Help." of it? The woman looked up, studied never been engaged.

Ive never aikina fcpmnh Language Pregrm 11 to 11 p.m. LuplU Tovar A Cirlot VillarKi "DRACULA" Alto "Clnro fl Mayo" PlMt Lincoln Prk his face earnestly, then said: "I can't go tomorrow night. Can't you get some other night off?" niiri4iium MATS. WED. AND SAT.

7 5 to 1 50 IM MAI NEW WARNER THEATER WILL OPEN TUESDAY been married. I go about and have a nice time. I go out with boys. But I have no past. I suppose I'm the sort that Just won't get a pwt.

Some people never do. I shan't intrigue the public that way as oth Rig Hole In the Ocean One snot In the Pacific Ocean, NOW er actresses have done. Theres never been any gossip about me In forty miles cast of the Philippine Islands. Is the deepest yet sounded; SMIifder New York' Tins with a sigh: depth recorded thire was about 'Pitting. Cijfof I All Ta'ttinq Singing Carman bcrrtn Comerfu; Hit THEATRES 5900 fathoms, or f.rven miles, The In the Atlantic Is ofT Porto Rlro, where 5228 fathoms were iM la 1 I I H.

6M in I Really, Sylvia Sydney Is Just that young and cugcr that I think she would welcome a tiny little bit of gossip Just so she could feel very worldly. HILL NrAR Ilia Rt ARRANOtMFNT regLstrrcd. The new Warner Brothers' Beverly Hills Theater on Wil.shlrv Boulevard at Canon will be oprnrd Tuesday Embodying the latest features of modern theater construction the Beverly Hills hou.se will scat 2000 persons ami will show he combined rroduct of the Warner Brothers-First National and Vltnphone organization and also the ben pictures obtainable from other studios, according to an nnouncemeru. has been paid to the character of the prevailing Beverly Hill architecture and the cle.slnn ot the new Warner Brothers' theater follows the Spanish motif with modernized dpnrtures indorsed by building supervisors. Th theater Is one of the few in the country to be constructed sinre tho advent of sound pictures and engineers in charge are said to have developed the latest and most perfect sound and projection equipment tn tise in ttw nvHlon-ptovwe field- r.

I.liwrlfk of Ihe Unk A duffer who loudly cried Tore!" FEATl'RE ANNOINCI.I) A Tailor-Made Man," starring ll I I li I CONSTANCE OENNETT in 'ISO UN TO LOVK" PrltM I P. Willi Mrfru-BKO Pith Plrnr A TH I ri'l VAuoevsLLe acts IfiiTlllHff.lll wVyc ixrEv- I 5i fMi.w 11 1 ii 14,1,1,1 4Jf Ihe Thrlli-Jnlt e'f l.llfilme rtw II I A frlNwNU n-ii't 1 Remarked ns he swore, "I've got the right grip. FOLLIES BURLESQUE ADULl) ATTRACTION -ONli WEKK ONLY "BLANQUITA CALVF.TTI" (SI IK'S WILD) IN IIKR ORIGINAL CUBAN RUMBA DANCE MIDNIGHT SHOW EVFRY SATURDAY William Haines, ttarts tomorrow at the Theater. The raude-ville wiI by Ren Mur- With the pivoting hip Bat don't seem to cet the rtcht More." Ni TV EKrlct ittcntlorv to.