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THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1935 cccc 8: Henry Caubisens, Bunny Eeatty and Madeline Holmes. I ill 'LEANING ON LETTY' 11 Broadway Hostess Max Reinhardt, Ignored on First Visit to Hollywood, Has Become Recognized as Maestro Director AT HIS FUNNIEST Will Filmland GOSSIP OF CELEBRITIES REVIEWS OF PICTURES DUDLEY GREENWOOD 55 Some Interesting Memories of Old-Time Favorites, Their Fads and Fancies By Lloyd Pantages (Copyright 1035, King Feature Inc.) MORE OF THE THROES of When Barbara La Marr, that Hidr most beautiful and lamented of actresses, used sling a party, in the middle of it she would sneak out onto the back porch of her pink Whitely Heights palace, and throw out the master light switch. Then in she would romp, lamenting and moaning that the fuses had blown, and pretended to call up the light company.

When she thought her guests had swallowed this story, back she would go and throw it in again, and take- a good peek. Those were the good old days! So that Mary Miles Minter might escape the wickedness of yesteryear It is very strange the way you can be nobody one year, and the last word a very short time later. Four or five years ago, Max Reinhardt, maestro of all directors, came to the Hollywoods armed to the teeth with letters to everyone, accompanied by Ramon Von Hoffman-stahl, son of his playwright, and no one paid any attention to them at all, their ideas were not listened to, and they were decidedly not taken up by the cine-matically select. How things do come about to be sure! It almost ruined the career of the late Lew Cody when the pub- IF YOU LIKE WESTERNS, melodrama, and farce, you may have a. little of each, with Argentine atmosphere, broken accents, and music added for good measure, in "Hi Gaucho." The picture is showing at the Fox, with Edward Everett Horton in "Your, Uncle Dudley." John Carroll has the singing romantic lead in "Hi a slight tale of horse thievery.

But he is not as fortunate as most romantic shadows who sing for a living. Before he wins Steffi Duna, he has to leap over several walls, capture a bandit, and deal with comic police. Rod La Rocque is the bandit. "Your Uncle Dudley" pokes light fun at his majesty, the Babbit. The victim is played by Edward Everett Horton, who is again a "spineless worm" until he turns into a lion.

His fellow civic workers reap profits for the work he accomplishes. He receives loving cups. But he turns the tables cleverly on his business rivals, and plays Cupid to his niece, Rosina Lawrence and John Mc-Guire. Naturally, there is much comedy that is typically Horton-ish. Marjorie Gateson is good as the ambitious mother who plans a concert career for her daughter in order to secure her own future.

Lois Wilson, Allan Dine-hart, Florence Roberts arc in the cast. A. H. CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD, favorite comedienne of two continents, will start a two weeks engagement at the Geary on Monday evening in the new comedy success, "Leaning on Letty" which played for an entire year on Eroadway under the title of "Post Road." 1 Miss Greenwood's stay at the Geary is limited to two weeks as she has just arrived from London and is scheduled to play a short engagement in Hollywood before returning to England where she is under contract to appear in another play shortly after the first of the year. "Leaning on Letty" is said to be an ideal vehicle for Miss Greenwood who will be seen in the role of Letty Madison, who runs a "tourists accommodated" spot in Connecticut where a set of kidnapers believe they have a novel scheme to defy detection.

They have not taken Letty Madison into consideration though as she, with her dry humorous way, uncovers their plot. Taylor Holmes will play opposite Miss Greenwood in the role of George Preble and other featured players in the large cast will include Romaine Callender, who will be seen in the role of Wesley Cartwright, Isabel Withers, Marion Burns, Boyd Irwin, Melville Ruick, Virginia Howell, Russell Cushing, Marion Ballou, Riffht to l-'ve all those ancient times, the American film company built a spe cial studio for her up in Santa Barbara, a hundred miles away from the sinister influence of these parts. But it wasn't really very bright of them, on account of Mary came to Hollywood anyway every week-end in her vast and fancy motorcar, which had a butterfly embossed into the sides of the doors with MMM on it. x. 7K LON CHANEY not only risked his sight in some of his grotesque film makeups, he even damaged it severely for life.

In the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," he 1 -MV i 'A V. A 7 All Star Revue FORSYTKE, 5 5 wore a film over one of his eyes Iff ScAPdCN FAKnELL to make him seem half blind, a FRITZ JEAN HUBER Wirfield Btautlet Warlleld OctatU and so painful was it that it definitely and permanently injured 111 HE SI. FRANCIS 1 i 1 1 1 i swi j-jr-rt-f jfijiH-L- MARGARET LINDSAY has nineteen changes of costume in the Warner Bros, production, "Frisco Kid," now at the St. Francis. MISSION 1 I I mm 22211 1 I I MAX REINHARDT He Won Hollywood licity department started calling him "the butterfly man." Besides that, in our local zoology, long before we had any "panther women" at Paramount, Louise Glaum was labeled "the spider woman," Georges Carpentier was a "panther man," and Theda Bara was a "sphinx woman," if sphinxes can be classed among the zoo.

AND, AS WE always seem to do, speaking of La Bara, she was the pne who started the business of "A tank A go home." If any his sight, and all but destroyed it. To go back decades, when the Divine Sarah Bernhardt filmed "Queen Elizabeth" as the first full-length feature film for Jesse Lasky, in her death scene, instead of doing a little judicious cutting, she simply went through the whole death scene, word for word as she did it on the stage. Since the speech took a mere jolly little matter of twenty minutes to recite, La Bernhardt was dying for a long, long time indeed, and tipped over about half an inch to the reel throughout most of the picture. 1L 2nd GREAT WEIK -if' 1 I Midnile Show Tonwhl! IVfAjjsftJTJJllVA GENEVIEVE TOBIN, playing in Warner Brothers' picture, "Broadway Hostess," at the Paramount. Others in the lead are Wini Shaw, Allen Jenkins and Lyle Talbot.

On the tame program is William Powell in "Rendezvous" with Rosalind Russell. 1 i nun iiiii i urn in mi ROSALIND RUSSELL SINNII IUBNIS pT MONIl ATWKtTX Charles Laughton Dominates 'Bounty' 1 I thing whatever either annoyed, irritated or Irked her, off she went in a high white huff drawn 5 PLEASE 5 1 Ml bv four white horses, and grass skirts and hulu rhythm. This was preceded by a sophisticated number by the line girls in tuxedos and top hats wouldn't come back unless they absolutely teased her. I- fl A BENEFIT CONCERT By Ada Hanif in CHARLES LAUGHTON not only dominates. H.M.S.

Bounty, but the unusually long picture, "Mutiny on the Bounty," even when he's not on the screen. Never has Laughton recreated t3 I irr, 7.t L5! lenges Bligh, and sets him adrift with a few of his men in an open boat. It is Gable's top he-man role. He is forceful and vigorous and has ample opportunity to essay gentle romance in Tahiti, where he marries a beautiful native, and later escapes with her and his baby and loyal followers to Pitcairn Island, burning the Bounty their only bridge to civilization. Franchot Tone as Byam is the By Alexander Fried a 'C i T' -J! i DOWNTOWN DISTRICT (Cont'd) a.

I 7 i .1 SUNSET DISTRICT Tito Schipa shed his series of UNITED ARTISTS jjrij jjJlllij Irvine at Ave. "Aimnpnli Farewell" IRVING A CIMH Coiner Ellis unci Manon L-AOHNU "H1.A( SIIKKI'" I.OWR and CI.A1UK. TltKVOK of the Hour" with Kiehurcl Cromwell such a composite character as the strange, unhealthy creature that manned the Bounty. With uncanny power he portrays a twisted thing, mentally deformed, TOM mtOWN an1 1 (H'Y STAXIUXO "Hvcrv Mglii Pt Klislit" with (ioorue Raft Cnffiioy sfliiiw his G-ffiin CALIFORNIA market at 4th BinE CROSBY, PARKSIDE DISTRICT In addition to our regular program lor Imre fists Jic rules (he Barbnry Const his liltrcp.f hiilj 1 PARKSIDE Taravul fit Imh riamlette Miriam HOPKINS jnnn BKNM.TT in "TWO FOR TOSKillT" "THIS IS TUP. LIFE" with Jane Withers UPPER MARKET AND CASTRO symbol of the traditions of tho British Navy.

His plea to the court in the final reel is read MARRIED IIKR BOX!" DoiibIiks Mnntnonierj' in "Harmony I.nnn" opera personalities last night at the Memorial Opera House, and emerged as his mere self to give a recital for the benefit of the San Francisco Symphony. Whether in costume or in tails, Schipa is Schipa. His voice is peculiarly gracious. His lyric style is the creation of a subtle, imaginative and vital artist. So consummate is the characteristic Schipa performance that many tenor songs and arias seem to belong personally to him.

Whenever the names of them are WEST OF TWIN PEAKS Castro at Market ARNOLD. CASTRO I )l Ml I Al" Nancy Carroll in "Atlantic Adventure" Ocean Ave. at Victoria SIIIRI 1.Y TKMl'LE. EL REY imm almost imperceptibly twisted physically note his shoulders, his neck; and, again, he draws with mastery a man of such in-dominatable courage that you feel the stuff of greatness in him. It is a magnificent performance, and, indisputably, Laughton's greatest.

"Mutiny on the Bounty," which came to the Warficld yesterday, is the screen adaptation of the celebrated book, "Mutiny on the DIVISADERO DISTRICT EDWARD ARNOLD FETER LORRE tniwE AND MARIAN MARSH TALA BIRELL Dirtcted JOSEPH Von STERNBERG A Columbia Picture IJ TO Also LEE TRACY in "TWO I'lSTKD" Latest Im-J ft "MARCH OF TIME" (Sperial OHII.IKKVS MATINEE FREE CANDY: CARTOON CARNIVAL! with a stirring directness. Herbert Mundin contributes silent comedy, moving through the film a la Harpo Marx. Eddie Quillan brings a real emotion to hi" role. But again one returns to Laughton to remember him as the domineering Bligh with his loyal sailors fighting the might HARDING Divisadero and Hayes "A A I. or wiih ll KAY JOHNSON stud I AX Ul'NTKU FILLMORE DISTRICT "SHE OKI'S HER MAN" wilh 7mi Pitts Sl.eeial Cll II.DKEN 'S MATINEE Today FREE t'AXinS CARTOON Putter at Hteiner Dliln.

the Clown, at Mat. UPTOWN JOEL McCREA PAUL CAVANAGH BIIL1E BURKE ln THIS IS THE LIFE Men mentioned, the sound of 'his voice Bounty," and its sequel, MISSION DISTRICT 'KilU Solomon o( Ktlmunii Lowe of the sea in the storm-rocked boat slitting the neck of a sea-bird for a dying aged sailor- KClUD III 1IMI-. io. Against the Sea." It is a story of great adventure under the English flag, told with revolting- EL CAPITAN Misston near 'Joth Fred ASTAIRE. NEV FILLMORE Fillmore at Kdrty immiFr OiKKer ROCFRS In "TOP II AT" "TWO fc'INKKltS" with OTTO KltUCiKR C1IISED FOR COMIM FTE KF.IMODEl.lNCi calling on Divinity for life.

Peggy O'Neill rose to the occasion and staged a tropical comes instantly to mind. Such songs and arias were legion on his post-opera program. He sang Scarlatti's "Vio-lette" and "M'appari" and "Prin-cesita" and "Le Ileve" of Manon. Addcl Attraction SILLY SYMPHONY ly brutal detail, historical perspective and idyllic beauty. It has magnitude the epic sweep of REPEf'ORA TINO AND WATCH FOR tiAI.A REOrEMNIi DATE t.ittk un.

tan NEW MISSION Mission at "2nd mission liil atmospheric scene to carry out HAIGHT DISTRICT THE DARK ASOF.I." viLenui-llerli. Marshall Fred. the sea itself. Never outside ot the pages of a Conrad book has the Tahiti sequence of the film. A huge moon, tropical music, EVKRY DAY UNTIL I MIDTOWN Hnlcht and Fillmore SIIIRI.

FY TF.Ml'I.E. NEW RIALTO Mission at "'Jnd Hoi hellr Hoiion one felt the spiritual nearness of I. F.LISSA LAND! in -WITHOUT RKCRliT' llrnnr Fonda in "WAY HOW EAST" 'KiiiK Solomon of Edmund l.i'We i A O'Faerall, nr. Powell GEARY LAST 2 DAYS TVVICE DAI! 2:15 I.asl Tinien Sunday spacelessness, or the helplessness of humanity in a no-man's sea, when that sea is calm or storm- pnona S'J tter OjfcO MLS.M1.AI PI HAIGHT llaight and Cole Eddie I Montnsne' MAJESTIC Mission at "1st Katharine IIEI'Bl UN Max Relnhardt's Film Production of Shakespeare's GLOBE PLAYERS laamllTrMTV lRAI)F FROM KIRC IRI. TOP with SIHRI.El A I.

1 F. A A GARY CUOl'EU in "THE YIHCINIAX" Limited Engagement DISTRESS Also Alitor Jor in "Streamline Eirrs POLK STREET DISTRICT SOUTH OF ARMY DISTRICT MATINEE 2:30 TODAY "MUCH ADO HBOUT NOTHING" ana "AS YOU LIKE IT" II IIAMDDt I'nlk and Green by Carlo Goldoni inn OF THE MATINEES 50e, 1.V and More than once when the first notes of a selection were hoard, the audience would burst into an applause of welcome. Encores were numerous. One of them was Schipa's own warm ballad "I Will Return." Another was a dialect Neapolitan tune in which his skill was no less marvelous than his humor. Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Nightingale and the Rose" he sang in Russian.

i program ran through six languages. According to a poll of linguists, some of these languages might betray an Italian accent, but all of them were enunciated with an exemplary clarity. At the piano Rcnato Bellini AND IT WILL NOT HF. SHOWN AT ANY OTHER 8. F.

TIIKATRK FOR MONTHS TO CO. ME LYCEUM "DR SSF.D TO THRU EI.ISSA LAMM in W'lTIHH KKtiRET" Mr. SI. SI. 59.

1'lm Ta mad. The photography is one of the attributes of the film, and Frank Lloyd's direction deserves no word less than "masterly." Clark Gable, Franchot Tone and Dudley Digges in support of Laughton, give splendid performances. Gable is cast as the Christian Fletcher who, forced to mutiny, that the crew might receive humane treatment chal "REDHEADS ON A Edw. Eerelt Horton in Hi Miihl Out" TONIGHT 8:30 'TWELFTH NIGHT" aert "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL" Polk near Ca lltornt ROYAL EXCELSIOR DISTRICT CFAl DETTE COI BERT. SHE MXRKIED HI IIOSV Also Nnrman Foster in "SI I'EKSl'EED" LAST WEEK STARTS MONDAY Henry Duffy frmiitl fx hni'lnffa rZnrrjr'vri GRANADA TI Ki: TH1H Il ss I.ANDI In 11 HOI REt.RET" "I orliidden lleaten'1 wilh I llarien I urrell MARINA DISTRICT PETER CONLE $1 .65 la S5o Allan R.

Kenward'i Production riavinu Vfd Fri. Sat. Nightt PUvcd "Uvcrn-wise," ith Italiaa dinner, in the Csf Jl S5 include? dinner, nlay and (axil. 10 for p'av onlv. Dinner at 7t'n.

curuin at 5:30. Thone KEaray 8t00 lor rciicrvations. PALACE HOTEL "In th Hean of San Francisco" Archibald H. Price, Manager Chestnut al Stem" MARINA tTIS'FK AT 1 1 FIRIO.j in the New Comedy Success CROCKER AMAZON DISTRICT it 'il h'KK rilMES COOKIE" r.l lllil.k 111 HNS anil I.RACIK ALI EN AMAZON Geneva Ave. Missiiin MOHt.E RAFT.

UNION STREET DISTRICT "FY FRY Nlf.UT AT Hl.HT" Also Did Manner 'PI RU tT CI.CE' -MOO MtlOO!" ik-cmmww idf yi iiv'l wJ METROPOLITAN Zll proved to be an accompanist worthy of a master singer. Among his Incidental solos was a facile Debussyan trifle of his own composition. WiCESEVFS TO vt'S wtD B'-QlSO 'Ciuta SEATS NOWI Kir Huw KtKnitlni; 'Annamiii Frtrewell" RICHMOND DISTRICT It "Kedhearts en Parade" wub John Unlet EDWARD II It YOUR UNCLE DUDLEY" "III GAUCHO' BALBOA Palhoa al 3h Ave. "THE STEPS" NORTH BEACH DISTRICT Schipa last night tied tighter an old friendship with San Fran HOPFRT DuXAT Mliteleine "SHE Ts III MAN" with ZaSu l'Hta Powell al Cnlcw Jnhn Carroll Steffi MILANC TMI TA11T 0 "TO MAT" ICOIU CAIN cisco. The symphony is some AV TKTH Nir.itT fyl Duiia nog itutsue AT.f IKTtBNSTIOalAU FiKm-t rt ria- Fillmore 11S3 MXTINEE TODXY AT StO A Remnntie Pieture t' Music.

rRTA mmiH The Lnvrlr Siiirint Star In "Ti DIVIHE SPARK" Tne FnalUh lancnacr Yerion of Hie BvatilifiU Italian I Dm, ASTA II A' JDW CR AW FORD In "I l.ie Mv Life' hundreds of dollars richer by his ALEXANDRIA r.TAV, Aleo "SaiierMieed" with Norman lOsiER ford help. Wnrldthfost VERDI 64 Broadway nr. t-'Hirkton PI I 1 1" "I MY 1 II EXTRA' Tin; VIII II OF Also "HOW To SLEEP." ftotiert Ben, hley CC I'sT-'I i Clement at tlth Ave. "Si ll IM, Al.l NT" 7 CHESTKIt MORRIS and EH.KRS Man on thr tlsiuc W. C.

1 Sensational Pity Dili 5 I A DOWNTOWN DISTRICT i nP 60Pcple 6QPeopu Cf r- RALPH FCRBES PETTK DAVt" lfd CMKVT I "TWO UsTFll" wits I I TK i huldie' CARTOON CARMVU. Maimer 1 SACRAMENTO AND PRESIDIO DAVIES rk or.pn, Kiftk sillltl FY TEMPLE, YAUCCVIUX i- JittliA The Children' Theater AnociatioB of San Presents TOM SAWYER Produced by Rfeinald Traveri fbl mf tnmmrrrt A'lflitnrtiini laf Mr-- Kntrmtrr. nratr rm Sat. Matt. Dee.

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