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CCCC THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: FRIDAY. MARCH 6, 1936 18: INCOME TAX PAYMENTS CUT DEEP INTO EARNINGS OF PICTURE STARS Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times An Impish Satire on Society, Is Screened at the United Artists Chaplin Is At Artists Filmland GOSSIP OF CELEBRITIES REVIEWS OF PICTURES Enthusiastic Crowds See Same Tragic-Comic Figure That Delighted Them Years Ago By Ada Hanifin CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S "Mod- convention. He became just a rrn Times," is an impish satire. poor dumb creature. I gave the Government Costs Are Driving Some Actors Abroad By LLOYD PANTAGES (Copyright.

Ktnr Features Inc.) SOAK THE THRIFTY Income tax time is here again, and what a headache for actors. They work and work then pay and pay and as a result have naught The famous little tramn with the i moa UP al once' So the diminutive figure, fig erratic feet and antic eyebrows, uratively pursued by monsters of efficiency the back ground is an industrial plant is bewildered and slyly absurd moustache, wears the familiar mishappen turned up shoes, baggy trousers, and carries his mischievous cane. "Modern Times" doesn't find him less pathetic, less wistful, less prankish, than when he appeared and lost in a mechanistic jungle. Such is the theme of "Modern Times." It came to the United Artists yesterday. It is a film you can enjoy seeing many times.

The sequence in which the modern mechanical feeder for work MARY PICKFORD Earning! Wll Inverted dUw kl li i 1 I -i in city live years ago. He is the same tragic-comic figure which modern machinery has made more resourceful. He is the master pantomimist of our time. ers is introduced is a gem or comedy invention. IL is one of the funniest episodes, and certainly the most Ingenius, The feeder has been invented to reduce the lunch hour.

Chaplin is made the "test tube" for the experiment. Chaplin's pantomime when being served the mechanically contrived soup, meat plates, revolving ear of corn not to mention a persistent chin wiper is superb. His comedy situations and complications are ingenious. The music which he composed is highly interpretive. When he becomes a night-watchman in a department store by an accident of fate, and roller-skates in the toy-department, he achieves an exuberancy of spirit and joyful for-getfulness that becomes that turns his motion into something akin to lyric rapture.

The hapless little tramp doesn't speak, because if he did, his joys and tribulations would no longer Paramount May Get Marlene on New Contract tically any port, valley, et al in the entire world. 'It -1- ONCE IN THE DIM past when Claude Rains was traveling with an English repertoire company, five members of the company all bit the dust simultaneously with a siege of illness. Nevertheless he carried on. For the next week or so he doubled in brass by playing two roles on the stage, being the stage manager and electrician, and between gasps jumping into the pit to be th third member of a three piece orchestra. Marie Wilson, the screen newcomer, is billed as the dumbest girl in pictures.

As a matter of fact, she's just passed the University of Southern California I. Q. intelligence test with the highest rating of any young woman in these here parts. She's dumb yeh like a fox! WHEN A HIGH school miss, Olivia de Havilland was so full of brightness that she won a college scholarship but along came the movies and she had to give up (for a time at least) her further education. Now she has decided that (wither or what) when she is thirty (which will be ten years hence) she will take her scholarship and go through four years of college or bust in the attempt.

By way of being technical about everything: Dick Powell has a number meter on his fountain pen so he'll know exactly how many autographs he is giving out to the public. On the other finger, but a little more reasonable: Pat O'Brien on the walls of his oak paneled bar room has five hundred and thirty-six famous autographs all dug in through the medium of an ice pick. In other words, when you drink at the O'Brien you pick your name not your proboscis. RKO TOOK LOUISE LATIMER and her colossal St. Bernard dog on Hollywood boulevard to make publicity stills.

For no apparent reason they turned on a wind machine and the dog, becoming terrified, ran away dragging Miss L. on her baci for two blocks much to the edl fication of her public. left but a group of worry wrinkles. Dietrich for one is having her share of troubles. She has announced that she is quitting American movies for Europe and Paramount is dickering with her for a new contract.

If she accepts not only will she have to pay an European income tax but she'll have to plunk out one hundred and twenty thousand dollars here and her husband fifty thousand, before she can cross the waters. In the dim past before heavy taxation became part of our life, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Dick Barthelmess invested most of their large earnings in trust funds. So-o-o, as a result, the weekly pay from the funds is not as highly taxed as the bulk amount would have been. How lucky. I mean, to have any money at all On the other finger: Clifton Webb, relaxing in Hollywood waiting to either sign a new movie contract or an eastern stage one, had his income man come all the way out here to help him straighten out his problems The Countess dl Frasso (during tax time) becomes the world's champion traveler to settle her affairs.

She pays In Italy, New York and California and plenty! There's a rumor going around But his pantomime possibly reaches its peak when, as a waiter, after serving grand comedy on a crowded dance floor en route with a duck to an irate customer, he sings and well, der age of eight days. Her Pa, Ed Blondell, was vaudevilling a theater right next to the clinic where she first saw the light of day, so he snuck her out for applause soil of like George M. Cohan used to do with the American flag when his ovation was weakening John Carroll (a newcomer at RKO) is frank, to say the least. He says that in Hollywood you can's get the kind of food he is accustomed to on his Louisiana plantation, so his mama (who resides in Mande-ville, Louisiana), each month sends him a crate full of nutritious tidbits to keep him well nutrified, to wit: Coffee from their plantation, sugar from their cane; flour from their old grist mill, prawns and oysters when they are in season, wines whipped up by. the local vine-yardry, and fresh vegetables.

I must dine there one evening. It sounds gourmetic. WHAT WOULD WE DO without a research department; Warners' discovered that in Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" which they are filming although one of the lines red "into the valley of death rode it too a nonsensical ditty to an old Spanish tune. An oiler in the factory, he goes mad as he tightens bolts on a factory treadmill in unending procession to a clocklike tempo. He goes to a hospital, is cured and released.

He later goes to jail, becomes a hero when he thwarts a jailbreak, and pleads be understood by the peoples of every country. He would become localized. An American or an Englishman. No one in the cast speaks except through the medium of science a sales talk via a phonograph record; instructions from a plant superintendent via radio television. Chaplin on his last visit here several weeks ago told me on the telephone that v.

ff 1 2 to remain there he's so happy. "YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM SING," says Paulette God- dard to Hans Shaeffer (right), in this restaurant scene Modern imes. in 'Wife Versus Secretary' Is Fine Comedy Drama THE TITLE OF "Wife versustaining, popular double bill, "Pre- 1 Kj'l I wfv xTic' vv'X, 1 the six hundred," that actually six hundred and ninety-seven gents had ridden. The valley of death, by the by, when you see it on the screen, will be a valley near Chatsworth in California. All of which reminds me that this is the most amazirjg State.

All you have to go is a hop, skip and a jump in any direction and you will find locations and buildings that resemble prac- that Lilian Harvey was so terribly injured in an automobile accident in Europe that she'll never be well again. I hope that's not true. r'A ROBERT RISKIN purchased himself a racing nag which he is monickering "Beverly Hills Billies" as a tribute to Clark Gable. Just a pun, of course, because Clark's horse, Beverly Hills, was always among those running the fastest on the way back for the oats Columbia tried to hold Grace Moore for another picture, but she wouldn't be held because she had concert engagements in New York with all tickets sold and she didn't want to disappoint her public. Plus that, she was tired so what could she do? IT NOW COMES to light that Joan Blondell made her first theatrical appearance at the ten- SUNSET DISTRICT DOWNTOWN DIST.

(Continued) IRVING Irving l.Mh Av. "(IRANI! KXIT" CALIFORNIA I mi el Itrirrymnie "AH KSr' "Nevpii Keys to Bahhmle," tlene lUymund Secretary" suggests a cheap story that has been done to death in one form or another on the screen. With Jean Harlow cast in the role of the secretary, we knew before hand just what was going to happen or thought we did. But we had not counted on script writers, Alice Duer Miller and John Lee Mahin, who had refashioned Faith Baldwin's story, and for the moment had overlooked the fact that Clarence Brown had been at the directorial helm. Consequently, the picture presents a comedy drama with the triangle as its chief motif so intelligently and refreshingly different, and with such good 4ste, that "Wife versus Secretary" becomes a distinctive film.

And, one might add here, that there is not a gripping moment in the picture, nothing especially eventful in the lives of Clark Gable, his wife, Myrna Loy, or the secretary, Miss Harlow, whose hair is no longer platinum and whose manner is no longer flagrant. She is a surprising differ-ferent Jean Hariow. The picture came to the Paramount yesterday with "Preview Murder Mystery," that, as a FIIMI'ND I.OWK and ANN SOTHKKN 'HKOADWAY IIOSTK.SS" with Willi flmw view Murder Mystery," is set in a Hollywood studio, and during the unfolding of the mystery the audience is shown much of the mechanics of picture making. But to return to "Wife versus Secretary." Irrespective of the excellent performances given by the popular trio, one would like to name first, the unseen star, Director Clarence Brown. It is the way he has directed the picture, presenting the little every day routine things in the life of the characters, things so small as to be generally overlooked by the moving picture camera, that gives the picture its strength.

In other words, his direction or method of presenting the story is more important than the story itself. Cable and Miss Loy are at their best. It is the story of a successful and handsome publisher who can't get along without his attractive confidential secretary. He is very much In love with his wife and she with him. He goes to Havana to attend a convention.

But her belief in him is strained to the breaking point, when she puts in a long distance call from New York to Havana, and Secretary Jean Harlow answers the telephone in his room at two in the morning. A. H. PARKSIDE DISTRICT UPPER MARKET AND CASTRO 'Mod. Ti hich in ern imes.

CASTRO PARKSIDE CHARLIE CHAPLIN and Paulette Goddard at breakfast opened yesterday on United Artists' screen. Taravnl at lilth Ave, "(iRAMl KXIT' Caatro at MHrket Ml. VIA SIDNEY. nnil A N.N NOT1LKKN LIE! if "MARY JU RNS, 1-1 (ilTlYF." (ilngrr Kuarra IN ii. Ilrent with nil lie 1.4)1(1 'A eather In llvr Hal when he started to experiment Out again, he unwittingly picks WEST OF TWIN PEAKS D1VISADERO DISTRICT with the picture, he conceived the idea of keeping his tramp silent, GERARD TO SING li DUE IT FOX TODAY HARDING EL REY 0-ean A.v at Victoria THF.

MARX IIIIOTIII.KS, Dlvisndero and Hajea I'AT (I'llHILN, "HTARM OVF.R BROADWAY" F.riwa rtl Arnold in 'Ki'iminbir l.ant Muht' "A MfillT AT THIS OI'KRA" A LINK Mhc YIAHON in "KIND ln I.ATKST "MARCH OF T1.MK"! ill BUTTERFLY MISSION DISTRICT and permitting the surrounding cast to speak. "But," he said "my tramp was no longer the universal symbol of a misfit in society blundering in the incomprehensible mazes of up a red tlag dropped by a truck, and finds himself the unsuspecting leader of a labor protest parade. And he's arrested again. Paulette Goddard has an animated, expressive face. She plays with distinction the role of the street gamin who reaches out for tangible happiness.

FILLMORE DISTRICT Mleaion near IH'th EL CAPITAN Warner Hntpr. UPTOWN Sutter at Stelner "AH WlI.ni'llNK.SK" KIXU OK HI Kl.KNOl 'W Hll'AW -Spem-er rim JL.y Wallana BKF.HT Lionel FARRYMORK Davis-Franchot Ton NEW MISSION ROLF GERARD, a young San Franciscan who has climbed from chorus ranks to opera stardom, will be the tenor in tonight's San Carlo Opera produc Mission at V-nd l.i I. rnv Fillmort NEW FILLMORE HKNRY FONDA. 'I DRF.AM TOO MI CH' "KAUI.E'S HHOOD" with William I.II.V TONS In "I DREAM TOO MI CH" LOVE' with Frank murder mystery, is likewise refreshingly new. Here is an enter- ROOSEVELT and York Sta.

Filward Arnold HAIGHT DISTRICT "RKMF.MRKK LAST NKiHT" Klrhard Dijt in "Transatlantic Tunnel" Orpheum Film Praised MIDTOWN iV.riJiri' DOWNS and I.KON KRROI. OM'IDKN'TIAI." with lHtNA1.ll COOK FRESH FROM RECENT cinematic excursions into Toyland and Scotland, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy now fare forth into Bohemia land of the Gypsies. The picture is 'The Bohemian Girl," and it opens its Western engagement today at the Fox. It borrows its title, a fragment of story and an assortment of gay melodies from a familiar musical romance, but as a Laurel and Hardy co-starring comedy vehicle, it is brand new. The funniest sequence promised is Stan Laurel's baffled task of siphoning wine from cask to bottles.

With Laurel and Hardy are Jacqueline Wells, Antonio Moreno and other familiar players. On the same program Is "The Leavenworth Case," with Donald Cook, Erin O'Brien Moore, Norman Foster and Jean Rouverol. NEW RIALTO Mission at I'-'nd allure HeerT. Thousand of former sufTcrem know thai Oil-of-Salt brintia quick relief to Bore, in hitiK. burning, aoliing feet Alhiete'g loot.

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Cansino is a distinguished member of the famous Cansino family of Spanish dancers. HAIGHT Halght and Cole "NAVY W1FK" beautiful-f 1 under given circum- Universal found a love story in "Say MAJFSTIC Mission at 21 at JOHN MACK HRO i uooabye I stances, and the dialogue pro CLAIRE TREVOR and RALPH HKI.LA.MY 'A Feather ill Her Hat' with i'auline Lord POLK STREET DISTRICT Again," a novel by Ursula Parrott "COI At; Fill's A F.M.FR" Irene Ware in "HAPPl XKSS O. tion of "Madame Butterfly" at tno Memorial Opera House. The soprano will be the popular Japanese, Hizi Koyke. "Butterfly" in still another performance, will end the San Carlo season Sunday night.

A decade ago, Gerard sang in the San Francisco Opera chorus. Then he studied in the East and pained experience on Italian stages. "Ca Valeria Rusticana" and "Pagliarxi" last night at the Opera House starred Bianca Sa-roya, Pasquale Ferrara, Stefan Kozakevich, Belle Vreta, Aroldo Lindi, and Mostyn Thomas. SAN BRUNO AVENUE A I UAMRR A Polk ana Green LinlVlDr. Katharine Hepburn, "SYLVIA SCARI.KTT" WBrner (Hand In 'Charlie, Chun'a Serret" A VFNI IF San Brunn Av-nr- Yl-nLJE, HI DMIN "SHOW THEM Ml MFKCY" Also Frank Pnrkrr in "Sweet Surrender" Advertisement Advert iwrment ROYAL "CRIMK Richard Arlen, Polk near California F.OWARIt ARNOLD.

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He is an actor who has looks, speech, personality and Robert Mc-Wade gives a creditable performance as the managing editor. "You May Be Next" is the companion film. A. H. MARINA Chestnut at fitetner WILL UIK.URS EXCELSIOR DISTRICT "IN OLD KF.NTl CKV SMarlit Itaya at I.Ida" All Te hnirolor Advertisement From a common cold That Hangs On UNION STREET DISTRICT HI GRANADA Mission at Oernn URAVIt EXIT" in which love and faith endure in face of hardship and separation.

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