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21 'Petticoat Influence' Is Broadway's Only Premiere Other Plays and Pictures BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930. two and two into a hat, and pulling LORETTA YOVSG CUM A' The Theaters By ARTHUR POLLOCK comedy and lots of flowery and sentimental speeches. Besides Mr. O'Brien, who gels a lot of feeling Into an unconvincing role, the players include Mrs. Eugenie Woodward.

Leslie Adams, Allys Dwyer, Lenita Lane, Homer Barton. Waldo Edwards. Elizabeth Rathburn. Isa-bclle Wonlocke, Carrie Lowe and Bennett Finn. 'Stero? Eugene O'Brien in a Sentimental Play in Jamaica Eugene O'Brien, a pleasing personality, popular in the movies, made his appearance In a new play at Brandt's Carlton Thea 'Petticoat a Comedy From London, Is Brought by Gilbert Miller to the Empire Theater Gilbert Miller has another of those In-between plays, not at all like "Marseilles," which he brought to town some weeks ago, but no more enthralling.

It Is "Petticoat Influence," and he presented It last evening at the Empire Theater with Helen Hayes as the star. Helen Hayes is the star because, no doubt, she was so happily cast a few years ago in Barrie's "What Every Woman Knows." But the wife In this new English comedy, though she knows much the sama sort of things, is no role for this not too versatile actress. The play is calmly amusing and Henry Stephenson and Reginald Owen give it the greater part of the crackle it has. It is about a wife who tries to get her husband an appointment that has been denied him. She is ready to stoop to blackmail when a twist 'ROAR, Edward Cooper, in tho Theater Martin Beck Reverting By RIAN ter in Jamaica last night.

As no I name appears as author, we strongly suspect that Mr. O'Brien wrote the piece himself. It is called "Steve" and is all about i a movie actor who goes to a lonely island off the Maine Coast to make a picture. While there he finds sweet and lovely maiden In trouble. He helps her solve her problems by putting her Into the movies and making her a star, finally marrying her.

The piece Is loosely put together, sweet and sentimental beyond words, and as obvious as a movie i plot. As a matter of fact the story i belongs in the movies rather than on the stage. However, It Is alto-1 gether lnnqcuous and mildly pleas-lng at tinny, with plenty of broad "Much Ado About Nothing," playing Hero. "The Life Line" Housed Leo Bulgakov, who rnnrtiiprlnij rehearsals for "The Life Line," a new comedy, by Oretchen Dam-rosch, has completed negotiations with Lyle Andrews to house the forthcoming production In the Van-derbilt Theater, where it will have Its premiere on Saturday evening, Dec. 27.

AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN MAJESTIC "'W Mr.leal Corned MEET MY SISTER WILL ROGERS as LIGHTNIN" Wll LOUISE DREPflFR On taa State A. Nf. 'HON and MARCO'S "Cadets Idea" BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC NEWMAN I toRmAorSTALKS cvE.ar??i Vie De Parii I TICKFTH Mte. al.nn. at.

IMS KIU ON -SMITH LlViNljaTQNM w. of circumstances makes it unneces sary. The results are not hilarious, but the play is gracefully written by Neil Orant and all is gentlemanly and ladylike and literate. Unfortunately the last few years have fed a desire on the part of "those who go to the theater for something a little more vivid in the way of entertainment, something more piquant and meaty. "Petticoat Influence," like its antiquated title, Is an old-fashioned dish rubbed lightly with the garlic of innocuous adultery.

The best of it is its satire, a satire at the expense of British incompetence in politics. The man who at first gets the appointment the lady's husband wanted gets it because he is the numbskull uncle of the wife of the cabinet minister who has the appointing to do. And when the cabinet minister discovers that the wielder of the petticoat influence is pretty and believes that his own wife has been unfaithful to him with the petticoat owner's husband, that husband is gladly given the berth his abilities entitled him to in the first place. He wanted to be made governor of an island among the British possessions in the Pacific. He didn't the governorship, though his best friend was the secretary to the cabinet minister.

His wile, more determined than he, immediatelv mad? a point of discovering that the secretary and the minister's wife were lovers, frightened the wife with almost ridiculous ease into pleading with her husband in the young man's behalf and then set out to take her news to the cabinet minister himself, being dissuaded only upon arrival in his home by the diplomatic pleas of the secretary! She lost nothing by giving up her plan, however, since the self-important mtn- ADD: THE CONQUESTS OP JESSICA I'll tell you, Ray, how Hope found you: She came and sat at Table One, And very nicely said "How Do," And rolled her eyes I think they're blue And right there's where that baby won. You got the break; I saw you fall, And how you skidded down Love's slope! A whispered word from Archie Hall "I think I hear young Cupid's call" I answered, "Yeah, a Ray of Hope! MATT ANDERSON The Cinema Circuit By MARTIN 4 Mar Dramatic ftviuatlati i "OUTWARD BOUND" 111 LtAB CAIIOWAY; HI RI.LK.H GRIMCftJ (5 'M Sr.MhNts KROIIKI IN BROOKI YN ACADEMY Of Mi'SIC This Sunday Dee. list, 1:15 P.M. DEBATE Will Companionate Marriage belter onr saerals? JCDC.E LINDSEY hays YEA! Dr. HENRY NEUMANN Leadfr B'kl-t-n Ethical Culture Society txj NOt Chairman: Rer.

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Neva Prlsk a 1 a y. -divorced daughter of a newspaper publisher, were married last night at home of bride's parents. From the Standard Union. The other Is following on by mail, maybe? And now, wouldn't If be a good idea to itart a couple o) Benefit) for the Employed? (Copyright, 1910. Brooklyn Dally Eagle.) Drama and Music 'Life Is Like That' Seen at Flatbush Theater "LIFE IS LIKE THAT." a comedy-drama with music, by Jo Milward.

Presented by Curtis W. Emery Productions at Brandt's Flatbush Theater. Staled by Paul Edward Martin. Music bv Clifford Lang and Jack Hyman, Hazel Chisholin and Helen Kamluaky. THE CAST Tnn, Hanakl Yoshlwars Ellrsbeth Courtney Mary Morris Charlie Reed Allan Davis Uelorles Helen Shlpman Mav Addison Doris Covert, William-Courtney Edward Pawley TSartnn BeltV LtnlCV Jlmmle James K.

Rogers Dr. Ramsey William H. uaraaio Milward's Broadway-bound brainchild. "Life Is Like which Is billed under the hybrid listing of a comedy-drama, opened last night at Brandt's riatDusn ine-ater. where it will spend the week Its author has undoubtedly made a valiant effort to build a really dra matic situation with all the rather amusing highlights that go to make life the rather illogical complexity It, is In reality.

He succeeds, without making the drama seem like melo drama. The story revolves about William Courtney, a modern romantic, whose blood runs to high adventure rainer than to the humdrum existence of social life and easily acquired riches. But tales of diamond mines In Russia and hand-to-hand combats In wild terrains cannot and will not fit into the scheme of the Tightness of things as visloned by Elizabeth, his New England, banker-bred and An-lshing-school-educated wife. She suspects him of Infidelity and cannot imagine that he has no other desire than to break loose from distasteful ties. Then there is Jane Barton, who.

as a next-door neighbor of 11, built romantic dreams about Courtnev and now, after 10 years, has settled down In a pent-house apartment near his, where he may listen to the love songs she sings for him. Jane stages a meeting at last and Courtney takes an Interest In her that gradually turns into love. In the meanwhile Elizabeth returns from Europe and finds her worst suspi-ctans turned Into reality. Tong, the Japanese servant, is a vital factor, for he is fatally wounded. But to tell more would be to divulge too much of the plot.

Mary Morris plays the rather dramatic Elizabeth, Edward Pawley the venturesome Courtney and Betty Linley the girl of the beautiful voice. The winsome little Doris Covert, the lively Helen Shlpman and Allan Davis help provide the comedy and so forth. I 1 i Theater News I 'Rock Me, Julie' Settings Gossip of the Stage Donald Oenslaaer, who designed the settings lor "Overture" at the Longacre Theater, has been commissioned by Green and Oensler to provide the settings tor their forthcoming "Rock Me, Julie," starring Helen Menken and Paul Munt. The cast of the play was completed yes- terday with the signing ot O. Albert Smith.

The producers further snnounce that Dallas Welford has been en- for the Ted Hraly musical "The Gang's Ali Here." A hanre for Tatrnt Joseph Regan, Irlt-h-American tenor who is the vaudeville head- liner at the RKO Madison Theater the first half of this week, has been conducting a series of preliminary voice auditions hich will terminate on the stage of the Madison to-! night. To Soothe Shoppers I Throughout the Nation the RKO booking executives have planned I special pre-holldny bills for Christ- i mas shoppers. This past week one of the longest lists of vaudeville AMt'SEMENTS MANHATTAN 1AL1 6wl Shows' mil Jafimnca tfl "The Blue Anger with MarWne Dtttnch IVn I I TiNITFO B'wav a I A.KTISIS at MORIS tO' Gary Coosvr Miien Dteutefc; Adeipfca Meajoa JOHN GILBERT ri't (( mat an in" Slaga Orrheua APITOL? ISIt I.I T. a. stw HI M.

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T-m orr haatra- Ianrfni from API! Serord TTirri A.osl.., YT CI Toe only original Vleoaeee orrora 5 5 st. playhouse srooia ot au rvevarassaeea- reoiina In in starts Leon Errol Makes Ilia Talkie Debut in 'Only Saps Work' at the Manhattan Paramount Neu-s of and Players For the first time since he was featured in a silent film called "Clothes Make the Pirate" some years ago Leon Errol, the comedian ot the collapsing legs, may again be encountered on a Broadway screen. His newest cinema effort his first talking picture, by the way is an adaptation of a farce by Owen Davis. It is called "Only Saps Work," and visitors this week to the Manhattan Paramount, where it Is having its first metropolitan showing, should find It fairly amusing. To be sure, Mr.

Davis' latest contribution to the talkies represents something less than first rate comedy. It is a wafer-light little thing that its prolific author probably knocked out between breakfast and luncheon. But, thanks mainly to WITH CAPITOL THEATRE STACK SHOWS SVALENCIA.Jsm.Av Merrloklid WYNN In Fallow tha Leader: LOU HOLTZ WITH LOEWS "ACF." I.OEW BOUND; Cab CaUowav: Barlelih Crimea 2 TJS Fi TAI '-MAIMiE. DaBarrv: J.rk H.dne, A Co. LOEW I.OEW LOEW LOEW I.OEW I.OEW III vt so-sniit.

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3d EDDIE I A.NTOR. Hnoenee; Kerr Wsilon Revo WITH IOEWB PERFECT TALKING SCREENS TAI.MADCE. DaBsrry Woman of Passion I PINK. fiOth Ar Mh AMm-m avuv vi. "Pettlcoat Influence" A comedy by Neil Grant.

Presented at the Empire Theater by Gilbert Miliar. Stated by Mr. Miller. THE CAST Richard Chalfont John Williams Peggy Chalfont Helm Hayes Daincourt Mary Heberden Regale Melcombe Reginald Owen The Counteas ot Darnaway. Valerie Taylor Lord Algernon Raytoun.

Cowley The Earl of Darnaway, Henry Stephenson Talbot Henry Vincent ister, knowing his wife had a lover, hit upon the wrong man and wanted the disappointed fellow's wife to get a divorce and marry him. Those are complications enough for the most riotous comedy, but the mancuverings are accomplished desultorily, though with grace, and with few verbal brilliancies. Mr. Grant write nice English without being able to charge it with the most diverting electricity. Henry Stephenson is the cabinet minister who wants to let Helen Hayes' husband make off with his wife so long as he can make Miss Hayes a wife unto himself.

He plays with ease and a charming unction. Reginald Owen is the secretary. Mr. Owen finds it difficult to be anything but amusing these days, for his is a sure touch in roles that suit him, as this one does. Miss Hayes herself cannot as the young wife be exclusively sweet and is not therefore wholly successful.

She has to resort to mannerisms for the representing of the resourcefulness of this young wife, and they leave her colorless and mechanical. She Is pretty well lost in artificial comedy. There is pleasant work by Eric Cowley, Valerie Taylor and John Williams. It is not dazzling fun. D1CKSTEIN- an unbroken silence with regard to the nature of the next Richard Barthelmess production.

However, it has been admitted that several Important roles have already been assigned. Regis Tocmey will play one of them. Clark Gable, formerly with the stage production of "The Last Mile," will portray one of the villains. And Robert Elliott has been selected for another prominent supporting role. Production will be started as soon as the casting has been completed.

'New Moon," co-starring Lawrence Tlbbett and Grace Moore, will have its Broadway premiere a week from tonight at the Astor Theater, suc ceeding "War Nurse." The new production, directed by Jack Conway, is bssed on the stage musical piece of the same name. Thelma Todd has been assigned to an Important part In the forth coming screen version of "June Moon," newest starring vehicle for Jack Oakle. Miss Todd was last seen hereabouts with Charles Rogers and Nancy Carroll In "Follow Thru." Chorus Girls 'Sislers of the Chorus' at the Boulevard The hardships and heartbreaks and even the wisecracks of chorines of a musical show found the respon stve warm hearts of those who saw "Sisters of the Chorus" when it came from Broadway to Brandt's Boulevard Theater last night. "Sisters of the Chorus" mtaht be called the story of a chorus girl wnen sne becomes too old to be decorative. In that It haa Its i rloua side.

It has a remarkably good cast all acting their parts spontaneously. To Edna Hlbbard Enid Markey and Allan Hughes go much credit. And "Sisters of the Chorus" wouldn't be the enter tainingly good piny It Is but for Jean Malln, the seamstress who loses his masculinity. Jane Cowl Aids Jobless The performance of Jane Cowl In "Art and Mrs. Bottle" of Tuesday evening, Dec.

23, at Maxlne Elliott's Theater, will bo for the benefit of (he Emergency Employment Com mittee, and will be sponsored by Ex-Oovcrnor Alfred 8mlth. Fill-Me-In Answer VERY. VERB. HERB, HERD, HORD, HOLD, COLD, Vat 'The Devil to fay' nu film opening at the Gaiety Thure day evening. favorites and big names In years has been arranged.

Authors, Attention! Billy Rose, producer of "Sweet and Low" at Chanln's 46th Street Theater, is offering $200 weekly during the run of the show for an original comedy sketch suitable to the talents of Fannie Brice, James Barton and George Jessel. No blackouts will be considered and the sketch should run from Ave to 10 minutes. The accepted sketch will be Immediately added to the revue, with the three stars playing in it. and the winner will be paid weekly Manuscripts should be sent to Billy Rose, 226 W. 42d St.

Miss Roos Joins Guild Joanna Roos has replaced Anita Kerry In the role of Penelope In "Elizabeth the Queen" at the Guild Theater. Miss Roos will also appear the forthcoming production of AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN. RROWN BUDDIES DH BOBINSON AlttXAine HAM. Matinee Wedne4ay and Saturday Bent Bftt $2.50 MBI-RTY W. 42d St.

Tel. Wll. 3212 fIVIC REPERTORY 60c. Si, II 50 Mats. Ttiurs.

Sal. 2:30 LB G4l.LIF.NNK. Oireelnr Tonliht a Sal. Eta. "ROMEO JM.IFT" Tomorrow "THE HOOD HOPE" Seata 4 weeka adtance at Bos office ana iown nau.

iij w. Asa St. COWL "MLT AND MRS. BOTTLE" Tonight and Saturday Mat, and Eve. "TWELFTH MOHT" Wednesday, Thursday Friday Eves.

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Matinees Thura. A Bat. ea. A. Aarans A laten Freedley a GIRL RA7Y Coated 7 'lamas Willie Rlnter Willis HOWARD RIK.IRA KENT AI.VIN w.

92 St. Mais. Wed. As Hat HERMAN presents (In a.soriatlan with HARRY MOSES) GRAND HOTEL National, W. 41.

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Mat. nee. 5. Heals now lor New Veae's Eve. kam Hsstpit nreM.ua QH PROMISE ME "Funniest Faree af Season.

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Bed. "at. Kveniaia Matlneea al Vi. fiood Seata foe All Perlarmaneea at Boa Offlee SAM H. HARRIS Pre.enta HNCE IN A LIFETIME irt i nr.n I.

mi ri MCSIC BOX THEATRE. W. 4.1th Street Eves. 4. Mala.

Tnara. and Sat. A Smash Hit. hat Prlre Inereaso Nllhts SI to 13 5 Buy Beats Ahead rnr.AR wsllS'y a sfmhationaI. HIT ON THE SPOT CRANE WHBIR.

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Urd AHst.i lillhert Miller presents HELEN HAYES PETTICOAT INFLUENCE Wllh HENRY STEPHI.N'iON rllPIRF B'oay a to at. Penn. Matinees wedne.oav ana aatnfosv Themra fini'd Pro'aellosl ROAR CHINA OOOn ftEATB AT BOX orPTCE MARTIN BECK 4.1. W. ol Alts Ave.

Evas, AO. Matlneea Thura. Al Bat. 2 .10 WEEKS! STRICTLY DISHONORABLE with Ti I IO TARMINATI NEVER AT I RATI Avon 45 Kvs Mts.Thr AtSal S1-S2 SO MARILYN MILLER FRED THE AST AIRES ADELE ttElEI11 PRODUCTION SMILES MsllATel-arsi'MtMera eie-flEEl THEATRs. s.4th Bl At A MATINHtll Till IISDAV At SATl'FIHY FRANK CRAVEN n-n'piay THAT'S GRATITUDE JOHH fiOl HEN THEATRE.

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Hal. Wis. SSMO (OOtedltS THE NEW YORKERS With the follnwino Cast FRAN'. IHARIES HOPE TAII II4M KINO Wll I lM ANN EH HARO MARIE PENNINr.TON I ARIE AIIILL WARINtl'S PI NNattLYAMANS Asrt fTAYTON. JKttxiN a nt RANTE a hi si 1 1..,,.

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Kid Mtilh.ll: AII R.rkl. Cans. rASTns ss i. Hej ORIENTAL. 8Ath Ai IHlh LOEW Ear the EDDIE LOEW I WILLAKD, Woodhaven FEATURE FILMS Guild production continuing at the heater to Type JAMES NEW WINTER EDITION NOW READY "Going Places" a 32-page, vest-pocket size Gad-about Guide to New York's most unusual restaurants, night clubs and various points of Interest Edition Number 7 (Orange Cover) is now ready, ana yours for the asking.

Simply send astamped, self-addressed envelopeto Rian James (No Chr.rge) if you WANT ONE? benefit for the moment, sing his "I Still Get a Thrill Thinking of heard Johnny Green play his ace number, "Body and listened to Messrs Robbins, Link, Kent. Davis, et and had, as a result, a perfectly swell evening. The Paramount Grill, verily, is one for the book. TO ADA-MARIE, WHO DECLARED SHED BE THRILLED TO DEATH TO SEE A POEM ABOUT HER IN THE COLUMN. So you would have me Publicize Your peach-bloom checks And laughing eyes.

You say that you Would be elated To have me write How well you're rated. And you would have me State most clearly That I love you Quite sincerely. By words and actions You do hint You'd like to see Yourself in print. a I fear I can't heed Your request, For if I did. I'd have no rest.

I'd walk around And feel quite gloomy! You'd have enough On me to sue mr I IZZY KISSEN. HEH, HEII AND I1EII! In this week's offering over at the Newsrcel Theater, tucked In between the Flood In Belgium and the Or man Ladles doing their exercises to Music, somebody's very own Dr Clarence True Wilson, Bigwig ol the Prohibition Forces, reaches the absolute pinnacle of something or other. In a talk on prohibition. What throws the audience Into positive spasms of mirth, however. Is his suesjeulon that we are now suffering from depression because, what with the country being dry and everything, there was so much prosperity that the country couldn't handle It all; whereupon.

It collapsed by reason of Its own weight. In short. Dr. Wilson would probably explain that there Is a breadline, these days, because there Is such a plrnltiido of bread that there la no other method for getting rid of It. Dr.

Wilton must be a shark at putting RESTAl'RANTS MANHATTAN ESTABLISHED 1882 tr- famous XUciautant lift ty. Jourti 2W. BEDFORD SECTIOM Apollo. Pulton i St. Throop Monte Carlo: also Srolland Yard I Llneoln.

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George Playhanae, 100 Pineapple The ripotlers: al.o Lealhernoekinf BRIGHTON BEACH SECTION Tesede.OrssnPr.wr.nr Brighton I.John Mark Brawn. Billy I he Kid FLATBUSH SECTION i C.lenwood. I47S Plathnsh A Uslll.n. Nltht Wark Granada. Cnurcb at Moauand Ronald elnsaa.

Rallies PARK SLOPE SECTION Sandera, ProapaetPk. West Half shot al AaarUe Report The invitation said it would be Song Writers Night, and so, wondering what Song Writers Night might be all about, we went down to the Paramount Grill, met Pub-l'cityman Ben Locker, and learned things from him. At the Paramount Grill, tucked happily behind a ringside table, we saw the smartest, peppiest, happiest show in all New York and, speaking as a scribe who has gone places and seen plenty, we have selected our adjectives advisedly; we mean ALL. For the Paramount Grill, aided and abetted by one Mister Benny Davis, song publisher and discoverer of hidden talent, has captured the fleeting spirit of Youth. Here, then, there are no sallow, shop-worn sopranos; no ladles and gentlemen who were all right when they had it; no heart-tearirg throwbacks to another day.

At the Paramount Grill, then, all la youth and all is gay and all is sprightly. Here, then, are Patricia and Terry Kendall, looking every whit as personable as the famed Ast aires, dancing every tithe as gayly as the De Marcos; here are Vllma and Buddy Ebsen, brother and sister also, as fetching and talented and peppy a pair as you'll come upon In all the realm of tagedom; and here, too, Is where we take a minute or two off In which to do a little predicting. We predict, then, that the Kendalls and the Ebsen will one day be the toasts of Broadway; will be the Great White Way's outstanding personalities; will take the, town as it's never been taken In its whole history. Remember the names and pardon the digression. Getting back to 46th you'll And Kay Laselle and Lois Sterner 16-year-olds who have "IT" In copious quantities; Jackie Heller, so tiny he has to stand on piano to be seen but not to be heard.

Here, too. you'll find the most personable chorus on Beeway: a chorus whose freshness will simply tickle you pink. In the entire show there Is not a line that is not a gesture that is questionable; not a lyric that is objectionable; not an entertainer who doesn't positively radiate the spirit of youth. Hence, we recommend the Paramount Grill offering to you as the best show we have ever seen off stage, as better show than many we have seen on the stage. There are, to hear Publlcityman Ben Locker tell It, three shows nightly: one at dinner, one at midnight, and one at Two in the morning, when all good little 16-year-old 1 entertainers ought to be at home In bed.

As to the "Song Writers Night" part of It, we heard Walter Donaldson sing and play his newest smash hit "You're Driving Me heard J. Fred Coots, not playing a "Interlude" for London Gilbert Miller and the Theater Guild will present Eugene O'Nelll'i "Btranie Interlude" In London about Feb. 1, The company will be headed by Mary Ellis. Basil Bvdney, Donald MacDonald. Ralph Morgan and Ersklne Banford.

The company will present the play In Newark week of Jan. and at the Riviera, Broadway at 97th week of Jan. IX Philip Moeller la conducting rehearsals, I THERE IS A FOX THEATRE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD the earnest assistance of Mr. Errol, it manages to hold provoking a chuckle now and then as it goes. All you need to know about "Only Sap Work" la that Errol impersonates a combination of kleptomaniac and half -cracked sleight-of-hand artist who is remarkably adept at everything in his line from filching cigars from a stranger's vest pocket to walking out of a bank with a suitcase full of money.

It is on a physical culture farm, where Richard Arlen is discovered in the role of a trainer, that most of the events in the story take place. When Errol is finally relieved of his strange affliction he forthwith places himself at Aran's disposal in helping that young hero to bring his romance with Mary Brian to a successful conclusion. That is about all there is to the story, although the new film at the Paramount la generously spattered with gags anl characteristic Errol-Ian soliloquies which more than succeed in filling in the holes in the narrative. "Only Saps Work is efficiently acted, a particularly bright spot being Stuart Erwin's uproarious portrayal of a dumb bellhop who had ambitions to become a famous detective. Regardless of its other assets the presence together of Errol and Erwin should be enougji to give Paramount audiences this week a Jolly time of it.

Oeorge Bancroft, making his first personal appearance at this theater. In the feature of the surrounding program. Screen Notes D. W. Griffith's masterpiece.

"The Birth of a Nation." now equipped with sound effects, will begin a revival engagement en Thursday at he Georae M. Cohan Theater. And with the original cast! RemembeiJ thorn Hrnrv B. Walthall. Mae Marsh, Lillian Olsh, Mary Aldrn.

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