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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 5 1936 aw TirRetire FromScfeFWork? At the Salt Lake Theaters Calendar to Come Sunday Concert Baritone Film Star Gaining Further Triumphs Myglery Song and Fun Victory Fare "Charlie Secret" suspense-filled new Chan mystery tops the Victory current bilL Bringing Warner Oland back as the wily Oriental sleuth the picture follows his solution of a strange case Assigned to trace a missing millionaire he follows him to a spiritualistic seance and soon finds himself matching wits with the unscrupulous mystic behind the weird murder plot Tha missing man is stabbed during on of these eances and later other- members of his family fall into ths net The story abounds with action and thrills and has a youthful romance to balance Jts drama New song bits and glamorous dance spectacles are blended in the companion picture "Broadway starring Winifred Shaw It Is a tuneful tale of the rise of a pretty day's rest were required and young Valentinoff was ordered to take his role in one number the management knowing the boy was steeled for just such an eventuality Press comments upon the work were as follows: "Valentinoff succeeded in bring down the house with his dance "The best honor came to Valentinoff in an eccentric dance which was a The numbers to be given at the Kingsbury hall performance are: the elaborate "Lea Sylphides a romantic reverie of Chopin "La Boutique a character ballet interpreting the beautiful Strauss music its scene daid in a public garden of Vienna Fairbanks Plans To Make in China Douglas Fairbanks cables from London that he has launched the organization of a motion picture company to start early production of a screen play based on the life and adventures of Marco Polo The star announced his projected plans for this production several months ago and has made frequent visits to China where most of the plot will be laid Included In the plans is the erection of a complete motion picture torch' singer to theatrical fame on Broadway Wini Shaw is well suited to the role having been a musical comedy stage star before her movie debut In Diggers of 1935" Here she sings five new songs among them Whs Her and But Phil Regan "Singing Copals featured opposite the star together with Lyle Talbot and Genevieve Tobin Allen Jenkins has A rollicking comedy rote as a bodyguard -who sailfHnto- high aocirty The storyr -told against Broadway's most celebrated night spbts has many Colorful backgrounds A novelty act and a new issue of Metrotone sound news complete the bill Dickens Classic Gives Colman Hit at Capitol Tale of Two Capitol- this week is winnlng a place1 among the most popular and artistically outstanding pictures Starring Ronald Colman with a distinguished cast it brings to life the great Dickens story The -spectacle and drama of Its background eclipses even that of "David until now the finest example of the translation of a Dickens classic to the screen The turbulent story' deals with the love of Sydney Carton for Lucie Manetteand the dramatic chain of events that brought the group of English people into the dangerous French revolution of 1789 As spectacle it is doubtful-whether any picture since the advent of sound can be compared with it Swinging the focal point-of Interest between London and Paris It depicts the slow fomenting French revolt and 'then the awe-inspiring-scenes of an Infuriated populace storming the hastile and turning the streets of Paris into a battleground Colman gives a brilliant characterization as Sydney Carton whose one great deed- made up for a wasted life Elizabeth Allan plays the gentle Lucie and Donald Woods "Charles the man she loved and married Edna May Oliver' gives one of her most memorable portrayals Reginald Owen and Henry Walthall are also exceptionally well cast Walter Catlett Claude Glllingwater Basil Rathbone Billy Bevan and Blanche Yurka bring to life other famous characters in the novel and thousands take part in the sweeping spectacle scenes novel'screen act illus-' trating the "third in pictures and Paramount sound news complete the bill 1 Great Coloratura Delighting Orpheum Patrons Captivating Lily Pons appearing in her first screen role in "I Dream Too current at the Orpheum theater gives a vocal exhibition that is dazzling singing with a beauty of phrasing and technical perfection that leaves her audiences breathless with delight whether it is the famous arias from and or the tuneful melodies Jierome Kern has provided for the piece Even if she sang with loss of artistry she would still fascinate with the charming personality the bewitching sense of comedy and the depths of feeling she brings to her role of the little French girl who is the Victim of her own genius Possessing a divine voice fame it thrusts upon her brings her unhappiness when it deprives her of the desired joys of wifehood and motherhood Because her -young composer husband a role in which Henry Fonda displays a high degree of talent Is too proud to be willing' to bask in her reflected glory she evolves a plan to save her happiness by changing his unsuccessful opera into a musical comedy and bringing Continued on Following Page) studio aboard a yacht which Fairbanks has secured for the purpose? the middle west Orchestras de- music festival great musical event "I am an American" Nelson Eddy the distinguished young baritone who is to sing in Salt Lake City on Wednesday January 15 explains his success seem to be able to get over some sort of message to American tleople They seem to react definitely to the stories I try to tell them in Before Nelson Eddy was a singer he was a newspaper man A friend taught him to write and Jie became successively reporter copy-reader advertising writer But in between times he sang learning opera arias fron) phonograph records It was during this period that Davis Bispham prophesied for him a great career Eddy's chance came while he was writing copy by day and studying singing at night Philadelphia held a competition add Eddy won The prize was the role of Amonasro in a special performance of when he the His professional debut came shortly after when he sang with the Philadelphia Civic Opera company That was the beginning of a career that has grown without interruption He sang leading roles with the Philadelphia company in "Madame Hansel and "Lohengrin" and others He was engaged for important festivals being featured twice at the Ann Arbor manded him With the New York Philharmonic Symphony he sang the male lead in Respighi's "Maria Egizlaca" and summer after summer was soloist with the orchestra at the Stadium concerts His continuing successes In the east were matched by triumphs he came west singing with the Los Angeles and San Franoisoo orchestras and at the Hollywood B6wl During the 1934 and 1935 seasons he has been starred with the SAn Francisco Opera performances in such roles as Wolfram in Amonasro in After one appearance at the Los Angeles Philharmonic auditorium when the audience demanded 18 encores he attracted the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which resulted in his making what is now motion picture history Today Nelson Eddy is so busy that he turns down- two dates at least for evdry engagement he has time to fill His success has proved the truth of the there are no bad seasons only bad sljows Eddy always puts on a good show From Snow to Sand Mala Eskimo star keeps in physical condition during the California winters by long snowshoe treks into- the high Sierras and also by hours of swimming at Palm Springs In yie desert Youngest Player The Hal Roach studios announce that 20-months-old Patsy Doris May has been given a 5-year contract and thus becomes the youngest member of the studio personnel She will join the "Our troupe immediately -4 Helen Performance As Queen and Wife Charms orer Of Antarctica to Rear Admiral Richard Byrd aerial conqueror of both poles whoso recent discoveries in Antarctica have added thousands of square miles to the map comes to Salt Lake City to speak on his sxpedition on Friday appearing at the tabernacle under the auspices of the extension division of the University of Utah Nina thousand feet of new motion pictures depicting vast tress upon which the human eye had never before-looked will-Ulustratethe famous own story of his recent adventures From his own lips will be heard the fascinating details of ths actual accomplishments of the expedition whose value the world at large Is able to estimate but which Scientists now studying the mass of data brought back already fully appre elate 1 Under the glaciers ol ths Antarctic continent lie supplies of useful ores like molybdenum and copper curious new lichens -and mosses abound In tho nunataks when the snow recedes from tha bars rocks mlcroscopie Ufa teems In the water melted from ice frosen for thousands of years Also the adventurous side of the the voyages of discovery over the Ice-filled seas in the gallant barkentine exploratory air flights over ths glittering continent at the bottom the world sledge and tractor parties unearthing amazing new data amusing Incidents of ths dsy-by-day life at Little furnishes stories to hold tho absorbed interest of the audience You see the rebuilding of Little America where 'during two- black winters 56 men Uved buried aUve under the Ice You see the' strange life of the dead penguins seals skua gulls snowy petrels You follow Byrd on his further exploratory flights and most Inspiring of all you glimpse him at Advance rBaso just before he began his soUtary vigil 023 miles south of -Little America I where he main tained the world's southernmost weather station during five months of monotonous polar night Behind the Scenes in Hollywood By HARRISON CARROLL Filmland Is hot In an argument over what actor haa made the most money out of his talents Mdny say it is A1 JoV son Dfrectly or through Investments (he Mammy singing star is said to have realizsd about ability tertaln At times In his career the star has hit as high as In 1929 A1 was A1 Jolson 823000 a week worth over $7000000 (his own estimate) The crash practically wiped him out but he started all over again and haa amassed another comfortable fortune Taxes though take the bigger part of his earnings now1 Like moat of the stars in the higher income brackets he is at a point where to earn more would be to actually lose money Next to Dorothy Parker Alexander Woollcott la the most quoted wit in Hollywood right now! The other afternoon the portly Alex was holding forth at Norman bookshop in Beverly Hills A steady stream of film folk had dropped In at the party and finally Charles Mac Arthur burst upon the gathering Woollcott surveyed him calmly he greeted bad That old $1795 auit which James Dunn wore in "Bad has been brushed off and the actor will don it again for his Universal picture "Tomorrow Is a Better This is the film In which Jimmy and Sally Eller are reunited and the actor is hoping the suit will help to bring good luck too (Copyright King Features Sun-dlcate Inc) to Change Guise for Maurice Evans the young Lon don actor who appears for the first time In New York City as Romeo to Katharine Juliet in the Martin Beck theater on Monday night December 23 will change his guise completely to play the Dauphin In Bernard "Saint when Miss Cornell produces this drama in February according to the declsloif reached recently at the auggestlon of the author The Dauphin Is not a character ordinarily to be found in the same street where Romeos frow When Miss Cornell asked Mr Shaw to suggest someone for the part he cabled: "If you can find Maurice Evans 'do As Mr Evans at the moment or thereabouts was wooing her under the Veronese balcony negotiations were begun and speedily ended He had acted tha part In the In Lohdon to the of another American actress Mary Newcomb As Mr Shaw had rehearsed him In the play he spoke from experience which convinced Miss Cornell that an ac tor qualified for the impetuous upstanding and handsome Romeo also could set the soul-twisted timid and ungainly princeling whom Joan place upon tha throne of France -Maybe Acting Mist Dietrich says it not happy doing "other -radio By HUBBARD HEAVY HOLLYWOOD-The lady sat on a couch facing the light She was wearing a tailored velvet skftt and very very sheer beige hose I guess they were heige they might have been ecru The jacket of Marlehe suit was tailored as simply and as snugly as the skirt and she had on a frillypiacy thing that heard called a shirtwaist Or maybe it was a blouse She inhaled her cigaret smoke with evident satisfaction- I told her I heard she Intended to retire from the screen She crushed out the cigaret before answering Perhaps cannot Just now Maybe I will Maybe not Acting is not my whole life I have my family I could be happy doing other things What other things? Oh the radio perhaps (She pronounced it I have had offers But I do not think one should be on the screen and the radio at the same Her voice is low and guttural as it is on the screen Her highly arched brows make her- look continually perplexed She folds and unfolds her long fingers with the well-groomed nails as she talks Once toward the end (f the inter--view she reached for a clock on the desk She lifted It but she look at it realizing it seemed that that might be construed as an impolite gesture "I could be happy living in Europe with my baby and my she said "My mother is in Europe too I would like to see her more often Camera Preferred "As for the pictures I am more interested in the camera I would like to worK behind the camera You see I learned -so much from girls new to yet acquainted with the industry yielded the following interesting answers Toby Wing blonde Paramount charmer said: "Speaking for myself mother and I have never been closer together than since I entered films is got to know each other better than do most mothers and daughters My work in films has drawn us closer together I go to mother with my problems and have found in nine cases out of 10 that her solutions are It is pertinent that as quickly as was humanly possible Wendy Barrie sent for her mother in England to join her She declared: "Mother says my career has taken 10 years off her age She says my problems joy in my work and good luck have given her a new impetus toward living a great joy to me I never realized how much mother meant to me until I started working in films We get along better than two sisters might and glad and proud to have her with Eleanore Whitney sensational new tap-dancer la of essentially the same opinion Says Eleanore: "I believe at least I hope that become even a better daughter since starting my movie work Mother has told me she feels even closer to me now titan before got a lot of sense has mother never meddles with my business yet is always on hand when need advice and Mrs Burgess mother of Betty Burgess 18-year-old Los Angeles high school girl recruited from her classes for says: "Betty is if anything far better daughter' since she started working in pictures than before all mothers Tm the least bit spoiled when It comes to talking of my own children At the Same time I can truthfully say that the movie business has in no way changed Betty or estranged her from me greater pals than ever I by at as A Marlene Confides her whole life- She could be perhaps Von Sternberg about lighting and photography that I am interested in that part of picture It occurred to me it might he polite to ask her about her latest film "What is your opinion of said "I have she said have not seen you form an opinion of a picturs as you make "No not any more So often you are wrong I do not form such opinions any The lady rose -stepped across her dressing room to a table and picked up another cigaret Music Calendar For the Week Under the sponsorship of the A of the Fifteenth ward the local German choir will present a special concert program Sunday at the ward chapel corner Eighth West and First South streets The choir of lOO voices will be directed Heinz Rimmasch newly elected chorister and former assistant conductor Werner Rossberg will be the organ with Kurt Huber as pianist A special speaker will be Philip A Tadje The program to be in charge of Carl Verhaaren who was reelected president will be as follows: Say What la Truth Choir and Congregation God tha Eternal Father Mendelnohn Choir Berceuse Ouddarx Siegfried Nltsch violinist Kunlbert Glass accompanist And the -Glory of the Lord from Hsendel Choir String Quartet: Ufa Toh Strauss (sohn) Mr Hubert piano Fred Kelt violin Gus Uebolt viola Norma Schreiner cello Vienna Blood Job Strauss (sohn) Choir Nun lachst du mir wleder from Job Strauss (sohn) Johanna Beyer soprano Mr Hubert accompanist Strauss-Walser-PotpourriFranclseus Naglar Choir Marion MacDowell chapter of the MacDowell league will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday at the home of Miss Margaret Fehr 5200 Holladay boulevard A musical program will bo given with Robert Collier Copperton as chairman of the arrangements With Homer Durham directing the Male chorus will furnish a musical program at the Ensign ward chapel Ninth avenue and street Sunday evening It will be as follows: PART I B'hold Tls Eventlds While Shepherds Wstdisd Their Flocks lo! How a Rose Blooming (Traditional carole of thirteenth century a it Praetortus 1S21 A Carol for Everyman Dyksma Quest of the Wise Men from eantata "The Manger Aehford The Sweet Refrain Georg Durham FART II Impetus -Hunn Discovery Urleg The Stormy Evening i Chadwick Out in the Fields Prothsros Dreamworld -Dupare Redeemer of Israel special arrangement) Sweet Is the Work McClellan Under the direction ot Melba Lindsay Burton a very interesting program will be given in tho Sixth-Seventh ward chapel Sunday at 8:30 Accompanists will be Helen Hyde Price Sarah Castle Florence Allen Marie Burton Maurine Lee The program follows: WM Flower and Butterflies Hewitt Junior Wind and- String Ensemble Clarinet Trio Dance of the Roeebude Keats Rulon and Itudsay Burton David Porter La Golondrina Berradlll Junior Orchestra Violin solo: Canaonetta A d'Ambrosto Ruth Hyd Caprice Vlennole Kreliler Senior Violin Choir Mixed Quartet: Abide With Me -Monk Edith Mann Jana Reed Jacob Van Duren Ray Hutchinson Reading: "The Mrs Ruby Allen Bobbins To a Wild Rose MacDowell Leah Kimball Ruth Hyde Aftoa Mer setts Edward Gels Wallace Bauman Stanley Pitman Quartet from Verdi Mixed Quartet Violin Solo: My Heart at Thy Sweet Voles Sain t-Saene Alton Merged Obbligato Maacah Francom Afton Schsttlar Junior Musical Arts club will hold Its regular meeting Wednesday at 4 at ths home of 4rs Paul Calllster 1349 Glenmare street A program has been arranged and rehearsals will he held for the patriotic program to be given in February Coming by special train from Denver the fnember of CoL de 1 Ballet de Monte Carlo will arrive Sunday at 1:45 Its first performance in the intermbun-tain country will be given at Kingsbury hall at 4 under the auspices of the Salt Lake Civic Music association The company numbering nearly 100 carries an orchestra of 20 pieces in addition to dancers stage-hands and business representatives After their appearance here the company will proceed to Seattle for a tour of the coast Doors to the auditorium will be opened at 3 Salt Lake members are asked to be in their places by 3:45 nk At Ogden members will admitted No tickets will be sold Only those holding membership' cards can attend The box-office will not be opened One of the policies that has made Col de troupe so popular is that every performance must be superlative Another that the" system shall prevail Every member' of the ballet has to be ready to fill a stellar role There are eight members classed as principals to take leading roles No two dancers are selected to assume the burden of all Stellar roles This latter was the system of Dlaghilev but CoL de idea Is that all of his eight principals shall be ready at any time to dance minor roles or even appear with the corps de ballet And vice versa members of the corps de ballet must be trained to dance major roles should an emergency arise Emergencies do happen often in a ballet organization There are bound to those plight accidents to feet and ankles which Incapacitate if for one day only At such times an understudy must be ready to substitute without much advance notice And thus a small degree of fame fell upon one young man by name Vladimir Valentinoff 17-yfar-old member of the corps de ballet and occasional dancer of minor' roles One night during ah intricate series of "entrechats Leonide Massine suffered a minor Injury Several Musical Activities MacDowell Ensemble chapter of the MacDowell Colony league will hold a studio meeting at 2523 Polk avenue Wednesday at 8:15 Mrs Louis Skaggs and Miss Carina Douglas will be hostesses 4 Continuing an observance of the anniversaries of famous musicians the- dub will feature the achievements of Theodore Thomas and Leo Ornstelh Those who will take part In the program are Karma Chadwick Charlene Scowcroft Guinevere Hess Mildred Purdy and Anna Stona Social entertainment will follow i The Music guild an organization of senior high school students will hold its regular monthly meeting Saturday at 7:30 at the studio of Miss Mona Smith 2523 Polk avenue Betty Bristol and Betty Herrington will be hostesses A program of music by early composers will be given Ogden Song society will have its regular semimonthly meeting Wednesday at 3 at the home of Mra Williamson 2824 Brinker avenue Miss Elizabeth Norseth is chairman of the affair and will present a paper' on "Nationalism in Music in Current musical events will be reported by Miss Florence Wade Musical selections will be given by Mrs Williamson Mrs Lucille Vernleu and Mrs Nondas Hunter Actors Adept as Flying Students HOLLYWOOD Cal Dec 2N-Mo-tion picture players are the most adept flying students! And this from one who should know Bob Blair Los Angeles municipal airport charter pilot Carnegie medal holder and airplane tutor of the stars Blair wjo has taught hundreds of persons how to fly today said actors are the easiest to teach because: They take direction better than laymen They react quicker to emergencies They lose all their tern-permanent if any when they get Into the sky They are conservative And above all they throw themselves into the job of learning to fly with as much enthusiasm and seriousness as they work before the camera Blair hak taught James Dunn Ruth Chatterton Brian Aherne Henry Fonda Leland Hayward and James Stewart to fly and Cary Grant and Lloyd Nolan are scheduled to begin lessons Miss Chatterton Blair says rates with the best women pilots in the ration while Dunn usually seen on the screen as a happy-go-lucky youth -is said by Blair to be an ultra conservative In the air Chip Signs James Hilton author of "Lost and "Goodbye Mr Chips has arrived at the Metro-Goldwyn-Y Mayer studios His first screen as-'-algnment although not definite may be a treatment of Grtg Qarbo Do Movie Starlets Make Daughters Nearer Ideal? A full company of players and technicians will be transported aboard the studio-yacht to China where a number of scenes will be filmed against the actual locales of the Marco Polo chronicles On its return voyage to England the studio-yacht will be utilized as a laboratory In which the Chinese sequences will be utf-edited and prepared for inclusion in the film which will be completed at an English studio Fairbanks Is still undecided as to whether he will appear in the picture himself He states that an announcement of his decision Will be made shortly Before departing for China Fairbanks will make a brief visit to Venice Marco native city with a view of filming a number of the earliest sequences with the adventurer's own environment as a back ground The production upon its completion will be released through United Artists Actress Displays Drastic Change in Footwear There is a decided trend In women's footwear this season For every occasion street semi-formal formal and sports women are going in for shoes with open shanks and a decided flair for the round box toe Joy Hodges has had designed for herself a shoe with a very low box heel pump style which is- very adaptable for dancing and street wear Comfort together with smart style such as these shoes present seems to be the coming fashion for women Regardless of the weather the open shanks present a very alluring effect for the new shades of hosiery and show the best part of the foot to good advantage Sheer two-thread hosiery is recommended with these open-shank shoes The round toe gives a very pleasing effect and shortens the appearance of length considerably Miss Hodges RKO-Radio contract player appearing currently in Follow the was recently credited by Gwen Wakeling Twentieth Century-Fox stylist as being one of the ten best dressed starlets in Hollywood i -WENDY i i By WILLARD KEEFE NEW YORK Jan 4 CD-So invulnerable ia the position of Helen Hayes In the theater that one finds it Impossible to condemn the loosely strung play and rejoices instead that by its weakness it illumines her distinguished performance On second thought the feeling that Laurence Housman the author chose sensibly when he gave his play the form it haa He selected episodes out of the long life of the queen none surprising (save hint that the prince consort Is illegitimate) and was guided less by the position of Victoria as her majesty the queen Empress of Ireland India etct etc than by her importance as the fond and admiring wife of Albert Of this Miss Hayes takes mighty advantage Here she is a capricious and adoring queenpetulant Jealous and that word charming The whole is an invitation to acting From the moment she ia notified of her accession until she is wheeled before her adoring subjects on her Diamond Jubilee this Victoria forces the star to the briskest ex ercise in gamut-running the stage offers At all times Victoria is tha lovable British housewife Save for Singing Actor 1 IL VST a new addition to the roster of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Igor Gorin famous concert and operatic star from Vienna Mr Gorin haa been placed under contract and will make htr picture debut at that studtOk brief concern with the Mason-Sli-dell Incident during the American war between the states and an Occasioned Ill-tempered crack at Lord Palmerston she ignores her job on the throne True she invokes her imperial heritage once to summon the prince consort home to and is snubbed for her pains but that is less to establish her queen-ship than to lead Into a winning scene of reconciliation The years encompassed by the play require Miss Hayes to accomplish miracles of makeup But she gives more than believable externals to the aging queen Her characterization never falters from tho moment it is met (when her first queenly order is for a room of her own away from mamma) until it mellows into the perky grayed and bespectacled septuagenarian gracious under Disraeli's period flattery Not since Katharine Cornell was Elizabeth Barrett has an audience been more thoroughly conquered by an actress Miss Hayes' every scene invoked coos of rapture and at the final curtain a typhoon of endear- ments pounded through the hall It is a way people have of ackhowl-elging a way with them which ought to be satisfying to this one Miss support la happily chosen especially Vincent Price a newcomer as the prince consort Others deserving of applause elude Helen Trenholme James Woodburn Cherry Hardy and George Zuceo thi latter a Dw-rkeli more unctuous than Arliss Leading Playwright To Do Screen Work Rachel Crothers one of foremost playwrights has njtade a step which will extend her (Absence from the Broadway stage and place her association with th motion picture industry on a more permanent basis Samuel GoldArJn wW started Miss Crothers on her screen-writing career announced today-that he has completed ifcegotiations to produce her new ncreen play "Perfectly Good Miriam Hopkins now being starred with Merle Oberori and Joel McCrea in Lillian is scheduled for the stellar role in "Perfectly Good Women" It is tob her first production under the Goldwyn banner In 1936 and will! go before the cameras after Miss Hopkins haa had holiday Billie Burke ia another tar defi-' nitely act for tha cast Miss Burke la now In New Yjrk completing preparations for her production of the Ziegfeld FolDes David Niven who haa recently been seen in a number of Important production and is now prominent on tha roster of Goldwyn pliers will have an important role Plans are no being made Gold wyn stated to secure one of Hollywood's leadlmg stats to play tha leading masetdine role opposite HflpWhA' "Pijrfectly Good will be a Unified Artists release Can movie starlets be ideal daughters? Do the rigors of studio life the unnatural hours the more or less bohemian atmosphere of the show world throw up a barrier between a girl and the one friend she needs most of all? The question put to a number of tirfriifcrrimiut im IM Iim BARRIE He" 9 L-Tp-wre1 ji-.