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Richmond Timeg-Dif patch Sunday May 1 1932 Theatres itn Theatre mm -Rms Action Adventure Romance Comedy and Tragedy Coming To Richmond Screens Coming to Capitol In Coming Attraction Brookland Offers Wide Variety of Selections The Brookland Theatre will play tomorrow only Walter Huston in "A House supported by Helen Chandler and Kent Douglas drams ta laid in a fishing village on the Pacific coast The extras will include a comedy cartoon and travelogue Tuesday and Wednesday Constance Bennet plays in her latest production With a supported by Ben Lyon and David Manner This 1 a society comedy laid in New York and Paris In addition there will be a Bing Crosby comedy Mickey Mouee cartoon and McNamee News Thursday and Friday George O'Brien and Conchlta Montenegro will be seen in "The Gay Caballero" a Western action picture A Chic Bale comedy Paramount Pictorial and New will complete the program Saturday Thomas Meighan and Linda Watkins will play In at A comedy cartoon News and act are also scheduled Broadway Starts Week With Mystery" "The Gables the' feature at the Broadway Theatre Monday and Tuesday Anne Grey and Lester Matthew occupy featured spot in this thriller with other important portrayals presented by Gerald Raw-Unson Charles Farrell John Turn-bull Herbert Boas and Kenneth Rove The plat of the alary revolves around the mysterious events at a lonely country house known aa "The Gables" The attraction Wednesday and Thursday will be "Night Beat" a story giving a new angle on the gangster tape of film It talk the story of a eouple of doughboys who meet under trying circumstances toward the cloae of the war and are Instrumental In saving each other's Uvea They make mutual promtaes to aid each other If they come out of the war alive The number in which these promisee are fulfilled afterwards forma the theme of the story Featured in the east are Jack Midhall aa a gangster leader who reforms Patsy Ruth Miller the girl in the story Walter McGraU Harry Cording Ernie Adams Richard Canner and Harry Bern eta 'Cock of the Air" a Howard Hughes la the feature Fri day and Saturday In "Cock of the Air" in which Cheater Morris plays the title role the star departs for the first time from the type of role which him fame on atagb and screen for In this he gets hta first fling at omantic and comedy Impersonation March and Kay Francis To Appear in Bijou Film In "8tranae in Lore" coming to the Bijou Theatre Monday Tuesday and Wednesday FYederlc March ana Kay Francir are cast together for the Ant time in pictures This ta the screen adaptation of William Locket "The Shorn Lamb" Ftederie March portrays a dual role aa twin brothers Keen handsome witty hta word ta law In love or because he knows mere than hell ever tell even when he and hta beet girl are in Love" But no girl can complain If her lover has a twin who takes up where the other left off Kay Francis as the loving lady finds herself In the strange pre-ament of being in love with both and aha doesn't know which la which when they switch IB the coat are Stuart Krwin a bashful bachelor Luden Uttleflrid an Indignant pro-feceor and George Barker an amiable father The attraction Thursday Friday and Saturday will be "Arsene presenting John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in their first screen appearance together "Arsene Lupin" ta a mystery story baaed on the French play by Maurice Le Blane and Ftancte de Crotaset The cast also Includes Karen or ley John Miljan and Tuny Marshall The mystery drama carries the audience through a aeries of puxzllng exploits in which the elusive thief leads the police a bewildering chase about the haunts of Paris coming to a climax with the theft of the famous painting "Mona foom the Louvre right under their very eyes Each change of feature ta completed by comedies novelties and news reels and Kelly Pair Has Worked Together 6 years Sidney and Murray Plan To Keep the Series Going Too A partnership of six yean er a aeries of five moving pictures along the am line Is nothing to George Sidney or to Charlie Murray Mora than any other player on the eereen or on the stage today they have expfcm-pUfied teamwork Furthermore George Sidney has a remarkable record eerie aueccasea There ta np parallel on the screen for the "Cohens and Kelly" feature picture Than have been aeries like "The Lone Wolf" and the like but they died out with the second or third picture The "Cohens and Kellys" combination will undoubtedly live aa long aa George Sidney end Charlie Murrey for Universal intends to have a Cohens and Kellys story on its program as long aa those two good friend can make people laugh1 by quarreling with each other The latest of the Cohere and Kellys aeries ta entitled "The Cohen and Kelly In and comes from University City with the 1 ugh ter of pre-view audiences ringing in lie eon Apparently every combination of the first picture Cohere and Kelly" was fortuitous William Shakespeare had proved the idea aa Ann Nichols waa to learn when she sued Universal for tl 000 000 but the most practical factor was the long training in aeries and teamwork which both George Sidney and Charlie Murray had undergone in their theatrical training Way hack in 1900 George Sidney graduated from burlesque into musical emnedy He struck a popular vein in "Busy Ixsy" and played it season after season using the name but changing the book the music the jokes and the company Later one he found a gold mine In the "Potash and Ferlmutter" stories and very successful team combination with Louis Mann The "Cohen and Kelly" combination was duck soup to George Sidney It fitted right hi with hta previous experience on both FREE OPERA IN MADRID MADRID April MV-Free opera matinee for the poor are promised by the republic is eoon as the old Royal Theatre here ta remodelled Top prices at night will be 750 NOW! Pierre Key Says OPERA SEEMS headed for new ways and days TJre old-fashioned must give way before the trend of what ta modern It will have to If people are to be kept Interested far a form of entertainment we cannot afford to have die The Metropolitan Opera House ta obsolete Its stage ta a back number along with some iff Its sincere That ia why a deal of faith being put into the new opera house for which plana have just been filed by the Rockefeller Center Interests A new opera era ta dawning It will feature good acting give stunning productions and light effects their due and perhaps cause some overweight linger to diet Anyhow brighter days for open appear not too far distant others blaaa away with their guns when and Universal's drama of the early West ta shown Saturday In addition to regular short aub-Jrota with each program the Venus will present a vaudeville program the presenttkm by Al Hopkins of "The Texs Ranger" In person famous radio real cowboys and cow glrla singing playing roping and dancing COMING SATURDAY) TIIE COMEDY or BROOKLAND fcP Tomorrow Only 3-5-7-S WALTER lllSTOX In HOUSE Wllh HELEN CHANDLER Wednesday CONSTANCE BENNETT WITH A HEN I YON DAVID MANNER Friday With GEO COM'HIT A MONTENEGRO Pat unlay AT Thomai Meighan Linda Walklne brace between mother and ion let us say is going on the players merely go through the motions of the embrace they are to make but do not disturb make-up and hair-comb But the non-professional foreigner often chosen because of the realism which Is so essential a factor In motion-plc-ture-maklng must go through the actual embrace each time necessitating complete rehabilitation of the makeup after each rehearsal scene Pity the He is the most set-upon man in picture (Copyright 1912) A I Richmond Theatres This Week SENSATION TIIE Former Stage Favorites Look ToFilm Future Barrymore Talk About Talkies With Three Other Veterans BT M0LL1E MERRICK HOLLYWOOD CAU April JO-rive legitimate stag names representing the Beit In tt world's theatre today fathered in Hollywood recently They remtartared gently about tba old day is the theatre: they avidly discuaeed the prerent In the motion picture induviry Three yean ago a group aurh a thn would not be in or If vacationing here would be apt to regard the picture prole ion with an amused eye Lionel Barrymore John Barrymore Uonel AtsdL Btchard Bennett and A Alatthfws are vitally concerned with the future of talking picture ainre that la the legitimate future of all actors of quality These five haw become the modern tradition of the footlights And some of them have been given excellent opportunity to show what their career behind there lights can mean to the screen today RE FULL-FLEDGED FILMITES The Barrymore haw become ao completely identified with the picture I rofraslon that a return to the legitimate stage for either of them would ause tremendous excitement They slipped as easily from the great names of the theatre to the great names of the screen as they faded from their haunts In Manhattan to take up the mare simple pleasures of the outdoor life of California Richard Bennett since his coming here has neatly taken over some fine character roles that formerly went to famous names of the cinema Ha has become an Invaluable prop for scenes 'buttressing weak momenta with his am axing technique and his fine artistry In the recent production of Richard Bennett name was spoken of more feelingly by critics and public alike than Ronald man's Lionel Atwill the of the stage and one of the first acton In tire profession has not had as fortunate an experience In the motion picture studios His fine are has been he has been miscast and aurrenuded by bad working conditions He has been given such plays as a tawdj thriller In which most -of the readable lines tall to leaser members of the cast ATWILLB ABILITY PRAISED Vet Lionell Atwill Is one of the most able men in contemporary legitimate ranks and an actor who correctly cast bring something very line to the of the screen The motion picture actor defends himself In the Hollywood studios He calls time on the director when that ambitious en tteman striving to make a record for himself by shortening an already tight schedule works the company night and day But the fine legitimate actor experiencing Hollywood far the tint time scarcely cares to begin bis studio career with a aeries of com plalnta He la trained to the tradition of and eighteen hours a day before the cameras might seem part of that tradition to him in his Inexperience If he appears haggard or his work is unsure nobody win say Kb very good work considering what terribly long hours he worked to effect this short shooting schedule' Such pleasant things never happen The executives merely say not up to the mark" and let it go at that So for the honor of the legitimate end the honor of Hollywood I'd like to see a man of Lionel Atwillb calibre play the type of thing he doe best under good working conditions with correct dialogue and an adequate supporting cast It would do much for the standards of the screen and it would convince a fine actor of the legitimate that here la the big field for his work today Despite "The Silent Witness" and neither of them fair examples of modern screen Lionel Atwill is a Hollywood enthusiast and believes the talking picture the eventual artistic peak of the profession MATHEWS CAUGHT ANGLING A Matthews has been flirting with making testa there and considering the poasibiUtlea of an affiliation with that lot During long career In the theatre both In this country and in England he has con tributed some exceptional work to the stage His great enthusiasm among the famous women of Hollywood is Garbo whose work he finds stands alone for many reason I'd almost farfotten George Arilss in all this discussion of legitimate stars Arlhs remarked to one of his cronies recently that he imagine himself learning tire entire script of a play since he has become accustomed to the snatches of memory work demanded by films The terrors of stage never absent from his consciousness no matter how often he played a role and often assailing him with increasing frequency in the case of a play with a long run are ha painful before the camera where Iocs of memory or other slips become merely and are orly a signal for a retake And when his last camera has turned for him I feci certain George Arils will settle down by the Pacific and continue that charming story of fate life which ne began under the title Prom Bloomsbury" This recording of hta motion picture experience worth waiting for Copyright 1932 NANA) Milton A born Civic Light Opera Company featuring Pay Templeton Howard Marsh and William Danforth in Gilbert and Sullivan's Monday evening Pinafore" and by Jury" Tuesday evening and Wednesday matinee Pirates of Fenaance" Wednesday evening Hunter Players In the American premier of Last Chapter" featuring Louis Calhem NATIONAL Barbara Stanwyck In through Thursday Warren William and Sidney Teat In "The Mouthpiece" Friday Bela Lugosi In in the Rue Morgue" through Friday: Edna May Oliver In "Ladles of the Saturday Silvia Sydney and Chester Morris In Mystery through Thursday Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery In Iffnton" Friday CAPITOL Dorothy Makaill in "Love Affair" through Thursday: Spencer Tracy and Oorts Kenyon in Friday Claudette Colbert and Edmund Lowe in Misleading through Thursday: George Bancroft and Miriam Hop-kina in World and the Friday BIJOU Frederic March and Kay Francis 'in in Monday Tuesday and Wednesday John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in "Arsene Thursday Friday and Saturday Pat and Junior Durkin in House" Monday and Tuesday Wheeler and Woolsey in Wednesday and Thursday Burn Barton in Fortune" Friday and Saturday Lester Matthew in "Gables Mystery" Monday and Tuesday Jack Mulhall and Patsy Ruth Miller in Night Wednesday and Thursday Chester Morris In of the Air" Friday and Saturday Walter Huston In "A Hone Monday Constance Bennett in "Lady With a Past" Tuesday and Wednesday George O'Brien and Conchlta Montenegro in "Gay Caballero" Thursday and Friday Thomas Meighan in "Cheaters at Play" Saturday Joan Bennett In Lady" Monday and Tuesday Irene Dunne Pat and Myrna Ley in "Consolation Charles (Chic) Sale and Mickle Moore In "The Thursday and Friday Walter Houston In "Law and Order" Saturday HOTEL RICHMOND WINTER Henry Bryan's orchestra dancing every night JEFFERSON HOTEL GOLD Dave GareonE orchestra dancing Friday and Saturday nights DORIS KKM'OY and TRACE SrEXCKR Garbo Barber Boss Refuses to Tell on Her STOCKHOLM April Elnar Widebaeck owner of a suburban barber shop declined a Stockholm movie house's offer to tell abous hta employ' ment of Greta Garbo to the first night audience of one of her films Greta started to earn her living by lathering customers in Widebaeck's shdp like the movie star Widebaeck has prospered like her too he reticent about the days she spent in hta shop Carole Lombard Assigned Lead Carole Lombard will have the feminine lead In film version of Dashlell Hammett's best selling mystery novel Glass Key" She will appear with Cheater Morris and Regis Toomey Word Puzzle Thinner Denoting type iff architecture Stalks Gem Yielding milk To prevent Killed 24-6 tep 29-Attack Church officer Great dominions To glisten To unite closely To surfeit One who evades Church body South American animal 44- South American country Biblical country Tribe of Israel Convulsive sigh Birth goddess Note of scale WIIMER AND NINCENT'P NATIONAL K1A MAE OLlt Eli Mollie Merrick Says OLLYWOOD CAL April Pbn letter invariably carry the query: do director In Hollywood receive such large aaianea out of all proportion to stage director and to other line of endeavor?" Aside from the fact that the director is the true maker of the picture the author being only an instrument of the picture's progress the director has the most nerve-racking job of any man on a motion-picture lot He deals first of all with temperament And until you have dealt with temperament you know nothing of what annoyance can he Each mem' tar ol the cast even to the tiniest role feels that be or aha to the pivot of the story Of course the star feels thte plus (and rightly) It is up to the director then to write in gelatine a story which has been given him in words It is up to the director to make a graphic tale understandable to every person in the audience out of a mere narrative with dialogue It te up to the director to supply pictorial beauty as well and realism no matter how false the vehicle given him may be But beyond all these things it te up to the director to have the pa lienee of Job an ingenuity unparalleled In other walks of Ufa and a per' tonality of sufficient charm to keep the warring elements' in hta picture placated I never realised how steep a director's job ran be until I stood on Ramon Novarro's set a few days ago and watched Sam Hill direct the newest vehicle of the Latin star Of the several people Involved in the scene Ramon Novarro waa the only one who carried hta part through correctly One player had to drop an egg Into a shoe At the last moment before the cameras began to turn she reached down and moved the shoe When the egg dropped It fell on the floor Instead of into the shoe Henry Ar met who had made three perfectly good entrance made a fourth to bungled and Impossible that it had to be retaken The star alone of the group knew hta cues carried hta pert through correctly and was altogether satisfactory If the director shows anger at such a time aU of hta temperamental troupe are downcast and there Is no sparkle In the scene It is up to the man behind the cameras to coax them along into greater efficiency This notwithstanding the fact that he may be far more tired than they for while each of them has worked on the sequences in which he appears the director must needs work on every sequence with every actor A second Instance of directorial martydom waa sensed watching the shooting of Edmund Gouldtng worked like a Trajan twelve hours out of the twenty-four but the personnel of the scene which happened to include Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford needed rehearsing repeatedly And when the east finally got things down correctly the cameras buckled thus causing the final and mast maddening of a the mechanical breakdown Edmund Goulding handled the difficult situation beautifully Ha coaxed the players through conquered their nervousness and himself a wreck finally finished the scene successfully 8 Van Dyke director of Horn" and other outdoor pictures has met some of the most severe problems ever presented to a director Not 'only did he have to deal with temperamental talent In the actor and actress line but In Horn" he had to control such temperaments under the extraordinary conditions imposed On them by tropical surroundings and 'the hardships of the African veldt in addition to this Mr Van Dyke had the most temperamental of all acton to contend with: And beyond all this to make for conviction In the matter there were the natives of the country who must be trained to take the necessary parte In this ease they were swahilis a most intelligent tribe of African warriors Van Dyke brought two of them back to Hollywood for retakes They In no time wore berets became very choosy about types of motors and all In all became a problem to handle Ernst Lubttsch directing for Maurice Chevalier encounter highly trained type at artist who is adjustable to the various needs of microphone and camera His difficulties lie chiefly with musical effects and players When a director deals with foreign "bit" players he finds they are invariably too Indifferent to use or to rehearse professionally When a professional rehearsal of a warm em- tit East Broad Street Sunday: Cross RFGIXR KltlllW MAY 13 Greatest Attraction In 1 marine Your FINE FavnrHe Joan Bennett Will Open Week at Venus Theatre Joan Bennett temporarily abandoned her dramatic portrayals for mirth-making in the filming iff her latest vehicle Ledy" which comes to the Venue Monday and Tuesday John Boles shares the leading honors with her In this offering and important roles are played for Minna Gam be 11 Raul Roulien and Weldon Hey bum Marriage" win be the feature for Wednesday The dramatic realistic story of the lives of folk who make marriage ta an RKO-Radlo Pictures production Heading the east roster are Irene Dunne of fame Pat O'Brien John Halllday Matt Moore Lester Vail and Myrna Loy Charles Sale and Dickie Moore members of the which gave Btar Witness" its In- tercet are reunited aa a similar team In "The Expert" the Warner Brothers screen production from the novel "Old Man by Edna Frrbrr which cornea to the screen of the Venus Thursday and Friday Walter Huston Harry Carey and NOW through THI'RP 1-3-5-1-9 Door open at 17:30 ADILT8 to 1 liOVJ ffflIR WfiSm PMMMfV Bogart The ft insulting lory by nisi la l'AISKOT Author of "K-Wlfe" Earluslva Pictures nf Beaux Arts Ball STARTING FRIPtY! Tht Photoplay That Will Take Richmond By Storm FRANK BORIViK'D Rpencer torl Kenyon Ralph Bellamy Tommy I'nnliin MONDAY land TIEPDAY JOAN BENNETT with AO JIN' BOLES "Careless NOVELTY VAUDEVILLE At AL HOPKINS Presents TEXAS Real rnwboya and Cowgirls I Pinging Playing Roping Danrlng ENDS THL'HS KITE Treat 'Em Rough Romance Like It! 'MISLEADING LAD9 air a Colbert Edmund Claudette lwe STARTS FRIDAY WORLD KTHEFlEiH Charlie Murray too has had hta fling at s' theatrical partner For twenty yean he waa teamed with Ol-lie Mack until Murray and Mack was ona of the bywords iff the stage and iff vaudeville Murrey graduated to the eereen a great deal earlier than George Sidney did Chortle Murray waa one of the old Biograph player who has made motion-picture history But the and serin has eclipsed every success which he has achieved And with it all these two have become and remain the strongest of friends No quarrel has arisen between them and none ta likely to Apparently the authors of the and pictures and the dialogue are aa Impartial as possible In feeding situations and gaga ao that neither Cohen or Kelly has any ad vantage when the final fade out of a picture takes place Reform School Picture Is Coming to Bluebird The Bluebird Theatre will play tomorrow and Tuesday a drama iff bootleggers and a boy's reform achooL 01m cast ta headed ny Junior Durkin Pat O'Brien and Bette Davis This picture has the personal Indorsement of several or-gantaations A Chic Bale comedy cartoon and news will complete the Mil Wednesday and Thursday the comedy sensation "Peach will be shown Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey are Marred in this farce of the divorce colony In Rena The supporting cast Includes Dorothy Lee and Zelma A Nick Harris Ttue Detective story Mystery of Compartment will also be on the program Friday and Saturday Bus Barton will be shown In is-latest Western action "Tangled A comedy cartoon and news are also on the program JT0W FLAYING oorar SYLVIA SIDNEY CNiSTER MORRIS IRVIN I PI6NII JOHN WRAY ROIKRT eOQIAN HOBART BQSWORTH ff Chaw if Owe EXTRA Mlb Semi-Final Globe-Trotter New STARTING FRIDAY JOAN CRAWFORD ROBERT MONTGOMERY LETTY LYXTOX Ptars ALL Picture Edna May Ollier Hnrue Ale BLUEBIRD I Tuesday JINIOR 11 RKIN PAT O'HRIEN HETTE IVAN 1W Thursday BERT WHEELER ROB WOOLSEY Patnrday BUZZ BARTON In FORTUNES' Pelerted Cnmedles and Novelties Eai'h rrogram ItKClNS HtlllAY MAY IB Singe or Screen HMorjr! Hi Dm Clarion Mntlaa ENDS TIU RSDAY MGIIT The Title Telia the Ktnry iff Tliia rid nre i ttA6E0RGlBtiNHEtTttm I an Dyne Myrtery STARTS FRIDAY Dean 3-1 That Unuwm tVMV (motion! MOUTHPIECE A Great Alter A nGret lawyer WILL NOT RE PHOWN IN ANY OTHFR THEATRE IN THIS TERRITORY THIS SEASON! ALL PEATS Twlra Dallv: Watrh For Annnnnrement nf Special Adiaiwe Pale Bo-OITlr Openlne In National Lnbbv! HerisentaL Intrigue of South Africa TO strip Entertains Conjunction Piece of turf To chastise 13-Edge Warm Scotch for one Egyptian goddess 25 Rants Type measure Musical instrument Missives Stick Fur-bearing animal Splits or divisions Ia borne on Pronoun Part of India To depend Demon Name To operate Want Interprets To act To anger Anchored Aire 50 Fossil resin Vertical A color Article Undeveloped flower Mine entrance Lining rod Part to "to be" -Basin On the ocean Why Not Now Lots of folks sre deferring the purchase of things they need until some indefiinte future time This ia all right for some things but where your eyes are concerned the purchase of glasses when glasses are needed la an investment la eye conservation and comfort that few cai afford postponing Frederic March 7 Sums -LOVf DAT JOHN and LIONEL BARRYMORE In Flint Run In TLES Barked With Mnpene Wed-Thura "TI1K NIGHT PKAT" Mala and -Eighth Strettg Optical Ca Medical Arts Bldg Answer to Last Sunday's Fenle A-.