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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Foremost Newspaper in the Two Carolinas SUNDAY AUGUST 3 1930 ALL QUIET ON Anniversary Will Be Recognized for Full Month at Broadway Theater Great War Picture to Be Shown at Imperial Theater All This Week When Lawrence -Stallings converted his war novel into The Big he included none of the bitterness and little of the Irony of "What Price But lately we have eeen three war stories two novels and-' play translated to the screen with their mutual theme the futility and mercileness of war retained Arnold Zweig'h "Cass of Sergeant showed the murder of an individual by bureaucracy Sheriffs showed men of breeding and roughnecks struggling to maintain their poise in the face of death And now "All Quiet on the Western shows youth with neither experience nor fatalism in war Universal wisely obtained the assistance of Maxwell Anderson (who collaborated with Stallings on "What Price and George Abbott to convert Erich Maria Remarque's novel Quiet on the Western into a fine drama before it was in turn handed over to Louis Milestone who has produced a warmly glowing tender bitter version The picture will be shown at the Imperial theater The story begins soon after the outbreak of the war Germany Id optimistic jubilant In the streets flags fly soldiers march crowds cheer In a German school room an earnest professor talks to a class of 19-year-old boys et decorum est pro patrla he announces solemnly stirring them to enlist to take the opportunity to participate in glory In training they are soon disillusioned Hard boiled sergeants the harrowing experiences of their first days in the trenches leave them trembling and miserable The camera follows six of these young fellows and Paul Baumer in particular Paul sees horror when ha awakens in a hospital to learn that his leg is gone Behm's terror in the trenches and his escape by exposing himself to the enemy guns Bulelr who stole his dying boots and then died hims'elf with his stolen boots on Leer for whom war was an adventure at first Kemmerich who died in a hospital and Peter who was sent to the dying room where he would not disturb the other men while he gasped for breath The friendships made in the trenches too are broken by death Paul survives to return home on leave to discover that his youth has been left in the trenches and that home is not a haven Stoically he goes back to the trenches anif is killed "All Is a frank presentation of the wastefulness and futility and horror of war It shows how those who come to harsh maturity in its midst are unfitted for peaceful life how the war that matured them must Itself save them When Paul Baumer dies It is not only a tragedy but a tragio fulfillment The film is most effective in its pictorial presentation of the story "All would probably have been as fine a film were there no talkies Oddly the remarks on the beastliness of war are rather Ineffective probably because the story has Itself so emphatically impressed us A thoroughly effective cast enacts- the events There are many war scens in "All and tragedy presented directly and without sentimentality but there Is levity and romance and the whole drama Is a magnificent picturiza-tion of a young four-year war record One of the greatest events In motion picture history was announced Friday when the official opening of Warner Silver Jubilee took place in every city of importance throughout the United States The event marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Warner activity in the motion picture industry In Charlotte the opening of the Jubilee was celebrated by a special showing of "The Way of All at the Broadway theater Clarence Kuester and City Manager Rigsby made short talks on the occasion while heads of all local civic clubs were invited by Manager Sasseen to attend the event Warner Sliver Jubilee will pay homage to the revolutionary contributions of the Warner Brothers to the motion picture industry during their 25 years of constructive efforts in that field The month will bei featured by excep-tonal pictures at the Broadway Theater These pictures according to Mr Sasseen have been carefully selected from among the best Twenty-five years ago a group of young men filled with ambition and a knowledge of the motion picture business as it then existed opened an exchange In Pittsburgh for the distribution of pictures to exhibitors They proposed to be the liaison between the producer and the exhibitor The Warner Brothers comprised the members of this ambitious group In celebration of theij quarter antury in the film industry August 10 be heralded wherever motion ictures are shown which means throughout the entire world as Warner Brothers silver anniversary month Preparations have been under way for months to make the Jubilee celebration period one of the most outstanding events known to the motion picture world To bring about this result not only have the Warners called into action all the resources at their command including First National pictures but others In and out of the screen Industry have voluntarily come to the front to lend their aid so that the silver Jubilee might be worthy of going down into history as illustrating the growth and development of screen entertainment In this way the Jubilee celebration should possess values of Its own which should appeal to the public From an advance scanning of the plans adopted for the silver anniversary month it would seem as if its success is already assured for the entertainment to be furnished by the Warners throughout the month is to be of the highest quality Success is to be measured in different terms The success sought by Warner Brothers is along the lines of producing pictures with entertaining stories enabling) the screen "to hold the mirror up to in a manner that will earn the praise of the vast motion picture public vln the twenty-five years that Har-X and Major Albert War-C ner have been in the motion picture 1 industry they have seen the busi-I ness of producing screen entertaln-I msnt grow from almost nothing but a weak promise Into one of the largest Industries in the world They have seen many revolutions take place in the industry and they themselves have been responsible for nearly all of at least for everyone of any moment They were the first to bring order out of chaos by opening an exchange as the intermediary between producer and exhibitor first In holding that the public used only to one and two reM pictures would accept five and six reel pictures and first to see in Motion Picture Critics Of Nation Select Ten Best Directors Of 1929-30 SURE TO PLEASE "Man from More than 300 newspaper fan magazine and trade paper critics representing every section of the country have selected Alfred Green as the greatest director of 1929-30 in balloting in annual poll of The Film Daily to determine the "Ten Best Green is the director of talking picture which the reviewers voted the best film of 1929 in the annual Film Daily poll announced yast January The ten best directors of 1929-30 as selected in the trade paper's fifth annual poll are: Director Votes Alfred Green 169 King Vidor 139 Clarence Brown 137 Lionel Barrymore 134 Ernst Lubitsoh 127 Roy Del Ruth 113 Herbert Rrenon 108 James Whale 91 Frank Lloyd 86 Sidney Franklin 82 Pictures directed by the ten best directors alv: Green "CHEER "A college picture without the usual college sums up "Cheer Up and the Fox Movietone dialogue and song romance which opens at ttie Alhambra tomorrow for a two-day run The plot is subtly woven around Arthur Lake and Dixie Lee who as campus sweethearts are transferred to the swift-moving life of Broadway where their troubles and complications provide the background of an amusing story Olga Bacianova Russian dramatic actress who is very popular on the audible screen enlivens the misunderstandings of the young lovers when she falls for Lake Of course Dixie Lee can never quite get it straight that Arthur has nothing to do with all of this consequently her Jealousy places him in an embarrassing position This is exactly the situation which provides Lake his best opportunity to portray one of his sly bashful characterizations Jack Smith plays the role of singing entertainer in a New York night club Of especial note is his number in which he sings a television song exactly as they will be sung when science perfects that amazing invention Johnny Arthur Charles Judels John Darrow Sumner Getchell Franklin Fangborn and Buddy Mes-stnger round out the well-balanced cast Sidney Lanfield directed It takes a timely rainstorm the combined efforts of the lovers arid an enraged husband to solve the IS FOOD BIG ACTS BEALL! FIIIIOF VAUDEVILLE difficulties These elements give "Cheer Up and an infectious gayety hard to resist is the title of the featured comedy on the program and will furnislt a good share of laughs while a variety in the worlds events will ha presented in the latest issue of Path Sound News The ThatStunned The World! successful novels the best sellers of their day material to be transferred to the Bcreen Great as were these innovations however the greatest was to come In 1926 when the Warner Brothers introduced the first successful Vita-phone pictures on the audible screen creating so big a revolution in the film industry that all the producers had to scrap their old equipment and begin afresh with a new technique in order that they might remain in business To have done all this is assuredly enough honor for any firm but the youthful Warners showed that they were not through with their innovations by being the first to produce pictures in techni-color Durng the opening week of the anniversary there will be an added reason for celebration inasmuch as on August occurs the fourth anniversary of the birth of talking pictures which took place at the Warner Theater in New York In honoring the Warner Brothers throughout the month of August the film Industry will be paying tribute to men who have made more motion picture history than any other firm in the business The Warners have had their ups and downs It has not always been smooth sailing with them and through their daring in the field of pioneering they have built up their firm until it stands today with Its subsidiaries as one of the largest motion picture organizations in the entire world having distributing agencies throughout Europe and the Continent Shown at 1:00 3:30 6:10 6:45 No Admnre in rric-s "Green Vidor "Hallelujah Brown "Anne "Wonder of and "Nays Barrymore "Unholy and "His Glorious Lubltsch "The Love and "Eternal Dol Ruth "Desert "Gold Diggers of "The "Second Floor and "Case of Sergeant Whale Lloyd "Drag" "Dark Nowheres" and "Son of the Gods" Franklin "Last of Mrs Cheney" and "Devil May Lubltsch is the only director to be included in the ten best list over the five-year period Both Vidor and Brenon have been given this distinction four out oi five years The four hig acts of vaudeville are especially attractive this week for they contain everything the perfect vaudeville bill should contain dancing pinging and gymnastics with a dash of whoopee Just enough fun and pep to make it one of the most enjoyable to come to the Carolina In some time Headlining the bill is Joe Stanley He stands high in the fraternity of laughmakers and it is said In vaudeville circles that to be a member of thifl organization one must pay their dues In the highest type of comedy specie and Stanley surely knows his art backwards and forwards Mr Stanley and his company offer a musical farce "Judge for Yourself" The Hungaria Troupe offer a very amazing presentation of gymnastics and each being a skilled athlete you will surely agree that this act is one of the best balancing acts you have seen In a long time The six members of this troupe have worked so long together that their combined efforts have the precision of a watch Ernest Hiatt is an exceptional! elever vaudeville artist His offering most appropriately titled "Nothing consists of songs and nonsensical wittlelsms of a nature that never falls to score the biggest kind of applause He also does a bit of memory work including the naming of practically all the streets in each city in which he appears in the proper order Davis Carroll and McCarthy and Co are a quartette of dancer tile company being the fourth member of this organization They offer "Moments Vitae" the dances being of the narrative sort The dancers are realty artlsis and tho manner In which they present their offering readily proves thit "Moments is magnificently staged the scenery costumes and lighting effects adding a picturesque background to this presentation of terp-slchore LADY OF AT CHARLOTTE MONDAY "The Lady of all-talking picture at the Charlotte Theater Monday and Tuesday feafurinp Ruth Chattorton and Basil Rath-bone deals with an actress who through a freak of fate becomes engaged to the son of a British peer Parental opposition resolves itself into strategy and she is asked to remain in the home of the aristocratic father to accustom herself to society Instead society accustoms itself to her and ft lipr-ts society considerably Then a real love affair dawns hut finally she sacrifices her own happiness for that of a woman who needs her lover more than she dues Cares About Tomorrow? We Have Your love is for some but it is not for me for me love is just a little light in all the darkness a little warmth in all the cold one minute to lie still In a beloved arms one little minute to forget No more genuine and wholly pleasing entertainment lias come from the audible screen in many months than is embodied in the Fox Movietone comedy hit "Crazy That Way" which opens at the Alhambra theater Wednesday for two days Directed by Hamilton MacFad-den brilliant Harvard university graduate producer for the Theater Guild and headed to be rated as one of the 10 best directors In films MacFadden has taken the stage play by Vincent Lawrence "In Love With and with crisp dialog and situations which he evolved in conjunction with Marion Orth aided and abetted by one of the most casts seen in an audible picture this year he has greatly enhanced the entertaining qualities of the stage Play Joan Bennett beautiful blonde and daughter of famous parents girl who has played six leads in less than a year in pictures and Kenneth MacKenna head the cast which includes in featured roles Regis Toomey of fame Jason Robards who played the lead in the original stage version of "7th Lumsden Hare of 30 years' experience on stage and screen and Sharon Lynn both beautiful and versatile A Grantland Rice Sportllght Bows and Arrows" and an all dialogue comedy entitled "Cash and will be presented on the same program AJL Whore Hits Weather's Made to The With them canine Among the hundreds of reasons which have been advanced at one time or another to account for the phenomenal success of Greta Garbo exclusive of her inimitable personality and unusual beauty is that of the Swedish star's versatility Whereas other cinema personalities are content to shine within limited spheres by which they may be recognized as the flapper-type the sophisticated-type the romantic-type etc Miss Garbo refuses to be cast into a mold and has made it a point to insist on being given a totally different characterization with each succeeding picture From the Spanish portrayals of such early pictures as "The and "The and the erotic flavor of and "Flesh and the Miss Garbo swung to the restrained but highly dramatic characterization of the maligned English heroine in Woman of Followed the oriental atmosphere of and then in striking contrast the American girl of "The Single The sophisticated woman of "The was her next role and close upon its heels came the totally unexpected characterization of "Anna Christie" As the latest indication of her amazing versatility comes the announcement that in her second all-talking picture which will open tomorrow at the Carolina Theater Miss Garbo will play the part of an Italian opera singer An interesting featuib of is the fact that Gavin Oordorv who plays opposite Miss Garbo has never before appeared on the screen his theatrical experience having been confined to stage roles He was playing in Los Angeles when picked out as being the exact type demanded by the picture Shortly after work on the production was started Gordon suffered a broken collarbone as a result of an automobile accident and it was thought he would have to be replaced but the gameness saved the- role for him Others in the cast of the Goldwyp-Mayer picture are Stone Elliott Nugent Flore Lake Clara Biandick Henry metta Mathilda Commont and Countess de Llguoro On the same program will be found a set of selected short features "College is a comedy riot with so many laughs it would bn impossible to enumerate them Then you will find another the very interesting sciences "Travel which will please you tremendously with it's beauty The always interesting Paramount Sound News will bring to you all of the outstanding events of the world Metro- lorence THINKS FEMININE BRAINS HAVE THEIR APPEAL ALSO Alice 'White blonde dynamic First National star who is coming next Thursday to the Carolina theater in First Vltaphone feature "Sweet thinks that sex appeal isn't all in the curves you ever notice how popular some girl who wouldn't measure up with a modern Venus queries Miss White pointedly "Others who have this that these and those to perfection sit alone and twiddle their thumbs "It isn't in their curves always fifty per cent of sex appeal is In the mind and maybe seventy-five per cent Your sex appeal above the ears you see governs the way you walk talk and look out of the eyes It even regulates the blood Miss White is a splendid exponent of both varieties of In "Sweet Mama" wherein she has to use all her rhartns and her brains too to match wits with a gangster for the very life of a hoy she Is trying to get nut of "the racket" The story adapted and written in dialogue by Earl Baldwin has lots jot thrills cm mu zmnsxa 0 Imagine these words whispered passionately by gorgeous Greta in a talking picture which captures the beauty and mystery of a love life A never-to-be-forgotten thrill! The second feature picture in Warner Brothers Silver Jubilee which continues throughout the month of August is "Top Sneed" featuring the inimitable Joe Brown the funniest comic on screen or stage together with Bernice Claire Jack Whiting a very celebrated stage star and Laura Lee who is quite a comic of the same type as Winnie Lightner The fact is that each member of the cast of Top Speed is a real stage star and this probably accounts for the wonderful success of this very laughable comedy hit It is undoubtedly funnier and a much better show taken all In all than Everything" and that was quite a laugh provoker Speed" comes to the Broadway tomorrow for the entire week The story of Top Speed has to do with two brokers' clerks on a vacation with limited means but with plenty of nerve They are spending their last days of their vacation at a very fashionable hotel These two parts are played by Joe Brown and Jack Whiting They meet and fall In love with Bernice Claire and Laura Lee Bernice father asks Jack Whltink to drive his motor-boat "The Virginia" in the races lie agrees and overstays bis vacation He Is approached by the owner of the other racing boat "The and offered a bribe of 13) 100 to throw the race Jack accepts 115-000 on account and hands it over to Brown who has been bluffing and telling a lot of "hot stories of their wealth who bets the entire 115000 on "The to win the race Before the race is run the two boys' boss wires them to know the whereabouts of a certain stock certificate of a large amount which Joe Brown had Inadvertantly carried off in his pocket and which he has lost when the sheriff gets after him tor breaking certnin fishing laws and takes possession of Joe's pants This brings on a very very very comical situation that it would not do to tell While the race is in progress It is discovered that the two boys are not millionaire stock exchange men but simply brokers clerks end the word gets around that Jack has been bribed and is going to throw the race This seems apparent from the way the race is progressing but Jack who is having trouble with his motor adjusts It and in a whirlwind finish wins the race Joe Brown and another fellow who has invented a life-saving Jacket get "Teod-up" a bit and get out on the water in a fast motor boat To tell you the antics they cut In that motor boat would be simply to rob you of another side-splitting sequence in this hilariously fun-ny comedy In Clarence Brown's Production of Romance World Famous Stage Hit Now a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Triumph With Lewis Stone Gavin Gordon Eric Maria World Stirring Novel Now A Universal All Talking Picture! With Louis Wolheim John Wray and cast 10001! THE critics rave about this mighty dramatization of the best known novel of our dayl Read what they say! "Far and away the best motion picture that has been made talking or Telegraph is one picture that will live long in your Evening Times "Nobody Should Miss Daily Mirror "It is powerful It is a picture to be seen once twice and more" Los Angeles Herald "Frolicking Rlnsey Cartoon Fathe Sound News of World Events Bargain Matinee Monday 10:30 AM Fenturettcs It's Novel Most Unusual an ALL DOG Cast See play football make love and whoopee in this all talking all hilarious comedy ALL THIS WEEK! Imperial Dial 36 3-6H97 Trvnn COOL AND COMFORTABLE Homs of Paramount I'lrtiirrs Paramount Screen Song GLOW Bouncing Ball Treat Paramount Sound News Order!.