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411 tr gl mrImmasIffirmommm NOMKOMINEMbill TIT KANSk 1Ww4 O' 'MmmomnkexdmgsnomumnGLanENWJaEpmoniMmMIIIIAkonuonginfxlIlitMMFttamawdminbnk r) l'ITF T' VV' kc i 4 CITY qT kP SITND VY I kN'T3 kill lo 1033sn 1 4 4 4 4 4 AMP mmummmmommawom000momooaolemp 'Man I mou r1 -4 1 1 CI IN '1kit STISDAY T4 THe THE NEW SHEIK AND HIS CAPTIVE that will rolst your brain but give your nerves an Olympic work-out Properly speaking this is a horror picture for it includes that inevitable scene of a pretty girl lying in bed while a shaggy monster lumbers in through the window without which no horror picture ever has been made been regarded as one of Hollywood's PANTHER eligible bachelors recently filed sbit for divorce from a wife from whom he has been separated for several years He will be neither eligible nor a bachelor for a year at least Richard Bartholmess like other 4 stars who are working for less theia days but who nevertheless will pay 4 as much income tax if not morethail during better times is philosophical After be signed a new contract with 2 Warner Bros under the terms or which he makes three pictures a year 10141k for $300000 instead of two as for 44 merly he told a friend: "I make one picture for Warners 44111: one for the government and one for myself" of Hollywood's icently filed suit wife from Who ated for several ither eligible nor at least less like other ng for less these rtheless win pay if not more than is philosophical iew contract with the terms of pictures a year of two as for id: n'e for Warners lent and one for )' I 0e- 1 Cotioll gicture 7vietus Bitter Tea of General Yen" mem T) rbilta St anwyck Sloiers1 -el AsIlittir Dr So Ivo St Me 0111111 OMCIOn Mr Jalisoli Imeir 11 Lit tfri leict Mali Li Tolnis Mori Captain LI Fitcliard roo Mt jRab011 rinta NRldCk Janos Wailer connolIV 1' 0 0 0 I 0 i I I 00 ilV0101' 0 00eo 7141 t2' u)Icture p04 444' '7" ''1'11r 1-'' 1 4''' g') VI elCr8 Cto of 1' 71' ---4I44'- '44' t'' i $'' ral l'Bitter Tea I Le0e4t4 i of Geneen" mem mvii Bilrbra St a il wyrk Veil Nils 0111cr Dr Nolvrt little cinlin Omclon Mr Jalisoii LAIC iftl Lit tlei leict Mali Li Tolni Niort Captain LI Richard 100 Nit Jacl-b0U cirr pistictick Janos Walter connollv 11 up rig dtr pec Ufl bin top pRI wit 01( fro Iitt nis rep fey 131 bet wtt but tie thi wit to the no( Wol thL con gor wil mo I t( tha goa kru 110 di to 1 bac anl Th oth 11 du 'wit 01( fro litt ma reg fey iy bet del big tie thi wit to tho O0( wo' thi CO" gor wif no iti It ilia goa kric hoN to 1 bac anl "111 oth For want of a glossary on the (Rill of slang expressions lianne man humorist now writing for plc tures had to omit the old favorite "23 skiddo" from his story The period of the piece he is doing "The Great Jasper" is 1906 No ore in Ho1lyw7od could tell Hanniunan definitely 'vhen the expression aunt Into use ary on the orighl Hanne writing for plc the old favorite its story piece he Is doing is 1906 No one tell Hannaman expression came (4 :1: i 1 5 4' :3:::: '4 1 1 0 -4 tr 'Nt i 14 I ft Ai ti' A ti3'-H: :4 l' Nk1t14 l'44! Ik ilri44'1" i iii: In order to get a 1-ree1 film ex plaining the theory of technocracy On the market immediately a producer rushed it through to completion in six days But he had to work six teen hours a day to do isn't a bit technocratic 1-reel film )f technocracy on ately a prodlicfr to completion In lad to work six do isn't 1 l' '''''154-: '4k1 'r But the proximity of Darwinism to (I vm lingerie which usually is 1 the sole box 1 merit of such pictures is but a minor and scarcely used trump in 4 i '''i''04f 'ff this one "'Ile Island of Lost Souls" 4 cl': 1 1 is as much an adventure picture as a P'' I i '040744' horror one 4 4 ia 0 '1''IV l' 1 4 boi: -1 pl-Ii: vs -es2-1N 4 Considerable of the interest comes from reversing the traditional formula and having a pretty man pursued by Iv 1 '-'1 9 4 'al 4- a feminine monster a feline crafty tra4 ''t 4: I4 ''z '14 creature with the lovelight unmis- a- 1111N Ik i -41k 1 rP 4t takably gleaming in her 'unblinking rlit 4t k1-)lts jiiy p'' 4 tt cat eyes Dick Arlen is the fellow i'li 11 tr i thus set upon and Mr Arlen seems -V cr 71 1 1 1 (i1 constantly rn between a feeling of 3 4 lk- ''i' 1 '10 -40 12ZA I t4sto Iti e6" I 4 0 kt 4 -A t''' complacence and self-esteem that a 't lady-monster would fall for him and 1h' 10 ') -o on the up-and-up and the judges at tt 0 caution as to what the probable re- 10eSWP ft 11 (4''e-1 4vatI('' s7 i' stilts might if he fell for her After lt 'd' et' '1' (1'174 or all in choosing a mate a man is not 1 I kV 4 At 1 TI so much concerned with whether the girl has been a cat as whether she rt 4 -6 -9 40) I will become one Iv 1 4t tTh' The Panther Woman as portrayed 'n Y- i 'on st5 11411 hero pause eurt -4000' l'' ti 1'1 Miss Burke i i3ts on: i rkoewtaos eet 941) 4 1 441'" for this role after 60000 girls had been Of selected t1'4' '-''7 a tested for it a fact which makes it IPP- '7: A 1 se e- i seakkitill4Ispc 4- All fg "i-te 4 seem certiain that about 59999 gills 1e'e'' 45VS03 -1 if and their families will observe Miss 00 j- e' 54 Burke's efforts and remark 'I don't I Ilie 1 -r think she's so hot" Miss Burke i 4' 'i ilrk 0' 1titiil'9 of' -( ''ere5Z )L should take heart from the fact this disapproval probably Will not go any clioirnttleiestrseeFmors tt oheh Panther 1 -NrIto '-'41' 'e bnetehletr omeoWnducatne 4 le A 1 i A JO 7' o' I i I Irvoilt OP 0 101' 0 01 04 6k5 0 4itt ft '41 '14'0" the studio seem to have had nothing J'''' 0 0 41 -i 4' se on their minds except an honest ef- 4 0- je oc gt ig- fort to find a girl who could handle i'i this part with a fair degree of skill When one considers that Miss Burke Nils Asther 1ho gives a characterization that should make screen histoity in the leading role of "The is an amateur and that she holds her own ably with Mr Laughton who is Bitter Tea of General and Barbara stanwyck who plays opposite him The story is a modern romance of the Orient It is the screen attraction at the Mainstreet 'supposed to be one of the greatest 1 actors from the English stage it 1 seems Paramount would do well to r' dA 77' ki41enerokl 1 0 i 1 ii' e' 14 '1-- 1 )) 1 11 SNIpti! 'i 4 to loytt e' 4 'I 'J" t' eilt 74- N4'0( Nit4 tPop) 1 -''eS:" ft's Ar ri 4 ell''' sp '''1 1- iX ft'l tl ip) $4 tft i )11- slitt J-' i A 4t is 04 A 11 'tit' tt le4 44trsiii )1 'I 1 N-: ''1 )-te p4i it 1' (cI live 'Ntr 1 0 Iletz (t44v Aimmom--'H 1 q'p li) '5 1441 6-yxw000 4 Iv ') )i I) "(i '''e': 1 I S- 2 'di' 4t N3 itr s'r 0- tt 4 ro k-4411f' 1 4 4 jpillkk Iv -1' I e'''''') 'w tl ::4 1 i 1 '115b' 0 der' 4 4 L'oo '-71- 't a 14' i 4VV' i 4 4I VI 0 I'-- 0044 t4 ''''f l'7-''' --4AtiStNwm 41 s''' I eff Asi 7:0 4::10:: 0 -4'''7 4 I 0 A 's 419 2' A 0'iliPc-: itP' 0 tp'' '--'C '64-'-''7 i4'' i-'4) I 4t 7 4 'Ike 1r '''t -7-'- '''z 4 I 'Pkt' '''-'4 l'' t'''''' et" -f 414'' o0t iTo' t4 iCA e4 1' 4 i It's a bitter yen too HE sheik has returned This does not mean that Valentino has born brought back by means of spiritual laic movies It means the movies have found his successor The sheik is back as a person to be reckoned with in movie stories Iie has lost his horse but he has increased in horsepower The captive maidens Is ho cower at his side in a dashing Rolls or on a roaring troop train crouch with the same delicious quivers that racked their predoceosors as they jolted upon the pommel of the dashing Arabs horse Matinee business should go skyrocketing up to the glad heights it occupied in the days when the depression was good Pictures of the new sheik will leer from silver frames on the nation's dressing tables and the lads behind the soda fountains 1N't 1 1 be pulling their eyes into strange shapes as their uncles once greased their skulls in an effort to look like Latin Rudolph For the new sheik is Swedish with a Chinese finish It seems a bit unfair that the screen's sex appeal should be cornered by the Scandinavian races but this seems imminent with Nils Asther blossoming out as the male Garbo It's hard to believe that Nils would do a thing like that The gigoloish roles he has betrayed tip until now gave no indication that kie might go masculine lie has not only gone masculine but civilized as well The sheik 1933 style is not so dumb as was his Arab namesake He not only knows how to terrorize ladies but how to outguess them That's the Secret of his fascination It's a bitter yen too HE sheik has returned This dors not moan that Valentino has born brought back by means of spiritual- laic movies It means the 1110ViCS hi uccessor sOgytt'fk' have found The sheik is back as a person to be reckond with in move storms eiies Ie has lost his horse but he has in- creased In horsepower maide The captive ns vho cower at his side in a dashing Rolls or on a roaring troop train crouch with the same delicious quivers that racked their predecessors thy jolt ared upon th pommel of the dashing Arab's horse Matinee business should go sky- rocketing up to the glad heights it occupied In the days when the de- i presson was good Pictures of the riew sheik ill leer from sil wver frames on the nation's dressing tables and the lads behind the sod a ountains WM be pulling their ey es into st rage shapes as their uncles once greased their skulls in an effort to look like I4 i' i Ji t'4 1:1 i i Li: l' i ii '-1 il 1i 1t 1 t' :7 i4i i1 I 1 1 i Fp 1 i i' i 1 4: i i 1 -I i I': '1 I i i' 4 4 I li 4 i' i i 1 I i i i I I i 4 i 1 1 I l' to i i i ri l'- I i i I l': 4 "A yes man is a fellow with the courage of other peoples comic tions" The ingenuity of motion picture craftsmen seemingly is limitless have yet to hear of any material thing they cannot reproduce any de sired effect they cannot obtain After the decision was made to film "Destination Unknown" a weird tale laid on the decks of a storm tossed schooner it became known that rough weather on the Pacifier this time of the year might prolong production doubling or even tripling costs So It became necessary to build within the comparatively narrow confines of a studio stage a replica of a 2-masted schooner one that would look and act as though out of control on the high seas- And it had to be constructed In six days Working in three 8-hour shifts 150 men were put to work copying from photographs only an ancient school) er They had no blue prints he cause to have made them would have required a week The under carriage of this synthetic ship is a series of l'tdraulio rockers which will cause the craft to pitch and sway Overhead are a dozen tanks to hold water that will be spilled on the actors frequently to heighten the storm effect Surrounding the entire boat far enough away only to deceive the camera is a mammoth curtain representing sky and water When the Prince Rupert as it is named Ls rocked when the water le poured down and when fine oil is sprayed in the air to give the effect of fog aship apparently is in great distress fellow with the peoples convic motion picture it is limitless I of any material any de annot obtain was made to nknown" a weird of a storm became known on the Pacific at might prolong or even tripling cessary to build a 1 smi and it got sat( and nos salt you "1 his concubine has been betraying secrets to his enemies he prepares to have her shot slyly remarking that before missionaries taught such folks to read and write rendering them Kathleen Burke who won a coveted role in "The Island of Lost Souls" after Paramount had considered some 60000 applicants She shows considerable promise in the film which now is being shown at the Newman Charles Laughton Richard Arlen and Leila Hyams share honors with her act is good for several dozen laughs 1 Karol Kay as the Nero-like young- i none of them forced King KIng and ster who fiddles while her patents 1 King is a dance act that is better I burn than usual King Is especially good The three dance chained together as Kid From though they were marching through Spain" Georgia Kluting's Stars begins like Eddie Eddie cantor a dog act but soon develops novelties Rosalie Lyda Robert! that the younsters will love There is l'Atticittitrtdo Robert YOUng Ruth Halt a rabbit presumably a Welsh rabbit Rancho John Milian since it Jumps up and rolls over and AILI''''' Cklmel Noah Beery there are several performing cats More Whoopee than ''Whoopee" who leap in and out of a captive bit110011 One wonders what the coun- OU'LL see Eddie Cantor resist try's coming to when the cats muscle bulls and succumb to calves at in on the trained dog racket the Midland this week Eddie has More Whoopee than "Whoopee" I yOU'LL see Eddie Cantor resist bulls and succumb to calves at the Midland this week Eddie has Rasputin's Daughter Carps Her Bread With a "Murdered Name" Though Barbara Stanwyck is starred and gives her usual finished per- formance and though Toshia Mori the girl who combines exoticisms by being both a Japanese and a Wampus Baby star makes a surprising debut It is Nils throwing sidelong glances at his happy tingling lady captives that makes the picture notable The film is directed by Frank Capra who seemingly is working him- self to death in an effort to emulate the Chambered Nautilus and make i order that his daughter and her children may live" the type of eyes that can roll in terror and bulge with Interest Your own will bulge too unless you are one of those unfortunates who mute was sufficient punishment to make them Incapable of treachery The white girl then capitulates and offers herself as a hostage a bargain which General Yen somewhat cynically accepts When she is called upon to sacrifice for the girl's further treachery she thinks the sacrifice will be the usual one General Yen quietly points out that this is a naive idea that he (with greater delicacy than the old sheik) cannot accept a sacrifice that he could have taken had he been willing to exert brute force upon an unwilling captive He points out that her life Is the only reliable forfeit Her pride stung and compelled to a grudging love for him the girl prepares to die with him but General Yen wise in the wisdom of an older race having to use his own words "converted a missionary" finds a way out for her Wile" e375: -1 eL Sandra Sally Carter Cavendish Ralph Bellamy Petty Cavendish Hs len 'Vinson Lori radii' Vito Jory Patsy Klit01 Rose Bray Dorothy Chrisly Mrs Trumbull Estber Howard Miss Curtis Ara Haswell Peter Cavendish Clay Clefrellt Mrs Hourh Pitie Engler Mrs Cavendish Bella Walker A movie version of the story now running serially in The Star a(evMr 41111111A 41tp st-4 keep Miss Burke on the premises Perhaps she was aided by the fact she came from Chicago for she works expertly at the business of putting men on the spot The most perfect of the mad doctor's creations he throws her in contact with Mr Arlen the handsome castaway who has been fished from the sea to ascertain whether her instincts are panther or womanly If upon glimpsing his muscular torso she snarls she is a panther If she purrs she Is a woman The experiment works nicely and the poor Panther woman becomes tilled with tender emotions Mr Arlen as has been mentioned Is Interested but disconcerted when the soft tread of his sweetheart (who is not named Kitty) enables her to pop up unexpected at his side without a movnent's notice (Imagine having a laife who could glare at you from the branches of a tree when you went with the boys on their annual beer bust) Any chance of getting one of Frank Buck's playmates into the family is spared the proud old house of Arlen when Dick's fiancee Leila Hyams shows up This diverts the Eminent Laughton to sicking his shaggy creatures upon her When he gives one of them permission to kill the Island is faced with labor difficulties which make the 5-year plan seem trifling IAll the strange creatures including Bela Lugosi who looks as though he ha been crossed with an 0-Cedar mop rise up and Invade the doctor's Ilaboratory where they proceed to operate on him The picture has much to recommend it Those who adapted the story managed to make a movie of it without losing the air of plausible fantasy with which Mr Wells invested his more simple story The make-up men or whoever directed them) deserve a bonus for this work They had a ticklish task before them They were to make human beings I got in on alsc cod min the Nev 0 len Bart tun slni i 01 tor My eon Meg i 4mm the all tto ithi Ra 1 6 tctirt1 a I aY ov itral i a por 'epe ECOND-Iland Wife" from the pen MOND-Hand Wife" from the pen On the night that "Rasputin and the Empress" had its much-heralded premiere at the Astor theater New York with all three of the Barry-mores in leading roles another less talked about premiere was taking place in the Cirque d'Hiver at Paris Maria Rasputin daughter of the Russian religious fanatic whose influence on the imperial family is the story of the film was making her debut in the Parisian circus with a pony act and for all she knew Prince Yousoupoff the murderer of her father and now resident in Paris may havl been one of the audience who watched her put her horses through their paces The Paris correspondent describes Maria Rasputin as being of strong frame and more than average height with a hard almost masculine face and with eyes of an opaque lightness like the famous hypnotic eyes of her father Informed that in America they were showing a film based upon her father's life and violent death Marla Rasputin became reminiscent relating memories of her father and endeavoring to make clear some of the false impressions which have sprung up about his now legendary figure She took care to point out that al1 though he wore monk's 'clothing he never had been amonk and also Mustachioed celebrities in the screen colony are up in arms It's all because of Prof Leo Kennedy's assertion carried in Associated Press dispatches that eighty out of a hundred morons wear hirsute adornment The psychology expert of Creighton University asserts he made an exhaustive study of morons and mustaches as the basis of his statement Clark Gable hero of "Strange Interlude" leads the Hollywood protest Gable doesn't wear a mustache as he did in that picture so he isn't one of the insulted ones Therefore he feels he can speak as an unprejuoiced observer: "I don't know whether the professor wears one or not" remarks Gable "But I might remind him that some of the worlds greatest men have and do wear them Einstein Steinmetz Maeterlinck Grover Cleveland Theodore that never adorned moronic upper lips" Gable's contention is backed in no uncertain terms by other mustached screen notables "Absurd" comments Jean lt 'who aside from being an actor is a world authority on first editions an artist of distinction end a former bank director "The professor ought to find something more useful to study and leave (Jr Kathleen Norris is a movie version of the story now running serially In The Star If you desire to be a little rascal or an "old meanie" and if you have no regard for the honor system you can go to the Uptown and find out how It all ends without waiting for the final chapters This is what is known In the trade as a "woman's picture" If your husband dragged you to the Uptown last 41445773414 1 Those intricate jigsaw puzzles offer no challenge comparable to that question facing movie studios when they hand out screen cretins to writers Screen stories tagged as "originals" by one author may be in final form the work of four or five or six Whose work is the more important I a question often for a Solomon to decide What usually happens of course is that the Writer originally assigned the job with a contract calling for screen credit gets it no matter how many story doctors have been called this is true even though in final screen form the story bears no resemblance to that contributed In the first place by the man who takes the bow If there were any solution more fair and just the studios would be able to silence much resentment cn the part of writers who are not content merely with their checks but want glory too In talkies es never in silent MN tures Ecreen writing has become 1 e3 any solution more fair studios would be able who are not content le tt checks but want vriting has become a ao210 each new movie nobler than the last He deftly permits his new sheik to put his worst foot foremost first opening the discussion of him through the prejudiced conversation of the Missionaries Suavely he permits the folks who have gone out East to carry I a message of human brotherhood to call their prospective brother "a swine'' the moment they are frightened Deftly he refrains from denying heroic qualities to the young missionary whom the general ridicules for prefering orphans in the bomb: swept streets of Chapel to the arms Of his bride on his wedding night Then having introduced hie sheik es an abducting villain Mr Capra proceeds to fascinate his audience by making it try to guess what this fierce subtle lover will do next The fascination increases as time after time the audience guesses wrong Of course Mr Capra began his labors eith the advantage of Grace Zaring I Stone's novel Miss Stone unlike the I Hollywood hacks who had attacked the same subject had some fairly penetrating ideas both about the type I of men who become provincial dic- tators in China and the type of women who set out from New England to convert them By treating both with a certain measure of sympathy and understanding she achieved a result that could not be duplicated by scribes whose sole knowledge of their subject was a fondness for chop stiey and a 10-year-old volume of the Stoddard lectures from the studio library In every scene the oriental shows himself more civilized and subtle thinking than the white girl with Whom he is enamored Learning that I I i :1 1 On the stage Po1a Negri has the type of dramatic act that a tragic actress must use for a personal appearance In this the Polish Mar impremes the audience with her beauty sings a couple of verses of "So This Is Love" and delivers some dialogue with considerable emotional Intensity Like most performers of her type she suffers from the fact that vaudeville houses have been made too large for any lines save those bawled by comedians Though they were not in use at the opening show we understand that amplifiers have been installed for her This should help a lot Miss Negri is as1 Fisted by a dress suit containing Wal1 ter Pietri Three of the remaining acts are of the superior type of supporting 1 vaudeville that has been promised Kansas City by the 0 officials the fourth would be pretty disgust- ing on a third rate burlesque wheel This is the offering of Dave Harris who is assisted by a stooge more revolting than any of the monsters in "The Lsland of Lost Souls" We must admit there were a few who laughed at him but there were a great many women who walked'out while the act was in progress Of the three other acts Joan Davis Is a comedienne with Leon Errol legs and a rare gift of putting things over She'll be appearing in the big revues before she's through with the stage Si Wills her partner isn't quite the showman she is but their squints whefi he is laughing In that case you will have to see the picture twice in order to catch it all Laughs i should keep your eyes closed half the I time Eddie has the same style of ingratiating and impudent humor that has engineered his radio and stage popularity The picture opens with I him a happy fugitive in a dormitory where beauties are as numerous as technocracy experts For his dormitory activity he is expelled Within a short time he is mixed up in a bank I robbery He flees to Mexico where I he is forced to masquerade as a celebrated matador Through most of the story the picture follows musical comedy technique but it ends in true movie comedy style with as uproar- I boils a bullfight as ever Ernest Hem-1 ingway imagined while toasting his 1 favorite bull tossers in a Spanish cafe This latter part of the film is made notable by the sight of Sidney Franklin the Brooklyn bullfighter (who is rated the seventh greatest torero in Spain) giving a marvelous exhibition of cape work Censorship and Yankee prejudice prevent the showing of the more spectacular and thrilling parts of the fight but what Is shown is good We can remember no movie that boasted such an aggregation of cuties as this one uncovers (literally) in the dormitory scene Having observed both on the set and on the screen one can take oath that they were truly an all-American beauty team culled front the models agencies of Hollywood and Broadway Most of the costumes were sewed on them and the girls do their stuff in cafe scenes in dressing rooms and in tanks Most of the blades of the town will find some reason for visiting the Midland before the week is 1 i I I 1 AS JOHN SEES "THE KID FROM SPAIN" IA9 4041 i 44 I 1 i (4z! A ---74- Ll N6 6 i ty- I- b- i A i 4( '-'0V--- 11v1 cif V-(-9' 'I'' 'l--zmw ---1A rl '11( 1 (1 a- i ctr 2 Ntr 7 All 41 '4 ::) oires' '4 N'ir k77: if (1 1 1 ICIP)'10 (y) '-'11''' tr ao ry '0 73cI'' ''4'INP11 1-' '14 ton 4 7 f1: 14 i'' 7 --L: I- ir117: 7---'-' 1: '1 I 1 4" 1 7 j' 4 'tlZ 4 1: jv ''SECONDHAND WIFE" AND MATE The blithe illustrator's impression or Eddie Cantor Lyda Roberti and sundry balls tind choristers who enliven the film at the Midland this week didland tills week week and Eat there snorting and chortling while gentlemen blapped each other in the with dead fish and expectorated in the direction of 1 each other's optics in "Me and My Gal" (a man's picture if ever there was one) you are perfectly within your rights to make him go this week and sit through the soul stirrings of an office girl the beauty of a gentleman answering to the lovely name of Carter Cavendish and the cunning qualities of a little girl who plays the violin Ralph Bellamy appears as this Carter Cavendish and is supposed to be a business man Actually he looks every inch an actor Sally Eilers is rather sweet as the office girl who falls in love with the boss but the enthusiasm of this reviewer wasfor Helen Vinson who appears as the chiseling spouse of Carter Cavendish mother of the infant prodigy and in charge of general villainous housework throughout the picture We have thought and thought but somehow we just can't figure out why this story was called "Fecond-Hand Wife" since neither of the wives in question had been married before Carter Cavendish is one of those men loved by everyone save his wife He's a panic at the office but Just an intermission at home Mrs Cavendish frugal soul is in love with the fellow who is giving her little girl violin lessons This comes under the head of depression trifling since it amounts to getting a gigolo and a music teacher for the same rate Desiring to keep her romance with the music teacher as pianissimo as possible she plans a trip to Paris where the child can study music and the mother musicians She suggests her husband have an affair with the attractive office girl Carter Cavendish is such a well trained husband that although he is a bit surprised at the suggestion he obediently decides that "mother knows best" and trots right off about his nefarious business In the course of things Carter and the office girl fall in love and decide to get married Mrs Cavendish demands and gets custody of the child together with custody of the violin and the violin teacher Carter can't forget the baby and is unhappy over th3 hours she has to practice In order to make Carter ham Sally learns his divorce has not been legal and that he still has a right to control the destinies of his child This should be the big scene of the plcture but Hamilton McFadden tlie director has seen to it that everything is so "restrained" that no very dramatic scenes are permitted to get into the picture The most amusing shot is one showing Miss Viers and the infant prodigy trying to speak their restrained dialogue in a Swimming pool that is evidently bo told It makes them stammer and their teeth chatter 1 1 't 'll 71' 4 A4 ::7 (7 -I-' fli 2 I 1 1 1 1 LI 1 1 1 1 1 1 -4-') 71 '13 z-' over Sizzling Lyda Roberti who stepped Garbo up about ten degrees of temperature in "Million Dollar Legs" plays opposite Eddie and is rowdy enough to keep the comedy moving at the speed that shows him to best advantage She implies many a sly laugh in the "Look What You've Done" number to which Eddie rolls his eyes wickedly Eddies songs "In the Moonlight" and "What a Perfect Combination" have Just the amount of droll vulgarity that Eddie can keep from being offensive There's not a dull moment in the entire show In one respect a movie musical has it on a stage revue This Is in the quality of actor the screen production can afford to hire as foils for its comedians The monumental stupidity of Paul Porcasi as a Mexican customs official is almost as important as Eddie's nif ties in putting over one sequence that is a howl The jokes are too good to spoil by repeating There's not a dull moment nor a dull line th the whole picture mustaches to the barbers" suggests Ralph Morgan who played with Norma Shearer and Gable in "Strange Interlude" and like Gable wore a mustache for his role Jimmy Durante proposes a Mustache day as a protest against the professor's asaertion declaring he will grow one whether his nose likes it or not group enterprise With talkies came dialogue writers stage craftsmen and playwrights who teamed up with writers experienced in screen tech nicue Even so there is little "collabora tion" in the literal sense of the word One man's story may pass through half a dozen hands before it reaches the screen and none of the fix other writers confers with the first With talkies came 4 stage craftsmen and 'ho teamed up with need in screen tech re is little "collabora sense of the word ry may pass through ands before it reaches none of the fix other with the first 4L1 if- 'k 4 4 yl i 5' i't74'f i 4 1 i 1g i is' 't ii)-1 I fit-st' -4 -4 :0 le: i'l 1 q6 4k 7 4 A E4t tri A)4to No 40- O''''' '44'4 ktq vii441 i 49 i 1' tA47) 1'' ei i m57) I) '-'t 40 -f''- 4 -g vo 4' i 'i ') '-'t t-01 (1 4 tt-! Y- it I 14 'h'4'''''' 4 115 4 A r' 1 -14: 0 i' 1 tf''' 1 1''' A 44- 4ii 4 ftii '''4''' ei': '04'14 4 i If'''''' ''r4i l'' A ''t 'ki 4f': li 1 -1 44 r' '''-m14- 1 1' 1 I I 1-: P--'iit-! 7 :::::1 4 'r 0-' 'ii: (I i 0 it look as though they were of animal origin without making them so convincingly horrible that they would disgust women spectators as did the actual monstrosities in "Freaks" In this they succeeded ably The make ups are as grotesque and startling as Halloween false faces and they have that saving air of artificiality They brighten you but its easy to remember they are not real Street" Brian Cha flea Ete Mord Jame Helen Chandler Fern Mayo Methot Val Oeorge meeker 'THIS Is not a very inspired 1 drama of a detective who placed fair lady vagrants in the chorus of the Follies instead of in the reform school One feels if these privileges went with every badge there would be no dearth of men on the force However no producer could face the Jtilj1 James Cagney's autographing fingers are getting a rest while his younger brother Bill is in town on a visit Fans thrust their autograph books under Bill's nose even when James is believing that Bill looks more like the star than Jim does stated his friendship with the tsarina and his influence over the court was only due to the fact that the tsarina appreciated his sincerity and his warm friendship for her This )ast she said was doubly valuable to the empress because of her own unpopularity at the court where she was always considered an alien having been born a princess of Hesse When the interviewer inquired about her father's murder by Yousoupoll Mme Rasputin became vehement in her denouncements "I swear on the heads of my two children" she tried out "that Yousoupoff drank from the same cup with my father For months he treacherously cultivated my father's friendship Every day he came to see him and pray with him and always called him father He did not come as a man to openly fight with my father he came as a false friend and stabbed him in the back when he had won his love and his trust" After the murder by poison stabbing and final drowning Marta Rasputin says her father was found in the river with his hands held out in a gesture of blessing When asked about her plans for the future Maria Rasputin a widow now with two children' to support answered: 'Work! That Is all I can do Today here at the Cirque d'Hiver tomorrow at Riga always on the move and always the people come to see me tinder my lather's 'murdered' Island of Lost Souls" Dr Moreau Charles La nohlon Sa ser of the Law Bels Luanst Fldward Parker illehisrd Arlen Truth walker Lelia Lola the Panther Woms Kathleen Burke Adventure ser end horror 1 I 1 i 1 i I -t tT ') 1 0 i 1 1 i i i 4 '1 I -v I 7' l'' 91 it 1 1 4 -I i I i it -1 1 if nollY Claire Dodd admits she copied Garbo saint Lt i She is among the innumerable Hollywood gals who have been sc cused of aping the angular Swedish wood decides to make her adoptioa permanent "Copy Garbo? Certainly I coil Isoitearrliakieginyedthat Kate doesn't?" This from the lips of prettY Wide gray-eyed Miss Dodd accoinpanied hi a most disarming smile 'I copy everyone from whom I think I can learn anything' she continued "Everybody does herself is the result of some of Ole causes which make certain actresses appear more or less alike They tell me that when Garbo came to t1113 country she PAP a little fat and eve3 a little dowdy" That is a very true statement So also was Dietrich who likewise hag been accused of trying to look Ilk! Greta The Dietrich of "Blue Anizfl' nd 'Morocco" was not et ail IP! Dietrich of "Shanghai Express" snu "The Blonde Venu3" admits she copied ng the innumerable who have been Iwo the angular Swedish tile likely that Kate lo arraigned if Holly make her adoptioa Certainly I OPT esn't?" i lips of pretty blocle Dodd accoinpanted hi ng smile i ryone from whom I learn anything" she Trybody does Garb' result of some of the 5naGleeksaelsirtbotaoleleri ktcfaellaimtn eTaanbctdteoryeetss true statement So ich who likewise has trying to look 110 etrich of "Blue Angel' was not itt all the glint Express" PTA enua" 4t 1 s4 I Janet Gaynor has naught to say about her separation from Lydell Peck Between scenes of "State Fair" on which she was working the day after her attorney announced that she and Peck had broken up she said "I'll talk about anything except my separation from Lydell" When a director asked Bebe Daniels IL she would have much trouble playing a scene with a plaster cast on one foot and carrying crutches Bebe laughed out loud In the old days when she was Making those race and thrill pictures she usually had a broken bone somewhere to worry about Bebe believes she hos broken every bone at least once in both arms and legs Dick Powell the crooner who has AT the Newman this week eminent Charles Laughton needing but an apple in his mouth to look like a sleek and tender Christmas porker portrays lArellss Dr Moreau Ithe man 'who sought to create human! I beings from the lower forms of animal life To the well modulated voice of Mr Laughton to the fantastic pen of Mr Wells and to the nimble im' egination of the Paramount make-up department you are indebted for thisi department 3ou are indebted combined influence of Charles Bickford's snarls and Helen Chandler's charm so the audience will not be inclined to argue the point However the Follies looks like a step toward Blackwell's Island as things turn out Miss Chandler is involved In the murder of a gigolo but is cleared by the rugged Bickford who marries her deciding evidently that the vagrant's place 1 in the hem Isl 0meil In th Ralph Bellamy and Sally El lers 'who have the lending parts Uptown Urn version of the serial now running in 'rho star beet performance le that of being a sort of 'superlative dune-novel 1 1 IritEMMINCEIVNINESIM110111111MONlialrietiONIEMINMEEMMOMMINUMMEIONINM M11120111161001111n110EIMPIMINIMMEalrgerftEMEMINEINIONNINIMENSWIMOMPUNIONEWISEEMOWNWILIZMIPMMOMMON010MMOMMINVIOMMIMMOOMMINIAMM8M6OMMO411 WOREMINIIIMINIMMepalteePOIONIVIMMIPMINTINMIIIMIEZ kelottour MI kelt INWEATIMINIIMtVil111111P 4k.