The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 52

11 mEmimiaAMMAIndillemilEirdiamoffilitaingaleMartMiMilimmilommmoSAraili moullas I THE IZANSAS CITY STAR SUNDAY 23 1935 6 rIIMEINNOW A HAPPY MOMENT IN A FAMILY THAT HAS ALL TOO FEW OF THEM "LIONEL ETHEL AND JortNr the year 1899 and the way the men and the women who do homage to the Union Jack fought their way out of their troubles The acting of Diana Wynyard a tremblous-eyed and lipped young lady does much towards guiding "Cavalcade" to the success it has attained everywhere as does the restrained and competent piece of character portrayal that is extended by Clive Brook American movie star who is cast as Miss Wynyard's husband There are some 3198 (see advertisement) other players In the cast but Miss Wynyard and Mr Brook are by far the inost important Herbert Mundin it might be added does a great bit as a cockney family servant whose history develops during the course of the picture even as does Great Britain's You might as well see "Cavalcade" Everybody else has seen or is seeing it If you don't you won't be able to join in the gossip talk 'and controversy that is prevailing everywhere about the film And where will you be then? 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When King Kong the ape takes Fay I dtrZlefI i art2t741 $7S" it" I 71K It' 'it1 't----- ir- 4 'r -47' A 41t 40 rx ri fta1 444--i(1 tttt741' RI it" 1 bfAtli Iii JPrilb Bette Davis and Gene Raymond are the stars of "Ex-Lady" the current picture at the Newman and they have a fine time quarreling and making up and quarreling and making up again This is one of their few tranquil moments in the film There are not many of them that much sure hey have tranquil Here are the three famous Barrymores as they appear in the principal roles of "Rasputin and the Empress" which is at the Midland theater this week Lionel is the mad monk of course Filial is the czarina of Russia and John is Prince Chegodieft who at last sees that Rasputin meets his 'deserved fate i 1 i I i it! i i 1 i 1 3 i I 't 1 I I 1 4 I i 1 i 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 At 'I 1 1 i 1 i i I I 1 i tains more unusual animal shots than you'll see in a half dozen fictional Airican pictures There is no story simply a portrayal of MP Or gicture eview the film as it depicts the character that she plays "Ex-Lady" finds the star tpapers from Miss Davis's home town please copy!) as One of those ultra-modern young women found mainly in the field of movie plots who desire to gain the perquisites of marriage without accepting any of its cares or responsibilities "Marriage is so old-fashioned!" she tells an agonized father and mother who find a man in her room early in the film "I want to not be married!" Or words to that effect! of course Miss Davis in short time marries the man with whom she has Miss Davit stays with her husband or not but you get the final idea that she does "Ex-Lady" is terribly trite in plot but it will be right down the alley of every woman between the age of 18 and 48 be she single married divorced or hopeful Miss Davis and her husband go through any number of temptations in the scenes when they are separated from each other and conquer most of a fashion If they yield up to the breaking point before they conquer that's more fodder for the appetites of the voracious women who will see the film Miss Davis has the heavily-lac ters me and the shades I get photo-i graph well" Miss Carter Bald the hat in clues tion cost $22 when new The lone alterations were obtained for $2 each going to have it altered again to meet the demand for the high crown "We girls watch all the sales and swoop down on them like hawks" she explained Miss Carter gained her canny skill in maintaining a million dollar wardrobe on $750 daily in the film city She calls herself the world's champion small town girl having lived bPe earlier years in Pueblo Col Lewis ton Mont New England Mobridge and Fresno Cal et photo In (pit The lour $2 each red again the high sales and kwks" she tnny skiij jar ward ty She champion lived her I Lewis Motl Because of her divorce from Ed- award Hillman Jr Marian Nixon has not been able to keep the baby she took a few weeks ago for adoption Marian wanted to have her sister take the child and then readopt it but the orphanage authorities refused her request A writer the other day was paid $250 a word for a story idea He suggested "Lady Cop" and got a check for OA A story about a woman detective is being written and the Empress" first chance to get out of the extra army came recently when the was singled out for a small screen "It's Great to Be Alive" Here's part of Miss Carter's wardrobe: Evening gowns dinner gowns afternoon frocks street dresses (fall summer and spring) bathing suits beach apparel beach pajamas sports clothes riding habit bags hats shoes and neither last nor least lingerie The question is how do they do it? It is estimated that a class dress extra girl can last as such only three years That is to say she can't make enough money on an average of three calls a week to pay rent groceries and buy new clothes Miss Carter is one of the few able to beat the game "I can sew well" says 19-year-old Julie "That's terribly important In the second place I adopt a color One one I have been remade four times in the last two well with any one of several outfits because there's no color clash "The same is true of shoes Sometimes I get tired having everything in shades of blue but the color flat Prince Cherrodielt Sohn Barrymore The Czarina Ethel Barrymoro PaMtn Lionel Harrvmoro The Czar Ralph Morgan Princess Natasha Diana Wynvard The Czareench Tad Alexander Grand Miro Igor Henry Gordon Doctor Remezoy Edward Arnold The three Barrymores in an epochal story of an epochal man SHE IS ONE REASON FOR THE SUCCESS OF A GREAT FILM Wray in his hands to crush her you really get the idea that a massive horrible animal is crushing a helpless girl and when King Kong puts up his arms and breaks down an elevated railroad track just by the pulling you are in the mood to believe that a trainload of Innocent persons are thus menaced by for some reason or Alive in urban New York "King Kong" therefore should be seen Juit to understand what tricks a few talented picture-takers and picture contrivers can do with their cameras and with their minds You may not have many good nights of sleep immediately afterwards but then who is sleeping well these days what with the market performing the cavortions it is going through and a few other things to disturb our minds Pay Wray Bob Armstrong Bruce Cabot Sam Hardy and others help "King Kong" go 'round but the main attraction as has been said is King Kong himself An old saw used to be "The goblinell git yuh if 3ruh don't watch out!" Change that goblin business to King Kong if you wish It's all right with us And very applicable tool Add Barrymoriana: In a scene fop a new flicker Lee Tracy reads a tele gram addressed to John Barrymore portraying a broken down movie sc tor "When we need bit players well notify you" reads Tracy to Bar rymore "Better get yourself mar ried again" "You know" said John (his left eyebrow raised) after the scene wss over "that sounds faintly blographi cal" scene Me ds a tele a rrymore novie Rc players 'y to Bar self mar (his left icene was olographi The Hollywood extra girl must have a more complete wardrobe than the Hollywood star and keeping it filled and down to the minute takes plenty of ingenuity A complete but inexpensive wardrobe represents an investment of nearly $1000 and it calls for constant replenishing An authority on the situation is Julie Carter who has been playing the extra game for two years Her him dead after attempting unsuccessfully to poison him by putting cyanide in his wine Dimitri was supposed to have gotten the and credit It the killing The film to the contrary shows Yussopoll (he is called Prince Chegodieff in the photoplay and John Barrymore acts the role) doing the killing mainly by bludgeoning Rasputin with an iron poker with which one stirs a grate and afterwards throwing Ilasputin through the ice of a river a story that was widely circulated but which never has gained authentic verif ication The fact remains however that the story of Rasputin is acted and staged marvelously as presented In the current film Lionel Barrymore wins all sorts of honors for himself in the title role giving a studied and finished portrayal of the role of the crafty skulking erotic malevolent monk The very inflection of his voice In his subtle then in his storming the character of Rasputin better than volumes of narration could do This undoubtedly is the greatest role Lionel Barrymore ever has played on the screen and is one that will always stand out as the central star In his crown John Barrymore plays Prince Chegodieff (Yussopoll) with a maximum of good looks military strides and careful showings of his profile to the audience and does much with the role although it is not nearly so important as that of his brother Ethel Barrymore gives a careful and sincere portrayal of the part of the dtped czarina although the camera lc none too kind to her nor is her manner of bead-dress although the czarina probably wore her hair that way Diana Wynyard Is pretty appealing and acts in her usual accomplished fashion as the unhappy Princess Natasha Ralph Morgan is an able if feebly weak czar and Tad Alexander Is cute as the poor little czarevitch whom Rasputin uses as a means of gaining so much power The length et the film causes the Midland to start its daily programs at 10:15 o'clock this weeks with the feature going on at 10:25 HEN three such stars as Lionel John and Ethel Barrymore unite their good offices and appear in a single photoplay that film immediately acquires first rank in the Lotion picture world and makes cinema history by the very composition of its cast That happens to be the case with ntasputin and the Empress" which Kansas City has waited a long while to see and which la at the Midland theater this week tasputin" is a powerful presentation of a powerful story If it takes a considerable tine to screen which PHOTO PLAYS-FIRST RUN I PHOTO PLAYS-FIRST RUN PHOTO PLAYS-FIRST RUN RUN 2 fr- trir II it: a-' 'k sS 11:: t'l 4 -A iii S-si14 -i''-- -110 1- 4 '''14- i) er "4: --f: i ''eofF a-- -4 44- 4 4 )0 i 't 1161 -7 7 4 2 P1ar1 Tales From Beverly Hills OF rore NkA! 1 vat 1E Girubstvirmin cycYnewo HOME OF rqsW( (-A jalFa Ihe rut the I II IE GIME AL' IE 1111- rPreal" 7114191-tlit (tDV neD a rtifi417 tni 1S It HOME OF s'adaottn ES 1 uppl 111 In le 1 17 10 (t hl 4 4:" 1 1 4 gl milk SW 1113 4 '4'404W7 1or I ell 7 DAY te7: xodiz 3 the 7 -fp iewm- zA4 :4073::14 i -1 AT II AM She Pails Dearly kr his Mooted of AT 11 AM She kr ihisAfont' tot al Mrs I 4 1 ei i Lsf -f 4 i) 0 Helen Bauer Bette Davis on Peterson Gene Raymond Hugo Van Hugh Frank McHugh Nick Melvyn lionree Gies ley Ins Van Hugh Claire Dodd Psygy Smith Kay Strout Mr Smith Ferdinand Gottschalk The Father Alphonee Fatter The Mother Botta Hosing i II To be or not to be (good)that's Vie question no FITE DAVIS that blond-haired LP sleek glowing and how-haveyou-been young woman whom threeqUarters of the flappers of this oonn Diana Wynyard film beauty and very capable actress from England is one big reason for the international mimesis that "Cavalcade" the motion picture version of Noel Coward's play has scored here and abroad "Cavalcede" is playing its second week at the Uptown theater this week and is recommended to all Kansas Citians who have not seen the picture GEORGE ARLISS'S latest is called "The Working Man" which is a deliberate title sequel to a former Anise picture "The Millionaire" It is about love and shoes and the successful efforts of Arita to make a competitive shoe manufactory better than his own which is operated by 'a self-styled Napoleon who happens to be Arliss's nephew While fishing on a vacation from his own factory Arliss meets the daughter and brats" be calls a departed friend who was a business enemy He tells them he is a poor bookkeeper and they adopt him He manages to have himself appointed their guardian and then promptly proceeds to curtail their reckless wasting of their father's 1 fortune Driving the eon to work Altai causes the factory that has been losing money through the machinations of a crooked manager to become more important in the field than his own plant He gets a lob for the girl Bette Davis in his factory and she becomes secretary to the Napoleon Hardie Al1 bright who thinks he is running his business The two fall in love there are' the 1 usual explanations and Anise suggests a merger Like other pictures of which Anise is the star this one is family entertainment Many preview critics thought it even better than others in this respect Seen for the first time on the screen in this is Theodore Newton a personable young fellow for whom stardom seems probable lit 7 been carrying censors of every state in the Union from California to Maine would see to then reels in "Ex-Ladr' are devoted to the big problem of whether she should stay married to him or not Reel 2 says "Yes!" Reel 3 says "No!" Reel 4 says "What do you think?" Reel 5 says "Win-ter-green for Pres-I-dent!" Reel 6 says "My only regret is that I have but one life to give to my country!" Reel 7 says "32 per cent beer is nonintoxieating!" By that time you are so dazed you are not do not try would like to look like (if they didn't have to inherit her shoulder bones) is in her first starring picture at the Newman theater this week and it is called "Ex-Lady" title we don't think Miss Davis should have to stand for unless she wishes The fact remains that Bette is no lady in the picture not even an "ex" She never was an "ex" if you believe I I i I I i JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE MOTHER! quered eyes in the picture that she exhibited in person when the "Forty-Second Street" special stopped in Kansas City a month or so ago and looks similarly orehidaceous and artificial She acts in "public-speaking class" manner early in affairs and fairly sincerely towards the last As has been said she should not turn her back towards the camera or should not wear belt-line dresses or should put on more weight Monroe Owsley plays his usual cid roles in affairs and plays it in his usual caddish manner If he's a "right guy" it must be tough to be wrong all the time Claire Dodd looks as beautiful and as uninteresting as she did when the Forty-Second Street" mob was here Gene Raymond plays Miss Davis's husband in affairs handsomely and satisfactorily on the whole One wonders if he is the same chap who played the masculine lead in "Young Sinners" at the Shubert a couple of years ago and use to sit entranced in the A grill each noon to hear the members of the "Down and Out Club" swear He was a good soldier then he was going under his correct name of Raymond Guion Now that he's Gene Raymond who knows? And who can tell? IS undoubtedly does it deals with it subject that cannot be handled in I the average hour and a quarter or so that movies usually I then be tossed lightly aside "Rasputin" is an unforgettable picture unforgettable in many ways The story of course is from history the tale of the wreckage that Gregory Efimovitch eentious and at the last mad monk of the Russian empire His dominating influence over the Russian royal house of shown and the particular way in which he was able to wind the czarina around his fingers 'Po a large degree the film "Rasrutin" follows actual events as history records them Where it strays from historical fact will be mentioned later Gregory Rasputin was born in the province of Tobolsk Siberia in 1871 the son of a poor peasant whose con- 1 duct was always so disorderly that he wits given the name of RaSp lain 3 Ineaning "debauchee" His son had 4sci not write properly to the end of his had as licentious and immoral tastes as his father ever had but a keener Mind to point toward the indulging Of them Rasputin got up in the world by i marrying a well-to-do wife and got a "mattering of education by studying in monasteries and making pilgrim- 1 ages to such holy places as Jerusalem and Mount Athos He then adopted the views of the sect known "Khlysty" the leading idea of 1 whose teaching was that salvation tould be achieved only through re- pentance "Sin in order that you may 1 be forgiven" was a cardinal point of Rasputin's doctrine And again: 'A particle of the Supreme Being Is incarnated in me Only through rie you can hope to be saved and the manner of your salvation is this must be united with me in soul and body The virtue that goes out from me is the source of light the destruction of sin" -This gave Rasputin license to conduct the terrible orgies that were held in his apartments and which became the talk of St Petersburg He gained introduction into fashionable court Merles and finally met the czarina herself gaining influence with her because of the magnetic hold he held over the young czarevitch 4Ratiplitin wreaked as much destruction in high Russia as he had in 1097 He dabbled in politics made everything feed his insatiable greed for power and finally met the fate that certainly was due at the hand of a group of nobles that could stand his tyranny and the wreckage he was making of their beloved country no longer The evil seed that Rasputin had sown could not be uprooted however and the Elm goes on to show the eventual end of the entire Rumian royal family at the band of revolutionary assassins The picture follows history closely al has been said but makes Rasputin probably more domineering in RusSian more surely --than be really was His licentiousness is not overportrayed however Wu his sway over the royal family The method of his death as shown In the film idoes not wholly accord srith the fads in the case either History says that the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich Prince Yussopof and Puriehkevich invited Rasputin to a party at the Ythisopoll palace the ight Dectiber 5 Me tut shot EXTRA! Arthur Jarrett itansu Otty'a Favorite in "Popular Melodies" Mack Sennett's Sensational Laugh Htt "Easy on the Eyes" 'Aggravatin' B'ar" Other Big Units 001A I 3 i4 64 It 'threatened "a splendid happiness" because she loved too much loved to be free yet she want ed the protection of a wedding ring kl WITH DAVIS' GM RAYMOND CLAIRE DODD FRANK MINH Here's corn- plete and unprejudiced truth about the genera- tion that laughs at wedding rings and yawns at bassinets! Free Parking After 6 Capitol Garage Bargain Matinee -mte- "ril 1 a- AVA I a tzto7vAwiiilo I :1144 1 1 gl' 4 1 mNitto-4 i et kA-" I04 threatened "a splendid happiness" '1- because she loved too NIL4 much loved to be NilTt4t free yet she want vt ')- ed the protection of a 1 is''' wedding ring '-4'' 1 4 I) A 1Y i 4' A 114i WITHCa GENE RAYMOND CLAIRE DODD itv FRANK McillIGH PI Here's corn- I 1 1 7 plete and unpreju- 1 ----a out -v- diced truth about 7-- ":1 I I EXTRA! the genera- 1 Arthur Jarrett tion that laughs at 1 11 litcpwealtr dies" y'sPeavoorite in wedding rings and pr li i Mack Sennett's a at bassi- if -11IN nit sational Laugh Htt 11411) ril "Elasy on the Eyes" nets! la 19i- Iv Free Parking 141 VA ggraat 1 War" Afte 6 IVI nee tt r0'sa 0: 1 key ti) Other Big j'ali! Capitol Garage 1k i Alta' 1vattiA At- l'24 Bargain A-ottk i 1 esenmeimmereenialcommememeZnarpoi6emleminne iTil I "1-711 1 1 ''1111111Plampooraftwoomma 41117747111 rit Il' tatokmodo c4c4 3c 1 'Iti 1 4 1 Itt I :4117 '711741 j' Iti '''''irr' oPNi: 4 4k I 3 7'(: ii or tf 4 4 74 4 Is' 1 i 1 i 2 '4'' i 5 If''Z-t c''it i' I i I 1 1 ii I ''''''''S7 '1' Vel di 1 1" 11 i 1 i 0 4 11 I 1 'ti i l' 1 Ill i' l' ly ji i "4 5 i tfeitt li 4 1 i ii li '''1' I 11 ilti 434it 1114161 1 tj 11 1 ii 1 1 44 1 441144 4- I 4 I i 445i 11-: tri itioky iltsirivgl rvity IVO 11 11 io rt If Att5 )4 4 11 f61 I 1 dovo 1 litti The last thirty years of the history of the British empire shown in a film epic Although less than six months old Night After Night" is being re-released in many theaters with Mae West billed as its star She had a few scenes in ito but the unusual reception to her second cinema "She Done Him Wrong" has boomed Mr to star billing Reports indicate Mae will be among the first five of this year's movie moneymakers "Shock Appeal" agree the critics explaining Miss West's sudden popularity Bing Crosby says be knows by heart 1000 popular songs Dorothea Wieck doesn't want to be called "Week" or "Wy-ek" The German girl whose performance in "Maedchen in Uniform" brought her to America and Hollywood has written to her studio the correct pronunciation of her name It's "Vheek" The is 'pronounced softly as in "Auf Wiederschen" 0111 kVALCADEo" which goes on and on setting its pace of being probably the most outstanding film of the year 1933 so far as box office receipts both in this country and abroad are concerned is playing its 411i1 Fic4 1 1 I i I 1 6) -Nlik 11 second week at the 'Uptown theater this week and probably could go on there forever did Barney Joffee house manager not desire to see a new photoplay every now and then So much has been written about "Cavalcade" in these columns that one scarcely knows what to add now Suffice to say its story by Noel Coward presents a comprehensive picture of the events that have happenel to the British of them coheemini the whole world los thet Chevalier's 3-year-old film "The Love Parade" revived as an exPeriment in Hollywood seemed as up-to-date ILI any musical with two eveertions: Jeanette MacDonald's clothes and hairdrem were reminders that the feminine fancy changes pretty rapidly "Untamed Africa" made by a scientist who spent eighteen months on the veldt attempting to inoculate aniCialit Ag4 last the Leto flx biter Here is King Kong a prehistoric ape York This picture is taken just before be bi In town After he breaks them see "King week You may not sleep at night but xou the theater hich is put in captivity in New reeks his bonds and rune amuck Kong" at the Mainstreet thle will have had an experience in 4tit pa-o4dk It4 ik 44.