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PAGE NINE i Screen and Stage Personalities Current Attractions at Local Theatres SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1937 James Oliver Curwood novel of tbt Charlie Chan Thriller at the Victoria Scene From "Captain Calamity' where many an actress is being taught to dance, Mile. Bradna is i learning to be an actress. She finds same name comes to the MAjeetto Theatre tomorrow, for four dyi, with George Brent and Beverly Screen Chats By PAUL HARRISON salaried models in New York City. With the money she earned as the lovely young lady who publicized sucli things as fashions, motor cars, soft drinks or cigarcts, Joan took dramatic lessons from the best possible Instructors. it all very confusing.

Warner Oland trained for concert work, and got Chinese detective roles for his pains. Brent at hit vigorous best Steve Russet rich idler who HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 19. -If -you remember the late war, you probably recall some of the bitter mirth which acmeves power in the Dig wooflf through conflict with hla ruthleai brother and the influence of a courageous girl of the forest, Jo attended the as Barton, a role played by Beverly Roberts. I Porter Hall was a comedian all his life in the theatre, but is yet to i be funny on the screen.

I Smith Ballew was a band leader and radio singer in real life, but his 1 studio puts him into straight acting parts. 1 Cary Grant was a song-and-dance 'man when Paramount signed him five years ago. He hasn't sung or danced since. VIRGIN FORESTS BACKGROUND OF ACTIONDRAMA "God's Country and the Woman" to Show at the Majestic. signing of re-iruits to branches of the service for which they were markedly unfitted.

Clerks became mule- skinners and men who had been 1 1 kinners 1 were detailed as clerks. Chauf- eurs found! themselves toting; rifles, and moun- 1 i Brent and Miss Robf are aup-ported by Barton Robert Barrat, Alan Hale, El Brendel, BlUy Bevan and Joseph King. Several real lumberjacks take part In the picturesque sequences. The thrilling drama and romance of the film Is said to be tempered by robust comedy In the mood of the story. The story revolves about the fact that Brent has a brother, Robert Most of these people would like a chance to show their special talents.

There are two former singers, though, who insist they'll be actors and noth-I ing else. These are John Boles and Walter Pidgeon. Each had a non- singing clause written into his con tract. Harrieoa The lure of private gold in a South Seas setting provides the theme In "Captain Calamity," all-color adventure film, at the Oapitol theatre, with George Houston who has the title role, and the lovely Marian Nixon in the stellar parts. The story depicts the struggle between a gang J1 ST-PR Saineers were set to driving It's probably too fantastic for I credence, yet I suspect that most of the officers who conducted such miscalliances came to Hollywood! when they returned to civil life, and of island cutthroats to get possession of a treasure hoard, which they think has been found by the hard hitting and hard-boiled, but chivalrous skipper, whose boisterous ad For Posterity Amazingly enough, almost no attention has been paid by Hollywood to the preservation of actual films.

You can't Just toss film into a vault and expect it to keep indefinitely. It won't. The only determined move for the perpetuation of early flickers has been made by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Thanks to the foresight of some of the Rockefellers, Warburgs and Whit-neys, future generations will be new comedy-drama, "Counterfeit Ludy," can thank her voice for clinching a screen contract for her. Born in Pensacola, of a family that has Loen prominent in the political and cultural development of the South oince Colonial days, Miss Perry's parents had no career planned for her.

She was educated in the schools of her home city and then sent to a smart Florida finishing school. During these early school years, Joan found herself attracted by theatricals. She studied dramatics conscientiously and presently announced to her family her intention to become a professional actress, They consented to let her go to New York, take up dramatic training and try to get stage work. Her first real accomplishment was the acquisition of a job in a fashionable Fifth Avenue gown shop as a model. For six months she donned beautiful gowns and displayed thenv.

Then she became a model for professional photographers, and soon was one of the best known and highest that they now are casting directors and producers. Here you find all sorts of players whose talented voices are stilled, or their educated feet tied, by the mysteries of Hollywood casting. Take Preston Foster, who can sing. His larynx is of operatic caliber. Indeed, he toured with one of the Barrat, who heads a lumber company and whose hatred Is aimed against Beverly Roberts who OWM a rival company.

He is engineering a crooked deal which will make the girl pay unreasonable royalties ftr transporting supplies acroas nil territory when the younger brother arrives on the scene and plays hob with his plans. Brent upsets the deal, denounce his brother, and starts back to the city. Barrat has him shanghaied and brought back to the woods with the idea of forcing him to become a lumberman. Then begins the terrific conflict between the brothers and the strange romance with the beautiful girl of the tlmberlands. "God's Country and the Woman" is declared to be not only the most difficult color picture ever filmed but the mo6t beautiful.

ventures have dubbed him "Captain Calamity." The closing scene shows a battle between two trading ships that will thrill anyone, the action in this and in other gripping scenes being enhanced by the natural color photography, Hirllcolor. A strong cast, which includes Vince Barnett, Juan Torena, Crane Wilbur, Movita, Margaret Irving, Roy D'Arcy, George Lewis, Barry Norton, Louis Natheaux, Lloyd In-graham and others, ably supports the stars. Joan Perry, who is featured in the able to see "The Great Train Robbery," Sarah Bernhardt in "Queen Elizabeth," "Intolerance," "Steam Your hair will rise to an all time high when Warner Oland, as Charlie Chan, comes face to face with Boris Karloff in the new Twentieth Century-Fox picture, "Charlie Chan at the Opera," showing Wednesday and Thursday at the Victoria theatre. boat Willie," the first Disney, and other such significant efforts. With virgin forests of the Northwest as its background and a feud between rival lumber companies as its theme, "God's County and the Woman," Warner Brothers' pictur-ization in natural colors of the The exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum will assume importance, too.

Just now it is pretty much of a hodge-podge good for a snicker Fortune Gallo companies, and was brought to Hollywood because of his voice. But he hasn't used it since, for singing. And Esther Dale, who has been attracting more and more attention lately as an actress. For several years she was an outstanding concert singer. She has appeared with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony, and has warbled at the Hollywood Bowl.

But in the course of 16 pictures, she hasn't sung a note. Comedian to Coroner On the stage, Noel Madison played Shakespeare and other substantial dramatic roles. But not on the screen. Olin Howland was a famous danc-(Qilng comedian before he came to the Oold Coast, and In three consecutive films he played the role of a dour coroner. A genuine old-timer is George NOW THRU WED, featured, the film starts off in a roar of high tension excitement that readies a spine-tingling climax in a crescendo of thrilling events.

Karloff, a hopeless maniac, is an inmate of an insane asylum, spending his time singing forgotten arias from the days when he was a famous opera star. The world believes that Karloff perished in a theatre fire. His memory restored by the shock of seeing his wife's picture in a newspaper, but his mind still warped, Karloff, in a madman's fury, overpowers his guard and escapes. The guard dies from the attack and Chan is called into the case. The photograph in the newspaper provides a clue that leads Chan to the opera, with his son Keye Luke, accompanying him.

In an amazing series of terrifying adventures, Chan unmasks Karloff, who has usurped the baritone's role of Mephistopheles, but not before two more atrocious murders are committed. Faced with the task of capturing the criminal, Chan does so but not before encountering the most dangerous and exciting adventures of his career. H. Bruce Humberstone directed the film from the screen play by Scott Darling and Charles S. Belden, from a story by Bess Meredyth based on the character, Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers.

ANOTHER DOUBLE FEATURE THE WHOLE FAMILY WILL ENJOY LAST TIMES TONIGHT! HE SENT MANY A MAN TO THE CHAIR and then was caught himself in the death-grip of circumstantial evidence! 9 GIRL AFTER HIS OUR HERRT here, a reminiscent sigh there, and sometimes a whoop of delight. For example, there's quite a collection of slides used- during the "Just a Minute to Change Reels" days. Remember the "Good Night" one, with a picture of a dog howling at the moon? And the "Ladies Please Remove Their Hats?" and the one so often used "Just a Minute for Repairs," which showed a woman sewing a rip in a youngster's pants? There's a fine collection of early posters, one a Pathe Newsreel of 1911, which showed President Taft unveiling a statue of Columbus. A Vitagraph epic of 1907 was titled "The Mill Girl" and had Hector Dion and Florence Turner as stars. "Love's Stratagem" was an IMP smash hit of 1910.

Another poster carries a likeness of Paul Panzer, advertising him as the hero of "The Perils of Pauline." fSt -WITH GUR! Plenty of txclu-ment whan private tUuth trails a diamond and a dame but find only one phoney I PAUL KEL1Y MARSHA HUNT VICTORIA LAST DAY jRob't Cumminqt ALSO A FINE SELECTION OF SHORTS MADMAN PERILS CHINESE SLEUTH McKay, who in 1908-09 twice won the national buck-and-wing championship. After that he hoofed in dozens of shows, including three Ziegfeld Follies. Hollywood often needs an elderly dancer for comedy sequences, but McKay hasn't been asked to clog a single measure. Voice Ijrnored Frank Forrest is such an able singer that he was a member of Italian opera companies, and was billed as Franco Forresto. Appeared in this country, too, and was nabbed by Hollywood scouts as a singer.

So he is being made into an actor. In "Champagne Waltz," a semi-musical, Signor Forresto is not even able to demonstrate that he can carry a tune. The studio reveals, though, that it has great musical things in mind for him. Warren Hull was a singer, too, but he hasn't had any singing to do in the flickers. And Erik Rhodes had hardly any.

They let him Warner Baxter June Lang "White Hunter" TONIGHT at 9:00 mm ohZ'hl mhiJ fl ft IN MURDER FILM RALPH BELLAMY JOAN PERRY Douglass DUMBRILLE Bank Night $200 Award ALL IN GORGEOUS COLOR Victoria to Offer "Charlie Chan at the Opera" Tomorrow. CARTOON NEWS His back to the wall, a knife at his throat, the world's slvest sleut.h. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FEATURE NO. 2 AND Yf ff I.UUUEJU1UU!J Mill? HE HUNTED FOR PIRATE GOLD FOUND A SWEETHEART TREASURE I ciiUn3 (lit? cjiH i Charlie Chan, battles for his life in the most thrilling and exciting adventures of the wily Chinese detective, "Charlie Chan at the Opera," owning- Wednesday at the Victoria theatre. Warner Oland, of course, portrays the arch-enemy of crime, with Boris Karloff co-starred as the king of terror, in what is promised as the most chilling and thrilling mystery Chan has jver encountered.

With Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry, Thomas Beck and Margaret Irving a one cnorus in criminal sawyer, picture which was by no means a musical. Yet Rhodes once won a singing scholarship, and sang in Broadway shows and on the radio. In Hollywood he has been in several musicals, but tunelessly. Two years have completely switched the careers of Ralph and Frank Morgan. Ralph played comedy on the stage, and Frank was a serious fellow.

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