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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1933- TH1R PASSING PARADE OF PICTURE PLAYS AND PERSONALITIE Wherein a Movie Critic Checks Up On Cuff -Penciled Notes Filling a Column With Bits of Comment on That Picture and This and That Personality. This And Br HAROLD W. "All Quiet and on tvVcte rn Front" stand as the two best movies this depart- -it has ver come across Jimmy Durante boundless ni on the screen must make him a pretty tired gentleman at Vnd of a working day. Cary Orant is the niospea l.lins: man Hollywood has discovered some time. It as mlj vears a so that he was Archie Leach, a musical comed in venire "obody seemed to want.

Whenever thererom in- a horror picture necessary, Fay ray seems to set the a -Rat A Most Dansrerotis Game and nr. -v in nave an uiit Mvsterv of the Wax Museum i nTniir.D tnnr oles. Alice White personal S'-reamie Her work --mpiovefs. she has ever done. iipparentlv did her a world of good.

was bv far the best thinj: i. makini too many lia'. J-' which is bound To reau Half- him in time In 1 WA lite a ri IcVFP t4 MmmM 4 i ft Trut) Lure Velez was either i- cast or learned ho'A' To it. Mayhe Charles revpr become a certainly to the heart of every Buster chr--n fir. t.s off Selznick Set For First At Metro Studio Will Produce "Night Flight" With Lionel Barrymore.

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Feb. 22. Athnil- i'on the way asked for a release irom nis ontrae: because he resented Xt) him furr of "he Hchnozzola mannered ind.f- hp wes fpr. a of Nst two pictures, Ariiss sMl! can do no wronjr Yrorr CArs Which reminds us that Dick ro-vf-H was mir than a peasant act- REGENT AVENGE he had in The surprise in what littl "Te Kiii-'s Dangerously jrll. cphi'ie Hnrnn of novel.

"Nijrht De Saint Bux- prize-wmnmcr rht" by Antoine mc: Fli last week was a the Davis I ll I 1 NIXON oif Music Notes and Comments E'dr idse. in private me xne Frfdric March That was of M-G-M'a in to Fox for i al a de." It sounds a lot like of Thalberzs coups. Krr te it that John Barry-r" urc. a in the best performance of c-ireer in 'Topa-e." What The New Films perrj-. introduces Dand O.

Selznick as a Met-ro-G 1 n-Mayer producer. Who better than Clarence Brown, who flies his own plane and is an air enthusiast if I ever saw one, could direct this a i mail tale which carried Is. -1 iCH I -known Hollywood columnist h.rs i tr-'d-tin- "Dinner at to Cro-liers and George S. of Ferber Will Rogers, Janet Gay nor et al in "State Fair At the Stanley and Quirt-Flagg Again at the Warner. I.AT TIMES TOPAY JOHN ETHEL LIONEL BARRYMORE RASPUTIN and the EMPRESS y.

Hurry' Hurry! Hurry I I F.1CI: Wats. 52c. Few st JI.03 Eves, 5Ce, T5c.SI.S0; Few at Sl.58 Composers of the Afternoon Humperdinck and Leoncavallo Max Shapiro Tomorrow Oratorio in Reprint Cantatas New Organ Pieces. By HAROLD W. COHEX.

mm? For no reason at correspondent often con- Baxter and Clive Andre is the vic- .3 advance ballyhoo. wukle Dickie Moore is .10 for comfort. Fr Lionel Darrj-more. off the French literary award. The principal role is that of a ground officer, who sends his planes over the Andes in South America, rain or shine.

Lionel Barrymore is th ln.inimnua choice for that role. By HAKVKY (JAl'I Two entrancing operas, "Hansel and Gretel" Paeliacci," and it was a flop, the same thing happened to "Chatterton." "La Boheme" suffered by having had Ihjccini do the same work a year earlier. Then came "Zaza." good for a short run. and then came a tour of the states, in which he conducted "Paeliacci" and "La Jeunesse de Fiearo," and the latter wass uch a fiasco it was never produced in Europe. His last operas were produced in Genoa, in 1916, "Ave Maria" and "GiorTredo Mameli" and both failed to score.

Besides his operas he ha.s a symphonic poem. a ha 1 let. "Ia Vita d'una Marionetta" and operetta which he did for the Ixm-don stage. "Are You There." This afternoon at the Mosque we see "chef oeuvre "I Paeliacci" and we hope the prologue has some gusto. Shapiro String Quartet.

Tomorrow afternoon at three-thirty at the residence of Mr. Raymond Kaufmann. 1525 Wiehtman Ones." Many strong bars in this work and much good solo writing. Robin Milford takes four old religions hymns or stanzas and makes a neat little work of "Four Heavenly Hymns." a cantata for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, and the same being written for R. Va.ueh.an Williams on his 60th birth-lay.

It's an interesting work, if none too exciting. New Organ Pieces. R. Deane Shure of D. C.

has two cameo studies his best safe and Shure syle. From the press of J. Fischer Bro. New York, comes "Shadow Mountain." a fragment built up-on a huee them0 and the same working toward a rusged close. Then there is Wall" (of Jerusalem) and as with many of Mr.

Shu re's compositions ther is an entrancing chromaticism, with every bar heme a key-shift. strong effects are hutlt uron the choir oreai. and both pieces are to he The "Grand Hotel" tradition is followed accurately and f-nte-tainin-lv in "State Fair," the picture Director Henry Kin- has made for Fox from the best-seller of the, same name bv Phil Stnnjr. the former Iowa newspaperman. Here the action, or mot of it, takes place amid the whirl and tinsel of the annual State Fair, where the Frake family Pa, Ma.

and enjoyable And it should be an Oliver H. F. Garrett, who did such of The'. ma was the last rlesnue. iv KiVibe are or double-header.

Hansel and Gretel." S' ore a finished job on A i-areweu 10 Arms." is setting- the story in readiness to shoot- title of "The i and (: for the 1 1 finds both happiness and heartaches in three days mica Wayne wood." color and excitement. rtn i others, i llU At-to Kvf After look'nr "em all over, waitresses, famous stars and was "Goodbye body" fa D- ie niain and human this "State lair. a him wrourrnt as piciui ts ai Heather English actress, gets F-arbara hvr scrioes between Warner Brothers, al- from the down-to-earth simplicities of rural life. Pleasant, dignified character studies are set to a restful backwoods mood, and the whole thins has the refreshing cairn of a day in the the feminine lead inBerkeley THF jr io. 1 I "SHE DONE I 1 HIM WRONG" I It' (mint vr i'i-r- If n.S HITJ Sext Friday- break from Co i-oire difficult to if Square." That is the part that Marrola Giimore create-1 on the hasn't been a Nils A st her after his per- Humperdinck, is our old childhood friend "The Babes in the Wood," taken from the Brothers' Grimm and slightly stretched and padded.

Eneelbert Humperdinck was born in Sieiibure in 15oS. He was intended to be an architect, but in gettine up to Coloene he met Ferdinand Hiller, the pedagogue, and Hiller convinced him that there was nothing architecture and that he'd better go in for music. Into the Cologne Conservatory he went, did harmony and composition with Hiller, and piano with Seiss and cello with Renbure. He won the Mozart scholarship, which gave him two years at Munich, and in 1597 he won the Mendelssohn prizp and then the Meyerbeer prize, which made it possible for him to visit Italy and France. In Italv he met Wagner, Wagner e.

1 1 4 gtl country. The work fashioned from Mr. Stons's novel is a homely little cycle which whisks four persons away from their farm and buck, home acain, but not before they have become wiser and sadder. Marey" fails I Howard, as we 1 in secrets 01 th villain sounded and Marshall Bidwell Recitals 1 Y' 1 While the endine, attached in the romantic interests of Miss Janet Gaynor and the financial interests of the box-offrce, is not exactly in the wistful mood of the fable, it is a minor flaw to which too much importance need not be attached. The cast is first-rate and no doubt has much to do with the general excellence of the picture.

Mr. Will Martial! Biawell wjil rive t.nf fol street, the Max Shapiro Strine Quartet makes its bow of the season. The program Is on of great beauty, opening with the Beethoven Major, opus and then following a Pochon arrangement of an episode from Moussoresky's "Exhibition," calied "Gossiping and Quarreling." Palmgren "Refrain de Berceau" will have con sordino refinement and the German modernist Wrwin announced before, plays ihe same role on the screen that he had on the stare. lowincr or -ran recital program tonight at o'clock in the Carnegie Music hall: an (Anent-al Julian Eltin.ce. Yarr-i.

William takes himself enouslv r-ri the s--reen. movie moments of month or so: Charles ht -r. to his assistant, -oii k-ow what it feels like to newspaperman whose lack of sta-billtv makes him an unsuitable mate. Heather Ansel. i I This play, believe the naive farm toy, is Hogers, stnprec 01 me Oven u-e Tr frs or not, did more for Mr.

Howard Wayne it seduced by a pretty trapeze per- being a sape- philosopher with views than anv other character that 1. An dart Masr- from the stock mar G- former. Ma wins the blue ribbon lor on everytmng "The Island 01 Lost John Warburton and Lindsey walking away to word "Titanic" written i-ffi presf r-'fr behind them a le." Hayes A Farewell to Arms." -ward leaving that check created on the stae because it brought him to the attention of the film producers, who lost no time in urcrine him to join up with the movies. Frank Lloyd, director of "Berkeley Square," feeline very fir. returned last week from Mazatlan, with "Cavalcade" to his credit.

He is out to see if he can establish another record. Orad S'nx a yt in T'nt FfiEtasje Fiat T-orh-l'm' T)'! Yplcp Lent? frnm if a rr Ch a ip re iht a p. i 9 rr Tri xrf'ZTB fV-r onvrr 4 o'c'ck" is ff Concert. Overture in Mn. 3.

ArianTP 0 invited him to Bayreuth, and Humperdinck was privileged to help prepare "Parsifal" for publication. From 1SS3-87 he was a professor in the conservatory in Barcelona, and then went to Hoch's Conservatory at Frankfort and became music critic for the "Frankfurter Zeitung." In lSf'3 he made a debut as a dramatic composer and this year we celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the two-act fairy opera, "Hansel and Gretel," text by Humperdinck" sis her mince meat but her conscience bothers her for having added brandy to it at the last minute. Pa's pride and joy. Blue Boy, wins the hog championship, but not before he has eiven his owner a sleepless night or two. And so "State Fair" goes, alternating between the physical joys of the children and the saner, more old-fashioned pleasures of their elders.

It is all pictured here in kaleidio-scopic fashion, with a backeround of ferris wheels, barkers' tents, sideshows and stock-judging pavilions. Yt, inantplpie'-e for his wife, 4 i ov in "The Animal Kinii- Schulhff will finish off the group with "Alia Tango Milonea." The concluding work, is Maurice Ravel's "Quartet in Major," one of the masterpieces. Excellent program, good performers, congenial surroundings. it should make a profitable Sunday. Oratorio Reprints, Oxford Press.

The Oxford I'nivrrsity Press of Iondon evidently doesn't care a whoop about depression. As long as the paper lasts and the ink flows, Oxford will carry on or some such thing. So comes Haydn's "The Creation" with a new text by A. H. Fox-Strangways and Steuart Wilson, and a pretty fair job they made of the words, too.

'hough you will miss ket to world peace, contributes a substantial piece of work as the simple farmer, while Miss Gaynor seems less the fairy-book Cinderella and more the romantic little actress than she has ever been. Miss Louise Dresser contributes importantly to the show's histrionic success as Ma Frake Norman Foster is admirable as the unsophisticated youth; Lew Ay res and Sally Filers are satisfactory as the newspaperman and trapeze performer, respectively, and there is a notable bit of peformance by Victor Jory. as the carnival barker. All in all then, "State Fair" is charming entertainment, an entirely satisfying work from state to just a few minutes away from the 4 tr i I I I 1.1 HTOUAi All t1 1 rvm SfTpnrh "Mr pr Tbv SpT V.i "Sainton ri ipHMri Anpi a KniRnr1 tat Fountain TXcvpt' (hi Fpvval T'TaTR rTriri noi Director King captures a vivid atmosphere at the outset and he is constantly manufacturing a p-icture that is already indelibly etched in the minds of all who have ever attended one of these rural revels. iirda TTrn p.wjwt-r win the The new boss at Radio.

Merian C. Cooper, is a youne man of infinite ideas. To him Irene Dunne is one of the most promising of the Radio stars under contract and he is eo-ine to see that she pets what we call in the movies "a break." Lined up with Miss Dunne in "The Silver Cord" is Laura Hope Crewes, who will p. 'ay the mother, the part she created on the staee. Then there is Joel McCrea, who has been rumored in this, that and the other picture.

Joel is finally set as Miss Dunne's leading man. Frances Dee and Eric Linden complete this extraoriinary cast, which will report for work to John Cromwell, the director, a-s soon as Miss Dunne returns from a motor trip in the desert. some ot the olo naive statements. F'-iy Wray cracking Lionel wax fa- to bits "Mystery Wax Muslim." N. ov ope ratine that steam for the nrst time in the Soviet Men and Jobs." And "Those Twentieth Flu's" in "Cavalcade." M1 Sennett 1 1 to stick to the two-reel now and forever aftT.

i Donnelly. Msry Brian's mother iT-d to Han lie." learned all of tnar.r.ensms from Georce M. whose lady she used Marion Nixon has yet to 1 her work with Richard helmets in "Voune Nowheres." the eariy talkies. Eddie -r's "The Kid From is doubling and trebling :uir.ess ail through the tri-. area.

What "The Son more than any- ls was the Belasco touch. -i i-rj REGENT 'r- "WliRt FrcrH.ro 'iic "Ksrlr ATtPntpt ht Musics! ire" March IV "IVfT'inTn Mns." arch 'J. ter. Adelheid Wette, and from the day of its birth at Weimar "Hansel and Gretel" has been a success. After a world of Wagnerian blath-.

erings of gods and goddesses, and the debatable drama of Vc-rdi and his school, it is a joy to welcome the naievte of Humperdinck. He invested the work with beautiful old German voikslied, and he brought a ventilating counterpoint to play, and the result is delectable mtisic. Then came incidental music to "The Merchant of Venice," "Winter's Tale." "The Tempest" and other productions, but as the years rolled on it wa.s seen that he was only a one-opera man. and it is something to have composed "Han 'Hot Pepper" Warner The last movement from Beethoven's "Choral Symphony," text from Schiller's "Ode to Joy," carries a new translation by Owen Mae. with a piano arrangement by April 1.

MpI.kI llPlon r.T ilri ROWLAND)" Apr! first object of their affections, then Lili Damita, Greta Nissen, etc. Now it's Lupe Velez; the best of the lot and, incidentally, the best feature of "Hot Pepper." sSJANLEYI i HU 1 1 so. hills BIG ST A IiS in 1 I- Ur-. You can't deny this hot tamale's Alan Frank. which simplifies the business of this annoying symphony a good deal.

W. Giles Whittaker arranges certain scenes from Haydn's "The Seasons" for female voices, piano or strings, and makes an acceptable job of it. effectiveness. Like Jimmy Durante, olAI rAiK she's a rapid-fire, slap-bang per sel and Gretel." WARNER XOW PLAYIXG! I CTMfi i CURK GiELE' Rft I CAROLE LCM5ARD SfiHFNLEYi ucd rN The Messrs. Flaeg and Quirt, in the persons of Victor McLapIen and Edmund Lowe, are at it aeain-They have been at it since "What Price Glory?" They'll probably still be at it when little Dickie Moore becomes a character actor.

This time there's no war to claim their services, so they carry on their battles, chiefly verbal, in an atmosphere of night clubs, bootlegging palaces and rum ships. First one, then the other, emerges triumphant in their wholesale bickerings, and at the end it's pretty much of a draw, as it always is when the perennial marines get together. There has to be a woman, of course, in each and every one of the series. Dolores Del Rio was the i.rrr, vki.k. tlMlM LOWE.

VIC MrI.AGf.KN nil at nrrjDrD" L'd-ef I1U 1 I IX 1 in Pagliacci" and Its Composer. Something was said above about a one-opera composer, well, here is another. Ruegiero Leoncavallo, born four years later than Humperdinck, and in that heavenly city of the theatrical drop-back. Naples. I i wviiwio- pin New Cantatas.

From the Oxford Press comes a stunning new "Magnificat," by R. Vaushan Williams, the same being a fine canticle, but not in any sense a AVIS.RFCEHT former who keeps a picture on the move if nothing else. Here, as a South American spitfire who becomes a cabaret performer, she acts with an abandon that's altogether contagious. As for the rest of "Hot Pepper," it's Mr. McLaglen and Mr.

Lowe staging a resumption of their longtime feud- And, oh yes. El Brendel is present again. That makes the reunion complete. i MANOR 1 i i.avs good pirrrRPS! "NAGANA" witn TAIA BIRKI.I "HE LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN" EDDIE CANTOR IN liturgical one. It is a brief cantata for "contralto solo, woman's voices and orchestra.

stui.rt r.rwin, Alin kipworrn "EHRIGHT Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random: Busy Carl Laemmle, stowed Elinor Holm aboard one train and his father on another. Elinor, with flowers, candy and books pre-sented by the attentive junior, sailed away on the Warner Brothers' special. Carl Laemmle. off to New-York on business. Iater the Stanley Bereermans (Rpsabelle Iaemmle) and Junior dropped in for a midnight snack at one of Hollywood's favorit-stops.

Ixla Lane dining at the same place with a pood-looking lad Henry Clive. famous artist, responsible for some of the dashing murals in this r-afe where coneemal Hollywood folk congregate. Bert Wheeler with an attractive blonde and his partner, Robert Woolsey, in the same cafe, listenin'g to Henry Starr's playine. Dancers at the Co-coanut Grove forgettine to dance when Lilian Harvey and Maurice Chevalier appeared. Mary Brian and Dick Powell also giving a pretty STARTS TOJJA Like everything that Williams t-4 Vn-j-i; i.

showintr sicns the estate of an act-. Paramount should cash in Dietrich-pants publi- i ill her next picture "The 1 Su-cestion made h.ii ue Temperament, by salary trouble, has rK "Virtue" and of Her Own" were the lipmtard's last two 1. No comment Warners o'i r-n H'iiao Years Sine the prrsenoe the (d Massa' Cohen, who to -et the way of the for a fleet me split second. were flashes of all three reh newspapers in "No Other writes "Maemncat has quality, ano "KID FROM ARSENAL BELMAR PLAZA "HARD TO HANDLE" -lam i arnp- Kuth Dwnm-lly irhsst-Cimi'ra Ftcht Film" Coming Attractions SHERIDAN SPAIN' STARTS TODAY! for all its apparent simplicity it is fuil of pit-falls. A fine work.

Harold E. Darke in his harvest cantata "The Sower," makes an effective finale out of the old German chorale we have come to associate with "Ye Watchers and Y'e Holy 'EMPLOYEES' ENTRANCE' WARREN WII.UAM. fORFTTA VOrvl, AI.ICK WH1TF A MiTCH W. PEHN Leoncavallo with Mascagni changed the map of opera. With them entered the verissimo school, and while the veristic composers in no way finished the blood-and-thunder writers (witness the pull tonight of still they opened the flood-gates and a new-idiom was born.

Leoncavallo was a concert pianist and a man of letters. As a young man and in order to earn his living, he been playing in cafes, and as a cafe entertainer he covered quite a few of world's ports. Egypt. Greece. Turkey.

Germany, Belgium, Holland and FVance. Being a worshipper of the shrine W'agner (as was every" young composer of the day), he started out to do a trilogy, "Crepusculum," the same dealing with the Italian Ren and CCMi-t- TlT P.ttst Composition Prizes The judges for the original compositions submitted for Art Society prizes met during the past week, and the winners will be announced at the closing Art Society concert Friday night. March 3, at Carnegie Music hall, when Myra Hess, English pianist, gives the program. One is the Martin B. Leisser prize, offered for a vocal quartet composi "FLESH" 3 Little Orphai s-" Woman" Joan Bennett forgot si was su; posed to be an untamed BIG ST4MFEDE" pMvi y'-- CAMERA' STARTS SUHDAY I iK west in "Wild Girl 1, nil oy in he ol i rronounced it "fawn a coupie NIXON raul Muni in Elmer Rice's "Counsellor-at-Law." STANLEY "42nd Street," with Bebe Daniels, Warner Baxter, Pick Powell, Ruby Keeler and George Brent.

PENN Al Jolson in "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." WARNER Richard Dix in "Trie Great Jasper." VARIETY Lili Damita in "Goldie Gets Along." DAVIS and REGENT "Lucky Devils," with Bill Boyd, and "Blondie Johnson," with Joan and Chester Morris. a VIM mi I .1 to times Claire Dodd couMn anywhere at Paramount her rest role there was the corpse in "Guilty As Hell" but Warners are her a succession of good Too Busy i r.nrirp Arhs good imitation of romance at the Fame place. Alice White and Oy Bartlett, smiling happily, dining with two other people at the Vine Street Brown Derby. Margaret Lindsay, who continues to be Herb Sombom's big romance, at the Vine street Brown Derby. Evelyn Brent, at Sar-di's, excited over her plans.

She and Harry Fox open in Omaha March 3 in a special act. That's all today. See you Monday. Stanley Smith, who two tion. The second prize or is for a piano composition offered by the local club of Mu Phi Epsilon Musical Sorority through the Art Society.

The third prize is for the best portrait in this year's display by the Associated Artists of c- a a KING'S VACATION" ll was Hollywood's outstand-eniie. wasn't even billed in Dick PC'" i i mini; ii v. nv i im-mimiuu ii- Saturdav. -Metro woks iui of smashes" following the Crawford picture next I -fax rvviw LIBERTY r'-i Contraltos Wanted at aissance, the operas being, IT, "Girolamo III," "Cesare Borgia." It took him six' -rears to do the trilogy and then having trouble with Ricordi, the publisher (Ricordi was the voice of God to the Italian composers) about production, he broke with him entirely. He then wrote "I Paeliacci" for Sonzoeno and it was produced with immediate success at the Dal Verme.

Milan, in and from that moment on has become a repertory work for very opera company in the world. He later produced "I Medici" and K.nUI an.l Orpheus Choir The Orpheus Choir of Pittsburgh in conjunction with the Brooklme Methodist Episcopal Church Choir will appear in a recital tomorrow-evening in the Brookline Methodist Episcopal Church. F.oth choirs are under the direction of J. M. Ferguson.

Mrs. Robert Kunz. of the South Hills Community riayers, will con SST'S- HUMS DOHGIA A XZ Human Vampires V5 UJ Actually Exist? )lllLl best performances will have plenty of partisans in their corner Wonder what would happen if Charles Bickford ever played "soft" role? Herbert Mundin. the Cockney comedian, is a welcome addition to any film Wish Carlo would hurry back. Life ha-sn't been the same without her.

IGE SKATIN? Al'hou-ih that divorce trial In Woman'' was supp-osed to bfri staged in Pittsburgh, the was certainly like nothing it. ever ten witnessed before a courtroom in this state -a-ho insist that Ralph Mor-n in "Rasputin and the pi ess' is one of that picture's The Y. M. W. H.

A. Choral Society wishes to state that it can use five more deep contraltos. Rehearsals are on Thursday nights at o'clock, and try-outs are asked to bring solos and be at the at 7:45. 3V c'f tribute with a cirajiiltic reading..