Evening star. [volume], July 04, 1930, Page B-4, Image 14

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TRIBULATIONS OF A TALL MAN —Burtis
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MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 3
(N.A.N.A.). —Cyril Maude's first talking
picture, “Grumpy,” which was a studio
triumph when officials first glimpsed it,
went over big with a group of local
critics who privately viewed it last
night.
It convinces us that subtle comedy
characterization minus the frankly
vulgar lines, which have come to be an
Inseparable part of most of our modem
comedy, can keep an audience chuckling
over the allotted time of a feature
length picture and leave it with a
sense or refreshment and charm and
aware of a magnificent exposition of
art.
The lovable old tartar. '‘Grumpy.”
has been done in silents years ago.
Theodore Roberts made it, but Cyril
Maude was the original creator of the
stage role. A delightful cast, w’hich in
cludes Philips Holmes as the boy.
Frances Dade as the girl and Halliwell
Hobbes as Grumpy’s “gentleman's gen
tleman,” are a nice balance to the
excellent artistry of Maude.
Musicals continue to hold disfavor
among talkie magnates. The theme
6ong has either been joked out or played
out long ago. But even when producers
came to this conclusion, they had not
finished with music in talking pictures.
Some of the most pretentious musical
efforts contemplated for this year have
been held up or are being delayed on
one pretext or another. Thousands of
new songs have come out of the Holly
wood factories since music invaded the
screen. They have been good songs, too,
a lot of them. The rest have not dif
fered from the routine stufT which we
have fallen heir to in other years when
songs were made in New York City.
But the public wants to hear some
good comedy, some serious drama and
some ladies and gentlemen intended for
speaking purposes only, doing what fate
Intended them for instead of walking
to the front of the camera and painfully
revealing their musical lacks and their
throat furnishings.
A village exponent of the slimmer
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32. Feminine name.
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35. A sugar having four atoms of car
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39. Transgression.
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45. Triangle with unequal sides.
50. Swift armed vessel.
51. To a higher place.
53. Speed contest.
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silhouette grains her results by the some
what unique process of walking up 100
steps five times a day. Five hundred
steps in all with a loss of one pound a
day.
Yes, she eats generously. For my part
I’ll do without the cream and butter and
patronize the lifts.
No sign of Mary Pickford’s picture
being resumed as yet. Mary Is in New
York, but nobody knows why. When a
I movie star travels in that direction of
| a July you can bet there is business
afoot. There are better Bummer resorts
j near to hand.
One of the best gags in a comedy
being made in the village is the one
about the lad who had two dates with
a girl in one night.
' Whaddja mean, two dates?”
“Took her out for the first and the
last time.”
Eddie Horton has been looking for a
play. So the big shots of the studio
writing staffs have burned the midnight
oil getting one ready for him. These
lads draw salaries which would make
the average author turn pale with envy.
But their plays. It seems, are awful.
Over 150 of these rare manuscripts
have been read and returned with some
what embarassed thanks by the come
dian. Perhaps to save his face he’ll
look farther afield tor his next comedy
venture before the footlights.
Horton is beginning to believe that
legend about plays being pretty bad in
the aggregate. Hollywood dramatists
turned scenarists are proving It to him.
(Copyright, 1930.)
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Regains Girl Lost Through Ad.
WINNEPEG, June 26
thing’s fine now with Leo Masattl,
whose girl jilted him when she read a
patent medicine ad illustrated with his
picture. He recovered S3OO In court
from the advertiser for misuse of his
name, and he and the young lady
made up.
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61. Foray.
63. Fruits.
65. Stag.
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70. Wrong.
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5. Biblical pronouns.
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