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So That Cinema Stars May
Take- Their Poison Neatly
t *
Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer Announces Employment
of a 'Technical Expert on Administering
Bitter Doses—Montgomery's Book.
Somehow, both of these announce
ments should have considerable effect
on Hollywood. Particularly that poison
business. No studio can be too sure
about that. We imagine that time
after time, a star, when taking poison,
has wanted really to end it all. That
would, of course, necessitate getting
another star, and that would delay the
picture quite a few days. Then again,
haven’t you noticed the "technical in
accuracies” in the way poison is taken?
Dr. McLaughlin will certainly correct
that. A studio toxicologist is some
thing that Hollywood has been scream
ing for for years. How they have done
without one up until this minute is
a mystery.
From now on audiences therefore
may be certain that poison sequeaces
are done in the very best taste. Dr.
McLaughlin thus becomes the Emily
Post of suicide. It should be a very
interesting job for him, and he ought
to have a very good time doing it.
Only, we wonder if he has any
grudges against any one. If he has,
the way out for him will be a cinch.
If he hasn’t, he may soon develop
some, if the stars don’t learn how
to take their poison easily. "Here
there. Garbo! You can't take that
pill without standing on your head—
it isn't done, that's all!”
Ah, Dr. McLaughlin, what fun,
what fun!
* * * *
Jy,JR. MONTGOMERY'S book is a
horse of another feather. De
scribed as “honest, I hope, if slightly
satirical." it will deal with Hollywood
personalities and is illustrated by
•'stolen" action pictures he has made
pf his subjects at play and at work.
Although Montgomery says that "it
is a slim little volume,” it is said to
reveal a great deal about the movie
folk and opinions about every one
from Harlow to Jimmie Durante will
probably flow freely.
If Montgomery can write as well
as he talks, the book should be in
teresting. His ideas, in conversation
at any rate, come thick and fast—
and most cronies are left far behmd.
And if he has put in honest truths
about his work and playfellows we
hope there also will be a small part de
voted to certain illuminating Holly
wood scribblers, including something
about the lady who was impersonated
once at a private costume ball by
none other than Charles Laughton
himself.
* * * >t=
'J’HE announcement of Montgomery’s
book reminds us—whatever be
came of Jean Harlow’s book?
And what has become of Erick Von
Stroheim? Betty Bronson? Agnes
Ayres?
Does Ethel Terry ever appear in any
of her husband’s, Rex Ingram's, films
any more?
What kind of a picture will Annette
Kellerman do when she goes out to
Hollywood? Remember when she dove
off that Bar Harbor cliff in her last
film?
Whatever happened to Elsie Fer
guson's screen contract which was to
start with "Becky Sharpe"?
Will Charlie Chaplin's "Number 5"
be finished this year?
Why doesn't Sam Goldwvn give
Anna Sten the kind of a story that
Will do her good?
WOMB oi next weeks attractions:
^ Bing Crosby, in “'Mississippi,’’
comes to the Palace. The cast also in
cludes W. C. Reids. Joan Bennett and
Queenle Smith. Isn't this Miss Smith’s
screen debut?
“Let's Live Tonight,” with Tullio
Carminatl and Lilian Harvey follows
"Ruggles of Red Gap” into the Earle,
t Shirley Temple's “Little Colonel”
comes back to the Columbia next Fri
i day.
^ * * *
'T'HE Metropolitan is being smart
and bringing back "It Happened
One Night." Next Friday is the day— |
and we hope that all those people who
have written and phoned in about it j
will get themselves set for the event. '
Remember when it same to Keith's
quite casually and suddenly blossomed
; mto the biggest hit of the year?
Gable and Colbert are in it—as if you
didn't know!
♦ * * *
jyilTZI GREEN, who has grown up,
| 1 x will headline the stage show next
week at the Earle.
* * * *
'T'HIS is the week to do your film |
shopping. At Keith's you'll find
the best dancing picture of the year, I
“Roberta": »at the Earle you'H find i
the liveliest entertainment, Charles j
Laughton in “Ruggles of Red Gap”: j
at the Palace you'll find Will Rogers !
■ at his best in "Life Begins at 40.”
and at the Fox you’ll discover |
Maurice Chevalier all over again in
! "Folies Bergere.” All good.
-•-.
AT THE HOWARD.
Beginning teday the Howard Thea
1 ter will present Mrs. Louis Armstrong 1
and her orchestra, featuring King
i Louie. II, with his trumpet on
the stage. This marks Mrs. Arm
strong's first appearance in this part
! °f the country. On the screen, Kay
Francis. Warren William and George
Brent in "Living On Velvet" will be
shown.
Trio in New Filin at the Columbia
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.
National—Eva Le Gallienne, in
“L'Aiglon,” at 8:30 p.m.
Loew's Fox—“Folies Bergere," at
10:45 am., 1:30, 4:15, 7:10 and 10
p.m. Stage shows at 12:25, 2:10, 6
and 8:55 p.m.
Earle—"Ruggles of Red Gap.” at
10:30 am., 1:10, 4, 7:05 and 9:50
p.m. Stage shows at 12:20, 3:10, 6:15
and 9 p.m.
Palace—“Life Begins at 40,” at
11:05 am., 1:15, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and
9:40 p.m.
Belasco—“Man of Aran.” at 12:15,
2:16. 4:17, 6:19, 8:20 and 10:21 p.m.
Columbia—“Under Pressure.” at
12 20, 2:15. 4:10, 6:05, 8 and 9:55 p.m.
Metropolitan—"Love in Bloom.” at
11:10 a m., 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 and
9:30 p.m.
R-K-O Keith's—"Roberta." at 11:32
am, 1:34, 3:36, 5:38, 7:40 and 9 42
p.m.
Tivoli—“Sweet Music.” at 2, 3:50,
5:40, 7:30 and 9 25 p.m.
Ambassador—"Enchanted April," at
6:35, 8:15 and 10 p.m.
Howard—“Living on Velvet,” at
12:30, 3:50, 7:05 and 10:10 p.m.
Stage show at 2.40, 5:50 and 9:05 p.m.
TROUBADOURS REHEARSE.
With but one week left to round
out their show, “Bride of the Incas,”
the George Washington Troubadours
are applying pressure in all depart
ments In a final drive for the open
ing next Tuesday night at the Roose
velt Auditorium.
Estelle Wentworth, production
coach, announced that the cast and
the singing choruses would iehear.se
every night this week. Dress re
hearsals are scheduled for tomorrow
and Monday nights. Most of the
scenery is stored backstage, whil"
Margaret Moore and her corps of
workers are working hard to have
the 150 costumes ready for the Satur
day night dress rehearsal
Tunes from the “Bride of the Incas”
will go on the air this week via
Arthur Godfrey's Sun Dial. Rudy
Moeller, composer of the show's music,
has made a piano recording of the
best numbers which will be broadcast
several mornings this week and next.
BELASCO—now:
***** AAA
--Chicago Times —Lit. Digest
MAN OF ARAN
*'The Best Picture of the Year”
Nat l. Board of Review
— Added Attnetion —
“DAWN TO DAWN”
A *** Featurette
Edmund Lowe. Florence Rice and
Victor McLaglen, the chief players
in "Under Pressure," a new screen
drama at Loew's Columbia.
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IN "CRADLE SONG.”
Representative John Steven Mc
Groarty of California has accepted
the invitation of the Blackfriars’
Guild to act as sponsor for its pro
duction of Gregorio Martinez Serra’s
"Cradle Song.” which will be pre
sented on Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday, April 8, 9 and 11, at St.
Paul's Auditorium.
Representative McOroarty is au
thor, lecturer and poet and has the
| distinction of being "poet laureate” of
j the State of California. He is the
author of the "California Mission
Play,” which is given annually out
side of Los Angeles. In sponsoring
the guild production of "Cradle Song,”
Representative McGroarty becomes
associated with a play that deals,
like his mission plays and stories, with
convent and religious community life.
Five performances of ' Cradle Song”
will be given by the guild, the first,
on Sunday. March 31. exclusively for
the Catholic clergy and religious of
the District.
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REALISM AND
BEAUTY MAKE
VIVID PICTURE
“Man of Aran,’* Show
ing Islanders as Actors,
“Hit Film** at Belasco.
Whoever said all the good stories in
this world involve either sex or money
failed to take Into account the Imag
ination of such men as Robert
Flaherty, director of the Belasco
Theater's latest film, "Man of Aran."
In a cinema narrative concerned with
neither of the two aforementioned
elements, he has injected more beauty,
excitement and realism than you will
find in 99 per cent of modern ma
chine-made tales.
When Flaherty aet out to depict
native life on the bleak Isles of Aran,
off the west coast of Ireland, he pur
sued two apparently divergent meth
ods. His camera was handled crea
tively, with the same freedom of pic
torial sense an artist might employ.
That Is. he photographed landscapes
and people, not from the angles at
which one naturally would observe
them, but from the most Interesting
slants, this being the cinematic
equivalent of artistic license.
In wielding the directorial wand, on
the contrary. Flaherty was eminently
forthright and realistic. He used a
cast composed entirely of unschooled
islanders; he pictured them at their
dallv toil In the fields, on the sea and
at the fireside.
The successful combination of these
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Beginners at 8. Advanced at !*. Tangos.
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two treatments has resulted in one
of the most stimulating pictures of
the year. In direct contradiction to
the little maxim quoted at the start
of this article, Flaherty has made his
simple, sexless and moneyless story
a corker. He followed five men in a
boat as they harpooned and landed a
huge shark, and the Incident is. we
promise you, vastly more exciting
than the landing of a Hollywood
heroine in the arms of her hero. He
turned the camera on three men in a
frail canoe as they battled raging
surf, and the struggle distinctly tran
scends the thrill of watching a poor
but honest matinee idol make sudden
millions by the sweat of a script
writer’s brow.
By these same tokens of honestv
| and clarity, the other incidents in
j “Man of Aran” are worthy of your
i attention. The native actors would be
I miscast in any other story or setting.
■ but in this one they serve admirably.
■ At intervals the action is explained by
| subtitles, and there is some Gaelic
dialogue, parts of which you can un
derstand.
The Belasco program this week In
cludes a rather dreary short. ’’From
Dawn to Dawn.” which seems longer.
Here Is arty realism with a ven
geance. and homespun acting of the
crudest sort Nevertheless, Julie
Hayden, who is the heroine of the
piece, has caught the favor of Messrs.
Hecht and MacArthur. and perhaps
ATIONAL Tw,iu
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you can guess why those specialists
in sullen vapors y,ere interested.
A second short subject explains why
being a drone in a beehive is fun
while it lasts, and there is a news reel,
R. B. P.. Jr.
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PLAYING TONIGHT.
The young people’s department of
the Foundry Methodist Church, Six
teenth and P streets northwest, will
present their annual Spring play
tonight at 8 o'clock. They have
chosen Phillip Barry's three-act
comedy, "The Youngest.” for their
presentation. Howard Sanders directs
the play.
The leading feminine role 1s taken
by Barbara Harris and she will be
supported by Emily J. Laird, Kitty
Karson ard Pollu Swarm. John
Shepard is the leading man. He Is
supported by Don Mars and Harvey
Therloway. The play will be pre
sented in the dramatic hall of the
church.
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BY E. dr S. MELCIIER.
TWO late news items from Hollywood kindle the interest of
this department this morning. They are, number one:
That Robert Montgomery has written a book about Holly
wood people which he will probably call “Hollywood, My
Hollywood,” and number two: That “Dr. T. F. McLaughlin has
been engaged by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to supervise details of
scenes where poison is used or referred to, as in ‘The Casino
Murder Case' and Mark of the Vampire,’ to insure technical
accuracy.”