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VAUDEVILLE « SCREEN « AND « DRAMA
“Bought” With Constance
Bennett At Met All Week
Manager Harry Miller of the.
Metropoli an theater, takes pleasure
in announcing that “Bought" the
Warner Bros, production starring
Constance Bennett, screeland's
. highest paid ectress will be at this
theater Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Not the least of the important
features of “Boughtt” is the ap
pearance of Richard Bennett, fath
er of the Bennett sisters. Consignee
Joan and Barbara, in a supporting
jnle Though this is not the actor's
first talkie, having appeared in “The
Home Towners," one of the first au
dible efforts, it is his Initial attempt
at playing in the supporting cast of
his daughter's pictures. Fittinglv
his role is that of the father of
Stephany D , played bv Constance
■Bennett.
Miss Bennett brilliantly portrays
the character of Steohany Dale, a
modern girl whose one ambition is
tb shine in the millionaire world
from which her poverty and ques
tionable birth bar her. As selfish
as she is beautiful, she is willing to
live In idleness until the death of
her mother forces her to go to work.
Meyer, a kndly old man, gets her
a fob as a mannequin in a fashion
able shop, and later a position as
secretary to a wealthy physician.
5he leaves the young writer who
loves her. curly dismisses Meyer,
and bv false stories about her dis
tinguished aneestrv, gets herself en
to a r*'*'** I*”
covers the truth about her. This is
but *the beginning of a story which
is tremendously human and holds
its brea bless suspense to the last
moment of the last scene.
Those featured in this film in ad
dition to the Bennets are Ben Lyon,
Dorothy Peterson. Raymond Mil
and, Arthur Stuart Hall. Mae Mad
ison. Dorris Lloyd, Maude Eburne,
Clara Blandick and Barbara Leo
nard. Archie Mayo, whose recent
directorial efforts in "The Doorway
to Hell," ' t" and "Svengali"
h. ve brou t thim to the • ■ of
megaphone wielders. staged ‘Bought’
for the cameras, and did an excel
lent job. The stor • is based on the
best selling novel bv Harriett Hen
ry, "Jackdaws Strut." Charles Ken
yon and Ra., -.ond Griffith did the
adaptation.
“Bought” presents Miss Bennett
with her greatest opportunity to
display her alluring and many
sided genius. Her Stephany Dale
might be any one of a million mod
ern girls. It takes that hard teach
er. experience, to correct Stephany’s
false values, and to make her see
that cold cash may prove a poor
substitute for what every woman
really wants.
Don't fail to the the altogether
enw Constance Bennett of "Bought" '
For Saturday only. Buck Jones I
famous cowbov actor and noted
daredevil, will be seen in the breath
taking “Border Law” with olvely'
T '""'ta Tovez.
xmovi[ cuatt; *
By HARRY LEVETTE
{For The Associated Negro Press)
(For The Associated Negro Press*
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 3. -
Some one Is always getting hurt in
the movies—the more serious the
action the more bruises. For in
atance, right now half a dozen fa
mous white stars are unable to
work until they recover from serious
mishaps. Joan Bennett Is just now
able to sit up after being smashed
against a tree by a fiery horse,
breaking her hip and pelvic bones
Her picture "She Wanted a Mil
lionaire,” will go on as soon as she
Is well and a number of colored ex
tras will be working .
' "In Four Feathers" two years ago
when 600 colored extras as Riff sol
diers fought all over the Palm
were injured that the camp hospi
tal was kept busy. Powder burns,
saber pricks, and sprains were the
chief Injuries. One fellow get sick
Jrom eating four half fried chickens
and five plates of loe r .am and
had to be sent home, so that was a
'casualty too.
In "Mamba” Harold Smith leap
ed from a fort wall Into the four
Toot depth of the studio lake during
the big battle scene and broke, his
nose on the cement bottom. Eagle
.Thomas, a former prize fighter, had
to quite the game from a badly
broken arm received in the same
^picture. He was paid a weekly com
pensation by the studio for nearly a
year afterwards.
" In “Danger Island,” bombs tha
were supposedly dropping froir
bombing planes blowing up a nativi
village were In reality buried in th
ground in many places and set of
by electricity. As we ran for the
fcrest they would burst all arounc.
us, all having been warned not t'
run over the places that look freshl"
dug. During the excitement one,
fellow ran over one just as It ex
ploded and was hurt. But It is all
in the game, and the game is ex
citing.
Among Some Stage Folk
Evelyn Preer "Ians to take a trip
back east shortly.
I.eroy Broonuieid produced a won
derful show at the Club Alabam.
Aurora Greely, partner of Leroy
is busy teaching her usual large
claass of dancing girls.
Pertle and Galloway opened at the
Follies last week.
spell brought on bv being bitten bj
a pet dog. the wound becoming in
fected. Her friends have called fre
quently during her Illness, but the
big -"dio audience and Sebastian
natrons have certainlv missed the
pleasant, little blues singer.
Albertine Pickens is a wonderful
example of what a girl can be and
still pretty. Gifted with a won
derful” voice, and histrionic talent
the fact that she has a beautiful
complerdon. lovelv hair, and excel
lent figure seems to be the least of
her thoughts. “Pretty is as pretty
dees.” laughs Albertine.
He-- work, confined to radio
broadcasting now. she can be heard
mornings from eight to nine as one
of the most important of Bill
■ Sharr-les’ gang.
Ale "sc and Hum nine are the bl.
; i hit cf the Club Alabam.
Baby Cox Nabbed In ‘Love
Nest’ By Her Irate Hubby
’ NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—The bed-,
room secene he witnessed when he :
walked In unexpectedly on his wife I
Saturday morning, proved just a
bit too much for dapper Hubert
Cowens, the drumstick wielding
husband of Baby Cox, herself a
mean blues crooner.
_It rendered Cowens nerveless and
speechless. All like the doorman in
front of Weinexski’t cafe while
Bobby Johnson. Be by Cox's "big
moment,” just 19 years old, ~ct in
to one of those union maae suits
and belted out the door Just like a
tat going west.
as; Both Baoy Cox and her tender
■Bobby are entertainers at Connie's
BILLYE BROWN DRAWS
ESTATIC PRAISE FROM
REAL ‘MEX’ GOVERNOR
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 7 —
ANP—"Carramba que precioso
las ojos” exclaimed the governor
of the Mexican state of which
Tla Juana is the capital, or Baja
California. Tis ejaculation meant
In English: how beautiful her
eyes, and he continued, how she
dances, and what a voice.
He was watching Billye Brown
do a song and dance number at
the Blue Fox Cafe, Tla Juana,
into which he had strolled with
a party of friends on a Sunday
outing. The talented, attractive
little former Chicago performer
was as usual pu'ting a wealth of
personally Into her work, un
mindful of the fact that so im
portant a person as the governor
was present. When she finished
in a storm of applause, an offi
cer of the rurales, a bodyguard
of the governor came to her and
bowing slid: "El Oobernardnr,
he say much pleased, f’enk yon
ver1 much and hope to hear
soon again.”
Inn while Cowens is the drummer
in Doc Crawford's orchestra, now
dispensiri melodies for the foot
pushers st Rose Danceland. 125th
st-p-- and Seventh event’*
Interviewed at his bachelor quar
ters in the Hotel Grampion, while
he fed his three pamered poodles,
German crackers in cream. Cowens j
said that h- had done nothing about
it. but “just iibed a while." and he
admitted having seen his lawyer a
bout getting a divorce.
Baby Cox, whose fame dates back
‘ the days when she warbled sob
wringing blues for the irehasers
of Okeh records, married Cowens in
Indianapolis. Her husband said
they had not lived together for a
year and nine months.
She is the mother of two boys,
one eight years old. bu her first
husband, and another which recent
!v celebrated his first birthday.
Cowens claims to be the father of
the latter, but failed to explain how
this could haoocn after being sep
arated from his wife for a period
almost twice the child’s age,
ANDY KIRf
And His Sensational
12 CLOUDS OF JOY
Radio nnd Brunswick Recording
Artists
—Only Chicago engagement—
81 NDAY KVK„ OCT. 11
•; — Orchestras — 2
--Also.
ERSKINE TATE
Anil His Orchestra
—ADMISSION—
Before h P. M. After 8 P. M.
AO Cent* . . Indies ... 00 Cents
0.1 Cents . (ientlement . 7ft Cents
|$AVOY
Ballroom
South Parkway at -17th 8t.
BAND AT SAVOY
HD 36—Ar.dv Kirk and band as Sa\
Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clovis
of Joy have been engage:' hv the
ballroom management to fill
an engagement .m
from 7:30 p. m. until the wee hours
of the morning. They are a Bruns
wick Recording orchestra and arc
favorites in New York City.
All managers of dance halls where
he has played have declared that
Kirk and his Twelve Clouis of Joy
have not only pleased the dancers
but have made such a fine impress
ion that they have been offered re
turn engagements.
These “boys” are great enter
tainers. There is never a dull mo
ment when thev are playing. Their
music Is hot and tazzy They play
all the latest song and dance hits.
Thev have played over WDAF.
WMCA and WPCH stations.
All the dance lovers on the south
It will be a great night. Den t
miss this opportunity to hear and
dance by these two wonderful or
chestras.
Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds
of Joy are considered to be the
"K!ng of Jazz Music."
side are planning to attend th:.‘
dance. This is the first and or.l'
eng-'ornent in Chicago. He writes i
that he is going to give Chicago a i
'-’•ind of music it has never heard j
before.
"rl’c-i there will be Erskine Tate |
Mr. Tate has been playing a brand
<•* “—sic that. t*>» der-e-s cntiry
She’s Lovely!
Venus had no stronger clain
to loveliness than the charm
ing picture above. Do you re
member her name? Its Naidi
Hill._
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BILO AND ASHES
BACK TO COAST
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 7. — j
j with several other principals and !
' a chorus reinforced by the pick of'
I California's own unsurpassable Sun
| kist maids, Sam (Bilo) Russell, and
Sandy ' Ashes i Burns are return
I ing to the Tivoli theater this month
The droll rib tickling humor oi
j this inimitable pair has made them
' a perpetual drawing card on the 1
coast. 3
Elmer Turner, that classy, grace- I
■ ful lightning fast dancer who was I
ith “Four Covans" in “On With
e Show" has been working with j
-m at the Lafayette, New York. ]
JO BAKER DOES
A POEM OF HER
LIFE FOR PAPER
PARIS. Oct 7.—Josephine Baker,
star of the Casino de Paris, has
written for La Depeche Algerienne
the following prose poem of her life
"At the age of eight I was already
working to calm the hunger of my
family
I have suffered: hunger, cold—
I have a family
They said I was homely
That I danced like an ape
Then I was less homely—Cosmet
ics
i was looted
Then I was applauded. . . The
crowd
I continued to dance. I loved
'"7.Z I
I ntinued t oslr.g. . .11 loved
sadness; 1
m, M.Uk is. sick L
I had an opportunity. .Per,tiny
I had a mascot, a parttntf. . An
cestral superstition. ... '
I made a tcur of the world . . In
third-class and in Pullman
I am moral
They said I was reverse
I do not smoke. . I love white
teeth.
I do r.ot drink . . I am an Ameri
can
I have a religion
I adore children
I love flowers
I nid the poor. . I have sufltre'
much
I lore the animal. . . They are the
sincerest
I sing and dance still . . . Per
severance.
| I earn much money. . . .1 do net
love money
I save my money. . . for tfce time
when I am no longer an attraction"
Miss Baker continues to be the
chief attraction at the Casino de
Paris, scats for which are sold cut
days In advance It Is resorted that
she will leave next month for a
London engagement.
COLORED ACTORS
IN NEW PICTURE
LOS ANGELES. Cal. Oct. 7. —
Filmed, smoothly and with unusual
good fortune “Arrowsmith,'’ the big
new United Artists picture finished
this week. Clarence Brooks made
his final shots on Monday, the big
village scene with 200 colored play
ers on Tuesday with a few shots up
till Friday. Josephine Brown was
in some of the earlier scenes as a
native bride. Patsy Hunter, Ernes
tine Porter and a number of local
performers worked In the big scenes
The preview will disclose it to or
one of the year’s best according to
prediction. Ronald Co'man ar.ri
Helen Hayes are costars
MUST CHANGE NAME
Because the- lock funds to finish
their course at Claflin College this
fall, the four singers who recently
terminated their fifth successive
season as the Claflir. College Male
Quartet, ha' • been forced bv an
• ed'cf emanating from the college
■ i utthoritles. to change th- name,
i The four singers plan a southern
tour.
w
The charming Celeste Cole,
who made her debut as a sing
er in Chicago, and charmed the
hearts of southside Cheater
goers with her golden voice,
has attained new laurels in her
chosen field in the East. Miss
Cole is singing this week at
the Lafayette theater in Har
lem, and is engaged to appear
is several other eastern cities.
Her first claim to public notice
came two years ago when she
won first prize in the Atwater
Kent radio audition contest.
EVELYN PREER IN
°ARAMOUNT FILM
I.OS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 7—The
Lafavette Players gorgeous star.
FT' Prcer, end beautiful en
trancing Rnsalee Lincoln, both
secured bits last week In "Husband's
Holiday." new feature talk." now
shooting at Paramount studio. CUve
Brooks Is the star with Charles
Reggies In the featured pari. Di
rector Milton praised the work of
the girls very highly.
DUKE AND BAND
EMBARK ON HALF
YEAR P. P. TOUR
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 — Duke EI
J :gton and his famous orchestra
are abcut to begin a six month's
tour m motion ’■icture theaters for
the Paramont-Pr.bllx circuit which
will take this celebrat"d organiza
tion Into most of the btg cities of
the east and middle west.
Except for occasional engagement
here and there, dance lovers will net
have an opportunity during this pe
riod to step tto the favorite music
of Harlem's aristocrat of jazz, un
less thev pick up the Duke via the
radio, for he is expected to broad
cast at least once in almost every
citv he visits.
Although the last Ellington dance
tour was a tremendous success, the
Duke and his band were such a sen
sation on the stage, particiulirly
during their four '•"'"ceements with
in six months at the Oriental thea
ter In Chicago, that Publix theater
officials prevailed upon Irving Mills,
his personal manager, to bco kin
other tour of their circuit.
It Is probable that at the conclu
sion of this route the Duke and his
m-n will go to Hollywood for an
other motion pict re. although In
sistent demands of ballroo— mana
gers everywhere for the attraction
mav u-set these plans and make
another dance tour lmoerative.
The Ellington urit Is dividing its
time (his month between ndepen
dent theaters in Philadelphia and
■ Washington, followin'" which it
">lays one week at th° Stanley thea
I ter in Jersev Citv, then begins Its
| Paramount route.
COLORED ACTOR IS VET
OF RADIO
A veteran of the studios little
known to listeners Is Alvin Simmons
; actually grinning NBC hat check
man. who joined the staff of WJZ
at Newark, N. J , in 1922. when
WJZ was the only metropolitan
broadcasting station. Well known
to all artists and company employ
ees. A1 is not an absolute stranger
to listeners, as he has broadcast oc
casionally. once playing the lead in
a drama of Negro life.
LOUIE ARMSTRONG THE
TRUMPET KING DRAWS
8,000 IN TEXAS
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 7. —
ANP—Louis Armstrong, king of
the trumpet and his Ok;y Re
cording orchestra, played to a
capacity crowd, in Sam Houston
Hall last week. The crowd which
heard him and danced to his mu
sic was estimated at eight thou
sand, and was composed of rep
resentative members of both
races. Armstrong and his record
ing orchestra were brought to
Houston by the Mavnoiia Amuse
ment Corporation, a new organi
zation among Houston Negro
Business Men, headed by J. B.
Grigsby, presidents The Ameri
can Mutual Insurance companv
and of the Texas Negro Baseball
association This rornoration
will specialize in presenting out- ,
standing Negro artist > from time
to time to Texas in general and
Houstonians particularly.
The officers of th»» corporation
are B. Grigsby, president; lVm.
Robinson, secretary; .f. IV. Rice,
treasurer.
I saw Clarence Muse In that swell
movie "Dirigible" Sunday at the
Met. Clarence had a rather Juicy
part and he certainly knew what to
do with It. And three short years
ago he was stranded In Kansas
City with a little revue which flick
ered out for no reason in particular
except that it didn't click Which
perhaps Is a pun, If you get what
I mean.
Then Muse got a chance In
Hearts In Dixie" Since then he
has worked steadily in fllekerland
Unlike his ern'emoorarv Hn t'me
onlvli Stenln Fetch!!, he has net
v-(!me 3fn'c!"d with the blg-he--*
Being a veteran In the sh~v bust* ]
•mm. all Muse has dene is to en
•r»rch hime-lf sclidlv by doing
-nierdld work wherever he Is before
‘he kleigs.
When I was a "oungster 'quit*
som* years gyp* Clarence olaved In
*‘ork with Abbie Mitchell Archie
Jones, and Soeedv Smith He was
a versatile make-up and quick
change nrt'.st. IT" and the rem
-an" nlav the me!l»r* like "Within
th? law” "MaJ3me X” a-d oth*rs
And always I wondered why it was
that a man with his ma?n‘flo"n'
vole'1 ard aeu*e d-amatlc abll!t*t
could never g*t a hrra1' Vow fi
nally. he seems to hive gotten h’m
sotf a r--’ break And meet of us
a-> "lad t-no’-’s'1 a trcx’ner
r' the old school fl ter than w-hem
th*”* arc non"
Step on the o*hr hand let his owr
■~o* »be h-'* of him ah'*
i "-hat a cr'-h b*» m-'*" — c-mln*
| ''w» vt tj r% *p (;*•■'* lyj JM o n sj
t f~Vap another
chan-e and if so wdl! have lenrn
•d his lesron,
Sunda*. o'r*-l'?r s*h rn:rk"d two
hi" events for the Mi-hiean theater
First. It was th" anniversary of the
house under the management of the
Xseeness Cornoratlcn. Second. I*
was one of the greatest openings
ver staved on the South Sid" when
Walter Barn's and his Roval Creo
‘‘ars broke rut at the mat<r.e" t*
All an u-nlimitcd enlevement at the
*‘0use. From th" onenln* of th"
'heater at 1:30 o m. until the last
-how about 10:30 n. m crowds we-e
w-’hlng for admlttanee.
Walter succeeded In making a
meat stand when he broke loose and
"11 the men In the orchestra dP
‘heirs as onlv a moun of real mii
eiclans would. Quite an inovatior
'n the line'll- was the presence o?
Miss Doll Hutchinson featured so
loist and ccrnetlst who took single
boners 'n her number "Sleoov Tin-''
Down Smith.” The house went wild
with excitement and pleasure over
the manv features prepared fo*
•hem under the direction of th"
OWL
THEATRE
So. State Street at 47th
Sunday and Monday, October II-I*!
JOHN GILBERT
“The Phantom of Paris”
“Clearing the Range”
______ •*.'»•-—
HOOT GIBSON
Tnraday anil Wrdnradny, Or!. 13 1 <
“Secrets of a Secretary”
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CLAl’BETTE GOLBERT
— also -•
EDMCND LOWE
“Trans Atlantic”
J Thoraday and Friday, Ortobrr 15-18
CU.NRAII NAGKI,
“Reckless Hour”
-— lllv> —
‘‘Ships of Hate”
i.i.ovn HUGHES
SATIRIIAY, OCTOBER 17
Matinee n»»d Evening
EVELYN BRENT
__—— hi ■ —— -“
“Traveling Husband*
.. ■ - also ---“
A THRILLING WESTERN
“Reckless Rider”
Barnes Band Is Feature Of
Big Week At The Michigan
Under the stimulous created bi
the presence of Walter Barnes and
his "Royal Crcolians" band, the
Michigan theater offers one of the
most attractive entertainment
menus for the coming week. In ad
dition to Barnes band, with the in
imitable Dolly Hutchinson, the "fe
male Louie Armstrong, the pictures
arc of an exceptionally high type.
Starting i » .ay the exciting mys
; icry thriller Murder by the Clock"
will occupy the screen until and in
j eluding Wednesday. Also, and this
makes ore of the strongest dou
ble features possible, lovely .* n
O'FAY GIRLS “TURN
COLORED" IN ORDER
TO LAND HARLEM JOBS
NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—In sheer
desperation and contending that
unless they did so they faced
starvation, two beautiful Broad
way chorines in oj-der to obtain
employment and earn a liveli
hood. executed affidavits to the
effect that the tinge of Sepian
blood runs through their veins.
Thev arr now members of a col
ored chorus in a Harlem night
hot spot.” frequented by Negro
patrons, males mostly.
■ > <iinig iiiiiii.ii iimTirrniiT,
managers of all-Negro rerurs In
New York City’s darktown area
maintain a custom of requiring
"high Tallows" and girls of an
parentlv white extraction to file
affidavits that they are. if not
all, partly colored. Tills, the two
girls were Informed, was essential
if they obtained employment
there.
Ft Is rmaortrd that the white
gir!s were Informed that none of
the colored members of the
chores should bo told of the de
ccptien as it was necessary that
♦he colored rrv»le patrons, who
hob-nob with the girls should
believe the mto he colored.
- ^
voung "Maestro of Modern Rhythm i
Many features which no doubt wil] |
be a grer.t surprise to th" audiences j
viII be featur ; in the future
I Crawfcrci in “This Modern Age'1
I will form the other half of the bill
for the same period
.-or T.»u.sd?j. i'ridav oaJ Satur
day, another big dcuo'e lcatore
wat be ottered These piettne-t will
be the much discussed • Mystery of
I, us1 with the to nous lawyer Clar
ence Darrow, and th super air
thriller. “Dirigible " Koth pictures
are hiatus unusual, and oiler en
te-‘a i ent. seldom ob'il'.rf it one
•hue.
Thr-c ;vct'".J with the presence
-f !»- rnrs ana Via gun; make the
'lihp.'.n one of the mos attractive
places to sr- n 1 a few h*rs in the
city. Barnes' playing “M.r-1 Indigo'
'?;■-)) j Time Down South.’ and
•M.in. Hatv T-turn ei hr Dav"
• , • roan*
that his wide popularity is well de
•r'ed.
I n en*
tior.ed above will be entirely chan
ged, apd he promises many new
and pleasing numbers.
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