Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1930 — Page 6

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CAREER OF MARIE DRESSLER READS LIKE STORY OF WORK

Great Funmaker of the Talking Screen Joins With Polly Moran in Giving Laughs in “Caught Short,” Which Is Due at Palace Soon. THE career of Marie Dressier appears to contradict some of the timetried and age-hallowed Hollywood axioms. To attain that degree of histrionic elevation known as stardom is tommon enough for players in their twenties; but when an actress of 60 gains such a triumph the situation takes a surprising twist. Miss Dressier has been able to east aside precedent to prove that beauty and youth.are not the only requiites for major success on the screen, and to upset the aphorism “youth must be served.” In a space of four years this notable character comedienne has risen from comparatively obscure cinema bits to stardom in her own right.

It is reported from the coast that Dressier will be starred by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in her next picture, the title of which may be “Dark Star.” This action of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officials is *he result of a growing popular demand, and was directly prompted by the actress's widely acclaimed characterization as old Marthy in “Anna Christie.” During the last few months Marie Dressier has been one of the most eagerly sought-after actresses in Hollywood. Her new comedy with Polly Moran, “Caught Short,” socn to be presented at Loew’s Palace theater. depicting two boarding-house keepers caught in the recent Wall Street crash, has drawn eulogistic praise lrom previewers. After doing a song and dance number in 'The March of Time,” and her tragicomic impersonation in “Anna Christie," Miss Dressier played in “The Girl Said No,” and was given the part of the chloric Mrs. Boucicault in Norma Shearer’s latest film, “Let Us Be Gay.” Again and again she has proved her versatility in diversified character roles. Early followers of the “movies” remember Marie Dressier in the Mack Sennett picture “Tillie’s Punctured Romance,” produced some fiften years ago. She appeared in several other comedies, but producers did not supply her with the first-class material that was necessary for her success, and she left Hollywood to do some vaudeville work and to write her book, "The Story of an Ugly Duckling.” She seemed to drift into the background as an “old-timer” who had had her share of the theatrical spotlight and was no longer wanted. Then four years ago Miss Dressier was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her new reception by film fans was a most enthusiastic one. and she began to forge toward the top. With the arrival of talking pictures her excellent speaking voice and sense of vocal characterization proved great assets in her march j to the cinema pinnacle. Marie Dressier is proud of her i thirty-eight years of experience on \ the stage. She was born in Co- j bourg, Canada, and never attended school, but was given the equivalent of a grammar-school education by her mother. She says she learned geography by traveling all over the United States and Canada with her parents in a vaudeville act. She worked in a circus for a while, and says she won her chance in a musical comedy cnorus because she was an “ugly duckling” and not just a goodlooking, carbon-copy chorus model “She's a regular fellow,” remarked a studio assistant director of Marie Dressier. He was not trying to be funny. He meant what he said. Marie Dressier falls into just that category. According to her intimates, she is dignified and well poised, off the set, yet always filled with an infec- 1

Sunday School Lesson

The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for June 1. Stewardship of Service, Matt. 25: 14-30. a e a BY WM. E. GILROY', D. D. editor of The Conxrecationalist THE general lesson title for this lesson, “A Contrast Between Faithfulness and Slothfulness,” is somewhat more descriptive, though neither title quite brings out the full significance of the lesson which has really to do with the real sense of value and its application to life. The lesson is one of those striking mansfestations of common sense in which Jesus attacks the greatest problems of life and conduct from the standpoint of life's simplest principles. There is, also, in the lesson the emphasis upon the fact so commonly emphasized in the teaching of Jesus that the laws of the spiritual world are not so unlike the laws of the physical and material world. Calls for Action The ideal life in the conception of Jesus is not a life of mere good intentions, of futile dreaming, no matter how rich and fine the dreams may be; the ideal life is found, rather, in a true and real investment of all that one is and of all that one has. It is the direction of life that determines its destiny, or, as we should put it in a terse phrase 0)’ today, it is character that counts. If a man has a great treasure and allows that treasure to lie neglected, neither in the material w'orld nor in the spiritual world can the treasure be of much use to himself or to anybody else. There is no glory that attaches to the timidity of doing nothing, even on the assumption that if one does nothing he can do no wrong. Life in its highest aspect is a matter of adventure and commitment. If we are not willing to assume risks, there can be no glory of result. All this is expressed in the form of a parable, which concerns a man of substance going into another country entrusting his goods to his servants to make the best use of them possible. According to their s°veral abilities he proportioned the responsibility, giving to one five talents, to another two. and to another one. The story as it proceeds is an interesting reflection of life. The man *.'ith the five talents doubled his capital, so also the man of two talents; but the man of one talent, careful lest he might lose It, hid it away for safekeeping. On the return of the master, the servants who had received respectively five talents and two talents gained the approval of their lord. But the man who had hidden awgy the one talent was rebuked as wicked and slothful, because in his anxiety he had not taken proper care even ft . / -

At the Lyric

Joe Mendi

Meet Joe Mendi, an 18-months-old chimpanzee, who is one of the features at the Lyric. Joe is supposed to have the intelligence of a 5-year-old child. tious good humor, her sparkling eyes ready to seize the first opportunity for a laugh, her vivacious personality the life of every gathering she happens to be in.* She is never ill at ease, never at a loss for a reply to any remark. She is perfectly at home with all kinds of people—flappers, juvenile mirthmakers, matrons, executives, extras—anybody. Perhaps the great secret of her popularity is her absolute naturalness of manner. One of the most significant things about Marie Dressler's personal triumph in the “movies” is that nobody seems to be jealous of her. Most other stars have won their laurels at the expense of countless bickerings, jealousies and bad feeling, but every one appears to take an individual interest in Marie’s welfare. She and Polly Moran, her partner in “Caught Short,” and other comedies, are said to receive more invitations to parties than any one else in Hollywood. They have to turn down most of these because they haven’t found out how to be in several places at the same time. Whep Joe Weber, the famous dialectician of the Weber and Fields team, moved out to the M-G-M lot to appear in the big revue, “The March of Time,” he encountered Marie Dressier on the lot the first day. “Well Marie,” he said, “you aren’t quits so thin, but you’re four times as funny.” “Maybe I’ve lost my sex appeal,” replied the comedienne, “but as long as people still want to laugh I should worry.”

that that one talent should produce its proper profit. Os course the parable is not entirely typical of life. Like much of the teaching of Jesus it is directed toward the driving home of one particular truth and the rebuking of the narrowness and weakness of one phase of life. In actual life it is sometimes the five-talent man who succeeds beyond all measure,, and who assumes the place that naturally and rightfully might have belonged to the man of larger opportunity. But no man either of five talents or of one talent ever succeeds either in the material world or in the spiritual world by the methods pursued by the cne-talent man. There can be no great living without serious and definite commitment. Conservation, when it is cut off from activity, becomes itself a principle of destruction. Aggressive Christianity As in military conflict, attack Is often the truest form of defense, so aggression in Christian living is often the surest way of maintaining growth in grace and effectiveness in service. It was John R. Seeley who declared in Ecce Homo that no virtue is safe that is not passionate. What he meant by that was that positive goodness is the soul's surest foundation against temptation. But let us again emphasize the fact that Jesus is dealing with real values and with tme efficiency. We ! make our lives great by living, and i the man who refuses to live abundantly not only limits the power and effectiveness of his own life, but he tends to destroy the very force that God has given him to exercise. Strothart Knew Franz Lehar Herbert Stothart, composer of the music for “The Rogue Song,” Lawrence Tibbett’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer smash hit. is a former associate of Franz Lehar, composer of “The Merry Widow.” He tells the story of Lehar’s attempted crusade against jazz, when the composer built an opera around a situation where jazz was contrasted with Viennese waltzes, supposedly to the detriment of jazz. But Lehar’s embarrassment was great when the jazz number proved the biggest hit of the show.

In ‘ Whoopee Dorothy Knapp, star of several Earl Carroll extravaganzas and one of America's most famous beauties, was signed yesterday by Samuel Goldwyn as the Indian princess in ■ Whoopee.” The picturization of the noted stage success, in which Eddie Cantor is again to star, is now in its fourth week of production under the joint supervision of Mr. Gold-

Students to I Graduate in Music I Teachers Plan Recitals for Pupils All Next Week. ON Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, Edward Nell of the Arthur JorI dan Conservatory of Music faculty will present Irene Scott and Dallas Galbraith in a graduation song recital at the Odeon, 106 East North j street. Olga Porter and Mary Ellen j Galbraith will occompany. Monday night, June 2. the Arthur ! Jordan Conservatory of Music will | present two scenes from FreichutzWeber’s popular opera, at the Odeon under the joint direction of Lillian A. Plickinger and Adolph H. Schellschmidt. Schellschmidt’s ensemble will accompany the singers. Elizabeth Haerle, Eugenia Magidson and Raymond Hahl will take the leading roles and Carolyn Coffin, Vera Sudbrock. Laura Fiscus and Katherine Carlisle will be the bride’s maids.

Tuesday evening, June 3, the third graduation program of pupils of Frances Beik, dramatic art teacher of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will be given at the Odeon at 8:15 o’clock when Helen L. Small, Janet Morris, Frances Starr, Marie Lenahan, Marian Fehrenbach, Lillyon Snyder, Evelyn Wolfard, Mary E. Trabue and Ruth Wagner; Gordon Bringle, Kenneth Lemons, Malcolm Elwood, Earl Winkle and Richard Sites will give “The Dawn of a Tomorrow,” by Burnett; “Papers,” and “In the Spring a Young Man’s Fancy,” by Will Smith Ransom. The young ladies are the graduates. The National Phi Sigma Mu musical fraternity (public school music) will hold its annual convention, June 6 and 7 at Bowling Green, O. Jeanette Slocum, president of the Indiana chapter and Beatrice Westfall, with Ruth Wagener and Jeanette Lemon as alternates, will represent the local chapter at the convention. This chapter is located in the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. RECITAL WILL” EG GIVEN HERB Willard MacGregor of the faculty of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will present Paul Lindstaedt in his graduation recital on Thursday evening, June 5, at the Odeon. Linstaedt will play: “Fantasia C Minor” Each “Pastorale and Capriccio” Scariatti Sonata Pathetique” Beethoven “Nocturne C Sharp Minor” Chopin "Waltz C Sharp Minor” Chopin “Etude C Minor” Chopin “Tango” Albeniz-Godowski “Prelude G Sharp Minor”.. .Rachmaninoff “Prelude A Minor” Debussv Mrs. Mary Corman, pupil of Lillian A. Flickinger, Georgia Bauman, pianist; Elaine Wilson, violin pupil of Thomas Poggiana, and Frances Starr, pupil of Frances Beik, will give a program for the Ladies Aid of the University Park Christian church on Saturday afternoon, June 7, at the home of Mrs. Walter Kelly, 5859 Forest Lane. If the weather is fair, there will be a garden party. Pupils of Mrs. Antibus of the dramatic art department of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will give two plays at the Odeon, the evening of Friday, June 6, assisted by a string trio, with Paul Munger, violin; Mary Lohrman, cello, and Virginia Byrd, piano, members of the trio. “The Woman in the Shoe” and “An Invitation to Fairyland” will be played by Rosemary Gladden, Rosalee Holma, Viola Bazis, Mary Ann Fisher, Gladys Scott, Jack Holmes, Mary Margaret Myers, Jimmie Keenan, Betty Clemons, Betty Spickelmier, Harriet Levy, Joan Bayer, Martha Jane Marley, Bobby Clifford, Jeanelle Ray, Ruby McCammcn, Katherine Keiser, Jerry Holman, Evelyn Bentley, Babe Burns, Jack Kistner, Robert Padtz, Sara Jane Wright, Mary Eleanor Peggs, Rosemary Keogh. Marie Mittman, Mary Cecilia Conley, Jeanelle Ray, Lee Clifford. Jack Holmes, Edith Marie Spickelmier, Jean Wright and Clara Ann Peggs. JUNIOR PUPILS* * TO GIVE PROGRAM At the north unit of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, 3411 North Pennsylvania street, Marie Zorn, teacher on the piano faculty will hold’ a recital for her junior pupils. Those taking part are Daniel Wagner, Robert Seeger, Robert McKay, Marjorie Flickinger, Joe Pat Arvin, Charles Breunig, Fannie Moyer, Delois Swoboda, Robert Glass, Rosemary Mclnturf, Irene Ulrey and Catherine Clinard. Mary Compton, Danny Flickinger and Martha Mosier, pupils of Thomas Poggiani, with Joe Pat Arvin, pupil of Bernice Van Sickle, will assist on this program. Stanley Norris’ string quartet, composed of Jean Chenoweth, Alonzo Brown, William Schneider and Wayne Van Osdol, will play on Thursday evening, June 5, at the home of Mrs. Walter Wise for the guest evening of the Independent Current Events Club. Mr. Norris is a teacher of violin in the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. On Monday evening, June 9, Leslie E. Peck of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, will present Charles M. Jackson and William Alan Yule in a graduation recital assisted by Anita Wandell, pianist, pupil of Willard MacGregor. INTERESTING RECITAL PROMISED The Irvington School of Music will present an evening of music by the advanced pupils of Madame B. Steinhart and Adelaide Conte, Wednesday, June 4 at 7:45, at 5657 East Washington street. The public is cordially invited. “First Movement of Sonata”...Beethoven Mildred Smith "One Fine Day” <from Madame Butterfly > Puccini Zeima See “To Spring” Grieg “Waits Humoresque” Slojonski Florence Hinshaw “The Market" Carew Mabel LeFevre “To a Wild Rose" McDowell “Le Coucou" Daquin "Le Bangolizaie aux Revlelle"....Gerville Helen Rosen “Cherry Ripe" ....Horn Ida Pretti “The Etude” Rossini Mrs. Ctine “Aria” from ‘T?s Hughenots”... Meyerbeer Ruth Howe •Ftudes" ..... ............Choiiin •Wicerto” . * am * ■...“ .* n C rieg UUdame St;nharw*ad Mildred SmLh

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I—Miss Primrose Semon who is featured in the headline act now at the Lyric.

Hardini to Do Stunts at Park Riverside Ready to Be Host to Big Holiday Crowds This Season. HARDINI, escape artist, returns to Riverside amusement park tonight for a two-day engagement on the elevated stage in the center of the fun resort. Tonight and Sunday night the performer will attempt to escape lrom a sealed coffin while strapped in a straitjacket, and also will try to extricate himself from the same restraining garment while suspended by his feet from a high gallows. Sunday afternoon a balloon ascension will be the feature free attraction in the West Thirtieth street fun resort, with Ethel Pritchett, local girl, attempting a multiple parachute leap from the sky. “Happy Times,” the 3-weeks-old baby monkey, will greet visitors to the park Monkeyland. The tiny simian, named in honor of the newspaper that sponsored the recent contest, is the center of attraction in the Riverside zoo, and thousands are expected to meet him over the week-end. The new Riverside arena in the north end of the park has been completed and will be ready for the inspection of sports followers. Wrestling shows will be held in the arena each Monday night and boxing cards will be presented each Thursday night during the summer.

New Events at Studio

JEAN ARTHUR, heroine of the J recently-completed picture, “The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu,” has been signed to anew contract by the Paramount Publix Corporation. Regis Toomey has been added to the cast of Gary Cooper’s new starring picture, in the role of Cooper’s happy-go-lucky “buddy.” The production will be directed by Rowland V. Lee and will have June Collyer as its leading lady. Frederick Lonsdale, popular English playwright, is at work in Hollywood on a Paramount picture for the talking screen. He will write the new co-starring vehicle for Ruth Chatterton and Clive Brook, “New Morals.” Kay Johnson has been assigned to a principal feminine role in “The Spoilers,” in which Gary Cooper will be starred by Paramount. Harry Green and Slim Summerville have been chosen for comedy parts in this production. Asa part of an industrial survey of the United States, which he is making for Poland, Count Topar de Lakopolonski and his wife have just inspected the motion picture plant of the Paramount studios in Hollywood. Ztlma O’Neal, musical comedy comedienne who gained Broadway stage fame overnight with her performance of the Varsity Drag in “Good News” and who just completed a role in Paramount’s “Follow Thru,” is on her way to Europe for a vacation. Nancy Carroll is in New York preparing to begin work on her first talking vehicle in the east. It will be “Laughter,” to be directed by Harry D’Arrast, from his own original story. Frederic March will play opposite her. Hal Thompson, popular musical comedy juvenile, has been chosen by the Paramount New York studio to play opposite Lillian Roth in the current picturization of “Animal Crackers,” starring the Four Marx Brothers. This Title Sounds Powerful “The Richest Man in the World” is the final title of the new M-G-M picture formerly referred to as “Sins of the Children.” This film was originally titled “Father’s Day,” and was directed by Sam Wood, with Louis Mann and Elliott Nugent, prominent New York stage actors, featured in the cast.

London Bound Frederick Lonsdale, distinguished English playwright, whose “The Last of Mrs. Cheney.” was one of the better talking pictures, is in New York, en route to London. He came from Hollywood where he just completed the story that will be Ronald Colman's next talking picture. Upon his return from England he will work on the dialog for this film.

ROUNDING ROUND 'T'T-IT? ATFDQ With Walter 1 nMI HfKO D. HICKMAN

I WOULD like to find out why Indianapolis is not guaranteed the attractions of New York Theatre Guild as well as the newly organized Dramatic League which is a Shubert movement for better things. Last season at English’s we obtained some of the major Theatre Guild attractions only because the theaters at Cincinnati, 0., were closed because of labor difficulties. We were fortunate to get these attractions but we have no guarantee for next season that we will get the Guild’s leading attractions. Cincinnati has gone ahead with the Guild sending all of its attractions under a guarantee of people subscribing for seats to the Erlanger's Grand theater.

Nelson Trowbridge, manager of the Shubert at Cincinnati, writes me that the Dramatic League comes to Cincinnati at his theater, starting in October. - These league plays include “Dr Harmer’s Holiday.” This one by Pinero. The second is listed as “A Symphony in Two Flats,” by Ivor Novello. And one of them will be anew Eugene O’Neill play. Cincinnati show patrons went out and guaranteed these fine attractions. They have already subscribed for their seats. In addition to that Stuart Walker is guaranteed another season in Cincinnati without loss. Are we terribly asleep in Indianapolis? tt n I have received an interesting letter from Mrs. Florence J. Cooksey, 4325 East New York street regarding the movies. I do not subscribe to all that Mrs. Cooksey writes but her opinion is so interesting that I am publishing the letter in full as follows: I am not a regular attendant of the “movie.” I enjoy a good show, that is, if I like the actors or the show. is what seems to me worth while. Through the insistance of my daughter who has been my companion in attendance during the last few weeks we have seen several of the so called “better shows.” We have seen “Son of the Gods,” “Vagabond King,” and “Rogue Song,” “General Crack” and others. I was unfavorably impressed with three things, and consider them propoganda of the worst kind. Blasphemy, brutality and ridicule. In “Son of the Gods,” Richard Barthelmess, is made to denounce “American Christianity.” His utterances were false, blasphemous, so unfair that though it is a picture one feels that they must rise up out of our seat and denounce the charge as false. He might have said, and with some truth, American society or civilization. His charges were an insult to God and to every Christian in America. Where have we heard this before? “American Christianity.” American Christianity has no earthly king, pope or dictator, does not bow down in worship to wood and stone, does not worship images, shrines, forms. American Christianity has shown to the world how to worship God. American Christianity is not lies. Such a denouncement and from such a source when so far as the picture portrays Sam Lee, was not at any time associated with Christians. His flogging was a brutal attack, wholly without reason or common sense, spoiling a place in the picture which might have been made very beautiful. So overdrawn in its cruelty, we lose our admiration for a beautiful girl. This same brutality we see in “The Vagabond King.” Dennis King, could not put it over gracefully. brutality is not a part of his natufe, and is unbecoming to him. Tibbett handles his brutality with better grace, again in General Crack, disgraceful flogging, and rough handling of women, what does all this mean? What is back of this and what is to come after? “Women Love Brutes.” Do women love brutes? No! Absolutely not! Why this propoganda? There is no question in my mind but that the “movie” is the school

AMUSEMENTS

RIVERSIDE ANOTHER GLORIOUS WEEK-END TONIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT HARDINI THE GREAT Will Attempt to Escape From A SEALED COFFIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON BALLOON ASCENSION SEE THE NEW BABY MONKEY IN THE CITY’S ONLY ZOO

2—The Gordon String Quartet which has been Looked by the Civic Music Association for a concert next fall.

where many if not most of our young criminals have graduated, now we are going to allow the movie, “talking movie,” to graduate a ruffian, cruel, beastly, brutal, young manhood. Somebody’s boy and girl will reap this sowing. It does not take a prophet to see this in the future of America’s youths and men who have hitherto suppressed this side of his nature. This is not idle talk. Ridicule of the prohibition question. Are we loyal Americans, or are we being carried along by a sentiment worthy of “slum rats?” Mr. Hays promised that no propoganda would control the theaters. I have pointed out to you three kinds that now possess the theaters and a promise of more. I refer to George Bancroft’s latest picture. Blasphemy and brutality should never have been allowed on the American stage, there is no reason for it and certainly no excuse. I have made no presense of being a critic of these plays. The weak and strong places in them is not for me to judge, there are others fully competent to do this, but what I have tried to do is to point out a danger, a poison, which will destroy gallantry, politeness, tender sympathy of our American young men toward women. This has been Jiis greatest charm.

Something New

How does your thumbprint sound? As an experiment, Cecil B. De Mille, producer, director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, recently had several of his “Dynamite” cast place their thumbprints on the “sound track” of this picture. It is well-known that sound is reproduced by light forced through a narrow “sound track” on the film. Naturally the reproduction is governed by what is on the sound track. If an extraneous image, even as lightly printed as a thumb mark, appears on this strip, it will be reproduced as an extra “noise.” The results of the experiments were that the thumbprints of De Mille, Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson and others all had just as distinct a “sound” personality as the prints themselves! Spanish Author Gets Job Miguel de Zarraga has been added to the M-G-M writing staff and will contribute original stories and Spanish dialogue. AMUSEMENTS

COLONIAL ILLINOIS AND NEW YORK WEEK STARTING TODAY Fastest Show in the City GEO. (BUTTONS) FARES and his own biff show “JUNE BRIDES” A Swift Moving BURLESQUE with IRISH MAXINE he L E N a MORGAX. e ANDY c anderson CHORUS ON THE RUNWAY ON THE SCREEN “MELODY MAN” ALL-TALKING FEATURE MIDNITE FROLIC SAT.

Beauty to Be Guest in City Miss America Comes to Aid of Pageant at Indiana Ballroom. MISS RUTH BURNAM of Cleveland, 0., better known as Miss America, recently arrived in Indianapolis where she will probably stay for several weeks. The occassion for Miss America’s stay over is that she has been invited as guest of honor to the Beauty Pageant which is being held in order to pick Miss Indianapolis for 1930. The pageant will take place on the Indiana Rorff June 5, 6 and 7. Previous to the pageant, Miss America will appear at several neighborhood houses where the preliminaries for the choosing of Miss Indianapolis, are being held. The Cleveland girl won four beauty revues last year; Miss Cleveland, Great Lakes, Ohio and Miss America. The national event was staged at Galveston, Texas and will be held there again this year. The girl who is chosen Miss Indianapolis next week will compete for the title of Miss Indiana and the Hoosier queen will be sent to Galveston, all expenses paid to compete for the title of Miss Universe as well as Miss America. Dogs Will Act Again Having achieved several triumphs in their two-reel comedies, the troupe of trained dogs which appeared in “Hot Dog” and “College Hounds” will next be seen in a comedy sequence of “The March of Time,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer revue now in preparation. In “The March of Time” the canine unit will present a sketch called “Aren’t Husbands Saps?” and Raquel Torres will act as mistress of ceremonies. Tliis Man Is Sure Tall John Cromwell, director of Paramount’s “The Texan,” with Gary Cooper in the title role, is one of the tallest directors in Hollywood. He is six feet three inches in height.

AMUSEMENTS IsASTAmhla Kenneth M*KemuFW FED ENT / Y ML fill 1 J tom ®f Utt —. I In ‘'Cham.t,riiation,” qSIjJ NEXT SATURDAY —The World’s Greatest Radio Attraction OTTO GRAY and his COWBOY BAND

.MAY 31, 1930

Submarine Featured at Lyric ‘Men Without Women’ Is a Movie With No W'Yneh. TTERALDED as one of the most dramatic talking pictures, John Ford's production “Men Without Women,” will be presented at the Lyric for one week starting today. This thrilling story of men who go down to the sea in submarines is said to possess many striking novelties in theme and treatment as well as being one of the first alltalking films of tills most dangerous field of nautical adventure. There are no women in the cast, and the main part of the narrative deals with a group of sixteen survivors of the collision between their undersea craft and a blundering steamer, trapped in their iron prison at the bottom of the China sea. Kenneth McKenna and Frank Albertson, two of the most promising aetohs developed by the advent of vocal films and who have reappeared in a number of Fox productions, enact the leading roles. The supporting cast includes Paul Page, J. Farrell MacDonald. Warren Hymer, Walter McGrail, Roy Stewart and Stuart Irwin. The pictures only feminine character never appears on the screen, and is never ever named, yet she is the mainspring which motivates the unique climax of the film. Primrose Semon, a peppy, dynamic little comedienne, heads the stage show consisting of four RKO vaudeville acts. This titian-haired clown, offers a rapid-fire routine of songs, dances and comedy chatter. The Four O'Connors, father, two sons and a daughter, who are known as “Variety Entertainers,” offer the second comedy novelty on the stage bill. The father and one son are cross-fire comics. Dad and his other son are exceptional acrobats. Both of the sons sing and dance. Clark Morrell and Rubin Beckwith, who as single entertainers have made themselves popular with vaudeville fans throughout the country, have combined their talents to offer as the third stellar stage feature, “Characterizations.” ’"he bill will be completed by one other vaudeville specialty. A Pathe News weekly, talking comedy and scenic film rounds out the entire program.

Two Black Crows Enlarge

Perhaps it is the fact that the stars of the production are known as Two Black Crows that a variety of trained animal actors are being used in Moran and Mack’s second Paramount starring picture, “Anybody’s War.” At any rate the cast includes: Buzzo, a trained bee. Mutt, dog actor, which appears as “Deep Stuff.” Six trained mules. Eight trained pigeons. A comedy Daschund. Twenty-six other performing dogs. All of the animals, fowls and insects have special laugh-making scenes with Moran and Mack. Film Star Has a New Pet Nils Asther, Metro-Goldwyn-May-er’s Swedish film idol, whose fad is playing with animals in a Los Angeles zoo, has anew pet. It is a dog that boasts nine-tenths wolf blood, and looks exactly like a timber wolf. Strange to say, the animal, which rejoices in the name of “Stupid,” is exceedingly gentle despite his dangerous appearance.