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Sabu Enacts Clever Role In New Film

“"Drums'’ Plot Difficult to Follow but Photography Proves Excellent.

By JAMES THRASHER

For reasons still undetermined, Hollywood seems to be able to wave the Union Jack with more conviction than the British film makers, from the mighty “Cavalcade” down to the comparatively innocuous “Wee ‘Willie Winkie.” “Drums,” Loew’s current feature, is a sort of grown-up “Wee Willie Made in England and India, it also features a juvenile performer, Sabu, the Indian lad who scored so solidly in his first picture, “Elephant Boy.” And like the Shirley Temple vehtgle out of Kipling, it is a little child leads them out of a difficult Anglo-Yndian situation up in the Khyber Pass region. Sabu plays the young Prince Azim, who makes friends with Capt. Carruthers, his wife and a young drummer boy named Bill Holder. Azim’s father, the Kahn, is mur-

_ dered by his brother, and the boy is

forced to flee his tribal capital. Mrs. Carruthers saves Agzim'’s life when the boy is knifed by an enemy. So when the Carrutherses, now living in the Residency of Azim’s lost principality, are threatened with massacre, Azim manages to come to the rescue. His wicked uncle is killed, Carruthers is rescued just as he is to be beheaded, and Azim ascends the throne. |

" Oné Goal Missed

That leaves him with only one lunfulfilled ambition. He wanted to be a member of His Majesty's pipe land drums ensemble. But Bill told | him that, professionally, his drumming never would do. | Sabu is growing up, but. tore gracefully than most of our Occidental juvenile stars. He is not so appealing as in “Elephant Boy,” but he is still a clever and apparently unspoiled little actor. Raymond Massey, Broadway's current “Abe Lincgln,” does a good job as the villainous Prince Ghul. Other principals irslude the comely Valerie Hobson, and Roger Livesey as Carruthers. Mr. Livesey was the excellent Beggar Saul in “Rembrandt,” though you may not recogize him without the beard. He underplays his present part with an off-hand skill which is a pleasant change from some of the American screen’s hyperdramatics.

The story-telling in “Drums” is

diffuse and sometimes confusing. |.

One threads his way with‘some dife ficulty through a maze of plot and counterplot, trying as best he can to identify the uniformly bearded actors as friendly or unfriendly natives. Indian Scenes Authentic

But the picture’s chief charm, and a real one, is the photography. Alexander Korda, the film’s producer, was satisfied with nothing less than

technicolor is sumptuous, and you should find your eye begujled even when the story’s thread is hard to find.

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as club entertainers. Now one field.

The other day we were witness

Both tea and comedy are -being served at English’s tonight and tomorrow by Sara Allgood, the Abbey Theater favorite appearing in Paul Vincent Carroll’s “Shadow and Substance.” Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Julie Haydon and Miss Allgood are jhe featured players.

A tense moment in the Alamo’s current “I Stand Accused,” with District Attorney Thomas Beck about to clinch the State's case. Robert Cummings is starred in the drama.

IN NEW YORK— GEORGE ROSS

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‘Economic Raat Ignores Qil Riches, Strikes Out for Fame as Dancing. Star.

TEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Society debutantes have monopolized the field

“economic royalist” has invaded the

to a dance exhibition by a gentle-

man named Arthur L. Van de Mark. He wasn’t bad—not bad at all.

Columbia Pictures seem to have He probably will make a fine ballroom dancing partner, even if this is

quickest dramatizers of headline news.

“Smashing the Spy Ring,”|man up

role as our the 61st year of his life.

De Mark was an important oil to a few years ago.

Loew's second picture, comes on the|His partner was—and still is—Sam scene almost before the newsreels|W. Mellon, cousin to the late and have abandoned pictures of the re-|fabulously wealthy Andrew Mel-

cent espionage trials.

Ralph Bel- lon.

Together. they once controlled

lamy and Fay Wray are featured |25 million dollars worth of oil hold-

in the topical melodrama. Also on Loew’s screen is the short

subject, “The World Is Ours,” which | pened, the entire film industry combined |dwindled in thé past decade.

ings out West.

We don’t know exactly what hapsave that the oil wealth And

to make as part of its campaign,|de Mark, who always had liked to “Motion Pictures Are Your Best En-|glide across the dance floor as a

tertainment.” In Quick Ph norama

paying guest, decided that he.would like to be paid for doing so. So he

It advertises appearances of some |took up. ballroom dancing, under

70 film favorites. 15 are not shown; most of the rest are flicked off in quick succession at the end. Not that it’s any killing matter, but it does seem like unfortunate advertising. There is a thread of story, in which an average family of movie fans (they talk out loud in the theater and get “shushed” by their neighbors) goes to Hollywood and sees pictures in the making. At the end even Grandpa, who has insisted all along that movies weren't as good as they were 25 years ago, is forced to an exclamation of ungrudging approval. He says, “Woo woo!” Such is the cultural and educational uplift of the cinema.

Toto the Ss Ils Dead in N |

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Toto, the c whose antics won the applause of royalty and commoners the world over, died yesterday in Union Hospital in ‘the Bronx after an operafion. He was 50. Toto was “the beloved clown” to

~.qiillions of children and the| favor-

. wife,

ite entertainer of the former Kaiser of Germany and the late King George V of Great Britain. Although h& was rated one of the greatest performers under [canvas he never appeared with an |American circus. In the United S lates he confined his hilarious imitations of Pavlova and of Mae Murray doing the “Merry Widow” waltz to vaudeville and the musical comedy and revue stage. He had a remarkable sense of burlesque. His manager, Ernest Damato, said that death was hastened by a newspaper story saying erroneously that Toto had died penfiless. So affected was the clown by the article that “his mind went blank,”

| the manager said. The writer, Hugo

Roboz, died the day the. story was

~ published.

" Toto, whose real name was Almando Novello, is survived by his the former Hannah Frick, champion professional ice Skater, and a daughter.

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§ OLYMPE BRADNA

Of these at least|the tutelage of Fred Le Quorne, nd

struck out for himself in that

terpsichorean field. The other day he received a phone call from California. His partner, Mellon, was on the wire to say that a 112-acre field out there was about to yield some of the liquid wealth they had Loped to find in it. And would de Mark please desist from this mad career upon which he was about to embark. But the terpsichorean titan lent a deaf ear to the long distance call. He hung up. Oil or no oil, he is going to dance as a professional entertainer. : nz 8 " EN HECHT and Charles MacArthur ave back in Hollywood's swim and the other day they asked their old pal, Oscar Levant, if he wouldn’t come out and join them. ,|Levant emphatically said, “No!” And here’s the reason why. A Ne of years back, Hecht & MacArthur were making pictures on their own hook at Astoria and invited Levant to join up .for $35 a week. They gave him no job in particular. Just asked tim to Stick atound. , He did. When the pay envelopes were passed out on Saturday, he was the Forgotten Man. So | he squawked. MacArthur said not to worry, next week his pay would be boosted to $250.a week. But the cashier ignored Levant the next pay day, too, and MacArthur urged him

not to fret, for henceforth the Levant salary was to be upped to $500. Levant never saw a cent of it. Finally, he approached his two “sponsors.” “Listen,” he pleaded, “put me back on $50. With all those pay raises, I'm starving to death!” ” ”n ” . CELEBRATED English author ‘who recently toured this. country has been wined and dined from coast to coast by all the literary groups. In New York the otaer day, a tea was hurled at him and all the most famous authors turned up. He made his speech, unexpected and concise: “I've met so many famous writers, I'd love to meet a reader!”

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Rival Blamed By Snyder In Shooting

Etting Case Nears Jy; Moe Says Alderman Pulled Gun First.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16 (U. P.).— If the mouthpieces can wind up

their gab today—as Col. Moe put it—

ia jury should begin arguing before nightfall his fate as the ever-loving but gun-toting ex-husband of Ruth Etting, the baritone singer of blue songs. The jury, which had.been startled by words seldom set up in type and flabbergasted by a story bafderin in turn on the lewd, the ridiculous and the tragic, had only to hear minor witnesses and closing arguments. Then it will decide whether Martin Snyder is guilty of shooting

|Myrl Alderman, Miss Etting’s new

husband. The limping Moe told of Intimate scenes with Miss Etting, swore that Alderman, the “other man, had acted as a “procurer” for two Hollywood celebrities, and insisted that he fired at Alderman in self-defense the night of Oct. 15.

Ex-wife’s Sleuth Testifies

Listening to this testimony. with burning ears, but holding hands, were Miss Etting : and the blond Alderman, who took advantage of a court recess day before yesterday to elope. The worst for them was yet to come because when Snyder had finished his testimony, a private detective hired by Alderman’s former wife said that as far as he could observe—and he had observed considerable—Miss Etting and her pianist had lived together in the latter's home for weeks before Snyder tock the law in his own hands. Then Mrs. Alderman No. 2, who has sued Miss Etting (bride No. 3) for $150,000 on alienation of affections charges, testified that Alderman hadn’t seen their 14-month-old baby since she was an incubator infant and had never sent it a gift, “not even a penny postcard.” All this, of course, was anticlimactic to the pungent testimony of Snyder, whose school education stopped at the fourth grade in Chicago, who became a small-time politician, married Miss Etting, and for 17 years served both as her manager and her husband.

Asked Him for Divorce

He testified that when he returned from a six months’ visit with his sick mother last year Miss Etting asked him for a divorce. When divorced she settled nearly $100,000

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Paul Carroll, with ir Cedric Hardwicke, Julie Savdon, Sara All-

good. Curtain at 8:30. Saturday matinee, 2:30. : LOEW'S “Drums,” with Sabu, Raymond Masser ai Desmond Tester, at 12.25,

“Smashing the Spy Ring,” with Ralph Bellamy, Fay PWray, at 11:25, 2:35, 5:50 and 9.

LYRIC Bob Crosby and His OreBesisa, on stage at 1:10; 3:58, 6:45 and 9:30. “Up the River,” with Tony Martin, on sereen at 1k: 32, 2:20, 5:08, 7:56 an

upon him and then deducted $50,000 of it for his gambling debts. “Only I didn’t lose near that much on gambling,” Snyder said. “I lied to the little lady. I spent a lot of that money going around to the high schools and hiring 200 or 300 kids, rehearsing them, and then

paying their way into the theater so they could clap for her. You know-—lead the applause.” ! Snyder said he also spent large sums of money for perfume for the wives of newspaper resports and suits of clothes and new hats for themselves “so they would write nice things about his ‘Mummy.’ ” “Everybody liked her in the theatrical business,” he remarked. “She was the_little lady, but me—I was just ‘a so-and-so.”

Pleads Self-Defense’

Then he came to the night of Oct. 15 when he went into Alderman’s house and confronted Alderman and Miss Etting. He said ‘Alderman Was at the piano bench and “pulled a gun on me.” “The light flickered,” he said, “and I shot twice.” Snyder said then that he went next door and asked the lady-of-the-house to call the police. When he had finished his story, Prosecutor U. U. Blalock subjected him to a merciless cross-examina-tion and even hinted that he had been a pal of Chicago's most notorious gangsters. “I wish yeu wouldn't say those things,” Snyder protested. “You ain’t being fair.”

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