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"Hoot" Gibson will appear at
the Hollywood theatre today and
Monday and Tuesday In a Satur
day Evening Post story by Dudley
Pelley which has been screened
under the name of "Courtln'
Wildcats."
In this picture the thrill-loving
'Hoot" will go from a college
boy seeking excitement to a wild
west show and of course plenty
of horseback riding and some
hair-raising automobile driving.
He courts a girl that gets rather
high-hat and to cure her he takes
her out In an automobile at 70
utiles an hour regardless of
.curves and everything.
Hoot is an Interesting individ
ual. He was the first western star
to take up flying. He is an exper
ienced automobUg and motorcy
cle racer, an expert horseman,
and. licensed airplane pilot who
5lirea that the aay when air
plane will be a part of every
ranch equipment is near at hand
. . horses have had their day as
part of ranch work.
Beginning Wednesday there
will be another riot of fun for
those who see "All at Sea" with
Karl Dane. Karl Dane is funny if
he just stands still and looks.
.With him is George K. Arthur.
Arthur has the role of a vaude
ville hypnotist who finds himself
In trouble when he hypnotizes
Dane, a hard-boiled bo's'n'a mate,
at one of his performances in a
navy station town. He makes the
'gob disport himself in ridiculous
manner for the benefit of the
sailer audience, but once his vic
tim regains consciousness, the
magician finds It the better part
of valor to flee. He seeks refuge
In a navy uniform, a sad mistake,
a? he discovers, for, while wear
ing It, he's, seen by a recruiting
officer and inducted into the
service, later finding himself . in
the same station to which his
erstwhile victim is attached. Then
the fun begins, with both fellows
trying to outdo themselves in
making life miserable for the
. other.
Their feud is heightened when
they fall in love with the same
girl. Josephine Dunn, a good-to-look-at
young leading lady who
plays the girl in a lively and ro
' mantle manner.
Buster Keaton, known to his
friends in Hollywood as "Deadl
Pap because he keeps such stern
control . of his facial expression
and' to the outside world a "Fro
aen race" lor the same reason, is
to appear as the attraction at the
Hollywood Friday and Saturday
i in "Spite Marriage."
Keaton in this picture is a
clothe presser and he falls In
- love with a chorus girl. To woo
tier he dresses himself in the
clothes of wealthy people who
iiave, sent these clothes In to be
pressed. From thenon the diffi
culty after another arises with
; poor Elmer always doing the
wrong thing until the last act at
Which time he does redeem him
self., Wednesday and Thursday the
Iaahatten players will be seen o'n
the stage.
Xat Spoils
Picture by
: Interfering
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. The
"cat's meow" Isn't what Jt used
to be! The cricket on the hearth
Is taboo! An Innocent, babbling
- brook is a menace! Just ask any
talkie technician at the picture
Studios
The "cat's meow" spoiled an
Otherwise perfect dialog scene the
other day. And the cricket of
fireplace fame, long a symbol of
domestic contentment, caused ra-
tioaal men to tear their hair with
. freday. Even the babbling brook,
; - font ' remembrance of childhood
- days, brought distress to a film
troupe Am location
Nowadays Hollywood la not so
Jniffh concerned with how to get
ouhd la its pictures as it is with
inecnods ef 'keeping It out. Con
trolling extraneous noises which
would ruin dialogue scenes is one
of the tasks of the men In-the
sound department at the studios
of jladio Pictures. They are . al
way on the alert for sounds
which might creep into the micro
phones, often nnnotlced by those
on the "set." but still of sufficient
Intensity to be recorded on the
sensitive film. These undesirable
noises include such things as air
planes flying over the studio!
- raindrops on a tin roof; loose,
creaking boards .in the floor:
. eneestng and coughing by people
on the. "set"; buxxing of flies
around t'e microphones; hissing
arer lights.
The cat "menace" rirst ap
petcred when Richard Dlz was
xnaJdnj "Seven Keys to Bald
pate." During a love scene the
sonhd man heard the following
front the loudspeaker:
ftl think Mary . . . meow
! ' the sweetest . meow
name in the world . . meow I
invh . . . tod . . . darling.'
?!roperty men subsequently dis
cotored a black kitten in the raft
art i Twenty minutes were lost
yrt la they retrieyed it a -
! i cricket harrassed sound teen
hk ana during the making of
Tt Case of Sergeant Giischa."
-tot Ang Herbert Brenen, the di-
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Some of "Hoot's methods in training the "Wildcat' into
form, now showing at the Hollywood theatre.
ALICE WHITE'S
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Stenographer Rises to Star
dom in Realm of Mov-
ing Pictures
A stenographer who became a
screen star in two years that's
Alice White. She is a little girl,
plump, and so full of pep that
she babbles over with It. She is
said to be at her best in her latest
picture, "The Girl from Wool-
worth's" which Is now showing at
the Graml theatre.
Alice is a girl tn one of the
Woolworth stores in this picture.
She meets a man at a party who
likes her and whom she high-hats
because she wants a career and
a'that. Circumstances develop and
he turns out to be the career but
not without a chance for a musi
cal comedy career for Alice and
an automobile wreck for the man.
Ann Harding Is to be seen by
Salem audiences again this week.'
She made a decidedly favorable
impression in "Her Private Af
fair" and now she will be seen in
a more sophisticated and dramatic
play, "Paris Bound." This, as you
wonld guess, has to do with a
marriage that ia fast going on the
rocks with a divorce aa the only
seeming possibility. Most of the
difficulty is that,, caused by Car
melia Geraghty as the third angle
of the time-worn triangle. Fred
erick March la the husband.
Ann Harding has a glorious
voice, is a blond, wears lovely
clothes and wears them well.
Friday and Saturday, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr.. will be the grand
attraction in "Fast Life." It is the
story of modern young bloods. The
cast Is yoeng and the play Is one
of tense fast moving modern life.
Loretta Young Is the girl in the
ease with, three men in love with
her. She marries one, one is kill
ed under circumstances which in
volve her husband, but through
the death of the third, the hus
band is saved. You may imagine
for yourself the tenses of the play.
Group of Stars
Assembled For
'The High Road'
The combination responsible
for what many critics believe is
the best talking picture yet pro
duced, "The Last of Mrs. Chey
ney," has been mustered together
again for "The High Road,"
Broadway comedy smash of last
season t
Norma Shearer, who added to
her reputation as a versatile ac
tress by her characterization in
"The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" will
be starred in "The High Road"
under Sidney Franklin's di
rection.
"The High Road" ranks with
"The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" as
one of Frederick Lonsdale's most
successful plays.
Production on the new picture
will start early this year.
. HOLLYWOOD, CallL (Walter
Huston, stage and screen star,
who will play the title role in D.
W. Griffith's all dialogue film
special,. "Abraham Lincoln," for
united Artists, is traveling from
New York to Los Angeles by slow
boat in order to give his beard and
hair a chance to grow.
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BLIGH'S CAPITOL
State between Hih and Church
Today "Romance of Rio
Grande."
Thursday "Paris" with
Irene Bordoni.
HOLLYWOOD
North Capitol street. North Salem
Today "Hoot" Gibson
In "Courtin" Wildcats."
Wednesday "AH at Sea"
with Karl Dane and George
Arthur. Manhatten players.
Thursday "All at Sea"
with Karl Dane and George
Arthur. Manhatten players.
Friday Buster Keaten in
"Spite Marriage."
GRAND
Xorth Hifh between Court and State
Today "The Girl from
Wool worths" with Alice
White.
Wednesday "Paris
Bound" with Ann Harding.
"Bozo" Singer and company
on the stage.
Thursday "Paris Bound"
with Ann Harding. "Bozo"
Singer and company on the
stage.
Friday "Fast Life,"
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The Fanchon and Marco show
at the Fox Elsinore this weekend
is one of color, unique stage set
tings and noise. There is some
clever chorus work but what the
big idea of noise Is all about I am
not so sure.
The program is sunposed to be
Indian. It Is very modernized with
the chorus glring hints now and
then of Indian life. Some of the
dancing is clever. I Imagine you
are supposed to think about wild
Indians when the chorines shriek
but it svmnded like a mouse had
appeared on the stage, to my ears
Saturday afernoon.
The stage effects are really
very fine. And the orchestra In
sombreros and checked shirts are
both spectacular to look at and
very good to hear. They are one
of the high points of the show
this week.
An interesting announcement
to many Salem folk will be that
the Salen Heights play will be
given again at the Hollywood,
Tuesday night. The play on the
screen Is Courtln' Wildcats with
Hoot Gibson. It has been said that
the Salem Heights folk have a
rery good play and make a good
presentation. Haven't seen It my
self. Comedian's Nose
Grows Half Inch
Jimmy Durante's nose has
grown half an inch longer in the
past fire years! This comedian
has capitalised his naturally pro
minent nose in the clowning that
be has developed into a fine art
while entertaining New York theatre-goers
and night club patrons.
As a result of the constant tug
ging mauling and, general assault
and battery waged on the Dur
ante "beexer," the comedian esti
mates that bis nose has increased
In length approximately halt an
Inch in the past five years.
The St. Louis soo spent mora
than $43,000 tor 413 new spe
cies of animals In 1929.
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Bordoni and Buchanan in
"Paris" Make Their'
Names Impressive
Warner Baiter, Mary Duncan
and Antonio Moreno are the folk
who present the pl&y, "Romance
of Rio Grande," at Bligh's Capitol
today and until Wednesday. This
picture is a sister picti e to "Old
Arizona," which met with such
success several months ago.
The story has to do with that
southern Spanish-Mexican group
of interesting and romatic folk.
Love, intrigue, banditry, the love
ly customs of the old Spanish
homes, pretty girls, and terrific
battles between men of hot pas
sion and jealous dispositions make
this picture one of quick action
and intense interest.
Beginning with Thursday will
be the far-famed "Paris" with
Irene Bordoni and with her is dear
old Zasu Pitts and also Louise
Closser Hale. Jack Buchanan is
the leading nan. He is a young
Englishman of whom we know
but little but of whom the English
know much, for there he is a fa
vorite on - the musical comedy
stage, so the story goes.
Tou will, no doubt, notice that
Bordoni has a very decided French
accent and in this play there is
every reason for her using it.
This, with, songs, dances, techni
color, and plenty of French "spice"
will make a show out of "Paris"
that is likelr to be well talked of
by those who see It
Spanish Version
Of Film Shown
New York City
The first Spanish version of an
American two-reel comedy, titled
"Ladrones," was shown Jan. 7
and 8, at Loew's 116th Street
Theatre, New York City, in the
center of a Spanish-speaking dis
trict. .
This is the first of a number
of Spanish and French adapta
tions of comedies now being pre
pared at the Hal Roach studio, for
release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
It Is understood that the entire
balance of the 1929-30 program
at the Roach studio about a dos
en pictures, will be prepared in
Spanish and French as well as
English versions.
- Plans call for German versions
of talkiag comedies at the Roach
studio . in the near future, al
though no announcement has
been made 'as to the total number
of German dialogue comedies to
be turned out during the current
year.
GRAND THEATRE
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Talking
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,E1CD OF THE WORLD"
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If all the girl3 from Wool-
worths looked like this young
lady what a crowd Mr. Wool-
worth would be caring for
every day I This is Alice
White in "The Girl from
Woolwortha" now showing at
the Grand.
Lectures Given
For Scientists
By Film Expert
John Nlckolans. head nf 4fca
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer laborator
ies, ana nationally recognized au
thority an nhotorra'nhy of the
screen has been lecturing recently
in New York, before several scien
tific bodies. v
Nlckolans, a pioneer fn screen
photography, is credited with the
invention of more improvements
la ptfotograohy than anv man in
the industry, invented the
-relative movement" method of
three dimensional photography,
solved the "wagon wheel prob
lem," of filming wheels without
their appearing to turn backward,
filmed the first underseas effects
in pictures, and the latest in "The
Mysterious Island." invented the
asphalt toning solution for films,
and many other revolutionary
aids to screen effects.
Lon Chaney, who delights la
mechanical and mathematical
puzzles between scenes, offers
this one: "You ean make a com
pass out of any watch. Let its
hour hand point toward the sun,
and the point halfway between
the hour and minute hands will
point dead south." He says he
uses the Idea on his Sierra fishing
trips rery often. Try it on your
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Sherlock Holmes Comes
Back to Solve Mystery
That Baffles
If you know Rudy Vallee you
know that his appearance 13 pretty
sure to be connected quite strong
ly with music. Rudy has directed
orchestras, big and little, ever
since he has been old enough to
acquire enough knowledge to man
age it.
Right now in the pi. which is
at the Fox Elsinore today, "The
Vagabond Lover," Rudy has with
him an orchestra which he has
been training anl directing for
the past two years. It is fair to
except some exceptionally snappy
music from this show.
The theme of the show is built
around music. Rudy ' a lad In
college. He has started and orche
stra and it is rather good. He
tries to get some engagements for
his orchestra and thereby hangs
the tale. He impersonates a big
man in the musical world, meats a
girl with whom he falls In love,
gets caught in his Impersonation
and at last ends in n. beautiful
garden love scene with everybody
happy.
Bongs and music are the key
note for this play. Here are a few
of the songs:
"I Love You, Believe se. I
Love You," "I'll Be Reminded of
You,' "If You Were the Only
Girl and I Were the Only Boy,"
"A Little Kiss Each Morning, a
Little Kiss JEach Night" and "I'm
Just a Vagabond Lover."
Beginning with Tuesday, the
Fox Elsinore win present Sherlock
Holmes and he will be in action
solrlng a murder mystery that
sounds mysterious enough and
clever enough to hold the atten
tion of all. This wonderful char
acter from the pen of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle has agreeably spent
many an hour of the reading pub
lie ia both America and abroad, as
it followed him as he used his un
canny ability to fathom what
seemed to be unsolvable mysteries.
The play at the Elsinore Is
called Tbe Return of Sherlock
Holmes." The plot Is that of
murder committed, of a son sus
pected, and then the entrance of
Sherlock Holmes who heard the
circumstances in his home in Ens
land where he has been living in
retirement for seme years. He
comes to America and begins the
search for himself for the murd
erer. BRISBANE, Australia (AP)
The launching of cotton-manufacturing
Industries in Queensland
on an extensive scale is contem
plated by the state government
subject to the investment by Eng
lish textile Interests of a reason
able amount of capital.
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in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," at the Fox Elsinore
today.
Today's
Feature
Story
Jeanette MacDonald who baa
Just been seen in Salem la "The
Love Parade" in which she played
opposite Maurice Chevalier is a
good example of the time worn
adage "that pluggers get to the
top."
The girl with "red hair and sea
green eyes" wa3 born and educat
ed in Philadelphia but while still
ia her 'teens she moved to New
York City. Broadway got into
her blood and she decided to
make a career for herself on the
stage.
She set to work with this idea
in mind studying, dancing and
singing at every chance that she
could make. When she felt she
could tap out a few steps and car
ry a tune she obtained a job in
the chorus of. New Wayburn's
shows.
Then she got a part in "The
Night Boat" still as a chorus girl
but also as an understudy. From
this she went to a small part In
"Irene" and then to "Tangerine."
She played many minor roles,
some a little bit more than minor,
until finally her big chance came
in the talking screen picture "The
Love Parade," when Lubitsch in
sisted that she be cast In the part
orjeading lady.
Her big break came but It
came after many long seasons of
hard work. Now that she is
started it will be interesting to
watch her go.
Dorothy Fields
Signed to Write
Song For Movie
That theatrical brains are
transferred from generation to
generation Is proved again by the
fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
has Just signed Dorothy Fields,
daughter of Lew Fields of We
ber and Fields. Miss Fields is a
song writer of high reputation,
being specially known for the
songs of "Blackbirds," Including
"I Can't Give Ton Anything But
Love."
Miss Fields Is now In the East
hut will arrive tn Hollywood after
February to begin her new work.
Lew Fields and his partner Joe
Weber, -are being features In
"Just Kids" which Chuck Ries
ner is directing. This is a sister
review to the "Hollywood Re
view."
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Obtaining Laugh Now Short
Process Upon Silver
Screen, Said
Getting laughs requires far ft w.
er words than telling a romann'o
story on the talking serpen, f i
mediaus, coming into talking pi.-v
tnres, are becoming more ani
more laconic, as they find that a
word or two in pantomimic action
is funnier than a long speecft,
while romantic actors lines are
getting longer and longer.
Buster Keaton, in his first
; talking picture "On The Set."
worked two days on scenes in
which he spoke three words only
"Ouch!", "Manager," and
"Oh:".
Laurel and Hardy, the comedy
team, seldom speak a line of more
than two or three words in any
picture.
Greta Garbo, in "Anna Chris
tie" at ite Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
studios, spoke lines that took as
much as a minute in dramatic
play, while . William Haines, in
resn from College, never
spoke more than ten in a speech.
"There is a psrcbology to it."
according to Edward Sedgwick,
director. "In a Eerious dramatic
situation the player has to speak
enough lines to convey a definite
thought which the audience wants
to know all about. Comedy de
pends, on the other hand, on
something unexpected happening
quick so there's no time to make
speeches about it. The comedian
sits on a tack leaps up and yells
'Ouch!' for instance. That's all
he has ttme to say. isn't it?
Keaton will try to explain some
thing to a policeman he gets
out a couple of words and the po
liceman yells 'Shut Up!'
"Serious drama is believed
hence the appeal is to the intel
lect But nobody is supposed to
believe a comedy, so there's no
occasion for any explanatory dia
logue. The result is that the
comedy will always be about forty
per cent silent, and pantomime
will always form its backbone.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. In these
days of talking and musical pic
tures, pianos hare become part of
the regular office equipment in
the big studios.
Many producers, stars, directors
and composers ha,re pianos in
their offices. When an idea for a
melody strikes them, it's only a
couple ef steps from a swivel
chair to a piano bench.
Forty-three of the 13s members
of the two branches of the Ken
tucky assembly are farmers.
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