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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1930)
i 1 PAGE SIX Th OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Homing, September 7, 1930 -A Semen Plan ifotEvevy Fancy" is Week's Theatre B "Common Clay" Comes to Fox Elsinore I II BBBCS I gjB Constance Bennett is Star; "Last of Doues," Zane Gray Story Coming "In Gay Madrid" Now at Hollywood With Ramon Novarro; Next On Bill "The Divorcee and 'Roaring Ranch Later 1 it .Hi k-l 1! 4i If V3 ft St fVraiitajica Bennett will be tee lUr attraction at the Fo Elsl "nore beginning with Monday in "Common Clay." Lore of music, and a good time leads Ellen Neal, played by Constance-Bennett into a speakeasy position. From here she goes into a home as a maid and falls under the spell of the butler. A child is born and El len undertakes to secure protec tion for her child through the law. Thus she is led to discover her own father and ultimate love, after a hard fight to gain a "respectable" place in society while still being an unmarried mother. Lew Ayres. Tully Marshall, Matty Kemp. Hale Hamilton and others lend a strong support for this play which has won much praise for itself. Wednesday Zane Grey's "Last of the Duanes" will be presented .with George O'Brien in the lead, 'ft is a story of the range days, covered wagons, no little shoot ing, and sufficient romance to keep the plot moving toward a climax. Luclie Browe plays the feminine lead. Pants on Wane, Soon Obsolete SaysDeMille "Pant3" are on the wane for men, and within twenty years may be obsolete." Cecil B. DeMiue, noias mis .opinion, and as the picture men of Hollywood must leok ahead in to ths future to frame their pic tures to come, De Mllle's ideas have behind them the weight of careful thought. "Only tradition and the fact that "man, naturally, is loth to change an established custom, has kept man this far enslaved to the terrible three piece suit," stated De Mille. "Certainly no form of dress has ever been more uncomfortable, and less attrac tive. "The Increasing popularity of the soft shirt and negligee styles seems to point rather definitely to draped garments for men be fore 1950. We are undoabtedly heading towards a style of future dress which will be somewhat like the old Roman toga, or rather that style adapted to the far greater variety of cloths which exist at this time. "When men refused to wear long trousers for Bports use, and took knickers, they made the first step toward dress emancipa tion. The other steps will be made in equally gradual fashion. Nothing will happen In a day, or even in a year, but if any today are living In 1950, I think they wil be amused to compare 1930 etyles for men with those of their own time. Forbes to Play Opposite Clara Ralph Forbes will be leading. man in Clara Bow s next Para mount starring picture, "Her Wed dine Night." Her Wedding Night." will be . Forbes' first Dart in a Paramount v Picture since his memsrabla role in "Beau Geste," four years ago OF "I haven't seen anything that looks as good as what we have right here," said U. G. Shipley, Salem merchant; who has just returned from a business trip in California. According to Mr.. Shipley the Pacific northwest is enjoying the best business conditions of any part of the United States. He bases this statement, not only om his own observations but upon facts obtained from busi ness men from all parts' of the country whom he met In Los An relM. 5 That the country Is coming out of the period of economic depression, Mr. Shipley feels as sured. Much of this ' is due' to the tact, that there is at' the present time no overproduction. Manufacturers ot all products are limiting their output to the amount they are-sure of selling so that in a short time the pres ent supply is bound to be taken an by consumers, -- "Never before in our history, not even In the period before the war. hare merchants been able to sell such fine Quality ot mer chandise at such low prices; said Mr. Shipley. All lines, o clothing are lower In price than last rear and the Quality is ex cellent. Women's vweer, parti cilarly dresses and lingerie. - The elty ot Los Angeles is go ing forward, particularly in the bnlldlnr of large- business buIIdV lags. The business men there re optimistic but all agree that the Paeifie northwest1 has been the least "hit" by the economle slums ot any section of the country. j I ' C : JACKIE IN TALK DEBUT ' Jackie Coogan ; will make his talking debut in the title Tole of Mark Twain's TrTcm " Sawyer which Paramount. Is to film. J -' TO ATITACCHiW)BEN4V? The first talking picture filmed primarily, to attract Juvenile in terest will be Paramount's fllml xatloa of,!Tom "Sawyer; -x with Jackie Coogan to"; the title role.: -? -- ' :-- - - Gary Cooper takes the "part of an h American private a the French Foreign Legion t "Mor occo, which Josef von Sternberg Is directing for Paramount. HOPEFUL Nancy Carroll and Phillip Holmes In a romantic scene from "The Devil's Holiday now showing' at the Fox Klsinore. Wide Open Saces Remain Wide, Also Open but not Deserted; Actors Abound "Arizona Kid" Comes to the Capitol i Vie McLagleit "On the Level" and "Sky Hawk" Wind up Week's Features Bligh's Capitol will begin the week's bill with "The Arizona Kid' and it all happened way back in 1880. A stage hold up, a prize fight, a gold strike, cheating at cards and romance are the ingredients for this play Warner Baxter in a meditative moment in "Arizona Kid" now playing at Bligh's Capitol. in which Warner Baxter and Mona Harris play and which will be at the Bligh Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. . Beginning Wednesday will be "On the Level" in which Victor McLaglen will again be seen and this time as a lover and "on the level." The plot has to do with the life of two buddies who are steel workers. They become in volved in a love-affair with the same girl, racketeering gets the two of them into trouble and in the end a large amount of mon ey is missing tnd returned only at the last minute. The dosing b'aow is "The Sky Hawk", a story of love and the air service, during the World war. The scenes are for the most part laid in England, and there are complications ?.:which lend much tension to the action. j. TROUT FISHING: FILMED -Scenes of Paramount's picture featuring Cyril Maude, "Grumpy," were filmed along a trout stream in the mountains near Bakerstield. Jeanette -MacJJonald wears a wardrobe ot fifteen changers in Ernst Lubltsch's - new production for Paramount, "Monte Carlo" Vletr McLaglen ones fought Jack Johnson, then champion of the world, a no-decision bout "and afterwards became heavyweight champion of Eastern Canada. - William Powell will appear as a criminal lawyer in his next Para mount starring ' picture, "For the Defense.! tel. B a tt" and r . .j LJ 2c " , COMEDY NEWS 1 . y -wl Vr'J and CARTOON, rt ' 1 The wide, open spaces of the ! roo, mtlll 11 - -till . I "m piui o iriue, buu are open, but they are not deserted as the . traditional adjectives tend to indicate. The motion picture makers of Hollywood are scattering .their shots over a great geographical area. There are more film compan ies "out on location" .today than at any time since the screen went talkie, according to Infor mation from the various major film plants in the picture city. Fox, Metro - Goldwyn Mayer, R.K.O., Universal. First Nation al, Warner Brothers and Para mount all have film-making units at locations far from the home lot and many of them not one but several. The variety of subjects in pro duction away from the studios, and the nature of the location backgrounds themselves, best can be Illustrated by a glimpse at the current program at Para mount. That one studio, largest in Hollywood, has six pictures on location out of eight now in pro duction. The proportion, of course, Is unusual, but the fig ure is Indicative of the vogue for authentic backgrounds. 1 "Morocco," Josef von Stern? berg's new production in which Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou are featured, has gone to the Mojave desert. "Span ish Acres," In which Richard Ar len is starred, has a New Mexico locale. George Bancroft's new star ring vehicle, "Typhoon Bill." Is being filmed aboard a fleet of nine vessels out on the Pacifle oc ean. "The Sea God," George Abbott's current prodnction, is at an Island port some thirty miles off the coast of southern "California. "Tom Sawyer," Mark Twain's classic in which Jackie Coogan, Mitzi Green and Junior Purkin are being featured, will be filmed in large part at a river in central California. The sixth picture on location from the Paramount stu dios is "Playboy of Paris," Maur ice Chevalier's new starring pic ture, for which exterior scenes are being made at the famous Busch Gardens in Pasadena. The perfection of portable sound recording equipment makes possible this wide scattering pf film cmpanies, with the, result that the screen again has taken on the horizon-wide identity it pos sessed In the days of silent fea tures. STARTED WITH MART James Kirkwood,' now being featured with Gary Cooper in ."The Spoilers,' by Paramount, started nls. screen-career in a series of one-reel features with Mary pick ford for Blqgraph. Talking; German with an Irish brogue Is a tough job, according to Theodore Shall, European act or, wno is piaying opposite, Garbo in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Ger man version of "Anna Christie " Although speaking his lines In Ger- nnan. Shall Is endeavoring to pre serve tne ueuic characterization of the role. Men's shorts for women golfers are very much In evidence in the locker room scenes of '"Follow Thru," comedy hit, now being filmed as an all-technicolor pic ture ny paramount. Vincent Lawrence, author of al most a score of Broadway stage successes, wrote the dialogue tor Maurice Chevalier's new starring picture for Paramount, "Playboy Gary Cooper and Fay Wray appear at the Grand in "The Tex an" Friday and Saturday at the Grand. M w--:v:-'v.VAi.:t.'ftW BamMBmimimmi&&wm rsngpgitt s rajseewnieft' aHf t 'i V y f s--Wi s r 'm ifTaW ra rj Grant Withers and Corinne Griffith in a pose from "Back Pay; now showing at the Grand. The Call Board By OLIVE M. DOAK FOX ELSIXORE Today Nancy Carroll, "The Devil's Holiday." Monday Constance Bennett in "Common Clay." Wednesday George O'Brien "Last of the Duanes." BLXGITS CAPITOL Today Warner Baxter in "The Arizona Kid." Wednesday lctor McLaglen-in "On the Level." Friday John Garrick, "The Sky Hawk." GRAND Today Corrine Griffith in "Back Pay." . Wednesday Colleen Moore In "Footlights and Fools." Friday. Gary Cooper in 'The Texan." HOLLYWOOD Today Ramon Novarro in "In Gay Madrid." Wednesday Norma Shear er In "The Divorcee." Friday Hoot Gibson In "Roaring Ranch." There Is this to say for the Fanchon and Marco show at the Fox Elsinore this weekend It has pep, color and thrills. Tou should see the girls on wheels and their leader! ' The audience seemed to enjoy itself most thor oughly and there was a good rea son every number was good. ' One thing that added material NOW In his greatest role as a quick marina; border bad saa. la his great oat-door Movietone romance. fUggj. mmmmmmmmmmm-mmimmmmmmmmmmmmm-mm It TL4A Bsaa. Ia his great - s. lwA I lS mninnL If X. T4. v V" ly to the whole performance was the smooth speaking, humorous master of ceremonies. Former Follies Girl Signed up For Paramount Juliette Compton, one of the most attractive Southern brun ettes ever glorified by Florenx Ziegfeld, has been placed under contract by Paramount. The contract follows Miss Comp ton's performances in "Anybody's Woman," co-starring Ruth Chat- terton and Clive Brook, and the current Josef von Sternberg pic ture, "Morocco," in which Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjpu are featured. Miss Compton's first stage role was in the "Kiss Burglar," with Fay Bainter, following which en gagement she Joined the "Follies,' to remain there until John Mur ray Anderson selected her as one of a group of girls to appear in the C. B. Cochrane shows in Eng land. , . Reginald Denny will have to get back the English accent he has been losing for his role in "Those Three French Girls" In which he will be featured with Fifi D'Orsay. In the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer com edy film, Denny will play the part of a blithe young Britisher with nothing particular on his mind ex cept, wine, women and an occa sional song. Janet Gaynor recently won newspaper popularity contests by wide margins in Chicago and New York. . Will Rogers was brought up a Methodist and his mother wanted him to become a minister of the gospel. TODAY MON. TUES. - shooting. Tent ejsdcker love Lottice Howell and Ramon Novarro as they appear in a scene from "In Gay Madrid," now showing at the Hollywood. Hollywood Low-downs By HARRISON CARROLL HOLLYWOOD. Cal. If rumor be true, Joan Crawford will be given a surprise package assign ment to play the lead in a talkie version of "Within the Law." The plans for this picture have come up all of a sudden, but seem pretty definite. I've an idea the next few weeks may see the film actually under way. "Within the Law" has a rich screen as well as stage history. Originally a melodrama by Bay ard Vellier, lately famous for "The Trial of Mary Dugan," it was first brought to the screen with the placid Alice Joyce In the leading role. Later on Nor ma Talmadge did a version of 1. The story gives Joan a chance for some strong dramatic work of a different sort than the "Our Dancing Daughters" series. This should please her, for sho claims to be very bored with this type of picture. Wants to do a story of drab realism. Nearly all act ors are the same. They yearn to escape .from the very roles that are putting them over. Actors used to be a wandering tribe, but the movies are settling them. Of the 296 players under contract to the, major Hollywood studios, 103 own homes. Al most 33 per cent. The propor tion is even larger among direct ors. Fifty seven ot 119 are the figures here. A new item on the menu at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Com missary is "baked ham roll a la Tibbett," It may be unconscious irony, but practically all of the sandwiches and salads bearing the names of actors contain ei ther cheese or ham. A far cry from the nerve-shattered "Stanhope"' of "Journey's End" to a part in the venerable farce, "Charlie's Aunt." Tet this gap will be leaped by Hugh Williams, whom the Chris ties have signed for their talkie of the comedy that has been steady service on stage and screen for many years. Williams played "Stanhope" In the coast production of the R. C. Sheriff war play, and did a fine job of the part. Earlier In his career, it develops, he was In an Australian company of "Char lie's Aunt." In some fashion, the Christies ferreted this out. and signed him for the talkie. Do yon remember Sid Chap lin's silent version ot this pic ture? Do you know that Henry pOLLYWQODg Home of 25c Talkies TODAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY Continuous Performance Son day 2 to 11 P. M. He was great in The Pagan Hear i-w , Sing His GoMen Songs of Love! Nr-r in s gay, thrilling, passionate, unforgetable romance of Old Spain! fir I fti Also Tatting Comedy, , Acta and News " . fT V 1 Fink, George Bancroft's .confi dential secretary and manager, is the man who wrote "The Curse of an Aching Heart?'' Do you remember Roscoe Ates, the stuttering convict in "The Big House? He has been signed for a speaking part of one work in Amos 'n' Andy's talkie, "Check and Double Check." His sole contribution to the dialogue Is "s-s-s-six." In cidentally, R-K-0 has put this player under long-term contract. Ernest Westmore of R-K-O considers that he received the highest compliment of his career when he made up Helene Mil lard as an old woman and her own pet dog barked at her. Walter McGrall, film heavy now doing his stint in Radio pic tures' "Losing Game," recently had his unlucklest day. In get ting out of bed, he stepped on his glasses, breaking them and cutting his foot. Less than an hour later, he was in a motor collision from which he escaped with slight injuries, but with a demolished car. On reaching the studio, he consulted his watch and dropped it on the sidewalk. Then, to his complete annihila tion, he suddenly remembered he wasn't supposed to work that day The world's most ardent fan Is Father .Edward Wagner, who Is now in Hollywood as a guest of the comedians, Olsen and John son. This Milwaukee priest has a scrap book with all the clip pings he has been able to obtain about the pair. For the last six years, come vacation time, he has bought a ticket and Joined the comedians wherever they happened to be. This year, it was Hollywood. In some Instances, Imitations are more expensive than the real TO! LAST TIMES TODAY ON SCREEN Charm and person- , ' - ality belong not .V !!? alone to enchant- - 4- T " JyV, tng people, f v' .IK' A theatre can pos- f ' j' ' I sees them too, and t V most Fox West K 2Jlv Coast Theatres doi -m ':. OX SriOond "GI FEATURING 1. Joe and JANE McKEXNA.. Master and Mistress ot Ceremonies WILL COWAN. "Footsteps" x NEB WONG Chinese Ukelele Ike MAXINE EVELYN, The Dancing Gem JIM PENMAN ' A . mi Unicyele Novelties t. BEATRICE FRANKXIN and FLORENCE ASTELL : ' Songstress ; Due T. SUNaOST BEAUTIES TWO DAYS - Another ;ef vtbm rS v l.'T r1 "-m U" lisp . . . i- IsTSTSTSBtSTSBTSl rsaTMrsTSnTsTsTsTsTsTsnTsTsnT Ramon Novarro is in town to day and Monday and Tuesday at the Hollywood. He is seen in the play "In Gay Madrid," a play adapted from a Spanish classic A love affair, university life, duels and action marks this pro duction In which ' Novarro is a young Spanish student and lover. "The Divorcee" In which Nor ma Shearer stars will be at the Hollywood commencing Wednes day. It is one of the cleverest and most charmingly produced plays which has graced the sil ver screen this year, and easily stands among the best for sev eral years. Chester Morris and Conrad Nagel make exceptional ly good support in a love tangle which is straightened out with brilliant acting. The final show of the week at the Hollywood is Hoot Gibson in "Roaring Ranch." There will be much Joy In the hearts of all the small boys and no few of the older ones when they see the riding, shooting, and love-making of this versatile "Hoot." 'Back Pay" to Open Week at Grand Fannie Hurst Story Livened By Good Cast; "Love and Fools" Coming Next Fannie Hurst contributed the story from which "Back Pay" was produced with Corinne -Griffith and Grant Withers in the leads. It is a story ot society at its best as well as at its worst. The world war is the basis for the play with sidelights on the war rather than the spectacular battle scenes ot which there have recently been so many. The theme Is really the struggle far mastery between love for a person . and lore of lux ury. Colleen Moore will amuse her audience at the Grand Wednes day and Thursday with "Lore and Fools," in which dancing, sing ing, and color are featured. The stage Is the background for the plot. Raymond Hackett, and Frederick March add much to the delight of the show as does the comedy role played by Mickey Bennett 13 year old actor. "The Texan" will be the con cluding picture at the Grand and In it will be seen and heard Gary Cooper in what so far is his best role in the opinion of many. The play is a delight. You will never forget the work of Gary, Emma Dunn, and Oscar Apfel in this play. There is much action, human interest, love, and splendid photo graphy in this picture. It does not disappoint Its its guests. thing. R-K-O has just U3ed 800 board feet of mahogany panel ing in a set, because it was cheaper than cardboard painted to imitate the board. mm STAGS JAMO Idea" STARTS MONDAY Season Sensations - u" u ' 11 ' " ' ' ' 2