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Thi CT.ZCZ: STATTA::; -faka.'' Ort.n, Csnr irsir-y rglrrsry 22, pagu eigiit .14- HumcjfoStrong Note in 1 Keatre Bill of Fare, for Coming 1 eeic The Call Board Bj OLIVE M. 130AK WAKXER'S ELSINORE Today Joe. Brown and Winnie Tight." Lightner In i "Sit WARNER'S CAPITOL Today Tondeleyo in "White Cargo." T U e s d a y Robert Arm strong ia "Dumbells ia Er mine." , j BSBBBSBJBSBJBaSSSSSaWBSSSSISBBBSSSSaMBSBSSJBSSBaBSe -i - . - V :..: . - ? u 1 : ) 1 1 Nice family scene in SanU Fe TraiT' which opens at the HoUywood today. Pictured is Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, Rosita Blorent, and Richard Arleiu y- j . Hollywood Low-downs - By Harrison Carroll . Staje actors ataonld not allow tha ' talkies to keep them too Ions away from Broadway, warns Edward O. Robinson, star of "Little Caesar," and Hollywood's newest comet. . , ; - : ' - "We h&v a danjerous tend ency to coma oat hero and Ut on onr own fat," explains th screen's foremost gangster. "Con tact with an audience Is the act or's, only sure way of gassing his work, and the wise ones will return constantly to Broadway to get this first-hand reaction. Also to keep up on the trends. "My own case Illustrates how ' easy it la to get out of touch. After a year in Hollywood I went back to the stage this year and my play was a failure. If I had been In New York all along. I would hare known better than to do It. But my hand had been off the public pulse too long." Movie contracts threaten to keep, Robinson from practicing what he preaches. There Is small likelihood of his getting back on Broadwaly for two years unless Warner Brothers decide to nse him In one of their New York stage productions. - Bill OliTer tells the one about the man who was taken to a Hollywood hospital , suffering from a fixed contraction of fa cial muscles. "What's the "matter?," asked an attendant, "lock-Jaw T" "No," snarled the patient . out of the warped corner . of his month. "I've been working in gangster pictures.". -; "Is It true." lnanlres a Holly wood reader, "that Buster Keat oa Is slightly off-key Walter C. Kelly, "the Virgin ia judge" to yon, says that many years ago - In Birmingham, Xng land, he was working on a bill with "the eight Lancashire lads." Between acts, one of them came np to hint and started asking questions about : America. He said he was making two pounds . ten shillings a week, and wond ered if he could " earn that in New York. Kelly replied news boys earned, that ranch, and urg ed the young English raadeTll lian to make the . trip. He did' and haa done right well. His name waa Charles Chaplin. With his contract to play a part in Cecil de Mille's produc tion of -The Squaw Man, Mit chell Lewis complets a cycle. Qctobor 11, 1905, Lewis ap peared with William Farershara la the first stage presentation of the now famous melodrama. It was in Toledo, and Lewis played,1 the i role of the heaty. -casn'T Hawxins. - Charlfui PirkfnrA lina ttila mrt la the talkie Lewis will be the Indian chief, Tabywanra. Howard (Money Doesn't Mat ter) IIuKhes is reported to hare paid a $12,000 bonus to set Pat O'Brien out of a New York show and into "the front page." The Irish actor now Is sewed np on - a long-time contract. Douglas McLean bad an expedience at Agua Calienta, which shows why men go crazy netting on horses. For eight races he bet on the horse carrying the number of the race and won eyery time. . Loretta .Young has taken to her tea. , studio upsets are hailed with joy by Hollywood florists. Charles . Rogers, incoming Tice- presldent of Pathe. recelred an offlceful of blossoms on his first day on the now Job. , Louise Keaton. Buster's younger -sister. Is working In Gloria Swanson's picture. Robert Montgomery's first starring picture, as forecast in mis column, will be ;The Man in possession." . Pox suddenly has deeded to shelre "Merely Mary Ana which 1 was to hare been Janet Gaynora next picture. For one thine. Charles Farrell has gone to Eu- , rope, and anyway. Janet . would rather hare a dramatle rol. Drat these win! One of them remarks that Harry Carey may Bimr in xioiiywooa, but he's suiciae in japan. . j , . 1 une or tne' stock excuses for high salaries la , Hollywood is that motion - picture worker never can count on steady em ployment. In the main this la true, but there, are case lfke Edward Sedgwick. In the bus-i Iness IT years, this-director has ever missed a Saturday night J i MM A scene from the sensational play "White Cargo" which opened an engagement ay the Warner Bros. Capitol thea ; tre today. I "The! Bad One"- Opens Week at Grand Dolores Del Rio ' in Colorful Rol; "Man ' Trouble" j Next on BUI Dolores Del Rio in ThejJJad One" ! which opens at the Grand, plays i the part of an entertainer in a cafe on the waterfront of Marseilles. Edmund Lowe takes the part of an American sailor who calls at the cafe one night and. remains as a hired "bounc er" because of his strength, and because he wants Del Rio. -The plot develops a Uncled lore affair between Del Rio and Lowe. The events are tease and exciting and the actinx is super ior. i pay check. He started with Uni versal, and was with them seven years. Then he went to Fox for five, .and afterward to M.-n.-M for another five. Recently he left there, and now is signed at Caddo to direct an air comedy. On ev ery occasion he has left his Job O.t Saturdav nlrht anil n work again the following Mnn- day morning. 1 a a , -v. V r It K r-;v-. i, ; W V - V . r T ; ,v, j I 1 1 'rveatre A 1 A,? "Man Trouble" will fbloW "The Bad One" at the Grand, la this "Milton Sills will again be seen. He plays the role of a rough and Teady lumberjack. Dorothy Mackail plays the role of a thrifty Scotch farm owner, bank dire tor and business wom an. Kenneth McKenna appears in the- picture as a romantic col lege graduate who can afford - to spend his time fishing and he does. Sharon Lynn comes into the picture ( as a cabaret enter tainer. NOW:' put these' charact ers together in a play that has a comedy role to balance the conflicts and see if you can't Imagine an interesting prodne tion. , Friday will open an exciting western at the Grand, "Rl7ra End." Ia it will appear Charles Bickford in ' a dual rola ' and ' be plays it with power ' and sin cerity. Appearing with him , is Evelyn Knapp, J. Farrell McDon ald, David Torrence, Zasu Pitta, Junior Coughlan. Walter Mc G rail and Tom Santschi. Many of these scenes are film ed in the north country and give sincere beauty to the background lor the sets.; The story is .but a man who Is wanted ; for murder and those who seek him. A -love story of strength runs through the play. ; i T l I il V I. i t I IWsllWl . I Charles Bickford and Zasu Pitts in a serious moment and from Zasu's eyes one knows not .whether to laugh or be dramatic To be determined' Friday when they appear in "Hirer's End" at the. Grand. ' "White Cargo" Comes to The Capitol Gripping Story of Tropics; - 4'I)umb Bells in Ermine" Starts Saturday White Cargo," is the sens ational play which opened at the Capitol Sunday and which is scheduled to run through Mon day. The play Is distinctly dramat ic and the acting in it has been kept up to the dramatic tone of the story. The story its 'It has to do with the effects of the trop ics on the eoul of man. Small bits of acting, graphic scene shots, detail In every point de velops the scheme of the play in an artistic and dramatically gripping manner. The heat, the tempt .tions, the ennui which comes to the spirit of civilised man in the environs of the torrid native tropics, all materialize nader the eyes of the observers of the film and they live, through the hectic life of the young man who comes to the Gold Coast of Africa to meet such surroundings as he has nev er dreamed of. Oae of the terrific influences in the play and one which is played with ' amazing j dramatle power is thai of the native girl played by Gypsy Rhouma. This actress on the strength of the startling work done in "White Cargo" is being placed 1 under motion picture contract , after several years of enter talnng on European stages in Lor Ion, Ber lin and Paris. She la an Amer ican girl, but is practically un known to . American audiences, save those,' who have seen the play on the screen "White Car go." Following 'White Cargo" on Wednesday will be ."Dumb Bella in Ermine" with Arthur. Hoyt, Robert Armstrong, Barbara Kent and James Gleason. vv V THE A A&5f' OF THE Jftl TfjA Pktire MOST '''-P ' Recom I j y-. Wienie os Dr. O'Neil! " Joe o hef esststant..". Kl I they run health form ( f?w -.Joe wrestles. ..Winnie . r I Vf manages ...the wotWi T' . m chompion pair of eom- V lL y les m the worWi rvn- i V . y nl,wfljsT picture... i ' I .. Vp letter thon (oysninggoi J LiGEJTrJEn o . wosAST sotwoarn m iVal ! f . -... ..... - - '. ' r .tJ-L- . I J J k J 1 I N owkUMS . 1 l. ..' I-" ss; A els:;ose . Y y Wednesday -.: - -Lr ' -.. "leJBSSeSBWBaSSSBSBBBBBBBSe : - 'c A Vs" y- 1 , . d u . mufcii ii r a wmmfOiimHaMtB!! n i 1 r li it th,j if " 1 wmfrrmurrnvtM "Sit Tight" is fan Film At Elsinore Winnie Ughtner and Joe K. Brown put - Laughter, la , Health Resort Story r . Winnie Llghtaer or Jo E. Brown make a funny enough ele ment in any play, but to put. the two of them together fn one play and expet the public to be safe from the ill effects of . over laughing Is almost expecting too much., ;.'' -. . 1 However that may be, Warner Bros, nave done this very hlng in "Sit Tight," which opened It engagement at the Elsinore Sat urday and will run through Wed nesday, according to Verne Mc Intyre, manager. It is the story of a fake health resort and Winnie as Dr. 'Winnie O'Neil and Joe as "Jo' Jo" are the doctors in charge. Complica tions arise when Paul Gregory as the ' sweetheart of Claudia Dell, is taken into the firm and started training fori a prise fighter. Claudia la very- wealthy and does not approve of her fu ture husband becoming a tighter so complications arse. A kid naping occurs and this results in one incident after another of slap stick buffoonry. v In the supporting cast .'are Lot! Loder,. Hobart Bos worth, Frank Hagner and . Snlts Edwards and a huge number of "extras." AT CHURCH CONFERENCE HAZEL GREEN, Feb. 11 Rer. Sv E. Fong, pastor, attend ed the md-wlnter conference of the? United Brethren ehurcm at Portland Thursday. Dr. Ira D. Warner, bishop for the Pacific coast area, presided. Rer. F. W. Pontius, superintendent of con ference, cave an address. A num ber of short addresses en "Re viving the Church" were glvea by . ministers. Bishop Warner presented the outline of the year's program. Evangelism will be majored. .-. - - A Joe E. Brown and Winnie Ughtner in one of the "moments'1 in the play "Sit Tight' which opened a five day engage . ment at the Elsinre Saturday. -rSanta . Fe Tran. Is at v The Hollywoiod ' Richard Arlcn as Bandit has Good Bole; Denny Next la "What a Man" . A play with many i laughs and much jnyatery and some tragedy is "Santa Fe TraH" iwlth Rich ard Arlen. Eagene Pallette, Mltxl Green.. ' Rosita Moreno, Junior Durkln and a group of others. The story's locale is the Span ish life in southern California. Arlen - is ; -a , . handsome young Spaniard who cannot adjust himself to the ( entrance of the Americans Into the country of ' is people. He knows the graft that is going on and he hates the ' Americans because they are Insolent to the Spanish. Al though the son of noble Span ish gentleman, Arlen becomes a bandit. ... The sufferings of his family, his own activity of a bandit, the work of land grab bers, and two vital lore affairs make of this picture au intense ly nteresting one. " Wednesday will see Reginald Denny in "What a Man" at the Hollywood. It has an English lo cale and baa to do with the ca reer of a so-called tramp,. Reg inald Denny, who takes , the place of a chauffeur In an Eng lish household. Developments are numerous and most amusing, and a ' good love story is thrown in lor full measure. f : The week's bill will 'close witn Hoot ' Gibson in ."The Concen trate Kid," and it twill lack none of the - thrills ' of riding, shooting and reckless! love af fairs . which characterise- Hoot and his westerns. Kathryn Craw ford inspires the romance In the picture. . .. Estelle .Taylor . arrives here from the, east and : once-..' more .raises the question of what Is newa.j-. . ... ' . "When they showed 'Cimar ron, to White Mouse officials and I had lunch, with the president, I waa all set for a big break," ahe confesses. "Then Jook what hap pened. Jack, got an Infection la ; , Let Your VanU Bo Known ' U E Through Statesman Ads; They Bring Retults ' his finger and stole every head line.".. . .;V.: ' ' ' Do you , know that Monty Banks, once well known In Hol lywood, now is a comedy star In England? !45 i 4 .T , Ml K GRAND Today Dolores Del Rio in "TheiBad One." , i Wednesday Dorothy Mc-Kaill-Milton , Sills in "Man Trouble." Friday Charles Bickford ia "River's End." ' ! HOLIiriVOOD Today Richard Arlen in "Santa Fe Trail." - j I Wednesday-Reginald. Den ny in "What a Man." ' Friday Hoot Gibson In "The Concentratirr Kid." : Lais Angel FIrpo, one time "Wild Bull of the Pampas," U now an automobile salesman in' Buenos Aires. HOLLYWOOD Home of 25c Talkies " Today - Mon. - Tues. Continuous performance Today, 2 to 11 Matinee Mon., Tues., 2 p. m. He is back the dash ing hero of "TKe Light of Western Stars," "The Border Legion. i airafa IPeTii'ao ' with Mitzi Green S A Also Charley Chase iri f&yst , talking comedy, "Dol- J 9 vnnoon, iomeay ana News.' s t - : I 1 t :