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PAGE EIGIIT 1 ' m The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, SondayMorning, March IS, 1931 Two Great Actresses TIake Headlines of The Weeke I i ii i : I - I Clarence Brown, director of Miss Garbo fa silent pictures, has acted as director of this her latest, and held by - many, her greatest picture.. Playing opposite her is Robert Montgomery, such a recent star, ao young, and yet so , blazingly successful aa to be remarkable, even in screen his tory. - Lewis t Stone, Marjorle Ram beau, Judith BoflsellL Beryl Mer 4v inSn Mill an and manv more ordinary run of plays, even If it were not for Miss Garbo's appear ance.'. It Is the story of a great love, and a dramatic love; a story, the development of which gives Miss Garbo a chance to Interpret the dramatic depths of her own did power of characterization and feeling. Of the 43,681 graduate physi Another Garbo Film at . . . Elsinore L "Inspiration" Starts Today With Robert Montgomery la Supporting Bol : Salens theatre, goers will bo re joiced to bare an opportunity to see another Garbo picture, "In spiration" which begins its run la Salem at: the Elsinore today. cians in uermany, 1.7 4 b are women. i take, this play quite out of the WITH ALL PARIS AT HER FEET 4H s - " .--.. jiS01, v:-i - Ben Lyon and Raqnel Torres in a scene" from 'JAloha which will be seen at the Holly- i . 1- i - . : ' wood today. ' t 3 I i GRETA GAJZBO I L ' Here Is a new Greta Garbo and yon will see her in this role in Inspiration" at Warner Brothers' Ebinore today. Edmund Lowe, a featured player in "Scotland Yard", which will be seen at the Grand Friday "Moby Dick" Classic now At Grand Joan Bennett hu Lead for Melville Story; "One Ro mantic Night' Next ! V k'-' 'f " Just why the fears on the part of Marie Dressier and Polly ' Moran is a riddle that will have' to be solved by seeing "Reducing" which is the, current picture at the CapitoL The Gall . Board By OUVE VL DOAK Warner's Capitol Today -Marie Dressier and i Polly Moran In "Reducing." IYlday Walter WooU and VlTlenne Segal In "Golden Dawn". Warner's Mslnore ! Today-!reta Garbo in In- aplration". i Hollywood Today -Ben Lyon In "Aloha." Wednesday -Maorice CheTa- Her in "Play Boy of Paris". ; . Tbnraday Charlie Muray In "Ctfnght Cheating". ; The Grand Today John Barrjniore ia "Moby Dick". ' . Wednesday Lillian Glah in : "Ono Romantic Night." Friday Edmund Lowe i n "Scotland Yard". - ' Mary Pietford's plan to enter the cosmetic business la rivaled by Gloria Swanson's proposed dressmaking and perfume estab lishment in Paris. Following the completion of "Obey That Im- pulse," Gloria will go to Europe to make preparations for the venture. Later, if her ateHer is successful, she will open a Holly wood branch ... Adela Rogers Hyland is out of the. hospital and will be back at work in two weeks ... Frances Lee, film in genue, and Harry Barris, one of Paul Whitman's former "Rhy thm Boys, are concentrating on each other i . Dixie Lee, boon companion of Frances, already is married to "Blng" Crosby, an-. other of the popular trio . . The fellow who i thought Tiolet ray was a raoTie actress wasn't so dumb after, all. A Hollywood ex tra girl bar the name ... The new general manager at Pa the is Fred Lalley, ; brother-in-law of the retiring C. E. Sullivan . . , The Los Angeles theatre, newest local cinema palace, has a res taurant, shoe-shine stand, ball room, etc. C Graham Baker ob- uerres It thej only had rooms upstairs, you could lire thers all your life. ! . The famous American classic, Moby Dick" wrlttea by Herman Melrille, will be the subject of the picture to be shown at the Grand today and in It John Bar- rymore will take th lead and with him will play the pictur esque Joan Bennett. The story is one of lore, mis understanding, intrigue and a queer superstition of the sea. There is wonderful photography in this picture and there is a realism which almost overpow ers one at timee. John Barry- more's voice ; and Joan Bennett's looks are splendid contributions to the picture and the story. Wednesday night a royal ro mance -will be developed at the Grand under the name of "One Romantic Night" with Rod La Roque. Lillian Gish, Conrad Na gel, Marie. Dressier, O. P. Ileggie and others developing the plot as a group of interesting characters. The play is a deligfitful devel opment of a love story in which most everyone but the audience gets fooled.! To round out a well balanced program for the week the Grand will presen "Scotland Yard", a mystery story In which facial sur gery plays so great a part that a woman is fooled ; in who ' Is her own husband. The play Is occupied with the search by Scotland Yard for a daring bank robber; the war en ters sufficiently to give a back ground theme. When the whole story Is combined there is plot to hold tense attention to the end. -Edmund Lowe plays a double i Here is a scene from "Moby. more is starred, me piay today. Dick'?! In which John Barry is the attraction at the Grand Marie Dressier Film at The Capitol l "Redvcfng Satire on Bdanty Parlors; 4OoMeii Dawn." Later In Week This is what Maris Dressier says of the play, "Reducing la which shs and Polly Moran starred and which play la ; being shown at the- Capitol beginning with today: "As a grand satire on current life I put it in the same elass with the other picture Polly and I made recently, 'Caught Short. Where 'Caught Short' lampooned the stock market, 'Reducing has a lot of f nn with beauty parlors. "Everyone in this world, ex cept perhaps a few youngsters, are worrying either about losing or gaining weight. And certainly every girl over 20 is working ov erMrae trying to keep her looks, or to create an Illusion of baring more beauty than - Providence really gave her. Therefore, in 'Re ducing we are striking a very popular chord. People will under stand as in every move we make In this picture." The play has to do with the beauty parlor of Polly Moran and the process of reducing fat wo men. Marie Dressier is a sister of Polly In the play. Polly Is rich and Marie is poor. Polly, sends for Marie to come and help in the beauty shop and there follows screamingly funny incidents . on the train as Marie gets her large family Into New York? and still funnier scenes follow as Marie tries to adjust her awkwardness to the delicate operations of the beauty shop. There is no end to the laugh ing while the play goes on and yet there is a bit of pathos to bal ance the laugh wrinkles. With Marie Dressier playing In a pro duction one could hardly do less than want to see the play. Following "Reducing" will be "Golden Dawn" with Vivienne Segal of "Venetian Nights" fame and Walter Woolf. Noah Beery and Alice Gentle are also In this production of the tropics and bar baric splendor. BREAKS LEG IS PRACTICE WOODBURN, March 14 - Charles Cammack, eon of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cammack, broke his leg Thursday while taking spring football practice at Woodburn high school. He broke bis leg Just above the knee. role in this picture; Joan Ben nett, David Torrence, Halliwell Hobbes and others take the char acters of this play. t HOME OF 25c TALKIES r TODAY, BIONDAY & TUESDAY ' Matinee Jfonday and Tnesday 2 P. M. FHIST SHOWING LN SALEM 'THE BIRD OF PARADISE" Comes to the 7 J Talking Screen as -Aloha" HdJSavage! ! mU A Child of Nature! She was a Bird of Paradise, , r 1 - I I x II II m. j I. Wltll Ben Lyon Raquel Torres . ! and AR Star Cast Talking Comedy - Review iand Jiews i i .1 vv. u - . v r - Aho xmnr mm , J THE GREATEST OF ALL : ; : STARS IN THE ; . - PDT A TC ct rrr aw t J ADVENTURE STORIES 5 f. r - Also ; " L i I' ; COMEDY ' NEWS AND ACT ; GRANDTHEAJRE pENNEH Much Talked AlohaM at Hollywood Daring BawmliaA Love Story Criticized; Chevalier Comes la ,PlayboyM . A play that has met no ' little moral criticism will bo shown as a first run picture at the Ilolly- wood beginning today. It Is daring bur tt Is but a lore story taken from the life of the Hawaiian is lands. It concerns a young busi ness man from San Francisco, a beautiful half-cast Hawaiian girl. and an attempt to make an ad justment to American life and customs on the part of the half caste. The play has Ben Lyon, and Raquel Torres as the leading characters of the young business man and the half-caste girl. A large supporting cast adds inter est to the development of the plot. Maurice Chevalier will again be seen in Salem at the Holly wood in "Playboy of Paris". This Jolly, rollicking play in which Chevalier and Frances 'Dee take the leads, relieves one from the grind of every day life and makes a genuine smile stick in one's mind. A second good langh for the Hollywood audience Friday and Saturday will be silly Charlie Murray and George Sidney in "Caught Cheating". This is also a first run picture, a Tiffany pro duction, and offers much promise in the way of entertainment. These two amusing characters. who hare been partners for six years, get themselves embroiled in a family quarrel In' this pic ture. A gang fight li stirred up and the results are hilariously funny with these two "funsters" trying to get out of it all graee fullyand with their lives. wanted only, is boyish loverl . th one and only jn the most remarkable production of her entire career dtdbx diiwlnf dlks, ttdtanf with the beaaty that stns men'l ouU, this Idol of Pads had cvcrytKlag that aha wants d. except thslovs of one obKurl' youth! fot him she mad $IL sacxlacc, trrtag to bide ' hC koucins put from him. what " story of aoub is this on f And. nsvsr has gorgeous Orttf thrilled you mors cxqubitcly) A plctur you must not misft with Robert Montgomery Lewis Stone Marjorle Hambeao WARNER. BROS. ipKbi jya ALL TALKING ncTvxs IU1 V V V V V V W V V V VV V V- SPRING IS HERE! SO IS THE PICTURE j Al l ;ai FM HAS BEEN WAITIMfi FOR I 1 y f"gfr ' j t f fk. t M p- - AT mF: X .iffii; ' ' m - 'AT i . I .2P.M,V- - , , 2P.M. LAUGHS! HOWLS! ROARS! Cast Includes . ANITA PAGE ( : LUCIEN " LITTLE FIELD J iV f i i