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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1931)
The' OREGON STATESMAN, 8alca, Oregon? Sunday Morning, December it 1931 Greta Garbo. Clark Gable Complete Newspapers Many Other Products Turned Out at Hollywood ; Starred Together for First Time Here PAGE FOUR Two Brilliant Picture "Devotion ' and "Susan Lenox" Weekend Offerings JT ELSIKQRE TODAY ' L J . . ! GF FILMDDM BUSY Greta Garbo Is starred In "Su san Lenos, Her Fall and Rise' which opens at Warner's Elainore theatre aa a- new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer ottering. . Thl ts Garbo's fourth talking plctore and is regarded as the most colortnl and dramatic of her soand efforts. It is of un usual Interest because it marks the first appearance opposite her of Clark Gable, sensational ro mantic find of the season, who is said to be next in line for star dom In bis own name. 1 Garbo's preyio us talkies. "An na Christie," "Remance" and "Inspiration, were made under the direction of Clarence Brown The new picture was filmed by Robert Z. Leonard, who directed "Marianne," "The DiTorcee" and recent Marion Daries pictures. ' The story was adapted from the David Graham Phillips noret that first appeared serially in In-i ternational Magazine, later be coming a best-seller in book form. It also scored a tremen dous hit on the stage some ten years ago. Gable, in playing the lead op posite . Garbo, essays his first straight romantic role. In his short time on the screen he has built up an enormous following. resulting in persistent demands for his appearances from fans and exhibitors alike. His last parts were in "Secret Six." "A Free Soul" and "Laughing Sin ners ' and "Sporting Blood." In the Garbo picture be plays the part of a young engineer who faibi in lore with a Swedish farm girl who happens upon his moun tain cabin while fleeing from an nnwelcome marriage bargain. The story concerns the Swed ish girl's fight against over whelming odds for a life of de cency. Staying at the lodge with the young engineer, she falls in lore. When he leaves to go to his home on business, intending to return and marry her. the girl fa discovered by ber uncle. . Again she escapee. Joining a cheap car nival troupe a a dancing girl. Her the engineer again finds her. but learning that she has become the mistress of the troupe's manager, he casts her aside. They meet again when the gtrl. now a reigning demi-mon-daine, is installed in a lavish New York .penthouse provided by a political leader. . From this point the action of the stery is carried to fian Fran cisco and then to the Island of Java, where the climax takes place. Miss Garbo Is supported by a 1 large cast. Including Jeaa Her sbolt. John Miljan, Alan Hale, Hale Hamilton, Helda Vaughn, Russell Simpson, Cecil Cunning ham and Ian Keith. PFTEB KYTJE SUM AT THE HOLLYWOOD The name of Peter B. Kyne, known wherever English is spok en, has come to stand for the top Quality in Western ficture and pictures alike. While readers of the Cosmopolitan Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post are following the adventures of Cap py Ricks. Matt Peasley. Old Man Dobson and similar beloved char acters, t be studios of Holbrwood .have been busy bringing to lifen vWner creations of Kyne's. Hoot Gibson's spectacular pro- dnction of Kyne's "Wild Horse" will be seen at the Hollywood to- 7 dy. It Is a modern Western, boasting a cast containing such personalities as Alberta Vaughn and Stepin Fetchit. and was pro duced against the vivid back ground of Hoot libson's Golden State. Rodeo at Saugus. Califor nia. i Naughty Flirf ;jt At Grand Soon "Love-making is woman's basic career. Other careers are either expressions of this capacity in a woman, or symptoms of its un healthy repression." This from Alice White. First National's dynamic blonde. Miss White's latest picture, "Naughty Flirt," comes to the Grand Friday and Saturday, with aa all-star cast inclndlng Paul Page, Robert" Agnew and Myrna ly. Ohio has adopted a law requir ing five days' notice before marriage i license may be Issued. A IIOMK-OWXED THEATRE J" m 3 SCTTDAY'MOXDAY-TUESDAY . 1 : 8Un - of FlTe SSedvvard dgSl : gaROBlNSONfS I f:Ts v 5 - ; ; . . .v f r - . i- - hy ... T - Yw 'i ' 8 1 s: vj r'-r ! , 1 . C V ? V? ; $M "Sj&-' i ? .. ' ;) ' I I K x.i j iSS- -mwT t - J ;-i w II 1 wan in - i mm , I r yKV-A it I I I i I , , 2 11 L I Leslie Howard and Ann Harding in the picture "Devotion, which is appearing in Salem at the Capitol today, Monday and Tuesday. --if ... (V. ' f Greta Garbo and Clark Gable "Susan Lenox , her fall and at Warner Bros. Elsinore. m it. Ann Harding in "Devotion" Comes to Capitol Theatre Today; is Unusual Artist Some years ago Ann Harding and Eva La Gallienne played to gether with the Hedgerow Play ers, alternating each night In the mother and daughter roles of Ib sen's The master Builders . The cast quickly noticed that the two avoided watching each other whenever possible. Ever y o n e about the theatre commented on the remarkable fact that the two acresses somehow never mimicked he inflections of the other in playing the same part. It was not until the final night that the cast discovered the mechanical trick by which they kept from such sim ilarity. When the curtain dropped. Eva La Gallienne called out. "Ann. pull the cotton plugs out of your ears." It is that same determination to arrive on their own steam that has brought both actresses so far. They never copy. Blindly they fight on. dragging every idea, ev ery gesture tfl of themselves. Since those days, Eva Le Gal lienne has built up her repertory theatre, and Ann Harding has become a star for RKO Pathe, an actress in the mories but never a movie Queea Hollywood does not nnderstand Ann Harding for with her placid golden hair and her unique qual ity of facial innocence she ap pears a simple tyoe. she who is actually a seasible worldly wo man. Her fragility makes men protective, yet no woman in Hol lywood needs or takes less pro tection. Behind that fragility lies concealed the sturdiness of yel low kitchen crockery. She is at once the oak and the Tine. Cour ageously, gallantly, the oak has made a fartne for Itself. Born la Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Aaa Harding traveled from army Post t$ army post with her father who was an army colonel out whom the movie publicists promoted arbitarily to a general ship. By the time that Ann was seventeen ehe bated the army life and- came to New York to study music. Her father, there upon disinherited her. Ann took Job as a filine clerk with th Metropolitan Life Insurance company, a job which lasted even after she was engaged for the Part of a giggling Kirl in Susan Glaspell's The. Inheritors" at the Proriccetown theatre. Inci dentally while still at the Baldwin 17 jp F - in the much discussed picture rise which is today's feature school at Bryn Mawr, she played in the yearly dramatic production along with Cornelia Otis Skinner, a class mate. It was not until "Tarnish" and "The Trial of Mary Dugan" that the critics began to throw out those full bosomed phrases about the young blonde beauty newly arrived on Broadway. Ann Harding Is a comfortable soul with a gift of serenity. There is no glitter. There U no flash. And there is no sense of humor. But there is dignity, restraint. It Is her sometimes paralyzing dig nity which makes her so magnifi cent and for which Hollywood can never quite forgive her. She rarely goes to parties, movie ballB or those marvelously gaudy world premieres. Instead she stays home, playing excellent backgam mon with her actor husband, Har ry Bannister. Physically she is ex ceptionally strong, adores flying and horseback riding. Incidental ly she Is most attractive la the clothes which are called in the advertisements, "togs". While the life 0f Hollywood goes violently on. budding scan dals, marriages, births, deaths and divorces, Ann Harding lives blandly, m harmony with her race She is good composition. Devotion," her first picture since "East Lynne" la now being shown at Warner Bros. Elsinore; ,InJ'nUrd6r b" th Clock." at the Hollywood Wednesday. WI1 lam Boyd is at last cast la the role of a sympathetic character. The man who played villains in The Spoilers," "City Streets." Gun Smoke" and others is. In Murder by the Clock," the he roic Lieutenant Valcour, tha po lice detective who finally tracks down, tha real murder In the ease HOLLYWOOD Home of 25c Talkies A Home-Owned Theatre A Cosmopolitan Magazine ith tern ACCWESTERll STARS r STORY PVVILD MORS? Lilyan Tashman and William Boyd as they appear in a scene from "Murder by the Clock" which win bo featured at the Hollywood Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The Call Board By OLJVB IL DOAK Warner Bros. Elsfaor Today Greta Garbo In "Susan Lenox". Wednesday James Cagney In "Blonde Craty". Friday Richard Dlx la "Secret Service". Warner Bros. Capitol Today Ann Harding in "DeTotion". Wednesday Lewis Stone In 'The Big Gambia". The Hollywood Today Hoot Gibson In "Wild Horse". Wednesday William Boyd In "Mnrder by tha Clock". Friday "Clark Oabla in "Sporting Blood". . The Grand Today Edward a. Robin son in "Smart Money", Wednesday Gary Cooper in "Fighting CaraTans". Friday Alice Whlta la ."Naughty Flirt". 'IS IT The Grand this week will have a diversified group of offerings, &awari o. Robinson In "Smart Money," the story of a small town barber who was good at cards and Tory fond of blondes. Ha left his trade and became a gambler la New York City only to risa to power and then meet a sad back set because he Ilka not a few of his brothers could not resist tha flattery of a pretty blonde. in contrast to tha Tenement and "tough" envs of "Smart Money" is demure Alice White who flirts In most outrageous fashion all the way throuxh Naughty 'Flirt" which comes Wednesday and Thursday at tha Grand. Paul Page and Myrna Loy add much to the spicy and enter taining story of social Ufa and Alice White's flirting. The last feature of the week Is still different from the other two having the life of tha early west ern days as the theme and Gary Cooper as the hero with Lily Da mita as the heroine, in "Fighting Cararans." Frontier life, Indians, fighting, cattle, horses, and romance make this play one to take away dull ness from an hour any day. "Fighting Cararans." at tha Grand theatra Wednesday and Thursday, was filmed on tha same vast dimensions as "Tha Covered Wagon Hundreds of players, scores of great "prairie schoon ers," thousands of horses and mules enact its historic drama and Today, Monday and Tuesday Continuous Performance Today 2 to 11P.M. Story by Peter B. Kyne hi BY PETER BtKYNS SMART ME DPEfJER 1 ALBERTA WK5HN1 frSTEPIN FETCHIT mndedmf. PJCHARD THORPE SIQ ALGIERS romaatlo tary against beautiful natural backgrounds! Excentional photography brings thrilling vis tas or ms wiae open west to the screen; capable direction has in ject ad real, rttal action Into tha rapidly changing scenes. ii COMES THIS WEEK Equine actors can ba much mora temperamental than any fa- otea temperamental star of the genus homo. So Charles Brabln. director, dis covered, when ha tried to make "Tommy Boy," famous racehorse, do his stuff In strange pastures during filming of "Sporting Blood." M-G-M's racing drama which will open at tha Hollywood Friday. Tha picture Is a drama of tha turf, and In a number of sequen ces It was necessary to go on loca tion and work "Tommy" with oth er hoses. But tha other horses were strangers to "Tommy," who promptly forgot both his acting and his manners, and wanted to pick fights. It took two days to get him properly Introduced to tha new horses and in acting mood again. Clark Gable, Ernest Torrenca, Madge Erans, Lew Cody and Ma ria PreToat hare featured roles In the production. Tax Levy Will Come Before School Group NORTH HOWELL. Dec. 12 A special . school meeting wiU ba held at tha North Howell school house next Wednesday night to secure a small special tax lory and to consider bids for wood for tha school building. FROM VANCOUVER RICKREALL, Deo. 1 2 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fogg of Kings Valley and Miss Josephine French of Vancouver spent Monday at the homo of Mrs. I. DempBey. lie nrrrni fcTq p : -. f K SHE GAVE HER HEART TO A MARRIED MAN Lovely Ann Harding in her first picture since. "East Lynne." With Leslie Howard, king of screen lovers. A roman tie team In a romance teeming with drama! ' U..N "V:..- CKD0CJ.S) psssiswssw Also "SHB 8XOOP8TO CONQUER' with DAPHNE POLLARD Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney and Evalyn Enapp in scene from "Smart Money to be today's feature at the urana ineatre. w Hollywood Low-downs By HARRISON CARROLL HOLLYWOOD, CaL, Oct. J. Motion picture people are orderly folk, according to Charles C. Blair, chief of police la Beverly Hills, where many of the screen celebrities have their homes. As for wild parties, it Is a rare occasion, ha says, when tha police have to call anyone and ask them to .quiet down. More often a con pla of dress suit officers are sent up to guard the party against pos sible hold-up. If tha gathering Is a large one, other patrolmen are assigned to watch tha grounds. Beverly Hills probably Is tha most strictly policed town In the world. Its four square miles are guarded by 40 officers, working in three eight-hour shifts. They pass any given spot In their beat onca aa hour. And if a film star is going out of town, the officers make a circle of tha premises, try ing windows and doors to see that no intruders have entered. To cut down tha number of so licitors bothering the stars. Chief Blair requires all house-to-huose salesmen to get police permits. When they make application, they also have to undergo finger-printing. Ten days are then allowed to sea if the applicant has a crim inal record. On a number of occa sions this has proven to ba tha case. Chief Blair believes many daylight burglaries have been pre vented by this precaution. Another service given the stars is the hiring of watchmen. Doug las Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Jack Warner and many other film people engage private watchmen through the police department. Chief Blair defied me to loiter any place in Beverly Hills for 10 minutes without a policeman ask ing me my business. I didn't try it. What would I have saidT Latest Goaslp An eye-witness tells me that Lew Ay res was married wearing a three days' growth of beard. . . Looked la a Hollywood branch of the stock exchange, but no film people visible. "You're five months too lata," tha girl said mournfully. . . . Mickey Mouse will appear In a foot' all picture this fall, according to his creator, Walt Disney. . . . Tha 8am Jatfes. Kay Francis and Kenneth Mack- enna, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Mankiewlcs all will hava thrown parties for Edmund Lowe and iiu jjiu.jnn;. ma yiji- . i ' in i "fr-? A . . .. -si . ; , V : : .(.'-. : V. W-' - j V- -vjo': n.-: f z 1 ' V, - Lilyan Tashmaa by tha time the popular pair get away for Eurooe. Pretty strenuous activity, I calls it, for a man or tha verge of a nervous breakdown. . . . Winnie Llghtnar is ill, too ill to be In terviewed or shotocranhed. Har physician has ordered quiet U she x w ba ead to start her pic ture on scnedale. . . . Connie Ben nett Is expecting SS new creations from Paris. She tells ma she was tha onl private customer grant ed showings of tha new models uunng a. recent visit to Paris xna reast was tha buyers were In town. Incidentally, SO of these costumes will be used la Connie's new picture. Tha rest a-e for her personal wardrobe. Seen at the Tennia Mitch Hollywood Ukea tennis mora seriously than any other sport Not one of the film people walked out before the finish of Sunday's matches at tha Pacific Southwest tournament. Dozens of stars may be seen daily during this event at in ias Angeles Tennis club. Not ed Sunday were Mae Clarke with "sunca itnis is a ro- mancej . air. and Mrs. Cllve Brook, Blllie Wellman and blonde 'Mar Jorle Crawford (their marriage will be taking place soon), Frank Fay and Barbara Stanwyck, John Considlne, again with Carmen Pantages, Richard Dix, alona (news In Itself), Phillips Holmes and his mother, William Powell, tagging naturally with Carole till John McCormack (ha plays a top notch game desolte hi wnirht i This Sunday, when tha finals will oe piayea. will sea a record turn out of tha stars. Did Yon Know That Will Roeeri' mother . d hint to be a Methodist min- laterf . Remodeling of Lunch Room Done; is Open STAYTON. Dec. 18 Repair work on tha "Green Parrot" lunch room which was damared considerably la tha flra at tha Dava John's service station. Is completed. The new finish is driftwood over Oregon fir ply wood, with silver grey enamel trim. The floor space has bean considerably enlarged.. There is a new counter, new show cases and other attractive flxtares. A hew hot water heat ing system is among the Im provements. Daintv. but colorful curtains, attractive tables and benches all go to make a well ap pointed lunch room. Saturday night oo8n house wan held. CLARK GABLE The FLAMING G l m JL - ' J " H' : ill rA"'A -k 1 1 II 1 11 Aki I Z IT Newspaper row on tha Para mount lot In Hollywood ts one of the busiest quarters In the motion picture center. Extras are being published continually. Here printing of all kinds is done, from complete metropolitan newspapers to posters, labels and InTitatlons to swank ficticious parties, photographing these "in serts" also falls to this depart ment. A large portion of tha work turned out here Is for use In mo tion pictures in scenes showing closeups of newspapers, InTita tlons and other reading matter. But much of It never sees the screen for the Paramount letter heads, envelopes of various sizes, the studio restaurant menus, in ter office communication blanks and forms for the accounting and other departments are prepared here. Tha printing department is equipped to turn out extra or reg ular editions of any newspaper In tha world. In any language. Tha mast heads, or name lines of hun dreds of newspapers In tha larg est cities of tha Dal ted States and abroad are on file, set np in typo. Tha newspapers, menus, office stationary, and tha baggage checks used in Paramount's "Hus band's Holiday" featuring Clive Brook. Vivienne Osborne, Juli ette Compton, Charlie Ruggles and Harry Bannister, were print ed on the studio lot. The printing department also has handwriting experts who can use tha characteristics of any lan guage and any degree of learning In writing the personal letters which play such Important parts in many photoplays. Special cameras and sDeciai lighting are used to photograph newspapers, letters and other in serts. These cameras can move from a view of a whole page down to a big closeup of one or two lines with the print never for an Instant getting put of focus. Tha main titles on screen plays which say "Paramount presents 'Husband's Holiday,' etc., ara photographed here. The ideas for backgrounds and novelty pre sentations' of these titles as In Tom Sawyer" and "24 Hours" ara worked out here. Tha ani mated titles for trailers which ad vertise the coming picture ara a part of newspaper row's work. Greenwood Students To Give Christmas Play on Wednesday GREENWOOD. Dec. 12 A Christmas play entitled "Star of Love", under tha direction of Mrs. Alma Dempsey, principal of tha school, will ba presented Wednesday, December 11, at tha Greenwood schooL It Is a three-act play with 22 characters. Tha characters ara tha students and soma of the in structors. Tha principal char acters ara: Billy. Dale Wilson; Betty, Lorain a Jenkins; mother. Mrs. Mollis Butler: Nena Alli son, Mrs. Dollie Bennetta and a group of stumbling blocks, also manger scene will ba pre sented. There will ba orchestra music between acts. as her lover and ARBO "at Her Best w Also Metro-Review-Comedy-Cartoon t Comedy and News "AFRICA SQUEAKS "BABY CARES FOR ME"