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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1932)
PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, January 3, 1932 i 1 i ! ' 1 loafi Crawford, Clark Gable and La,wrence Tibbett Here This Week BAHCBOFT SEES . . f 111 I- ; service is m ; Now Recognized as Virile And Versatile Actor; in "Rich Man's Folly" Ragged rirllity! That's George Bancroft. He stands stx feet two; and tips the scale Just under the two hundred mark, with sot an ounce of adipose. Bancroft baa been an outdoor man from youth. He was born in Philadelphia, The docks were his chosen playground. The sea beckoned. He clipped short his schooling at Tomes. In stitute and swung abroad the U. S. S. "Constellation" for a cruise in southern waters and a practical .course In seamanship. Then fol lowed a trip on the "Essex" to the orient. The Spanish War found him with Admiral Dewey's fleet, a youthful gunner abroad the U. S. S. .Baltimore. On that famous ves sel be participated in the battle of Manila Bay. Then followed service during the Philippine Rebellion and later In the Boxer flare-up at Tientsing. It was during these trying times that Bancroft first became Inter ested in dramatics. He drafted the alent aboard -ship for amateur theatricals and got permission to put on a minstrel show. One day in 1900 the Oregon struck a submerged rock off,Che toa Lighthouse, near Pekin. Ban croft and a member of the crew Of another vessel, volunteered to dire under the Oregon and ascertain tbe-extent of the damage. For this feat of daring and skill he was recommended for an A&napoUs appointment. (But the confining life Imposed by the Naval Academy restric tions drove him wild. He decided to try his talents as an actor. He battled his way to the Broadway stage and quickly gained recogni tion as a virile and: versatile actot. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, "Paid in Full," "Old Bill M. P..T and "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly" are some of the dramatic successes in which he built his reputation.; , Bancroft's latest starring picture- for . Paramount la "Rich Man's Folly.' opening today at the Capitol theatre. Frances Dee, Robert Ames and Juliette Com'p--to:i support him in featured roles. !AI' COMES TO GRAND Hollywood's large stock ' Qt evening attire was almost exhaust ed during the making of "Merely Mary Ann," the Janet Gaynor-i Charles Farrell picture coming to the Grand theatre today. For, the huge opera-house scene. Director Henry King needed hun dreds of extra players, each in the , most formal of evening dress. This would have been an easy require-: ment to fulfill except for one thing that nearly every studio happened likewise to be making "evening dress" scenes on those days. , The result was that swallow tails and low-necked erenlng gowns were at a premium, and the wardrobes of Hollywood's many costume establishments were ran sacked before the clamoring throngs of players were properly ' equipped for their rarious "calls". D re i ser Picture flow at Hollywood ' Just as "An American Trag edy," Theodore Dreiser's epic nov ; el, made history in literature; Just ; as its dramatization made history on the stage, so the screen produc- tion of this thrilling story, which the Hollywood theatre will feature Sunday, makes motion picture his i lory. "An American Tragedy." the ' talking picture, is based on Drei ser's novel. It is a story of youth ! Tnthis " mad, T modern age with i ambition vlelng with love, one , love conflicting with another, and .a boy groping his way recklessly out of a situation which he is too : 1 weak to face. - ftflrnr VMinv in iioni muni mw 1. A HOM.M.WSED If?, II 1 a bwwS ?wu III - - AI Chase Comedy and News 1 ' - '1 W-" ' .. SOT " p t ioa ; feft Frances Dee and Philip Holmes in the much-discussed picture, "An American Tragedy," now at the. Hollywood. Conrad Nagel and JJetty Compson in a scene from ''Three Who Loved," which will begin a run of two days Wednes day at the Grand. Three Noted In Three Famous Plays At Elsinore This Week Joan Crawford is at her drama- 1 tic best in "Possessed," now play ing at the Warner Bros. Elsinore theatre for three days. The picture, based on the Ed gar Selwyn stage play, "The Mir age," gives the star her most ser ious role since "Paid" that of a poor factory girl who, anxious to better her position in life, be comes Involved in an affair with a young politician of wealth and social standing. Risks Own Happiness Since politics and scandal are never far apart, our heroine soon discover, that her name Is being used to advantage in an insidious campaign to prevent the man she loves from being nominated for governor. Her heroic attempt to save his political career at the risk of her own happiness make for a drama of considerable pow er and one which keeps its. audi ence constantly on the alert as to what will happen next. No small share of the Interest in this picture is due to the fact that the politician is played by none other than Clark Gable, who may be said to come to Miss Craw ford directly from the arms of Greta Garbo In "Susan Lenox." In "Possessed," Gable more than lives-up to his reputation as the most interesting male personality on , the screen today. Moreover the romantic aspect of the Crawford-Gable 1 combination leaves very little to be desired. Cbatterton Here Wednesday The closest Hollywood has eyer come to a nickname for Ruth Cbatterton Is "Ruthle." used only by a few of her intimate friends, V -A Players but she confesses she was once known as "Mike." Miss Chatterton told of this lit tle known chapter of her life dur ing a discussion of nicknames on the set at the Paramount Holly wood studios, where she Is starr ing in "Once a Lady." She was christened Rftth, she said, because her father, Walter Chatterton, wished to avoid the possibility ot a future nickname. By the time she was three years old the entire neighborhood in her home town of Fordham Heights, New York, was calling her "Mike." The tike who was known as "Mike" since then has become one of the most glamorous figures on either stage or screen. Cuban Love Song With Lawrence Tibbett Two startling novelties in ma sic as applied to talking pictures figure in "The Cuban Love Song,' Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer'a new Law rence Tibbett starring picture. which -will open at Warner Bros Elsinore Friday. One of these is a dramatic epi sode told almost entirely In song. The other is a "tone poem" that illustrates a pictorial account ot a voyage at sea. Both are hailed as TWO JT: V.V'S" I .: .jf -1 CL Qcmmount 'Qlcture All his lite he's been In lore with Money. 1 Now he wants Romance. Can he buy ltT Why, he cant eve " SEE it until his fortune fades in the stirring climax ot this rigorous thrill-drama! VIVID, HUMAN DRAMA! ;X -' I f fv' ' ' & " t- l I "SHORTS- THAT SATISFY! ... . ; RegU Toomey, Marian Marsh and Warren William in a scene from "Under 18," showing Wednesday -at Warner Bros. Capitol theatre. - if i - v . . - Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, who will appear in sessed" at Warner Bros. Elsinore theatre today. The Call Board By OLIVE M. DOAK THE HOLLYWOOD Today Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." Wednesday Joan Crawiora in "This Modern Aee." Friday Bill Cody in "Dugan of the Bad Lands." WARNER BROS. CAPITOL Today George Bancroft In "Rich Man's Folly." Wednesday Marian Marsh In "Under Eighteen." Friday James Dunn in "Sob Sister." WARNER BROS. ELSINORE Today Joan Crawford in . "Possessed." Wednesday Ruth Chatter- ton in "Once a Lady. Friday -Lawrence Tibbett in "The Cuban Love song THE GRAND Today Janet Gaynor "Merely Mary Ann." Wednesday Betty Compson in "Three who Liorea. -a Friday Jack Holt In "White Shoulders." new forms of musical expression in connection with drama. The "tone poem" is an orches tration. In addition to a complete score, also the work of Stothart, It is one ot the "color" back grounds to vivid dramatic meaning. NOW PLAYING FISTED - VIGOROUS HOME with, " Frances Dee Robert Ames IN AND HOW! -r y. . " . V J i ' - ": X A )1 -.: i5 ji iw !,'', vyv,y Tos- Betty Compson in 'Three Who Loved9 Billed for Grand Owing to extremes in the story scope of Radio Pictures' "Three Who Loved," featuring Betty Compson at the Grand theatre Wednesday, thirty-odd elaborate sets and a number of unusual lo cations were needed to Insure re alistic backgrounds. The sets and locations include boarding houses, steamships, San Pedro loading 'docks, lavish homes, both interiors and exter iors, confectionary stores, banks. bank vaults, a penitentiary, a race track, police courts, apartments and so on. In the banking sequence an il lustra ted course In , banking is provided as the camera and micrd- phone visit all the departments from the president's office to the book-keeper's cubby-hole, record ing intimate office details. ; - Today cms: r-, Now 4 ak"-V' v"'-: .. - . 'SOBSISTER'WIAKES APPEAL WITH Dill Proving that what he had done before he eould do again and that his marvelously human -performance in "Bad Girl" was not an ac cident or a tiasa in the pan, James Dunn will make hia see- ond screen appearance Friday at the Capitol In the Fox photoplay, "Sob Sister," and In the opinion of this reviewer hia portrayal of Garry Webster, ace newspaper re- porter was even greater than his Impersonation of Eddie, the ra dio mechanic and boy husband in his previous film. There Is something about this boy Dunn that seems to dig its way under your skin and make you like him. It may be that in fectious smile of his, or the easy and natural way In which he speaks his lines, or his breezy, youthful and confident manner, or a combination of all three. But whatever it Is he used It to good effect on his audience yesterday. "Sob Sister" derives its title rrom the appellation tagged on in mose leminme memoer or me prees who write up the heart- throb angles of murder cases and whlle It deals with the experlen- c oi uu, di iuw liinu wnior i It Is not in Its true sense a news- paper story. Rather than depict- I lng tne hustle and hustle or the I editorial and press rooms It tells I the) more interesting and Human I storr or tne gtrrs own romance with a nvai reporter, a romance wnicn is cast unaer a snaaow ana i almost on the rocks by business rivalry and antagonism. LATEST GOSSIP Universial is distributing rnorepienty ot pigment into the hair than 200 Christmas baskets to former studio employes now out of work ... John Barrymore's crest is a crowned king-snake. It goes back to Ireland. Just what was that story about St. Patrick? , . Uncle Carl Laemmle, one of Hollywood's most respected pro ducers, has been elected president of the Los Angeles Breakfast club. where the principal dish is ham and eggs. Now those 30,000 hens on his Calabassas chicken ranch ca nexpect to get busy . . James Dunn is leaving for his personal appearance tour. He will do a song and dance and will repeat that scene In the doctor's office from "Bad Girl" . Frank Bor- zage gave a Japanese party the other evening, supplying guests with silk kimonos and chop sticks. During dinner, Johnny Mack Brown was thrown for a loss ... An ambitious gent tried to persuade the Orpheum theatre here to pay him $1,000 to go up in an airplane and give a mental telepathy broadcast. ROCHELLE-STEPS IS They say that Dorothy Lee reg istered objections to her role in R-K-O's "Girl Crazy." Now, Ro chelle Hudson, the promising newcomer whb was in "Are These Our Children?" is stepping Into the part. She just had her con tract taken op. Dorothy's next option & due In April. She's talked for some time of returning to the stage. - Men Are All Cowards! SEE The Joan Crawford you adore, beautiful bewitching, kissed by the screen's most fascinating man! A picture that out- thrill her great est hits from , "Dancing I Daugh ters to "Paid"! r v The Screen's Newest Lovers! .. v Ty 'iv . i' -.A- o Romance with a new and startling twist! A grand show, with two stars and a tint east including WALLACE FORD and SHEETS GALLAGHER, IHOIIYWOOD SHOWS IS MH AGE In "This Modern Age," the new Metro Goldwyn - Mayer vehicle starring Joan Crawford which will come Wednesday to the Hot- lywood theatre, a decided record has been set In the .choice, of the cast. A Parisian , comedy with all-English speech recording, over half of the cast is French. Joan Crawford, playing the most carefree role of gay youth WHY SHOULD MAN HAVE GRAY HAIR? 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