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Oshawa Daily Times, 23 May 1930, p. 9

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[HE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1930 PAGE NINE Interesting Pen Impres- sions of the Coming Attractions on ... THE LOCAL SCREEN | Who's Who & What's What in the Amuse- ment World | "Talking Pictures Prove Boon to / Featured Players With Stage Experience Says Lila Lee "1 tlh the lot of the featured] carefully selected, player Js in most instances highly] "The time has arrived when mere preferable' to pardom, declares i) ile] beauty '1s no longer enough to suse Lee, one of Hell ywood's most popu-| cessfully carry an actress through a lar. and wetive loading women, ap Intelligence, personality and whe i feminine lend in "Mure | a good voles are Jualies that mus! "Fret National and be "eonuiarea' Miss Lee finds, Viaonage re Pr tion Which opens its ramatic Actress local engdiement at the Now Martin Althea he lind au steller, ' billing Theatre fomorrow ow iS tyrday), and all the other advantages of a Talking ve been a boon | full-fledged star, from the time she for the uted player. while they| began her theatrical career a8 8 have in various cases proven a hard. | vaudeville headliper at the age of ship for the star, "The story 4s now | five until she was eighteen when she viore important than ever before and| temporarily retired from the screen, suppor ting casts ure large and very | it was not until the termination of NEW MARTIN DAYS SATURDAY Joan Crawford in "Montana Moon" Monday, her starring contract that Lila Lec began to play the type of roles that have established her as & dramatic Betress, "Now that well-rounded Say are demanded, the featured player | 5 reals ly gomipg into his own," Miss Lee continied. The better Wn ure in gonstant demand and receive almost as much salary as stars while escap- ing the unpleasant features of stare dom, If a pleture Is successful the sar's popularity mounts but if it is <r He usually has to shoulder the Murder! Blacks} mail ! Robbery! And a great romance that blossomed in itd midst! For the thrill of thrills [LL] p- "| * with JACK MULHALL LILA LEE and NOAH BEERY Divected by Clarence Badger Hased en story by Murray Leinster RaZY: TARZAN ARTOQN "The public will receive the great ost benefit from the new order of things, The presence of several well known players in a cast creates a spirit of rivalry which results in 'better performances and after all, 'the Jy' s the thing'," Miss Lee con cl rh Mulhall, who has major pill ing in "Murder Will Out," agrees with Miss Lee that the featured play- er's fate is usually happler than the lot of the star. It's almost Impossible for a star to escape being typed," Mulhall points out, A tapmer who was mus oh troubled | by trespassers during the nutting | séison copsulted with a botanjeal | friend, The botanist furnished hin | | with the technical name of the han- ol, and the farmer placed the fol. lowing notice at consplouous points about his premises: "I'respassers take warning! All persons entering this wood do so at thelr own risk, for, although common anakes are not often found the Corylun-Avelans abounds every: where about hers, and never gives warning of its presence.' The place was unmolested that year , and the farmer gathered his orop In peace. "VOICE of HOLLYWOOD THE TIGER A ------------ ------ EPH enn fp LAST TIMES-- TONIGHT 4 WINNIE 5) C SLIT a LIGHTNER | ner tarnment in--"She Couldn't Say Ne GALA HOLIDAY ATTRACTION! ¥ SATURDAY AND MONDAY ONLY JOAN Le » ings and loves in this rousing outdoor West. orn talkie romance! Cliff Edwards and Benny Rubin in "Montara Moon," at Regent Thea: tre, BALFOUR PLAYED THE 'MESSIAH' Some Interesting Anecdotes " of Late Noted \ Statesman London-"Lord B. (Balfour) told me he mot Lord If, (Kitehen- er) at a dinner and Heard that when he was dining at the London derry's the conversation turned on Hardy's novels and topography, 'And who may this Hardy be?' sald Lord K." "Wo taxied to Downing street (July 28, 1014), I sal hetween the P.M, (Asquith) and Could not help saying to the former, 'If over a war takes place in the world again I hope It will he now? He sald: "You're an bad as Winston who last night, neeing there was more hopeful news, sald, 'I'm afrald we shall have a bloody peace'. "Mary Gladstone" Thesa are two of the innumers able good stories told by the late Mra, Draw, daughter of the "G, O, M."" and mother of Dorothy Drew (now Mra, Parrieh)=in her diar fon and letters, edited by Lucy Mas. terman, and just published with the title, "Mary Gladatone," Lord Ralfour's "ruling passion' wan, an everyone knows, musie, and he was a Hfe<dong planist, but Mrs, Drew reveals that, in his younger days, he was also a brilliant pers former on the concertinal He travelled with a concertina when he went on visits, and on hia congertina he Plktdechitiovs it or balleve it not!=-=Handel and Hees thoven. Fanoy the Fifth Symphony with concertinan! Mrs, Masterman states that a series of remarkable performances on plano and "inferns ala" was the feature of the Glad stone's and Balfour's experience for some years, Mra, Drew explaina that in those days oconcertinas were called "ins tornale." At Whittingehame Here in part of a diary entry of An August visit to Lord Balfour's Soottish home, Whittingehame, in 1871, when Arthur Balfour was a Young man and Mra, Drew wan the 'girlish Mary Gladstone, Dinner at aight out of doors one of those uproarious meals whish can only take place in tae presence of our host! Played some Handel trios with Mr, B, and Mr, R, Strutt (brother of the 1 Lord Rayleigh) on the "Infernal aise two lavely things out of "Fidelio" work, A couple of days later (Sun. ay). Played, all the "Messiah" right {hrough, on the whole well; Frans tionlly exvited in "Why do the na. tions." and dreadfully exhausted, finished with "I know that my Res deamer Hvath"o..perfeot, The ume bination lu certainly good and Mr. ON CONCGERTINA| "Fidelio," is a famous Beethoven | Dot Parley, well Koa conidia ne, appear In un short comedy, Usin Kid" sta camp near Gallup, New Mexico were taken along by he added on location, where herd Kit Carson's cave and other locations carear of Bill the Kid will be used as backgrounds for the new photo play Lillian Roth, Broadway vehicle, "Animal Crackers" stars for Vitaphone Etting of "Simple Simon," Betty Compton, Jack "Fifty Million Frenchmen," stage are Spencer Tracy of "The "Hote! Universe" LJ rude McDonald of The stars from the legitimate Last Mile" Fox, Mack Sennett hus Just gomplet which has nothing to do with carpenters Mack Sennett, and featuring Nick Stuart, Lincoln Steadman and Patsy lers" The short feature personally directed by Murjorie Beebe, Andy Clyde, O'Leary, is a4 comedy of the jurz uge ' LJ LJ LJ Robert Thornby and Fd, Brady, he heen signed for the wild western picture, and Brady a rancher, battle which features this part of the story Neilan, Maurice Chevaller is In Hollywood. to make his next Paramount It will he under the direction of Ludwig Vagabond have not been made known, It DR on the West Coast Berger, nature of the next Chevalier picture will be his third feature to be made in Hollywood ONG SHOTS AND CLOSE UPS FLICKERS FROM FILMDOM AND GOBSIP OF THE SCREEN A GENERAL REVIEW OF SCREEN ACTIVITIES Climaxing his work in un series of sensational talking comedies in four languages, Charley Chase bas heen given a new fivesyesr contraet hy the Hal Roach Studios, Ine, were' not made public, but it In enown that Chase is now up in the "big money," along with Laurel und Hy dy, ( haplin, Lloyd, et al, "Swell People" ARE » b * v MNHlyeq' "The Vi ¥ » L] It's here today and with Vitaphone tomorrow! ! Broadway invasion has netted the Brooklyn talking picture studio eight From musical comedy there's Ruth Varieties and Katherine Alexander of » Ld LJ "Forever Yours." LJ 8 NM . who last directed] "I'he at Culver Clty, on been signed by Pathe to a special train of eight cirs King Vidor and his "Billy the left the Metro-Goldwyii-Mayer studio last week to set up Seventy-five players and technicians Vidor uv 0 production nucleus, and extras will of euttle and horses will he mobilized whieh figured prominently in the singer who has recently screen name for herself with her mel tragedy and versatile singing in "The Love Parade, signed a long-term contract with Paramount, wood to make her first pleture in the Kast, Four Marx Brothers at the New York studio in the latters an adoption of thelr stage musical » which they are now starting under the direction of Victor Herrman LJ hond King," ln new comedy, called th veteran character aetors have sequences of Mary Plckford's current Thornby will play a picturesque cattle rustles both important characters in the Terns of the contract Jack ["ulhall, Lila Les and Noah | ing > New Mastin Theatre nest Beery In "Murder Will Out," play: | week Unusual Twists in "Murder Will Out" Plot Will Hold Audience in Spell of Mystery "Murder Will Out," First Nation- al und Vitaphone production now at the New Martin Theatre With no bungling detective, spooky seunces, sliding panels, clutching hands, nor other of the usual tricks 80 dear to the heurt of the mystery author, "Murder Will Out" lLiolds au dience Interest and emerges as one of the season's most novel and inter esting features Instead of the meaningless patter so frequently found in nystery pic tures, intelligent dialogue carries the story wlong aut a brisk pace toward the surprise denouement, Lhe excel lent adaption of Murray Leinster's story is the work of J, Grubb Alex ander. Sound effects, which always height en the effectiveness of mystery pic tures, are used in good taste and moderation, The plot centers about a group of Chinese blackmailers who attempt to extort money from Leonard Staun made a und 'Honey, has just prior to leaving Holly She will appear with the secand success Murray Roth's latest man, The role of Staunton Is ideally sulted to Jack Muihall's breesy per- sonality, His performance has a fine gusto and admirable restraint, Lila Lee, who was ulso Mulhall's leading woman In "Dark Streets" is both charming and capable. Noah Beery, Malcolm MuaeGregor, Tully Marshall und Alex B, Frangls, long established in silent pictures, are all entirely wdequate, Hedda Hooper, who gives her every screen role a charm and finesse ull her own, Is in her usual good form, Cland Allister, a newcoms er to the filme, is Interesting and has noticeably flawless diction, Much credit for the success of "Murder Will Qut" is due to Clary ence Badger's direction which. is smooth and Intelligent, "Murder Will Qut" is a thoroughly satisfactory film pictorially as well as otherwise. This First National film deserves a place oh every moviegoer's Thompson and Gert Alice Boulden and Harry "The Chisel Holtywood faction Or nny furious Kin Direction by Marshall King" The name and B. plays the Inf, awfully well, Went to hed saturated with sublime mu- slo, Dances With 'King Arthur! It may be wondered whether any one 'but Lord Balfour ever played the "Messiah" on a concertina, Hore are a fow scattered toms! we Got to the hall 1870) at eleven, and was immed]. (Oxford, June, he, SA LL Buy ately surrounded by Hons uimmon Ing for dances, in the world, and so pretty, od three times with Xing Arthur (Lord Balfour). 1084~How foolish it ix of all the world to rave of "M. lack of someone speaking the truth, When Watts painted papa, because he was Watts everyone raved, lA kA il hhh, AA ton, a wealthy young New York elub-| "must" list I went to see It In Christ Church Hall, at Oxford, and sald at once, "I's awful Then the dean echoed me and one hy one all that saw it took up the same tune and the ploture wan returned to Watts who quite agreed and destroyed it, Nome one should CTR A PET TNR It was the best fun I dano« show up Bernard Shaw, FROM INSIDE KNOWLEDGE "Buy a ticket for your concert? 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