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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928 THE LOCAL SCREEN PW WN nee Who's Who and What's What in the Amusement World PRUE NT SOL WE WC CN LI RA 4 Bl PRP NW WN WE WAY & PTTTTTTTTEEET a bdr e Atti tit PEE | Fe sss eY TTT Te. Barbara Kent Comes to The New Martin in "The Small Bachelor" New Martin Secures 'The Small Bachelor' Finch, a wealthy but bashful young artist, falls in love with Molly Waddington and follows her around for several days without getting up the courage to speak to her. One day her Pomeranian dog breaks loose from her and Finch rescues him and is invited into her room. There he finds Molly's mother, a socially ambitious matron laying down the law to her hus- band because he insists on read- ing wild west novels and mak- ing believe that he is a death- defying cowboy. Molly's mother ejects Finch from the house be- cause she does not think him a suitable match for her daughter, preferring instead that Molly pay attention to a Lord Hun- stanton, a worthless young peer seeking a rich marriage. Finch regains entrance to the house hy taking advantage of the old man's weakness for Westerners. He almost gets himself married to Molly when a hired adventuress in the pay of the manta breaks up the cere- mony by declaring that Finch is her lawful wedded husband, Molly is broker hearted, Finch goes home to mourn. Mrs, Waddington and Lord Hunstan- ton follow him to his roof bun- galow to get more evidence against him if possible, Every- body follows everybody else to | the roof home, All are "ecom- promised' including Mrs, Wadd- ington, who is unable to explain her presence alone on the roof with the peer without owning up to her plot against Finch, Be there 'a man with soul oof dead that he cared mot to be a hero in his own home town? It is doubtful. In this case, however, it is not @ man, but agirl still in her teens, who became world-famous and thereby made the old home folks sit up and take plenty of notice. Three years ago Barbara Kent, who plays a featured role in the Universal-Jewel "The Small Bach- elor," which comes to the New Martin theatre on Monday was known only as the 'pretty little Kent girl" to the residests of Al- herta, Canada. When the Kent family, bag and baggage, moved to Hollywood, it was no great event in the lives of the peaceful citizens, Three months ago Barbara and her parents visited the old home town, in Alberta. They were met at the station by all of the city officials, a brass hand, and Barbara was the toast of the town, Such is fame. In the short time that she had been away, Barbara's name had become known all over the world, She had received fan mail from Walla Walla and the British Tast Indies, Her name had been in electric lights on Broadway and ghe had held court to many of the world's greatest celebrities. Andre Beranger, who plays the featured male role in the Univer- sal-Jewel production "The Small Bachelor," which comes to the New Martin Theatre, on Monday, although born of French parentage was never in France but once in his life and that one time was while he was a soldier in the Unit- ed States army. Beranger was horn in Sydney, "Directs "Style Show" GEORGE ZARFAS Manager of the Canadian Produce. ing Company, who 18 directing the Spring Style Frivolities at the Regent Theatre, starting Monday evening, VANCOUVER BROKEN MAIN CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE Vancouver, B.C.,, March 16.-- Heavy domage was done this morning in the heart of the Van- couver husiness district by a break in a 22-inch water main, at the corner "of Pender and Granville streets. Torrents of water the intersection, hurst through the pavement, rushed along the streets and into nearby basements, doing heavy damage to mer- chants' stock, A sewer catch ba- sin alongside the break caved in, and pumps were. rushed to the scene to cope with the situation, Street cars. were re-routed tem- porarily until timber supports could he inserted to prevent a ser- undermined Australia, and was educated there ious cave-in, by his folks, who deserted the vaudeville stage when Andre ap- peared. Their retirement, how- ever, did not effect Beranger and almost from the day he was first able to walk he could be found around the stage entrance of the old Princess theatre in Sydney. Soon he was given small hits and when an American theatrical pro- ducer, on a visit to the antipodes, offered to take him to New York, be accepted with alacrity. After several years on the stage fn New York and Chicago, he drifted futo the old Biograph stu- dios and obtained a job as a dl- vector, Directing was not his * dont, however, and he soon re- turned to the grease paint, A year later he moved to Hollywond and there he has been ever since. Some of the most recent pie- tures in which he has appeared are "Fig Leaves," 'So This is Paris" and "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." of next week. The scene is from 'The Small Bachelor," which M Sma Fi y Mgr. Marks has ar- ranged to be shown at the New Martin i ar Theatre starting Monday Something Entirely Difterent! Monday Tuesday Wednesday 50-ARTISTS-50 MANNEQUINS -- SINGERS DANCERS -- COMEDIANS and BIG DANCING CHORUS Gorgeous Clothes! Beautiful Etfects! llluminated Runway! NOTE :--During this engagement our regular picture program will be cancelled, both afternoons and evenings. NOW AT BOX OFFICE All Seats Reserved 50c -a a Is it Possible Beauty Market is Overstocked? Hollywood is to have a Sherry's restaurant of jit sown. Mr. Ro- bert Sherry, last of the cafe own- ers of that name, is in Hollywood with his wife looking oyer the boulevards, investigating the other cafes that meet with local success and forming his plans for the new venture. The Universal studio reopens April 27 after a two-month shut- down, The time for opening the new Mack Sennett studio remains indefinite. Warner Brothers is slowly starting into activity after being closed since Christmas, but Educational, Christie's and a num- ber of the other old time movie plants are still closed. The extra girl, that beautiful but anonymous creature of cherry lips, sheening tresses, and frosty eyes is to have her night of glori- fication here on April 11 in the first annual motion picture extra girls' frolic. The event will be beld at an oceanside ballroom with the waves lapping beneath the or- chestra floor. Judges will choose the "ideal extra," the best horse- back rider, the best swimmer, best bathing beauty, (there is a decided difference between extra girls who are swimmers and extra girls who | are bathing beauties), cleverest dancer, most perfect figure, pret- tiest long hair, niftist bob, ete. The judges will be casting diree- tors who are used to judging ex- fra girls with chilly impersonality. The world's' most beautiful ashiers and soda clerks take in rickels and dimes between - the 'ounters in Hollywood. There are beauties with long curving lashes and dimpled cheeks serving roast beef sandwiches in the lunch counters. girls prettier than the soap and cream ads who do moth- ing but take your checks in the cafes of Los Angeles. All this beauty is the backwash of the movies. Girls who won beauty contests in many cities came to Hollywood, got one chance, or maybe only an extra role in the pictures and either dida't want to 20 home as failures or else they lack the car fare. Hollywood em- ployers demand more in the way of prettiness and pay less money for it in employing young women than "ONG SHOTS AND CLOSE UPS FLICKERS FROM FILMDOM AND GOSSIP OF THE SCREEN A GENERAL REVIEW OF SCREEN ACTIVITIES Be Good." with Mulhall and Mackaill, usual jealous somebody. The children will love this. night and drown his family, first to last, hopeless anaemics, is their last picture together. his life. for witchery. most beautiful sweethearts. No use asking anyone if they like the musical comedy, "Lady That goes without saying. National acquire the rights and make it into a co-motion picture? And now that you know its been made into a picture you won't ex- pect it to bear any striking resemblance to the musical comedy. thought not. Just as well--you're not going to be disappointed. We might say this: that "Lady Be Good" in its scenario form is the best story that Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill have had in a long time. It covers mostly the trials and tribulations of vaude- ville artists with a splendid dash of drama thrown n. Jack Mulhall's performance is excellent. gician whose ambition is to play one of the big New York houses, Jack's work is second to none. And that winning smile of his! Mackaill, as his assistant, looks prettier than ever, Dot Farley, a Senett graduate, and one of our best screen come- diennes, gathers a few laughs on her own account and so it goes with Jimmy Finlayson (late of the Hal Roach and "Our Gang" comedies and who is now free lancing), Aggie Herring and Yola D'Avril. John Miljan gives a smooth version of what a heavy should be in a role of dancer with another vaudeville act on the same biil His wife, played by Nita Martan, is the Otherwise, who would First 1 As the struggling ma- Miss Richard Wallace who is one of our very youngest directors, I mean in years, is responsible for the excellent direction; the photo- graphy by Dev Jennings and the titles by Garrett Graham help to make an evening's pleasant entertainment. credited with the adaptation and continuity. There are pigeons, geese and many well known tricks dear to the hearts of magicians and there is noth- ing in the picture to make an honest taxpayer rush out into the Good wholesome entertainment from Adelaide Heilborn is Fine Team's Last and Best Why Mr. Samuel Goldwyn plans to break up the Colman-Banky team is a mystery to us unless he feels that starring them indivi- dually he can make more money. a strong person break down and weep, especially after seeing their last, "Two Lovers," which, dear friends, is the trite title for Bar- oness Orczy's famous *Leatherface'" novel, fifty million people would he wrong in thinking that 'Leatherface'" was but another ringside mitten story, hence the change. Well, the powers that be could have renamed it "Crashing Glasses' or given it a number, and we'd still be strong for it. What a picture! Fights, love, interest, intrigue and mystery--enough of each to make it mighty interesting, especially the love scenes. Ronald and Vilma make the world-wide and renowned lovers look like a bunch of You'll never forget them, especially since this If 1 were to do Ronald Colman and his work full justice, my friends would say I had been holding out on them--that in spite of my denials, I really have a screen dol. As for the lovely Miss Banky, she has never appeared more ex- quisite than she does in "Two Lovers." Mr. Fred Niblo, the director, has picked a wonderful cast. Noah Beery villains his way acceptably through the picture, while Nigel de Brulier, Helen Jerome Eddy and Virginia Bradford have very important bits and there are a dozen or mote in the cast whose names mean much in motion pictures. Fred Niblo surpasses himself in his direction of "Two Lovers." There is not a dull moment in it and the picture shows evidence of careful study to the smallest detail. more of the Orczy stories screened. (George Barnes never turned out better photographic work in He couldn't have, or he'd have been burned at the stake Alice D, G. Miller wrote the scenario, and while I can't recall who received credit for the titles, they are very clever and tend to make "Two Lovers" a fitting farewell for the screen's In any case it's enough to make More than likely some It makes one wish to see any other community in the world. It is" because beauty is a drug on the market here. Hollwood hears the story that the Duncan sisters turned their hacks on the movies because one of the big producers made them no better a proposition than 65 per cent, of the profits for himself, thirty-five to be divided between Vivian and Rosetta. They are in- terested in a New York stage run in the autumn. Twelve years ago Tom Jones, a manager of prize fighters, told his protege, Jess Willard, to buy a parcel of property in what was then the wheat fields of Holly- wood. Willard, then the world's champion, and now a Hollywood real estate dealer, demurred, but finally paid ten per cent. down and contracted to pay the rest in ten years. Willard recently sold ers, a syndicate of real estate and movie folk, figure they will make $50,000 more on it. GEN. McRAE, INJURED BY FALL, SHOWS STEADY IMPROVEMENT Ottawa, March 16.--The condi- tion of Major-General A. D. Me- Rae, M.P., was improved today. General McRae is in the Civie Hos- pital suffering from a fractured skull, received when he fell on the ice on Parliament Hill on Tues- day evening. Following the daily conference with Dr. J. ¥. Kidd and Dr. J.D. Courtney, Dr. F. W. McKinnon fs- sued the following statement: F. TRAIN Manager of Luke Furmiture Co., he. Tie isted the Osh Merchants greatly by loaning suitable furniture for stage set- tings in the "Spring Style Show." the lot for $175,000 and his buy- | | : Big Chance Taken In the Filming of "Bride of Colorado" It just seems too had that after going through all the red tape necessary to photograph operas in and around governmental af- fairs the result should be an of- fering such as "The Bride of the Colorado" has turned out to be. "The Texas Steer" was a very fine, or rather, terrible example. It looks as though the producer ran himself ragged trying to tie up with these rather forbidden loca- tions and had little or no energy left to make his story, if you know what we mean. In the making of "The Bride of the Colorado," the Bray-Pathe ex- pedition had the world with them --radio, money and the best as- sistance that could be had in the making of a motion picture. It should have been another "Grass" or "Chang," but apart from its breath-taking background, tis just another day, wasted away. Piti- ful story with a hero and heroine practically unknown to the public and a story whose end can be seen right at the beginning. In so many instances the picture dwells on the man-with-man strug- gle that the expedition, which really is man's struggle with na- ture, is completely obliteratea-- and all through a trite story. The story may have been there at the start. So often, in the mak- ing of a huge outdoor picture 'here are so many obstacles to vercome that it is pretty hard 9 stick closely to the script. El- ner Clifton has made some very axcellent pictures, one of which we will never forget and that was the whaling story, "Down to the Sea in Ships," in which the flap- ner red-headed Bow got her first big chance. Denison Clift, the wcenario writer, is a pastmaster 'n his own craft, so it would look as if it were nobody's fault in par- ticular that the picture doesn't slick. Oh, yes, they have everything in the "Bride of the Colorado" -- airplane ressues, rapid shooting, Yoats overturning aud rescues be- 'ng made where cliffs rise thous- ands of feet straight up and many ather challenges to the audience's ntelligence, and in the end virtue 'riumphs. And for this grand and vorgeous expedition in the almost as grand gorgeous canyons of Ari- zona and Colorado, human lives were endangered to an extent, well, almost unbelievable. They Took Real Chances You probably read of how one- halt the expedition got lost when To Open "Sle Show" AA MAYOR ROBERT D. PRESTON Who will officiate at the opening of the hig style revue opening at the Regent Theatre Monday evening for three days. A num- her of Oshawa's leading mer. chants will displa; the latest creations in wearing apparel in addition to one of the snappiest amateur productions ever staged in this city. they first went down into the can- yon. That was no publicity stunt, it was the real thing. I had it first-hand from one of the camera- men, and he doesn't throw it on for anybody. Not to. this particular camera- man goes the honor of having given to us some of the mrost gor- geous and thrilling photosraphy we have ever seen on the screen. but to a chap named Sartoy. Wait until the producers of the "Trail of '98," see his rapid shooting scenes. They'll just lie down and pass out of the picture with envy. You may recognize John Boies 18 the chap who played opposite Gloria Swanson in one of her re cent pictures and he will probably be the only one you will recog- nize. Boles does very excellent work and is good to look at. We're still in a quandary over the titles ----some very good and some very bad with Edwin Justus Mayer re- ceiving screen credit for them. The epic of the mighty Colorado still remains to be epic-ed. How- ever, if you are a glutton for pun- ishment in the form of hand-to- hand fights, magnificent scenery and impossible situations, you will sit through the showing of this picture, then go home wondering what it was all about, Every neighborhood has its Peck's bad boy and Hollywood has Wallace Beery; a grownup kid with a bass voice, his shoe strings untied, a smear of jam on his cheek and some fishing tackle in his pocket, Beery is perhaps the only great comedian who is just as funny otf the screen to his friends. Were he not a giant in size he would be almost impish. As it is, he is the soul of goodnatured mis- chief. One day recently Beery bought a new hunting dog. He wanted the dog to meet all of his friends and to understand how pictures are made "so the dog would not feel embarrassed when talking with the highbrow dogs of Holly- wood who know more about movies than their masters." With the dog on his shoulder Wally started on a personally con- ducted tour of the Paramount stu- dios. He walked in on important conferences where Jesse L. Lasky, B. P. Schulberg and E. Lloyd Shel- don were discussing a new pro- duction, and very gravely said to the dog: "These gentlemen are having a conference. Now you know what a conference is Ike." The dog picked up his ears smart. ly. Without a 'word of recogni- tion to anyone present, Beery clos- ed the door behind him and went from place to place remarking to the dog: "This is the cutting room, where they try to spoil my pictures," or "This is the public- ity department where my personal staff of biographers hang out; this is the carpenter shop made up of men whose hands are all thumbs; this is the art department where famous artists come to learn how to draw; this is the electrical department--a shocking place--I shouldn't have brought you; we call this a set, see, a picture is be- ing taken with Brother Noah fin it. 'Isn't Noah cute? I'm teach- ing him to act."". , , and so on all over the lot, paying attention to no one but the dog. In "Old Ironsides," with James Cruze directing, Wally had - the time of his life. Stars came to Catalina Island in expensive yachts. Wally rigged up a *'sea- going bath tub," a little shell of a hoat with a tiny motor, steered with a rope, and sailed proudly among all the high-powered ocean palaces. He loves hunting and fishing above everything and spends most Wally Berry, Great Comedy Gent, Whether it be Business Or Not, is Coming to Oshawa Big Style Revue Jo Be Elaborate In All Respects With assurances from every hand that this spring's fashion revue opening at the Regent Theatre Monday evening will surpass any previous showing of the latest modes, interest throughout the city is intense. The leading merchants of the city who are taking part in the revue, have spared no effort to satisfy even the most severe critic. The articles to be dis- played will equal anything that can be seen in any of the larger establishments in the largest cities, The evue together with amateur production to be staged will occupy the entire evenings Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- day, of his time between pictures at an island which he bought two years ago in the middle of a mountain lake. The latchstring {is always out to his friends, whether he is there or not. In "Wife Savers," the latest Wallace Beery-Raymond Hatton comedy, Wally was in his element working with such jokesters as Ford Sterling, Tom Kennedy and ZaSu Pitts. Ralph Cedar, the di- rector, had his hands full, when his gang fell under the leadership of Wally, the Scamp of the Screen. This picture is now playing at the Regent Theatre and if you want to see Wally at his best, cutting up for the sheer joy of creating nonsense, and making people laugh, don't miss It, PRIVATE-- --PARTIES Arrangements can be made at the office of the Oshawa Winter Gardens urpose of Private arties, etc. Every Convenience at Moderate Charges E. O. McCROHAN for the Starting In Oshaw m.-- Jesus {| ' : Service. san-Ruma quarrel. /'s sessio THE BIGGER THEY ARE----THE THE HARDER THEY WILL FALL! MONDAY SEE IT! It's a Dandy I NEW MARTIN THEATRE a ----------- I t's Laughin Nitro . Glycerine A couple of crooks, a jealous suitor, and a2 belligerent mother can make things hum for a beautiful girl and a small bachelor who has decided to stop bacheling. P. G. Wodehouse gure steps on the laughing gas. If his Liberty story was a wow, this is a wow-wow} One of the Best Comedies Shown This Season at This Theatre Another Smashing Comedy "Disorder Orderly" --also NEWS FOX