FLASHES SCREEN I Ceives Asking How to Get on the Stage
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THE SUNDAY STiAR, WASHINGTON, P. (V DECEMBER 30. 1928-PAKT 4. 3 Advises §tage-Struck Girls. \ One's Rating of Oneself. AS “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL” TJOLLYWOOD, the wicked, is turning r UCILE WEBSTER GLEASON, fa- BILLED * *• * Week sending This reformer, Photoplays J mous actress wife of James Glea- and is now out of the many letters she re- lessons in deportment, if not religion. son, tells Hollywood has discovered that the FLASHES SCREEN I ceives asking how to get on the stage. will never think more of any “Because I am older,” she says, “the wor\d THEATERS THIS WEEK. BY C. E. NELSON. girls write very frankly to me, telling one than he thinks of himself. And IN PHOTOPLAY me their ambitions and desires.” arguing from this premise, Alfred METROPOLITAN—“On Trial.” This afternoon and evening. is her advice, given to all the Santcll of the Hollywood motion pic- open Here of Vilma Banky, PALACE—“West of Zanzibar.” This afternoon and evening. have reached the jwith the Brunswick-Balkc-Col- girls: ture colony, director pickers lender Co. for years. ventures the suggestion that it is the Barker.” This afternoon and evening. season for the i | must have a good EARLE—“The ** * * “You education.! duty of every man to dress up to his of the “10 best of the• j Take advantage of your school oppor-| FOX—“Red Wine.” This afternoon and evening. year.” Film Daily.! own opinion of himself, WE The AND the movies are also going tunities and complete at least a high dressed men in the world,” Woman of Affairs.” This afternoon and “The best a makes its selections you consider leav- i COLUMBIA—“A periodical, into college and school life. school course before I says Santell. “will be found in Holly- evening. through the newspaper men of j ing home. Douglas Fairbanks, president of wood. They surpass even the punctilious LITTLE THEATER—“Napoleon.” This afternoon and evening. the country and it takes the the Academy of Motion Picture "Study French if possible, but by New Yorkers, for it is absolutely neces- bringing its sary, yearly lead in out Arts and Sciences, announces that all means perfect your English and en- ¦ Err 1 if fortune, and perhaps fame, are “Ten Best.” This writer has been large your vocabulary. to follow his footsteps, the screen actor METROPOLITAN—“On Trial.” Woman of Affairs” continue at Loew s the first of a series of talking pic- of asked to contribute his annual “Dancing and singing are most help- must have an extensive wardrobe play Columbia for their second week. The ture addresses planned for the nor must he overlook New York critics hailed the stage ful. I know' of one actress who gained street clothes; “On Trial” as a brilliant condensation picture, adapted from a story by “ten.” use of colleges and other educa- type and quality of his dressing Washington view- her first opportunity on the New York the of the most dramatic elements of a Michael Arlen, boasts of an all-star From the tional institutions has been com- stage because she could play a harp. gown, his sport clothes, and particularly it cast, which includes Lewis Stone, Ho- that the reason, score of famous murder trials when point. it would seem pleted by Milton Sills, the actor. “Never miss a chance to learn any- his dinner costume.” There's a began its 46-week run on Broadway. bart Bosworth, Dorothy Sebastian, selections narrow down to about It was recorded by Vitaphone at thing—it will all be useful some time. he says. first the Douglas Fairbanks, jr.. and John Mack women, first analysis, For the time it introduced 15 pictures, but of this number the Warner Brothers studio and “Prepare to work harder than you “Men and in the “flash-back,” previously used only in Brown. The story concerns an irre- selected “The public would have to in any other profession. form their opinion of a man by his was found particularly sponsible, vivacious girt with whom the the writer has will be given its first re- goes the movies. It Sons,” “Street You will sit in cold theaters to rehearse dress and poise. And this in the suitable for Vitaphone adaptation by character Gilbert impersonates is in Circus," “Four production during the National i they Patriot,” “Our and suffer exhaustion when in stock. | producing departments where em- Warner Bros, and was made into an all- love. His father persuades him not to Angel.” “The Danc- Convention of Teachers of Speech players. Daughters.” “Sunrise,” “Sor- I have gone to sleep on the stage from I ploy talking special with an all-star cast, marry the girl because he believes she ing in Chicago. sheer weariness during my stock com- “In consequence,” he says, the Holly- Bert Ly- will ruin the young man's future, and Son.” “The King of Kings,” either head l by Pauline Frederick, rel and The Sills speech in its recorded pany days. wood man, instead of being tell and Lois Wilson, and including he takes his father’s advice and marries Clown. Laugh” and “Sadie shabbily, dressed, is im- “Laugh. form marks a new departure in “Expect to reach Broadway in 10 i flashily, or Holmes Herbert. Jason Robards, Frank- another girl, while his real sweetheart Thompson.” If the list included I years—if you are lucky. Expect to re- maculately and perfectly groomed, so Johnny Arthur, Richard marries her brother's ideal. When this I educational methods and in the will lin Pangborn, 15 instead of 10 pictures, such public addresses. ceive about one-fourth of the salary ! that when out of the picture he Tucker, Edward Martindel, Fred Kel- ideal is revealed to her for what he is, Knows Best,” circulation of you hear that an actress gets. Most | look as well as he does at his best in it. she keeps silent rather than tell her films as “Mother The speech also inaugurates an mMm 4 £ ' |j disappears.” sey, Vondell Darr and Edmund Breese. “Chicago,” “The Man Who of this goes to press agents, etc. But j If he doesn’t, he simply The play opens in court on the first brother the truth. She mixes in the which the . • important program go ... Laughs,” couple of others most of all, prepare yourself to into day of a murder trial. The accused, fast set of Continental society. When and a academy has had in preparation other kind of work, for only one the has lover visits her might appropriately added. some friend and debtor of victim, she is ill her recreant be for some time for active co-opera- in a thousand succeeds on the stage, Receive Miillions of Letters. confessed to the crime. The testimony and finds he loves her as much as ever. The list of 10 selected gives the tion with the higher educational and unless you can earn a living other- r persons in Holly- of the widow, of the slain man’s private He is ready to sacrifice his home and quite you a time.” ! y'HIRTY-THREE secretary, prisoner's daugh- pic- Fox Co. of producers a show- institutions of the country. wise, will have difficult | A claimed, receive more of the little wife, but she sends him back. The Lucile Webster Gleason worked for wood, it is ter, of his wife and of the doctor who ture reaches its climax on the eve of a ing for the year. Three of the * * group of ** 23 years on the stage before she had ; mail than any other equal gradually pictures—“ Sunrise,” “Four Sons” world. They are the examined the dead man un- proposed elopement when she restores TAIRECTORS Lubitsch, Cruze ! a leading role—“Shannons of Broad- i number in the folds the dramatic story of love, hate, him to his family. and “Street Angel”—came from | way.” She made success, how- tars and featured players under con- : and Howard completed big j a great i: said to trust, deceit, strength, weakness and Vincent Lopez of orchestral fame the Fox studios. “Sorrel and Son” j VJ i ever, when her chance did come, tract, to Paramount. They are honor. Not till the final gripping mo- made by Artists, the i pictures during the past week. ! receive an average of 10,000 letters a makes the piano respond to his touch United * ment is the solution clear. was • a year. in a Metro Movietone act. Harry Rose, company the J After shooting hundreds of thou- jday, 250,000 a month, 3.000,000 supplementary' features will be same producing j post office The the Broadway jester; Van and Schenck, Chaplin picture, “The Circus,”, i sands of feet of film, Lubitsch an- Their mail is delivered to a the latest issue of the Metropolitan that he is the end of A Busy Builder. 10 by 15 feet in size—probably the and synchronized the Capitolians and Grace Rogers ap- “Laugh, Clown. Laugh” and “Our | nounces at j country. Topical Review a pear Movietone revue. The starring to shame the celebrated busiest 150 square feet in the Aesop fable, “Stage Struck.” in a Metro Dancing Daughters” were pro-; | “King of the Mountains,” ! jpUTTING because Fox Movietone News, the M-G-M News ! A one -armed paperhanger, Colleen Paramount, it is explained, duced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [ | John Barrymore. The players, receives more and a Thematic prelude by the Colum- the titlingdirector!and Moore is building three houses at once. of its contract PALACE—“West of Zanzibar." “The Patriot,” the Emil Jannings has also completed MISS DOROTHY KNAPP, mail than any other firm or individual bia orchestra complete the bill.