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rith such agonizing results—a color __AMUSEMENTS._ ‘r lcture will seem the only possible a Wife’ Color Film Gives hlng And, In like ratio, a venture Takes Beauty a to white will have the lie Farmer In “The of Innocence” j black and Age une effect on us as a silent movie Ann New Zest i iow does. Season at National Of Harding We remember how we all felt about Opens t he first talkies. Dr. Kalmus agrees rlth me that injudicious use of color Canal Life Shows Walter Wanger Production Foreshadows Prob- i las crippled some of the Initial ven- Very Pie asing Play of Erie ures In this medium. The next two able Day When There'll Be no More r aen to apply color—Robert Edmond Unusual Attention to Detail and Keen ones and Walter Wanger—have, Dr. Black and White Pictures. i Calm us feels, ideal artistic flair for a Drawing of Characters. 1 enture in this new and difficult me- < lium. BY MOLUE MERRICK. < Copyright. 1934, by North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.). BY E. de S. MELCHER. Calif., October 9.—From time to time the went last at the National on, or curtain up night cinema industry has suffered color invasion, but with each Fay Wray Asks Final Papers. rather in the vicinity of the Erie Canal (pronounced succeeding development of this angle of picture making it LOS ANGELES, October 9 <&).— “canawl”). In a corner of Hennessy’s Hotel at Rome, N. Y., ,has seemed to me that the hopelessness of perfecting such middle 1850s a lady” was having two teeth !anadlan-born Fay Wray, movie ac- THEin the “fancy a thing became increasingly apparent. ress wife of John Monk Saunders, removed by Herb.Williams. In the foreground Gammy Hennessy When Walter told me that one of his first ventures In Wanger ; ilm writer, yesterday applied for (Kate was grousing away with Molly Larkins, who cooked the field would be “The Peacock an all-color Mayhew) production Feather,” f nal American citizenship papers. for Sam Weaver. Through the much-opened door streamed picture with Ann Harding for the star, I was convinced that he of warm-hearted ruffians their to the swarms beating way bar, was making a mistake. the that was to be from “I’ve in we and singing, later, song changed Despite tne iact mat wanger f lovea tne rneater. saw me _AMUSEMENTS. _ Been Working on the Levee” to "I’ve Been Working on the Rail- called my attention to our sensitivity ! f rst use of mood lights in “La road.” "Canawl” workers, all of them, they dreamed their dreams to color when we see it on the screen | C Ucuracha," but since that nim the NATIONAL I S3 on that body of water which opened up a new world for thou- and not when we look at. the world 11 gilts themselves have been Improved, | and which in the end was to be outdone by a railroad about us, this being due to our estab- I >r. Kalmus tells me, 100 per cent. Nights. 35e to $2.75; Wed. Mat 55* sands, to $1.65; Sat. Mat.. 55e to *2.2* to faster than four miles an hour. ilshed habit of the black and white g which had the temerity go Bhots of the sea around Carmel and motion remembrance of _ MAX CORDON m- mauer were picture, my n Out or the Erie uanai waiter way Margaret namutun, * ebble Beach are so the color ventures of left i unbelievably munds his novel. "Rome Haul.” in actress of great worth; past years dug Ralph Riggs, eautiful that you realize Dr. Kalmus’ IvuajlhZ*. Frank B. Elser jibbs Penrose and old Kate me negative about the entire project.; Around that novel good £ intention—“Give us subtle beauty of that When the to New wrote a play. And out of play ifayhew. play gets That was before I saw’ the color c oloring and we will photograph it 1 "The Fanner of fork the who j Marc Connelly, whose knowledge 18-year-old young lady tests of Ann Harding. I had been v 1th absolute verity; but give us hid- the theater allows him to wander into ilayed 8-year-old Della so nicely last told previously that such was this e dus brash colors (and how we have fi Takes a Wife" fashioned “The will be an unknown fields, has light replaced by 8-year- star’s enthusiasm over the results o' I f night to keep away from this in color A NEW COMEOY »Y last >ld Della. Farmer Takes a Wife.” Presented experiments in this newest medium ; s -quenees without success) and we FRANK 8. ELSER amt as the season's first play at the The sets, the cake, the old camera, night she had agreed to make a picture for 11 lust necessarily catch the precise col- MARC CONNELLY National before a large and continu* he moo-like sounds of the “canawl,” Wanger on a percentage basis, with o ring that is there in the scene be- | attentive audience, it seemed des- he costumes and Della’s ally pantalets the only requirement a demand that f ne us.” Next Week Mon. dif- also Bey. tined to thrive by virtue of its ire grand. This is most | it be made in color film. the interesting angle, HENRY HAMMOND. rreoenta ference, its color, its nostalgia for an- INC., Since Walter Wanger is one of the t j me, in the entire story of color. It ^ of a other day, and its story young most intelligent and thoroughly in- i in’t all up to the color camera. Much a woman OPERA SEASON OPENS man who persuaded young formed men in the creative end of o f it is up to the scene and costume I FRED STONE on a farm could be quite as ln that love this Industry today and Ann Harding c esigner. Lighting comes next, and 1 as love on a "canawl.” satisfactory St. Louis Hears Bori and Chamlee Comes under the head of “brains,” -most remarkable of all—Tile dual “JAYHAtfKER” GAYETY-BURLESK * * * * despite the fact that she is the most c amera method by which the new SINCLAIR LEWIS in Puccini's “La Rondine.’’ By Thu Week beautiful c Dior Is shot allows the to The distinguishing mark of this new woman in pictures, there producer and LLOYD LEWIS ST. LOUIS, October 9 seemed to be a catch somewhere. * stain the best takes both of color and play is its shrewdness of detail. It is (/P).—St, With Walter C. Kelly Foster and Kramers o f sound where heretofore a the little things that stand out rather Louis’ grand opera company opened All doubts as to the effectiveness of producer Nlghtn. 55« to 12.75: Wed. Mat.. SSa this latest color 1 as had to hit in between and com- to SI.65; Sat. Mat.. 55c to S't.'.'O nocL Show than the big. No character is larger development of and Big ;he Nation’s season last night in the romise with methods. than the play. Each little situation color-lighting are removed with the E half-way p music hall of the New Au- dovetails into the next with as nice a Municipal first glimpse of Harding. The new Walter Wanger believes a day will Coming—Billy Arlington catches the subtle c Dme when no more black and white flow as you could wish. And if noth- ditorium, with Lucrezia Bori and Mario process gradations THE PROGRAM of her delicate tones. The ash blond P ictures will be made. When the au- MOn^UNUiUAL CVElT ing very much seems to happen it is Chamlee in the principal roles of because the authors have chosen to Puccini’s “La Rondine.” of her wonderful hair—a pale beauty £ lence is no longer color conscious, so f ir as screen stick to the printed truth and to pic- The performance, with Gennaro Papl of eye that is seldom seen and con- the is concerned—and 1 iow voice conscious we were at ture the “canawl" in the full stream conducting, was the first of a group sidered practically impossible to cap- first, when the early this month ture with camera—skin tones that of its small time glory, yf eight being presented BENNETT Ferf morning dew found the boat captains yy the company, It followed a re- give you the actual beauty of Ann ISS5S22KWMHMMM ACADEMY s«uniRPhou>Uf lurching home through their alcoholic rival of grand opera here last April Harding, as you see her in the flesh, 4W«/MARt HALL E. Lawrence Phillips' Theatre Beautiful M MICHAEL ARLENS GENE RAYMOND. women of that in a that no black and JOAN CRAWFORD. fogs, and the young f when the auditorium building was perfection "SADIE MrKEE region were going to cook for their 5rst used by the public. wlute ever could do. _ OUTCAST lady: tCUTOM CLARENDON. VA. lords and masters. -» ■ ■ Robert Edmond AonlUN LEW AYRES. ALICE FAYS. authors Jones pioneered the NT Perhaps, at the moment, the SUPREME f NTf "SHE LEARNED ABOUT BAILORS field with “La Cucuracha” in this JTAIKMI have not reached out and grabbed all Util Ac N. C. An. 8.E. COLUMBO LETTERS GIVEN latest color process. Dr. who SMUT I CADAI IMA the drama that there is at hand. At Kalmus, MICHEL FOKlNEl LAKULInA Double Feature for many years has a "NOW I LL TELL" and "THE nOHTINO the finale of the play you have a brought great RAVEL'S I October 9 brain and an "BOLERO^ ROOKIE"_ that the advent of LOS ANGELES, (£>).— equally great judgment ■ IGOR. I sneaking suspicion LES SYLPHIOK’PRINCE non C -ios Pa. An- Pk. WE. oosl 'IS should in the to the application of color in pic- HB| UKU.t the railroad in that country Letters of administration Chuim c»>u*u*ufZ»i fuMf* Mat. TuM.. lillt.. Mu JUi to me that the PYUS ADAMS | RONALD have been made more of—that the tures, explains crea- COLMAN LORETTA YQCNO la estate of Russ Columbo, movie crooner ■BULLDOG tion of “mood which will MARVELITE I DRUMMED ItIIKII arrows which point to what eventually lights," BACK Todd-Kelly Obmady. -ecently killed by an accidental shot throw on the scene varying tones to No Better Paint Sold became the swansong of that canal Drying Lower Prices were ivick VUIT1DAIV1UI1 [ yf an antique dueling pistol, emphasize the emotional content of ■ rrmaornt Pure White BXNO CROSBY and have not been pointed enough. If you Colors hand granted by the Superior Court here the scene, will be used with new NA. 8901 1119 9th 8t. la SHI LOW Ml bend your ears to the task at j the N.W._ to his brother John. The _NOT Screen Souvenir___ will hear the distant hoot of the yesterday process very much as lighting is em- you insurance which and realize the that estate, exclusive of FAIR LAWN r>IArfA°°WY7?TARI>'^ln engines pathos ■•ONE MORE are was in tf vo*- of his mother, is valued comes of change. But if you RIVER."_ we it less tha.. $5,000. merely star-gazing at this play, PRINCESS wonder if you will catch the full sig- -« RAMON NOVARRO In LADOHUfO BOY " OOKS ANN SOTHERN In -TKg KlSj7 CRT* of its warm and purposeful nificance Screen Actress Weds. DUNNE, We have them Blank. ... a great stock Wednesday Special *«44 Gearria tn CCfO message. JC.W Sliver Sprlad, Md. * * * * HOLLYWOOD, October 9 (.4*1.— R-K-0 Keith’s on in the film version of Edith at Popular Prices Is coming to Friday Double Feature. Ernest Toigler, a friend of Barbara * brief of Wharton's popular novel, “The Age of Innocence.” John Boles plays “HALF A SINNER Through this chronicling screen actress, and Pritchie, young E. Morrison Co. DINNER JOEL McCREA. 8ALLY BLANE. and women on the canal Dunne. Paper rough men J. Ross Clark, 2d, socially prominent opposite Miss food of a 1009 Pa. NA. 2945 “LET’S TRY AGAIN* goes the gentler story young he Los Angeles broker, said yesterday j Are._Phone J DIANA WYNYARD. CLIVE BROOK. and a girl—a girl whose man young had received a telephone call from in life comes in cooking | Constance Talmadge in Hospital greatest joy Clark that the couple had married U. S. DEFENDS ACCUSED Little Neck STANTON and whose ideal man must be able I Cold E^,r.nCdSE**ulpV..t and were honeymooning in New York. HOLLYWOOD, October 9 (

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