AMUSEMENT SECTION » . >i , Aviation, Stage, Screen and I .?v. Motor, Music Reviews | ^\\Z |$UttUctlJ |gul£ Radio Programs | U. C., 1931 Part 4—10 Pages WASHINGTON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, FRED STONE A GAR&O and. PAULA STONE ffi '5MILIN& FACES'*' RIO RAMON NOVARRO ’/ DOLORES DEL BELASCO ’MATA f anc(. LEO CARRILLO 'GIR.LOF THE RJO'-/f£77*S 1 5 tttfnt Su°° i Garbo Reaches Cinema New York’s WALTER HAMPDEN Symposium DE BERGERAC" 'CYRANO ^ MAURICE CHEVALIER* the Ailments IN PERSON Heights With Story of Diagnoses N A TIONAL Threatening Our Theater £ Executed Spy, Mata Hari Her Critics Receive Setback by Her Work in New- Blame Difficulties on M anhandling hy Playwrights | 4 est Vehicle—Columbia Theater to Be "Made and Remedy. AT WILL Incompetent Managers Suggest •the silent WITNESS' Over"—N ews and Comment of Film World. The Spiritual Element in Plays. (LIONEL By W. H. Landvoigt. By E. de S. Melcher. RETA GARBO has been ac- too: UT of the riff-raff drifting those who hoped to be. It seemed said, “Ah, she is so lovely!” cused of big feet. Which would indicate that her Great Me- wise then. And isn’t the failure having | in from the She is said to be the cold- dark of our present-day playwrights, glasses, and her feet, etc., what has in tropolis, telling even with our "superior est creature capitivity. mean less than nothing. been—and and acting,” flopped, in some attributable to Her eyelashes are reputed to be But she demands perfection in is to be—and degree what may flop— their inability to still maintain products of the corner drug her love scenes. That is why comes the of a Symposium a dolorous were report the suspense, to furnish the thrill store, and her face they rehearsed and worked on State the Theater. the of and to the that mask which is lit up only by a on so industriously before the like spring surprise Symposiums, investigations, drew the crowds in "the good old weak and vascillating smile. actual filming of the rest of the leave in seldom substantial joy times”? Her silence is said to be indica- picture. She works from 9 to 5 the world. The New York con- * * * * tive of callous cold contempt for —those are her hours. No one gress, however, developed enough is another weakness in brother and sister actors, her sees her before or after that. But t-o show “where we are at,” with rpHERE our theater of today, although art derivative only of a second- 9 to 5, regularly, and no tempests a hasty apology for the collo- off and emotionals in between it did not appear to receive men- I rate Swedish stock company times. quialism. tion in the New York in the land of fisheries and ice, That was how she did “Mata Owen Davis, for ages, symposium. playwright is its utter lack of and her moods as gloomy as the Hari.” Is credited with the opinion tnat It spirituality. Sex has been torn to tatters, but backbone of many of the films the present plight of the American it has never occurred she plays in. most exciting news of the Theater is due to the way it has apparently r]''HE to our better to Miss Garbo, in other words, has local cinema week was sup- been “manhandled” by “incompe- playwrights try j the of but the been hauled pretty thoroughly plied at a sunrise of tent producers” for the last 10 injection anything | preview base material in all their great over the coals. Her features are “Mata Hari,” when the press years. Elmer Rice, one of our others than considered some to be oracle of the Loew forces here in worthwhile modern works, even though by unpleas- playwrights, her nose a one J. announced is said to believe the de- ministers in the churches, who, antly triangular, long town, Lundy, remedy j those loose which neither haunts that the Columbia Theater will mands the organization of the perhaps, may also be among thing who think too much, and) nor attracts, her shoulders flat be “done over” sometime better managers in perceive during co-operation fact. It is to and and her the Summer. Those who have with the "banded and disciplined' bemoan the going j unprepossessing, eyes be a difficult to con- so in the essentials of suffered in silence now for the actors and dramatists.” Both are pretty thing j lacking vince even a maddened world that that their nearest few seasons and have nursed Pulitzer prize winners and, if they VIVIENNE OSBORNE beauty ally past man is not in some well be which bruised knees and broken backs have been correctly reported, both degree spirit- HUSBANDS HOLIOAV*-AftntOKtL/TAX might very optics ual as well as material, and also commandeer the existence of a in the various roosts of appear to be eminently correct in high up their conclusions. The eminent that there are not elusive quali- cat. the Columbia's numberless pent some call them In Miss Garbo now in critic who reported these gentle- ties, things, apart simple language, houses may rejoice openly from the mere clod, which lift him is said to be and men, however, was only “50-50.” ugly, long lean, the streets. Although nothing out of the muck and into the sun- and so robed in unconventional- further was said on the matter, He was minus in declaring shine of real which en- if were to meet her as to be that the Theater of today is su- living, ities that you it seems If there ought nobles the if will, and on the street and much truth in the as also perior to that of 25 years ago, dirt, you you might stop matter, makes it fit to be called and he is “all to the good”—again something look once—but never twice. that this should do much to mak- the handiwork of the Creator that colloquial habit—in saying People who have fathomed the ing all “Mata Hari’s” and such of the beautiful star-studded that “it ought not to be difficult above creeds should see this lady like all the more enjoyable. the of i to persuade our not heavens, exquisite sweep as the unfortunate spy in "Mata Other rejoicings of the past playwrights the JAMES to think too much about mountains, hills and valleys, CAGNE'?:f Hari.” Miss Garbo may have big week occurred at a Loew celebra- anything, YOUNG i even box-offices.” restless, mighty ocean. There is LORETTA feet, her eyes may be small, her tion at the Willard Hotel, at * l" — EAKLET RUTH CHATTERJON a love that is holy, a that TAX ,»p her new and purity *TDMOR.RjOW irvd TDHORROW"-fl<MCf face triangular, shoulders flat, which Carter Barron, the is undefiled, a host of glorious her nose an unprepossessing energetic and exceedingly genial virtues T TALF a cenury ago, more or that are quite comprehen- quantity, but as Mata Hari she managing host of the Palace A sible to the dullest intellect—even less, a gifted woman wrote a does nothing but create an illu- Theater, bestowed much cheer book called “Helen’s Babies,” that apart from what the flippant Battle of the sion of haunting greatness. Place around and about. Earlier in the modern is so often to term Kate Comes Home. Types. caught on like wild fire. One of pleased any cinema actress in the same week, too, the Fox Theater hon- “church bunk.” It not Its most intriguing incidents con- might pay rofe, dress her in the same dress, ored Jimmy Dunn at a banquet at first, if reintroduced in our blondes and brunettes live and love and die was cerned a youngster who tried to a on her face and a make her of unusual proportions, which and theater. But VIIITH smile J^ED-HEADS, he modern superior ” for motion and see if break into a watch, because whole library of songs in her have long been vieing the way La Garbo does, followed by a post-midnight pre- it would make some respectable a skim- “wanted to see the wheels go heart, or perhaps it mignt be better to picture supremacy. It would take a she doesn’t appear sorry viewing of “The Silent Witness,” the incident hearts learn to love the theater to her voice of wonderful ap- milk to the so that round.” Well, repeats say suited keen judge to pick the winner. replica compared which the guests enjoyed and, win them to her among the itself in our modern movies, bless again, perhaps, peal, that has placed most triumphant actress in the one eminent spirit of the press and for so. and Each side has its champions, the for the movies are our modern come there pay doing highest paid stars of the stage films! be shown over ’em, is blondes led by Marlene Dietrich, suggested that it * * * * radio today, "Our Own Kate Smith" being “Helen’s Babies.” For, very early Greta Ann Harding, Tallulah ‘‘Mata Hari” is by no means a later in the week. going to outshine everything at the Garbo, again in their Bankhead and Carole Lombard: the merit. The ---•---- sweet, young lives, they DOSTANDS are rare in the art R-K-O Keith Theater for the cur- picture of unusual to take their admirers into red-heads by Carroll and Peggy of began of in an age rent week at least. And, say, Kate is Nancy story is a standard version any them playwrighting Shannon, and the brunettes by Joan Bicentennial their confidence and to show mor- tickled to death.