Clarence Darrow Talks in Evolution Film at Cameo
Clarence I «.no» Talks •¦¦ Evolution fitiii at Cam^ STAGE .-MmXWm'l' MUSIC Holds Over at the RKO Cameo Theatre Clarence Derrow mad Dr. H. M. Parshley, professor of Zoology at Smith College,...
...But there Is the spirit of the First Negro All-Talking Film Is Now Finished New York's colony of colored actors are agog over the completion and private showing of the first all-talking motion picture made by the race for presentation to both white and Negro audience...
...Here to Europe we get violently tired of .Viennese charm as it Is artificially cranked up in banal little films and operettas...
...Tom Johnstone, author of 'Til Say She Is," and Normally Johnson, famous humorist, are providing extra dialogue...
...intermission...
...3. Bach...
...Harry Joe Brown dl- 1 rected the picture...
...Bacchanale, Oluck-Mottl Anna Duncan:' Magic Fire Scene iron: "Walkure," Wagner...
...The narrative has to do with a young girl, who, because of her i inexperience in judging human nature, falls prey to a fascinating but unscrupulous man...
...Parahley doing the talking...
...J Latell accompanied kjr *jM continue the fun...
...A Night on Bald Mountain, Moussorgsky...
...Hall Johnson Negro Choir...
...WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY IS Symphony No .3 in E flat ("EroIca"), Beethoven...
...Symphony No...
...Darrow, who expressed confidence on his sound judgment which would reflect his own ideal on the subject After that came the final cutting and editing, and it was considerably more than a year after Mr...
...Songs are being written by Nat Lief and Mac CI eery, Dorothy Fields and James McHugh, Walter O'Keefe and Bobby Dclan, Ira and George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Nat Mattlin...
...the dull master makes the dull bo v.—Austen Chamberlain...
...Selections, Hal Johnson Negro Choir...
...Around and about it all are swinging waltzes from the quill of Robert Stolz...
...Wynn show...
...Herr von Bolvary, you may recall, is the Teutonic megaphonist who showed American producers in his "Two Hearts in Waltz TirJe" that a musical film could be both artistic and highly successful at a time when those gentlemen had concluded it couldn't be done...
...who did so nicely by "Zwel Herzen...
...Air Gai—Lento from "Iphlgenla in Aulis," Bluet: Menuettc from "Kleine Nachtmusik...
...Aborn, for the Fall and Winter schedule, will turn to other of the imperishable scores, and the list is a long one...
...Darroxc Discusses Evolution in "Mystery of Life" Popular Film Now at Cameo Theatn _ ' Perhaps no other picture in nh: history has taken so long a time t edtt, or required such exhaustiv research as Universale "The My stery of Life," now in its aeconi week at the RKO...
...But that patrons of the dimtounitive playhouse on 57th street are in for a good time, may fairly be taken for granted...
...Milton Aborn Plans to Continue Comic Opera . , Revivals Indefinitely MtHon Aborn'e dream that New York snoujd boeet of a "Year "round" "light ana comic opera theatre, haa taken on somethingmore than-e&eral'form, for yesterday he concluded a deal with the Erlanger interests whereby his Cilhert'and~ Sullivan season will not only run" during the entire summer-, but" will extend throughout the whole winter, and there will be no kU» period <ot his forces intervening...
...Slavonic Dance No 10, Dvorak...
...Whether or not "Merry Wives" will repeat the phenomenal career of "Two Hearts" is something that only time will tell...
...Sweethearts, Naughty Marietta, and there will be given also such delightful though no-recently-heard operas as the Geisha, San Toy, Dolly Varden, Ermrnie, Madame Pompadour and so on...
...Under government orders she must pretend an attachment with a man ¦he dislikes in order to obtain valuable information which he • alone can impart...
...JULY 16 Assisting artist: Anna Duncan: Conductor: Hans Lenge...
...The rococo interiors wind their curlicues around our hearts, the slow-paced street scenes of Old Vienna give us for a moment the feeling that we would like to make a bonfire of all horseless carriages...
...Tchaikovsky...
...Till Eu lenspiegel...
...An Interesting commentary upon ' the appeal of pictures of the type of "Smart Money" is...
...George Kaufman and Max Gordon will give the finishing touches to the production...
...2nd half ol the program same as on July IS...
...Stanleigh Morrell, familiar as Noah's son, Ham, is the lead...
...As for the show itself, the dances are being staged by John Boyle and the skits directed by Ted Hammerstein...
...Players to Share Entire Profits of . "Shoot the Works** Heywood Broun and Milton Raison, producers of "Shoot the Works...
...As an extra added attraction, "Ubangi," amazing drama of the Congo Jungles, has been booked into the Beacon beginning today...
...Dances from "Prince Igor," Borodin: Waltz "Blue Danube," Strauss...
...The Gilbert and Sullivan series, like that of-the Victor Herbert revivals at Jolsoa's two seasons back, has attracted such extraordinary patronage that Aborn's judgment would seam to be well founded...
...The Mystery of Life" will remain at the Cameo indefinitely...
...Anna Duncan...
...At the FoTj^ -jjsM HbbbbbbbbbbbbbI II ¦ ^^Ibbbbbbbbsb >BI Ik m M%M I Le : ' ^^bb Warner Oland, as ks|H "The Black ObsbwvHH Charlie Chan TBs?Bsjf9 the screen...
...As a special added attraction...
...Irene Rich...
...Conductor Overture- Fantasie "Romeo and Jul let," Tchaikovsky...
...He plans revivals of such popular numbers as the Red pna...
...Tennyson...
...Arthur Hartley, Al Golde, John Clarke, Bartlett Simmons, Heywood Broun, Harry Herschneld, Nancy Carroll's newest, "The Night Angel," can now be seen at the "Hipp...
...California...
...Anna Duncan...
...If say soMtsrs were te reflect, net one of them would remain in the ranks.—Frederick the Great of Fras• • • Seetsty ¦ barbarous until every in<ha9w#fct*w> BMUB cs*n get his Hflngi Oar...
...After paying the penalty for an innocent share in her companion's crimes, the girl quits to go straight, only to be confronted by a blackmailing persecution that threatens to ruin her life for all time...
...Symphony in B Minor (Unfinished) Schubert: intermission...
...Beacon Theatre, Broadway and 74th St., beginning today...
...Trask, Berlin correspondent of the N. Y. Times: "A very cheering product of the German screen is the latest production of Geza von Bolvary, the director of "Zwei Herzen im Dreivlertel Takt" to which you were so good-humored to New York...
...WasylMJ laugh producing coanesr...
...city, with its transparent gayety ' and its heart-warming "Gemuet; lichkeit" (translate that if you , can) is transfixed with an agile rapier point...
...Selection...
...Mosart...
...Charles H. Moore, who plays the old Sunday School teacher, Mr...
...Seen in this show art Hadji All, "Mystic Enigma" with Gay leave, "Premiere Danseuse...
...The George M. Cohan Theatre, In which 'Shoot the Works!' will be played, has been given to the show on very generous terms by Mrs...
...Requiem for Or chestra (first time at the stadium) Rubin Goldmark...
...Women Men Marry" and...
...There will be no profit in this show...
...Lou Holtz at Palace Lou Holtz, one of Broadway's best liked comics, comes to the RKO Palace to headline the new bill opening Saturday, (July 11...
...the report that sixty percent of the audiences at the Winter Garden are women...
...Anna Duncan: Gavotte in 1 major (orchestrated by Spiel ter) Bach...
...Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour" at Warner Theatre Sherlock Holmes, world's greatest detective, steps from the pages of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated novels to the screen of the Warner Theatre today, when "Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour" has its American premiere at that theatre...
...This picture, said by reports from London to be a fascinatingly thrilling detective drama, was produced at tthe Twickenham Studios in England by Julius Hagen for distribution throughout the United Kingdom by Warner Bros...
...Aborn also lists, among others, Robin Hood, Merry Widow, Chocolate Soldier, Firefly, and the tuneful Bohemian Girl...
...The Pines of Rome Basntght THURSDAY EVENING...
...Enemies of the Law" is an original screen manuscript by Charles Reed Jones, and was directed by Lawrence C. Wtndom...
...Stadium Programs WHXBM VAN HOOGSTRATEN Conductor SUNDAY EVENING...
...He has in mind, for presentation about holiday time, a big production of Jack and the Beanstalk...
...JULY 18 Overture to "Oberon, Weber...
...In "The Black Camel", Warne Oland by seen once again as th bland Chinese detective whoa whimsical oriental proverbs are a much to the point as his def solutions in crime...
...Symphony in C ("Jupiter") Mozart...
...So evidently Little Carnegie, pioneer sponsor of so many unusual films, has again scored to securing this newest German importation...
...Leiflf mxum 1 Bernice Jarnot...
...Darrow and Dr...
...Well, here Is the word of Mr...
...The Black Camel on the silversheet and Fanehoi and...
...Ubangi" at the Beacon 'Women Men Marry" will be the attraction at Warner Bros...
...Three Hungarian Dances, (Nos...
...Conductor: Hans Lange: Overture tc "Leonore" No...
...It is based upon "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House," by Conan Doyle "TheBmwck CameT* Fine Mystery at Fox Brooklyn Big Stage Show Completes Bil ¦ Mystery and beauty are a emprrfied in both stage and scree fare this week at the Fox Brook lyn Thatre, with the latest Charli Chan triller...
...Mozart Gavotte from "Les Petits Riens...
...Young obtained Clareno Darrow's consent to do the talk ing...
...1930, Mr...
...What is taught lmJatefllfenUy Is ¦earned ssssssssskesssw...
...Owen Moore, often seen in more sympathetic parts, becomes a 'menace', and Hardie Albright progressing rapidily as a juvenile lead, provides the third side to the triangle...
...MONDAY EVENING, JULY 13 Assisting artists: Hall Johnson Ne gro Choir, Hall Johnson, Conductor Overture to "Rosamunde," Schubert Salome's Dance, Strauss...
...Maxine Levi* Joint OUen Club in Hollywood Maxine Lewis, musical comedy favorite, and who was last seen in New York to Earl Carroll's ''Vanities," is now making appearances at George Olsen's Club to Hollywood...
...Eva Nightingale, and the Sunkist Beauties...
...It had its premiere at the Ufa Palast, Berlin...
...the wicked Pharaoh of "The Green Pastures", is a dash" tog rancher...
...Joan Bennett Owen , Moore and Hardie Albright play , the leads...
...Lou Vernon, who has played Cain, has the role of a district attorney in the film, and George Randol...
...Helen Twelvetrees in 'A Woman of Experience* Begins Run at Mayfair Helen Twelvetrees, starring in the new RKOPathe Picture "A Woman of Experience," now at the Mayfair, has often remarked that she has been very fortunate in the type of roles she has had to play...
...Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart Phil Charig, Deems Taylor, Seymour Robinson, William Berkson, Bernard Mai tin, Richard Meyer, Joseph Meyer, Leo Robbins, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, Fain and Kaal, Peter Tinturin, Herman Hupfeld and Henry Sou vain e. "The following are appearing in the Show: Inez Courtney, Jane Alden...
...Deshee, to the Marc Connelly drama, is cast as the father...
...Darrow first became Interested that the picture was ready for record: ing in the sound studio, Mr...
...will make her ?alace debut, as a single, on the same bill with Lou Holtz...
...William Gaxton, well-known star >f stage and screen, recently in ¦Fifty Million Frenchmen," is alio a feature of the program...
...G. Robinson and \ ' Jos...
...Joan Bennett Is the girl...
...This is a very considerable advance over the previous work, both technically and photographically...
...e^ssv Wsm music and danr.ngaula* f lans presenting nwsssjsw art and atrenrth...
...Joe Leblang...
...Hush Money** With Joan Bennett at Roxy "Hush Money," the story of a • girl stalked by her past holds the screen at the Roxy this week...
...The Exile" will have , its premiere to Chicago...
...The" story briefly is this: Elsa finds herself in the centre of a political intrigue) in Vienna...
...JULY II aafSstmg artiste: Ball Johnson Ne sro Choir, Hall Johnson...
...And the delightful Viennese dialect drips pleasantly from the lips of the whole cast and especially from those of Paul Hoerbiger, who squeezes the last ripple of humor from the role of the father...
...The cast is headed by Kenneth Harlan, Natalie Moorehead, Sally Blane and Randolph Scott Charles Hutchison directed from an original story by John Francis Natteford...
...Miss Robert...
...3. Beethoven...
...when shall all men's rood Be each man's rate, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land...
...It is not a gangster film, although its 1 early sequences concern themaelv' es with the "con man" type of i racketeering...
...It is a dramatic subject, "The Exile", and among the cast were four representative artists 'from the Pulitzer Prize play, "The Green Pastures...
...Enemies of the Law*' At Strand Theatres "Enemies of the Law," an independently produced drama, with Mary Nolan, Johnny Walker and Lou Tellegen to featured roles, had its world premiere at the New York and Brooklyn Strand Theatres Thursday night, July 10...
...However, when the G. and S. gamut shall have been run, Mr...
...The members of the chorus are guaranteed $35 a week for two weeks, but will be paid $50 a week if the production is successful...
...He had known Mr...
...5 in C minor, Beethoven...
...cooperatrVe revue scheduled to open at the George M. Cohan Theatre during the week of July 20th, wish to make the following public announcement of the purposes and arrangements of their undertaking: "While there have been other cooperative ventures in the theatre, 'Shoot the works!' is the first genuine and above-board attempt to provide work for the actors...
...1, 3, and 10), Brahms...
...Robert Z. Leonard directed Miss Davies in aer newest production...
...Willy Forst Is at his agile best as Augustto, and he is surrounded by ten delectable girls who would make even Hollywood pale with envy...
...Is "Merry Wives" another "Two Hearts...
...She developed a real fondness for the character, Frankie, in "Her Man," and for Millie in the picture of the same name...
...This pictur was filmed in Hawaii where thi story opens with a Hollywood be duty murdered to a pavilion of he urious estate at Waikiki Beach Heading the cast with Oland, an Be la Lugosi as the sinister fortuni teller...
...In this Edmund Goulding production, as costar with Nancy, is Frederic March...
...The 1 conflict between her real love and - her pretended love, linked up with 'her rather shady past furnishes 1 absorbing material for the picture...
...Finlandia, Sibelius...
...C. Hooper...
...Richard Bennett,«Kent Douglass, Mary Duncan, Henry Armetta and many others...
...An organ fast led by Bob West music supplied by Sam Jack Kaufman's bend, a crooning solo by Eddie MagiU, and the Fox Movie. tone News complete the program...
...Fireworks, Stravinsky...
...The peer foals who fetter the shahs st freedom's aaartris da net knew thai the spirit of lately cause* be confined with chains.—Walter Hart...
...Sally Eilers and Robert Young as the romantic juveniles and Dorothy Revier, Victor Varc oni and William Post Alluring dancing girls, hypnotists sorcerers, and magic fakirs combine their arts to Franchon and Marco's "Moroccan" Idea on the Fox stage...
...Air for String from Suite No...
...All Hassan's Blue Streaks, James Gayiord, Sherry Louise, Gayl, Bert and Daro, Ferdna...
...All of the contributed songs and sketches are royalty free for the first two weeks of the engagement, after which time the authors will receive a nominal royalty somewhat below their usual percentage...
...Pictures Ltd...
...Marco's "Moroccan" lie gracing the stage...
...She will return to New York the early part of August to start rehearsals to the new Ed...
...Others to the cast are Alan Brooks, Harold Healey, Bert West and Jack Renault...
...On the stage is a Bght summer comedy program that make* for fine hot weather -Entertainment "Die Lustigen Weiher Von Wien,'* Now at Little Carnegie, Is Newest Viennese Film Operetta By Same Crew that Gave Us "Two Hearts** An important and Interesting opening of last week was that which took place on Thursday at the Little Carnegie Playhouse where Leo Brecher presented the latest work of Geza von Bolvary, a Viennese film operetta entitled "Die lustigen Weiber von Wien" or "The Merry Wives of Vienna...
...Behold In him the modern Socialist...
...The picture was directed for Fox by Sidney Lanfield...
...At the same tkne a young officer falls in love With her, and she with him...
...Polonaise Milltalre, Chopin-Glazour.ow...
...The Producer of "Th Third Little Show" n I ••.'NflHHH c- n jf '**^^^I!Bm^Bm^Bm:- [if f > &B\^BBBn ie WW' f ^''^'^bbbbbbbbbbbbbs I ^seaSsl BBBB^Bm ' 'bTbBmBBBBBBm wMBBBw^^B^^Bm BBBBBwa^BBBBm e r mm^^BBBBBWBBm « WB ^bbbb^^BBlBBBBBBBBBWBBBBBm * 11 f ^^B^BTJB^Bt i^bbbby e bbs mSW e I s- H r j l. Bs e e Dwight Deere Wlmaa has ant ether hit on his hands In "The -Third Little Show" at the Music Box...
...The film, which has been to work at Fort Lee for months, is the product not only of colored artists, but of a Negro producer, Oscar Micheaux...
...Sketches have been contributed by H. I. Phillips, Nunnally Johnson, Heywood Broun, Edward J. MacNamara, Frank Sullivan, Sig Herzlg, Howard Diets and Corey Ford, George Kaufman, Robert Benchley, E. B. White, Dorothy Parker, Newman Levy, Tom Johnstone, John V. A. Weaver and Lawrence Schwab...
...H. M. Parshley, professor of Zoology at Smith College, talking things over, fat "The Mystery of Life," drama of evolation, now in Its second week at the Cameo Theatre...
...1 The film was adapted from John Farrow's play, "The Registered ' Woman...
...Marion Davies in Fannie Hurst's "Five and Ten9* At Capitol Friday Marion Davies' latest starring vehicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Five and Ten" will be shown on the screen at the Capitol Theatre for the week beginning Friday...
...Selection...
...JJ9M On the stage are Ssf^M Joan Davis, eccentric mm and boy friend...
...Miss Lewis is also doubling at two motion picture studios...
...Sam Jaffe --- w^pp — V: he op >ears In "Grand Hotel" SM=> P—m-a Stmcsks is present-* »i the National Theatre...
...Anna Duncan...
...Cameo Theatn This work was conducted by . W W. Young, film editor for Claasi Productions, Inc., a company sped ally formed to produce this picture Having previously gathered i vast amount of film on the genera subject of evolution, which Is th basic theme of the picture, in Apr...
...Nan Blackstone, Joan Lowell, Barbara Hatch, Lee Brody, Katherlne Carrington, Evelyn Rue, Florence O'Denlshawn, Agnes Riley, Margaret Campbell, Edward I. MacNamara, Bobby Jarvis, Milton Douglas, Percy Helton...
...Cagney, Big Hit \ At Winter Garden ' Entering its third week at the Winter Garden Theatre, "Smart Money," with its double-draw of , Edward G. Robinson and James ' Cagney, is stepping along at a remarkable box-office pace and seems set for at least two or three weeks more...
...The new W and Marco Stage imB bines mystery asdkfl Big Summer Shoot "Hip**-Nancyim And Fred ManM Film-Fine BM Ideal summer enteS|H being served at ths wBj this week in the foiswl ville show liberally SbssM pretty girls and fuassjjH Nancy Carroll with PssjH to "The Night Anger t|fl screen romance...
...The extreme heat has hurt "Smart Money" hardly at all...
...H. M Parahley, professor of zoology a1 Smith College and weU-knowi author, was called in at the request of Mr...
...Air (Guardian Angel), Bach...
...FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 17 Assisting artist: Anna Duncan...
...Hall Johnson Negro Choir: Nutcrack er Suite...
...I "Smart Money** With 1 Ed...
...Feature of many Broadway musicals, and lately star in his own toow, "You Said It," Lou Holtz nay also be said to have a dia:erning eye for talent for it was n "You Said It," that Miss L-yda Robert!, who is thought to be the ind of the season, brought the attention of Broadway to her danring feet and ability as a cornedan...
...It catches the unadulterated aroma of Vienna to the year of 1875...
...Strauss...
...Five and Ten" was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by the famous author, Fannie Hurst An unusually brilliant supporting cast includes Leslie Howard, who plays opposite Miss Davies...
...that is, all of the money taken in above the running expenses will be divided equally among two classes of players— first the principals, and second, the members of the chorus...
...Who en the golden 'rale shall dare insist...
...TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 14 Overture to "The Bartered Bride.' Smetana: Suite for Orchestra, Op 19, Dohnanyl...
...SATURDAY EVENTNp...
...Darrov for many years and felt as die everyone else connected with thi enterprise, that on account of bit world-wide fame in connectioi with the Tennessee evolution trial he was* the logical choice for ex pounding the theory on the screen For the task of getting addi tional nature scenes and data fron all parts of the world, Dr...
...Selections, Hal Johnson Negro Choir...
...The Afternoon of a Faun, Debussy...
...RwsMsi with their lovely Rsssssssc Meltoo and Dolly flMsfi Pints of ComedESjJksk g radio and recQSJBPIshv{ Kentucky...
...Prelude to "Parsifal, Wagner...
Vol. 13 • July 1931 • No. 2