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PAGE TWO INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SATURDAY, FEB. 1, 1930 ‘NEW MOON’ BREAKS HOUSE RECORD TBPS 51!,10 IN ESTELLE MATTERN 1^^ : ' ' Mw HHBilMBWIfc i w- : i MMjBgi " - ^ ■Mr - is , ieillglili« EBBR —I— llliillisa .. ” m Meyer Golden’s Dance Fables Featuring ESTELLE MATTERN and Stuart Farrington with Fred Taggart—George Spanover Dolly O’Brien Now R. K. O. Circuit IEFII II TALKIE PROTEST (Continued from Page 1) broadcasters will see the wisdom of giving careful and intelligent study to this far-reaching situa- tion.” The following is the text of the communication ,framed for signature by the . consuls and other Spanish-American leaders: “A question of the utmost im- portance confronts all Spanish- speaking workers whose liveli- hood depends on their employ- ment by producers of talking pic- tures in Hollywood. Denied Employment “It is reported from many and authoritative sources, that Holly- wood producers of Spanish talk- ing films have decided to employ only actors and actresses who speak the official court-language of Spain, the so-called ‘Castillian Spanish.’ As a result of this al- leged decision, thousands of ac- tors and actresses whose native speech is not that of the Span- ish court have been denied em- ployment. “Assuming a ground of truth in these reports, we, the nation- als of the Spanish-speaking re- publics of North and South Amer- ica, desire to present these facts for the. information and consid- eration of the Hollywood pro- ducers of Spanish-speaking films. “1. Only .a portion of natives of the Spanish peninsula speak the so-called Castillian. There are several distinct languages in Spain in regions where Castillian is not the language of the people —notably Basque, Catalonian, Ga- licia, Asturias, and even in An- dalucia, Estremadura and other parts. “2. All Spanish-speaking re- publics of North and South Am- erica speak and write a gener- ally uniform language< Castil- liart in written form, with modi- BOB MURPHY OPENS A ‘GOOD-EATS’ CHOP HOUSE Bob Murphy, first of the m. c.’s and a big name on the Keith- Orpheum time for years, is open ing a restaurant under the name of “Bob Murphy’s Chop House,” on Robertson Boulevard, midway between Culver City and Beverly Hills. Opening was Thursday of this week., with two sittings, the first from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m., and the other from 7:30 on. Says Bob: “There will be no pigeon’s eyebrows, no filets of hummingbird’s tongues, just the good old substantiate headlined by that New England favorite of favorites, Ham and Cabbage.” Says Bob, furthermore: “To the professionals we promise you that good old personal service.” fications of idiom and pronuncia- tion. Other Points “3. The total population of Spain is 21,000,000. “4. The total population of the Spanish-speaking American re- publics is 60,000,000. “5. The chief market for Amer- ican-made films is in the Span- ish-American republics. “There are other points, not susceptible to munfericaj refer- ence, which should be consid- ered by producers who wish to turn out authentic and acceptable pictures for the Spanish-Ameri- can market. These include: The inevitable resentment of the Span- ish-American audiences at hear- ing in talking films nothing but what is to them a dialect from the Iberian peninsula; a dialect furthermore, which brings up po- litical and social differences of long standing and fruitful of acute controversy. “The producers of Spanish- speaking films, we urgently re- commend, should follow in all cases the same procedure which is followed in English-speaking talk- ies. No one uses actors addicted to Scotch burrs for pictures of Texas locale; nor the Oxford ac- cent to portray the speech of Al- MAJESTIC THEATRE The first week of “New Moon” at the Majestic, Louis O. Macloon and Lillian Albertson’s finest musi- cal production, broke all records for this house, topping $18,000. At no performance during the week was there any vacant seats, it was said. The Mason, with the Chauve- Souris in its second and last week, also d i d phenomenal business, reaching the $18,000 mark. This house* is now dark with nothing scheduled for the next several weeks The Biltmore, now show- ing a picture, will open in three weeks with George M. Cohan in “Gamblers.” At the Mayan, “Oh, Susanna” grossed $16,000 and is now in its final week. Next week, “Bam- bina,” a locally produced musi- cal show which clicked resound- ingly for three weeks in San Francisco, will be the attraction. It is featuring Nancy Welford, Al St. John and Marie Wells. The El Capitan has been go- ing strong with “The Boomerang” getting $5800 last week. It is now in its closing chapter. Next Sunday Mary Boland in “Ladies of the Jury” is the attraction. At the President, Henry Duffy and Dale Winter close with “The Cat and the Canary” next Sat- urday giving way to Kolb and Dill who open Sunday in “Give and Take.” The present show got $5800 last week. Fine takings for this house. The Hollywood Playhouse is still going very strong with “It Pays to Advertise” starring Robert McWade. They box-officed $5700 last week and are in for an in- definite run. The Belasco is still playing “Journey’s End” to fair returns, Lucile La Verne opened at the Vine St. last Sunday and reports have it that she is drawing fine houses. Last Monday the Holly- wood Music Box opened with the Civic Repertory Theatre showing “And So To Bed.” FOX BUYS SAN BERDU THEATRE FROM McKEON Fox West Coast Theatres has purchased from the San Bernar- dino Theatre Holding Company, of which John McKeon is president, the Fox Theatre in San Berdu. The amount involved is said to approximate $600,000. Beside a theatre of 2000 seats capacity and considered the finest in the Orange Empire, the prop- erty contains seven stores and seventeen offices. Fox West Coast Theatres have been operating the theatre on a rental basis since its opening on Sept. 20. DENIES MARRIAGE STORY SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30— Eddie Barton, stage hand at the Casino, rises to deny a recent story in Inside Facts to the ef- fect that he was recently married to Fay Childs, show girl. Only an idle rumor without foundation or truth, says Barton. abama; nor the Irish brogue for pictures which depict life in Dor- setshire. This is elementary com- mon sense. Result In Disaster “No producer of intelligence, and no producer who wishes to avoid bankruptcy, would use Cas- tillian actors in a film portray- ing Mexican life and intended for Mexican consumption; nor would they use Chilean actors who could not assume the Castillian dialect for a picture depicting a story in Burgos and intended for Castil- lian consumption. “We feel, therefore, that any attempt to impose upon the talk- ing-pictures in Spanish any one dialect, idiom or language, would result in disaster, financial and artistic; cause irreparable mis- understandings between Ameri- can producers and Spanish-speak- ing audiences; work hardships on actors and actresses of both Span- ish and Ibero-American origins, and create a situation difficult of solution and perhaps impossible of reconciliation.” Directoral Deftness The finesse of directorial touches, which rose to a great height in the days of the silent pictures, is rapidly gaining ground in the talkies. During the past week three pictures were on view which had direction of superior merit in certain of their sequences. This is noteworthy, as just now are the talk- ies beginning to show that straightaway direction is inferior to deft handling of conversation angles, much as the silents were subject to deft handling of camera angles. The three pic- tures are “The Rogue Song,” “Anna Christie” and “The Love Parade.” Ernst Lubitsch, director of “The Love Parade,’” has brought a new technique to the talkies, and one which, until overdone, as it no doubt will be, is extremely engaging. It is used in the picture several times, but one instance will suffice to show its substance. The queen (Jeannette MacDonald )and a courtier (Maurice Chevalier )are supping together. Lubitsch was faced with the necessity of getting over a love interest, not too rapid in devel- opment and not too slow in footage. Showing the ordinary evo- lution of love would have been a tedious process, so the direc- tor introduced a sort of Greek chorus, compounded on the one part of cabinet ministers and on the other of two servants. Shots of them were played for comedy, keeping the picture bright, and yet at the same time their comments on what was happening in the queen’s chambers, switching the scene amid the three points of the choruses and the room itself, got over with extreme rapidity the gradually devfeloping love. And all with laughs. Most excellent talkie finesse. Lionel Barrymore, director of “The Rogue Song,” likewise pioneered with angles of sight and sound. In one scene the story called for Lawrence Tibbett to strangle the heavy, played by Ulrich Haupt. Such a scene in sight and sound threatened to be unpleasant. But Barrymore solved the difficulty by having at one side of the scene a window through which came the modified light of night. The rest of the scene, the major por- tion of it, was in darkness. Haupt is in the room, Tibbett en- ters, seizes him by the throat and they fall together into the darkness, where the slaying is done. Not at all horrible, as would have been the case had it been handled otherwise, ’and a marked tribute to Barrymore’s directorial shrewdness. No such striking example as either of these was in “Anna Christie,” but the picture had many touches which showed a marked subtlety and understanding of the possibilities of the new medium. RADIO PICTURES GET SET FOR BIG START George K. Spoor and P. J. Ber- tram, wide screen experts who re- cently brought the first Spoor equipment west for use at the Ra- dio Pictures’ studios, have left again for New York. The equip- ment is now being installed at the wide screen theatre recently built on the lot. The 'two experts will return for start of “Dixianna,” which will be Radio’s first big screen offering. This will probably start late in February, as Bebe Daniels, the star, has another picture to do first. Prospects are that it will be shot on the new mammoth stage now under construction at R-K-O. The first division of the stage is already completed. There will be four such divisions, all capable of handling companies for big screen shooting. SERENADE SICK GIRL As a compliment to Joan Ar- tell, musician and prima donna who is convalescing at the French Hospital from an appendix opera- tion, Pierre Carta, violinist, who was former head of music at Paramount and J. Marc, French cellist, both of whom are at pres- ent on the music staff of Fox Studios, brought their instruments to the hospital last Sunday eve- ning and entertained the patients with a concert, playing from Miss Artell’s room. The concert lasted half an hour, the program consist- ing of both classic and popular numbers. PREMIER PARTY Dedication ceremonies will mark the formal opening of Premier Pictures Corporation’s new studio on Glendale boulevard next week. Joe Rock, president, will hold a “house-warming” which will be attended by more than one hun- dred motion picture celebrities and executives, city officials, newspaper folk and others. KAYE IN FIFTH WEEK Eddie Kaye, formerly with the vaude act of Manning and Kaye, and who completed the Pan time just before the sale of the Pan- tages_ Theatres to Warner Broth- ers, is now in his fifth week as master - of - ceremonies at Coffee Dan’s here. WILL GO TO S. F. Bud Murray,who staged the dances and ensembles of “Oh Susanna,” operetta now at the Mayan Theatre, and Bakaleinikoff, its musical director, will go to San Francisco with the show for the opening. BE TOLD MEETING (Continued from Page 1) Robert Edeson, Lloyd Hughes, Richard Tucker and Rod La Rocque. On the subcommittee which met at the Roosevelt Monday night, and which is drafting the pre- liminary report for submission to Hollywood’s acting professionals are Irving Thalberg, Mike Levee, Lawrence Grant, Conrad Nagel, Sam Hardy, Jean Hersholt and Wallace Beery. BERT DE VORE DIES H STEELTON FROM CANCEI Bert DeVore, age 46, died Jar 17 at Steelton, Pa., of cancer." De Vore will be remembered in th early days of the Mack Sennet lot, where he was a comic. H was injured in a fall and force* to retire as a motion picture actor He then joined Lew Worth in ; blackface act and teamed with hin for 10 years after which he wen on the road as field man for th Bert Levey vaudeville circuil In 1926 he bought the Rainbov Theatre in Great Falls, Mont., am the following year opened a vaude ville exchange in Sioux City Iowa, and in Omaha, Neb. During the early part of 192‘ he went on the road for the clul department of the R-K-O in Chi cago where he was taken ill h August and sent to a hospital, h the Actors’ Fund, for an operetioi from which he never fully recov ered. He is survived by a soj and two brothers. Interment wa fn Steelton, Pa. JUDELLS WITH “SUSANNA Charlie Judells has been signe as stage director for “Oh, Si sanna,” now playing at the Maya and soon to go to San Francisc* The play was directed for il opening and first two weeks b George Rosener, who recently n signed from the post to return t picture directing and writing, fc which he was brought west b M-G-M. LOOKING FOR DANCER The Earle Wallace Studios Stage Dancing has begun the lection of a unit of 16 girls to : pear in motion pictures at one Hollywood’s leading studios. / plicants will have to be five fe four inches high. No beginn* will be considered. Those who; selected will be placed under frc one to three-year contracts.