Inside facts of stage and screen (January 3, 1931)

Page Twelve INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN Saturday, Janury 3, 1931 Greetings from— Homer Sweetman and His Eand Featured Over KJR Ann Hofmann Dance Studio THELMA CROCKER Tap and Chorus Routine ANDREW McFARLAND Acrobatic Tumbling 1151 Market St. SAN FRANCISCO Phone UNderhill 1122 for Appointments Give Yourself a Treat Register . . . at the new, luxurious EMBASSY HOTEL headquarters for artists of stage and radio . ... . MODERN! FRIGIDAIRE! THEATRICAL RATES! NEAR ALL THEATRES! Polk and Turk Sts. San Francisco Phone ORdway 1404 “You’ll meet your friends there” Sittln 9 With the Public RIVER’S END WARNER BROS. Reviewed December 20 The “Mountie’s” reputation, for getting his man appeals to every human who understands the King’s, Benny Rubin’s or Walter Winchell’s English, which is no narrow market for any type of entertainment. However, screen stories of the Northwest and its never-give-up coppers reach, not only those who speak English, but those who wish they could, which takes in nearly everyone who can lift a nickel up to where the pretty girl asks “how many, please?’’ To be explicit, the wide reach and spread of silent screen and fiction depiction has made the Northwest UNIVERSAL IN APPEAL, and so, “River’s End” should turn a handsome profit for the producer and exhib- itor. I doubt if it will. Humanity has been high pres sured, ballyhooed and over- tured so' much to their disillusion- ment they one and all tote large portions of salt wherever they go. Thus we find °n presenting our wares—which we fondly hope will be to their taste—they, having been burnt, duped and misled so often, promptly take us with a bit of salt. Too much salt, as we know, destroys the natural flavor and savor of edibles. The trouble with “River’s End” is that the audience has to take it with too much salt. To satisfy yourself on this point please note with about one-fourth of your power of observation how they a.ccept it. When a dramatic picture de- pends upon “close resemblance” of two characters to furnish mis- taken identity situations it draws upon the elements of farce and when you try to put it across as bona fide dramatic interest it gets off under a clumsy handicap. And the further the action proceeds from this base line the heavier and clumsier the handicap be- comes. It has a cumulative effect HARVEY VALLIE KARELS SCHOOL OF DANCING 7377 Beverly Blvd. OR. 2688 Jesse Stafford And His San Francisco PALACE HOTEL ORCHESTRA Featuring His and Gene Rose’s Song Hit, “Tonight” Greetings JOSEPH DISKAY HUNGARIAN TENOR Granada Studios Radio, Clubs Coaching Dunkirk 1941 Season’s Greetings Frank “Soapy” DuBord With the California Sunshine Boys and KYA San Francisco in reverse, down hill, so harmful to conviction that the discovery or unfoldment of the character's duplicity carries no real dramatic force or punch. Its vitality has been dissipated in a diminishing audience credulity. Upon the appearance of a per- sonality doubling himself there is ever present in the audience mind the question “How can a woman as intelligent looking as his sweetheart so easily overlook or accept the absence of physical markings, little mannerisms of speech and movement she has learned to so closely associate with the man?” Love may be dumb or ga-ga hut it dees not accept physical substitutes that easily and gullibly. It may be blind to faults of dis- position because attitudes like morals are a matter of viewpoint and a lapse of time may effect radical changes but love is not numbskull enough to pass up a missing mole, singular slant of the eyes, droop or rise of the lips without a question. Even the most identical of twins have those distinguishing marks. Stories of this kind get off on the wrong foot from the very moment they try to get away with a highly improbable dupli- cation and they add cumulative handicap by the stars own per- sonality being ever and strongly present in both personations. A single characterization draws upon every ounce of his capacity to delineate it well, to make it con- vincing; a double role thins out his effectiveness unless built with a shrewd and artistict facial and vocal transformation which is not in evidence in this picture. TED PRICE. Los Angeles Reviewed Dec. 28. The booker penciled a flock cf high power talent Into this R. K. O. this week. Every act whammed across to big returns. Outstanding scores were hung by Peter Hig- gins and Jack Usher, who inci- dentally are named herewith as valuable material for Hollywood. Howling as Hollywood does for new faces that have something to offer besides a physiognomy here are two potentials that should quiet their plaint. Of which more later. The bill pushed off with Wor- thy and Thompson, two dusky ex- ponents of the pedalistic method of knocking ’em into the aisles. They gathered in their share of plaudits with showmanship that never faltered in its design. Peter Higgins next with a brand of personality and manner and smile so thoroughly engag- ing we do not hesitate to recom- mend him for the mike and the .camera. If his personality regis- ters on the nitrates as it does on the payees he is in line for the void that McCormack never even had a chance to fill. Wotta voice but he hits those highs with too much gusto. Jack Usher stepped into' the next to closing spot with a meth- od of handling business and tim- ing and mugging that would be duck soup for a talkie director. Maurice Colleano and his fam- ily finished off the show in the topeline Colleano style. Featured In Fanchon and Marco’s “American Beauty” Idea TOOTS NOVELLE NOW FEATURED IN The inimitable Warner Bros, featured' player Another mile-stone in the pro- duction of motion pictures was reached yesterday when the 700 th picture filmed in Hollywood by Paramount went into work. M ffi 1 Seasons Greetings f j To All Our Friends || 1 A1 Taylor and Tom Sanduall fe Greetings to All My Friends Earl Williams Manager NEW FILLMORE THEATRE SAN FRANCISCO Enjoying My Second Christmas With National Broadcasting Co. San Francisco Harold Peary ‘Ain’t dat sump’n “Hope you’re the same Available for Clubs, Private Parties, etc. KANE’S HAWAIIANS WITH AN ESTABLISHED REPUTATION AS VICTOR RECORDING AND RADIO ARTISTS DAVE KANE Instructor of All Hawaiian Instruments Per. Address: Inside Facts, San Francisco Happy New Year EARL C. SHARP Arranger of Symphonic Overtures for WALT ROESNER and the FOX THEATRE CONCERT ORCHESTRA, San Francisco. Erbe Uniform Mfg. Co. Uniforms for Ushers and Usherettes, Bands, Doormen, Etc. Write for Samples and Cuts 149 New Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO Phone Douglas 2269 Greetings from— SYLVIA A CLEMENCE Now with Will King Seattle Season’s Greetings From GEORGIE STOLE Conducting THE CHINESE THEATRE GREATER ORCHESTRA Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood •mmm