Variety (February 1926)

Wednesday, February 3, 1929 PICTURES VARIETY 41 PRESENTATIONS "OLD FAMILY ALBUM" 18 Mint.; Saxe's Wisconsin, Milwauke« Clever slaKiiiK unci uppropriiite tiiiifliness mark this 18-niin\ite stage show produced by Kildio Wis- feldt, mastor of Saxo theatre stape shows. Opening with an off-stiKe scene of an old grandmother, tellins; of the early hl.story of Milwaiikeo to her granddauKhter, she calls fur a fanrjily album to flhow the klddl<» the old-fashioned tintypes. Turning back the cover the renter stage drapes piiUback and reveal a liuge velonr covered album fash- ioned after the type of 50 yeurB ago. The cover opens and show.s a tintype, head and arms cut out to permit Vent Callahan, harmonuu player, to present "Ta-Ra-Ra" and other old dance favorites. The book closes after (Mieh number and the grandmother Introduces each character, the cover showing dif- ferent tintypes. Walter Pontius sings "When You and I Were Young, Maggie," robed ns the old grandad. Mycye Span- genberg as the villaggPlftUe gone wrong sings "Tell Theni ^a^ You Saw Me," followed by Tfedd^ Craft as the old granddad. Myrtl* Span- of New York." John Meany, vet^, •ran actor, sings the old luughl?ig: 8ong; Horton Spurrifldanced the vil- lage dandy steps, with Alice Conroy speaking the schoolgirl's pet, "The Charge of the Light BriKndc," Caroline Scovllle sings "Sweet Gene- vieve." The action is fast and the book closes with a fade-out and fade-in into another off-stage set of D. W. Hoan, mayor of the city, calling his secretary for aid in promoting an 80th anniversary program, pictures of his conversjition running on the screen simultaneously. Inrael. DIX'S NEXT ON COAST Los Angeles, Feb. 2. Tlichard Dlx's next starring ve- hicle for Famous Players-La.sky, "Romance a la Carte," will be made at the West Coast studio. Dix Is expected to arrive here next week. Greggory Lacova is to direct. >B. 8. MOSS' THEATRES- COLONY Pptrry Hopkinn JOYCE in 'The IlroadiTay ft Mil St. SKYROCKET' AI..SO O.V STAfiE "PALM BEACH FROLIC" A Riot of Resplendent Revelry. Moniinc Sbnw, 10 30 •. ni. to 12:JO p. m.. 3Sc InternHtional Film Art Guild PAMrrk *2nd STUEBT and \,t^lWiK^\J BROADWAY Tliui-H.^-Julin Barrymor* in "Dr. .lokyll and Mr. Hyde," and Harold IJoyd In "Why Worry." Frl.—"A Wuman of Piiria" with .\dolith« Mrnjou and Harold I.loyd In "Dr. .lark." Kaf.—"The Ijtat iMUKh" and "Craln- quebille." B'WAY MrN. Wallace K4<ldV The Red kimono Qripplng Photoplay At 4l8t Street AND WORLD'S BK8T VAIDKVILLK CAPITOL BROADWAY AT Stut STHKET Edward BbWM—Manaelnfr Director LON CHANEY in -THE BLACK BIRD" CAI'lTOI, (iRAND ORCHKSTRA STATE arid METROPOLITAN irway * 4r,th St. lirooklyn MARSIIAI.I. NKIIAN .S , iifknt Vf^ ¥^ > > KoatininK the • • nil ■ ir 1. " ^.,.^. vsond.r lUrl, MIKE ,„,„,.,„„, —Vaudavills— SMABK rv tranU BROADWAY AT 4TTU ST. U MEMORY LANE Kleannr Koardnian—Conrad Nagel VINCENT LOPEZ * ""• »» r. li-Rtra JOHN BARRYMORE ALL SEATS I Oickett stUingin advtnce B.tStWtg I kr all performances . •tHtAT^t • WAT 51 «T , TWICIQMIY 2«tf 945 JUNOATMATIMHif 3PM. NIGHTSoV.TfW 5<»,,i;oo HAT trdirdn-j iun 50't-i|°» Norman Kerry Taken by Officers in Cafe Raid L«s Anpelca, Feb. 2. With more tlian 100 picture per- sonalities on hand at tlio Sunday evening gatficring at the l'liuilati..n Cafe in Culver City, county uni- fi)niiod oftl'-ial.s i>ald one of tiit-ir regular visits to tiie estaljli.'^hmt nt and took Into cu.stody 22 person.s. ' Among thorn was Norman Kt'rry, the ITniver.sal motion pictiiro stai.' Mo WUH .si\id to have h d liquor on hi.s table when the ollioials arrived. Korry was taken the Culver City station, where $250 ball was depos- ited pending an examination, which will take place next week. The authorities in visiting the es- tablishment created quite a furore by in.si«ting uu searching many of the women guests for liquor, as well as smelling the contents of the var- ious glasses on the tables of the film himlnarles, who were gathen-d there. If you don't advertioo in VARIETY don't advortise Tom Mix on Crutches Ii".s Angeles, Kch. 2. Tom Mix Is hobbling around on iTutvhi'B, a.s a result of str.iiniii),' several liirnnx-nts in his lift U'u: last Week, duiinu the makinuc of a seem in ••Tuny iluii.s Wild," at N'euliall. •Mix was sliiiing down an eiiilMiik- niciit holdinu on to a roi)e wr.ii'lH'il aioiiiHl a ro( k. Tlie roek i:av«j way and tiinibUd down upon liim, Uiiul- Inp on Ills log. He expects, however. ti> ho able to go to work again this week in hi.s next picture, "Hard- IJoiled." directed by J. U. l!ly.ston<.. I'liyllis Havci- will jday the femi- nine lead opposite Mix. MAYOR AN EXHIBITOR Hock Island, 111., Feb. 2. Mayor W.alter Kosenfield issued orders to the police to stop all theatres froiu siiowing moviiin pic- tures of .Martin Durkin. A half hour later police repoite*! liaek that they had found a film of Durkin In the F'ort Armstr<jng theatre. Tho mayor is president of the Fort Arm.'strong Theatre Company. The film was stopped. Total '25 Exports ■\\'.l^ii;nt;l.rn. ]\l> J. Tot.il exi'or!.- of pi. tore lUins for tho calendar y«-.ir of lyj,". re u hed 22."i.6.jG,1.51 linear foot of positive (ilni at an in\oice \iiluo ol" ti;.7>T.6*7. wliile tiip exports of ncRatiV.'.s w re 9.'.••.•;(.fit,-} linear feet v;(Ul. ,1 at $1,- S'j;{.o.')S, according to the iiipart- meiit of Coiniiurce. In makiiiK public the..se liuure.s the deparlinent discloy a a i;ain iii pi!?- itives of approximately 5'i.000,000 feet and sets vloun the year of 192.") as "shouin.i^ a sirikiiiK Kaiu in our foreign trade in motion i)iclure lilms." Statistics covering the It month period of IH'.'S were reported in N'arii'fy of last week, the same per- centage of increase beini.' then ni't- ed a.s is now—evident In the figures made public by the dei)aitmeTit for tho entire year. One Theatre for 8,000 Population Slit U\ko City, I'Vb. 2. Specilication.s ar» being com- pleted for a 500-.seat licture the- atre on Ninth Ka.st street, just iiortli of N'iMiii Pout); strei t, a .sec- lion ol" the city wliicij is rapidly deVflo] injr. A survey show.s ^,"Ofi persons to be Iniiii; within ensy walking railius. Griffith's General Offices V)'<''>h"nia City, Feb. 2. As a result of the steady increase of tiieir theatre circuit and its activiliis, Ciiffith IJros. iiave estab- lished general offices in tills city. "ACCOMMODATION PAPER" H<>spondinK' to tho Graphii- Pro- ductions' $2,500 suit on a promis- sor.v note, Kugene Sj)ltz .sets up a defense that the note lacked con- sideration and wati merely accom- modation paper. A counterclaim la made for $2,350, Spitz alleging he «peii\ $;j,*iO on be- half iit the fji'apliic I'roductiouK and that he was to receive $2,000 for the four Weeks' lea»<» on the K.stee Sludi<i af 3r>l West 125th street. New York, from Ivan Atmimson, Iire.^ident of (Sraphlc I'roductions, Inc. ■--.Jfr:-"^;.-: VA^ i^rs. .ji^^ ^^5 vlonS *«;?»e .tart»JfScceP«°Vr?„'i 5« ^\r ^cbS • °^ %B3t ol.^)!?Y^eSeft 10 ?^=>:V,;i^-";*7«rcf.*v-j;»''. vis- V^a rtvcr t^o -a -daV «2 .10 top it l^\aV cA to ^"Jn'Sirrymo^'s nam.. Wsether John t^^y,!^., hnilvhoo electric with » <^<*1^'"Av,« house supplied sign m front of th« »»ou«e. mipP^^^ by Nordet*. hau" o^een re v large measure for the pui ^^^^ ture is beginning to be taiK ^^^ {jrrho"u?e\nSeV Vtier P<>"«y that It has been operating. The BIGGEST special of a streetful of specials means the GREATEST box office attraction of all time - - ——— JOHN BARRYMORE the SEA BEAST has been a sell-out at the WARNER THEATRE, New York, since its opening Jan. 15th at two dollar top, with Dolores Costello. D iri^cted by Millard Web b in Adapted from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," By BESS MEREDYTH i A Warner Bros, Production