Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 15 | Theodora Warfield is "the Rose of Picardy" at Playhouse

Theodora Warfield Is The TheRose TheRose TheRose Rose of at Playhouse ft 1 I I j I 4 Miss Warfield besides playing the leading role in a great play sings some songs you all love to hear Chester Morris Cited as Most st Impo Important Event in in New Talkies I 3 By GENE COHN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK The YORK The most important Important important tant event in m my opinion since th the movies l learned arned to talk is Ch Chester ster Morris Chester Morris was until a a. few ten months ago a. a young juvenile of the Broadway stage who could have compiled d a a. volume on the general subject t of bad breaks arid and tough luck His name nam had never nayer fl flared red in the big lights no nor nor was was was' he pursued pursued pursued pur pur- sued about by managers The last three e plays he had appeared pp ar ared d in now rest peacefully in Cains Cain's ware Ware- house Then came one of those thoe accidents acci acci- d dents nt of ot movie novie discovery ry b. b W. W Griffith had made a screen test ot Morris for another picture but nothing came cacAo of it And when out ih iii Hollywood Roland West the iconoclastic producer and director tor was lo looking over various tests ot of n newcomers rs to th the talkies h he saw th the Griffith shot and sent for MorrIs GANGSTER R Thus came Morris Morrs to play the role le of ot the young g gAngster in Alibi a film which revives hopes hopes hopes' t in the fu future future tu- tu ture of ot the sound pictures and nd es establishes establishes establishes es- es C Chet et M Morris as the find of the year Oddly enough it is in certain silent sequences that Morna Morris Morris Mor Mor- ris na does his best performing performing-a a tact fact which gives new zest to the argument argument argument ment that Broadway Broad has a a. very fair chance of ot battling Hollywood for supremacy Certainly In AUhl Ibi the actors picked from the Stage stag act ring around the recruits lifted by Hollywood Holly wood from cafeteria counters count count- ers and photographs Alibi is one of ot the most exciting exciting ex ex- citing events of the cinematic year ear The direction Is well ne hear Stear r perfect ct the camera effects are exceptionally exception exception- ally thrilling and the sound has baa as been used with sUre and shrewd I intelligence It is leagues ahead of any sound picture I have seen to date and has caused more shouting along Broadway than any any t talker talker- with t the e exception of such musical l comedy opuses as as s Broadway Mel l Iel- Iel ody ocly But Alibi is an out and and out thriller So adroitly has baa has has' hasit it be been n nh h handled by West weal however that t its entertainment value is enhanced ed by intelligence e in pr presentation fh There her re are very f tow lew opportunities h here hr r for tor or hooF hooie Shouting hokum or UNIQUE FIGURE Vest West by the way is a a. a unique figure in the films films' H He has produced produced produced pro pro- but few films in his career and he has persistently battled the various producers He Ho has enough I money to enable him to b be out from under the usual Hollywood domi domi- domi nance He will not take and has not pot t taken ken orders from anyone but himself Naturally his with the big c concerns n have been feVand tew and far between between- So he has taken to putting on his own wn pictures es It lt and when ho he chooses The money he made on The he Bat was suffiCient sufficient lent to see see him through an art rate expenditure His connection with United Artists Art Art- lilts is merely one of a producer r seeking an organization through ugh which to release He is the one unit unit in this this' concern which remains independent And hell he'll make enough money ou out of Alibi AUbi to give him even even ven greater Independence which is just as aswell s. s well if it you asked me me