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Show THE SALT LAIyE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY the creator of the part, had played it. Miss Helen Hayes, JIILTON SILLS BRINGS NEW TYPE OP ROLE IN Dear Percy Hammond: Let me act as your official attention-callto a few inaccuracies in your Sunday article on the drama in the Hamptons. Not that my feelings are hurt, but rather in the spirit of fair play and what with the hot weather and all. In the first place, the University Players are no more. Out of their ashes a glorious phentx has arisen, it and namely, the Hampton JMayers a group hardly to be classed with AI Soandso's stock company, "minor vaudeville and motion pic1th or without sound. tures, In the second place, you mention that the drama needs of West Hampton are ignored. Presumably you are not cognizant of the fact that we of allay the Joint drama-panQuogue and West Hampton with three productions each summer In what I have been told is a highly satisfactory manner and that our coming season there. Judging by the number of advance subscriptions we have received, is, I venture, eagerly awaited. In the dim past of three years ago, you graced one of our performances of The Dover Road," and reported conductor of gn'id- - not unkindtroT our doings to your w.i. Kirt'ii Saltair orcheatra. who wlU lend myriads of metropolitan readers. As this favorite organisation In three free remember, you beamed upon my eoneerte at Saltair. 6unday, July T The own efforts in a manner complimenconcern will be given from 4 to S But since then we have lost 1 p. a. and from tary. m . from J. to 9 p. m. I U (Adv ) touch with you, Mr. Hammond. Last , summer the dramatic department of the Herald Tribune and ourselves were but ships that pass In the night. THEATER GUILD And our rebirth as noted in the pages . HELPS IN BREACH of the very tame Herald Tribune some weeks ago appears to have been (Continued from precediai Pace unnoted by you, the high priest. Perhaps it has been the absence of clency of the players In their excitnames in our roster that has mising grooves. led you. Perhaos you are not in accord with my theory Cnprlcf Mr Brown says, "lack! that a well balanced group of young solemnity and solidity of structure, Intensely enthusiastic Longacre arbut lie characterization is wittily pro- tists, operating under a "no, star found and the portrait of the boy la a system, can give a play more symproduction than can a few charming study of young enchant- pathetic featured by this ment in the opening world of adoles-cens- e. and that. players supported Particularly a new play. Mr. Douglas Montgomery de- But, I forgot: you did not know that am producing new plays In the velops the picture beautifully and Mr. Alfred Lunt Is delicious In the wise Hamptons this summer and that my blend mans first production will be a delightful folly of the lawyer. The e, of and of noble Impulse and absurd weakness, are all made exquisitely manifest in the mixture of a stiff carriage and a twinkling eye. Miss Lynn Fontaine's brilliant raillery and command of the situation are the right match tor Mr. Lunt. The partnership is a very rich one, but it does not overweight the poise of the play. Every character has been filed to the finest point of significance by actor, author and producer. Nobody who cares about the art of the theater can afford to miss so rare an exhibition of its pleasures. Fancy the talkies' after this! The thought nauseates." er lOYEANDTHE DEVIL Milton Sills brines us a new type of role in his latest starring picture for First National, "love and the Devil," which opens at the Victory theater today. F the tune being Bill drops his backwoodsman, wrecking boss and barker types and dons dress suits and the polish manners of an English lord. His portrayal of Lord Dryan, the English explorer who falls in love -- With a woman's picture, is one that will stand out among the finest of Sills characterizations for the screen. He carries us thmigh the trials and tribulations that pursue the love affair of the staid Britisher and the temperamental Italian prlma donna with ease and finished artistry, and again demonstrates that Milton Bills is one of the finest actors on the screen Joday. Lon and the Devil" is a First Na- ktarkest Africa, to Venice, then to England and back to Venice. Maria Corda the Hungarian ac- -. tress who will be remembered for her work in "The Private Life of Helen of Troy, is well cast as the singer, and her performance adds greatly to the success of the story. Ben Bard, the old vaudeville favorite, Is ideal for the other man. "Love and the Devil is an entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable picture with the proper mixture of drama and suspense, comedy and , pathos. It provides Sills with a splendid vehicle for his talents, and may well be considered one of the best of the year. The Vitaphone accompaniment is splendidly done. The choice of music selection and sound effects has been made with much thought. It is a thrill all by itself just to listen to those haunting melodies of Italy, played with the skill of master musicians. Make sure you visit the Victory this week. ALL PLAYS DULL, CRITIC DECLARES , gs V' 1. 1.. high-pric- ed ng "Pop, I wanna be an engineer Many a child has thus expressed the youthful ambitions of bis dreams. Actors, when they were children, had glorious visions of what they would be when they growed up, but there are only a few who havt realized their aims. Menjou, for instance, wanted to be a civil engineer, Emil wanted to be a sailor, Ches- Mannings Mary Eaton, the scintillating Ailond Ziegfeld star, and Oscar Shaw, her partner In the great musical comedy success, "The 6 o'clock Girl" are splendid In the romantic leads and the chorus numbers are snappy, marvelously photographed and perfectly performed. "The Cocoanuts Is entertainment that is entertainment. Its a real Broadway ft 60 sbsarlght here at home at &0 cents a seat You'll laugh and sing lt over and over again for weeks after you see 1L v II E be a silver-tongu- Buddy Rogers is one who ha realised his childhood desires. He wanted to bo the leader of a Jazs orchestra and play all the Instruments hlmseif. He does Just that in the forthcoming Paramount production. Close Harmony. which opens at the Rialto theater, beginning Sunday. It is an singing and dancing play from the tory of bsck-- 4 zuge life written by Elsie Janis and Gene Markey. "Buddy" has the featured male role of a Jazt band leader and he plays solos on trombone, drums, saxophone and trumpet Nancy Carroll, flaming beauty, play the other leading role In the film, that of a song and dance headliner. When she was a child ahe wanted to be Just what she la In "Close Harmony," a young woman whose songs would be heard round the world ed "I'm glad I don't care for spinach, I liked it X should eat It, and I cannot bear spinach. This extract from "The Intimate Journal of Oeorg e Band shows that this most discussed of vegetables was not brought Into, conversation by the for if modern doctors who advocate Its like. Vera Reynolds Back at Stale burn, Florence Turner, Forrest jBtaa ley, and many others. The story by Samuel Merwm, long a contributor to the Saturday Evening 1 Post In New Picture LEARN TO DANCE! Beautiful Vera Reynolds, dear to the heart of all beauty-lover- s and s, returns to ths State screen, this weeiL in "Jaztland," an Woodwards movle-tover- JSfsdi; 2U feol J4JUX excellent quality picture, now playing at the State theater. Miss Reynolds, kmg a favorite with Bait Lake fans, has one of her most dramatic roles in "JaxzUnd.-I- n this absorbing film study of modern youth, site Is a small-tow- n girl who has gone to the big city and fallen In "advaneed-thougof with a host friends. These friende almost make her believe tn the new craze of "trial marriage" particularly the author of the latest book, "Marriage by But her long trslnlng Agreement. keeps her somehow from succumbing, and she is plunged into an exciting adventure with a boyhood sweetheart. which purge her and delivers her to his arms after a breathless di- traly of events, Pallas Fitzgerald inrected the excellent cast. which ht cludeaCarroU j j Acrobatic Ml Tea Dancing I. Wash- - Lfyant Nye, Balls!, Too, Oriental ONt ITEM, WAITZE8, OX TROTS VARSITY DRAG an DOING THE RACCOON TAUGHT RLI . WASATCH SSII f Writs fat OUU . flUC PRIVATE LEMONS pAILT rn.utfti OA tWursday new character-comed"Button Button, by Maurice Clark, opening on y. JulyS. - Or. again, perhaps It has been your despondency at the result of the critics box score in Variety. May! it be of comfort to you, Mr. Ham- mond, that the Hampton Players and j I have faith In you, in this, your darkest hour. May I timidly suggest that you start the new leef by print- ing this in retribution tor the wrong that has been done us? Sincerely your, H. C. POTTER. self-lov- (Continued from pmedlni Pest tiling again worth talking and worrying about. Ths significant things that are happening include the success of such enterprises as the Theater Qulld and the Civic Repertory theater. The Theater Ouild gave five hundred performances last season not counting v those of "Strange Interlude," which Mr. Brown is disappointing, howheld over from the season before, and though five of the seven plays pro- ever, in his contempt for Coquette. duced were popular failures not one a more muscular display than 'Caof them played to a losing week. The price and a better exhibition of the says subscriptions held them up. and the showmans knock. "Aweary," And of America's guns. subscriptions, in spite of the unpop--Ul- ar Mr,. Brxwn he turned and hooch hoofers, plays produced, are heavier this graft, year than ever. Which can prove but to "Coquette expecting to find in ite one thing that playgoers with a se- a verification of Mr. Menckens puck-llkTo Mr. Browns "Americana." rious interest in the theater had was rather spend their money on an in- conservative mind "Coquette telligently played failure under Guild but a Los Angeles melodrama, clumauspices than take its chances with sily written, awkwardly performed the current run of other attractions. and altogether a provincial faux pas. Eva Le Galllenne's civic reper- He was unable to sympathize with tory has been in existence for three the soft little southern magnolia girt, yean, playing in a cheap theater at a a victim of sex ooquetterie. and the cheap price, but not producing cheap avenging instinct of an Alabaman plays. The first year this company father, whose daughter had seduced gave 226 performances with a single an Innocent boy friend. Miss Helen popular success, "Cradle Bong, to Ford, a prominent Broadway musustain the box office. The second sical comedienne. Impersonated Coyear they gave 236 performances quette" to London. Perhaps the role without a popular success and only would have been more appealing if the frequent revival of "Cradle Song to see them through. This year they have given 244 performances, scored two popular successes, with "The Cherry Orchard and "Peter Pan and are richer in bank account than they ever dreamed of being. Shortage of Colored Talent Cause Trouble. Another development that Is Interesting is that of the colored revue. There were nine white revues last season and four black. The percentage of colored shows has been steadily increasing, despite the tact that with each production of a black revue it becomes increasingly apparent that all the real colored talent has long since been used up and that few Pullman porters are good comedians. eg four or There were twenty-thre- e five musical comedies,- - - The exact number depends upon what rightfulal ly should be considered a plot. comedies must always have a plot preferably the one about the girl who Is engaged to papas choice but prefers to sing ana dance with the one who is a common chauffeur or something. She wins him in act one. loses him in act two, and in act three he proves that he owns a tuxedo. "Whoopee, "Follow Thru and were the choice Hold Everything of the lot, because no one of them used any more of this plot than adequately necessary. "The New Moon was the best of the operettas and the current "Little LYON 8how, though a late starter, the best ANIONIC) MOMNQ on the Chariot Of the Intimate-revueordfcr. Of all the plays produced, 80 Powerful Story U. S. Airmail per cent were failures in a money Thrills. Romance, Drama way. But even that discouragement has not helped greatly in reducing ths Maud Muller' dolor Classic I number of would-b- e showmen With I Smithy and His rails, Comedy I faith and bankrolls. Cartoon , ter Conklin aspired to orator. Capitol Screens Buddy Realizes Noted Broadway Childhood Hope Musical Comedy In Lazy Picture At last we can view Broadways best musical comedies right here hi Salt Lake. Paramount has opened the way to bring the Broadway shows hoipe with its das-rliof the Marx plcturtzation Brothers' popular stage hit, "The which oiiened at the Cocoanuts, Capitol theater Friday. Never before has anything like The Cocoanuts been seen in Balt Lake. Never before has anything like it been transferred to the screen. Here, at last- - is real entertainment singing, dancing, glorious fooling Just the same brilliant features that one would see had he paid (6 60 for a seat at the Broadway stage showing of this popular Marx Brothers' sensation. Grourho Marx, the valuably member of the delightful quartet, a sidesplitting Jester; Harpo, with his dumb show, his expressive pantomime and hi inspiring harp playing; Chico, with his Jnsane antlea.and Zeppo, the foil for his brother's madness, keep the house rocking with glee. It Is thevMarx Brothers brand of absurd, rldicilous, semuane, lunatic humor, just as great on the talking screen as It ever was on the stage. Beautiful melodies by Irving Ber lin start you humming. The theme song, "Why My Dreams Come True, is a catchy, romantic tune that strikes lilting chord in the heart. 7, 1929. Drawing Holder of the winning number must be ,r present at drawing. If not, subsequent drawings will be made until the car is claimed. Everybody is eligible to compete for the beautiful Studebaker Dictator, except employees of Saltair Beach Company and their immediate families. . will be chosen Friday, July 19th Miss Utah COUPON DAY JULY Girls who wish to enter the contest and compete for a trip through, Yellowstone Park and other prizes should get in touch with Spajding Bros., 21 E. 1st South street, or with Saltair Beach Co., 22 East 1st South street. Thu cmmmr , sohu rnvipnN P"NMita tt the Tlrkct Offlre, either st (he . siuir V.: Depotrer islislr Beach, will entttls tke holder to receive an Monks jr, July I, an the St It Uka, Gar,od onlyCompany, field a Western Railroad from Balt Lah City ta Saltair Bourk and mum. whan Is praaanla tt Sopot, nr sSnilataon tn laiutr uhau praaoataS eeupoh st Stub. SALUllt BEACH CO. (I) tikq ARNOLD BLACKNER THREE COWBOY TENOR TREE Sing at Saltair Mu-ste- EAST. OS concerts TODAY at Today EAST 8th Trains! Till Sat 1 .11 a. ua., II keen, I 4, 6 and 8 p.m. p. m. aaS ovary half hear i an 1PC onr I!! H O s of-t- he Ij 1 (Copyright, 1929, by the Chicai Tribune.) Salt Lake Saturday, ilio Lbrinq V. P. Thk kiddies v now All New Today :00 -- r July 20 Ground Ith Sooth and Mala dJ rs j7 Rogers tlPKItft MCCTACLI TH fftUSC orou , iiveiutMM Ko wont CHINESE MAVTt DU YMt LOLA LEE fettfcfcSK 6IAMT THE CHINOS HUMAN VKAH W-c-T- ON EARTH r Tl wee i rt CK"i vrt AL.G.DARNES hU on sl Circa Day OWL DRLG CO., nd Smith and Main l , at ACCQMPmKTl ClosaHarmony By ELSIE JAWS PICTVKE Also Laurel and Hardy Comedy Colored Classic New t Vilashcna Vi'vc9 Comedy REYNOLDS east. In JAZZ LAND" all-at- ar ONTIMUOUS-M1O6JH4I'.- 0 & V v0;f VWe CflStLrrr Also LON CHANEY In WEST of ZANZIBAR" 0-r- - Maloy Ktws Fammotiftt UN., MON, TLH. First showing Salt Lake And $ :ie OT3D' See this popular (tar in an entirely novel role! The aristocratic lover of beautiful fiery Maria! 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