Show ’i LAUGHS GALORE IN “WIDE OPEN” HORTON SHOW ' t rtan Copyright 1030 Kin O j Wf are pleased to report pood new3 of good times Mo- Demojron the Lamar crat as follows : I MRS Ia LIMPERT WINS PRIZE IP WE WERE - z There are by actual count one hundred and eighty-nin- e laughs in "Wide Open" with Edward Everett Horton In the featured male role This averages something over two laughs a minute Some of them are giggles many of them are chuckling chortles and fifty or sixty of them are rated as regular guffaws that exercise the diaphragm and break ' off buttons Horton accounts for more than half of the laughs in "Wide Open” on his own account while Louise Fazenda probably runs next with a ACTUALLY GIVING ONE Wagner has put on a E £unt now that has the natives nape He has installed a brand comedy role that seems beady-mad- e for her unique kind of clowning Patsy Ruth Miller who has to carry a sympathetic lead as well as a part of the comedy burden gets her full share of amusing Others In the cast are Edna Murphy T Roy Barnes Frank Beal Vincent Barnett Lloyd Ingraham Bobby Gordon B B B Louise Beaver E J Ratcliff e and yen Lewis “Wide Open?’ was directed by Archie Mayo who has previously made a name for himself with feature comedies and who with Horton and Miss Miller make a trio that have worked together in numerous Dielectric piano that simply taies the cake this AH re- needs to Is a current in assist it playing This furnished 'd electricity beats a base instrument drum snare the cyma dmn markable instrument bals and plays the keys whole thing is manipulated -- The from jlr Wagner's room above the The Instrument cost box cihce V thousand dollars and was or- pictures on the Warner lot direct from NeW York dered “Wide Open" Is a Starr-Caes- ar adaptation of the Edmund Bateman Morris novel "The Narrow Street” the Rhodes Music House by : i stat- broadcasting Iraportinr English gentlemen to act as announcers Which is probably a sinister plot engineered by the Germans American are ion - Theatre minute a of Oxford undo everything Mr MesDonatd accomplished on hie eitit to Washington Fifteen metent will 110800 an Bot a week for thePaying Best on Prohibition we are Inclined to pay that amount to Sirs Minnie Umpert 222 H Accidental ave for her neat and convincing aolution of the problem written on one side of the Paper only She says in her own way REFLECTION Dear Voice of the People: I have been asked by members of the Never-at-Hom- Club to send you4he kernel of my paper on Prohibition Rebus which I solved a week ago last Wednesday I maintain that there would be no prohibition controversy if all the wets would agree to sober up and all the drys would agree to take a drink Mrs You Know Who and weep and Women weep weep But this thought I impart: Their tears come rushing from their eyes And not from out the heart — maker Brj I -- o' have wo negloetod to that thi myetery about most mystery etoriee ie why any publisher ever published them 7 An4 mention AND A Q A human skull with hoau half inch thick has haeu e- found in Arizona somo movie Probably supervisor out on location And then there' beauty ehoppo that advertises : DEPARTMENT Dear Aunt Bella: Been readln soar Q end A chatter lately And Hotel I gotta hunch I should stcrt Where cart I " e “HAIR MADE NATURALLY CURLY” improvin' myself learn Spanish? 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AUNT (FIFI) BELLA m pusxled by ' the street-ea- r hog H o's hard to understand— Files packages upon the seat Lots grey-haire- d ladies stand —C 8 £ e Milestones on the path to eixnlisatiom CHICAGO — Robert Haver-ka- mp was accidentally shot in a saloon by Leo Horn another park patrolman vhen they were examining their pistols after drinking a a policeman Wiley LAST WORDS If you didn’t have an avll mind you wouldn’t think of such thing I If your dealer can’t supply you send for sample yaj suppose there la any in the rumor that Senator n u a lobbyist for the Co Sated Earlap Industry? rv-- 5 O'Sriee A Catchy Tunes Heard Are Worn By Janet InRichman’s Movie Beautiful Gowns Ur: You’ll be humming some new and beautiful gowns are a li Society Blues" Fox catchy tunes when you’ve seen and xal romance featur-ivn- or heard "Puttin’ on the Rttz" the musical film special starring V and Charles Far-ayii -- v- - all-dial- og ' The' story of the play Is laid in Russia and Involves the lives of two men for the love Of the same girl and the tragic circumstances of her choice of a mate How her husband sinks to the depths Is implicated with a gypsy girl and loyally defended by the other man who stands beside him despite his love for the wife forms a typical Tol- stoi plot The wife is portrayed by Eleanor Boardman and Renee Adoree enacts the role of the gypsy girL There are some fine scenes showing the activities of a band of gypsies and Conrad several songs are given Nagel Is cast as the "other man” in the triangle and the part will win him further admirers as it is a most heroic one Charlie Chase Is show In a scream Paramount sound of a comedy news & musical vaudeville act and J Clair Anderson In an organtosperecialty complete the program Sat main at the Paramount until urday —C S N ' fe ng A r : t i llZ: V - beesTouble Tha’s all! : ® :s -graduating" cf ' V’iiamHigh Society Blues” Collier Sr Luelen Brandon Hurst and Greg-Butl- er directed ED and Their Friends Invited i ng a cloud of airplanes and other gravity bafflers For the approaching and going-awa- y sounds that airplanes make Dietz uses a handful of beans placed on the head of a drum A motor is placed within the drum Rubber flanges on the wheel of the motor head start a vibration on the drum which causes the beans to jump around slightly on the parchment A microphone is listening eagerly and to hear the sound track on the film tell it you would think youheard a flock of airplanes apor departing In the Soaching motor is "revved” up or down to give the effect mean to disPerhaps it is a little won’t believe but illusion you you me anyway bees and airplanes sound so much alike the way Dietz handles them Poetry has been written by the foot for some time but It Is something new tois compose music by the song writing for yard Thathaswhat become the movies "Give me six more yards of that music” shouted Luther Reed during a rehearsal of Radio Pictures forthfound that coming operetta It was the theme song rang out before the finished their lines playersmore shouted Reed to ‘Six yards" was who Max Steiner arranging the orchestration '"something we can it fit” chop off anywhere to make for that "Yes sir” replied Steiner was all he could sax under the circumstances — TOO MANY FLOPS Twenty “flops” In as many plays was the record hung up by Alison stage come Sklpworth well-knodienne before she finally decided to give up the stage for motto© pictures v Y t "How did you ever manage to ge$ in so many bum shows?” we inquired “For the same reason the Prince of Wales falls off his horse so much —he gets on so often” replied Miss Sklpworth The actress now is playing in Ronald Colman’s new picture “Rafwn r V f4 t- - I ivf I" m S supplanted the silent movies in Europet he said “In Spain Germany we and p France where we traveled acfoun that the populace will not cept! Hollywood Spanish German and french As a result the Hollywood? talking pictures in tpese coun-tri&re a complete failure” Mi & Jy es n I jOLD TIME ORCHESTRA At : last the old time “sJt" orches- - V jj i'C V Z 4 RENEE ADOREE and JOHN GILBERT ? ’REDEMPTION fiery impetuosity oi Gilbert’s portrayal He gives a restrained depic- tion Rounding out the show ai the Paramount is a riotous comedy which stars Charley Chase Then there is a sound news to round out the screen fare Clair Anderson gives another organ novelty that pleases all present This show concludes its run Friday night tras are coming back These musicians who ’urnished music during the shooting o: al lscenjes in the old silent films were cast into discard? when the talkies came along and ibsolule silence had to be maintained while the camejras were grinding But now they are coming back— this time to play between scenes to put the playejrs in the proper moods before they go “on parade” ‘ i M fpLAYS BANDIT CHIEF Jack Holt portrays sin outlaw leader in Paramount’s picturization of the Zane Grey novel ‘'The Border Legion” all-talki- I SIX LEADING M Clara Bow has six leading men Enrollment in Chicago high in her new starring picture for schools for the second semester in- Paramount “True to the Navy” creased more than 9000 Fredric Marfch heading the list Make A Date For The Big I 'Hr’ Saturday night the Paramount theatre will THIS coming an innovation in the svay of entertainment in the form of a I k V HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW of the season’s outstanding singing talking and dancing ‘extravaganza a is only fitting that this remarkable production should be chosen to Inaugurate advance showings of outstanding photoplays In Ogden Make your plans? now for this big Partyof ’ the Stars! You’ll get the treat of a lifetimej It 26th Saturday Nite11:20April M Doors Open P ’ j r Program Starts ll:35 with-- ’ ‘‘PARAMOUNT ON PARADE’ ’ going on at 12:00 M REGULAR ADMISSfON PRICES fles” -- isnjjxi ' "High Society Blues” Is excellent Again!- Captured Ogden these Sidet?p’M Sweethearts by Sunny Only 2 Days Left ART GTS Join the fun and keep smiling with Janet and Charles in their merry successor to cr “Sunny Side Up” They’ll delight you with their sly Amuse you by their hilarious antics! Thrill you by the melody jpf their caressing singing voices! They do anything you want them to and more! ir love-maki- ng ILYGEOTvS ri CLOSED! o)'1" Li U In Fred Nlblo’s screen version of During Installation ( HERMITAGE HOTEL —in— “High Society Blues Western Electric Sound System with 4 i ’ Reopen Saturday April 26 CON’S MUSIC ELKS AND THEIR LADIES ONLY t Janet Charles FARRELL GAYNOR LYOFTOLSTOrS t of with William Powell in ‘Street of Chance’ ? The strangest most powerful love story ever told! A drama of a Prince who preferred Evil to Virtue— and death to redemption! ‘An All-Talki- y Gilbert’ Triumph ng ' ’ with Kenee Adoree Conrad Uagel Eleanor Boardman — ADDED j Riotous CHARLIE CHASE comedy Latest News Events in Sound J Clair Anderson at' the Console ng — ii Olive Reeve And His Orchestra Admission 25c which will prove entertainment gopleasing to all classes of theatre resers It is recommended without ervation M i Refreshments Moose all-talki- saidim his return from a tour of: film making centers European ' "Tfe talkies have not in anyway Prize Waljtz Prize Fox Trot i MOOSE ATTENTION Cards Dancing and - LUVLEE LADY the Fox studios e r designed stage cos-- ” oral years in New The Big Spring Round-o- p SATURDAY APRIL 25 8 P M Goodnight MARION IS BACK Marion Nixon IS back in the harBy FREDERIC A CHASE ness again after a vacation of six News Service Staff Internationa! months during which she married Correspondent Edward Hillman wealthy ChicagHOLLYWOOD —Don’t let them tired of mar-rid- e fool oan No Marian-Isn’- t In these talking pictures life She haerely thinks that Next you see a movie in which time a woman can be happily married there is theyou roar of an airplane mo and still have a? career Almost-ftor your nudge neighbor arid tell soon as she arrived in Hollywood him it isn’t a motor at all that he she went right to work as the fem- is to a bee but in a bottle listening inine lead in "Courage” at Warner The chances are a hundred to one Brothers studio where she Is under a bee correct be will Isn’t It If ?’ou bottle it is a handful of beans contract — on the head of a drum STARS DISCOVERED The secret leaked out in an inter It would be Interesting to know view with William Dietz the camera just which film director really has v of and sound effect magician In filmdiscovered the greatest number ing air scenes he said the sound of varpotential stars This honor atMack an airplane motor would be too ter ious times has been accorded for the sensitive microphones rific Sennett D W Griffith and Cecil so a bee acts as double for the sky stuFox B DeMille And now the ship dio comes along and claims It for One bee in a bottle sounds like Raoul Walsh one airplane motor two bees In i bottle sound like two airplane mo SHOW ORIGIN OF APACIIE tors and so on A hive of bees It Maurice Chevalier and Evelyn Is assumed would sound like a long Brent reveal the origin of the view Into the future when there Apache dance in “Paramount On won’t be anv more blue sky but just - Ten spent several years ( FOR AIRPLANE IN HOLLYWOOD own souL This story as Redemption" John screen veGilbert’s latest hicle now playing at the Paramount theatre is one of the finest pictures screen has seen in many that theseason a long Redemption sets a new mark for artistic achievement on the screen and provides Gilbert with a worthy successor to “The Big Parade" As the tragic victim of conflict between love and the call of ancestral instincts Gilbert plays one of the mast complicated of characters and plays It so skillfully that every dramatic psystep in its strange in chology is clear as a bell It asis an this that Gilbert’s greatness actor is shown Fred Niblo directed the story with many deft touches that add materially to its effectiveness The dramatic situation is lightened by spectacular gypsy festivals the colorful Russian church ceremony and other elaborate details Two of Gilbert’s former heroines Eleanor Boardman and Renee Adoree appear in the picture Miss Boardman as the wife and Miss Adoree as the strange gypsy charmer who stands between them with her uncanny fascination Both play their roles splendidly Conrad Nagel as Victor the friend has a sympathetic role that furnishes a vivid contrast to the -- ’ 5 ! "High Society Blues” Fox Movietone musical romance which Is now showing at the Orpheum theatre is even better entertainment than It has Miss Gay"Sunny Side Up” nor and Farrell as its stars and Butler directed This latest starring vehicle for the most popular team of screen sweethearts has a much stronger story than their last previous production and Interest aroused by the opening sequence holds until the final fade-oundixnlnlxhed Five song numbers are sung by the stars and everyone of them to this reviewer at least sounds like a potential song hit and Farrell Miss Gaynor sing charmingly their rendition of “Just Like a Story Book” winning especial commendation from last night’s audience A strong supporting cast includes the famous William Collier Sr Hedda Hopper Joyce Compton Louise Fazenda and Lucian little-fie- ld c-- Wa m is none other than little Mitzi Green! When this girl did her imitations the preview audience went crazy over her When everyone left talk was about little nearly all the an honor we'd say Mitzi Quite comMitzi stealing a picture from such peared in several films for that“Worn including ‘Four Sons” celebrities Took a lot ‘of nerve to pany an Wise” "Me Gangster” and “Not do thatl Quite Decent” and then was loaned to Paramount to play one of the Oakie rated next in our opinion featured roles opposite Charles he is about Maybe that Is because in Romance "River “Buddy” Rogers we our favorite on the screen but followed by "Illusion” and "The Love enjoyed hlmjand we’re- sure you will! RETURNS TO HOME And is that boy Oakie making picAfter a part in "Three Sisters’ tures fast? JDun’t esk! "The social which completed her Fox contract Lion” Is finished "Sap from Syra- she returned to New York but the cuse” is nearing completion and lure of Hollywood was too strong now he is taking the opening scenes She came back to the film city after for "Toplitsky of Notre Dame ” a appearing in one eastern picture football story Ought to be good "Pleasant Sins” and was at once for anything or any player with a cast for a part in “Mademoiselle funny name seems to make good on Modiste” by First National That role was not completed when she the gridiron! was selected for a part in "Sweet Lon Chaney must be affected by Kitty Bellair" tryParamount executives summoned day he was talking! The other The result for the pic- her for a conference ing to imitate a parrot and broke a was the contract which makes her i ture “Unholy Three” blood vessel Nothing serious how- Paramount featured player Miss Collyer was born and educat ever only stopping the filming about a week Now we don’t blame Lon ed In New York City She has hazeIs for not wanting to make talking brown eyes and light brown hair five feet five inches tall and weighs pictures 114 pounds high-tone- d are Parisiennes getting about their motion pictures Innow si"The trail of ’98” was shown and week last lent form over there half the audience walked out Tha’s nothing for over here the audiences don’t even bother to come when there Isn’t a talking picture! It Parade” at the Orpheum the Broadway singing favorite Har ry RIchman which comes to the OrMARY OPPOSITE JACK a dianee of the current pheum theatre soon : songs several of them Mary Brian is Jack Oakie’s leadgred especially for Eight newBerlin the for ing woman in "The Social Lion” especially rtt n by Madame Sophie written by to his first starring picture for the are introduced public cr- tunic and picture this in originator Riehman production by U t?U You’ll never guess who steals the Chevalier picture however No not nor Bow nor any other famous star June Collyer the girl who gave up for motion pictures has signsociety ed a long-tercontract as a featured player with Paramount By doing so she has made final her choice for a film career in preference to one of a social leader Miss Collyer is the daughter of Clayton Heermance New York attorney Her mother’s father was Dan Collyer stage star Although schooled and trained for a social career Miss Collyer inherited an histrionic urge Amateur theatricals intrigued her at school and It was her success In such productions that decided her to accept an opportunity to take a screen test TEST PRECEDED DEBUT This test was made after she had completed her course at a New York finishing school and while she was preparing for her social debut The test resulted in a contract to Fox films and she was sent to Holly wood after playing the featured role in "East Side West Side” She ap- ut Cs ie r more Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell and Si- r- Ed ' ITfELL we’ve seen it at last! What? Vf Why we mean "Paramount on been Parade” of which there has worth so much talk It Is certainly the talk too "Paramount on Parade” is a revue but not the same type of review as were "Show of Shows” and "Holwhat lywood Revue” This one has other the others were lacking The two seemed to move slow but this is not true with “Paramount on Paand rade" The numbers areso short different were and snappy they chance to that there is not muchwant to see tire of it In fact you the combination David Butler which made “Sunny Side Up” the outstanding screen musical production of the past season have done HERE'S A REAL CLUE TO NATIONAL PUZZLE H ' y i FAMOUS greatest gift to woman tee mala Imagination" I roles 4-- it again kettle of gin Rr “Redemption" the current offer Ing at the Paramount theatre is one of the most powerful dramas to be seen at that theatre In some time John Gilbert screen lover Is cast In the leading role His voice and acting are excellent and the difficult part he portrays places him well to the front as a portrayer of tragic Trio’s New Talkie Fine Entertainment f Annoying as a easterner con- scions book store clerk Sy the POWERFUL FILM AT PARAMOUNT — Simile : ‘Gcd’a Review Failure Now Se n GIRL WHO QUITS JOHN GILBERT STARRED l Foreign TT alkies CORPSE” IN “LIVING ti SOCIETY TO ACT NEW YORK April 22— (UP)— the story "The epoLSTOI called — The J Hollywood foreign language a of a drama Corpse” talkies” are a complete failure in GETS CONTRACT man living dead to the world but tragical-Herbert Brenon director Europe his within to turmoil alive the Lucian Littlefield Loiiise Fazenda Heda Hopper William Collier Sr Five Great Song Hits Including “High Society Blue?” “Just Like a Story Book” BARGAIN MATINEES 1 2 25c to G o’clock 35c r to P M 99 ' |