"Teddy and Ferry Guzza at D.D.'s are striking a new and novel note in their nightly entertainment, singing certain selections in the French language. They have received a library of 26 of the latest hits from Paris, numbers which were made famous by Tino Rossi and Lucien Boyer, who have been characterized as night club and stage favourites. Romantic in type, the music mostly is based on tango rhythm and Paso Dobles. Both local musicians are competent in French and their efforts are well received.
"Fis," a pantomime, is the highlight of this week's entertainment, in which Ferry prepares himself as a lady from the boudoir to bath. The number is guaranteed to be a "knockout."
"A. Chump at Oxford"
Laurel—and Oliver Herdy—soon will be ct the Nanking Edward Arnold is one of those sound and experienced actors who do not depend on youth and relative inexperience for their attractiveness. He has had a long career on the stage and the screen and is at work on the volume of interesting reminiscences, One of his most successful screen parts was that of "Diamond Jim" Brady, a remarkable example of the warm-hearted spendthrift who at one time figured largely in America's financial and theatrical circles, Arnold is about to repeat this character in "Lillian Russell," a film story founded on the life of one of America's leading actresses and singers, whose collection of jewels made her a fitting companion for "Diamond Jim" in the 1890's, "This part will be played by Alice Faye, and with her, as romantic lead, will be Henry Fonda, The picture will be an elaborate and expensive production and in the Twentieth-Century Fox studios, where it will be made, will be reconstructions of a number of New Yor! most famous theatres of 50 years ago. These will include Tony Pastors (the first American vaudeville house), the Casino and Webber and Fields. The action will not be confined to America, as there will be a replica of the Savoy Theatre in London, the theatre in which the majority of Gilbert and Sullivan operas were produced, Problem of "Rebecca"
Daphne Clu Mauriers "Rebecca" has presented Hollywood with a very difüeult problem. Maxime de Winter (played on the screen by Laurence Olivier) undoubtedly murdered his first wife. Yet it is impossible to hang Max de Winter. Adaptation has been wary and wily; the Hays Office has been cunningly placated. Again, in the play "Of Mice and Men" there is what may be. called an innocent &nd beneficent murder. In dealing with this the screen cannot follow the way of the stage.
The methods of film censorship must remain a mystery to the uninifiated. In Great Britain as well as in America here is a whole table of prohibitions, prohibitions which as a Tule do not limit the novelist or the dramatist. It is true that scenarists, producers and directors have learned to skim round this prohibition very adroitly, so that the picture-goer is not conscious of the things he may not see or hear in a cinema. All the same, even the Victorian novelist was not more definitely in leading strings than is the Hollywood scenarist,
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