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THE HEARTHparade of govins and other apparel ia the modiste shop scenes.I- (Continued From Page 17C )Street and Park avenue. But when the doctor arrives he smiles and, placing his hand upon the shoulder of the young American, says:The* picturt°ris produced with a 1 tian Moon’* it would be hard on thegreat show of luxury and has a cast ,, .of stage and screen luminaries. Rol- ! river or those canals. It would beand Young has been recruited fromthe stage to portray one of thoseFMaia—Second Run Pictures.week by popular demand, and Man*jfeminine audiences by the sumptuous agcr Maloney lias bought $50 worth *' ‘ 1of oranges to be ground up and sprayed through the ventilating system when Charles King starts to sing about “Orange Blossom Time.*’ This is nice, and is a charming innovation.The smellphone is fine, provided it doesn’t go too far. If Charley sang Moonlight on the Ganges or “Vene-T’ downright awful if Charley started singing of mules or goats.HP Plaza is anything but colorblind this week. Today, tomorrow and the next day “The Greene Murder Case'’ will feature the green-eyed monster stalking one Greene after another, while our old friend, William Powell, as Philo Vance, brings miscreants to Justice with theaid of the public library. ThereI be Vita Phone vaudeville We go* all out of breat i trytn* to jabout “The Hollywood Review i ,tifht-hpped, self-sacrificing Englishmen who smoke pipes, and ThelmaTodd was put in just because of her ! in one criticism last week. As youchassis, which was reason enough, must know by this time it has aThe action is'a bit slow.# i !-gion of stage and screen personali-Billie finally wears a black dress j ties participating, it is tuneful andShe looks good in It, too.For the remainder of the week theOn WipicturedamselThe Swedes not being a warlike people were obliged to contribute something to the world’s unrest sothey gave us Greta Garbo. In “The Single Standard” Nils Asther, anotherSwede, plays opposite the glamorous Garbo and they fly at each other liketwo embattled Swedish masseursThey get good breaks in the land of the fjords. The plot cenagms a twitchy lady who fell for a prize fighter. Miss Tucker appears in “Honkey Tonk,” the drama of heartthrobs among the mammy whoopersand of tender feelings along the Tenderloin, Her picture is supplemented by ‘Beach Babies,” a funny shortsubject in which Evelyn Knapp isfeatured. Miss Knapp had the leading feminine role in the Kansas Citywith a deep blues voice. There are Theater's production of “Seventeen”Royal—“Madonna of Avenue A.”Marls ............... Dolores CosteUoSHm........ Grant withersThe Dealer .........Douxln* GerrsrdGenrgi* Morton . ..... Louise DresserMonk. ... . ....... Otto HenmanGus .................. Lee MoranEVERY now and then the Warnerorganization makes a movie evidently meant to prove nothing more than that Dolores Costello is an exceptionally pretty girl. This1 part of it is in natural colors.However, we did forget to mentiona clever added attraction, “The Skele-any number of stars involved In the festivities and much music and dancing.seasonsJ. C. M.i -seen(jlobe—Hollywoodians who attended the party given for Dolores Del Rio byCapt, Billy (Whiz Bang* Fawcett at Breezy Point, Minn., say it was onelavishton Dance, which the Midland is j Uptown-Second Run Photoplays.offering. It is the best animated car- j —_DURINO the following week Up*town patrons will be given jin fairs they ever attended, opportunity to study the comparative Dolores was making personal ap-appeal of the lean and rotund types I pearances at Minneapolis and of movie stars. Greta Garbo will be! dropped over to Fawcett's resort for there until Thursday and Sophie the week-end. There were ninety-Tueker from then on. I two house guests.WHEN one considers that Mack Sennett has amassed considerable fortune as a producer of comedies it is a wonder the entireself Is a worthy purpose. Her beauty f population does not suddenly decidecertainly justifies the lengths to to become humorists of some sort, which her employers go to exploit it.! Not .since Ben Turpins cockeyed tri-but one sometimes feels that even umphs has Mr. Sennett produced eight reels cf Miss Costello might be j anything that could lay even a mild improved if a little more attention claim to humor. \et year af er were paid to the story inserted be-!dreary year he continues to grind outtween the admittedly attractive clcse-! bis sour schnitzels and sell them asups“The Madonna of Avenue A is such a picture. There is nothingparticularly good about it and nothing particularly bad. It is Just another movie. The story concerns a girl brought up in an exclusive finishingPHOTO PUTS.SOI TH SIDE.PHOTO PLAYS.SOUTH SIDE.comedy.It would seem that America is not a nation with a profound sense of humor. America is a nation that has made itself thmk it has a sertse of humor and is therefore willing to laugh whenever it recognizes labels.Jschool who is shocked to learn her Mack Sennet hasmother is queen of the rum runners. JtelE Acer ta n addled1 headed por-The story is concluded happily when of'ntothe girl marries a bootlegger, he is kujjj-Jf-^2awd?ncrsent to prison, the mother commit* iHJJy fiSJJTharTZ ‘S5JZ**** tImC I to**1 We hiv^ heard the Cherokee*. I !L .7,, „ ‘ - ‘ ' u cowpuncher make some casual redrama it beats The ma/' such M „Have you had a ralnysummer?” and seen a circle of ad-a film ft in mirers burst into hearty guffaws and4rth TroostFree ParkingiMKilfii^. maMorrill Moore«! iht Orgifir'.Admission10c-30cContinuous Shows From 2 P. M.becausemade the film at all.A disconcerting thing about the film is that it is part talkie and partexclaim that old Will certainly is the durnedest feller. While tnis was going on Mr. Rogers, who had no ideaJlem and that It Jumps, trom one I h b , , M l8ter;nedium to the other and back again. b.-,d,rmPnt ,nd mnd aston.vith no apparent effort to follow a iefinite plan. Sometimes Miss Cos-ello speaks lines and other times she.peaks subtitles.As the parts amount to little, theidvantage. Miss Costello is beauti-ul, but the best performance is given y two bottles of champagne thatishment. Of course. Will Rogers can be funny and usually is. Mr, Sennett never is—any more.A kindly regard for the Flynn brothers makes us hope there is a considerable oroDortion of these label100%TALKINGSfNGINGDANCINGlaughers in Kansas City. If such is the case there will be a fairly good. „ ^ M A, reaction to Mr. Bennett's latest niftyop and ?!Zz most realistically. About j called “Midnight Daddies'* which theyill that can safe the show is for the arp exhibiting in the Globe theater.nanagement to order up a couple of con^ajns such diverting triumphsases for the audience at every per- as a man wp0 speaks with aGerman accent and says “Dis is aNEWScrmance.Sam Hardy and Raymond Hatton ppear in a very broad and somewhat unnyf farce and there • is a screen orojeope for persons born in Septem-course.” or “, mitt oud de horse—of Ven I vass in Venice Ivanted to go oud for a walk and had, . to take a boat.” or a be whiskered old er. It says those born in the ninth ^vs **by heck” and is sup-lonth make excellent dramatic p0Sed to come from Council Bluffs, ntics. As the manager knew we were Ia which makes it all the funnier, orn in May we look upon this as a If you lmve a sense of humor atirty crack. ail you suffer a sense of vicarious Adults .embarrassment as you watch the lame Children efforts of Andy Clyde, Harry GribbonTHERE is only one thing wrong ana the rest of the Sennett tragediansv.lth “The Hollywood Review” at laboring under the delusion they are the Midland. After looking at all funny.WARWICKHello everybody. Come on over andhear me talk and sing1lidland—The Hollywood Review.The Voice of ActionThe Latest ImprovedWestern Electric SoundEquipmentMAIN AT WESTPORT AVE.30c10cMatinees 2-3:15-5:15 Evening 7:15-0:15iCOLLEEN MOORE inSMILING IRISH EYES• *Romance from the land of romance! Comedy from the home of wit! Presented by John McCormick with James Hall. Laurel Hardy all-talking comedy. Latest news.WedIILove and the Devil”those cute models in the chorus it is j disheartening to think that one could wait at the stage door and have n.o one come out but electricians.The picture stays there anotherTheitself forPHOTO PLAYS.UUU iNTOH S.OAK PARKProspect at 40thOperatedBILLIE DOVE, ROD LA ROCQUEIVf
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 29, 1929
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