The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, November 25, 1929, Image 13

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The Southern Israelite Page 13 PARAMOUNT ORIGIN \lity keynote OF LLOYD’S TRIUMPHS Hap’lii Lloyd insists that his pic- , contain two things—an expres- title and a fadeout gag that has inality and cleverness. “Welcome Hanger" Harold Lloyd’s latest comedy, • „ a rapid fire story of an amateur d* !i , h who invites trouble and accepts : in huge laughable quantities. Throughout “Welcome Danner” at :h«* Paramount theatre week of Dec. ■_V.d. Lloyd does little else than shake hands with danger. Out of one tough o’uation. he jumps right into another. That’'-- what makes “Welcome Danner” -ii* h a comedv success! METROPOLITAN DISRAELI, A JEW BECAME (TREAT ENGLISH STATESMAN George Arliss is coming to the Met ropolitan Theatre on December 2nd in the Vitaphone version of one of his greatest stage successes, “Disraeli,” which was produced with great care and under the expert supervision of several noted historians. It is a pic ture of dramatic power and has been listed as one of the finest products of the talking screen. The story deals with one of the most exciting and melodramatic epi sodes of Disraeli’s career. This great statesman had the eyes of the world Prime Minister of England. This was in 18fiH, just thirty-one years after he made his first speech in the House of Commons. The young Disraeli, fan tastically garbed, melancholy of mien, and with a mass of curls on his fine head, delivered that maiden speech with extravagant gestures and was greeted with derision. Between that disastrous speech and the signal honor paid him in giving him the post of Prime Minister, lay three decades of strenuously practi cal political life. He wandered up and down London, a kind of unsolved rid dle. There was a pose of mystery be hind him. He was fascinating, with out a peer in the art of repartee, a CAPITOL JOAN CRAWFORD Being a leading woman on the screen is not merely wearing beau tiful clothes and acting in front of a grinding camera. A box of respon sibilities is tied to the chariot wheels of fame and glory. Joan Crawford, starring in “Untamed,” her first all- talking picture, which will come Dec. 2nd to the Capitol Theatre is an ex ample. Once she was Lucille LeSueur, a dancer in the Winter Garden in New York. Harry Rapf discovered her and she was signed to a long term con tract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her name was changed to Joan Crawford and she became one of the most popu lar stars on the screen.