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