The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1937, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1937 "THE GUMPS—SURPRISE! OOH~THE POOR, HELL CATCH His DEATH OF =r), ty ae HAVE GAS RANGE GET A TURKEY FREE Offer Expires Thanks- giving Day Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. 120 Third Street Phone 1030 "t hurry up AT THE ‘Astaire Drum Dance Sensational Novelty For three minutes and fifty-seven seconds—almost as long as it takes a world’s champion track man to run & mile—Fred Astaire beats out a ma- chine-gun rhythm with sticks and his feet o ne cluster of drums, tom- toms and cymbals in his current romantic comedy, “A Damsel in Dis- tress,” coming to the Capitol Wed- nesday. Said to be the most sensational terpsichorean feat of his career, the drum dance is the longest sustained routine Astaire has ever attempted. For rhythmic pyrotechnics it has no equal, as he augments the lightning taps of his feet with syncopated beats of the drumsticks. Ordinarily it takes at least a day te photograph one of Astaire’s diffi- cult dance routines. However, on the day the drum dance was filmed, the RKO Radio star was “hot,” and one hour and fifteen minutes after the cameras started turning, Director ‘George Stevens pronounced the dance “ir the bag.” More than a dozen base drums, fares, jungle drums, cymbals and other traps are planted in the form of @ U, and Astaire, dancing in the center of this cluster of precussion instruments, induces an equal num- ber of rhythmic tones with his nim- ble feet and his drumsticks, The Drum Dance is the production tlimax to the gay P.G. Wodehouse comedy, which boasts a celebrity cast Incl George Burns and Gracie Allen co-starred with Astaire; Joan taine, Ray Noble, Constance Col- er, Montagu Love, Reginald Gard- and Harry Watso: chilling ‘pure VANILLA MOVIES : Powell and Loy Team In New Laugh Picture, A side-splitting laugh treat is in store for movie-goers who attend the opening at the Bismrack theatre this week for the attraction there start- ing Wednesday will be “Double Wed- ding, co-starring those perennial fa- vorites, William Powell and Myrna Loy, in what is described as a pic- ture even funnier than their famous “Thin Man” series. Based on the continental stage success, “Great Love,” by Ferenc Mol- nar, the new romantic comedy tells | the story of four people—Charlie, a penniless but happy-go-lucky artist who makes his home in a trailer; Margit, owner of a fashionable New York gown shop; Irene her sister with yearnings to be a movie star, and Waldo, Irene’s half-hearted suitor. It is Margit’s determination that her sister should marry the some- what unromantic Waldo, but instead Irene meets the devil-may-care ar- tist and falls completely under his spell. The dignified Margit exerts all the persuasion she can command to break up the affair between Irene and the-artist, only in the end to fall @ victim to his indisputable charms herself. It is Powell, of course, who plays the itinerant artist. Usually seen in @ beret and smock, although once making his appearance in more than a pair of pajamas and ® coonskin coat, he has a role which gives him ample opportunity for the sly comedy and dry wit which has made him celebrated as one of the funniest actors in pictures. “Petrified wood” is not wood, and never was wood, The so-called “turn- ing to stone” 1s caused by a gradual wasting away of the vegetable matter buried in tree trunks, with mineral matter seeping in to take its place. 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