The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1939, Page 3

SUNDAY and MONDAY JN'GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR ees Deep in the heart of mysterious India they found the dangerous life they loved... a thrilling drama of a woman'’s courage and a boy's friendship ... magnificent in Technicolor... with SABU RAYMOND MASSEY DESMOND TESTER ROGER LIVESEY VALERIE HOBSON And a Cast of 3,000 Directed by ZOLTAN KORDA From a story by A, E. W. MASON RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS ' XTRA? MARCH OF TIME “The NEWS Behind the NEWS” AND LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY Hollywood Sights And Sounds | By Bobbia Coves HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 27.—Such optimism may be pre- mature, but it does seem to this corner that the movies are dealing somewhat more reverently with the novels and plays they trans- late on celluloid There'll always be changes made. Censors and story confer- ences, between them, will always be whittling here and hacking there. They say it's essential to the different medium of the screen, and that is largely true. A writer can spill over into a hundred pages of character analysis what the camera has to tell in a few feet of film, and he can use dialogue (sometimes effect- ively, too) which would curl a censor’s hair, But investigation of recent trends is hope-inspiring. The movies took as fine a novel as “The Citadel” and they made a picture lauded by the critical. They changed it a little, yes— notably they let the heroine live instead of being finished as in the book, but dramatically and artistically her death was not essential. The screen took “Wuthering Heights,” a classic from another country, and presented it so beautifully—even with changes —as tg elicit raves from the literati. “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” comes to the screen essentially as writ- ten, with the exception that the girl in the story is presented less sketchily than James Hilton wrote her. “The Rains Came" is planned with fidelity to Louis Bromfield’s original, and the Myrna Loy character is being presented as unsympathetically as she was written. Three minor characters are gone, the dialogue has been tamed, and the catastrophes—not dwelt upon at length in the novel but such good pictorial material as to be high points for the camera—will be fully presented. These are the changes. Just as Hollywood has reacted to its cinebiographical sins of - itdoesn’t matter.... which side of the bed you get out . . . after a breakfast at Percy's you're sure to be sef for a big, glorious day . .. PERCY’S b recent times, notably “Jesse James,” by an attempt at closer adherence to fact, so the current ‘apparent-interest in deing right by books and plays may owe its origin to-gross crimes of the past Outstanding among these ‘was Shirley Temple's venture as a “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” which bore no semblance—except in misleading title—to its beloved source. -Stevenson's) “Kidnaped” fared little better in adaptation, and other classics and best- sellers whose content has been ravaged by Hollywood make too tall a stack to enumerate. Optimism, as noted before, may be premature. Margaret Mit- chell’s book—remember?—is now on its third director (Sam Wood replacing Victor Fleming who replaced George Cukor) and what will come of it on the screen we must wait and see. And “The Grapes of Wrath” and “The Tree of Liberty,” both tough adapta- tion nuts to crack, are not yet in the scenarists’ hands. Meanwhile, lest it appear that Hollywood has washed ‘its hands completely of the blood of bayoneted books, it must be reported that “Golden Boy” will have a different ending. In the play the boy, his violin stilled forever, his life ruined, meets death in an automobile wreck. In the picture, the boy, with nothing to live for, will live. The picture thus will attain greater tragedy than the play—except for those who see in the mere maintenance of such a life a “happy ending.” And what's this we hear? “The Front Page” will be done again—with “slight” changes. Hildy Johnson, the reporting fel- low, will be a woman instead of the husky Pat O'Brien character. But even here there's hope. The distinguished Howard Hawks will direct it, and he’s trying to get Carole Lombard for the Hildy role. It may not be so bad. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1939 Midnight Preview 1:15 A. M. TONIGHT Matinee SUNDAY—2 P. M. LAST TIMES TONIGHT FIRST SHOW STARTS 7P M. “BROADWAY BILL" “REFORMATORY" “LONE RANGER" The United States has more than 1,200 cotton mills scattered over 30 Mates from Mame to Texas. MARINE Sheet Metal | Work Bm;t_ T—Mmks MacLEAN METAL WORKS SOUTH SEWARD ST. Telephone 703 o > \Ba’%}lQ/C "Drums’ fo .. Show Here At Capitol Korda's Ma—gfiiteni:led:- nicolor Production ta Open Sunday | All the thrills, ddnger and ro-| mance of life' on the North West| Frontier of India will be brought to; : the screen of the Capnol Theatre on Sunday when “Drums,' Alexan- der Korda’s magnificent technicolor ‘producnon begins a three-day e | gagement there. { | Sabu, the sensational child star | | of “Elephant Boy” fame, is featured| | { with Raymond Massey, Roger Live- {sey, Desmond Tester and Valerie £ | Hobson at the head of a cast of 8,000 | |in this exciting cavalcade of empire | building, photographed - in natural | color in nature's most dramatic set- | ting. i The stirring story casts Sabu as| ; a brave young Indian prince who, (wn.h the help of his Scottish drum- 1!“(‘! boy pal, is able to foil the fiend- {ish plotting of his power-mad uncle, ! | Prince Ghul, forestall the wholesale | slaughter ‘of British troops, which ‘Ghul had planned as the bloody cli- |max of a five-day ceremanial feast, and regain his own rightful place on the throne. The breath-taking realism which marks the battle scenes and . the scenes of Indian tribal life was achieved by invading India’s treach- erous Khyber Pass, territory which no motion picture camera had ever penetrated. A beautiful romance is contrib- uted. by Roger Livesey, as the re- doubtable Captain Carruthers who undertakes the mission into the hostile Prince Ghul's territory, and Valerie Hobson, as the bride who| accompanies him to this distant and dangerous outpost, where she is the only woman among thousands of men. Freeman-Mitford ' (above), British. Lord Redesdale. DANCE RECITAL ‘Juneauks—lorr - To Be Closed 'On Next Tuesday Housewives should remember that steres will be closed in | Juneau next Tuesday and or- | ders should be placed early | Monday to tide over the Mem- orial Day holiday. 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Miss Unity 23, _ Messerschmidt tapped fast and ex- IS GIVEN HER Dorothy Stearns Roff Pupils Present Varied Before an appreciative audience, Stearns Roff dancers |gave their spring recital in the Elks girl from the South Sea Isles, did a Hall last night and made a distinct Mrs. Roff substituted for Mary- Bob Laney sang a dreamy melody. lee Bartness in the last number. Mrs. | Harry Sperling was the accompanist was the ballet as Frances Paul, dress- jand Bob Laney sang two numbers. ‘ed in flaming yellow with marigolds The program that lasted well over in her hair, performed as a danseuse an hour consisted of tap, classical Marjorie Williams danced lightly fighter and the two picadors astride, 1 anto the floor, dressed in pink, with saw horses he had never learned to In a shy manner she fight. executed a tap having all the light- ness of its name, the Powderpuff, Four little girls, the Early Birds, dressed in blue, knit bird plumage, Different. Beverly Ann Erickson gowned in in black and white, characterized the an old-fashioned pink and blue dress Polka Dot. ! land wearing a blue bonmet whirled Feature Show at Coliseum Sunday! Bros. | Four Daughters” I “Four Daughters;” Warner picturization, of a famous Cosmo-| politan magazine story by Fannie| Hurst, which is scheduled to open | {at the Coliseum Sunday, poses & unique problem in human relation- | ships as its theme, What happens when four de- voted sisters all fall in love with the same man? The man in the case is Jeffrey Lynn, one of the screen’s newest. and most hand- some leading men, who makes it quite believable that four girls would irnn headlong under the spell of his charm. An unusual bit of casting| places the three Lane sisters—Pris- | cilla, Rosemary and Lola—in the roles of screen sisters, with Gale Page, a dark-haired beauty re- cently come to the screen, making a fourth, Of interest to theatre-goers is the casting of John Garfield, the leading young character actor of the Broadway stage, in another | featured role in “Four Daughters,” which marks his screen debut. a parasol as she tapped. The military spirit was felt for a moment when four of the older girls, | dressed in strictly West Point uni- ' forms, twirling canes in army fash- ion gave a rapid-fire target-hitting tap, ending with a snappy salute to the audience. | Big and little swingsters, swung | onto the stage to the.music tempo jof swing. They presented an adagio | dance. Adrienne Glass, dressed in an old- | fashioned hoop skirt dress did a| | comic, minuet in jazztime. | ? A fast tap followed as Roberta pertly to interpret Crackerjack Rhythm. | To the tune of “A Red and Yellow Basket,” Sharon Hagerty and Janet Stevenson, dressed in red, held hands and tap-danced in a rollick~ | ing manner. | Marilyn Merrit followed with a fast tap, the “Cross My Heart" tap of the program. A veritable Irish colleen, Sharon Sharpe, then came lightly out and sang of old fairy tales as she tapped. | Clad in gingham dresses, four blonde “gals” from the Ozarks gave a hilarious imitation of the rugged dance of that section. Gloria Gudkranson, dressed as a beautfiul number of the islands as The next feature on the program Dale Roff, as “Ferdinand the Bull” who loved flowers, fled from the bull- The farmer and farmerette, Ad- rienne and Marilyn, performed an acrobatic tap that was Just a Little | Bernice Floberg, dressed completely Annabelle Hagerup performed a fast tap in her usual pleasing and ; artistic style. The spring breeze, Joanne Erwin, blew onto the stage in a silky pink evening gown with silver slippers and { accessories. Whirling and turning, she seemed actually caught in a wind —mybe a Taku. ‘The finale of the program was a courtship scene of olden days per= formed by Mrs. Roff and Frances Paul. The lover wearing a robin hood outfit, complete with: feather in the hat, courted .the lady in blue through interpretive ballet steps. Usherettes for the affair were Mar- ianne Skinner; Betty. May Wilder, Ruth Torkelson and Ruth Allen. Dale Roff, dressed as a bellboy, announc- ed: the numbers. - ——-—— | GENE ROUTSOLA RETURNS | | Juneau and is visiting with Mr, and Mrs. Roald Copstead. He has been | employed for. the past two years in a grocery store in California. | Routsola reports-that Larry Hill and Fred Gilman, formerly of Ju- | neau, . are employed 'in..a grocery | store in Bremerton, Washington, . 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