Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1935, Page 26

B—12 = AMUSEMENTS.’ Agile Fred Astaire Stars In the “Roberta’” Picture| 4RE EXHIBITED Dancer Takes Most of Version 0{ Musical—Robinson's Fllm at the Earle Is BY E. de S. questionable, unassailable and unique. He occupies a niche never before attained by either a Jolson, a Barrymore or a FRED ASTAIRE'S place in the cinema universe is now un- Zasu Pitts. if you doubt it, take a trip u, ponder over a dance which Mr. Astaire does with Ginger Rogers— a dance which is so smooth, so immediately puts all cariocas, all polkas and foxtrots and con- tinentals forever in the shade. It is Mr. Astaire’s foot fever that makes “Roberta” something to see. Without him, and without that fever, it would only be a handsome musical show, conventional in stretches, and without that stimulus that appears whenever Astaire's feet touch the floor, and he canters about the ball room like a young gazelle with the supple Miss Rogers—a young lady who has been waxing mightily in footwork ever since Astaire tucked | her under his wing. | The power of all this “trick” danc- ing is such that when “Roberta” has come to the end’of its negligible story, it winds up the proceedings with a brief foxtrotting postlude. Thus the producers shoot their customers out into space with the memory of the best still strong in their minds and the memory of “Roberta’s” small plot lost somewhere in the distance. For with all due respect to Irene Dunne and Jerome Kern and others, “Roberta” starts off like a snail, pre- senting its message about the young foot ball hero who inherits a gown business at a crawling pace, and put- ting its customers to sleep just when they would like to be awake. As soon, however, as some of those ditties spring to life and Astaire springs to| action the fun begins—and you will | find no greater pleasure under this sun than watching him reach the peak of his dancing career. R-K-O should be commended for giving Astaire such a break—in spite of the fact that this is not the best of all musicals. Even Irene Dunne, never handsomen than when she ap- pears on that staircase in a white dress, is a little lost in the shuffle, her best moment coming when the camera is practically placed in her teeth as she sings “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” Helen Westley is far, far from right in a role origi- nally played by Fay Templeton and Miss Rogers is not too brilliant in the Lyda Roberti part. However, when she dances and when she wears a couple of those clothes, things start to happen—n.nd there is a fashion His own two feet have landed him there—and the Honors in Screen a Decided Hit. MELCHER. P R-K-O Krith’s and there elegant and so volatile that it show for women to wonder at—pre- senting some of the best and some of the worst looking dresses we have ever seen. Thus “Roberta,” Fred Astaire’s show, definitely proving that two feet can put a young man well at the top of the Hollywood ladder, something that has never happened before. * ok % X WHEN a gangster faints—that’s news! And when Edward G. Robinson faints as a gangster in “The ‘Whole Town’s Talking,” at the Earle, that's news again. Nor should it sur- prise you to learn that this picture is swell entertainment—fast, funny and exciting. It has all the earmarks of a solid hit. This is due to Mr. Rob- inson’s return to greatness and to Jean Arthur, a typical modern girl, who has looks, sense and can take care of herself. No wonder that in the midst of all this Mr. Gangster plays second fiddle. Mr. Robinson plays both second fiddle gangster and himself—which in | this case is Mr. Jones, “Jonesie” hap- pens to be a modest little clerk in a large business concern, whose hobby at home is his cat and his canary, and whose ambition is to have Miss Arthur fall in love with him. This she does | when he becomes famous for his re- semblance to Mannion, Public Enemy No. 1, and when things begin to hap- n. Things happen so thick and fast that we advise you without more ado to see this film. The stage show is headed by the Boswell Sistets, who sing “Dinah” the way nobody else can sing it and who get their customary big hand. Others include Frank Gaby and “stooge” in an amusing ventriloquist |act; the Uyenos, who tumble about in the perilous manner of all good Jap- anese artists—and Gine, De Quincy |and Lewis, who have a burlesque adagio act that follows the one last week at the Fox to a “T.” Mr. Bagranoff sings songs from “The Night Is Young” the way Ramon Novarro didn't sing them. HELEN HAYES IN HER FINAL MOVIE EFFORT “Vanessa,” Supposed to Be Her Swan Song to Films. After seeing “Vanessa; Her Love Story” at Loew's Fox this week, the only thing you-can do is go home and wail. Probably you will have been doing a bit of tear making at the | theater anyway, succumbing to grief over Vanessa's misfortunes. The cause for the fireside iament. however, is entirely different. This picture supposedly constitutes Helen | at the Fox, Is | STANWYCK’S NEWEST FILM IS EXCITING Barbara Has Lead Oppo- site Gene Raymond in “Woman in Red.” Barbara Stanwyck is at the Metro- politan this week in all her melo- dramatic glory. The film is “The | | Woman in Red,” which is passably en- THE EVENING STAR, WASfiINGTON, JOHNSONS AND WILD BEASTIES 2 Explorers, Together With Their Newest Film, in a Fine Entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson step out on the Columbia’s stage ‘this week to introduce in brief, illuminating words the motion picture diary of their last wandering tour of Africa— a thoroughly entertaining pictorial called “Baboona.” And after you have been magically whisked off to strange and interesting lands by the Johnson cameras and lost in the romance of the far away, those jangling street cars, auto horns, electric signs and chattering crowds on F street will bring you down to earth with a sudden jar when you step from the darkened theater. For there truly is romance in “Baboona.” It is not the romance of a boy and a girl who make supposed wise cracks at each cther in too many of Holly- wood’s canned entertainments, but it is the story of lands you have never seen. The Johnsons, in their appearance |on the Columbia stage, admit there was little rhyme or reason or direction in their latest travelings. They mere- ly planted caches of gasoline all over the continent of Africa at any point they thought they might touch and sallied forth in a pair of Sikorsky am- phibians, armed principally with mo- tion picture paraphenalia, with guns to be used only to protect the camera man or to get food if necessary. When they returned from their 20 months of air vagabonding they brought with them some beautiful scenic photography and reel after reel of thrilling close-ups of the wild in- habitants of the veldt. The pictorial beauty of some of those views of stately,mountain peaks thrust through | feathery clouds, and of some of the scenes about one of their mountain camps would be hard to equal. Bloodthirsty lions, irate, charging rhinoceroses, blundering hippopotomi, stampeding herds of girafle, beest, antelope and elephants, have been photographed superbly. There is a tense moment when Mrs. Johnson exhibits deadly aim to drop a wound- ed rhinoceros which is charging her. There is a thrilling battle between a spitting, clawing leopard and a husky, none too gentle wart hog, in which the leopard is put to rout. There is a duel between a group of natives and a small but deadly bad- ger. And all have been filmed at close range, with clear-cut photog- | 1aphy. | Then there is the film footage de- voted to the well-regulated village of the baboons—Baboona. An effective climax to the motion picture is at- tained when the village is beset by hyenas, leopards and other influences Jjeopardizing the safety of the baboon inhabitants, which inhabitants imme- diately set out for happier hunting | grounds across the stream, only to be uoutefl from the spot they select by a dogged gang of small monkeys led by a diminutive simian Joan of Arc. | There is much more about “Ba- | boona” to recommend it—much more than can be told here. But it's a film you should see, TWO DAMAGE CLAIMS | FILED IN AUTO CRASHES | Compnny Sued for $65, 000 and | tertaining. “The Woman in Red” is a story | |about a chap who comes from an | ancient and honored family, but who ! us broke and plays amateur polo for ia living, and a girl who rides horses | at horse shows for a living, she also being short on cash. They fall in love, | but the girl works for a society widow | Individual for $40,000 as Re- | sult of Accidents. Two suits growing out of traffic accidents were filed in District Su- preme Court, yesterday, In one, a total of $65,000 is asked by Samuel Bennett, and his wife, wilde- | D. €, SATURDAY, “Roberta’s” Dancing Man engagement at R-K-O Keith's. MISS COLBERT COMEDY STAR AT THE PALACE “The Gilded Lily” Is a | Good Story, Including Another Reporter. | 'The title of “The Gilded Lily” is so misleading you might expect Con- stance Bennett to show up in it, swathed in a sumptuous series of cos- | tumes, including animal skins. Act-| u¢lly the heroine is Claudette Colbert, | | for whom Paramount has sought to invent another “It Happened One | Night,” and even if she is a lily, the gilt doesn't shine through. As in Columbia’s unforgettable | hymn to small virtues, the hero of the piece at the Palace this week is a| lnenspaper reporter, carefree, lazy and blessed with the required heart of gold. | | For the first few hundred feet of film | the reporter and his stenographer friend sit on a park bench and eat pop corn. | One night the stenographer is MARCH 9, 1935, AMUSEMENTS, Goldwyn Plans Follies’ To Be Produced Yearly Important Screen and Stage Stars to Be Signed for Film—Chorus as Well BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, March 8 (N.AN.A.).—Sam Goldwyn intends to Pput current events to music under the title of “The Goldwyn Follies.” Each year he plans on signing some im- portant motion picture and stage art- ists as headliners in this big musical film. And each vear it will build into something more and more dramatic, if Mr. Goldwyn's present plans are carried out. ‘Which shows that Hollywood is be- coming more and more like the New York stage when it comes to revues. The East has had tis “Ziegfeld Fol- lies” and “George White Scandals” as permanent features in its theatrical life; shows that appeared in new edi- tions Winter after Winter. Hollywood is now swinging into this | tradition. We have “Gold Diggers” series, now in its fourth edition; the “Scandals,” making its second bow; the “Broadway Melody of 1935,” which is scheduled to make an annual ap- | pearance, and the “Ziegfeld Follies,” ‘lhich makes its initial bow soon Of all these musical films, the Gold- wyn series have probably had the most beautiful cherus girls. It's one thing to find & chorus that is capable of exquisite dancing, but it's another thing to 4nd dancers who are real beauties. The two don't always go together. How Sam Goldwyn accomplishes| this presumably impossible feat is a| matter of discussion. But theré are| | those who insist that he is a clever | enough producer to have two entirely | different sets of chorus girls. One he photographs in long shots doing their | dance routine. The other set are phn- | tographed in close-ups because of | their beauty. | Quite a clever idea, I'd say. if you | § | have the money to give the public the | Fred Astaire, the dancing star of “Roberta,” currently playing a week's “POWER” HELD OVER AT BELASCO THEATER | Conrad Veidt's Starring Vehicle | Proves Popular With Local Theatergoers. Conrad Veidt's characterization of | Joseph “Suss” Oppenheimer. member 10{ the prosecuted Jewish race who rises to “Power” in the Wurttemburg | of 1730 is as dramatic, as emotion- packed, as any role ever presented | by the cinema. Veidt is the star of “Power,” now in its second week at the Belasco. | The play, adapted from Lion Feucht- | wanger's novel, is rightly named—it | is powerful, in direction, acting, sub- | ject matter and realism. If you are | looking for light entertainment, some- ‘ thing you can look at and be enter- talned without thinking, without ‘Ieelmg. then we recommend you see | something other than “Power,” for its | mental and emotional “pull” will get under the toughest hide. “Suss” and the role of the duke, played by Frank Vosper, is in itself a better- than-ordinary bit of acting. though overshadowed in this case by Vemt'sl exceptional work. Other difficult roles include those of Marie Auguste, wife of the duke. played by Benita Hume; Rabbi Gabriel, is financial secretary for the | Duke of Wurttemburg in the picture | benefit of both beauty and art. | “The best singing instruction for beginners,” says Mary Ellis, “is lis: tening to good singers. They learn diction, pitch and rhythm from them | just as would-be actors learn the fine | points of acting from watching stage performances.” With the radio programs that one may tune in these days, this instruc- tion is possible for little or no ex- pense, Miss Ellis goes on to say. “The average youngster who plans a singing career,” she tells you, “should decide what type of singer he | wants to be. And he can do lhatl best by making a hero or heroine of | some one who sings on the radio. i “After the student has studied the | singer’s technique, first by listening and secondly by imitating him, he is | in a fair position to go to a singing| school and learn the techmuudes and rudiments of the art. “Most acting and singing is learncd‘ through imitation,” says this singing | actress, “and through the assump- tion that you yourself are as good as some person who receives $1,000 a day |for an hour's work.” Mary Ellis doesn't at all discount the fact that a good singing teacher is of paramount importance when the right time for him comes. She merely advises would-be singers to make the most of the time before they are financed to go into the study of voice in a big way. Spencer Tracy finds that life as a “country gentleman” isn't all that it's |cracked up to be. Ranching in the | San Fernando Valley was something Current Theater Attractions to Have Beauty as Art. that he and Mrs. Tracy looked ror- ward to with great pleasure, Spencer moved not only his family, but also his dog, 12 horses, a goat and 100 chickens to the ranch home once | occupied by Gary Cooper wife. All would have been wel!, Tracy thinks, if he hadn’t annexed one play- ful setter puppy cf eight months. The first week in the new home saw 15 prize chickens “take the count” at the hands, or rather the paws, of the setter. The second week was worse, as by this time the puppy had intrigued the older dog into childish | tricks again, and the Tracy chickens | took it on the chin to the extent of 20 fowl. ‘This week Spencer Tracy has to | make the big decision as to whether he would rather have his chickens or his dogs. He hasn't announced as yet which it will be, but those who know Spencer know that the chickens are as good as gone now. (Copyright. 1 by North Newspaper Alllance — and his | American Inc.) AMUSEMENTS. WHO 'I'OWI 'S 'llllllfi EDW. G ROBINSON IOSWELL SISTERS WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING. CAN ALS) BE SEEN TOWORROW MON & 1065 AT AMBASSADOR COMING FRIDAY * “GOLDDIGGERS OF 1935 The New Love Team BARBARA STANWYCK “WOMAN IN RED” GENE RAYMOND 25cn5eM EVES: 25¢ 40c Famous s; o Sun. Aft., MARYLAND PLAY. | Frederic J. Haskin, jr. of Chevy| | Chase will take his first romantic lead with the Footlight Club, Univer- sity of Maryland dramatic organiza- | tion, March 20, 21 and 22 in Paul | Osborne’s drawing room comedy, “The Vinegar Tree.” Having successfully played a comedy role in the Fall production, “Death Tates a Hgliday.” Haskin will essay | his first romantic portrayal of Max Laurence. Playing opposite him will | be Mildred Hearn of Salisbury, Md Others in the cast include Betti Buschman of Leonia, N. J., whe ap- | pears as the scatter-brained hostess; Laura Merrick, Loretta Dolan, Balt more, as Leone Merrick; George Ed- wards, Silver Spring, as Geofrey Cole, and John Jacob, Pikesville, as Louis the comical butler. The play, which had a successful run on Broadway several years ago, is comparatively new to college dra- matics. Stanwood Cobb to Speak. Stanwood Cobb, director of the Chevy Chase Country Day School, will speak on “Progressive Education” at a meeting today of the New York Kindergarten Association in New York City. ___AMUSEMENTS. How HELEN HAYES | ROBERT MONTGOMERY STORY MET 500 _MILTON BERLE SHIRLEY TEMPLE-LIONEL BARRYMORE o " THE LITTLE COLONEL" - EVERETT MARSHALL St _[uewj PAlAC -7 ll b g 'm “‘ MURRAY “RAY MILLAND FAIRLAWN POWER” “Deseries serious consideration ®f ner (Star) GAYETY BURLESK Starting This Sunday Matinee 2—Gems of Burlesk—2 MIKE SACHS and PEGGY HILL OWARD ON THE STAGE Queen of the Blues MAMIE SMITH AND HER EBONY SCANDAL MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT 722272 7700000 | Theatre Beautiful om 1:0( IN THE DA} . CAROLINA BENGAL” Night— HE WAS HER A" 3 Ph. WE. . lurs Bat d_Dog Wisconsin Ave. DOLPH _SCOTT n DUMBARTON Ra nd JACKIE COOG THE RANGE "0, T Bafoy \PRINCESS BILL BOYD e PORT. Ms 5 OF LOST DREAMS WAYNE. THE TRAIL BEYOND.* 8244 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring. Md. SECO Continuous F'nm ! nn P\Y pnous § “READY FOR LOVE.” .ROMANCE REVIER * 2 ws__Comeds. ~HOME ON L) | scrambling for the subway when 2 | guard begins pushing people around.| A handsome young man steps forth | who also is in love with the man; and | C.AUBREY SMITH | consequently she loses her job, which |is just another instance of how life Hayes’ swan song to the cinema. When you have seen just how mag- Cedric Hardwicke: Wiesensee, Gerald Du Maurier, and Naomi, daughter of “Suss,” Pamela Ostrer. Mrs. Ida Bennett, 1410 Girard street, from the Davidson Transfer and Stor- age Co. A truck owned by the de- mh ana C | STANTON Findi Luna and Time of Showing. E‘rlninxm‘el! Contin 00, nificent Miss Hayes can be before the camera, the thought of her retire- | ment will produce either acute melan- cholia or a desire to run out and commit hari kari as a sacrificial pro- | test. | In the cold, gray light of F street yesterday afternoon “Vanessa” did not appear to be exactly a master- piece of a screen story. Better than most, but not the classic of the year. However, the tale seemed as poignant and real as any we have ever seen embalmed in celluloid. The answer is, Miss Hayes. She is on the screen most of the time. and during those moments neither plot, setting or ac- cessory characters matter in the least. Maybe this idea emerges from hyp- nosis. If so, we can desire nothing better. As for that mildly maligned plot, it concerns an English country lass of good family and a young buck well born and rather badly behaved. They fall in love and thereafter fate gives them a swift kick every time they are about to be happy together. The de- tails of their recurrent tragedies are & pot-pourri of misunderstanding, bad luck and self-sacrifice. At two or three stages of the game Vanessa and her handsome lover are about to reach out and pluck the plum of union and happiness they desire, but each time the prize swings back, just out of range. Ther2 are four distinct epi- sodes in this saga of sorrows, one not essentially very different from the other, but all completely enchanting because—well, we are embarrassed to mention it again. but you might as well know the truth. It's because of Miss Hayes. Robert Montgomery plays the thwarted lover to Vanessa, a role rude- ly surprising to the Montgomery fans. ‘The character of Benjamin Herries is a rather sketchy affair as drawn by the scenario writers (one of them being Hugh Walpole, who wrote the original novel), but Herr Montgomery does justice to all that was given him. The rest of the cast is approxi- mately perfect, with May Robson, Henry Stephenson, the British bach- elor-with-umbrella novelist, and Otto Kruger, beautifully crazy whenever the script says he should be. There is a lot of sentimentality about Queen Victoria, at various times in the flicker, but otherwise it is so well di- slaps La Stanwyck around. The two are married, and after sundry tribula- tions a girl falls off a nice chap’s yacht and drowns. haul the nice chap down to court, and | he is tried for murder. ‘While all this falling off the yacht | is going on, the first girl (Stanwyck) is on the boat, which gives her the denly decides to chuck her life at the last moment and sacrifice everything to save the nice young chap. She dashes madly into the court room, sets our friend free, and then is surprised to find that the man who is her hus- band understands and still loves her. All this, however, makes for some light and diverting entertainment, except when La Stanwyck is having her tan- trums. In this film she has two—one only a mild bit of hysteria, but the other is a true Stanwyck storm. Gene Raymond plays the hero and does a very acceptable job of it. Genevieve Tobin is the villain of the piece. John Eldredge plays the chap from whose yacht the young lady fell into the cold waves. Claude Gilling- water, who should not be unknown to local legitimate theater patrons, does an excellent bit of work as the head of the Wyatt clan who approves of his new in-law (Stanwyck) because she 1s the first one in the family who ever thought of a way to make money out of horses. There are others of varying degrees of adequacy. ‘The Metropolitan’s bill also includes a musical short which is notable be- cause it has Hal LeRoy and a news | reel which is notable because of some unintended comedy. H. M. PLAYING GOI..F IN RAIN GIVES ACTOR INFLUENZA W. C. Fields Shoots 18 Holes and Goes Home Sneezing—English Actor Operated On. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, March 9.—A siege of what he calls “golf influenza” has confined W. C. Fields, movie come- dian, to his home and he will be unable to return to pictures for several days, his physician said yesterday. After playing 18 holes of golf in the rain at Del Monte, Calif., a few days ago, Fields developed a sneezing spell rected you might never suspect the story really doesn’t get anywhere. Somewhere long before this we should have mentioned the Fox stage show. It is by far the best seen in this house in months. Milton Berle headlines the business, and never be tricked into thinking he is not a good and hard-working comedian. Some of his gags are the ones grandmother used to bake, but the first audience yesterday had fun most of the time M. Berle was on stage. His maun- derings are supported by the inimita- ble Cardini (we were just about to find out all those secrets and tell you, when a stage hand tossed us out of the wings), Barbara Jason, a pleasant singer; Chilton and Thomas' sharp dancing, and the famous beef trust chorus with Nate Eagle's midgets. Very funny! The Casino de Paree unit also brings to town the hand- somest chorus and the most beautiful show girls of the season. The Terry Toon cartoon this week also is good. R. B. P. Jr. which later sent him to bech Another movie actor, Francis Lister, Englishman, was recovering at a hos- pital after a minor operation. —_ DANCE BENEFIT SET St. Patrick’s Party Planned by Veterans’ Administration. The Welfare Association of the Veterans' Administration will give a St. Patrick’s dance party at Wardman Park Hotel March 16 at 10 p.m,, it was announced today. Plans for the affair are being arranged by H. A. Hutson, assisted by Miss Ada M. Cady, Mrs. Esther Burgan, Miss Bernadine O'Donnell, Miss Janey McRae and Harold Allen Long. Brooke Johns will act as master of ceremonies, introducing floor show en- tertainers. Proceeds will be used for maintenance of the association’s wel- fare activities. ‘Whereupon the police, opportunity to be the mysterious wit- | ness—the woman in red—who sud- | | fendant struck the automobile of the | plaintiffs, ceriously injuring Mrs. Bennett, on September 21, it is con- | tended through Attorney |Dunn. On her behalf, $50,000 is his wife's companionship, the hus- band asks $15,000. The other suit, for $40,000. was filed by George A. Fillah and his minor son, Nicholas, 728 Sixth street, against John Sheahin, 821 Eleventh street, as the result of a crash, No- vember 29. Claiming injuries, the action was instituted through At- torneys Richard E. Wellford and P. H. Marshall. RERRTE ALUMNI WILL OFFER 26 TEMPLE SCHOLARSHIPS Washington Will Sponsor Selec- tion of Student From This Area—Tests in April. The education of 26 boys and girls, one of them from Washington, will be financed by Temple University alumni groups, it was announced today by Raymond Burkley, executive secretary of the General Alumni Association of the university. Twenty-six alumni units known as Associated Temple Alumni Clubs, scattered throughout the United States have voted to award a full- time scholarship at Temple to the most deserving high-school graduate in_their respective localities. In Washington the scheme was adopted by the Washington Alumni Club, of which Valentine M. Hess, 900 Seventeenth street, is president. Examinations will be held in the high schools in April and the winners of the scholarships will be announced at commencement time, SOME SHAKESPEARE. Plans already are under way for the presentation May 9 of “Kig Henry VIII” at Roosevelt High School by the Shakespeare Society of Washing- ton. Tickets will be available after March 14 at Emma Eva Skrivanek's studio in the Cumberland apartments, Fourteenth street and Massachusetts avenue, between the hours of 5 and 7 pm. daily and 2 and 10 pm. on Sundays. Tickets also will be sold at the March and April meetings of the group. Dr. C. G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, will speak on “Astronomy in Shakespeare’s Time,” and scenes from “The Duchess of Malfi” will be presented at the March meeting of the society Monday at 8:15 p.m. in the Whitby Hall, Cathe- dral School. MAMIE SMITH AT HOWARD. The Howard Theater is currently presenting as its stage attraction, Mamie Smith, Queen of the Blues. Mamie Smith has long held the title as queen and originator of blue songs. Like' Sophle Tucker she has a style all her own and has the distinction of being an outstanding recording artist. Mamie Smith brings her “Ebony Scandal Revue.” On the screen. “The Right to Live” with Josephine Hutchinson and George Brent is belug shown. Milton | sought, and for expenses and loss of | and pushes the guard in the face | (what fun people have in the movies!) | The steno and the young man beat it together. So they fall in love. The young man turns out to be an English lord or earl or something, wasn't. When she finds out that he is, she spills the yarn to her reporter friend, who is not too lazy to spin a beautiful newspaper tale out of the whole cloth. All of a sudden his hand- some little pop-corn eater, Marilyn David is a celebrity in New York. To where they'd do the most good. “The Gilded Lily” is a much better little comedy than the form sheet shows. Wesley Ruggles wields a nifty directorial wit, formance confirms the impression that she is happier with comedies than with kings, and Fred MacMurray, a newcomer, polishes off the newspaper reporter glibly. The nice thing about this particular celluloid newspaper man is that he doesn't talk too fast, he doesn’t get drunk and give his city | editor the Bronx cheer and he some- scoops out of his ears. In other words, he is believable, In order to correct a public illusion, and because “The - ily” represents a pleasant hour or so in the theater, it almost should be re- quired reading. The rest of the cast consists of C. Aubrey Smith, still full of Anglo- Saxon grunts; Ray Milland, who plays the handsome cad: Louis Alberni and some others who are a help in small ways. . The second issue of “The March of Time” 1s featured also at the Palace currently. This particular newsreel | outfit doesn't .pull its punches, al- though it does join in the flag-waving war talk inevitable in most news shots these days. R. B. P, Jr. SAT.1 which the stenographer thought he her public she is the girl who told the | English nobleman to put his millions | Miss Colbert’s per- | how manages not to rush around | breathing fire out of his nostrils and | Even the short subjects of this week’s bill at the Belasco are unusual. One in particular stands out. It is a picturization of the movements of the | sea which inspired Mendelssohn’s over- ture, “Fingal’s Cave,” thrown on the screen while a symphony plnys the musical score. T. K. - BOTANIST ON FORUM Daniel N. Shoemaker Will Lecture on Gardening. Dr. Daniel N. Shoemaker, botanist jand chemist and president of the Friends’ Forum of this city, will ad- dress the Civic National Porum at the | James’ Dining Hall, 1914 Thirteenth street, tomorrow at 4 pm. His topic |is “City and Suburban Gardening.” Miss Thelma E. Wilson will present | a series of dramatic readings. There | will be music also. The public is invited. There is no charge. —— Californians to Meet. Dancing and cards will be the of- der when the California State Society holds its regular get-together tomor- | row might at the Roosevelt Hotel. | Representative and Mrs. Hoeppel, | Representative and Mrs. Welch, Rep- resentative and Mrs. Collins and Rep- resentative and Mrs. Ford are acting as co-chairmen and hosts. - Gangsters Freed in Slaying. CHICAGO, March 9 (#).—Seven reputed Capone gangsters headed by Claude Maddox and Sam (Golf Bag) Hunt, seized in connection with the slaying February 4 of Thomas Maloy, czar of the Motion Picture Opera- tors' Union, were freed yesterday. Charges of disorderly conduct were dismissed when prosecutors said they lacked evidence against the men. Dr. 3 FLOOR SHOWS DAILY 1:00 P. M—7:30 P.M.—11:45P. 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