Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1935, Page 28

George White’s “Scandals 2 *“LET’S LIVE TONIGHT” DIES Filled With Tunes and Fun AT THE DAWN Screen Production Has Many Stars, and All of Tullio Carminati’s Cine- Them at Their Bcst—Bcnny Davis' Stade Show at Fox Is of High Caliber. BY E. de S. will do very well. monotonous. U MELCHER. NTIL a better formula is discovered for a musical picture, George White's “Scandals,” now playing at Loew’s Fox, It is costly, tuneful and only slightly Its principals vary from the ever-smiling Alice Faye to the ever-grouchy Ned Sparks; from that amazing hoofer, Eleanor Powell, to the effervescent Lyda Roberti, and if %ou dont care for any of these, James Dunn, Arline Judge Emma unn and Fuzzy Knight are thrown in for 'good measure. Jack Mulhall, one-time matinee idol, appears momentarily as a ticket seller. Mr. White has seen to it that these celebrities are given numbers which they can handle. Mr. Dunn and Miss Faye fall in and out of love all the way through; Miss Roberti casts her eyes with no displeasure on Cliff Ed- wards, and Mr. Edwards reciprocates with evident relish. The latter’s best moments, however, come when he is dreaming about “Having Been Born Too Late,” and imagines himself as a Romeo, an An‘hony and as Du Barty's favorite boy ‘riend. In these he plays clown with that old Cliff Edwards enthusiasm which used to make his banjo-playing one of the more popu- lar items around Broadway. If these “Scandals” tend to become slightly tiresome it is only because you always know what is coming next in a George White show. There must be a curtain heid here and there by handsomely draped and undraped fe- males, There must be a scene in which George White can prove that he’s still a good dancer. There must be a place 1or the leading man and | the leading woman to quarrel. And | there must be cabarets, a little ex- | citement and a happy ending. These you get in Mr. White's second photoplay venture. Miss Faye is very blond and opens her mouth continu- ally; Mr. Dunn, a nice guy, does nothing very well; Lyda Roberti gets | her man with gusto, and Eleanor Powell does that dance which she has done here on the Fox stage time and‘ time again. with great skill. Mr. | White's three or four tunes are already | familiar, and the girls dance in and | out with grace and enthusiasm. We still think, though, that Ned Bparks is the star of the show. All| he has to do is to speak a syllable and | the audience zalls apart. * %k ok X BENNY DAVIS' “Star Dust Revue” | has some bright new talent tms‘ season. Two young men, long, | angular and funny, Jimmy Shea lndk Guy Raymond, walk away with first honors. They do things that nobody\ has ever done before and they come | back and do more things that nobody has ever done before and they keep on being funnier and funnier and funnier. Mr. Davis has here a couple of tons of gold. Others who ring the gong are Rollo Pickert in a Will Mahoney imitation that flatters even Mr. Mahortey: Bebe | Sherman, who also flatters Sophie | ‘Tucker; Bobby Bernard, who sings| very nicely, and the Winstead Trio | which you remember from Arthur | Godfrey's “Going Native” days. Edith | Mann has a couple of excellent | dnncmg feet, too nlchough why she | _— = ICES. LEGAL (Continued.) i:iiiil.\r,'fo’uu.n Attorneys, 613 15th St. N.W. E COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF Letters Testamentary on the estate of Elia Lea, late of the District of Columbia. deceased. Al persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same. with the vouchers there- of. legally authenticated. to the subscriber, on or befure the 15th day of March. A D! 1936 otherwise they may by law be ex- cluded from all benefit of said estate. Given urder my hand this 15th day of March. 1055, " HENRY E. COLTON . 801 | Bidg.. Nashville. Tenr. _(Seal.) | t. [EODORE COGSWELL. Register | wnh for “the District of Columbia, | of the Probate Court. | . Mh30-ap6.1:3 “PEELLE. LESH & DRAIN, Attorneys. BUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF ‘olumbia. Holding Probate Court.—No. 47.475, Administration—This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained 'from the Pro- bate Court of the District of Columbia, tters Testamentary on the estate of Harriet Stewart Green. late of the District ©f Columbiza, deceascd. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same. with the Youcners thereof. legally authenticated, to the subscriber. on or_before the 15th day of December. ‘A. D. 1935: otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of md estate. Given under my. h-nu this 20th _day March. 1935. JA! G N MaSsachusetts Avenve: N {(8eal.) Attest: THEODORE COGSWE‘LL Register of Wills for the District of Co- lllmbu Clerk of the Probate Court. himan S. OBEAR. MORGAN 3 CAMPBELL. Attorncra, ™ BUPREME COURT OF THE D! (Columbia._ Holding Probate Conrs o | 1 8.025. Adminisiration.—This is to Give hat the subscriber. of the State $onvashington has obtainied from _the o tters Testamentary ’85{‘”&:‘%’ SaaESe Edith Kensett Richie. late of the Die: }’rict of Columbia, deceased. All persons havine claims against the deceased are erebs warned to exhibit the same. with (h! veuchers |herzo! legally lulhennclt!d o A B Sh0 aheriie taih o 'wise ey ‘r,nfl'!.‘%yeim!be (;Ixcludrd from all benefit Vi $athy das or Saseh elnn%muzr my hand zh(x 34, ke 00l U of wasn' AR VICTOR 8. MERSGH. ister o Wms for the Distric Clerk ¢ Probate caunt m columbll RANK STETSON, Attorney. SUPREME OOURT OF THE DISTR! Co}gm:uamuflemu Prob; ‘--?Ionm}gr_l?: nf = Nortos: That the subseriber ot t“ Biscrier of Columbia has obtsined foom ttersests a the estate of Virginia Y. Jones, late of the Di S 3 strict of Columbiy All persons having IE. Be-t!le BeaL) with the AR aly o A 5o Tiw “be "exciuded trom: i beriht | o Siven under”its hand thix TRUST COMPANY. O By 0 ice Pl’!.lld!hl lnd Trust DORE WELL Reglster of = et of Columbia. Cler] ;Nm: {he ‘Brobar before th mh30.2p6. DANIEL W. O'D ONOGHUE, (E COURT OF THE DIS- urt.—IN trict of Cotambis, b iding_a Probate - lum| RE _EST) MAI 1935, at 10 o'clock A. M.. why ' such ~application should not _be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the ‘“Washington Law porter” and “The Evening Star Newspaper’ once in gach of three successive weeks before the day ~herein ‘mentioned—the first PuBlication fo be not less than Thitcy dags fore _said return day. ALFRED A. cnm Justice. A irue cgy (Seal.) COG! Reelster ot Wills Tof the Distvice of Gac lumpia. Clerk of the Probae Court. mh30-ap6.1 TIOIA! ' JURKE, ROBERT H. l.. Attorneys, e i urt of the District of wlll’hhll Administration c.t.a.” on the show cause | Pay wants to display them in a “Poet and Peasant” dancing number is a mystery. Mr. Davis sings, of course, “Margie,” and the whole show has the snap and speed of all of Mr. Davis' shows. Phil Lampkin's third anniversary overture does his third anniversary year credit. LITTLE SHIRLEY IS BACK AT THE COLUMBIA Child Actress Seems to Be About as Popular as Ever in “The Little Colonel.” Miss Shirley Temple’s whimsical ad. ventures with a Southern “kunnel pre-Laffoon style, are on exhibit here again this week in “The Little Colonel,” playing a return engagement at Loew’s Columbia Theater. As the daughter of a crinoline belle who made the tactical error of eloping with a Yankee, the film-goers’ favorite papoose laughs, cries, dances, pets a dog, gives the plot | a happy ending and otherwise con- ducts herself in a manner conducive to your pleasure. Like all child actors. the weanling wow of Hollywood is forever thre ened with the possibility that she will become merely another precocious and | troublesome cinema child, but once | again she avoids that pitfall as regu- larly as heroines escape villains in cinema land. Her venture among the magnolias and Colonial architecture would seem to suggest that no matter what material they give Miss Temple she will end up sitting pertly on top of the world. For “The Little Colonel” is not pre- cisely the academician’s delight, as films go. Little Temple and Lionel Barrymore, who plays the gruff old “kunnel” softening under the influence of his granddaughter's charm, con- tribute approximately two-thirds of the legitimate entertainment to be de- rived from it. The other third is sup- plied by Bill Robinson, the most emi- nent of sepia hoofers, whose current antics indicate he is going to be a “find” for somebody. Just where that leaves the story, John Lodge and Evelyn Venable (who are the Little Colonel's father and mother), you can figure out for yourself. The high points of the show are Miss Temple's dances with Robinson— the low, almost any moment when Miss Venable, Mr. Lodge and a couple of villains are wrangiing over some obscure mortgage, as if any one cared. The last episodes of the film are in technicolor, dotted with off-color roses, slightly pink linen suits and the other peculiarities of that process. Mile. Shirley’'s charm even survives that, which will give you an idea of how she is getting along. The Columbia program this week | also includes a variety of short J;ub- SUPRE‘AE COURT OF THE DISTRICT ¢ Columbis. Holding Probate Court.—— 00! 4208, - is to gim‘mmI strict of the Probate Court of the District of Co- Jumbis. Letters ~Testamentary on the estate of Mollie J. Smith. late of the Dis- trict of Columbla, deceased. _All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof. legally authenti: cated, to the subscriber, ob or Be un ey, of B0 “a e’ excluded! trom henefit of said estate. i .'n"y Band this 28 day o(]hbnltu 1638, ,YSSES 8. Pl 0|er of the Probate Court. ."ll!o'lb!ofl TON, “';{&..-q.‘? ss thern Building. URT OF " OF THE Dlmlfl OP s"@fifi.fi.mmam Probate Court. Adininistration.—This is to Gx That the subscribers, of the = of New York have obtained ‘trom the Pro- baie Court of the District of columblu tamentary on the estate of e o oieht late of the District of Co- 'All persons having claims et fnedeeeased are hereby warned to SR (e same, With (he vouchers there- of. legally authenticated. to the sub- sciibers. on or before the 1th day of March. AD. 1936: otherwise they m b law be txd\ldrd from all benefit te. Given under our_hands this 11th Gt March, 1935 ESTHER EATON. w 2 #EAR Cit: % !RS{:H Depu She Distric ot " Con Probate Court. Al'll(!l P!‘I‘El nl W.H. IIADEN. Attys., loan & Trust Blde. 'UPREME DOUE OF THE DISTRICT OF Columbu Holdlnl Problle Court.—No, This is to ma “Build-up” Is Just a Thing of Celluloid. After producing two of the most beautiful golden yolks of recent years in ““One Night of Love” and “It Happened One Night,” Columbia Pic- tures Corp. has laid egg of another sort. It is called “Let’s Live Tonight,” and you'd never serve it to a friend for breakfast, lunch or dinmer. Ostensibly an attempt to give 'l‘ulllu Carminati a screen build-up on the basis of his success in “One Night of Love,” the cinema at the Earle Thea- ter this week succeeds only in blast- ing that excellent Latin mimic’s chances of achieving individual fame in the world of celluloid. He may serve in the future as an effective foil for Miss Grace Moore or some other established star, but it is doubtful if anything less than a miracle will per- suade the cash customers who drift into “Let's Live Tonight” to come back crying for more Carminati. Yet the fault les not with the actor himself, a seasoned and skilled per- former. If you remember him in the stage successes “Strictly Dishonor- able” and “Music in the Air,” in his cinema with Miss Moore, you will surely acknowledge that. Even in this strange concoction labelled “a mu- sical romance,” because it has a theme song and a Riviera accent, he man- ages now and then to be amusing. It is hard work, though, merry- making in the graveyard of the last decade’s plots, gags and characteriza- tions, a vast burial ground thoroughly explored by Gene Markey before he wrote the scenario to “Let’s Live To- night.” Nor are Carminati’s futile efforts to stay cheerful amid dramatic ghouls especially helped by Lillian Harvey, Luis Alberni or the assorted cthers invclved in this plush-mounted tale of a gay boulevardier who finds himself getting sentimental over one of his amorous adveptures. While he is floating afound India on & yach! thinking about the new lamb pot pie, she dasnes off to the Riviera and becomes engaged to a lad who is. unbeknownst to her, the roue’s brother. Get it? We might be able to make this a lot clearer, but nobody around here seems inter- ested in sending over & cast sheet and all those pet names by which movie millionaires identify one an- other are entirely too tough to re- member. Remember Mitzi Green, who was, 5o help us, & child actor in the worst sense of the word? Well, Miss Green has grown up and reformed. She does keep on making faces, but the faces are imitations of a lot more famous maps you have seen in films, and as a mimic, the new Mitzi is ex- cellent. She headlines the Earle stage bill this week, singing a ballad or two and slyly counterfeiting George Ar- liss, Ed Wynn, Joe Penner, vea, every one but the four Marx brothers. The remainder of the bill is un- usually well balanced, presenting Grace Doro, whose pianistic tricks stopped the first show yesterday; Charlie Melson and two partners, a moderate comedy and music diversi- fication, and the Hal Sands Revels of 1935, a terpischorean group including two remarkably clever girl acrobatic dancers. R.B. P, Jr. FOUR-WEEK .STAND FOR “ROBERTA” AT KEITH’S Popular Musical Picture Rounds Out a Month as a Box Office Hit. When a motion picture enters its | fourth week at a downtown theater it no longer is in need of praise. You know already that “Roberta,” at Keith's, is a very attractively mounted and thoroughly entertaining screen version of Jerome Kern's musical of the same name. You know that in “Roberta” you may see Fred Astaire, most nimble and original of dancers, doing routines only Fred Astaire can do. And you should know you can see young Mr. Astaire dancing up into Charles Laughton’s class when it comes to getting spontaneous applause from a movie audience. At least, yesterday evening there was much more than a smattering of applause throughout the theater when Fred and Ginger Rogers finished that superb dance they do as the film's finale. You know also that “Roberta” lags occasionally and that when it does Mr. Astaire fortunately comes on the scene to loose his nimble feet or to do a bit of clever clowning with a clever foil, Miss Rogers. It really is this pair which makes “Roberta” the ace entertainment. Dancing, Ginger keeps up with Astaire, which is a ® | nobeworthy achievement, and - when for | not dancing the two are a pair of the slyest of wits who bring much life to some of “Roberta’s” slightly dead comedy. “Roberta” has, in addition to this team, Irene Dunne, as beautiful as Give | ever and performing most capably, - | but being praised most, as you well Telferet .dmxmstrmon c L o e i 'jate B the District of Columbia. deceased. ~All per- sons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenti- cated. to the subscriber on or before th 11th day of March. A. 936; otherwise they may by law be extl\lded from all bene- fit of said estate. Given under my hand this 11th day of March 1645. FRANCES HALPIN 1715 17th St. N W. (Seal) Sitest T TNEODOR ELL. Register ot ‘Wiils o1 the District of Columbla. Clerk of the Probate_Court. mh?23.30-aD6 FRANK STETSON. Attorney. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF Columbia. Holding Probste Coutt—-No. Cou inted 8th dly of April, l“lfi at 10 o'cl loek A as the time. and said Court roo: place. for miking payment '“é‘o aumnuunn ive T legaci nlrtl '.h!reo! are nof perso! { agent or att duly luthurlud with thelr claims lnlmt the !illle Dproperly vouched. Given under its Bty davinad” s Mk J0 Iy H?.A STETSON. Alhl’lg. (8eal.| HEo! COGSWE Retlllfl' ol Willl for the District of Co- imbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. 1. 2330 JAMES W. , or the tified LLER, Attorney. ‘THE DISTRICT OF Colul li H lnl Probl!e Cfllfl —llo 47.607. Administration.—This Nortce: Pons e sassribers® of the i igict of Columbla and the State of N York, respectively, have obtained from the Frobate Court of ihe District of cnlutnbh ———— II)V'ING. PACKING & STORAGE. fg.‘fi RO know, for doing “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” as it probably has never been done before or since; an excellently played musical score that includes those Jerome Kern hits you lke to hear, and a fashion show—several of them, in fact—which will send the ladies into ecstacies and their escorts out after & cup of coffee. See “Roberta” if you have not already: and if you have, perhaps you had better have another look at Fred Astaire’s dancing. H M. In Comedy In Academy CLARK Award Film GABLE, Starred with Claudette Colbert in “It Happened One Night,” nppelrs once more in this popular film at the Metropolitan Theater. The film was chosen by the Motion Picture Academy as “the best picture of 1934.” WILL ROGERS REMAINS AT THE PALACE “Life Begins at 40” Wil Have Another Seven Days on F Street. “Life Begins at 40,” another of the Fox company's series of Will Rogers’ films that have proved immensely popular because of their human ap- peal, clean fun and use of everyday happenings as story material, went into its second week yesterday at Loew's Palace, with the gum-chewing comedian continuing his slingshot shooting at jaybirds and lamenting a new-fangled can opener. ‘The present Rogers’ number, which may be regarded as another episode in a serial starring the California- Oklahoman and small-town life, ex- cept for minor changes in the casts here and there, is even funnier and more entertaining than some of the previous “episodes.” With & general theme similar to the homespun plots of other Rogers films, “Life Begins at 40,” like its pre- decessors, deals with people in an average American town, again has Will as the editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper, again has him helping two young lovers iron out their difficulties and also again has the wealthy politician who is humbled by the town's plain citizen (Mr. Rogers) to make it all end as the average American audience would have their movies end—happily. High bldod pressuric George Barbier takes care of the politician in this one. Brunettish Rochelle Hudson does a better job than her predecessors as the young girl, and Richard Cromwell does likewise for the boy, who gets help on all sides from Mr. Editor and Publisher. In place of Stepin Fechit as the comedy stooge, the angular sum Summerville helps get the laughs by dozing in swayback chairs, whittling on desk drawers and demonstrating what passes for hog-calling. Will slips in his usual number of spontaneous witticisms now and again and otherwise acts like Will Rogers, while the piece moves entertainingly along and ends just as you knew it would. ‘The supplementary program includes a James Fitzpatrick “travelogue,” a comedy, which is notable because it brings back the veteran cross-eyed comedian, Ben Turpin, this time as a William Tell who shoots arrows all over the place when he breaks his eyeglasses at a& crucial moment; a Betty Boop cartoon and thsw usual newsreel. Last Concert | ‘The National Symphony Orchestra will give its final concert of the season tomorrow afternoon in Constitution Hall, when Dr. Hans Kindler presents & program selected by Washington music lovers. It will be the third annual all- request concert given by the orchestra and the eighteenth symphony concert presented by Dr. Kindler and his players during the past six months. All the compositions to be played tomorrow are those receiving the greatest number of votes in the recent contest held by the orchestra. The program not only possesses popular appeal, but also reveals the keen inter- est of Washingtonians in their own orchestra. From the great number of votes polled, Dr. Kindler has arranged the following program: . Overture, “Magic Flute,” Mozart; “Symphony No. 8" (“Unfinished”), Schubert; “Ride of the Valkyries,” Wagner; “Largo” from ‘New ‘World” symphony, Drvorak; “Hungarian Dance No. 1,” Brahms: “Finlandia,” Sibelius; “Artist’s Life,’ Johann Strauss. The concert tomorrow afternoon will be the last in the Winter series. After tomorrow the orchestra will enjoy & 10-week vacation before in- augurating s series of outdoor Summer concerts at Lincoln Memorial. The series will be the first outdoor con- certs ever given by & symphony orchestra in Washington. LAST OF SERIES. The Washington String Quartet, Milton Schwartz and Paul Brighten- burg, violinists; George Wargo, vio- list, and Sidney Hamer, cellist, will give the last of its series of three chlnher music recitals Mondsy at mmncocmm‘_:x Michaelis® SEASON’S HIT PICTURE BACK ON THE SCREEN ‘It Happened One Night,’ With Gable and Col- bert, at Metropolitan. When the Academy of Motion Pic- ture Arts and Sciences made its selec- | tions recently of the year's best actor, | actress, best directed picture, etc, | much comment, both pro and con, was precipitated. The “‘cons” would |do well to dash immediately to the Metropolitan where the picture, the actor and the actress, “It Happened One Night,” Clark Gabie and Claudette Colbert are on display. Those who dissented with the acad- emy in its choices wili see at least that “It Happened One Night” is a much better film than they remem- bered it to be when they voiced their dissentica. A large number probably will withdraw their negative vote. y For this is a film with rich, living humor and a story that is real and alive. It is an age-old theme pre- | sented in a very new and different | manner. It is a story that starts out with action and cever stops moving until the very end. Those who popu- | late the drama, too, are very much | alive and vital; they are real people. “It Happened One Night,” if you are one of those who did not see it and for whom it was brought back, presents & very mad bus ride from Miami to New York, taken by a some- what pampered and extremely rich young lady bent upon escaping her father to get to a husband she has never had a chance to live with, and a somewhat batty and extremely forceful reporter. What with losing luggage, missing busses, running out of money and keeping out of the way of detectives hot on the trail, they have a gay old time getting to New York. But they finally do, after “bor- rowing” an ancient touring car from a chap who tried to commit a bit of larceny on Mr. Gable’s bag. You can guess most of the re- | mainder. Gable is very gruff and im- personal while he is looking out for Miss Colbert, but somewhere in the vicinity of Philadelphia they discover they are in love. Then papa does some discovering, and Claudette is off to have a formal wedding with her husband-in-name-only, meanwhile un- der the impression that Clark has run out on her. But she gets only to the altar and then startles all soclety by acramming for the vicinity of Mr. Gable. It is excellent entertainment. You will be with those two young people, hoping for their happiness, right up until the lights go out in their honey- moon cabin. As you watch “It Hap- pened One Night” you will see why Frank Capra won a prize award for directing it, for the gentleman has constructed his photoplay with orig- inality and keen understanding. You will have also another oppor- tunity to check up on Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert and see why they were chosen best actor and actress of the year for their performances here- in. They certainly have made this pampered, rich young lady and this carefree, young reporter a couple of human beings, whose manners and actions are very plausible and very real. Walter Connolly is here, too, and though he did not win any acad- emy prize, he turns in an excellent performance. H. M. At Benefit MITZI GREEN, Star of the Earle’s stage show, among the players appearing to- night at m newspaper women's MARCH 30, 1935. g AMUSEMENTS. ‘ y : : I D. C., SATURDAY, , AMUSEMENTS, Muni’s Stage Study Brings Film Reward Years of Attention to Voice and Make-Up Have Stood Him in Good Stead for Role in Coalville Story. BY MOLLIE MERRICK. H you'll be relieved to see P: OLLYWOOD, Calif., March 30 (N.AN.A).—If you've been watching pictures for years and pretty tired of personalities passing themselves off as actors, ears and are getting aul Muni—thay artist supreme of the screen—give another of his magnificent interpretations m “Black Fury.” Paul Muni is a charming and cultured fellow. acting, living the rP;rt and the tradition of the about make-up, theater than a. most any one appeal n to lmow Muni worked with the In case you don’t hap, Yiddish players in New York wh He knows more before the public today. en he was a little lad. When he was 15 he did parts in stock, playing the roles of old men of 80 When you see him as Joe Radek, the “hunky” mine worker in this story of Coalville, you will appreciate what those years of study in voice and make-up have done for him. One interesting thing: When you see a Muni picture you see a film in which every character is perfect. Paul Muni is an autocrat about this. He had one bad adventure in films years ago. He theater. When he returned to the world of screen work he did so with & voice in the choice and making of his_pictures. “Black Fury” is strong meat; but if I were an academician, it's the sort of thing that would get a gold statu- ette at the end of the year—if gold statuettes really mean anything. Irving Ascher steps off the plane | in Hollywood and tells you he had dinner in New York with so-and-so | the night before. More interesting | still is what he has to relate about Warner Brothers in England—for | Warner and First National English- | made pictures are under Mr. Ascher’s capable control. First and foremost, Irving Ascher | tells me that there is a world of Eng- lish countryside, of incomparable beauty, that has not been photo- graphed as yet for American release. Here is a point most Americans forget. They say, “one could never do with- tains, and so on.” becoming more and more difficult to find new scenery in Hollywood and its environs. We have photographed the place to death. Ascher says all the outdoor camera work in England is done in the three months or so of good weather, which suffice to cover the year’s needs. This the desert, the seacoast, say we need the mountains, desert, sea of this State in order to make pictures. he has worked here three and a half years since leaving the theater. In that time he has made precisely two scenes outdoors. Irving Ascher ex- plains that, due to sound conditions, new methods of picture making and 50 on, the outdoor scene is practically gone from picture-making. Ascher also became interested in the psychology of the British public. i Favorites there are not the ones that | merely shine in the limelight of the | moment. Laura La Plante, who has not made pictures for several years now and who can go to a Hollywood opening unnoticed, while the crowds surge about the latest favorite, is mob- bed whenever she appears on a Lon- don street. Once a favorite, always a favorite with the dear old British public. ‘There’s something nice in the idea. Ascher says British pictures are turning their eyes toward a world market and will achieve it in time. British films are discarding the Where and When Current Theater Attraction: and Time of Showing. National—“Life Begins at 8:40,” to- day at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Earle—“Let's Live Tonight” at 10 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:40 and 10 pm. Stage shows at 11:25 am., 1:45, 4:05, 6:45 and 9:05 p.m. Loew’s Fox—"“Scandals of 1935, at 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:15 and 10 p.m. Stage shows at 12:30, 3:15, 6:10 and 9 p.m. Belasco—"Mystery of Edwin Drood, at 11:30 am,, 1:13, 2:56, 4:39, 6:22. 8:14 and 10:05 p.m. Palace—“Life Begins at 40,” at 11 am, pm. Metropolitan—"It Happened One Night,” at 11:35 a.m,, 2, 4:25, 6:50 and 9:15 pm. Columbia—"The Little Colonel,” at 11:25 am,, 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45 and 9:50 pm. R-K-O Keith's—“Roberta,” at 11:32 am., 1:34, 3:36, 5:38, 7:40 and 9:42 pm. Tivoli—“Carnival” at 2:05. 4:10, 6:10, 7:55 and 9:40 p.m. Ambassador—‘Murder on a Honey- moon,” at 2:05, 4:10, 6:10, 7:55 and 9:40 pm. Howard—"“School for Girls,” at 12:30, 3:55, 7:05 and 10:10 p.m. Stage show &t 2:40, 5:50 and 9:05 p.m. DUNBAR PLAYERS IN A SPLENDID COMEDY “Dulcy” Is Well Staged and Acted by Group of Local Amateurs. “Dulcy,” hilarious comedy from the pens of Marc Connoly and George Kaufman, was presented last evening in Armstrong Auditorium by the Dun- bar Players. Helen Sparks turned in the out- standing individual performance, tak- ing full advantage of the role of lo- quacious Dulcinia Smith, a well-mean- ing though blundering person, whose activities include attempts at requiting young love, advancing her husband in the business world and rehabilitating indiscreet individuals who sign other people’s names to their checks. The week end party at which the Gracie Allen-like Dulcy endeavors to consummate the first two objectives furnishes the locale for three pyro- technical acts, amusing in the extreme to the audience, but hardly so to the characters. That is, except Dulcinia, to whom life is a song to which she does a dance. Among the other ingredients of this dramaturgic pudding are C. Roger Forbes, rheumatic capitalist, ably ren- dered by Herman Smith; Angela, his daughter (Lois Jones), whose affection for a scenario writer (John Harrison) is frowned upon by peppy; Schuler Van Dyke, an mumuu chap, who labors -under the well-known “delusions of grandeur,” played by Clarence delzm, and a butler, late of the “big " well done by Nathaniel King. 'nu plny evidenced throughout the direction of Gertrude Mc- -"In‘ C. A M. forgot pictures and went back to the | the understanding that he would have | out Hollywood—without the moun; | They do not realize it is| throws a neat spike into the arguments | of those legislators in California who |~ 5 e Lionel Atwill told me recently that | 1:05, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 or so. The players wanted him to understand make-: -up perfectly. archaic methods which characterized all early picture-making and are com- ing into their own. We may look for more use of American stars in British pictures. By that I mean that Warner Brothers have discovered from their experi- ence in Britain that they can build up Bette Davis, for instance, more surely by releasing her in an English- made picture, made by Warners in England, than by releasing a Holly- wood-made film of Bette in England. AMUSEMEN'I‘S WARNER BROS. HOW PLAYING Tuilio CARMINATI “LET'S LIVE TONIGHT" Lilian HARVEY « On Steee s See Again the Academy Award Picture tllll o CLAUDETTE GABLE ° COLBERT IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT DIRECTED BY FRANK CAPFA Smoking Permitted, Mat. 25c. Eve. 25¢ & 40c 1935 SCANDALS [ o g STAB DgST AUCE FAYE JAMES DURN CLIFF EOWARDS NED SPARKS FLEANOR POWSLL % s R SWe ol e A CAB CALLOWAY ausd/kis ORCHESTRA Lew PALACE &% 2ud WEEK! Wi ROGERS "“"LIFE BEGINS AT 40" SLIM SUMMERVILLE-ROCHELLE NUDSON ING CROS! w "MISSISSIPPI* Lrews COLUMBIA FIELDS F AT 12 7TH 10530 NIGNTS 25640¢, élnl“lfi\“rllx-tz'.covgt.r . 3t Wed. Afi.. Abi 05 SYMDHONY cmcnmnnA' SERGE_KOUSSEVITZKY. Ce: 'l‘leleu. $1, $1.50. 52, §2.50, 3 (no tax) rs. 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