Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1935, Page 34

AMUSEMENTS. When Policemen Turn to The Stage Phil Regan Proves This Is Possible, for He Comes to the Earle July 5—Once Carried a Night-Stick in Brooklyn—Wini Shaw. BY E. de S. MELCHER. 'HEN a Brooklyn “cop” goes to Hollywood, that's news. when a Brooklyn cop sings, that’s news, again. this same ex-officer of the law becomes a rollicking Irish crooner in ‘“pictures,” a young stars about whom Warner Bros. like best to brag—that’s news three times over! Phil Regan is the cop in question. And the particular reason for mentioning him here at length is because he is coming, “in person,” to appear at the Earle the week of whom—more, much more, anon. Mr. Regan won his Hollywood spurs at an informal function in New York. He happened to be singing away over his evening glass of milk and pretzels when some screen celebrity stopped him in his tracks, said he had a voice that would do well in pictures, advised him to quit the law and become a matinee idol. This Mr. Regan, after considerable debate, did. Tossing his detective’s uniform over the Brooklyn Bridge he first made a name for himself over the radio, Abe Lyman presenting him as “the singing cop,” and then he hied himself to Hollywocd, where Warner Bros. used him to greater and lesser advantage in a few films. He got his first big chance, however, when M.-G.-M. borrowed him to ap- pear in the juvenile lead opposite Maxine Doyle in “Student Tour,” which somehow never jelled. studio saw, however, that given the proper setting and a chance to sing as only a first-rate Irishman can sing, he might become a valuable player. Thereupon Warner Bros. hustled him into “Sweet Adeline,” “Go Into Your Dance” and “In Caliente.” From there on almost anything may happen. Mr, Regan is short, dark, good look- | ing. His best friends include every- body on the Warner lot, Joan Craw- ford and Rudy Vallee. He goes to the *“fights” in Hollywood whenever ne can. He makes fat sums out of his phonograph records. He lives just off Hollywood boulevard in one of the nicer apartment houses. Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler think ne's a nice guy. * ok ok x WE'VE never had the pleasure of meeting Winiffed Shaw—but if ghe’s anything like she is in pictures, she’s O. K. Miss Shaw, you recall, is that stimulating young lady who looks s0 much like Helen Morgan that if she spent her life sitting on a piano and moaning a low “My Bill” she could very well change her name and | nobody would know the difference. Miss Shaw’s beauty is not of the conventional type. She isn't a small, engaging little Ruby Keeler, She hasn't the brass of a Bette Davis. She isn't a blond cornflower like Ma- rion Davies. She's darkish and tallish | and roundish and her grin could floor | a whole foot ball team. Whenever a film needs some one to come in and upset it the Warner Bros. call on | ‘Wini Shaw. She looks as though she | 4s looking for trouble. Maybe she is. ok DWARD ARNOLD continues to be The!. . as Crooners And And when featured player and one of the | July 5 with Winifred Shaw, about | of the most in-demand players on the M-G-M lot. Now you can't buy him for dust. T | JT IS rumored that Hollywood is | * very much interested in Eva Le| Gallienne's desire to direct Norma | Shearer's “Romeo and Juliet.” . . .| “The Ghost Walks” will replace “White Zombie” as the screen attrac- tion at El Wynn's “Spook Show” to- morrow night at the Fox. . .. The ‘SChubfl'L‘ announced that they are | grooming Milton Berle for stardom | and that when “Life Begins at 8:40” | goes on the road in the Fall Mr. Berle will have the Bert Lahr role. . . .| | The Schuberts have also bought the | dramatic version of “Gallows Orch- ard,” which was and is a darn good book . . . there’s only one copy left | of Clifford Odet’s plays at Brentanos . Constance Connor Brown has gone to her Summer home at Glenora- | on-Lake-Seneca, N. Y., where she will | open her Summer theater on July 1. | ... Arthur Godfrey's finalists in that | | amateur contest will get the chance | | of their lifetimes on the stage of the | Fox Saturday morning at 9:30. . . ./ Hardie Meakin is getting all steamed up about “She.” which follows “Becky | Sharp” into Keith's . . . “She” fea- | tures Helen Gahagan, known both as | “the 10 best looking women in the | world” and as David Belasco's last | star . . . Miss Gahagan, you remem- ber. opened at the Belasco on a mem- orable night in “Tonight or Never.” EDWARD ARNOLD, Featured M-G-M screen player and former member of the National Players. coming to the Fox stage Friday and also on the screen in “The Glass Key."” Peggy Fears’ Artistic Impulse May Be Costly, |Estelle Taylor Enraged When She Finds) Antiques Had Been Painted White—Sues Present Tenant, BY MOLLIE MERRICK. OLLYWOOD, June 25.—When modern painters are listed, the list of Modiglianis, the Picassos and the Grant Woods will not be further embellished with the name Peggy Fears. Yet, in the opinion of Estelle Taylor Dempsey, Peggy Fears is one of the most active | painters of modern time, if not one of the most artistic. The fact that Peggy was a painter Basil Rathbone. | have great vogue here, since they keep | every one busy for an evening and | — | gossip at a standstill. | (Copyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) ‘ AT ARTS CLUB.. | Following the dinner hour tomor- | row, members of the Arts Club of Washington will witness several dra- matic scenes selected as examples of difficult stage techniques Presenta- | a smart actor. Although you may | came out after the story was printed | {ion will be made by the Bankside recall him best as the rotund Louis in | that the Basil Rathbones were being | piavers under the direction of Charles 17 “Richelieu” you will not want to miss | sued for unpaid rent by Peggy Fears. pguard Russell. his more kindly performance in “The | Glass Key,” which was previewed yes- | terday by one-fifth of the five drama | checks with a lawyer pending some‘ desks at the Fox Film exchange—Sam Wheeler's pleasant show parlor. Mr. Arnold’s rise to fame in the cinema is something to wonder at. A | few years ago he was a good actor fighting his fight among the crowded Broadway corridors—having a fairly good season one year—“dying” the next, Then suddenly he decided on Holly- wood. And so, leaving Steve Cochran’s | National company somewhat flaber- gasted at such impudence—he got | ‘himself a Hollywood bungalow, settled there with his family, found himself 8 small job and then got bigger jobs. Within a year he was making more money than he had in five on the | stage. Within *wo years he was one Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. " R-K-O Keith’s—"“Becky Sharp,” at | 11:34 am, 1:17, 3, 4:43, 6:26, 8:09 and 9:52 pm. Loew’s Fox—“Charlie Chan in Egypt,” at 11 am., 1:30, 4:15, 7 and 9:50 pm. Stage shows, with Eva Le Gallienne in person, at 12:35, 3:25, 6:10 and 8:55 p.m. Earle—"Stranded,” at 11:15 am., 2:05, 5, 8:05 and 10:40 p.m. Stage ghows at 1:03, 3:55, 7:05 and 9:40 p.m. Palace—“No More Ladies,” at 11 am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 pm. Metropolitan—"People Will Talk,” &t 11:25 am., 1:10, 2:55, 4:35, 6:20, 8:05 and 9:45 pm. Columbia- ublic Hero No. 1,” at | 11:15 am., 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:55 and | 9:45 pm. | Tivoli—“Les Miserables,” at 2, 3:55, $:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. Ambassador—“Our Little Girl,” at 6:15, 8 and 9:50 p.m. Gayety—“Mysteries of Life,” con- tinuous (for men only). Roadside, Rockville Pike—"After Dark,” at 8:30 p.m. Odeon, Forest Glen, Md—"A Mur- der Has Been Arranged,” at 8:40. In Person WINIFRED SHAW, Well-known Warner Bros.’ featured player, will come from Hollywood to head the stage show at the Earle with Phii Regan the week of July 5, > The rent story wasn't true, for the Rathbones had deposited their rent adjustments on cleaning of the Fears- Dempsey house. The hitch in the arrangement oc- curred when Estelle Taylor Dempsey arrived in Hollywood and found that the Rathbones, not Peggy Fears, were occupying her house. Her anger at | hearing that Peggy Fears had sub-let her home was nothing compared to her surprise and horror at discovering that Peggy Fears had painted all her antique furniture white. There's a terrible fuss all around, but when the smoke blows away the Rathbones tell me they will hold a lease from Estelle Taylor Dempsey, that the financial difficulties with Peggy Fears about cleaning the swim- ming pool and the house and other conventional landlord troubles will have been settled amicably, and that they will remain in the lovely Los Feliz Hills estate. Stories about Hollywood diets bring in the largest amount of fan mail, both to studios and to columnists. In other cities, stories about dogs and food generally ring the bell for results. I took a young friend of mine from Manhattan—Elizabeth Wheeler— through the studios the other day. We saw artificial moonlight made | with an incense machine, artificial fog made with an apparatus which sprays oil on ice, an artificial garden being planted with hundreds of cut | flowers thrust into prepared earth. An artificial lawn spread away be- neath artificial trees. We went on a “G-Man” set and a hard-beiled gangster was about to make a terror scene, so they put some artificial perspiration on his forehead. When we came out I said, “If it's nice tomorrow we we might go to the beach.” “Oh, theyll probably turn on some artificial sunlight,” said my young friend. . . . Hollywood exquisites have taken to blue for Summer . . . pale blue hand- tailored suits . . cornflower blue tie . . . cornflower in buttonhole . . . deep blue lisle socks and deep blue suede shoes . Claudette Colbert was mobbed by fans when she at- tended a recent preview. The ever attentive Dr. Pressman came in for his share of curiosity, too. . . . Flesh- colored chiffon is the rage for evening wear in Hollywood these days. At a recent dinner party both Marlene Dietrich and Gloria Swanson had frocks in this shade and both were very stunnning. Princess Paley and the Countess de Maigret are strikingly similar in type. Hermes Pan, dance director at R. K. ©O.-Radio, is the son of a late Ambas- sador from Greece, henge his pagan name. This interesting young man learned to dance as a child from the Negro sevants his family employed, and to this day, when he wants new inspirations and ideas, he takes a trip through the country part of the South and watches the Negros dance. Joan Crawford will go musical in her next film, “Elegance,” which, by the way, will be directed by Bob Leonard, who piloted Joan to suc- cess in “Dancing Ladies” and such early films. . . And while we're speak- ing of Joan, did you know she never traveled by plane? Clark Gable is 3 radio fan, as you know, but it may be news to hear that his favorite broadcast is the police re- port. . . . “And why not,” says Gable, “Isn't truth always more interesting than fiction?” . . . The best “murder” mystery player in Hollywood is Lionel Atwill, who assumes the part of each person involved in a murder and is a knockout in ' Filipino servant roles, “Murder” is still one of the most popular games in the colony. Games i —_—— DANCE PROGRAM. [ Preceded by a half hour of music by | the United States Marine Band, con- | ducted by Capt. Taylor Branson, the Lisa Gardiner Dancers, assisted by members of the Washington Com- | posers’ Club, will offer a program of dance pantomimes and ballets at the Sylvan Theater tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Delibes’ “Mazurka,” danced by the | entire group, will open the dance pro- | gram, followed by two numbers com- | posed by Henry Gregor, “In the Tem- | ple of Shiva,” danced by Jeanne Densmore, and “The Voice in the Desert,” danced by Leila Guriey, Ann | Vucinovich, Lora Willis, Jeanne Mi- | lette, Jeanne Densmore and Barbara | Worrell, with the composer at the | piano. Alice Louise Hunter will be seen in a “Scarf Dance,” Mary Day in Rach- maninoff’s “Diana,” Marjorie Megee Local Player STELLA ‘M. ARSENEAU, Cast in “The Tea Hpuse of Sing Lo,” which will be given by Unity Chapter, No. 22, O. E. S, tonight at Brightwood Masonic Hall. - NIGHT THURSDAY LEE FIELD and His HEPHECE ORCHESTRA PAVILION DANCING 9710 1 Nightly CHEVY CHAS LAKE Lxeept Sun WASHINGTON, in & Chopin “Waltz,” and Miss Gardi- | ner in Mary Howe's “Habanera.” La | Salle Spier's pantomime, “Afternoon of a Four,” introducing Georgia Hiden, Marjorie Megee, Christine Stewart and Alice Louise Hunter, will be repeated. Mr. Spier will play for the dancers. Gregor's “Etude in the Form of a Virginia Reel,” with six dancers; Mary Howe's “Jota Aragonese,” Potter’s | “The Lofus Eaters,” Shure's “Tempta- tion” and Dvorak's “Caucasian Dance” are included in this program of the art of the dance. Deane Shure will play his own and Mr. Potter'’s music. 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THREE PLAYS WIN FAVOR IN SEASON DEBUT Community Players in Initial Effort at Sylvan Theater Last Night. ‘When, in the Summer, the theater ventures into the out-of-doors, the re- sults are always interesting. Last evening the Washington Community Players went through their array of three short plays in the Syl- van Theater, marking the initial ef- fort of the group in presenting a program of oue-act pieces. The idea seems a good cne, possessed of possibly a better aucience appeal than a regulation-length drama. It may be that those who go to the Sylvan, particularly the family groups, are there more with the idea of & pleasant “night out” than of “going to the theater.” be the entertainment music, terpsichore or drama. There- fore, in the last classification, a pro- gram wherein “things happen” ap- pears to be suitable. Last night's “house” was most appreciative. Lord Dunseny's “The Gods of the Mountain” topped the three plays, with the dependable John Sikken turning in another superb performance. Mr. Sikken, as the leader of a group of mendicants whe “get organized” and play cross-legged deities to good effect until the “res] things” come on to turn the imposters to stone, took full advantage of a substantial part. Paul Murphy rates number two with his _ AMUSEMENTS. _ ALL_NEW SHOW GAYETY &oi' 1.5, . e_and Screen Presentation MYSTERIES OF LIFE MEN ONLY i 7. [ CWILLIAMS® USICAL ERRYMAKERS AT FREE ADMISSION GLEN ECHO 40-ACRE PLAYLAND AND ALL THE OTHER MORE THAN FIFTY _ AMUSEMENTS Now BOAT TRIPS On Washing! Modern Steel Excursion Steamer ity of Washington™ 1. MT. VERNON 50c Ly. Daily 10 A.M.-2 P.M. trip) 2. MARSHALL HA 2 & 5:30 P.M. Lv. 10 AM. (Round trip) 3. SUNSET CRUISE 50c Lv. 5:30 P.M.—Back 7:45 P.M. (Round trio) | Free Dancing to Stephen Lesieurs | ‘Orchestra | MOONLIGHTS ' 60c | ay and Holldays. 73¢ _(Round Trip) | 30 ek 11:45 P.M. FREE DANCING LL ILSON LINE portrayal of a frightened man, Edythe Goldman next in the role of a woman pleading with the gods for the life of her child. “Helena’s Husband,” Fhillip Moel- ler's flamboyant satire, found an im- passioned Paris, prince of Troy, who, in the guise of shepherd, entices the receptive queen from palace and hus- band, adequately done by Paul Wal- ter. Menelaus, Helena's spouse, and doing & little king work on the side, reads his salvation in Paris’ romantic leanings, He was properly “sore vexed and distraught” in the person of J. Edmond Veitch, with Kent Dyer priming the populace for a nice hot war as the king’s librarian. The mis- understood Helena was played by Odele Whiteside, and Jean Smith put across two of the play’s best lines, she being the former’s slave. “Moon Maiden,” the lead-off, was a harmless little fantasy wherein Yerby Pannill and Howard Whitfield registered as able thespians. Selections by the Community Cen- ter Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of S8am P. Ford, preceded and separated the dramas. It was a well- balanced program, reaching the audi- ILJAN COLLYER MET. 5001 7 AND ON THE SCREEN Sar “SADIE “CARDINAL RICHELIEU® HARMONICA HARLEQUINS MILLSnd 5 MAINE;W JO%DON %%SE . PHIL LAMPKIN Overture Stag DAYS ~Awd\)— TTH STREET WHARVE S FOR YOUR VACATION WESTERN ‘'WONDERLANDS Complotily RAIL FARE LOW LEV USE COUPON % OR CALL & LEON BRUSILOFFS “~ ORCHESTRA S AT ELS On one side the blue AMUSEMENTS. ence through a betier than average amplification system, and meriting a bouquet for Bess Davis Schreiner, the director. C.A M FINAL PROGRAM. The Chevy Chase Clef Club, Mrs. Charles V. Imlay, counselor, gave the final program of the year Friday. 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Private |nlo‘l % Soclal dancing s DAVISON, 1329 Ball Room Classes Tues. a Beginners, 8 to . Practice D to 11. Tap cinsses and bv_apot. _Phone Natio: 41 The Edward F. Miller Studio 814 _17th St. N.W, National 8093, If It's Danc If you can Walk we can teach you come an interesting dance partner. Call for guest lesson for fusst lesson and dance analysis.” Open LEROY H. THAYER ‘li“ Connecticut Ave. Met. 4121,