Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1935, Page 50

D—4 AM USEMENTS. Robert Taylor in Lead Opposite Janet Gaynor Popular Players to Appear in “Small Town| Girl”—the “Scandals” Attract Consid- erable Attention, honor of its ripe old age, is this week | BY E. de S. MELCHER. | ANET GAYNOR, who was slated to appear opposite Robert Montgomery in her first film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, gets ad. They will be seen together in “Small Town Girl,” the novel by Ben Ames Williams, which is attracting more than usual attention these days. Mr. Montgomery, who goes over to Warners for a picture or 5o, is said to be busy with “Romeo end Juliet"—although no definite word has come from the studio as| J Robert Taylor i cracking out with two major news events, President Roosevelt's address at Warm Springs and the frst show- ings of the Army and Navy game. And, lest you forgzt, one of the town's major citizens, Jack Connolly, is gen- eral manager for the newsreel. * ok Kk ok FTHE announcement that Pat O'Brien will appear in person next week at the Earle is an event of real importance. Mr. O'Brien, who | | only recently has had the roles he | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. Popular Star at Keith’s Tomorrow | to whether he will play Mercutio |should have had 10 years ago, is not | or not. X okE & THE stage is more or less set for | George White’s “Scandals.” The‘ ticket boys at the National repurt one of the largest advance sales ever | —any every one, from the Powmac‘ to the other side of town, is bent on | seeing Rudy Vallee in person. | Mr. Vallee hops into the show this | Friday, so he will not be braving the fcotlights here for the first time. Willie Howard is in the show right now, and so is Gracie Bz cording to reports, knock cold. Incidentally, the mcst popular parson in town this week is Benay Venuta. Small but audible cheers have been heard wherever she appears. At the Mayflower the other day she caused & brief panic. Ry POOR Mr. Freedley got it in the neck yesterday. As Robert Post, eminent emissary of the New York Times, hinted broadly over the phone, Vincent Freedley is not Vincent Freed- ey but “Vinton” Freedley. Just how the latter, member of the class of 1914 at Harvard, a Hasty Pudidng Club man, and the sponsor of this week's classic, “Anything Goes,” at the Na- tional, came to be ncent” we shall never know. It's just one of those things. You know him, of course, as “Vinton, ILLY ROSE got giddy yesterday with wires. He broadcast tele- grams all over Washington inviting the reviewing gentry to come up to New York at his expense to review “Jumbo.” This is a very pleasing gesture. But what happens if you've been up to New York already and seen the opening of “Jumbo”? Can it be possible that Mr. Rose wants his show reviewed twice? (No mat- ter how many reviews, “Jumbo” is still something that should definitely be seen when you go on that New York jaunt.) * ok ok X ATHE NEWS is currently cele- brating its 25th anniversary— and Hardie Meakin is singing songs about it up at R-K-O Keith's, where the doormen are particularly polite and the girl at the window (two days & week) is “Helen Hayes.” Pathe, in e ST only one of Hollywood's better actors, | | but also one of that city's most popullr people. If you go to the Warner studios and ask them who is the best | liked person there they'll say, “Jimmy | Cagney and Pat O'Brien.” Just like when you go to M-G-M and ask the same question, the boys say “Jean Harlow"—believe it or not. R THAT party for Ed Sullivan. an- nounced for temorrow, really takes place teday . So you'd bet- ter be there, Arch McDonald, be- cause we heard Carter Berron in- viting you yesterdey . . . The ushers ncw at the Little Theater wear “black ties” at night . . . This, so far as we know, is the only local theater which tricks up its “where-will-you- sit” staff in “tucks” . The next | “March of Time” release will include | three brief (and, of course, excellent) “dramas” based on “Narcotics” and“ hardly sleep on account of that fenc- ing business he's inaugurating up at his dramatic school . . . and that Teminds us that Edwina Wise is doing a grand job in New York, and any day now may land the screen test that she deserves . .. Whatever became of that screen test that ey Seiber also deserves . . . and Maxine Doyle go around sing- e a bird when she hears that n Davis, jr, takes that boat to ifornia this Saturday? . .. Rumor | it that Mab-lle Jennings may appear “in person” any day now at a local theater . . . and that that performance of “Another Language"” down at Alexandria is going to be a sellout . and that that very fine Shakespeare Society's production of “The Mery Wives of Windsor,” with | Joseph Harley, Virginia True, Paul | Murphy and James Rawls in the cast, will be repeated tomorrow and Saturday nights for the benefit of the Gilbert Memorial in Takoma and that four boys from the C. C. C. camp at Beltsville, Md., stole Sidney Lust’s amateur shew the other evening at the Camen Theater in Mount Rainier—they be- | ing Mr. Marslett, Mr. Poist, Mr. Nick- | erson and Mr. Given, and !he,\"re Ow C swell on the washboard, guitar, har- | monica and a pair of soup spoons. Pat O’Brien| To Appear in Earle Show Popular Player, Here in Person, Is Also in Film Cast. AT O'BRIEN, Warner Bros. screen screen star, will appear in person on the stage at the Earle Theater the week starting Friday, December 13. ‘This will be the only stage appearance made this season by the popular Irish player, who has been vacationing in the East. O'Brien is one of the surprise stage personalities promised Washington theatergoers during the Earle’s pre- holiday show parade of outstanding attractions on stage and screen. In addition to his stage appearance, O'Brien will also top the Earle's screen the week of December 13, ap- pearing in “Stars Over Broadway” at the head of a cast that includes James Melton, radio entertainer; Jarle Fro- man, another air headliner, and Jean Muir. Before coming East O'Brien com- pleted “Ceiling Zero,” new Warner Bros. production, in which he shares honors with James Cagney, the part- | ner with whom he has appeared 1n such successes as “The Irish in Us,” | “Devil Dogs of the Air” and “Here Comes the Navy.” L “MERRY WIDOW” AGAIN. l'I‘HE MERRY WIDOW,” combining Lehar music, colorful costumes and Maurice Chevalier, will return to town today at the Little Theater. Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton and Una Merkel are headliried with Chevalier. The music is the original “Merry Widow” score. “Scandals” LOIS ECKHART Is one of the attractive dancers appearing in the current edition of George White’s “Scandals,” which opens & week's engagement at the National Theater next Monday night, VETERAN ACTOR DIES | Clarence P. Wertz Was “Double” for Guy Kibbee. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 5 (P).—Clarence P. Wertz, 42, veteran actor of the silent screen and vaude- ville, died yesterday at his home of peritonitis. He came to Hollywood in 1916 and played with the late Larry Semon in a number of-comedies. At the time of his death he was under contract to Warner Bros.’ Studio as a “double” for Guy Kibbee. Townsend” . . .| | Steve Cochran is so excited he can night | “Japan-China,” | JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON | by Dorothy Aiken as Martha, Richard Has the leading feminine roie in United Artists’ romantic drama with music, “The Melody Lingers On" film, | based on a nmEl by Lowell Brentano, \ahlch opens tomorrow at R-K-O Kel!hs ’rheaur New White Scandals to Glitter Here | - Massive Productlon | Comes to National Next Monday. THE newest edition of George White's “Scandals” will be installed on the stage of the Nationa! Theater for a week’s engagement, commencing next Monday evening. 100, and with six carloads of scenery, costumes and lighting equipment, ‘Scandals” this year represents the peak in the producing career of George Whute. Mr. ‘White’s extravaganza goes to York, immediately after its engage- ment here. Rudy Vallee, Bert Lahr, Willie and Eugene Howard, Clff Edwards and Gracie Barrie head the cast, which | includes also Jane Cooper, Hal Forde, rsma and Raymond, Sam, Ted and | Ray. Harold Willard, Lois Eckhart, | Richard Lane, Peggy Moseley, Apollo | Quartet, Helene Miller, Jean Gale | and Claire McQuillen. A feature, of | course, is the George White “Scan- | dals’ " beauties, 75 in number. Jack Yellen wrote the lyrics, l.nd the music comes from the veteran pen of Ray Henderson. the collaborative effort of Georga White, William K. Wells and Howard A. Shiebler. Russell Markert staged the dance ensembles. The settings are by Russell Patterson and Walter Jagemann. Max Meth is musical conductor. The entire show was con- ceived and directed by George White. DENVER, December 5 (#).—Two men and two women were killed in two grade-crossing accidents here yes- | terday when their automobiles sped | into the paths of freight trains. Theodore Waller, his wife, Charlotte, | and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lillian Reynolds, were victims of one accident. Archie Blodgett, 50, was killed in me other. HER Boasting a cast of | the New Amsterdam Theater, New | The dialogue is | FOUR KILLED BY TRAINS| Whe.E and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. ‘intloml—- “Anything Goes,” at 8:30 | Earle—So Red the Rose,” at 10:50 | am. 1:40, 4:30, 7:25 and 10:15 pm. | | Stage shows at 12:25, 3:15, 6:10 and |9 pm. | Loew's Fox—“Man Who Brcke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” at 11am., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 p.m. Siage shows at 12:45, 3:35, 6:20 and 9:05 p.m. Belasco—“Mr. Hobo,” at 11:36 am., 42, 3:48, 5:54, 8 and 10:06 p.m. Palace—"“The Crusades,” at 11:15 am, 1:45, 4°20, 6:55 and 9:3)0 p.m. | Metropolitan — “The Rainmakers,” at 11:40 am, 1:40 and 3:45 pm “Crime and Punishment,” premiere, at 8:30 p.m. Columbia—“Two Fisted,” at 12:25, 2:20, 4:15, 6:10, 8:05 and 10 p.m. R-K-O Keith’s—“Annie Oakley,” at 11:40 am, 1:44, 3:44, 5:44, 7:44 and 9:44 pm. | Tivoli—“She Couldn't Take It,” at 2, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. | Ambassador—“I Live My Life,” at 6, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. | | Little—“The Merry Widow,” at 10 and 11:54¢ am, 1:48, 3:42, 5:36, 7:30 and 9:24 p.m. ‘ Gayety—"“Big Revue,” at 12 noon, | 2:15 and 8:15 p.m. Howard—“Shipmates Forever,” at | 12:30, 3:45, 7 and 10:15 pm. Stage | shows at 2:30, 5:45 and 9:15 p.m. \ BAER STUDIES ENGLISH Ex-Heavyweight Champion Pre- pares for Acting Career. LOS ANGELES, December 5 (#).— Max Baer is studying English and dic- tion under a private tutor in prepara- | tion for an acting career, Ancil Hoff- man, his manager, said here yester- | day. Hoffman said the ex-heavyweight champion is definitely through with | fighting and expects to launch a reg- ular career in motion pictures soon. DANCING. | EDWARD F M!LLER STUDIO Na. we teach it. PRE-HOLIDAY SHOW PARADE Tomorrow FINEST PICTURE KAY FRANCIS More Glamorous Than Evu COMEDY AT CHURCH Wigs and Queues Club to Appear in “Big Brother.” HE Wigs and Queues Dramatic Club of the First Baptist Church will present a three-act comedy | drama, “Big Brother,” at the churchl tomorrow and Saturday evenings. | It is the club’s second presentation this season, the first having been “The Road Back.” Miss Lena C. Parks is the due(‘wr The cast includes Dorothy Winchcole, Ann Thain Arlene Bolling, Ed Hutchins, Catherine Bentley, Henry Clark, Rollin Lawrence and Cbarlfls B. McInnis, NEW YORK’S MOST FAMOUS : :\mn-CABARETI o ! PARADISE [_ CABARET I!S'AUIANV 3rrrrr MAVAHM;VMV “\“\ . BEN'BERNI by oo oves coves OusgE | 5 LAST DAY | comprises a singing cast of 90 voices," RONALD COLMAN—“MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO” THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1935 GLEE CLUB IN OPERA Weatern‘ High School Singers to Present “Martha.” 'HE Western High School Glee Club will present “Martha,” a five-act opera, in the school audi- torium tomorrow and Saturday eve- nings at 8 o'clock. Marking the first operatic perform- ance of the school year, the opera, with music by Friedrick von Flotow, The leading roles will be played Lathrop as Sir Tristan, Margaretta | Eckluff as Nancy, Raymond Arrerson | as Lionel and James Farguarson as | Plunket. The music is under the di- rection of Miss Gladys Saunders and | Miss Lucy Lynch, music teachers. Gei PALACE lfs fu fac* :fs Lee - Jackson Teachers AMUSEMENTS. —_— FACULTY IN PLAY Present Comedy Tonight. Special Dispatch to The Star. CAMERON VALLEY, Va., December 5.—A three-act comedy entitled “The Patsy,” will be presented by a cast of Lee-Jackson faculty members with the addition of Mrs. Robert Walker of Mount Vernon and William Parsley of the Theological Seminary at the school tonight. Miss Ellen Ticer, an active member of the Little Theater in Alexandria, is | directing the play, wnile Miss Nancy Holt is in charge of the settings. Proceeds are for enlarging the school | library. Low-Rent Drive. FREI pevsenn wi LLIALW EEONEY, it BEMAY VENUTA- IRENE DELROYamd NX CAST E ONE l":li 65:.1?—"-‘&'.‘3 Brosdway Beginning MON. 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