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Simone Calls Notice To Excellent .Scene “That Was Good,” Says Temperamental French Star, as Filming of “Sev- enth Heaven” Goes On. BY SHEILAH GRAHAM. . Jimmy Stewart sprawls in the director’s chair on the sidelines ot s fllthy HOLLYWOOD January 7 (N.AN.A.).—“Seventh Heaven” . . garret roof-top Paris. The wide-open window reveals the week's washing of all Stewart’s non-classical features are devoid of make-up. “The best thing about the part (Chico, played by Charles Farrell in the silent version) is I don't have to shave—or take a bath.” Simone Simon stops toying with her teeth to giggle, and say, “Ybu are so funny, Jeemie”—and to me,¢—— “You have lost wel[htr—.nd it does not become you.” She wears & black | woolen sweater, .. N k black skirt, black & cotton stockings and black shoes. She puts fingers inte her ears to #hut out conver- sation while con- centrating on her script for the next scene. A frown mars her fore- never get it” moans Simone. Director Henry King calls his pup- pets. “Give us everything you've got,” he tells the French girl. She does. Her speech con.mt.s of three words, “No—no one,” but she comes through with flying colors. “That was good, was it not?” she asks the director— and tears down the closet curtain against which she leans . . . J. Ed- ward Bromberg, awaiting his cue, takes time out to describe Mile. Simon as “rather like a naughty child.” Beite Davis is doing & fine job of weeping in the flicker, “Marked Woman.” “I'm young—I want to live,” she cries to District Attorney Humphrey Bogart. Noisy sobs shake her emaciated frame. “Cut,” cries the director. “I'm in heaven. I'm in heaven,” Bette sings on the way to her dressing room. Director Lloyd Shellah Graham. Bacon, who recently caught cold and |, . . got married at the same time, hums the same song. « ‘Marked Woman' is & urique story,” Bette tells me. “There is no love angle.” (The scenario is reputedly based on the “Lucky" Luciano vice case —with Miss Davis playing the role of & white-washed night club hostess.) . Bette looks vury fragile in her blue prison dress. “I lost 20 pounds in England,” she tells me. “But I've gained 6 of them back.” It will be & long time before the actress leaves . |the Warner Bros.’ studio again, “My only chance for another vacation is to stage another walkout,” whispers J | Bette before returning to her “I'm the seript girl asks Bogart. “No,” the ex-badman actor decisively, “it will only confuse and make me blow up like a seidlitz powder.” Facts behind a film you are seeing . .. “Onme in a Million"—picture de- but of blond, bedimpled, 23-year-old Sonja Henie, figure skating champion of the world. The Norwegian ice won- der started skating at the age of 6— won the championship 10 times . . . turned professional in 1936. Arrived in Hollywood eight months ago—and proceeded to “sell” herself to the pic- ture industry. When producers failed to nibble her $300,000 per picture sal- ary demand, Sonja rented the local Palals de Grace for a three-day exhi- bition at a cost of $800. She made $25000 and Darryl Zanuck imme- diately signed her to a contract. Twentieth Century-Fox spent $16,- 000 on a refrigerating apparatus and transformed a sound stage into an ice rink . . . During skating sequences, Sonja wore her lucky white skating shoes—last worn when winning her final Olympic title. The Henie legs are insured for $100,000 with Lloyds Some of her speedy spins and whirls had to be photographed with a super-slow camera . . . Only easualty during the fiiming of the hazardous ice-skating scenes was Jack Haskell, dance director, who went down with influenza. (Copyright, 1937.) “|T CAN'T HAPPEN HERE” CAST IS ANNOUNCED Civic Theater Director Tuttle Gives Dennis Connell and Jane Plummer Rice Leads. IRECTOR DAY TUTTLE of the Washington Civie Theater, has announced his cast selections for the forthcoming production by the group of “It Can't Happen Here.” The play, dramatized from Sinclair Lewis’ ‘novel by Lewis and John C. Moffit, will open Aids League & week’s engigement at the Wardman Park Theater inauguration night, ‘Wednesday, January 20. m will be the first time s play has been presented on & Wi stage while still running to capacity business on Broadway. “It Can't Hap- pen Here” opened in New York sev- eral weeks ago, has been a sellout, and is scheduled to run for some time to come. The demand for seats for the local performance has been greater than for any previous play by the Civic Theater. Denis Connell will play the leading role of Doremus, the Vermont editor, who holds to his own course despite the growing power of the dictatorship seen in the Lewis novel and play. Jane Plummer Rice will appear opposite him in the leading feminine role. Lewis himself is planning to come to Washington for the final rehearsals and for the opening night. BAL “FRENCH PASTRY” CAST IS COMPLETED Ruth Perrott, Helen Ault, Bugene Kressin Among Those to Be Featured. MAD'D HOWELL SMITH, casting chairman of the Bal Boheme, “Au Palais de Versailles,” to be held Monday night, February 1, at the Mayflower Hotel, has completed the personnel for the four episodes which will make up the stage show to be presented at midnight. ‘The show, titled “French Pastry,” will go into rehearsal next Monday under the direction of Hugo Inden, who has conceived and designed the 1937 Bal Boheme. Ruth Perrott, Helen Ault, Eugene Kresain, Paul Murphy, Harold Allen, Roy Bartschy and Francis Crane dre some of those to be featured in the en- tertainment. Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. National—"“The Children’s Hour,” at 8:30 pm. R-K-O Keith’'s—"That Girl From Paris,” at 11:24 l.ll.. 1:26, 3:28, 5:30, %:32 and 9:34 p. hluo—"cunme" at 11:35 am, 3:05, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:35 p.m. . Earle—“God’s Country and the ‘Woman,” at 10:18 am., 12:30, 2:50, $:10, 7:30 and 9:50 p.m. shows &t 11:45 am, 3:10, 4:30, 6:50 and 9:10 pm. ©a; “After the Thin Man” at Sam, 12,3 6, 9 and 12 pm. Stage shows at 11 Am,, 2, 5, 8 and 11 p.m. Metropolitan—“Smart ' Blonde,” at 11 am, 12:40, 2:30, 4:25, 6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 pm. Columbia—“Born to Dance,” at 11 am., 1:10, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:456 p.m. Rialto—“Ruggles of Red Gap,” at 2, 8:83, 5:44, 7:45 and 9:45 pm. Little—“The Guardsman,” at 11:25 am, 1:28, 3:31, 5:3¢, .7:37 and 9:41 pm. Ambassador—"“Love on the Run,” at 6:15, 8 and 9:50 pm. U “Come and Get It,” at 3, $:55, 5:50, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. Tiveli—Pennies From Heaven,” &t 3, 3:85, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 pm. Howard—“Come Closer Folks” at 12:15, 3:45, 8:15, 7:45 and 10:15 p.m. Stage shows at 1:30, 4, 6:30 and 9 pm. §i te BUD BARRY, Local radio sports commenta- tor and member of the Wash- ington Civic Theater’s “Caesar and Cleopatra” cast, will act as master of ceremonies to- night for the “Amateur Hour” of Junior League talent ip be presented at the league’s celebrity ball. COMEDIENNE TO WED Martha Raye Discloses Secret Revealed by Ring. HOLLYWOOD, January 7 (A).— Marths Raye, the comedienne with the large mouth, forgot to remove her ring, and the secret is out in Holly- wood today. “Yes, I'm engaged,” she said. “But nobody was supposed to know until the formal engagement.” ‘The man, she said, is Jerry Hopper, cousin of Actress Glenda Parrell and |. sn assistant in the music department at a major studio. No date has been set for the wedding, she said. Annabella Signed. ANNABI.'LLA famous European film star, has been signed by New World Studios at Denham, England, to co-star with Conrad Veidt in “Un- der the Red Robe,” which is to go into production shortly. Robert Massey, Brent, Sophie Stewart and uv:renoe Grant are in the featured Annabells recantly completed & ml- hr role in “Wings of the Morning,” technicolor picture to be pro- dneed abroad. The negative u in Hollywood for color processing. Both “Wings of the Morning” and “Under the Red Robe” are to be released by Twentieth Century-Fox. LOANS fud i 1 b CASH FOR OLD GOLD (Government License) Lean_Office E. HEIDENHEIMER +Established 1866 Do iifiifir Walts - Fox Tret-Tengo-Rumbe-Tep Tllfl“‘ Teachers Private L“flm' NOTE: Progios Privitess Wit other 1811 W St. N.W. 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