Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1937, Page 38

B—I8 AM GeneFordTo 5th “Going'Native” Revue USEMENTS. ddles Toward Capitol Theater’s Manager-Producer Plans Bigger and Better Local Talent Revue. Roadside Sailing Smoothly. BY JAY CARMODY. O YOU think it's Tuesday, do you? The other half of the story is th his first toddling steps toward the fifth annual edition of the “Going Native” revue at the Capitol Theater. looks like a wrestler, and from the front like a kind of Max Reinhardt, really started work last night before the last rocket punctured heaven. Native” is a big job and it is sets for some time in August. It calls| for an early start, | “Going Native” is not just another local talent extravaganza bulging | over with homemade sopranos, scale- | hopping quartets and muscular ma- | gicians who make pianos dlsappe&r.l Years in show business, during which | he has become the best friend of lots of people and his own severest critic, | wouldn't let Mr. Ford do anything like that. His objective is to turn the home-grown talent into the kind of | show which audiences will enjoy and | ‘which participants will use as a spring- | board to dive into fame and fortune. | “Going Native” has been synony- | mous with going places ever since that first show back in 1933. In that initial edition were a lot of individuals who have been looking at footlights from the paid side ever since. Evelyn Tyner was one. She has made so many | appearances at Rockefeller Center's | Rainbow Room since that you'd think ehe was the boss’ daughter. She isn’t, though, she just plays the piano | well enough to hang on—for 14 months if you want to be precise about it. The three Yates sisters, still in vaudeville, were on the same bill. Bo was Frances Rands. Marjorie Mitchell made so good in & subsequent Ford show that she kept on in musi- cal comedy until Cupid tripped her up recently. Bill Brady, one of the principals in “New Faces of 1937, climbed up from the chance “Going Native” gave him. And there was John Lippy and ever so many others. Tenors and sopranos willing to give a lung for the cause of a big- ber and better “Going Native” in 1937 will have their chance at audi- tions later this month. So will pian- sts, violinists, comedians, dancers and magicians. How one auditions a dancer or magician is one of those | occult things that only those in show business understand. The dates have not been set. They won't be kept secret | & second longer than it takes Mr, Ford to get things so set that he will be at the mercy of talent which won't rest until its name is smeared in bril- liant bulbs on theater marquees. * % ox % “()UR American Cousin,” which is | 50 full of merit that the Roadside | Theater has been full of customers for | & week and Monday, entered its last | l1ap in the barn on Rockville pike last night, If any one needs to be told what it s all about after all these years, we refer them to the feature stories which appear in the papers every Lincoln’s birthday. Those stories in- wvariably point out it was “Our Amer- fcan Cousin” which Lincoln saw at Ford's Theater the night he was shot. The Roadsiders may have achieved better casting in long past produc- tions, but it is doubtful. If they ever do it again, they ought to be the first to call it a miracle. And the choice | of play (we still insist Kitty Prichard) s so much better than the opener that it hardly looks like the same judg- ment was involved. “Our American Cousin” is not mere- %y a perfect mixture of the booable and cheerable, it also has Fred Has- kin as an excellent Lord Dundreary, Charles Christianson as Asa Trench: ard and Lansing Hall (whose name eounds lfke a charm school), who f& really the most charming dairy maid on any stage within trailer dis- tance. * X x % TA BLOKE, Albion for “egg,” named | Ralph Reader showed up at| Carter Barron's office in the Capitol | Theater yesterday afternoon. Reader | 18 a kind of Noel Coward. He is here | for two reasons—one, to attend the | Boy Scout jamboreed; the other to| On Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Guns, Musical ments, ete, Lowest Rates Possible Unredeemed _Pledges for Sale Instry Take Any Bus Leaving 11th and Pa. Ave. Established 1390 HORNING’S WEDNESDAY ONLY Choice of Shrimp Cock- tail or Clam Chowder, Deviled Clams. 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He's English, in- tense, talks rapidly, has a sense of humor, remembers having been a chorus man at Poli's (now a triangle at Fourteenth and the Avenue) years ago, thinks he's been lucky and calls every one a “bloke.” The Boy Scouts, of whom he’s one even to staying at their camp, are just thousands of “blokes.” Good ones, of course, Reader likes acting, but for a rea- son he, himself, calls “screwy.” As a producer and director he has argued with actors on business so much that he enjoys being an actor and letting some one tell him what to do. Even when he thinks the director is crazy, he is a lamb about doing what he's told. Knows the director’s side too well to do otherwise. THE EVE New Team in New Film for Keith’s Ann Sothern and Jack Oakie are paired in the leading roles in “Super-Sleuth,” screen detective who’s brought face to face with a real crime. '\ R-K-O Keith’s Theater. Ramon Novarro Travels Along Comeback Trail Star of ‘“The Pagan” ceives Chance From Smaller Studio in “The Sheik Steps Out.” BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN, OLLYWOOD, July 6 (N.AN.A.).—The man who sang the first im- portant song hit of the talking picture era, a song whose dreamy, haunting melody swept the Nation and foretold the power of this new medium for blending romance and music, is back in Hollywood H today hitting the comeback trail. “Come with me where moonbeams ,, Light Tahitian skies, And the starlit waters Linger in your eyes . . . You remember it> Of course you must. It is “The Pagan Love Song” from that memorable South Seas movie “The Pagan.” The singing star was Ramon Novarro, in the role of a gallant, love-tortured native boy. | Signaled New Achievement. Released in May, 1929, when thea- | ters were cluttered with those strange celluloid hybrids known as ‘part- talkies,” this film signaled a new achievement in sound recording and verified for the fans a rumor that Novarro was actually an actor pos- | sessing an excellent singing voice. Novarro’s popularity reached its | apex with that song and that film. years as a star—not even the title role in the costly “Ben Hur'—could transcend his pagan performance. When fans today think of Novarro, and many of them still do, judging by his mail, they conjure a mental pic-| ture of a sad-eved native in loin cloth | wandering along a sandy beach, his | head raised in song. That image dwarfs the thunderous spectacle of and “Ben Hur” Re- Novarro's chariot clattering over the cobblestones of ancient Rome. Novarro never made another im- portant film after “The Pagan.” The cards were stacked against him in the form of poor stories, hurriedly devised to capitalize on a name his sponsors knew would carry the load. Finally, in 1934, Novarro rebelled, walked off the M-G-M lot declaring he was through with pictures for good. He | went to Europe, where he directed one film, acted in another. Last Fall he turned up in Hollywood again. An idealist, a dreamer and a PRE-DATE YOUR Eye Examination SAVE 25 te 507, On Your Glasses DR. W. F. FINN Met. 0218 305-307 McGill Bldg. | his one loyal friend and confidant in | |only one short chapter in Cagney's confirmed fatalist, Novarro secretly yearned for a return to his old glory. But there were no major studios to bid for his services. At 38, and off the screen nearly three years, there seemed no place for him. Novarro refused to beg. He hired no agent to plead his case. He merely waited, constantly repeating to a few Hollywood intimates his fatalistic creed: “What is to be, is to be.” His break did come—but from one of the smallest studios in town, a lot | which the big fellows slurringly refer | to as “a quickie joint.” But he liked the scenario sent over for him to read and last week completed the final scene in the film “The Sheik Steps out.” £ In this he plays another Arabian character, not unlike many of his, past roles, and he gets a chance to ! sing a couple of songs, written espe- cially for him by Elsie Janis, who, | through all the years, has remained | Hollywood. Agents for one of the picture expose | magazines are scurrying about Hol- | lywood digging up data for a picture | life story on James Cagney, There is life which the star fears—and he and his agents are attempting frantically You're sure to find what vou want in_our massive stock. Shop nd_ save at tne ON PAPER O a E. MORR 1009 Pa. Ave. Phone NA. 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Tickets now on sale at Arena—Monument Grounds, Constitution ~Avenue, between | and 15th Streets. New Show Every Night! ToOK GIALS | THEYRE couscring auocarnie FROM THE HORSES! film tale of a The picture opens tomorrow at to block any attempt to reveal it. Before he became a successful song and dance man on Broadway, Cagney toured a couple of seasons through the tank towns as a vaudeville handy man. During one lean period the only way he could get a job was to dress as a girl, wig and all, and take his place in a chorus of 12 dancing ladies. A newspaper photographer shot some pictures of the group. ‘When Cagney’s name began to have a meaning to picture fans, the mor- tifying pictures in the chorus girl get- up made their appearance. One by one Cagney and his agents bought up the prints, The last one turned up about a year ago—at least Cagney thought it was the last one. In this he seems to ' have been mistaken, for on the same | day he was told of the forthcoming magazine xpose”” in breathlessly with news that another chorus girl print had been traced to a rth American Inc.) On Scriem 08 BURNS | ST iz WARTHA RAYE |ICE CARNIAL “Wourtin Nusic| EDUE WA | Coming Friday DICK PGWELL Ir. Warner Bros Musical Hit “THE SINGING MARINE” Ao Gl Sage Show 25c to 1P. M. METROPOLITAN LAST 3 AYS RICHARD Expesing 0 “Devil Is DIX , Mer Nt b [iyipg” A Columbia Picture Coming Friday “LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN" Columbia's Nevo Welfe Moystery Drama uth Walter Connolly © Eduardo Ciannell *COME OVER AND WATCH ME CONDUCT A MEDICAL EXAMINATION IT'S FUN TO BE TICKLISH I# *YOU SAID a courier rushed | NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1937. Where and When — Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. Earle — “Mountain Music,” Bob Burns and Martha Raye take to the hills, at 11:15 am, 1:35, 4:25, 7:15 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows at 12:55, 3:45, 6:30 and 9:10 p.m. Capitol—“The Emperor's Candle- sticks,” esplonage, adventure and love. at 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:20, 7:15 and 10 p.m. Stage shows at 12:40, 3:25, 6:20 and 9:05 p.m. Palace — “Captains Courageous,” Kipling's story in a masterpiece for children and grown-ups, at 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:35 p.m. Keith’s—“New Faces of 1937,” pleas- ant musical with a lot of laughs, at 11:30 a.m, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Metropolitan—"“The Devil Is Driv- ing,” speed racketeers exposed, at 11:20 am, 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40 and 9:50 pm. Columbia—“Manhattan Melodrama,* Bill Powell the d.a. and Gable the gambler, at 11:15 a.m.,, 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 p.m. Little—"Clive of India,” Ronald Colman pushes Britain's frontier for- ward, at 11 a.m,, 1:05, 3:05, 5:10, 7:20 and 9:30 pm. Rialto—“Mississippi,” Crosby and Fields contribute music and comedy, at 11:35 am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:45 and 10:30 p.m. Also “Looking for Trouble,” at 12:55, 3:30, 6:15 and 9:05 p.m. Trans-Lux—News and shorts. Show runs 1 hour and 15 minutes, con- tinuous from 10 a.m. until midnight. Penn—"Kid Galahad,” the films do well by the fight game, at 2, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. Sheridan—"Shall We Dance,” latest Astaire-Rogers musical frivolity, at 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 p.m. Tivoli—“This Is My Aflair” R. Taylor rounds up bank robbers and Barbara Stanwyck, at 1, 3, 5:05, 7:10 and 9:15 pm. Uptown—"Shall We Dance,’ 4:55, 7:15 and 9:40 p.m. SAFETY FIRST. In order to save wear and tear on his 200-year-old $100,000 Stradivarius violin, Rubinoff uses a stand-in vio- lin for rehearsal scenes in “You Can’t Have Everything,” at Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox, CONTINUOUS TP M. TO 11:30 P. M. TONIGHT Inspired | by the beek Well of Loneliness.” On the Stage . . . Radio's Friendly Adviser B ADULTS ONLY Ospesite hite House William Luise POWELL RAINER “The Emperer's Candlesticks” — Sta MAJOR BOWES' all new “International Revee” Franchet TONE, Virginia BRUCE Maureon 0'SULLIVAN Between Two Women™ Stage “Red” SKELTON, Doy DAWN in Now . “CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW TRACY LIONEL BARRYMORE comnG BAY AT T s with the mad MARX BROS +COLUMBIA BACK..by demand GABLE ¥uurk OY ¥ POWERL “Manhattan Melodrama” E.ac 127w A MOUTHFUL. THEY'RE £ MOST GORGEOUS GIRLS EVER SEEN ON THE SCREEN! STARTS FRIDAY Au.o' AGE > AMUSEMENTS. now KEITH'S’ There IS something NEW under the SUN! NEW FACES of 1937 JOE PENNER @ WARRIET HILLIARD MILTON BERLE © PARKYAKARKUS 106 New Faces 1,000 New ldeas. 8 SONS HITS by 8 NEW SONGWRITERS e “SUPER SLEUTH® THEATRE PARKING 6P.M. TO 3 5 e 1AM 1320 N. Y. CAPITAL GARAGE 37°, 5% Ave. 11th ACADEMY ©t Perfect Sound Photoplay 8th at G S.E. E. Lawrence Phillips Theatre Beautiful Continuous From 430 P.M. KATHARINE HEPBURN and ANCHOT TONE in “QUALITY STREET.” RICHARD TALMADGE in “STEp ON IT.” ASHLEY cravBtriih Sofifar m “MAID OF SALEM." __Also “MAN WHO FOUND_HIMSELF." CAROLINA !!th pna N. c. Ave Air Conditioned. “CHAMPAGNE WALTZ,” and "FIND WITNESS Home of Mirrophonic Sound. CIRCLE _ Megs,of Mirroshonic Seg Matinees Tues., Thurs. un. NORMA SHEARER ‘and LESLIE HOWARD _in_"ROMEO_AND_JULIET DUMBARTON '*'* Wisconsin_ Ave. Carrier Air-Conditioning LIONEL BARRYMORE. CECILIA PARKER _in_"A FAMILY_AFFAIR _C 2 | ANACG | FAIRLAWN ~ Ayacost o d | LORETTA_YOUN FE METROPOLI E. THE M St. Double Feature “WINGS OF THE MORNING " with 'ONDA. also “RIDERS OF WHISTLING SKULL."" RONALD COLMAN and LORETTA YOUNG in __“CLIVE OF INDIA.” ESS T1119 H St N, Double Feat | LIONEL _BARRYMORE. AFFAIR ' °C CRACKS DOW n A FAMILY ANT WITHERS in “BILL Secretary.” o _ALL-STAR CAST. STANTO _6th and C Sts. N.E. Finest Sound Equipment Contii us From 5:50 P.M. ouble Featire VICTOR McLAGL d PETER LORRE in “Nancy Steele Is Missing.” ‘With JUNE LANG G d ROBERT KENT. “MR. CINDERELLA,” With JACK HALEY and BETTY FUR) STATE-BETHESDA 2.5 Bethesda. CAROLE LOMBARD in “Swing High, Swing Low.” Cartoon, News and Novelty. Matinee Tomorrow, 2 P.M. TAKOMA “¢ WALTER WINCH E “WAKE UP AND LIVE.” Selected Short Subiects ARLINGTON, VA Parking _Troul ELL BEN BER ES “and E __WHITNEY in_“TURN OFF THE | 'ASHTON g Slarsndon. va ENE RAYMOND in * GOES MY GIRL.” « | JESSE THEATER i¥e.s rgine i Carrier Air-Conditioned “A STAR IS BORN,” JANET GAYNOR. FREDRIC SYLVAN '&.258 B bonatiioned: “THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER,” ERROL FLYNN. THE MAUCH TWINS PALM THEATER P°F% A% “Turn Off the Moon.” CHARLIE RUGGLES. ELEANORE WHITNEY. THERE & = = = @ Coming! AT POPULAR PRICES! E GOOD EARTH' 4 Direction of SIDNEY LUST M-G-M's_Mightiest Entertainment starring Paul Muni @ Luise Rainer THEATAR m""lu eaaneny. Chicago Riot—Sport “Wings Over W. 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