Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1937, Page 34

~EMENTS. Gallant Old Romance Paid Gallant Roadside Tribute *Prisoner of Zenda” Charms an Audience That Came to Hiss Villains but Cheered Heroes Instead. BY JAY CARMODY. 'HEREVER they go thereafter, honor and courage have returned to the earth for the next two weeks. Vi eloquently and bravely at the Roadside Theater, where last night “The Prisoner of Zenda” became the new fortnight's attraction. Tt is a gallant play (as every one above the age of 6 need not be told) and And so, the Roadsiders treat it gallantly. night's audience. It found the old¢ romantic drama not quite so hissable as its predecessors of this season Noticeably it pulled its hisses and en- joyed itself just the same. The heroes and heroines (or in whatever order they come) are so much more heroic than the villains are villainous that it is clear they can take care of themselves in this play. The audience just gave the players their heads and saved its boos for a darker day at the Roadside. It amounted to serenity with a pleas- ant zip in it. ® % ok X HE Prisoner of Zenda,” despite its | merit, is not fortuitously cast as “Our American Cousin,” its predecessor. It does, however, have Richard Kreuzberg, in a flaming wig or multiple henna rinse, playing a dashing Rudolph Rassendyll, a man almost too heroic for the proportions | of the Roadside stage. It also has| Virginia True, turned red-head for| @ fortnight by some legerdemain we | don't understand. Miss True gives, a graceful talent to the part of Prin- cess Flavia, makes the princess just | the kind of girl Rudolph had to lo\e‘ unless he were a complete sap, which, | of course, he is anything but. ‘Then, to make the play completely | 0 terrific so far as hair is concerned.|: - Betty Gray plops a black wig over her red tresses and turns in an ex-| cellent performance as Antoinette do- Mauban. Part of the all Miss Gray | gave for love in the role was a French | eccent that slipped only a couple of times and then not seriously. She | was so good, indeed, that every one | forgave her for not being handy to| play the piano for the entr'acte sing- ing. | Even the villains seemed to know | they had no chance against the vir- tue of this trio. plus that of J. Ed- mund Veitch as Col. Sapt. At any rate | Lawrence Beckerman as the Black Michael, and Michael McKnight as' Rupert of Hentzau, did not seem to get their hearts into their black deeds as enthusiastically as they should. Others in the cast who simply have | to be mentioned are Ralph Fowler, | Gerald Flood, Edward Hopper, Jerry | Hess and a youngster, Karl Gay. The latter, appearing in a minor part, wears his uniform and marches with a flair that should win him a job as & Roxy usher any time he wants to take it up professionally. Henry C. Pearson has set the show with nice judgment, and Dorothy | Croissant (the wig and costume wom- an) has done her usual excellent job. Whatever Miss True and Kreuzberg feel about their hair, it looked swell from out front. | * ok K % \‘VE TAKE second place to no man, woman or child in our admira- | tion of Burgess Meredith, but those | | snatches of his Hamlet which We | plained her predicament. She had only | Gower They will be found speaking let it be recorded, did the first | England, Maureen O'Sullivan plans to | And “The Girl Said No | it | and Sullivan music since almost before | the ink dried on Gilbert's lyrics . . .| formances a kind of breath-taking experience. * % X X INJELSON B. BELL, who called this department’s entr'acte bell-ring- ing at the Roadside two weeks ago “terrific,” gave us no chance to return the compliment last night. He did not ring the bell. Had he done so, however, he would have been terrific. Mr. Bell, as a critic, has been ringing the bell for too many vears not to be able to handle a mere cowbell . . . Ac- cording to Harold Heffernan, who is not appearng on this page today because Sheila ‘Graham is back from become a writer when she gives up acting . . . Paul Muni's “The Story of Emile Zoala,” bearing the Warner Brothers trade mark, of course, has coast critics and other previewers wildly excited . . . “Mountain Music,” with Bob Burns and Martha Raye without Bing Crosby, won't wait until Friday to take over the Metropolitan. It moves in tomorrow, instead . . . “Captains Courageous.” however, will not come to the Columbia until regular opening day . . . That dither of excite- ment around thl‘ Rialto these days looks toward the opening of “Elephant Boy” next Sunday and the establish- ment of a new first-run picture policy But not all of it, however, for there's excitement, too, over the return of Abe Tolkins to duty as soon as ne gets over his second operation, which he is getting over nicely at Emergency Hospital . . . “Knight Without Armor” will be scrwned today at 1:30 . . . which once was mentioned for road showing at the National will be previewed tomorrow by critics who otherwise would have had to wait until Friday to see it at Keith's . It has a lot of people in who have been singing Gilbert | The late George Gershwyn will be honored in Phil Lampkin's next over- | ture at the Capnol B AT ENGLISH ACTRESS SNAGS HOLLYWOOD’S TRAFFIC | FOR a stranger in a strange land | Sandra Storme, England’s most ! photographed model, who has been | christened “Miss Perfection™ since her | | arrival in Hollywood. seems to be get- | !ting along very well—even with the | cops. 1 Unaccustomed to right-hand traffic, | she related, she made a wrong turn while driving hurriedly to a local ra- dio station for an air interview in con- | nection with her screen debut in Para- | mount’s “Artists and Models,” Jack‘ Benny starring vehicle. Two officers in a radio car waved her to the curb. Almost tearfully, Miss Storme ex- H Seems to have done what a lot of other people have done the past few days—made for the near- est available swimming hole at the earliest possible convenience. which opens at Loew’'s Capitol Friday. Without Armor,” MARLENE DIETRICH TUESDAY The scene is from “Knight British Girl Fans Rank Powell As No. 1 Lover BY SHEILAH GRAHAM. during my stay in London OLLYWOOD, July 13 (N.AN.A).—"What is Gary Cooper like?" and “is William Powell as amusing in real life as he is on the screen?” These were the questions I was asked morning, noon and night As an afterthought, quired after the fascination of Myrna Loy. several people in- And the usual quota of gushers | gushed after the well-being of Shirley Temple. Surprisingly few people were Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Chaplin or Mae West The likes and dislikes of London are very important to the Hollywood film industry. The picture - going public of England supplies most of the profit for the ! million - dollar § productions that emanate from Culver City street. heard last night on the radio did |10 minutes, she was not quite certain | Westwood an d nothing to enhance that admiration. It may be that Hamlet does not play well beneath the stars on an auto- mobile radio. Or, it may be that one | has become so accustomed to hearing | the melancholy Dane speak With an | photographed girl's misty eyes and | morrow. English accent that any other sounds | alien and strange. Whatever it was, | Meredith seemed less imposing as the mad prince than as the disinherited Mio in “Winterset,” or the whimsical Van Dorn in “High Tor.” It is quite possible that hearing the whole of his impersonation in Co- lumbia’s first Shakespearean program aould have radically reversed such an estimate. All told, we caught less than | one-third of it; that much in broken | Jots and including none of the solilo- | Guies. | That fraction, however, gave the Ampression that Meredith was guilty of what athletes call pressing; that he trying to make up with his voice r the absence of the expression and gesture which make his Stage per- Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. | i Palace—"A Day at the Races.” the| mad Marxes at their maddest, at| 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:30 pm. Capitol—"Between Two Women,” a doctor, an heiress and a nurse, at 11 am., 1:40, 4:30, 7:20 and 10 p.m. Stage shows at 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 and 9 pm. Earle—"The Singing Marine,” Dick Powell sings his way into the ranks of the Devil Dogs, at 10:45 am., 1:30, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows at 12:40, 3:25, 6:20 and 9:10 pm. Keith’'s — “Super Sleuth,” Jack| Oakie plays a film detective who meets a real mystery, at 11:15 am,, 1, 2:45, 4:35, 6:20, 8:10 and 9:55 p.m. “March | of Time,” at 12:40, 2:25, 4:15, 6, 7:50 and 9:35 pm. | Columbia—"Way Out West,” Laurel | and Hardy take to the open spaces, st 11:15 a.m., 1, 2:50, 4:35, 6.20, 8:10 and 955 pm. Metropolitan—"‘League of Fright- ened Men,” Nero Wolfe solves another mystery, at 11 am, 1:10, 3:20, 530, 7:40 and 9:50 p.m. Little—"Berkeley Square,” revival of the Leslie Howard success, at 11 am,, 1, 3:11, 5:22, 7:34 and 9:45 pm. Rialto—“My Man Godfrey,” one of last year's gayest, at 12:43; 3: 7:01 and 10:13 pm. “Sky Devi] men, women and planes, at 11:15 am,, 2:21 5:27 and 8:39 p.m. Trans-Lux—News and shorts. Show runs 1 hour and 15 minutes, con- tinuous from 10 a.m. until midnight. Ambassador—“The Singing Marine,” at 5:45, 7:35 and 9:30 p.m. Penn—"1 Met Him in Paris” one of the brightest of the year's efforts, at 2:20, 4:05, 5:50, 7:40 and 9:30 p.m. Sheridan—"Kid Galahad,” the films do right by the fight game, at 2, 3:55, 5:30, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. Tivoli—"I Met Him in Paris,” at 2, 3:50, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:30 p.m. Uptown—"Kid Galahad,” at 2, 3:55, 8:50, 7:45 and 9:45 p.m. Roadside—"Prisoner of Zenda,” the popular romantic drama is revived, at 8:30 pm. of lh!‘ radio station's location, and besi “I'm not much good at park- | ‘ | ing," shP confessed. | The officer, pencil poised over a tramc ticket. looked into the most changed his mind. | Result: “Miss Perfection” was driv- | en to the broadeast studio by the of- | ficer, who then parked her car for her s0 that she might dash in to the microphone without further loss of time. U |Burbank. A nd what London says today. Hollywood film magnates will have to say to- Sheilah Graham. According to a questionnaire sent to 325.000 Britons | mmcucd Chaxlxe~~ | to Twentieth Century-Fox. the existence of Marlene in | Powell and Jessie Mathews. Bill him- self will be surprised to learn that the younger feminine population of Eng- {land regard him as celluloid lover | | number one—ranking him above Clark Gable and Robert Taylor Lanky James Stewart is openly by all classes of English women between the ages of 28 and 58. Robert Montgomery follows clase behind Gable, second on the Bernstein list, will be lower next year on account O( his picture, “Cain and Mabel.” Gracie Fields. now under mnn-m earns a half million dollars but s a year, | popular only with a limited group of | vaudeville fans. Jessie Mathews. who earns a com- parative paltry $100,000 per annum, has a much wider range of admirers | by Sidney L. 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The British public enjoys glamourizing its favor- ite stars. And this is impossible when the said stars show themselves all over the place.) Next Picture Holds Fate. Marlene is said to have cooked her goose completely by insisting on ap- pearing at the midnight American re- vue at the Aldwych Theater on ab- dicetion night. Everything depends now on Miss Dietrich’s next picture. If bad, her screen years in England are numbered. As in the United States, one good' film is all that is necessary to place | a star in the popularity heights. And unprecedented rush by young and old | males and females toward Gary | Cooper. Deanna Durbin roused British en- thusiasm to a wild state of acclaim in “Three Smart Girls” and every one is waiting for her next film. Carale Lombard jumped near the head of the class with “My Man God- frey,” but lost place with “Swing High, Swing Low.” Ronald Colman, front-ranking fav- orite in his native land for many “Rembrandt” nicked a Charles Laughton’s fan mail. 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