Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1937, Page 34

AMU Mr. Hecht Writes a Blurb, And About a Man Who Has Never Pictures Lauds “Dead End”’— to Have Gala Opening Tonight. BY JAY CARMODY. THEY laughed when Samuel Goldwy: v film rights to “Dead End,” but he has fellows like Benr Hecht volun- tarily writing blurbs about the finished product. Mr. Hecht may not s sitting down and watching 12 men bite 1 He just isn't the sort of fellow wh least of all over the movies. When he % does it over a picture made from Sid- how life develops b0 ts and Kkillers, i1t seems of more than passing moment. The hordes who thought that “Dead End” might not be good picture ma- terial still may have the last laugh on Goldwyn, with a few rippling gut- terals tossed in for Hecht now that he has committed h\m<('l’ Their cne nce, of course, in the possi- | v that audierices will not go for it. | Tha however, seems extremeiy | New York, it is true, may D! h “dead end”| s of the particular ty a\mu" ngsley wrote with suct ‘ ed venom, but the ¢! is | and prehensible to T umm not have rdedness s provin- ce to use that word in h New York for some | reason) as many seem loosely to think Nor could it have so excited heads of social agencies as it did those in on when it came to the| heater last Winter. Ev town la( its “dead en rezard of the local word for The tene- y reary as that remember its but they breed everywhere the same maladjusted and unsavory kiddies Goldwyn, who is credited with once having had “the mucuous of an idea,” seems to have had another excellent one when he sat down, amidst zll that la l\rr' to write that check for | “Dead En sal every one. run t on cial ( connection w * x ok % I TAKING over “Dead End." Gold- Wwyn introduces a new-tvpe actor an the Hollywood scene. He is the tough-kid pr of the East Side, who walked straight from into Kingsley's play and thence into pic- | tures. | The kids, all of them, are remaining | in Hollyw ere they are going to do another picture in which they will play themselves once more. one knows, “Dead End” may start a whole new series of “Our Gang” pic- tures, done this time with reverse English. x % % % I play and so will search- | atter on as select a | as has been out all Summer) at Keith's tonight to mark | pening of “The Road Back.” | the official and atic life of the town who has | anything to do with peace and war | has been invited to participate in the | ceremonies. That includes Army and Navy officials, members of the cabinet, of Congress, < | he Road Back of course, is | based upon Eric Maria Remarque's | novel which sis the aftermath of | v\ar also is hell in its effect upon the individual and mass mind of the dis- | charged mulitary. Few men came out of the war more eloquent apostles of peace than did the German author, who does not live up to Somerset Maugham's rule that | the writer is the only free man. It is Maugham’s contention that the liter- ary man can dispose of any experience ACADEMY Of Perfect Sound Photovlay B Lawrence Phillips” Thastis B Sutitul Continuous Prom 4:30 P HT KEY, With BORIS KARLOFF. J. WARREN HULL. JEAN ROGERS “HATS OFF,” With MAE CLARKE and JOHN PAYNE 11th & N. C. Ave. S.E. CAROLINA Air-Conditioned “MAN " OF THE PEOPLE” and BIG 'SHOW. CIRCLE "ope.qf tcroshons, Soond Matinees Tues., CLAUDETTE an DOUGLAS, I MET HIM'IN PARIS DUMBARTON * ERROL__FLYNN. BI MA 7 Wisconsin Ave, Conditioned. TLL BOBBY "rHE PRINCE AND THE Come; EAIRLAN AN ACOETI_A D. O AV OUNG and TYRONNE POWER in “CAFE METROPOLE Air-Conditil GRETA GARBO ‘and FREDRJC MARCH in “ANNA KARENINA.” NA PAS- - MIRIAM, HOPKINS - “MEN e wor M8 & Silver Spring, Vld SECO Continuous_From 6 “ONE-WAY PASSAGE i WILLIAM POWELL, KAY FRANCIS. “AMBASSADOR BILL,” WILL ROGERS and C Sts. N STANTON &t s Eiioment Continuous From 5:30 “MAN OF THE PEOPLE,” With JOSEPH CALLEIA. FLORENCE RICE. CONRAD NAGEL. MARTA BARR in “With Pleasure, Madame 2 6970 Wis. Ave, STATE-BETHESDA $:2.%ax Afa: OLIVIA De HAVILLAND in “CALL IT A DAY.” NEWS and COMEDY. TAKOMA X ¥y “Trovsies” NORMA ~SHEAREI “ROMEO AND JULIET.” 1 Georgia Ave, e you as important, but to us it is rather like |~|mplv by writing to it a satisfactory | end, bul Remarque seems a | Having done that, WARNER BROS. THEATERS SEMENTS. Film at That Grown Lyrical Over Keith's yn sat down to write a check for the Reading a blurb by 2 dogs for the newsreels. o works himself into lvucsl ecstasies, long way The bitter d\slllusmnment which produced “The Road Back” maybe is not subject to the alchemy of ink. x Kk ok ok HE Earle Theater, which has ap- proximately ignored orchestras ever since there was 50 much swing in the Spring, is creeping slowly back to bands on the stage. Mal Hallett ‘nnd his aides, Teddy Grace the bal- ladeer, Jerry Perkins and the “mas- ter melody men,” will be the first to twist the cycle in the old direction. EE \ JHEN “In Mizzoura” comes up Monday night at the Roadside Theater, it probably will remind Sen- ator Bennett Champ Clark to tell the story of the play and his father's re- action to it. The elder Clark was a friend of ustus Thomas, the playwright; h a good friend that Thomas thought it would be & nice expression | to lay the scene in Pike County, home of the then Speaker of the House. he made arrange- ments for the Speaker to see the opening. doubling the initial gracious gesture of friendship. The Speaker came. the early part action, obviously He sat through of the tremendous enjoying it, until | there popped into the story the inci- dent of a spectacular express robbery which hadn’t happened in Pike Coun- ty at all. It made the Speaker 5o angry that he got up and walked out, muttering into the night about | the sins committed in the name of friendship. Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. Keith's—"The Girl Said No," Gil- bert and Sullivan music on the screen for the first time, at 11:20 a.m., 1:05, 2:50, 4:35 and 6:20 pm. “The Road Back,” premiere, at 8:30 pm. Earle—"Ever Since Eve,’ Marion Davies’ latest comedy venture, at 11:15 am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows at 12:55, 3:35, 6:25 and 9:10 p.m. Capitol—"Knight Without Armor,” Marlene Dietrich and a screen ver- sion of James Hilton's "“Without Ar- mor.” at 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows at 12:35, 3:25, 6:15 and 9:05 p.m. Palace—“A Day at the Races,” the mad Marxes at their maddest, at 11:35 am., 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:35 pm. Columbia—“Captains Courageous,” fine film transcription of the Kipling story, at 11:50 a.m., 3:15, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:40 pm. Metropolitan — “Mountain Music,” Martha Raye and Bob Burns take %o the hills, at 11:40 am,, 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40 and 9:40 p.m. Rialto—"Elephant Boy,” film trans- lation of another Kipling story, for children and everybody elephant- AMBASSADOR i % ol CLARK GABLE and_ MYR __in_“PARNELL APOLLO WALLACE BEE 21 n St. N.E. Faene Linc 3375 “'GOOD oL " Al Shart Suhi!cl AVALON 13532 < MADGE EVAN§ ln' nD{%NTH AIR”__ Also_Short_Subjects AVENUE GRAND 372 CALVERT %) it BEgLAL ao»':'fu' A SPENCER TRACY. GLADYS GEORCE and” FRAN( GAVE HIM A GUN el 650 Lenn Aven; o, oo P Lan "HORES DI ARE SRl IcroR OMOORE, 3056 lun ?L N. AR’I’HU:. TREACH) S and” PATRICIA STEP LIVELY, 5 JTEP LIVELY, JEEVES. SHERIDKN “m Ran. 2400 M:llme :"-'mcr" nditione CAROLE LoMBA’RD GARY nnciD SHIRLEY TEMPLE m°°n"o’»‘$ Ver' Also_Cartoon. ince. GO USSE‘LL Ln Nmflgrl}a%r ““WHITE HONDAG! wit] MUIR and “GORDON oLfy#R H"’PODROME K K oo b Feature Warner _Baxter, ., __Guy Kibbee, * Fhilee B CAMEO ° Bhearer and Howard } nd Howary b " Romeo and ARCAFEWL“ ™D, s»ancer Tracy, “They' "Eave Him o ARLINGTON, VA. oL120 Wilson Bivd. olonial Viilage BARBARA ST\N\VY(‘K and ROBERT TAYLOR in “THIS [S MY AFFAIR." ASHTON PAUL b LOUIS PASTEUR. JESSE THEATER °%,2 3™ Cartler Air-Conditioned. Clarendon, MUNI in st and H. L Cirmier. Kirrcongitioned “They Gave Him a Gun,” SPENCER TRACY and FRANCHOT P%“EA'TEM - BERNHEIMER'S " RICHMOND AL[XANI‘II.IA. VA, Spencer Tracy. Freddy n-nnolemew tains Cour-flenul REED JOE PENNER and HARRIET HILLIARD in “NEW FACES OF 1937.” Free Parking Space—800 Cars, _Completely Air-Conditioned. locx;m:. MD. Karen Morley, “Girl From Scotiand AIR CSNIP)IEION ED. — FALLS CHURCH. VK. — STATE “G.588R5c ' “LEE Direction of SlDNEY LUST J THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Their Film Back for Another Week Luise Rainer and William Powell play the leading roles in “The Emperor’s Candlesticks,” which recently played a successful engagement at Loew'’s Capitol and which comes to the Columbia Theater tomorrow for another week on F street. minded, at 11:50 a.m., 1:50, 3:50, 5:45, 7:50 and 9:55 p.m. Little—"Anna Karenina,” hit revived, at 11:25 a.m,, 5:45, 7:50 and 9:55 p.m. Trans-Lux—News and shorts. runs 1 hour and 15 minutes, con- tinuous from 10 am. until midnight. | Ambassador—"Parnell,” the screen attempts heroic biography, at 5, 7:10 and 9:25 pm. | R R e T S, World’s Greatest LADY AND GENTLEMEN DANCE INSTRUCTORS WILL BE AT GLEN ECHO BALLROOM TONIGHT a Garbo 1:30, 3:40, Show Penn—"Make Way for Tomorrow,” | &tirring drama of the conflict between | youth and age, at 2:15, 4:05, 5:55, | 7:40 and 9:25 pm. | Sheridan—"Night Must Fall" dra- | matic study in murder psychology, at 2:20, 4:35, 6:55 and 9:15 pm. Tivoli—"Now and Forever,” a Shir- ley Temple favorite returned, at 2, 350, 5:45, 7:40 and 9:35 pm. Uptown—"Night Must Fall,” 4:45, 7:05 and 9:25 pm. at 2:20, Free Concert LINCOLN PARK 11th & East Capitol Streets N.E. Friday, July 23, TP.M. | GUISEPPE CREATORE World Famous Conductor #MOONLIGHT TONITE with AL SAKOL & HIS CBS BAND Steamex POTOMAC Delightful 3 -hour Beer garden. ] night at §:45. Music by Bernie Jar- boes “Nightha Sun, & Hol., 7 Colonial Beach Trip Every Sunday 9 A. M.—Return P. M. Adults 5—Children 65¢ 80 Distinguished Musicians In a program of Sym- phonic Band Classics cruise, This concert is given to ! show the need for the SCHWELLENBACH-ALLEN Joint Resolution (H. R. 440, 8. 176) providing for the reinstatement and reten- tion on W. P. A. rolls of workers dismissed by W. P. A. despite their need and efficiency and their in- ability to find employ- ment in private industry. The band is composed of musicians dismissed from W. P. A. rolls, and is pre- sented under auspices of Local 77, Philadelphia, and Local 802, New York City, affiliated with the Ameri- can Federation of Musi- cians. “A School With a National Reputation (Over 40.000 Pupils in U. Don Martini Sludlos Those who dance interestinoly never need worry about their popularity. waltz, foxtrot, tango, rumba, tap. Ten Patient, Talented Teachers Beginners = Advanced Private Lessons Air-Conditioned! Low Rates! 1811 H St. NW. Nat. 3767 ~Don Martini conducts this branch.” | FRIDAYY.. vou vonr HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO LHKE AT o oo fiue it holps? ... If you've got long hair or a blue nose . .. don't bother to see this picture . « . because .it was made only for those inherently cheery souls who want tolive .. for the sheer joy of laughing! All in one grand show! “Three Orphan Kittens" “The Country Cousin®® “Flowers and Trees" “Three Little Pigs" “Torlcise and the Hare™ n ncmt\ sney :\\,med fea- \ ive .‘r :;m ment. W’ The cream ot o) masterpiec into one S ture length © D. C. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937. COMING - “IN MIZZOURA" Res. Seats MKS. DOK: Last 3 Nights—‘Th Roekville Pike, 4 Miles Past Bethesda MARSHALL HALL Washington’s Playground on the Potomac River OUR ROUND YNIPSDDMLY 0 A. M. 5:30 and |’5_°E DAILY ROUND TRIPS—ADULTS LDREN, ROUND TRII New Rides—Eree Picnie Grove Free Admission to the Park KIDDIES’ DAYS Every Monday & Friday—Reduced Rates on_Boat-Rides—Half Rate in DROOPS, NA, », TWO RDUND TRIPS DAIL‘I lnldren "5.' to Grounds 25¢ ME@SNLIGHTH Round Trio Cruise N'shtly 8:30 Adults M—( Inlurrn 30¢ —( hlldrrn NA 2440-7Th STRELT WHARVES STARTS MONDAY. JULY 26 . at BOX OFFICE or 51 AMUSEMENTS. “EVER SINCE EVE" Gala Stage Show Extra Added Aummn i onngs, BRUTES Featured Dances S o Come Early 25ctw1P. M, " Jhe Wasical Tal's ot The P tul Role ‘ It snuu\lm!.u Y A N — LEE DIXON= WUGH HERBERT d & e b vt w1 0§ WESTO most modern excur-H§ | fiom steamerp UAST DAY Bob Burns & Martha Rare in “MOUNTAN BVSIC", STARTS FRIDAY WE ANNOUNCE THE PRESENTATION OF JEAN HARLOW'S LAST SCREEN PRODUCTION A great picture—a vivid romance —a splendid story of reckless love and fast- moving action...written by Anita Loos and Robert Hopkins, whose “San Francisco” reached new heights in screen excitement...Its scene—the most famous race tracks in the world...Its stars—Jean Harlow, as-the>vivacious daughter of 2 man who represented: racing’s finest traditions...and Clark Gable, as the plunger who staked his love on the flying hoofs of a thoroughbred. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerapresents CLARK GABLE Alse in the Cast Walter Pidgeon * Una A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture LIONEL BARRYMORE Produced by BERNARD H. HMYMAN £ -JEAN HARLOW Frank Morgan Merkel * Directed by Jack Conway John Emersen, Associete Producer (Pico ON THE STAGE .. & Personallty Parade GUS VAN F ly of V. THE MELODY MAN.. Formetly of Van [ DOROTHY Lews CAPITAL 16 GAE FOSTER Girls Sensational Steppers Bob CARTER & Joe HOLMES Funny Sayings and Stuff CROOKER | EXTRA ATTRACTION . Held Gver. 3rd WEEK wen 'RED SKELTON 2714 th The howling one-man show