Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1937, Page 38

B—18 AMUSEMENTS. Frances Farmer Unspoiled By Her Rapid Rise to Fame Young Star of Two Pictures Coming to Local Screens Unflayed by Fame. “Saratoga’” Next at Palace. BY JAY CARMODY. ITH as much justification for growing dizzy as any one who ever hit Hollywood, Miss Frances Farmer is one of the least dizzy per- sons we read about and hear tell of these days. In the last year her name has been spelled out in enough light bulbs to illumi- nate all of Chevy Chase, Hyattsville, Alexandria and several other suburbs. That’s a facet of film fame which pardonably might turn the head of any 20-year-old girl, but not Miss Farmer's. & = — Her head is just like it was, save for| a different coiffure, when she was an | alluring co-ed at the University of Washington, where the champion erews come from. ‘The publicity streaking through tne mails these days, not mention the Bubliists who drop around before the | yrss Farmer i such a sensible person envelopes can be opened, fias much 10 | gpout confronting her mob of admir- say of Miss Farmer. Locally it is due | ers that she communica somethin| to the fact that she will be emoting | &' s 15 somciide never dons a wig to escape detection. She neither seeks nor avoids publicity. She takes what comes to her, as you probably would, too, if you'd found it paying so well to let destiny run its course. If the Hollywood reports are true, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON In Local Melodrama band. a week doing extra work. —courage. “I have a truer sense of values. I know who are the real people —who are the phonies. Natural- § ly, people don't treat me the same as they used to—but the adu- lation I received as the star ac- tress wife of Val- D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 29, Today she lives in a tiny apartment in a Hollywood, does her own cooking, makes her own clothes, is lucky to earn $30 But the woman who married Rudolph Valentino 18 years ago has retained the moste— — important of her old-time possessions “I'm happier today,” she told me. And I think she was telling the truth. 1937. Glamour Dies, But Leaves Jean Acker Courage BY SHEILAH GRAHAM OLLYWOOD, July 20 (N.ANA).—Once upon a time Jean Acker owned a palatial home in Beverly Hills, had four servants, two cars, & star's salary of $3,500 a week and a world-famous, glamorous hus- cheap suburb near (husband of Sally Eilers) used to work for me in vaudeville. He is now a producer—but I can't get much of a part from him. The same with Irving Cummings, now a director, who was an actor in my early days in Hollywood.” An exception to the “no-help” rule is Director W. S. Van Dyke. “All the old-timers who used to work for him in their more pros- perous days are on his list for extra and bit parts and he uses them as frequently as possible. He's a grand person.” The studio offering Miss Acker the most work is R-K-O Radio AMUSEME tra work. Now he's back. can do it, I can.” During the shooting of “Camille” last year, it seemed as though the great chance had arrived. A dancer with a small part was stricken ill on | the set. Jean was picked to replace her in a sequence with Garbo. But the picture came and went and the hoped-for recognition has still to come. Lately the brown-eyed blond, still youthful-looking old-timer, has worked | as a dress extra at $16.50 a day in “Top of the Town” “Shall We| Dance?” a bit role in “Nothing Sac- red” at the Selznick studio—the same lot formerly controlled by Cecil B. De Mille, to whom she was under con- tract for seven years with a starting salary of $1,500 weekly. “I left im in 1923 for a three-year vaudeville tour at more than double the salary.” At that time Valentino | filed an injuction against the use of his name by his first wife, the reason being that Mrs. Valentino, IT (Natacha | It they NTS. Rambova), whom he married in 1922, a few weeks after the divorce from Miss Acker, wanted the name for a vaudevile tour of her own. Jean returned to Hollywood in 1931, having lost a fortune of $300,000 in Wall Street. (Copyright, 1937, by the ) Newspaper All rth Americsa MIGHTY SEQUEL TO HIS “ALL QUIET on the WESTERN FRONT® Coming . .. IEAN HARLOW ¢ CLARK GABLZ ostday Im YSARATOGA? Plus Stage Show —vand I don't know any one there.” But Jean seldom lets herself get bitter this way. “I had fun while I was a star—now that I'm an extra I can take it on the chin—and there's prove. always the chance of a comeback “Warner Baxter used to be a friend [ Look what happened to Marie Dress. of mine—but of course 1 never see|ler. She was around for years before him now. Nor Warren William, who | they gave her another chance. And was at Sargent’s Dramatic School in | Adolphe Menjou. After all those years New York with me. Harry Joe Brown | of stardom he couldn't even land ex- on two screens. Keith's in “The Toast | °r,_;':: r:,“k’f‘;’n“’;gfi fr?,;:;eo;",f}:;\, Yo of New York.” the Earle's. Starting | i one of the kind that rarely falls to Friday, in “Exclusive. ith leads in | ne 1ot of one so young in experience. both pictures, the former of which 15| g1e” impersonates the famous Josie 50 costly it would make Croesus wince, | nransfield, the actress Jim Fiske cata- Miss Farmer has come a long way pulted from obscurity to world fame in since she was A-ing journalism in| g career not unlike Miss Farmer's own college. That was bul two years 230, | caye that the latter had, nor needed, which means she has come fast as well | o' i “picie as far. In “Exclusive,” she plays a news- Miss Farmer was sort of elected to 2 f : aper woman, which is what she used Hollywood by the people. When a | boher Seattle newspaper started a popularity contest, her friends whose name was legion and became legioner ever day entino was shal- low and didn't mean a thing, as results today gy oip Graham. ON THE STAGE A NEW note in modern entertainment . B JESSE *CRAWFORD The Poet of the Organ =< ORCHESTRA | Helen CRAWFORD JOEg GLADYS ROSS ™ BENNETT Aristocrats of Humor BERT NAGLE & CO. & Midnight Serenaders VIC HYDE Ambidextrous Symphonist ' ROBERTSON Singing Star of ‘The GREAT WALTZ', R | “QARATOGA" has kept “The Good | of the voting, put her over with such| Earth” out of town. The latter £ O a bang Hollywood heard the echo. 1t | was scheduled to move into the Palace MILTON FRIEDMAN went up to Seattle, gave Miss Farmer | tomorrow for its popular-price run, Plays one of the important parts in the Roadside Theater's 8 screen test. fvvll fountain pen over | but because F street is so crowded with production of “In Old Mizzouri,” being presented this week and check in love with her and was on her | people who want to see the Harlow | nert af the group’s barn playhouse on the Rockville pike. way. Hans Christian Anderson couldn't | finale, “Saratoga” will be carried over have wriiten it better than it actually | to the other end of the block. “Good | ; THIRD TOGETHER and Robert worked out for her. Earth” will follow some day. Montgomery Teamed. CAPTIVE LOVERS .. " asi Woon Here's one of the greatest of all sea pictures . .. with a grand love story told against a back- ground of mutiny on the high- seas. Adventure .. Powerful Drama Century-Fox, made his theatrical de- but at the tender age of 6 at a Boston church social. He sang a little ditty called “Leapfrog, Jump!” which he illustrated with appropriate gestures. W cCcaude He recalls that a bad case of the stage PR!“%}{’% WM-./ at the top of the ladder. Movie audi- | in “Captains Courageous.” Of course, | R OBERT MONTGOMERY and Rosa- | fright jitters nearly ruined the per- i W 4 is the word for this ences may not have found her a|there was the break offered by his role lind Russell began their third | formance. G ... Sensational is se 1o "SARATOGA. finished actress, but they took her to|in “The City,” which he plays with | Pcture together when Dbausion | = City's rousing respo: 4 want to_see it their hearts because she was fair,| Luise Rainer. That chore done, how- | Started on “Love, Live and Learn” at Those who've “;o," missed it insist wholesome looking, fresh, young and | ever, M-G-M has decided to let Tracy | the = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. T"EATRE PARK'NG in. Those Whowe CUTet the most patiently intelligent. |and Mickey Rooney have a picture | JUst added to the supporting cast are on an immedia ‘Because 6P.M. TO 3 5 ¢ her at face value. She has fallen vic- | erned entirely by boys. The stuff of D'“:"r by hHP“i“ Ca:zsl\z‘i” was pre-| CAPITAL GARAGE % : we'te moving tim to none of the little foibles that |a dramatic story should be available | Pare "(’;n‘ e »“g_‘f v Marion Par-| — — — _—____* SARATOGA beset the average actress skyrocketed | there. Tracy, in the role of a priest, | Sonnet. Charles Brackett and Vincent PICNI to Loew's Y an Vi the year- In her private life, Miss Farmer has built around Boys Town, that Ne-|Robert Benchley and Helen Vinson Siscussed p‘:lufGSOi conducted herself in a fashion that braska community which has been | G€Orge Fitzmaurice is directing these deman to fame. She is no glamour girl who | should play a handy part in its screen | La%Tence, hides behind smoked glasses. She ' recital. - CHESAPEAKE * ok ok x NG MAvsE because she didn't look Jike | SR e e ey E'RE 3”!‘”’ the typical American girl, who I e Yas 15 a little too lacquered these days, Miss| 80ing on being teamed with boys as | Farmer was allowed to start off right | a result of his superlative performance | Rosalind Russell Justifies the instinctive acceptance of | built, inhabited, maintained and gov- | _ The story, based on “Wedding are so insistent LEAPING START. Sheridan—"Naughty Marietta,” op- | Jack Haley, now working in “Dan- eretta by M-G-M and Jeanette Mac- | ger—Love at Work” at Twentiett Donald, at 2, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. Tivoli—"Another Dawn,” Kay Fran- cis and a triangle in the desert, at| ~=TERRACE DANCING - 2:35, 4:25, 6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 pm Dinner, $2.00;. Sat., 3225 Uptown—"Naughty Marietta,” at | Cover, $5¢; Sat. & Hol, 3110 2:35, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:40 p.m. @ Additfonal Cover for. Dinmer Guest b octenam Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. BEAC) On the Bay—Free Parking ALL SEASHORE ATTRACTIONS Frequent Bus Service From 403 11th Street N. W. For Information Call NAt. W. M. & A. Motor Lines, Inc. Passenger and Freight Service Capitol—"Saratoga,” Jean Harlow's last picture, at 10:30 am. 1:20, 4:10, 7 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows at 12:25, | 8:15, 6:05 and 9 pm. HOLLYWOOD, July 29 (#) —Bette RE RN " .| Davis of the movies suffered a sun- Retths— The Road Beck. DOU|istroke whioh willlkeep her confinedito D a0, B e 930 pa™ @ hospital in Carpinteria, Calif.. at o803 o0 S0 o P | least four weeks, her husband, Har- Earle—"Midnight Madonna,” & mon O. Nelson, said yesterday. She mother fights for the right to keep | was vacationing there. her child, at 11:15 am, 1:30, 4:25, | 7:20 and 10:05 pm. Stage shows at | 12:35, 3:30, 6:25 and 9:10 p.m. Palace—“Easy Living.” cheerful and light-hearted comedy for the fun of laughing, at 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40 end 10:10 pm. Metropolitan—"The Singing rine,” Dick Powell's latest musical, at 11:10 am, 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. | Columbia—""The Emperor's Candle- eticks,” espionage. adventure and ro- mance, at 11:15 am, 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, %:40 and 9:45 pm. Rialto—“Elephant Boy,” film trans- lation of another Kipling story, for children and everybody elephant- minded, at 11:50 a.m., 1:50, 3:50, 5:45, %:50 and 9:, Bette Davis Stricken. o213 . Frank MORGAN e @ Jean-ARTHUR Edward ARNOLD T . POWELL-Luise RAINER in “Th Mr. MacArthur—you said “—LOOK AT IT:'" S Fteld Gorev’/ Ballroom < Tues. and Thurs. from Rt o 11 rates for Summer Tap, healt Ber mo : private revival of the dla-v:;;»:f’ l|I M Thomas Circl tribe against mob rule, at 11:30 8., | 4 seno0 with o National Reputation 1:35, 3: :40, 7:40 and 9:45 pm. h (Over 10,000 Pupils in U. S.) Trans-Lux—News and shorts. Show s 8 . rins T hour ana 15 i, wor:| _Don Martini Studios tinuous from 10 a.m. until midnight. | Those who dance interestingly never need s worry about their popularity. Ambassatlon= Night “Muse B8E"H i foxtrot, tongs, runiba; tap. o en e meee L G Beginners Advanced [ ow Rates! Penn—*Another Dawn.” Kay Fran-| Air-Conditioned! ‘Ul "0 €is and a triangle in the dsert, at 2:35,{ 1811 H St. N.W. Private Lessons 4:25, 6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 p.m. “Don Martini conducts this branch.” WARNER BROS STARTS TOMORROW <o« . She Blasted A Town Wide Open To Prove SHe Could Take Love On Her Own Terms ! gud Mac Murnay CLUSIVE’ A PARAMOUNT PICTURE WITH FRANCES Javmer ‘R CHARLIE LLOYD NOLAN Lovers . . . shanghaied aboard a ship whose decks were stained with innocent blood . . . whose next port-of-call was DOOM! The Dance Favorites GINE, DE QUINCEY & LEWIS STEVE_EVANS BROWN & AMES . A LIAZEED TROUPE L Hard-fisted, soft-hearted scalawag of the sea who muunied for the FUN of 1! Beery at his greatest! 2 ELIZABETH ALLAN .+« Her love for Warner Baxter led to the strangest romance ever lived! 1 WARNER BAXTER . Capt of the last slaver afloat, who lied 10 the girl he loved to hide the black curse of his past! 4 MICKEY ROONEY .. Cabin boy and imp of mis- chief ... who betrayed the betrayers of the cap- wain he adored! o« SLOT MACHINE RACKET Exposed For First Time! KING OF (Czar of Slot-Machines) ‘ ‘ ”B l ’” »y A Paramount Picture CLAIRE TREVOR + LLOYD NOLAN AKIM TAMIROFF - LARRY CRABBE 5 JOSEPH SCHILD- KRAUT . . . Dealer in human souls . hunted by the world and haunted by the gallows' GEORGE SANDERS - JANE DARWELL - JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT ARTHUR HOHL* MINNA GOMBELL* BILLY BEVAN * J.Farrell MACDONALD FRANCIS FORD « PAUL HURST - HOLMES HERBERT « EDWIN MAXWELL Directed by TAY GARNETT -+ Associste Producer Nunnally Johnson « Based on- a Novel by George S. King + DARRYL F. ZANUCK Io Charge of Production Plus on Stage: JESSE CRAWFORD AND HIS ORCHESTRA GUY ROBERTSON e OTHER ACTS Starts FRIDAY at Loew’s CAPITOL 4 b