Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1937, Page 57

AMUSEMENTS. Little People -of Pictures Pick Favorites Among Stars William Powell, Gary Cooper, Marion Davies and Myrna Loy Chosen as the Quartet Easiest to Work With. By Jay Carmody. HE little people of the movies, the extras, have some definite ideas about the big people of the movies, tI he stars. One of these, in which the public might reasonably have an interest, is just which of the stars rates as the most friendly and considerate in the eyes of the subordinate players. own. do press agents and critics. It was recognition of the distinc- tiveness of the extra's viewpoint which impelled Jock Lawrence recently to conduct & popularity contest concern- ing the stars among 34 extra girls who | have played in pictures with virtually all of the brighter lights of Hollywood. And, to keep you waiting no longer (If you've been waiting), William | Powell and Gary Cooper led the list of big people with whom the little peo- ple liked to work. That is to say, they | led 50 far as male stars were concerned. | ‘Topping the list among the women was Marion Davies, with Myrna Loy in| second place. As for the men, five gitls voted each | for Powell and Cooper. Paul Muni was the choice of three while Tyrone Power, Clark Gable, Fredric March, Eddie| Cantor, Warner Baxter and James! Cagney got two votes each. Victor | McLaglen, Ronald Colman and John Boles had a single supporter each. Six | of the girls eligible to vote decided | they could not decide. Among the women, Miss Davies (who also was selected as the most | charitable person among the stars,| whatever ‘“‘charitable” means to an| extra) was far in the lead with 16 votes. Miss Loy Was runner-up with five. Others voted upon, from three down (0 one ballot, were Rosalind Rus- sell. Kay Francis, May Robson, Jean Parker, Una Merkel, Barbara Stan-| wyck and Bette Davis. e girls who did the balloting were cavtioned against naming personal fa- | | vorites; told to consider only “demo- | cratic friendliness.” * o ok 7THE National Theater still lacks those new seats which are going make customers supercomfortable | imn, but already the pleas- int of the legitimate is in the osphere. So far as this depart- | ment is concerned, it drifted out of | an envelope from Charles Washburn to | | The extra gets a close-up of the stellar figures which s peculiarly his Not even the camera can equal it. from an entirely different angle. Soss Fentur:d plnyerx see the prlnclplls just yesterday. Mr. Washburn is the agile gentleman who keeps the world, especially the press, informed of the doings of George Abbott. His elfin piece, full of optimism and adjectives, points out that the Abbott road season is going to open early this year and that Washington will be right behind Boston in the sched- ule for “Brother Rat.” So far, the play is booked as the first of the local season, opening September 13. There | are hints, however, of an August 14 opening, which sounds like a movie. Could it be Paramount's “High, Wide and Handsome," Pennsylvania oil boom in terms of | Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott? Incidentally, as was anticipated, Washington legitimate followers (that would be the National's audience) have accepted with apparent complete understanding the theater's new policy with regard to gallery seats. Under that policy, there will be no more season reservations of seats in | the second balcony. The decision was not a hasty one, the theater's management took care to | but was | assure applicants for seats, arrived at after careful consideration of all factors involved. The greatest good of the greatest number could be served, it was con- cluded, if the seats were reservable on a show-to-show basis, giving every theater enthusiast in the lower price bracket a more even opporrunm * % x STELLA ADLER may mve been one | legitimate | of the 10 foremost Aactresses in the country, but that did not prevent Hollywood from changing her name when she signed a picture contract. From now on Miss Adier is to be Stella Ardler. It is one of those things which seems incompre- hensible, but for which its sponsors undoubtedly have 22 ready justifi- cations. Hollywood | A Haven for: Specialists| Artists of Odd Jobs| Abound on the Movie Lots. OLLYWOOD.—This is the age | specialists and certainly city is their haven. Here, as nowhere else on earth, need arices for work that has never been | before and those who can create | | stroyed 1n scenes. ‘The list of spe- cialists seems endless. A nice, quiet vacation is hard for star to achieve. Clark Gable hoped for one when he left Hollywood by car to hunt on a ranch in Montana. He was two days late in getting there. At Brigham City, Utah, he lost a half-day when he stopped for lunch. Within 10 minutes there was a three- | block traffic jam around the hotel, | with more than 300 persons there to shake his hand. When he left town & motor caravan followed him for miles. Word of his trip was relayed ahead of him and everywhere he stopped he lost hours. Now he is hunting. No longer is it surprising news when a brother, sister or relative of an established player finds himself thrust into pictures. Latest is James r own specialtiss are in demand A brief trip through the Metro- | Goldwyn-Mever studios proves the | point { In a set representing William PPV\-‘ ell's garret studio, a man is maklr‘..‘ n cobwebs - with an odd-looking gu In 30 seconds he creates more of rubber than nature can form in a month | Harold Turburg works on the “Broad- | way Mclody of 1938" set. He gal- vanizes transparent silk costumes chorines wear when they rip them— for the material cannot be sewed. Up in the wardrobe department is A& group of women from Guadalajara, Mexico, with magic in their fingers. They do nothing but sew beads on | costumes and made a dress for Joan Crawford overnight Moving casually around the lot is ‘Tom Ellerton, He carries a long- handled magnet, gathering up thou- #ands of nails dropped by set builders. | A man with a wheelbarrow rollows\ him. Lunch in the M-G-M cafe and you'll see Floyd Wittenberg. When some one is wanted in the cafe he answers the call and, quietly spotting the individual wanted, goes to that person and plugs a connection into the near- est spot. These are only a few. One may point to Myrtle Manning, who keeps a catalogue file of mustaches and beards in the make-up department; a | wardrobe worker who does nothing but sew feathers on costumes; a man who eliminates squeaks from sound stage floors; & man who bleaches animal bones to dress sets; those who paint pictures which are to be de- | Cana Ameche, brother of Don, who has been signed by Paramount for a lead- ! ing role in “Ensenada,” with Ray Mlllan{! and Dorothy Lamour. Bruce Cabot, who heads the cast of “Black Lightning." is veritably the “man who dies for a living." He has | risen to fame as a villain who always | dies in the final reel. How does he die? In “Roadhouse Murder” he was stabbed; poison took him off in “Murder on the Blackboard"; bullets riddled him in “Let 'Em Have It"; a tommahawk finished him in “Last of the Mohicans™; a machine gun did its work in “Show Them No Mercy.” In “Black Lightning” he is electrocuted. Two more stars are to enact his- torically famous characters on the creen. Leslie Howard will play the title role in “Lawrence of Arabia,” in London, for Alexander Korda. Claude Rains will be Maj. Gen. Gorgas, whose fight against yellow fever made pos- sible the building of the Panama Ca- | {nal, in a picture called “Panama Few stand-ins—those who stand in front of bright lights while camera- men prepare for a scene—have become actresses in their own right. How- ever the charm seems to have been broken recently by Jean Chatburn, for- merly stand-in for Barbara Stanwyck, and Virginia Grey, once Florence | Rice's stand-in. Both now are fea- tured players. Luise Rainer's stand- in, Dorothy Hoffman, has just been slkn!d by M-G-M and given a part in | “Big City.” Now Franchot Tone is| grooming Bob Davis, his stand-in, for a career. Those Dletrlch Stllls FTER developing a plate in the Paramount studio’s dark room early last week, Don English reflected for a moment, then clapped on his hat, walked up and down in the balmy sunshine and gave | himself a half-hour holiday. He was celebrating the ten-thousandth time he had photographed Marlene Diet- rich. An occasion like this, being unique, deserves some appropriate comment. Harry Cottrell, head of the photo department, which prints off a million ©Or 80 pictures a year, responded with: “So what? Stars have got to be photographed, and somebody has to photograph them.” English, pressed for a bright re- mark, gave this: “The first 10,000 times are the hardest.” He hasn’t any recipe to give for his success. He just pushes into the set when the movie camera isn't turning, sets up his tripod and lens box, and points it at Miss Dietrich. He knows what's wanted, and so does she. The diva reclines in her chair, automati- cally, three-quarters face, and English presses the bulb. He takes her singly most of the time, and other times with Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Doug- las or Ernst Lubitsch, who is direct- ing them in “Angel.” When they are acting, he relaxes in 8 chair, and when they let up, or the luhm are being changed, he jumps up to business again—and always gets the same effects. He has been getting the unique Dietrich effect for the last five years. Fifteen thousand papers, from the Jiji Shimbun (Tokio) to the Novoe Vremya (Petrograd) and the London Times, run his Dietrich por- traits. ‘There must be a trick to his style, though he can't make out what it is, for despite the mechanical job of | squeezing a rubber bulb and dipping a plate in chemicals, a lot of glamour, chic and individuality somehow get in. Miss Dietrich is an exponent of these qualities, however, and that ex- | Plains much. But. many photographers have tried it without any luck. Miss Dietrich won't have any other still man around, if English is avail- able. Neither will Mae West nor Car- ole Lombard. His worst nightmare comes when he dreams of all three | acting the same time at Paramount. English is the perfect camera por- traitist, but imperfect as to type. He | should be tall, wan and poetic, with long hair and a flowing tie. But he is short, athletic, vigorous, and wears no tie at all. He planks his tripod down, and drags it away with the nonchalance, blank face and drooping cigarette of a hard-boiled newspaper photographer, which he was for sev- eral vears. For diversion, he wrestles or plays golf, and he does both with profes- sional skill. Apart from that, he reads books on optics and dark-room chem- istry. Last year he took 500 photographs of Carole Lombard inside of six weeks. Then he took one of W. C. Fields, a fast, routine snapshot, without think- ing very much. “Good heavens,” said Fields when he saw the photograph. “Do I look 50 ladylike?” (Did W. C. really say “Good heavens”?—Ed.) This unnerved English for a mo- ment, and he thought he had got into a rut. So for a week he did nothing but photograph craggy-looking males like Henry Wilcoxin, Harry Carey and Frank Lioyd, and escaped from the thrall of the glamorous effect. which deals with the | THE SUNDAY . Winning much pvmv for teamed with him in Keith's Theater Wednesda feminine role in “Exclus ner | Attractions Downtown Theaters * Book Films for Next Week. APITOL—"Topper.” sion of Smith a film ver- the roaring Thorne comedy, with Con- stance Bennett and Cary Grant disappearing and reappearing right before your cyes and with Roland Young b-ing completely m ed by it all. There's to be a varicty stage ) show on the program starting Fri- day, too. headlined by Gus Arnheim and his orchestra. Keith’s— The Toast of New York." with Edward Arnold portraving an- other character out of the history of Am indvstrial growth, Jim Fi: Frances Farmer is his leading lady and Jack Caki» and Cary Gran: also are about. Opens Wednesday night. ion's Earle—Pat O’'Brien’s latest the books for noxt Fr.day here. Title is “San Quentin” and the cast in- cludes Humphrey Bozart, Barton Mac- Lane and Ann Sheridan. The stage show will b> headlined by Mal Hallett and his orchestra. There'll be songs by Teddy Grace and Dancers Francis and Carroll and Don Cummings and the Titan Trio are among the other entertainers. is on Palace—"The Good Earth slated for showing here, as “Saratoga” completes its extended run. The adaptation of the Pearl Buck novel is considered already one of the year's best films. you know, and it stars Luise Rainer and Paul Muni. till is soon as Metropolitan—"“Ever Since Ev Marion Davies' newest comedy effort, | moves here Friday for a sccond week | downtown. Robert Montgomery, | Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenkins and Frank McHugh are in the supporting cast. Columbia—Another week for “Easy | Living,” too, beginning Friday. The | |gay and mad comedy has Edward | | Arnold, Jean Arthur and Ray Mil- | land as its stars and it is reported | considerable fun. | | . Extra Festival. USTIN HUNTLEY McCARTHY'S “If 1T were King” will be pre- | sented by the Blackfriers Guild, aug- | mented by out-of-town players at- tending the drama insttute of Cath- | olic University, as the eighth Sum- mer Festival of the season, a special event arranged for Thursday night at the Sylvan Theater. The play has been directed by the Rev. Urban Nagle, O. P. Local members of the cast are Austin Gat- tis, Margaret Mary Edmonston, Cath- erine Knocky, Gordon Potter, Jack | Hurley, William Tobin, Loren Freund, Leo Brady, Edgar Kloten, Gaynor Bentz, Edgar Ford and Adah May Brady. Among the out-of-town players are Frances Mohan of Minneapolis, Doro- thy Flynn of Columbus, Ohio; Virginia Connell of Toledo, Ohio; Joseph Hun- ter of New York City, Beatrice Prince of Portland, Oreg.; Mary Murray of Baltimore, Prances Young of Chicago, Mrs. D. S. Blocker of Columbus, Ohio and Harry Quirk of Providence, R. I B B Qe P Dancers at Sylvan. LISA GARDINER and her dancers | and the Marine Band, conducted | by Capt. Taylor Branson, share honors on the seventh Summer Festival pro- gram of the season, to be presented Tuesday night at 7:45 o'clock at the Sylvan Theater. The dance program Miss Gardi- | ner has arranged is a varied one, Wwith a number of colorful selections, including DeBussy's “Arabesque” and the Yaqui Dance by Alvarez. Mary Day, Ann Vucinovich, Eleanor Gatch, Lora Wills, Alice Louise Hunter and Marian Wolberg are among the danc- ers who will assist Miss Gardiner. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 1, Another Hollywood Star In less than a year Frances Farmer has risen from screen obscurity to virtual stardom. “‘The Toast of New 1/ mqht " the ]ealme fllm allrm tion at the Earle Theater. 19, Is on the Rise work with Edward Arnold in “Come and Get It,” she again is York,” story of the life of Jim Fiske, which comes to Miss Farmer also may be seen this week in the leading l 37—PART FOUR. Film Casting By Harold makers today selected from a I These “lucky 13," Newspaper Alliance and The Evening St of the leading film studios, who see in the screen. This was the first of an % annual selection to be made by the production officials, Acting as the committee for the flim companies were Fred Datig of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Joseph Egli of Cecil B. De Mille Productions; Rob- ert Palmer of R. K. O.; Robert Mayo of Columbia, Lew Schreiber of Twen- tieth Century-Fox, Max Arno of War- ner Brothers-First National, Charles Richards of Sleznick-International, Robert McIntyre of Samuel Goldwyn | Studios, and Dan Kelley of Universal. No casting official was permitted to select starlets from his own studio and was given two weeks in which to study tests and performances by the candi- dates from rival companies. The “lucky 13" who are to be groomed for stardom during the film | season, which starts this week, are: Mary Maguire, Jane Bryan, Mary Rus- sell, Jacqueline Wells, Phyllis Brooks, Betty Jaynes, Helen Troy, Olympe | Branda, Barbara Read, Joan Wood- bury, Sigrid Gurie, Franciska Gaal and Margaret Tallichet. Years ago the Wampas, an organi- zation of Hollvwood studio publicists, inaugurated the baby-star selection and picked such stars-to-be as Joan Crawford, Clara Bow, Dolores Del Rio, | Mary Brian, Jean Arthur, Frances DN, Carole Lombard and Lupe Velez. As Select 13 Baby Stars Committee of Directors Makes List of Screen Performers Who Are Likely to Be Heard From in the Coming Movie Season. OLLYWOOD, July 31.—Carrying on the idea originally sponsored by the Wampas, and discarded for years, Hollywood's motion picture named at the instance of the North American AMUSEMENTS. Leaders Hefferman. ist of 450 their 13 baby stars for 1938. ar, were chosen by the casting directors mu &roup of girls the future stars of dramatic career in Jean Muir’s Little Theater. Has appeared in “Kid Gala- | had” and “Confession.” Under con- tract to Warner Bros. Phyllis Brooks, 23 years old, used to model for McClelland Barclay, Bradshaw Crandall matic experience was with Laguns Beach Players and first cast in movies as one of the “Three Smart Girls" starring Deanna Durbin. Under cone tract to Universal. ARY RUSSELL, 23 years old, is from Oskaloosa, Towa, and used to be Mary Marcia von Kalbach. Edu= cated at Piedmont, Calif, High School and a graduate of the Univers sity of California, she later becamea “accessory adviser and wedding coun- selor” at a San Francisco department store. Plaved in stock cn Western Coast and did the picture, “Park Avee nue Dame,” for Columbia. Jacqueline Wells, 23 years old, is a native daughter of Denver. Her thea- trical training was as a dancer with Theodore Kosloff and she became a well-known child actress. Recently had a role with Otto Kruger in Co- | lumbia’s “Counsel for Crime." Franciska Gaal, 25 years old. was born in Budapest, and got her training at the Hungarian State Stage Acad- emy. Played with Helen Hayes in ‘Victoria Regina” in New York and Gatta, and is a native daughter of Boise, Idaho. Lived also in Chicago, St. Paul, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee and New York, attending private | M‘hml in Westchester. Signed acting | contract with Universal, refused to | remain and returned to New York for | the play “Stage Door.” Twentieth Century-Fox signed her. She has just completed “You Can't Have Everything.” Sigrid Gurie, 23 years old, discov- | ered in London by Samuel Goldwyn and refused to come to Hollywood. Changed her mind later and got role, her first in movies, with Gary Cooper in “The Adventures of Marco Polo." Born in Oslo, Norwa | to Goldwyn Studio. Helen Troy, 27 years old and moth- er of two children, is & radio star, but | Born | moved to Traverse City, Mich., and later Helen got a job as a Detroit theater organist. Played Sally on the “Sally and Cecil” radio program. Got the years want on, the Wampas star- let stunt became a battle of political maneuvering, with publicists swapping votes. Then, four years ago, the | Wampas was abandoned and with it went the widely discussed baby star election Paramount attempted to revive it and named its own proteges, but that idea lasted only a year or two. paper promised simi New High in Villainy. ‘ Romerm-: villains have been no- | torious for their flendish modes | of torturing their victims. In last S mmer’s “Among the Moonshiners.” audiences beleved they had witnessed the ultimate—a villain who fed the | hero on salt mackerel and no water! | But they haven't seen anything yot! | For in “The Haunted Mill,” opening | Monday, August 9. there is a pleasant :(hap who pours small doses of poison | down the throat of his unwilling wife !and keeps her a prisoner in an old mill! It would not satisfy him to give her the whole bottle at once—no, he must dot it gradually! This Squire Corrigan can join William Corder, Lawyer Cribbs, George Drake, Richard Knatch- bull and William Mosby — black- hearted menaces of other old-time Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall on “mellers” at Roadside—in the thor- | the 10 am. and 2 p.m. trips. with a cughness and variety of his villainy. | SPecial 40-mile sunset cru'se every day For while he is poisoning his wife, he At 5:30 pm. The moonlight cruise, is seeking to force the heroine to marry him or be cast into the streets (he holds the mortgage), he plots to rid | himself of his partner in crime, and he finally kidnaps the girl! | As in all good melodramas, the forces of good are more than. equal to the villainy. There is Jack Dalton, a brave young American who has won the heart of the beauciful Irish col- leen: there is a Seotland Yard de- tective, and there is the inevitable Irish | comedian who, in his blundering wa manages to be at the right place the right time! “The Haunted Mill" was penned by Bernard Francis Moore. Today’s Film Schedule CAPITOL — “Slave Ship,” the last slaver goes down to sea on a wave of melodrama, at 2, 4:35,7:25 and 10:10 pm. Stage shows at 3:40, 6:25 and 9:15 pm. EARLE —"Exclusive.” drama in a newspaper city room, at 2, 4:40, 7:25 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows at 4, 6:45 and 9:10 p.m. PALACE—"Saratoga,” Jean Har- low’s last picture, at 2, 3:40, 5:40, 7:35 and 9:35 p.m. METROPOLITAN — “King of Gamblers,” the slot machine racket gets its due, at 2, 3:55, 6:55, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m. RIALTO — “Dreaming Lips Hlisabeth Bergner's latest cinema enterprise, at 2, 4, 6, 8:10 and 10°20 p.m. COLUMBIA—"A Day at the Races,” the mad Marxes at their maddest, at 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40 p.m. KEITH'S — “The Road Back,” post - armistice Germany, at 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 pm. LITTLE—"“Maedchen in Uni- form,” another popular film re- vived, at 2:35, 4:25, 6:15, 8:05 and 9:65 p.m. TRANS-LUX—News and shorts. Show runs 1 hour and 15 min- utes, continuous from 2 p.m. Outdoor Amusements Moonlight Cruises and Parks Offer Heat Relief. ON LINE—The last week has been a record one for Sunday school, fraternal ings at Marshall steamer City of Washington makes four round trips daily, stopping at Hall Park. The directed by 8:30 o'clock. Sammy Marks, sails st Glen Echo Park—There are capacity crowds on hand here, t00, these warm days, with more than 50 amusement park diversions about to take your mind off the weather or anything else that's bothering it. The Crystal Pool is open from 9:30 1n the morning until 11:30 o'clock at night, and for sun- bathers there’s a sand beach adjoin- ing. Dancing in the Spanish Garden Ball Room every week night is to music by Dave McWilliams' Orchestra Seaside Park—The Saturday night beauty contests still hold the spotlight at this popular resort. There are cash prizes for the winner and runner-up and at the end of the season the weekly winners wiil complete for the | grand prize. Swimming at Seaside is in salt water, either in the pool or in }lhe bay. There's dancing, 100, in the | breeze-swept pavilion overlooking the | Chesapeake Bay. seekers after heat relief and with | people who don't care about the weather but just want to dance are| the moonlight cruises on the steamer | Potomac. and his Night Hawks. Opera House. BECAUSE Hollywood has no opera house that resembles those of South American cities, an opera house complete with a golden horse-shoe and tiers of boxes was built for Grace Moore's new Columbia starring pic- ture, “I'll Take Romarice,” in which Melvyn Douglas appears opposite the singing _star. o= _—_— TRANS-LUX 500 News, Battling Bettas, Cartoon, etc. iricass SHORT SUBJECTS SHECTD Mon. Throuch Thurs. Aug. THE CROSS ROADS TNEATEI THE GHOST TRAIN tn Stc. on sle at bex ofce. Drive ever Linceln Memortat Bridee. varn lett at Cemeters, straicht te ¢ right; Straight to Bailey’s Cross Roads. Barn is 13 sqware to left. From Vienna. ROSE STRADNER, screen’s newest European discovery, has arrived in Hollywood to start a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Viennese actress and Luise Rainer appeared to- gether early in their careers at the Folks Th T in Vien THEATRE PARKING 6 P.M. TO 35‘, 1AM. CAPITAL GARAGE 355/ # 31t ~MOONLIGHT CRUISES DANC ES RIDES oy oMM oR aLew Ecko STREET CARS 40 M) —on TOR MAse AvE 'on conouIT ROAD "IN TEs. 3 hour cruise on S. S. POTOMAGC LEAVES 8:4 ie Bernie wk ". e “hwing 71 years of buying, selling and lending ondiamonds, jeyelry, etc. Libera) Leans at Lowest Possible Rates CASH FOR OLD GOLD lOoumncm License) Ratall Store o m-‘ Alex.. ze BEER "GARDE] Dining IC sunun & Holidays, 75c COLONIAI, BEACR Trips Every Sunday ‘The dancers will be sccompanied by Edith H. Huntes. 1215 H St. N.W, E. HEIDENHEIMER Eotablished 1868 TOMAC RIVER LINE A and civic organization out- | featuring music by a Sidney Orchestra | Potomac River Line—Popular with | The boat sails nightly at| | 8:45 and the music is by Bernie Jarboe | years to come. the “lucky 13": | Olympe Branda, 16 vears old, started her stage career at 18 months in an equestrian act in Paris, where she was born. She has been in scores of musical shows in Europe and in New | York. and on the screen has been seen | in “Three Cheers for Love. Holiday" Madrid.” A future appearance will be in “Souls at Sea.” Under contract to | Paramount. Margaret Tallichet, 21 years old, born in Dallas, Tex, and was picked | from a studio secretarial desk for an acting career. Educated at Hockaday School, Dallas; Southwestern Univer- sity at Memphis and Southern Meth- odist University; once society editor of a Dallas paper, and got her first start in “A Star Is Born.” Under contract to Selznick-International Joan Woodbury, 22 years old, was born in Los Angeles and educated in a San Francisco convent. | been seen in “Anthony Adverse, | “Rogue’s Tavern,” “Fighting Cowar “Here Comes Trouble” and “There Goes My Girl.” Under contract to R-K-O. \1ARY MAGUIRE, 17 years old.v came to Hollywood on an Aus- tralian packet. Terese Maguire. Real name is Helene | Born in Melbourne. Father was welterweight champion of | Australia. Mary was educated in con- vents, began professional career at 12 | Last picture was “Confession.” Kay Francis. Under contract to War- ner Bros. H n. 19 years old. a Holly- wood native daughter. Started her | 9th St Adove G Opens130P M BERGNER DREATIING LIPS cthe . ¥1SH rROM HELL TURA s SHARK - WHALE :SWORDFISH- ~_-0CTOPUS v MAN - E=rm hojj KEITH'S ERIC REMARQUE'S MOMENTOUS “THE ROAD BACK” Starting WEDNESDAY Night Aug. 4th Opening With & GILDED AGE PREMIERE he TOAST of NEW YORK™ - STARRING HECARY GRANT @ FRANCES FARMER SAUACK OAKIE aad EBWARD ARNOLD ZO-—4-0DZ0OoA »=-—> Washington's Playground on the Potemae River lfllll IGUND TIlPS IMILY DAI".! IOUNI'I |5fl TRIPS—ADULTS HE Casting Director Committee as- | sisted the North American News- | Alliance and The Star in mak- | ing this year's selection of starlets and | r co-operation in mei Here are some pertinent facis about | She has | with | her best break as the gabby phone girl in “Born to Dance,” for M. G. M., Wwhere's she's under contract. Betty Janes, 16 years old, was born in Chicago, living at various times | in St. Louis, Buffalo, Grand Rapids | and Miami as Betty Schultz. She's a ! Phi Beta from Chicago University, and is a singer. Under contract to M-G-M. Barbara Read, 20 years old, is a na- tive of Port Arthur, Canada. Dra- Warner Brov fred Frances_Charie MacMurray” Famer Ruggles inP lxctll.flrf Also Gala Stage Shew DOORS OPEN 1:30 METRGPOLITAN "KING OF GAMBLERS' A Parameunt Pucture With AN TAMROFF CLARE TREVOR + LL0YD NOUMN “College | and “The Last Train From | | | | I "SONG OF THL CITY 2 Wit ARGARET LINDSAY DEAN J. CARROL NAISH PENDLETON LEE TRACY in }"BEHIND THE HEADLINE"” Vith DIANA GIBSON nd N. C. Ave SE CAROLINA o A chndionea “HAP- WEST POINT OF THE AIR ' ar PY GO LUCKY r Mirrophonic Sound CIRCLE “ms. Are R Vatinees Tues.. Thu RK GABLE MYRNA LOY PARNELL" wo-Hour Show. No Shorts DU DUMBARTON 1343 wiconsin e WALLAC! GOSH o wnx FAIRLAWN JACK HALEY “PICK A STAR |LIDO 3227 M St N.W. Double Feature. “MAN OF with JOSEPH COLLINS RIC] d “SWEETHEARTS OF THE NA th FRCE RN OCECEEIA © PARKER, News. T GOX_9th N.W. LITTLE Alr-Conditioned. “MAEDCHEN UNIFORM.” NEWTON “PICK_A STAR. HALEY. Also and News and Comedy: ANACOSTIA. D_C. Air_Conditioned AND PATSY KELLY. 12th & Newton Sts. N. Air-Conditiened PATSY KELLY. JACK “Servant of the People." PRINCESS 'yies,® st ne BING CROSBY in "“WAIKIKI WEDDING " HAL ROACH COMEDY. “NOBODY'S BABY wiih PATSY KELLY. LYDIA ROBER' Sl SECO Matinee “SHALL WE DANCE?” FRED ASTAIRE. GINGER ROGER: STANTON #1065 %208 Eimment Continuous Prom “:00 PM. JEAN HARLOW and ROBERT TAYLOR in “PERSONAL PROPERTY.” “S8INS OF CHILDREN ' with ERIC LINDEN and CECELIA PARKER | TAKOMA %2 it Battepnut s Continuous From *:00 P.M. CHARLES RUGGLES “TURN OFF THE MOON.” Selected Bhortium:cu. ¥ Wl HIPPODROME ¥ = *® Continuous 2 to 1 SIMONE SIMON in “SEVENTH HEAVEN.” K CRILDREN, ROUND TRIPS New Rides—Free Pk-k or Free Admission to KIDDIES’ DAYS Rvery Monday & Friday—Reduced Rates on Boats and Marshall Hall ( MT. VERNQN | ™o lllllwlln TRIPS DAILY M-us Soe—Chlldren 25-» Admission te M@@NLIGHT d Trie Cruise ™! NRN(y/8.09 A S0e—Child: Ead Slwlll’ and Ilollll'! kL CAMEO ™~ RAINIER, MD, Continuous 2 to 11 P.M. Clark Gable-Myrna Loy in “PARNELL.” ARCADE ZxATisymir wn LAUREL AND HARDY __in “PICK A STAR.” RICHMOND Al.rxAann VA, WILL ROGERS “DR. BULL.” ) ALEXANDRIA_V u REED_ _ A%mee Rl WM. P WELL LUISE RAINER in ‘Emperor’sCandlesticks.” .I.Sfl'l AANGIS 40 NOI.I.I)I-DIIG ROCKVILLE, MD. MlL()Conlimlmu 2 to 11 P.M. Bob Burns-Martha Raye in “MOUNTAIN MUSIC.” Air-Conditioned Pres Parking. () and John La | Scout for | Under contract | began in a small way in Hollywood. | in San Francisco, her family | has had notable European theater ca- | reer. Played in foreign films and was | given role recently in Cecil B. De Mille's new production, “The Buccae neer.’ Those are your baby stars for 1928— the lucky 13—as chosen by the casting | heads of Hollywood, the men who are paid well—very well—for their ability 10 pick talent. They haven't been very wrong in the past, so check up one | year hence and see how many of their | “lucky 13" selections go over the top. (Copyright, 1037, by the North Amarican Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) | 1t's always CO O L at Locu's “WHERE YOUR COMFORT IS | umu WARNER BAXTER WALLACE BEERY in | MICKEY ROONEY ELIZABETH ALLEN ON THE STAGE JESSE CRAWFORD end his ORCHESTRA Back Agarw..he most discussed picture of the year PRum montAn - UnA MEmO WALTER PSOERDR 6970 Wis, Are, STATE-BETHESDA Bethesda' Md.’ ROBERT TAYLOR and JEAN HARLOW in “PERSONAL PROPERTY."” COMEDY A} D EWS. " | AMBASSADOR & & 44 pofd yOI- 5505 MUR and FRANCES LUSIVE RED FARMER 621 H St. N Phone Line. 3 M P APOLLO ) MYRNA un and CLARK GABLE {n NELL, ckey_Mouse Conn. 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