Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1937, Page 38

B—16 #x» AMUSEMENTS. And Now Mischa Auer Turns to the Dance Comic, Who Has Based His Humor On Music, to Tango With Madeleine Carroll. BY HARRY MacARTHUR, best look to theiwr laurels. \Y the year. ELOZ and Yolande and some of the other topnotch dance teams had In a fine terpsichorean frenzy Hollywood has now created a dance duo that may well become the sensation of Miss Madeleine Carroll, advance reports would have you know, dances a tango in “It’s All Yours,” coming ‘to the Earle Friday. Nice, perhaps, but why sensational Mr. Mischa Auer. And whatever sort of a picture “It's All Yours” turns out to be, we maintain that a tahgo danced by Miss Madeleine Carroll and Mr. Mischa Auer is bound to be & sensation. 'This business of the tango may not be the brightest item of news in the paper today, but you never saw a desk barer of bright items of news on a sunny Sunday afternoon than this one was yesterday. But this di- gression gets us farther and farther away from Mischa Auer, the fellow who started all this. (Now you know whom to blame.) Mr. Auer, in taking up the dance, transfers his comic spirit from one classic art form to another. He used to base it on music, being a sort of one-man musical comedy, you might say. The sad-eyed Russian actor had infrequent chances to be funny when he first came to Hollywood until he was allowed to forsake villain roles to become the temperamental piano player in “Delicious,” a musical by the late George Gershwin. They laughed when Mr. Auer sat down at the piano. They (being all the citizens who attended the cinema) have been laughing ever since when- ever Mr. .Auer has sat down at a piano. His biggest break was as the pampered pianist in “My Man God- frey,” and audiences had a chance to roar with glee, not only when he sat down at a piano, but when he hung from the chandelier, a routine Auer fans will not soon forget. Mischa ‘was the musical comedy in the two Lily Pons pictures, too, “I Dream Too Much” and “That Girl From Paris.” Now, in Deanna Durbin's “100 Men and a Gurl,” at Keith's, the one-time | refugee from the Russian revolution | adds impersonating a flutist to his | ivory-banging comedy career. He| plays the flute in this picture, how- ever, only when the cameras are turned on Mr. Leopold Stokowski's orchestra, Mr. Stokowski having felt Where and When Current Theater Attraction: and Time of Showing. National—"Brother Rat,” at 8:30 | pm. Earle—"Varsity Show,” new Dick! Powell musical: 10:30 a.n., 1:20, 4:10, | 7 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows: 12:35, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:10 pm. Keith’s—"100 Men and a Girl” musical with Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski: 11:50 am., 1:50, 3:30 5:30, 7:50 and 9:50 p.m. Capitol—"Wife, Doctor and Nurse,” | & new version of the eternal triangle: 11 am, 1:35, 4:25, 7:10 and 10 p.m. Stage shows: 12:35, 3:25, 6:10 and 9 pm. Palace—"Stella Dallas,” Samuel Gokdwyn's new film telling of the well- known story: 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, | 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Columbia—"“Wee Willie Winkie,” Shirley Temple in the Kipling yarn: 11:15 am, 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:45 pm. Metropolitan—Lost Horizon,” James Hilton's novel brought to the screen magnificently: 10:30 a.m., 12:40, 2:55, | 5:10, 7:30 and 9:45 pm. Trans-Lux—News and shorts. Show | runs 1 hour and 15 minutes, contin- | uous from 10 a.m. until midnight. Rialto—"Invitation to a Waltz,” Viennese operetta: 11:20, 1:55, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:55 p.m. “M,” psychological | study of horror: 12:50, 3:25, 6 and 8:40 p.m. Little—"“Winterset,” motion picture | version of Maxwell Anderson’s power- | ful play: 11 am., 12:50, 2:40, 4:30, | %:20, 8:10 and 10 p.m. Ambassador—"Varsity 7:10 and 9:30 pm. Shi “The Toast of h'( w and colorful biography of Jim Fiske: 2:30, 4:50, 7:15 and| 9:35 pm | Tivoli—"“The Good Earth,” superb Show”: 8, you ask? this tango to end all tangos will bes New | [N! screen translation of Pearl Buck's novel: 2, 4:25, 6:50 and 9:25 p.m. Uptown—"The Good Earth:” 2:10, 4:45, 7:05 and 9:40 pm Howard—"Damaged Souls”: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 and 10:30 p.m. Stage shows: 1:30, 4, 6:30 and 9:15 p.m. Roadside—"“Murder in the Red Barn,” the Summer theater group's | most successful melodrama revived: | 8:30 p.m. " THEATRE PARKING 6P.M. TO 3 5 c 1AM. CAPITAL GARAGE 21,3, % ¥ Briggs Paint Store 1107 9th St. N.W. ME. 2338 HUFNAGEL COAL CO. Your Bin at No Extra Charge. PA. BLACK DIAMOND—Bitu- minous Hard Strueture Light Smoke; Egs Size, % $6.90. MARYL Bituminous SMOKE! Coal withouf ize, S8 POCAHONTA! Smokeless; no . low ash, highest grade bitu- minous Size $10.65: Stove, s 60, 'A. HARD COALS. All Sizes of Gold Nugget Anthracit Lump and Fi rately. All thoroughly secreened and guaranteed. We Deliver 1i-Ton Orders. Dial NA. 5885 or Jackson 2000 ORDERS TAKEN DAY OR NIGHT Aha, but Miss Carroll's partner in “Brother Rat” To Open Season “BROTHER RAT,” the George Abbott - produced comedy success, opens its local one-week engagement and the new Fall season at the National Theater tonight at 8:30 o’clock. The play, the first authored by John Monks, jr, and Fred F. Finkelhoffe, is based upon life at Virginia Military Institute, “the West Point of the South,” and is supposed to relate a number of the actual events in the careers of the authors while in school there. “Brother Rat” will be played here by the original New York cast, including Clare Hazel (ra- dio’s “Honey Chile”), Jean Mc- Coy, Reese Alsop, James Gillis, Eddie Bracken, Gary Merrill, Mary Perry, Anna Franklin, Mary Rolfe, Richard Jones, Lyle Bett- ger, Kurt Conway, Robert Scott, Burke O'Connell, Hollis Mitchell, Walter Fenner and Frederick de Wilde. There will be matinees Wednes- day and Friday. it would not do to have Mischa's one- flute accomplishment, “The Old Gray Mare,” come bursting in on Wagner and Mozart when the recording was being done. The irony of all this is that Mischa studied music with his grandfather, Leopold Auer, who tutored such fid- dlers as Elman, Zimbalist and Heifetz. Grandpa Auer, however, found his pupil about as funny as movie au- diences have, so he gave up trying to make a violin virtuoso of Mischa. He tried four other instruments but only a few of the piano lessons penetrated far enough to stay. But Mischa can play “The Old Gray Mare” on the flute. * x % x 'HERE'LL be a gala program at Loew's Capitol next week, for come Friday the F street presentation house celebrates its tenth anniversary. * x % % T'S anniversary time for H. B. Warner, too. The British actor who contributes that excellent characteri- zation of Chang to the Frank Capra- Columbia Pictures cinema translation of “Lost Horizon,” came to this coun- | try 32 years ago. He’s celebrating the thirty-second anniversary on account of his first jaunt here was scheduled to be a 32-week theatrical tour. Oc- casionally he goes home for a film, then bounces back to the land that’s adopted him. Last one he made was “Victoria the Great,” playing Lord Melbourne, Victoria’s first prime min- ister. * % % x SHOOTING from the Cuff: Maureen O'Sullivan has been “discovered” by John McCormack and is to study for six months with Andres de Segu- rola, then sing in films . . . Bette Davis returns to the studio late this | month to start on “Jezebel,” Warner | Bros”’ dramatization of the Broadway | play . . . She’s reported completely | recovered from her recent illness . , Lionel Barrymore has been cast in “Navy Blue and Gold,” which features Robert Young, James Stewart and Tom Brown and which will make loca- tion shots at Annapolis . . . Sidney Kingsley, author of “Dead End,” has deserted the stage for the moment and is on his way to California to huddle with Samuel Goldwyn over future | Kingsley filmscript chores . . . That | hyphen back there probably is closer | than Frank Capra and Columbia have been for a long time. He PERFECTS ENGLISH. EW contract given to Ariane Borg, European stage star, by Metro- | Goldwyn-Mayer, provides for the French actress to attend Vassar for | Y six months to perfect English. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1937. Popular Star in New Musical JEANETTE MacDONADD Makes her next operetta appearance, with Allan Jones. in the leading role in M-G-M’s cinema version of Rudolph Frimls colorful, tuneful show, “The Firefiy.” Claude Rains is the fellow in the fancy hat. New Gayety Revue Has Its Laughs "HREE Harrys—Meyers, Evanson and Seymour are the last names— are in charge of the laugh-coaxing in the current show at Col. Lake's Gayety, and they succeed in coaxing an impressive quota, with Max Duvall and Dorothy Sevier as chief abettors. Particularly amusing is that hillbilly bit, starring Seymour. Mirth, there- fore, is served in handsome fashion, but dancing and pulchritude are pres- ent in satisfying measure, as well. In fact, little fault can be found with the colonel's offering. | Featured among the girls is plat- inum - tressed Evelyn Myers, who ranks close to the top in the “eyeful” list among the -circuit's revelators. Pleasing contrast is supplied by dark- haired Joan De Lee. Sally Parker s in the featured dancer spot, which is an excellent place for Sally. The svelte miss bounds about the Gayety stage with amazing ease. Her dancing is good, and she takes interest in her stepping. There is more in the terpsichorean line. There is a comely and smooth- working chorus, and there is Cornish and Dean, boy and girl possessed of more than a modicum of talent in | the staccato footwork line. Ben Ham- ilton handles the singing assignment | in capable fashion, and Miss Sevier, in addition to helping the comedigns, contributes numerous song-and-dance bits. Incidentally, the drummer who is working for Mat Mannix in the pit this season, is one of the better per- | cussionists, C.AM | PIGSKIN FILM. ARL LAEMMLE, JR., M-G-M pro- ducer, has announced plans to make “Fight Back,” Notre Dame grid story by Richard Schayer and Jerry Horwin. TERRACE DANCING er, Additi, Stop in Today M. A.LEESE OPTICA 614 9th St MW, Laundry Problems Solved CALL MRS. HUNT—CO.7020 Mrs. Hunt, Dupont’s ex- pert, will tell you what service you need . .., how little it costs and suggest ways to help with every Jaundry and dry cleaning - problem. Get her advice now . .. call COL. 7020. ntly £Xt78 Dupont Laundry 2535 Sherman Ave. CO. 7020 “Winterset” Revived At Little Theater WHEN “Winterset” first emerged as | a motion picture it was met with widely varying displays of feeling. Some cinema-goers hailed it as a screen masterpiece. Others, remember- ing Maxwell Anderson’s play, charged that Hollywood had swung from the floor with a meat-ax. What Hollywood did with “Winter- set” (now being revived at the Little) was to transform it somewhat from a thrilling stage play to a thrilling screen melodrama. On the stage it was-far more than a melodrama: i was an outraged, poetically eloquent cry against the failings of what we call justice. On the screen it was aim- ed at a different audience; was mod- ulated and its burning ire was modi- fied until it became a mere sugges- tiorf of its former self. But that has not kept it from be- | toming a thrilling and entertaining | DANCING. The Edward F. Miller Studio 814 13th ST, NATIONAL 8093 I it Is Danced, We Teach It. _ Baltimre—Pittsburgh—Cincinnati DON MARTINI Become a Smooth, Interesting, Povular Dancer in a Short Time! WALTZ, FOX TROT, TANGO, RUMBA TEN PATIENT, TALENT TEACHERS Beginners, Advanced—Private Lessons 1811 HST. NW. 3 “Don Martini conducts this branch.” 67 4220 EUREKA VACUUM CLEANER (0. [z 724 - 114 STREET . N.W. NAtional photoplay; one that was made with skill and possibly more respect for the original than usual in the movie mills. While the Maxwell Anderson fans have not approved of it to the extent the makers might have hoped, there still is plenty of good stuff in the story of a lad out to avenge the unjust death of his father at the hands of the state. Anthony Veiller's adaptation was an intelligent one and retained consider- able of the powerful, flowing dialogue of Mr. Anderson's play. Also doing their best to retain the spirit of the | original were Burgess Meredith, Margo, Maurice Moskovitch, Paul Guilfoyle and Eduardo Cianelli, from the stage | AMUSEM ENTS. News of Local Groups Off-Stage Noises Are Civic Theater’s New Problem Theater's production of Lula Voll- mer's “Sun Up.” The play begins its run tonight at the group’s Summer theater at Bailey's Cross Roads, Va. Others in the cast are Florence George, James Spain, Charles Hohein, Neil Linger, Peggy Mansfield, Jack Sasher, and Pete Patnode The Pierce Hall Players start their ing play in ‘Excursion,” but even so the boys and girls of the Wash- | Season off with a sure-fire laugh-getter, ington Civic Theater have a bone to pick with him. The comedy has | the hit comedy “Boy Meets Girl. VIUK)R ‘WOOLFSON wrote what is reported to be a mighty entertain- been so popular they just had to choose it as their season’s opener, but | Howard F. Wentworth is directing and they feel Mr. Woolfson was a bit unreasonable about a few points. It will | be necessary, for one thing, to maneuver 23 players and a whole raft of extras about Theater stage. And another thing bothering the Civic Theater is off-stage noise. It goes on all the time. It will be a greater task than “Dead End,” which probably won the off-stage noise championship of last season at the National. In the first act there are to be all thos. sounds that are about a dock when a boat sails. Bells, whistles, voices; then as the boat slips down the harbor the gaiety of the passengers is punctuated by the ominous sound of fog horns. In the second act the excursion steamer docks at Coney Island and the off-stage cheering squad stops blowing whistles to make those shrieks and giggles heard only on roller coast- ers and to make noises like a ferris wheel. The third act calls for the S. S. Happiness to be chased by a revenue cutter, which not only blows whistles but bears people shouting “Ship Ahoy!” and shooting cannon acgoss the bow The Civic Theater thinks Mr. Woolf- son should include with his play some one like Reginald Gardiner, who im- itates locomotives, wall paper and lighthouses—some one who can stand in the wings and imitate a roller coaster. Kitty Priccard has gone and done it. The energetic Roadside press agent has become Mrs. Kenn Romney (he's also a Roadsider) and the two now are honeymooning up around the Finger Lakes. 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