Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1937, Page 42

AMUSEMENTS. Press Agent Gives Palm To O’Neill and Lewis Credits Mlle. Darrieux’ English To Them Despite Its Tone. An Alma Mater Medley. BY JAY CARMODY. WO sentences in a long press release from Univerzal concerning the arrival of Danielle Datrieux in this country fairly clamor for some kind of attention. One of them is a direct quotation from the beautiful young French actress. It follows: “I don't think I talk well English at all.” Then, hundreds of words later, the rres< agvm lets every one in on one of the most startling secrets when < he writes: “Mlle. Darrieux has learned English for her American film debut from the works of Eugene O'Neill and Sinclair Lewis." Of course, it is perfectly all right for Mile. Darrieux “not to talk well English at all” considering she has had only three months' practice, but that naming of such noble names as O'Neill's and Lewis' as responsible looks as if the press agent were one of those devil-may-care fellows who hardly ever thinks what he's saying The least reprisal we can.think of 48 for some patriotic 20-year-old blond American to spend three months on Anatole France and Marcel Proust and see what she can do, in a few French words, about avenging the bonor of America. * % X X bILLE DARRIEUX, one may judge from the release, is the perfect answer to those who pity those who 80 s0 young to the life of an actress. Bhe left her rather luxurious home at the age of 14 ‘one day when the gov- erness wasn't looking) to land her first movie role. Since then she has appeared in more pictures than even Lionel Barrymore. Apparently, how- ever, she has managed to combine work and education in some kind of balanced proportion. In addition to | having been a sensation on both stage and screen, she has found time to become an accomplished musician She sings, plays the piano, violin and cello. She enjoys dancing and has a great talent for it. has won prizes in swimming meets, is an accomplished horsewoman and is fond of rowing, #kiing and plays a neat game of tennis. And even if her English (attention Profs. O'Neill and Lewis) does not have the pure music of Maxwell An- derson’s, she obviously is the possessor of a fine mind, has a flair for intelli- gent conversation and probably is going to cut quite a swath in Holly- ‘wood. LR LARRY BLAKE will not be on the Earle stage bill this week. Beatrice Howell, presenting “reel sa- tires,” will substitute for Blake, who will come along later, probably after the world series. vill recognize foot ball in his over- ture at the Capitol Theater starting today. He and the band will race from alma mater to alma mater in one of those medleys which invariably is a favorite with every one. There's not a town in the United States where alma mater songs.are more popular, . A couple of lads who like lots of music other than Bach two-part inventions and Czerny exercises had Sonny Kendis playing most of it at luncheon at the Pall Mall room yesterday. . . . Viola Roache of the “Madame Bovary” cast was %0 have been the lads’ luncheon guest, but they forgot to invite her. Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. National—"“Mme. Bovary,” dramati- sation of Flaubert’s novel, with Con- stance Cummings: 8:30 p.m. Capitol—"Madame X,” new film version of the dramatic story of a woman's sacrifice: 11 am,, 1:45, 4:30 %:20 and 10:05 pm. Stage shows: 12:50, 5, 6:25 and 9:10 p.m. Earle—“Annapolis Salute,” a lad almost tosses away a career for a bonnie lass: 11 am., 1:35, 4:25, 7:20 and 10:10 pm. Stage shows: 12:25, 3:15, 6:10 and 9 pm. Keith’s—“Music for Madame,” by Rudolph Friml and sung by Nino Martini: 11:50 am., 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, ¥:50 and 9:50 p.m. “March of Time”: 11:30 am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 pm. Palace—"“The Bride Wore Red,” luck tosses a poor cabaret entertainer into & mad whirl of society: 11:55 am., 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:35 p.m. Columbia—"Double or Nothing,” Bing Crosby’s latest musical: 11:15 am, 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 pm. Metropolitan—“Souls at Sea,” stir- ring sea drama from-out of history's pages: 11 am, 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 pum. Trans-Lux—News and shorts. Show runs 1 hour and 15 minutes, continu- ous from 10 a.m. until midnight. Little—"“Arrowsmith,” film version of Sinclair Lewis’ novel revived again: 11 am, 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:25 and 9:35 pm. Ambassador—"Thin Ice,” Sonja Henie's skates flash again in a gay romance with music: 6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 pm. Penn—"Big City,” much melodrama midst a taxi war: 2, 3:55, 5:55, 7:55 and 9:50 pm. Sheridan—“Lost Horizon,” superb Scaeen translation of James Hilton's novel: 1, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25 and 9:40 p.m. Tiveli—"“Varsity Show,” a bright eollege musical with Dick Powell: 8:20, 4:40, 7:05 and 9:30 p.m. Uptown—“Topper,” a mad film ver- slon of Thorne Smith’s hilarious novel: ! 2, 3:50, 5:45, 7:40 and 9:35 p.m. DANCING. The Edward F. Miller Studio 814 13¢h ST. NATIONAL 8093 For un People STAFI l 'ON STUDI Stace ana Bal Koo ety 124 Conn. Ave. _ Phone NALL 5058. 19° You learn to dance in fewer lessons; and it costs you less with CANELLIS 724 11th St. N.W. District l613 DON MARTINI “Distinctive Dance Instruction” 1811 H ST W, & g TAP FOR FUN FOR EXERCISE FOR A PROFESSION Bob Mahoney will show you how to enjoy keeping vour fig- Sre modern and youthfal in one his tap classes. PECCY KEBLLY School of the Dance 1018 [IGNTEENTH ST. N.W. . Phil Lampkin | .+« Variety Club, which is just as likely to listen to a Sir James Jeans lecture one day and have a County Kerry party the next, is going seri- ous next Monday. It will hear V. F. Calverton, who writes and talks bril- liantly, lecture on “Sefling Nazism.” - Kings for the day will be Hardie Meakm and Harry Brown. . .. “Ice- Floe,” which is the pictorial account of what happened to the MacMillan Arctic expedition, is listed among the | coming attractions of Tranx-Lux. * % ok X A STORY from Hollywood, courtesy the Associated Press, says Tyrone | Power is going to New York “to see if I can lose myself among 7,000,000 people.” He'll find out, all right. « « « Lindy hopping, which is not go- ing to be dethroned by the Big Ap- ple if a lot of people can help it, is to be demonstrated from A to Z as one of the features of Maj. Bowes' “Dixie Jubilee” on the Capitol stage this week. . . . Dorothy O'Donnell, of the restaur: O'Donnells, who used to cheer for Carnegie Tech, where she got her degree, is a new member of Phil Hayden'’s drama department teaching staff . . . Rudy Vallee, in Hollywood for a picture, yesterday was forced to renew the old Vallee practice of denying he is engaged. oo Aside to Fred Miller, P. W. A. | | press department: We (the whole | | drama department) still are trying | | to think of the name of that play | | you want. But why not find a dra- | matist_in the department to write | one? Or dig it out of & trunk? . . . That big, sandy colored man who was at the Carlton yesterday afternoon surrrounded by Baltimore critics is Douglas Churchill, who covers Holly- wood for the New York Times. . . . He's here sending picture post cards to a few friends. . Montgomery Group To Open Season. ‘HE Montgomery Players open their season Saturday, October 16, at| | Leland Junior Hign School, Forty- fourth and Elm streets, Chevy Chase, Md.. presenting bert.” Margaret Keyhoe and Irving Day head the cast, which includes ‘'Ben White, Jenne Smith, Howard Bandy, Doris Day, Margaret Buckley, Cliff White, Marjorie Hathaway, Harrison Hathaway, Joe Keyhoe, Ruth Boyd and Russell Nicholson. The play is being directed by J. A. Bisho) ACCURATE DARING INPARTIAL EXCITING fhe cocky undignitied little New Yotk Mayor FIORELLO GUARDIA Barbara Stanwyck © Herbert Mar: “BREAKFAST FOR TWO” Coming: our SALUTE A Story Of The Training Schoo! Where Uncle Sam Makes Men ANNAPOLIS SALUTE an R K.O Picture with JAMES ELLISON MARSHA HUNT VAN NEFLIN * NARRY CAREY Warner Bros Warner Bros. “Big-Hearted Her- | — EARLE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, To Be “Glamour Girl” If the plans of Paramount do not go awry blond Betty Grable will soon be one of the better known actresses in Holly- wood. The young starlet is being groomed for better things by the studio and will be in “This Way, Please,” seen here next in the leading feminine role coming to the Mctropoltlan next Friday. Sentence for Ministerial Student. COLUMBUS, Ohio (#)—J. L. Hults, 37, convicted of embezzlement, told Judge John R. King he once had studied for the ministry. Judge King forthwith sentenced him to attend church regularly for 18 months—and to write a resume of the weekly sermons for the judge's in- spection. GAYETY THEATRE BURLESK STARTING SUNDAY MATINEE “PEANUTS” BOHN And His All-New Show HELD OVER AS GUEST STAR Miss Jerri McCauley " KEITH'S ===z 7Ze VOICE £, WORLD ADORES ! NINO MARTINI with Hollywood's dream girl JOAN FONTAINE in an enchanting adventure into romance ablaze with melody. . . ALAN NOWBRAY © ERIK REODES RUDOLF FRIML Compeser of “YAGADOND KING™ © “The FINOFLY" a New Edition « & ll....umuu--m WALT. DISNEY'S ‘cartoon i techaicolos “AAWALIAN HOLIDAY'’ wih all of the werld's Deot loved stare o oe o « WICKEY » MINNIE + DONALD *PLUTO_ shall OUR SALUTE from the Stage I - SHAW & LEE Stars of Jack Oakie's Radwo College 2.- SAUL GRAUMAN A Musical Innovaty > 3. - ICSEPHINE AUSTON Newest Sinpng Star 4. - BOY FC NIY S- HYIIE & rnsm A Symohony Tones - EXTRA ADDED 8. Beatrice Howell Character impressiont. Also on Screen I First OF A Sories O “YOUR TRUE Worner Bres Vitaphoss “ATTC OF TERSR" METROPOLITAN THEATRE TRANS.LUX [»5.00 B r Gl o ~ THEATRE PARKING CAPITAL GARAGE {3, % M DINNER DANCING Dinner, $200, Sot, 3225 Cover, 55¢; Sat. & Hol, 31.10 o Additional Cover for Dinnep Guest; vze c ADEMY ot rmm snunc :,.M,,., iful A entinucan - Fro CLARK GABLE and JEAN HARLOW in “SARATOGA ¥ CWNA 11t ‘and N CIRCLE Matinees Tues. RDBBERR AYLOR, ELE DUMBARTON BORIS _KARLOFF, “NIGHT KEY." FAIRLAWN MADY CORRELL in DONNA." Home of errnnhun!e !nlnl. Penna. 8t. Mr Conditioned JEAN ROGERS vau _and _Comedy. ANACOSTIA, D. C. Air-Conditioned “MIDNIGHT Ma- | Hotel, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Tourney Program Is Announced. E program for the preliminaries in the 1937 one-act-play tourna- ment, to begin this week, has been announced by the Community Center Department, which annually conducts the drama competition. All of the contests are to be held at Roosevelt High School auditoriumd at 8 o’clock in the evening. Tuesday night the contest will be | started off by the Eckington Players, | the Southeast Community Players and the Jewish Center Theater of the Jewish Community Center. Thursday night the Players’ Club of Central Community Center,- the Troupers of East Washington Community Center and the Wigs and Queues Dramatic Club will be seen, and Saturday night the competition will be entered by the REA. Play Guild, the Wilson Windjammers and the Buchanan Parent-Teacher Association Dramatic Club. ‘The preliminaries will continue the week following, the Roosevelt Com- munity Center Drama Group, the F. B. 1. Theater Group and the Langley Lambs appearing the night of Tuesday, October 19, and the American Association of University Women Play Guild, the Arts Club and the Wesley Heights Players pre- senting the final preliminary contest Thursday, October 21. Tickets for the five preliminary con- tests now are available at the Willard the Washington Hotel, the A. A. A. Ticket Bureau and the Com- munity Center office in the Franklin Administration Tnilding, as well as from the competing groups. Tonight at 8:30 Sharp! First Subscription Play, Theatre Guild and American Theatre Society. The Theatre ild, Inc.. Presents Gaston Baty's Dramatization of Flaubert's Novel “Madame Bovary™ With CONSTANCE CUMMINGS Play Adapted and Directed by Benn W. Levy. Settings and Costumes by Lee Simonson Constitution Hall Tues.. Oct. 12 RIGOLETTO Outstanding east from leading Opera Cos. Tkis.: $1 to $4—Kitt's, 1330 G St. Oct. 17, 4 ». LE Dramatic Soprans. Metropolitan Opers, in Person in Recital. %1 At Mrs. Dorsey's, 1300 G (Dry Constitution Hall, Sun. Aft., { R Rachmaninofl, Salz Ist SUN. SERIES (6 Sun. Subscription Sale Now Closéd. 2nd SUN. SERIES (8 ONJA HENT] THIN ICE APOLLO RONALD COLMAN. JANE W ZON. __"LOST HORI AVALO 5612 Conn. Ave. N.W. Clev.’ 2600 JACK BENNY. GAIL PATRICK, in “ARTISTS_AND MODELS. March of Time. Matin SHIRLEY T E\d ] LAGLEN 'WEE ‘WINKIE " Shm‘t Bubject. CALVERT =%, s, oo P RONALD COIMAN LOST HORIZON. Call NAtional e =Seaw lc Featurr B\BBARA ST‘AN\\ YCK L, Mt INTERNES CAN'T Akn JLVE TRA HE BIG GA\YE % 4 BRUGE CABOT in THEATERS ™ : 425 Ninth St. N.W. CENTRAL PEN Also Shorts. OTTEE _ omee, RONALD COLMAN and MYRNA LOY in “ARROWSMITH.” Sunday. “As You Like It COLOW . Rv. NW. “SAN QUENTIN." with PAT fl BR‘E" and HUMPHREY DCA 1230 C “. N HOME £330 £ TRL. “MARRY THE " wit _ HERBERT. MARY BOLA} PRINCESS AL Double_Feature. R B TWO MEN. ONSTANCE BENNETT in i:vERY'mmG 1S_THUNDER." Connmmus From_6:00 K A STAR,” PATSY K!.'LLY LAUREL and HARDY. “Last Train From Madrid,” __LEW AYRES, DOROTHY LAMOUR. _ STANTON oOn Y e Finest Sound ¥ SIMONE BIMOR and JAMES STEWART in s From 5 “SEVENTH HEAVEN.” “SPEED TO SPARE,” With CHARLES QUIGLEY, DOROTHY WILSON and_EDDIE NUGENT. 6970 STATE-BETHESD Bethesda, Md. THE JONES FAMILY i “BIG BUSINESS.” PAUL KELLY in ‘IT HAPPENED OUT WEST.’ News and Serial TAKOMA <%, % meommn s “THE GOOD EARTH t ‘Tomorrow, Continuous 'om P.M. Rudvard Kipling's “Elephant Boy.” Hu Herbert in_‘‘That Man's Here Ai HIPPODROME o5 3522, CLARK GABLE and WALLACE BEERY in “HELL DIVERS.” Joe E. Brown, “Riding on Air* CAMEQ i sapyiss, o Paul Muni, Luise Rainer in “GOOD EARTH.” Wfln’n‘svuu. MD. CONSTANCE BENNETT and CARY GRANT in “TOPPER.” RICHMOND ~£xteers.ve Madeleine_Carroll, 1°":‘K11T °~}" ur REED ~Aigxavomi, v BARBARA STANWYCK and JOHN BOLES .in “STELLA DALLAS?’ __Free_Parking Space—800 Ca PENN 650 Penna. Ave. S.E. Line. 2139 TRACY “Necking Part CITY. With Edsar ‘Bergen® and. Chariie McCarthy. 3030 14th St. N.W. Phone Col. 4968 JUD! A WARNER BROS. Popeye and Jungle Menace No. 2. SHERIDA RONALD "GOLM, 'N WYATT in “LOST HOR:ZON 56 Alx(l Short. 'l'lVOLl 14th 8¢, g“ (r:::{k Ra Nw. M. DICK, POWEL “ard "ORED. WARING in “VARSITY SHOW." Sho: UPTO Matinee, Brought Back by ular Demand. b /i BENNELT ‘and CARY GRANT in “TOPPER.” Short. YORK o1 25018 nd N, TONY MARTIN. DI XIE DUNBA\R in ‘SING AND BE HAPPY. ort. NEWTON™™" & ¥rimsisa™™ “BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938,” ELEANOR POWELL, ROBT. TAYLOR. Gs. Ave; & Sherldan N.W. 2100 Phone Theaters Direct Conn. Ave. and Newark t. Glev. 3100 For Additional Information Ave. JESSE THEATER 'S8.*3z™ Carrier Alrmlhhn “TOAST OF NEW WARD SRNOLD. CARY GRANT. SYLVAN ¢iif R kontiisonce’ “YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING,” ALICE_PAYE, DON_AMECHE. PALM THEATER "5 ‘WEE WILLIE WINKIE, SHIRLEY TEMPLE. VICTOR MCcLAGLEN. ARLINGTON, VA. WILSON 1720 Wilson Opp. Colonial Village JACK BENNY and GAIL PATRICK i “ARTISTS AND MODELS. Hgllggs ,pxcxc'm?«"mv i BERNHEIMER’S “EMPTY MILO ROCKVILLE, LORETTA YOUNG and DON AMECHE in “LOVE UNDER FIRE.” Fres Parking. DIRECTION OF SIDNEY LUST FALLS CHURCH, VA. STATE RONALD Amateur June Little, a member of the Roosevelt Players, will have an important part in the group’s play, “Free Wheeling,” when it is offered in the pre= liminaries of the annual one= act play tournament, being sponsored by the Community Center Department. The plays are produced on the Roose- velt High School stage. —Star Staff Photo. AMUSEMENTS. A.T.S.Subscriptions Still ‘Available. UBSCRIPTION books still are open for the five remaining plays to be presented at the National Theater this season by the Theater Guild and the American Theater Society. The next of these will be the guild’s presentation of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in their produc- tion of Jean Girardeau's sparkling comedy, “Amphitryon, 28" adapted to the American stage by 8. N. Behr- man. This is to be presented the week of October 18. Included in the list of probable productions which will follow “Amphi- tryon, 38" on the guild’s schedule here are “Tovarich,” with Marta Abba; “The Ghost of Yankee Doodle,* the new Sidney Howard play; “Wine of Choice,” by 8. N. Behrman, and “Yes, My Darling Daughter.” DAY, & ”o A TORDA TODA Y, Cutloose with these funsters and have a double dose of joy « dfih"ie TODAY ... THIS MADE ONE WOMAN MISTAKE and paid the price many times Here is a truly great story with a great star mhergreatestperform- ance! Metro-Golduwyn- Mayer’s with blad John BEAL WILLIAM Warren JREGINALD OWEN It’s the fastest, hottest, swingiest Sepia revue ed / . .. but it's for “two weeks only!” HE WAS A CABARET SINGER ...set by luck in a mountain Paradise. . . but in her heart she knew she didn't belong! Deeply human is Iovely Joan’s great new hit ", tinged with laughter, but what a heart-throb!, rasctot TONE * 50 YOUNG BILLIE BURKE + REGINALD OWEN o EXTRA o The Nation’'s New Craze "THE BIG APPLE" A NEW RHYTHMIC THRILL!