Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1937, Page 44

AMUSEMENTS. Mr. Meakin to Throw Out Year’s First Celebrity Anne Neagle of England to Play Lead In First Mass Press Session. Joan Bennett Is Next. By JAY CARMODY. HE celebrity season is about to dawn. Drama and other varieties of reporters who haven't met as & posse since Katharine Hepburn (in slacks, ermine and freckles), was given.a party late in the winter, next week will resume the seasonal rounds. The honor, distinction, or what have you, of throwing out the first celebrity of the season will go to Hardie Meakin. The event takes place on Monday and the celebrity will be Miss Anne Neagle. She is the Englishes actress who plays the title role in “Victoria The Great.” It was Mr. Meakin who gave the Hepburn party so he has the dis- tinction which falls to few men in ehow busin that of throwing out the 13st celebrity of one season and the first of the next. It is not that the town. has not seen a celebrity between Miss Hepburn and Miss Neagle. The Lunts were here, of course, and Constance Cum- mings and Marta Abba are coming on Monday in “Tovarich™ at the National. The press’ contact with these big figures (and pretty figurines) of the stage has been private for the most part; a little matter of meetings in dressing rooms, in the wings and any- where but at big parties. When one gets right down to it, stage celebrities simply do not lend themselves well | to throwing out purposes. They would, no doubt, if asked, but no one seems to ask them. If vagrant memory is not being more vagrant than usual, there was but onec party for a stage celebrity all least season. That was| the soirre in honor of Tallulah Bank- head and she, after all, was more of a home-town girl being paid homage for having made good than a notable sprinkling of wisdom through the medium of a mass interview, * ok X K BUT to return to Miss Neagle, Mr. Meakin undoubted can count upon only acceptances of his invitation to meet her. She is to be here only two days in connection with the gala opening of her picture at Keith’s and versal's pay roll, is tact . . . Holly- wood's actresses have been acclaimed as extremely beautiful and more than girl whom Universal hopes to find more beautiful and more friendly than any other recent recruit from overseas Joe E. Brown can't get away from newspaper roles . .. He's a foreign correspondent in “Fit for a King” which opens Friday at Keith's ... Quite & jump from his small-town reporter in his last picture . . . The Rialto will not open “Damaged Lives,” sociological film, on Saturday as an- nounced . . . It will be November 4 |instead . . . That's the day Angie Ralto, “mayor of F street,” will observe his twenty-third anniversary of asso- ciation with the Palace Theater, of which he's the manager, which every one ought to know by this time . . “Ali Baba Goes to Town,” with Eddie Cantor, will be the film feature . . . Mr. Cantor will be celebrating his twenty-fifth anniver- of Col. Ratto . . . For an undisclosed reason, Bib Miller gained three cubits in stature in the drama dennrlmrut yesterday afternoon . . . representatives please copy . Temple does wear pigtails iu “Heidi™” which comes Friday to the Capitol . . And she does & great deal more than wear pigtails, thanks to the growing conviction that she can be &n actres given the chance . . . Dean Herrick, the blond youth who p!nyed the organ in Bert Granoff's act when it last | was here, not only went to South friendly by the lovely young French | sary, two anniversaries the other side | the schedule arranged for her covers | everything from the British Embassy to a sight-seeing journey to Mount Africa (at Carter Barron's suggestion) but likes it . .. Miriam Hopkins, who went to Hollywood, played in some THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Sings Here MME. MALDA FANI D’AULBY, Italian soprano, who is ma ing her home here, is one of the four singers who will be heard tomorrow night -at the Washington Club, when the active colony of White Rus- sians in the District presents a program for the benefit of the Russian Orphanage in Shanghai. Doodle” which runs beyond the first year of the next war as (o time element, will have its opening here, the third play in the Theater Guild-American Theater Society series. Qtudént Récital VWASHINGTON MUSICAL INSTI- TUTE announces the first of & series of monthly student recitals to | be given the last Friday of each month. The program tomorrow will be pre- sented by the following students: Bet- | 1|ty Keene, Billle Norwood, Mary Leu | | Anderson, Carolyn Koontz, Carolyn | | Wendt, Barbara Stellwagen, Madelyn | Montgomery, Morton Steinberg, all of | the preparatory and intermediate de- | partments, and Evelyn Scott, Winifred | Chamberlain and Ssm C. Cotton of the graduate department. The recitals, held in the recital hall | of the school, are open to the public. Declamatory Winner Excels in Scenes. ALEB PETERSON, winner ~last year of the National Forensic | Declamation Contest, brought his ef- fective “talents to the Asbury M. E. Church last night in a program of two scenes taken from the opera “Em- peror Jones,” by George Gershwin. ‘The 19-year-old Peekskill (N. Y.) | High School youth displayed & studied aptitude for intense declamation of the type called for in the episodes de- picting the emperor's ignominious re- treat from his kingdom of blood-thirsty inhabitants. The colorful character was by no means dimmed by the youth's Robeson-like performance, brief though it was, as he portrayed & frantic, half-crazed fugitive, babbling and praying for forgiveness of his sins. Faclal expression, reflecting torment and agony, vitalized Mr. Peterson's role, and supplemented by unwasteful bodily maneuvering created an authen- tic bit of human emotion. A steady stage presence completely subjective to the role proved another factor to the dramatist’s credit. e gt In Crosby Film. LAURR HOPE CREWS was added to the cast of Bing Crosby's new Major Pictures production for Para- mount, based on the O. Henry story, “The Badge of Policeman O'Roon.” Others in important roles are Mary Carlisle, Andy Devine and Bea Lillie, Frank Tuttle is directing. NamoaL TONIGHT AT 8:30 BARGAIN MATINEE Sat., 55¢ to $1.65 THE INIMITABLE COMEDIENNE GreenwooD N TNE HILARIOUS STAGE HIT LEANING ON LETTY” And Her London Song Hits Nights—55¢, $1.10, $1.65, $2.20 & 82 WEEK BEG. NEXT MONDAY MATS. WED. & SAT. | CAPITAL GARAGE ;70,3 % Vernon. With her will be Herbert|good and some bad pictures and eloped Wilcox( producer-director of the Dl(‘-\ with Anton Litvak (which is a pretty ture made with the consent of lhe\full life) is considering returning to British government, which had to| Broadway in “Wine of Choici That’s consent because the life of Victoria,| the 8. N. Behrman play which will as dramatic material, belongs techni- | be produced by the Theater Guild, for cally to the crown. | which Miss Hopkins used to work . Another fi actress—at least that's| Errol Flynn is a kind of “Mr. Deeds how she known even though she |they say, in “The Perfect Specimer happens to be in a stage play—who | which comes next to the Earle . . soon will be met by the collective p | three Loew houses down town, and all is Joan Bennett. Miss Bennett, “l\UH\\o Warner houses, will be open to is 27, a mother, the daughter of Rich- | late revelers (midnight revelers) on ard Bennett, and one of the three| Halloween .. . “The Ghost of Yankee Bennett sisters, is coming here in the | leading role in “Stage Door,” the play, not the film. The Sunday she arrives 71 years of buying, selling and in town, which is the second Sunday beyond this moment, there will be a | party in her honor at which she will | be bombarded with questions. After Miss Bennett's party, the lid will have been thoroughly pried off Liberal Loans at Lowest Possible Rates . All" lending on diamonds, jewelry, etc. | GILBERT MILLER DINNER DANCING Dinner, $2.00. Sot, 32.25 Cover. 53¢, Sat. & Hol, 3110 Na Additlonal Cover for Dinner Guesr ARICH: MARTA ABBA ¢ RUDOLF FORSTER FRICES: Eves., 85¢ to 52, call ;s o‘tenham SEE A COMPLETE STAGE & SCREEN SHOW plus GOBLIN NOVELTIES AT OUR RECULAR PRICES! C; Where ‘and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. National — “Leaning _on Letty,” Charlotte Greenwood delves into the comedy drama: 8:30 p.m. Palace— The Prisoner of Zenda,” the exciting tale of romance and ad- venture in a mythical kingdom comes again to the screen: 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:35 p.m. Capitol—“Lancer Spy,” drama of spies and romance: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Stage show: 12:50, 3:35, 6:20 and 9:05 p.m. Keith's—"Fight for Your Lady,” new romance in the comedy vein: 11:45 a.m., 1:30, 3:10, 4:55, 6:35, 8:15 and 10 p.m. Earle—"The Awful Truth,” Colun bia’s comedy contribution of the yea 11 am., 1:35, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows: 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 and 9:10 p.m. Columbia—"Life Begins at College,” & mad piece starring the Ritz Broth- ers: 11:25 a.m.,, 1:30, 3:30, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:40, p.m. Metropolitan—"The Life of Emile Zola,” Paul Muni and the masterful film biography stay for another weel Censtitution Hall, Tues. Eve., Nov. 2 RAGHMANINI]FF Pamous Russian . THEATRE PARKING 6P.M.TO 3 s e 1AM. . Ave h & 14t ! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, - 1937, 11 am, 9:45 p.m, Trans-Lux—News and shorts. Show runs 1 hour and 15 minutes contin- uously from 10 a.m. until midnight. Little—"“The Wandering Jew,” su- perbly done story of the man who had to wait centuries for Christ to return to kim: 11:40 am, 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:49 and 9:40 p.m. Ambassador—"Stella Dallas,” Mr. Goldwyn successfully remakes one of his silent film successes: 5:30, 7:30 and 9:40 p.m. Penn—"That Certain Woman,” Bette Davis faces troublous times again: 2, 3:55, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. Sheridan—"Stella Dallas’ 3:30, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:40 p.m. Tiveli—"“That Certain Woman”: 2, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. Uprn—“ThaL Certain Woman”: 2, 4, 5:55, and 10 p.m. _llowan‘l hey Won't Forget, GAYETY THEATRE BURLESK AR 51003 LT O L L L SRt oW l Bobby (See Whal Mean) Morris BIG MIDNIGHT SHOW THIS SATURDAY NIGHT b felulolototulotototdolototebtatatot . 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:25 and 1:30, Latest Styles Complete SIZES mro KEITH’S TOMORROW Old King Joe crowns his howling career in this story of a the season, and the press will be| ready for the succession of celebrities. And vice versa, no doubt. * ok x ok AMO\G the heretofore unlisted talents of Danielle Darrieux, French beauty just attached to Uni- ACADEMY Of Perfect Sound Photoplay . Lawrence Phillips' Hheatrs Bewutiful ous From 4::30 P.M. WILL ROGERS in “AMBASSADOR BILL.” “TOO WIVES,” with ANNE LINA TARO i TH | HEAV EL Matinees Tues, 'l'hur TA YO, V. C. Ave. SE. Cond and | 11th &) Air- E AND N uk:r_ Kir Comarioned fiu ARTON E RAINER in News. Time of Shows. 6:40 and 9:00._____ FAIRLAWN _ maceins ghirCond un Major Bowes' Amateur Parade. CONRAD VEIDT m “THE WANDERING JEW.” PRINCESS — fuip,® Double DORIS NOLAN. GEOF MURPHY _ in OF THE_TO! “DR BULL % WILL ROGERS. “ELEPHANT BOY,” Native_Cast STANTON %, Continuous From WALLACE BEERY snd. “HELL DIVERS ¥ “FORGOTTEN WOMEN,” With EVFLYN‘RRFNT IRENE RICH ’and STATE-BETHESDA u,.{,'.BY,'.' N WILL ROGERS in “DAVID HARUM.” ROBT. MONTGOMERY in “EVER SINCE EVE.” TAKOMA 4% 3t Butternut St ONALD COLMAN. “LOST HORIZON.” FALLS CHURCH, VA. HIPPODROME *a*io%s Double Feature Robt. Young. “‘Married Before Break- fast.” Wm. Boyd, “North of Rio JAMES CAGNEY in “SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT > “Today-Tomor HARRY CAREY and EDWINA BOOTH in _“TRADER HORN." _ oday. ‘Life_Begins in_Coll ALE :“Nmu V. WARNER BAXTER and JOAN BENNETT in VOGUES OF 1938 Direction of SIDNEY LUST Today-Tomor. WARNER BAXTER in ‘Wife, Doctor and Nurse.’ Free Parking. ) WARNER BROS. THEATERS CASH FOR OLD GOLD | (Government License) E. HEIDENHEIMER Established 1866 LOAN OFFICE 505 King St Alex., Va. WASH. STORE 1215 H 5t. M W. AMBASSADOR ‘" BARBARA §TAT\\\\(K ind BOL in LLAS. Hallowe'en Costum# (nlnrfl APOLLO. .£i% 2% & I’houe Li WAR| TE \,lR(_vll\IA BRUCI DOCTOR AND NUR: u.m..w ‘en Costume AVALON 5612_Conn, Ave, N.W. Cleveland 2600 Brought Back by “Popular Demand; WILL ROGERS in “HANDY ANDY.” Hallowe'en me Coniest o_P.M ER’ B. in “WI ontest ANN, DVORAK and JOHN iE'S NO LADY.” Short. a3 CALVERT o Me = | Gary cnopm moch RAFT in = ULS AT SEi ;AN BRUCE r ABOT, ViRGiAT Short q\mfi?‘EL COLONY * Geo, LORETTA YOUNG °R. VIRGINIA BRU HOME DICK POWELL, VARSITY SH Hallowe'en o Saturdy s PENN aliows'en Coriame. Lt Saturday at 3:00 P.M, TIVOL] =, atinee, M, ETTE RY FONDA In “THAT CERTAIN WOMAN. Hallowe'en Costume ;}o\mtxt Saturday at Conn_Ave. and UPTOWN Newark St. N.W. Phene Cleveland 5300 BETTE, DAVIS HENRY FDNDA n “THAT CERTAIN WO I weie: Canume. Contest 00_P.M. _____ Saturday at YOR CEDRIC HARDWICKE, in_“KING SOLOMON'S A iTKEs. Hallowe'en Costume Contest jaturday_at 2:30. g5 NEWTON 12th ANg) NE TON N.E. Air-Conditioned “STELLA DALLAS.” ARBARA STANWYCK, JOHN - BOLES. JESSE THEATER ™8, ¥5:™ mmér Alr-Conditlo 06D EARTH,” _YIVAN Carrier AIr~Clnllfllnefl “LOST HORIZON,” RONALD COLMAN, JANE WYATT, PALM THEATER °™% ‘Wife, Doctor and Nulse, WARNER BAXTER, LORETTA BERNHEIMER’S DEANNA_DURBIN |nd LEOPOLD _STO, KOWSKI in “100 MEN_AND A GIRL. ASHTON Clarendon. Va. SNy TEMPLE I “WER WLLIEL | get Ilu The RITZ BROS: in ’ Ronald /‘. Shlr\eY WELEN WESTLE On Stage==—"_ Lwtfl PiTOL DOORS OPEN 10:45 A. M.j ¢ r\c:\: f::wov\d loves Starring PLE {—PAULINE MOORE g novelty zin most a4 scenes Barepe s n 10 30 Colman ISONER#ZENDA DELEINE CARROLL DAVID | NIVEN RAYMOND MASSEY MARY ASTGR" C. AUBREY SMITH DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. Loews COLUM F RIDAY Another exciting week ... with lobert YOUNG Billie BURKE « Reginald OWEN “LIFE BEQINS in COLLESE® and ... JOE in LOVE -«-the new edition "THE IIAR.GII of TIME" % MIDNIGHT SHOW HALLOWE'EN LAST DAY » JOHN BOLES *JACK OAKIE in "FIGHT for YOUR LADY" RAVE-olution. AN RKO RADIO PICTURE with HELEN MACK e PAUL KELLY THE SECOND IN NEW CARTOON SERIES WALT DISNEY'S “CLOCK CLEANERS" of Welght: PERFECT 6 3") Weight: PERFECT (180 Ibs.) Eyes: PERFECT (come-hithery) Value: PERFECT (820,000,000} 'On Stage = BLOCK & SULLY MARIORIE GAINSWORTH HARRIS, CLAIRE & SHANNON FOUR ORTONS AMUSEMENTS orous drama of prejudice and circum- stantial evidence: 12:30, 4, 7:05 and 10:10 p.m. Stage shows: 2:30, 6 and 9:10 p.m. i DANCING, _ The Edward F. Miller Studio 814 13th ST. NATIONAL 8093 For Discriminating Peobls MISS ELLEN° WALLER Al THE PLAYHOUSE 1814 N St. N.W. Beginning Nov. 1 Complete dance training for children ana adults, ——— Rosemary Lane wears a blue-stone baby ring for good luck. She has worn it since infancy and it has been enlarged with inserts in the band four t Classes Frivate Lessons For fuil information and to arrange a: pointments, teiephone Columbiz 90772, DANCING. GTAFFORD PEMBERTON STUDIO Stage and Ball Room l)lnulu 1124 Conn. Ave. _Phone NAU. 5058, 20* PEGGY : KELLY School of thc Dancc 1018 EIGHTEENTH ST. N.W. Woltz. Fox-Trot, Tango, Rumba CANELLIS 724 1ith St NOW.. District 1673 Artistic_Studios, Inspiring Atmosphere Opposite the Palais Royal ¥ Sar: 2320 pares young and supple bodies for a richer experi- KDANCING LELIA FOWLER STUDIO Ballroom Dancing Private and Class THE WASHINGTON FORUM SUGGESTS Reservations for the 1937-38 I ture ut being to insure only 48 he Comlu.—ln Person H. G. “ELIS Eminent British Novelist-Philosopher His stimulating subject “A View of Things to Come” Mr. Wells suggests & new type of human organization supplementary to our existing social and political insti- tutions. Nov. 23, Dale Carnegie aking best-seller, ‘RIENDS AND IN. E"—OQutstanding eoun- man relations. 5, Count Sales Brilliant French journalist. ranking uthority fn America on Franco-Amer- ican affafrs, Feb. 24, Sinclair Lewis Ameriea’s foremost literary Interpret Nobel Prize Winuer. Mar. 10. Thomas Ma Nobel Prize Winuer—Champlon of De- mocracy. Outstanding Novelist. $1.40 Series Tickets, $4.40 Write or Phone REpublic 02 Single tickets not on sale until day before leeture. Make checks payable to the Washington Forum. Series Tickets on Sale at Brentano’s, 1322 F St. N.W, Beginners' s Starting Friday, October 20, at 8:30 P.M. 110 Maryland Ave. N.E. Atlantie 6238 Telephone After 7 P.M. dance Qislere o Ll il Former A ICING {eqcher Open 10 to 10—DIs Studio 1223 Conneeticut Avenue Private Instruction WHAT FUN TO LEARN to DANCE at H. Leroy NOT only good fun—good ex- ercise. You'll acquire new poise, new confidence in yourself. And you'll learn all the newest, smartest dance steps—the rhumba, tango, latest fox trot. Come in. Meet the popular Leroy H. Thayer instructors. Call for a guest les- son, without obligation. Studios open daily from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. LEROY H. THAYER 1215 Conn. Ave. MEt. 4121 Thayer’s " Opening Concert 'NATIONAL SYMPHONY [ | DR. HANS KINDLER, Conductor | Constitution Hall, Sun. Oct. 31, 4 PM. Soloists: Wagnerian Festival Singers $1. $1.50, $2. Box ius Garfinckel & Co ason tickets in good .rJ r_both Sunday and _C._C._Cappel._Manager fotations available Mid-week_Series Drop in For A Guest Dance Analysis Branches Pittshurgh, DON MARTINI 1811 H ST. N.W. 3 28 Balt cir more Doors Open 10:30 a.m. When a PERFECT Specimen Meets a PERFECT Nuisance It’s PERFECT Entertainment! 25 years with Grand- ma...and he kisses like this! 25 minutes with Joan and he catches rlgh( on! hat happened when the man who e kissad found out whot love is ol about! BLONDELL HUGH HERBERT ¢ EDWARD EVERETT HORTON e DICK FORAN ¢ BEVERLY ROBERTS e MAY ROBSON o ALLEN JENKINS ¢ Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ Presented by WARNER BROS. o A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE From the Cosmopolitan Magazine Story by 7 Samuel Hopkins Adsms, suthor of “It Happesed One Night" @ Sereen Play by Norman Reilly Raine, Lawrence Riley, Brewster Morse and Fritz Falkensiein * Starts TOMORROW First Show 10:45 a.m. Wamer