Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1942, Page 20

AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, /All-R. A. F. Amateur Cast 'Proves It Also Can Act Shows High Skill in Alien Craft In Film, ‘Target for Tonight’; Variety Show Gets Dorothy Lamour By JAY CARMODY. ‘What members of the R. A. F. will do after the war is on the laps of various gods who do not take this department into theéir confidence, but | Britain’s young flyers might well be scouted by any one who expects to | need actors when peace comes again. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8§, 1942. A—18 ' man at his ease when he comes,” mncm.vaim'tmtmfiobo'm We pick up the seript from ms sdds significantly. ashamed of us,” Stone adds. Director George sdwschflf . *You mean you're going to let him That's the last straw. what’s going to happen next. ch. the plotters win! see all of you like this!" Marian i it “In a few moments” says the demands, still unbelieving. Marian breaks into tears. She| book, “Marian appears wearing & “Why not?” Andy asks. “If he's| flees up the stairs toward her room, modesl but striking, blue evening such & hot number, he’ll probably just as the doorbell signals the ar- turn up in shorts!” rival of her “date.” | “The first time you go out with & That was lll for ths hilarious AMUSEMENTS. Euo mnfilog S wieRIRGTOR issTiTevieh TONIGHT at 8:18 Next Mat. Sat. at 2:15 The Fonnlest Show on Earth uweuoa by the North Americes Newspaper Alllance. Ine.) AMUSEMENTS. 18h ot G; SILLY HOUSE o EDDIE GARR o 100 Pon Mok ers - Holfywesd Soeuty Choras Povular Matinees Wed & Sat. $1.00, .50, $2.00 (Pius Tax SEATS NOW SFLLING FOR 2 WEEKS “BEST PICTURE of 1939— Constitution Hall, 18th & C Next Sun. Aft, R carics MERLE OBERON - LAURENCE OLIVIER-AVID MIVEN ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS' The Stangest Love Jlauy Gier Told Prima Donna Opera | | that he plays is accompanying her. u!'.'v{:rluflx'#-u_:f"&.fi-u { day in and nilght Other “extras” are planned by knew all about dead = | out in the line the club to stimulate interest in the = o 5 of knocking the benefit performance. languages and nothing CONSTITUTION g MONDAY EVGS 30 | 4qaylights out of = HALL BEGINNING JAN. 19 | O8% g Tr s about live ladies until a BURTON HOLMES Jan. 19, . s he Yuks : e = B S e °" | of a 30-ton tank. Yet with no more yyre, “Pittsburgh Pilot” . That| forces this time with Paul Draper. Pt 3 UThe Duich Fart Indies | experience than a sweepstakes Win-|he is from Allentown daunts the |~ and rh rightinto L | ner invited to talk for the news-|giudio not a bit ... Ronald Regan, i umbaed right More € . < fo 4 S 5 gan, in Course Tic $4.40, | reel, they play before it as if it Were | the leading role, becomes Warner's hist Single Ticke Ticket Omice—1300 G St. N. 13the H-Nw Pix Phone REp 0500 Amazing Arizons 30, 3 $1.10. 85c, 55, Inc. Tax . (Droop's) 2289 Snu Margaret LQCKWOOD FIRST FILM CONCERT STARTS SATURDAY FIRST WASHINGTON SHOWING “NIAGARA FALLS” That the lads and their elders have a talent for this strangely alien | department of life is one of the conspicuous virtues of “Target for To- Almost to 8 man, from theo— night.” humblest mechanic to the top- ranking senior officer, they play their respective parts with an easy natural- { ness, an absence of self-con- sciousness that ! is a striking as- set to the pic- ture. True, they are playing themselves, each | man the role | the enemy. But Jay Carmedy. | they cannot have been unaware of the presence- of the camera, the most unnerving machine this side ‘not there—the kind of acting that even professionals too seldom achieve. In the even more difficult job of handling dialogue, much of which| is dramatic, some of which is comic, the cast brings off the desired effect with an effortlessness that is sur- prising. No one has said how many “takes” were required to achieve the pre- cise performance that Director Harry Watt demanded in a given sequence, but the impression clearly is that it never was very many. It is an element of the picture to keep an eye on—if, of course, you can tear yourself away from the en- grossing story, told so coolly even through its violent climax. * X k ¥ Variety Club’s Navy Relief Society | benefit performance of the Ice- i ~ AMUSEMENTS., STARTS JAN. 14th—LIMITED ENGAGEMENT TOP ICE MUSICAL OF 43 THE CENTURY.... ICE-CA”pets”’ and ICE-CADETS $50,000 WORTH OF COSTUMES Produced by CH ESTER HALE Opemny NipM Sporuored by VARIETY CLUB as BENEFIT for v NAVY RELIEF SOCIETY LINE ICE ARENA 3rd & M Sts. N.E. FRranklin 5800 ‘I'lkz lmfl marked D. 17th . K to 1ith € st to Union Station and Arema DOWNTOWN BOX OFFICE National shirt that reaches only to the vicinity HAHN'S, 14th & G musical madhouse: 3:15 and 8:15| of his knees. pm. Marian. is popeyed. “What 1s Wimu Bros. 1,000 Laughs ¢, Bette ”Aws ' and Monty mmufy 714// EARI Ev ““The MAN WHO CAME to DINNER" Also today at Ambassador Now SHO Wing ... i mn Near £ m. 31100 1:49. 4.5 705,95 a Customer| In 2 Warne, Bros. IN PERS“N On Stage Three Swifts-Roy Davis § Lime Trio - Roxyettes % 2 Big Hits METRUPULITAN Presented by Waner Bros, - Actually Filmed Under Firel The RA.F. Is Its Cast! “Target for Tonight” shown Tomorrow at 11:10-1:20-3:35-5:45-8:00-10:15 Last Showing Both Attractions 9:10 p.m. mmuu Last Day- Fiber at 11:10-1:10-3:10- Warner Bros. Regular Performances START TOMORROW Doors Opem 10:30 am. “Falcon” Stories George SANDERS Jamgs' KG!{ASUN “A DATE with The FAlCflN" Wendy Bamc Mona Maris 00K WHO'S LAOGHIG" Proentod | mm.:mmaymu Capades next Wednesday today picks up Dorothy Lamour as its star. Miss Lamour, now spending her vacation touring the country on behalf of the Treasury Department’s Defense bond drive, has adjusted her itinerary to fit in with the club’s benefit. Her tour, incidentally, is spon- sored by the Treasury Department, not by Hollywood. It departs so radically from the usual personal appearance procedure that not even a Paramount press representative Incidental intelligence: Lt. Boyd (Buzz) Wagner, first American ace | of the current war, has supplied the iAspiration for a Warner Bros. pic- ace, or something, with two aviation pictures now to his credit . . . “Let- | ters to Lucerne,” that nme play | built around a girls’ school in | Switzerland and around the daugh- ters of six well-known Americans in the major roles, will close Saturday |night . . . Another fatality among the plays with a war theme, or ap- proximately & war theme. ‘When it concludes its New York run on January 17, “The Corn Is Green” will have played 475 per- formances on Broadway ... And will leave a fond memory in the hearts of critics who, until it came along, spent last season wondering if there ever would be a good play again . . The fact that Jane Wyman is work- ing like fury, busy more hours of the day than permit her to take care | of her baby, does not keep her from | singing sleepy-time songs to her | HARMONICA VIRTUOSO—In fact, the Kreisler of the instru- ment is Larry Adler, who comes today to the Capitol, joining Nightgown Sequence Hits ‘Hardy Series Humor Peak Andy’s Affairs Become Secondary In Funniest Passage in Latest Chapter in Family’s Saga By HAROLD HEFFERNAN. HOLLYWOOD. The most ludicrous scene ever projected into a Hardy family picture should get a hearty laugh from movie patrons when “The Courtship of Andy Hardy” comes to the screen a few weeks hence. That “man to man” business between the judge and Andy is side- tracked for the time being, while the whole family joins hands in | attempting to keep daughter Marian “in line.” Marian stands on the threshold of trouble when we enter<——— stage 12 at M-G-M to report on the | miringly at his own bare lezs “Them start of this semi-slapstick sequence. | that has ‘em shows 'em.” he boasts, comparatively new baby . . . She has made recordings which are played whenever a lullaby is in order in the baby’s schedule . . . It might be an idea for other absentee mothers . . . Or, it might not . . . With 10,000 | motion picture houses co-operating | in the program, the motion picture will attempt to raise 20 dimes each in an effort to roll up their quota will be shown immediately in thou- | sands of theaters . . . Its star is Her- | | bert Evers, the young actor, who | learned soldiering in less than 48| hours in order to play the role . . .| “How Green Was My Valley” was | screened last night for eritics who ‘were unable to attend the premiere in New York several weeks ago. Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing Stage. — “Hellzapoppin’” that Screen. the career of a New England family as depicted in J. P. Muquu)d 's best- seller: 10:30 am,, 05, 6:50 and , 3:30, c.nmhfi—“'rhe Corsican Broth- ers” adventure in the Dumas 9:35 pm. Earle—“The Man Who Came to Dinner,” Monty Woolley escorting Bette Davis to a larkish fete: 1:40, 4: 2 17:05 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows: 1, 6:30 and 9:15 p.m. Kemu— “Ball of Fire,” Barbara Stanwyck knocks the dignity out of 1 11:15 lm 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 p uulo—“Wuthermg Heizhts" the passionate romance with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon: 11 am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. Metropolitan—“Look Who's Laugh- ing,” with C. McCarthy and Edgar Bergen: 11:10 am, 1:10, 3:10 and 5:10 pm. (Night showing of “Target | judge, Ma Hardy, | Aunt Millie are all upset about it. | much to the family’s displeasure. | retorts. Capitol—"H. M. Pulham, Esq.”| manner: 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7 and | for Tonight” by invitation only.) R Palace—"Babes on Broadway,” y Oko Dancers 5 with Mickey Rooney: 11 am, 1:40, (| Jan,, 18, Siaoiks, Lise Gazeen; 420 7 and 9:40 p.m. Wolf, Naughty Lisette, Divertisse- Marian, played by Cecilia Parker, has lcceplgd "% date with Caxvel.sx m::.‘“ earlier statement of most talked-about young man. ‘The | “If you think youre going to Andy and even |, o) me out of wearing my ‘dress’” | Marian starts. But Mickey in-| | terrupts with, “Oh, come now. Let's | rise l’.we the mid-Victorian stand- ards.” ‘What's more, Marian has decided to wear a new nightgown as a formal— industry intends to make its con-| The scene starts on Marian de-‘ « ar th tfit the & ARt o Al of Dimes il scandini the! atalra S(ATINE Ut mis Sk 10 N S Distributed by paign this year of record-breaking |strange get-up) and follows her into R % R ‘ - “Pine! We'l fit into the pieture ADIO P,CTURES dimensions . ... Some 50,000 ushers | the Hardy dining room, where the ectly,” Stone continues calmly. family is about to gather for dinner. | Her escort is due at any moment. 2Well certainly put that young of $100,000 . . . “The Private Papers to be met by a SEMENT! of Private Dobbs,” U. S. O. figm given nx‘mgf"éh,".,.. Ma Hardy e = a gala Press Club premiere Tuesday, (Fay Holden) setting a platter on the table. Ma is robed in an old- fashioned, long-sieeved nightgown. “Mother!”, Marian cries, “are you me” J “Never felt better in my life,” ma LR B At the same time matro) Millie (Sara Haden) enters. | potatces a la Marian Hardy says gally. Aunt Millie, too, is dressed in a nightgown that might have been fashionable 50 years ago. | Now comes the topper. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) makes his en- trance wearing an ancient night- this?” she demands. “What is what, sister dear?” eomes | & familiar voice from the hall. And in charges Mr. Rooney himself—at- tired in the loudest striped pajamas the studio wardrobe could supply. Perched atop his head is an old- fashioned nightcap with a long tassel. “Patch my panty-waist, mother, you're a ball of fire in that outfit.” Stone chirps, showing he hasn't missed all of Andy’s lingo. “Oh, sophisticated, Jamss replies. “And you . ..a . a little short, but good and 'di Whereupon Stone looks down she | AMUSEMENTS. Jan. 14, 15, 8:30, Constitution Hall BALLET THEATRE Direct from Sensational N. Y. Rum ments. Tickets: $1.10. $1.65, $2.20. $2.75. AT CAPPEL CONCERT B U Baliaras 1550 G St 3508 “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY” NOW PLAYING . . . Doors open 10: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Jr. ALEXANDER DUMAS’ “The CORSICAN BROTHERS” RUTH WARRICK « AKIM TAMIROFF Myles step right out of Washmgton Premiere INVITATION PERFORMANCE TONIGHT AT 8:30 P.M. : " Muspices of RAF with CHARI.ES“_ c_"qgll"&umw HE.!.IN FAY HOI:.DE! best-seller to thrill you with their exciting love story D WEEK /= “Ilove hlm because he don'r know how to kiss- 2 0k Here is the story of a se- date professor who night club gal crashed his bachelor quarters ."ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY" HM.PULHAM.ESQ. This famed best sefler kas been excitingly and reveafingly produced by M-6-M...starring HEDY ROBERT RUTH LAMARR - YOUNG - HUSSEY She Ts completely right as Marvia gives a brifliant performance e+ 8 groat young star I ber (Myles, says author, John P. Marquand. ‘which will live in your momery. geatest rele] the Starring LARRY ADLER CALGCARY Brothers EUNICE HEALEY - RHYTHM ROCKETS NOW F Street at 14th Doors Open 10:45