Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1942, Page 33

B-14 AMUSEMENTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Mr. Young, Ever Available, Took Any Role Offered Him And Finally, Handsome and Competent, He Had to Take Billing as Star Despite Sturdy Objections By JAY CARMODY. ‘When Tracy, Gable, Taylor and Pidgeon were busy, there still was Robert Young. So Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would give Young those lead+ ing male roles which never were memorable. He would do them hand- somely and competently, and it wouldn't make much difference either to him or to you. Young's effect, therefore, has been more cumulative than anything else. He was in a lot of pictures, it seemed, the kind of pictures in which one man wins the girl¢———7 —7—7—T"—T—7—— another loses her. Young lost so, many girls, o0 many times, that cx::’;a;g‘m’:‘%i::;' o’n‘e ;“‘::;l his picture i1 a dentifrice ad Young wn.; o it 3 Zfl,fi,‘,:.edhf,v,fi Pulham, who couldn't break with d for a single the austerity of his background and e f text was broken by it as & result, was a :ord o exkl_ fellow who took s deal of under- hvery orc\le ";?,‘:,d standing. There was no Qquestion i mahd in M-G-M's_aggregate mind that :hn htr;;“y 1 Young was the actor who had the e ¢ 3?' 5‘,{ understanding. He did to an extent Loee S that has made his impersonation of T o Pulham one of the highly prased §t e 1; h: :é 3 performances of the year, made re- W e c“w 5 viewers, moviegoers and a lot of been NS g other people suddenly aware that ;lo,‘m;)sl;:‘ci‘;u;ei they don't know much about so jokes usually are L capable & pl:Y:r-' - unjust. b Those years of Ja» Carmody. n:p;fi;clkd%fu outie :n-k‘xzew blo- being the fellow who didn't get the girl were satisfying to M-G-M's nighly competent craftsman. He worked about as steadily es any man in pictures, was well paid for it, managed to keep out of the lime- light, which is one of his heart's fondest desires, and to live quietly| with the girl he did win, Mrs. pastime. It reveals the fact that he never thought much of being an actor. He didn’t have time, really, since it was necessary for him to go to work at an early age to help support his family. After leaving high school in Los Angeles, where the family moved from Chicago when Robert was a schoolboy, he Young, and the two young daugh- ters. Stardom, publicity, social life, night life and that sort of thing| were not for him. Home life was, | and Is, and slways will be. — Eyestrain is Often Abolished by Scien cally Fitted . . . . . got his first job as a soda jerker in a drug store. His next was as copy boy in a newspaper office. From that he might have evolved into a reporter had not he annoyed a dyspeptic night editor by giving too apt imitations of s man whose stomach was bothering him. After that, he went back to soda jerking again. Sensing that the future of such a job was limited, he worked around until he landed a job as bookkeeper for a building and loan company. It somehow did not seem to fit his temperament, but it was paying money which his family needed and that was comforting. The stock market crash knocked him out of the job in 1929, but he landed vir- tually on his knees as a furniture mover, then eventually in a bank, where he finally became an assistant Fitted by our registered optometrist only after a cashier. In spite of his antipathy complete diagnosis of for other people’s money and stocks, your case. he seemed destined to be writing figures in small books all his life, M. A. LEESE Optical Company 614 9TH ST. N.W. m DIARIES wmyi Splendid assortment for home, office or p 1 use. 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Her local sgnt of stimulating is scheduled for next Wednesday night at the Ice-Capade Naval Relief Society benefit perform- ance. Variely Club is sponsoring. until an old high school teacher suggested he go to the Pasadena Community Players and learn some- thing about aciing. For four years acting took up his| every night in one wav or another. Hel;vlsbl:ttln:“llonl lnot A;I)ecu;:u- larly, but getiing along, learning - i o how to be a good craftsman, which | National — “Hellzapoppin’,” that is more than a lot of actors ever do. | Musical madhouse: 8:15 pm, Pasadena, hovever, was the orbit of his professional career until, out of one of those blue California skies, a representativs of M-G-M snatched | the career of a New England family him away to 4o s small role with |8s depicted in J. P. M-rqunnds best Helen Hayes ir “The Sin of Madelon | Claudet.” Since then, Young has played in | 65 pictures, never with star billing— at his own insistence—until “H. M. | Pulham, Esq.” ner: 11:55 am., 2:30, 5, 7:35 and When he is aot acting, his latest | 10:10 p.m. | _Earle—“The Man Who Came to | Dinner,” Monty Woolley escorting Bette Davis to a larkish fete: 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows: 1, 3:45, 6:30 and 9:15 p.m. Keith's—“Ball of Fire,” Barbara Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing Stage. Screen. Capitol—"H. M. Pulham, Esq.” 9:40 pm. Stage show: 1240 3:30, 6:20 and 9:05 pm. Columbia—“The Corsican Broth- ers,” adventure in the Dumas man- he spends his time working in his fruit and vegetable | gardens, rides vith Mrs. Young, who | was his childiood sweetheart, and his two children. He intends to keep life that sim- 1 % Stanwyck knocks the dignity out of Dl alvays SRS Glry’cwper: 11:15 am,, 1:20, 3:25, Addenda: Two of George M. o] £ Little—“Wuthering Heights,” the passionate romance with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon: 11 am.,, | 1:10, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:45 pm. Metropolitan — “Target for To- | . Silvia Sicney, Victor Jory and | night,” the R. A. F. pays a call on Ernest Cossart will head the “Angel | Germany: 11:10 am. 1:20, 3:35, Street” compeny which opens at | 5:45, 8and 10:10 pm. “A Date With | the National Fxbruary 16. .. Tickets | the Falcon”: 12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 6:55 for the command performance of ""‘1 9:10 p.m. “Watch on the Rhine,” at the Na- | Palace — “Babes on Broadway,” | tional January 25, will go on sale a | with Mickey Rooney: 11 am, 1:40, | week from tocay The house is | 4:20, 7 and 9:40 p.m. | scaled. 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If you are at all interested in a piaho don’t foil to come in ‘during this event—we promise you that it will be well worth your while as seldom before have we been Weber, Estey, Chickering, able to offer so many bargains Steinway (used), Starr, Krell, at one time. | VERY EASY TERMS PIANOS IN TRADE I CALL REPUBLIC 6212 . 4 Our annual big clearance and your opportunity to buy a fine new or used piano at a real rediction! On sale is practically every new and used piano in sur store—the finest stock in the city — over 75 grands, ssinets, consoles and small uprghts of such makes as Knabe. Waurlitzer, Fischer, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942, Ann and George Deceived Even Their Closest Friends Marriage, Often Rumored and Denied, Finally Came as a Surprise to Every One at Warner Studio By MAYME OBER PEAK. HOLLYWOOD. Ann Sheridan and George Brent stole a march on Hollywood—a wedding march, when they eloped all the way to Florida. She slipped off to Waco, Tex., to spend Christmas with her parents, quietly joining George at Palm Beach. ‘This Hollywood couple has been “going together” so long—meanwhile strenuously denying rumors of s serious romance—that even their own studio ignored that square-cut diamend ring tbat appeared on Annie's finger at Christmas. George's gift of a tractor for Annie’s recently purchased ranch home, furniture, and flocks of chick- ens failed to create any suspicion. But when George and Annie were in conference with poultry men on the set, why didn’t some one catch on that they wete contemplating a partnership? And what kind of & partner was chosen by this Texas red-head who “oomphed” into world consciousns two years ago? George Brent, as person, has been something of s mystery man. He has been called “The Male Garbo.” His own studio doesn't know his telephone number! * % & % George maintains that his job is absorbing Pict: I have ever sees —Lowell Thomas AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. zwfi'é'}s“}““ GARY COOPER BAKBARA STANWYCK In Samuel Goldwyn's Comedy of the Year “BALL OF FIRE” ‘lll. THAT MONEY CAN BUY" Last 3 days, Deors open 10:15 “A.M. Pllhn,Eq YOUNG @ Hody LAMAI IlTfi lllu“ Lml.«oldpr’m MICKEY o llAI-Ac IOON!V CARI.AND SPECIAL LOUIS-BAER While Re-Run _ in jne A Great News and March “AMERICA AT WAR" Kaltenborn MeCrary, s Tax, —Hot Punches THURSDAY ‘Dr. Kildare's Vietory’ Lew Ayres © Lishel Barrymore o Ilmno!u AN AYARS " wTHE IIGD REVUE” 'AUI. DRAPER M PPy WALTER 13 27, | has been well established for years. acting before the camera, and when he finishes that job, his time is strictly his own. Hollywood fame to him is a game of fox and hounds, with aut aph seekers driving him to solitude. Never s show-off, nor a night-club rounder, he preferred the secluded Lake Toluca home which he leased from Charles Far- rell, or a week-end on his yacht. An TIrishman, Brent is the son of a Dublin newspaperman. However, he has no liking for reporters nor interviews. He doesn't care & darn about getting his name in print. His theory is that an actor should no more have to talk on his time off than & postman should take s walk on his holidays. ‘When Brent is working on a ple- ture he does his talking to the men on the crew. When he is in the company of his few cronies. he confines discussions to his three favorite topics—guns, sailboats and planes. * x5 He has always had & way with women . . . was married twice before. Pirst to Ruth Chatterton, who taught him how to fly. Years later he was married very briefly to Constance Worth. His girl friends have always been in the top-name brackets. His name was linked with Garbo's, even to the rumor of an elopement. Bette Davis and Olivia de Haviland were other names cou- pled with George at one time. He began paying court to Ann| Sheridan in October, 1939, and they have been together almost con- stantly since. They have had sev- eral spats . . . the longest of which has been the most recent one— lasting two weeks. Both were mis- erable as a result of it. When Ann went on strike at Warners for higher pay, and was suspended for six months, the con- census was that it was at the ad- vice of George Brent. She was getting $300 when she walked off the lot. Her salary has been more than doubled since her return. Brent's hand might also have been seen in her purchase of a ranch ... Por Annie isn't really the country type, nor one who goes in for soli- tude. She has never been an ex- clusive; she rather liges the nlght‘ life. ‘The Hollywood hullabaloo over | her build-up as the “Oomph Girl” never touched her. She remained | more or less of & bystander, amazed | at what was happening. Ann Sheridan’s nature compli- ments George Brent's. Her brief marriage to Edward Norris went on | the rocks because both were kids | building a career. George's career He has kept his place without any radical change in his acting style. He consistently gives a good per- formance. ‘We predict that as Mrs. George Brent, Ann will continue her prog- ress as a screen personality. With Ann, George will find the happiness which heretofore has eluded him. (Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Curfew Mens Starts at 10 P.M. Dine ot The Captein's Teble ‘Donnell’s D We Never Close! 2 Restaurants 2753 DANCING. Dence Lessons ot Lowest Retes on the 7th Birthday of the Canellis Dance Studios 1322 Pa. Ave. N.W. Distriet 1673 Dance Lessons Greatly Reduced! DON MARTINI s i 10 THAYER DANCE MY VALLEY” Last 3 Days®Doors Open 11 FAIRBANKS, Jr, 8th E. Lawrence Phillips’ Cont, Prom 5 P.M “THE MAL’I'ESE FALCON,” With HUMPHRE' RT MARY AS- TOR. vas GESHEE and PETER LORRE. R HENRY FONDA and JOAN BENNETT in “WILD GEESE CALLING,” With WARREN WILLIAM Mats. Wed.Sat. $1.08, $1.50, $2.00 NEXT WK. BEG. MON.—Seats Thu Prior to New York! 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