Evening star., 1933-11-07

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opening at the BelaSco.
Miss SULLIVAN becomes instantly the
new screen find" of the season. She
is by all odds the most interesting per-
sonality discovered since Katherine
Hepburn. Neither strikingly beautiful
nor smooth or svelt in the Garbo-
Dietrich manner, she is, however, young
and incredibly clever. and she plays
rings around such well seasoned troup-
ers as Billie Burke, John Boles and
Reginald Denny in only Yesterday"
in which she makes her screen debut
Few actresses in recent years have
made two such entrances into Wash
ington. With her stage debut in the
Harris play. and now in only Yester-
day." Miss SULLIVAN strikes twice the
gong of public favor. Further than
that, the prediction about her becomes
undeniably true.
She should be congratulated: First
for being herself, second, for making a
sob role SO effective, Qadies will want
to bring yards of handkerchiefs to the
film); third, for being one of the few new
actresses who isn't so blond and putty
faced that she is like every other actress;
and fourth, for having voice which is
husky and pleasant and different, and
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actresses will try to copy during the
next few months.
Finally, Miss SULLIVAN is to be con-
graduated for one of the most convinc-
ing characterizations of the year-some-
thing which is so fine that we wonder
now the screen can have done without
her for so long. After you have seen
Only Yesterday" you will want to see
her again and again and again. Her
future bobs up second time as bright
as button.
WHAT ever became OF John Boles'
voice? Back about 10 years ago
Mr.. Boles, after studying with one of
the great vocal teachers in Paris and
on the Riviera, was said to be one of
the young men who would prove to
Europe that America has native opera
stars. He then appeared in one of those
broadway revues in which girls deck
themselves in beads and spangles and
hang from chandeliers by their ears
and in which the vocalist creeps out
from the wings and sings himself hoarse
10 no avail. Subsequently, Mr.. Boles
sang In few musical films and when
these died" was a regular visitor to
washington, appearing "in person" at
the Rialto-and meeting with great
favor.
Now he sings no more. A pity. Mr..
Boles has always been primarily singer
never an actor.
HERE'S one about Miss SULLIVAN
which apparently she knows moth
ing about. 1t seems that she comes
from Ireland and that she is immense
ly proud of the "a in her name. To
tne despair OF press agents, program
builders, advertising men, and electri-
clans. Miss, SULLIVAN has insisted that
she keep that "a The studios pleaded
with her to come down to simple "I."
She refused.
+ The studios forgot. So, when they
started sending around those large,
personal" pictures of her to fan ad-
mlrers the name appeared as "Sulli-
van. The mail is full of these ''auto-
graphed" pictures of the young star.
TO-DAY is the last day in which you
may see Charles Laughton as Eng
lands merriest and naughtiest mon
arch in film of the same description
at Keith's. We advise you to take a
few minutes off to see Henry VIII"
before he is yanked permanently out
Of sight. Mr.. Laughton, surrounded by
some Of England's most beautiful ladies,
provides some of the most stimulating
cinema fare of the year.
Tomorrow "Midshipman Jack" the
Annapolis story Of how not to be a
bad sailor, opens at this theater. This
Is the film during which Bruce Cabot
was courting his present wife by send
ing her S195 telephone calls. It Is
said that during bad storm one night
members of the company In Carvel
Hall Hotel heard Mr.. Cabot saying:
Listen. Adrienne, listenl" then there
was loud thunder Grassland after it
Mr.. Cabot was saying: Did you ever
hear anything like that?" It Is the
first time that any one has been known
to listen to thunderstorm in the