The Washington times., 1933-12-13
GINGER ROGERS TO CHANGE NAME Studio et t S AT tt
AT THE THEATERS NEXT WEEK
Jean Harlow Gets a Big Pay Raise;
Cantors New Film Previewed;
$1,000 for Hepburn

his radio following turn out the
Earle is assured Of a dividend.
Now if somebody will induce
Soprano Jessica Dragonette to
accept some of this generous
vaudeville money another worthy
radio headliner would be avail
able.
"AIice" at the Met
"Alice in Wonderland" will be
the Christmas week attraction at
the metropolitan Theater. The
picture opens December %.
This screen conception of Lewis
CAROLS immortal story has Char
lotte Henry as "Alice" and the
most imposing cast ever pre-
sented in a Paramount picture.
Those playing the fanciful char
acters are Richard Arlen, Roscoe
Ates, William Austin, Billy Barty,
Billy Bevan, Colin Campbell, Har.
vey Clark, Gary Cooper, Jack
Duffy, Harry Ekezian, Leon Enrol,
Louise FaZenda, w. G. Fields, Alec
B. Francis, SkeetS Gallagher,
Meyer Grace, Cary Grant, Ethel
Critics, Lillian Hammer, Ray
mond Hatton, Sterling Holloway,
Edward Everett Horton, Roscoe
Harms, Colin Kenny, Baby Leroy,
Lucien Littlefield, Mae Marsh,
Charles McNaughton, Polly Mo-
ran, Jack Oakie, Patsy O'Byrne,
Edna May Oliver, George Ovey,
May Robson. Charlie Ruggles,
Jackie Scarf, Alison Skipworth.
Ned Sparks, Will Stanton. Ford
Sterling, Joe Torrillo and Jacque-
line Wells.
They Like Katie
Jed Harris opened the New
York box office sale for Katha-
rine Hepburn's new play, THE
Lake." yesterday and spectators
surrounded the Martin Beck
Theater offering $25 a pair for
first night seats. BY December
26, the New York premiere night,
this price is expected to be at
least $50. Such is the demand.
Down on E Street the market
for. Hepburn tickets is equally
lively and the National will hold
the most brilliant first night as
semblage since MARY of Scot
land" when the curtain lifts
next Monday night. Bryn Mawr
will honor it's most distinguished
contribution to the contempt
rary stage.
Hepburn is the rage right now.
For her first appearance on the
radio, January z, she will draw
down $4,000 for a 15-minute
talk. A record price for a first
talk into the microphone.
scandals" Boss
Tom Bodkin, who served as tub
thumper for Ed Wynn and before
that was the intimate pal and
booster for the late Jack Donahue,
is plotting George Whites Scan
dals over the movie circuits. Scan
dals, which arrives at the Fox
Theater on Friday, is the top
money attraction of the tabloid
revues touring the cinemas.
my Lips Betray," which will
arrive on the Fox screen Friday
with Lillian Harvey starred, had
its premiere as a play at the Be-
lasco. It had no music in it then
and was called "Her Majesty's
Car" incidentally a young actor
who opened a carriage door and
bowed for the king and got $35 a
week for his service is now a
Hollywood star. The boy with the
"walk-on" was Jimmy Dunn. Mir
lam Hopkins played the lead.
They're Too Late
The Hollywood ignorance in
some quarters is too dense to be
cut with a butchers cleaver.
Aroused b the success of Louisa
M. Alcott's story Little Women"
producing offices have been call
ing up play brokers and asking
them to assist in being put in
immediate touch with the au.
thor. She has been dead a mat
ter of As yearr.
One play broker reports:
"OnIy this morning the story
department of one of the film
companies phOned me for the
address of the writer of Little
Women. Figuring that there
was some degree Of intelligence
at the other end of the wire,
I impaired the news of her
death many years ago by say.
ing that I thought she could be
reached if addressed in care of
Jules Verne somewhere on the
River Styx.
"Darned if / wasn't called up
half an hour later by the same
fellow" laughingly relates the
broker, land asked what part