Evening star., 1933-09-18

immersed in the glycerin bottle.
Nor is this entirely ''mother-love
picture. Its side of laugh and nonsense
Is quite as potent as its tears. Guy
Kibbe playing a game of billiards with
Walter Connolly is enc of the better
sequences of the year, and Ned Sparks
acid comments on his brother gangsters
of the day adds punch whenever they
neeo a punch-which is seldom. .
1t is perhaps not ethical to 60 on In
this manner about a film which i.-s not
yet been released for public c:-ssamp-
ton But a preview of it last saturday
SO thoroughly convinced us tbS,t Miss
Robson-now celebrating her 50Ln an
niversary on the stage-should be
shouted abou. that it didn't seem fair
to wait.
UDINNER AT EIGHT" the film
II which has more stars in it than
there were in Grand Hctel," is coming
to the National either the week of Oc-
tober 16 Or 23-probably boin. One
of M-G-Ms banner pictures of the year,
and one which has caused great excite
ment both on the coast and on Broad
way, this is the finn rejuvenatlon OF
last seasons hugely successful stage
play. Needless to say that in view OF
the tact that it is coming hare as screen
entertainment. the chances OF ITS ap,,
pearing here in the flesh IS nil. 4ouu
Just have to stand seeing Marie Dressler
and the Barrymores and Jean Harlow!
RULLETIN from the Earle:
- Barbara Stanwyck, one OF the
theaters most alluring personalities,
will head the stage show at the Earle
the week of September 29,'
Little needs be added to this. Except
perhaps the news. which Is no news
that Miss Stanwyck is one of the most
popular screen stars IN HOLLYWOOD.
When she works she works like Tro-
ian. We saw her blowing around the
muddy square of French village war
ner Bros. lott, and it WAS mud, doing
a scene over and over and over again,
with that smile of hers which is dis
tinctly electric. You'll find her much
batter looking lin person" than you had
imagined. :,
Incidentally her house. and husband
Frank Fay's house, sits right across the
street from Joan Crawford's. 1t is very
large and very handsome, and you can
throw stone from one house to the
next.
That's up in Brentwood Heights
where Garbo used to live. Now Garbo
lives near the sea. high IT.. on the edge
of nowhere If she looks too far over
her terrace wall she's likely to fall into
the water. And what fall that
would be!
7 OCAL theaters should build sound
l. proof parking spaces for wailing
infants. Yesterday Loew's Fox was in
dire need of such thing. Just before
Mime. Frances Aida walked onto the
stage. a small child let loose such
barrage of unhappinesS that patrons
through the length and breadth OF
the theater were barely able to hear
what was going on on the stage. Evl-
IDENTIFY the mother was having too good
a time to bother much with the child.
Every time an usher tried to find it,
however, she managed somehow to get
it out Of sight. The flustered usher
reported to the management: mo baby
visible" And no sooner had he said
these words than the baby bounced up
again and began its whooping catcau
This was a pity Nine. Aida was a
grand sport about it. She might have
stopped in the middle of The Merry
Widow" waltz and told the baby to
shut up But she didn't. She sang
along calmly and sweetly and tried to
SuDmerge IIle ciiilo olly Wy Vic oiieei
volume of her voice.
We can understand how she might
feel about such a thing, too. After all,
very, very few people have taken their
babes to the Metropolitan We have
never yet heard a Brunhilda stop In
the middle of the show and exclaim
throw that child out!'
* X X
WHAT fun the local theater wags are
w having with each other! Comes
a big and oold announcement today to
the effect that three major film houses
(all, of course, under the same man
agement) bring you the Capitals most
consistently splendid entertainment i