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Evening star., 1933-08-13

OF course, by now you all know that
Mary Howard isn't her real name. Her
name is Mary Rogers and she is the
daughter Of Will, the famous cowboy
humorist Of the Fox lot. She looks
exactly like what she is-a product of
the Sarah Lawrence School. She Is a
well-bred, exquisitely educated miss who
rides like Diana, dances like a nymph,
speaks the sort of English that sort Of
q young lady should speak, has the sill
houette that should go with such &C
complishments and the Springtime face
which makes her accomplishments ir-
resistible.
She enters pictures without the op-
position OF her parents and. if she
makes good, some day will undoubtedly
pear with her father as the Rolling
Stones" have appeared-to the entire
country'S delight. Mary Howard got
through the preliminary tests at the
studio without influence or help-her
beauty, personality and figure carried
her through q test which eliminated
several hundred girls and narrowed the
contest down to so. Out Of SO to 6, and
Mary Rogers survived The others are
mostly Broadway show" girls and "bit"
players from the other lots.
Dixie Frances was born in humble cir
cumstances in Kansas City. This hap
pened 10 years ago, and Just half of
that time ago the young lady decided
to be movie" At 9 then, she joined
a children's group which sang on the
radio. They received no money, but it
was a start, even though the station
was small.
Concentration on singing and the
banjo brought her occasional jobs as an
entertainer by the time she was II. And
at IA she joined musical revue COM
pany which did the tank towns of Mis-
souri,, Nebraska and other States.
Stranded, she returned home and
modelled coats-sang over the radio
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and see who sighs. Bring back the
thunderous herds Of The Covered
Wagon" and fnd one to cape at them.
The movies are like newspapers.
They live with the day, reflect it, per-
haps mold it.
And there the stage Is different
more like q portrait in oils Of the day,
the story, the character and the drama.
Bring out this portrait from an old
trunk and its life still is there. No
change will come to it. Pull out the
old costumes and they are of real
cloth and their meaning somehow Is
intimate. Here is no suggestion Of the
awkward photograph; the spotted and
faded picture taken on an irrelevant
day. The stage revival Is in colors
Its voices speak living language and
its clothing gains q subtle warmth
from the very fact Of being worn by
people who are Of today, who 1--we and
breathe and rustic their garments be-
hind the footlights.
Manager Cochran has staked his
claim in rich land. We hope he cul-
tivates it.
NOTES from the studios: Ethel
Norman, whose rendition of "Eadie
Was Lady" promises to be a folk
song along with "St. Louis Blues" and
the like, has been signed by Paramount
to make a musical, We're Setting
Pretty" Warner Brothers are under
stood to be planning two racket films,
one about the subsidiAng Of college
foot ball players and another on the
fake patent medicine business Jock
Whitney Is reported looking for stories
for the technicolor pictures he plans
to make in partnership with . film
Arm. Tullio Carminati, famous for his
roles in Strictly Dishonorable," and
more recently Music In the Air" will
go to Hollywood to make Moulin
Rouge" with Constance Bennett and
Gallant Lady" with Ann Harding.
Irving Thalberg may be given an en-
tire production unit of his own In the
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer studio, rumors
would be the ace star and nucleus Of
his retinue Of actors
ON the list of possible presentations
In Washington during coming
weeks, Manager Carter Barron Of the
local Loew chain has named 1.-The
Masquerader," Ronald Colmans latest
film, with Elisa Landi, Juiette Comp
ton. David Terrence. Creighton Hale
and others in the cast; Show World" ;"
2 pageant OF half a century In the
theater, with Alice Brady. Frank Nor
gan. Madge Evans. Jimmie Durante.
Weber and Fields and other lights Of
the legitimate stage; a Lee Tracy pic
ture called Turn Back the Clock, /"
written by Edgar selwyn and Ben
Hecht; Pilgrimage" which we hear
Is one Of those things to be seen as
soon as possible. but worth waiting
for, brings Henrietta Crosman. Heather
Angel, Marian Nixon and a strong
supporting cast. and Paddy. the Next
Best Thing" the Janet Gaynor-War-
ner Baxter cinema which Is said to
have won Miss Gaynor . very quick
renewal Of her contract
Evening star., 1933-08-13

Indeed, the program OF pOSSlbllltleS
listed in his fertile correspondence
should make the town sit up and gasp
as it has not since Noel Coward and
the Lunts left the drama-loving cit
liens completely breathless. Take
Reed in The Shanghai Gesture"
(Which, by the way, is being revived by
one of the Summer companies north
ward even now, Philip Merivale and
Nancy Sheridan (who is now playing
q week of star stock engagement at
Netcong) in "Cynara," Bert Lytell In
Criminal at Large" Henry Hull In
eThe Man Who Came Back"
Here this series should be broken
eor fear of dulling all these jewels by
crowding them too close together. The
melody goes en-. Twentieth Century"
Corrine Griffith in Something for
Screen Star" Basil Rathbone in THE
Command to Love-" Helen Menken in
Seventh Heaven" Madge Kennedy in
one Of her old successes 1--WE vote for
"Private Lives'O James Kirkwood In
1.-The Fool" the Coburns In The Yel-
low Jacket" and Guy Bates Post in
'"The Masquerader. Such Is the fu-
ture he proposes.
What an array! And what man
10 invent it, Although Mr.. Cochran
does not seem too certain that all his
suggestions or even large majority
Of them could be put on the boards
during one season. when We think of
it, how many of these stars are busy
now and how many Of these plays
serving companies elsewhere? Why
should not Washington have them?
The demands of the New York season
may eliminate a few from the roll.
One or two Of the plays may be caught
up in the spirit Of revival which has
preoccupied Broadway Of late, and the
best companies absorbed in that man
per. But the chances are the big, pa
Sade could pass almost in the whole.
And would Washington audiences
respond? 1t is incredible to think they
would not, despite the distinctly cratic
reception received by the National
Players this season. But the sage of
the Nationals second floor front prom
iees to go them one better in this deal.
He plans prices fitted to the times and
anything but commensurate with the
yalue of the product he wants TO sell.
He Is cautious only lest he ruin the
legitimate road show by underselling
It fatally.
Revivals are not the way Of the
movies. Once fllm has gone into
umDo, most people 1eel II Ii well loSt,
for by the time it could be dragged
forth again it would be antiquated in
technique, topically dull and outmodsd
in coiffeur and gowns. After all, the
head dress and styles, mental or other
wise, Of the average movie heroine will
change at least three times In any
given year.
And that Is q matter Of importance
10 the ladies who predominate every
andience They note at once the
change In this ruffle and that. Should
one mutton chop sleeve be seen when
1t should not. or be not seen when It
should. the substance Of the film Is
spoiled. Revive Flesh and the Devil"
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Ladv From Dubuque.

MARGARET LINDSAY who has the
. leading feminine role opposite
William Powell In Private Detective
g." now showing at the Earle Theater.
was born In Dubuque, Iowa. her real
name being Margaret Kies. She was
educated in the National Park Semi
nary in Washington, d. c., and in the
National Academy of Dramatic Art.
She began with small parts on the
stage and worked up to leading roles,
playing also in stock and repertoire.
Her biggest stage hit was Death Takes
q Holiday" Recently she entered pic
lures and made striking success In her
role in "Cavalcade" Other pictures
in which she has appeared include
Baby Face" "All American" "Okay
America" "Once in a Lifetime" THE
Fourth Horseman" and "West OF Sing
apore."
After finishing private Detective g."
she was cast in two other Warner
Bros. First National pictures, Vol
taire," with George Arliss, and Cap
tured,"' with -cslie Howard and Douglas
Fairbanks, jr.
Evening star., 1933-08-13

to remain, in his stage personality. at
the same age as that of the characters
In which he first made his name
In Strictly Dynamite" he appears as
q promising young writer whom dat ole
Debbl Radio brought to grief. Nick
Moore (Mr. Hunter) and his young wife
erin OBrien-Moore) were struggling
along happily enough when a well
meaning friend came along with the
argument that it was absurd to scrimp
SO painfully when easy money was
waiting for a clever youngster as q
radio continuity writer. One MIKE
Slaight Fred Hildebrand) was the low
brow radio comedian. who, after being
convinced that Nick's humor was
strictly dynamite" was quite willing
to pay him 5000 a week to supply him
with gags.
1t was the old story of the monster
Of hideous mien. first endured, then
pitied, then embraced To young Mrs
Moore's dismay. her idealistic husband
proved to be a veritable chameleon,
not only dishing up Moxie Slaight s
stuff. but taking on the color OF the
milieu in which he worked. He ended
by running of to Atlantic City with
Moxie's girl. one Vera Van Dine, and
losing wife, job, and pretty much every
thing until, just before the final cur
tain, the well meaning friend Victor
Kilian) again came to the rescue. re-
united the young couple, and through
some long distance telephone pyro-
technics with Editor Ellery Sedgwick,
permitted the lowering of a foredrop
consisting Of an enlarged front-cover
Of the Atlantic Monthly, the leading
article in which was a piece entitled
Eho hxy hn ri, otn n
young Mr.. Moore himself.
THE authors, Robert T. Colwell and
Robert A. Simon, appeared uncer-
tain just what to do with this guileless
theme. and the mood flickered back
and forth between light comedy and
farce, with . touch or two of melo-
drama. Nor was Mr.. Hunter of much
assistance. He seemed more than
usually troubled with his characteristic
inability to grow up, and the incoherent
adolescent into which he turned Nick
Moore was plausible neither as a clever
writer nor as a husband for 80 quite
an au-there young woman as Miss
OBrien-M Moore's Sylvia.
. The soundest bit Of comedy on the
first night was an incidental passage
played by one Tom Morrison as a me-
chanic from the telephone company.
Having installed switchboard in the
continuity writer's Office, he politely
asked Mr.. Moore's secretary to get him
q certain Riverside number. rs this
Mr.. Simms?" he asked taking up the
receiver, "Mr. Paul Simms? Am speak
ing to Mr. Paul Simms, personally?
Thank you! Well. nuts to you,
good-by!"
It seems that Mr. Simms happened
to be the telephone mans particular
distaste, and he took this way of getting
even. Several times after that the
telephone man turned up, and each
time he contrived to call up his unseen
friend. and wish him q nuts-to-you
and good-by. The thing had nothing
whatever to do with the plot, we never
heard what had caused the enmity be-
tween the telephone man and the un-
seen MI. Simms-it was Just one of
those glimpses into the lives Of the
people we pass, characteristic Of great
city, and the more eloquent for its
underStatement,
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Announce Festival.
THE Community Center Departm

THE Community Center Department
and the National Capital Parks
Office of the Interior Department an
nounce the international festival at
the Sylvan Theater. which will take
place Wednesday evening, August %,
at 7:45 o'clock, opening with a concert
by the Americanization School Asso-
citation Band. conducted by Joseph Ro-
meo. The program OF the ocasion VIII
be staged under the direction of The
dore Bekefl. formerly of the Imperi
Russian Ballet.
Members of the Bekefi Institute
Dance and Music of this city will
seen In a succession Of advertisement
featuring dances of foreign countri.
and will assist in the presentation {
a scene from Die Casardas Furstin
The Dancing Princess. by Emerlc
Kalman, to be presented here for Il
first time in civic program by t.
Zalipsky Opera Group of Washing
with Nine. Zalipsky at the piano.
Mr.. Bekefi will be assisted by
brother, Alexis Bekefl
Evening star., 1933-08-13
His Own Enemy.
DUSS COIJJMRO radio and

2 USS COLUMBO, radio and stage
A> star, who was last seen here at
Chevy Chase Lake, is eatured in That
Goes Double" Vitaphone two-reel
Broadway Brevities" musical film now
being shown at the Metropolitan Thea
ter, in conjunction with THE Narrow
Corner" feature film, starring Douglas
Fairbanks. jr. and Patricia Ellis
Russ plays two parts in this short,
singer and clerk who resents the
fact that he looks like the singer.
Columbo will be heard singing "You
Call It Madness" MY Love-" Prisoner
Of Love-" so at Last It's Come to
This" "One Little Word Led to An
other" and Il Got Myself in Bad"
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Given Contract.
7 ELLA HYAMS. feminine lead

I ELLA HYAMS, feminine lead oppo-
- site Robert Young in Universal's
urday's Millions" has been signed to
a long-term contract by Carl Laemmle,
jr. Now in its third week of filming,
Saturdays Millions" has Andy Devine.
John Mack Brown. Mary Doran, Mary
Carlisle, Lucille Lund Universal's "All
American GirlD, Grant Mitchell, Ernie
Nevers and Erny Pinckert in the sup
porting cast. The story was adapted
by Dale Van Every from Lucian Cary's
forthcoming Saturday Evening Post
serial of the same name. Edward
SedpWick il directing
Evening star., 1933-08-13
To Make "Candlelight."

DAUL LUKAS this week was informed
by Carl Laemmle, jr., that he has
been chosen to play the leading role
in Universals soon to be produced
screen version Of Siegfried Geyer's
noted stage success, "Candlelight." The
screenplay, adapted and dtalogued by
Hans Kraly and F. Hugh Herbert, VIII
10 before the cameras under Robert
Wyler's direction within the next two
weeks,
Evening star., 1933-08-13

ONE of the minor problems of the
thester Of late years has been that
Of finding q role for Miss Lenore Uric
which would permit her to achieve
something like the success Of the days
when she was mere clay in the hands Of
Mr.. Belasco. Would she ever, all by
an unknown young actress under the
old wizards direction.
Her latest experiment, in Bosley
Crowther's and William Du Bois' East
Of the Sun" found her less tempestuous
and hoarsely temperamental than she
has been in most Of her parts. but the
riddle was still to be answered. In
East of the SUM-" she is the daughter
of a well-to-do New Yorker and sup
posed to be conventionally reared, al
though a gesture in the Uric stage
tradition is made by giving the young
lady her own nat and cellar" In town
a Mr.. and Mrs. Ted and Nancy Ladd,
whose sole occupation seems to be that
of shaking up and consuming drinks.
The Ladds supply comedy relief"
Miss Emerson. having got through be-
ing a debutante without finding her
man. engages herself, on grounds of ex-
pediency, to a solid young business man.
so incredibly dull and pompous that
when the Ladds begin to talk about
their dashing young mail pilot friend,
Ben Michaels, who served In the For
eign Legion, surveyed East Indian
jungles and goodness knows what not,
the spectator perceives that all's over
but the shouting.
Soon and gladly. Miss Emerson gives
herself to the romantic bird-man, but
ch uyf1
until he has made his proposed nom
stop flight across the Pacific, lest the
potential responsibilities of marriage
should fray, by so much as a single pin
feather, the eagles wing. The authors
have some dif1lculty In stretching this
situation over three acts and six scenes
and the final scene Is but q matter of
waiting by the radio for the word that
Ben is going to send as soon as he has
accomplished his 4,000-mile hop.
When word finally comes, 1t int
from Ben, but from the radio an
nouncer at Shanghai, and the word is
that Ben has crashed in the sea within
sight Of his goal. This is pretty sad.
but not so sad as you might think, for
the authors wax more and more ro-
mantle as they go along and by this
time are quite so, and the White
Moths plunge INTO the Pacific makes
it possible for that beautiful young
love of theirs to remain ever beautiful
and young. untarnished by any Of life's
realities.
The piece was curious mixture Of
several styles. Of cocktail farce. Of SELF
conscious kidding after considerably
after) the manner Of Philip Barry, of
the popular magazine type Of ro-
manticism aforesaid. Miss Uric had
moments Of authority in the first-night
try-out at Jackson Heights, but was not
as well acquainted with the role as she
will be later on. Every actress Is en-
titled, doubtless, to one favorite man
nerism, but would 1t be too much to
suggest that the hips are not things
to hang onto as If they were the han
die bars Of a bicycle, that there Is q
gain in eloquence as well - dignity
If the hands and arms are occasionally
used for something else?
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Three Little Cinderellas
Find Good Roles in Movies
Mary Howard, Who Is Daughter of Will Rogers;
Irene Bentley and Dixie Frances Are
Some Day Expected to Star.
By Mollie Merrick.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, August ~.

IL.
CINDERELLA OF the lot today the
Movies work @ that fast Yet we seldom give much time and
o gstsnng hair make them the bright spots of the
might devote lot of reading somebody
GOOD the public and doing that public
somebody already interested
to " ~' ~
few OF these notably new mus
cal comedy MY Weaknessare having
show what talents they Bentley Frances and
" o'' 00 NN"10o' "t0
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Light Opera Revival Only
Event of Week on Broadway
Lenore Uric and Glenn Hunter Having Trouble
With New Plays-Several Novelties" Are
Tried Out Along Barn Circuit.
BY ARTHUR RUHL.

@nBERT and Sullivan back to
form Of Mr. Abos revival Of The Pirates Of Penzance and
Robinsons Tommy but plays The latter were all
scattered along the circuit from Jersey Skowhgan
1t Skowhegan that the
spendthrf Lady, presented among other novelties
which perhaps be later Broadway
by LAWRENCE Langner tried out at Westpo Conn., Halfway
by Crane Wilbur at Summit N j.. II Want Love-
house at East Hampton Long Island and Love Babies
bert II. McCormack at Jackson HEIGHTS
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Where and When in Local Theaters.

EARLE-"Privae Detective g." at 2 430 tbs and $50 PM
Stage shows at $50, $50 and 9:06 pm.
LOEWS FOX-"Arizona Broadway" 4:37 1892 959
pm Stage shows at 3:4l, 6:36 and 903 pm.
KEITHs-No Marriage Tie at 332 5:34, 73e and
938 pm.
PALACE-"Tugboat Annie" this afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA-A Study in Scarlet" at $780, $780, $685. 655 and
945
METROPOLITAN Narrow Corner" this afternoon and
evening.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Promising Fine Array of
STAGE Talent This Winter
Manager Cochran Of the National Theater Does
Some Planning Ahead and Says Coming
Season Will Bring Many Favorites.

IL the stars that flicker silver
mpresaro Steve Cochran Of National Theaer fame has
that point most eoquenty In letter addressed
the rghtful occupant Of this chair Mr. Cochran has
rgd air and the pleasant our city
for the legitimate stage may well be
osatjSfv them
Evening star., 1933-08-13
PALACE.

Marlene Dietrichs Song of Songs"
will be the next attraction at Loew's
Palace after the run Of "Tugboat An
ME-" according to present plans Of the
theater. Might Flight" the Helen
Hayes, Lionel Barrymore, etc., film, was
at first considered as q possibility for
the next bill there, 1t is understood, but
at the current writing the Dietrich pic
ture probably will supplaut 1t.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Outdoor Amusements.
GLEN ECHO PARK.

THE old idea of selecting contest win
ners from photographs is "out"
these days at the Glen Echo Park
Spanish garden ball room, where the
Miss Personality Contest Is going on.
No fair lady must depend upon the
photographers art to do her justice,
because entries are on the spot In
person. The public gets q vote with
each paid admission, and these votes
are then cast for their favorite Miss
Personality" The two winners will be
rewarded with a trip to the Chicago
World Fair, where competent judges
will give screen tests, which will decide
the future winner, and perhaps that
Of the runner up also. On the night
Of August 16 the Spanish garden ball
room will also offer a special feature,
Mac, Phil and Ray, who will put on
many specialties In conjunction with
MacWilliams Orchestra. Other Glen
Echo attractions for August include the
Crystal pool, second to none in the East
the up-to-date thrillers, such as the
Coaster Dips, the Airplane Swings, the
Old Mill with its new scenery, the Mid
way. home Of million laughs, and
something else In every corner Of the
40-acre resort. All conveniences for
picnics are provided, where one may
watch things more interesting than a
three-rtnged circus and partake Of these
thrills as a part Of every outing. The
big free admission resort Is served by
car service along the Potomac and a
highway for motorists.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
METROPOLITAN.

wv SOMERSET VAUGHAN, In "The
w. Marrow Corner" now playing ct
tho Metropolitan, writes q strange tale
full of the color Of exotic, far-ot lands.
A tale Of the Malay Archipelago,
saIhe Marrow Corner" begins IN Sidney,
Australia, goes by ketch with Douglas
Fairbanks. IT,. and Arthur Hohl ana
Dudley Digges by way. OF the color1uI
the Dutch East Indies, where an exotic
Iomance takes place.
In the story there is Old Swan, .
blackbirder, or slave runner; there Is
FIRTH, his son-in-law; Eric, the agent OF
a Dutch trading company, and Louise,
Frith's amoFous daughter. who Is so
naive that she sees nothing wrong In
unaking advances to the man she loves
Evening star., 1933-08-13
DANCING.

FEXT9F PENSW sTYPIos soSS' e. rI RHrS1Sa IsDSsh
sna. idsss aiEset from tAs Dansins Mas
Evening star., 1933-08-13

GLENN HUNTER has suffered from
~ somewhat the same difficulty as
Miss Ulric-that Of repeating his sue
cess in Seventeen" and Merton of the
Movies" Mr.. Hunters embarrassments
have been heightened by his tendency
Evening star., 1933-08-13

mad passion springs up between the
island maiden and an Australian youth
who Is fleeing from the world because
he accidentally killed the husband Of a
woman with whom he was having an
affair.
The cast includes Douglas Fairbanks,
jr.; Patricia Ellis, Dudley Digges, Ralph
Bellamy, Arthur Hohl Reginald Owens
and others.
PALACE.
I AUGH tirns Is here again, with Wal
~ lace Beery and Marie Dressler now
exhibiting their talents in "Tugboat
Annie" at Loews Palace Theater. The
film ends Its run Thursday night.
Min and Bill" are back again In
Norman Reilly Raines' Saturday Eve
ming Post story which combines COM
edy with q dramatic story Of heroism
Surrounded by a cast that includes
Robert Young and Maureen O'Sulli-
van, the pair are loving again, Tight
ing again, just for the fun Of max
ing up.
In "Tugboat Annie" Miss Dressler
navigates a tugboat of which her
drunkard husband, Wallace Beery, IS
supposed to be captain. She pilots it
through storms, saves ship and has
other thrilling adventures, aided and
abetted by Beery. The climax IS at
tanned when Beery sacrifices himself
to save the ship Of his son.
Others In the cast are Willard Rob-
ertson, Frankie Darro, Tammany
Young, Paul Hurst and Jack Pennick.
It Is Metro -GoldwynMayer produc-
ton.
Much Of the film was actually taken
in Puget Sound and Seattle Harbor,
original locale Of the authors stories.
COLUMBIA.
WHETHER you believe in ghosts or
w pooh-pooh them, there is said to be
plenty to mystify. thrill, startle and
amuse in Haunted Gold," starring
John Wayne and his devil horse. Duke,
which comes to Loew's Columbia Thea
ter Monday.
A haunted mine. phantom" who
roams restfessly through an old aban-
doned mining camp. q pretty girl and
shadow give John Wayne plenty to do
before he solves the mystery Of Haunt
ed Gold"
The film elevates John Wayne, who
only a year ago was mentioned Tor
all-American foot ball honors. to q
higher place in picture stardom.
Sheila Terry, another youngster seal
ing the heights with surprising swift
ness, is the pretty maiden who awaits
rescue. Others in the cast are Erville
Anderson. Otto Hoffman. Harry Woods,
Martha Mattox and colored actor,
Blue washington. Mack ". Wright
directed this story, adapted from an
original tale written by Adele Bumng-
ton.