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Evening star., 1934-06-30
WHEELER AND
WOOLSEY IN
WILD COMEDY
Not Much Continuity
but Plenty of Fun iH
'COckeyed CaUdliprS.'

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
two of Americas cavaliers of gag are
at it again over at R-K-O Keith'S this
week. romping their way through an
original musical comedy. burlesquing
just about all OF the latest costume
plays that were SO popular last season.
In it you will find scenes remarkably
reminiscent of the Garbo film, Queen
Christina" as well az scenery and
happening. identical as burlesque can
be. of the Eddie Cantor film, Roman
Scandals"
As usual. the "Cockeyed Cavaliers"
are attended. though abetted is bet
ter word, by Ladies in Waiting Dorothy
Lee and Thelma Todd, who contribute
pleasure as well as much difficulty in
the rather hectic lives of the two
gentlemen. AS burlesque the thing is
hilarious if you happen to like then
type. idiotic fantastic nonsense. Some
of the lines miraculously escaped the
cutting process that is now going on
in Hollywood
Quite naturally there isn't much to
the continuity, or perhaps there isn't
even a continuity. the film being more
or less series of sequences in which
famous scenes of famous movies
undergo a thorough mud-splashing
Somehow the thing seems tied to-
gether but in such an involved man.
ner that one would have great diff
Guilty in following it even if he or she
had the courage to try. At that. il
doesn't really matter whether you fol-
low or not either way it's just as
funny.
From pillory this pair of comedians
climbed to the Duke of Weskits manor
on a line of mishappenings that only
Wheeler and Woolsey could conjure
Every line of the film is good. unSound
entertainment for these hot Summer
days. but most startling of all is the
basso solo an old friend Of film fol-
lowers sings in an English inn scene
He is, of all people. Noah Beery, in
good voice. who sings his bass with
much gusto and much booming. Sur
prisingly. Mr. Beery possesses an excel
lent voice In fact one of the deepest
and basest we have had the pleasure
Of hearing.
The cast dances, the cast sings and
this pair OF comedians cavort and
gambol in and out OF everything in
sight. nothing being safe from break
age or theft while the pair is at large
thus making the whole thoroughly en-
joyable If you want to risk abandoning
Yourself to the mercy Of Wheeler and
WoolSey.
On the supplementary program
there is one of those Soglow cartoons
which are always the spice Of any
thing. a Tom Kennedy comedy that
isn't very funny after the w. and w
fracus. and lastly Vagabond toul
film of Damascus. in which camel
drivers NAV be seen indulging in q
good old American custom. chewing
chewing gunA j. N. H
Evening star., 1934-06-30
SAD LITTLE
MOVIE TALE
FOR CAGNEY
With Joan BlOndeH, the
Wise Cracking Jimmy
Sounds Unfamiliar Note.

1t is a rather sad little film. this
new Joan Blondell-Jimmy Cagney
vehicle now showing at the Metro
politan. Throughout HE Was Her
Man (from which you can get a very
good conception of the finn there is
sounded a serious note that is familiar
to neither of the two.
Mr. Cagney the hard-boiled little
mug of filmdom. has lost his SOCK and
is shown here doing mug but one
who sacrifices his life for the sake OF
saving a girl. In other words, fans
who liked to hear the barking OF the
wise-cracking Cagney will miss it very
much in "He Was Her Man" Miss
Blondell, too. though with serious
effort to play her part. an extremely
difficult one. is on totally unfamiliar
ground, being no longer surrounded
by lines and players that give her an
opportunity to display her vitality
and spOntaneity SO characteristic oi
herself.
The whole Of the thing revolves
around the fate of Flicker Hayes, who
is destined to be taken for a ride by
members of the gang whose leader he
framed as an act of revenge, though
with the idea of following the straight
and narrow afterward. On his flight
to escape them he meets Rose at a
hotel in San Francisco. where she has
returned after being thrown out to
recover wedding dress hidden under
Hayes bed. Hayes in obtaining her
story learns that she is ON her way to
little village to marry Nick, a Portu-
guese fisherman. whereupon he de-
cides that since he both likes the girl
and the village would be an excellent
Evening star., 1934-06-30
STATE THEATER SHOWS
CARNERA-BAER PICTURE

Against the advice Of several expe-
rienoed moving picture men, j. Henry
Hiser took over the Camera -Baer fight
films for a weeks showing at his State
Theater in Bethesda, and so popular
has the picture been that he Is hold
ing it over through Thursday, with
the last showing at 1880 pm. The
fight film will be omitted Sunday.
Persons who have seen the picture
say it is without question the best of
its type ever shown. Many who saw
the fight have gone to the State to
watch the festivities a second time.
The picture is sponsored by Madison
Square Garden and the photography
and sound are Of high standard. After
each knockdown, slow motion pic
lures of the blows are screened. From
radio and newspaper accounts of the
scrap some fans have become con-
fused because of differences between
the two descriptions. The picture. of
course, permits one to draw his own
conclusion. Whether Primo Carnera
Clipped a bone in his ankle in the
first round. as he and his physician
say or whether his leg was all right
until the tenth, as some observers say.
can also be determined to ones salts
faction by a personal glimpse of the
picture.
Evening star., 1934-06-30

OLLYWOOD.- the day
has paled before the night.
Whatever We may have seen
i i in the StudioS-and We saw
plenty Maxine Doyle mop
ing in a corner after a weekend at
San Diegol-nothing can compare with
the evenings fiesta. 1t has been one
of those Hollywood Arabian nights
you have read about. 1t doesn't seem
now any more real than that rain
which soaked our hand the other
morning as we slid the hand out OF
our hotel window (no rain in Cali
fornia? Oh. yeah?).
The papers say that this is the
big event of the year Whether 1t
is Or it isn't, it's plenty big. It's a
benefit dinner-dance given at the Bilt-
more for the endowment OF a Marion
Davies ward at one of the local hos
pitfalls. Everybody who is anybody
in Hollywood is here-and everybody
who isn't anybody is here, too. The
tables have been sold out solid for
three weeks. People are lined up by
the hundreds at the entrance to the
hotel The air is soaked with camera
smoke
Lyons Play Hosts.
Again those swell Lyons (Bebe and
Benz play hosts. In the party, which
has met previously for little pre-
dinner cheer. are the Al Halls (she's
Lola Lane, and elegant looking. the
Anatole Friedlands the says L hear
my Fifty Million Frenchmen' went
pretty we'll in Washington Writer
Edgar Allen Wolf, Mr. Martin Che in
PRODUCES himself as "Mr." Louella Par
SonsI and the Stephen Ames-She' 5
Racquet Torres and they only recently
came back from their much publi-
cized Honolulu honeymoon. When
Miss Torres walks into the room,
draped in gold and silver, you wonder
why you are so glad to see her. Then
you know-she ISN'T blond.
After the party has gotten itself
into the proper mood. off we go to the
Biltmore.
Pictures Prime Function.
We see upon arrival what is Holly
wood party's prime function-and that
is-to take pictures. If you're not
plunked up against wall and told to
smile at a battery of cameras your
Evening star., 1934-06-30

hideout he would accompany her, pay
ing her fare on the bus.
Once arrived Hayes finds also that
he likes the little village and the
simple life of q fisherman for TIN
moment, while Rose hesitates many
times in deciding whether she really
wants TO marry Nick or go on with
Flicker.
II is finally decided. however. that
they would tell Nick and then go on
their way. Unfortunately it is toe
late, for the gangsters intent on kill
ing Hayes have arrived. They think
that Rose also might know a little
too much about the affair and de-
eide to take her along. Hayes talks
fast to Rose and convinces them that
she knows nothing about it at all
and OF he goes.
Once on road at the spot where
he is to be killed, on high cliff
he chooses rather to jump to his
death. Rose, no longer hesitant
finds comfort IN the arms of her
fisherman fiance.
Taken at its worth the film is yet
rather a heavy bill of fare for the
Summer. J. N. H.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
JOE E.. BROWN
STARS IN FINE
CIRCUS STORY
Comedian Has a Good
Vehicle at Earle; James
Melton on the Stage.

The circus came back to town yes
terday with on-mouthed Joe E.
Brown doing a combination lion
tanner. elephant-lackey and man-on-
the-f1ying -trapeze act. as the latest
screen saga of the sawdust world,
titled 1.-The Circus Clown" emanated
from the projection room Of one OF
the recommended places to keep cool
during l00-degree weather, known as
the Earle Theater.
Boosting a large and excellent cast
in addition 20 funny-man Brown, the
film packs all the standard thrills of
the big top, done up in comedy style,
to make it satisfactory entertainment
for adults and worthwhile material
for children. The circus scenes are
authentic and the climax aerial act
will make you forget all about "Ole
Man Humidity" if Joe's roaring con-
test with Leo. the lion, which he wins
by having the larger vocal cavity,
doesn't.
AS Happy Howard the son of a re-
tired acrobat who works his way up
in the circus world by means of
washing elephants. nurse maiding
lions and bouncing about on an
aerialists net, Joe Brown is quite in
his element.
Happy, however has his difficulties.
10 wit. that he first falls in love with
Mile. La Tour. a man bareback rider
who Is female impersonator; is then
framed by Bebe, the lion tanner dor
othy Burgess to arouse the jealousy
of her husband, Ajax, the knife
thrower (Harry Woods. and finally
loses the affection of Alice. an aerial
ist Patricia Ellis, because he drinks
a pint of liquor to keep her brother
His intoxicated tantrums about the
circus lot comprise one of the best
laugh riots of the season.
Everything ends in a whirl of glori-
he'd rightneSS when Happy does a
last-minute substitute act for the
aerial clown, TO be thrown about as
one OF first-rate group of flying
trapeze artists, TO win his spurs as
performer and the renewed affection
of Miss Ellis
Headlining sterling stage show is
golden-voiced James Melton. who
wraps his tenor around a group of
faVorite songs that include Smoke
Gets in Your Eyes and Home on
the Range" Still better in appeal is
Sybil Bowman. who changes dresses
and wigs in fash TO make excellent
lmpersonations o. Dietrich, Garbo,
Swanson and Mae West.
Walter Dare Wahl, comedian GYM
mast, and partner tangle each other
up in knots to the audiences Satisfac-
ton, and Made, rope spinning contor-
zionist, helps Ray. Of Made and Ray
to put new wrinkles in the art of
lasso-twisting. Maestro Freddy Clark
starts the show of by leading the
Earle Orchestra boys through an over
ture arrangement of patriotic tunes
in anticipa ton of Independence day
A Popeye cartoon comedy, another
comedy and the usual Universal News
reel. with the same Graham McNamee
calculating the titles, complete the
program. M. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
Where and When
lCurrent Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National - National Players In
Sailor Beware" fourth week. at 2:3o
and $50 pm.
Palace-"The Thin Man" at ll:l5
am, 1:2O, 3:25. $50, 7:35 and Gas
pm.
Little Miss Marker" at 1926
am. lis. APO, 7:l0 and 10 pm.
Stage shows at 1910, 3, $40 and
8:55 pm.
COlumbia-"Operstor 49," at ll:35
am, l:35. 3:35, 5;35. 7:35 and s;35
pm.
MetropOlitan-"He Was Her Man"
at 1l:55 am, 2:20, 4:5O, 720 and
9:45 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Cockeyed Cava-
liers." at 1903, 2:03, 4:03, SOB, 500
and 1908 pm
Earle-"The Circus Clown" at
1920 am. l:35. 430. 7l5 and s:55
pm. Stage shows at 1880, $40, $50
and 9:l0 pm
TivOli-'The Trumpet Blows" at
2, 4:20, $40. 8:05 and $50 pm.
AmbassadOr-"Sing and Like It.
at 2:l5. AIS, 6:l5, 8 and GAS pm.
Evening star., 1934-06-30

which the cameramen put them in,
and have been photographed eating.
drinking and looking merry, we have
a chance to see who is here. AS we
escort Miss Daniels around the room.
doing a furious foxtrot at one mile
every two hours, she shakes hands
with practically everybody in the
room-Sailing around in kind of tri-
umphal procession.
Meets Host of Celebrities.
Going right to left, we greet: Gene
Raymond. who sits at Mary Pickford S
Ia Bile. and Clark Gable. who sits with
Mrs. Gable and then dances with a
trim lady who isn't Mrs. Gable: then
We come suddenly upon S. Whitney
Derham. who Is back from his South
Sea Island camera whatnUts, Dick
Powell and Miss Caroyle again. who
have Bruce Cabot and Adrienne Ames
,She was the FIRST Mrs. Stephen
Ames): then that amazing old lady
May Robson. who is having herself q
time at ringside table with two
lady friends and Jerry AScher, who
plays Romeo 10 all three, Claudettt
Colbert, whom We haven't said hello
TO since last Summer and who looks
d hundred times better than we'll bet
Cleopatra ever looked; the Cecil B
de Miles. who have table directly
behind US; Carole Lombard and Russ
Columbo-oh. well-you could go OF
that way forever-all Hollywood Is
here.
&c h.. f.... Of
monies. He is jumping around from
Ia ole TO table Suddenly he has run
out into the middle of the room anc
the show is on
First there is a parade of beauties
and by that We mean beauties-young
ladies fresh from the studios. who
Evening star., 1934-06-30
Tears and Laughter Are
Well Mixed in Fox Film
Runyon, Stars the New Screen Prodigy,
Shirley Tenn DEVIL Mahoney o Stage.

cynical suspected Damon Runyon
kidding highly imaginative hokum about
I sentimental tough guys should down to Loew'S Fox
~ and observe what young Shirley Temple does
Little Marker the Broadway
boys less inclined laugh and orphans and other
such than Mr. Runyon would have believe but the orphan
Temple, neither bookie
would have much choice in the matter.
Evening star., 1934-06-30
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places.
By the Spectator.
Trade Max Registered. u s. Patent ONCE.

the seething masses still were not
large enough to fill the acres of dance
floor or subdue the light-foo
ambitions of National Player George
Calvert who came with a dark
haired damsel also family stained
with grease paint about her shining
eyes.
BIGGEST stir IN the amusement
world was started last week by
Steve Cochran buStlins about
town full Of schemes for cabaret
here patterned after the French
music hall or more directly, the
Billy Rose spots in New York
where there are to be seen vaudeville
acts handsome choruses .
and one may dance sing =.
shrewd Impressario Steve thinks the
Shubert- -Belasco lately idle . ..
the logical spot here would
convert its extensive spaces into
Washington's largest mite dell i.
probably have no cover charge .
operate under the minimum check
plan including food or drinks
in the price flxe :.
X Il x
FIREWORKS of two kinds will
glow on the Shoreham Terrace
july 4 the traditional Roman can
dies. firecrackerS Skyrockets OF
Independence day. which Is cele-
brated almost every night since wives
have gone to sea shores. and the
sparkling slippers of Joan Barandon
i. Hollywood specially dance &. like
wise will crackle in hot soft shoe
dance" feature of new floor show
planned for this week. bringing
Pepita Granados. not grenadine
in a caStenet number seasoned to the
taste of Don Juan Teresa. .ot the
Spanish embassy. who last week
gave a dinner . delighted his guest:
with onion soups. cold lobster.
Crepe Suzette 4. a speciality OF The
Shoreham chef.
Also without the rail of those small
potted plants. "a young Virginia lady
once jumped so well. almost, sal
Capt. Eugene Gempel. . banker sno
Mrs. Robert Fleming. the Attorne,
General and Mrs. Homer Cumming:
:. Nine. Sanchez Latour. Maj ane
Mrs. James L. Guion . Sydney
Prince, jr.. and Mrs. Sydney. .whe
sat less than they danced. and Thae
Brown, jr.. giving a party again..
Evening star., 1934-06-30

or off the ground is well worth watch
/ ing. His turn is billed as a Song-and-
dance act. The songs are not much,
but it you want to discover what the
public likes. listen to them. The first
audience yesterday encored every one
at least three times.
Gertrude NieSen, the radio singer,
the secondary feature on the program.
lisps some torch numbers very pref
tily. Robinson. Mann and Martin
offer really excellent dance act and
the Three Swifts are quite as deNtrous
as jugglers should be. There is also
news reel.
4 FTER the final matinee and eve
ming performance of Sailor, Be-
waIe! today. the National Theater
will lock its doors until Fall. Manager
Steve Cochran has decided to pass up
| Invitation TO a Murder" one of those
affairs which fortunately can be re-
fused, because of the weather. Row
LAND Stebbins production of Tight
Britches.' originally slated for try
out here, also will remain in the
North.
Summarizing the season of his dis
banding National Players stock COM
pany. Impresario Cochran estimates
the six plays of the season in these
tart phrases:
Pursuit of Happiness Sue
cessful srtistically and at the box Of
tice.
Her Masters Voice" Not en-
Enthusiastically received, but we'll acted.
The reception may have been ac-
counted for by the earlier appearance
of the play here with Roland Young
ct al
Welcome Stranger" "a character
play the audience found dated. but
praised for the acting OF Robert Fisher,
Road to Rome" proved again that
costume plays, even if well done, are
hard to sell TO stock audiences.
Jimmie 5 Women" an ld-fash-
ioned farce that deserved better Pat
ronaee tOh, really?)
Sailor. Beware. the four-week
engagement tells the story.
And SO endeth the tenth season Of
the National Players.
K \
THERE will still be legitimate activ-
ity around the town, however.
The Playbox Theater. engaged in mov-
ing TO new location now mysteriously
unnamed, will put on Under the Gas
Light in the near future. The July :
schedule opening was postponed be-
cause of the change of play houses
r. B. P. Jr.
Evening star., 1934-06-30

DO Is llIlS ldlCSt CliLlO
prodigy of the films that she lends
absolute credence to this yarn about
a little girl who becomes the pet of
a gang of race track bookieS after her
father has left her with one of them
tor security on a marker" and then
killed himself. 1t SO happens the for
gotten babe is tossed into the possess
sion of one Sorrowful Jones. the
meaneSt. cheapest of his ilk and a
much shabbier fellow than Adolphe
Meniou is accustomed to portray.
Nevertheless, Sorrowful, or MenJou,
If you wish takes her in moves out
of his dingy quarters into a new
apartment for her sake, opens up MS
alright pocketbook to buy her clothes,
all the while protesting his affection
for the gal has nothing to do with IT..
Little Miss Marker" is that kind OF
a story, full of bad men with golden
hearts, hard mugs who melt into
mush at the sight of the appealing
babe. Unless you are fitted with
heart at least as stony as that OF
race track bookmaker, you may an
ticipate therefore that Miss Temple
Will De uOlllS illiIlSS W hAiN NNui N'NN1
If you drop in TO see her.
The sundry adventures Of Little
Miss Marker with her new pals IN
volve a minor love plot in which
Meniou anG one BangeS. blond
dollie who developes a secret yen for
Sorrowful when he begins to act ike
a human because of the child. All
of this works out very nicely before
the final curtain, of course, and II you
are sensitive about such things the ro-
mantle side of the tale will have a
special tragic appeal of its own, be-
cause il seems rather too bad that so
personable a girl as the late MISS
Dorothy Dell. who plays Bangles
should have been killed at the start
of a promising career as an enter
tainer.
Little Miss Marker" is not pure
tear Wringer, despite some OF the best
squeeze plays pulled in recent months
on the emotions of film fans. A
ma ior part of its episodes are de-
voted to The droll Wit OF the Forty
second street wags. and Lynne Over
man. in the role OF dry funster
named Regret. turns a comic part
into one of the outstanding delights
OF the film. John Kelly and Warren
Hvmer contribute their share to the
gayety of the people, while Sam Hardy,
Tammany Young and others also
appear.
Will MahonCy of the Xylophone tap
dance heads the stage show at the
Fox this week and his footwork on
Evening star., 1934-06-30
Fish Caught by Hand.

SHARON, Pa. O4D.-Fisherman. US
ing clubs and their hands. dragged
hundreds of fish. some of them feet
long. from the Shenango River
Chemicals dumped into the stream by
an Industrial plant had partly stupified
them.
Evening star., 1934-06-30

vOLLYWOOD.-Today the day
i has paled before the night.
Whatever We may have seen
i in the studios-and We saw
Evening star., 1934-06-30

~ OWN down down
to the bottom Of the
not -so-deep Potomac went
- the Heigh-Ho with
Capt Pete Macias aboard
only it was not the Heigh-Ho tap
room or the now deserted night
club but tidy little cruiser
on which Pete is accustomed to swish
up and down the water front :.
but last week what with the heat
and the humidity, he forgot TO turn
out for a log which popped
straight through the hull and
after it the whole river
Very cool" said the maestro, feel
ing internally not SO cool oh.
no" said Trumpeter Artie Humes of
the MaciaS music. beginning to trum-
pet nobly like a sea lion Charles
Fletcher, the third passenger. said
nothing until rowing gent
in a skif pulled along side :.
took off Pete and Artie and Herr
Fletcher who commanded, NOV,
Mister. paddle your canoe
Back to the Powhatan roof, where
Pete and Artie and Marty Rubin and
a crew of fellow conspirators against
boredom tootle. puff and fiddle on
Summer nights went the sur
vivors full of relief and tall
tales for once gave Joe Penner
sound sales talk when he brought
his wife to the roof to help sell the
boys a duck watched happily
as Ramon guided to this or that
H. prfAf-
man Mr. and Mrs. Gene Vidal
Hardie and Mrs. Meakin {.
with a brand-new college graduate
very fond of fresh pineapple.
Meanwhile rumors circled about
the Powhatan that there Will De
q hardwood floor laid for dancing
to replace the now none-too-Slick
surface. on which Pete or anyone
else would find it difficult to float.
PENEATH the gay arches of the
Club Michel marine roof bright
young co-eds of Phi Sigma lambda
gathered last week TO gaze upon
the clipped cariocas. the rattling
rhumbas OF Anita and Emanuel.
stare drea mily at the moon as
Kathryn Kaye. once of a Hollywood
club that is not in Hollywood. but
in Galveston, Tex. sang soft melo-
dies. and SO came also the Nu
Omega Chi sisters. 20 strong. -.
and watched and listened. while
Henri Di Sibour looked over the
flower boxed rail at the city below
and wondered if boxing rings
should have flower boxing. or be
pulled out by the roots and lifted to
a roof somewhere. to keep down
blood pressure in the ringside rooterS
in a corner with half a dozen
hotel men. most severe and ac-
curate critics of other peoples en-
tertainment spots. sat Californian
Irving Keeler. editor of papers,
pamphlets, magazines. everything
imaginable pertaining to hotels.
And who was the fair lady you saw
heard grooming and ped
ding at the same time on a bicycle
along Mount Vernon Highway?
it was Miss Kaye who has
a penchant for bicycles and nc
use for kiddy kars We asked. q.
X X
TROWDS at the Arlington roof last
night shot paper streamers in the
air whirled noiSemakerS .
could not decide whether it was a pre-
mature Fourth of July or a late
Christmas but really cared moi
very much as the management
called it carnival night and
that was nearest the truth as
the free spirit extended accord
ing to Arlington custom to the
elimination of all convert charges .
and on Wednesday night there were
such crowds not even confetti was
needed to make it look like a com,
bination picnic and panic albeit