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Evening star., 1934-04-28
TROUBLES OF
YOUNGER SET
ARE DETAILED
"This Man Is Nine" Is
Supposed to Picture
TOday's Affairs.

The new film entertainment be-
ing dispensed at Keith's Theater Is
an ultra sophisticated, ultra smart
treatise on the trials and tribulatious
of Americas modern younger mar
ried set. 1t is presented under the
title, This Man Is Mine"
Three women. Irene Dunno. Con-
stance Cummings and Kay Johnson.
make the show. Their splendid char
acterizations of three types OF younger
married women of this day and age
accord the film an excuse for being,
which its flimsy plot does not. Miss
Dunno is the perfect and patient
wife. Miss Cummings is the selfish
and vampirish divorce and Miss
Johnson is a causticly clever. re-
sourceful and understanding female
of the post-prohibition era.
The play is built around an idiotic
gesture of a young wife who. when
she learns that the man-chasing girl
her husband loved before their mar
riage has come back to town after
getting a divorce, sends him over to
her house to see what he will do.
The result is that he causes her, him.
self and the girl several thousand
feet of sophisticated misery-as meas
ured on the screen.
Irene Dunno, the young wife. finally
snaps out of her unhappy state
enough to bring her husband (Ralph
Bellamy), who she loves despite his
Ct v1na
Cummings to their respective knees
before her when she instituted divorce
proceedings. naming the girl as CO.
respondent and threatens an alienia-
ton of affections suit against the
heart pilferor. 1t all ends with the
girl marrying another of her vic
tins and the husband and wife being
reconciled.
Despite the plot the picture is en-
tertaining and worth seeing by those
who like clever repartee and all the
chicanery. bantering and white lying
with which so-called civilized Amer
leans cover over their emotions.
Miss Dunno manages to act intelli-
gently and sincerely in the incredible
role she is given. Miss Cummings is
so good as selfish and too smart
man-snatcher that you can hardly
blame Bellamy or any one else for
falling in love with her. Kay john
son puts the cleverness in the show
with the way she can put over catty
remarks. Ralph Bellamy is adequate
as the spoiled-boy type husband, and
Sidney Blackmer succeeds in being
interesting because of the implied
meaning he adds to words by his
expressionless way of talking.
A four-reel panorama of America
since 1917, titled This Mad Age" a
cleverly arranged series of news reel
highlights of the past II years, is the
added attraction for the week. The
explanation is both amusing and
satirical. Fashions, amusements and
actions of great and small Americans
of the past few years are praised and
criticized The World War, the
strikes and unrest which followed
it, the Teapot Dome mess, the
boom days under Calvin Coolidge, the
market crash of 1929, the Bonus
Army and the depression are all pre-
sented and commented on. Despite
its undertone of light irony, the re-
suit is stirring and patriotic.
An R-K-O news reel and a cartoon
short are the supplementary features.
M. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Picture and Vaudeville
Battle for Lead at Fox
Both Are Well Above the Average and Afford
Splendid Entertainment-John Boles
Sings Hit Song of the Film.

daughter Of an English lord. John
Boles takes the part Of movie star
who Is going to the bow-wows because
he has to act in second-rate films.
The story is made lively and enter
tanning by its abundance of good
comedy, some new music and pro-
fusion of witty lines. Miss Patterson
fits nicely into her part with her
schoolgirl ways. John Boles sings
well. Sid Silvers is as funny as the
best of them in a clowning part.
Harry Green Is almost as funny as a
Hollywood producer. And Thelma
Todd adds her beauty and Robert
Emmett O1Connor his detective face
to complete a swell cast.
More than honorable mention Is
due Mr.. Boles for the way he puts
over the hit tune Of the show, Wait
in at the Gate for Katie" which you
will probably hear quite lot of be-
fore the Summer is over.
Fifty Million Frenchmen" is q
genuine Broadway revue, which SO
performers present in IL scenes. 1t is
fast, peppy and replete with dancing
Of every variety. A good chorus
works overtime, and Venita Gould.
Richard Lane, AL Norman, Suzanne
Jayne, Esther Lloyd and Dianna
Blaire carry the theme. 1t presents
the you've Got That Thing" and
You Do Something to Me" numbers,
some good comedy, and Miss Gould
in impersonations Of Hollywood stars.
She burlesques katherine Hepburn in
fine style, recalls Marie Dressler as
Tugboat Annie, and stops the show
with her impersonation of Mae West.
Phil Lampkin and the Fox Orches-
ira put over the usual overtime, and
a news reel and short subjects COM
plete the bill. M. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
r HOLLYWOOD competes with

r HOLLYWOOD competes with
IL Broadway in the musical
comedy field at Loew's Fox
L i this week and Bottoms Up,"
the Fox Films entry, comes
in several lengths ahead of Fifty
Million Frenchmen" CONDENSED ver-
sion), which flies the Great White
Way ribbons. Despite the margin of
victory, however, both give the spec
tators a run for their money.
The screen production has the ad-
vantage of freshness and pleasantness.
combined with clever lines, new music
and a nice little plot. The Broadway
revue, while good, is yet handicapped
with songs that are not this weeks
and gags that were funny when we
first heard them. 1t is, however,
filled with some good dancing by a
fast-stepping chorus and some faster
stepping principals.
pat" Patterson, an English lass
makes her American debut in bot
toms Up," but it is old reliable Spen-
Ger Tracey, cockney Herbert Mundin,
plastic John Boles and clowning Sid
Silvers who put the comedy up in the
better -than-average class.
The film is an amiable and lively
little musical in which Authors De
sylvia, Butler and Silvers have re-
hashed the story about the down-and-
out promoters who put one over on
Hollywood by posing an extra" as a
member of the British aristocracy to
have her impress the movie mogus
and get a fat contract. Spencer
Tracey is the head promoter and Her
bert Mundin and Sid Silvers are his
assistants. To Miss Patterson quite
appropriately is given the role of an
extra" who is passed off as the
Evening star., 1934-04-28
WESTERN STUDENTS IN
THE QUEENS HUSBAND
Sherwood Play Well Presented
Under Direction of Sue
H. Gardner.

The private life of The Queens
Husband" who was punctual at all
ceremonies of state according to his
own assertion, was openly presented
to an appreciative audience last night
by the Western High School student
players in the school auditorium. Sue
H. Gardner, directed the Robert En-
NETT Sherwood comedy, which will be
repeated tonight at BIS O'Clock.
This particular king, it would seem.
was ruler of a mythical kingdom, but
even in his time the conmoners were
not above revolution. With this as
the basis for the story, as revolutions
often are, the student players gave
their Interpretation of how a king
should dress, what he should look
like, and above all, how he would per-
form his duties.
AS King Eric the Eighth. Austin
Gattis performed in good style. His
manner was pleasing, carrying him
through the production in that
smooth easy style which makes plays
seem a reality.
1t was for Betty Hogentogler, how
ever, to steal the show. AS the kings
charming daughter. she added con-
siderable of the humor to the pres
entation and carried her love scenes
through with grace. Second only to
Miss Hogentogler. and that because
of the inopportunities afforded by her
role, was Miss Betty Owens. Miss
Owens portrayed her role of Queen
in the same good style which has
gained her honor among fellow stu
dents in former Western plays.
Among those having major roles
who did equally as well as their re-
spective positions would permit were
Richard Baer, Duance Covert, John
Rauchenstein, Helen Palmer, Robert
Duncan, Robert Livingston and Hugh
Kabler.
DR.. Fellman was portrayed by FL
bert Fentress, who gave an excep-
tional performance. Edgar knight, in
his bit as the anarchist, also did well.
Others in the cast were May Fielder,
Jean Dulin and Fred Gamble.
P. N. ].
Evening star., 1934-04-28

4eAAAAo w SSAA1S 4kOAl1s
gedians Of the screen, judging by some
Of their performances, Mr.. Sedgwick.
Elizabeth Patterson - Patty" to
Hollywood-one of the best character
actresses Of all time, is at last to get
a break in pictures. Not that Patty"
hasn't been in pictures ere this. Many
is the time-and every time she has
stolen the highest critical commentary
for her performances, even in the tin
lest of roles.
But now, Elizabeth Patterson will
play the role of Mrs. Martin, which
she played with such outstanding sue
cess in the New York version of Her
Masters Voice" Charlie Ruggles,
Mary Boland and Lanny Ross will be
in the cast. Elizabeth Patterson's
characterization of Mrs. Martin has
been one of the outstanding events Of
the New York theatrical season. Para
mount has been waiting for the run
of the play there, to bring Elizabeth
Patterson before her screen audiences
in this peculiarly felicitous role.
Twenty different shades of white
are used in Jeanette MacDonald's
boudoir in the scene for THE Merry
Widow" 1t seems absurd to think
there could be this many variations
of a color so essentially limited in
range as we have a notion white is,
but Hollywood artists have discovered
that white satin of the same shade as
white dull silk photographs as two diff
ferent whites.
Everyone working on the set wore
white cotton slippers over their shoes,
lest black speck be left on anything.
White upholstered furniture, dressing
tables decked with glass flowers, sill
yer toilet articles of the period of 1885,
great European stove enameled
white, mirrors with cut glass frames,
candelabra ornamented with cut glass
prisms are other details of the set.
Jeanette Macdonald wears black,
for contrast, when in this set, one of
the most elaborate that Hollywood has
created in many day. 1t was accom-
plished under the personal direction
of Ernst Lubitsch, in conference with
Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope.
Maurice Chevalier plays the Danilo in
this production and Edward Everett
Horton, Una Merkel, George Barber,
Sterling Holloway and others Of note
are in the cast
(Copyright, 1934)
Evening star., 1934-04-28

giles figures and facts better than you
have ever seen them juggled before.
We would give $20,000,000 to have
had Freddie Craig, jr., in our pocket
back in those deep, dark arithmetic
days! His mind is faster than
Houdini's, and his tricks just as mys-
terious, and although they are all
done with chalk and blackboards they
keep you in steady state of ferment.
Other acts include Ramona and
Jack Fulton, Paul Whiteman lumin-
aries who have an agreeable singing
piano-playing act; Lewis and Van
who are energetic and talented hoof-
ers, and Goss and Barrows who are
funny-if you like that sort of thing
UTARZAN AND HIS MATE" that
cunning little couple who do
50-foot swan dives from jungle trees
into each others arms, and who do
the neateSt underwater swimming
you have ever seen, continue their
jungle eScapades for a second week
at Loew's Palace. The efficacy of their
doings is apparent by the fact that
everybody gets killed at the end ex-
cept themselves, thus allowing them
to get going again next year on the
third chapter of this amazing serial.
If you haven't seen this happy and
harmless adventure saga you should
be ashamed of yourself. since it will
hustle you back into your childhood
and scare you every five minutes or
so out of your wits. Johnny Weiss
muller is the same old Tarzan, Maui
reen O'Sullivan is, however. a new
Miss O'Sullivan. She has added
pounds and pep.
THE news of the day is that Celia
Villa. 19-year-old daughter Of
Signor Pancho Villa, will arrive in
Washington tomorrow and will re-
main here up until Tuesday. Miss
Villa will appear on the stage of
Loew's Fox at the last show tomorrow
night and at every performance
Monday. miss Villa is here to re-
mind you that Viva Villa" is coming
to town.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
"MEN IN WHITE" MOVES
OVER TO THE COLUMBIA
Picture Starring Clark Gable Is
Held for a Second Week
Downtown.

When a group Of players including
Clark Gable, Elizabeth Allan, Myrna
10y and Jean Hersholt are cast in
a thoroughgoing, moving vehicle, and
directed by a master, Richard Bo-
leslavsky, the result approaches mo-
ton picture perfection. Such is the
case with Men in White" the film
version OF the Broadway stage success
of the past season. which opened yes
terday at the Columbia for its second
week downtown.
Mr.. Gable, in one of his best per-
formances, shows thorough compre-
hension of the problems of DR..
Ferguson and Of the theme underlying
the play in which he is acting. Jean
Hersholt as DR.. Hochberg, the dean
of the hospital and DR.. Ferguson's S
sponsor, offers the only sort of por-
trayal that would be expected of him.
This is, of course, flawless. Miss Allan,
in the role of the nurse, performs
excellently and with a great quality
Of reality. Myrna 10y does a good
fob. as in fact. does the entire cast,
from the extras up.
To the direction of Richard Bo-
leslavsky. of course, is due much Of
the credit for a vivid and forcefll
screen drama. He has handled his
well-chosen cast with complete under
standing. The hospital settings, in
which a great part of the action
takes place, are realistic enough that
you almost can smell the iodoform,
though they seem to have been af-
fected along the lines of beauty by
the art direction of Cedric Gibbons.
H. M.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
MARINES ON
PROGRAM At
METROPOLITAN
They Fight and Make
Lore in Picture Star
ring Richard Arlen.

"Come on, Marines" some one
yelled. And they came-lodged them
selves right up at the Metropolitan
making the place livlier by their pres
ence. Nothing actually happened when
they took over the place except that
they cut the usual capers expected Of
a Marine who has been in the tropics
for months, but every one enjoyed it.
Consider what would likely be the
outcome if squad of Marines sent to
rescue a boatload of kids" from a
big, bad, Nicaraguan bandit, suddenly
found on arrival that the kids" were
all either in their late teens or over the
20 mark. There you have rough
idea of the plot. OF course some one
had to keep these Marines in line and
the job fell to Richard Arlen, since
through misadventure in other ports
he had become impervious to the wiles
of woman.
Like any other self-respecting
Marine sergeant, he had Quirt to
bander verbiage with in the form of
Roscoe Karns, and a great deal of
the picture is taken over by the flip
pant wise cracks of the two. Both
Mr.. Arlen and Mr. Karns take ad-
vantage of their lines and give ex-
cellent performances.
Ida Lupino, late of the British
Isles, is the inconsistent young lady
from the social swim who conquers
this hardboiled, woman-hating Sergt
Arlen, while Grace Bradley shows
to great advantage as the cabaret
dancer who caused the same sergeant
to lose his chevrons. Glimpsed here
and there in the group Of Chill
dren" from Miss Susan's finishing
school in London who are so much
in need of being rescued by the Ma
rines are a few of the Wampas baby
stars.
The rescue of these girls is effected
in the most enlightening way, but
not before Arlen and Lupino, who
have forgotten personal feelings and
allied themselves to the cause, have
considerable difficulty keeping the girls
in one corral and the Marines in
another. And how surprised the
bandit must have been when he found
the cart-load of what he thought to
be girls were the Marines standing
behind belching guns. Karns tries to
desert. Arlen goes after him, and they
both bring back the bandit. Returned
to New York the heiress's newly made
chauffeur drives both the heiress and
sergeant literally up the steps into
the St. James Church.
Completing the Metropolitan's two
and a half hour program are Won
ders of the Tropics" a travel film;
Ben Blue in a comedy about the
Klondike, a cartoon, news reel and a
Vitaphone short featuring the Yacht
Club Boys. j. N. H.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Hunt patrons have reserved seats to-
night in the Heigh-Ho's cheering sec
ton that's the section on the floor
{. including crop of Warrenton
beauties and mayhap Phyllis
Thompson, who swears that she has
not said "yes" to any one {.
reservations are being counted on
also by such handsome troglodytes as
Ruth Tuckerman beauteous
sister of beauteous Laura who
at the moment is beating her way
around continental hot spots &.
and by Teenie Ekengren, Nina Part
ridge, Marjorie Tollman. Florence
Harris, all of whom are in a dither
because they will act for Mr.. Daniel
Frohman at his Actors Fund Bene-
fit at the Belasco next Sunday night.
But" screamed Miss Eken-
gren at Ye Spectator over the phone
yesterday, I'VE want man" {.
What kind of a man." said Ye
Spectator in alarm "A man
who can play the part of a doctor" "
said Miss Ekengren, who was just
then pouring over the script Of her
Belasco frolic. Therefore, Little
Johnny Morris had better busy him.
self and go around the night clubs
paging man who can play a
doctor" CLARK Gable" says
snappy Miss Ekengren, lis unfortu-
nately in Hollywood"
Evening star., 1934-04-28

progress is made in each scene, and
that as long as that veteran come
dian, Joseph Cawthorn, is around,
each scene is apt to be pretty funny.
Then for pictorial assets there is Gin
ger Rogers, a girl who should be en-
ployed in every musical comedy; Pat
O'Brien, a swell actor; Dick Powell
who is o. K. when he isn't taking
himself too seriously, and Grant
Mitchell, whose greatest virtue is his
ability to be amusing when he Is mad.
Plus all this, there is good score,
and some additional radio names, in
Guiding the four Mills brothers.
The latter, quartet we have al
ways enjoyed, for some reason do not
contribute anything to the film, and,
as more or less of an admission of
this, the Warner people have gotten
Dick Powell to help them along. For
the first time ever, the boys sound
downright monotonouS. This, how
ever, is a very small matter in this
generally lively film, which is funny
and fast and builds steadily as 1t pro-
crosses.
The radio business is taken at first
for a gentle ride, and then when Mr..
Powell is whipped out of his walters
suit and transformed by radio scout
and the Carlotta Soap Co. into a
temperate crooner, the radio kidding
is mostly forgotten and the perfect
love which has sprung up between
Miss Rogers and Mr.. Powell is al
lowed a field day.
The best of the film, however, is
Joseph Cawthorne, as the head of the
Carlotta Soap Co., complaining that
he is sick old man and that because
his wife and his sister and his aunt
and his cousin from Trenton like Mr..
Powell'S singing Mr.. Powell must sing
for Carlotta over the air.
This Mr.. Powell does just about all
the way through the picture.
THE stage show this week is brief
and notable mostly for a young
man with an index BRAIN who jug
Evening star., 1934-04-28
TARWATER SISTERS.

Rebecca Tarwater, with her sister,
Penelope, will be presented in first
recital of original character sketches,
drama and song monologues Sunday
evening. May 6, at the King-Smith
Studio School, as part of the series
of Spring events of this school. Her
program, created entirely by herself
includes mountain songs, pantomime
studies. a humorous sketch called
THE Wives of Henry Gates" some
take-offs of speech making and three
life studies"
The King-Smith Studio School will
give fair" on Wednesday, May 16,
from to II pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Seven Truck Drivers Robbed.

CHICAGO, April % CR. Four
bandits cruising the South Side in a
small sedan bearing Ohio license
plates held up seven truck drivers yes
terday and escaped from two police
squads after running gun battles.
Chauffers for seven department stores
and bakeries were halted in rapid
succession and stripped of cash total
ing 1920,
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Two Get Reno Divorces.

RENO, New, April % R.-Two
New York City social registerites won
divorces at private trials here yes
terday.
Mrs. Eleanor P. Shaw was given a
decree from Roger Shaw and Mrs.
Mary Burnet Hurd divorced George
Frederick Hurd. Both charged ex-
treme cruelty.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Dupont Circle was because neither
taxis nor motors came their way
nothing except that petrol wagon
which didn't have the decency to turn
its nose around and head the other
way.
''Flash! The Lowenkeller beer
garden will open on the Ides of
May that's what Conrad Reid
says and by Ides he means
(harping back to the good old days
of Caesar May IS.
Seen: Pendleton Hogan. au-
thor, etc. stopping at Ramon's
and quaffng down that nightly glass
Of milk :. after dining very in
formally but very Importantly
at one of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt's Sunday night dinners.
Even if you can't get into
the Shoreham ball room or the
Garbo palate parlor or the Elsie
De Wolf cocktail haunt :. you prob
ably won't do any better at the Shore
ham grill, which is by far the most
popular Shoreham post. . Present
there the other day all at once were
the governor Of the Federal Reserve
Board and Mrs. Eugene Black. the
controller of the currency, ]. F. T.
O'Connor; Senator and Mrs. James
F. Byrnes and Senator John G. Town
send, jr.
Tonight: Fashions in the
continental room at Wardman will be
worn by eight slim society sisters :. &.
all of whom have been poured into
sleek Summer dresses by an F street
gown shop among those who have
not been mentioned before are Lor-
raine Thomas and Louise Franklin
incidentally. that was Anna
Roosevelt Dali there the other night
in blue with an orchid here and
there.
= Celebrating :. at the Lowen-
keller Thursday night was able
pianist and socialite Frances Kendall
Brooks who the day after was
formally betrothed to Lieut.. P. H.
Tho ocher
Evening star., 1934-04-28

oUV W11O1N U3 2 OU2 12N w NO11KOS
W. c. Fields, Jimmy Durante.
Charles Chaplin, Harry Langdon. Ned
Sparks, Charles Ray and Buster
Keaton came from vaudeville to the
stage. George Burns and Oracle Allen
came from radio. 1t is many years
since the screen has developed COM
edy star from its own ranks.
These comedians mentioned" says
Director Sedgwick, "are all sympa-
thetic school exemplars. The purely
gag comedians will last as long as
their gags are good. The sympathetic
comedians will last as long as their
stories are good. But where will our
future comedians come from?"
Perhaps from the ranks of our ira
Evening star., 1934-04-28

others will prob
ably hang out
their S. r. o.
signs . . or
tell their too
many customers
to go places . E.
as they did a
week ago when
the night par
lors reported the
heaviest ira d e
ever While
many of the
fanny Marv1and
Evening star., 1934-04-28

the crest due
to Helen Charles =
ton, who has been
asked to do a
mean imitation OF
Fanny Brice
and Billy Nc
Intyre, who does
a swell wanna
duck" Joe Penner
take-of Sen
ator J. Ryan n
D u # y was up
there r e C e n t / y
h a v in G himself
and a large party
Evening star., 1934-04-28


have nothing here
that's the trou-
BILE" TOO
bad" said the
young man, as
he suddenly left
t h e m standing
there cold and
friendleSs - and
rode away {.
little suspecting
that that was an
ex-Cherry Bios
som prin C e S S.
Alicia Rogers 49,.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
After Dark
Smart People. Smart Things. Smart Places.
By the Spectator.
Trade Mark Registered. U. s. Paten

LTHOUGH many of the best
n local buggies are stepping
II out to Baltimore today, they'll
4 \ be back tonight . and the
Mayflower Lounge, the Shore
ham, the Wardman Park, the Loewen-
keller, that new Dude Ranch, and
Evening star., 1934-04-28

'''If you are gentleman and
lonely . try the Russian Troika
the night of May 81 it's pretty
far off but. at that time the
Troika has been taken over by 800
women nobody knows much
about it except that they are wom-
en- and that there will be 300
Evening star., 1934-04-28

daughter of the popular Mrs. Phil
Coffin .. walking home from British
embassy party :. with James Mitchell,
jr. :. and that the reason they were
walking those two fat miles back to
Evening star., 1934-04-28

s'*Although Ken Murray is currently
busting up and down Hollywood pave
ments. the Club Michel is still on