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Evening star., 1934-07-07
Rare Comedy and Good
Music in Earle Picture
Shoot the Works" Shows Best Work of Oakie,
Bernie, Skipworth Harms and Others.
Summer Vaudeville

TOR guaranteed enjoyable hot
- weather entertainment with a
punch we recommend Para
mounts latest comedy musl-
cale-more entertainment tnan
comedy and more comedy than musl-
cal-which goes by the non-1lluml-
mating title OF Shoot the Works" as
it comes to you with Jack Oakie, Ben
Bernie and all the lads on the screen
OF Warner Bros Earle Theater this
week.
If you go looking for a musical ex-
travaganza, you won't f1nd 1t, but II
you are interested in excellent come
dy, as Mr.. Oakie, Roscoe Karns, Ar
line Judge and the Ole Maestro know
how to peddle it, you can check your
blues with the theater door man. And
you can also get 10 feel sympathetic
If so inclined, by seeing what a won-
derful entertainer the screen was re-
Gently deprived OF by the untlmeIy
death of Dorothy Dell, who ADDS
much to the love interest OF the story
behind this bit OF easy-to-take MIN
fare.
The film also serves as a vehicle TO
bring forward the talents OF another
player who has not had many parts
to date. That would be petite Airline
Judge, who plays comedy ike vet
eran as the "come-on girl" sweetheart
OF Roscoe Karns.
Oakie, Burns, Karns and Alison
Skipworth comprise the no-account
firm of Nelson Enterprises, with their
main stock being a stuffed whale,
until Dorothy Dell takes Barker OaKle
in hand to get him into vaudeville
act with herself. Together they COM
pose the hit song OF the MIN, with
My Eyes Wide Open" only to have
Oakie lose the song rights shooting
craps-probably where the piece got
its title. After that Bernie gets a lop
with his orchestra In a Chinese JOINT
with Miss Dell putting them over with
the hit Song. From there they go up
to radio and a private night club,
while Oakie goes down TO become
barker for a flea circus.
1t all ends with roses when Oakie
socks Broadway newspaper colum-
Evening star., 1934-07-07

tract after stand Up and Cheer, q"
Evans. when that studio realized that
here was a gold mine. She will next
be seen with Gary Cooper and Carole
Lombard in Now and Forever" I"
which shows you that she already
has quite screen record to her
credit.
Shirley Temple makes a larger SAL
airy than her father. She refuses to
diet like other Hollywood stars, eat
ing everything on the 4-year -old
menu in generous quantities. She
goes to bed at 8 pm. and is up at Z
in the morning. She has a stand-in,
Marilyn GranaS. who takes her place
during the tedious trying of lighting
effects, etc. The two girls play house,
draw, chase each other with riotous
screams between sequences and in odd
times on the sets.
Shirley loves to act, but doesn't
want to see the result Of her labors
at all. They have a hard time get
ting her to sit still long enough to
dress her correctly for the camera
and to groom her hair to movie per-
fection. No makeup is used, how
ever.
When an especially difficult bit has
to be done, she is generally promised
something nice Director Hathaway
gave her bowl of small turtles as
reward for her excellent emotional
scenes in the recently finished picture
with Cooper and Lombard.
Her reign is estimated at seven
years duration-the maximum for
child actress. l asked her If she
would feel badly when she had to
give the movies up, and she put her
little head on one side and piped:
mo, won't feel bad cause 1 want
to be a paintreSs and make pit-churs,
and then l want to have lots of ba-
bieS!"
(Copyright 1894. by North American
Newspaper ASsociation)
Evening star., 1934-07-07

hicle-because they have a new kind
of a musical treatment for the same
At any rate she hopes, as she says,
Ito bring a little of the metropolitan
to Hollywood" When you see her
new film you will know that she has
Irving Thalberg, known sometimes
as the brain of MG-M," welcomed
us in his office-which is even larger
than Carter Barrons at Loew's Fox
1t is as vast as a baronial banquet
hall-paneled in light wood. with a
desk at one end which could hold six
Government workers. Thalberg, a
vital cog in the giant wheels of the
motion picture industry, continues to
believe that you must give the public
important and at the same time ex-
penSive pictures. He believes the
film code which Washington prepared
is working-althought it has cost
Hollywood more money. The code
has, however" says he. helped en-
ployment out here tremendously"
From Thalberg to Grace Moore'S
telephone call-and now here.
Last Minute Impressions
Last-minute impressions of Holly
wood
Fewer blonds and more sense than
last season.
Evening star., 1934-07-07

nist-boy, page Mr.. WinchelI-to be-
comes Bernie's new master of cere-
monies and Miss DeII's life partner.
Mr.. Voice of Experience" takes the
spotlight in the honor position Of the
Earle program this week with a Is
minute explanation of his humanitar-
ian interests as conducted daily by
means of the medium of the radio.
Contrary to expectations, he does not
answer questions from the stage.
More entertaining is blond Maxine
Stone. who we enter in the easiest
job contest. All she does is lie around
in lazy poses all over the stage while
Bennie Ross attempts to wake up her
and the audience with a mixture of
songs and humor. The Gilbert Brothers
pull themselves about on horizontal
bar, and revue, called Russian Rev.
els, brings Col. Fedor Maybohn, his
imperial string ensemble and corps
of entertainers for your edification.
Bert Granoff works overtime singing
vocal interludes to the Earle Orches-
ira overture of popular tunes to get as
much applause as any one, and the
usual newsreel and short subjects
complete the program. M. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-07-07

Barbara Stanwyck doesn't like
Washington.
Katherine Hepburn never got hold
of US the way she promised. Said r.
K-O, You didn't really think she
would, did you2" We did
Nor did King Vidor ask us to the
premiere OF Our Daily Bread"
Nor did we get that Jean Harlow
dinner.
But that's Hollywood.
The Caviar Was Good
We did like that caviar and those
pancakes and that sour cream at Joan
Crawford's. We did like the Bebe
Daniels and Ben Lyon Rolls Royce
and Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. We
did like Bette Davis new hair cut
and the Colony Club, where Harmon
Nelson, jr., plays. We liked the new
Grace Moore picture and that drive
along the coast to Santa Barbara. We
liked the rhumba dancers at Aqua
SdnCHLc chO IHC pOoGAoIOo nG Ia
Junanta and the colored cook in the
middle of the trolley tracks at Santa
Monica who bows every time a car
goes by as an advertisement for his
restaurant. We liked the way Lynn
Farnol took it" from Mamoulian dur
ing a rehearsal of To-day We Live, "
and the way Anna Stem sidled up to
us and said Hello" We like the
way Una Merkel inquired after that
tall, curly-headed. handsome man
from Washington whose first name is
Sam and who 1 sat next to at that
party up at the Club Michel. We
liked Francis Lederer's accent and
Irene Dunne's red velvet dress in
The Age of Innocence" We liked
Irving Thalbreg's point of view and
the odd curls that beat their way
down Charles Laughton's neck. We
liked Evelyn Venable's looks of the
screen more than We do on. We liked
Maxine Doyle's spirit and Phil Regan's
voice and that ball room scene in
The Merry Widow" when some 300
extras in bright colored evening dress
waltzed in front of Napoleon like
Ernst Lubitch. We liked Jean Har-
lows white dress and Cables de-
termination to spoil Joan Crawford's
makeup.
In other words-we liked-Holly-
wood
Evening star., 1934-07-07

Carlo Is slipping-and Mae West
remains to be seen.
Rudolph Valentines car in front
of the Egyptian Theater attracts just
as much attention today as it formerly
did.
The girl you think is the sweetest
on the screen is just the opposite in
real life.
A studio car driver will tell you,
II can walk into almost any Holly
wood party and introduce myself as
Mr.. So-and-So and nobody will know
the difference"
Una Merkel is the most popular
person on the screen.
Charlie Chaplin is still writing the
story that United Artist patiently an
nounces will positively be seen this
year"
Two Studios Slipping.
Two major studios are not what
they used TO be.
1t is a tough job getting into the
Walt Disney Mickey Mouse studios.
Nobody talks about Clara Bow any
more
John Barrymore has a bad case of
what is known as tropical fever"
Ethel doesn't speak to John. Lionel
is her favorite brother.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Palace-"The Thin Man" at 11:1s
am. 1920. 3:25. $50, 7:35 and GAS
pm.
FOx-"Murder in the Private Car,
at 1l:l0 am, $50, 4:30, tbs and
9:55 pm. Stage shows. Mary Brian
in person, at !, $40, 6:25 and
9;05 pm.
COlumbia-"Private Scandal" al
1l:5O am, 1880, $40, 4;5O, 6:35, Sis
and 9:55 pm.
MetrOpolitan-"The Great Flirta-
tion," at IL noon, 2:25, ass, 7:2C
and 9:45 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Let's Try Again,
at l1:5I am. 1888, 3:15, Asst, 6:39
8:21 and 1908 pm.
Earle-"Shoot the Works" at ll:05
am. l:40. 4:30. tbs and 10 pm
Stage shows at l2:45, $50, 6:15 and
9:o5 pm.
Tivoli-"Rodney." at 2:20, AIS,
6:25, sos and GAS pm.
Ambassador-"The Black Cat" at
2:45, 4:40. 6:35, 8:15 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
BY E. De S. MELCHER,
Dramatic Critic OF The Star.

r OLLYWOOD.-The phone just
rang and a pleasant, rather
low voice said, This is Grace
Il Moore" So do you wonder
that we consider our last day
a success? First there has been view
of a midnight Easter service in Rus
sian church on the Resurrection" set
with the talks with Anna Sten and
Reuben Mamoulian. Then there has
been a further glimpse of Zasu Pitts
in Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" "
Then luncheon with Gene Raymond
at the Brown Derby next door to
Jackie Cooper and an ice-cream soda
and Wheeler and Woolsey (oh my
and Rubinoff the fiddler and those
mattresses whose skirts are starched
in balloon fashion. Later, brief good
bys to Maxine Doyle and Phil Regan
on the Student Tour" set, and a
moment with Joan Crawford and
Clark Gable in a tropical grass"
scene. Afterward, a good-by to Direc-
tor Clarence Brown and Writer John
Lee Mahin. who is there to see that
some of Sadie McKees" questionable
lines are deleted for the benefit of the
censor.
Then an interesting talk with Irving
Thalberg in his modernisic office
building A chat with Nat Pendleton,
whose mother wrote us nice things
last Winter after we had writ about
Penthouse. Also, goodby TO Fran
chot Tone and hello to Mady Chris
tians. that brilliant German actress
who is said to be going places out
here Tea" with Bebe Daniels and.
soon. a farewell dinner at Una
MerkelS.
Between all this there is just time
to record a few side thoughts on the
highlights of the day-including that
recent Grace Moore phone call.
Likes Washingtonians.
Miss Moore is grateful for our in
terest in her new film, "One Night of
Love" AS a great friend of Wash
ington's Mrs. Lawrence Townsend,
she is most hoSpitable to any visitor
from there. She will come to Wash
ington next Winter with something
called The Metropolitan Quartet
a combination in which she shares
honors with Richard Bonneh. Doris
Doe and Edward johnson. Not bad
She may do Enter Madame" for
Paramount as her next screen We
Evening star., 1934-07-07

can run from laughter to tears and
from miSty-eyed dream-child to a
veritable tiny virago all in less time
than it takes to tell The sort Of
child that mothers describe as a
handful
This baby has never been to a
dramatic school. She has a natural
fair for acting, and her parents are
afraid that any artifciality might
spoil it. Her only training. has been
some dancing lessons. 1t was through
them that she got her chance in
movies. A scout for kiddie pictures
visited the dancing class and singled
Shirley out both for her beauty and
personality. She made seven short
pictures before she appeared in THE
F'rolicS of Youth" with Harry Myers.
Helene Chadwick and Junior Coghlin
Little Miss Marker" established
her at the top of the junior group,
although she was put under Fox con-
Evening star., 1934-07-07


For Charlie Ruggles' new comedy
melodrama is pure hooey. and 1t Is
also a pleasant enough spectacle on
torrid afternoon. Through its episodes
wander all the stock characters OF
Dynamite Danny. or Love in Lion
Jaw" the customary props ranging
from the inevitable gorilla down to
hands forever leaping out OF wall
panels. AS imperSonated by the ever
diverting DR.. Ruggles. by Una Merkle.
Mary Carlisle and assorted others,
however. these old timers of the hiss,
boo and scream business become anus
Ing enough.
Their chief concern in Murder in
the Private Car" are the lethal prankS
of an escaped gorilla which boards the
train and certain extensive mayhem
practiced by a gent who has tricked
Miss Carlisle. a former telephone
operator suddenly turned heiress; her
pal Miss Merkle. swain, lawyer and
q broker into boarding the car. Rug
giles. who is cast as the comic detec-
tice. has come along for the ride. We
need not tell you there are murders
Oh llle cal, Uul VIII, "liSlN- VIM I hAiNa
why. should. so the mystery tllm pro-
ducers insist. remain unmentioned.
Miss Mary Brian, the cinema star,
for many years notable for her sweet
ingenue expressions rather than her
fire. shows up this week as the valde-
vile headliner at the Fox. reeling of
a swift series of dance numbers with
Gordon and King. Miss Brian is quite
beautiful, she has learned to hoof with
some eclat and her partners are eX-
ceedingly deft in the art.
The second feature of the stage bill
is offered by the Radio Aces, four
young men who Groom handsomely
and own in their company a clever
imitator of Cab Galloway and Stepin
Fetchit. The Five De Guchis, one OF
those miraculous tumbling acts, and
Joe Morris and company complete the
program on the boards
There is also a news reel.
*
THERE was once play on Broad
way called Il Loved An Actress. "
and it was not a very good play. AS
Evening star., 1934-07-07
BAND CONCERT.

The United States Soldiers Home
Band. at the bandstand, this evening
at $50 o'clock.
John s. M Zimmerman, band
master; Anton Pointner, associate.
March. strenuous Lite" -. .Boehms
Overture, Poet and Peasant" Suppe
Oriental suite, "A Lover in Damas
GUS .... Amy Woodfor- -Finden
Far Across the Desert Sands"
"There the Abana Flows
beloved in Your Absence"
''How Many a Lonely Caravan"
eff in the Great Beyond
Allah Be With Us
Scenes from the opera Carmen"
Bizet
Egyptian serenade, "Amina" (requesU =.
Lincke
Valse, La Reve de Della" CDelilah's
dream) ................... Wurm
Finale, Shoulder to Shoulder"
Arthur
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1934-07-07

Small Shirley Temple was born in
California-at the Santa Monica Hos
pital, to be exact-four years ago, and
is the daughter of George F. and
Gertrude Temple. Her father is man
ager of local branch national bank,
and the mite has never been out of
this sunny State.
At present she holds the junior
motion picture world in the hollow
of her little hand. She is the child
wonGer of the moment-the name
which has displaced Baby LIE Roy.
who in turn displaced Jackie Cooper,
who in turn displaced Bobby Coogan,
and so on, ad inflnitum.
Long. golden-brown curls, big blue
eyes, rosebud mouth and the soft
pink cheeks of elfin loveliness are
Shirley Temples initial ticket to
fame. Her most lasting claim is a
temperament already we'll estab-
lished, with an emotional gamut that
Evening star., 1934-07-07
STAR SIGNS CONTRACT
Katharine Hepburn to Make Six
Films in Next Two Years.

HOLLYWOOD. July [P-Kath-
arine Hepburn, who has been working
on picture-to-picture basis at
R-K-O studio, has been placed under
contract and will make six films dur
ing the next two years, it was dis
closed last night.
Unoficially it was indicated she
would receive about S5OO00 for each
picture. The first on her program is
The Little Minister" and after that
possibly The Gorgeous Hussy."
Evening star., 1934-07-07
RAY AND WIFE PARTED

Remain on Friendly Terms-File
Bankruptcy Petitions.
HOLLYWOOD. Calf, July 7 (P.-
Charles Ray, who is attempting a
comeback in motion pictures. and
Mrs. Clara Grant Ray have been sep
arated year, she disclosed today.
They remain on friendly terms, and
have not discussed a divorce, Mrs.
Ray said. but found their interests
incompatible. They we're married in
1915.
Both filed voluntary petitions in
bankruptcy yesterday.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
"THIN MAN" IS
HELD OYER AT
LOEW'S PALACE
Popular Screen Detec-
tire Story Gets Another
Week on F Street.

Nickie Charles, the flippant. mar
tini-drinking super is still
shooting the balloons off his Christmas
tree with a toy rifle aimed between
both feet, to the annoyance OF his
wealthy wife, Myrna 10y, pouting
beautifully in an armchair nearby,
while he nonchalantly solves the year S
best murder mystery as Dashiell Ham
mettS comedy thriller. The Thin
Man" continues to hold the screen
and large audiences at Loew's Palace.
The playboy prototype OF Fhilo
Vance and Bulldog Drummond is i'm
peccably impersonated by William
Powell, who gets dragged into the
mystery doings while in New York to
catch up on his drinking. Besides
shooting balloons, Suave Mr.. Powell
shoots witticismS at and with the
most charming Myrna 10y you have
ever seen, shoots holes in all of Officer
Nat Pendleton's murder theories and
then riddles all of your own pet
thoughts on the subject by getting the
murderer to expose himself at din
ner party to which all suspects have
been unwillingly invited" by scores
of Metropolitan plain clothes men.
Filled with trills of mirth and
thrills of mystery, the piece somehow
succeeds in being exceedingly good
modern comedy and exceedingly good
mystery drama at one and the same
time. Those more interested in the
mystery angle should aim to get in
at the start Of the picture. Others
can drop in at any time during the
show and find themselves Immediate
ly chuckling at a continual series of
brittle dialogue and amusing situa-
tions.
AS Mrs. Nickie Charles Myrna 10y
is something to marvel at. She grad
yates into the ranks of ultra smart
comedy with a delightful charm and
leaves behind those exotic puZzling
expressions of seriousness that always
put one on the fence as to just what
emotion she was interpreting.
Others involved in this mad mys-
terry mixup include Maureen O'Sul-
livan. Nina Gombell Nat Pendleton
and a wire-haired terrier that is
smarter than Rim -Tin-Tin and Jimmy
Durante combined Walt Disney's
Little Red Riding Hood" a clever
sequel to Three Little Pigs" which
also includes those portly porcineS
and the big bad wolf himself, and a
Thelma Todd-PatSy Kelley farce COM
plete the Palace program. M. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
Old-Time MelOdran1a in
Charlie Ruggles' Comedy
Murder in the Private Car" at the Fox, Is
Prime Warm.Weather Entertainment.
Great Flirta ton at Metropolitan.

%HE ancient game tying little Nell to the
| railroad by means dead sport Murder in
the current film at Loews Fox, will
prove that to you and perhaps at the time clnch
hokum the best hotWeather entertainment
Evening star., 1934-07-07
Brothers Names Forgotten.

olOIAOAS
SPRINGFIELD. Mo. CP.-Chris AL
hats who died here last week, left a
share of his estate Ito my brothers,
Albert. Herman and George and three
others whose names l do not recall.
The brothers live in Germany. They
we're born after he left the father
land.
Evening star., 1934-07-07


could feather their nests easily with Shirleys income
We have had good inquiries about Shirley
One city claims then another This
Chicago writes FAM and she is little Mamie with
whom she play Another child
used school only
hoJD
Evening star., 1934-07-07
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Reception. Variety Club, Willard
Hotel, pm.
Boy Scout Courts of Honor and Re-
view. Camp Wilson. 7:30 pm.
TOMORROW.
Hike. Red Triangle outing Club,
meet at Fifteenth street and Constitu-
ton avenue, 2 pm.
Evening star., 1934-07-07

Oasis Discovered.
An oasis has Just been discovered
in the Libyan Desert near Dakhla.
Evening star., 1934-07-07
Movies Have New Star
in Elfin Shirley Temple
Four-Year-Old Child Actress, Latest Juvenile
Rage" In Hollywood, Wants to
Be "Paintress."
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

7 OLLYWOOD Calf, July z (NANA)-Hollywood's child
~ prodigies generally gloried
| they all did well small Shirley
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-13
By Eddie Ash
Fans Name Five Indians on All Team
Hickey Faces Hard Job in Final Say

THE consensus of The Times poll to select an aAmercan
Association team places five Indians the roster. Fans
asked send in their choices of favortes for the differ
ent positions and the rayed to the Chicago head
quarters of the league Votes from the other A. A.
cities also Chicago and President Thomas Jeer
Hickey will face the Job Of selecting asar team from
the total league vote.
The Times count named Ownie Bush as manager;
Hauser first base; Stor second base Bedore third base
Nemiec shortsop; Deore utility nfeder; A. Wright left
field; Cooney center field Webb right field; Washington
utility outfeder Iargrave and Riddle catchers and Petty
Logan and Braxon pitchers Members of the Indians chosen
in The Times Bedore Cooney, Washington
Riddle and Logan.
PEFoRE ne week ont there may be more changes topy vy
- race N The American ASSOCIATION 6u Just a. present Minneapolis
A-sars viii play Mer Minneapolis july and Mime
pses Who we're eond n he fan mole for The positions assigned to
the Miller Hickey VIII have employ additional Office
al-star lineup field battle the Mliers
GROVER ALEXANDER the former big Lacquer
" best chukers baseball earning his coffee and
He il pitching only innings
Rogers HoIn boss OF the Browns It was Hogsoy who gave hm the
the bases loaded in the final world series between the Yankees
Tony Iazer that thrill And wasn't soused
nothing lager
in a bed Manager HonsOy.'
THE brilliant ondsman on to say: might
bbed bit TOO freely occasionally but if had continually nued
habits discussed Joe Mccarthy did the favor of ship
the truth that argument caused by wanting to pitch TO
carthys and Jackson mt the ball out of the park"
LEX rather enjoys his long bus rides each season with team scs
@ ' @ IS b the s a" Dd Benton o% HS0 M b
eastern division this term He has company Earl Smith the former
year ago Ddrkson the womens
Olympic being signed replace him the Illustrates to
baseball
Alex Donkey baseball played sdehOw the David
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-13
Sanitary Squads
in Action Tonight
Board Teams Square Off at
Perry Stadium.

Tonight is the big night for the
two Sanitary Board baseball teams
and their followers. The White
squad, under the tutelage of jim
Reynolds, and the Negro sluggers,
piloted by Truly Manlove, cross
bats under the arcs at Perry sta
dunn to settle dispute of long
standing.
Both teams are undefeated. Reyn-
Odds FASTENERS are leading the In
dustrial League with eleven
straight victories and the ManloVe
club is out in front in the Social
loop, having knocked down nine
opponents in a row. Rivalry is ex-
pected to be at high mark in the
stands as we'll as on the field.
A large crowd is anticipated when
hostilities begin at 8:15. Tickets
have been priced at 25 cents and
may be obtained at the Em-Roe,
Smith Hassler -Sturm and Gus
Habich sporting goods stores, and
at the main box Office at the sta
dunn tonight.