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Evening star., 1934-07-01
On Screens This Week

Joe E. BROWN puts on the grease
paint and Ounce cap this week in
the film, The Circus Clown" at
Warner Brothers Earle. Playing the
role of a clown whose loves lead him
into complications with a bareback
rider. lion tanner and an aerialist.
The entire cast of the Al G. Barnes
Circus is in the show, and supporting
players include Dorothy Burgess.
Patricia Ellis and Donald Dilloway.
James Melton, N. B. C. radio tenor,
heads the stage bill at the Earle, and
there are three other acts on that
portion of the program.
4 X X X
THE latest child prodigy of Holly
wood. little Shirley Temple. stars
in Little Miss Marker" the cinema
feature at Loews Fox this week.
Appearing with her in this Damon
Runyon yarn of pert child who
softened the adamant hearts of
Broadway gang are Adolphe Menjou,
Dorothy Dell and Charles Bickford
In lead roles. The stage program is
topped by comedian Will Mahoney
and includes Gertrude Niessen, radio
songstreSS, as we'll as two other acts.
X X
RERT WHEELER and Robert
Woolsey turn their comedy talents
to a flmusical farce of knighthood
days in "Cockeyed Cavaliers" the
R-K-O Keith's picture this week. In
their errant wanderings the two
vagabonds become entangled in the
affairs of numerous noble lords and
Evening star., 1934-07-01

ladies, usually to the embarrassment
of the latter. Thelma Todd, Dorothy
Lee and Noah Beery appear in the
cast.
COMBINING some diverting char
acterizations and witty dialogue
with a bloody mystery plot, THE
Thin Man" Dashiell Hammett s
civilized detective yarn is on exhibi-
ton this week at Loew's Palace. Will
liam Powell, Myrna 10y, Maureen
O'Sullivan, Henry Wadsworth and
others comprise the cast.
X y X
Joan BLONDELL and Jimmy
Cagney are teamed together again
in He Was Her Man" at the Metro
politan this week. Their film is con-
cerned with a double-crossing gang
ster who falls in love with a girl of
the streets just as she is about to
settle down into a respectable mar
rlage. The resultant complications
almost cost the girl her life and a
husband, but eventually the gangster
saves both for her.
X n X
A CIVIL WAR romance of two
= espionage agents, one a Northern
actress, the other a Southern captain,
who fall in love when they meet in
line of duty, Operator 13" brings
Marion Davies and Gary Cooper to
Loew's Columbia this week for a re-
turn engagement. Ted Healey, the
-Four Mills Brothers and Katherine
Alexander are outstanding among
the supporting players.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
New Policy.
TWENTIETH CENTURY PICTURES

WEN 1 IL / n ZEN UR1 P1C1 URES
has inaugurated its new policy of
employing the legitimate stage as a
laboratory for screen presentations.
The first of its productions to receive
the benefit of a stage tryout will be
The Red Cat" the Rudolph Lothar-
Hans Adler play, to be produced under
A. H. Woods and soon to be put into
rehearsal. A number of other plays
presented under similar arrange
ment between Twentieth Century and
various legitimate producers, are to be
announced.
Daryl F. Zanuck. production head
OF the film company, viii return in
August from an African hunting trip
in time to see the stage production
of "The Red Cat" He will base his
selections for the screen cast on the
characterizations offered by the play
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Cantor Again.
'VID MILLIONS" is the

x I'D MILLIONS" is the title of
Eddie Cantor's fifth annual
musical comedy for Samuel Goldwyn,
soon to be placed in production with
the wide-eyed star at the head of a
cast of noted entertainers. The pro-
duction, depicting a group of scram-
bling heirs IN search of buried treas
ure in Egypt, is to be released
through United Artists.
Ethel Norman, Block and Sully,
Ann Sothern and George Murphy
are in the supporting cast, with Lu-
cille Ball, Janice Jarrett, Charlotte
Russell and Betty Joy Hayward head
ing the "Goldwyn Girls" Roy Del
Ruth will direct the screen play by
Nunnally Johnson, Nat Perrin and
Arthur Sheekman, with dance num-
bers under the direction Of Seymour
Felix.
Evening star., 1934-07-01

for themselves about 1t. In the past,
they've been told, Here's this guy.
He's marvellous. He's this and that
Sometimes I'm good and sometimes
I'm rotten, and I certainly know
when I'm rotten, anyway. So does
any other actor, if he'll admit it.
Il don't want any one to be told
anything this time. Just let me work.
How hate idleness! I've been SWIM
ming and exercising and seeing few
OLD friends and dreaming of getting
into harness again ever since Chris
tina Well, I'm about to do it and
want to succeed or flop on my own.
I'll take it on the chin either way"
Well, there's Gilbert, as near as I
can give him to you. Gilbert, never
quite as interesting on the screen
Except in The Big Parade'0, as he
is off of it. But that is not saying
that Gilbert can't be as interesting
or not saying that the fellow we got
in The Big Parade" can't be caught
with the camera again.
Because he has an outstanding per-
sonality, an electric energy and a
somewhat different angle of attack
on life in general. he is judged by his
capabilities. That brings the stand
ard Of judgment pretty high. Also,
in the same ratio. it makes the angles
of criticism rather severe.
If Gilbert doesn't hit it in this first
picture-and have hunch he will,
for some reason-he will in another
one. He's going TO put up a pretty
= ~.
interesting basis that a star can try
a comeback. He's attacking pictures
exactly as If he we're coming into
them for the first time.
Persons affect him very much. He
likes Lewis Milestone, his present dl-
rector, and that means much in his
favor. He couldn't work with Ma
moulian. Their temperaments crossed
and Gilbert was the loser. He's TAX
ing good workable roles. giving no in
terviews. requesting no ballyhoo. He
wants to see what the public thinks
of him when he isn't too heavily
high-lighted and merely trying to do
a good, sincere job of work.
AS his severest critic-who also pos
sesses no end of admiration for the
mani wish him the luck of an
other Big Parade"
(Copyright 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. lnc)
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Actor S Daughter.

GEORGE BANCROFTS 17-year-old
- daughter, Georgette, is about to
enter pictures, but will not take the
easy road to stardom," according to
her father. She will make her debut
as an extra in Bancroft's forthcoming
Paramount picture. Elmer and Elsie. d
Director Gilbert Pratt assigned
Georgette to the role without any
suggestion on my part" said the
star. Il know that I could push my
daughter forward, but I do not be-
lieve in short cuts to success"
Evening star., 1934-07-01

He's a strange fellow, but you can't
accuse him of >lack of personality,
nervous vitality, or, in this comeback
$3.50, 1000 per picture. He's not get
ting that now. Price was secondary
thought with him in this venture.
He wanted to make picture in
which he had an interesting role that
was not spotted in any way. So the
part of Reporter Steve in The Cap
tain Hates the Sea" seemed made to
order for him.
Nervous and quick Of movement,
Gilbert makes the average Hollywood
star look like a slow-motion picture
when he enters a room. He had
driven in to the studio from the
beach and his sports coat of nautical
blue emphasized the tan he has ac-
ouired during months of idleness
He is thin and fit, his eyes snap with
the excitement of beginning work
once again.
He's the squarest fellow I've ever
talked with about his work
Il made a botch of 'Christiana,'"
he said quite frankly when he sat
| down to talk, land that's why 1 don't
want to say too much about this.
don't want audiences to await me,
breathlessly. I want them to accept
me as a part Of the picture-not a
part signaled for any special honors
or attention-just an inSeparable part
| OF the whole"
Il don't think it's fair to take the
failure of 'Christiana' on your shoul-
ders," I said.
We'll. fair or not, III take it," said
| Gilbert. Il wanted TO call the whole
thing off the second day we shot. ]
went home and I would have stayed
| there had not Miss Garbo. officials
and attaches of Metro whom re-
spect and like very much, called and
persuaded me TO 90 through with it
I realized. after began the part, that
! 1t was all wrong-the set-up was al
wrong for me-and I got SO nervous
and jittery that I couldn't possibly
give good performance.
II didn't want to play the part OF
Danny Checkett. which the studio
first suggested, in the present story
Checkett is too colorful a character
too spotted. If you know what mean
I'D rather play different type and
let audiences have a chance to think
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Met. Stars Scheduled

Il like recital better than opera, -
reason. They let me dress up in
frills. whereas in opera I'm continual
ly forced to wear masculine clothes.
I yearn to sing the role of Juliette,
out the management says, Sing
Stephano,' the saucy page boy. Then
they will produce Boris Godounov' and
into the Cossack boots of the young
Tsarevitch goes Swarthout. The lace
and satin of Niclausse in Tales of
Hoffman fall to my part, as do the
tights of Brezio Sila in Fora del
Destino. Once in while, opera gives
me a feminine role, like Mrs. Dean
in Peter IbbetSon' or Mallika, the
priestess in Lakme' But in recital
I'm always a girl and just myself. "
Evening star., 1934-07-01


pared with acting before such crowd
as this! The huge auditorium was
literally sold out from orchestra to
roof. and everybody there had come,
apparently. not-as so often is the
case on the other side of the river
by way of following sort of evening
routine or killing a few hours between
dinner and going somewhere else, but
as hungry for the show as youngsters
going to the circus.
Sitting there just over the foot
lights, looking down on the careless
part in Miss Cornell's dark curls, one
had almost players view of the
audience, and was famed, not only
by the breaths of the avid young
couple who leaned over the back of
ones chair the instant the curtain
rose, but by constant gusts of shifting
emotion that kept putting out from
the vast house itself. 1t fairly cracked
with concentrated attention and in
stantaneous response.
AND this sort of thing Miss Cornell
ana her company must have expert
enced night after night for months.
The press reports have spoken of the
convention-like crowds which greeted
her in Des Moines The man with
me. who happened to come from
oregon, told of the queues which
stood patiently for hours in a Seattle
ram. This sort of thing goes back to
the good old days-to Barnum, and
the tours of Patti and Jenny Lind!
Miss Cornell'S Elizabeth Barrett was
as distinguished and lovely as ever.
CHARLES Waldron continued his tact
fully repressed yet telling work as the
ogre of a father. The whole per-
formance was fresh and vigorous-only
toward Basil Rathbones Robert
Browning, which replaces that of
Brian Ahearne, did the critical eve
look somewhat aSkance.
Mr.. Rathbone is a tall, handsome
English actor, with a long, straight
nose. He looks we'll in evening clothes,
or in anything else, for that matter,
and seems especially designed for
rather chilly drawing room comedy
and the more elegant type Of melo-
drama. And so far as the bulk of
the Brooklyn audience went, there
was no question that he successfully
met the demands of the particular
Robert Browning of Mr.. Besier's play
of a virile, optimistic young hero,
that is to say, who crashed into the
Wimpole street sick room, discounted
the Dragon and swept the beleaguered
Beautiful Lady away in his strong and
ardent arms.
Browning the poet scarcely enters
into Mr.. Besier's play at all. except by
implication, but could you imagine
Mr.. Rathbones Browning being a
poet anywhere, in or out of Wimpole
street? And did he not much more
resemble some unusually gifted Con-
tact man" or bond salesman? But
possibly it is too late in the season
to bother seriously about such details,
and anyhow THE Barrett" is, above
all things. a leading lady's play, with
every eye and ear and sympathetic
heart centered for practically the en-
tire evening on the lovely Elizabeth,
suffering so melodiously there her
long death in life" on the Wimpole
street couch,
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Local Revival.

THE Washington Community Players
will begin rehearsals tomorrow
night on Shakespeare "A Mldsum-
mer Nights Dream" which they will
present in late July in Washington
The arrangement will be brief and
may be played in less than two hours.
including the accompanying music
composed for the fairy idyl by Men
delssohn. Bess Davis Schreiner.
George harrington and John Sikken
have made the cuts in the origina
text.
Evening star., 1934-07-01

News events, a comedy and short sub
jects also will be seen.
n X
T Owe without hope of reward is the
II theme of the new Leslie Howard
starring film, "Of Human Bondage" "
which is to be the next attraction
at R-K-O Keith's, beginning Friday,
July 6. Based upon Somerset Maui
ghams powerful novel of the same
name, the radio production deals
with the love of lame, sensitive.
well-bred artist medical student for
an unworthy woman. His soul is held
in human bondage" by the girls
strange attraction and the young
student clings steadfastly to the love
which he knows can bring him only
unhappiness. Bette Davis plays the
girl. Other roles are carried by Kay
Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale
and Reginald Owen.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Six Pianists With Orchestra

1HERE are approximately $50
teachers of piano in Wash
ington, and they and their
Il several thousand pupils will be
among the many interested to
learn that of the IL artists engaged
to play with the National Symphony
Orchestra next season are pianists.
Three pianists, Harold Bauer, Myra
Hess and Frances Nash, are sched-
uled to play on the Thursday
symphony series" Bauer, well known
to WaShington's concert-goers. will be
soloist March 81. Myra Hess, prob
ably the greatest woman pianist on
the concert stage today, will be solo,
ist February 81. Both of these will
be afternoon concerts. Frances Nash
who recently won brilliant successes
with the Philadelphia, San Francisco
and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras
will play January 10. This will be an
evening concert.
During the course of the 10 Sunday
concerts Josef Lhevinne and the two
piano virtuosi. Bartlett and Robertson,
will play. Lhevinne, possessor of a
titanic technique, has been heard sell
dom in Washington. He will be solo,
ist November II. Bartlett and Rob-
ertson will play with the orchestra
January 13, and this event will en-
able concertgoers to hear some rarely
PLAYED music written for two pianos
and orchestra.
Hans Kinder, who is returning this
week from Amsterdam. Holland, where
he conducted a series of concerts,
talked with Harold Bauer in New
York this Spring. The pianist re-
called his first appearance in the
famous Dutch music center.
Il had just played in Madrid" he
said. "At that time. any musician
who pleased the audience was ac-
claimed with the same kind of wild
applause as was given a successful
bull fighter. And from there went
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Roadside S Next.

THE MAD HOPES by Fomnay
Brent. comedy of silly people,
amusing situations and witty con-
versation, will be this weeks attrac-
ton at the Roadside Theater. WASH
ington's barn" theater, situated 6
miles beyond Bethesda, on the Rock
vile pike. The production will run
five nights, Tuesday through Satur-
day. The Mad Hopes" opened at a
Summer theater in Magnolia, Mass.
two years ago. and went on to sue
cessful Broadway run the following
Fall 1t has never been presented in
Washington, either by professionals or
amateurs.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
PLAYER Signed.

ELISHA COOK, Jr.. young Broadway
IL actor who scored with George M,
Cohan in the hit, "Ah, Wilderness" 3"
is en- route from New York to Holly
wood by automobile to make his film
debut under a long-term Paramount
contract. He is scheduled to report
at the Paramount studios on July 2
for a featured role with Richard
Arlen and Ida Lupino in Ready for
Love-" under the direction of Marion
Gering.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
OUTDOORS.

Glen ECHO PARK, situated on the
~ upper reaches Of the historic Po-
tomac, is always delightfully."- cool
and inviting, with an abundance OF
free picnic tables available for par
ties. drinking fountains strategically
located. In fact there is every con-
venience to insure the family a real
old-fashioned picnic.
Crystal Pool offers the last word
| in body cooling systems" With a
million and half gallons of crystal
| clear water flowing through its filters
into the pool every "a hours, constant
and vigilant care in keeping the
water up to 100 per cent health
standard, patrons are offered the last
word in swim facilities. Night swim
parties are particularly popular.
All of the more than so fine
amusement features at Glen Echo are
playing to capacity. Dancing is en-
loyed IN the air-cooled Spanish Gar
den ball room, where Dave McWil-
liams and his orchestra hold forth
every week night.
DURING the past week the modern
steel steamer City of Washing
ton of the Wilson Line carried well
over $4,000 passengers on her four
daily trips up and down thee Poto-
mac While the Mount Vernon trip
is more popular than ever with the
tourists, the regular childrens days
on Monday and Friday have set a
new record for attendance at this
popular Potomac resort.
A new ride. the "dangler." is
being opened to the public today
and this bids fair to become the most
popular at the park. This device is
the only one of its kind in the
vicinity of Washington.
X
IN RESPONSE to popular demand,
Seaside Park will hereafter devote
four nights week in the resort ball
room to the showing of movies. in
stead Of one night as heretofore.
The movie nights will be Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. New
and recent releases will be shown.
Wednesday nights will continue to
be country night" at the bay resort.
a country orchestra playing old-fash-
ioned dance music for park visitors.
The management is making prep
arations to celebrate the Fourth in
appropriate fashion. In the evening
there will be a display of fireworks.
Salt water bathing in the Seaside
pool, picnicking in the cool shady
groves, enjoyable rides on the minia-
ture railways, the carrousel and other
amusement devices are some of the
attractions at Seaside The Sunday
train schedule to the beach will pre-
vail on the Fourth.
Evening star., 1934-07-01

Among the performances at the
more or less suburban Summer thea
ters were True to the Marines" at
the Red Barn Theater, Locust Valley.
Long Island; The Good Girl" West
chester Theater, New Rochelle;
Gram" Elverhoj Theater, Milton-on-
Hudson; "All These Years." Cliff
Theater, Sea Cliff. Long Island;
"ChimeS of Corneville," Country Play
house, Westport, Conn; Like Father -
Schroon Lake, N. Y; Time Out"
Highland, N. Y; "Winesburg, Ohio"
Hedgerow Theater, Rose Valley, Pa,
and Round Trip" County Theater,
Suffern, N. Y.
GREAT liberties we're taken with
- the Bohemian Girl" 1t was
brought to Westchester and, although
Balfe's music was kept, for the most
part, the non-gypsy characters were
regulation modern musical comedy
types, there was a new book" and
lyrics" and all sorts of interpola-
tions. Airline. instead of having been
kidnapped by the gypsies years before,
becomes the rather flashy daughter of
an American millionaire and simply
runs away from home for a brief bit
of romantic whoopee with the gypsy
band-thus quite killing the emotional
basis of her famous song, Il Dreamt
I DWelt in Marble Halls" Her lover
is an escaped trusty from up the
river" who got into Jail through ill
advised participation in some Com
;rt
from whom she fees is routine muSi-
cal Englishman.
The bare-legged chorus jumps into
all sorts of contemporary dance rou-
tine; a solo dancer, Belle Didjah, does
several interpolated turns, and once
Airline. remarking. "Oh. you should
have heard me at the BeauX Arts ball
last night" repeats the song she is sup
posed to have sung on that occasion,
which happens to be Cuban rhumba,
with rattling gourds in the orchestra,
and all the rest of it. Well, it was all
very queer, and just why an old
fashioned operetta, the very obsole-
scence of which gives it a certain
unity and sentimental charm, however
artificial the original plot and business
may have been, shouldn't be left as it
was, if it is going to be revived at all,
was difficult to fathom. Even the
famous old songs, Il Dreamt I Dwelt
in Marble Halls" and You'll Remem-
be Me- were so "mugged" by the
principals who sang them that they
largely lost their romantic charm.
X X X X
MISS KATHARINE CORNELL has
Az sailed for the Mediterranean, but
before she left we took pains to cross
the river to Brooklyn to see her last
performance of The Barretts of
Wimpole Street" Scrunched into a
crowded second-tier stage box in the
vast Academy of Music, with a veri-
table sea of excited. happy and re-
sponsive faces down below, we under
stood better than before what whale
of time she must have had during
her recent remarkable tour on the
road"
How pinched and pale must almost
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Morean Returns.

HELEN MORGAN. Broadway sing
ing star, has been signed by Para
mount to enact a leading role in
You Belong to Me-" with Lee Tracy
and Helen Mack. Miss Morgan
achieved her greatest fame in Zieg-
fields Show Boat" She came TO
Los Angeles recently as the star Of
the stage play Memories.
You Belong to Me" is her first
screen role in some time. She was in
Applause" which Reuben Mamoul-
ian directed for Paramount several
years ago.
Cass. Mack and Owen, vaudeville
team now playing in Hollywood, also
have been signed to enact roles in
You Belong to Me" under Alfred l..
Workers direction.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
More Dickens.

CHARLES DICKENS "Old Curiosity
~ Shop" will come to life in a
screen transcription soon to go into
production at the studios of British
& Dominions Productions in London,
it was announced yesterday by Her.
bert Wilcox. production head of that
company, now on visit to this coun-
try
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Adapt Sailor. "

PATTERSON McNUTT, former news
paper man and New York stage
producer. has arrived in Hollywood to
work on the screen adaptation Of the
Broadway comedy hit, Sailor, Be-
ware" for Paramount. McNutt is
brother Of william Slavens McNutt.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Much Changed Bohemian
Girl Now on Broadway
Only the Music of Balfe's Opera Remains, for
There Is a Modern Story and New Title,
Gypsy Blonde" Miss Cornell Sails.

DHE only novelty in New York semi-novel-a
rearrangement Bafes ancient light "The Bohe-
mian Girl" under the title Gypsy Blonde" There
also revival of The Ticket Leave Man. Hawk
shaw the Detective" at the Palm Garden Music Hail. Dods
worth had its last week Walter Huston left for Central
and Tobacco Wnter-long
Evening star., 1934-07-01
John Gilbert Is Planning
Another Movie Comeback
Actor Who Made His Hit in The Big Parade"
Hopes to Start With Minor Roles and Work
Up the Cinema Ladder Again
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

OLLYWOOD, Calf, June 3O-Jack Gibert'S new come
- back is to be made without fanfare. took quite
| | lot of persuading convince him that there
anything to say about at all. Interviews have
been his long suit and he considers the present very
inauspicious
Since I've slammed Jack Gilbert little harder than
it like him for the interview will
give He has refused all others
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Where and When In Local Theaters

LOEWs FOX-ttle Miss Marker" stage show this after
and evening
EARLEThe Circus Clown at q 44O 72O and 10 pm Stage
shows at $780, $50 and els pm.
LOEW'S PALACE-"The Thin Man." this afternoon and
evening.
R-K-O KEITHS-"Cock-E Eyed Cavaliers" O. $780, $50
and $50 pm
LoEW's COLUMBIA-"Operator 49," this afternoon and
evening.
METROPoLITAN-"He Man." at 22o, 4:5o 7;2O and
GAS pm
Evening star., 1934-07-01

"WO Of radios outstanding Sum-
mer vocalistS and two of the
Metropolitan operas singers
i will make their debuts at
Constitution Hall next season
in joint recital when Gladys Swarth-
out, mezzo-soprano. and Nino Mar
TIM. tenor. appear on the same pro-
gram as one of the attractions of
Dorthy Hodgdn Dorsey's first Sunday
recital series.
Miss Swarthout has been with the
Metropolitan Opera for five seasons,
and before that was a member of the
Chicago Civic Opera Co. She is
American born and received her train
ing in America. Last year she sang
in AZ performances. all in the course
of IA weeks. She is still in her
twenties and prefers recital to opera.