Evening star., 1934-06-22

picture fare. There are s.
coming menu, apparently the
the literary workshops.
Warner Bros. and First Ma
Rafael Sabatini'S roaring adven
clair Lewis bitter study of the h
Villa Gathers THE Lost Lady
Adverse" as tripleSec items on
The Paramount people have picked
up The Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
for Gary Cooper, Cary Grant and
Richard Arlen, three of the better
strong and silent heroes; Gene Fow-
ler's Shoe of the Wild Mare" one
of the first successes by that fiighty
and effective writer; Vina Delmar's
Evening Star" and a short story
called The Lemon-Drop Kid" from
the virile pen of Damon Runyon.
1t is impossible to predict just what
the celluloid artists will be able to do
with such unwieldly mass as An
thony Adverse" the intangible charms
of Shoe the Wild Mare" or the
slightly outmoded satire of "Babbitt." ="
On the face of it, nevertheless, the
adapted material looks like the best
bet among the popularity candidates
of either organization. but any good
book can be made into bad picture.
1t has been done before.
Out of the ranks of original screen
stories may arise the seasons cham
pions. Such fresh fields as the coal
mine story. Black He'll INTENDED for
Paul Mum according to rumoD =,
chooses for its setting may prove more
fertile than the long used pastures of
popular books. The Paramount out
fit may be able to turn up something
entirely new in Twenty Hours by
Air an aviation tale slated for Gary
Cooper and Carole Lombard All the
good flying yarns are not stacked
away on the shelves. And a splendid
chance for Warner Bros. to do a
sound job on the scientific way of life
presents itself in Man Against
Death" which is to be based on the
life of Louis Pasteur.
oil for the Lamps of China" is a
novel, less noted than its above-men-
toned brethren. but one treating of
unused story elementS-newer than
the always popular but seldom novel
musical eXtravanganZas. three of
which have been set down for pro-
ductlon at the Warner lots this year.
Paramount already has polished off
Marlene Dietrich's The Scarlet En-
press" Cecil De Miles Cleopatra"
and Bing Crosby in She Loves Me
Not" On the unfinished list it has
You Belong to Me" Crime Without
Passion, Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch and others, while the unstarted
roster ranges from Mae Vests Gen
tleman's Choice" and Me and the
King" to another Naval Academy
story. Target"
The most pleasant vista of specu-
lation in all the news opens with
the announcement that Ben Hecht
and Charles Macarthur, shrewdest,
toughest and soundest of show writ
ers. will produce four films under
the Paramount wing. The first is to
feature Jimmy Savo, and that makes
the pretty picture complete.
As is its custom, the Paramount
lot has absorbed few rarities from
the Broadway boards, among them
the. ripping farce, Sailor Beware; ;
that famed tale of bundling, The
Pursuit of Happiness" which is to
have Francis Lederer, Joan Bennett,
Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland
at the helm: Her Masters Voice, !"
again with the Ruggles- -Boland team.
and KareI Capeks "R. U. r." which
made the robot a household word
some years back.
Except that George Raft and Carole
Lombard will change their "Bolero"
rhythm to "Rhumba ba"-and we hope
with success this time-and the pres
ence of Charles Laughton in "Ruggles
of Red Gap" that about concludes
the summary of highlights.
7 OCAL playgoers will have another
~ chance to hiss the villain and
cheer the hero of Dion Boucicault's S
"The Octoroon'-one of the more
popular current sports-at an added
performance to be given by the Road
side Theater Stock Co. Monday night.
Anton Hardt, who directed the pro-
ducticn. has assumed the role OF Old
Pete, replacing Forester Sicard after
the latter was called out of town.
Next on the bill of the Roadside