Evening star., 1934-11-15

K-O Keith's. Members OF
~ the local School Board sat in
solemn silence the other day
as they viewed this Charles Dickens
classic and pronounced it to be good.
Part of this is due to young George
Breakstone, q small lad with great
future, who manages to steal the show
from everybody else. Others include
Jane Wyatt, in one Of those nom
commital roles which manages to be
just $3.50; Henry Hull, who is begin
ming to be called the new Lon
CLANCY; Florence Reed, who went
TO Hollywood especially for this, and
Phillips Holmes, who, to our way Of
thinking, isn't very good.
Evelyn Prentice" at Loew's Fox.
Although we haven't seen this one, it
ought to be good, what with Myrna
10y and Bill Powell in the leading
roles. Miss 10y can do anything and
make it right-and ever since Mr..
Powell has gone over to M-G-M fate
seems to have smiled at him. Una
Merkel (this departments weakness)
Is also in the cast. The Duncan Sis
ters head the stage show.
T1Co w al LIS bullN NOilACo w OAlC
Earle tomorrow, which means that
even such an august trouper as Bar
bara StanWyck must play second fid-
die. Miss Stanwyck will be seen in the
Warner Bros film version Of Lost
Lady" plus four leading men, in
cluding Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot,
Frank Morgan and Phillip Reed
Fr To !,
from innumerable triumphs in the
world of jazz, etc. With him is that
basso- -profundo wizard, "Pooley" NC
Clintock, whose vocal kettle drum
mings are well known to radio and
orchestra fans.
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" p"
at Loew's Palace. When Hollywood
was in a state of frenzy trying to
figure out who should play Mrs.
Wigs, along came Pauline Lord Cor
rather along came picture of her in
Producer MacLean's eye) and she
was grabbed by the nap of the neck
and literally thrown into the part.
Her success as the mother of the
famous Wigs brood" is already a
matter Of screen history. Those who
help her include w. c. Fields, Zasu
Pitts next to Garbo the most popular
person on the screen), Evelyn Ven
able and Kent Taylor. George Break
stone is in it, too. So is the lad who
made you cry in "Only Yesterday"
THE Lemon Drop Kid" is the latest
Damon Runyon story to reach the
screen. 1t comes to the Metropolitan
tomorrow featuring Lee Tracy, Helen
Mack and Baby LIE Roy. No, "One
Night of Love" isn't there any more!
But if you look about you'll find that
it's playing at the Tivon Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
1865 Nights in Hollywood" will
be the Columbia feature next week,
starring Jimmie Dunn and the agree
able Alice Faye This is the one
about 365 nights in Hollywood which
ought to make the subsequent 365 days
pretty tough shedding Mitchell and
Durant, two roughneck comics, are
also in the cast.
4 NITA SCHADE writes in to say
"a that THE Barrie play at Loew's
Fox, so admirably acted by Helen
Hayes and Brian Aherne, reminded
me Of another Barrie play which de-
lighted us older Washingtonians way
back in the 90s-'The Professors
Love Story" Miss Schade thinks
that this would make a good film
and. by golly, it might at that!
That was fine speech that George
M. Cohan made yesterday at the
Press Club luncheon given in his
honor and attended by many of
Washington's most prominent citizens.
Mr.. Cohan said that having been
song-and-dance man he was being
blamed for the avalanch of song
and-dance men that are turning to
the straight drama" He suggested
that maybe George Arliss will do a
buck-and-wing next season.
Mrs. (Bachrach) Preston thinks
that this weeks show at the Fox
Is a fine family affair" The rea-
son being that the Children like Duke
Ellington and the grown-upS like
What Every Woman Knows" That's
q new angle on the current contro-
versy that is raging up and down
the boulevards.
All tickets to the first Variety Club
banquet have been sold.
One of the better bands gets to
town tomorrow-Fred Waring But
that isn't to say BUDDY Rogers re-
minds us) that one of the better bands
isn't still here. That would be
rightly-the California Cavaliers.
The local Loew Office now sends
out its publicity on three different
colored pieces of paper-reminding us
perhaps that the Fox, the Palace and
the Columbia are three distinct
theaters.
A card from Helen Hoerle from New
York advises us that she is now half
Of new film called "Hoerle- Marks"
which has to do with publicity, etc.
Miss Hoerle used to trot down here
ahead Of Shuoert shows.
r. r. AmeS, press relationship
counselor" for Fred Waring is in town.
All balcony seats and most of the
other seats for "Ah, Wilderness" are
gone.
Filtration Walk" comes to the
Earle week from Friday. Yes, Dick
Powells in it.
And Greta Garbo comes to the