The Washington times., 1935-03-15

ming next Thursday. Man OF
Aran," the Robert Flaherty pic
tuFe which had longer run on
Broadway than any picture since
Birth of a Nation" You don't
believe it. Then look it up.
A Birthday
The Hollywood On Parade Sec
tion of the Saturday Times will
observe a first birthday tomorrow.
Although it has kept me knee deep
in Hollywood handouts, art, gos-
sip and what not, whenever am
not roaming Thirteenth, F and E
Streets, am fonder of this baby
than a Saturday night dish of
genuine Boston baked beans. And
not even 10 months as Camp
Meade editor killed my appetite
for 1000 on plate and raisin
brown bread.
Nears Record
Over at Keith's they add up
each days receipts for Roberta"
and then check the figures up
against Little Women" For the
Katie Hepburn picture holds the
house record but Roberta" is Civ
ing it the closest kind of a box Of
flee run and has a good chance to
beat the R-K-O champion.
A "ife" Problem
That's a new problem confront
ing the Fox and the National the
aters. Life Begins at 40" with
Will Rogers is scheduled for the
Palace Theater next Friday. Life
Begins At $40" goes into the Ma
tional on March Is. So the pic
ture and the Shubert revue will be
running at the same time. It will
be a mite confusing to the public
that doesn't look close.
Division Manager Carter Bar
ron of Loew's is taking up the
matter of this booking with the
date executives. It is probable
that the Fox picture will be de-
layed until the revue departs
from E Street.
Freddie ProsPers
Helen Hoerle, business mana
ger for little Freddie Bartholo-
NEW, dropped into my office yes
terday long enough to say that
the little English gentleman will
make not less than $50,OO0 this
year on commercial tie-ups. For
instance, there is a Freddie Bar
tholomew book coming, a hat
named for the boy star of David
Copperfield," toys. clothes, food
stuffs and other things.
The method is to grant a
license for manufacture and
then collect a royalty on sales.
BY this system little Shirley Tenn
pie will make more on the out
side before 1885 is over than she
will from the Fox studio, where
the baby star collects a four
figure salary. The Shirley Tenn
pie doll swept the country in
Christmas toy sales, and an even
greater all-the-year-round demand
is reported. Well, a smile and
a dimple like Shirley's are worth
a million. hope she tucks
away that amount before she
loses all of her baby teeth.
To return to Freddie Bartholo.
NEW. He goes into the next
Greta Garbo picture, "Anna Ka-
renina." This tip is out about
this one. All of M.-G.M.'S re-
sources, financial and brain, will
go into the making of this pic
ture. Garbo needs a good story,
for she has been steadily slip
ping at the box office, not because
Garbo isn't great, but because, for
one reason or another, all the
coordinating factors failed to gear.
Win or lose in Anna Karenina," "
Carlo, with me, remains the great
est actress that ever faced a
camera. There is nobody in
Hollywood even close to her,
though she has no gold statue to
adorn the mantelpiece.
All the hams who say "Ay Tank
Ay Go Home" and figure the imi-
tation is perfect, and all the cheap
Jokes about her big feet only show
how futile it is to criticize her
great art. My fond hope is that