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The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Oberon-Boyer
At R-K-O Next

RKO Keith's is announcing a
change in pictures for Friday. Due
to a delay in production at the
West Coast Studios the originally
booked picture, THE Bride of
Frankenstein" has had to be moved
back to the following Friday, May
3, and for next week the Keith
management announces a United
Artists production, Thunder in
the East" starring Merle Oberon
and Charles Boyer.
Merle Oberon, who scored so en-
phatically opposite Leslie Howard
in "The Scarlet Pimpernel," re-
Gently seen at RKO Keith's, and
in "Folies Bergere," is seen as a
japanese heroine in Paris gowns
in Thunder in the East" while
Charles Boyer protrays a patriotic
naval commander husband who,
in order to gain his ends, subtly
maneuvers his bride into the arms
of a dashing British officer, played
by John Loder.
Thunder in the East" is from
the novel, 'The Battle" under
which title the picture was first
known, by Claude Ferrere. The
novel was a popular prewar French
creation and tells, in dramatic
fashion, the deeply moving story
of the noble Marquis Yorisaka, O
japanese naval commander. whose
intense patriotism causes him to
deliberately encourage Fergan to
make love to his wife, wife he
actually loves, with tragic results
to all concerned.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
LCOVer HOu yWOOd

with this one: Buck Jones started
his cinematic career by doubling
for such famous Western stars as
Tom Mix, William Farnum and
w. S. Hart. All during that pc
riod he was never so much as
scratched even though his work
was of the most hazardous va
but-ln his very first star
ring picture he looked over his
shoulder while running. at his
pursuer, fell off a 25foot cliff
and almost broke his neck.
Strange as it may seem, it has
taken Hollywood eight years to
be convinced that Gary Cooper's
apparent lack of acting ability
has proven to be the finest tech
nique on the screen and that they
didn't wake up to it until along
came Charles Laughton and
Helen Hayes with a stage back
ground and new school of act
ing. artistic Restraint" From
that moment on, under acting"
has become the goal of every
star in the business. along with
the realization that the eight
years of Gary's acting has been
founded on just that basis. Nice
to know that possibly now the
thespianS will not 60 around
chewing up the scenery.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
NEW THEATER PROGRAMS

Raise" will be the main screen at
traction beginning Friday. This
Peter B. Kyne story is directed by
George Marshall and has a sup
porting cast which includes Allan
Dinehart, Berton Churchill. and
Frank Melton. Selected short sub
jects and a news reel will COM
plete the program.
HOWARD - Cd ark Doings,"
featuring Radcliff and Rodgers
will be the stage attraction begin
ming Friday. These boys sing and
play the piano in Harlem's most
unique style. Others in the revue
are the Three Rhythm Kings, Han
nan Sylvesters and the Kings
Favorites, IL fast stepping girls
and six dancing boys. The music
will be provided by Sam Donin-
gan's Orchestra making their first
appearance at the T Street house.
BELASCO-George Arliss in his
latest picture, THE Iron Duke" "
in which he portrays the famous
Duke of wellington will be held
over for a second week beginning
Saturday. Attendance record S
have been cracked by the hugh
crowds thronging to see this Gau-
mont-British feature. On the sup
Elementary program will be a
Shirley Temple short feature and
a late news reel.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
De Mile Movie
Listed For
The Earle

"Private Worlds" one Of the
most important productions to be
released through Paramount Pic
lures this season, has been booked
for early showing at Warner Bros.
Earle Theater.
Based on the best seller by
Phyllis Bottome, "Private Worlds"
was produced by Walter Wanger.
In the stellar cast are such popu.
lar performers as Claudette Col
bert, Joel McCrea, Joan Bennett
and Charles Boyer. Gregory La
Cava directed this film, which is
said to be one of the most unusual
features Paramount has ever pre-
sented, unique in it's setting and
daring in its theme.
''Stolen Harmony" Ben Bernie'S
latest picture, is another impor
tant Paramount picture coming to
the Earle. George Raft shares top
billing with the Old Maestro in
this comedy with music, and all of
the lads perform at their best.
"The Crusades," now in produc-
ton, will be presented on the
screen at the Earle when it is
completed. One of Cecil B. De-
Miles most ambitious produc-
tions, this feature was inspired by
the heroic deeds of the crusaders,
whose story, as written by Harold
Lamb, is the basis of the film.
Henry Wilcoxon, Loretta Young,
C. Aubrey Smith and many others
appear in the cast.
These three Paramount produc-
tions are among the many out
standing attractions to be offered
on the Earle screen during the
spring and summer season. Grace
Moore's new picture, from the Co.
lumbia studios; Frank Capra's Gel
luloid version of Lost Horizon;
and all of the important Warner
Bros. First National pictures. in
GLIDING Paul Muni's much-dis-
cussed "Black Fury" and Shake
speare's "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" are other important fea-
lures which the Earle will present
first in Washington.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
State Societies to
Attend National

Under the theater party bene'
fit plan that the National Theater
Players have arranged for the
Governmental State societies, it is
unusual that the farthest State
from the Nations Capital-Cali'
fornia-was the first to take ad'
vantage of it, while the nearest
State te-Virginia-was the second
to fall in line.
However, Virginia will be the
first to hold it's party, having
booked Saturday night, May 18, to
see "The Bishop Misbehaves," and
the State of California has Sc
lected "The Bride the Sun Shines
On" the night of May %. Penn
sylvania, Washington-Alaska and
Wyoming State societies are con-
templating attendance.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
MOVIE
4vACLOCK

BELASCO-George Arliss in the
Iron Duke" at 1900, 200,
4:04, sos. 8:02, 1904 p. m.
RKO-KEITH'S-William Powell
and Ginger Rogers in "Star
q At Midnight" At 11:44 a.
M, 1:44, 3::44, 5:44, 7:44 and
+ 9:44 p. m.
FOX - Richard Barthelmess,
Gertrude Michael in -Four
4 Hours to Kill" 11:O0 a. M,
= 1885, 4:25, 7:2O, 1000 p. m.
: Stage 1910, $3.50, $50, $50
p. m.
PALACE-Jean Harlow, William
Powell in Reckless" 1905,
2:30. 4:55, 1920, $40 p. m.
EARLE-Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler
in 60 Into Your Dance"
! 1880 a. M. 1875, 4:2O, 7:05,
: $50 p. m. Stage, 12:45, $3.50.
6:15, 900 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Jack Holt
and Jackie Searl in "UnWel-
.. come Stranger" 11:50 a. m,
+ 1855. 3:55, 600, 1885, 9:45
p. m.
COLUMBIA-Mary Ellis, Carl
Brisson in "All the Kings
Horses" 11:15 a. m, 1:15,
1925, $50, TAO, $50 p. m.
HOWARD Joan Blondell and
Hugh Herbert in travelling
Saleslady," 1890, 3:05, 7:o5,
1910 p. m. Stage, 2:40, $50,
9:10 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Tone -MerkeI
Next at Fox

zone New York Night" star
ring Franchot Tone and Una Mer-
kel, will hold the spotlight on the
screen of Loew's Fox Theater
starting next Friday.
Based on the play "Order
Please" by Edward Childs Car"
penter, the picture centers itselr
around the mysterious murder in
a New York hotel. From start
to finish it is one continual thrill
packed with comedy supplied by
Miss Merkel. Others in the cast
are Conrad Nagel, Harvey Ste-
phens, Steffi Duna. Charles Star
rett, Louise Henry. Tommy Du-
gan, and Henry Kolker.
A stupendous vaudeville show
is planned for the stage and Phil
Lampkin will be at the head of
the Fox concert orchestra in a
prepared overture.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD, April 24.-Truth
is often stranger than fiction, but
what can you do?-Before Al
Capone got himself put away in
one of the country's bastiles, he
was the cause of Jean Harlow
cutting a two weeks vacation in
Chicago to a one-day stay, when
he telephoned and said: whats
your favorite flowers, perfume
and furs? And I want you to have
dinner with me tonight" Miss H.
needed no second invitation. She
jumped on a train and fled.
The Richard Dixes are in
burn because of their muchly pub
licized baby nursery in which they
were supposed to have a crane
that would even lift the baby out
of the bathtub so that nary
human hand would touch it and
possibly contaminate it. Well, at
any rate, it is all a lot of nonsense
and the Dix heir is handled just
like yours and yours and yours.
Added to the fact that Con-
stance Collier will never remove
steel bracelet which she wears
with her other jewels, lies story:
At the start of the war, an Eng
lish suitor placed it there with the
request that she not take it off
until his return. The next day
during a matinee, at which she
was appearing with Sir Berholm
Tree, a jagged edge of the brace
let lifted Mr.. Trees wig right off
on the stage, after which he ad-
monished Miss Collier never to
wear it again so long as she ap-
peared with him. The very same
day the English gentleman was
killed and she has never removed
it since. It rests on her arm be-
tween a gold and sapphire brace
let given her by Kaiser Wilhelm
of Germany and a platinum and
diamond one given her by another
admirer.
In the very near future you will
see the likeness of Sally Blame
on the cover of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine, painted by the famous
cover artist, Bradshaw Crandell
It is also Mr.. Crandell who has
painted a. portrait of Marion Da-
vies as Dawn Glory" which is
being used in her new produc-
tion, Page Miss Glory"
Mr.. Ripley should be delighted
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Accent on Youth Inauqurates
Stock Season at National

NATIONAL-"Accent on Youth
will inaugurate the eleventh an.
nual season of the National Play
ers on Sunday night. The open
ing performance will be testi-
monial for the Actors Fund OF
America with Daniel Frohman
and other celebrities present. Fol
lowing the drama the stage will
be turned over to entertainers
from other Washington theaters.
The regular scale of $1.10 top
price will prevail for this special
premiere.
RKO-KEITH'S Thunder in
the East" starring Merle Oberon
and Charles Boyer will be the
main screen attraction beginning
Friday. The story is an adapta-
ton of the novel, 1.-The Battle"
John Loder is prominent in the
supporting cast. On the supple
mentary program will be selected
short subjects and the Patne
news reel.
METROPOLITAN - Death
Flies East" with Conrad Nagel
and FLORENCE Rice featured will
be the main screen attraction
opening Friday. In the support
ing cast are Raymond Walburn,
Irene Franklin, Purnell Pratt,
Geneva Mitchell, Robert Allen and
Oscar APPEL. On the supplement
tary program will be Morton
Downey in Castle of Dreams, !"
Easy Aces in "Some Bridgework, !"
and Is minutes of news reels.
EARLE - C1audette Colbert,
Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea,
Charles Boyer, and Helen Vinson
are featured in Private Worlds" !"
which will be the main screen
attraction beginning Friday. On
the stage will be Herb Cook and
Three Little Words, the 80 Roxy
cites, Johnny Perkins, Ruth Petty,
Eleanor Whitley, and Stan Kava-
naugh. Selected short subjects
and a Freddy Clark overture will
complete the program.
FOX-"One New York Night"
described as a goffy mystery
comedy with Franchot Tone and
Una Merkel featured will be the
main screen attraction beginning
Friday. Conrad Nagel. Steffi
Duna, Harvey Stephens, Charles
Starrett and Louis Henry are in
the supporting cast. On the stage
Gertrude Niessen, Cookie Bowers,
the "a Capitol dancing girls and
other entertainers. Fox Movie
tone and Phil Lampkin overture
complete the program.
PALACE" Reckless" with
Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone
and William Powell will con-
tinue as the main screen attrac-
ton for another week beginning
Friday. This picture presents
Miss Harlow as torch singer and
among her accomplishments is
singing song by Jerome Kern.
March of Time" a colortone,
"The Lost Chick" and the Hearst
Metrotone news reel will complete
the program.
COLUMBIA - Edward Everett
Horton and Karen Morley in $50
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
All D. c. Theaters Cooperate for
Actors Fund Show

Daniel F'rohman, the venerable
dean of the American theater, was
yesterday assured of the complete
cooperation of John j. Payette,
zone manager of the Warner Bros.
theaters and Carter Barron, divi-
sion manager of the Loew theaters,
in the promotion of the Washing
ton show for the Actors Funds
scheduled for Sunday night at the
National Theater.
From the Loew theaters will
come Gertrude Niessen, radio star,
Cookie Bowers and other acts en-
tertaining at the Fox Theater. The
Warner Bros. stage will contribute
Johnny Perkins, Ruth Petty, the
80 Roxyettes, Stand Kavanaguh,
Herb Cook and the Three Little
words.
Vaudeville Acts
These acts will supplement
guest stars coming from New York
and the opening performance of
the eleventh annual season of the
National Theater Players in "Ac-
cent on Youth"
Accent on Youth" the spark
ling comedy by Samson Raphael
son, now running on Broadway,
will enlist the full company of the
National Players including Roy
Roberts and Nancy Sheridan, Ade-
laide Hibbard, Raymond Bramley
and the other E. Street favorites.
After the play the special at
fractions will be presented imme-
diately. Mr.. Frohman will intro
duce his special guests and explain
briefly the aims and purpose Of
the Actors Fund Home which cares
for aged and INDECENT members Of
the profession.
Washington officialdom and So
ciety is taking a keen interest in
the Actors Fund benefit perform
ance and a brilliant audience is
assured for the eleventh annual
season of the National Theater
Players.
NotableS Coming
The opening night of the Ma
tional Theater Players next Sun
day promises to be a gala affair.
The performance of accent on
Youth" will be for the Actors Fund
Of America under the joint Spon-
sorship of Daniel Frohman and S.
E. Cochran. Many notables Of the
theater and press of New York
will attend.
Leonard Bergman, representing
the A. L. Erlanger Amusement En-
terprises, owners of the National;
Ward Morehouse, of the New York
Sun; Jack Pulaski, of Variety; G.
R. Thomas, of Vandamm's Studio;
Brock Pemberton, producer of
Personal Appearance" and "Ceil-
ing Zero" Wales Winter and
Chamberlain Brown of the casting
offices, will augment a representa-
tive Washington audience that
will lend their presence to this
worthy cause and at the same
time wish the players and Mr..
Cochran the success they deserve
on the launching of their eleventh
annual season at the famous old
E Street playhouse.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Mae Vests Picture
Due Here in Mid-May

Mae in May is the promise OF
Loew's Palace Theater.
The buxom, flippant and uni
versally initiated Mae West is
heading Capital-ward in her lat
est cinematic laugh opus, Coin
To Town." which Manager Angie
Ratio enthuses will play his F
Street citadel probably the middle
of May.
In "Goin' To Town." it is re.
ported that the blond captivator
really goes to town with a new
barrage of witticismS, which
American and Washington movie
patrons will soon be repeating
time and again.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
7 90 Much Dancing

To me the dance directors are
the reasons why screen musicals
are not as popular as they might
be. For these masters Of intrl-
cate evolutions and geometrlcaI
designs employing scores of Gu
ties generally stop q movie story
cold in its tracks while they dis
play their stuff. Great heavens,
how they prolong these numbers!
It's up to the director to pick
up the story and once more put
it in high with the audience. Al
ter watching not one, but a hum
dred screen musicals, I find that
production directors, who are
handicapped this way by dance
directors, seldom wind up with a
hit picture.
The criticism applies, in a GER
tain degree, with such hit musi-
cal as Roberta You will find
a good healthy majority who re-
sented the way that Irene Dunno
was pushed into the background
to make way for the dancing
principals. And when Irene Dunno
became subordinate, so did the
story. The mere fact that "Ro-
berta" was a gigantic success
doesn't kill the argument. For the
producers flirted with danger
Gus technique and got away with
it in Roberta" whereas repeat
ing the process may make their
movie dancing dull. And dane
ing dull movie is deadely enter
tainment.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Can Cooper Act?

Some purely personal opinions:
Out in Hollywood they claim to
have discovered that Gary Cooper
is really one of the best actors in
the movies, says Lloyd Pantages.
It's his restraint or underplaying
and they are all trying to copy it..
Plenty of room for debate here. I
think Gary Cooper is one of the
worst actors I have ever seen and
only Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
keeps me from nominating him as
the worst. He positively cannot
do comedy and nothing was more
labored and amateurishly silly
than his lighter scenes in "The
Wedding Night" Lady, I admit
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Call On Considine

Out at Bob ConSidine'S Kaleido-
scope, where the baseball players
drop in of an evening to explain
why they muffed one, where the
sports intelligentsia settle the
worlds problems, and where we
plain mortals just dine and dance,
there will be big doings tonight.
Oracle Barrie will drop in to
say "Howdy" to Joe Bell, a
trouper friend of her early days,
and ten to one, Oracle will sing
a song. She's so obiging.
On Saturday night Nick Lucas
will drop in on Considine's Con-
necticut Avenue villa. Nick
learned to play the guitar from
Joe Bell and he may be expected
to twang that stringed instru-
ment into a lather on Saturday
night.
This and That
I am not competent to Judge
whether the five-year plan of
Russia is a success, but I do know
that Russia makes absolutely the
worst motion pictures I have ever
seen. I wouldn't give dime a
dozen for all the Soviet pictures
that have been exhibited here,
and I could choke with a boon
doggle those who try to pass them
off as "art." They tell critics
who can't see them with a micro.
sope that their cultural side needs
development.
Russian can't even make good
still photographs, if one is to
judge by the trash which they un-
load on the desks of motion pic
ture editors to compete with the
Hollywood art portraits. For an.
other thing, they send down to
Washington flea-bitten prints,
crumbling with age and often
with faulty continuity.
1 should like to see the Belasco
Theater prosper and those who
had the courage to open up this
venerable playhouse and convert
it into cinema get a dividend on
their investment. But depending
on the Soviet studios for box Of
flee product is a precarious ven
ture.
George ArlisS' "The Iron Duke
shows what Lafayette Square can
do when a screen favorite comes
along. This Gaumont-BritiSh fea-
ture will get five times the return
this week that the celluloid from
Petrograd has been able to attract
with what are described as their
best pictures.
Mathilde M. Carpenter, of 1925
Eleventh ST., thinks ought to
query Mae West in that round
robin interview and ask her what
she thinks of picture censorship
Not a bad idea. While Drew
Pope, of the Sheppard Arms
thinks Macs ex-husband is the
only one who has not been in
vited to "cummup and see me
some time" so she ought to be
quizzed about that. also have
a group of proposed questions fo1
Mae that are too snappy fol
these pages and too tabasco tc
send over the telephone wires
Behave yourself, children.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

ton pIay-goers since lovely lady stepped be-
fore the curtain at the National Theater Mon
day night and definitely promised that this
play would be on the American Theater So
ciety subscription list next season.
| hope the American Theater Society can
promise a few more plays, definitely. For as
this department sees the subscription plan,
are grumbling plenty over being
asked to subscribe to "a pig-in-a-bag." Play
goers have the utmost confidence in the Thea
ter Guild and any production that bears this
platinum label. About others who contribute
1,lors to the snhscrintinn season and about
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Buys Many Suits

George Raft, star of ''The Glass
Key" won't wear the same suit in
two different pictures. He always
buys a complete new wardrobe for
each picture.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
AKESPEARE is CHEERED PIT Pit
Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne in
aiming Of the Shrew" Are
NoisiIy Acclaimed
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

So they cheered Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fonanne in Pitts
burgh the opening of the Theater Guilds production
'Taming of the Shrew This good for the Washing
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

Andrew Kelley plays to the SUBSCRIPTION season. and ABOUT
plays there positive doubt Whcn peS 10
hold back their checks :,
That's what the folks saying between the acts in the
National lobby and the American Theater Society should take
ooofth his oniniOn.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
CoIorfuI Scenery

OOlOrTuI OCenSV
To revert to the Lunts and
Shakespeare. The play opened at
the Nixon Theater with midgets
and acrobats part of a very
elaborate production. The seen
cry we are told is a brilliant vel
low, the curtain once raised is
never lowered, changes of scenes
being effected in back Of a court
yard setting. The acroba is
worked comically during one in
termission.
And it looks nightly as though
Shakespeare has acquired a
stooge. For Richard Whorf, play.
ing the character of Christopher
Sly, sat in a box during the per-
formance making comments on
the play, an amusing adjunct to
the performance. This. I take it,
IS the Phil Baker Influence, al
though the report says the ori-
ginal t-Xt was strictly respected,
the costumes in keeping with the
Bard's script.
About the stars. One Pittsburgh
critic opines: ''Mr. Lunt tanned
his shrew beautifully. Around
Miss Fontanne's back he cracked
his whip, he tossed her aStride a
horse and he drove off with her
as a conquering hero. He made
of the role all that Shakespeare
might be proud of, reading the
lines as originally written, but
with Lunt emphasis on their
comic meaning.
More Shakespeare
''Miss Fontanne took her beat
Ings, her anguish and her fatal
Submissiveness with spirit and
fire. Again the finest acting team
in America demonstrated that
even Shakespeare belongs in the
modern scheme of things"
Hooray then for Shakespeare on
the anniversary of his birth.
Washington next season will have
at least four plays from Avon's i'm
mortal: The Katharine Cornell
Romeo and Juliet" the Philip
Merivale- Gladys Cooper produc-
tions of macbeth" and "Othello,"
the LuntFontanne-Guild produc-
tion of Tanning of the Shrew."
And if it's not sacreligious to add
it, the screen version of mid
summer Nights Dream" as pre-
pared by Warner Brothers and
Herr Max Reinhardt.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

his elusive charm and appeal for
the opposite sex. But that isn't
n ofiOor
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

Mr.. Ripley should be delighted