Evening star., 1935-10-02

Those who should know say "Pl
money, and that it will promptly be-
come flicker as soon as its stage run
has ended, maybe before. The novel
was dramatized by Helen Jerome and
will have in the cast Adrienne Allen,
Helen Chandler, Lucille Watson and
Colin Keith-Johnson, facts of conSid-
cradle more interest to local theater
fans than the names of the people
who will foot the bills. Rehearsals
already have started under the direc-
ton of Robert Sinclair, and the set
tings are to be done by 10 Mielziner.
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OUR appreciation of lion tanners has
always been immense. For years
we have maintained that Clyde
Beatty's full act, with both lions and
tigers in the same cage with him, was
the high point of all American show
manship. This prejudice dates back
to the days when We dreamed of
growing up to be lion tanner. Had
not the family cat succeeded so thor
oughly in intimidatlng or frustrating
us at every turn, we might have lived
q more exciting life than one en-
counters in attempting to subdue the
dangling participle and the split in
finitive.
All that is neither here nor there.
We merely wanted to warn you of this
bias before announcing that the ami
NAL scenes in O'Shaughnessy's Boy"
- oft tI,a oort t1,,i1l
stuff ever filmed. The picture was
previewed here yesterday afternoon
preparatory to its arrival at Loew's
Fox on Friday. About 10 Of the 90
minutes required to run off the reel
were the most exciting since Lynn
Overman walked into that house full
Of murderers in Men Without
Names"
While its climaxes all deal with
tigers and the circus, "O'Shaugh-
nessy's Boy" is really intended to be
sentimental father and son play.
With Wallace Beery as the man and
Jackie Cooper as the boy, the set-up
was fairly perfect in the beginning,
as such things go in popular drama.
There have been a lot of acid re-
marks made recently about the quality
of film product displayed at the Fox.
This picture ought to remove the
smirch from the fair name of that
house and leave it pure, white and
crowned with glory
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CLAUDETTE COLBERT'S She
Married Her Boss" (Which is not
our favorite title of the season. is
not by any means another 1T Hap
pened One Night" as the proprietors
thereof feel it forever necessary to
maintain. 1t is. however, a deft
social comedy, at times branching into
farce, and it boasts the best child
performance of the year from young
Edith Fellows. the liveliest brat yet
invented in FINLAND We mention
these matters because the Colbert
picture moved into the Metropolitan
Theater yesterday, supplanting Sybil
Jasons Little Big Shot, which
proved to be a very small shot indeed.
In the cast with Miss Colbert are
Melvyn Douglas, a polished leading
AAdAS AdV11Cl AllC AlChdllQCI,
Walburn and Michael Bartlett,
singer who looks very unhappy trying
to be an actor. Or, if he wasn't
unhappy about it, he should be- The
others are expert in their contribu-
tions to the fun.
John CROMWELL, one-time Ham,
let in a St. Marks School pro-
duction, later active in dramatics at
Harvard, has been cast as Paris in
Katharine Cornell's production of
Romeo and Juliet" Ten others were
tested for the part and Cromwell won.
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ONE of the first full rehearsals for
the New Theater Groups Peace
on Earth" will be held tonight at the
organizations new home, $40 F street.
The play is by George Sklar and
Albert MaltZ and was staged on
Broadway last season. There are still
some openings left in the cast of 10
characters. Tryouts are open to all.