Evening star., 1935-04-10

him and so earnestly did he str
his attempt to do them and hin
he was quietly dropped from the
Paramount picked him up. And
Paramount, in quiet, untheatric way
not even starring him-has given
him one of the most convincing roles
of his career. From now on he is
likely to fight his way to the top again
for in -Four Hours to XIII he
shows that old fire, that old dramatic
sensitiveness, that curiously powerful
ability to shake the very life out of
any role given to him.
-Four Hours to Kill" which will be
shown in the near future at one of the
Loew houses, Is screen adaptation
of the Broadway stage success, Small
Miracle" Not having seen the latter,
we cannot say Just how the two COM
pare. But if the play was anything
like the film it must have been both
original and exciting. For at yes
terday's screening at the Fox Film EX-
change one dramatic editor was seen
to do away with four fingernails. and
two others gripped the arms OF their
chairs and hung on for all there was
Of dear life.
While possibly it is not one Of the
screen thunderbolts of the year
-Four Hours to Kill is still the kind
of ld-fashioned program picture that
does you good now and again. 1t
combines a good deal of impossible
dramatic hokum with good deal of
comedy hokum. with good deal of
love" hokum-the result being the
kind of hokum that everybody likes.
Added to that, the action takes
place in the lobby and lounge rooms
of a Neutrality-suspicious. and ventila-
tors playing an important part, and
shootings. love affairs and the birth
of a baby being shouted around all
over the place. The cast includes
Gertrude Michael, a newcomer who
looks unusually promising; Helen
Mack, who continues to look unusually
unpromising Dorothy Tree playing a
bit of tough role. and Ray Milland.
cast AS the perfect cad.
II is Barthelmess, however, who
walks away with the show. AS a glib
racketeer. who wants to live just long
enough to plug a pal who two-timed
him, he is the old familiar Barthel-
mesa good deal older-but still
amatically tense in all his big
scenes, and exhibiting that we'll
timed fire which made him one of
the big stars of the silent days-long,
long ago.
THE Warner Bros gave late supper
party in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Herbert last night in the Warner
Bros. reception rooms.
Tonight Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Herbert
will again be entertained-this time
by Sidney Lust
Herbert Crooker, well known New
York Warner about-town, whose
wife is Delight Evans. editor of
Screenland, has returned to New York.
York.
Mrs. Adelaide Hibbard (swell person
cnd an equally swell actress will
lecture tonight at Catholic University
on The Theater in Life" The
Harlequins are sponsoring this event.
Star of Midnight" which opens
Friday at Keith's, has already gotten
splendid boosts at previews on the
West Coast.
Sam Goldwyn says that he'll be
darned if he'll get out of California.
If he goes anywhere it will be to Eng
land He refuses to make pictures
either in Carolina or New Jersey.
MIR. and Mrs. Arthur De Titta have
returned to town after their presi-
dental trek South.
John ]. Payette has asked members
of the metropolitan police force to
attend a screening of Car 80" at the
Ambassador Theater this afternoon.
Henry Hathaway. who did so we'll by
Gary Cooper in Lives of a Bengal
Lancer" will direct him again in
Peter Ibbetson" which starts almost
at once.
So you think it's easy to get berth
in Washington do you? Well, ask
poor Ned Holmes, veteran theater man.
here ahead Of Jane Cowls Rain From
Heaven" The nearest Mr. and Mrs.
Holmes have been able to get to Wash
ineton is the Belvedere Hotel in Balti-
more
Steve Cochran has reniged on max
ing that speech at the actors fund
benefit on April % when the National
Players will present Accent on Youth
for the first time.
Lou Brown did very we'll with that
Wallace Beery race at Bowie. Mrs.
Lou Brown didn't do so well.
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4 MONG our Little Theaters': The
IA Takoma Park Little Theater will
present Sweet Lavender" tomorrow