The Washington times., 1935-10-17

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Kidding a Hit
The MesSrs. Shubert have
Broadway's first hit musical OF
the new season, "At Home
Abroad" So it rifles them little
though nothing can be done
about ito see the latest Minsky
strip burlesque called "A Broad
At Home. .. Stanley Barlup is
back at Loew'S Palace Theater,
after four months of touring as
Loew's relief manager for vaca-
tioning exec lives. After %
years in the service of the MeSSrs.
Ehubert, L. Stoddard Taylor has
departed from the Belasco
Theater and will probably affil-
late with one of Lee and j. US
touring attractions. Raymond
Moore's stock company, which
opened at the Maryland in Balti-
more this week. has Forrest Orr
and Walter Gilbert, formerly of
the E Street regulars.. The
movies have nearly Strangled
vaudeville. But good movie also
helps out an act. For example,
little Helen Charleston, booked
soon for the Earle, went into the
Palace in Chicago for a tryout
week. The picture was Top
Hat" and imagine everybody's
surprise and pleasure when they
kept the stage program intact for
six weeks, the complete run of
the screen feature.
EarIe's Birthday
It is five years since the Earle
established its present policy OF
pictures and vaudeville. Though I
like to forget it, Frank LaFalce re-
minds me that the first picture to
be screened for the combined pro-
gram was Ann Harding in Girl OF
the Golden West" The only pos
Sible reason for bringing it up for
those with good memories, is that
"Girl of the Golden West" re.
mains, without doubt, the lewsiest
picture ever turned out by Warner
Bros. From this to Shakespeare
in five years is what Napoleon
EaFalce probably means to point
out. Joe Louis has been offered
$4,000 week and a $3.50 split on
all over $4,000 to play one week
in Washi' ton at the Howard
Theater. Same terms for the con-
tender go for another week in
Philadelphia and New York. But
the Brown Bomber, who has
learned what money is. wants the
Washington Monument tossed in
as a bonus.
Goose" on Stage
Journalism classes at George
Washington and American U.
have been invited to have the
pupils try out as movie critics.
The public will have a chance
also. Prizes are $25. The show
they are asked to catch and conf
ment upon is Jack Benny's cts
In the Air" opening at the Fox
Theater tomorrow with the Major
B o W e S Amateur Unit No. l.
Further details in another column
on this page. Goose Goslin was
the headliner booked in to set
box office record at the Fox,
Detroit, after the theater took q
licking from world series oppoSi-
ton. They billed the Goose as
Public Hero No. l and he is fill
ing the billing as a box office
champion. Goose got $4,000, some
of which will probably turn up at
Laurel's pari-mutuel windows next
week. .Franchot Tones wedding
eSent from Metro -Goldwyn-
Mayer was a pay raise. But it
was more because of good work
in "Mutiny On the Bounty" than
for marrying Joan Crawford. E.
My first news that Venus In
Silk" was closing at the National
last week came from chorus boy
who applied for job serving soda
in the neighboring Thirteenth
Street drug store. Was he blue?
Breaking Records
"Shipmates Forever" at the
Stanley theater in Baltimore and
without a stage show, is licking
the pants off the, highly touted
Belle Baker, Lou Holtz unit at
the Hippodrome and the Major
Bowes Amateurs at the Century.
Which makes manager Rodney
Collier very happy. His two
biggest weeks this year have been
with features filmed, in part, at
the Naval Academy. First An
napolis Farwell', made by Para
mount and now, the Powell-Keeler
picture, a Cosmopolitan-Warner
Bros production. Its doing
fine and dandy here or even better
than that. ,. Eliot Foreman is in
town to arrange for the scenery
to act in 1.-THE Great Waltz,
S'fact. The scenery in the finale
of this Max Gordon production
plays as important a part as the
actors. Chandeliers come down
from the fly loft, pillars glide
automatically into place, the
orchestra rolls smoothly back stage
and in less than two minutes as
entrancing picture as ever was
conceived take form on the stage
S...Max Gordon has two produc-