The Washington times., 1936-03-28

Saw the preview Of "Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town"-another Frank
Capra-Robert Riskin combination;
that is to say, Capra directed, Ris-
kin did the screen play. In Hol-
lywood, that means more than a
Carlo Gable teaming, and the fact
is, the boys have come through
with q delightful whimsy that will
gladden. the hearts of the ambi-
tious young gents who are cheered
by box-office receipts. . Some were
enthusiastic enuf after the show
ing to rate it above "It Happened
One Night" :. . Frankly, this re-
porter does not concur with this
exuberant comparison. For one
thing, the scenes in the newspaper
office, while highly entertaining,
certainly are like nothing I have
ever witnessed in a newspaper Of
flee and I have been q reporter
and city editor, too. man and boy,
for % years. L have yet to be
present when q city editor assem-
bleS his entire staff and bellows
vituperattvely at them because
they hadn't discovered how a
young man who had just inherited
$40, ,000. 600 was parting his hair. E.
But that is trivial-and, on. the
whole, the picture runs along en-
tertainingiy and smoothly and
provides many hilarious inter
ludes. And the performance Of
Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
there you have something on
which I am willing to unleash all
my pet ard favorable adjectives.
Present in the audience were
Groucho Marx and Zeppo Marx.
Eddie Buzzell. Harold Lloyd and
Irving Thalberg. Irene Dunno in
black, Sally O'Neill with Tommy
Guinan) in green, Adrienne Ames
in brown and Pat Paterson in
blue.
There Is o Sardi's, q Reuben's
and a Lindy'S here. None OF
which has any connection with
the restaurants in New York.
/ asked the owner Of Sardfs
whether Vincent Sardi in New
York hadn't been . bit peeved
because he had assumed the
name out here. "Certainly-he
even wanted to Sue-but what
could he do? I want to call 1t
Sardi's-sO I call it SardfS-
and believe me, he don't need
to be ashamed-the food we got
here will do him lot Of credit"
Which is one way Of looking
9t it.. If MeSSrS. BillingSley,
Leon and Eddie, and Jack and
Charlie are serious about their
intentions of invading the Holly
wood field, I would suggest that
they do it quickly before their
trade names are preempted by
ambitious locals B arbara
Blame, who was all set to return
to New York after being given
something of . tossing about by
the studios here, has been sum-
mOned by Universal now for .
test for an important role.
Although Winnie S he BE h an
seems to be out of the Para
mount picture, following his
statement that he has diScOntin-
ned negotiations, the impression
here iS that some deal may still
be effected In the meantime,
the opinion still gains ground
that Emanuel Cohen will be
hack in the saddle again after
the Important conference Sched-
uled within the next few days
and hinted here two weeks ago.
Lew Brown is scheduled to re.
turn at the end Of the week-and
may bring his eX-wife with him
AS reported here several
weeks ago, the two were headed
for q reconciliation and remar.
riare Irene Ware and
Arnold Kunody are still two-som'
ing about town Francine
Counihan (Mrs. Bob Riordan) is
scheduled to visit her sister,
Anita, here next week or the week
after-or perhaps, I should say,
her pappy and nanny, who have
come out here with the Hedging
star Local papers and New
York paragrapherS confirm our
hint last week that Frederic
March would appear in a Broad
way play next season Con.
firmation, too-rather belated-ot
the ex-MrS. Jack Warmers i'm
pending elopement with DR.. Pas
cite, which we told you about
three days after we started this
hollywood department John
O'Hara's pulse-beat Tuesday night
was Sheila Graham, film chat
terer.
After completing his master
full Job with "The Great Zieg-
feId"--he directed the intricate
and elaborate dance sequences