The Washington times., 1936-01-02
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Personal Appearance" is about
q Hollywood actress, takes some
leering jibeS at the motion picture
industry, is both racy and funny
and has a profane last line that
sends audiences home, amused and
shocked. saw it in New York a
year ago and relish the prospect
of seeing it again next Monday
night at the National Theater.
incidentally it is the only Broad
way hit that Hollywood has thus
far scorned. Perhaps they feel
it is better not to make a picture
of a story that is so fond of
thumbing its nose at the celluloid
industry and its personalities.
HORSE OPERA STARS
In the list Of Best Money Max.
ing Stars of 1934-3S as derived
from a poll of 1000 exhibitors by
Motion Picture Herald there are
some surprises for the steady
movie-goer.
To me, for instance, to find
that Buck Jones is right next to
Katherine Hepburn in the final
listing. Now Buck Jones has had
the F Street screen and the down
town first run houses closed to his
horse operas for many seasons.
He is a neighborhood theater IA
vorite in this territory as he IS on
many . Main Street.
Another surprise IS the placing
Of George O'Brien but one point
behind the better-known Pat
O'Brien and a few notcheS ahead
of Eddie Cantor and Robert Mont
gomery. HorSeman O'Brien is an
other fresh air, bucking broncho
hero, who gets into an important
spot because the small boys prefer
him to the dressed up RomeoS.
SHIRLEY MOVED FAST
Shirley Temple, the new cham.
pion, was eighth on the list in the
ratings issued year ago. Her sue
cess is remarkable because Of the
fact that she appeared first in a
full length feature in February,
1884. This was stand Up and
Cheer" It was followed by Baby
Take a Bow" both pictures re
leased by Fox. They leased out
Shirley Temple to Paramount be.
fore they discovered they had q
champion Of champions under
contract, and for the Zukor com
pany Shirley made ''Little Miss
Marker" and Nov and Forever.
BY that time Shirley was eS'
tabliShed and now it would take
a Rockefeller fortune to borrow
her from the Fox company.
The rise Of Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers to prominence was
almost equally as rapid. Fred As
taire danced with Joan Crawford
in Dancing Lady, in November.
1898, and was not even featured.
He did one dance with the star.
Shifting over to the Radio lot
he was teamed with Ginger Rog-
erS and assigned to Dancing
Down to Rio" Dolores Del Rio and
Gene Raymond were the stars Of
this feature but the Rogers
Astaire team stole the high hon
orS. Then 1.-The Gay Divorces"
Roberta" and "Top Hat" and the
Rogers-Astaire team was rated
fourth in the 1934-35 exhibitors
poll. They may go higher this
year. For, as exhibitors say, right
now they're red hot.
THEY WROTE A HIT
Oh, the Music Goes Round and
Round, no. no, every time you
turn a radio dial or see q stage
show these days. And it is pleas
ant now to know that q couple of
obscure musicians in the Onyx
Club, New York, (who never be-
fore had q song hit) are riding
the wheel Of fortune with it. Rich
royalties from the photograph
records and their band will go into
the Loew TheaterS. I hope the
popularity Of their song hasn't
evaporated by the time the orches-
ira arrives on F Street.
A NOBODY CHAMPION
Among the Nobodies of 1885
whom Fred Allen introduced to
the radio audience last night was
the first fellow to cough at a
Theater Guild performance in
Pittsburgh. The oaf confessed he
cleared his throat in the Nixon
Theater at a performance of
Tanning Of Scram." Well, he has
plenty Of first cousins in Wash
ington.
IN THREE ACTS
Helen Hayes Victoria Regina"
got a set Of marvellous notices
from the New York critics but
Producer 0ilber Miller is expert
menting yet with the Laurence
Housman play and has tried it
out as a three act drama, instead
Of the two stanza performance
which Washington witnessed.