Evening star., 1936-11-11

over for two films rather than one.
The great Hollywood motivating
factor of love" is. of course, not over
whelmingly apparent. Young 'uns
who are yearning for April in Paris or
love in bloom, will not find it very
much present. What is present, how
ever, is the idea Of q cooperative
community, based on certain sound
logic, which rides roughshod over
crooked politicians who, for their own
purposes. wish to see such thing on
the rocks.
IN THE midst Of all this there Is
the mystery" which has to do
with the murder of the wife Of the
man who disappears from home to
start such a community. His wife,
who has not been by any means true
blue" is found butchered after a
clandestine meeting supposedly with
the man of whom she is enamored.
The fact that somebody else finds her
there, instead of her boy friend. is
the cause of her exit, and she departs
from this earth at just about the
same moment that her husband goes
to found his Utopian community.
The excitement. confusion and gen.
eral situations involved make this
better than the average photoplay.
And it Is acted by Henry Wilcoxon,
Betty Furness, Evelyn Brent and the
man who plays Mr.. Wilcoxon's valet
with great success.
Added features on the bill include
good shots Of the Spanish situation
and Pathe News at top form.
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MAKING what may be a record Of
A sorts, Burgess Meredith, who re-
Gently returned from the R-K-O Ra-
dio studios in Hollywood, will appear
on Broadway in two mediums at once
stage and screen-when he opens in
Maxwell Anderson's new play, High
Tor" early in November at the same
time he Is appearing in celluloid at
Radio City Music Hall in the film
version of "WinterSet."
1t was "Winterset"-also q Maxwell
Anderson product-that kept Mere
dith busy in Hollywood. He had ap-
peared all last season in the play with
Margo and it won the annual best
play-of the season prize awarded by
the Drama Critics Circle. When
R-K-O Radio decided-to make the
Anderson play the officials signed both
Meredith and Margo to do their origi-
nal roles, and both went to Holly
..al rl,orJo N{oppaIlj ~ tba nri0-
1nal cast, also went out.
Producer Pandro S. Berman as
signed the Job of adapting the play
to Anthony Veiller. while Alfred San
tell was the director. The result Of
all this cooperation Is q picture
which has the confidence Of all those
concerned with it.
FRANK LA FALCE says: "Pros-
perity is here-but definitely.
"You can ignore stock market up
swings, pay raises and car loadings
If you will, but you can't ignore Ted
Lewis. And it is reported on good
authority that the famed medicine
man of the blues Is ready to abandon
that 'high-hatted hit Of happiness
slogan that he adopted when the de-
preston came along and 60 back to
the billing line that made him famous
Ted Lewis, the high-hatted TRACE
dian of jazz
Followers Of the inimitable Ted
can tell exactly what this decision
means. 1t seems that for years Lewis
won his greatest applause with sweetly
sad interpretations of various blues
numbers. 1t was a gay generation
that danced to Ted's tuneful melodies
10 years ago, and perhaps his most
famous recording was that sentiment
tai classic of the days before the crash,
If You See Sally, Tell Her That You
Saw Me- 1t told the plaintive request
of young man, far from home. who
wanted to send message back to the
girl he'd left behind and ended on
delicate minor with a sigh from the
saxophone section-But If you see
that some one else means more to
Sally, don't tell her that you :. saw
.. me-
''It was a great number and there