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The Washington times., 1936-03-14


Myrna 10y is the patient and
understanding wife Of Clark
Gable. She is not inclined to be
jealous of his good-looking secre-
tary, played by Jean Harlow, but
the world will gossip and even her
mother-in-law helps create diScord
by tattling.
Eventually Myrna 10y gets
good and mad and determines to
leave her husband and go to Eu-
rope. It is then that the secretary
talks plain logic and convinces
Myrna she had better hang on to
q firSt-claSs mate. Myrna does.
Clark Gable romps through this
picture as though he thoroughly
enjoyed making it. Why not. He
had a dozen opportunities to kiss
Myrna 10y and that should not
be a hard job, even for an actor.
Both Miss 10y and and Jean Hor-
low acquit themselves creditably
and Director Clarence Brown
never permits the action to lag.
The supplementary program in
sludes the latest issue of the
HearSt-Metrotone news reel.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
Ast0ire- Rogers
At Keith's

First-week crowds overflowing
Hardie Meakin's House of Hits
naturally lead to one conclusion,
to follow the crowd you must
Follow the Fleet" Knowing the
popular appeal of Ginger Rogers
and Fred Astaire as a pair, it
can be easily understood how
this film has earned its second
weeks showing and with several
wagers at stake it might be safe
to prophesy many additional
weeks in the offing. Clever dance
and chorus numbers aided by
sparkling Irving Berlin melodies
put over another tale Of a boy
and girl in love.
Several years ago Belasco pro-
duced a quiet little play called
Shore Leave" This, in turn,
became Hit the Deck" Both
productions served their time on
stage and screen to be later put
away in moth balls. Now RKO
dug up the old plot, busted it
off and uses it for the minor
theme of this current edition.
The major portion of the story
deals with Astaire as a hoofing
COB and his affair with Miss
Rogers who is a dancehan queen.
They dance through their parts
with usual abandon and grace
first in individual solos and again
in duet. Particularly enjoyable is
their routine of Face and Music"
If there might be anything lack
ing in this otherwise flawless pro-
duction it is humor and a set of
sure fire gags to give it a pace
that is somewhat lacking. There
are several situations that could
be developed with clearer force
and understanding, but it is al
ways best to take ones screen
musicals with a large grain of salt.
Sharing honors with the stars,
Harriet Hilliard and Randolph
Scott make an attractive second
ary interest. The hit tunes, 1--WE
Saw the Sea-" "All My Eggs in
One Basket" LET Yourself Co."
are already being whistled around.
Supplementary attractions in
clude a newsreel.-D. M.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
Boris KorIoff
At the Met

In their attempts at striking a
new high in stark terror with
their film THE Walking Dead j."
Warner Bros. have succeeded in
turning out an effort that should
satisfy the most jaded thrill
seekers appetite.
For a time it seemed that Uni
versal had the horror market and
karloff signed up as their own ex-
elusive property but this time the
Brothers Warner have the honor
Of ushering in the monstrous
Boris for a weeks showing at the
Metropolitan.
With needed relief the ad-
dltlonal features consist of a Par
amount News, a Looney Tune,
The Voice of Experience and A
Pirate Party. "
When circumstances take John
Gilman. innocent man to the cleo
trlc chair, Nolan a scheming and
vicious leader of a racketeering
bunch believes himself at last to
be safe. He hadn't reckoned with
modern science and the clever ex-
perlmentS Of one DR.. Beaumont,
Gilman, brought back to life, re.
gains his former mental faculties
through music and the sense OF
touch. From then on the man
lives with one objective, to do
away with Nolan and his hench-
men.
When it comes to dealing with
secrets of the supernatural and
the return of life it would seem
that the screen usually resorts to
claptrap melodrama, and the
usual stock scenes of highly-in-
Volved scientific laboratories.
They somehow miss the note of
sheer suspense and element ma.
caber, such authors as Poe, Bran
Stoker and Sax Rohmer put into
writing with telling effect. How
ever, Karloff with his gaunt fig
ure stalking through the scenes
is enough to guarantee a goodly
quota of grizzly cheers. His mo-
ments just before his execution
are handled with a superb sense
and quiet restraint that surpass
any previous efforts on his part
in other films and are enough to
carry him through this role.
Aiding him are Ricardo Cortez,
E d m mund d Gwenn, Marguerite
Churchill, Barton McClaine and
Joseph Sawyer. B. M.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
Plans
Whoopee

Variety Clubbers are girding
themselves for a "big" weekend.
On Saturday night members
and their wives will formally
help open the clubs impressive
new quarters and cocktail lounge
in the Hotel Willard. These new
rooms have been built at a hand
some cost and its completion
and opening has been awaited
with unusual interest. Pete
Macias and his orchestra will
furnish dance music, while the
clubs social activities committee,
Of which Julian Brylawski is
chairman, promises free eats"
and other diversions.
Variety'S second function is
sch eduled for / o'clock Monday,
also at the Willard Hotel. At
that time the officials Of the
local Warner Brothers organiza-
tior will preside over a special
st. Patrick's Day luncheon.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
"Shork Island "
At Columbia

Warner Baxter's powerful inter.
probation Of the Prisoner Of
shark Island" is again showing
on F Street, at Loew's Columbia
Theater. A dramatic, a stirring
tale, that of the unfortunate i'm
plication of DR.. Samuel Mudd in
the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln.
The horror and the tragedy of
that fateful night is the more
fully impressed as the picture un-
reels on the very site of that great
catastrophe of 1865. A somber
feeling does envelop the perform
ance.
Founded upon facts as history
has told and retold them, this film
depicts the scene at Ford Theater
so years ago. Booth shoots the
President, but in jumping to the
stage in his getaway breaks a leg.
Subsequently the physician who
mendS the broken bones is SEN
fenced to prison as an accomplice
in the crime.
DR.. Audd's part in the affair is
made clear, but the ensuing years
which he spends in the Florida
prison provide the background for
one of the most dramatic and the
most impressive pictures of the
year. Civil War prison life is a
stark and tragic commentary on
war and the results Of war.
Pestilence, dread yellow fever,
breaks out in the fort, and though
aid is so near. a hospital ship will
not come to the rescue. DR.. Mudd
finally, at the point of complete
exhaustion, brings the help to the
fort, after which he is pardoned
and commended for bravery.
Here is vital, a pulsing historical
tale, which is superbly enacted by
a perfectly selected cast.
Hearst Metrotone News, an al.
phabetical trip through the Lon
don Zoo, a poor Terrytoon and
News Snapshots completes the
program.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14

%, for one week only at the
National Theater.
"At Home Abroad" by How
ard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz,
is starring Beatrice Lille, Ethel
Waters, Reginald Gardiner, Mitzi
Mayfair and Paul Haakon. Others
in the large cast include Nina
Whitney, Vera Allen, John Nc
Cauley, Woods Miller. The six
Spirits of Rhythm, Roy Camp
bells ContinentalS and innumer-
able others.
Vincente Minelli staged the pro-
duction, as we'll as designing the
costumes and scenery. Washing
ton theatergoerS will long remem-
ber the costumes and scenery of
last edition of "Ziegfeld FollieS"
which were the creations of Mr..
Minelli. For "At Home Abroad"
he devised a startling new plan on
unit scenery which has revolu-
tionized the present use of cum
bercome sets.
Howard Dietz, who is RESPONSE
BILE for the sketches and lyrics
with contributions by Raymond
Knight, of radio fame, takes his
characters into foreign lands and
pokes fun at customs and tradi-
tions.
This being one of the outsand-
ing attractions of the season, the
mail orders are now being &C
cepted and the box office open on
Monday.
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nacted by Maureen O'Sullivan
nd Eric Linden. 1t is sketchily
developed and "Voice of Bugle
Anne" winds up with most of the
taurels g oin g to the cGmeramen.
They contrived to get a number
Of beautiful landscapes and some
silhouette and pastoral scenes
worthy of canvas.
Jack Benny is the headliner
and ringmaster of the Fox stase
show this week. 1t opens WI
the Stuart Morgan dancers, an
adagio team which tosses around
the lady like a rubber ball. Comes
comedian Benny with a glib line
of CAB that introduces Mary Liv-
ingstone for some goofy poetry
and a song.
Benny on Stage
The Chicken Sisters aid the
star in more comedy and some
harmonizing. George MetaXa's S
baritone voice is heard through
the microphone and he also serves
as the Romeo for some plain and
fancy necking with Mary. The
L,aizeed Arabian troupe acquires
a new member for their Whirls
and pyramids when Jack Benny
dons acrobatic dress to assist in
their fast routine.
The Fox Movietone and Phil
Lampkin's classical overture COM
plete q lengthy program.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
MorIene Dietrich in "Desire,"
June KNIGHT at Earle

It's all really delightful! From
the overture to the newsreel!
Coo per-Dietrich-B Bora ge-Lubitsh;
that's a combination with its
own entertainment guarantee and,
as if that we're not enough, there
is the blond June Knight to
glorify the stage show. Seems
like Warmers Earle ought to be
celebrating somebody's anniVer-
sary or birthday this week.
Lubitsch Directed
Billed as the screens most
beautiful woman. Marlene Diet
rich comes close to winning
that title for she is a lovely
creature and in this film which
gives her opportunity to flash
her dazzling smile rather than
strain too greatly on the deeper
emotions, she is charming.
This is the story of a pair Of
jewel thieves and their not too
successful coup; getting the
pearls was simple but keeping
them was another matter for a
young American motor engineer
starting out on a two weeks
vacation in Spain before return
ing to Detroit and the blue
prints, rather gets in the way.
He has a grim determination to
make the lady like him, and he
succeeds very we'll.
The story has been done be-
fore in different little ways, but
it remained for Frank Borzage's
direction and Ernst LubitSh's
supervision to make Desire" a
freshly told, beautifully mounted,
screen play.
Gary Cooper, once the roam
ing cowboy. has become subtle
player with many smart little
Sure-fire tricks of winning his
audience; we repeat that Diet
rich is lovely. but it would have
been a relief to have seen her
in a dinner gown without feath-
cred shoulder ornaments John
Halliday, william F'rawley, Ernest
CosSart and Alan Mowbray are
the principal support.
June knight on Stage
The stage headlines June
Knight, who came directly to
Washington from Jubilee" in
which she was the featured
dancer: and she brings the cap
tivating Begin the Beguine" and
numbers from her latest screen
success, Broadway Melody of
1885,; she sings delightfully."- but
doesn't dance nearly enough!
The Three Wier Brothers with
their dancing-tumbling nonsense
are most amusing, while John
Tic. wonder parrot, and the Bala-
banov Five, accordionists, sing
dance and perform intricate feats
of grace.
Aubrey Seiber, introducing, and
Freddie Clark and the orchestra
accompanying the stage players;
there is also a tuneful overture
in which Bert Granoff sings Of
love. Newsreel and funny little
color cartoon close-K. Y.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
Four Stories Ready
F or CoIbert's Okav

When Claudette Colbert returns
to her home studio, Paramount,
following completion Of a film at
Twentieth Century.Fox, studio ex.
ecutives will have four stories on
hand to discuss with her. Para
mount has purchased these stories
as starring vehicles for Miss Col
bert and officials feel that at least
one will prove ideal for her
talents.
"The Old Maid" is one Of these,
but no decision has been reached
that this should be the stars next
assignment.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
'PorgyondBess'
At National

The story Of "Porgy and Bess,
the opera which George Gersh-
win and DuBoSe Hayward have
made from Heyward's play,
"Porgy," and which the Theater
Guild will present at the National
Theater the week of March 16,
is one Of poignant beauty, Of
tense human emotions, of grip
ping, exciting scenes, and with
the strong vein Of humor that,
in the Negro race, runs side by
side with the darker moments
of life.
"Porgy and Bess" tells Of the
lives of the inhabitants Of Cat
fish Row, a Negro tenement on
the water front of Charleston,
S. c. Especially is it the. story
Of Porgy, a crippled Negro heggar,
who goes around in a little goat
drawn cart, and who falls in
love with Bess. the woman of the
Rows bully, Crown. When Crown
kills a man in a crap game and
has to flee for his life. everyone
in the Row except Porgy shuts
the door in BeSs' face.
He takes her in and protects
her, he understands and forgiveS
when Crown forces her to spend
a night with him in the jungle
where he is hiding; through all
the intense drama that whirls
around them he never falterS in
his devotion TO Bess. Even in
the end, when she has deserted
him and gone to New York with
another man, Porgy's faithfulness
is unshaken. Calling for his goat
and cart, he drives out of Cat
fish Row to go in search of the
woman he loves.
For this Gershwin- Hayward
opera the Theater Guild has en-
listed the services Of such distin-
guiShed artists as Reuben Mamou-
1ian, who directed the production;
Sergei Soudeikine, who designed
the sets; Ira Gershwin, who COL
Elaborated with Mr.. Hayward on
the lyrics; Alexander Steinert,
who conducts the orchestra: Todd
Duncan as Porgy, Anne Brown as
Bess, and a large supporting cast
that includes Warren Coleman,
John w. Bubbles, Abbie Mitchell,
Edward Matthews, Ruby Ely,
Georgette Harvey, j. Rosamond
johnson, Ford L. Buck, John E.
Garth, and the Eva JeSSye Choir.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14

Beautiful Photography
Voice of Bugle Anne" may
have been a good story to read
but in transferring it to the screen
something has been lost. They try
to make you believe that Spring
Davis was justified in turning his
rifle on an annoying neighbor who
objected to having a pack OF
hounds running through his sheep
lands. Dudley Digges plays the
mean land owner who built the
fences which kept the rowing dogs
away from his grazing sheep. 1t
struck me that Lionel Barrymore
was the agent provocateur in this
case and was never able to sob
over the plight he brought on
himself.
There is an incidental love story
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
BUGLE ANN AT FOX
Jack Benny, Radio and Screen
Star, HeodIiner Of SnoPpy
Vaudeville Program
Bv ANDREW R. KELLEY

souri, folk song, you've Got to Stop Kickn' My Dog
Around" They call it "The Voice of Buge Anne" and
you are an the Albert Payson Terhune
fiction there is little to recommend it.
Lionel Barrymore recites Senator Vests famous tribute to
dog dramatic plea the jury that tries him for killing
suspected of abusing his prize hound The judge
gave him 20 years and this critic among those who
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
COMPOSER

Clarence Muse, Negro actor, who
appears with Preston Foster in
"Muss En- Up" is also known as
a composer, and has written sew
eral hits, including when It's
Sleepy Time Down South"
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
At Home Abroad, Here Mar. q

Due to the fact that Beatrice
Lilies contract expires on June
l, the Messrs. Shubert have
planned a limited road tour Of
"At Home Abroad" taking the
musical holiday out of New York
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
Director Is Removed
From Hospital Siege

Showing marked Improvement
in a critical illness that left his
physicians admittedly baffled, Leo
McCarey, Paramount film director,
is back at his home from Good
Samaritan Hospital. He had been
in the hospital nearly four months.
The Washington times., 1936-03-14
Gable, Harlow and 10y Stor
In Wife VS.. Secretary

"Wife vs. Secretary employs Myrna Loy Jean Harlow
and Clark Gable triangle story which out just about
you expect
The picture into its second week Loews Palace
Theaer yesterday highly entertaining although from
The Washington times., 1936-03-14

Lionel Barrymore Stars in Human
Interest Screen Tale About Dogs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-09
STATE

Current attractions at Warner Brothers State theater, ending their engagement tonight, are "The King Steps Out" with Grace Moore and Franchot Tone also "The Mine With The Iron Door" starring Richard Arlen. Tomorrow brings "Sutters Gold", the heroic drama of a mans dream of empire and his love of woman. It is the tremendous story of Q nations sweep from sea to sea. It shows the souls of men in triumph; the strength of men who will not know defeat; the glory of women who helped the men they loved build our last flaming from tier.
 When his great domain is torn asunder by the talons of rapa- cious, gold crazed men, Sutter still possesses the greatest wealth Q man can hoid--the deep, abiding affec- ton that is in the loyal heart of the wife who comes to him across half the world.
 The star of "sutter's Gold" is Edward Arnold who achieved great heights in "Daimond Jim" The beautiful Binnie Barnes por- trays the goddess tinseled with fools gold. Lee Tracy, the ire pressible, offers performance distinctly different from any he has given before. This Universal picture was directed by James Cruze, who has made Q film even more magnificent than his former effort, Covered Wagon" I
 The companion feature will be Florida Special" Q new mystery farce set aboard Q fast moving train. Sally Eilers and Jack Oakie head Q cast which includes Kent Taylor, Sam (Schlepperman) Hearn, Frances Drake, J. Farrell Macdonald, Claude Gillingwater. Sidney Blackmer and many others.
 Edward c. Robinson in Bullets Or Ballots" is coming Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-09

his old rival Hamilton as national committeeman. Tho breach was healed, and Kansas republicanism became @ unit instead of Q divided camp of old Bull Moose and con- servative, with highly individual istic wings adhering to Senator Arthur Capper and to Publisher William Allen White. Landon had closed up his home front, and also provided himself with a very astute campaign manager.
 Came the end of the fiscal year. Kansas had balanced her budget. So had several other states. But something about Kansas and bud- get-balancing seemed to go to- gether, and Landon was chosen to make a speech about 1t for the Na- tional Economy League.
 How Boom Began
 Almost immediately Landon and balanced budget, Landon and econ- orly in government became synony- nous. This was midsummer of 1885.
 Ali this was right down the alley of Publisher William Ram dolph Hearst, who had been bitter in denunciation of government spending. He sent investigators to Kansas and combed the Landon record. Finding 1t clean, he threw all his publicity resources, news paper, magazine, newsreel, and radio, into the now mounting Lan- don boom.
 William Allen White, "the sage of Emporia," whose political judg- ments are known and respected in the prairie states and nationally, now endorsed Landon as the re- publican white hope"
 Keep Ball Rolling
 By this time, magazine and newspaper special writers were beginning to hit the Kansas trail.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-09

tions of influence in far cities. The bandwagon began to roll Of it's own momentum.
 Thus stauffer and his fellow Landon packers were able to de- wise e strategy that fitted nicely with the governors own inclina' tions. It was "sit back, say na little as possible, and wait for the breaks"
 An ostentatious visitation by Hearst and 6 party of allies to meet Landon at Topeka was con- sidered "a mixed blessing" by the Landon friends, but it did add to the Landon publicity.
 A women's division of the LAn- don committee under Mrs. D. c. Little, widow of congressman, later to appear at the convention as delegate -at-large, was chosen. w. T. Grant, head of the Busl- nessmen's Assurance co. of Kan- sas City, became treasurer, to handle mounting contributions. The boom was assured. There remained only the strategy of keeping Landon's name out of the primary fights in even nearby states.
 The Landon candidacy arrived at Cleveland full-groomed and 10 lengths ahead of that of any other starter.
 The fact that 1t was all done in one year leaves gasping the partisans of candidates who have been half Q lifetime in public service. It is the sensation of Q sensational political year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-09
STRAND

Performances today and tomor- row will conclude the engagement of under Two Flags" with Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert. Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell, al- so Love On A Bet" with Gene Raymond, current attractions at Warner Brothers Strand theater.
 Thursday's all new double feature program will include T Married 4 Doctor, the picturization of Gin- clair Lewis novel, staring Pat O'BElsn and Josephine Hutchlnson.
 This is the story that caused a furor throughout the country by exnoslng fhe crueltles resultant from tho attitude of self righteous
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-09

All the inner Lai1don council will deny that they were directly so- licited, but there undoubtedly were Q few personal strings pulled.
 It was still all talk. Not a shadow of organization beyond this personal but incessant activ- ity of friends. They had never stopped writing to everyone they could think of, inside and outside the state.
 On Oct. 1, 1895, Oscar stauffer, publisher of Q chain of Kansas and Missouri papers, called 8 meeting in Q Kansas City club of Kansas publishers, 90 per cent of whom are republican. Prominent were Fred Harris, an Ottawa lawy- CT; Jack Harris and Fred Brinker- hoff of Hutchinson and Pittsburgh; 1; Roberts, Haynes, and others.
 stauffer was chosen to head an active committee for Landon. It started work Oct. IS, sending out letters and literature, mostly re- prints of newspaper articles, in response to inquiries.
 No contributions of more than $500 were accepted at first, and Stauffer for months used the let- terhead of his own paper, the Arkansas City Traveller. A book let, Kansas, Example of Good Government" was printed.
 "Wait for the Breaks"
 The Landon packers wrote let- ters necessarily to friends in other states, former Kansans in posi-