The Washington times., 1936-02-27

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ANOTHER PICTURE
Director King is flying to Flor
ida today and hopes to shed a
heavy cold by the time he reaches
the Gulf breezes. He has q flock
of kilograms received en- route
from those who have seen Q pre-
view of '"The Country Doctor, !"
predicting it will be a sensation.
While he was in Carter BarTon'S
office, the Loew division manager
ong-distanced from New York he
had just come from q pre-view
and felt like cheering everybody
concerned.
Daryl 6Sanuck has an option for
another picture employing the
quintuplets. It Is almost certain
that the Twentieth Century-Fox
Company will pick up the option
thus assuring the famous babies
another 100000 to add to their
fast-grow1ng and Sizeable fortune.
PASTEUR STORY
The complete fiction by Joseph
Jefferson O'Nein on THE Story
of Louis PaSteur," will be run in
the Hollywood on Parade section
Of The Washington Times Satur-
day. It's q peach Of q story and
after reading it you will want to
see the Paul NUM- picture which
comes to the Earle Theater,
March 6.
EDDY'S GUARANTEE
Nelson Eddy continues to irk
Hollywood by constantly asserting
he prefers the concert stage to
pictures. For out there they figure
he ought to show q little gratitude
for what the screen has done for
his bank account. Two years ago
he got 5000 a recital. Today he
asks and receives $2.500 per con.
cert plus 60 per cent on all over
$500. That's what Naughty
Marietta" and Rose Marie" have
done for the Eddy concert box
office.
It is VARIETY which discovered
it took longer to fight the Civil
War on the radio than it did the
original squabble between the
States. Roses and Drums" the
air dramatization of the days Of
81 to '65 has been running on the
network for four years and three
months. It will wind up in March.
When THE Ghost Goes West"
clocked nearly $4,000 at RKO-
Keith's theater on Tuesday after
Ia bumper week end, Hardie
Meakin felt it earned the second
week. The picture draws class
patronage and is the first English
movie to win a hold-over here since
Scarlet Pimpernel."
BOWES' FOR CIRCUS
Hand it to Major Bowes as a
Snowman who doesn't miss a
single chance in cashing in on the
amateur craze while the nation
is hot for the Simon-pureS.
It is Jerry Doyle, a charter
member of the Circus Fans, who
calls my attention to the fact
that the Cole Brothers Clyde
Beatty white top will have a unit
Of the BoweS entertainers when
it goes on the road this season.
The Bowes Amateurs are guar.
anted 80 weeks work and will be
a feature of the sideshow enter
tainment. It is understood that
the circus and the amateur book
ers will split $3.50 on sideshow
receipts.
THE CATS REFUSE
Mention Of Clyde Beatty re.
minds that a Variety report as
serts his lions and tigers refuse
to play four shows a day and he
has cancelled further vaudeville
engagements.
The wild animals are accus-
toned to the two-a-day routine Of
the circus. Beatty discovered
that his jungle pets got lazy after
the third show and it was almost
impossible to put them through
their tricks for the fourth per-
formance.
GLEN ECHO'S THRILL
Glen Echo Park sends a mid.
winter bulletin via Leonard B.
Schloss, managing director, in
the form Of a gaudy nthograph
of the new "U-Run-'Em" motor
boat esplanade which will be
1936's prize attraction up the
Potomac.
The installation will be COM
plete in three weeks and a fleet
of t5reamline motor boats will
be installed on the miniature
lake which occupies a spot once
reserved for parking space. The
new ride will be fifteen cents,
two for a quarter, is said to be
1.-THE very latest in speed and
safety for those who must have
their thrills.
You can now reach Glen Echo
Park by a drive straight out
Massachusetts, Avenue extended
direct to the pleasure resort. It
avoids the old twisting and dark
highways which kept many from
making this trip at night.