The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-08


DEATH"
Joe, working secretly. is able
to bring about a mass trial of %
defendants. He convicts them by
the damaging and indiSputable
news reel record of the lynching,
something that proves witness
after witness has lied and dis
torted truth to help save the tor
tured prisoners.
The finish Of Fury" is a COM
promise, after a court room trial
that is a real masterpiece of stag.
ing and realism. Joe wilson's con-
science tortureS him and his melo-
dramatic entry at the close of the
trial is a bit theatrical though it
provides happy ending.
Spencer Tracy does beautiful
acting job in Fury" High hon.
ors, too, for Sylvia Sidney, Walter
Abel, Bruce Cabot and Walter
Brennan. However the brightest
feather for a bright fedora goes
to Director Fritz Lang, since
Fury is, after all, his master
piece.
MAY BAR JOE E.
I doubt very much that Herr
Hitler will ever let Germany see
Joe E. Browns "Sons O. Guns"
AS a matter of fact they would
never have permitted the picture
here in World War days, for,
though it is natural burleSque, it
might well be construed as an
argument for pacifism.
Joe E. plays Jimmy Garfield,
who just can't make up his mind
to go to war because he has moth
ing against the enemy. He can't
fight if he amt mad and he sees
nothing to get mad about.
Anyway Joe E. goes to war, is
arrested as a spy, winds up an
enemy prisoner and m a k S
friends with the Huns. The
highly amusing finish finds him
leading group of Germans into
the American lines-they didn't
see anything to get mad about
either and accepted Joe E. as a
pal-acclaimed as Public Hero
No. l Of the A. E. F.
Comedian Brown has a chance
to sing and tap dance and,
though the story hasn't as much
music in it as when Jack Dona-
hue did it as a musical comedy,
it is nevertheless a war tale that
is amusing rather than tragic.
"Sons O. Guns" comes to the
Earle, Friday.
TREAT FOR SWINGERS
Swingers, don't miss the short
picture called "Old Mill Pond"
when it comes to Loew's Palace
Theater Friday. It kids the pants
off the swing music craze and
this Harman-1sing cartoon in
color is full Of funny ideas.
Easy to recognize in the prog
ress of this color flolic are Hi
De-Ho Cab Galloway, the tapping
Bill Robinson, the sleepy moving
Stepin Fetchit who is galvanized
into record-breaking speed while
swinging a tiger, and the ivory
tickling Fats Waller.
BUNCHUK'S MEMORY
Yasha Bunchuk leads the 60
piece orchestra at the Fox Theater
this week without once resorting
to a score sheet. It is a memory
feat for the conductor who claims
to be able to lead 100 standard
overtures without music sheets.
The "Prince Igor" Hungarian
Rhapsody" and Romeo and Jul
liet" orchestrations being used by
Conductor Bunchuk are originals
of Toscanini's, retaining all of his
notes and markings. They were
loaned to Bunchuk by the libra
rian of the Metropolitan Opera
Company.
EDGAR KENNEDY COMING
Edgar Kennedy, one of Holly
woods funniest fellows, will ,ap-
pear in person at the Earle The
alter starting Friday, June 10,
John j. Payette, Warner Bros.
general zone manager, announced
today.
Long a standby in picture max
ing, Kennedy is one of the best
known and most popular featured
players on the West Coast. His
appearance on the screen always
results in long and loud laughter.
| At the Earle this week, Ken
needy appears with Mary Ellis in
Fatal Lady" portraying the
manager of the opera company to
which she belongs. Recently he
was seen as Robert Taylor's yacht
captain in Small Town Girl"
and in THE Bride Comes Home"
it was Kennedy who finally mar
ried Claudette Colbert and Fred
Mac Murray.
His gift for expressing steadily
rising and hardly controlled an
ger is one Of the many tricks en-
ployed by Kennedy, whose temper
is probably the most famous in
pictures.
At the Earle he will appear in
a special skit with Patricia ALL
wyn.