The Washington times., 1936-04-09

you will leave the theater mum
GOOD SINGING
Minstrel Jolson also has some
big-league assistance in the per-
sons of the Yacht Club boys.
THESE lads can deliver topical
sone to perfection, and in How
Times Have Changed" they have
q corker.
The Yacht Club lads also assist
Uncle AL in putting over a clever
production number, in which ne
insists upon singing NANNY"
while they urge him to get up to
date.
For dyed in the wool JolSon
fans, like myself, there is nos.
&aleic pleasure in the revival OF
"April Showers" California Here
I Come" "Swanee" and "A
Quarter to Nine"
Some say that little Sybil Jason
is a threat to Shirley Temple.
can't agree. The kid is very clever
but what she does always seems
studied and rehearsed.
PRETTY NEWCOMER
AL has a new leading lady. Bev-
erly Roberts. She's a locker ana
has an air. of distinction although
I think she affects an English &C
cent. Born in Brooklyn they say
she acquired the oxford speech
by three years of floor service in
the English night clubs. She
ought, I think to be herself, or
take a look at Ruth Chatterton
and see how affected speech and
mannerisms have caused her to
slip in popularity.
"The Singing Kid" opens at the
Earle tomorrow. You will find
that Jolson has expert assistance
in this picture, and, If he only
had the story, Al might again be
the sensation he was in the Win
ter Garden days and when he
made "The Jazz Singer" AS 1t is,
! recommend his picture cordially
to those who like song and dance
screen entertainment.
AL will be present in person for
the Philadelphia premiere Of his
picture on Friday, then rushes to
Pittsburgh to reopen the Penn
Theater which has recovered from
flood damage. These dates kept
him from accepting a Payette in
vitation to bow on the Earle stage.
Came the Dionnes. In other
words 1.-THE Country Doctor" with
the famous quins will be the
April II attraction on the Fox
Theater screen.
FREDDY AT FOX
Freddy Bartholomew in Little
Lord Fauntleroy" will bounce
100000 through the ticket win
dows of Radio City Music Hall
this week, beginning the Holy
Week champion for movie bust
ness in New York.
All of which makes Division
Manager Barron of Loew'S happy
since the picture opens at the
Fox Theater tomorrow. 1t will
be accompanied by a stage show
that has class stamped all over it.
Besides the Easter overture with
q choir led by Yascha Bunchuk,
ballerina Patricia Bowman will
dance Pavlowa's classic, 'The
Swan" and Everett Marshall is
busting off high notes.
The Fox. in short, will have a
balanced program for Easter
week. A Grade A picture on the
screen and superior vaudeville or
the stage.
FLOSSY PREMIERE
Not since the famous "Barretts
of Wimpole Street" party has any
picture been given such a pre-
tentious opening send-off as
United Artists staged for the H
G. Wells feature, Things tc
Come" on Tuesday night al
Wardman Park.
It happens to be the best pic
ture that has come over from
Picadilly since Alexander Korda
woke up Hollywood with Private
Life of Henry VIII" OF course il
violates Hollywood tradition anC
belief that a success story for the
screen must have plenty Of love.
In peering into the future
Author Wells was more concerned
with the mechanics of the new
age, with the advance of science
and discovery, than he was with
romance.
1 think II Duce will objec
strenuously to one scene il
Things To Come" which deal
rather satiriCally with dictators
In fact I'll bet 100 guineas agains
a plugged penny that this seem
will be Scissored before the pictur
is ever screened in Italy. Germany
naturally, will not permit it at all
In Things To Come" they Sa,
that one of the things that meC
icine has conquered in 2036 A. {
is the common ailment known a
"colds." Ironically enough thi
critic caught cold coming HON
from the Wardman Park Screer
ing and was forced yesterday t.
use the liniment bottle on kin
that settled in the shoulder. So
hope Mr.. Wells prophecy abou
colds is correct and it can't com
too soon.
With the soft lights, mello7
wines, delicious foods and cor