The Washington times., 1936-02-26

appear ChaC Dr. MuQQ was one
Of Booths conSpiratorS.
DR.. Mudd made a dramatic plea
for the right to be heard at his
trial, ending his prayer with I'm
the sight of the Holy God I wor-
ship I am innocent" He was con-
demned to life Imprisonment at
Shark Island, a hell-hole prison
fort off the coast Of Florida.
BAXTER is EXCELLENT
The second half Of the picture
shows the tortureS and humilia-
ton he endured, his heroic Sacri.
fices to save the island from the
ra7ages of yellow fever, his par.
don and return to his family after
the physicians courage had been
called directly to the attention Of
President johnson.
In every way Prisoner of Shark
Island" is superior Hollywood.
It has had the careful and con-
Scientious direction of John Ford
(who made "The Informer'D and
the senior Frank McGlynn gives
a reverential and beautiful por-
trait Of the martyred Lincoln.
Director Ford seems to possess the
faculty of bringing out the best
in actors. Last season he did
wonders with Victor MacLaglen.
In this latest exhibit he moves
Warner Baxter up a few pegs.
Prisoner of Shark Island"
opens at the Fox Theater Friday.
Those who show7shop for the best
pictures can put this on their list
without N servation.
DIR. GWYNN WRITES PLAY
Before he left for q medical
conference in the West, DR.. Henry
Beall Gwynn of Georgetown COM
pleted the first draft of a full
length play. The manuscript
goes to a Broadway producer
this week who promises q pro-
duction in the fall.
The younger DR.. Gwynn Is an
ardent playgoer. He has even sat
beside this First Nighter on a
few occasions this season without
revealing how his time away
from pills and clinics was being
occupied.
The details Of his drama will
be revealed later. I can only
say now that like Sidney King.
ley's Men in White" the Gwynn
play concerns itself with medicine
and romance.
CHIC DIDN'T WIN
Too bad, Chic Barron. I heard
Arthur, Godfrey announce on the
radio this morning between
''Moos." that he had congratula-
ted you on winning an automobile
in a Monday night drawing at the
Hotel willard and then he took
it all back. It was another fellow.
Miss Nora Barron, is already
driving around the new car and
enjoying it. Seems Arthur made
a misdeal or there were too many
Sevens on the dice. Or somfin.
Let us have no such monkey
doodle on the Irish Sweepstakes
drawing. for which I secured two
tickets yesterday, and on which
I plan to go to Europe this sum-
mer, maybe.
ABOUT LUNTS' PLAY
Why did the Lunts shelve Tam.
ing Of the Shrew'' when the
Shakespeare play was making
money and many key cities were
seeking an engagement? The ans
wer is that Playwright Robert e.
Sherwood has written upon a very
timely subject in Idiots Delight"
and insisted upon an immediate
production for his play. The sub
ject concerns a munitions maker
and the plot has details that may
interest Congress. Mixing politics
with song and dance, or specific
ally tap dancing.
THE ROGERS LOSS
Daryl Zanuck, generalissimo of
Twentieth Century-Fox pictures,
has revealed to Maurice Kann Of
Motion Picture Daily, what an ir-
reparable loss his company Suf-
fered with the death Of the Ia
mented Will Rogers.
Will Rogers made four pictures
a year and on each one his COM
pany crossed 100000 profit or
more. This, of course, in the last
years of Rogers career when he
was the No. 1 attraction at the
movie box office. Two hundred
thousand dollars per picture
which Comedian Rogers received
thus was a reasonable compensa-
ton for such a unique, valuable
and irreplaceable talent.
I saw "Hit and Run Driver"
yesterday, a special Metro Gold
wyn-Mayer two-reel subject that
is one of the most timely COM
pelling features Of its kind ever
made.
It will be shown at Loew's
Palace this Friday on the sup
Elementary program.
This is the fifth of the Crime
Does Not Pay" series. In "Hit
and Run Driver" the producers
join hands with the press and
public spirited Of America in the
crusade for safety on the high.
ways. The story is a most in
teresting one and filled with
drama