Evening star., 1937-06-21


dinner jackets and started the night
club circuit again.
Something of the same order, but
without the soup, is coming up at
the Earle Theater couple of Fridays
from now. The Earle stage show,
which has been made up of hot music
for long time, will make a quick
change into an ice carnival. From the
very platform where Benny Goodman
blew such scorching music, Kit Klein
IS going to freeze audiences with the
almost miraculous speed and grace of
Q champions skating.
The ice to be used is the same
type on which the Chandler act per-
formed at the Shoreham. 1t is
chemical product, made by a process
which the inventor keeps. secret,
probably so children won't be turning
living rooms into skating Kinks. All
We, know about it is that it looks like
crusted snow, takes IL hours to solidify,
will last Indefinitely, and is harder to
skate on than the ice in the Lincoln
Memorial Pool sometimes, but not
now.
The Earle act is designed to re-
veal skating in its every form. There
will be speed by Kit Klein, comedy by
Douglas Duffy, fancy and figure skat-
ing by the Meisters, barrel jumping by
Bobby Hearn and ballet dancing by
. company Of Is girls.
X X X
WASHINGTONIANS are doing a
wv nice job OF thanking Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer for bringing Cap
tains Courageous" to town at popular
prices. The film masterpiece, built
from Kipling's famous tale of a poor
little rich boy and Gloucester's fishing
feet, Is doing thunderous business
at the Palace. Just how long it will
remain there is yet to be determined,
but the chances are excellent for the
seasons longrun record.
Public reaction to the picture is
interesting in view of the single mis-
giving which producers had about
1t prior to its original release. About
1t there Is not a single implication OF
that favorite theme Of moviegoers
(and maybe every one else), romantic
love. The absence OF that flavor in
any picture always is a bit Of worry
to producers; even to producers of a
Captains Courageous"
The National Capital, however. has
assured M-G-M that everything is
quite all right-that the picture has
something which makes romantic love
altogether unnecessary. 1t is out
drawing "Maytime," which fairly ran
over with boy-meets-girl done in the
best possible good taste.
Boy meets Portuguese fisherman
seems to be just the formula for which
every one has been waiting.
X X X
A RT is great, the air is marvellous,
and the recreational facilities
magnificent up where Day Tuttle and
Richard Skinner are now using the
talents which they gave to the Wash
ington Civic Theater last Winter. That
would be at Mount Kisco, N. Y, and
Westport, Conn, and we know how
things are up there because Ruth
Perrott has written to tell us.
II am at present holding the script
for Eve lie Gallienne's Mistress Of
the Inn," she writes 'It's a liberal
education watching that woman act
and direct at the same time. In the
mornings I tear around the country
trying to borrow pewter, glassware,
china. etc, from antique shops"
AS for playing, Miss Perrott will
do that in "Lysistrata," "Petriied
Forest" and three or four other things.
She says the Tuttles are fine.
X X
r 1DING ON AIR" which exhibits
Joe E. Brown as small-town
newspaper man who creates sensa-
tion in the big city, is Keith's next
picture. In this, his second David L.
Loew production, the -mouthed
comedian plays the role OF Elmer
Lane. the character Richard Macaulay
has been writing popular fiction about
for several years. Florence Rice is
the girl. The picture opens We'd
nesday
WHOEVER it is that warns local
fish about such things, might
announce to them that Leonard Berg
man Is coming to Washington this
week After looking things over
at the National Theater, the suspicion
Is that he will go fishing =. He was
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