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the Marxes. 1t doesn't seem right
somehow that the brothers should be
engineers of comedy in one breath ana
wild slapstick comedians the next.
That is too much talent for one fam
ily. but it works out hilariously for
movie audiences.
You do not see the infinite pains
which 60 into the making OF Marx
picture when it is being unraveled,
as "A Day At the Races" was yes
terday. 1t seems as spontaneous as
the wagging of puppy's tail. But
when you look back on it, you realize
that it was put together far too art
fully to be any such thing.
The madness of "A Day at the
Races" comes at you in carefully con-
trolled waves Just when an audi
ence has laughed itself breathless,
the Marx brothers call themselves
off and give everyone rest While
some almost lyrically calm sequence
allows the lungs to BE inflated again.
Then, with the house set for another
convulsion of mirth, the boys come
funnier.
It's an art, but it is also a science.
And it makes for an absolutely per-
feet successor to Captains Coura-
geous," which has flooded the Palace
Theater with tears for three weeks,
come Friday.
D1cK POWELL not only has six
new tunes to sing in The Sing
ing Marine" Earle's next picture, he
also has svelte new leading lady.
She is Doris Weston. New York girl,
who went from Maj. Bowes' Anna
teur Hour" to the Rainbow Room,
to Warner Brothers, to The Singing
Marine" With a fine disdain for the
past of Miss Weston, who is blonde
and lovely to look at Tor Warner
Brothers wouldn't have hired herr,
she gets the gong for the song she
sings in the picture. 1t is no reflec-
ton on Maj. Bowes or Miss Weston,
however 1t all is done in a spirit
OF fun to make the audience howl.
PIGHT on top of this pages saying
yesterday that "Super-Sleuth''
would open at Keith's today. Hardie
Meakin says it won't. 1t will open
Friday and in the meantime, New
Faces" will 60 right along striving
with all its youthful zeal to enter
tain audiences. The delay in the
other opening is one of those things
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one that is too technical for US to
understand, or you to care ABOUT.
Jack Oakie and Ann Sothern are in
the new picture.
"RENEATH CORAL SEAS" techni-
color short at the Capitol this
week, is one of those things that
It definitely does not belong in that
category of short subjects of which
reviewers always say. THE usual COM
plement Of short subjects completes
the bill"
It is fascinating little revelation
OF the fact that the beauty of under
sea life (while a beautiful kind of
beauty is only skin or scale deep
All kinds of odd fish. and other forms
OF life are photographed swapping
each other up and acting generally
like a bunch of foodlums.
incidentally, YOU never saw such
fish. There is one that looks like a
COW, not particularly the kind of COW
you see in the fields but more like
the one Junior draws. Another is a
sly little number, handsome thing
in ivory and jade. which can swim
backward as well as forward. Nature
equipped it with reverse gears to give
1t a chance for survival in an Under
water world full of enemies.
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THE Little Colonel" with Shirley
Temple, Lionel Barrymore ano Bill
Robinson, plus DR.. Bull with Will
Rogers and Rochelle Hudson, consti-
tute the Rialtos next program. The
latter is based upon the play, The
Last Adam"
THE st. Moritz Ice Carnival, with
Kit Klein as its star. is proving
that skating acts have jus. the right
novelty to attract Washingtonians.
Earle audiences are loving it, even
down to the faint fragrance of the
formaldehyde which hangs over the
stage, but which can't be smelled be-
yond the orchestra pit . Aside to
Ann Barber: 1t is too late They
already have made up their own minds
-. Those dim lights on the Shore
ham Terrace are not too dim for
Barnee. He swung right into You
Were There" by Null Cahd, the in
slant two Coward music fans ap-
peared on the terrace steps the other
night. Didn't even need a second
glance to make out who they. were
-. Rose Robinson Cohen, the Blue
bird lady, is going to Hollywood for a
visit, via Dallas, where she has prom
ised to stop over for chat with
Charles Meredith, who is very big
man in the little theater movement
A telegram from Gene Ford
says he is not "toddling" toward the
fifth edition of Going Native" Il
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