Evening star., 1937-06-07

the stage is dismally remiss in re-
Warding its benefactors
Thoughts of this character are in
duced by the merry mail from New
York today There is lot of it and
1t all is merry. It relates that things
are going right along in theatrical
way In Gotham. Producers are pay
ing their wives bills cheerfully, actors
are wearing clean linen, theater own
ers are cooling in the lap of luxury
and even box Office men are snarling
more softly. Responsible for the
miracle of 1t all is the inventor of air
conditioning. The theater which
used to wilt in the Summer is gath
ering dollars instead of dust. Science
seems to have tossed life belt to art
and life is sweet again.
It must be granted thai the thea
ter has been bit slow in recognizing
the practically of air conditioning.
Years ago, the movies seized it as a
weapon to beat down the competition
of the merry-go-round and roadside
hamburger stand The stage, with its
head in the clouds (of glooin) seemed
not to have heard anything about 1t.
It has heard about it now. however,
and all the animated, happy chatter
has to do with the fact that pretty
soon the legitimate season" will be
a l2-month proposition just like the
calendar 1t will, of course, if Holly
wood has not stolen all the actors,
playwrights, directors and other ele-
ments of drama production without
which air cooling niight be pretty
hollow thing.
RAY BELL lets us know that Her.
man Bing is coming to Loew's
Capitol on Friday. He lets us know
great many other things about Bing,
among them that he has been ter
rife" in New York. So terrific, in
fact. that he is booked for so houses
before he is allowed to go back to
Hollywood and make his living with
far less an expenditure of energy
than is required in vaudeville. You
know that Bing's speciality is murder
ing English, but maybe you didn't
know that in real life he is an accom-
plished linguist; that he could run
smoothly with the diplomatic set here,
speaking the sets languages like a
native.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT is none of
your stars who plays Claudette
Colbert regardless Of the name of the
picture. The characters she hooks up
with for Paramount are as different,
from film to film, as seventeenth
century Puritan maids and twentieth
century men snatchers. You can see
her change from the former. which
she played in Maid of Salem" to the
latter at The Earle starting Friday.
The new film, Il Met Him in Paris"
is the farthest possible cry from the
saga of witch-burning in which Miss
Colbert came to town several months
ago.
critics won't be home to callers
this afternoon. They will be in
the screening room of the Fox Film
Exchange witnessing one of the fin
est double bills" which Loew,s have
staged in Loews history. First comes
'Parnell," and no sooner does it f1utter
to an end than Make Way for To-
morrow" will take its place on the
screen.
A RMY and Navy brides-to-be might
go over to Keiths starting We'd
nesday and learn just how to get along
in case they have to go to Hawaii
wings Over Honolulu" is the picture
and its story is that of young bride
who scrambled up lot of lives before
she discovered the Navy was no rival
for her husbands affections, but Just
his loyalty.
Mildred Cram, Washington girl
who learned about navies right here
in the National Capital, wrote the
story. There will be a new edition
Of The March of Time" on the same
bill.
But now let Hudson Grunewald, The
Stars Sunday department boss, have
the rest of the column. Writes he from
Hollywood:
"CTOOD behind the spotlights on the
M-G-M set this morning and
watched 'em shooting scenes for Sara
toga' with more stars around me than
I saw out of the window of the sleeper
plane on my night fight to Hollywood.
Saratoga is story of the square
shooting, kind-hearted -buck-or-
a-million dynamic fraternity that has
made horse racing the sport of
kings, and from what 1 saw of the
picture in the making it ought to rank
high among the hits that have made
its co-stars, Clark Gable and Jean
Harlow, one of the screens most
popular teams.
supporting this pair are Lionel
Clayton, Una Merkel, Frank Morgan.
Reginald Owen, Walter Pidgeon, Cliff
Edwards and IS lesser lights.
THE picture is due in Washington
Some time in August"
Jack Conway. who says he's going
bear hunting with Gable when he's
through shooting Saratoga" is doing
the directing. He has to his credit
such directorial successes as "Libeled
Lady" "A Tale of Two Cities" and
viva Villa"
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CLARK GABLE has one of those
trick dressing rooms on wheels
rolled up close to the sound stage.