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Evening star., 1937-12-29

nered Sonia Henie when she first
came to this country. Mr.. Dunn, a
dark-haired, slim. handsome Britisher,
has been in Hollywood nearly two
years without getting tumble from
the producers, but now his luck has
changed with q vengeance, and, in
addition to the Dartmouth epic, he
plays the lead in "Everybodys Girl'
with Olympic Bradna, in which he
also dons ice skates.
Mae West Is the person least con-
cerned with the furor created by her
recent Adam and Eve skit on the
radio She says that, in the past,
the reformers have closed her shows,
put her in Jail, with the net result
that people were more anxious than
ever to see her perform. She also
cites the fact that scandal, unless
of the major VARIETY. e. murder
has yet to hurt an actor or actress.
(Proof of her contention is the re-
cent diary scandal Of Mary Astor,
which in no way affected her box
Office appeal). But the best argument
in favor of Miss West is her latest
picture. Every Days Holiday"
excellent entertainment and so clean
you can almost smell the soap.
Xxx *+
Potted production notes of the
week :. Paramount takes up where
David Selznick left of, in Tom
Sawyer" with tom Sawyer, Detec-
tive" Tommy Kelly and Jackie Moran
appear in both productions as Tom
Sawyer (Kelly) and Huckleberry Finn
-. Lewis E. Lawes will soon be able
to retire from his warden job at Sing
Sing, If he continues to sell prison
yarns to Warner Bros. Following
Over the Wall" comes "Chalked Out"
underworld language for the death
sentence
Little Mary Mcguire is going places.
marx my words She is so pretty, with
such large. brown eyes, that all the
males here-including Charlie Chap
lin, Joe Schenck and Alfred million.
alre) Vanderbilt-f1ght to act as her
escort. And her current film pros
poets have the pleasing probability of
starring with Jimmy Cagney in his
next picture for Grand National :,
Evening star., 1937-12-29

Virginia Bruce plays opposite Robert
Taylor when he completes his screen
chore In Three Comrades"
Gloria Dickson gets the lead in
Reform School," with all those tough
little Dead End" boys Ralph
Bellamy goes to Universal for top spot
In "The Crime Of Doctor Hallett"
. . Paramount executives are con-
graduating themselves on the painless
termination Of their contract with
Marlene Dietrich. The company has
decided that what it needs Is more
money-making, and less prestige. pic
lures Joan Crawford gets Tilted
by three men In q forthcoming film
for Metro. But she has Jimmy
Stewart as masculine co-emoter In
her next, "Shopworn Angel"
Federal Pen." yet another jail
story, will star Frances Farmer when
she returns from Clifford Odet's sue
cessful New York play, Golden Boy"
-. Warner Baxter's next for Twen-
tieth Century-Fox is the stellar role
In Robert Louis Stevenson's Kid
naped" -. Romantic Adventure" is
the title for the next Enrol Flynn
Joan Blondell combination.
tcopyrieht. 1887. by the North American
Newspa per Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Franciska Gaal Has
Ambitious Pro6ram.

ONE Of the most pretentious film
schedules ever arranged for .
newcomer in Hollywood Il planned by
Paramount for Franciska Gaal, beau-
tifm Hungarian actress who makes
her screen debut in . co-starring role
opposite Fredric March in Cecil B.
DeMilles production, 1.-THE Buccaneer. !"
The company has announced acqui-
sition Of "soubrette." an unproduced
play by Jacques Deval, for production
as q co-starring Aim for Miss Gaal
and Fred MacMurray. Miss Gaal will
portray the role OF a maid in a large
European household. appearing in a
situation favored by Deval whose
"Tovarich" has a somewhat similar
theme.
Before appearing in "Soubrette," Miss
Gaal will work in co-starring roles
with Jack Benny in Never Say Die"
and with Bing Crosby in Paris
Honeymoon" romantic musical
comedy.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-"Spring Thaw," new
comedy with Roland Young: 2:so and
$50 pm.
Palace-"Rosalie," Nelson Eddy and
Eleanor Powell in lavishly produced
musical: 11:10 am, las, 4:2o, 6:5s
and $50 pm.
keith's - Hitting New High"
Lilly Pons' singing, the comedy OF
Oakie, Horton, Blore: 11:50, am, 1:50
$50, $50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Capitol-"Man Proof" Myrna 10y
and Franchot Tone in an item re-
plete with romance: 11:05 am. las,
4:25, ITO and $50 pm. Stage shows: f:
l2:45, 1925, 6:10 and 1855 pm.
Earle-"Submarine d." an under.
sea thriller: 1890 am, 1920, 4:15,
7:10 and 1905 pm. Stage shows:
1880, 1925, $40 and 9:15 pm.
Metropolitan Hold En-, Nayv "
young love and the Army Navy game:
HAS am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:50 and
$50 pm.
Columbia - "The Firehy," Jeanette
Macdonald and Frimls music: 1885
am, 2:05, 4:30 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Show
runs l hour and Is minutes, continue
ously from 10 am to midnight.
Little-"Theodora Goes Wild" re-
vlval of one of last years maddest
comedies: II am, 1:09, 3:11, 5:21,
7:36 and -9:42 pm. "The River:
1888, 2:41, 4:50, 7:01 and 9:12 pm,
Ambassador -" Conquest" Garbo
and Boyer in Napoleon's love story:
2:25, 4:40. and 9:2O pm.
Second Honeymoon, Young
and Power are bitten twice: 2, 1855.
$50, 7:45 and $40 pm.
Uptown-'Navy Blue and Gold. /"
Navy trounces Army and love conauers
all: 2, 1855, $50, 7:35 and $50 pm.
Sheridan-"It's Love I'm After. I"
Leslie Howard tries to dodge the De
Havilland affection: 2, 1855, $50,
7:45 and 9:40p.m
Howard-"Big Town Girl" Claire
Trevor Is the sophisticate: 1890, 3.
$50. 8 and 10:30 pm. Stage shows:
1:5o, 4:2o, $50 and $40 PM
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Phyllis Kennedy
With Eric BlOre.

Eric BLoRE, inimitable screen
butler. valet and handyman
around the house, and Phyllis Ken
nedy, who won long-term film con-
tract by her portrayal of the boarding
house slavey in "Stage Door," have
been added to the cast OF the Irene
Dunne-Douglas Fairbanks, jr. musical,
THE Joy of Loving" now in produc-
ton at R-K-O-Radia. Guy Kibbee,
Alice Brady, Lucille Ball and Jean
Dixon also have featured roles.
Tay Garnett is directing "Ihe Joy
OF Loving under the production su-
pervision of Felix Young. The musical
score is by Jerome Kern, with original
story and lyrics by Herbert Fields and
Dorothy Fields. Gene Towne and
Graham Baker authored the screen
play.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

when Frank Shields arrived, fresh
from Hollywood, and suddenly en-
braced by an ardent fan, he found
that the fan was extricated from him
by the arm Of the law and that he
could arrive in row B, aisle three,
looking as cool and collected as his
tennis playing-acting admiration
society expected him to be.
Probably the greatest barrage Of
obs and abs came when Tallulah
Bankhead pounded into the lobby
Wreathed in sables on the arm Of her
husband-who seems to like her very
much. She was followed by the
Andrey Kelleys. here for the holidays
and surrounded by (as Mr.. Beebe
would say) a posse of distinguished
admirers. exceeded only by the crowds
which surrounded George Jean Nathan
In his lobby corner and fingered about
as though trying to help him make
up his mind what to say. John Mason
Brown had his corner too-and Thyra
Sampler Winslow held court on a
balcony step keeping Lawrence (Pers-
onal Appearance) Reilly. Donald Fair
child and somebody who had all the
ear-marks of Grace Eustis in rolls of
laughter.
The company. in fact, was so very
superior that We expected momentarily
to be tapped on the shoulder by Bob
Phillips, Harry Macarthur or some
other member of your department,
all intent on forgetting Santa Claus
IN this salubrious atmosphere of
people and Strauss music.
Because, of course, YOU have
learned by now that Three Waltzes'
represents the talents of three
Strausses in ancient, middle and
modern guise and presenting the
music that Madame Yvonne Printemps
has familiarized in the Paris music
halls. Kitty Carlisle and Michael
Bartlett (who once very nearly yanked
Hollywood film right from under
Grace Moore's nose) sang the Strauss
songs with every indication of success
and in spite of so-so plot which
operettas in the future probably will
DO away with. Miss Carlisle was at
her best In an airgrette feather which
SUCK IN her hair-and Mr.. Bartlett
hao so many curtain calls that it is
likely that Hollywood won't have a
chance at him for weeks to come
Other than that, the best acting went
TO Ann Andrews. and by golly if Glenn
Anders of Strange Interlude' fame
oldn appear as young man and old
man-more or less at once. And
another by golly must be added when
Freddie Sherman walked onto the
stage and was recognized as that
grand comedian of half-dozen years
oack, who. next to Addie Hibbard,
had the greatest following a member
OF Steve Cochran's National Theater
players ever had.
Three Waltzes' is not. of course
an OF Mice and Men or Father
Malachys Miracle New Yorks best
dramatic events of the moment-or
am I right?). but it is a handsome
Shuoert production, dressed lavishlv
ana danced exquisitely by troupe of
dancing girls, who can land fiat on
thelr faces at a moments notice
without so much as a snarl.
I'VE write you all this because We
thought you might like to know, and
since it's possibly the last thing 1
shall sec before my treck back to
Hollywood, it occurred to me that
could say hello in this simple fashion.
as also to tell you that the theater.
thank glory, still lives"
Evening star., 1937-12-29
It's Sentinentality
Harold Lloyd.

MAYBE 1t Is supersitition-to
A'A Harold Lloyd it's sentimentality.
Whatever it is, the bespectacled come
dian will not start = picture without
wearing, in the opening scene. the
same pair of horned trimmed glasses
he first donned when he started on
the road to molten picture fame.
The ritual for the opening shots
in Professor Beware was the same
as 1t has been for every Lloyd picture
for than than 20 years. The rims
they contain no glass-were brought
out Of the family safe, where they are
kept in . special humidor to prevent
them from disintegrating, and donned
by the comedian for Just one shot.
Then they were returned to their rest
ing place, where they Will remain until
the mat Lloyd picture.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Full>Length
Cartoon Has
Premiere
"Snow White"
Applauded by
HOLLYWOOD.
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

1OLLY WOOD.
~ LAsE Hollywoodites accus-
* toned to conventional motion
pictures cheered a fairy tale
fantasy last week, seeing for
the trst time an animated cartoon in
feature length.
iney saw the world premiere of
SNOW White and the Seven Dwarfs. f."
the eight-reel cartoon on which Walt
Disney spent three years and s1.50o,-
600.
The simple story is adapted from
the Grimm fairy tale about the prin-
cess who Is fairer than her stepmother
the queen. The princess escapes the
wrath of the envious queen and is be-
1rended by seven dwarfs, as strange a
collection Of characters as ever were
created
The seven dwarfs steal the show,
Doc, Dopey, Grumpy Happy, Sneezy,
bashful and Sleepy will be among the
movie celebrities of 1888, but this NAV
be their sole appearance because Dis
ney once said they have served their
purpose.
There are unsual directorial touches
that almost lift the film out of the
novelty class: Pigeons reacting. to an
echo. bluebirds showing pride in their
singing offspring and vultures winkine
knowingly.
The photography is extraordinary in
Its depth and the illusion of third
dimension. Its color in certain scenes
Is breathtaking.
Its reception left no doubt that
Producer Disney's hope, You'll like it
as well as do" was fulfilled.
Among movie luminaries present
were Shirley Temple, Bob Burns. Joe
Penner, Freddie Bartholomew, Amos
and Andy (Charles Correll and Free
man Gosden), George Burns and
Oracle Allen, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Benny, Marlene Dietrich and Douglas
Fairbanks. jr.; Fred MacMurray,
George Arliss, Hal Roach, Claudette
Colbert, James Gleason, Paulette God
dard, Marian Nixon, Ernst Lubitsch
and Jesse Lasky.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
MacMurray's Next.
ERED MacMURRAY,S n

HEO MacMURRAY,S next starring
picture for Paramount will be
Dream Of Love-" William LIE Baron,
managing director Of production, an
nounced recently.
Opposite MacMurray will be Olympic
Bradna, who rose from film obscurity
to the ranks Of the top featured play
ers By her performance in . single
picture. "Souls at Sea-"
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Director Potter
Guest Oreanist.

OU1S POTTER will be guest or
ganist this evening at the tri-
weekly series Of recitals offered by the
L. D. S. Washington Chapel, Six
teenth street and Columbia road.
Mr.. Potter is director of the WASH
ington Choral Society and organist-
director at Calvary M. E. Church.
The program will commence at 8
pm. and Is open to the public without
charge or collection taken.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

newsreel companies.
First among them is Arthur De
Titta OF Fox Movietone News, who
says:
I thought you would like to know
that the newsreel pictures made by
our cameraman, Eric Maynell, of the
bombing OF the Navy boat Panay are
now en- route by airplane from Cali
fornia to New York, where they will
arrive probably about noon Wednesday.
The pictures then will be released i'm
mediately to all theaters. Prints will
also be rushed to Washington by spe-
cial plane"
Uocal Loew theater MANAGEMENT
promises to interrupt any part of
current programs to put Panay pic
lures on the screen of the Capitol,
Palace or Columbia theaters immedi-
ateiy upon their arrival.)
From Hardie Meakin:
"R-K-O Keith's has Just signed
contracts giving that theater exclu-
slve Washington showings of the
Norman Alley, newsreel cameraman
extraordinary, shots Of the sinking
OF U. S. S. Panay, an historical event
That for days has occupied the front
page headlines of the newspapers
throughout the United States. By air.
plane, by use of the new giant China
Clipper, by Government aid and by
spllt-second travel connections. this
special subject is being rushed Easter
ward and when delivered to the United
States Government. and to Keith's
Theater. will have travelled some H.
600 miles from the banks of the
YangtZe River in China"
(The Alley pictures, shot from the
deck of the Panay as it was sinking
and understood to make a total pro-
gram of 30 minutes, are expected to
be processed and ready for distribution
by Friday. Whereas other camera
reports OF the incident are being
treated as part of regular newsreel
releases. the Alley pictures are COM
blned in special release being offered
to theaters as distinctive short SUBJ
ject)
Warner Brothers, whose Earle and
metropolitan Theaters are on the list
OF regular customers for Universal
ana Paramount news reel releases, are
awaiting further advices as to exact
tlmes OF showing the first film records
OF the event. Trans-Lux similarly is
ready to break its regular program to
snow the Panay pictures Immediately
upon their arrival.
X
you can't even teach an adolescent
dog new tricks, it seems. That
at least is our deduction from a letter
received from E. de S. Melcher. who
Is stopping over momentarily in New
York between leaving Hollywood and
going back to Hollywood AS an old
reviewer of the theater and the movies
Mr.. Melcher goes on being reviewer,
to wit:
1T occurs to me that you might like
70 know that the Messrs. Shubert
solved the problem of what to do with
Christmas night by galvanizing Broad
way with a no-fooling Hollywood OPEN
Ing OF their latest operetta, Three
Waltzes.' The audience was as much
OF show as the show itself. Outside
the-theater crowds were lined up on
either side of the street as thick as
thieves, and the general atmosphere
was much the same as at the preview
OF Shirley Temple (Carthay circle
theater, picture at which rubber-neck.
Ing patrons appear soon after tea and
scones. Furthermore. the police de-
partment was out in force, so that
Evening star., 1937-12-29
idea aMarket" "
Plan Set by
Director
Frank Lloyd Says
There's Dearth of
big" Stories.

!: En-: e.: ::;;:: !: s: :: ::; ::
even newspapers. it would
seem that Hollywood could never
face anything even bordering on a
shortage of material for screen plays.
Yet the film colony is experiencing a
dearth of stories right now. especially
big themes suitable for large pro-
ductions. Frank Lloyd, the producer
and director of the Paramount screen
saga OF commercial transportation,
Wells Fargo" which co-stars Joel
McCrea and Frances Dee, made this
announcement on recent trip to New
York.
Lloyd. who started his film career
when Hollywood was a prairie dotted
with a few barnlike studios, believes
he has a solution for the story prob
lem, at least for film men who are
interested only in producing big pic
lures.
The very nature of his own work has
given Lloyd an important technical
slant on literary work. He knows, for
instance, that no writer of important
creative work can touch his typewriter
until he has an idea for his plot.
1t is Lloyd's intention to go into the
"idea market" himself. Once he thinks
out a story plan which would lend
itself to the screen. this producer
director says he will submit 1t to a
name-author. If the writer likes it
and thinks he can develop it into a
book, Lloyd says he is prepared to give
him a substantial down payment, with
the remainder upon completion and
acceptance Of the book. Thus the
author can't lose; even if Lloyd doesn't
accept the book the writer keeps the
first payment and enjoys all rights
to his opus. If Lloyd likes the work
he buys it. tailored to the screen, and
the author retains book royalties.
Evening star., 1937-12-29

ship OF Kenneth
Mac Gowan.
. = .
The ann u al
Dartmouth ice
carnival will be
glorihed by Para
m o un t with q
picture that fea-
lures all the
studios younger
players B e t ty
Cradle, Eleanor
w h tn ey, Bob
Hope, ct al.-and
stars Jack Dunn,
ice SIX q t ! n 6
rhamn who mart.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Panay Pictures Expected
In Capital Tomorrow
Local Theater Managements Awaiting
Arrival of Films Break
Into Regular Programs.
BY JAY CARMODY.

the sinking the United States gunboat
- Yangze River by
screens possibly tomorrow unless something akw
scramble first with
With reference specific
directly orgyabl) exciting notices
Evening star., 1937-12-29
Twizzler Answer.

A bushel and one-ninth, not q BUSH
el and one-teuth. would have to be
broueht.
Evening star., 1937-12-29
, D. c., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1887.
Dartmouth Ice Carnival
Slated for Film Glorv
Young Players to Be Featured
In College Story, With
Dunn Back on Skates.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLYwooD Dec 20 lNANA2-Rovng John Ford. who
former for RK-o Wee Willie Winke' twentieth
the recently completed
His first Young Magazine
Evening star., 1937-12-29

w Y1TH thousands of stories
\A/ coming of the press yearly
wv in books. magazines and
even newspapers it. would
Evening star., 1937-12-29

five years. His first assignment will
story, -Four Men and a Prayer
Production gets the starting gun jan
uary II under the associate producer
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-31
FinlGmd's Birthday

This month, the Republic of
Finland is celebrating its 10th
birthday, its independence having
been declared on December 6,
1917. Prior to the World War the
country had been an autonomous
duchy of the Russian Empire since
1909, and before that was part
of the kingdom of Sweden for six
and a half centuries.
Helsingfors, the capital, has a
population of approximately 270,-
900. The Oldest city is Abo, which
celebrated its Tooth anniversary in
1929. The country has an area of
10000 square miles, about equal
to that of New England, New York
and New Jersey combined.
Although the little nation has
less than four million inhabitants,
it has eight political parties. The
Communist party was outlawed in
1925, and no Communist may be-
come member of the parliament.
Both men and women vote, but
not until they reach the age of
"a.
Finland is the only country to
pay every installment on it's war
debt to the United States as it be-
came due. In 1884 it fIoated a
10 million dollar naoln hrdIi'v0l
York at 4 per cent. interest, with
which to pay off bonds bearing
higher rates.
The two Firms best known in
America are Paavo Nurmi, the
former worlds champion long dis
lance runner, and Jean Sibelius,
by many considered the greatest
living musical composer, now at
work on his Eight Symphony at
the age of 70. The number of
Films unable to read or write is
less than one-tenth of one per
cent, another world record.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-31
DRY REFERENDA UPHELD
IN THREE PA. TOWNSHIPS

Taprooms in Greene, Peters and
st. Thomas townships, Franklin
county, Pa, face compulsory clos
ing at the expiration of their pres
ent beverage licenses in view of
DEGREES handed down by Judge
Watson r. Dawson, Diminishing
proceedings in which the local op-
ton referenda in the three town.
ships was contested. Whether an
appeal to the higher courts will
follow has not been decided upon,
counsel for the petitioners said.
Although sale of beer and liquor
in the three townships was out
lawed in the local option referenda
at the September IA primary, in
terested parties contested the
election on several issues, chief of
which was the undisputed conten-
ton that not all voters had re-
ceived ballots in each of the ref
brenda. During the early ballot
ing in several of the polls, the
election boards were of the err
roneous opinion that one ballot
covered both issues.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-31
Neso Year Hopes

New Year resolutions have be-
come a kind of standard jest,
through which the newspaper
paragrapher and the stage CO.
median can always raise a laugh.
You are additionally supposed to
swear off your bad habits on JAN
nary /, and then gradually take
them on again, usually long before
February 1. If some man takes
a solemn resolve at New Years
to abandon that miserable vice
which has held him chained to
his lower self for years, his many
friends smile tolerantly and give
him about two weeks to forget it.
Yet, if people amount to much,
they usually cherish definite aims
at the beginning Of the year. The
business man is planning new
lines of trade. He is determined
that the next IL months shall see
increased earnings.
The worker in any organization
sees a new campaign ahead OF
him. There must be new plans to
attract the people and pay the
bills.
Human nature must look ahead
and plan it's work, OF it will get
little done The people for whom
1888 is just the same as 1897 are
in danger of standing still, and
while one is making out his list
of new aims, he is not thoroughly
wise unless it includes some cor
rection Of his personal faults.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-31
Capital Plus Brains

More than two million stock.
holders of public utility companies
in the United States, not includ-
ing railroads, own approximately
rs billion dollars represented by
shares in those companies, ac-
cording to survey by a leading
New York investment house.
Other millions of people own
shares in railroads and industrial
enterprises.
During the last 20 years the
number Of investors in corpora
lions has increased amazingly.
with the result that the enormous
amounts of new capital necessary
for the expansion of American
business and industry have been
readily supplied.
But it is not only the peoples
money that is required. A liberal
share of the nations best brains
is also lending itself to Industrial
development. AS Professor Car
yer of Harvard recently pointed
out, this country has succeeded
in massing its best intelligence
on industrial problems, with the
result that we have built the
greatest industrial machine the
world has ever known"
Added to capital and brains we
have the ever increasing produc-
tivity Of American workmen, who
also use their brains. Thus, we
have combination which has