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Evening star., 1937-08-29

mayer, warner, SelZnlck et al, Holly
wood, Calf.
You'll probably never run across a
"help-wanted" ad fitting that descrip-
ton in the classified columns of The
Star, but don't think for a moment
you wouldn't II Hollywood producers
decided such campaign, spread over
the worlds leading newspapers, would
lead them out of their current dilem-
ma-a desperate shortage OF leading
men!
Hollywood always seems to enter
tain crying need Of some sort. But
right now it's not pretty faces, shapely
legs, stately leading ladies, better
stories, finer photographers or better
directors. What Hollywood needs
more than anything right now is big
ger and better leading men-well
more leading men if you prefer it
that way.
Prospective Robert Tsylors and Cary
Grants are worth million dollars
on the hoof and another Melvyn
Douglas or Tyrone Power would be
just the answer to producers prayer
There never has been q time in the
community's history when acceptable
leading men were so scarce, 80 much
In demand, and stories so hard TO cast
because of this scarcity.
Top flight leading men are rushed
from one picture into another. Often
they're working in two, even three.
pictures at the same time. Stories are
actually being rewritten and impor-
tant roles changed to meet the ext
gencies of the male lure situation.
THIS scarcity Of leading men has
led to a frantic scramble to de-
velop new Adonis-like leads, who can
f1utter feminine hearts in the last row
of the balcony. All the studios are
rushing young college boys and stock
company graduates before the CAM
eras, hoping to find = Gable, q Power
or q Montgomery.
At Columbia, Harry Cohn Is setting
in motion a veritable training school
for young men. Among the bright
prospects there are Charles Quigley,
graduate Of Broadway showshops;
Donald Grayson. young singing leading
man, who got q contract when sales
executives heard him in q Chicago cafe
during convention; Don Terry, Har-
ward graduate; Allen Brook, son Of
Joe Allen, we'll known American actor,
who once quit Aims in disgust to be-
come furniture salesman; Scott Col
ton, who ran away from home to join
jazz band, and in Venice met Marion
Davies, who persuaded him to make a
screen test; Frank Wilson, son of q
cousin Of the late Woodrow, who was
spotted in q little theater group in
the East, and Charles Starrett and
Bob Allen, graduates Of Dartmouth,
who are now serving their apprentice
ship In westerns.
Similarly, other studios are digging
In to develop the material ON their own
lots. Paramount, where Bing Crosby,
Fred Macmurray, George Raft and
Randolph Scott head the established
players. u hopefully grooming Ray
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Dancers at Sylvan.

A LICE LOUISE HUNTER and her
Dance Group, assisted by Ray
Williams Of Baltimore, will appear at
the Sylvan Theater Tuesday night in
e three-part dance program. The first
part, The Garden by Moonlight" tells
the story Of the poet who tires OF his
earthly love and yearns for the Moon
Lady; the second, The Garden in
Summer" features a garden party,
and the third will be The Garden
When the North Wind Blows"
In addition to Miss Hunter and Mr..
Williams, dancers to be featured will
be Marjorie McGann, Catherine Shea,
Elsie Swami, Carol Shea, Gloria Mas
goret, Kathleen Davis, Gloria Cone,
Eileen Jordan, Ann Muriel Matthews
and Betty Israel
Evening star., 1937-08-29


the greatest need OF 1t, and while
wondering 4 bit whether it will ever
return to us some Of us cannot help
brooding over the way 1t has Of con-
tinuing to dkappoint US. We wait for
1t with = pretty mingling Of hope and
trepidation, and then, when we are
beginning to expect the most from its
age-old cunning, it presents us with
another fine series Of dilapidated an
tiquities that make US wonder once
again why We ever bothered about
the whole thing. We sit at its feet
night after night and are rewarded
for our concern with the customary
trash and nonsense. We consider it as
one OF the mature arts, and it repays
us by behaving like mewling infant.
Warming up to the attack, we can
recall that, while last season was not
the dramatic mess many Of the more
austere commentators would make it,
1t was chiefly notable fof its lack OF
fresh dramatic talent. Had 1t not been
for those old one-man theaters and
faithful standbys, William Shake
speare and Maxwell Anderson, 1t would
have been q passably sad time indeed.
Yet somehow we cannot give it up,
and We continue to wait for it with
enthusiasm perhaps worthy OF bet
ter cause. Perhaps, in truth, it is for
Its sins that we chiefly love it. Even
though We know that most of its Of
ferings-provided it even gets around
to them-Will prove bitter disappoint-
ments and that it wall cause us to
waste more time than any other avail
able bad habit, we do know that upon
at least one or two occasions it will
provide us with a quality OF excise
ment that no other artistic medium
can offer and, realizing this amid
our bitterness, We will continue our
grumbling obeisance before its slight
ly ramshackle shrine. 1t seems that we
are pretty fond Of it, despite every
thing. Somehow Hollywood Just can't
take its place.
IT WAS not until my return from
Spain last week that I heard of
the death Of George Gershwin. Heaven
knows, I am no music critic, but it
does not require any esoteric knowl-
edge OF Its mysteries to realize to
what an extent George Gershwin was
American music. 1t was not simply
that his great and glowing talents
played vast part in the creation OF
the world of popular American music,
world which, for better or for worse,
is SO vitally important in our modern
artistic creation. The GershWin i'm
portance was even more than that.
Gershwin did not merely leave his
imprint on the creative form in which
he worked. He had made himself so
much a part of it that it truly can
be said that he was its very soul and
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Murder" Comes Back.
THE STAR Of september 1s 1924

1n oAAH OF september Is, 1885,
carried the following review:
Murder In the Red Barn ranks q
one OF the classics Of melodramattc
history OF the Roadside Theater, 30
popular was this lusty charade in tts
heyday that there were suggestions
the Roadside plant should be dedicat-
cd permanently to its production, the
same company committing the same
murder IN the same red barn on Rock
vile pike each night unto eternity.
1T was in this play that Eugene
kressin stamped himself as the most
norid OF all local villains, one OF the
most able OF native actors. and by far
the most agile actor villain about
town. Fred Haskin, jr.. and Janet
Coon covered themselves with giggles
and gags IN comedy parts. Tom Cahill
and half a dozen others were At the
peak OF form in supporting parts. In
fact, from its debut in 1884 tlrou1h
the return engagement OF 1895, Muir
der inspired audiences to gusty good
humor, spurred them on to new Kissing
power, kept the rafters Of Roadside
rumbling with boos. Cash rolled In
at the ticket wicket. Customers
rolled and roared in the aisles. Ths
patient citizenrv took standing room
only and liked 1t. The meller was .
wow
This year when the Roadside man.
agement decided to top of its season
with revival Of some favored morsel
OF the past, hundreds screamed for
Murder Critics cried for it. Babies
offered to swap bottles Of Castoria for
it. The ballot boxes were stuffed for
1t. And what did they get?"
That review answered the question
Arizona" That's what they got last
Summer, but this seasons final pro-
duction will be Murder in the Red
Barn" The dates of production are
September s through September ls.
And Eugene Kressin. Janet Coon, Pred
Haskin will repeat the roles they Gre
ated.
Evening star., 1937-08-29

come to the stage from Sidney How
ard since his brilliant adaptation OF
"Dodsworth," although the screen has
claimed his services many times Now
he reappears with an opus called THE
Ghost of Yankee Doodle" and it too is
to grace the boards of the National
before the season is out, starring Ethel
Barrymore, Dudley Digges, Elizabeth
Young and others.
Revivals of pieces by such gentle
men as Shakespeare, Chekov and Ibsen
are always considered more or less of a
barometer of the financial hardifDod
OF the theater. Last year Shakespeare
was revived by the carloads Mr.. Ibsen
got around to us once, in the admirable
road show of Ghosts" And Chekov
not at all. While there is still a
Chekov play to be announced for the
up and coming season, IbSens "A
Dolls House" will be seen here with
Ruth Gordon in the leading role, and
Maurice Evans will bring to town his
King Richard Ill"
Let us not jeer, then, at the poor
old show business, mocking and point
ing out that it is mother deserted
by all her brood Because of gold, or
necessity, Or occasional disgust, her
better offspring may be truant for
while, but they come back. Usually
as soon as they are once again in
their right minds, following the tenn
porary lapses induced by the arith-
metic in Hollywood contracts.
You think not so? Then behold. for
even Robert Montgomery is to stalk
the boards again, in number called
Nearly a Murder" This, we think,
is result of Mr.. Montgomery's having
been reminded by his own peerless per-
fcrmance in Night Must Fall" that
he is an actor, not clothes horse
oozing charm. For him in particular
We tune up the brass band for he may
be starting an exodus of vast value
to the stage.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Coming
Attractions
Downtown Theaters
Book Films for
Next Week.

r. ARLE-'Lost Horizon" Frank
~ Capra's s2,000,000 production
for Columbia of the cinema
- version of James Hilton's
novel, comes back to town for the first
time since its road show engagement
last season. The unusual and beau
tiful story is played by cast headed
by Ronald Colman and including Jane
Wyatt, Margo, Thomas Mitchell, H.
b Warner. Isabel Jewell, Sam Jaffe,
Edward Everett Horton and John
Howard. The Earle's stage show start
Ing Friday will be headlined by Paul
Tisen and his Hotel Astor Orchestra.
Keith's-Lot of stellar comedians
m The Life OF the Party" new
R-K-O Radio musical frivolity due
here following the run Of Make a
Wish" The film brings the Gin
derella theme up to date, and it is
played by Harriet Hilliard, Gene Ray
mond, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick,
Parkyakarkus, Billy Gilbert and 9TH
ers, including Joe Penner.
Metropolitan-"Arti and Mod
els" the new beauty-dlled musical
wherein Jack Benny gets this best
film role, comes here Friday for q
second downtown week. In addition
to Jack, it has Gail Patrick, Ida Lu-
pino, Ben Blue, Judy Canova, Dick
Arlen, hundreds Of lovely lassies and
musical specialties by Andre Kostel-
anetz, Connie Boswell, Martha Raye,
Louis Armstrong, and so on and on.
Lttle-Following the indefinite "Mr.
Deeds Goes to Town" there comes
~Under Two Flags" the film version
Of Ouida's Foreign Legion novel, with
Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert,
Victor McLaglen and Rosahnd Rus
sell
Evening star., 1937-08-29


the footlights as Maxwell Anderson
and, less regularly, S. N. Behrman.
Last year smattering of indiffer-
snt plays and few good ones made
the box-office welkin ring again. Pro-
ducers came out of their caves and
began shifting the Broadway breezes
Tor scent OF good manuscript
Agents stopped trying to place all
their clients under contract to some
West Coast studio or another, and
It was noted that even Jed Harris
talked again of doing something truly
artistic that would gross a mere mil
lion at the gate.
The playwrights, who have mostly
concerned themselves with trying to
make Boy meet Girl in newer and
funn1er places la the cinema fash
Ion, now at last have heard the call
and turned their talents back to a
more literate field of activity How
many Of the missing will show up
again on the New York stage before
the end of 1888 we dare not predict.
Once a thing like this gets started,
1t is infectious as measles, especially
to people who have been living in
monetary bondage and suddenly see
chance for freedom-for shekels
minus the shackles.
In Washington alone there will be
seen many evidences of the renewal
OF our leading dramatists' faith in the
drama. Mr.. Edward Plohn of the Ma
tional Theater has promised us the
first Rachel Crothers play in some
time, Susan and God" Miss Crothers'
re-alliance with the stage bringing
us Gertrude Lawrence in the lead
Ing role.
Then we are to get 'Amphytrion 3d."
with the Lunts, script adapted by
Mr.. Berhman, who was last heard
from more than year ago and since
has been more of a screen writer than
q contributor to the legit
Nothing of great Importance has
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Dearth of Leading Men
Is Holl lywood's Problem
The Current Crying Need of the Movie
Makers Is for Lads Who Can Make Fem
inine Hearts Go All a-Flutter
By Harold Hefernan.

OLLYWOOD OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES help per
IL sonabe Of
| | nice climate Wholesome rather thar
pretty types preferred
Remuneration
Evening star., 1937-08-29
"Streanline" Lovers

viewers asked her that question
Truth is that Miss Macdonald does
not even sing around her home, ex-
cept during the one hour of intensive
vocal lesson she takes daily.
Columbia has bought Paul Gal
lico's story, ''The Night Before Christ
mas" and made the title good for
any old time rather than being sea-
sonal by ,chopping of the last word
The Night Before" newspaper
story, will team Mary Astor and Rich
ard Arlen.
Hollywood, which long ago decided
1t couldn't be surprised, has been
found wrong. Metro Goldwyn- Mayer
executives today are astounded by a
flood OF new type of letters from
the public. News that hundreds OF
old sets are being razed to make
room for new stages and "set city,
has brought flocks Of requests for
souvenirs from these sets. Writers
ask for parts of the big Parade" :"
Ben Hur," "Tugboat Annie" Big
House" and Little Old New York;
sets among others.
Although Western pictures are not
made as extensively As In former
years, this season is going to be a
good one for horses. It is estimated by
f1lm city horsemen that more Ihan
1000 equines will be used between
now and Christmas. Five hundred
already have been contracted for to
work in '"Thoroughbreds Don't Cry"
bad Man Of Birthstone" and Marie
Antoinette."
Warmers. home of the Mauch twins
required q feminine star and her
double for Hollywood Hotel" thought
first OF casting one actress in both
roles, now is using Lola Lane for
the star and her sister. Rosemary
as the double.
Those who watched Eleanor Powell
at the preview of Broadway Melody OF
1888" were surprised to see her close
her eyes during her dance routines
The reason is that to her the most
important item In her dance is the
sound Of taps and she can best con-
centrate on the effectiveness Of them
when her eyes are closed.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Outdoor
|Amusements
Moonlight Cruises and
Parks Offer Heat
Relief.
LEN ECHO PARK-The last
y week of the season starts

- LEN ECHO PARK-The last
Y week Of the season starts
~ off tomorrow with another
free dancing night for all
the distaff contingent at the Spanish
garden ball room. The crystal SWIM
ming pool also closes Labor day, to be
drained to await another Summer.
But until midnight Labor day every
thing will be in what is known as
full swing" at the Capitals free
admission resort.
Wilson Line-Claire Gregoire, the
petite blond singing and dancing star
who was one Of the hits Of the Going
Native" revue. has continued her sue
cess aboard the City of Washington,
where she's singing with the Sammy
Marks directed Sidney Orchestra on
the moonlight cruise. The City Of
Washington sails on the moonlight
every night at $50 o'clock and makes
three other daily trips to Marshall
Hall Park-at 10 am, 2 and $50.
Seaside Park-Lou Jean Baker of
241O Twentieth street won last Sat-
urday's beauty contest here and will
be one Of the contestants Labor day,
when the seasons beauty is selected.
There's one more weekly contest, next
Saturday night. Dancing at Seaside
is free now every Wednesday and
Thursday night and there are a lot
Of other attractions available every
afternoon and night.
Potomac River Line-Bernie Jarboe
and his Night Hawks continue to pro-
vide bright dance music aboard the
steamer Potomac on her nightly
moonlight jaunt down the river, sail
t,,o~
Evening star., 1937-08-29

4 NEW TYPE screen lover ro-
" mances across the screen to-
~ day. Some call him the
n "streamlined' 1888 model.
The statistically inclined say he is the
fourth distinct variety in film enter
tainment's 40 years.
At any rate, he makes love with a
laugh up his sleeve. He Is quite a
glorified comedian who would make
silent screen lovers gasp. He doesn't
heave and sigh like the U. S. S.
Wyoming riding storm.
Today, this screen lover Is pretty
comprehensive cross section of the ro-
mantle figures in popular demand.
He is represented by Clark Gable,
Robert Taylor, William Powell, Tyrone
Power, Fred MacMurray, Robert
Young, Franchot Tone, Robert Mont
gomery, Dick Powell and, too, in out
standing manner, those singers, Bing
Crosby and Nelson Eddy. .
These heart-smashers win heroines
IN detached manner They are
debonair, carefree, light, semi-comic,
mix comedy with courtship so that
audiences may mix laughs with sighs.
A careful analysis of their recent pic
lures will prove all these points.
In the screens infancy, leading
tnen were pompous chest beavers in
stories that clung to the hip bowling
Of melodrama. Then appeared the
nve-minuts kisses when movies were
made virtually without the lovers un-
oltnching to catch . breath. After
this vogue for great lovers, audiences
clamofed for cavemen; cracker-bar-
reled-chested heroes blossomed. Any
6-footer not handicapped by cauli-
flower ear or broken nose was in
danger of being picked up and dropped
before the camera.
Strangely enough, the leading men
Of today are an alchemy Of those for
mer favorttes-with an alloy Of COM
edy. They have the virility Of the
caveman. tenderness Of the great low
ers, sophistication Of the suave era
and the new light-hearted spirit Of
slApstick.
Jeanette Macdonald returned from
her Hawaiian honeymoon with the
knowledge that she must issue q blan-
ket answer to . question She does
not sing In bathtub or shower. Every
vhers she went, she reports, inter-
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Today's Film Schedule

NAT1ONAL-"The Life OF Emile
Zola,' Paul NUM- in an excel
lent film biography: 2:3O and
$50 pm. (All seats reserved)
KE1TH'S -" Make a Wish"
new Bobby Breen musical; 2:4O,
4:25, 6:l0, 1855 and $40 pm.
CAPITOL Love Under Fire"
new romantic comedy: 2, 4:3O,
7:l5 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows, $40, 6:25 and COS pm.
METROPOLITAN King Sol
onions Mines dramatic jungle
search for King Solomon's
treasure vaults, 2, $50, $50,
7:45 and GAS pm.
PALACE-"Broadway Melody OF
1888" latest in the line Of
bright musicals; AIS, 4:40, 7:l0
and s:35 pm.
COLUMBIA you Can't Have
Everything" pleasant musical
with . lot Of Ritz Brothers
madness; 2:55, $40, 7:25 and
$40 pm.
RIALTO-"Dark Journey" war
time excitement with spies and
Q-boats; 2, 3:55, 5:45, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
LITTLE "Mr. Deeds Goes to
Town." revival of the Gary
Cooper hit; 2:25, 4:45, 7:O5
and 9:25 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Complete show runs hour and
is minutes, continuous from
pm.
EARLE -" Confession" q dra-
matte story of mother love and
sacrifice; 2. 4:s5, 1:l5 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows, $50,
$50 and 9:l0 pm.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Foot Ball Film.

PARAMOUNT has signed . one-p:c-
ture deal with Director Kurt
Neumann to guide production Of "Yes-
terday's Cheers" sole foot ball picture
on the company's current schedule.
The story is by Albert Shelby Levino.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
'Theater Seems Bashful
About Starting Season
Modestly 1t Stands in the Wings, While Its
Eager Devotees Await Its New Disap-
pointmerts and It's Thrills.
By Richard Watts, jr.

SHY ana retiring manner not quite in keeping with its customary
started this Although critics.
Evening star., 1937-08-29

ARLE-"Lost Horizon" Frank
II Capra's s2,Ooo,ooO production
for Columbia of the cinema
- version of James Hilton'S
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-27
JOhnsOn's Last Words
Aberdeen. Wash. Worldl


 Martin Johnson, the famous explorer who had asted about all the terrors the worlds wildernesses to offer balanced them against the dangers of civilizations traffic and found the jungles safer I almost got killed by taxi this morning. he said he left Salt Lake City in airplane. \ few hours later he dead of injuries suffered when the plane crashed Los Angeles.
 There is much in what Martin Johnson said. Ad- 'ance has been made by civilization all fronts except the protection of life. Accidents much numerous thah in the old days that there scarcely for comparison. We have devised means of killing and maning people and these means terribly effective, witness the long asualty list of the highways airways and other places is getting so that person can hardly step out of is house without running danger of getting killed, Id matter of fact the house is danger place Insurance statistics reveal that many people fer injuries right in the home.
 The jungle, said Martin Johnson, is comparatively fe for people who know how to take of them Ives there. Probably true The point is that in vilization there is such thing knowing how take of yourself. You do the best you can, It you know what moment tragedy will strike in most unexpected manner When you drive out the highway you taking real chances because at of others. And the airplanes have sad record this winter, seemingly indicating that the ships improvements to make before winter flying is fe.
 Martin JohnsonS last words apty put could ell lesson for America to slow up in the lterests of human safety.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-27
Horoscope "The stars incline
 but do not compel'
Thursday, January 28, 1887

Thursday, January 28, 1887
 While this is not an important day in planetary direction, accord ing to astrology, adverse aspects do- minate. Until evening it is well to try no experiments and to avoid all risks.
 In the hours after sundown bene- fic influences encourage confer- ences and discussions of public af- fairs. Speeches over the radio should oe effective.
 Saturn continues to frown upon labor conditions and there may be new difficulties Subtle policies and secret plans may now gain influ- ence among workers.
 The seers explain that the stars are awakening in mankind the de- sire for liberty and equality which is certain to gain benefits for wage earners.
 Astrologers emphasize the fact that arrogance and oppression are not more praiseworthy among labor organization than when exercised by capitalists.
 Legislators are advised to push food control measures rapidly, for the spring will be marked by de- luges of rain and attendant diff cultieS
 Congress continues under plane -ary government which presages ex- citing deba tes and protracted epeechmaking. Women members will not be conspicuous until later in he session when world event will cause anxious discussion.
 Ravages by fire will be more nu- merous in American cities than usual. In Mexico an oil center will be damaged by a serious confla- grafton.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of interesting experiences in which associa ton with new friends will be profitable
 Children born on this day pro- bably will be adventurous and clev- CT Subjects of this sign usually are exceedingly lucky, but they plan their careers carefully.
 Henry M. Stanley, explorer, was born on this day 1841. Others who have celebrated it as birthday in- clude William Tudor, American au- thor, 1779; Elisha Hunt Allen, dip lomat, 1904.