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Evening star., 1937-12-11

limning Hush, the craven, comical
beach comber whose life drifts into
Thorbecke's tragic path and becomes
therein entangled. Mr.. Fitzgerald has
a chance to work out some of his fine
Irish antics here. and II there are
better in the field, please do point
them out.
The third beach comber-or maybe
he should be called the third grave
digger, for all is not too merry with
the souls here at seas Ray Milland
as young gentleman who has left
England for reasons and dishonors of
his own. Intending only to share an
adventure with Capt Thorbecke, he
finds himself instead the involuntary
guardian Of fair lass Frances Far
mer) who is thrust into the midst of
this strange crew. His relationship
with the girl supplies the customary
boy-meets-girl angle, although the ro-
nance is distinctly gentle compared
to the film's rip-snorting typhoon Sc
quence, or even the tempestuous
drunken moods of Capt. Thorbecke
and Hush.
CWOON if you will over lavish revue
units, but give us good variety
show any time. and that is exactly
what Charlie Kurtzman has done at
the Capitol this week. His headliner
is the -piquant Mitzi Mayfair,
who dances q couple of semi-ballet
numbers that are sweet and demure,
and two tap turns sweet and hot, and
the co-star is bouncing Eddie Pea
body. Between workouts on the banjo,
the fiddle and a trick guitar, Col
Peabody acts as master of ceremonies
OF the day, and has the pleasure of
introducing the best collection Of acts
here in season.
To skip over the line perhaps more
lightly than it deserves: The Six
Canestrelleys. who for some strange
reason seem to be able to walk straight
up an unsupported ladder and per-
form great feats there (this isn't ex-
actly human. but it will scare the
customers); Vox and Walters. q dou-
BILE -barreled ventriloquist act, in which
doll named Buttons proves that
Charlie Mccarthy is not the only fun
ny dummy roaming around these days;
the Three Marshalls, smooth, pleasant
trio of young singers.
Both Miss Mayfair and Col. Pea
body have been rousing up the whoops
and shouts of Washington audiences
for sundry seasons now. and it need
not be said that they are still OF the
best The wonder is that such a strong
supporting bill ever was assembled for
two stars who could carry any show
alone.
Evening star., 1937-12-11
"Tovarich" Arrives
On Christmas.

THRISTMAS DAY has been desig-
mated as the date for general re-
lease Of Warner Bros "Tovarich," CO.
starring Claudette Colbert and Charles
Boyer in a screen version of the
Broadway stage hit.
The picture is expected to begin q
New York engagement on or about
that date and on Christmas Day will
open in more than q hundred key
cities throughout the United States
and Canada.
Evening star., 1937-12-11

reindeer pulling a sled containing
Santa Claus and film folk-tonight,
Anne Shirley, Mickey Rooney and 13-
year-old Leatrice Joy Gilbert, very at
tractive and the image of her mother
wednesday . on stage nine for
the premiere of Warmers Your Holly
wood Parade" :. The performers are
very nervous :. Gary Cooper fiddles
with his watch-chain, pulls his hair
scratches his neck Bette Davis
gulps water, coughs, rubs her fore
head and wiggles from one foot to
the other. So does Olivia de Havil-
land . Basil Rathbone looks near
collapse The Show is the best to
emanate from a studio.
Thursday -. the whole town dimes
at the Troc cellar before M.-G.-M.'s
preview of 'Man-Proof" Gary
Cooper munches sedately with wife
Sandra :. Fred MacMurray and his
not-so-well wife are with Barbara
Stanwyck, who wears a wooden beret,
old tweed suit, and is the least CLAM
orous- looking woman in the room.
But Robert Taylor loves her, so why
worry?
Copyright. 1887, by the North American
Newspap per Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1937-12-11


centage.
You also will notice that Miss Deste
acts rings around Mr. John BoleS, the
principal male of the piece, which,
however, is in itself not exactly the
recommendation her acting deserves.
Mr. Boles always has seemed far too
serious an individual to be involved
in such forms of insanity as She
Married an Artist" and in it he ap-
pears slightly self-conscious now and
then in the face of all the madness
that goes on about him.
For She Married an Artist" is the
of those pictures which you will find
amusing and diverting if the cinema
has not already completely sated
whatever appetite you may once have
had for sheer and utter delirium. At
least you may be sure there is NO
method in this madness.
A ND don't let the first few minutes
of the tale fool you. 1t gets under
way rather clumsily as it sets out to
recount the adventures of dress de-
signer who comes from France and
allows herself to be talked into we'd
lock by mad artist But by the time
the picture becomes involved in the
slightly insane difficulties which are
always popping up in the way of a
honeymoon it achieves some moments
of rare good humor Completely daffy,
but funny.
The whole thing is helped along by
Miss Helen Westley, whose part is a
rich vein out of which she mines every
ounce of comic ore. Frances Drake
Evening star., 1937-12-11

stopped for the tribute to Hazel, the
wrestlers are tangled in the ropes
with the referee biting the ear of
the one nearest him. When it re-
sumes they fly back into the same
tangle, one of the finest tricks di-
rector has thought up in months.
Climax Of Nothing Sacred" is that
well-advertised fight between Miss
Lombard and March. 1t is full Of
sound and fury and socks in the jaw.
just about the most realistic thing
you have seen since the last timber
country picture came to town. You
need not be prepared to be shocked
by this wild interlude in which boys
fist meets girls chin, for while it is
not gently humorous, it is humorous.
1t is one of the more lusty and vital
versions of Miss Lombard that you
see in Nothing Sacred" Her por-
trait of the girl who is suppos ed to
be dying, but is just going for a ride
at the expense of tabloid jour nal
is a thing of genuine art She is
approximately splendid in the des-
tined-to-be famous night club scene
in which her plight is breaking the
hearts of every one present, while
Miss Lombard's only concern is to
see how drunk she can get on cham
payne.
MR.. MARCH gives another one Of
those performances which makes
one wonder how Hollywood can keep
him playing serious roles so much Of
the time. He does them well, of
course, but not bit better than he
| handles comedy. His sap reporter, a
combination of tenderness, toughness,
brilliance, stupidity, anger, love and
several other ingredients, is a gold
star performance from beginning to
end
Main supporting performances are
in the more than capable hands of
Walter Connolly and Charles Win
ninger, the one that apoplectic, un-
scrupulous newspaper publisher the
other the small town doctor with a
flair for alcohol and making damag-
ingly wrong diagnosis Very adult in
their work, these two gentlemen.
There are moments in Nothing
Sacred" when you get chance to re-
lax, but not very many of them. 1t
is adult art, bright, amusing. and very
vindictive about some of the things
Mr.. Hecht does not like. Better make
yourself a Christmas present of see
ing it.
Evening star., 1937-12-11
It is lucky for Mrs.

rinia Bruce and j. Walter Ruben,
who march altarward next Saturday;
Norma Shearer, with New Boy Friend
David Niven-and the rest OF film
lands who's who" A brief
frightening of the proceedings occurs
late in the evening when Constance
Bennett swells the gathering with q
private party of her own-also Mar
, jene Dietrich, for once desisting from
her new Big Apple" exhibitionism.
\: X
81. Sunday To the early showing
Of "Club Des Femmes," starring
Danielle Darrieux For sheer gaiety of
motion, this is one of the best films
seen by your correspondent this year.
The picture is French, but completely
explained by subtitles &. . To dinner
> in the new enlarged Trocadero Grill,
at table between Anne Shirley, with
Husband John Payne, and Groucho
Marx, with his wife, Boy-Producer
Norman Krasna and Girl Friend Ann
@ Graham. (Some one should tell Miss
Shirley that the profile of the female
mouth looks its worst when half open
: in repose.) Mr.. Marx is prac-
tically unrecognizable behind the
mustache he is actually growing for
= Room Service" Heretofore it has
z been phoney) -. A look-in at the
secently reopened Glover Club finds
r. Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard
entertaining a group of nonresident
L. .socialites. Paulette makes fetching
hostess in slim, black, knee-length
Q dress.
sr Monday lunch in the Green
Room at Warmers The costumes
here are as colorful-perhaps more
than those inside them. Henry Fonda
plows through some baked halibut in
the dazzling uniform of gentleman
of the Civil War period. Sideburns
], give his face somber expression
+ Bette Davis, her hair cluster of cute
curls, wears dressing gown and talks
shop with Director Willie Wyler
Wayne Morris-better known on the
lot as "the Kid"--romps through the
door with Priscilla Lane, the weeks
object of his alteration Enrol
Flynn, in his Robin Hood green tights
and David Niven, in mufti, COM
pletely ignore the feminine beauties
around them-Olivia de Havilland in
her Maid Marian get-up, Margaret
Lindsay, Petite Mary Mcguire in white
slacks, and Marcia Ralston, another
good-looking Australian girl. The
food here is good-unusual in studk
catering.
X * \
Tuesday =. on Santa Claus lane
r (nee Hollywood boulevardD, just ir
time to catch the nightly evening
parade to advertise Christmas-i.e.
. brightly lighted float with six colder
Evening star., 1937-12-11

CONOcSCcuuS 10 TcIAlQ JHe ACtlOQ OE
dialogue of his story in order to allow
for the development of niceties in
Characterization. James Hogan has
done just that in "Ebb Tide" how
ever, and been rewarded with two
beautifully rounded characters Gre
ated by Oscar Homolka and Barry
Fitzgerald, and briefer but quite
satisfying piece Of invention from
Lloyd Nolan. Homolka's broken,
dreamy, visionary sea captain does
not pop out at you like jack-in-the-
box, as do so many individuals who
are dished up in plays these days. His
Captain Thorbecke grows, wanes, is
violent. stupid, inspired, defeated,
hopeful again. In other words, he Is
human being Barry Fitzgerald,
the erstwhile Abbey Theater man,
simply waltzes through the job OF
Evening star., 1937-12-11

w WILLIAM McGANN and a
n crew of actors must have
w had much fun making
"Sh, the Octopus" which
is the motion picture being shown
on the screen of the Metropolitan this
week. Mr.. McGann, it might be we'll
to point out, was the director. Max
ing a plain statement of fact like
that shouldn't be done in this report,
however. In fact, nothing should
make sense, for Ssh, the Octopus"
doesn't make sense. 1t would appear
that somebody on the Warner Bros.
lot (somebody who is somebody, that
isl noticed some players, such as Hugh
Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Marcia Ralston
and John Eldridge, a cameraman and
a director whose name was McGann
lettering around the place, stumbling
over props and things. This won't
body, "get to work and make a picture.
So they made a picture. Give
listen, as they say in the wilds of the
Bronx. Mr.. Herbert and MIR. jenkins
are detectives riding in police car
in the rain on Long Island. Mr.. Her.
bert hears over the police radio that
his Wife's blessed event is about to
take place at hospital A tire on the
car blows out A woman rushes up
and faints. The three 60 to light
house. There is body hanging in
the tower. There is an artist there.
An old sea dog comes in. He has a
steel hook in place of one hand. Wom-
tectives start looking for the Octopus,
supposedly the leader of interests plot
ting to gain control of the world
through death ray There are trap
doors, real octopuses, trained seals,
and-well, everything.
For most of its course, "Sh, the
Octopus" is an excellent little piece Of
fun-poking with the mystery thrillers
Of the pulp" magazines feeling the
| pokes. 1t finishes, however, with what
can take place as the craziest film
ending ever conceived until Hollywood
goes completely wackey. tNo with
cisIns, please) Mr. Herbert and Mr.
Jenkins are quite funny throughout
and SO is the picture. Many are going
to say Its so silly" 1t is silly
completely For them as likes 'em
silly, though, the Metropolitan has the
topper this week.
The Man Without Country" is
an ably enacted short subject filmed
in technicolor, and the bill also in
cludes a Floyd Gibbons True Adven-
ture release. c. A. M.
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Blackfriars Train
Future Stars.

THE Blackfriars Guild believes in
beginning stage training young.
When the guilds forthcoming show,
CROWN Palms." was cast entirely with
adolescents this summer at Catholic
University, it was hoped that the
training they received would instill
inspiration into some to aspire to
meatier fare of the theater.
This step also was considered basic
one in the preparation of those young
people who hope to become full-f1edged
members of the organization. In other
words, the theory behind the guilds
move is and was that training in the
teens makes for excellence and polish
and assurance when the amateur thes-
plan reaches maturity.
As a group, the girls and boys OF
the CROWN Pains" cast have re-
sponded well to their training Of the
past six months, and the current re-
hearsals indicate an improvement ovei
the show played last summer.
CROWN Pains" will play three
| nights, beginning Sunday. at st. Paul''
auditorium.
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Football Story
At Columbia.

PATTERNED after many another
picture about the United States
Naval Academy, Navy Blue and Gold"
is livelier than most, has it's football
sequence built up to the last word in
technique as we'll as melodrsma, and
carries off the I'D die for the dear old
service" business with much less en-
barrassment than usually accrues from
stories about Annapolis.
Principal figures in the picture just
returned to Loews Columbia for
second week run are three boys who
start their careers together, each with
different purpose in mind. James
Stewart is a seriouS-minded young
chap who comes to the academy via
the enlisted service, has in the back of
his mind the notion that he will some
day clear blot from the escutcheon of
his father, naval officer court-mar-
tialed out of uniform. Tom Brown,
son of wealthy father, wants to play
football, and lots of it. Robert Young
wants to use his football ability and
the charms of uniform to attract a
rich wife.
All three find their purposes modi-
fed by contact with@the routine and
the spirit of the training school, al
though they are. of course, at last able
to realize their joint ambition in win
ming an Army game, making happy. an
old salt Nionel Barrymore) who dotes
on Annapolis great footballers.
Before James Stewart has seen his
father reinstated in good grace, and
has himself won the heart of the hero
inc (Florence Rice), the yarn pro-
crosses through the usual complica-
tions, the little melodramas of hazing
and friendships and broken rules that
make any school life real. 1t reveals,
furthermore, some of the better grid
iron cinema of the year. r. B. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1937-12-11

drolleSt number of the season. It
may not win, but it is sure to be in
the money. And so, happily for him,
will MIR. Selznick.
You expect something pretty dis
tinguished from such top flight peo-
pie as those identified with Nothing
Sacred" and you get it even to hand
some technicolor You may be a wee
mite disappointed with the way Miss
Lombard, such pretty girl. takes
some of the dyes, 50 to speak, but
you won't be with the fashion in
which she rampages through Hecht's
dialogue and situations. Patiently,
she loves the role and Fredric March
had q warm spot in his heart for the
part of the newspaper reporter who
was such good reporter that he was
always making sap of himself.
Nothing Sacred" is profane
mockery of Mr. Hecht's old trade,
newspaper reporting. To his Sardonic
purpose making the newspaper busi-
ness look depraved as well as funny,
he recruits the tale of girl sup
posedly dying of radium poisoning
whom the New York Morning Star"
decides to exploit for circulation pur-
poses. To the publisher and his star
reporter, she is the sob story of the
century. To the girl, who is just
as phoney about her side of it as
the newspaper on its part, it's lark
and the paper is a sucker. They
bring her down to New York from
Warsaw, (Vt.) to use up what is left
of !, her life in making a tour of
Gotham's night spots, and making
page one the most heart-rending
thing you ever read.
OUT of this chain of circumstances
has been wrought something
very, very funny and biting. And
don't think that Mr.. Hecht stops
with taking the newspaper business
to pieces like little boy pulling the
wings off flies. His idea gives him
a chance to expose all that is hard
and hollow about New York and
Hecht never was a fellow to reject
a chance like that. He is his old
blistering self, with the help of some
fine playing and direction, when he
stops a wrestling match for ten Sec
onds of silent prayer of gratitude for
the inspiring courage of the sup
posedly dying girl. 1t is vicious satire,
but if you don't want to bother with
that side of it you will find it also
hilariously funny When the bout is
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Funny Girl Again.

FIEH appearing in three consecu-
i've highly dramatic films, Gladys
George, whose stage forte was COM
eoy' mas begun work in Love Is a
Headache" her first talking film COM
edy. Franchot Tone plays opposite
her and new members of the cast are
Ieo Healy. Mickey Rooney, Barnett
Farker, Virginia Weidler, Frank jerks,
Ralph Morgan, Fay Holden and Henry
koiker. Richard Thorpe directs.
Evening star., 1937-12-11

Basil Rathbone
that Mr.. Basil
Rathbone is a
very good actor
and draws a very
good salar y.
Otherwise, h o W
could she give SO
many, and such
large parties?
Interesting
couples present
include B ! n n i e
B q r n e S, W ! I II
nee j e a n
Negulesco; ditto
the always-re dy-
Evening star., 1937-12-11
"She Married an Artist"
Features a New Star
Luli Deste Scores in Gay Comedy.
Romance at the Earle.
Larry Blake on Stage.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

ouNT among the more important contributions Of Europe toward
health welfare
States Miss Lu Miss Columbia Pictures mporta
~
your
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Character Actors Star
In Technicolor Epic
Homolka, Fitzgerald Excellent in
'Ebb Tide"-Capitol Stage
Show Tops.
By ROBERT B. PHILLIPS. Jr.

ECAUsE lush tropical flowers skins
blues naturals the
uzation OF "Ebb Tide" technically
depart from the black white
Loews Capitol this also called dramatic
this rapidity
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Nothing Sacred" Among
Hollywood's Best Comedies
Carole Lombard and Fredric March
Are Bright, Hard People in Biting
Piece by Ben Hecht.
By JAY CARMODY.

would be such thing as too many comedies out
Ioews Palace Let's be brave about it
L the Selznick
written Hecht and
the
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Gable Permits His Love
To Go Unmasked
Looks and Acts Just as
Ordinary Mortal With
Emotion Would.
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.

OILYWOOD, Dec IL NANA).-Dear diary
~ Lombard height inconguty (price
sable coat price $4,000 her True
- She but
peced the first time
Of loye-which
n Of srilzed :: -
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Twizzler Answer.
DINNER DANCING

The use of the five digits is: 13 times
I equals So.
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Enrol a Swordsrnan.

ERROL FLYNN, Warner Bros. star,
rehearses an hour q day with
Fred Caven, broadsword duelling ex.
pert, developing sword routines.
Evening star., 1937-12-11
Metropolitan
Has Crazy
Mystery
Lighthouse Proves
Funny Chamber
Of Horrors.

w WILLIAM McGANN and a
crew of actors must have
" " had much fun making
"Sh, the Octopus" which
Evening star., 1937-12-11

Tuesday on Santa Claus lane
(nee Hollywood boulevard), just in
time to catch the nightly evening
parade to advertise Christmas-i.e,
. brightly lighted float with six golden
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-02-05
Legal Notices
NOTICE!
SEWER ASSESSMENT

The Board of Commissioners Of
Public Works, of the City of Wa
terDury, at n meeting OF said Board,
held February 2, 1887, made assess
ment for sewer purposes on prop
on Walnut Street. from Griggs
Street to north of Hope Street. to
the amounts set to their respective
Westerly sids. . Ntt,. 4; Taylor s lr
inc. $27s.1s; Chase Brass 4 Cop.
per Co, Inc, $305.23; Chase Brass &
Copper Co, Inc, $4,000; Chase Brass
& Copper Co. Inc, $4,000; Chase
Brass g. Copper CO. Inc. $i6s;1o;
Mary Rozum. sI25.0o: Mary Rozum.
$4,000; Mary Rozum $4,000; Chase
Brass & Cooper Co, Inc. $4,000.
Easterly Side - Salvatore vene-
ziano, $4,000; John Polldoro, San
tina Polidor9S siSo;9G i:n Gaeta s1podo
Polidoro. santina Poiidoro, $4,000.
Giuseppe Santopietro, Liberia VAL
leta Santopietro. $4,000; Giuseppe
g g.ssSS M s1soe r ASss]s P;;fsS5s
Azzarano. sI42.5o; Vito Paradise,
$157.50; Domanick Martinelli. $4,000
rosario Tedesco, $4,000;
Exemptions
Kittie A. Taylor, Charles ]. Tay-
Tor, Foster B. Taylor, IS feet.
Tho above assessments become
due and payable, Monday. February
s. 1887, at the office Of the Collector
Of Taxes. City Hall. Waterbury,
Conn.
JOHN D1 coRPo,
e.A-at Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-02-05
new LAW BOOSTS
STATE MARRIAGES

misunderstanding the general
Improvement In New England bust-
ness. marriages In four Of the SIX
New England states shower inter.
esting percentage gains In 1896 ac-
coYding to survey made public
today by the New England Council.
all-New England research and de-
velopment organization.
Based on returns from 81 cities
and towns In the six states, Maine
marriages gained - per cent. Yer.
mont marriages gained 81 per cent,
Massachusetts gained ~ per cent,
Rhode Island gained 1879 per cent.
New Hampshire marriages held al
most at the 1895 level with q loss
of o. per cent. Connecticut showed
q loss Of 35.5 per cent.
The decrease in Connecticut Is
accounted for by the state law
which became effective January !.
1895, requiring doctors certifica-
ton Of health before o marriage
license Is issued. AS result many
Connecticut people wishing to be
married are believed to have applied
In cities and towns of New York.
New Jersey and Rhode Island. This
accounts largely for the 1919 per
cent increase in Rhode Island. For
example, Westerly. r. T.. Just across
from the Connecticut line, showed
a 1878 per cent increase in the
number Of marriage licenses issued
in 1886 as compared with the previ-
GUS year.
Detailed examination Of the mar
rage license statistics for particu-
lar cities and towns bring out some
interesting comparisons. The effect
of last years floods can be seen
in the drop In marriage licenses
issued In March, 1885, In those COM
,I1ulnities most seriously affected,
Better potato prices the past year
in AYocstook County doubtless had
somsthing To do with the 1895 per
cent increase In marriages In
Prosque Isle. Me-. during October.
June continues 10 be the most
psculaf month for New England
weddings followed BY September.
August, October and May, In the
order named.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-02-05
DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, S..
PROBATE COURT, February 4th,

DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, S..
PROBATE COURT. February 4th'
nsTAT rHS OF JENNIE e. STEELE.
late OF Waterbury, in said District.
deceased.
Upon the application Of JAMES
e. RUSSELL praying that an instru-
ment in writing purporting to be
the last will and testament of said
allowed and admitted to probate, as
per application on file more fully
ap oRpERED, That said application
be heard and determined at the Pro-
bate Office in Waterbury, in said
District, on the 10th day Of Febru-
airy, A. D. 1897 Mt 10 o'clock In the
forenoon (Standard Time), and that
notice be given of the tendency OF
said application. and the time and
place of hearing thereon, by pub.
fishing the same one time In some
newspaper having a circulation IN
said District. also by leaving with
or by mailing in registered letters,
postage prepaid from Waterbury, q
copy OF this order TO all parties IN.
terested and residing without the
Probate District of waterbury on
1857.
MARGUERITE Nj. FAHY..
2-5.lt Asst. Clerk.