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Evening star., 1938-09-03
Bay and Normandy
Feature Shorts.

VENERABLE towns of Normandy
and the Chesapeake Bay country
are contrasted on the Trans-Lux pro-
gram this week. for the travelog pro-
vides journey to France, and the
principal item of the Paramount Pic
torial' release shows the nearby scenes.
Clouds and the feeding of animals at
zoo are other subjects in the latter
short. Pete Smith treats of the Ma
tion's lifeguards in Surf Heroes" and
the cartoon is Disney's excellent
'Wynken, Blynken and Nod"
Footage assembled from cameras
grinding in many lands includes views
of Britain's Lord Runciman and wife,
Belgium's army. Col. Lindbergh in
Poland, Japanese planes bombing
Hankow once more, German passen-
ger plane crash in Rio de Janeiro,
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz- -Reventlow
relaxing at the Lido, floods adding to
China's suffering. the funeral in
Czechoslovakia of Andrej Hlinka,
founder of the Peoples party.
Among the shots taken on home soil
are those of Charlie Mccarthy receiv-
ing college degree, Connie Mack re-
ceiving plaque, convention of twins
in Chicago, cat-putter- contest,
launching of new cruiser by the
Navy, q New York City fireman balk-
ing a suicide leap, Republicans meet
ing in "cornfield confab." The sports
department has items on football,
water polo, horse racing at Saratoga.
auto speed record-breAking. CAM.
Evening star., 1938-09-03
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Earle-"Four's a Crowd" two boys
get their girl friends mixed: IL am,
lao. 4:25, 7:l5 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: 1880, 3:35, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Capitol-"Three Loves Has Nancy"
Janet Gaynor is Nancy, Montgomery,
Tone and a surprise third are the
loves: 1l:l0 am, 1853, 1876, 7:19 and
1902 pm. Stage shows: 1886, 3:s9,
6:22 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"King Kong" the
thriller, is revived: IL am, /, sos,
$40, 7:25 and $40 pm.
Palace "Alexanders Ragtim e
Band" quarter -century-lon love story
to accompaniment Of Irving Berlin's
hit tunes: 1l:55 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10
and 9:35 pm.
Columbia-"The Crowd Roars," Bob
Taylor is prize fighter: 1l:l5 am,
1:2l. 1927, 5:33, 1899 and GAS pm.
Keith'-"Carefree," Rogers and AS
taire together again: 11:34 am, iii,
3, 4:43. 6:26, 500 and 9:52 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con.
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-'Mayerling," well-told flm
story of the famed tragedy: IL am,
1:20, 1925. $50. 7:35 and 9:40p.m.
Evening star., 1938-09-03
Fight Film Returns
To Play Columbia.

ROB TAYLOR'S turning prize fighter
in The Crowd Roars" should
be lesson to those who have criticized
him in the past for being beeutiful
He has shown both that he can cope
in graceful fashion with the task Of
acting before a camera and that he
has hefty right held in abeyance for
strategic moment. He really turns
in thoroughly believable performance
as young lad whose powerful muscles
and parasitic father combine to drive
him into the business of knocking
people about for cash: He looks like
fighter and he acts like a gentleman
you might like.
The picture, now at the Columbia
for third week on F street. is not
all Mr.. Taylors, to be sure. Director
Richard Thorpe can take a lot of the
credit which must be given "The
Crowd Roars," for he has crowded it
with excitement and transferred to
celluloid that strange mob feeling that
seems to anticipate a knockout blow.
There Is credit. too, due Edward
Arnold for his characterization of the
gambler who knew how to- fix fight
and stay within the law, even unto
appearing almost honest, and due
Frank Morgan for his playing of the
father whose desire not to toll put his
sons fists to work. And Maureen
O'Sullivan is again the young lady
for whom Mr.. Taylor fights his battles.
H. NJ.
(The Columbia picture Is one Of
the "a in the movie industry's prize
quiz contest)
Evening star., 1938-09-03

heeled shoes ). Whitney Bourne tell
ing this columnist she would like to do
play on Broadway, with Boy friend
Tom Wanamaker nodding in agree
ment Ida Lupino in pale blue
flannel slacks and dusty pink sweater
guaranteed to show off the figure, at
the Schwab emporium with rumored
Fiance Louis Hayward. When Ida
selects a murder story, young man
says to her, Did you get that candy
sent you?" What candy?' says Hay
ward with a frown. The young man
vanishes. Hayward patiently pets
police dog, while Ida selects a l5-cent
comb-and charges it.
Lew Ayres tells meat the Ven-
dome-''Success has come at last. I've
just received a telegram from Louis B.
Mayer asking me to a party" One
studio publicity executive telephoning
to another-"Which leading men have
you free tonight? l want so and so
(naming two quite well-known ac-
tresses) to go to the Biltmore opening.
But they haven't any one to take them.
I'll guarantee your boys get so per cent
of the publicity" Patricia Wilder
telling too inquisitive reporter-"Im
not getting married again. I'm not 60
ing to do play. I'm not going to do
anything-except sit for spell" Alan
Moworay, lunching at the Little Bit of
Sweden. and grumbling-"That radio
report that was in hospital for An
operation Git was an X-ray) cost me
s60-answering cables from my cred
itors in England"
tCopyrisht 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc)
Evening star., 1938-09-03
King Kong
Is Tame in
Comeback
Fans Education
InChills Makes
Beast Amusing.

THOSE filmgoers who have
yearned for a new cycle of
horror pictures will be gratified
4 to learn that King Kong" is
being shown at the Metropolitan this
week. 1t is a revival, of course, but
since the great ape received a lusty
welcome on his first appearance, his
return should prompt cheering from
the shudder-a -and-shriek fans. They
are due for surprise. however Years
appear to have broken the spell of
Kong, and his most ferocious antics
seem to have but a barely noticeable
effect on the heartbeat.
Kong has slipped. He has degener-
ated to the ranks of run-of -the-mine
bogey men tor bogey apes), and all
but the faintest-hearted will be ready
to growl back at him, confident that
the big phony will break to a
gutteral version of Cant we be
friends?" Few complaints are in order,
however, even though the desire to
laugh is gratifled more often than the
wish for a big scare. Only those who
feel that shudders have been all too in
frequent in their lives recently will be
disposed to grumble, for King Kong
remains an entertaining film.
There is many chuckle to be had
as the pterodactyls swoop and the
other strange things slither or charge
in the direction Of Fay. Wray and Rob-
ert Armstrong; party of exploring
camera bearers. There is spectacle as
the native tribesmen conduct the cere-
monies to prepare a bride for Kong
and as the great beast goes a few
rounds with some kind of a dragon.
Kong loose in New York City is
enough to delight any one who has a
carefully suppressed desire to toss a
brick at big plate-glass window or
send a truck through the side of a
house (after having left said truck
Bruce Cabot, playing the young
sailor who rescues Miss Wray from
the monster. takes the honors, such
as they are, in the acting department,
for Fay and Robert Armstrong can
claim few laurels Mr. Kong is not as
convincing as when he first came to
the screen, even though it is the same
job, but he still is entertaining. He Is
scoring in laughs now, however.
c. A. NJ
Evening star., 1938-09-03


man and Bonita Hume dining with
old-timers Rod La Rocque and Wilma
Banky at the Little Hungary. Remem-
Der when Ronnie and Wilma were the
hottest love team of the screen? .. .
Enrol Flynn and Eddie Goulding In
the Warner green room gifting Olivia
De Havllland with "a plate Of ice
cream-smothered in salt. (Olivia is
still thirsty.) At the same eatery, love-
lorn David Niven. wearing the upper
part of a pair of scarlet ard white
polka-dot pajamas-over his tweed
pants Irene Rich with daughter
Frances at the Cock n Bull. 1t is
hard to tell which is mother and
which daughter. If anything, Irene
looks the younger
Harry Ritz, Milton Berle and the
mad Russian, on Eddie Cantor's radio
show, in front of the Brown Derby
and talking so loudly that the fans
are afraid to ask them for auto
graphs Sidney Howard dining all
alone at the same rendezvous. Ditto
Wallace Beery. Chico Marx with his
family posing for pictures between the
steak and coffee -. Leonard Penn, in
beautiful white linen, double-parking
his Ford outside cut-rate drug store
where he buys some tennis balls . :.
Carole Lombard journeying from her
dressing room to David Selznick's Of
flee on the toysscooter given her by
MIR. Gable.
X
Ginger Rogers reporting back to
Hollywood, wearing her favorite nom
working uniform-slacks, and high
Evening star., 1938-09-03
Second Week
At Keith's for
'Carefree'
New Film Teaming
Ginger and Fred
Popular.
IKE every other Astaire-R Rogers
picture, one week was not
enough by far for "Carefree,

IKE every other Astaire- Rogers
picture, one week was not
enough by far for "Carefree.
- which now is several days into
its second term at R-K-O Keith's.
Not the best Of the pictures which
have teamed the two, "Carefree" still
is a gay and insouciant farce and
an item warmly welcomed by those
who feel Ginger and Fred have been
apart for perhaps too long.
You will find the two principals
involved in bright little tale Of a
psychoanalyst and the girl who fell
in love with him when she was only
supposed to be patient. It's thin
in spots. perhaps. but for all OF that
it is ever full of fun, being played
in a lively manner by Miss Rogers
and Mr.. Astaire and Ralph Bellamy,
Luella Gear, Jack Carson and some
others. "Carefree" is treat to the
ear, too, having one Of Irving Berlin's
smooth and exceedingly listenable
scores, which includes Change Part
ners" and Il Used to Be Color Blind"
The best Of picture which brings
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
together again after = period OF sep
aration is, of course. the dancing.
There is no spectacular number for
the two this time, but they have a
couple of dances as good as anything
they have ever done. Both of these, in
cidentally, have something of a dream
like quality about them, one being
a short duo wherein Ginger is sup
posedly in trance, the other spring.
ing up in a dream Of Ginger's and
employing slow-motion cameras clev-
erly to emphasize the grace Of their
doings. That already much-discussed
golf ball dance of Fred's is an out
standing demonstration of co-ordina-
tion. too. H. M.
(The Keith's picture is one of the
"a in the movie industry's prize quiz
contest)
Evening star., 1938-09-03
Berlin Music
Holds 'Band'
At Palace
Musical Musical
Stays Second
Week.
YF YOU like yolr musicals musica

IF YOU like your musicals musical
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is
Just what the doctor ordered. For
L the mammoth Twentieth Century
Fox production, now in its second
week at Loews Palace, certainly has a
bigger and better score than anything
Hollywood has ever sent us, being
studded throughout its length with
some % Irving Berlin melodies.
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is not
an example of how a motion picture
should be made, and its plot is quite
likely to induce more than a minor
case Of boredom. but complaining
about the plot in this case IS almost
being nasty. Small matter that an
episode of the story pops up to
frighten you between each tune, be-
cause the episodes are not long and
you can calmly ignore them and sit
back and wax nostalgia over a double
bakers dozen of favorite Berlin songs
Starting with "Alexander's Ragtime
Band the yarn which is based slightly
upon the growth of American popular
music, brings you mot in this order,
to be sure) Say 1t With Music" My
Walking Stick" Always" "Remem-
ber," Heat Wave" Blue Skies" and
raft of the other hits, as we'll as
pair of new ones Mr. B. wrote for the
picture. including Now 1t Can Be
Told"
All of this music comes to you at its
best, too. the studio having provided
an able orchestra to play it and pair
OF the Nations top song pluggers to
sing it. Vocally the honors are divided
between Alice Faye and Ethel Mer-
man, and if there is any argument
about who is better we refuse to join
it. AS far as we're concerned you can't
top Miss Norman swinging away on
Blue Skies" and her special Heat
Wave but Miss Fayes throaty blues
voice certainly does something to a
song, too.
The male half of the chore OF carry
ing the plot is entrusted to Tyrone
Power and Don Ameche, with Mr..
Ameche coming of slightly better.
The Palace picture is one of the
"a in the movie industry's prize quiz
contest) H. M.
Evening star., 1938-09-03

fact that 1t Is no comedy heavyweight
1t still is very much an entertainment.
1t Is swiftly paced and any lack
Of novelty in the plot Is more than
made up for by Director Richard
Thorpe's treatment and by the brittle
dialogue, which make for q wealth
of good comedy. Three Loves Has
Nancy" is the tale Of a young South
ern lass who comes to New York to
search for the nance who never
showed up at her altar, and there
becomes entangled with a pair Of
New York sophisticates. II you would
play a game Of mental chess with
Three Loves" you'll have it licked
before 1t begins. because it does not
make an unanticipated move, but it
is vastly amusing for all Of that.
The two sophisticates (the pair Of
lads mentioned up in that first SEN
tence) are Bob Montgomery and
Franchot Tone. and handsomely in
deed do they maneuver Three Loves
Has Nancy" Bobs role as the author
Cor at least the cinema conception
Of an author) Is one which allows
him to drop the smart-aleck pose and
still permits him to retain the i'm
pudence and insouciance with which
he has frightened many another film
Of much this same tenor. Mr.. Tone
Is again the fellow who would have
but can't get the gal. but he is a bit
more light-hearted about it this time
The Nancy Of it all is Janet Gaynor,
whose principal contribution is
phony Southern accent you could cut
with q club and no doubt would
like to.
Miss Gaynor is hardly the comedy
star discovery OF the year. but the
three Of the principals. with the help
Of Charles Grapewin, Reginald Owen
and some others, do lend considerable
gayety to Three Loves Has Nancy"
HEADLINER of the vaudeville por-
tion of the Capitol's bill (and. fo-
our money. headliner Of practically
any other stage show in which she
appears) is Ballerina Harriet Hoctor.
Miss Hoctor has now discarded that
modernistic number with which she
was trying to sell the ballet to vaude-
vile audiences on her last appearance
here and has reverted to the ballet
in the classic manner. Her first num-
Der presents her own group Of 16 girls
in a ballet frightened by novel staging
and danced so that 1t becomes some
thing full OF grace and exceedingly
lovely. It's major function, however, is
to permit Miss Hoctor to demonstrate
the perfection of her ballet technique
and the flowing motion which make
her dancing a breathtakingly exhil-
arating experience. The other contri-
button by Miss Hoctor and her ballet
is bright novelty in which they turn
their talents toward a ballet interpre-
tation of a lea circus. Both are num-
bers you are sure to enjoy
The rest OF the stage show is de-
voted to the doing of Joe Morrison,
singing star Of stage. screen and ra-
do: the La Hart Troupe. Arabian
Whirlwinds," and Johnny Burke, the
Evening star., 1938-09-03

~ The death in Sweden
last week of Warner GLAND,
creator of the screens likable Char
lie Chan. leaves Twentieth Century
with a casting problem. The studio
is said to feel. as does most of Hol-
lyWood, that GLAND cannot be re-
placed any more than Will Rogers
could have been.
The heir apparent is Keye Luke,
who played Glands son in of the II
Aim mysteries.
OF course the series will continue.
1t has been the longest and most
successful of all such series, and
the popularity of the pictures in for
eign countries, particularly in China,
is astounding. In many theaters in
faraway places, where other films run
a week, the Chans have played for
eight and nine weeks.
Much of the success of them was
due to Glands kindly, philosophic
portrayals. The quality he gave the
pictures and the number of times he
played the part are sufficient rea-
sons, it seems. for not attempting to
replace GLAND.
Keye Luke was born in Canton,
China. Like all Orientals, you can't
guess his age. On the screen he
looks 10. Actually he's 33. He's
the oldest of three boys and two girls.
His late father was Lee Luke, i'm
porter, with stores in Seattle, San
Francisco and New Haven, Conn.
Keye was reared in Seattle.
Keye is an actor by accident. When
I first met him he was an artist in
the publicity department at R-K-O
Studios A producer there. planning
ground, asked Keye for some set
and costume ideas. And suggested
that Keye might as well play in the
picture, too.
Keye, through a chain of coinci-
dences. now is Hollywood's foremost
Chinese actor. The Chinese musical
was never made, but he appeared
in couple OF short pictures apd
they changed his life. But only for
the time being, he insists.
An advertising man for whom he
had worked called him to M-G-M,
where the powers were trying to cast
THE Painted Veil" Keye was taken
before the casting committee" and
his friend said. Gentlemen, out Of
China's 400 millions give you Chinas
best actor" Keye was hired on the
spot without further ado for the role
of assistant to Herbert Marshall.
That was only three years ago, and
Keye has since been in 8 Chans and
II other pictures. He will stay IN the
movies only so long as he has a guar
anteed income He says it was just
a chain of condolences that brought
about SO many roles that fit him in
such comparatively short time. He
doubts very much if there ever will
be that many roles again.
There is no place for Chinese
actor in Hollywood says Keye But
he is wrong. There is a place for one
and just one, apparently. And that
place may become more important be-
fore long.
Keye has a broad perspective. He
realizes there are other things in life
that may be more soul satisfying than
pictures. Most actors do not have
this realization. He is fine artist,
clever with vivid blacks and whites.
He wants to paint, and after talk
with him you feel certain he will
some day. Unless, naturally. Charlie
Chan's son" gets involved in very
long term contract.
As Papa Chan always said, when
one door closes, another always opens"
Evening star., 1938-09-03

the telephone, even with the rather
stiff Mr.. Flynn in the middle of it,
can be very funny thing, as this one
proves.
Mr.. Curtiz, plus his script writer's
and his cast, achieve the best of their
art in the final reel in which the four
who constitute q crowd set out to get
married in the completely wrong order.
1t is in this hilarious scene that Mr.
Herbert as a sardonic justice of the
peace comes pretty close to stealing
the show from the four who are billed
above him. 1t may be just what you
would expect, but the principals prob
ably did not. They did not seem even
to recognize what was happening, a
form of remissness that also was ap-
parent when they were in the presence
of Mr.. Connolly. As the tycoon who
found his chief amusement in electric
trains, Mr.. Connolly gives perform
ance you should remember long after
you have chosen to forget that Mr.
Flynn's comedy technique is still less
than perfect.
X X X
HARRY ANGER, who produces the
Earle's stage shows. has done
deft job of weaving couple of inter-
esting added attractions into the fabric
of Phil Harris musical program. With
out attempting to modify the fact that
Mr. Harris is the attraction which the
audience wants to see, Mr.. Anger has
injected dance team and a ventrilo-
quial novelty that have nice support
ing flavor.
As a musician Mr.. Harris leads his
band through every tempo and mood
which have currency. 1t iAall very
pleasant. So are his comedy interludes
which have few of the mannerisms
(Which is very nice) of radios first
comic, Jack Benny, with whom Mr.. H.
has been working great deal lately
A comic novelty. The Two Veterans"
involving a musical conflict between
the North and South which finally was
composed with common swing inter-
lude, was Mr. Harris most interesting
contribution to the evening.
Vocalist with the Harris band is
Ruth Robin, who remains loyal to sweet
music emusic Maestro" Moonlight
and Shadows" etc). save on the oc-
casion of comic duet with Mr.. Harris
The ventriloquial number is Con-
tinental version by Senor Wences,
whose dialogue is not quite Bergenish,
as whose is. but interesting nonethe-
less. Peppino and Camille are the
(The Earle's picture is one Of the "a
in the motion picture industrys prize
quiz contest)
Evening star., 1938-09-03
Sold to Paramount.
DRODUCER jeff Lazarus has sirne

pRODUCER jeff Lazarus has signed
Donald Briggs, well-known tobacco
auctioneer noted for his radio work,
for the role Of q tobacco auctioneer in
Paramount's forthcoming st Louis
Blues" George Raft and Dorothy
Lamour are starred in the Aim with
Tito Guizar, Elizabeth Patterson, Max
Inc Sullivan, Jessie Ralph, William
Frawley and Jerome Cowan In sup
porting roles.
Evening star., 1938-09-03

American Humorist" Mr.. Morrison
you remember, is the fellow who in
troduced 1.-The Last Roundup" ano
he sings it and some other tunes, with
q pleasant tenor voice. The La Hart
Troupe does what you would expect q
group of Arabian whirlwinds to do
Mr.. Burke proves Cat least he proved
at the first show yesterday that old
friends are best after all, for the peo-
pie just laughed and laughed at his
gags, probably from force OF habit
having laughed at them all these years
(The Capitols picture is one of the
81 in the movie industry's prize quiz
contest)
Evening star., 1938-09-03


feeling the average reviewer may have.
And, even If you are reluctant to go
that far, there is stage show pro-
vided by Phil Harris and other tai
ented people to justify your interest
In the whole affair AS one of Jack
Benny's most capable assistants on
the air, not to mention a Snowman
in his own right, Mr. Harris tops
an entertaining and well-balanced
vaudeville bill.
''Four's Crowd" which veers
violently to the dizzy side, is a pic
ture which assemblies as talented a
cast Of comics as Warmers have COL
lected in a long time. They include
Rosalind Russell, borrowed from M
GIN; Walter Connolly. Hugh Her
bert. Melville Copper and Herman
Bing. Heading the cast are Enroll
Flynn and Olivia De Haviland, neither
OF whom quite gets into the spirit
OF the thing in spite of valiant efforts
to do so. Mr. Flynn, who is cast as
an unscrupulouS. imaginative, whimsi-
cal managing editor, seems consider
oCAS hloAS Sudlly llldll NllSS OC 11dNls
land in refusing to let 60 and have
fun. Neither of them, however, give
performances equal in caliber to the
presumably lesser persons. Maybe it
is a matter of experience in certain
types of roles Both have been treated
pretty seriously in the past.
To give Warmers the floor. or the
column, and stop quibbling about the
accuracy of the portrayal of Mr.
Flynn's managing editor, the picture
deals with very scrambled love
AFFAIR set against newspaper back
ground The central characters are
a publisher who is vulnerable to his
best woman reporter (Patric Knowles
and Miss RUSSELL: Mr. Flynn, who is
q managing editor with strong streak
Of showmanship. and Miss De Havi-
land, who is the pampered grand
daughter of half-childSh, half
piratical old tycoon (Walter Con-
nollyO. Mr.. Connolly, incidentally, is
the best actor of the group.
There is much more drama than
realism in an arrangement of char
ecters like that, which probably is
all right for entertainment purposes.
1t was all right for Warmers, who
ought to know their audiences, so they
proceeded to mix the five in situa-
tions that are funny much of the
time, at least
Michael curtiz, who directed "Four's
a Crowd" underscored the essentially
humorous situations very nicely. One
of the best of his accomplishments is
a telephone conversation. three-cor-
nered affair between Mr. Flynn and
the two leading ladies. A triangle on
Evening star., 1938-09-03

Her ankles fill 8 !
inches of stock
ing, calf l3i4.
above the knee %
inches. The only
star to add weight
to her legs is Alice
Faye, whose legs
registered a gain
of y inch above
the knee. But Alice
almost e V e n e d
matters by losing
Ia of an inch
from her calves.
y X X X
Seen and heard