Evening star., 1938-03-14

II "a III duf 1oi oAlC W NihoS
a House correspondents din
ner at the Mayflower, but the real
arrival was held off until last night
when an intimate kermess was held
for the drama press at the Variety
Club.
Came call from Carter Barron
in the afternoon. saying, Dinner at
g." So there was party. And
while the shrimp and the steak and
the chicken and the wise cracks few
this way and that, and while Mr..
Doob and Mr. Barron relaxed from
the night before, while Mr.. Ray Bell
relaxed from his vaca ton. there now
and then emerged a fact or two which
may interest the people who 60 to the
movies in this town of ours.
Mr.. Doob, who is the boss of pub
licity and advertising for the Loew's
interests. turns out to be an honest
citizen, not above admitting a bad
picture is = bad picture. This. you
should know, is a trait not always
found among the gentlemen who ped
die the cinema to the press. But
Mr.. Doob will speak candidly of
many things II the Stokowski- -Garbo
affair. business in the Middle West
the difficulty OF finding stories for
Luise Rainer, the headaches of deal
ing with parents of child stars who
become important when they see the
moppets' names in Large type and why
titles are changed
More specifically, Mr.. Doob is will
ing to admit quietly, if you will prom
1se not to shout it from any house
tops, that the local Loew theaters
are in for some good films. For one
thing there's In Old Chicago" which
lot Of you have been asking about
and which Mr.. Bell whispers will
come to the Palace following THE
Goldwyn Follies" There's the new
Claudette Colbert picture, too-"Blue-
boards Eighth WIFE which comes
to the Palace soon. Also on the books
are Test Pilot" with Clark Gable,
Spencer Tracy and Myrna 10y taking
to the air: a new Bing Crosby film
which probably is Doctor Rhythm. u
though we can't remember for sure:
THE Adventures Of Marco Polo" ane
"Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" which
Mr.. Doob says is good Shirley Temple
There's big news about stage shows
in the ofing, too, but no one is sup
posed to say a word until tomorrow
Tonight Is the night. you certainly
must know, when Ethel BARRYMORE
comes back from the retirement that
audiences have never let her get to-
to play the 101-year old matriarch
Of the Whiteoaks family in White
oaks" at the National Mazo de ls
Roche has done the dramatization
herself, drawing upon fragments Of
all the familiar Jalna novels, but
principally using "Whiteoaks ol
Jalna.'
Another thing you should know, il
you do not already. is that there's a
local lad in the cast He's Robert
Shayne. who graduated from Central
High School as Robert Dave and who
"AAA AAOu oS VII kTOuI1O AT
the National, for among other Jobs he
had here was the ushering lob he
once had at the theater where he
plays this week.
Two top-notch short subjects are
on the program with Peter the
First" which yesterday went into its
third week at~the Little Theater. One
is the Robert Benchley classic, THE
Romance of Digestion" and the other
is = Disney hit, Three Orphan Kit
tens" The latest Cole Porter tune
is Just One Step Ahead of Love. f"
It's the latest because he has lust
written it as an addition to "You
Never Know" to be sung by Libby
Holman when the show comes here
next week :. The Capitors next pic
ture is Sally, Irene and Mary" which
has Alice Faye and that's enough rec
ommendation If any one in town
would like to produce any plays "of
social significance" We have a whole
catalogue Of those available, sent by
the New Theater League. HIM.