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Evening star., 1938-07-09

laughter too severely to give it as
much as one might expect. (Again
having seen the Originally
Having Wonderful Time" if the
attempt to amplify the story is not
merely confirming a suspicion you got
a couple Of paragraphs ago. narrates
the doings of the underprivileged
younger generation in a world that
has too few good jobs to go around
to the fine and deserving. For the
purposes of Mr.. Kober's revelations
concerning them, they all are gathered
IN one of these regimented summer
camps where every one tries, with
pathetic results, to have a good time
doing the same thing regardless of
ones individual preferences about such
things. In this particular respect,
the pattern Of the original story is
maintained, but not the emphasis
with which the author spoke. There
are moments when every ore is having
such q wonderful time that the audi
ence is unable to see there was visit
fulness in the whole idea of the group
huddled against the chill of an un-
sympathetic world. There is no dearth
OF evidence, however. to indicate that
the audience is also having a wonder
full time, so maybe it is all right to
have changed the story to induce
such mood on the part of the GUS
toners.
- -
HIGH light of the Kober style is
the effective dialogue he can
write. R-K-O was positively canny in
bringing him to Hollywood to keep
his characters in character so far as
their speech is concerned and you can
put this feature of the picture down
as one Of its brightest assets.
Miss Rogers is given some excellent
support by those cast in the numerous
character parts. One contributor is
the old local favorite, Red Shelton,
who m. cd. several weeks of vaude-
vile here at the Capitol just prior to
his signing for the part in this picture.
Mr.. Shelton is his old irrepressible self,
~ SAO"AA wiz bSuo AAAc 4hu6AAo Ill ll1t
simplest possible way. but gets his
laughs, which is what clown is sup
posed to do.
Another youngster who pushes her
popularity bit farther through her
playing here is Lucille Ball, who will
be remembered for her hard-boiled-
heart-of-gold girl in Stage Door"
She is the same type here, miss who
takes her disillusionments with re-
taliatory socks on the jaw rather than
with any calm philosophy. Responsible
for most of her disappointment in the
picture is the artful Leo Bowers, the
camp cad who has some very funny
scenes with Miss Rogers as well as
being the one who gets knocked about
by every one else in the picture.
j. c,
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Adventure Holding
Trans.Lux Screen.

A DvENTURE holds the screen dur
= ing sizable portion of the news
reel footage on the Trans-Lux bill
this week. England's Capt. Eyston
arrives for another assault on the
automobile speed record, Lincoln Ellis
worth plans another dash to the
Antarctic. Howard Hughes prepares
for his globe-girdling flight, scientists
go by boat down the turbulent Colo
RADIO River, other scientists expert
ment with a longer might
cycle in Mammoth Cave.
The All-Star Game at Cincinnati
high lights the sports department,
with other shots being caught at
Chicago. where War Minstrel won
the Stars and Stripes Handicap; at
Pixies Peak, where marathoners tried
a stiff climb; in France, where throngs
watched thrilling auto race. More
weighty matters include beginning of
the monopoly probe, Italian troops in
Spain under their own banners. Lew
Lehr has his fun in this weeks clip
with the seals in New York City's
Central Park.
The short subjects are featured by
an excellent travelog, "Glimpses OF
Austria" tour of the nation that be-
came a province. The Band Cor
cert is color cartoon starring
Mickey Mouse boasting the usual
Disney quota of chuckles; Bear
Facts" presents Alfalfa telling the
other Our Gang boys about his ex-
periences as an animal trainer; Pine
hurst" shows outstanding golfers COM
peting at the North Carolina resort
G. A. M.
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not without its comedy overtones, but
also not without flashes of the dra-
matist's awareness OF the tragedy that
shoulders in hard times and the
dream of love. Having Wonderful
Time" as the same Mr.. Kober adapted
his play to the screen, is a story that
veerS more to the comedy side with
the result that some of the first fine
values are lost, even though the pic
ture still boasts of considerable merit.
In view Of the latter truth, it is carp
ing perhaps to mention the revisions
in such tone. but We happen to have
seen the stage play and cannot forget
it. If you did not see it, forget what
We have said and go over to Keiths
to see bright little comedy of young
love-
Contributing primarily to its bright
ness is the performance of Ginger
Rogers. Miss Rogers assignment is
that of portraying the idealistic young
typist who works so weeks a year 80
she can finance q two-week trip to
Camp Kare Free. there to enjoy the
sight Of the moon, the company of
equally limited young people and to
encounter love in the alternately fine
and tormenting guise of Douglas Fair
banks, jr. 1t is quite testing part,
but Miss Rogers seizes it as one more
in which to demonstrate that there is
much more to her talent than a pair
of dancing feet.
Mr.. Fairbanks. who has dragged
great many superlatives out of critics
typewriters of late. comes up with
less substantial part this time. He is
the educated waiter with whom Miss
Rogers falls in love, but to his disad-
vantage the romance theme has been
mauled around in the interest of
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rumples Cary's hair. I'm only trying
to help you," she says when he pro-
tests. Thank you. darling, but"
and Grant grabs his girl friend by
the shoulders and sits her down.
Fredric March looks at his handful
of tickets and mutters Pretty dis
appointing" A brunette stranger &C.
costs the actor and says, Il wonder
why that horse never wins" Replies
Freddy, Hes undoubtedly been fixed
how're you doing?" Girl: I'm not
betting" March: mot at alp" Girl:
NO" March: Flows your husband
doing?" Girl: I'm not married"
March: "Oh have q cigarette"
(Enter dark gentleman who says to
the girl, Hello, darling, I've been
looking for you everywhere March:
Very hurriedly) "Good-by."
Tuesday -. The prcview Of Little
Miss Broadway" starring Shirley
Temple-but George Murphy steals a
lot of the scenes, which gives you
an idea how good he is. The picture
is very funny trifie phoney-and,
for once, Ia Temples tears leaves me
cold.
X X X
Wednesday Tea with Marjorie
Weaver, and discover she is the most
modest actress in Hollywood. IT can't
act and doubt whether I'll ever learn
to act" Marjorie tells me, adding that
she has evolved three-year Holly
wood plan. That's how long I think
I'll last out here-then I plan to
marry, have babies and settle down."
X \ X X
Thursday "The Shopworn
Angel" preview is delightful surprise.
Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sulla-
van are excellent. The scenario was
written by Waldo Salt, who was paid
only $50 a week when he started and
raised to $3.50. 1predict Waldo will be
earning $500 before the year is out.
X II X
Friday Jack Mulhall, who once
refused $4,000 a week, dimes alone
in drive-in. His main, and only,
course hot dog.
(Copyrisht, 1888. by the North American
NeWapapee Alliance, lne.)
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Earle-"Men Are Such Fools" that
Priscilla Lane-Wayne Morris young
love team is back: IL am, 1870, 4:05,
7:35 and 9:55 pm. Stage shows:
1885. 3:15, 5:55 and 9 pm.
Capitol-"You and Me-" difficulties
when q paroled girl falls in love: II
am, las, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, $40, 6:25 and
9:10 pm.
Metropolitan White Banners. /"
screen version of the Lloyd c. Douglas
novel "Reformatory." more about
child criminals: 11:55 am, 1:55, 1855,
5:55, 1855 and 9:55 pm.
Palace-"The Shopworn Angel
daughter of luxury finds love with son
Of toll: 1920, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15 and
9:35 pm.
Columbia-"Man's Castle" revival
of the Spencer Tracy-Loretta Young
success: IL. 2. 4, 6, and 10 pm.
Keith's-"Having Wonderful Time, "
Ginger Rogers meets Douglas Fair
banks, jr., on her vacation: 1924
am. Ill, 2:58, 4:45, 6:32, 8:19 and
1906 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight,
Little-"Storm in Teacup," Eng
lish comedy dealing with the fair,
fresh subject of dog and municipal
politics: II, 12:45, 2:35, APO, 6:1o. 8
and 9:45.
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Storm in a Teacup'
Gets Third Week.

A LEXANDER KORDA apparently
has struck the common denom-
nator Of American and British senses
of humor, for his Storm in a Teacup''
has evoked such sustained interest
that the Little Theater is holding it
over for third but final week. This
bright comedy tells the story of a
naughty Scottish mayor with high
political ambitions, poor Irish widow
about to lose her mongrel dog because
OF inability to pay the tax, a young
reporter who takes her side and the
mayors daughter who loves him for it..
Rex Harrison and Vivien Leigh play
the romantic roles with Sara Allgood.
Ursula Jeans and Cecil Parker in the
supporting cast.
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had the soldier and the actress fall
in love. To the latter. the gawky ex-
cowboy was simply a fresh breeze
blowing through stuffy round of
shows and the inevitable parties after
ward. At least that is what he
started out to be, but he turned into
not merely a passing fancy but an in
dispensable asset to her life. The in
between parts of the story are easily
guessed. In some of the interludes
the situations might have become
downright mawkish handled by less
capable director and cast.
incidentally. with reference to the
latter, the two principals are not the
only ones who deserve palm or two.
Once more, Walter Pigeon turns up
in the role of heel. one he has played
so often as to have put the ultimate
polish on an even less accomplished
actor than Mr.. Pigeon. Also, there is
Sam Levine, the old George Abbott
alumnus who can be so quietly funny
that the exaggerations of the average
cinema comic now seem much worse
than before Levine went to Hollywood.
His part in The Shopworn Angel is
that of just another soldier, but you
will be asking Who's that?" before
the script and the enemy finally polish
him off.
If you are that kind of romanticist,
you can call the ending Of this film
unhappy" because the hero dies. but
if you are not. you probably will be
grateful that M-C-M has been brave
enough to depict character and action
through to their logical conclusions.
AS its new mistress Of the lost love,
M-G-M also has used that fade
out technique for Miss SULLIVAN that
once was reserved exclusively for
Garbo. 1t comes off very well, too.
1T is difficult to think of Mr.. Robert
Benchley being buried under all
these words about THE Shopworn
Angel" but here he is. His contribu-
tion to the Palaces bill this week is
another one of those expertly manipu-
lated "how to" films, this time How
to Battle a Baby" Mr. Benchley is
the complete master of the comedy
inherent in any such phase of human
destiny as laundering babies. Only
the baby involved could defend not
liking it and there is no evidence that
the baby is of mind to do so.
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not have on his mind when it seems
the movies, but it is the realism that
comes of people behaving normally.
MIR. Lang sees to it that his players
act and react the way you expect them
to and his incidental people, in bit
roles, are human beings, or at least
human enough that you forget easily
that they are just actors after all.
You always know some one just like
them.
Realism is not the only thing that
marks Lang direction as outstanding.
He can swing suspenseful dramatic
sequence along taut wire that
couldn't be drawn tighter by any
other director, save maybe, an Alfred
Hitchcock. Filmgoers found that out
in "M'' and Fury" In You and
Me" Lang does not deal often with
suspense, but when he does-the scene
building up to the attempted robbery
by group of eX-convicts of the store
where they had been given jobs, for
instance-he makes moments that
you remember
Another exceedingly interesting
thing you will note about the Lang
technique is his admixture in You
and Me" of some moments of sheerest
fantasy with his realism. The musical
underscore for the picture was writ
ten by Kurt WE'LL of Johnny john
SON. fame, so you should not be
startled by the opening sequence, the
song, You Can't Get Something for
Nothing" 1t is departure in cinema
technique, but it is brought off ef-
fectively.
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Is unassuming and amusing and prob
ably very fine for passing away a bit
Of time, what with the weather being
hot and the Earle being air condi-
toned. 1t is just one of those harmless
items which will neither kill nor cure
and there Is not much point in going
into any deep discussion Of it except
maybe to say that Linda must have
loved Jimmy very much even to put up
with him, let alone to come back for
the final clinch.
Hugh Herbert and Mona Barrie,
around for laughs, supply enough of
them and Humphrey Bogart, as usual,
endows more or less incidental role
with honesty and conviction.
The real meat of the Earle's screen
fare you will find in a pair of short
subjects, one daft affair in which
Mr.. Leon Enrol portrays a drunk mis-
taken for a dancing instructor by
group Of lassies, who then try to ape
him. Very funny business, all of it.
The other is a Merry Melody cartoon
wherein a lot of famed literary char
acters step off the bookshelves. Also
a bright spot
HE Earle's stage show is for the
jitterbugs mostly, and enthusiastic
cally did they greet Leith Stevens and
his orchestra, of radios Saturday
Night Swing Session" It's really a
pretty enjoyable brand of dansapation
supplied by the Stevens crew, for the
most part polite sort Of swing and
seldom too noisy.
Featured on the pleasant hour or
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Joel McCrea Finds
He's Too Polite.

JOEL McCREA Is too much Of q
gentleman!
This information was impaired to
McCrea by Archie Mayo. who is di-
recting Youth Takes a Fling" at
Universal Studios.
For a scene in the picture Andrea
Leeds, feminine lead, was supposed to
grab McCrea's arm as they walked of
together. But each time the camera
started to roll, McCrea forgot and
offered Andrea his arm.
Sorry" he would say apologetically,
"force of habit"
After this had happened several
times, Mayo suggested that he might
have to send McCrea over to the
Little Tough Guy" set to take q
lesson In rough stu0" from the
Dead End" kids.
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about 1t charm that is 1neScapable
by all save the unrelentingly bitter.
There is in it much talk If the bright
ness of the stars and the lightness of
moonbeams and somehow the dialogue
makes the celestial bodies look again
like the utensils of love instead of
mere specs in a cold universe
In view of the fact that the film,
based upon Dana Burnett's tale of
wartime romance, is a remake, one
might suspect it Of being deficient in
freshness. 1t is nothing of the kind.
So convincing are Margaret Sullavan
and James Stewart in the principal
roles that even if one remembers the
original it seems like something in the
nature Of few practice swings.
THE Shopworn Angel" is a COM
pletely unpretentious thing, the story
of simple soldier who makes the
world better by thinking it is good.
James Stewart is the private, a con-
vincing symbol of great many wind
blown StalWarts who went out to make
democracy safe in 1917. His per-
oneration of whatever charges may
have been brought against him as an
actor in Seventh Heaven" 1t leaves
one clear in ones mind that it must
have been Miss Simon (Simone), as
Diane, who kept that picture from
being as good a remake as the original.
Stewards role in this M-G-M creation
Is not greatly different from that of
Chico, the sewer swipe, so that settles
the whole thing in his favor.
Miss Sullivan in this, her second
picture since returning to Hollywood,
adds another sprig of laurel to the
crown which Metro wears for its wis
dom in hiring her away from Broad
way. She can mix wistfulness and
hardness into something that clutches
at the heart as the heart has not
been clutched at in long, long time
1t is the same combination she used
IN "Three Comrades but if it is not
so long continued that it becomes a
habit, there can be no complaint.
H. c. Potter, who directed THE
6hopworn Angel" makes no attempt
to be unduly fancy in telling Mr.
Burnett's story of a fine, outstanding
young soldier who is tossed by cir
cumstance at the feet of musical
comedy star miss Sullavan. He
sticks to the spirit of the original
author who, if any one has forgotten.
Evening star., 1938-07-09
New Process Gets
Third Dimension.

WHAT is purported to be the near
est approach to practical stereo-
scopic photography ever achieved in
Hollywood is claimed by its inventor,
Joe Valentine. A. S. C.
Achieved through the use of an
adapter which employs filters, the
nature Of which Valentine will not
divulge, the stereoscopic quality of
the photography is quite evident, CIV
ing foreground objects almost COM
plete separation from the background.
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Kings andLOuises
Cause a Mix.JD.

WHEN several headdresses of the
type worn by African tribal chiefs
showed up on his set today. Frank
Lloyd. Paramount producer-director,
was preplexed. So was his wardrobe
man.
They had no use whatever for them
IN II I Were King" which stars
Ronald Colman as Francois Villon.
1t developed that some one in the
wardrobe department, in filling orders,
had confused King Louis and Louis
King. The latter is the director of
Bulldog Drummond in Africa"
Evening star., 1938-07-09

personal appear
ance tour, gazes
fondly at bride
B e t ty Cradle.
But the stellar
attraction of the
evening is Myrna
10y and husband
Arthur Hornblow.
Never have I seen
such public love-
making! After
e v cry mouthful
Of foo d, Mr..
Hornblow kisses
Myrna's shoulder.
He puts a red
carnation in her
Evening star., 1938-07-09

so are Bernice Parks, who would rate
about banquet if any one ever told
her to sing for her supper; Eleanore
Knight, who gets of a neat bit Of tap
dancing. and Florence Mayo and
Pansy, the wonder horse, a turn that
Is as much fun as it Is familiar.
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Marital Warfare Rages On
In Men Are Such Fools
Career VS.. Husband Theme Is Sung
Again in Earle's New Film.
Swing Is Stage Keynote.
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

ME about the girl
but good little wife Is
Such Fools 1t pleasant retenng
- on display at the Earle In
by which an attempt made to
Lane the young lady who attempts proving
Men Are Such Fools"
Evening star., 1938-07-09
'Shopworn Angel Revives
Tender Love Tales of Old
Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart
Give Excellent Performances in
Romantic Film at Palace.
By JAY CARMODY.

AYBE because tenderness has been such rarity on the screen
which
life people
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Having a Wonderful Time
Filmed as a Comedy
Film Adaptation Has Considerable Merit
If Lacking Haunting Quality of
Kober's Broadway Success.

AYBE it is not fair
M Wonderful Time with
" dher Broadway But and
. - made it finer
1t made Accordingly on to
hats boys,
Having Wonderful for the stage
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Lang Direction Lifts Film
Above the Commonplace
you and Me- at the Capitol, Made
Better by His Technique.
Avon Four on Stage.

1RECToR FRITZ LANs feel for realism one Of the things which
film something
things O
~ al
His realism
Evening star., 1938-07-09
Bull Stars in Tragedy
For Movie Celebrities
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM,

ULLYWOOD July NANA)-Dear Diary What a week end!
II What bull fght And movie stars!
en- asse for the bull slaughter Tia Juana
border $50 miles
frontier Saturday finds the
Hotel only 10 miles farther away
Evening star., 1938-07-09

Every one is very gay at dinner
Tyrone Power. without his Janet Gay
nor: Jackie Coogan, just back from his
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
THE HOME CAREER

Tests taken in some colleges have
shown that home making is cOnsid-
cred the most popular career in the
minds of groups of young women in
these institutions. If a general vote
of feminine desires in all colleges
could be taken, il would not be
strange if it showed a similar result.
The girls may talk about how they
want TO become stenographers. busi-
ness women, teachers. etc. Probably
down deep in their hearts is the feel
ing that the career of wife is the
finest of all, and the one to he chosen
above all else if it can be had on the
right terms.
To make home usually calls for a
husband, and there's the rub as the
girl faces life. In that great lottery
of marriage where many blanks are
drawn. how is any secure happiness
to be found in that field? The smooth
est man may show very unsmooth
characteristics when the honeymoon
is over.
The modern girl wants her indie
pendence, so she can take her time,
and look 'em over, as they say about
the pitching which is delivered to
the batsman in baseball. She would
better do some pretty careful looking
too.
In an Independent position as
money Garner, the young woman
has a favorable chance to do the
looking over. She sees the men not
as they are when dressed up for the
parties and with all their polished
manners shining forth, but she sees
how they act under the strains of
daily life. She should have a better
idea of how to make a good match !
than women had in former years
when they did not meet the men in |
ordinary daily life.
Probably the reason why so many /
women still remain unmarried, is
hat many men under this close ex-
animation do not show up to be the
'eal thing. The girl may be disap-
pointed if she never marries, but
Ter fate is far preferable to the one
whose inspection of the goods offered
vas too hasty and uncritical.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
TOO MANY FARMERS

What shall be done with the sur.
plus of food products, which causes
prices to fall so low as to threaten
ruin to many farmers? The Cana
dian government has called a confer
ence which will consider these prob
lens, and the United States govern
ment will be invited to send repre-
sentatives to this meeting.
In former years people used to
worry for fear there would not be
food enough to feed everyone. Now
the problem is what to do with the
surplus of food, which keeps prices
down, and makes trouble for the ag-
ricultural population.
Agricultural production methods
have so improved that all the food
that can now be sold could be raised
by a smaller number of farmers. Yet
people go back from the cities to the
farms, because they at least get
enough to eat there. When they go
back, they raise more products and
the surplus rises.
From one point of view there is no
real surplus of food crops. All the
farmers could raise would not prob
ably be too much for the needs of
The public. if they could buy all they
want. There are countless families
who do not get all the milk, cream,
butter. eggs. meat and other foods /
hat they need. If the families which /
:an find no work could have regular !
they would buy more
oOds.
If business could be so stimulated
hat there would be plenty of work
II the factories, many men who have
zone back to the farms would return
o the cities for jobs. That would
'educe the congestion of farm pro-
lucts, and make it possible to sell
hem for better prices. Let us hope
his Canadian conference is able to
uggest methods by which the city
workers could become able to buy
more of these foods.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
COMMON FRONT

There is to be great meeting al
Lima, Peru. December 3, consisting
Of conference Of all American re-
pnblics.
President Roosevelt has just
named a delegation to attend that
meeting. with Secretary Of State Hull
and Alfred NJ. Landon as leading
delegates. These representatives OF
America meet in world that looks
with envious eyes at the possessions
and security of our continent.
The countries of America should
be sister republics. seeking to pro-
mote democratic government in
world where democracy is looked at
with scorn by many governments.
South American countries some
times feel that the United States
wants their dollars. but is not much
in those people for their
own sake. Our people should not
merely reach out for South Ameri-
can trade. but should value the great
men who have arisen in those south
srn lands to carry on the flag of
human progress.