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Evening star., 1938-09-10
Astaire.Rogers Film
Stays Some More.

PROBABLY is great tribute to
the personalities and talents of
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire that
they continue popular with most of the
motion picture reviewers in the land.
For by the time picture stays around
for three or four weeks 1t becomes
awfully difficult to say something new
about 1t when review day pops up.
The result usually is that nothing new
1t said about it. but there is lot of
agony beforehand. So nothing new is
going to be said about "Carefree,"
which now Is in its third week at
Keith's.
For story 'Carefree" as a light
and bright little yarn about q lass
who falls in love with the psychiatrist
who is trying to talk her into saying
yes to his best friend. It's thin in
spots but it is played with much good
humor by Miss Rogers and Mr.. Astaire,
particularly by Ginger when she gets
loose on the streets after having left
her inhibitions at the psychiatrists
office. The dancing of "Carefree," of
course major portion of any Astaire-
Rogers film. is not given to spectacu-
lar manifestations, but the dances
the two do are exceedingly smooth
and pleasant to watch. One Of them,
especially, is pleasant, the grace Of it
being accented by use Of slow motion
cameras. Musically "Carefree" is
made bright by an Irving Berlin score,
and If you want to know more about
the picture you will have to see for
yourself, or should we have said that
in the first place?
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Army Picture
EntertainS
At the Met
Tanks and Horses
Vie to Provide
Excitement.

I Usually devoting its time to
minor action films which
never see F street. the Re-
public Pictures people occa-
Sionally turn out bang g-up photoplay.
One of these is the Metropolitan's new
picture, which labors under the some
what frightening title of Army Girl"
but which for all of that turns out to
be mighty entertaining article.
It's stirring film. full of action.
with a well-brewed mixture of drama
and comedy and romance and thrills.
With the boy-meets-girls slapdash
considerably subdued by the major
theme there is lot of excitement to
the business of cavalry post that has
been a cavalry post for 80 years being
brought face to face with mechanical
ton.
The good, old-fashioned movie chase
serves Director George Nichols, tr.,
well here and he has made one of the
films high points the mechanization
trials. with tank racing hell-for-
leather over a test course in compe-
tition with troop Of cavalry. Fur
ther excitement has been added by
some unnamed stunt man, who has
discovered how to turn over a whippet
tank and bounce it madly about while
you hold your breath.
The more human players who sup
port this mechanical steed which
wins its spurs in the cavalry are
Preston Foster, the officer who rides
it; Madge Evans, the lass who shows
him orange blossoms and the
colonel's daughter are not fate worse
than death; Jimmy Gleason and
Billy Gilbert, who contribute comedy,
and H. B. Warner, Neil Hamilton,
Ralph Morgan and Heather Angel,
who contribute some sturdy acting.
Between them all-tank, horses and
people-they have made a motion
picture that has few faults, even II
it is no 10-best candidate. It at least
tops lot of items that have come
from Hollywood with much more fan
fare. H. M
Evening star., 1938-09-10

York doctors told me I'd be cripple
for life," she reminisces. (The break
healed in six months.)
Sidney Howard reminisces, too
about the time he was offered $4,000
for the movie rights Of They Knew
What They Wanted" $50 immedi-
ately I was sued for plagiarism. The
suit, which I won, lasted two years, by
which time Hollywood was not quite
as interested in the play and offered
me only $4,000" BY strange quirk
Of coincidence, the man who cost Sid
ney the difference between $4,000 and
500, 900 worked with him recently on
the script OF Northwest Passage
and they were friendly!
Mr.. Fitzgerald wins roar of amuse-
ment from Mr.. Selznick by describing
a producer as the little boy who owns
the football. Remember? All the
other little boys writers, etc. have
to be nice to him because II they are
not he won't let them play with the
football-and they can only play when
he wants them to play-and if he
doesn't want them to play that's just
too bad-for the other little boys who
haven't got a football!
Mr.. Mankewicz assures us that this
is one party at which we will be
spared the agony of guessing games
The last time had to act out cool
as cucumber" And he did-by
pretending to be q banana with green
leaves.
Harpo tells the story of the actor
who won large sum Of money from
. facial surgeon at golf The latter
Evening star., 1938-09-10
The Texans Back
At Columbia.

THE TEXANS" Paramount epic of
the Civil Wars aftermath in the
center Of the cattle industry, returned
for second week on F street YES
terday, taking up its abode at the
Columbia.
1t is story, primarily OF q lot Of
maladjusted people who are headed
by Joan Bennett, but it achieves its
greatest dramatic effect when it gets
around to dealing with a great cattle
drive. In this protracted episode, the
MIN takes on the spirit Of saga
instead OF resembling, as it does most
OF the time, Western with cast that
does not often appear in Westerns.
Like Miss Bennett, for instance. they
usually are society people or some
thing like that.
Top male performer in the cast Is
Randolph Scott As a man with both
feet on the ground. Mr.. Scott Is one
Of the more appealing figures in the
drama, but the cattle steal the show
from him. too. J.C.
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to be so much that she is little short
comedienne, of course.
The big moment of the picture, OF
course, is the final game the one on
which Mr.. Barrymore and his rival
bet the Senate seat II someone else
has not already told you how the
1t is much too fresh touch to be
spoiled by any revelations in this
corner no matter how much the nov
city OF the thing clamors for a full
statement. Guess all you want and
the boys will turn out to be much
more ingenious than your widest
imaginings credit them with being.
For sheer entertainment, Hold That
Coed" is one of the best things to
come out Of Hollywood's protracted
cycle OF dizziness, fine bit of satire
and finer comedy that aspires to be
nothing more than a laugh-maker.
X X 4 X
As MASTER Of ceremonies and
chief comic, Mr.. Skelton OF the
stage bill is much more improved
performer than when he was here last
spring. Not only is his material
fresher and more subtle, but the Skel-
ton technique in delivering it is much
to be preferred to the old rough-and-
tumble manner. This is not to imply
that he consumes any less energy in
his DerfOrrna nce h,,t m COW +bot ~ ms
something more in it than sheer
violence.
The chap who stopped the show We
caught was the harmonica- playing
Wood. He has been around now for
what seems like centuries. but time
has not stalled his ability to make a
harmonica an instrument out of
which he can draw both comedy and
music that is pleasant for listening
purposes.
Miss Lester, billed as the cinderella
Of song" does very nicely by her
swingtime tunes, climaxing them with
"A Tiskit, ETC." Jitterbugs in the
audience are so moved they beat out
the time for her.
Other features on the bill are Grace
and Ray Mcdonald, whose dance act
Is vastly improved over the average
by its inclusion of a caricature of the
average ballroom dance team. Nicely
lighted, costumed and directed are the
16 dancing girls who remained over
from the Harriet Hoctor act of last
week J.C.
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acts and weld them into something
with = revue touch.
Mr.. Morris does not talk out of
the corner OF his mouth any but
scores no end Of hit with the GUS
toners, the Earle apparently being
f1lled with those people who have
Kept him a popular screen leading
man for so long. He's an exceeding
ly personable and gracious performer
and his skit showing what personal ap-
pearances may come to and his bit
OF prestidigitation (whatever that Isl
are heartily recommended.
Recommended, too, are Dancers
Mario and Floria, who are grace
full in every number and whose tango
is one OF the best you will see; Song
stress Sara Ann McCabe, whose voice
Is sweet and clear and full of rhythm
and warmth and personality at the
same time; Vic Hyde, whose one
man band turn. familiar here, is one
OF the best, and the Sinclair Sisters.
who do some clever dancing and act
as twin mistresses OF ceremonies.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Trans.Lux Features
News of Europe.

WITH the newspapers full of dire
and foreboding headlines it is
to be expected that the news reels
that come across the oceans (for
which another hooray) would be full
Of something besides sweetness and
light. And they are, as you will find
at the Trans-Lux, where a new set
of news films was installed yesterday,
and where there is a generous sum-
mary OF events in Europe. And may
be just as a contrast one of the
worlds warning nations Is shown at
play, cameraman in the Far East
having taken enough time of from
bombings to look in on and capture
shots Of Japan's baseball champion
ship battle.
Closer to home you will find Presi-
dent Roosevelt on his tour Of the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and other
items Of political interest at the mo-
ment. And a lot of other headlines
you have followed from day to day
take pictorial form-Cardinal Hayes
lies in state in New York, Mrs. Meeks
rests on her return from that ordeal
with kidnapers, John L. Lewis visits
Mexico and the lighter touch to 1t all
is added by shots of beauties vying
for the Miss-America title at Atlantic
City.
Supporting the news shots there is
a quartet of short subjects, one of
which. ''The Master Drink" takes
you to old-world folk festivals in Old
Rothenburg, Germany, another of
which is Disney riot that is guaran-
teed for immediate consumption, this
"Mickeys Trailer" The others are
Thank Your Lucky Star" which
delves into astrology, and athletic
Youth" which deals with athletic
youth. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Palace-"Marie Antoinette," lavish
film with Norma Shearer playing the
queen: 1925 am, 2:40, 6 and 9:l5
pm.
Earle-"Racket Busters" in which
the racketS are busted: II am, 1:4O,
4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows
l2:45, $3.50. $40 and s:o5 pm.
CapitOl-"Hold That Coed" daft
mixture Of politics and pigskin: II
am, las. 4:30. Tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows: l2:4O. $50, e:l5 and
9p.m.
Metropolitan-"Army Girl" horse
lovers battle mechanization Of the
cavalry: II am. los, 3:l5. 5:25,
7:35 and GAS pm.
COlumbia-"The Texans" guns. cat
tie. Indians, villains, thrills: Has
am, l:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and $40
pm.
keith's-"Carefree," Rogers and AS
taire together again: 1884 am, iii,
3, 4:43, 6:26, 8:O9 and 9:52 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-"Mayerling," well-toId film
story Of the famed tragedy: ii am.
l:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1938-09-10

luoty PohSS dt Vic plCdSdlll lo~olllOll Va
jazzing up politics. Right now. We
award the seasons football champion
ship to Twentieth Century-Fox, name
Joan Davis as all-America quarter
back, and are prepared to vote for
John Barrymore for the Senate any
time he can get his name on ballot.
Moreover, the Capitol backs up it's
forward wall-We mean screen attrac-
tion-with stage bill that is right
in the spirit OF the picture, unpre-
tentiolls but good. 1t is headed by
Red" Shelton and has Britt Woods
harmonica to make it melodiously
comic and the voice Of Ann Lester
to give the swing touch.
The brightness Of Hold That
Coed" starts with the script. 1t was
the combined work of a group of
writer's who obviously have a pretty
profound impression that the world is
wacky all the way through, but
wackiest about its football and politics.
1t merges the two in the form Of
state university that needs good
4oONbdh tCdLA SOfClhOl wiz
suddenly realizes the possibilities of
showmanship in getting right down
with the sophs and co-eds, doing
snake dances, leading bands and root
ing furiously at all the games.
The Governor, as that kind would
be, is man OF mad Innovations His
widest one takes the form Of kicking
coed (American U. had it firSt, but
there are many others including hiring
couple OF professional wrestlers,
betting q Senate seat on the outcome
OF the major game, building stadium
to seat 100000 customers in three
weeks, and devising a schedule with
all the big teams by threatening to
buy asphalt and other supplies from
States willing to send their squads to
his gridiron. There are other items
like that, but that list should be suffi-
cient to give you a rather complete
idea Of the madness OF the whole
thing; a madness, incidentally, which
looks worse than that of which Holly
wood has been accused.
There are a good dozen uproarious
sequences in Hold That Coed" in
most of which Mr. Barrymore as a
swingtime politician figures more
prominently than any other member
Of the cast. II any one Is close to
him, and some one is, in the
Kaleidoscope action of the farce, it Is
Joan Davis. Naturally, she is the
kicking coed, thing Miss Davis likes
Evening star., 1938-09-10


Racket Busters" Inspired by New
York's Thomas E. Dewey, despite his
edict to Hollywood to lay off his career,
the film tells of . special prosecutor
whose particular task is the breaking
up Of a gangland plan to corner truck
ing and the produce business. He busts
the racket.
While he Is busting 1t with the
help OF some w. B. special hokum)
there is a lot Of rough and ready ac-
tion. The truck drivers get intimi-
dated somewhat when trucks are
smashed and people are beaten
by the mob that sets out to organ
ize its own truckers association,
the produce dealers are intimidat-
ed somewhat when the same gang
ruins their produce. The hokum ar
rives on the scene in all its glory when
a produce dealer who Is an ex-truck
driver tries to talk the drivers out OF
a strike and the prosecutor releases the
lads truck driver pal from Jail so he
will see the light and take the right
road. So this fellow busts the rack
eteer in the teeth so hard it busts the
racket.
p ACKET BUSTERS" is lent a
whale OF lot of action by Lloyd
Bacon's exciting direction and consid-
cradle Of its vigor by Humphrey Bogart
as the boss Of the rackets. Mr.. Bogart
is so enthusiastically nefarious, SO COM
plete a lug, that he almost makes
crime attractive, even if it doesn't pay
0ike it used to-. When Mr. Bogart
exhales cigarette smoke and growls
You must tink you're playin' posey
wit buncha kids onna sidewalk" you
know crime has the upper hand and
you are in for rip-roaring cinema bat
tie before 1t is licked.
Aside from Walter Abel, who plays
the prosecutor with all the sincerity
at his call, which is plenty, and Allen
Jenkins, who is top-notch as the hon.
est driver who turned to peddling
tomatoes, the other people do not give
Mr.. Bogart any competition for act
ing honors. The other people include
George Brent, Penny Singleton and
Gloria Dickson. who are all right, but
who will not win any academy awards.
YOU might think. considering that
it is headed by Chester Morris,
who is usually connected with more
vigorous screen dramas whether or
not he likes to be typed, that the
EarleS stage bill would have maybe
a touch Of criminology. But it does
not and there isn't sinister note in
the whole thing, it being another
bright affair that attests to Harry
Anglers ability to take vaudeville
Evening star., 1938-09-10

INOSe VINO re-
membered h e
songs when. they
were written 20,
10 years ago. But
those same num-
bers are now best
sellers with the
you ng. And
Irving beams like
q kid who has
just received his
first scooter.
Did you get
as big q kick out
of the picture as
VOu did from the
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vues?" inquiries Mr.. Marx, who, minus
his yellow wig and screen cavortings,
Is very serious and thoughtful. Much
more" replies Irving.
X X X X
The discussion is now on age.
Mankewicz and Fitzgerald are both
4l-Playwright Howard is A. Berlin
not only admits he Is 50-but boasts
about it. I'm proud of being 50," he
tells me. why not-I don't look it,
do II" He certainly does not. How
old are you?" he whispers in my ear
''or don't you tell?" I tell-Mr. Berlin.
Margaret SULLIVAN complains of
feeling "tacky" and explains that the
evening dress she is wearing was made
when she broke her arm a couple Of
years ago and consequently is too large
On one shoulder and Sleeve. "The New
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Irene Dunno to Star
In Film With Bower.

CHARLES BOYER will co-star with
Irene Dunno in one Of the Leo
McCarey productions which the pro-
ducer-director will release through
R-K-O-Radio Pictures. 1t will mark
Boyer's first appearance with this COM
pany since his role with Katharine
Hepburn in Break of Hearts" Miss
DUNES last picture for R-K-O-Radio
was THE Joy Of Living" in which she
co-starred with Douglas Fairbanks, jr.
Dore Schary and McCarey are
working on the original and 50 far un-
titled story for these popular players.
Production is scheduled for Septem-
ber McCarey's afhliation with R-K-O-
Radio took effect last May when he
came to New York to discuss details of
the deal by which he became asso-
ciated with it. About a month ago
there was announced the formation Of
Leo McCarey Productions, Inc, with all
motion pictures by the winner Of the
1887 Academy award, for his direction
Of THE Awful TRUTH" to be released
the R-K-O-Radio.
Boyer is currently starring in "Al-
giers." He has been seen in History
Is Made at Night" "Mayerling," ITO
varich" and Conquest"
n
Evening star., 1938-09-10

will affect the success of the film can
be estimated right of as not in the
slightest. Metro Goldwyn-Mayer and
Director w. s. Van Dyke saw to that
when they made it straight romance
on a lavish scale and flecked it with
such stars as Miss Shearer, Tyrone
Power John Barrymore, Anita Louise
and Robert Morley. 1t is practically
bound to be one of the most success
ful pictures of the year
The drama of Marie's life is by no
means entirely lost amid the Splendor
OF the setting against which her tragic
story is told. She Is lady of enormous
vicissitudes. They include in this film
recital, as in those of historians
limited to mere instruments of writing,
her marriage to the inept, most mis-
flt OF the Capets, Louis XVI; the con-
tinuous and cruel hurt of a court and
country which always regarded her
as an alien; the heartbreak of an
tdyllic love that could not be honorable
and finally the guillotine These and
score of other and lesser incidents
are deeply moving when they move,
but there are long pauses for pomp
and ceremony as there invariably are
when drama and spectacle clash.
THE Marie of Metro is an idealized
concept, lady of fascination if
not the stormy, selfish, petulant, vain
little Hapsburg princess which more
critical historians have made her. AS
Marie, Miss Shearer is practically the
perfect heroine; even If there are other
records which challenge that as an
accurate estimate. She starts off with
the great enthusiasm of a beautiful
girl to be not merely a queen, but
a good queen and from that pleasant
introduction she led through what
amounts to unmitigated misery She
Is painted, at the worst, as a woman
who Is misunderstood, developing into
a magnificent figure through a life
of anguish. Miss Shearer plays it
with superlative touch, a sweetness
that belongs more to her perhaps than
to Marie Antoinette.
Giving strongest support to Miss
Shearer is the man who plays the
weakling Louis XVI. That gentleman
happens to be Robert Morley who
makes of the king who only wanted to
be locksmith and mender of clocks
one Of the most appealing characters
the screen has had in long time.
BY comparison with the performance
OF Morley, those of other characters
In the drama of lady in revolution
Evening star., 1938-09-10

appear lacking in luster when they
should be more lustrous. That Of
Tyronne Power as Count Fersen, noble
Swedish youth who captured the heart
Of the real Marie, Is the notably weak
est of the group. As Norseman with
the power to melt Marie from queen to
woman, the man whose words are an
irresistible song Of love, Mr.. Power
lives through many important mo-
ments to which he does not give
conviction. The poignance Of their
broken romance compares badly with
the blighted affair between the queen
and Capet.
Lesser players who give perform
ances that lend impressive movement
to the action in addition to Morley
include Joseph Schildkraut and Jack
Barrymore. Mr.. Schildkraut has done
nothing in Hollywood that can COM
pare with his Interpretation Of the
despicable Duke of Orleans, the cousin
OF the Capets who would stoop to any
thing to win the crown which sat
SO aWkwardly and unhappily on Louis
head. Mr.. Barrymore as Louis XIV,
the one who stood with Du Barry
IN the way of Marie's ambition to be
queen, leaves the picture rather early.
Before death takes him away, how
ever, he gives aspiring young actors
a good lesson in how to be a de-
bauched Capet who knows how to ride
a throne come what may.
There are scores of bit performances
that contribute handsomely to carrying
the story through the impressive
architecture and the furious action
it attains when the architecture is
forgotten.
MR.. VAN DYKES direction comes
through most vividly in some
Of his mob scenes. of which there are
more than any other screen revolution
ever registered. Despite the fact that
he is handling what look like repub-
lies full OF revolutionists, Mr.. Van Dyke
makes them marvelously violent and
terrifying.
The photoplay Of Marie Antoinette"
is enormously pleasing. 1t gets every
inch of the pictures great scope,
many times from angles that are al
most breath-taking.
Having already broken all records
for size and elaborateness, it is up to
Marie Antoinette" now to go on and
break those of the INV offco r.
probably will in spite Of its faults.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Opera Additions.

A UDITIONS for singers and dane
ers to join the permanent ballet
and augment the present membership
of the Columbia Light Opera Co. will
be held Monday night at o'clock at
Thomson School, Eleventh and L
streets N. w.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Victoria AL Fresc0.

V1CTORIA the Great" the Her.
bert Wilcox film biography Of
England's beloved queen, will be the
next attraction at the Open Air Thea
ter on the Richmond highway, begin
ming tomorrow night. The Anna
Neagle-starring picture will be shown
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
nights Also
Evening star., 1938-09-10

agreed to liquidate the debt by short
ening the actors diversified nose. He
paid through the nose" concludes
Harpo solemnly.
Copyright. 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Racket Busters Is a Story
About Busting Rackets
And 1t Brings Lots of Action to the Earle.
Stage Bill Headed by Personal
Appearance of Chester Morris.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

ME Warner Bros have again headlines
and had considerable
picture the Earle which
a the day a
1ackned story treatment in few
who like their vigorous
spite the tri up now and then
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Marie Antoinette' at Palace
Is Gorgeous Pageant
Miss Shearer Gives Fine Portrayal
OfQueen, More Idealized by Script
Writers Than by Historians.
BY JAY CARMODY.

- ARIE ANTOINETTE is
u
opened yesterday anyon
longer
who made history much
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Capitol Film Is Comic Satire
On Football and Politics
Two Greatest Institutions Are Shown
Little Mercy in Uproarious Farce.
Stage Bill Nicely Balanced.

Ill Hollywood ever needed ON that football picture which
~ the dozen in the
the right
which the Captols
combination OF the
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Berlin Tickled as T0dav's
Youths Adopt Tunes
Composer, Now 50, Grins Like Kid
AtWide Appeal of His 'Alexander's
Ragtime Band
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.

| HOLLYWOOD Sept 10 tNANA)-Dear diary A party Of
- Ace Composer Irving Producer
| wife, Ace Comedian
Sullivan Hayward F.
Mankewicz and wife-who incidentally
Mr. Berlin delicious
we were afraid would me I'd be cripple
Evening star., 1938-09-10

French motion pictures are supplant-
ting German productions in Greece.
Evening star., 1938-09-10

ADJUSTMENTS. A
Evening star., 1938-09-10

USUALLY devoting its time to
minor action films which
never see F street. the Re-
public Pictures people occa-