Evening star., 1938-07-22

ture, the heroine just runs under
tables, chairs and other convenient
items created by Grand Rapids so
women could have chance in this
world. 1t is reported to be the funniest
thing you ever saw outside of Disney
picture.
If half the Superlatives are justified,
Terror of Tiny Town" looks like the
forerunner Of cycle of midget movies.
MISS HONEY CHANSON, whose
name translates freely as sweet
song, probably just had to be chorus
girl with name like that. But Miss
Chanson, who attracts attention be.
cause of that name (Which absolutely
and positively is real and a testimonial
to the whimsicality of the older Chan
SonS), did not want to be a chorus
girl at all Her ambition was to be
newspaperWoman. of all things She
was so determined to be one in fact
that she went all out as they say
around race tracks, during two years
of school grabbing at a scholarship
at the University of Wisconsin, She
DID not get the scholarship. did not go
to Wisconsin, did not study journal
ism and has been dancing ever since
she left New York University because
she never wanted to be a sophomore,
or some such reason She does not
know how she got into dancing, thinks
maybe she trucked in. Dancing is
hard work, but she likes it, The
chorus of which she is a member and
which has been at the Earle so long 1t
looks like standard equipment. is
pretty soon. Miss Chanson says you
can Sc lot of Ohio in seven weeks
We said We guessed one could.
There are some angles to having a
name like Honey Chanson that are in
convenient. People are always making
puns about it and again, being in show
business, Miss Chanson always has to
be arguing that it is, too, her real
name. That is bad, but on the other
hand, Honey is name which sounds
as if she were dear to everybody
That sort of compensates for the puns
and the skepticism.
X X X X
WARNER BROS. are going to be
brave. They are going to make
picture with not a smidgen of love
interest in it, a gesture that no studio
can make without going around feel
irn hot &c h.
thing since Launcelot. Dawn Patrol"
is the picture in question. the kind
of thing in which there won't be a
single feminine player Captains
Courageous was another picture in
the romanceless category and it man.
aged to attract bit of attention de-
spite the fact that amour's lovely head
appeared in the film at no time
Six of the top-notch Warner heart
breakers will be in the piece. They
start with Enrol Flynn.
I RAYMOND BELL, Loew publicist
whose speciality is winning
plaques for promotion prowess. will get
another next week. The competition
was stern. but Mr.. Bell was sterner.
AS soon as Little Miss Broad
way moves out Of the Palace, which
probably will not be for two weeks,
M-G-M will unveil Chapter 2 in the
saga OF making Robert Taylor over
into an athletic fellow. THE Crowd
Roars' is the next Taylor number. He
plays a prize fighter and has three
fast and furious battles in Madison
Square Garden. which Mike Jacobs
could pack very easily if he could in
duce Taylor to sign the proper papers
"Mayerling," which has been here
practically countless times, never is
gong to leave it seems. 1t is coming
back for another engagement at the
boro theater July 81. August l
The mother of the Lane girls, Lola,
Rosemary and Priscilla. won't have to
worry about getting them married off.
A piece of news from Warmers re-
counts that just the other day a man
wrote to the sisters and offered to
marry any one, or all of them The
girls said no Civic Theater's Bill
Glrvan is busy chap up in Massa-
chusetts. He is directing. producing
the sets for and playing the lead in
tonight at 500 Having that
much TO do with it, he might at least
have chosen something simpler i
Cross Readers will hold tryouts Friday
night In the rehearsal hall of their
barn theater, feature of barns which !
we never had heard of before
Private Lives by the Mr.. Coward. |
will be the company's next attraction.
or maybe the next after that. Our
notes are unclear.