Evening star., 1938-05-11

tanned the rights for the first Ameri-
can production of Ian Hays "The
Frog" The play is an adaptation of
one OF Edgar Wallaces midnight
thrillers and played more than a year
IN London and was hauled all over
England by three road companies.
The British liked the way the Wallace
Hay "whodunit" scared the dayliehts
out OF them, SO much, in fact, that
Gaumont-British now is transferring
the piece to the screen, with Noah
Beery and Gordon Harker, star Of the
original run, in the leading roles.
Who the Roadside will star remains to
be seen, but the group will do the
play this Summer before the G-B film
arrives, it hopes.
REING a brat on the screen is a
very fine thing, according to
Bonita Granville. the brat of "These
Three" Maid Of Salem" "Merrily
We Live" and lot of other pictures.
and whom you now will see in
Beloved Brat" coming to the Earle
Friday.
Bonita, the 15-year-old daughter
OF Bernard Granville, famed yaude-
vile and musical comedy star. saws
she likes to play brats because it
gives her a chance to get all the
meanness out Of her system. Then
on screen she can be a good girl.
1t would be pretty hard to be q
'meanle' IN real life after seeing
yourself as one ON the SCREEN" she
says. Vanity, If nothing else, would
save you" The Granville technique
Tor portraying young hell-cats is
simple. as she explains it. She dislikes
bratS, she says, so she Just watches
them and picks out their worst points.
R1GHT now it is time to warn some
body that there is a plot under
way to put an end to all this nom
sensical "she's-never- been kissed"
publicity when Olympic Bradna comes
to town tomorrow, to put an end to
1t by seeing that she Is kissed, def
nitely and thoroughly. All we know
Is, II just one more fancy yarn about
Olympic never having been kissed on
or of tho screen until Gene RAYMOND
snatched discreet caress in "Stolen
Heaven" comes into this office, the
man with the strait jacket had
better hurry -. Holiday" the new
Columbia screen version of the Philip
Barry play, which stars Katharine
Hepburn and Cary Grant, is ready for
release any day now Charles
Boyer makes his screen debut as
singer In Walter Wanger's "Algiers"
"Tip-Of Girls" melodrama
about highway hijacking, is next on
the schedule at the Metropolitan, due
to open Friday. Lloyd Nolan and
Mary Carlisle have the leading roles
-. Sybil Bowman, one of vaudeville's
favorite condolences, is on the Capi-
tolls new stage bill, starting Friday.
This, OF course, is the same program
which headlines the appearance of
Phil Regan We knew very well
Russell Collins was not playing Bur-
CESS Meredith's brother, just his IA
vorite crony. in "The Star-Wagon.
but almost anything can happen after
midnight Helen Hamilton calls
to announce that she is closing her
Russian Troika for the season after
this Saturday night, which does not
seem fair, but II summer is here it Is
here. Anyhow, you have only few
nights left to see "Othello" and the
rest OF that show Catherine
Knockey and John Miller won the
Roadside Theaters radio addition and
thereby won roles in some of this
summers plays Hollywood pub
licity story starts off: Dorothy La
mour has shed her sarong-that thin
and scanty jungle costume-and
wishes she had it back" All right,
you can lower the eyebrow now.