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Evening star., 1938-04-07

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approximate best in a screen drama
which gave her chance to be both
comedienne and singer. Accord
ingly. Miss Dunno will go zany to the
strains of Jerome Kern the very next
time FRIDAY. April l5) Washington
has chance to see her on the screen
There is every reason for merging
music and madness when you have
Miss Dunno as your star of course.
Two of the very best reasons for doing
so are couple of memories which can
be catalogued under the titles of
Roberta" and Show Boat" although
the latter was not exactly the merry
KIND of madness most recently asSo-
ciated with Miss Dunne's name. Those
happen to have been two of the most
encouraging things Hollywood ever did,
encouraging not merely to Hollywood
but to movie audiences.
In the flush of her subsequent sue
cess in Theodore Goes Wild" and
The Awful Truth" it was somewhat
generally forgotten that Miss DUNES
original ambition in the world was to
be an opera singer. What is called a
plethora of that kind of picture, how
ever. inspired r. K. o. to see what
could be done about modifying the
standard comedy formula 1t had not
been set to music, the examination
disclosed. At least, not recently, So
r. K. o. set it to music. Accordingly
Miss Dunno, who is one of the few
actresses who Is as good vocaily as she
is dramatically, gets her chance to
be both at once.
THOSE persons who have been
plaguing Edmund Plohn. other
attaches of the National Theater and
various other departments of the
drama in town with reference to the
date for the Abbey Players appearance
on the Washington scene can stop
plaguing. The famous Dublin Theater
Group which has gone all the way out
to San Francisco with very good for
tune, thank you) will stop off here
May Is for week of repertory on it's
way back to New York, thence to
Dublin. One of the high lights of the
local engagement will be the new
comedy in the large kit of the COM
pany. The Far Of Hills"
1t was that bit of fanciful Celtic
drama, in case you had not heard,
which turned out to be so popular in
New York that the company played
1t for several weeks, Ignoring during
the interval the fact that it was a
fepertory group, not intended for
Evening star., 1938-04-07
Miss Darrieux Parks Gum
For Close>ups With Doug
Young Fairbanks Lectures Columnist
Between Takes on Need of
Only Rosy Publicity.
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.

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spraw at Miss Dareuxs
Henry Roster makes dozens of