Evening star., 1939-07-24

international complications, it being
feared its production might have
some drastic effect on Russo-British
relations, Mr.. Chaplin being a prod
uct of the London music halls.
And now comes the latest note
from United Artists. Paulette God
dard and Henry Daniel have been
signed for leading roles opposite the
comedian, he is putting finishing
touches on the script, two complete
sets are ready for the cameras and
production is expected to start Mon
day. That is today.
If Mr.. Chaplin gets half as much
conflict into THE Great Dictator"
Chats what it is called now as he
has contrived in the advance reports
about it he will have a mighty tur-
bulent drama, comedian or no come
dian.
All we wish is he would go to work
or give up, but just leave us alone
until the darned thing is finished or
forgotten.
Best news from New York comes
from the Theater Guilds Joe Heidi,
who announces that an important
item on the Guild-American Theater
Society schedule here this forth
coming season will be the Alfred
Lunt-Lynn Fontanne production of
THE Tanning of the Shrew." 1t is
set for the week of october 2 at the
National.
And from Bess Davis Schreiner,
local A. T. S. representative, comes
the warning that subscriptions are
selling like-well, like hotcakes, So
you'd better hurry, hurry, hurry,
hurry, the show is. about to begin.
Eunice Healey, the talented lass
who combines ballet and tap dane
ing, will be one of the featured play
ers in Irene" when the musical is
revived on the Capitol stage this
Friday. She is the young lady, our
memory tries to tell us, who danced
so superbly with Paul Haakon dur
ing one of his engagements at the
Capitol, but our memory probably is
wrong. At any rate Miss Healey
has appeared in such shows as Ed
Wynn's Laugh Parade" Thumbs
Up "On Again-Of Again" (Which
had nothing to do with Mr.. Charles
Chaplin) Follow Your Heart"
and she did long tour of duty with
Benny Goodman's orchestra.
Another thing you might or might
not already know about Irene" is
that two young singers who have
since gained some prominence in
the cinema played leads in two of
the shows four road companies.
They were Irene Dunno and jean
cite Macdonald. Jane Winton.
whom you must remember from
some stage or screen role, follows
their footsteps at the Capitol.
Probably the first starlet to throw
her studio in an uproar by losing
weight, not by adding avoirdupois,
is young Brenda Joyce. Facing the
cameras for the first time in THE
Rains Came" the 18-year-old lass
was so nervous she lost eight
pounds in three days and didn't
match up with herself on the screen
from day to day. Gave Director
Clarence Brown fits until he got her
soothed Greer Garson's next
leading man will be Robert Taylor
and that's the only way it can be
said after her performance in
Goodbye Mr.. Chips" They will
appear in Remember" Miss Gar
sons first American made film
The State Theater in Bethesda is
going to have, not only a face lift
ing, but thorough job of internal
reconditioning as we'll. 1t soon will
have, according to j. Henry Hiser,
new air conditioning, new entrance
and marquee, new seats and new,
modern auditorium Judith
Anderson has been signed to play
Mrs. Danvers in David o. Selznick's S
screen version of Daphne Du Maur-
ier's "Rebecca." Alfred Hitchcock
is to direct j.. "Juarez" was selected
as their favorite motion picture of
the year by delegates to the Amer
ican Youth Conference. Other
films on the list were confessions
of a Nazi Spy" "Pygmalion, !"
Young Mr.. Lincoln" and Good bye
Mr.. Chips" The first moving
picture ever made covering all
phases of the poultry industry will
have its first public showing at the
Seventh Worlds Poultry Congress
at Cleveland. Well, it was in the
mail.
There's a theater down in Vir-
ginia which has on its adjacent
parking lot sign asking patrons
to please park perpendicular"