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Evening star., 1939-08-01

gether" He has done very well
with his heavily dramatic assign
ments in such pictures as charge
of the Light Brigade" Dawn
Patrol" and "Wuthering Heights"
to mention but three.
1t is comedy, however, that fits
Mr.. Niven most like a glove. In
real life, he is late 30ish person
with an unabridged sense of humor.
Socially, he is good for more in
telligent laughs than half a dozen
better-knoWn screen specialists in
brittle humor. His professional
proof of his ability to handle that
kind of material in the current pic
ture probably will land him many
more such roles. That should be
an excellent thing for movie audi
ences.
AS a matter of history, even
though history may not realize it
until later, it was his sense that
life IS Wacky affair that landed
Niven in the movies. Just prior to
his landing in America, Niven was
a passenger on a Chinese tramp
steamer which he thought was going
in another direction. That it did
not go where he thought made no
difference to Niven, good, practical
way to feel under the circumstance
When he and the boat landed, he
was seized by a curiosity to know
what it felt like to be movie actor.
He never had been an actor, but
he recognized his possession of an
impressive qualification in that
crisp English accent of his. He
used it to ask for a job. That he
got it is pretty obvious.
That he is going to keep it is
equally obvious in the buildup which
is coming in the Hollywood mails
these days. Mr.. Niven is a leading
man in films other than those he
man types he originally played. A
number of studios are counting upon
him to make feminine fans forget
that the past few months have seen
Robert Taylor, Tyrone Power, Clark
Gable, etc, move over to the do
mestic fireside with Barbara STAN
wyck, Annabella and Carole Lom-
bard, respectively.
X X X X
Sandy fans, who became so thick
around the country her first picture
made her star, will have a chance
to see her second film, Unexpected
Father" at the Earle starting Fri
day . With Bachelor Mother"
another baby picture at Keith's, some
one ought to be able to work up
pun about the movies still being an
infant industry .. Alexander New
sky's vivid story will remain Sec
ond week at the Little, but after
that, two years of determined work
on the part of the management will
be rewarded with the release of "Of
Human Bondage" the picture that
made Bette Davis what she is today.
. The biggest feminine star on
the screen, we mean SiXty-five
persons remain on the list of eligibles
from which the Going Native" re-
vue will be built A few more
Whittlings by the Capitol production
staff and show of the right proper
tions will be ready for high-speed
rehearsals.
Evening star., 1939-08-01

All, DOMESTICITY-Only 1t
isn't. The baby does not be-
long to Ginger Rogers, but she
is stuck 1pith it. Dauid Niven
really has no connection,
though certain citizens are
certain that he does. That's
Dhdt makes "Bdchelor Mother"
at Keith's the comedy 1t Is.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
It's a Wise Child Brings
Mitzi Green to Olney
Former Child Film Star Tops Cast
That Is Somewhat Less Than Tops;
Mr.. Niven on Way Up
BY JAY CARMODY.

Something pretty far south OF vuosy in the performance the
headed Mz the
Child" the oney eater last night However Johnson
In
a
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Dribbles of This and That
From the Hollywood Scene
Robert Taylor Gets Stable,
George Raft Gets Too Fat,
Love Gets Tired
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


Robert Taylor has bought
training stable will
his own coors George Raft ordered
poundage around his
pretty The Deanna DurbnV
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Flora Robson Stays
For Another Role

Flora Robson, English actress
brought to Hollywood by Warner
Bros. to play the role of Paul Muni's
wife III 1--WE Are Not Alone" will
continue her career at that studio as
Queen Elizabeth in THE Sea
Hawk" starring Enrol Flynn.
Miss Robson has portrayed Queen
Elizabeth on stage and screen be-
fore, her most recent impersonation
Of the Virgin Queen having been
in "Fire Over England"
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Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young:
1885 and 1926 pm.
Olney-"It's a Wise Child" with
Mitzi Green as the wise one: $40
pm. s..
Roadside - "Spooks," mystery,
murder, thrills: $40 pra.
Cross Roads-"The Curtain Rises"
comedy, with Izetta Jewel, jr.: $40
pm.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Louis Hayward Gets
A New Contract

Louis Hayward's performance in
THE Man in the Iron Mask" has
won for him new contract with
Edward Small, producer of the AL
exander Dumas classic The stars
salary has been adjusted upward.
The new contract with Small pro-
vides that Hayward appear in two
of his productions during the next
year.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Raft Is Signed

George Raft. signed recently to
an exclusive contract by Warner
Bros. as a result of his work in
Each Dawn I Die" will co-star
again with James Cagney in IN
visible Stripes" after completion Of
THE Patent Leather Kid" in which
he will play the title role.
Evening star., 1939-08-01

the young man.
Or h a S t h e
bright glare of
publicity killed
it off com
pletely?
The reason for
t h e Su d d e n
change in the
title of Are
Husbands Neces-
Sary?" was that
the star, Made
lie inc Carroll,
threatened to
bring suit unless
the studio kept
it's promise to
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vived when she finishes her current
picture and has more time to give
Evening star., 1939-01-22

he let down the bars to controversial
subjects, he did say that the medium
should play a part in our vital and
interesting times.
In his talk were traces of the
philosophy expounded for several
years by the progressive factors of
the industry. A stanch conserva-
tive, Mr.. Hays has always resisted
the expansion Of the screen beyond
the limits of innocuous entertain
ment. Just as liberal critics of the
Supreme Court have accused that
body of being a generation behind
public thought, so have forward
thinking residents of Hollywood
charged Mr.. Hays with being 10
years behind the demands of enter
tainment
In no way will the lowering of
the Hays bars countenance any
great surge of political and social
topics. Even the most incurable
optimists do not dare to hope that
gloves will be removed and life
handled in fortnight fashion. But
they do believe that characters will
be allowed to utter the thoughts of
normal men and women and that
dialogue will not be as sterile as it
has been in the past.
The Hays Office has always denied
that it has exerted any cenorship on
social and political questions. In
truth, it cannot be said that any Of
1See CHURCHILL, Page F-2.
Evening star., 1939-01-22
Song of Set to Music Ends
But Some Sad Melody
Walls in Critics Ears
Noel Coward's Bright Claptrap
Brings Complaints That
He Writes Claptrap
Bv Jaw CarmOdy.

events went off scheduled yesterday off
another those aun which he prescribes for
humility slipping him.
think Coward travels for dehation
he a
the intention merely
echos OF MS set 10 MUSIC seem nkeV rs VINO oaeo
like it. Even the air is fairly filled with what their authors call
mody minority reports The real minority
saturated of professional critics
of Boston, Washington and New York
paying customers desperately
unhappy @ ~ ms IRONY rot & non @ M FROM h M tb M OH ms b e @
ALL At the time his tormented
artists anguish in time His
pain however must have been kind ecsacy
critics OF their dumbness and syho-
phancy all
probably like that acute
to suffer under single The movies are colossal too
the author after reasonably
extensive paragraphs Set to Music was by any sespecng critical
standards clapra Its humo was saow 1o e
simple reason that set out to DO slgncnt ana enchan ng
a shallow and spurious way"
specifically result
His defenders merely that
en @ % M is the @ second part of the m observation Which we
don't
trenchan thing shallow and spurious way No. not
even Mr. Coward who whimsical chap with fine talent Tor mocklng
the other three persons the writer
completely unqualified approval OF Set to Music Coming more
nn to the s point BY w but one paragraph nd out sun ar more n .
suggest written with glitter but misgvng
with Miss Lille polish dunes can be sure
nothing seriously with Set to Music
unchanged based primarily the
assumption cutting
the measurements of Miss Lille We think he did
sitting the
New York critics
subsequently might We won't how many beans there are
eher)
picking tell the critics her his
Who echoed
missed mile doing the Job
that of favote critics of critics did in single sentence
said candor which paes buntnes
told that can't fool all the
time"
still did convince that
really should
Hamlet
suspicion merely drama the
called
who perfectly willing that Mr. Coward should
writing
substance
their literature
Substance better it
from a ONeill
Evening star., 1939-01-22
John Carradine Gets
Sympathetic Role

John Carradine, as mean a villain
as ever leered from the screen, has
been signed by Hal Roach Studios
to play the first sympathetic stellar
part of his career. Carradine will
be "Coughy" in Captain Fury"
which Hal Roach will direct.
The role is that of a sentimental
political prisoner who. although
adept with a knife and gun upon
his enemies, would rather extern
porize poetry about the beauties
of nature. Carradine is on loan to
Roach from Twentieth Century
Fox.
Also signed for Captain Fury"
Is blond and beautiful Virginia
Field who will handle the romantic
interest opposite Victor McLaglen.
.. Assisting Roach as dialogue di-
rector of the picture, the producer
announced, will be William De Mile,
brother of &C. B." and once one of
the most famous directors in films.
Brian Aherne plays the title role
in Captain Fury"
Evening star., 1939-01-22
John Barrymore Tells Story on Himself
He Says Also That He Has Memorized Every Line
Of the Play He and Elaine Will Do

grimaces, with head waggings and
eye rollings. He paused at clmactic
junctures to light a cigaret and
then, before resuming, usually asks,
Where was it?"
Since his recovery" from the
effects of the escapades that fol-
lowed his third divorce, John has
had all of his dialog printed on huge
blackboards held off scene. This
has given rise to stories that his
mind is in sorry state. Maybe
his memory isn't as good as it once
was, but I prefer to believe he has
just become mentally lazy. If you
can read it off board just as well,
why memorize 1t?
Mentally, he seems as active as
he was 10 years ago, when I first
met him. He bubbles with descrip-
tive phrases, such as his spon-
taneous comparison of Moloney's S
shutting to Bert Williams walk.
He uses as much profanity as ever
or, maybe, a little more.
He says he has memorized every
word Of the play he and his wife
Elaine will appear in soon and that
he has no more fear than ever of
going up in his lines. Every actor
thinks about blowing" and, very
often, they haven't the slightest
idea what their next speech is
until the very last cue word Is
delivered.
The play, "Our Dear Children,
is about an actor who rounds up
his grown daughters by his several
wives for a Christmas party.
Slightly biographical, isn't it?'
asks John, raising an eloquent eye
brow.
I wondered how he intended to
portray this actor.
II shall probably be playing my
SELF" he answered. "Only a little
more hammy-if that's credible!"
John said he added but one SEN
tence to the original script OF
"Our Dear Children" II; is . line
Of profanity.
Evening star., 1939-01-22
Todoy's Film Schedules

CAPITOL-"Stand Up and
Fight" rough life makes a
man of R. Taylor: 2, ABS, 7:25
and 1920 pm. Stage shows:
3:45. 6:35 and 9:25 pm. =
EARLE-"Zaza," Claudette Col
bert in the new film version of
the old tale: 2, 4::30, tbs and
10 pm. Stage shows: 3:35,
$40 and 9:05 pm.
PALACE-"Kentucky," romance
in the land where horses are
horses: 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 and
$50 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Great Man
Votes" one vote gives a man
a great day: 2:35, 4:25, 6:l0,
8 and 9:45 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Paris Hon
eymoon," Bing Crosby's latest
musical comedy: 2, 3:55, $50,
TAO and 9:45 pm.
COLUMBIA IS W e e thearts,"
jeanette Macdonald and Nell
son Eddy in technicolor: 2,
4::35, 7:1O and $40 pm.
LITTLE-"10O Men and a Girl"
Deanna Durbin sings and
Leopold StokoWski conducts
the orchestra: 2, 3:55, $50,
TAO and 9:40 pm.
BELASCO Grand Illusion"
telling indictment of war:
2:20, Ais, sos, 8 and $50 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts;
continuous from z O'Clock.
Evening star., 1939-01-22

missed achieving the quality OF a
lullaby. which, of course, consists
of gentle, graceful talent for
emptiness. The talent for empti-
ness is the curse of the English the
ater, although. as matter of fact
this is the only side of the ocean
on which it is cursed.
AS remember. mother had a way
of finding substitutes for the facts
of life She also had a habit of
tucking in the corners and making
everything neat. You had the
jeepers-creepers or the screemie-
meemies, or maybe Alice stuck her
tongue out at you, and mother said,
There. there" and everything went
away. She put cool hand on your
brow and everything went away
sense and sensibility, pride and
prejudice, the headless man who
was always trying to chew on your
Adams apple, and the fever of
104.3, all away, far, far away, like
a bill that isn't due until tomorrow.
Dodie Smiths new play, Dear Oc-
topus,' is like that. 1t says There,
there" for three acts.
Then there is my children's
mother, modern and made of
brighter, Wittier stuff. No There,
there. my dear" for her. Instead,
she chucks the tots under the chin,
when she is not clouting them on
the head. Whatever their plant
it's laughed away, and their Creep
ing horrors. their infantile palsies,
Evening star., 1939-01-22

their naughty Susans 60 far away,
too-far, far. far away, like good
coffee in Paris. And Oscar Wilde's
The Importance of Being Earnest"
is like that. 1t chucks you under
the chin for three acts.
If you find discrepancy in the
fact that Oscar Wilde, whose play
is being revived here after a lapse
of 4 years, is the modern mother,
and Miss Smith the old-fashioned
one, then you don't know the Eng
lish theater. The English theater
has been going backward for a long
time.
It's All So Very Nice,
But What of 1t?
Not to give the play too much i'm
portance, what's wrong with the
English theater is what's wrong with
Dodie Smiths Dear Octopus"
Here is crafty work of literature,
written with tact, grace, good sense
and facility, acted exquisitely by
large cast headed by Lillian Gish
and Lucille Watson, and produced
and directed by John C. Wilson and
Glen Byam Shaw with that excel
lence which is the stamp of profess
sional theater. And yet the first
question you ask yourself while
reaching for your hat is. What of
it?' and the second, who cares?"
The English seem to care a lot. The
play is having a great success over
there.
Miss Smith has set herself the
task of writing a defense of the
family as an institution. Gorblime,
after all, demmit, sir, the family -.
we'll, there she is. So all the grown
up children come home with their
problems to help mother and father
celebrate their golden wedding ami
versary, the problems are solved and
:. well, demmit, sir, there it is.
Weightier things are hinted at in
the course of the play. There is an
attempt to capture some sense of the
austere magic of time, but that is a
subject for poetry, and English play
wrights are as skittiSh about poetry
as a blinkered horse over fallen
leaves. More successfully. there is
conveyed feeling of the continuity
that exists in family life, generation
following generation, the young TAX
ing up where the old leave off, the
changeless problems of learning Ian
guage and facts, falling in love, suf-
fering, getting married, staying mar
ried. making a living, facing age,
getting ready to die, the old helping
the young, son learning painfully
what father and grandfather had to
learn.
Unfortunately, these are now
platitudes of the drama. In the the
ater platitude is thing chewed
sapless, and, although I have always
wondered why we call something
sapless "sappy," that's what the
English theater and Dodie Smiths
Dear Octopus" are-sapless and
sappy.
Now Lot Of Jokes,
All of Them Old.
The astonishing thing about Oscar
Wilde's "The Importance of Being
Earnest" classic, a masterpiece
and the greatest play this revered
playwright ever wrote, is that it's
pretty terrible. 1t consists of one
joke right after another, all the
Jokes being paradoxes and, once
you've heard the jokes, you've heard
all. Most of us have heard the jokes
before and the only thing that pos
terity has contributed Is that "The
Importance of Being Earnest" proves
the importance of being Oscar
Wilde. If anybody else had written
$50 WOI FERT. page F-20
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until we came to a jungle. Some
place off the coast of South America,
several days later, we spied lovely
jungle. 1t was late afternoon, but
decided we'd better haye it over.
I had the sailors row us-Moloney
and Ito shore. I took Moloney
out of his cage. 1t was a folding
cage, so I folded it up and threw it
in the ocean.
'We had an affectionate farewell
He tapped his wings and detected
note of despair in his voice. I
cried, because I was leaving my old
friend.
'I watched poor Moloney as I
was rowed back to the yacht. He
Evening star., 1939-01-22
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press staff Writer.
HOLLYWOOD

4AOAA VoOo.
Among the things John Barry
more does well is tell stories on
himself.
He told me a bookful the other
night up at his house.
One of them is about Moloney.
Moloney is South American
vulture, and John bought him in a
San Salvador pet shop. Moloney
was youngster then. He was put
in a special cage in the Barrymore
aviary, and John became very fond
of his strange pet. The feeling was
reciprocated, for Moloney learned to
flap his wings and utter a queer,
vulturine greeting when John en-
tered his den.
Captivity did not handicap Mo-
loney. On the contrary his PAM
pered life and excellent meals caused
him to grow and grow. He became
almost 4 feet tall. His beak grew
correspondingly large. It was so
strong and savage that 1t could
break a bone as easily as it could
halve a banana. Johns brother
Lionel was scared of Moloney and
thought him the ugliest creature
he'd ever seen.
Moloney liked to rub his big beak
against Johns nose. 1t was a ges-
tuer of affection that gave John
much happiness. That's the back
ground.
This is a story I've never told
any one before" John began. "It's
about how I got rid of Moloney.
my home was broken up by di-
vorce, and I didn't want to live
there. The pet shops could have the
other birds Che has a thousand)
but felt Moloney was too good a
friend for such a fate.
80, I said to myself, We'll find
q nice jungle for Moloney.' We
boarded the yacht-Moloney and l.
and We told tho crew to keep going
Evening star., 1939-01-22
Artist Finds
A Refuge on
Erwin Piscator,
Late of Germany,
Directs Here
By Mark Barron,
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press staff Writer.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Amid the fourishing crews of for
eign actors, playwrights and direc-
tors who are moving across the
Broadway scene this season, there
are several newly arrived refugees Of
distinction fleeing from the troubled
European stages.
Some of these have moved on to
Hollywood Others like the exiled
Berlin stage director, Erwin Piscator,
are staying on Broadway and the
influence of some like him already
is being felt in forthcoming pro-
ductions.
Piscator's first task here is to stage
for Gilbert Miller dramatization
of Tolstoi's war and Peace" a pro-
duction which will begin as soon as
a leading man is found. The man
they would like is Paul MUM.
In COMPRISING this marathon
novel into the limited time of a
theatrical evening Piscator plans to
use some of the technique he de-
vised when he staged the whole
panorama Of the prosperity before
the depression in his play, Business
Boom" in 1880.
The play opened on an empty
stage and as the scenes progressed
bustling, rich city was built before
the eyes Of the audience. Then
came foreign traders to win business
from this new and prosperous city,
and when that trade was built up
then came dictators to destroy all
that had been built. 1t was about
that time that the road to exile
began to loom before Piscator and
he fled to Austria just as he has
fed now to Broadway.
Piscator, like many of the modern
directors, infuses his productions
with comment on current problems.
In Middle Europe he staged "The
Merchant of Venice" in this manner
-Shylock was modernized into
Polish Jew who comes to Berlin as
a salesman of munitions to the
Nazis. The Nazis win with these
arms, but Piscator got into trouble
with the Nazis because he was trying
to show in this production a COM
ment upon the change then taking
place in Germany.
II wanted to show the change in
Germany from 1918 until 1929" he
said. There was no anti-Semitic
The Merchant of Venice a COM
parison with the present-day situa-
ton in Germany in the same way
that you compare the situations of
any two sets of oppressed people"
Piscator, asked about the proba-
bilities of his return to his home in
Germany and the production there
Of the type of liberal plays he used
to produce. said that you can only
produce liberal plays in Germany
today in the cemetery. 1t makes it
much more convenient there for
every one"
But, he is here to direct War and
Peace in its Gilbert Miller produc-
ton. And, then to see his new play
about Nine. Curie and radium pro-
duced. The musical accompaniment
of the latter is by Kurt WE'LL, the
composer who collaborated with
Maxwell Anderson on the current
hit "Knickerbocker Holiday and
who collaborated with Piscator in
Berlin.
This is just the story of a the
atrical refugee i. A refugee named
Piscator whose name is listed next
to DR.. Einstein in a Berlin book and
who began travelling from home
when DR.. Einstein did. Princeton
or Broadway, here is a refugee.
Evening star., 1939-01-22

shuffled around-like Bert Williams
but mostly he stood still, looking
at me. The next morning, when
we were getting ready to steam
away, I looked toward the shore and
saw a black spot. I grabbed the
glasses. It was Moloney! He was
standing right where I'd left him.
II was rowed back to shore. When
Moloney saw me he tapped his
wings and squeaked with Joy. He
rubbed his beak against mine. What
a reunion!"
Most actors occasionally relax
during an interview. John never
does. He dramatizes every story
and every line, with gestures and
Evening star., 1939-01-22
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Four prominent Hollywood actors
have banded together and formed
what they call the S. P. o. de H. U.
M-the Society for the Protection
of Olivia de Havilland from Unde-
sirable Males.
Self-appointed, the S. P. o. de H.
U. M. is composed of Olivia's four
closest male friends in the film
colony: Donald Crisp, Basil Rath-
bone, Claude Rains and David Niven.
1t has set up for itself a single pur-
pose: To approve or disapprove all
males seeking Olivia's favor.
Exactly what the effect of the
Evening star., 1939-01-22
Olivia Gets Protection

society's approval or disapproval Of
a man may mean to the Warner
Bros. actress has not been made
clear.
This much is known: Whenever
it is reported that Olivia has been
taken to a night club, cafe or theater
by new escort she is deluged by a
series of kilograms reading, IS P. o.
de H. U. M. has met and considered
the name of the gentleman with
whom you dined last ngiht. The
society hereby serves notice that it
approves Cor disapproves) your
choice of a dinner escort"