Evening star., 1939-07-10

nual big opportunity, the Capitol
Theater's Going Native" revue, du-
tifully presaging the coming event
already has arrived. Dancers, sing
ers, mimics, jugglers, unsung buses,
lariat experts, magicians and others
with talent are invited to start
brushing it up Immediately as
prelude to tryouts which will be an
nounced during the current week.
The specifications as revealed by
Manager Gene Ford and Division
Chief Carter Barron are the same as
in the previous six years of the re-
vue. Any Washingtonian over 18
years of age, male or female, anna
teur or professional, comedian, or
feeling like Walter Hampden, is
eligible to try out for the extrava-
ganza which has become an admired
and popular institution. Mr.. Ford,
who has directed the previous half
dozen revues, is anxious to get all
the variety and all the talent pos
sible for the seventh edition. Ac-
cordingly, many are called that the
few who are chosen may be mag
nifiicent.
Application blanks, to be filled at
the theater, may be obtained at any
OF the Loew theaters, from any radio
station, or from the drama depart
ments OF the local newspapers.
March of Time" which has such
frequent occasion to point with pride
that it has to forget what its mother
said about pointing, is doing it again
in connection with its next issue.
That one, which has a piquant
sound about it, will review 40 years
of motion picture history, using in
serts from early films to show what
entertained grandma in those days.
THE Movies March On" is the title
of the issue and among the mile
stones they will pass are excerpts
from THE Great Train Robbery, :"
The New York Hat" THE Fugi-
tive Titles Punctured Romance"
and Birth of a Nation
Clouds Over Europe which
sounds forboding but is rated as
high comedy for all that, will be
screened today for drama depart
ments =. 1t is Keith's next attrac-
ton :. And, according to Ray Bell,
Loew publicist, tomorrow will bring
either "On Borrowed Time" or
They All Come Out" to Fox's air.
cooled screening room If it is a
matter of choice, how about "On
Borrowed Time?" Don't call
the Palace, in fact don't call any
one, If you figure to have discovered
that straw-hat boner in "Goodby Mr..
Chips" They wear straw hats
all year around at some English
schools, so it is quite all right for
the boys to toss that variety in the
air on that November day when the
Armistice is signed-in the picture,
OF course -. Struggle hard enough,
and you can find a new angle on
which to hang any publicity yarn
-. The old style of handling the
one about the actor who has to
spank an actress in a picture was to
present him as rebelling. even to the
point of refusing the role it,. That's
out OF the spanking which
Walter Pidgeon gives Rita johnson
in Stranger Than Desire" the press
agent quotes Mr.. Pidgeon as enjoy
ing 1t :. He quotes Miss johnson
as saying she did not .. They saved
that angle for the next time >.
This Daughters Courageous" spirit
runs right into the stage show at the
Earle, according to one of our spies
. 1t seems, dis guy says, one Of
the skating Roxyettes fell and
bumped herself into a coma in
Saturdays last show :. Like any
one in coma, she just lay there
until Joe lombard, the baton man,
dropped his conducting and raced
across the ice to pick her up :.
Once on her feet, the girl slid right
back into line just as If nothing had
happened :. And If any one wants
to make the obvious answer to that,
speech still is free.