davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-04-18

oo"o iiio 'oASe-Ile always was ABOUT
his height, and sits whenever he
can SO people will not notice his
lack OF inches. Mickey, who, in
cldentally, is now 10 years old, saws
ne damaged his voice by overmuch
yelling during his vaudeville davs
with his father. He is currently
studying voice production with a
view to deepening and mellowinp his
vocal chords.
Carlo turned down the third
script on "Ninotcha" with the an
notation IN. G." (no good. and is
now writing it herself in collobora-
ton with Director Lubitsch. An
interesting financial situation has
arisen over this picture. Lubitsch
ooeS not receive cent until the
movie is in production. Garbos
contract gives her s25O,OOO every
six months, regardless of whether
she makes picture or not. Her six
months is up at the end of April
so, unless "Ninotchka" begins be-
fore the first of May, Garbo starts
on her second six months. which
probably means another $3.50 900 for
one picture. This beats the record
set by Danielle Darrieux, who re-
celved 100000 for doing nothing
out await her first Universal pic
lure. Who said these foreign
actresses were not good business
women?
\ +
Deanna Durbin's much-publicized
ooy friend. Vaughan Paul, threat
ems 10 punch the nose of any one
referring to his friendship with
Deanna. Metro has come tn heel
regarding jeanette MacDonald's de-
mand for a three-month concert
TOUR: The only thing now holding
up Jeannette's new contract is the
httle matter of money. Jeanette
wants more.
me movie career of the Ritz
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Where and When
Current TheaterAttractions
and Time of Showinf

NatiOnal-"The Mother" women
look at war, with Nazimova: $50
pm.
keith's-"Three Smart Girls
Grow Up and Deanna Durbir
sings: Ills am. 1:2O, 1925, $50
7:35 and GAS pm. March of Time:
l, 3:05, $40, tbs and 9:2O pm.
Capitol Tee Follies of 1899, -
romance on skates, with Joan
Crawford and Jimmy Stewart: II
a m, las. 4:30, tbs and 10 pm
Stage shows: 1926, 1920, sos and
$50 pm.
Earle-"Dodge City," Sheriff Errol
Flynn finds excitement in the old
West: II am, 1:35, Ais, 6:55 and
9:4O pm. Stage shows: 1855, 3::35
6:15 and 1855 pm.
Metropolitan "Women in the
Wind Ladybird Kay Francis goes
adventuring: 11:55 am, 1855, 3::55
5:55, 7:55 and 9:55 pm. q
Columbia -" Sergeant Madden, ,
Wallace Beery dons a brogue and
joins the force: 11:45 am, 1:45
$50, $50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Palace-"Midmght," gay love COM
edy: II am, los, 3:l5, 500, 7:3C
and $40 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con.
tlnuouS from 10 o'clock.
Little-"The Lady Vanishes," sus-
pense by its master, Alfred Hitch.
cock: II am, 1885, 2:4O, ABS, 6:3:
and 8:35 pm. Pearls of the Crown,
more of Sacha Guitry fun: 10 pm.
Open -Air-"Youth Takes a Fling
romantic comedy with Andrea Leeds
tbs and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1939-04-18

put see MS drama as a prophecy OF
what has taken place in the last few
months in Central Europe. Yet uni
versal in its way is his story of the
effect of war upon the mother who
remains behind to count the dead
among those who go forth to fight
for principles in which men alone
can believe.
The Mother is more by far than
the drama which one usually en-
counters. 1t is that beyond the ex-
cellence of Nine. Nazimova's per-
formance and the performances Of
other members of the cast. It is
so because what the playwright has
to say, posthumously, has a peculiar
applicability at this moment, when
men may march again to die for
things which perhaps are not worth
the high faith which they bestow
upon them.
The Mother" a drama of Wom-
ans reaction to war and its waste
OF human life. is not to be Judged
as are those which usually fit across
the Nationals stage. Much too near
the moment is it for any such thing.
Mr.. Capek, splendidly interpreted,
is concerned with two values. They
are heroic death on the one hand.
human life on the other. The two
represent the points of view of the
sexes. Man. the warrior, sees the
former as worth while. Woman,
the mother, sees the preservation
OF human life as the only desirable
thing. Not for her admiration is
the thing in husbands and sons
which makes them enter the arena
OF death. Nine. Nazimova makes
that clear with one of the finest
performances of her career, one in
which the dramatiS permits her to
speak for all those of her sex who
remain behind to read the casualty
lists. That one is conscious of the
fact that Nine. Nazimova is so
speaking Is tribute to the potency
OF her performance, for The Moth
err has too much of an identifica-
ton with the whole of the gentler
sex to make individual recognition
easy. The same may be said of other
members of the cast, especially Regi-
nald Bach (Baish to you. not Bach)
as the father, Stephen Ker Appleby
as one of the sons. and to Mont
gomery Cliff as the youngest child
of the family, the only one of four
males spared to his mother.
Mr.. Capek's play is an eloquent
piece of writing No simple preach
ment has he indulged. He wants tc
know whether the principles for
which his male characters give their
lives are worth it.
In the first two acts the answer
OF the playwright seems to be that
life, in itself. is the thing to oe
preserved; that principles may per-
haps be ignored. That is the angle
which gives the play its title, The
Mother" In the latter part of his
play, however, Mr.. Capek seems to
come around to the conclusion that
since death is inevitable, it might
as well be in a cause that can be
written down as heroic.
His play. as a consequence, is
better in the earlier intervals when
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Banquet to Feature
Stage Show Acts

Thanks to the generosity of the
performers and theater manage
ments. acts on next weeks bills at
the Earle and Capitol will be seen
and heard at the father and son
banquet at the Hotel Mavf1oWer
next Sunday night, according to
Sidney Lust. chairman.
Both the Earle and Capitol man.
agements have given their blessing
to the loan of their vaudevillians
for the occasion. Those who will
take part in the annual party will
be announced later.
Entertainment will include not
Evening star., 1939-04-18

only these guest stars" but also a
wealth of other professional and
amateur talent. Kenneth Sheelor,
the magician; Brooke Johns, a
squad of performers from the
Johnny Jones Show, and Ida Vic
toria Clarke are among those who
will entertain.
Evening star., 1939-04-18

Brothers seems to have evaporated.
There is nothing scheduled to follow
up The Gorilla the picture they
did not want to make Katharine
Hepburn has the last laugh on Hol-
lyWood. Her stage success in 'Phila-
delphia Story has started a con-
test among local studios to sign her
up-at her own price. Six months
ago Katie couldn't get so much as
glance from quickie studio!
(Copyright. 1889, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1939-04-18
New Group Stages
Comedy TONIGHT

The Powell Players of Columbia
Heights Community Center make
their debut tonight in For Pete's
Sake" farce by Jay Tobias, which
they will stage at Powell Auditorium,
Hiatt place and Park road.
Paul Messink has directed the
comedy. The cast includes Eve H.
Browne, Sylvia Token, Walter
Grouse, Charles GRADER, Dane Baldy,
Emma Kennedy, Charles Lazarus,
Sidney Salins, James Baxter, Robert
Hanlon, Dorothy Witt and Martha
Estinopal.
For Pete's Sake" starts at 8:15
o'clock and there will be dancing
| after the show.
Evening star., 1939-04-18

STANTON 9th and Sts NE
SAHAN Wv Finest Sound ruuipment
.,,, Continuous From ) 80 PM
Inc Duke of West Point"
With LOUIS HAYWARD. JOAN FoNTAINE.
Also
king OF ALCATRAZ,"
With GAIL PATRICK and LLOYD NOLAN.
STATE-BETHESDA fs;S R:,s,,S,, %is- ,.S Ays:
AT and $40 P.M.-PRESTON FOSTER,
smashing the Rackets."
7:15 and $50 P.M-GLENpA FARRELL.
,Torchy Blame in Chinatown
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Van Dyke Sees War Near;
Bets, but Hopes to Lose
M.G.M Director Gets 39.to.1 Odds:
Now It's His Voice That Causes
Mickey Rooney Alarm
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOII.XINOnn


Woody Van Dyke, Of directors in HOLLYWOOD will col
from Loyds country war within the
eA i've Gays Inc
SO offering against Woody equally
Is imminent but tells he
eS MS 81 ooo pet Mickey Rooney
Evening star., 1939-04-18
The Mother,' at National,
Is Powerful Drama
Capek's Posthumous Play on War
Raises Questions of Peculiar
Timeliness as New Strife Looms
BY JAY CARMODY.

Long before he died aecaly long enough Karel capek
end of Czechosovaka could
The Mother starring Nine ALA Nazmova
large and enthusiastic audience
its opening in New York speaking in terms
broad than those relating could ep
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Mr.. Chips Challenges Critics
To a Little Limb Walking
And So Does the Movie Version
Of The Mikado,' Made in England;
Young Lincoln On Its Way
A MUS E M E N rs.
By JAY CARMODY.

Limb walking which is getting
crash behind
citizens Highest to undoubtedly
writing Every day the Walter McCaum
they have equivalents risk that lump the which
comes from having to eat their
In the department of criticism the risk
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Keith's-"The Mikado," picturiza-
ton of the beloved Gilbert and
Sullivan classic: 11:40 am, 1:4O,
$40, $40, TAO and $40 pm. s.
Capitol-"The Return of the Cisco
Kid" out of the West comes that
dashing caballero: IL am, 1:45,
4:30, 7:20 and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 1910, $3.50, 6:l5 and 9:05
pm.
Earle-"Only Angels Have. Wings" :"
love and danger in the air: 1918
am, los. 3:25, $50 and 9:45 pm.
Stage shows: 1925, 3:15, 6:10 and
9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"Man of Conquest"
life and love Of Sam Houston: II
am, 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and $50
pm.
Columbia-"The Gorilla" zany
comedy with the Ritz brothers:
1905. 2:05, 4, 6, 7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Palace-"Rose of Washington
Square," romance with nostalgia
music: 1920, 2:40, 4:55, tbs and
9:35 pm.
Little-"We're Going to Be Rich,"
action drama with Oracle Fields:
II am, 1:40, 4:25, ITO and 9:55
pm. Moonlight Sonata with
Paderewski's music: 1890, 3, $50
and 1885 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.
Open Air-"Frankenstein," hor-
ror: 8 and 1880 pm. "DracAa,"
more horror: o:10 pm.
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Charles Boyer Newest Heir
To the Heart Title
Since Love Affair He Tops the List
When 1t Comes to Pal lpitating
Feminine Hearts
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.


If Hollywood pubcists again dared
lover
the days candidate
In the of
other member of the tall handsome brigade
Evening star., 1939-06-05

Wltll 6lOS IlddC 2vAloS 1NlSllOlS
made New York and other drama
critics moan with pain. will be COM
posed of veteran Cross Roads young
sters. The Able of this revival Of
the comedy success will be Don Sis
Ter, seen last summer in the groups
productions of THE Ghost Train"
THE Ninth Guest" The Vinegar
Tree and The Old Soak" Peggy
Johnston, who screamed so Justify in
last years Ghost Train" and who
has seen service with the Civic
Theater and other local groups, plays
opposite him as the other half of
the title.
Others in the cast are Ruth May,
Charles Hohein, Edmond Evans, Ted
Field, Lewis Brott and Bob Langley.
And all are being guided through
their PAGES by Howard Wentworth.
the director who has made num-
ber of Pierce Hall Players shows
outstanding among local amateur
productions.
The towns two barn theaters hav-
ing met in fine spirit of co-opera-
ton and decided to alternate OPEN
ing nights, the Roadside Theater
does not enter the lists until next
Monday night. Then comes the
first rip-snorter of the season, a
mellow old mellerdrama titled The
Pioneers Daughter" or "Perils of
the Prairie" which runs two weeks
to start the season of at the red
barn on the Rockville pike.
OF the IL principals in the play,
7 are new to Roadside audiences,
recruited at this springs tryouts.
The only Washingtonian among the
newcomers is Ted Tiller, and he
can't be called a newcomer any,
where in town but at the Roadside.
His career started with child roles
when the Ramshead Players were
f1ouriShing and his marionettes were
something of an institution here
abouts not so many years back. In
1885 one-act play he wrote
cThirty Minutes to Co." unless the
foggy memory is foggier than usuaD
won the annual play tournament. A
more recent play of Ted's is to have
a pre-Broadway tryout at the Star
light Theater in Pawling, N. Y, this
summer. And he has been doing
some acting, too, in stock in New
York, on the road with a Sailor
Beware" company, in the New York
revival of Bertha, the Sewing Ma
chine Girl" and sundry other chores.
The feminine newcomer is Natalie
Evening star., 1939-06-05
City of Washington
Music Is a Hit

The Dave McWilliams Orchestra
directed by Davy Crocker, is scoring
decided hit on the nightly moon
light cruises aboard the City O,
Washington. Specialists with the
band include Mel Henderson. the
steel guitar artist, and Ralph Can
non. who handles the singing as
signments.
Marshall Hall Amusement Park
lately opened for the summer sea-
son, is proving popular with picnic
parties. The spacious picnic grove
has an open-air stage, which makes
1t especially suitable for organiza-
ton outings.
The City of Washington leaves
for Marshall Hall Park at 10 am
and 2 and $50 pm. daily, the 10
ana 2 o'clock trips stopping also at
Mount Vernon. The nightly moon
ilgnt sails at $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Few Movie Actors
Are Their Wives
FaVOrite Actors
HOI,I.vWNN1

HOLLYWOOD.
By the Associated Press.
mo man is hero to his valet" SC
the saying goes. Movie stars wives
feel the same way about their hus-
bands acting, at least around the
Warner lot.
A few preferences:
Mrs. John Garfield: Charles Boyer
Mrs. James Cagney: Ronald Col
man.
Lii Damita Flynn: Herbert Mar
shall.
Mrs. Wayne Morris: Enrol Flynn.
Mrs. Pat O'Brien: Spencer Tracy
Mrs. Frank McHugh: Bing Crosby
Mrs. Henry O'Neill: Gary Cooper
Mrs. Humphrey Bogart: John
Barrymore.
But there's an exception to prove
the rule. It's:
Mrs. Paul NUM-: Paul NUM-.
Evening star., 1939-06-05

audiences have always paid the
greatest reverence.
There is one respect in which
the screen version actually is su-
perior. That is in musical produc-
ton. Eardrums that have been
sprained trying to hear the lyrics
of those hilarious songs which
Martyr Green sings as KO-Ko can
have complete relaxation now. Mr..
Green's light voice finds the michro-
phone just what it needed, no mat
ter what MeSsrS. G. and S. may
be muttering to their neighbors in
Heaven about the machine age.
That should be good news to those
who have sat between the 9Th and
Goth rows in stage presentations of
the Green art.
It Is possible that some of the
more intense worshippers of the
original version may object to the
American accent which Kenny
Baker introduces among all those
pretty English ones. 1t is not a
perfect accent, but there are a great
many competent music critics who
will say of Baker that he has one
OF the most superb natural enuncia-
tionS in the popular singing busi-
ness. That should do something
toward smacking down even that
negligible quibble about the whole
affair.
The movie "Mikado" deserves that
vastly larger audience for which
Mr.. Toye aimed when he made it.
Young Mr. Lincoln" is wasting no
time getting to town 1t is the
Palace attraction following Rose OF
Washington Square" singing
engagement at the Earle is coming
to be good for two weeks
First Bert Granoff, now in his
second week, was held over
Next it will be the Virginians
The sextet will offer an entirely
new program next week The
next Tarzan picture, don't ask us
when it will come, is being hailed
as the greatest of the series
Which may, or may not, Illustrate
Johnny Weismuller in his de-
termination to be something more
magnificent than jungle man
OR would M-G-M dare Illustrate the
man whom the box Office shows is
the greatest Tarzan of them all?
Even should he suffer the de-
luslon that he ought to be Mr.
Chips or JuareZ?
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Local Drama GROUPS
Cross Roads Opens Tonight;
Roadside Next Week
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

NOW at hand is that night when the sawhat of 1899
out Of the realm of future
First from the locally
barn theaer down Baleys Va
The
Evening star., 1939-06-05

Core, Pittsburgh native, student OF
drama at Carnegie Tech and at Nc
Gill University in Montreal. Ex-
perience includes the Wharf Thea
ter at Provincetown. radio drama in
Pittsburgh and Washington, singing
IN night clubs in New York, Pitts
burgh and Montreal
The others who make their Road
side debuts next Monday night are
Charles Won Rosenberg, Eugene
johnson, Robert Carroll, Harland
Crowell and James Garrett, all of
whom have been on stages before
in various parts of the country.
. In the city:
The Troupers of East Washington
Community Center close their sea-
son with Oscar Wildes The I'm
portance Of Being Earnest" staging
it tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock at
Eastern High School auditorium
The cast, directed by L. Zaff Rogers
includes Ted Freter, Al Muehlhaus
AaSiiAS VA oolA, 1Nulll
Muehlhaus, Gus Wildt, Patricia Da-
Wis and Ernest johnson.
The Blackfriars Guild, through its
president, Adah May Brady, an
nounces its program for next fall
There will be eight plays on the
schedule, including "Tovarich,
outward Bound" "Busman's
Honeymoon" Shadow and Sub
stance" Our Town" What Life, ,
Brother Orchid" and Zeal of NY
House" Brother Orchid is the
comedy writer by Blackfriar Lee
M. Brady after a magazine short
story.
A new group called the Trenches
plans to present Americana French
favored comedy playlets here and
wants to contact interested players
Jeanne Farnes Benedict, former
protege of Sarah Bernhardt and
once with the Coincide Francois, is
the director. She can be reached
at Metropolitan 1850,
Evening star., 1939-06-05

IlO cdCh OOyleS, IuuGuel IldCIllneS,
bookmakers or just cock-eyed stran-
gers who are glad to take any ones
bet that a critics prediction of a
winning or losing movie is right. In
deed if there were no small, inner
voices to tell him what a fool he is,
the critic would not need to worry
much about his predictions.
1t is probably that degree of ex-
emption which is tempting so many
critics these days to predict that
"Goodby, Mr.. Chips" will finish
one-tWo among this years motion
pictures. There is no hesitation on
the part of any movie commentator
who has seen the film in venturing
that prophecy. And that goes for
this department which saw the pic
ture last week in New York.
The effect of the picture will be
more remarkable in the case of those
who have read the book than those
who have not. That is because no
truthful (Wel, maybe few person
who read James Hiltons enchanting
tale of simple SchoOlmaSter could
have seen screen drama in it. 1t
was almost the antithesiS of movie
material, quiet tale Of quiet man
to whom very little happened and
that little so completely lacking in
color it seemed beyond hope of
dramatization. In spite of that
seeming deficiency, "Goodby, Mr..
Chips comes from the screen with
its heart appeal intact, sensational
dramatization of the utterly simple.
If seeing words of it's merit is not
believing, seeing the film itself will
be.
Even If it represents sheer mulish-
ness, or whatever is the word for
being like mule, the end of the
current year will find this depart
ment standing pat on The Mikado"
as the years best musical. There is
none of that "one-two" hudging in
this determination to prefer above
all others the English-made techni-
color version of the most famous of
all light operas. 1t is inconceivable
that any one could write a more
melodious, comic Ito the point Of
happy buffoonery), and altogether
engaging version of boy meets girl
1t is quite as inconceivable that
anything SO lavish yet in excellent
taste could be created as a back
ground for such a theme.
There is nothing about the Geof-
frey Toye version of Gilbert and
Sullivan's most popular piece of
mirth and music to offend the most
sensitive admirer Of D'Oyly Carte
productions of the same opera. 1t
is played more broadly, sometimes
to the point of downright hamming,
but the gentlemen doing the playing
o,~n h. -
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Krupa to Swing
On Potomac Waves

Gene Krupa and his orchestra will
feature the moonlight and midnight
dance cruises on the S. S. Potomac
next Saturday, sponsored by Pi Phi
Fraternity as a pre-convention af-
fair prior to its conclave at the
Willard Hotel on August 1913.
The Potomac will leave the Sew
enth and Maine avenue wharf at
s:45 pm. and 1890 am. Tickets
may be purchased in advance by
calling Walter Sweeney at District
6459, or at the dock on the evening
of the cruise.
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Lew Ayres Back

Back from his European trip,
Lew Ayres reported to M-G-M to
begin preparations for his next
film, just set as These Glamour
Girls" in which he will be teamed
with Lana Turner, who played in
Calling DR.. Kildare" with him.
The story, by Jane Hall and Marion
Parsonnet, casts Ayres as a COL
lege undergraduate who throws a
bombshell into the social struc-
ture OF the school when he takes
a taxi-dancer, played by Miss
Turner, to the college prom. S. Syl-
van Simon will direct and Sam
Zimbalist produce.
Evening star., 1939-06-05

Fan mail and exhibitor reports indi-
cate the Frenchman has picked up
tremendous momentum in the last
few months, or since the release Of
his tenderly emotional Love Affair" E"
with Irene Dunno.
OF added significance is the fact
that everywhere in Hollywood Boyer
has become ''standout" among the
women gapers and autograph hunt
ers. Even those reared in the shadow
of celluloid glamour seem to have
fallen victim to the general mob
hysteria. Brown Derby mattresses
who never bat an eye at the arrival
of Taylor or Gable gush among
themselves in excited whispers and
get their orders all balled up when
the brooding Boyer turns up.
Extra girls have yawned in the
faces of other movie romeos. but,
when Boyer reported for work at
Universal the other day to make
THE Modern Cinderella" also with
Miss Dunno, l85 young women,
called for a big cafe scene, almost
stampeded in an effort to get within
touching distance of him.
Last Sunday afternoon, he snarled
traffic on Sunset boulevard and
tangled up quite few bumpers. On
his way to radio rehearsal. Boyer
was spotted in the rear of his big
black limousine. A mad race en-
sued. At every intersection, cars
driven or occupied by wide-eyed
women nosed against the limousine.
all stretching for a glimpse of the
great lover.
Just what has this Boyer got that
makes the rest of us males seem so
uninteresting to womankind?
He's small town boy who made
good in the big, big world. Figeac,
France, town of 5000 in the de-
partment of Lot, is his birthplace.
He was the son of moderately we'll
to-do dealer in farm machinery.
Acting came naturally to him, it
seems. He took part in all school
recitations and activities. His
father, amused at the boys leanings,
turned over the granary of his barn
for use as theater.
Young Boyer soon rose to the top
of his profession. He became the
idol of millions of French women,
and the reigning favorite of the
stage. he made his picture debut
in June, 1920, in small part in a
silent movie, "LHomme du Large"
He made several talking pictures in
France later.
Hollywood sent for him to play
leading roles in French versions of
American pictures. He learned the
English language rapidly and in six
months spoke we'll enough to be cast
with Ruth Chatterton and Ralph
Bellamy in The Magnificent Lie
Boyer's low, caressing voice,
smoky eyes, continental manners
and his acting ability add up to
something American women have
been waiting for. When the
Frenchman says Il loft you," mil
lion hearts do acrobatics. Amt he
grand!" the girls exclaim.
Of stage, away from the camera,
Boyer is as interesting as when he's
making love to some screen beauty
He talks intelligently and rapidly,
! punctuating his conversation with
Gallo gestures and shrugs. He is
quiet, reserved. almost shy in the
presence of strangers. He smokes
many cigarettes and chews gum al
most necessarily. Commissaries sell
dom get glimpse of him. He likes
to lunch in his dressing room.
Soon as he finishes The Modern
Cinderella" Boyer is going to France
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Teamed Again

Together for the first time since
Navy, Blue and Gold" Robert
Young and Florence Rice have been
cast as the romantic leads in
Miracles for Sale" Tod Brown
ing's new M-G-M picture. Frank
Craven also joins the cast which
has Henry Hull in a triple role.
Others are Lee Bowman, Frederick
Worlook, John Ticcovi, Suzanne
Kaaren, Armand Kaliz, Harry Ty-
Ter, Chester Clute, Fred Warren
William Demarest and Charles
Lane.