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Evening star., 1939-01-14
Tom Mooney Film
At the Trans.Lux

With the release of Tom Mooney
one of the weeks headline news
items, the Trans-Lux gives you a
bit of scoop with reel titled "The
Strange Case of Tom Mooney" A
collection of newsreel shots, COM
bined with few. still pictures having
to do with the story, it's an inter-
esting, and now a timely, item. 1t
tells the same story you've heard
before-including the evidence of
the clock, the periuring witnesses
and all the other familiar details
but it is story you will be glad to
review in this pictorial fashion.
Another story you will be glad to
review again if you already have
seen it is the Walt Disney Silly
Symphony titled Mother Goose
Goes Hollywood" And if you
haven't seen it, don't miss it.
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" is
a riot OF fun, one of the better
Disney shorts, and you are guar
anteed good double -spasm OF
laughter over Little Bo-Peep q Ia
Katharine Hepburn.
The rest of the bill is concerned
with the pictorial review of all the
news you have read in the past
week, bringing you everything from
homeless sharecroppers camping on
highways to pair of identical twins
getting their schnozzles prettied by
plastic surgery. H. M.
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Those Nice Hardys
Back at Columbia

If you have not met the movies
most engaging family, the Hardys,
the Columbia offers you another
chance. "Out West With the
Hardys" the current and fifth film
of the series is being called, a title
so descriptive that it rings strange
In ears accustomed to the usual
things Hollywood calls its pictures.
The change in locale has not modi-
fled the warm humanness of the
Hardys. Son mickey Rooney is
still the same comically cocky young
ster getting the same spankings
from experience. Father Lewis
Stone) is the same kindly, philo-
sophical parent and friend. Mother,
sister and the other characters in
volved are definitely unchanged
from the specification of nice people
running into everyday problems and
solving them in the standard way.
The emphasis of the film still is
the comic one. Assisting in the Gre
alton is newcomer, young Virginia
Weidler, who, as tomboy on the
ranch, gives Mickey some of the most
frustrated moments of his tormented
experience. Miss Weidler has to be
an accomplished actress for the
part she plays. She is an accom4
pliShed actress.
If you have not met the HardH,
you ought to. j. G.
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

NatiOnal-"Set to Music" Bea
Lille in new musical comedy by
Noel Coward: 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Palace-"The Cowboy and the
Lady, romantic comedy with Merle
Oberon and Gary Cooper: 1905,
2:30. 4:50, tbs and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Son of Frankenstein,' y
in which the monster returns with
more scary doings: 935, 1885 am,
1875, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
: Earle-"Say it in French" new
romance in the comic mood: II am,
LAS. 4:30. tbs and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, $3.50, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Capitol-"Artists and Models
Abroad" Jack Benny's new adven-
ture: II am, lao, 4:25, 7:10-a and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1855, $40
6:25 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"Sm the Spy
Ring" the story of just that: 1l:4C
am, lao, 3:45, $50, 7:50 and
9:55 pm.
Columbia-"Out West With the
Hardys," latest tale of the doings OF
the popular family: 11:25 am, 100
3:35, $40. TAO and 9:45 pm
TranS-LuX-News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Little-"The Edge of the World
drama of doomed people: II am.
Ito, 3:20, $50, 7:45 and 9:55 pm
Belasco-"Grand Illusion" telling
indictment of warfare: Ais, 6:O5,
and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-Newsa and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-01-14

did not use her last name of Carpen-
tier because it was the custom in
France to call well-known stars by
one name only. She was pleasantly
vague about when the divorce from
her French husband will be final.
'The whole thing takes about 10
months-I think"
There was only one subject on
which she really let herself go-and
that must remain a secret. Mr..
Zanuck told me not to talk about it,"
said Annabella. I respect her con-
f1dence-even though I disagree with
Mr.. Zanuck.
At the Santa Anita race track
IN the Turf Club Randolph Scott
escorts Mrs. Fred Astaire. poor
Fred, who thought THE Castles
would be in the can" by this time,
is still working) Bing Crosby
turns up the brim of his hat-all the
way round. Makes him look like a
little boy Basil Rathbone runs
to the cashiers window after his
morse comes in Mrs. Spencer
Tracy, who is on the same winner,
emits a weak shout Walter Con-
molly, whose face indicates he did
not bet on this horse, says sadly,
That was a 60-to-1 shot" Mrs,
Stuart Erwin whispers to her hus-
oand, I had a place ticket on that
race and I almost tainted" . Leslie
howard grabs the elbow of a lady
acquaintance as she goes to her box
-. And-as usual-I leave the track
Evening star., 1939-01-14
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

Nuthatches and creepers are love-
ly, Industrious little birds that voice
their contentment with jovial short
songs. They are always modestly
dressed, giving the impression Of
careful grooming, and, in fact, a
general air Of efficiency is con-
veyed to you at all times. The
leading field marks for identification
OF the nuthatches are their straight
bills (amost as long as the head
long and somewhat pointed wings,
though rounded at the tip, and the
colors. usually plain bluish-gray or
broWnish-gray above and buff below
Nuthatches occupy a place be-
tween the titmice and the creepers.
They are the most agile of climbers
and race over the tree trunks, face
OF a cliff or even a stone wall, with
no handicap at all as to slipping or
dizziness. Most of the time while
they are policing our trees they are
headed toward the ground, and
when they have methodically in
spected the area decided upon, up
the trunk they 60 again, and headed
down once more, take another strip
OF bark sure to be the anchorage Of
numberless insect eggs.
The family is composed of almost
40 known species and subspecies. It
Is chiefly an Old World family, and
four species alone reside In America
This little nuthatch is about AZ
inches long. The upper parts are a
bluish-gray and black, the under
parts white with a reddish tinge.
The crown is a uniform black with
a gloss of blue. There is a broad
white stripe over the eyes, which
extends from the sides of the FORE
head to the sides of the nape of the
neck and there is a black stripe
near the lores and upper portion of
the ear regions. You will notice
that this nuthatch is easily dis
tinguished from the white-breasted
cousin by the different color of the
under parts, the black and white
lines that run from the base Of the
bill to the back Of the head, and the
Evening star., 1939-01-14

lighter III the purse than when I
entered.
At the motion picture relief weekly
radio show. (The $4,000 paid each
week for is weeks will build home
for destitute former picture stars)
.. The best-dressed male-"M. c."
George Murphy, in black coat,
striped trousers and white carna-
ton :. Judy Garland sports a mas
sive purple orchid on her brown
tweed jacket. Other items Of the
Garland apparel include brown
pull-over, blue pleated dress, brown
socks and shoes :. Joan Crawford
wears three huge orchids and holds
hands with Charles Martin, her
newest and most consistent escort.
(Maybe she won't make that trip
to New York, after alb :. Photog-
rapher Hymie Fink explodes flash
light bulb over the Robert Mont
gomerys. Says Robert, in a loud
voice, THE perils of being an actor"
Clark Gable and Carole Lom-
bard look in for minute to give the
proceedings their blessing. Carole's
face is as somber as her clothes
which are black Being in love with
Mr.. Gable has effected change In
Miss Lombard's personality. She is
positively serious. (The smiles will
return when Mrs. Rhea Gable takes
that long discussed trip to RenoO
X X X
Dining at the Brown Derby
William Powell and his agent-on
the eve of entering the hospital for
that slight operation Cary Grant
with Randolph Scott (where was
Phyllis Brooks?) . Don Ameche
with his hair untidy and unoiled.
Its HollyWood's idea of Partisan
taxi driver" he explains (his role
In "Midnight') Janet Gaynor,
her mother and Adrian discuss their
trip to New York, Miami and the
West Indies And Buddy Ebsen
tells me that he bought parrot last
week. When I got it home I dis
covered it had one leg so took it
back" "He talks all right, doesn't
he?" said the salesman. Sure" said
Buddy, "but it's only got one leg"
What do you want" demanded the
other. "a talker or a dancer?"
Copyright, 1889, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-01-14

NuZZdnS a1Ier Cne DaTTdSc Ol IneW
that has laid all of us low during
these last few years. Say It in
French" Is pleasant enough little
conceit, with some bright flippancies
in its makeup, and If you are il the
mood it is quite possible that you
will find 1t harmless diversion.
Harmless, Of course, means it will
do you no irreparable physical dam
age; your soul is your own concern.
Say 1t in French" is the story
of a lad who brings a wife home
from France only to discover ne
must become engaged to another
girl to save his fathers shipbuilding
business. The other girl has fallen
in love with a chap of whom her
family does not approve and wants
to become engaged to the first
named fellow so she will not be sent
packing off to Europe, so it all Is a
very happy arrangement. The wife
even approves and gets a job as
personal maid to her husbands
mother, providing for some bed
room farce aspects to brighten the
picture.
There are really some moments
that are almost hilarious, but not
too many of them. And there are
other times when the would-be zany
dellrlum of the farce is brought off
with all the spontaniety of chess
game; times when Say It in
French" tries SO hard to be funny
that you would almost feel sorry
for 1t If there were not law of
self-preservation to make you feel
sorry for yourself first. You will
get the idea when you know that the
funniest sequence of the film is that
old, old standby, the keystone fin
ish."
Olympic Bradna, Ray Milland,
Irene Hervey, Mary Carlisle, Janet
Beecher and Walter Kingsford are
the principal players. Miss Bradna
is pert enough, though lacking the
slapdash 1t takes to play slap-happy
comedy, and Ray Milland tries hard
but 1t really is Miss Hervey who
does job of work. She plays "the
other girl so we'll she is almost con-
vincing in a character which has too
many opposing motivations to be
convincing.
X X X
The Earle's stage show is a litter
bugs jamboree, being provided by
Bob Crosby and his orchestra, which
the experts say, is one of the top
swing aggregations in the land to-
day. We wouldn't know aSout that
but we do know that the Crosby
music is pretty nimble stuff and
sounds like the best of whatever it
is; that Ray Baduc is one of the
best drummers we ever saw in ac.
ton, and that all the proceedings
of Mr.. Crosby and his Bobcats were
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Metropolitan's Film
Is a Topical Drama.
of Tripping Spies

Hollywood is a place of fashions
and cycles, but there are a few con-
stants in the business of f1lm-
making, and one is the principle that
topical cinema always is a good try.
The latest rush job of putting a
headline story on the screen in
f1ctionalized form now is on display
at the Metropolitan, and it is called
Smashing the Spy Ring"
There is little that is unusual in
this production, but a few melo-
dramatic sequences offer opportuni-
ties for laughs, and Chief Spy Ring
Smasher Ralph Bellamy accom-
plishes his purpose and marries his
loyal helper at the finish, which en-
ables him to fare better than the
girls brother, Warren Hull, who died
trying to expose the plan stealers.
Before that happy ending, however,
Mr.. Bellamy and Assistant Regis
Toomey are required to pose as aero
plane mechanics and employ such
aids as faxed death and simulated
amnesia to achieve their commend
able ends.
Smashing the Spy Ring" wastes
many feet between thrills, and the
excitement, when it comes, is routine
brand. Columbia undoubtedly did
not intend it, but Mr.. Bellamy is very
amusing when he explains to Fay
Wray through dialogue out OF the
file that her brother died hero's
death and that he and the rest of
the boys must carry on. With Ralph
as the featured spy hunter, the
producers might have had some
thing if they did burlesque.
The bargain package of shorts
contains a Floyd Gibbons thriller,
Edgar Kennedy comedy and an item
starring Songstress Wini Shaw and
Burlesque Comedian Rags Raglund.
G. A. M.
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Natures Children
Red'Breasted Nuthatch
(Sltta canadensis)

reddish-brown on the fanks. The
eyes are a beautiful brown and thev
dance with glee when they come to
an especially liberal cache of insect
eggs or juicy and easily captured
grub.
In the forest sections of Northern
North America and in the more
lofty mountains of the United States
where trees need their special at
tention, the red-breasted nuthatch
is busy from sunrise to sunset. Its
call note is slightly higher in its
pitch than that of the white-breast-
ed and 1t has one note that sounds
very much like "hut."
The nursery is unusual in that
1t has a coating of fir balsam or
pitch painted about the entrance.
Evening star., 1939-01-14

and an heiress who might have
solved the whole problem, a gigan-
tic gem robbery, and Several contre-
temps like that.
For purposes. of becoming a ro-
mantle lead, with Joan Bennett
playing the rich girl in the case, Mr..
Benny has been dieting or taking a.
lot of exercise. No matinee idol
even now, he has lost enough weight
to fit the role with reasonable
credibility. He handles his part,
however, with too many races of
what must be his radio technique,
Much more at home before the
camera, which is what he ought to
be in view of his long and varied
experience, Is Charles Grapewin. Mr..
GrapeWin Is very amusing in the
part of an American oil magnate
who gets involved, incognito of
course, with the vaudeville troupe
just for the sake of fun. Miss Ben
nett carries on we'll enough in the
role of the heiress. Others who
turn in satisfactory performances
are the Yacht Club Boys, Mary Bo-
land, Fritz Field and Joyce Comp
ton.
The big production number Of
Artists and Models Abroad" a
beauty pageant and style show in
which the ladies and their clothes
are brought together on a conveyer
system copied after a motor car
plant assembly line, turns out to be
a pretty static affair. 1t was such
an elaborate stage and Paramount
had many beautiful girls in various
attitudes of dress and undress to put
upon it that the studio is hardly to
be censured for keeping the cameras
focused that way so long. Hardly
to be censured, we said.
The stage show is variety in a
much broader sense Of the word
that usual. Its neadliner is vocal
ist Josephine Huston, who is most
becomingly lighted as she most
charmingly sings group of num-
bers that ranges from torch to
swing. For comedy, a bit more subtle
than usual (thanks), there are
Benny Ross and Maxine Stone who
have been deserving pair for a
long time and still are.
The dancing item is taken care Of
most lavishly of all. The Whalens,
Maurice and Betty, turn out to be
one of the kind of adagio teams you
have been yearning for. graceful and
much more resourceful than the
average.
Chester Hale's Comets turn in
their usual three precision routines,
all of them exceptional and with
the second number one of the most
effectively lighted, costumed and
danced affairs since the groups af-
filiation with the theater began.
Evening star., 1939-01-14

What this is for we do not know
1t must have a meaning and a good
one. Few, except ardent bird lovers
and those who visit the Canadian
forests, have known this lovely little
bird more intimately than from a
casual meeting.
The nests are in holes of dead
trees or in stumps. The trees run
to poplar and birch and the nut
hatch may build his cozy home
anywhere from 4 to 20 feet or more
from the ground. It is lined with
fine grass and small pieces of pine
bark, large enough to hold from
four to eight grayish-white eggs,
thinly or thickly spotted with red
brown around the large end.
(Copyrisht. 1e3oJ
Evening star., 1939-01-14

MODELS Abroad" is VagranLly anus
Ing. 1t is no more than that and
may even be something less in spite
of the fact that Paramount's con-
struction department virtually re-
produced the Paris exposition to
make the background magnificent.
On the other hand, or between the
showings of the feature picture, to
be literal about it, there is a stage
show that manages in an unpre-
tentious way to be one of the most
agreeable things of its kind in a
long time.
Mr.. Benny's reputation as a
farceur, a soundly earned reputation,
apparently has led Paramount into
a modification of the original CAR
lists and Models" formula. This, the
second edition, is outright farce with
a minimum of music. It Is the
kind of exaggerated thing which
carries you back directly to the days
of keystone creations when the
funniest situation in the world was
the chase In which the beloved
rogues frustrated the unbeloved po-
liceman. 1t still is merry sort of
thing in its early stages, but when
1t becomes q practically unending
pursuit, the inclination is to drop
out of the chase and let the cast
have its fun alone,
Whatever it sounds like, that is
not to imply that the authors and
performers have not collabOrated
well on several bright situations
and dialogue The most stubborn
customer will have to join in the
merriment created by the Arst
escape of Mr.. Benny's troupe OF
American hams stranded in France,
Their flight from hotel, leading
into the Paris exposition's Palace OF
Feminine Arts. is very, very funny.
It was a mind with a nice feeling
for the ridiculous which conceived
the notion that, with the police on
their trail, members of the Benny
company should assume the attl-
tude of the various other dummies
dress and otherwise-assembled IN
the museum. The sequence is excel
lently played.
The sumptuously set tale is con-
cerned with the affairs of troupe
of vaudevillians lured to France
by the prospects of an exposition
engagement.
Lacking what it takes to impress
the French audiences, the troupe
falls upon lean, then leaner, days
until the last ambition left is to find
a way back to America. The pro-
cess of getting passage involves such
things as cumming up international
oil deals, starting, stopping and re-
starting a romance between Benny
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Via Syracuse

Muriel Angelus, English singing
actress who scored a success on the
London stage and now is on Broad
way in "The Boys From Syracuse"
in which she made her American
debut, has been given a contract by
Paramount. She will leave New
York for Hollywood to begin film
work as soon as the run Of the stage
play IA ended.
Evening star., 1939-01-14

best place in the
world to live in"
She as tw o
homes in France
both clos e d
now. She pre-
fers Hollywood's
sports clothes to
t h Sc of er
n a tive Paris.
(Although tn e
attractive pow
der blue sui t
and white rain
coat she wore to
lunch had Paris
labelS.) She eX-
Dlained that, she
Evening star., 1939-01-14
heartily Endorsed at yesterdays first

heartily Endorsed at yesterdays first
matinee.
Heartily indorsed, too, was Miss
Marion Mann, who must be one
OF the best swing songstresses there
is. Anyhow she had to sing five
songs before she could get away, and
we could listen to her sing five more
without getting tired. The bill has
one bright moment not provided by
the band, this that turn of foolish
ment done by Bob Williams mad his
amazing dog, Red Dust, which is
great fun no matter how many times
you have seen it.
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Claim Cars Dumuoed

Many owners of automobiles reuui-
sitioned by the military authorities
in France last September, at the
time OF partial mobilization, are re-
ported to be refusing to take back
their cars because they claim the
machines have been damaged.
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Say 1t in French,' at Earle,
Is Light and Summery
If Today Is the Day for Summer
Entertainment; Bob Crosby
And Band on Stage
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

There the ooftops the street and that all
that hearing "Say
entertainment For that just about what the picture
Earle is You it in French it Esquo
French" screwban along time
to rate
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Tough on Actors

Japan is considering a law by
which any motion picture actor
who does not please the authorities
may be removed from a studio.
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Annabella Wants Approval
OF American Audiences
Star Sincere About Her Career;
Players Turn Out for Day
At Santa Anita
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.


Dear diary Lunch with Annablaightly mared by the pub
cly lad who pevh time this boached
love and However the said pubcst stated (after lunch
when Annabea had left
Annaba chamng
and there doubling
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Evening star., 1939-01-14
Many Comedy Geniuses Aid
Benny Film at Capitol
But Artists and Models Abroad
In Only Vagrantly Amusing;
Stage Show Is Excellent
By JAY CARMODY,

number of the couns eenuses for comedy lend
which
the Sunday ngtat7 its
Lindsay Russell and Englnd writer's
original story aar combination like that
Evening star., 1939-01-14

She adores Hollywood-"it is the
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
PLAY NO FAVORITES

Seventy three years ago, the capt.
tai stock fire insurance companies of
this country has issued policies totaling
less than 1900, 600, 900, and their an
nual premium income was $4,000, 900.
Today capital stock fire insurance car
ries the responsibility for more than
$60,000,000,0 900 in property values, and
premium income totals $3.50, 000, 600.
That speaks well for the soundness
of this great industry. And it is evil
dence of the growth and development
of the United States. For fire insur-
ance is an essential factor in every
commercial venture. 1t is the backlog
of all credit. Who could loan money to
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
"WEIGHTS ON ANDY
JACKSON'S GRAVE

In a recent column, Paul Mallon,
the well known Washington commen-
tator, said: weights will probably be
placed on Andy JacksoA's grave so he
cannot arise against these three rev
financing proposals which would come
somewhere near creating a quasi
United States Bank (the Mead bill for.
small business loan insurance, the capt.
tai financing proposal for big loans and
the public works Financing for build
ing.)"
1t may be that some of these pro-
posals IRE designed to serve a neces-
sary and deserving end. But there is a
very evident danger in a method of
achieving such an end which further
extends the power of the government
over the banking structure.
The money in Amerca's banks be-
longs to the people. And, under our
private banking system, it is controlled
by the people. No type of business is
more thoroughly or more stringently
regulated in the public interest. Every
conceivable safeguard has been Great
ed to assure the despositor safety for
his savings. rI
A very different situation weuld
obtain once politics got banking firmly
under its thumb. 1t would be possible
to use the money of the people for any
political ends desired. The existing
safeguards would necessarily be weak
ened. And the public-with its millions
of bank accounts, and its billions Of
savings-would be the goat.
The Omaha guide., 1939-07-15
UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL

There can be cooperation in the
hard pressed dairy industry said F. II.
Sexauer, President of the Dairymen's
League Cooperative Association of
New York, recently. There can be CO.
operation between dairy groups, and
tn federal and state governments. And
he added these significant words:
Three months of united effort will
find us we'll on u way toward rebuild
ing prices. Three months of division
and fighting among farmers will lead
us to continued low prices"
In other words, it's up to the. iadi-
vldual producer. He can work With his
neighbors, through dairy marketing
c~ooperaties and make his influence
felt. Or he can succumb to despair,
and take what come. Luckily Judging
by the past history of the cooperative
marketing movement, he will take Che
first course-and get results. +,