Evening star., 1940-05-08

to do it with the proper finish
before the camera, she wears the
same sort of footgear during re-
hearsals. What beating Ginger
used to take when she and Fred
were working up those dance
routines. Sometimes, I don't blame
her for having no further interest
In musicals; especially when she
Is going ahead so rapidly as q
dramatic actress.
Even though he does not blame
her, the director of the Astaire-
Rogers team in its artistic and box
ofice heydays is not entirely Ger
tain they should not be paired
again. They, like so many other
teams in musical pictures. were
victims of the overdose Of such
films which turned the public
against them. Musicals have been
fed to the customers much more
carefully in recent years, however,
and Mr.. Sandrich Is not sure the
time is not ripe, maybe, for new
merger of the talents of his once
highly successful starring team.
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AS the director of Buck Benny
Rides Again." Mr.. S. can tell you
how very simple 1t is to get an idea
for such a picture. 1t goes like this:
westerns, not to mention bur-
lesques of Westerns, have been
bringing lots Of money into box Of
fees lately. That was one considera-
ton. The other was that Jack Ben
ny's radio program never was more
successful than when he was doing
that zany serial, Buck Benny
Rides Again What could be more
logical than putting the two to-
gether and making picture around
the idea?"
Nothing we could think Of could
be as logical, nothing on day too
warm for thinking, at least. We
admitted Mr.. S. had us there.
That's all right about the Road
side Theater not having Richard
Creyke as business manager this
year. Let Mr.. Creyke 60 on to
other things, the Roadside has a
new business manager in the shape
OF Dan Terrell, a highly expert
enced shape for a business man
ager.
Mr.. Terrell, it should be recalled
from the amount of publicity he,
his son and his cocker spaniel have
had in drama pages, was associated
until recently with the publicity
department of Warner Bros. Be-
fore that he was critic of sorts
i'll sorts, we sort of remember-and
since then he has been director OF
promotion at American University.
He will continue in the latter post,
his association with the Roadside
representing a kind of sabbatical
from higher education, If saying
1t that way does not sound churlish,
which certainly Is not intended.
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Aside to Mrs. Florence S. Brooks:
The scene to which you refer un-
doubtedly was removed in the edit
ing of the picture at the studio.
The film editor simply forgot to tell
the still Photographic department
of the deletion, which explains how
the still" in question happened to
be distributed to the newspapers.
1t does not happen often. but
when 1t does the newspapers do not
like it, either.
X X X X
Thanks to Fred Shawn, we now
know the name of the girl who
sang "Alice Blue Gown" 50 sweetly
on the actors fund benefit program
Sunday night at the National. {.
Lynn Allison it was. She works
for N. B. c., Mr.. Shawn thought
we ought to know. Family
Portrait" the Lenore Coffee-Joyce
Cowen drama based upon the life
of the family of Jesus, will be the
King-Smith Playhouse attraction
for five performances, beginning
tomorrow night. Martha Nash
heads the student cast in the role
Of Mary, the Mother The part
was created last year on Broadway
by Judith Anderson, the production
co-produced, incidentally, by Day
Tuttle, director of the Washington
Civic Theater. The idea that
the right people will hear about
1t If you are good in the entertain
ment business finds support in the
case of Blue Barron, whose band
becomes the Capitol's stage attrac-
ton Friday. Blue and the boys
were playing on a showboat at
Troy, N. Y, when they started the