Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-26

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edge of their seats, shrieking with
revived by the Marx funsters for tn
Neglected in recent years, it was a
It's master was David w Griffith, WI
time, with the Notwithstanding
action heightened by clever use of
the cutback.
The Makes didn't relish a chase
because that is too standard for
comedies. So they evolved a race
which takes place on an 1870 train
Walter Woolf King and Robert
Barrat, the villains, speeding for a
frontier town where they plan to
fleece hero and heroine. Addison
Randall and Diana Lewis. The
romancers are racing in buck
board drawn by two sturdy horses.
The Marxes are on the train trying
to slow down the iron horse" to
let the lovers win out. And that's
where most of their mad comedy
congregates.
Humphrey Bogart won himself a
"smart-actor" rating when he de-
manded an immediate investigation
of those Red" charges+and got it..
Bogart and his agent practically
met Martin Dies at the train. A
few hours later he was 100 per
cent in the clear and his picture
with Dies was being wired around
the Nation. M-G-M is exerting
strict supervision over Judy Gar
lands after-hour activities, due to
widespread criticism of her re-
peated and late night club appear
ances. Lana Turner's movements
are also under the publicity depart
ment's eye. Every time Lana makes
a date she must first get studio
okay on both the place and the
escort.
Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino
are playing one-expression, dead
pan characters in High Sierra"
and from early reports it looms as
one of the strangest dramatic two
somes on record. Bogart is just
out of Jail and they have taken
everything out of him. He doesn't
express or react. I'm going to
play it with that one fixed facial
expression all the way through"
said Bogart. Lupino says she's play
ing her first half as silent, life
less creature with no interest in
what's going on. This scheme up
sets every Hollywood tradition.
Most actors feel they must go
overheard to keep audience inter-
est-and here's a pair underplay-
ing their performances to the very
utmost to attain the same goal.
Robert Benchley will begin his
meanderiugs through the Walt Dis
ney studio soon and a cameraman
will be right on hand to catch his
every move. Benchley's inspection
trip will form the background for
Waits new cartoon feature, The
Reluctant Dragon" =. Tyrone
Power gets up at $50 instead of
$50 every morning for THE Cali
fornian." Those extra 60 minutes
are devoted to the hairdresser's curl
ing irons, for Ty is a kinky-haired
hero in The Californian" which
is the old Douglas Fairbanks hit,
The Mark of Zorro" made over
with comic possibilities stressed.
The smashing success scored by
Wendell L. Willkie in an earlier
Information, Please short has led
R-K-O to make another. 1t will be
released october 4, month before
election. . . Charlie Chaplin is
demanding an exhibition plan on
The Great Dictator" corresponding
to that given Gone With the Wind"
simultaneous runs in two big
theaters of each key city, one on
a two-a-day and the other on a
grind" policy. Charlie claims
total cost of s2,100,O00 and as almost
every nickel must come back from
this hemisphere, he's exerting every
possible precaution to forestall
losses.
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Along with the rest of the world,
Hollywood is getting keenly air.
minded. A brand-new crop of pic
lures concerned with combat and
other types of flying springs up.
Just finished at M-G-M is Sky
Murder" Nick Garter thriller with
Walter Pidgeon. 1t is made timely
by sicking Nick after criminal
band of fifth columnists. Next week
Robert Taylor and string of actors
go to work on Flight Command"