Evening star., 1940-03-29

~ "SAS AASS. ~ 40 always POpPlllk
up again to fling an old, habby cliche
right in the teeth you have barred
while laughing at Mr.. Mccarthy
and Co. The cliches it filings are
gathered rather sketchily into an
account of the murder of a magazine
publisher after the usual array of
suspects has been paraded be-
fore you.
Laughing at Charlie Mccarthy on
those occasions when he manages
to be funny in spite of everything
may put you in a mood, of course,
to enjoy the thought of all these
people working like mad things on
motion picture and keeping their
faces straight while doing it. But
even though the players have man.
aged to keep their faces composed,
We'll bet it is a good thing Charlie
Mccarthy, Detective" was not filmed
in technicolor. Blushing would
have been difficult to conceal.
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Publicity gags which are pro-
NOTED in New York usually are of
no interest around here and so are
not discussed in the local drama
columns. But some very odd things
were going on yesterday afternoon
at Manhattan's Music Hall Theateri
and we feel you ought to know
about them. After all we had to
read the story which United Artists
sent down and you may as well
ponder it, too
This particular business was held
IN connection with the New York
opening of "Rebecca," the film ver-
sion of the Daphne du Maurier
novel. AS you no doubt know, the
story is written in the first person
and Rebecca is the teller of the
tale, never, of course, being seen in
the film. So board OF Judges
lurked in the Music Hall lobby ves-
terday looking for likely candidates
to invite to participate in a contest
to select the New York woman most
closely resembling Rebecca.
Just how those approached re-
acted to the thought of resembling
the little girl who wasn't there is
something We would hate to guess,
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Tonight new first scene will
start Heavenly Express on its way
II all has gone we'll since Producer
Kermit Bloomgarden discussed it in
the National lobby and Director
Robert Lewis talked of it on F street
yesterday afternoon. AS it has been
up until now the fantasy has
started off on an indefinite note
which has given audiences no hint
that they are supposed to have the
fun they should have with the
Overland Kid and his Heavenly
Express which disrupts the Santa
Fe by whooping up and down its
right of way 1000 miles an hour.
With the proper start in the first
scene and with few more hints
cast here and there through the
script that 1--WE are all of us tramps.
I've even heard it said that the
earth We live on is a tramp in the
heavens" both Mr. Bloomgarden
and Mr.. Lewis feel they have some
thing here. And this corner agrees
heartily.
Shooting from the Cuff Note
from Jimmy Lake: Tried all day to
connect you by phone Rosita Rovce.
appearing at the Gayety this week
in her Worlds Fair Dove Dance"
threatens to break Peaches Brown
ing's record for box-office atten-
dance. All dove dance" con-
noisseurs please do right by our
Rosita and 60 down and help break
that record Sidney Lust is pre-
sentlng another talent night" to-
night at BIS o'clock at the Cameo
Theater in Mount Rainier, Md.
There will be cash prizes for first.
second and third place winners
From Sonny Kendis, the piano wiz
ard whose orchestra was magnet
for the Raleigh's Pail Mall Room
couple of seasons ago, comes an
other communique Sonny and his
crew have just returned from De-
trolt to open at the Nine O'Clock
Club in New York and he SAYS hello
to all his cronies here and drop in
and see him Casting notes:
The Long Voyage Home which
John Ford is making. gets two of
the Abbey Theater's most distin-
guished players. Barry Fitzgerald
and Arthur Shields. And Albert
Basserman. the German refugee
who scored such hit in the Edward
G. Robinson film. Or. Ehrlich's
Magic Bullett," stays in HOLLYWOOD
for a role in what is still known
as Personal History" The Doris
Dudley who comes to the National
Monday in the popular price en-
gagement of Clare Boothe's Mar
gin for Error is the same Doris
Dudley who was important in NV
Dear Children" while Mr.. j. Barry
more and Mrs. J. Barrymore were
not on spanking terms.