Evening star., 1940-07-08

First, she attacks him with a sickle,
a fine instrument for cutting down
actors, and when he disarms her, she
finishes the battle with a combina-
ton of wrestling and boxing tech
niques. At the end, Mr.. Overman is
stretched out on the turf, indicative
to us not of what a hellion Miss
Goddard is but rather that Over
man will throw bout If the price
is right. That De Mile!
Paramount, which seems to be
the fight style arbiter of the cinema
at present, has another mixed bout
before the cameras in the struggle
between Dorothy Burgess and Don
Brodie in Il Want a Divorce" Miss
Burgess wins that one, quite as Miss
Goddard does, but after all she and
Brodie are just a couple of tank
town scrappers who probably never
will make the big time where the
GoddardS and Overmans are fight
ing.
One of the most spectacular
pugilistic careers in preparation in
Hollywood is that of Bette Davis,
fyweight blond, who heretofore has
been sensation in other branches
of the cinema art. Miss Davis,
however, is in training now for her
portrait of Calamity Jane roist-
ering lass who was big shot in
cafe society on the frontier. Miss
Davis will have two goes at physical
combat in that one. What with
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Hum
phrey Bogart and few other fist
swingers like that around, Warmers
have perhaps the best faculty in
Hollywood for educating Miss Davis
in the now womanly art of slugging
it out with the other gal.
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, which last
year promoted the Goddard Russell
combat for fight fans, is ballyhooing
another right now which it prom
ises will be the masterpiece of its
career. The scrap in question is
that between Marion Martin, a
kind of mammoth blond, and Car
lotta Monte in Boom Town
The drama department may yet
be forced to borrow the Messrs.
Stan, Atchison, Hawkins, etc, from
the department of sports and chess
in order to get truly expert reviews
on coming movies! Then we could
60 out and cover one of those old
fashioned nfelodramas which the
Griffs lose daily at the stadium.
The pundit who unused into the
collar on his beer that the only
certain things in the world were
death and taxes never reviewed a
MacDonald-Eddy film unfavorably.
Otherwise he would have known a
third certainty, that disapproval of
MacDonald-Eddy film would bring
a flood of protesting mail to the
reviewer.
Prize for abusing this department
for not liking The New Moon" goes
this week to M. E. Lyon, with whom
we would like to maintain amicable
relations in spite of such a vigor-
ously worded difference of opinion
And to whom, by the way, we would
like to disavow prejudice toward
operetta in general. We dislike 1t
only when it's stuffy.
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Add Tony Muto's name to movie
men fascinated these days by the
beauties of Virginia: natural beau
ties, of course. A memo from Vir-
ginia Beach says Mr.. Muto and Fox
Movietone crew are shooting tech
nicolor profile of the Tidewater and
other sections of the State. which
will emerge as a travelogue mar
,, rated by Lowell Thomas.
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my Favorite Wife" which was to
have left Keiths yesterday, didn't.
-. The people won't let it, Hardie
Meakin wires Most exciting
event on today's schedule is the
screening of "All This, and Heaven,
Too" which comes to the Earle on
Friday =. Variety Clubs luncheon
today honors DOC" Herbst, oldest
Washington Snowman Does
u as you are reading this.