Evening star., 1941-04-14

Why-made no effort to find out
what his I. @. was. Whatever it is,
he is very modest about it.
Anybody" he said disarmingly,
can ask a question to which he
alone knows the answer. One of
the tough parts of this business is
that some one will start asking
their private questions of you"
The fancy, diSloyally to DR.. I. @.
sadly enough, Immediately turned
to that night on which the Messrs.
Kieran, Adams, Levant and guest
should gang Mr.. Fadiman on their
unrehearsed program and show him
up to be an awful dope. He isn't,
obviously, but DR.. L Q.'s observa-
ton set the mind going in that di-
rection.
The @. and A. man will spend six
weeks here. His lab for discovering
how agile is the brain of brain trust
town will be the Capitol Theater,
starting tonight at g. The program,
which will be broadcast from the
theater, gets around the country
that way.
DR., I. Q. and his staff not only
like the travel, which reveals Amer
lea to them, but they have developed
a high respect for the intelligence
of their fellow citizens.
They have no qualms about us.
No betrayals now!
X x X x
Another visitor who met the
press face to face was one of the
theater's grandest old men, al
though he gives one no impression
of being an old man 1t is just that
he has been in the theater SO years,
a number of years that seems large
The man who has been around
that long would be Charles Coburn,
who did his day of personal appear
ances at Keith's in connection with
The Devil and Miss Jones'" in
which he plays the devil. And very |
The questions one
asks of Mr.. Coburn turn out to
bear mostly upon his association
with the movies. After all those
years on Broadway and all those
others on tour, playing Shakespeare
and every one else before college
and other groups, it is hard to be-
lieve he is in the movies.
Mir. Coburn likes the movies, it
turns out. He likes Hollywood when
he is busy. 1t gets more and more
to be like home, especially with $50
members of the Lambs Club to
gossip and reminisce with. He also
likes personal appearances. You
miss audiences, you see, after having
been before them for half CEN
tury. Audiences are fine people.
When Mr.. Coburn says so, you
know it is without reference to
what they have deposited at the
box Office.
The movies loom more solidly in
Mr.. Coburn's life this year as
result of national defense. Always
before he took time off for the
Mohawk Drama Festival at Union
College, Schenectady. Schenectady
and Union are too busy with the
war to permit the old drama fes-
tival facilities to be used this year.
Mr.. Coburn will be busy, although
he will miss the old routine.
Not so amazing: When the boss
phone doesn't answer in show
shop today. don't be surprised. .
He is at the ball game. . He"
in a lot of cases being the guest
there of Sidney Lust. Who be-
lieves in large parties for opening
games. Warner employees, of
whom there are droves, will turn
mines, voCalists, dancers, jugglerS,
etc, for a night to put on their own
show. The night is that of April
26. Harry Anger is producing.
The lighting, props, costumes
and sets will be professional. :
The performers won't. .. Warner
FollieS" is the title of the produc-
ton. No one knows what the
content of the show will be. i
The Roxyettes, who have guest |
columned here in the past, may do
it again if they will. AS re-
viewers of Warner Follies." i
Any takers?