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Evening star., 1947-12-07
A Triumph Over Shakespeare
By Jack O'Brion

acting was admirably clear, incisive
and regal. She did not, however,
project the quality designed by
Shakespeare as the real moral
makeup of Cleopatra. 1t may very
well be that Miss Cornell is such a
great lady both on and off the
stage that she finds it impossible
completely to translate to the audi
Ience Cleopatra, who is described by
the conservative Brooks Atkinson as
a royal slut" In demeanor and
bearing, Miss Cornell could not pos
sibly be described as such, for she
seems in the play to be born to
rule and rant, possibly. but never
to romp unmorally.
Godfrey Tearle, magnificent
actor, has the physical structure,
the correct age, acting ability and
intelligence to portray the extreme
ly difficult role of Cleopatras war
rior lover. Kent Smith cuts clear,
clean swathe as the loyal Enobar-
bus, and I found his the finest con-
tribution of the evening, simplify
ing role which can be roughly
mlshandled. Lenore Uric as Char
mian has a light style which left
hardly any impressions whatsoever.
Ralph Clanton seemed slightly on
the belligerently callow side as the
Octavius Caesar and his angrily de-
livered level-headedness and calcu-
lating qualities might have been
served better. Still, with the mag
nificence of the settings as designed
by Leo Kerr, the ladies brilliantly
fashioned costumes from the hands
of Valentino and the mems from
John Boyt, superb direction by
Guthrie McClintic and the gener-
ally excellent cast. these are only
minor and marginal disappoint-
ments. What is important is that
Katharine Cornell's Antony and
Cleopatra" is fine theater, intelli-
gently presented and triumph
over Shakespeale's own literary
complexity.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Todav's Schedules

AMBASSADOR-"1t Had to Be
You: l, $40, 5:25, 7:35 and
9:55 pm.
CAPITOL-"Golden Earrings:
1855, 4:35, 7:20 and 10 pm.
Stage shows: Ills, 3:55, 6:35
and 9:20 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Body and Soul:
lis, 800, $40, 7:2O and 9:25
HIPPODROME 60 Green for
Danger: 2:15, 4:O5, $50, 7:30
and 9:10 pm.
KEITH'S-"The Secret Life of
Walter NIFTY: ITO, BIS,
Sis, 7:2O and 800 pm.
LITTLE-"Torment": 1:30, $50,
$50, 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
METROPOLITAN -" Arizona:
1855, 3:05, Sis, 7:30 and 9:40
pm.
PALACE Green Dolphin
Street.: 1:25, 4:o5, $50 and
9:30p pm.
PIX-"Roman Scandals: 1:55,
4:35, 7:20 and 10 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from l pm.
WARNER-"It Had to Be YOU:
l, 3:15, $50, TAO and 10 pm.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Durante Makes 1t on the Fourth Try
Many Ups Downs the Comedian
Lasting Hollywood Success

the only man to get inta da act"
and get away with it!
When Durante returned to Hol-
lywood in 1912, following his Copa-
cabana success and growing radio
fame, he met a mixed reception.
According to Richard Thorpe, the
director who has guided several of
Jimmy's films, including his latest,
This Time for Keeps" old-timers
knew and loved him.
But the younger generation,
mindful of Jimmy's background
(and what killed vaudeville) was
skeptical. 1t had to be convinced" :"
adds Thorpe.
Impossible to direct" with his
Illustration, simulated anger and
split second timing, Hollywood wise
ly has given Jimmy his head.
when he sings one of the songs
that he made famous in the 20s,
or does his routines." says Thorpe,
It set the stage, batten down the
matches and step clear. I call
action sit back and enjoy a ring
side seat!"
Foods No Problem.
His cheerful indifference to money
is reflected in a similar disregard
for other essentials, such as sleep
of which he averages five hours
nightly-and food, which plays even
a smaller role in the Durante de-
sign for living.
Bleakfast-if he remembers is
ore or two raw eggs, "for the VERGE"
Lunch consists principally of di-
gesting all the news he can read
from the armload of papers he
carries, including the racing form.
studied through horn trimmed
glasses. Dinner. at home, features
a main course of corn flakes, fol-
lowed by more corn flakes for des-
sert. Writers who gather for
hilarious evening sessions on scripts
work only as far into the night as
their constitution can stand the
endless bowls of cereal.
But Durante. of course, always
has claimed to be different. There
are" he boasts, millions of good
looking guys I'm novelty!'
(Released by North American Newspaper
AllianceD
Evening star., 1947-12-07
HOLLYWOOD.

Paulette Goddard is wearing
new look"-a domestic look-and
on Paulette it looks quaint. For in
stance, I found her in her dressing
room on the set of her latest pic
ture, Hazard" In the old days
Paulette would have been counting
her jewels. Yesterday she was max
ing a pair of bedroom slippers as
a Christmas present for husband
Burgess Meredith.
But don't get Paulette wrong-she
still has jewels. In fact, since her
marriage to Burgess the collection
has grown. The habit Of acquiring
Jewels is too strong to be discarded
Just because she's happily married
and is enjoying a new way of life.
Paulette, still In her new role,
says she never has played cards in
her life. To watch her fumbling
prettily during gambling scenes for
the picture-she plays gambler in
Hazard" is something I never
thought I'd live to write about.
Neither did Paramount. At Paulette's
insistence they hired card expert
to teach her how to shuttle and deal
the cards and how to play "21," poker
and roll dice. Between scenes Paul
cite couldn't resist dropping her
knitting-yes. she's knitting, too
to trim the pants off the experts.
Burglars Like Me-"
Burgess bought me wonderful
antique tiara in England" Paulette
tells me between stitches, land a
few other things. Now I have too
many jewels to keep them in a cigar
box at home. The insurance COM
pany says I have to keep them in
the steel vault at the studio" :"
Paulettes collection is insured at
more than $5OO,0O0. "They couldn't
be replaced at that figure" j." says Miss
Goddard happily.
It's an odd thing, but Paulette is
on the careless side with her jewels.
Yet she's only lost one earring in all
her collecting career Burglars
like me-" explains Paulette. Il be-
lieve they actually get a kick out OF
seeing me wear my jewels" I and
the insurance company hope that
Paulette never will think differently.
For so-called business girl,
Paulette also is lax In business
affairs. Il do most Of my business
by word of mouth" she tells me. Il
don't have tn sign contracts because
every one knows that what say,
I do"
Right now Paulette is doing some
fancy word-o f-mouth business to
play the top role In the movie ver-
sion of Anna Lucasta.' She
wants 100000 outright and 20 per
cent of the profits plus the right
to okay her leading man and di-
rector. Paulette will get the part
if Philip Yordan, the boy who
wrote it, has anything to say-and
he does. "Paulette in a play like
'Lucasta' can't fail to be hit" he
told me. The girl-colored in the
Broadway version-will be Polish on
the screen. That was Yordan's
original idea, anyway.
She's Publicity-Wise.
Until Paulette did "Winterset" on
the Dublin stage recently with her
husband, she never had toiled as
legitimate actress. But now, as
the British say, she's "had it'-and
she doesn't want to appear before
Evening star., 1947-12-07
HOLLYWOOD.


The most up-and- character
in the amusement world, a gro
tesquely featured little man with a
fog-h voice who has made four
attempts to conquer Hollywood. is
at last convinced that he's in the
movies to stay.
Jimmy Durante looms as one OF
the key figures in next years pro-
gram of motion pictures, spotted
in that position because he is sure
fire at the tricky art of making
people laugh. At 55, after series
of reverses that would have sent
a less courageous soul into seclu-
sion, Jimmy is set to ride the crest
of celluloid comedy in l947.
Never once in his IS years of pro-
fessional experience has Durante
veered from the conviction that
creating laughter and practicing
kind deeds would see him through
to success.
Il was eight years old and walk
ing down a New York street with
the other kids yelping at me when I
came to that conclusion" said jim
my, as he sat munching at bowl
of dry cornflakeS in the MGM COM
missary. Il was dressed in one of
those Buster Brown outfits the kids
all hated. I stopped and took look
at my reflection in a store window.
Well, I started to laugh. What else
could a guy do who looked like a
sissy and had a face like horse?"
This simple philosophy lies behind
one of the most fantastic careers in
show business, during which Du-
rante has made and given away
three fortunes and now is eXerting
every effort to get rid of a fourth.
Always Struts Back.
professionally" he chuckled,
they tell me I've been dead and
buried more often than hatchet." "
Each time, however, the corpse"
comes strutting back. 1t just isn't
possible to inter a man to whom
million laughs mean more than a
million dollars Today, with new
contract at MGM that pays him the
largest weekly sum he ever collected
in films, radio program with an
estimated 100000 listeners, more
personal appearance offers than he
can fill, home complete with SWIM
ming pool, Jimmy has reached a
new peak on his popularity chart-a
chart seemingly recorded by the
bouncing end OF a pogo stick.
That childhood ability to spot and
capitalize on the ludicrous has
progressed through the years to be-
come a stock in trade. when he
parlayed a nose and voice into
personal trade marks more lucrative
than any ever bestowed by nature.
It was Broadway, of course, that
did the big things for Jimmy. But
Evening star., 1947-12-07
By Harold Heffernon

! before he burst on the white way
surrounded by assassinS," he served
grim apprenticeship at Conev
Island, Harlem night spots, Diamond
Joe's and other saloons. Not yet
the Beau Bummel" he now claims
to be, he sported black turtle-neck
sweater, played "a sort Of razz-
matazz," the only audible results OF
classical music lessons paid for by
his father, an East Side barber.
Somewhere along the line he met
Lou Clayton, still one of the best
soft-shoe dancers. and singing
waiter, Eddie Jackson. Before any
one could say Jackson, Clayton and
Durante, they had formed the fabu-
lous trio, in which Jimmy starred
but always took last billing.
Broadway Stardom.
Their speciality was insult and as
sault-on patron, eardrum and fur
niture, preferably pianos. They
blasted their frantic way through
numerous clubs, including their own
Club Durant without the "e) and
the Ambassadors, which Durante,
for self protection, rechristened the
more easily pronounced "Rendez-
vous."
Finally came Broadway stardom
in Zlegfeld's Show Girl" Road
house lights" and THE New York
ers." But for the depression and
the death rattle Of vaudeville,
Durante probably would never have
turned his eyes Hollywoodward. Ac-
companied by Jackson and Clayton
who manages his business and
helps prepare scripts and his for
mer drummer, Jack Roth-noW an
inseparable companion - che re-
members things!') Durante in
vaded the film cSpital for an in
auspicious debut in Get Rich Quick
Wallingford."
At this point, the pogo stick be-
gan writing his chart, as Durante
alternated between coasts with
Eastern hits in Strike Me Pink"
and Jumbo and several films
which were not cut to the Durante
cloth. In 1896 he took time out
for successful tour of Europe,
during which he so impressed Sir
Harry Lauder that the indestruct-
ible Scot left his seat in the audi
ence to Join Jimmy on the stage.
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Paulette Has a New Look
It's Domestic One, Acquired Since Her
Marriage to Meredith
Rv SheIob Graham
By SheiIoh Grohom

the footlights again. "It bores me
to do the same thing night after
night" she explains. Il was In
'Winterset' for a month; after the
first two weeks I was ready to
scream!" Paulette, however. made
sure that the play would be written
up in the British press. She brought
over a boatload Of London critics
at her expense, naturally-includ-
ing famous Hannen Swaffer, to
review the play on the first night.
Paulette never is asleep at the
switch when publicity is to be had
even when she had all that trouble
in London over her hairdresser.
If you remember, Paulette took
Hairdresser Hedwig Mjorud with
her when she went to London to
star In "Ar Ideal Husband for Sir
Alexander Korda.
Il arrived at the studio one
morning and everyone walked out"
So Paulette went back to her suite
at Claridge's and hid Hedy. That
made 1t much more of a mystery
and, consequently, more Of news
paper story-until the British studio
hairdressers agreed it was okay for
Paulette to be coiffured by her own
girl.
Later-and here is side Of Pau
lette that few people know-Hedy
was sent to her native home at
Paulette's expense to visit with her
family. She also travelled with Miss
Goddard to Paris, where they both
set the gay city on its ear-liter-
ally. II introduced new hair style" :"
Paulette tells me, doing the hair
to one side of the face, with one
ear completely exposed. Some one
who was In Paris recently told me
that all the smart women In Paris
now are doing their hair like that.
No Hollywood Home.
In London, Paulette had the
duchesses on their knees-literally.
They loved my clothes and would
get down on their hands and knees
to touch my dresses and see my
American shoes"
At the moment Paulette has no
real home in Hollywood. She never
lives here between pictures, anyway.
Il sold my beach house at Santa
Monica. Buzz and I have three
room apartment in Hollywood that
we close up when we 60 away"
Home" to Paulette means a big
rambling farm in upper New York
State. Paulette bought 1t from hus-
band Buzz. 1t formerly was the
headquarters for general in 1872.
But Paulette has to do business
even with a farm-so she turned
the chicken house into an antique
shop They call it High Tor Asso-
ciates," after the nearby mountains
and the Maxwell Anderson play
starring Burgess. You can bet that
shop is paying of.
Everything does, including her
previous marriage to Charlie Chap
lain. Paulette is the only one of his
wives who received not only hand
some financial settlement from him,
but jewels and furs galore. With
Burgess it's something else. She
seems to have genuine affection
for the boy. In spite of few heated
quarrels this marriage seems to be
really working out. She looks very
we'll and very happy.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Broadway:
Lavery Drama,
Hartman Revue
Coming Up
Rx the Assoeiotsd Pres,

Emmett Lavery is the author Of
a new play premiering on Broad
way Tuesday evening at the Mans
field Theater.
A revue, starring the Hartmans,
fashionable comedy ballroom dane
ing team, is the weeks other hope
full arrival.
The Gentleman From Athens" is
the name of Lavery's drama, the
action of which takes place in
Washington, where the gentleman
of the title is a member of Con-
gress. Sam Wanamaker is the di-
rector, Ralph Alswang is the de-
signer, Martin Gosch is producing.
in association with Eunice Healey.
The cast includes Anthony Quinn.
Edith Atwater, Alan Hewitt, Feodor
Chahapin and Creighton Thompson.
On Wednesday Paul and Grace
Hartman, usually associated with
the fancier supper clubs and hotel
dining and dancing rooms, turn
their attention to the Broadway
stage when an intimate revue, in
which they are interested both as
stars and writers, premieres at the
Coronet Theater. The title, Angel
in the Wings" The sketches are
by Ted Luce, Hank Ladd and the
aforenoted Hartmans. Carl Sigman
and Robert Hilliard wrote the score.
Donald Oenslager designed the set
tings, Edward Nol the dances. The
cast includes Hank Ladd, Viola
Roache, Bob Stanton, Elaine Stritch,
Nadine Gae and Peter Hamilton.
The noncommercial theater also
will have Broadway first night
tonight, when Charles Laughton
lends his name, stature, ability and
good wishes to the first seasonal
premiere Of the Experimental The
ater of the American National The
ater and Academy at the Maxine
Elliott Theater. The play, "Galileo."
is an adaptation by Laughton Of
the Bertold Brecht drama about the
18th century scientist, and the cast
for the short run of the play in
cludes John Carradine, Joan Nc
Cracken, Wesley Addy and Hester
Sondergaard. T. Edward Hambleton
is producing for the Experimental
Theater. Joseph Losey is the direc-
tor
Evening star., 1947-12-07
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
1t is not a new discovery that
William Shakespeare fashioned a
spacious drama when he wrote An
tony and Cleopatra" which was re-
vived a few evenings ago at the
Martin Beck Theater by Katharine
Cornell, one of our reigning the
atrical queens.
But the very spaciousness which
provides the color and sweep of this
hallowed tragedy also presents its
own set of difficulties.
Just 10 years ago Tallulah Bank
head took a hapless fling at the
very Antony and Cleopatra" which
now serves Miss Cornell SO grace
fully. The only notable remem-
brance of that awkward fiasco was
q great swan dive which Tallulah
made after clutching the asp to her
bosom in the suicide scene. This is
hardly suitable memory to extract
from such a fine drama, but it is
not entirely to Tallulah's discredit
that her efforts a decade ago didn't
quite jell. To put it simply and
swiftly: The odds were against her.
Now we have Miss Cornell plying
her regal trade in a play which de-
pends on every component being in
tidy order. The male principals
must, be correct, physically and as
actors. The movement must have
a rhythm and flow, almost cine
matte simplicity. The scenery
should, heighten rather than dis
tract from the mood, and costumes
must suggest the richness of the
kings, queens and lesser royalty of
Greece and Egypt, and the lesser
players must be of high thespic
uniformity despite their small roles
A big order.
Miss Cornell, therefore, as her
own producer. must be congratu-
lated, and her husband, Guthrie
McClintic, must be thanked for his
superb staging. 1t is the latter, as
well as the acting of Godfrey Tearle
as Antony and Kent Smith as
Enobarbus, which gave me the larg-
est pleasure, although Miss Cornell's
Evening star., 1947-12-07
A Critic Looks Back
Atkinson's Scrapbook Recalls Dozen Years
of An Amusing Analytic Mind
By Joy Cormody


One of the challenges flung drama critics would
much prefer ingng the critics cliffs
something better?
day reply query modest
reviewing pocket
pull long list of titles which this already has been done
He will start perhaps with shaws Critical Opinions and Essays
volumes which have retained their popularity for half century
which deal with plays which otherwise would have
been dead equal interval.
There Are Dozens Such Books.
a titles by Beerbohn
a Nathan handful by John
Brown Burns Mantle number of others If the demon
feeling passionatey the time he
convincing writing about mostly bad plays
devils his field have produced surprisingly readable
books.
endurance only works of reference these
maddening headlines better
absolute to be this better may
not be good but provides one answer to question na also
very intelligent.
endessly surprising barely
Saturday night
surprises the reviewers who
perhaps every dis
compositions the paywrgts and their out of the
will both be forgotten within few days
Through a Dozen Years
discovery only half right
assumption the New York Times and
papers Scapbok" will be pub
lshed tomorrow by Theater Arts Inc
writings and extraordinarily
readable Broadway history in terms OF Its most nnuena
critic
embodiment virtues
Of his profession it evauate Atkinson the salts
fyng critic in the today He has remained
journalist especially determinedy inconspcuou His
identification him
clown wit or mimic of the exhibions he encounters He has
ubaney amusingy himself scholarly
himself seriously He accepts
responsibility intelligent just and just personal
enough trade that critics
judgments individual and faible.
is sometimes difficult for Mr. Aknsons colleagues
hend how their kind the readable
respectable Their rowdy huo kind Of studied
opposite expression aulous aesthetic dsdan their subject
equally far removed from his persistent practice.
dgnifed without being dull 12 later
"Broadway scrapbook" proves.
Welcomes the New.
IS field in his lively af-
theater world of ideas the
of
haughty limited his color tastes
While he himself reckless dscoverer OF the
collection of his Sunday dscloses
on his welcome when it arrives
William Saroyan to be
will the enthusiastic of the first
nghters herald refreshing jest Thornton Wlders The
Our Teeth"
gayly readable later And
Bergman after
years. critics puzzled whether she
great lovely 94o when
the legitimate heater In
Atkinson of her
Ingrid Bergman with incompatible
making her first
pulsng grace time will praise
Bergman enough
reading the excerpt
Sapbook which shows what keen writing the volume
is of the past as MI. Atkinson covered it,
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Coming Attractions


NATIONAL "SweetheartS,"
with Bobby Clark, starting
tomorrow night.
AMBASSADOR -" eZe b el,"
with Bette Davis, starting
Thursday.
CAPITOL-"Pirates Of Mon
with Katharine Hepburn,
starting Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"Song OF Love"
with Kathe";'~e Hepburn,
starting Thu.
KEITH'S - II the Pink
Horse" with Gobert Mont
gomery.
LITTLE-"Miracle on 34th
Street." with Maureen O'Hara,
starting December II.
METROPOLITAN-"The Doc
tor Takes Wife with
Loretta Y u n g. starting
Thursday.
PALACE-"Where There's Life,
with Bob Hope, starting
Thursday.
PIX-"Scarface," with George
Raft, starting Friday.
WARNER-"Je ezebe el," with
Bette Davis, starting Thurs
day.
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