The Hutchinson News from Hutchinson, Kansas • Page 15

SUNDAY MORNING. TULY 30. 1939. THE- HUTCHINSON. KANSAS.

NEWS-HERALD PAGE FIFTEEN George Raft Good Bad Guy Crime Melodrama Rated Unusual 'For Its Type By The Movie Editor Hutchinson, because it has a state reformatory within its limits, is crime conscious. More than one respectable. law-abiding citizen has tried to imagine the thoughts of a fugitive when the "wild cat' howls and the guards mobilize for a chase. A real insight into the felon's psychology is provided on the screen this week in an excellent George Raft movie, "I Stole A Million." And as a prelude, the Midland is showing the Dead End Kids in a significant film, "Hell's Kitchen." For those who think sociological study too deep for this hot weather when its exciting crime and Illegal we recommend as the picture of the week, "Daughters Courageous." Here 's the dope: Courageous" Johh Oarftelil. Claude Rains, Prlscllla.

Lane. Rosemary Lane, Loin Lane, Gala Jeffry Lynn, Fay BoJnter, Oon- aid CTlsp, May Robstm, Frank McHunh, Dick Koran. Last year 's "Four Daughters" was such a critical and popular success that a sequel of sorts was inevitable. "Daughters Courageous" is a sequel only in the sense that it reunites many of the original hit 's cast and strives for the same spirit of youthful charm. The four Masters girls (the Lanes and Miss Page) are a gay and active lot.

Their mother (Bainter) has been deserted 20 years before by their father (Rains) and noV is about to marry the solid, substantial Sam (Crisp) who can give the girls the advantages of his money. Enoch Ar- den-llke, the father Jim returns from his "rendezvous with the universe," years of yielding to wanderlust. The girls form a "solid front" against him, but one by one succumb to his charm. The mother is on the point of following suit. Buff (Priscilla Lane) meanwhile has fallen in love with shiftless, rude, independent and "charming" Gabriel Lopez (Garfield) who like Buff's father Jim has the wander- jitters.

For Buff, Gabriel is on the verge of settling to honest toil. But Jim, recognizing a fellow spirit, talks him out of the planned elopement, and the two leave together, with Buff thrown back on success-bound Johnny (Lynn) and mother free to marry Sam. This is all very acted, well directed, with a superlative musical score by Max for one fundamental weakness: The Eains character, a repentant weakling, has three strikes against him from his first appearance, is supposed to sweep' all obstacles aside by his "charm." Having deserted his wife and four babies and sent no word in 20 years, he is allowed to wipe the slate practically clean by (1) understanding Buff 's devotion to Gabriel Lopez, (2) giving daughter Cora (Page) a tip on how to upstage the star in an amateur theatrical production, (3) remembering mother's birtViday when the girls and suitor Sam have forgotten. If you can take the picture's word for it, Jim is charming enough to take the family's happiness in his hands, which oUows him generously to sacrifice his own in the end. Pretty spurious, but nice if you don't mind, because pleasantly played, brightly dialogued.

Garfield, in an interesting un- Rover Boyish role, and Rains cop the acting honors. Best crack is Rains'; "They (the family) won't be home until morning. They've gone to a double feature." "I Stole A Million" Rait, Claire Trevor, Dirk Foran. Victor Jury, Henry Armetta, Chandler, Irving Bncan. The boy who feuded with Paramount over a succession of bad boy roles has another here in a smoothly plotted, action-filled, and generally satisfying cops-and- robbers melodrama.

"I Stole a Million," however, is on a higher level than most films of its type. Sound writing and forceful direction, together with the-playing, give it a grip- The "Four Daughters" Become "Courageous" DONALD CRISP gets a shave from the "Daug hters it appears as if he were the otie to need the courage. The comedy romance pens today at The Fox. (2) OF MONKEYSHINES, the picture ha a raft of stars including Dick Foran, pictured above with three of the "Daughters." Others are John Garfield, Claude Rains Jeffrey Lynn, Fay Bainter, May Robson, Frank McHugh. of of course, Priscilla.

Rosemary and Lola Lane and Gale Page. ping emotional and psychological appeal. Raft plays a good guy, albeit a weakling, who starts "going wrong" through a minor, unintentional infraction. Before he can do much about it, he is in deep, and proceeds through weakness to get in deeper. He's a full-fledged fugitive by the time he meets Laura (Trevor), but he tries to go straight.

The law closes in again after they are married, and the web of crime grows ever tighter, forcing the inevitably tragic finish. The crime-does-not-pay theme is carried out relentlessly, although with understanding of this particular criminal's more sympathetic qualities. Raft is good in his assignment, Miss Trevor excellent in hers. "Hell 's Kitchen" Dead End Kids, Ronald Reasan, Margaret Llndsey, Grant Mitchell, Stanley Fields, ChArlca Foy, Good melodramatic hokum, this story flourishes chiefly when the Dead End Kids appear. Otherwise it is the somewhat expected tale of a wayward home for boys under a scurvy director which is renovated by a philantrophie 4T TO BE SPANKED is the plight of all real stars these days since some Hollywood gag man found the sadistic stunt a box-office attraction.

Here Priscilla Lane gets hers from May. Robson. Dead End Kids Will Be Kids ai-u I DilAO END Kldi are up to their old tricks in "Hell's Kitchen, a melodrama full of certain hokum and excitement, showing at the Midland. gangster who eventually lands in jail and the institution is placed in the hands of the hero and hero ine. There are many entertaining moments, however, and tha Kids are better than usual.

The Rest Of The Field The Midland's "Champ" ts an other prize-fighting story but it has an unusual twist and a wide popular appeal. Victor McLaglen is at his best. Comedy, drama and romance are smartly interwoven. "News Is Made At Night," starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari is a newspaper story about the solution of a modern Jekyll-Hyde mystery. Crooner Develops Into Fashion Plate Bing Crosby is going clothes crazy.

Famous as a devptee of nonchalant dress, featured by loud sports shirts and loose-fitting slacks, the crooner today has completely reversed himself and is going overboard on sartorial splendor. This perforce doesn't-Indicate i change of, heart on Crosby's part, but only that he can't help himself. He has, 21- different costumes to wear in his new film, "The Star Maker," all of the 1915-20 period, and all must be tailored. The result is that studio tailors haunt Bing's every waking moment. They follow him to his dressing room at and even to the radio station where he does his weekly broadcast.

"Clothes crazy? Vou're not kidding," moans the crooner. Dreams In Silence Civil war in the. household of the Lane sisters has been averted through the sound-proofing of a room in which Rosemary can' do her vocal practicing without disturbing Head Priscilla. New Weiih John Payne lost six- pounds in one day doing fight scenes for "Kid Nightingale." He battled through 40 rounds during the day Film Menu (For times of features see dally adverisements in The News and Herald). FOX "Daughters Courageous," Sun day through Wednesday.

"I Stole A Million," "March Of Time," Thursday through Satur day. "The Girl And The Gambler, 1 Saturday owl show. MIDLAND "Hell's Kitchen," "News Is Made At Night," Sunday through Wednesday. "Ex-Champ," "Man Who Dared," Thursday through Saturday. STRANND "Marie Antoinette," "Tailspin, 1 Sunday through Wednesday.

"Four Girls In White," "There Goes My Heart," Thursday through Saturday. STATE "Mother Carey's Chickens, "Make Way For Tomorrow," Sunday, Monday. "The Good Earth," "She's Got Everything," Tuesday, Wednesday. "Suridown On The "The Little Adventuress," "Boy Scouts To The Rescue," Thursday, through Saturday, IRIS "Blondes At Work," "Cattle Raiders," Sunday, Monday, "Bullets Or Ballets," "Adventure In Sahara," Tuesday, Wednesday. "Prescott Kid," "Pilot "Figh "Prescott Kid," "Pilot "Fighting Devil Dogs," Thursday through Saturday.

On Location In--Hollywood Robbin Coons Hollywood Whenever Holly wood's movies Impress you as so bad artistically they actually hurt, it may help to think of Tay Garnett and his "Trade Winds." Tay. the sea-rover, the gusto kid, likes art as well as you do. He gets a bang out of pictures like 'Wuthcring Heights" and "Love Affair" and "Dark Victory" that are fine to see but more or less a gamble to make. A couplp of years ago Tay sank all his funds about $200,000 into a world cruise, taking pictures. He came back to Hollywood and made a movie, using his cruise movies for exotic backgrounds.

He called it "Trade Winds" and sent it'on its way with a prayer because that's about all he had left. If it went over, Garnet! would be "set." If not Garnett would be very unhappy. 'TRADE WINDS" received, from coast to coast, one of the critics' more enthusiastic pan- "Trade Winds" received, from coast to coast, one of the public's more enthusiastic gross to make Garnett very, very happy, Tay knew it was "bad" critically. He knew the story was so full of holes he had to keep the action fast and furious to cover them up. He covered them up.

'I like I couldn't afford it," he says of "Trade Winds." HE IS MAKING now the Loretta Young-David Niven feature, "Eternally This may or may not be isn't footing the bills. Walter Wanger is doing that. At any rate, it's the story about magic that Wanger has been aching to do. The idea seems fraught with danger, because professional magicians get very, very sore when their tricks are exposed, A professional magician, Paul LePaul, is technical adviser, however, and the film is only three tricks, one of which (the one that lets Niven "create" Loretta in a huge glass retort by mixing chemicals) was devised at the studio and is in no magician's repertory. Another is taken from a published work of trick in which Niven puts Loretta on a table carried by four costumed Arabs, waves a shawl around while she "disappears" inside the empty vastnesses of the No.

4 Arab who is a dummy, FOR THIS SCENE Miss Young, playing Niven's wife and assistant, is garbed in oomphatic style sheer pantaloons and a girdle of golden sequins. The talking parakeets adorning the set best described her as she walked on for the first time. "Wheew-e-e!" he exclaimed, in a boy-oh-boy tone of voice. (The bird was coached, Loretta thinks, by prankish Niven or one of the boys.) THIS IS LORETTA'S first film since she quit 20th Century-Fox to make her way as a free-lance doing two pictures a of eight. This might seem, on the surface, to have been a poorly considered the girl has a business head, never doubt it.

For instance: There's a sequence in the film of "montage" (those quick-changing shots denoting time's passage) showing Loretta in a dozen different costumes. "The business office," smiled Loretta happily, "is going to faint." Loretta is selecting them from her own wardrobe, renting them to the studio at standard prices. Hunting Dog's Nerve Shattered By Idleness This Is the story of a country dog who came to grief in the big city. It is a sad story. F.or today the poor dog, an English setter named Rachel, is a seething mass of neuroses.

She has, so the veterinarian says, a nervous breakdown. The dog was sent to Bob Burns by a friend in Van Buren, believed Burns, once a mighty hunter, would like the prize animal for his hunting expeditions. But a busy actor like Burns, now starring in "Our Leading Citizen," has little time for hunting. And so Rachel sat in her little yard just waiting, waiting. She wanted to experience the thrill of the hunt, the kill, and it came not.

Hence the breakdown. Whirl The Dial 8:30 p. m. Buckingham Choir: Bertrand Hirsch, violinist. New Yr.rk.

WDAF. 8 p. m. Band concert, Grant park. Chicago.

CBS. National Symphony orchestra. Washington. NBC. 9 p.

m. Walter Winchell, commentator. New York. KOA. 9:15 m.

Irene Rich in drama. Hollywood. KOA. 10 p. m.

Jim Ameche and Gale Page in drama. Hollywood. KOA. Phonoffenlo Ann Sheridan has a phonograph built into hen car which she can play when there's nothing on the radio to interest her. Vacillating Vacationer Bette Davis is undecided whether to spent her three-month vacation from films in the California mountains or in New England, Desert Town Now Richest In World Most prosperous community in the world, it has been disclosed today, is a city of tents set amidst a complete desolation in the California desert.

It is Beau Geste Valley, the city reared in the heart of the sand dunes for the filming of "Beau Geste," Producer-Director William A. Wellman's screen version of P. C. Wren's novel of the French Legion. Two months ago, the only inhabitants were coyotes, foxes, gophers, rattlesnakes and scorpions.

Today, the 450 inhabitants of Beau Geste Valley boast a daily payroll of nearly $24,000, the average daily income of the population, from stars to laborers, being $53.33. Muscle-Warmers Zorina always wears tights when she rehearses her ballet routines for Warner Bros." ''On Your Toes. 1 They keep the leg muscles warm and suple and prevent knotting and cramping. The oak is the tree most frequently struck by lightning. England has had no record of a beech, birch, horse chestnut, or holly being struck since 1932.

Bus fare tokens of Wenatchee, have the center cut out to form the shape of an apple. Wenatchee is the "apple capital" of America. STRAND SHOWING Tyrone Power Norma Shearer "MARIE ANTOINETTE" Shown: Alice Kelly Constance Bennett "TAIL SPIN" Shown: Can't Toy With Foy Eddie Foy is a little fellow, but it wouldn't be wise to "choose" him in a hattle in which no holds were barred. He's a jiu-jitsu expert. Puttered Around John Garfield once worked as a caddy at a New York golf club.

STATE TODAY and MON. Ann Shirley Ruby Ktcler Fay Ellison "Mother Carey's CHICKENS" Victor Moore--Beulah Bond! Fay Bainter "MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW" IRIS TODAY and MON. Barton MoLane Glenda Farrell "BLONDES AT WORK" Charles Starrett In "CATTLE RAIDERS" STARTS TODAY with Margaret LINDSEY Ronald Reagan-Stan Fields IS AT NIGHT We there are those who have heard of Hell's It is a very definite and toouch neighborhood in NEW YORK CITY, west of 9th Ave. from 40th to 60th St. It Is policemen were afraid to walk their beats In that neighborhood, except In pairs So Tough were the Dead Enders Dead The Dead End Kids working in "The Dead End Kids in Military School," claim they have marched more than 100 miles in less than a week learning to drill like cadets.

Water Baby Ronald Reagan is testing his sailor qualities by taking a cruise, his first trip on the ocean, a. m. Rev. Daniel K. Welgle, Association of Congregational churches, Philadelphia.

CBS. Dr. Frederick K. Stamm, "Places Where We Need Help." New York. NBC, 8:30 a.

m. Dr. J. W. Heywood, president of Morristown college, Morristown, Tenn.

CBS. Radio City Music Hall, string symphony. New York. NBC. 10:30 a.

m. Dr. Harry D. Kitson, editor of Occupation Magazine, "Working Up the Ladder" New York. NBC.

Mormon Tabernacle choir. Salt Lake City. CBS. 11 a. m.

Rev. Father John J. Scally, diocesan director, Society for the Propagation of the Faith, (Catholic). New York. CBS.

12 noon. National High School orchestra. Interlochen, Mich. NBC. Dramatization, "Democracy in Action," U.

S. Office of Education. Washington. CBS. 12:30 p.

m. University of Chitago round table discussion, "1940 Lines Up." Chicago. NBC. 1 p. m.

Chautauqua Symphony orchestra. Chautauqua, N. Y. NBC. 2 p.

m. Dr. Oscar Blackwater, Sunday Vespers, "What Is the Good of Life? New York 'NBC. 3:30 p. m.

Choral program. New York World's Fair. CBS. 4 p. m.

Rev. Martin J. O'Malley, of St. Louts, Catholic Hour. "Social Peace." NBC-Red.

Canadian Grenadier Guards band. Montreal. NBC-Blue. 5:30 p. m.

Radio Guild drama, "Dust In Their Eyes." New York, NBC. Jane Froman and Jan Peerce, singers. New York. CBS. p.

m. "Charlie McCarthy." Hollywood. WDAF. 7 p. m.

James Melton and Francis White, singers. Dearborn, Mich. KFH. Manhattan Merry Go Round concert. New York.

WDAF. Hollywood Playhouse drama, I Hollywood. WLW. The Four Daughters IN A GRAND NEW HIT! If you liked "Four Daughters" (and who if you want to see those can't-be-better stars reunited (and who doesn't?) we wholeheartedly recommend for you and your family, "Daughters Courageous." Only the stars arc the same The story, characters, romances are all different They're better than ever in this brand new hit! TODAY THRU WEDNESDAY ADDED DONALD DUCK In "HOCKEY CHAMP" NEWS JOHN GARFIELD Claude Rains Jeffrey Lynn Fay Bainter Donald Crisp May Robson Frank McHugh Dick Foran and THE "FOUR DAUGHTERS" PRISCILLA LANE ROSEMARY LANE LOLA LANE. GALE PAGE Shown at 1:30 MATINEE ALL EVE, Balcony EVE, Lower Floor i.