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THE KNQUIRER, CINCINNATI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1930 ll's The Climale To Co Into Their Dance At Shubert f' 1 ft i SIGN OF DRUM. Barney Rapp's Orchestra, witr Vocalist Doris Day, will mount tha podium again At the Sign of thf Drum Saturday. That night, anc at the Sunday New Year's Ev icelebiatlon, both Barney's boys and 'the band of Sonny James will toot at the Reading Road nifht spot I The James lads close Sunday, and Be.rney will carry on alone unti: the end of the month, when the or- chest ra of Tommy Dorsey, the Sen-jtimental Gentleman of Swing, will tep In. Dorsey, who recently bought an interest At the Sign of Hedda Hopper's HOLLYWOOD Motif Slant Look Hack On Some Sad Christmas Days. the Intermissions together, arcuin everything fiom Amencar.a to tenth-centuiy Ireland.

Lewis came to New Orleans eailv this fall to and wnte. Bernid Szold, of the New Orleans Little Theater, invited Lewis to watch reheaisals of the production. And one day out of a clear sky Lewi3 remarked, "I'd like to play the Canon in 'Shadow and Substance." NORWOOD RINK A gala New Year's Eve party Sunday evening at the Norwood Roller Rink will feature novel musical arrangements and Mardl Gras entertainment The entertainment will start at 8 o'clock Sunday evening and continue to usher in the new year. Children's matinee programs will be In vogue today and Saturday afternoon and a special matinee for adults and children will precede Sunday night's entertainment I -iSt New Orleans, December 27 (AP) -Sinclair Lewis, the author, is playing the part of an Irish priest in an amateur play here playing It without a trace of the irony with which he impaled clerical "hypocrisy" In "Elmer Gantry." And he asked for a chance to play it. It is the role of the Very Rev.

Thomas Canon Skcrrttt in I "Shadow and Substance," being produced here by Le Petit Theater i du Vitux Cane (little theater). Like a schoolboy, but an extraor-' dinary docile one, he repeats thej words of a Latin grace as they are' told him by the play's technical: adviser a real-life priest, the Rev.l Edward F. Murphy, S. S. J.

Moreover, the redhead is a favor-l ite of Father Murphy. They spend1 Hollywood. Dreembrr 27 Now thai Chi'intnin In over, cn tell a little b.t ho ut the poverty and heartaches which the players had In days gone hy, and which they very often portray so realistically on the crr-en. relieve mr, many know how. Jinmy Carney celebiated renlj -Christmas with snow and cveiy-jit to the hilt.

And they've never mi frm MrtliH a Christmas dinner since with- 1 MOTION PICTURE DIRECTORY. yard. Hut he won't forget lug flrsil attempt to crash the movies. anil his wife were working their way bark to New York, doing anything they could net along the way. Jimmy landed a Job a.i a.tHiKtan! stage manager In (be Middle We-t three, days before Christina, but the manager of the show, took a violent dislike to him It wan rmi A CAPITOL timl.

The explosion came when t()()(1 Maurice Chevalier, who manager threw a broom at Jlrnniy (li(1 Haven's gakB Pt me and onleied him to sweep the In. I'm do lonely. I'll die if That's when Jimmy quit. It wt, (in.t (o Hmrb4y; And RESERVED SEATS (Orchestra, Balcony and Loges) for ALL EVENING (8:05) PERFORMANCES of David O. Sclznick's Production of Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South GONE WITH THE WIND are NOW ON SALE AT THE BOXOFFICE SHOWING THREE TIMES DAILY: 10:15 2:15 8:05 THEATRE i 1 All Seats for 10:15 8c 2:15 Shows: 75c (NO SEATS RESERVED FOR 10:15 2:15 SHOWS) All Scats Show: $1.00 $1.50 mm (ALL SEATS RESERVED) Thw i harming young 1w1ir will rl'uk off the ilunre rotitinea in "llelhafire," tta'je rrrue, hirh opt ii tomorrow at the Shuhvrt, with llenny Meroff (inet) and hit band pi orid-iftff the inutir.

llvrl Wheeler, ttage, tereen, and radio comedian it the ISo. I fun maker on the hill. NOWlUWiW. Girl Writes Sexy Movie That Earns $2,000,000 WEEK Tr- v- cr 1 hose colorful, romantic Z7 days of minstrels and river boats when a stormy NX SWW boats when a stormy love wrote the songs that are America's own! with young Miss Thompson the dialogue director, and when It wa finished, only the hare structure of her plot was in the film. The sex angle had been whooped up and the advertisements whooped it some more.

The picture was a sensation In England. It broke record In France. It was unreeled all over the world and still Is going strong in those nations where movie houses still are operating. "Whea I wrote Whirlpool' I was absolutely certain that I knew what I was talking about," she said. "Now, five year later, I am ap- palled at what I did.

I realize now itnat I knew virtually nothing about the relationship of men and women when I was writing so confidently about them." The picture, In any event, made Miss Thompson an International celebrity by 1935, or when she was 23. Movie studios were bidding for her services as a screen writer. She signed a contract with Basil Dean, the London producer, and wrote half a dozen acreen plays for him. In 1936 she got a leave of absence to visit America, "And while I was in this country," she said, "Basil Dean folded. So I came on out to Hollywood." She has done two movies here since she came- both without any strange behavior on the part of the.

heroine and written the script for another French film, which la concerned with life and sport In the snow-covered Alps. No more sex for Miss Thompson. She suffered a serious automobile accident a few months ago. She' out of bed new, and working on a new play. She's 27 year old and she'd like to forget her youthful movie-writing indiscretions.

That, however, Is impossible. Wherever she goes, she sees giant billboards which say: "See Peggy Thompson's 'Whirlpool of Desire' hotter even than That kind of advertising Is embarrassing. Another thing that bothers Miss Thompson a little is that $5,000 looked so big to her twenty-two-year-old eyes. If she'd signed a contract for a percentage she'd be a wealthy woman today. Opens In New York uncomfortable impression that they are suffering from the after-effects of too much liquid Christmas cheer.

When the McGlory flat starts moving slowly but inexorably to the right, it requires steady nerves to keep from feeling slightly disturbed about your habits. The childbirth Is somewhat less harrowing. Although done with great ear nestness on the part of actors, author, and director, the clinical episode somehow cannot avoid seeming both unnecessary and embarrassing. It does have a part in the play, however, since the great mystery of nature somehow persuade the sensitive McGlory daughter that birth Is a beautiful thing and that she should immediately marry the long-suffering mining engineer, who wants to take her to Alaska. I have never had any particular desire to go to Alaska, but I think I would be willing to mak? the Journey to get away from that offensive Celtic fathei and his eccentric family, In truth, the only McClory I liked was shaven-headed little Ignace, amusingly played by little Michael Macready, another good child actor.

A number of good actors strive to bring life to the new work, but save in the case of the afore-mentioned Michael Macready, they are pretty unsuccessful. "Christmas Eve" Is an unseasonal comedy. a BENEFIT CONCERT. Eugene Goossens conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra In a benefit conceit in Carnegie Hall tonight but no critical comments were available at press time. the Drum, has tentatively Bet January 2fi through February 1 as the date of his appearance.

MOTION PICTUKE DIRECTORY snci shows i KUUKH fRIDAJ! 'JUDGE HARDY Mirkry Rmr" 'Cr? LEWIS STONE AND SON Ano Rutherford WHKK! 'WE ARE PAUL MUNI WfYT Al OIJC' BRYAN NVI ALUNE pior ROBSON junm 'RETURN Humphrey Bogert WAYNE MORRIS OF DR. Rosenunr LANE -Double Bllll- THE PHANTOM STBIKES," lll "RIDERS OF THR PASCO BASIN" 'Drums Along the Mohawk' Clandrlts COLBERT Henry FONDA Tods "Coast "Hawaiian Nnhti." "Hotel for Women." alno "Bulldor Drnmmond'a Bride" Today: Bob Hone In "Some like II Hrl" and "Conspiracy." Frl. and "The hlarntaker." with Binr Crosby jBMWBBaaKaaaaaBr NOW! rnti -i Dreamer I out those aavory dlnhr. Merle Oberon'a moat miserable intmaa was her first one in Hollywood. You may remember she rame here the ex-flaneee of Joe Schenek.

And some of our glamour Kills had a terrific antagonism tn-wnrdH her; nobody paid her much attention. And when she was cry-Inn her eyes out about 4 p. she. inMvercd a knock at the door and toiret her. rooked their own dinner.

This year Chevalier wasn't lonely. He Hte Yuletldc dinner with an army, which It la his duty to cheer up. Ilea not well enough to serve with them, because he carries near his heart a Bouvenlr of the laid war- a bit of shrapnel. A recent letter from Phillip (ilbbs said "After K'dng Into pillboxes and hloekhouaes which were crowded with gunners, transport men, and others who were cheering and whistling, the young man sitting nt the piano was Noel Coward and the Frenchman wearing a straw ha' and alnglng to them was Maurice Chevalier." David Nlven spent Chrlstmai In England, but not at the front. He left Hollywood to do his bit for his country, but they haven't found any place for him yet.

Ho he'll probably be back, to take part In the English-French benefit which takes place January 17 at the Cocoanut Grove and whic is being whipped up by llonnio Colin in Alan Mowbray, and llasil Kathbone, and the most Im- pcutnnt star names In Hollywood. Soma vears auo 24 heinill. vlerl for honois In a contest for Paramount pictures. One girl was whisked off to Hollywood and foi over a year got Juicy hits In minor pictures. When middenly her world caved in, for a few days before CluiHtmaa she wag told sho'd picked the wrong career and to go back home.

The girl was Ann Sheridan, our Oomph (llrl. And Incidentally, she's sweeter than ever since she had so much publicity Ty IVwcr remembers a ChrlHtmim he spent In the einw when be was broke and in New York hut a swank Invitation for turl-cv dinner came. Dressed in tails and top hut, ho spent his last dime for can fare to the party, but walked the 40 blocks home. With a blister forming on his heels, he took off his shoes and walked part of the dls lanco In hia stocking feet, stopping every now and then to explain to passing; policeman that he was neither crazy nor drunk. In 1919, girl from BalnbrlcluM Oorglit, went to craah Broadway.

Trudging- from agent to stage door, it Christmas she found herself, hungry, Jobless, and discouraged. took the advice of her roommate, got a Job waiting on tables, ami when all the patrons went home, ate her Ihristmas dinner and dls i-uvrieu nuer inai tsi) cents wiu lakrn out of her salary to pay for it. tier name 7 Miriam Hopkins. (Dlalrltmlrd by Jnnrs yn'Ilol, W.10) "Abe Lincoln" Under th auspices of The Playwrights' Company, Unyninnd Mii.i-sey will be presented In "Abe Lincoln In Illinois" at the Tuft Auditorium for four days, beginning Janu ary 3, with two matinee. The drama, is acknowledged the bent play Robert E.

Sherwood has ever written. It was the unanimous choice of the Pulitzer Prize Committee. Iu message of love and tolerance was used for the text of countless sermons preached from pulplta of churches of every denomination in New York. It is a play that comes but once in a decade. It has added another illustrious portrait to the gallery of stage pictures created hy that sterling artist, Raymond Massey, an I has given him the finest role of his career.

Through the biographical medium of the life of the Ureal Emancipator, Mr, Sherwood conjures up a new patriotism, restores it to its place as one of the honest emotions. gives the original meaning to the wora democracy, and never falters from the realization Hint i speaking of today and not merely lecot ning tne soul searching of an elder statesman. fnllv that what Abe Lincoln discovered tor himself In the darkest days of American hlstoi-v la what we rediscovering today. He fought the iorce or reaction as they are being fought throughout the world tnctnv and in these troublesome times the play takes on added significance and a grandeur that is soul-stirring. Mr.

Massey, should he desire, could probably play "Abe Lincoln of Illinois" for the rest of hia pro- icssionai career. Just how long he will continue In the role la a ninnt question, but he hag promised to give every city in the United States an opportunity to see the nlnv nH the present tour la expected to last ior ai least two more seasons. The same comnanv of alenu.i artists that suported the star dur ing me long run at the Plymouth Theater, New York, will be seen here during the engagement. lAatT The Gayety's new ieara Eve special show will start promptly at midnight SunHou For this special show tha p.viv will present "Hello 1940," traveling roaa Duriesque show with a star-studded cast of principals and a chorus of 18 girls. Heading the list will be Delorcs Dawn, exotic dancing sensation.

Others will be Julia Bryan, Jean Lee, Conchlta. Red Marshall, Billy Fields, Jess Mack, Ray Dean, and a special vaudeville team. "Hello 1940" will be offered four times daily with motion pictures between each stage show. The Gayety will also offer the usual midnight show on Sntnrdav with a full two and one half hour attraction. Seats now are on sale for the New Year's Ev show.

All seat will be reserved. hristmas fcve. jiroKe and 'n walking' the stieets, he met an ac tor he'd known in New York who aid: I'm glad We're looking fur a leading man." Jimmy not the job, borrowed three dollnis and the Cagnoy ate cm Chi it runs Day. New York can be a cold town on Christmas, particularly if you're a newly married couple with talent but no work, no cash, no friend, and an Irate landlady who won't take no for an answer when nrn fiska for the rent. But you can't down the Irish and where there's a chill there's a way.

And the way Tat O'Brien and his wife, Elolae Taylor, weathered that holiday was by pawning an overcoat, eat Inn corned beef and beans and enjoying TtMC IT IIOMR la I I MM or 1 AKTfl Mwvrd with rise lit an SPECIAL T00AY Hiikt I'dt Kim at mill Vxulti-a hliaghrl 25c titti and hrrw r(riniiir Miii-d Tunisliira l-ii-1 Hl.K-t H.ill. Hiiilrr IM.AM) 3C and oSAtjMttdp, 25c KiMZ Nail ow7 wuain si ncrw vaw AMUSEMENTS rrnn Tonight 8:30 l-T 4 ItMW VINTON REEDLEY pretenti William Victor GAXTON MOORE anil SOPHIE TUCKER In ttii N. V. Mu.lcil Hit "LEAVE IT TO ME" XhtCOLE PORTER look by Itlla ind Simuil Sptwack II.HNTV at trtt Ti.nlte, l.l!ll, SI.MI, MHI. J.MI, Nm.

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yna miai. try wiothrr HilM. MH Ul Hl-IIAV, MM Rl BARNEY RAPFS I New Year's Eve Party $4.00 lr Person (Plua Tail 2 BANDS 2 BARNEY RAPP and III New Knglandera and SONNY JAMES and His Hand ContliiuoiiH Mimic 30 Musician. Includes Favors, Shows, Dancing, Souvenirs, Novelties mid Full Course Delicious Steak IHnner. Call ME 9548 lor Keiervatlons, )oMn(oien Oljict HENRY THE HATTER CAREWTOH KBAKCAI)K Both Bands Stlth At the Sign of the Drum Jim nriniur Dnin hhou nt.Muinu nuHu A ri 101 fin a AMUSEMENTS SHt'BERT Stage shows re turn with the musical comedy revue, "Hellzafire," featuring a cast of 50, starring Bert Wheeler, screendom comedian.

Others are Rex Weber, assisted by Lee Leonard, Ken and Roy Paige, the Wyn Twins, Buddy Green, the Satanic Sirens, and Benny Meroff and his Southern Gentlemen of Rhythm. The screen attraction is "Barricade," drama of lovers who meet In a bandit- plagued town in China. Starred are Warner Baxter and Alice Faye, with Charles Winninger and Arthur Treacher. Bill opens tomorrow. ALBEE "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," screen version of Victor Hugo's immortal "Notre Dame De Paris," the romance the cathedral's deformed caretaker and a Gypsy Princess.

Charles Laughton plays the title role, with Sir Cedric Hardwlcke and Maureen O'Hara, recently seen in "Jamaica Inn." Starts tomorrow, TALACE Sewanee River." Screen biography of Stephen Foster. American composer. Cast: Don Amcche, Andrea Leeds, and Al Jol- son. Starts tomorrow. CAPITOL "Gone With the Wind." Technicolor version of Mar garet Mitchell's best-selling nove), three and one-half hours in run ning time.

Three performances daily at 10:15 a. 2:15 p. and 7:55 p. m. with all seats reserved for the evening shows, beginning today.

Second week opens today. LYRIC "Destry Ride Again." James Stewart and Mar- lene Dietrich starred in a romantic drama of the Old West. Cast: Mis-cha Aucr, Charles Winninger, and Una Meikel. Second week starts today. KEITH'S "Judge Hardy and Son." Second week for the eighth hit In the series, with Andy Juggling four girl friends, scraping up a very much needed $50, and acting as peaeemaner in a family.

Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holdcn, Ann Rutherford, and Cecilia Parker. FAMILY Today, tomorrow, and Saturday, "Riders of the Oasco Basin" and "The Phantom Strikes. PARAMOUNT Today, tomorrow, and Saturday, "Drums Along the Mohawk." ORI'HEIIM Today, "Ha waiian Nights" and "Coast Tomorrow and Saturday, "Bulldog Drummond's Bride" and "Hotel For Women." GIFTS Today. "Conspiracy" and "Range War." Tomorrow and Saturday. "The Starmaker." STRANIl Today, "Frontier Marshal" and "Of Human Bond- rrA Ttmnhmiv anil Rntlir-rlflV.

i "Fifth Avenue Girl." Four stage shows on Saturday. SCHUSTER-MARTIN Students and faculty at the Schuster-Martin School or the Drama will resume their profrrams at the school Wednesday, following the Yulctide vacation period. Courses will be resumed In voice and diction, pantomime, acting technique, radio tech- nique, omnia, meinous, cnurm speech, makeup, literary interpretation and platform art, theory of expression, production and directing stage mechanics and stage craft, and corrective speech. MARIEMONT INK An elaborate floor show will supplement the entertainment by Cliff Burns and His Consolldeerj In the New Year's Eve program at Maricmont Inn. A midnight supper, hats, souvenirs, and noisemokers will be distributed among the guests.

There will also be a dance at Maricmont Inn Sat urday night, with the Burns's en semble providing the rhythms. Joe Binder, tenor, will be featured with tha band both evenings. HY FltKIWIMCK C. OTI1MAN. Hollywood, December 27 (UP) Mow a twenty-two-year-old girl from St.

Ixiuis happened to write a Parisian movie ao sexy it has earned its producer around and been banned in most American cities makes the Hollywood story of the week. The picture Is entitled "Whirlpool of Desire" and it is showing here simply because there Is no California Censor Board and nobody nas complained to the Police Department. Elsewhere the movie, of red headed Miss Peggy Thompson Is verbotten, though the lawyers still ure arguing In New York We called upon her today to discover why an American girl, Just out of school, decided to write such a drama. She didn't really. In 1934 she was 22 year old.

She had finished her education and she was traveling In Europe. She had In her trunk the script of "Whirlpool." "When I wrote the story," she said, "I was firm In my belief that a woman could keep her emotional life separate from her physical life. So what I did, really, was a serious psychological drama. "My plot was simple. I had a man and woman married and then I had the man become paralyzed in an automobile accident.

That left them with only an Intellectual companionship. But the woman needed more than that, so I had her have an affair with another man, but all the while loving her husband. The husband found out about the other man and committed suicide, to leave his wife free. That was all there was to my story. "I submitted it to Universal Studios and they didn't even bother to laugh at me.

I didn't know it, but I had a theme American studios never touch. "And then In Paris I told the story of the plot to a friend of mine and he Introduced me to another man, whom I didn't even know was a picture producer. Upshot was that they got a financial backer and bought my story for $5,000. "That seemed like a great deal of money to me then." The picture went Into production, Cincinnatian's Play dPKetAt. MM-ilva TO THR KNgl'IRKR.

New York, December 27 "Christmas Eve" reviewed by Richard Watts, drama critic of New York Herald Tribune: Gustav Eckstein, the author of "Christmas Eve," must have a fine subconscious hatred for the jolly Yulctide season. His Is an under standable emotion, but It certainly docs Interfere with the quality of his new play. Even those of us who are Inclined to side with him in his cynical viewpoint must feel that he has pushed his dislike a little too far when he fills his holt day drama with the dull trivia of boorish family fighting out Its petty rows, and find his chief excitement in the highly clinical account of the only stage childbirth In theatrical memory. Possibly he is able to see a certain wistful charm in the Irish-Polish family he is contemplating. Conceivably, he even look upon the bullying Irish father as essentially a pretty attractive character.

My own belief, however, la that he finds the McGlory family as dull, stupid, and generally unattractive as the rest of us are likely to, and offers an account of their unappetising Christmas Eve out of his burning conviction that the holidays should be put in their place. In producing the play, Guthrie McClintic has added a yuletlde touch of his own by using a stage that from time to time elides back and forth, giving the more sensitive member of th audlenc the I Tht Story of Stephen Foster, the Great American Troubadour! with DON ANDREA AL AMECHE LEEDS JOLSON FELIX BRESSART CHICK CHANDLER RUSSELL HICKS GEORGE REED and HALL JOHNSON CHOIR Dincted by Sidney Lsniiald Aeaodat Prodnonr boawth Maogowaa Soma PUr by loha Tain tee root and Philip Dun A 20th CtotaryFos Pictura Darryl F. Zanuck Ckarn al ProdetM ww a 1 PALACE NI1U IV.