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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1534 TV ill bkw In Xhl AMI! lift AV.V e'aS. e. I 1 1 1 mi inwm mini HIGH MARKz Frances Dee and Joel McCrea See. Brady Predicts Better Daysand Rails at Law Forbidding Theater Bars Veteran Impresario Flays "Stupid" Bureaucracy At Albany for Discrimination; Scolds Equity And Glows Over Brighter Summer Prospects Future Felicity and Freedom Upon Ranch When Studios Begin to Pall "As ft Nucleus, They Have 1000 Acres in Beans And Hay, With Live Heir Is Expected in Autumn, Actress Confides Actor Declares It Takes Wise Man To Appear Dumb benefit ef the Actors Dinner Club and other professional causes have had all through the season. They OLD-TIMER Sketch from life of WillUm A.

Brady, native Californian and clean of Broadway unpre-arios, who argues for bars fa lef-himate New York theaters, while ha talks about the entertainment prospect Cary Grant Doesnt' Aspire to Stardom Cary Grant Mae Wests former screen suitor, who appears opposite Sylvia 8 1 in Paramount's charming romance "Thirty Day Princess" heading this week's pro gram of two de luxe first run features on the screen of the Fox Oakland, does not want to be a star. Sharing the honors Is RKO-Radio's comedy "Sing and Like It!" fea turing Edward 1 Everett Horton, Zasu Pitts, Ned Sparks and Nat Pendleton. "I don't want to be starred." Grant explained. "Stars have only a comparatively short period of. popularity and then they fade into insignificance.

I certainly want to do consistently good work. In that wayf-H-4ast longer and have enough money to provide for my self in my old age. I can truthfully say that my only ambition is to be a good In "Thirty Day Princess." adapted from Clarence Budlngton'a Kel-land'S serial. Cary Grant plays tha role of newspaper publisher. 1 Y1V1A CARY 1 spwaao fraeir orrrN'J TCI DatlSiO a THm TAWKlf SAVKD" aeaaUd a Saaerler Oast at tadlea and QaaUaaea And ITlfhllr Sliarearter, be.

Sander. Seala Xew BeUlas fer ALL NEXT WEEK $1.25 Per Person laelades Baal, Tax and Btfrnhmenta HOTEL OAKLAND eWar-i-atare EXCITING! I I ty. i II aav Baby Thinks Screen Role fust a Game Shirley Templri, Years Old, Could Not Bo Held to Task Otherwise OLLYWOOD, June I I psycnoiogists and people with children of their own may be interested to learn that Foxa ftvewvwarwnlH anHaa At4rlA Tmm. pie, doesnt quite understand what motion pictures, are all about that bub piaya ai peing a piciure actress. Ji, for a moment he Suspected that It wasn't a game, she would probably rush back -to her doll In her playhouse and scream finis to what is now shaping Into an" imnortant career.

Discovered recently tm the set of "Pari TaVa ttmar" wVt Vk il in hm aim with 3arrt TViiHit'anA Clalra Trevor, Shirley tespondei brightly to the Interviewer's cues-tlbns. "Sure." ears Shlrler. le movies. Ifs lots of fun. Look, rm going to nave a party.

D'yS want to That, in the main, is what Shlrlet xmnics oi tne zums ana of movie making. r-. o- v. Unhappily for directors, kowava they have to keep her thinking that it's fun to Bass a dar rahaarslna. rehearsing, taking a scene and rev taidni it Yes, the baby thinks its all a same Sa lona as It's a fimnW anxious to cooperate.

Recently, during nimlhg of "Bah Take Bow," thsre birth. day party sequence in the script In all innoeetiM. Director Harrv Iirhmai. ranged the party Just for her. She promptly invited an eomem to the affair a aituatinn keep her in the party mood Lac' one naa Jugurea in advance.

Tj man told her she. could have an. other party directly after the was finished. So Shirley's nlav- mates from Santa Monica will pari one Sunday afternoon at Lachman's home. SCOOP! SCCC! nov The Battleol the Century inn PIGT Round by Round Blow ty I Blow 11 Halr-Rtlsfns i Rounds i What a Battle i WhatThrills.

la' aeaiaaMtleai wftk Jack OAKIE, Spencer TRACY "LOOKING FOR with Constance Cumminjs SAME LOW PRICES PLEASE COME EARLY TODAY-- THRILUrCG! 1 MAX ii ii YORK. June 18. Veteran of a score of theater engagements, battles, set-tos. contro versies and tiffs, victor of many and taking pleasure In them all, William A Brady is still willing to undertake the presentation of a new dramatic offering on one hand and on the other raise the banner of a new cause or two and hurl defiance to any and all comers in a few established and well exploited causes. He was busy last week, although not in the best of health, with the production of "While Parents Sleep at his theater, the Playhouse.

Not content with supervising rehearsals in a general way, the old warrior is. directing the production in its every aetait But ne is not too busy with the problems of an all-British cast to give his attention to a number of phases of the inner economy of the speaking stage, breathe a blast of defiance in the general direction of Actors Equity Association and demand with vibrant fury brew and strong waters for every playhouse In Manhattan. ALBANY BLAMED "Why can't we have bars in theaters?" he demanded. "There's no good reason under heaven except that stupid bureaucracy up at Albany thinks It has to tinker with the public's privileges and, as every other stupid bureaucrat in Office always does, they decide the legitimate theater is the-safest thing to discriminate against. It's simply a matter of sheer, gratuitous and unprovoked offlclousness.

"Every theater in England and on the Continent has a bar and people are allowed to enjoy themselves there when they go out for an evening's pleasure. Here in New York all you have to do to serve booze in Niagaras in a theater is to put on a sufficiently exude revue and call the place a eabaret "Other amusement resorts without half the claim, on official consideration, such as nieht clubs, are allowed licenses, and the Metropoli tan upera uouse, just neaven knows why, is allowed one. But can a legitimate producer or theater owner sell a glass of Scotch and soda between the acts or a bottle of beer to his house patrons and heln nav his taxes and expensesT He cannot If ha did anything like that it would keep playgoers from rushing across ine street to cneap-John's grogge shoppe. Mulrooney would be down oh. him Ilka a thousand of brick.

RESPECTS TO EQUITY. It's a silly and outrageous business, and If theater patrons would only start hollering for their tights as they ought to, the dimwits up at Albany would have to make sense sbout it" Brady's other complaint concerns itself with Sunday theater "Sunday shows are, as a matter of fact" he says, "more or less of an internal problem of the theater. There is no reason why we should not have them. There arc thousands of potential playgoers who would patronize them during the cold months at least That is on the record, Just look at the success that the special performances for the Si I DASH I ELL HAMMETTS If Mt MrMrrr Tkrlltae WI11IAM afra NAT PENDLETON ZZZZjT4 MS lUCff AT ATiaiON HtaBNI MUNOIN orro KIUOIB aaiN Mouir JOAN CRAWFORD teHEE Franehat Tene Oaae Xarmeal Witch P.spalr Special! iwiaii alaa Ci. ait watca cleaned, alaa mala-aprlBKa, etaUe ei Jewel (All were; araar aateea so i year! Mention This Ad Barney's Jiwilry llOO Broadway.

Phone HO-SM4 BSailSBJSSiaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBflBBBBaaaBaaBaaa fj 11 were packed, and so would straight commercial performances be, too. "Only Equity won't let us have them. Here is an organization whose entire and only concern is with the legitimate theater. It has no ax to grind for vaudeville or films or music or anything but straight spoken stage performances; and yet here, as an organization, mark you, it files straight in the face of rea son, economics and the best inter' ests of the theater itself. I'm hanged i can understand it HOUSE PETS' SCORED It wouldn't be necessary for all shows to have Sunday performances.

sucn smash hits, for instance, as 'As Thousands Cheer or "Mary of Scotland' wouldn't need them, but TU bet you there were times during the season while it was building that men in Whits' would have benefit ed by an extra performance or so, and ril bet too, there wouldn't have been a single player in the cast who would have voted against them. "If the high-toned stars "house pets' as I call 'em of some shows fel that week-ends on Long Island with golf and tea dancing and such fooleries are necessary to their well-being, let 'em stay there and give ineir understudies a chance. Some people might even prefer to see the understudies. What I really mean, however, is that there are plenty of plays that would get good Sunday houses and that would be darned glad of them, too." With the grievances of the blue laws off his mind, Brady was willing to turn his attention to less controversial phases of the current theater scene and, more than anything else, he looked forward to a bright Summer that season. Otto Kruger Makes Study of Criminals Irs the one expert among the nine novices whom the stage or screen actor has to please when he portrays a specialist in any line, according to" Otto Kruger, who plays the title role ln Crime Doe- tor" now sTiowiri at the Grand Lake.

In preparation for the role Kruger made a special trip to San Quentln penitentiary, where he studied prison life and talked with ranking authorities on crime Later, he spent hours with Captain Don Wilkle, former ace of the United States Secret Service, who acted as technical director of the picture. Representatives of the Los Angeles County sheriff office were also his companions during the Immediate pre-production days. C3 mmm bcrgner fl caevr Brought to vivid life by the creator or Henry VIII" avtwxMf ewa r'y il ts Teday aa 1 Temerrea? Lionel Barrrmcra Ma Eahu. la Jl bilOOpBI JllMI --t "ONB MAN'S mJr Alee Yaeole Castas i I A aw.i By WOOD IN ONE of the Hollywood gossip I columns the other day there was mention made of Joel McCrea and Frances Drake, with one of those knowing asides with which screen chatterers so love to speckle their dissertations, classifying Miss Crake as McCrea's wife It was undoubtedly a specimen of tnental aberration on the part of the writer that was, also undoubtedly, explained by him to McCrea as an error on the part of a luck less compositor. As a matter of fact the first, and at this writing any' wav.

the last Mrs. McCrea is not Frances Drake but Frances Dee. At all events that is the firm conviction of Miss Dee, who confided to me not long since at the Radio studios, where she was lunching in her dressing room, that she will endow McCrea with a son and heir In September. Furthermore, theirs teems to be one of Hollywood's most harmonious young marriages. Frances Dee has changed materially-since she first came to Hollywood, not as so many players, do when fame is suddenly thrust upon them, for the worst I met her first some years back when she was a fledgling at Paramount, a shy youngster who had been given a small role In "Follow Thru." She went from that picture to the Maurice Chevalier unit for "Playboy of Paris," and thereafter' bad easy sailing.

She had a succession of roles steadily growing In importance, but as Is often the case of young players, she was forced D1MONP DISTRICT rllMniUn frultvl Av. it Hopkln. vwia Alt "WONUBSJ BAH" UCAY FRANCIS and DICK FOWBIA Oar Gnl Caraedr. 'BEDT1MC WORKUCS' PARK BOULEVARD DISTRICT A If A7 A Park Blvd. E.

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"MIDNIGHT" O. P. HEGOIK and SIDNEY FOX W1U Jamaa' "SMOKY" with Victor Jonr United Artists CLARK GABLE "MANHATTAN MELODRAMA" UYRNA LOY and WILLIAM POWELL ALAMEDA ALAMEDA 2 JOAN CRAWFORD ft FRANCHOT TONE Also "Yea Naatr Man'' with Jaa Fennel HATWARD HAYWARD 577 Castro "HAROLD TEEN" HAL LeROY and ROCHBLLE HUDSON "Mystery al Mr. X- Bebart ManUamery SAN LEANDRO Stock in Mind And An SOANES to leave Paramount before she was given full recognition. RECOGNITION WON Frances Dee might have remained a player useful only because she had personal charm and an attractive personality, had she not cast her lot with Radio.

There her first assignment was in "The Silver Cord," supporting Irene Dunn, McCrea and Laura Hope Crews. It would be foolish to say that she stole the picture. Her competition was far too strong for any such theft. But she did play her role so well that it showed up importantly with that of the featured players and critics acclaimed her as worthy of attention. To her, however, the most Important item of that engagement was not the fame and the succession of bigger roles It brought her, but a frie'ndship with McCrea that speedily ripened Into love.

It was this romance that provided the first topic of conversation as we sat in the, dressing room discussing her beginnings in the picture business. "I always said," she recalled, "that I would marry for love and nothing else. I kept my promise." And you feel that marriage and a career doesn't clash? "It certainly does at least home and a career, but it is the career that suffers. Many times I have preferred to stay at home rather than report to the studio, especially on days when Joel happens to be free. Wa get a lot of enjoyment out of our home, and after all a Career represents work." Then you Intend tokeepLon working? "I think so.

Tm young and healthy, as the song goes, and I really enjoy tha work--after I get to the studio. Then, too, Tm a little old-fashioned, I suppose, but I feel that I owe a duty, if not to the public, at least to the who have had confidence in me and who have gambled on me. RANCH LIFE IN OFFING "Of course its hard to say what will happen after the baby comes. I'll be away, from the screen for a time, of course, but I see no reason why I shouldn't return. There's plenty of time before Joel and I retire from public life to take up a new life as ranchers." Have you made any definite plans in that direction? "We've made a pretty good start, we think.

We already own a thousand-acre ranch planted to beans and hay, and eventually we'll raise stock on it That's the sort of life Joel is happiest in. He'd cut and run from Hollywood In a minute, but he knows he has to have a stake especially now that we have other obligations." It seemed hard to associate this fresh-faced youngster, who speaks so openly and frarfkly these days in contrast to her first timid utterances to the press, with "obligations." Unlike so many of those who have reached the eminences of filmland, she has had comparatively easy sailing and has enjoyed a life free from hardship. She was born in Los Xngeles, daughter of a civil engineer whose work took him to Chicago when she was seven. It was in that city that she was educated In the public schools. Eventually she attended the University of Chicago and took a leading part In college dramatics.

It was while she was a student player that she became stage struck. "My going into pictures was largely the result of a lark, however," she recalled, curling herself up on a sofa in the pleasantly decorated room. "We came back to California one Summer for a vacation, and I met some girls who were attending the University of Southern California. One evening they were talking about a picture Fox was making. "The picture called for college girls, "and I decided to make application.

Much to my surprise I was accepted, more, I think, because I came from a distant university than anything else. Nevertheless I got a few lines, and decided to cast my lot with the pictures. I applied for work as an extra after the Fox Job was finished. STUDIO? LIKE SCHOOLS "It wasn't long afterward that I had a call from Paramount, and they were well enough satisfied with me in "Follow Thru' to give ma a test. As a result I got a contract and was given all sorts of work.

I played in more than a score of productions, usually with important players, and it would have been impossible for me not to have learned something from associating with them. "Studios are 1 Just like schools, when you stop to think of it The new girls under contract are' Just like the freshmen, and the seniors are usually very decent to them. Most of the established players are both willing and anxious to help a newcomer, granting that tjje new- -FULTON- Franklin ai 15th St. Phone TE-H BURLESQUE CeaUnneas, startint at noan JOE E. BROWN la "YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL -PRICfcS: Mate, antil p.

nv 1B Eves, and Bandar Mt. Siie None hirherl NAT PENDLETON admits that it takes a wise person to act dumb on the screen. Pendleton has been seen in nothing but roles of blissfully Ignorant Recently, though, a change entered his life. In all his earlier pictures he has appeared as a gangster or some other underworld inhabitant fleeing from the bite of the law. NoWt Pendleton is law.

He Is a captain, but for picture purposes he's Just as dnmb as ever in "The Thin Man," mystery play at thel'Mmnnrit. comer Is willing to learn and Is not afraid of work." Mention of work brought the ranch back into the conversation, and Miss Dee was dilating on Its virtues as a security to screen success. I couldn't quite sea how owning a ranch. would have anything to do with succeeding as an actress, but she has it all figured out It accomplishes that for McCrea and herself she is sura. "In the first place, you become Independent I don't mean obnoxiously so, but you know that you always have something to turn to and you don't have to accept any thing that is offered.

If a role is either uninteresting or unworthy, it isn't essential that you accept it As a result producers have more respect for you. "1 know that Joel and I have refused a number of opportunities ilnca wa have been married because we just dldnt believe In thm. Curiously' enough we have lost, nothing by it As in every other lino of work, people respect you mora If you're not forced to accept dictation eonstahtly. If like the man who has money in the bank and the on who la in debt to everybody." I wanted to know If It were this sense of security that is responsible for her advance as a dramatic actress. She doesn't' think so, and again she has a sound reason or two for her opinion.

Little Miss Dee has a logical mind that is rather disarming. One doesn't expect actresses to have reasons for their statements; she Invariably has. "Shakespeare has been misquoted so often that I don't like to bring him in with the play's the she said, "but It really is. Successful feting Is dependent upon the play more than the player, I think. I have just had an experience that proves my point in two plays The Silver Cord' and Tlnishlng INTERIOR DECORATING "Now both of those parts were excellent as parts, and In each case I did them to the best of my ability.

There was no shirking on my part and there was splendid cooperation every minute of the way. Yet the girl in The Silver Cord' rang true and the girl In Tlnishlng School' rang as true 'as a lead dollar. 1 dont mean that the picture is bad it isn't But the role I plat is not real not to me at least It didnt seem so when I was playing it and It doesn't seem so on the screen. don't know what the critics or the public will think of it naturally I hope they like It But it proves my pointy The play, as a whqle, has to be good, else a studious performance is wasted." And Frances Dee plays as hard as she works. Interior decorating is one of her hobbles.

She has devoted a year to furnishing a house, and intends to drag it along for another year. Just because she enjoys It. She's fond of apples and eats as many as Bert Wheeler used to in vaudeville two or three a day, occasionally four. "My choice of a role? Oh, dra-matlc rather than comedy both to watch and to play. Tm a poor audience for comedy unless it's awfully good, and I'm a dud when it comes to doing a comedy scene.

You'd think I had no sense of humor, yet Joel says I have, and when a husband admits his wife has a sense of humor that's something, isn't' it" It's not so much when the husband is very young and very much in love. But such things don't affect interviewers, and Miss Dee not only has a sense of humor, but she has dark blue eyes that can flash a very merry twinkle, which is better than a dozen senses of humor. That twinkle helped materially to make her Meg interesting In "Little Women." (Grand Ball Room) 19th FRANKLIN Revives the ancient melodrama Ten Nights in a Bar Room Oomneaetnji Jaa Slat at SiSa p. saw and alshtlr thereafter Tieketa S1.1S, taeladlna; tax, all ad Mtreafcaaaat. A il tal.le referred, for reaervatlena akone iil sat i -Jia.

Katharine Cornell is concluding her record-breaking tour with an engagement in Brooklyn, N. and after a vacation in Europe, will open the new sea' son next December with four plays. Miss Cornell Has Four Plays For Broadway TEW YORK. June 1-Katharina I Cornell will make the Martin Beck her headquarters when tshe returns to Broadway after a season of trouplng. The brilliant actress-manager plans to present four plays there starting In December.

Three of these will be the dramas which have formed her repertory ontouta. Besler's "The Barrets of Wimpole Street" Shaw's "Candida" and Shakespeare's "Ro meo and Juliet," while an additional Broadway offering will be Ibsen's "Hosmersnoim. Basil Rathbone will have the load ing mala role In all of Mlts Cornell's productions here, and her husband, Guthrie McClintlc, will stage them. The actress will conclude her record-breaking tour with the engagement in Brooklyn starting June 18. After that she will vacation in Europe before commencing a new season of acting.

Another manager who has selected a single playhouse for his next season presentaltons is Elmer Rice. With three new plays completed, the author plans to exhibit them in the Belasco Theater, which has housed sundry offerings since Be-lasco's death. The first of Rice's dramas to be seen on Forty-fourth Street will be "Judgment Dst." a melodrama with a European back ground. Following that presentation, th author-producer intends to sponsor his play written In the "Grand Hotel" manner, "Between Two Words," and finally his satlrle comedy, "Not for Children." Ha has been unrepresented on Broadway since "We, the People." which held forth at the Empire briefly last sea son. TODAY AN0 TOMOMOW AND INC I DC JOAN SlOMBIll VOtOTMT WftttMl BreMtHaM ADOIPHI allNJOU dMTesMiar Ibick rowill "1 Kicker Moum Cartoon I a.

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