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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, 1936 'LIBELED LADY' SWINGS MERBJT-Y ATARAMGUNT; GLADYS GWtfflCuKrgN: TABZAN THRIL15 '-lf IS IKES IILITbMlNGIIlH Afij rnv armistice day. he hum at uuul y.r ks DAY, and oVer in a corner of the United Artists luj ir -m t' i i uu Lni iu ARMISTICE Studio, down by the gas house in Hollywood we find little Sammy Goldwyn doing, his level best to construct a bomb of singular -proportionsf William Powell, Myrna loy, Goldwyn usually appears in the public prints as head man v. Actress Held i In 'Valiant Her Best the Word For Carrie'; Comedy Billed in a dialectic or lwteratt jest, such as "bo you went to college, eh? Well, show me your diploma" but as a matter of fact the I Illll Oil Picturing a scarlet woman and the wages. Of sin is no small task 'r these days" of strict censorship, but Paramount has managed to turn out i picture of great dramatic strength In "Valiant Is the Word For' Carrie," now playing-at the Fox Oakland.

companion feature is "Thank You, Jeeves," in which sad-faced Arthur -Treacher essays the "gentleman's -gwtleman" of P. G. Wodehouse's imagination. "Valiant Is the Word Fot-Carrie" promises to become one of the season's finest pictures "with its heart- Weismuller Plays Athletic Hero, Maureen O'Sulliyan His Companion in Jungle Tarzan, official Sir Galahad of the African jungle, friend of the elephant and the antelope and idol of all the small boys in the country, has notyet become civilized, which should be good news to the Society for: the Prevention of -Civilizing Tarzan. The latest account his exploits "Tarzan Escapes," which is thrilling young and old at the Orpheum, along with "The President's Mystery," starring Henry Wilcoxen and Betty Furness.

8 Weismuller is of course on hand to play the athletic hero, and Maureen O'SuUivan has he; old Into Burrougn, jUc jungle come ftwo of Tarzan English cousins Hume and William Henry) who want to take his wife back to civilization. They get her only part the way back, because their double crosses them, hires some sav ages to kidnap Tarzan and in turn urn Apparently William Powell smokes that certain cigarette that provides the smoker with an air.of nopchalance in moments of At any- rate, tie is managing to face SpencerjTracy down at a very trying moment the arrival of the check. But there is no check on the merriment in "Libeled Lady" at the Paramount. Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy are the ladies in the case. i 'Nine Days a Queen' Will Be Seen at Campus fmmi stjlionair tibial fSEonti onair double crossed by anotner of savages who plan to eat up whole artv.

But Tartan's friends, the elephants, come to the release the imprisoned Tarzan destroy the cannibals' And the cousins realize that Mrs. Tarzan is much better off with her husband in the jungle and go back to England withoui -r 30 Buildings Tracy and Jean Harlow Are Featured in Farce Hailed as a', comedy hit, the laughing attraction, "Libeled Lady, is breaking both laugh and attend' ance records at the Paramount. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy are concerned in a ronmqUc mixup. A $5,000,000 libel suit starts comj plications in the lives of reejour people, concerned that seem impossible to untangle. "Libeled Lady" starts with.

laugh and the hilarious tempo' mounts as the story unwinds, i Powell, is at his best. Miss Har-lOw, the outraged hub of the revolving difficulties gives an excel lent performance. Tracy, bewildered and frustrated is in a good role and provides the ro mance. "Sitting On the. Moon," the second feature, is a romance set to music.

Roger Pryor, Grace Bradley, William Newell and P.ert Kel-ton are featured. Film Personalities Face U.S. Tax Liens LOS ANGELES, number of stage and ecreen personalities were named in income tax liens on file today in United States District Court They Included B. P. Schulberg, $60,716.64 for 1935; Ken Maynard, $565,59 for 1933; Step'n Fetchit, $520.70 for 1934; Zoe Aikens Rumbold, $14,797.66 for 1934 and $6001.58 for 1935, and Harry Krakow, -krnattrKing Levinsky, $250.94 for 1935.

Stage Actor Held to Fill Role in Film In-again, on-again, gone-again Finnigan had nothing on Stanley Ridges, stage actor who recently came to Hollywood for his role in "Winterset." He hurried to New York to play in "Ben Hecht new stage play. It was not quite ready; Meantime, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wired him to return for the role of MacKelvey, newspaper editor in "Sinner AH." He went int the picture yesterday. Wires informed him the stage play is but he can't go back until, the screen production is Ridges, lor years with the New York Theater Guild, and whose latest' success with Jane Cowl in. "First Lady." made his screen debut MR "The Scoundrel" and came to Hollywood for "Winterest." On the New York stage he Is noted for his roles In "Valley Forge," "Mary of Scotland," "Days Without End," "Dangerous and others. Ridges is not sure yet whether he'll make Hollywood pictures his vocation, or his avocation between stage appearances.

His latest role it an editor, in a mystery story founded on a novel by Whitman Chambers and directed by Errol Taggart. Lucien Hubbard and Sam. Marx are producing, from a screen play by Leonard Lee and Walter Wise. CI. oi.

the father's fortune. Dtimea lifirr'Viti i-V'-inerun bounces through the 0 IE Ripped from headlines of recent months, telling one of the strangest stories ever xo' come irom American We, is Columbia's "Legion of Terror," which is scheduled to open tomorrow at the Franklutf The activities of the hooded le-legion that terrorized many communitiesin the Midwest provides the theme of tne film. Much excitement is injected into the picture when the Federal Government, in the person of postal goes to work on the 1 J-J .1 41.... Umt in yJiLLii "through the mails. The second feature is a rollock- ing romantic comedy entitled "The Man I Marry," featuring a brilliant newstar, Doris Nolan.

The picture reveal5 the adventures of a young girl "who runs away from marrying a rich society "stuffed shirt." Others in the cast -are Michael Whalen, "Chic" Sale, Skeets Gallagher and Cliff, Edwards. Tonight will conclude the engagement of "Two in a Crowd," with Joan Bennett and Joe McCrea, and Stampede," with Charles Starrett Pupils Will Give Play on Friday Third 'grade pupils" of Charles Burckhalter School will present musical play. "The Indian Thanksgiving," at the school Friday after noon at 1:30. Writina and direction of tho play wa 'prompted by' a study of how other children- live, as part of American Education Week, according; to Jessie Calder, principal of the school, i 1 i Mrs. Cojistance Tully selected the cast and "directed the show, which will be produced before parents and friends-of the ohjldren The cast inclifdesChlei Eagle, Danny Collins; Little Wolf, Orland Lang; Makeewis, Avalon Tackett; Red Wing, Gladys Slaterr- Bright Eyes, Doria Hawk; Chi Wei' Virginia Slaughter; Sitting Bull, Shel-don Robinson; Wild Wing, Biiraau-mam-Red Bobby, Lindstrom; Iagoo, Leslie Hexton; Red Bird, Jennings Little' Eagle, John Williams.

tomb Van most ni Vx ratVeteers flinerlcai Ell 11 JUJxLLLLiiLLL Two "entire square blocks of buildings were sacrificed to flames last night at the United Artists Stu-1io, for one of the most spectacular fire scenes ever' touched off for a motion picture. The conflagration swept through, and razed, nearly 30 buildings which has been constructed on the studio's "back lot," for sequences in Samuel Gqldwyn's production "Be. loved Enemy," which stars Merle Oberon with Brian Aherne(- While the cameras rolled, Director H. C. Potter touched off the dy- namite bombs which set the blaze in! action.

So hot did the conflagration become, that it was necessary for members of the stage crew and camera operators to wear Jackets while the scenes were being filmed. "Beloved Enemy." from the- pen of John Balderston, who wrote "Berkeley Square," is a thrilling romance of Ireland and England. Film Studio Crew Escapes Air Crash HOLLYWOOD, Nov. Five members of a Paramount studio crew, en route to Guatemala, escaped when their airplane was forced -down in a tropical storm near" Topachula, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border, the studio was advised last night Aboard the plane were Paul Wing, business manager, who was injured in a crash about a year ago; Edgar Arirfprunn. assistant, riirprtnr; Dpwpv Wrigley rersmatir Eddie ndep berg, assistant cameraman, and Mitchell Crawley, property man.

They were en route to Guatemala to film background scenes for forthcoming production. Details of the landing, other than no one was injurea, were not re- ceived here. producer is able to find his, way round in English with, the best of them. His sense of goes much deeper than the superfi'-cials of the language arid the proof of the pudding may be found in a new contract that he has just signed with Mrs. Beatrice Kaufman which 'puts her in the organization es story editor for the Goldwyn At first blush that would merely seem a stroke of business, but when you recall that Mrs.

Kaufman is the wife of George S. Kaufman, the writer and dramatist, and that AlfiU.CW OO OVM discussion with her husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, it becomes something, else again. 1 Since Mrs. Kaufman will pick stories for Mary Astor, who is under Goldwyn contract, to full flavor of the Goldwyn japery can be discerned.

Asked about it by the gents of the press he explained piously and with a straight face that he could see no wrong since one would work in Hollywood, one in New York. Sam'l would have you believe that it isn't a small world after all. TWENTY SEASONS ACO TODAY Romaine Fielding, the picture actor. it, making jtt z-t thii tveeH afaniaget I seems to me that there are a couple of points in the Robert Cum-mings' bequest story that need clearing up. Master Cummings, you lmow, is the bright lad who is inheriting with his mother a neat little fortune estimated between $1,600,000 and $1,700,000 as a result of a gold mine investment of his father, Dr, C.

C. Cummings of foplin, Missoufl, who died some seven years ago. If seems that Cummings invested $80,000, his life savings, in a 12-party syndicate developing Goldfield mining property. For years nothing happened -and then three months ago they struck ore, a new syndicate came forward to pur-chase, and 11 partners in the original agreed to sell for $20,000,000. Now someone should find out why the Chicago attorneys took three months to find a picture star, and then only by laboriously tracing Cummings and his mother from Joplin to three separate residences in New York and thence to Hollywood, Don't Chicago attorney! ever go to the movies? y'y And secondly no one has mentioned young Cummin'gs' airplane.

A little while ago he was engaged in building a machine at the Dycer airport out of parts he picked up second hand at the Porterfield airport in Kartsas City. Is he still at work on his flying wagon, or is he going to get a new one, or is he going to keep his feet on the earth? The reporters and the press agents are derelict their duty. FORTY SEASONS AGO TODAY The Frawley Company at the Macdonough for a ueek'i Hay in comedies I took a plagiarism suit to bring out opinions of Laurence Stalling! on his own worK.ana tnat or, mi former partner, Maxwell Anderson. He was called as witness In -a iuit brought by Sheldon Cheney, the against Simon Schuster for $25,000. Cheney claims he submitted an anthology idea, "Treasury of the Theater," to the publishers in 1929.

It was rejected then, but was subsequently usetf without credit. The judge ruled against the plaintiff. "You have in the Simon and Schuster anthology," Stallings testified as an expert, "one play by William Shakespeare, Well, what for? Ho! Hoi To sell 'Elizabeth jhe Queen' because Lynn Fo'ntanne toured the country in' it. I am sure that Max, (Maxwell Anderson) who is the most modest man in the world and won't evert say how good he is 1 am sure he would adjmit Instead of Elizabeth the 'Hamlet' or 'Macbeth' might have run a very close second. 'Elizabeth the Queen'! It is just a gadget." Anderson, incidentally, is the best living playwright in Stallings' opinion, despite 'the gadget quality of "Elizabeth." As for himself, he would be bored today to look again at "What Price Glory," on which he and Anderson rode to fame.

He would much rather attend "a rattling good play of All of which adds up to the fact that Cheney is out pocket some $25,000 and Simon Schuster is richer by a similar amount EXITS AND ENTRANCES E. P. C. hastens to the defense of this department with the news that Nova Philbeam didn't work in "VI" but in another Peter Lorre picture called "The Man Who Knew loo. Story fry I FRANKLIN D.

ROOSEVELT Much." So now we can all snap our fingers at "A Subscriber Jimmy Savo, the clown, goes into "Bedtime for Ali which Philip Dunning is preparing. Bram. well. Fletcher, who used to worK for Henry Duffy, is also in the lineup. Leslie Howard takes time out to deny rumors that Warners arbacking his production of "Ham let." It's Howard money that's in volved.

a a M-G-M. Samuel Goldwyn and Radio started to bid for the screen rights to "Idiot's Delight," but when the asking price reached between $100,000 and $150,000 only-MG-M London presenta. tnnrtnhrTamtswn: trprovraey- the action of the play with a new locale, to avoid complications with friendly governments. tt Joseph M. Gaites, who company manager for Tallulah Bankhead's "Reflected Glory," plans West Coast production of "Swing Your Lady" early in the year.

The money will probably be the Shuberts'. Grace George returns to Broadway tomorrow evening under the banners of her husband, William Brady, in "Matrimony, Pf M-O-M 'is discussing the teaming of Robert Montgomery and Luise gainer Mean time Warners is waiting for him to go into "The Marriage Clause' iittith Olivia de Havilland. Ferdi )-Tt Bruckner, -wy wrote the Peter Lorre will use on the stage, has aone a Lucrezia Borgia story for Marlene Dietrich to do in films. 0 0 Otto Ludwig Preminger, who fol lowed Max Reinhardt in Vienna some years back, has been signed to a three year contract by 20th-Fox. He is 29 and has just finished his first chore "Under Your Spell," with Lawrence Tibbett.

His next will be "Nancy Steele Is Missing," alcidhap yarn. Darryl Zanuck has also given termers to E. H. Griffith and Norman Taurog and lost Irving Cum mings. 0 0 6' By the way, "Nancy Steele Is Missing" will serve as a vehicle for hVictor' McLaglen with June Lang, who was the girl in "The Road Glory" in the ton feminine spot.

In his next. Gaumont-Britlsh film, George Arliss will play a dual role, one a pompous, smug cabinet minister, the other his twin, a happy- gft-lucky loafer. It is called. "The weison lowcn. 0 0 0 Eneland seems to think that Ar lisi is the haopy-fio-lucky type.

He had such a role in "Mr. Hobo," and the spectacle of Arlisa trying to be gay and feckless is something for the book. Incidentally Clive Brook is back in London, mentioned In the studio publicity but apparently doing little oc no work. 'H Claudette Colbert's next at Paramount will be "I Met Him in Paris," due to start on November 23 with Wesley Ruggles directing, ,0 0 0 "tfane Wyatt has inherited the Bar-bara-. Stanwyck role inL'Coast Patrol," with Victor McLaglen, Preston Foster and Donald Woods.

Miss Stanwyck has more important chores at Radio. Jane Withers will have Leah Ray, night club singer, and Joan Davis, stage comedienne, in her support in "The Holy JI.J.I. 11411. Ann nil. lis was able to show for Lawrence Tibbett's singing in his recently completed 20th Century-Fox starring picture "Under Your Spell," resulted today in her selection for one of the most important parts In the next Jones Family production.

"At The County Fair," which started last week. Little Miss Gillis will appear as a trouble-making cousin of the Jones children. She won her bit part in "Under Your Spell," in an interview which included nearly 30 other children. All the other members of the Jones Family will be back for "At the County Fair," Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Shirley Deane, Kenneth Howell," George Ernest, Florence Roberts, June Carlson and Billy Mahan. Frank Strayer will direct the of which Max Golden is associate producer.

Robert Ellis and Helen Roberts wrote the original screen Day bed, 3737 Wisconsin, sold through Tribune Want Ad. no' ir i 'fLDB 1tt Hmmon'r V.I.UD cir Orehertra Open Sat. Fr Vfntrvittionf. Phone Iftimnad DISDAIN IS ROLE FOR GIRL is of is I warminsf human interest, -pleasant 4 "TfiJHlyTScT'iJBes- herself for the two homeless children she adopts, is played with? rare feeling by Gladys George. Her performance is as outstanding and important to the screen as was Jeanne Eagel's in similar characterittion in "Rain" some years ago.

John Howard is seen as Paul, the boy Carrie has 'worked for and supported. Arline Judge proves what a fine trouper she is. Her charac-terizriion as Lady is the finest thing she has yet done on the screen. Other important roles are portrayed by Isabel "Jewell, Harry Carey, Maude William Collier Jackie Moran and John Wray. All in all, the picture, bids in a fair way to.

-become one of the of all Funeral to Be Held For Ex-Film Star HOLLYWOOD, Nov, 11. (P) Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for June Caprjce, actress In silent films and widow of Harry Millarde, screen director. Shg died Monday of a heart attack, aged 40 vears. A daughter, June Elizabeth Millarde, 12, survives. SAILOR FINED $25 "VALLEJO, Nov.

C. Fer-relLJla sailor of fthe U. S. S. Brazos, wais fined $25 in the court of Police Judge W.

T. Kelley this week after pleading guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace, Police reported that Ferrell struck the landlady of a hotel here. Paramount Asks Sinclair Lewis To Write Film In quest for "the great. American lilm," Frank Lloyd, Paramount producer-director, today by letter aought to have Sinclair Lewis write an American "Cavalcade" as an original screen story. "Lewis haa never consented to write screen Lloyd said, 'but I feel there is a good chance that he would accept an assignment like this.

In my opinion he is the only living writer who could do for America what Noel Coward did for England with 'Cavalcade. I shall offer him free rein. Lloyd, who directed "Cavalcade," Is nearing completion of his new historical romance, "Maid of Balem," which stars Claudette Col. bert and Fred MacMurray. His search for an American over a period of months has convinced that -it must be written as an original screen story.

lOKFTT YOU voun6 MAY BE NEXT WITH ANN SOTHtlM HOVO NOLAN DOUCUSS FRANCHOTTQNE THE HOUR OUMWIUI TONITE! Added Attraction -15' Tit TOUT. VODVIL ACTS 11 'BOOHS OPEN 10:45 A. A HOLIDAY I TREAT FOR YOU IBig TimelH JvODVlLp Eddie Cochran, M. C. ip ALL TALKING 1 I PICTURES MADE 1 1 EACH SHOW 1 Ail SeaU sli5ctiiij; W.HITE p55 With the current interest in screen plays based on romantic and stirring events in history reaching a new high, William E.

Chamberlain's next presentation at the Cam- pus is the romantic drama of a girl who did not want to be a Queen, i "Nine Days i a Queen With Nova Pllbeam and Cedric "-divicke. on tne i program I HU1, world's champion arc her, in sl "The L.ast i Wildferness" said to be nova philbeam One of the finest pictures of its kind ever produced. These films play until Friday at the -in Berkeley. The House of Tudor gave England five sovereign rulers- But, more than-that, the House of Tudor has filled the pages of history with some of its most gripping chapters of scandal and intrigue, of lqye and hate, of drama and color. Wedged in among these pages of pomp and pageantry Is the story of Lady Jane Grey, whose tragic nine days as the Queen of England led her from the throne to the block, and is the plot for "Nine Days a Queen." v' Fine direction, authentic background and superb acting is said to make "Nine Days a Queen" a poignant and moving film' that will rank highly with, the best' pictures Of the year.

7: "The Last Wilderness" is full of action thrills and landscape shots, educational and Instructive. Howard Hill, world's champion archer, was the most important member of the expedition, whose skill with the bow and arrpw Is uncanny. 'The picture is a series of shots taken over a period "of two years in order to catch animals and birds at mating season and in Winter habitat, and depicts wild life as it really is its natural beauty, IDA LITINO LOANED Ida Lupino, without current as-; signment at Paramount, her home studio, today was loaned to RKO for the feminine lead in1 "Coast Patrol." I pouuai LOmBflRD A UNIVMiAi ricitu aiic. BRADY o.ii PATRICK PALLETTE FEATURE STARTS tt' 12. 2, $.

8 AND 10 Now! Ifs Melody Lane on Mondays THE SWING CLUB; Bargain Nite Dancing "Ladies 15c. Gents 25c. ON WEDNESDAYS' SCANDINAVIAN DANCES' ParHtfin folk, SwedlsM Sotipti tlaches; also Fox Trot and Aflmllon 25c ON; SATURDAYS Modern and Old Time Dancing. Admission, Men 40c, Ladies 35c MELODY LANE Ballroom, lfilR Franklin Bt Jan4 if" "My Man Godfrey," the gay deb modern comedy starring Car- Lombard and William Powell, ontinues to draw huge crowds to the Roxie. The screen relates 'the crazy adventures of William Powell, portraying' a butler in the delightfully, dizzy Bullock family.

In his role of Godfrey, Powell becomes involved with one daughter who is' in love with him, with one who nates mm ana tries to have him jailedr-and also with the ture from start1 to finish at a fast tempo. Well-known favorites contributing to the fun; are Alice Brady, Alan Mowbray. Jean Mischa Auer, "Eugene Pallete and Gail Patrick. Selected short subjects complete the program. Tone Cast in 'Tough' Role Franchot deserts genteel characters to play a "tough guy," Spencer Tracy deserts the "tough guy" character for' a kindly adviser of a wayward youth, and Gladys Gebrge.

following her success in "Valiant is the Word for Carrie," plays another valiant role, as a war nurse who marries a racketeer sne fails to save, in "They Gave Him a Gun" which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will produce, from the novel by Major Joyce Cowen. The picture, which Richard Boleslawsjtl will direct, deals with the effect Of war on the psychology of youth, tracing the transition of a kindly young clerk who goes through war and becomes a dangerous post-war racketeer. Tone starts as a clerk, is drafted and "taught in warfare that "ail men are equal with guns in their hands," a maxim that leads him to crlmeand disaster in later life, Tracy play the kindly sideshow barker, his buddy during the war, who attempts with Miss George, to save the' youth from his ultimate fate. 1 ow.ltl' from his own experiences is a cur rent best-seller. It was adapted to the screen by Richard Maibaum, Maurice Rapf and Cyril Hume, and will be produced by Harry Rapf.

Housekeeping rooms, 479 36th through Tribune street rented Want Ad, dramatic modern story with other roles portrayed by Petef European screen star; Ralph Morgan, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Kay LInaker, Lester Matthews, J. Carrol Naish and others. Malcolm St. Clair, Hollywood's tallest direc tor, is directing this picture. LAST DAY TOMORROW WNlk 11)111 IIUCI C01 lODINC 'ROBINHOOD OF ELDORADO JOHN AlllDCI LOUIS! tTIMI OHlD (I I LOftlTTA rOVNC 'CLIVE OF INDIA' iOlttl 0ONAT ilAN fAl la WARNER OLAND CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK COLLEGE at SHAFTED M.u.u.tfc bi.MON Cirls' Wflh Hfrhfrf VrrtiiV TiiOAt im I fii.i-.--r I crowv Write Poetry, Says Star, AndLearnljH fk ja--r a i I) mm Start writing and reciting po-f etry if you want to learn the manly art of self defense.

offering this Brian Donlevy, hard-fisted, 190-pound 20th Century-Fox leading, man, speaks from personal experience, As. a youngster in Cleveland he wrote poetry. Other young gentlemen of his neighborhood found out about it and that led to fighting and, although he took a good many lickings at first, he later became so handy with his dukes that he was able to fight professionally in Ohio and Wisconsin? Donlevy still writes poetry, he says, but purely for his own amusement and he no longer puts it on public display. 1 "Guess it's better this way," he said. "Besides, I may not be able to fight as well as I used to." It has been 15 months since Don-levy left the New York stage for Hollywood and he is now playing in his 10th picture, "Crack-Up," a GLADYS GEORGE ARLINE JUDGE JOHN HOWARD GALA HOLIDAY SHOW! I i in I I i a-- Mm afM1," 1 1X1 1 1 -frmfli-'nXtV" mil a a aa.