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-f OAKLAND TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER Iff, 1935 25 ROXIE TO SHIFT CaRBARY COAST' TO FRANKLIN THE INFORMER' ACTRESS PAYS TELLS FAST PWWf "JO Srfse! III Laughton Role Costs Him 55 Pounds Weight Charles Laughton, the heartless Captain Bligh of "Mutiny On The Bounty," now playing to Paramount HI II LD RUSH DRAMA WILL BE S. F.RDXIF FEATURE Nf Wh VW DAYS If IN i 'Fighting Youth' Set to Open Tomorrow Heading Double poundage for the role of Bligh be-Bill; Farrcll Is Starred 'cause he had been looking forward I to playing the part for more than a Maybe Edward G. Robinson should discard" his gold earring. Certainly something is putting an obstacle into the way of true love with Miriam Hopkins. Whether she chooses this swain or not may be discovered on the Rqxie screen until tomorrow and thereafter on the Franklin QUKTAIN tm.

By WOOD SOANES Charlotte Greenwood Opens 'Leaning on Letty' and One-Woman Show at Geary Rv WOOD SOAV'FS CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD paid her biennial visit to the Bay region last evening and all was decidedly well at the Geary, where she not only starred in "Leaning on Letty," a dramatic comedy, but polished off the eve ning with, a one-woman show. London has ketit Miss Greenwood occupied at fever pitch during tne last two yers, but it has taken no toll of her enthusiasm for enter tainment, and when another star would have been content to call it an evening's chore with the final curtain, she was just beginning. "Leaning on Letty," which played New York as VPost Road," is a frail little comedy with dramatic interludes dealing with the fashion -in which a New England spinster dealt justice to a band of kidnapers whp swarmed into her "tourists ac-commodated'home. Up to that time her burden had been concerned only with a pious sister, a shiftless brother-in-law and a weak-minded laundress. Faced with the starker side of life, however, Letty rose to the occasion magnificently and proved once for all that a maiden lady with spirit is worth any half dozen "snatch artists." ivpollont vehicle for Miss audiences, shed 55 pounds in weight I because he wanted a certain uniform to fit him snugly.

I i Laughton took off the excess year and he wished, not only to portray the character of the famous tyrant, but he also wished to resemble him much as possible. GETS SAME TAILORS On the trip to England, Laughton located Gieves, the original tailoring firm which had made the true Captain Blight uniforms in 1789. He ordered duplicates of the same uniforms and then and there began reducing, so that the uniforms would fit and give him a muscular sea-dog's physique. "The losing of 55 pounds was tortuous," said Laughton when he donned the uniforms" for the first time at the studio, "and miraculous in that a wpman dietician provided my reducing diet for PRAISED Laughton's portrayal of the character of Captain Bligh is one of the finest characterizations of the screen, Equally as line is uiaric Gable's Fletcher Christian and Franchot Tone's portrayal of Roger Bryan. Frank Lloyd directed "Mutiny On The Bounty" and among its large cast of over 50 players, Henry Stephenson, Eddie Quillan, Dudley Digges and Donald Crisp are outstanding performers.

Carmel Music Group wJ1tms Four Events CARMEL, Dec. 10. A varied program of four musical events will be offered by the Carmel Music S6cTeyearly next yer. Programmed first oh the winter season schedule is the' TOfr House Quartet, February-11. "Jascha "Meif-etz; Russian concert violinist, will play February 28.

Martha Graham, who has appeared in Guild Theater recitals in New York, will present a dance program March 28. The concluding event programmed is a piano recital, which will be presented by Myra Hess, April 11. Riding on the. crest of. the current enthusiasm for football, the Universal gridiron drama, Youth," will.be seen at the Roxie starting tomorrow, heading a double bill.

The second feature will be "Atlantic, Adventure" with Nancy Carroll. This timely picture, "Fighting Youth," which deals in dramatic-fashion with the effect of Communistic activities on college athletic, stars Charles Farrell, and presents June Martel and Andy Devine in featured roles, and features many famous football stars as Jim Thorpe, generally recognized as the greatest player in the history of the game; All-American Paul Schweg-ler, Nick Lukats. Jim Purvis. Moon Mullins and "Red" Christie. During the course of the story, exciting games are played in the famous Coliseum at Los Angeles.

"Atlantic Adventure" deals with three stowaways on a huge transoceanic liner, who manage to break up a' smoothly working crime machine, despite the fact that two of the stowaways are confined to the ship's brig. Tonight will be the last showing of "Barbary Coast," which will be moved to the Franklin tomorrow. Superintendent of Canners Appointed PITTSBURG, Calif, Dec. of Walter Damiano as superintendent of Pittsburg Can neries, succeeding A. M.

Halk, was announced today. Damiano was transferred from the Richmond pfemt, where he vas eiit. Ijle is sUccccifcStf Richmond by M. Birks. Damiano also formerly was packing department foreman at the Pittsburg cannery of F.

E. Booth Company for 15 years until 1933. Furniture wanted by Tribune readers. If you have any for sale, advertise, LA keside 6000, want ads. CALLS finishes "The Good Earth" for M-G-M.

Muni will be either Gen eral Goethals, the engineer, or Dr. William Gorgas, the doctor who stamped out yellow fever. He hasn't decided. His last Warner picture is "The Story of Louis Pasteur." a a a Warren William will do Dashiell Hammett's "The Man With the Black Hat," with Winifred Shaw as the feminine menace and Marie Wilson, a newcomer, as the eccentric secretary. A leading woman has not yet been selected.

Samuel Goldwyn has offered Billy Rose $200,000 lor the screen rights to "Jumbo" as a vehicle for Eddie Cantor. 0 0' Rollo Llqyd is the final choice for Napoleon in "Apthony. Adverse," a half dozen actors having preceded him in the tests. Jean Hershol up in Callendcr to play Dr. Allan Dafoe in the Quintuplets picture for 20th-Fox, had to call on tho doctor Greenwood in that its subtle comedy.

ind quiei drama is wc'i whenhe fell and -sdope and despite the lacnrnu night found her giving a first performance, unfamiliarity with the nuances of the role never --found her at a loss. Her portrait of terror in a pan- tomimic scene in the second act when she discovers the true state of affairs in her household was conveyed across the footlights with such sincerity and artistry that it passed momentarily beyond the pale of make-believe. It was a high moment and a memorable one. Henry Duffy, responsible for the star's return from London in a vehicle in which she will appear there Easter week, has given her matchless support with Taylor Holmes looming large at the head of the players as the aimless in-law, and Isabel Withers, Romaine.Callender, Boyd Irwin, Virginia Howell and Marion Burns giving capital account of themselves. Holmes drolleries dovetailed perfectly with Miss Greenwood's antic comedy and Miss Burns' impersonation of a fear-crazed mobster was convincing.

This little opus by Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell may not itself be carved nnnt LJLJLJt 1 ON 1 1 BILL Return engagement of Marietta" and "The Informer" form the double feature program at the Si for three days starting to- day. Drama, romance, thrills, and the gorgeous music of Victor Herbert's greatest ODeretta are blended in "Naughty Marietta," spectacular romance of Creole days in New Orleans, which brings to the screen Jeanette MacDonald, glamor heroine of "The Merry Widow" and Nelson Eddy, eminent American operatic baritone. It" tells a graphic story of the setr tlement of New Orleans by the French in the days of Louis XV Preaching no moral, seeking, instead, to entertain through the medium of high-pitched drama, "The Informer" is ff picture that will leave a powerful impression. Playing the part of Nolan, Victor McLaglen betrays a friend. Therer after, with mounting dramatic in- tensity, he finds himself harassed by the memory of his perfidy.

His conscience burns his soul. Tripped by his own remorse, he inevitably comes to his doom through his own stumbling efforts to conceal the betrayal. In a series ot action episodes, bit by bit, thread by thread, he en meshes himself, and at the last he betrays himself. KEiGiicoitnc SQMffifiEJU FOOTHILL 35TH AVE. FOOTHILLS FRuitvale 41W GRACE MOOBI.

I.6VC ME i Ky Francis "STRANDED" Gen. Brent EAST 12TH STREET DISTRICT RITZ -SSth St Tth Avt-GO INTO YOUR DANCE" AL JOLSON and RUBY KEELER "REVENGE RIDER" with TIM McCOT NORTH OAKLAND IIDTnWM College at Shaft 1 11 "CALL of tha WILD" CLARK GABLE and LORETTA YOUNG "Case ol Lucky Leu." Warren William ALSO LATEST "MARCH OF TIME!" Fox SENATOR Clark Gable in "CALL OF, THE WILD" "Biihop Miabehavei." Maureen O'SulUvan A TP A San Pablo It Stanton V.IV 1 1 WILL ROGERS "STEAMBOAT 'ROUND THE BEND" Zaflu Pitts In "SHE GETS HER MAN" 1 PIEDMONT PirniMnNT Piedmont Linda icuaiyjit i oay deception" FRANCIS LEDERER FRANCES DEB Also "BCARFACE" with PAUL MUNI BERKELEY -4. RIVOLI San Pablo near University WILL ROGERS "STEAMBOAT 'ROUND THE BEND" ZaSu Pitta In "SHE GETS HER MAN STRAND College and Ashb; Phone BErkeley 0693 "PEASANTS" SPECIAL ROADSHOW ATTRACTION! CALIFORNIA Brian Aherne in "I LIVE MY LIFE" Wheeler Woolsey in "The Rain Makera" Fox U.C UniveraiB "MURDER MAN" SPENCER TRACY tc VIRGINIA BRUCF "Silk Hat Ayrea-Mae Clarke LORIN Adeline and Alcatrar WILL ROGERS "STEAMBOAT 'ROUND THE BEND" LAUREL HARDY in "Bonnie Seotland" United Artists BE rkeley 420" WILL ROGERS "IN OLD Ronald Colmati 'Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carle' OAKS Solano at The Alamedr Phone BE rkeley 8450 "SHE COULDN'T TAKE IT" JOAN BENNETT and GEORGE RAFT ALAMEDA ALAMEDA Central Ave at Part JACK OAKIE "BIG BROADCAST OF 1K36" AMOS JN' ANDY and BURNS SAN LEANDRO PA1 APr SAN LFANDRC "SCARFACE" i. 'Charlie Chan in Warner Oland HAY WARD HAYWARD Clandette COLBERT "SHE MARRIED HER BOSS" Gall Patriok, 'Wanderer of tho WastelanC' FRUITVALE 23RD AVE. PALACE 23rd Ave.

and E. 19th SI WILL ROGF.Rt "STEAMBOAT 'ROUND THE Jack Holt in "Storm Over the Andes" rPIIITVAl E. 14th Ave rlxWl 1 ftLt JOAN CRAWFORP "I LIVE MY LIFE" George O'Brien, "THUNDER MOUNTAIN' FAIRFAX Ss SEMINARY APITOI ToothillBlvd.ASemlnar: ArllUL "PAGE MISS GLORY" Marion Daviea-DIck Powell-Pat O'Brien "Storm Over the Andes" with Jack Boll A 17 A Foothill Blvd. Falrfaj AlIS AA "CALL OF THE WILD" CLARK GABLE and LORETTA YOUNG 'Case of Lucky Lets' with Warren William MICKEY MOUSE COLOR CARTOON DIMOND DISTRICT rilMriMn Fmitvale Av. ft Honkini U11VJ.U1NU "CALL OF THE WILD" CLARK GABLE and LORETTA YOUNG 'HERE COMES THE Ted Lew It Also LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Picture PARK BOULEVARD DISTRICT PARKWAY Park Blvd.

-rtrvrv vv a-page miss globv Marion Davies-Dick Powell-Pat O'Brifn "Thunder In the Night," Edmund lt ELMHTJRST GRANADA "-f "STEAMBOAT 'ROUND THK WA.r' ZaSa Pitts in "SHE GETS HR'R ALLENDALE DISTRICT ALLENDALE FREE Cut Dolores Del Bio in "I LIVE FOR 1.0 'Charlie Chan In Warner i EASTMONT DISTRICT EASTMONT rv ill Blvd. SAT KENT TAYLOR and PTNKV Tf Also "Welcome Home" wiln 3 wmm III III Tonight" Will End Comedy 'She Couldn't Take Starrins Joan Bennett Tonight will conclude the engagement of the sparkling comedy drama, "She Couldn't Take It," starring George Raft and Joan Bennett, at the Franklin. Headed by the stellar pair and a cast with a long list of excellent players, "Sh? Couldn't Take It" relates the colorful tale of an ex-ganster who undertakes to manage the affairs of the socially prominent Van Dyke family, whose escapades and front-page scandals have kept them tabloid headlines for a half-score of years. Billie Burke, Wallace Ford, Waiter Connolly and Alan Mowbray are seen in the supporting roles. Tomorrow the colorful drama of gold rush days, "Barbary Coast," starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G.

Robinson and Joel McCrea will be moved from the Roxie to the Franklin for a fourth big week. The film presents the Barbary Coast that emerged triumphant from the mire of hopelessness, where printing presses of newspapers were smashed because they dared to print the truth, but avenging Vigilantes had to take the law into their own hand, so that people could live a normal existence. Walter Brennan, Frank Craven, Harry Carey, Donald Meek and many others complete the cast. Short subjects will complete the program. ev Unpaid For Fight Hurts James Cagney, the star of "Frisco Kid," at, the Fox Oaklandfought a terrific battle with Fred Kohler in an early sequence in making the picture, using fists and chairs a.i weapons, and although he suffered a severely sprained ankle and many scratches and bruises, there was no additional money in his pay check.

"Frisco Kid" Is a stirring drama of San Francisco's colorful Barbary Coast in its wildest days, when gambling dens and shady vice halls ran wide open; when robbery, al' son, shanghaiing and wanton murder were rife and nothing to check the lawlessness but the avenging hand of the vigilantes. Others in the cast include Margaret Lindsay, Lili Damita, Ricardo Cortez, George E. Stone and Robert MacWade. OVERTURE i i. 111 ip -TOW'OJK K0 2 SURPRISE HITS it SJODDO'lTC CHARLES FARRELL JUNE MARTEL ANDY DEVINE QULjMr.G NANCY CARROLL LLOYD NOLAN HARRY IANGD0N CI greatness, dui icnus mirably to histrionic flights, all of which were taken in their stride by the actors.

For her curtain call, Miss Greenwood did two songs by her husband, Martin Broones, one a roaring comedy, "An Old Man's Darling" whose "D-a-a-a-vid" refrain should make it international; the other "Moon Melody" from "Gay Deceiver," in which she did a dance that Fred Astaire-Eleanor Powell-Bill Robinson and the two Ebsens as a team couldn't duplicate even in their dreamsi It was, in short, a big evening on Geary Street- Two Hits Make UpOrpheumBill ON Friday last the Film Daily's poll for the Ten Best pictures of the year was discussed in these columns with ye. as the saying is, whining a little about the of selecting 10 from the many Jpp-rank films distributed since last JNovember." The matter was still in mindhe following day when M. S. Vidaver arrived with his budget of Paramount news and art on the matter of "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Rendezvous," which will follow it. Being of a curious nature more befitting a reporter than a press agent, he wanted to know whys and wherefores.

And so we chatted of the Soanes' 10 best choice and pored over the sample sheeteligiblf5ictur.csJ sent on "by the "Film Daily, a hor rlhle mistake was discovered somehow in the selection Cecil B. De Mille's "The Crusaders" was overlooked. -t Obviously" it deserved a place among the chosen 10, just as obviously De MillewilU consider it a further plot on "the part of the organized critics to discredit him and his works, even more obviously will Harold Lamb, the author, a Berke-leyite, rise in his wrath. Yet with the vote signed, sealed and delivered to Uncle Sam for swift transmission to New York there, is nothing left but to cry either "Wurra, wurra," or, more classically, "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mra I'll botch maxima culpa." TWENTY SEASONS AGO TODAY Robert EtlcsnnAs appmrinnon the screen oj the Franklin in "The Cave Man." DE MILLE is in none too happy a mood anyway. He unburdened his soul to the Los Angeles Times on the matter of film critics just the other day, pretend ing that he was heading off the boys who would accuse him of "inaccuracies" in the production of "Buffalo Bill." "In general the (the critics) will probably point out that: "There is nothing true in the story.

"There never was such a character as Buffalo Bill, or if so, his chief distinction was that he was identified with laying the transatlantic cable. "Wild Bill Hickok was not an associate of Col. Cody but a minister in a small town outside of Atlanta, Ga. "Calamity Jane was Florence Nightingale's chum and together they started the Red Cross. "Chief Rain-in-the-Face was an umbrella manufacturer, etc." And now to add Insult to injury after specifying that "The Crusaders" was fit company for the Jen" Best in the review, I forgot it in the final list.

Ah me! FORTY SEASONS AGO TODAY De If olje Hopper hni come to the Macdonoufh uilh his production of "Want" Keystone Hotel 'iSS'SH Night it Lido Mii.ii',v.m i XHXIT lK POt IHI WHOtl PAMILvl TJlt 1 MICKEY MOUSE. "ON ICE" ir TiemtitM 1 1 THf -ALSO- BIG SHAKE BACHELOR DOWN OF ART" PJETTT DAVU LlSHTSISt, FREE CHINA! TO THE LADIESl tfj.i'ir. lil.i GETTING back to "Mutiny on the Bounty" there is a rather interesting story in the case of Mamo Clark, who plays the Tahi-tian beauty with whom Clark Gable, as Fletcher Christian, falls in love and who-goes with him to Pitcairn Island to found the historic colony. It seems that Miss Clark Is a Hawaiian girl, native born and educated in Honolulu and despite the fact that she has had a year more or less in the arms of Gable and thus the envy of all her feminine friends here and at home, and despite the fact that M-G-M offered her a contract for other films, she isn't interested. Miss Clark came to Los Angeles visit ixfttie mainland, to start a pre-legal course at the University of Southern CalT-fornia; White a there she was brought to the attention of Frank the who importuned her to take time out to become a film personage.

She took the job when she learned the mon tary reward that would be hers. Now with a nest egg of generous proportions, she has made arrangements to re-enter U. S. pursue her legal career, and, eventually, return to Honolulu to practice law in the courts there among her own people. Meantime her portrait and one of the prettiest portraits to grace the local screen in some time, looks affectionately at the portrait of Gable.

Monsieur Vidaver, again peering over my shoulder, would have you know that this takes place at the Paramount. EXITS AND ENTRANCES Alice MacMahon, finished with "Kind Lady," has moved on to New York with her husband, Clarence Stein, the architect, with the Orient as a final goal where he will study Oriental architecture and she will add to her collection of Oriental art. OOO "Captain Blood" is finished and will have its national release on December 28. James Cagney will impersonate Alabama Pitts in "Over the Wall," story of the convict who was paroled to organized baseball. Robert Montgomery has been borrowed by Warners for one picture.

Al Jolson has finally gone Into production on "The Singing Kid" Paul Muni is to star in "Panama Canal" at Warners when he AVOID CROWDS Attend MATINEES Be Seated Before 7 P.M. BIB "8 HIT" SI If LEE TRACT Rticot Kirnt TWO FISTED JO AH CRAWFORD I LIVE MY LIFE TWO FISTED Cartoon Cntrfy'F0llED ACAIW Hie Screen' Newest sweetheavtH to a nimwinfic Drama STARTS FHIDAY 2 FIRST HUM FEATURES ERIC VO. STnOHEIM in Edgar Allan Poc'a "THE CRIME of DR. CRE8PI" ALSO PETER B. VIVE'S CAPPY RICKS RETrR" mam UAUf nun IS MAT.

"ITE it. i if rj a injured his leg. Apparently there's more to medicine than impersonation. Michael Balcon, in Hollywood on another star hunt, has signed Sally Eilers for a Gaumont-British film to be made in January. Pierre Monteux, French symphony director, and Bill Robinson are rehearsing for a joint concert h-con-hection with one of the Philhar-mohic symphony 20th-Fox and Gaumont-British have entered into a star-exchange agreement.

Victor McLaglen will be the first to go from Hollywood to London. He is to do a Kipling story, "Soldiers Three." PINACH Njw i. ill! JOLa i L- REAR ADMIRAl I 2nd ANTARCTIC I k'irnnnri me won iifTS' H' Greatest twin Two of the most widely heralded "hits" of the season make up the new program opening at the Or- pneum tomorrow. They are "Annie f'jQakley," starring Barbara Stan- wyck, Preston Foster and Melvyn Douglas; and "Little America," vivid picturization of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's second Antarctic expedition.

The story of "Annie Oakley" Is kiOVEU OVER TOMOiniOf? THIS GREAT SHOW COMES HERE FROM THE ROXIE ine BlUiy, uue III lia uiaiuuvai act-ting, of the life and loves of tho young and beautiful country girl who shot quail to earn her living, joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shpw, and defeated every man who challenged her and became the. most deadly rifle shot in the world. Sixty minutes of high adventure sre revealed in "Little America," an actual pictorial record of Byrd's adventures and battle with death in the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world. The latest Topeye cartoon, "Spinach Overture," is an added treat. "The Three' Musketeers" and 0 A SAMUEL COLDWYN PRODUCTION A UNITED ARTISTS' RELEASE with MIRIAM HOPKINS EDWARD G.

ROBINSON JOEL McCREA RKHA1W lllill EXPEDITION! A AwV A irn WWV NINCS BALCONY tot EEK DAY pakin anp 'rr I WVt ALL SEATS 30 TT AsNJD SUND- ORCHESTRA MATINEES 12, 2, 4, 6, 8 AND-10 iii i a i TODAY TOMOiROW Cnrdincil HlCHEUEU OEOWiKinMSS 15 "Stormy" will conclude with tonight's performances. Jeanem 44TON4U)' fcisoiEDDY McLAGLEN THE INFORMER CTDAUn Theatre Berkeley I llHliU collere at Ashby LAST TIMES TODAY A Monumental Soviet Master Work "PEASANTS" Matinee SiIB ToiilstM tT and fteata (W Russian Dlilocat. mil English Titles. Laugh Panic! WM 1 FEATURE-, STARTS AT COLLEGE WnSSiX DRESS I KUNNA COMBElt KENT TAYLOR A MINNA ARUNE JUDGE MAll i.