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The creen TWO O'HARAS OF TARA colvin Mcpherson Fine Portrait in Rogues' Gallery THOSE valiant souls who can smash through the Confederate lines at Loews boxoffice have a treat in store for them. One of the Carlos Chavez to Conduct Concerts at End of Week Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and 'Leonore' Overture No. 3, Works of Debussy and De to Be Presented by Noted Mexican Musician. CHARLES CHAVEZ, noted Mexican composer 8nd conductor w.4 was introduced to St. Louis audiences last season as guest con.

ductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, will fiil that same new movies, "The Eari of Chicago," offers a rerfectly hypnotiz ing Mrfnrniti(i hv Robert Montromerv. that amazing lad who set f-f the country on its ear a few annums back, in "Night Must Fall." Th. Karl i Chicago bears the same stamp psychological. That's what makes it so fascinating.

You get a chance to study a new type of human beine. Almost any patron will agree that when Hollywood gives you that chance, it's highly unusual. Montgomery plays a present day Chicago gangster, a bright boy who realizes he must keep within the law and who does it by running signment on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening at the Ojxa a legal distilling corporation. More than that, Silky Kilmount is a House. The orchestra returns this afternoon from its first tour the season, to Champaign, 111., Toledo and Columbus, O.

to gangster who has an acute distaste for firearms. A completely changed specimen of public enemy, Hollywood studios, please copy. Conductor Vladimir Golschmann ranked among the finest of rvv. Silky Kilmount is endowed by his creators with certain other in sy's art. will next appear with the orchestra dividual characteristics.

Although vastly uneducated, he is quick to at subscription concerts of Feb. 2 and 3, at which Sibelius' Seventh Symphony and a group of famous waltzes will be played and at the Chavez has selected one of most popular program worki in Falla's "Three-Cornered Hat," cor eluding number of the projraa which, in detail, follows: Overture to "Leonore" No. 3. 4. learn, has a primitive sense of humor and at least a primitive regard for the feelings of others, under some circumstances.

His mentality Is badly scarred, however, by past experience. The distaste for guns, for example, goes back to one bitter night spent in a liquor smuggler's boat, with bullets whizzing around and death already in the boat with him. second popular concert on Sunday il a 1 i te fir 1 vt ft I jf -V- 'ilVH-f Symphony No. 4 in B-Fiat Vfcr. afternoon, Feb 4, when the program CPUS til) 'urn will be entirely Wagnerian.

Now for plot. This peculiar criminal, this twisted personality sud Chavez's program for this week consists of Beethoven "leonore Adagio Allegro vivace Allegro ma non tronpo "La Mer" (The flea). Three gyrspve Sketche um From Dawn to Noon Upon the The Wives Play Dialogue of the nt and fc Dances Irom "The Overture No. 3, the same compos ers' Fourth Symphony, Debussy's "Le Mer" and dances from Deai- Hat" De la's "Three-Cornered Hat. The Neighbor's Dance The M'Uer'i Dance Final Dance.

One of the most distinguished of contemporary musicians, Chavez is almost entirely self-taught, tie De- gan composing when he was a child and at the age of 19 nad writien a svmDhony. In 1921 he was commis Fields, Mae West Complete Their Film, 'My Little Chickadee1 sioned by Mexico's Secretary of Ed ucation to compose a ballet or nis native country. Out of this, came "El Fuego Nuevo. In 1S ae organized Mexico's only symphony THE picture Hollywood uij never could be made ha3 bees orchestra, comprised of 100 Mexican finished. A battle that wo'id 3'ia musicians, with a lew assisting make the present World War lock lock American artists.

like kids playing cowboy and He has composed much, including dian was predicted when Mae We? denly falls heir to one of England oldest and most respected titles. He is the twelfth Earl cf Gorley and guided by his attorney, Edward Arnold, he goes to England to claim his rightful position. The procedure is far from another Lord Fauntleroy" adventure. The reactions of Silky Kihrtount are fascinating to observe. As presented in Mr.

Montgomery skillful and revealing manner, they ere of gripping interest. An audience can almost see Silky's brain cells working. Credit is almost entirely Montgomery's, too, since, except for his Insistence, Silky would never have been presented on the screen. And Montgomery virtually has recreated his screen personality in the characterization. He alters the set of his jaw, he combs his hair differently, he his voice and has a wicked and irritating little cackle of a laugh.

More than that, he has a British look about him, as if he had English ancestry or at least had won a British open golf championship. His warped attitudes, his quick absorption of facts that he deems important, the shocks he gets from the dignities of English life all are mirrored in the performance. Even against such an old scene-stealer as Edmund Gwenn, Montgomery holds his own. And to cap the climax. Silky ends up with sympathy on his side, at least as much sympathy as pity is.

"The Shop Around the Corner," Loew's second feature, is not so rare as "The Earl of Chicago" but is as great a pleasure, Director Ernst Lubitsch, who handed us "Ninotchka" a short while back and who has been getting drollery out of sex for a good many years, turns his hand to tender romance this time. Taking inspiration from a Hungarian play by Nikolaus Laszlo, he shows us what goes on in the hearts of a pair of fellow workers in a Budapest leather goods store. Chosen for the experiment, James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. They quarrel by day but write each other romantic letters by night. For each is corresponding with an unknown "Lonely Heart" and fate has whipped up the paradoxical circumstances.

When they do find out about each other, you can start putting on your galoshes to go home, for the show will be over. and W. C. Field3 were cast that series of orchestral works familiar to American radio and concert audiences, the ballet the "Sinfonia de Antigona" and Universale "My Little Chickade T-" TT.ll tv "Sinfonia India." Uhe last or Miss est and i- leids ever would be able to get together sufficiently for the picture to even start. Fe er thovght it would ever be isbed.

these was played under his direction in St. Louis last season. He also has collected and preserved indigenous music and encouraged young Mexican composers to throw off the shackles of pseudo-classicism to write truly living Mexican music. In 1938 he was awarded a WHICH VIVIEN LEIGH AS THE FAMOUS SCARLETT AND THOMAS MITCHELL AS HER FIERY FATHER, GERALD, IN "GONE WITH THE WIND BEGINS ITS ROAD SHOW ENGAGEMENT AT LOEWS THEATER FRIDAY MORNING. But the skeptics have been proved Not only has the picturi been finished but not once the nine weeks of shooting wa there even a sign of a battle bt-tween the two stars.

Both worke: Guggenheim Fellowship for the After Manv Lincoln Plavs, The Week's Shows Constance Bennett Show, 'Easy Virtue', composition of a piano concerto. like Trojans on the preparation In the last five years, Chavez, the story as well as on the aewsjj without giving up his duties as con One About His Assassin On the Stage. LITTLE THEATER "Family Portrait." drama by Lenore At American Jan. 29 'r Coffee and William Joyce NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (AP).

next April 14 it will be just production or me picture. "I'm quite sure Bill and I we.t the only two people in town vie thought we could go through tij picture without having any trouble," Miss West declares. "But we knew there never would be any reason for trouble between ui Granted that we are both strocg individualists, our styles of acticj are so distinctly different that there never was a chance of either of us taking anything from tk other." 75 years ago that a fiery but CONSTANCE BENNETT, who had no stage experience before she became a motion picture star, will be seen in her first play, "Easy Virtue," at the American Theater for the week beginning Monday night, Jan. 29. The production, designed for a road tour primarily, has been in Chicago for the last two weeks and is remain Cowen, begins run of nine performances Friday night.

GARRICK Ann Corio and "Girls In Blue." (Burlesque.) GRAND "Golden Girls," featuring Marion Miller. (Burlesque.) On the Screen. frustrated actor named John ductor of his own orchestra in Mexico City, has become a popular guest leader of the chief symphony orchestras of the United States. He has conducted the Philadelphia orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, which marked a return of the composer to his mood and style of the first two symphonic writings, after his Third or "Eroica" Symphony, Well-Loved Melodies, With Love THE assortment of songs that is called "The Great Victor Herbert," at the Ambassador Theater, is a rather generous program and will appeal to these fond of Herbert's music.

Not only are "Ah, Sweet Mystery of "I'm Falling in Love With Someone," sented by the Broadway theater in the past couple of seasons. "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" won the Pulitzer prize and "Prologue to Glory," a drama about Lincoln as a young man, was a hit. The true judgment, perhaps, is that "The Man Who Killed Lincoln" is an extremely interesting play if one has a deep interest in Lincoln, because you may rest assured of getting authentic information in a Lincoln drama by Stern. Otherwise it is a case history of a certain phase of American politics. It is good history if not good entertainment.

AMBASSADOR "The Great ing there through next Sunday night. Victor Herbert, featuring Al- Ian Jones, Mary Martin and i Walter Connolly; "Oh, Johnny, i The play itself is a Noel Coward "Kiss Me Again," and "A Kiss in the Dark" introduced at proper places, but many less familiar selections serve their purpose here and there. These doubtless will bung fond recollection to many in the How You Can Love," with Cast for Mummers' Tn tha Mummers' nroduction was heard last at the St. Louis Sym Tom Brown and Peggy Moran. FOX "The Invisible Man Re comedy which was on Broadway in the 1925-26 season, with Jane Cowl as the star, but never toured.

The cast in support of Miss Bennett is composed of Richard Ainley, Reginald Mason, Viola Roache, Olive Ambassador's audiences but how many I cannot say. My operetta going is definitely post-Herbert. The libretto that has been whipped up, however, will hardly stand Wilkes Booth committed a murder which did much to change this nation's history. It also branded him as an emotional young man of the theater who seemed more concerned with the staging of his killing than the morals of it. Booth, so the new drama, "The Man Who Killed Lincoln," reveals, was a handsome young actor and possibly a talented one except that he could never overcome a sort of inferiority complex because his father Junius Brutus Booth and his brother Edwin Booth were both early celebrated actors.

But, despite the shadows of these relatives in which he had to live, he was always the complete extrovert. Elmer Harris has dramatized this play from the book by the Lincoln turns," with' Sir Cedric Hard- 5 3i phony's closing concerts of the 1936-37 season. The first movement is charming in its melodies, and throughout is striking for its simplicity, direct "Post Road" at the Wednesday wirkp Vinrpnt Prirp anrl Nan analysis, ine story is not inai or victor jneroeri, wno is imperson Reeves-Smith, Jeanne Dante, Cora Grey; "He Married His Wife," If Smith, William Roehrick, James ness and exhilarating freshness. The Club on Feb. 10 and 11, llary Hohenberger will have role of Emily Madison which Charlotte Greenwood played at the American Theater.

The title on that occasion Truex and others Hassard Short staged the production. second movement is outstanding for its purity and quiet and tender themes. The third part is an inter starring Joel McCrea and Nancy Kelly. LOEW'S "The Shop Around the Corner," starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart; ij 'Chocolate Soldier' Announced as First Of Opera's Revivals FIRST of the revivals to be announced for Municipal Opera's 1940 season is the popular Oscar Straus piece. "The Chocolate Sol The immediate future of the was "Leaning On Letty." The drama in St.

Louis is still complicated by the Chicago picture. George White's "Scandals" gets out The Earl of Chicago, starring Robert Montgomery with Ed esting and rhythmical scherzo, the finale is strongly Mozartian in its sparkling gaiety and classical design. Debussy's "La Mer" Is a series of symphonic sketches in the impres of Chicago at the same time as last presented in Forest Park ated by Walte Connolly, but a backstage story of a theatrical family, without any particular punch to it. Allan Jone.s, a star of Herbert operettas, marries Mary Martin, an unknown singer. She outshines him in popularity and shoitly after a daughter is born to them, they separate.

Fourteen years later the child, now Susanna Foster, goes into a Herbert revival and canies on the family tradition. Jones' singing is as welcome to the ear as it ever was at Municipal Opera but the role gives him no chance for an outstanding triumph. Miss Martin, who came to fame on Broadway in the strip-tease number, "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," is typed by Paramount as "demure," which is far from accurate. In several scerfes, she gives positive evidence that it should be "vamp." Young Miss Foster, also a rewcorr.tr to the movies, has great vocal possibilities, but as yet is just another child soprano who can squeak a really high note now and then. is a comedy-melodrama showing how an old maid, proprietor of tourist home, foils a band of kidnapers.

Other players includi Blandford Jennines. Al Hohen "Easy Virtue" and is heading for ward Arnold and Reginald I Owen. I in 1935. The present unrest in the authority, Philip Van Doren Stern, and the authors comment that they have tried here to be impartial, to explain Booth and to quote as many MISSOURI "Gulliver's Travels." I sionistic style of music. The moods Balkans, focusing attention on that part of Europe, is given as a reason Detroit, with St.

Louis in the calculations for Feb. 18. "The Hot Mikado," also in Chicago, is a hot choice for St. Louis for Feb. 5 or ten, Helen Blanchard, Virgini are strongly suggestive of the seas, featuring cartoon in color; "Laugh It Off," featuring although there is neither a program for scheduling the show.

The operetta jests at war and of his actual words as possible in justification of his act. White, Sam ianey jt, Barnes and Viola Sheehan. 1Z nor a literary preface to the score, Some certainty for the playing of What expert historian Van Doren soldiering between armies of Serbia and Bulgaria. A Swiss officer of Stern reveals most in this drama is "The Little Foxes" in St Louis in April or May is given by a let the Serbian army is forced to hide that Booth's motive in killing Lincoln was not so much a patriotic in the boudoir of a daughter of a ter to the Playgoers from the show's Bulgarian army officer. A love af star, Tallulah Bankhead.

fair as well as trouble then evolves She wrote: "I most certainly in 53 Constance Moore and Johnny 3 Downs. ST. LOUIS Geraldine Fitzgerald i in "A Child Is Born," with i Gladys George and Jeffrey Lynn; "Sued For Libel," fea- turing Kent Taylor and Linda Hayes. yf- Movie Time Table en Page 9, This Section. season, beginning June 3.

The Max ESTAt. 1926 "A QUALITY INSTITUTION" SMVlCI 1 to cause many comic moments. The score includes such popular tunes as "My Hero," tend to bring "The Little Foxes to St. Louis before the present season is over, during an extended tour Our Heroes Come, "Falling in "On, Johnny, How xou Can Love," the Ambassador's second fea-tuie, is a helter-skelter comedy of the type about the runaway heiress, plus gangsters, and has its share of laughs and music. And a Boom Year for Babies WARNER who started out last year to show up the Nazis, certainly have changed their plans.

Right now they are in the midst of a one-studio cycle glorifying the American stork. In "Four Wives" a couple of weeks ago, everybody in the Lane-Lemp family got a youngster. This week at the St. Louis "A Child Is Born" Love" and the "Letter Song." The Straus piece is the third of the whole United States. I remember with great pleasure the hospitality and generosity shown me both personally and professionally by the Playgoers when I was in St.

Louis, and I send my very offering announced so far to be given in Forest Park during the 1940 season. The George Kauf well Anderson-Kurt Weill musical play, "Knickerbocker Holiday," is man-Moss Hart spectacle, "The American Way," will be given for best wishes and kindest regards to them all. I am looking forward with real pleasure to bringing a to each inmate in a big maternity ward. "Brother Rat and a Baby" the other work already announced. The season will run for 13 weeks.

two weeks at the opening of the are on the way. 'A Child Is Born" is a new version of that "Grand Hotel" of the great play to St. Louis, where, in my less fortunate vehicles, I was supported so generously." delivery room, "Life Begins," which now is old enough to go to gesture for the Confederate States as it was just a big dramatic scene offstage that Booth built up for himself in real life. Booth, in those days before 1864, was not critically acclaimed in the theater, but he was successful financially. His income often passed the $20,000 a year mark, which was remarkable then and still is.

He inherited from his father a fondness for liquor, an angry temper and an arrogance that frequently got him into trouble. While he felt a terrific hatred for Lincoln and also felt a love for the South, the actor still came foremost with him, for all the time he was plotting the murder of Lincoln he was planning where he could best stage it and declaim with most effectiveness the lines: "Sic semper tyran-nis! The South is avenged!" But, when he killed Lincoln he was a. poor performer, for he shot Lincoln in the President's box at the theater and then forgot his speech, yelling only "Sic semper" and then could not remember what the rest of the speech was. He leaped out of the box onto the stage and then, actor still, tried to school. Movie patrons who can remember back when Roosevelt went into office will recall that "Life Begins" was about a pretty little mur 'Family Portrait1 deress who was released from prison lon enough to go to the hospital.

At Little Theater The result was tragedy but before the tearful finish, the audience had teen taken on tour of all kinds of maternal bedsides. This is the same old tour. There is the mama of seven, or is it MONDAY to FRIDAY INCLUSIVE 'r i 1 lE. Ot.i THE Little Theater's extra production, "Family Portrait," will have its first performance Friday night and will be open to the public on Saturday night and for five performances next week. The play is not included in the -subscription season.

New to St. Louis, "Family Portrait" is a success of last season on Broadway. It is the story of Mary, mother of Jesus, and a picture of her home life during the years her son was preaching the new gospel. Members of Jesus' family appear but He himself does not. The family, except for Mary, resents his preaching, regards him GOOD ANY TIME EXCEPT 10 A.

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Coopon J. declaim another speech but couldn't. His leg Was fractured, but his chief worry, actor still, was that he US' 'One Tried Dent Art eight? Here is the vaudeville actress who doesn't want any. There is the little 18-year-old entering on her fiist such experience. A deranged woman who just thinks she is a mother steals in at night.

Comedy, drama, excitement, all veiy realistically presented. Geraldine Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Lynn have the roles that were played by Loietta Young and Eric Linden last time, Gale Page is the nurse that Aline MacMahon was, Gladys George takes Glenda Farrell's eld chart and X-rays. And time marches on. Program support at the St. Louis is furnished by a thriller called "Sued For Libel," in which Kent Taylor sets out to "get something on" prominent broker and finds out a great deal about crimes past and present.

The identity of the real killer is quite a surprise, not that it really matters. Among short subjects at the St. Louis are a color cartoon and a Three Stooges comedy, "You Nazty Spy," which brought forth many chuckles and a few howls of laughter by its satire on Hitler, Goering and Goebbels. Having arrived last Wednesday at the Fox, "The Invisible Man Returns" is in the middle of its run there. It is an absorbing and tomnimes horrifying bit of imagining, induced by very adept camera tricks.

Vincent Price is the vacuum of the title. "He Married His Wife." in second place on the program, has enough nonsense to be always entertaining, thanks to Mary Poland and others. "Gulliver's Travels," well-drafted featuie caitoon, and "Laugh It Off," a comedy, are in continued run at the MisfouiL 0 PAGE OB as a fanatic and his crucifixion as a disgrace. Betty McGrew has the role of Mary, which was -done by Judith Anderson on Broadway. In the couldn't make a graceful exit.

Booth organized his confederates to aid him in killing Lincoln, and he really had a fenly effective plan to overthrow the Government. His plan was to kidnap Lincoln as hostage and kill about a dozen leaders of his Government, Cabinet leaders and others, so as to paralyze Government action. Somewhere the plot went astray and only Lincoln was killed. In both history and in the play there were insinuations (one or two of them) that some of Lincoln's Cabinet ministers were in on the plot. All this is dramatized in a play that, whether or not it is a box-of cast are Katherine Maze, Dorothy Roudebush, Herbert Macklin.

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Catton 6th and Pina 3113 N. Grand fice hit, is a meritorious drama that BETTY McGREW AS MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS, KATHERINE MAZE AS MARY CLEOPHAS IN "FAMILY PORTRAIT," LITTLE THEATER. adds much to the Lincolniana pre EVERYDAY MAGAZINE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, JANUARY 21, 1940.