Cumberland Evening Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 9

EVENING TIMES, CUMBERLAND. THURSDAY, SEPT. 5.1940 THEATRES Ml TRIO FEATURED IX FILM Cicero (Frank) Weaver -of the famous Weaver Brothers, and Elviry, ow on the at the Garden tiicater, the original and vaudeville headlines lor 25 made hSs professional debut it the age of 16 with Steer Quartette. The quartette was feature nj Jack Ruj'uipnd Stock Company and traveled fov years through Missouri the South Ln Cicero teamed with his brother vnnum the slatre a.s Abncr.l form the act which won them I Hedy As The "Other Woman" York and. secured ft role in tmcco Road," famous for Us longev ity.

AND OKCIijiS- TRA AT STfcANH Tne Strand theatre will have on lls big stage today one of the top name bands, i.one olhc) (than the famous Don Bestor who Ifoi years was featured with Jack iBcnny and his radio programs. Bes- Jtor has been seen and heard in 1 every- large city in land sweet I swing ''is always appreciated and I The Vocalists thus' season me jp(rnny 1 who mads for Bruns- any records the past lew I months' been top sellers The screen show is the new 20th Harrison in Hollywood British Stars and Techni-- clans in Hollywood Suf- fer From London Pro- ducer's Unjust Barbs NEA' Service Staff Corre-spoliuet' iodustrj 1 and "trying to brness 1 films to our national ef- toit," Maybe so. On the other hand, he could leurn by leading box office statistics that now, more than ever, the war-weary English people want American-made pictures They want escapist enter- tainment, propaganda. Kven Hollywood's best and bitterest antl NSK! efforU'Rre less enthusiastically received than "Rebecca," "Grapes of Wrath" and "Gone With the Wind." 'Foreign One is the other uigcs American annnnient Great, Britain has dec- orated hundreds of men for les-i valuable services. Home Aquarium Stocked Ing to the collection ever Mnce until now it includes 15 species'from all parts of the world in display Mid four breeding tanks.

"Pish aie thn in the world to nlons wiih," said Nichols N1NH of ten cllHwciH difterent Wnrts cf plants: He raise pigeons snd guinea pigs and once hart 70 canaries, i 3,000 Odd Fish He also lias collected' 250 snails Hurricanes, which tluw ft I ft rate of BO an hour pressure of 32 pounrts a square foot. BALCON GOT BRUSH-OFF A man who considered himself Balcon's friend until a few days ago te lls me the pTM du el spends his a an tS-alrcrafl Sept, 5 tU.R)-- E. Nichols has three thousand fish of nil kinds in his house. It air started' 16 years ago wHlt two goldnsh--onii he has been add- HAPPY RELIEF hl a ilian a a a Hollywood, Sept. 5--I'm glad rinj corps I nave no intormatlon boul actor In Hollywood Jr.

Unnu; 1 I Alir' Siren Hedv Lamarr mikes a departure from her heroine roles to pHy the siren tns to lure Clark Gable awav from his wife, plajcd by Claudctte Colbert, in "Boom Town, 1 spectacular drama of the oil fields whUh opened tod.ij at the Marjland theater Completing the star- studded cast Is Spencer Tracy as Gnblc's rival, a British director or writer, either AH people have been flleers" liy Mlcnaei uulum, a liluii producer in London, and they're go- ing to suffer from his indLsciimlnate smearing. Personally and professionally, they are pretty sick about it. They know movie Tans don't like slackers, and they already have seen two or three careers damaged by casual local gos- sip. They realize there Is no way to lefute completely the bitter charge publicly launched by a prominent Balcon countryman. 1VE HAVE Balcon got the brush-off from Hollywood in the rr GETS A STRA.NGU HOLD ON A A i OK 1 IMK b.

A II Metro. He was repiacea as Mjjji- pioducer In Victor Saville, now in who mqde "The Citadel" and "Good- by, Mr. Chips It may have been Saville to whom Balcon icfcned with special bitter- rriuay i Hichard Arleu Andy Devlivc "HOT STEEL" one. Roy Rorcrs Ocorje "tn Old Colicnfe" I 1 ul lliust by 6 ti lr 'a chltf way 01 tit ilie 15 of Udpey toUea filkm 'don't Viorl. well, liti bluud.

Tlirae pains. IUM uf i i in tuft I energy, Betliflfi up niphts, awc'iinf? puttini3 meant Alfred Hitchcock, who under Iol accja v1 much plumper and Who also Was sometliiDt willi your ness as a "plump young formerly in his employ. Or else ceiitury vFox hit 13' stanmg I Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Barl Starting tomorrow the Sliand will Icelsbrate 'the grand opening of IscUine's 1940-41 Cheerlul.Show Sea- with- Bing Crosby's latest hit leniitled "Rhythm on The iFeatured with singing Bmg is Man iMartin. Basil Rathbone, Oscai Sliau Lillian Cornell. RHYTHM CROONS LOVE Brenda Marshall is hoping audi- won't say it's a The beautiful brunette actress, appearing opposite Errol Fljnn at Warner Bros, in "The Sea Hawk, Li the New Liberty sings for the llirsl.

time on the Miss IMariilinll wants to go on record her own singing and assuring ifharp oared fans that it's not done tricks. The song, a dainty love lyric, is killed very simply, ''Donna Maria's jSoiiK" and was. composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, famed screen who also" composed the jmufical score for "The Sea AN OIL MAN, ONE ROLE CLARK GABLE KNEW ABOUT AT "FIRST HAND' has been said that if you staj Bin motion pictures a few years you bound eventually to play i IcharactCr or events on the scroev which you have experienced in rea life. It has just happened to me just made an oil picture. Along about my eighteenth blrth- rtay, ambition carried me into the Heart oil fields of Oklahoma That was my first real job, but it linok me to the present to be- leoinc cast in an oil story.

The title more. about, the oil biisiness in it than I Jkncw when down In fields. Noi that once being an oil worker the part any easier; GONE The trouble is patriotism is not Balcon technician. ns -t now'i Anway, Saville turned out "Thc saece-wfuiiy by millions rl Mortal Storm" here a few months 1 oiu'poiMaoJ aco. and Hitchcock recently com- yo ur binod.

Get riih. ago, and Hitchcock recently com- 1 0 you" pleted a stirring, sure-smash Aclvrritsfmrnt Bins Crosby sings and Mary IMarlin, Broadway musical comedy star beats out a little rhythm In a scene from Bing's new Paramount picture "Rhyltim on the River," which opens a seven day cngascment at the Strand theiiter starling Basil Rathbone, Lillian Cornell and Oscar Levant, expert of radio's "Information Please," are Seen in sup porting roles. was educated, at Allen Academy and the Texas School of Mines, wher he was an outstanding football star His first ambition was, to ori th me ariuei mini 11. AH-Amcrlcan team, but this ambi- thcn two men with sixteen-1 tjon was supplanted by. a more prac- tical one, namely, to become a liim- cighty feet high, compared to the all-steel 120-footers of'today.

My first was a tool dresser, a twelve-hour-s-day job. -We i would heat the driller until it was white- hot, then two men with sixteen- pound sledge hammers would pound the face of the tool back into shape. never toiled in an oil field Lid he looks mighty convincing a A BARKY JUST I driller in the picture, but then. RIGHT TYPE FOR bpence has a habit of looking con-! ACTION RANGE ROLES Ucing in any role he tries. 1 Of Irish and Spanish ancestry, inary on the screen.

To this end he journeyed to New commodity you can wrap up in haki or a shroud, or something that an be weighed in gold. I suppose hat of all the scores of Britishers in iollywood there must bq some who ire doggoned in their hearts be 6000 miles away from the firc- vorks. I also know about a couple of hotheads who'd rather be fighting han acting, but who have been dis- suaded up to now. Five who have gone away--in spite of own jest judgment, I believe--are David Nlven, Patric Knowles, Colin Tapley, Robert Coote and Richard Greene. However, here; is a fact which I wish could be known and accepted elsewhere as firmly as it is' realized by most of Hollywood: the British colony is convinced it is best serving its country by remaining here, creat- ing entertainment, earning big sal- aries, making' donations, raising money through benefits, and helping to solidify U.

unity. Right or wrong, these people are sincere. And apparently their own govern- ment believes they are right. In his! rief, restrained answer to Balson's denunciation, Alan Mowbray said, We are doing what we can while an answer to our collective offer of service." The Empire gov- ernment has not Indicated any no- that Its nationals in Hollywood should go to England to' make mov- es or bear CENSORS BLUNDERED in connection with that, it Eeems to'me one of the stupidest blunders of English censorship was made in permitting Michael Balcon to im- pugn the honor and loyalty anc courage of a large group of mer am women 'who in a sense are more pi their than all its ambassadors, and minis ter.i and consuls. Tha disgruntled.

London produce figures that his former colleague ought to be over there laboring fo the preservation of England's cm For years, it was my hope to do hn oil story. I kept telling every- lone that fact because, despite flie work, those years were some of ny happiest. I was no driller as am in the picture, but I was still kid In those Oklahoma days and i men don't give important drill- ing jobs to young, Inexperienced Scllows. But I know how it was flone in those days. That's all that ncce.ssary since "Boom Town" fcocs back Donald Barry de Acosta--or Just plain "Donald 1 as he is to be known to his action firm fans--is the idcnl type for the rip-roaring western roles he is to portray on his, new Republic contract Selected from a field of over five-hundred as- pirants, Barry was chosen for quali- ties which will place him on a plane with Republic's other cow- boy stars, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne and Three Meaqul BACK FROM VACATION MEANS BACK TO BUSINESS AND SCHOOL Start- yourself, off -'right with 4 new permanent, refreshing facial, or series of our exciting beauty aids.

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