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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1937 Abundant Choice in Photoplays Is Offered for These Warmish Days i a 1111 Af- Cvr- I -5S I yw, js A I fr. U' jiiautje Marguret Lindsay in "Slim," Stanton 'BMk'fW i Miriam HoiVtns in. "Woman Cnases Man," Boyd tcfi fti-' tVvAw Hollywood in Review CAM ERA ANGLES Those Madcap Comedy Marx Men Might Have Been Concocted by Lewis Carroll Marlene Bakes Those Herself-Or So Cute Little Lebkuchen Lubitsch Thinks nyMILDKKI) MARTIN FKW ypnrs hro, If any one hrt linking th lumn of the Mnrx Brothers and ElLiahpth pi'gner In single column we'd hve A been rude pnntiRh to laugh vjt But now the time has conip Mxl It's no laughing matter. "A Day at the Racei," replete with Grouiho, Itilrpo and Chlco, tui't really any funnier than Mlsa Bergner'a "Dreaming Lips." Tte only difference la, the Marx picture is funnv and means to be; while the Bergner film la a tragedy that unwittingly got- hilarious. The aunny insanity of Ihe three madcap comedy Marx men Is a warm and welcome thlryj.

ALso there is method In their marines, reason In their prarto. wisdom in their constant, cockeyed effort to help the weak and the downtrodden and confound the wlckPd. Though the villain and his nhorta flhYirtsh for a time In "A Day at the Races," one can sit back secure to the knowledge that once the Marxes get into action Justice will triumph even It that triumph Is brought about loonily, Buiter "Dreaming Lips," through which the mightily mannered little Bergner scampers like a frightened fawn, or a young woman suffering" from an acute case of arrested mentality, we're afraid to consider what ahe may do In another picture. Instead of being loved so passionately by her husband and her husband's best friend on the screen, of course we should have thought the men's one idea would have been how to wring hr elfin little neck, In his farel preposterous pres and the determination to be "cute" at any cost If "Dreaming Lips" and Miss Borg-ner's performance as Oaby belongs In the memory book along with "Sylvia Scarlett" and Katharine Hep burn's playing of the title role a frightening examples of how bad a film and an actress can be; don't for-get that Bergner gave us a beau- snd 0rnma in "Escape Me Never." John Boles and Dons Nolan in "As Good As Earle Clark Gable and Myrna Loy Parnell" Stanley What's Showing on Local Screens This Week And Instead of weeping Into Its collective handkerchief, we distinctly heard the audience giggle when Oaby turned somersaults beside hi husband slrk-bed and then ran out and Jumped In the river, Method in Madness THE truth were told, the Marx Brothers probably aren't any free-er of mannerisms than is I Misa Bergner. The silence of Harpo hie pixie personality, his harp and hta Wig are always there.

So are Groueho's black mustache, his saturnine asides and his cigar. And so re Chico's hat, Italian accent and piano playing. However, the things they do and the way they do them have won the Marxes permanent niches In the hearta of all who have sense of nonsense or an affinity for broad, breezy comedy. Marx fans won't need any urging from this department to nish right around to the Fox to see their favorites. But they may be glad to I ror ner own sake, It would eem 'clear across the continent to get him wise to remove Miss Bergner from i u.

the Influence of her husband's too his nutty Inventor-father too direction. Family ties' mdH village. John Blystone direct-haven't upset the perspective of the 1 ed from a story by Lynn Root and By WHITNEY BOLTOV HOLLYWOOD. June 12. YOU ask Ernst LubiUsch, he will tell you that Marlene Dietrich not only Is a superb actress but a won derful cook and that her cakes, baked with her own hands, are without peer.

If you ask Ernst Lubitsch you're crazy. He's been the victim of a plot. For some time, whenever Dietrich has been making a picture for Lubitsch, she has brought htm cakes two or three times a week. Tiny, delicious little lebkuchen, or creamy dobastorte with the authentic thin layers and heavy cream of the native German and Austrian pastry confection. For you." she would say, "with my own hands!" The other day Mady Christians went into a tiny Austrian bake ahop on Sunset Boulevard and ordered Austrian tea cakes.

They were deli- and she went back for more. telling the proprietor: "These cakes are so wonderful, they taste so much like they did at home. I am going to tell all my friends to come here." Thank you. Fraulein." the little baker said. "I wish all of my famous clients were as grwlous to remem- I ut-1 uir.

"What, do you mean?" Marv asked. i "Well. Fraulein Dietrich." said the baker, "she buys of me cake two, three times a week and takes them to I that Lubitach. He is like a little boy. Anythin he will believe He believes she baked them hrif Until he seeV it here, Lubitsch will 1 beeve.

After that Coming Events Winchell has been known to forecast his famous "blessed events" as much as eight months In advance. Winchell is a forecaster, but an amateur. Beau can forecast a baby to born one year hence and name the i mother. In fact, he will. Sally Eilers, who is Mrs.

Harry Joe Brown, will have a baby next June! 1 The Harry Joes have one child, a 1 rharmlng lltle boy of three. They are about to build a new house, the Plans Inrlude two children's rooms They also are about to depart for I don want to get my new baby now, oriore rne inp. sara Sally. "I'll wait until we get back in the fall." Therefore, the forecast. Hollywood Is holding its left thumb In hones that assault arising i out of a studio party, can be settled and straightened out without the I front pages suddenly wading in with "anner neaaunes.

Hollywood nasni nil ine papers wun a major 1 scandal In a long ttme and doesn't want to start now. There Is cat reoCiitineiit over ihe uartv. and the principals are being panred for indulging themselves In a foolish. stupid display of drunkenness and revelry. Wicked Hollywood Wicked, naughty Hollywood: Five men two VTiters.

a director, a pro-I riucer and a columnist spend a whole Sunday afternoon around a new elec trie fly-trap, watching it electrocute the insects as they bura neir It! Ignored attractions were a beautiful swimming pool, a wonrie-ful sun, three of the most gorgeous glsmonr gtrls In town, a bottle of Scotch and some new stories! The cutest child to hit Hollywood in years Is little Margaret Early She's the daughter of a political pin in Alabama Her dad. coming here on business, brought her alona. A long-lost friend met her, asked her to do a walk-on, for the fun of It. tn a Little Theatre amateur production tn Beverly Hills. Greg ory La Cava happened ti be in the audience.

Got. her name sent for her. She was tested and slpned In one day by RKO. Go's prominently Into Hepburn an4 Rogers co-starring "Stage Door." I I I I 1 1 After signing she was told go to the publicity department and give facts about herself. Which she did.

ending up with. "Could you tell me who's going to be in this picture? Ah'd sort of like to know who some of the other actresses are gnin' to be." And almost fainted when they told her. She Is seventeen, looks about fourteen, has the kind of Southern accent, you love instead of hate and Is a teeny-weenie in size. RKO thinks maybe they've got something there, but won't get too excited untU they see her work in the picture. In the studio lunch room Thursday she was biting at a ham smriwich twice as big as she is.

And Beau discovered she Is a scallop-eater. She bites all around the foui edgs of a sandwich, leaving blte-callops she goes rr tSUllUlflQ I TCS I a Fine Art In Film Center Kick Stadler, Hollywood Expert, Tells How It's Done lwinLDING a magnolia tree big support and atrong enough to JJ fl. Ur while five screen star while they en acted much of their comedy In it waa the difficult task faced by Ntclc Stadler, Hollywood's master "tree-maker," for "Woman Chases the Boyd. "Every tree built for the movies la different," Stadler declared, "ba-cause each must meet unique conditions. As a result there's no eek formula.

You've got to figure It oud diffirently every "Real trees are seldom used be cause of the difficulty, and tre- cost of getting. them to tudlo sft Alvt they Rrf far too heavy to out on wooden stage floors. "Barrels and kegs make the foundation for the best movie trees. With the bottoms knocked out they piled up on a couple of four by four timbers running through the centre. stronelv tied toaether and braced with framing strips.

The barrels form the trunk, and the kegs go into the large branches. Where these lead off steel bars exiena siraigni innnitc. giving me sirengrn 10 suppun only the large limbs but any players who work on them. "Aiiomer important reason movie trees is their mobility. Even a big tree is built on a low pianorm equipped with roller casers.

Then It rn ffssilv he moved ti suit the di rector, or to set a different, camera position. Real trees are so heavy th! is Impossible. "After we get the roundanon trunk and branches built, real limbs with areen leaves are carefully "Pllnted on so that Joints do not. ihntv "The bark, or casing, Is made of plaster In molds copied from real bark. "After the bark is put on It painted In the color, or combination of shades, necessary for realism.

"It's a lot of grief, this moviemaking." Stadler concluded, "but the public likes it and It keeps me well paid." Camden Films Today "The Prince and the Paup-r." with Errol Flynn and the Mauch twins, and a special stage show will offered at, the Stanlev In tf riny. while at the. Lyric "Mountain Justice," co-starring Jo-epMn? Hutchinson snd George Brent, -111 fr? the Sunday feature. hear that the boys are at their very isn't, If you're not made unhapuv or best in their new picture for which uncomfortable when a formerly sen-we've been walling the two long. I sltlve, gifted actress Inslsu unon weary year since they last brighten- making a laughlng-slock of herself ed the.

screen in "A Night at the But after all. there Is no reason whv seekers should go lo Whether It, was the writers', the the theatre to wring their hand director's or the Idea of one of the: when, hv going to see folk like Ihe Brothers to tear apurt a grand plane! Marx trio, thev ran le.v. ni, ROVI "Woman (hasea Man" teams Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrae In a rollicking comedy about a destitute girl architect who chases a weallhv vouns tightwad Frank Fenton. The supporting cast Includes Charles Winnlnger. Erik Rhodes.

Ella Logan. Leona Maricle, Al K. Hall and Bioderick Crawford. KARI.K "As tiood as Married the story of a secretary who marries her boss to help huu save on his income tax. features John Boles as Ihe lax-doritting architect and Nolan as Ihe helptul secretary who turns the tables on her husband of convenience.

Also in Ihe cast are Waller Plditeon, Tala Birell, Alan Mowbray. Catherine Alexander. Fr- nef-t Cossart and Mary Phillips. Nor- man Krasna supplied the storv: Edward Buzwll, the direction. The i i ur E(l8 annlversarv slace show presents' Eslelle Taylor.

Eddie White. Bov Foy and Bill Power's Roxettes. KAR I. TON "There Is My Affair." conllnuing lis atara Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor In a drama of Presidents. secret agents and bank robbers.

Tay- lors appears as a 1901 version of u- diiy's Q-pian; Miss Slanwytk. as a cafe singer who is purer than her' surroundings indicate. The cast In- I eludes Victor McLatili'il. Brian Don- levy. Sidney Blackmer and Frank Conroy.

Robert Tayl or in "TJris Is My Affair," Karltot i fJ' A ill '41 -rjx. FOX "A Day at the Maces," the first Marx Brothers picture In two years, presents Groucho. as a horse doctor; Chico. as a Jockey, and Harpo, as a race track tout. The action shifts between the track and Maureen O'Bullivan's sanitarium which she Is trying to save from foreclosure.

Allan Jones provides songs and the romantic Interest in Miss O'Sullivan's life; Douglas Dum- brille is the deep-dyed villain; and I others In the cast are Esther Muir. Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann and Robert Middleman. Sam Wood directed. i El KOI'A "Of Human Bondage." the prize-winning film based on Somerset Maugham's novel In which Leslie Howard and Eelte Davis are co-starred, ron'inues today and tomorrow. "The Lost U'i'h Vlrtnr Mrl apipn Rnria Vartnff H'id Wallace Ford, will beem a two- i day engagement on Tuesday.

"Son of Mongoha." a Soviet dealing ents in Manchuria, w.ll probably aaT- VICTORIA "King of Gamblers," with Aklm Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan and Claire Trevor, continues iiniil Tuesday when the feature will be the Astaire-RoKrrs musical, "Shall He Dance." "Cafe Metropole." Tyrone Power. lrella Yoniia and Adolphe Menjou, starts on Friday. nexie uavts tn Of Human Bondage, Eurofa i STANLEY continuing for a second week co-stars Clark Gable as Charles Stewart r-Hrnru. me uncrownea King oi i Ireland." and Myrna Loy as Katie O'Shea. the married woman for love of whom Parnell sacrificed his career and his national cause.

John M. Stahl directed from John Van Druten's adaptation of the Elsie T. Srhauffler stage play. Important 'SUW0' Bre PiavPa Ean May Oliver, Alan Marshal. Edmund Owen, Billie Burke and Donald Crisp.

and abort mount Pictorial; an off -screen study of Hollywood's stars; and Disney's "Mickey's Polo Team." comprise the hour-long program. Today's added cartoon i. a Silly Sym- 'The Grasshopper and the KtiriMi wmi iu i nim in nns, fne Mpt-r oh. SSK 'hrre. The feather-weight plot shows what happPn5 whpn Kpn mfft a beautiful girl In Paris and per- suarie her to Join them In Swiss holiday.

PALACE "A Star Is Born." with Janet Gaynor. Fredrlc March and Adolphe Menjou, will remain here until Friday when "The Prince and the Pauper." featuring Errol Fl.nn and the Mauch twins, will an engagement. A' Claudette Colbert in "I Met Him in Paris," Keit' STANTON "Slim," a lively out- door drama dealing with those dari" men w'? strin? high- tpnsfnn wirpc nrrnca tha rrtuntrv rr. Pat O'Brien and Henry Fonda as a pair of pole-cllmblng pRls. Mar- Lindsay Is the girl they both love; j.

rarreii MacDonald. heir bass; and Stuart Erwin, their buddy. Others who figure In their adven- tures are Dick Purcell. Joseph Saw- yer. John Litel and Jane Wyman.

R.ay piay oy wiiiiam wisier names, wno was also the author of the novel by the same title. ARCADIA "Way Out West," a full- co-starring S1n Laurel and Oliver Hardv as a Vhev '98 s. Tliev eet into nlentv of trou ble when they try to deliver a crony's valuable claim to his daughter. Sharon Lynne, James Flnlayson and Ro-slna Lawrence are In trie cast. Sunday Cinemas ARCADIA "Wav Out.

West." 3.40, 4.30. 6.20. 8.10. 10. BOYD "Woman Chases Man," 2.35, 4 35.

6.35, R.35. 10.35. EUPOPA "Of Human Bondage." FOX "A Day at the Races," 2.05, 4, 5.o5. 8. 10.05.

KARLTON "This Is My Affair," 2 10. 4. 5.55. 7.50. 9.50.

KEITH'S "I Met Him In Paris." 2.40. 4 30. 8 20. 8.15. 10.05.

STANLEY "Parnell," 2.40, 5.10, 1.30 9.50. STANTON "Slim am in 2.40, 4 30, 6.20, TRANS-LUX Newtreels and shorts. Opens at 2 P. M. Oliver Hardy in "Way Out Arcadia I uih iney are mreaiening the professional future of the Bergner-Czlnncr household if "Dreaming Lips" can as it must be regarded as an Indication.

Toward the beginning of this col- umn, It was suggested that "A Day at the Races" wasn't anv fuiimn than "Dreaming l.ln" uurnr ann nave a 1 uioiuugni) gooa time, Tl'ESDA UmI Patrol," desert drama, with Vicior McLaglen Reginald Denny and Wallace Ford' WEDNESDAY ARCADIA "Two Who Dared." romance of pre-revolutlonaiy Russia. In world premiere, with Anna Sten and Henry Wllcoxon. TIURSDAY LI Rot A "Son of Mongolia," Soviet drama dealing wilh Japanese Intrigue In Manchuria. FR IDA r. it "mere Goes My (Jlrl," mnfiern comedy, co-starring Gene Raymond and Ann Sot hern.

KEITH'S "Kid C.alahad." drama of the prire-ring. wit i Wayne Morris. Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis. SATI'RDAY BOVD "Night Must Fall." a study in pathology and murder, wilh Robert Montgomery, Roxalintl Russell and Dame May Whltty.

STANTON "Elephant Bov, from the Rudyard Kipling story, with Sabu and an all-native cast Produced by Robert Flaherty. FRIDAY, Jl'NE JS FOX "Make Way For Tomorrow," domestic tragedy, with Victor Moore and Beulah VNDATED STANLEV "Mountain Mn.tr." hill-billy comedy with mtifte, co-star-ring Bob Burn? and Martha ry Future Films iv inr w.c Harpoa narp soio. we non Know, But It is as Ingenious a touch as has ever found Its way Into any comedy. Neither can we point to the person who decided to "kid" the Sto-kowskl hands sequence in "The Biz Broadcast of 1037." Whoever hit upon the thought of devoting swooning photography and a whole screen to Harpo's gnarled and knotty hands fluttering over the string of ills harp i deserves a big red apple at least. I Nor has the delicate Irony of the cpl- aode been marred by a single com- ment.

There it Is. one of the films' I grandest bits of spoofing, and you I can take it. for what It Is if you know your movies, or reRsrri It sei-i- ously it you don't. Bergner Bowles AVRP it ham hnan coir) Kfnrn ill hut if so. our firm cnnvlrlinn that the Marx Brothers serve as living, mndrrn equivalents of Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland" and "Through the Looklnc Glass" people Ik unconscious plagiarism.

An hour with Harpo. Orour.ho and Chico is as profitable as an hour with the While Rabbit, the Carpenter, the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse any day or at least It is ior this MSVx-niad department. Maybe they can't boast an. Alice, but Margaret Dumont, who has been with them so long and so consistently that ahe must be regarded as a member of the clan, is almost equal to both the Red Queen and the White Queen rolled Into one. Getting back to Elisabeth Bergner, 1 although it Isn't really our inlenltoii to pick gratuitously upon the pint-air Viennese actress, it seems a pity that what was once unquestionably fine talent hould have been to warped ps Irritating tricks, i iJ I vVv 'k 2: "Vi! r-r- i) pwr- t-.