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THE FRESNO BEE SUNDAY JANUARY 26 1941 teg I News Of Stage And Screen AT FRESNO MOTION PICTURE THEATERS TODAY Ethel Barrymore Will Fete Fortieth Year As Star By MARK BARRON NEW YORK Jan 25 LT) Herman Shumlln with the million lights of Broadway reflecting on his shiny head paused in the night to announce there will he a gala celebration on the Rialto on the night of Tuesday February 4th For that is the evening Ethel Barrymore will celebrate her fortieth year as a star in the theater and site does so in one of the most heart warming hits of her career The Corn Is Green Jean Gabin Foremost Actor Of France Signs For Films By Louella Parsons 1 International Nr mi Srrvlrr) HOLLYWOOD Jan if all goes wall Jran Cabin often caltril France'! foremost actor will check in at Twentieth Century-Fox early In March Reservations have been made for him to sail February 22nri by Charles Feldman who handled the deal Charlie also brought Charles Boyer here and was responsible for Michele Morgan's American contract Cabin has played in such pictures as Fepe Le Moko La Crande Illusion They Were Five and La Bete Humaine (The Human Beast) and has built up a big fallowing both In France and In America Amusing that before (he wail hen Cabin was offered four times and I reckon if General Custer is Performances she has seen her sev eral children make their stage debuts and in 1928 she saw one of Broadway' handsomest playhouses named in her honor Several times -lie herself hat played in the Ethel where he knows all about even he would have to smile Custer's Last Stand is one of the most dra matic episodes in all where he and 2M ot his men were killed by the Sioux Indians In Montsna Territory In June 1876 See how I remember my after look lng it up! Olivia De llavilland has been accused by several critics of having a "prop" smile It she ever had one she hss lost it In Strawberry Blonde In fact she gives James Cagney such a hither" took that the inventive Warners publicity department Immediately dubbed it "the De llavilland look" Strawberry Blonde was previewed at Huntington Park and according to several of our readers it is De Hav-illand at her best Left Anna Neagle and Billy Gilbert in a scene from No No Nanette on the screen at Warners Fresno Theater right Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr who are starred in Comrade a picture noto being shoum at the Fox Wilson Package Selling Of Films Puts Premium On Big Stars By BOBBIN COON HOLLYWOOD Jan 25 It'i no bull that lhii package plan of selling movies is making the star market bullish The package result of the I consent decree which quieted fed-' eral anti trust action aj movie companies calls quieted iea rr2: 1 A barmen Laughs At It was on Monday night Febiuary 1 that young Mias Bairymure came tripping up lo the historic Garrick Theater the aame playhouse which saw the birth ot the Theater Guild and aa she approached the entrance she stopped suddenly and her eyes widened For1 above the theater in gay and brilliant lights was her name as star of Captain Jinks Of The lloise Marines Charles Frohmri the producer had not said a word previously about his intention to muke her a star but Frohman was never a man lo talk much One cold Winter when he could not buy coal to heat hie theatrical office he kept the ga lights burning furiously all day because he did have good credit with the gae company and he refused to confide to hie friends he was short of cash And without telling her ho simply ordered Mias Barrymore's name to go up In lights as alar one night Abandon Hall Bedroom And she celebrated the event In typical actress fashion Bhe went promptly back to the theatrical boarding house where she lived gave up her hall bedroom and moved into a larger and more expensive one on the floAr below Misa Barrymore now reaches her fortieth year as a star and it should be an evening full of warmth and cheers for her current performance as a compassionate school teacher in a neglected mining town In Wales is one of the best of her distinguished rarcer But it would be difficult to choose her best performance for she has given so many good and varied ones She has been subtly humorous as she was In Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife when he read wilh a twinkle in her eye: "Like ninety girl out of a hundred when I married I looked upon It as the only easy honorable and lucrative railing open to me" Regal And Magnificent And she has been regal and magnificent as she was as the 101 year old grandmother In Whlteoaka when sitting in her death chair she Mid in the rich and defiant tones of her famous voice: "Me beaten? I have it Never healen! Il been a great game A great game!" (And then she dies) Besides her own many thrilling Inauguration For Third Term Is Shown In Latest Newsreel Closeup views of the ceremony In Washington when President Franklin Roosevelt took his third term oath of office administered hy Chief Justice Hughes are a feature of the latest edition of The Fresno Bee-Movielon news-reel program starling today at the Fox Wilson Theater The president is seen and hear? as he dedfealed himself and the nation to perpetuation of democracy in America Highlights of the parade along Pennsylvania Avenue also are pictured Timely events shown overseas Include the havoc of serial raids on Manchester the North England Industrial renter activity in Greek prison camps where thousands of Italians are held following their capture in Albania and the christening of a 35000 ton battleship Duke of York hy Queen Elizabeth The Road To Glory Is White Headliner Fredric Merrh Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore head the cast in The Road To Glory a story of the last world war which is currently on tho screen at the While Theater The companion feature Is Tropic Holiday a comedy with Dorothy Lamour Ray Milland Rob Bums Martha Raye Binnie Barnes and Tito Gulzar in the cast A tale of the gallantry of three loyal brothers will he on the screen of the White Tuesday when Beau Geste starring Gary Cooper Robert Preston and Ray Milland will open On the same program will he offered The Lone Wolf Meets A Lady with Warren William in the title role Barrymore Theater ones In The Kingdom Of Cod and one as Lady Teazle in The School For Scandal So on February 4th Shumlin the producer of The Com le Green la inviting all the atars of Broadway today to celehrste at a party as Miss Barrymore starts the last ten years towards her golden anniversary ot stardom IT ill I SMUTS TODAY! TWO GREAT HITS liiil Old Fresno Lunch 1825 MARirOSA ST Under New Management Featuring Your Favorite COCKTAILS Jack Smith Lten Saghatalian i 1 (X the salary he earned in France he declined all American mnvles saying he didn't care to make a lot of money "I am happy In France'' he said "My friends and my people live here Money is unimportant" Gabin has hern living since the German invasion in Cannes where Maurice Chevalirr and other French actors are making their homes I was greatly amused to hesr that Errol Flynn's next picture will be They Died With Their Bools On" No kidding that's the title they are giving new one based on the life of General Custer That certainly has a good old western tang VoxmtSQH the to 90 for let PICK Of fiKPK Wf(S 4 The Funniest Lota ComiMly fciRRK1 GRBLEl IHEDYiLflMRRR "CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE" Karratei tr Qsrnlls InnMs RUSSELL The Greatest Double Bill In Tears 'Hotimefcr comedy tins mn tiJtSE Mirirft GARY COOPER Walter Rrrnnia Frnl SImis as! Msairsl-rrmiiar "DANCING ON A DIME" flrirt Mppamll liM fan Wm Frtwkr EMk Qvillaa tKiMEMAw fgm HE WM I sss JUDY GARLAND rus RftX REACH'! CiREAT STOBT "FLOWING GOLD" onv rsartn fst n-nsirv I Gable And Lamarr Are Stars Of Comrade On Screen At Wilson Hedy Lamarr throws a telephone at Clarka Gable and tries to part his hair with a chair In the comedy scene In Comrade playing at the Fox Wilson Theater Gone is Miss Lamarr the siren of llie past and in her plate is a happy go lurky Moscow woman street rar motorman Gable Is a newspaper man In Russia who has the Kremlin fooled until he meets Miss Lamarr His activitl-j bring him under the watchful eyes of the OGPU and Ihey discover he Is tlie one who has been sending out suppressed news The two escape from prison with Miss Lamarr driving a tank The past Includes Eve Arden Oscar Homolka the international stage actor and Fcllz Hressart one of the comniixsars of Nlnotrhka As a second feature the Fox Wilson has hooked Romance Of The Rio Grande Cesar Romero is rast a the Cisco Kid He Is supported hy Patricia Morrison and Chrii Pin Martin Strike Up The Band Is At The Kinema Strike Up The Band with Mickey Rooney Judy Garland Paul White-man and June Prelaser ii the current attraction at the Kinema Theater The story concerns effort to get Mickey's band to Chicago for an audition hefore Whil man Outstanding musical numbers Include the title song a Gershwin melody Our Love Affair and a Gay Nineties melodrama Rex Beach's Flowing Gold a story of love and adventure In the western oil fields is the second feature Heading the rast are Pat O'Brien John Garfield Frances Farmer and Cliff Edwards The camera captures scenes such as an avalanche a free for all among who love to fight and the tapping of a new oil well Deadwood Dick and a newsreel complete the program Tin Pan Alley Is Fox State Top Film Now on the screen of the Fox State Theater Is the musical film Tin Pan Alley Its stars include Allre Faye Belly Grahle John Payne and Jack Oakie No Time For Comedy featuring Rosalind Russel James Stewart and Charlri Buggies is the second feature Way hack to the days when the old tin pan alley flourished a nobody wrote soma songs That nobody is tha character played hy John Payna in Tin Pan Alley and the girl who sings the tunes Is Alice Faye With a Broadway hit Under his arm Stewart comes to the big town In No Tima For Comedy The Westerner Heads Tower Theater Bill Today the Tower Theater present Gary Cooper In The Westerner a story of the days when California meant a tremendous journey of months over the arid prairies and through the Rockies Cooper Is supported hy a net of hundreds foremost of whom are Waller Brennan and Fred Slone The companion feature la Dancing On A Dime a story of young actors and actresses Grare McDonald Robert Paige Virginia Dale and William Frawley are the featured player A cartoon and a news reel will complete the program Wednesday the Tower will screen Men Against The Sky and Money And The Woman FRESNO'S WGGIST ENTERTAINMENT RARGANC Errors In Films By VFRX HAIGLAM) HOLLYWOOD Jon Car-men Miranda after six weeks of Hollywood has put her South Amer-in seal of approval on the California canned movies pictures about Souse America they're she says emphatically of them not ao good maybe hul hokay Souse Americans like them very This shapely singing sample of South American spirit from Rio de Janeiro has been having some trouble with the English language hut more trouble she says with the English teacher I earn Pronto Hy Ear "The teaehers" she sighs "they always want to start away hark at lha beginning I don' want to learn that it takes too long I Jus' listen and I learn hy ear" By ear she has learned her lines for The Road To Rio hut by ear aha has not yet learned to speak with or understand newspaper reporters "Habla uxled Kxpanol?" she asks and if you speak Spanish she chatters in Castilian with a strong Poruguese accent Otherwise she siphons her interviews through an Interpreter If there's a prejudice against North Americans and North American goods south of the equator says Carmen she has never encountered it Whether it is Peru or Chile or Argentina or Brazil the natives are wild about America del aa portrayed in the and everyone dreams of being able some day to visit New York Washington and Hollywood Errors Are 'Ridiculous' "Many of our movies about South America have ridiculous errors" says Miss Miranda In perfectly grammatical Portuguese "The audiences just laugh and overlook it usually was in one other Hollywood picture Down Argentine Way My part was done In New York People thought this was just what South America would appreciate from iti good neighbor "But for one thing the music was alt wrong all rumba and conga They are Central American South American Our dances are the samba and the tango And the South American characters wre not real" Relapsing Into her uncertain English Miss Miranda says that Hollywood can most effectively promote Pan American friendship hy making South American scenes and action authentic Decision Is Upheld A decision by Superior Judge Frank Lamherson giving the widow and three children of Thomas Walker $4828 damages because of his death In an automobile accident near Pix-ley October 3 1338 has been affirmed by the appellate court The judgment is against Filbert Joe Elrheverry FULTON to offer pictures to exhibitors in groups of no more than five films It replaces block hooking the method selling a studio's entire output on the strength of certain promised major attractions The package plan brings sellers and buyers right down to cases and in this business that means stars In every package the studios know there will have to be one Christmas present for the exhibitor one picture that meane big box office To get that one he will take the four othere which are average or especially if he runs double feature shows And what most certainly spells that big box offire? then now and probably forever You can tell it is a bullish market for atars when the big names clamor for and get the right to make outside pictures when the top free lance playera are in clover when rival film factorial outdo each other in offering conceasions and when term contract! are pisaed around on golden plattera Benny Splits Up Tima Jack Benny now split! his picture lime between Paramount ann 201 Century-Fox and will make his next picture for the first of them that has a script when Benny Is ready to work Bob Hope a Paramount regular has hla outside deal aet with Samuel Goldwyn Cary Grant who works where he pleases but usually commutes between RKO and Columbia ran hand pick his scripts Irene Dunne his frequent costar has similar arrangements: A limited number of films yearly no long term contracts a voice on stories Claudette Colbert renewing wilh Paramount stresses outside films even more ihan in the past Ronald Colman is the champion "work when I alar pleasing once or twira a year never and he picks the studio and story Pat O'Brien Benefits A few months ago studios were quietly dropping names from contract a few stars as well as unknowns Today the reverse is true Pat O'Brien dropped by Warner Brothers as too expensive now has another deal for two films a year with Columbia plus the right to outsiders While the lots vie In hiring names the accompanying trend Is to sign newcomers and star bets who can be had at more reasonable figures M-G-M has five stars in the top ten bracket not one of them a star when originally signed by the and other lots are mindful Current box offire hit ia The Philadelphia Story with three stars Last sensation was Boom Town with four Another eras Northwest Mounted Police wilh a string of names topped by Gary Cooper's These are hints the studioa do not overlook A star who may cost hut adde a potential $400-000 or half million to the is an economy Fulton Theater Shows South Of Pago Pao Against a background n( the South Seas South Of Pago Pago comes to the Fulton screen toriny The castlLlieaded by Victor Mc-Laglen Jon Hall Frances Farmer and Olympe Brarina The climax involves a battle aboard a boat The second feature pictures New York's waterfront In Pier 13 starring Lloyd Nolan Lynn Bari and Douglas Fowley It la a story of right against wrong action and comedy A newsreel and cartoon complete the program (flatter In Hollywood When Meet John Doe was previewed there were many cards objecting to Barbara Stanwyck wearing a too tight sweater in one scene On one of the cards was written: "Barbara Is too fine an actress for it to be necessary for her to compete with the sweater set" Frank Capra read the cards carefully and he reshot the scene He did It entirely on his own preferring to eliminate anything in the picture that could be construed as being suggestive Thank goodness for the Frank Capras In the industry and for all the others who are doing their part lo keep the Industry clean One thing you can never take away from M-G-M is the chance It gives player! on ils lot Louis Mayer is noted for his fairness with actors If newcomers do not measure up to expectations he gives them another chance and makes It a matter of studio pride to see that the young hopefuli M-G-M sign have the right direction and the proper storiea Marsha Hunt who never had an opportunity at Pars-mount is now being given excellent roles The part she played In Pride And Prejudice so delighted the executives that they have given her the second lead In Blossoms In The Dust Greer Carson's next movie The letter box: Dehorsh Wilson New York writes: Just received a letter from a friend In London passed by the British ceniors and I thought you'd he Interested In one point she mentions about our movies The British do not like propaganda films They know all ahout Hiller and do not want to get their entertainment by being reminded of him" Personal to Philadelphia: Don't run away from home to crash the movies Yes know many girls are getting opportunities and some of them like Juanita Starke have not had previous experience Maybe as you say you have talent and looks hut don't come here without your parents' consent and enough money to live on With the best breaks in the world there are heartbreaking hurdles getting started in pictures Boh Brooks Los Angeles says: getting fed up on these supposed feuds Now starting one between Betty Grahle and Mary Beth Hughes Last year It was Betty and Alice Faye Who's kidding who? Wilma Morrison postcards: "If Jimmy Stewart loses another pound they should take Bill Powell out of the Thin Man aeries and put Jimmy in" (You're telling Jimmy! He'a doing everything In the world to gain) "From pictures in the papers think you look like your daughter or vice veria" write! Lind Keyees Considering the relationship you aren't surprised are you and while I'm very flattered don't tell she might not feel complimented Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random: John Barrymore turn ing the charm on Barbara Jo Allen (Vera Vague) at the Beverly Derby there's a lot of talk that Ken Duncan is secretly married to Pat Winters a non professional Rudy Vallee (and this time it's the truth) taking Gene Tierney and her mother to the Morambo at a dinner party of more than ordinary interest were Carole Landis with Cedric Gibbons the Garp Coopers the David Sela-nlrks and the Bill Goetzes Carole was certainly devoting herself to Cedric the Darryl Zanucks alao took cook'a night out to entertain the Francis Hartley Joseph Schenck and the Charles Feldmans Edmund Grainger ia again paying court to Will Rogers' pretty daughter Mary Alice Faye is down with the flu Warner Baxter ten pounds jlighter and looking like a million In SICKNESS ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY HEAR Nationally Known Food Export No No Nanette And Escape To Glory Are Featured At Warners Warners Fresno Theater Is showing starling today No No Nanette with Anna Neagle Zazu Pitts Helen Broderick and Roland Young and Escape To Glory starring Pat O'Brien and Constanre Bennett No No Nanette is said to be more entertaining than Miss Neagle's recent Irene Young plays the role of the henpecked uncle whose well meant effort! to advance the careen of various golddiggen lead to trouble Trying to adjust matters without the knowledge of Young's wife Miss Broderick Miss Neagle encounters more difficulties Besides the title tune the film features such melodics as Tea For Two and I Want To Be Happy sung by Miss Neagle and other principals Escape To Glory is a story of adventure love and cowardice glory and vengeance disaster and escape The cast includes John Hiilliday Melville Coopef and Alan Baxter A feature tie Christmas Under Fire is another story concerning Germany's blitzkrieg Hardy's Is Screening Brigham Young Film Exhaustive research preceded the filming of Brigham Young Frontiersman which is playing at Hardy's today and Monday Young led 20000 Mormons across 1800 miles of wastelands from Nauvoo 111 to Salt Lake City Then there is the battle against drought The film stars Tyronne Power wilh Linda Darnell and Dean Jagger plays Brigham Young The companion feature Yesterday's Heroes tells the story of what happens to aome athletes who are heroes to the world today and forgotten tomorrow Jean Rogers Robert Sterling and Ted North are starred A cartoon and a news reel complete the program New Books At The Library NON FICTION Mumfnrd Faith For Living Armitage 8 Navy Knight The Theory And Technique Of Fresh Water Angling Powys Enjoyment Of Literature Villlers A Sons Of SInbad Federal Writers' New York A Guide To The Empire Slate Collins East Monsoon Kahn Cahie Car Days In San Francisco Maurols The Miracle Of England Bolies Father Wai An Editor Derleth A Still Small Voice Set on Trail Of An Artist-Naturalist FICTION Burk Mrs Today And Forever Day Mrs The Youngest Profession Gunnarson The Good Shepherd Lancaster For Us The Living Sender A Man's Place Swanson The Silent Drum Underhill Hawk Over Whirlpools Walsh Maurice The Hill Is Mine town from Palm Springs Brenda Joyce and Owen Ward called hack from their honeymoon not because the bride starts a picture but because the bridegroom Is needed at Paramount to help audit the books Billy Gilbert and his wife signed application papers for the adaption of a 2H year old girl Last year they took a little hoy Into their home Deanna Durbin left for Chicago Washington and Miami on the first lap of her tour Hnrry Ritz and Mary Heath have kissed and made ITALIAN DINNERS A Specialty 75 85 MIXED DRINKS WINE AND BEER Try Onr DAILY LUNCHEON Capriola Cafe 1547 Fresno Street Corner COMPLETE WORLD-WIDE AND SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY PAUL BRAGG Tell How To WIN BACK HEALTH QUICKLY New Bodies for Feel Glowingly Don't Just Exist How You Can Retard Old Age EDCI? 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