The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 12

THE FRESNO MB SUNDAY KOTVBER 15 UU AT THE THEATERS SD Civilization Is Not Quite Perfect Yet 00 00 oo But Communism Is Not The Remedy Local movie houses are featuring to-day: Above Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton in Dodsworth (Wilson) left Errol Flynn in The Charge Of The Light Brigade (Warner Bros) Goodbye Mr Chips Will Be Produced In England By LOUFXLA parsons (By Universal Service) LOS ANGELES Nov Goodbye Mr Chip will be produced right in England where ite author Jamee Hilton laid the scenes And Mr Chip which from into production in six weeks will be the very firet of the eeriee of Britieh-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture We have been hearing about plana to produce abroad but thia la the firet definite move It aeema very doubtful if Charlea Laughton will be finished in I Claudiua in time to play the role of Mr Chip for which Irving Thalberg had choeen him However if Laughton ia not available Xaula Mayer will aelect another actor of equal name and fame for thia picture which will be made with great care After a eeriee of battle extend-1 dividend ie all they ever receives Thousands have been victimized ia New York but due to their confusion about legal customs not many cases are reported Dinty Moore's haa long been a before-theater dining place for regular firet nlghters Such ae Herbert Bayard Swope Sam Harris Irving Caesar Buga Baer Dr Leo Michel and others Dlnty'a ia ona of the town's gastronomic ana chronisms that survives modern trend Its waiters are venerable crochety and inclined to The room itself ia in Gay Ninety mirror motif And favorite dishes ace corn beef and cabbage enormous Idaho spuds soupy hash and such Yet ite prices are littld different from the smartest cafes in town 0 by Chinatown to reach Papa Moneta's but the distinguished gourmet Paul Morand called It the beet Italian restaurant In ths world It la cozy leisurely and without frills Outside ie the turbulence of the usual foreign quarter One finds such selective cuisine off beaten paths frequently in Europe but seldom In America In the past year I have talked to two fine young men of equally fine parents who have come under Communistic influence in schools one a public school and tha other a paid institution Each had had it Drought home forcibly in lectures that he owed hie parents nothing And each waa depressed somehow by the viewpoint They could not quite understand That Is the fixed doctrine for Moscow children and the professors who expound it here should not be die- missed They should be thrown out on their ear In quitting Broadway permanent-! ly for showmanship In the great' open spaces Billy Rose strikes a note of alarm for the future He sees nothing for the oung actor here but the eventual tenerit Rose getting a taste of yipee and the hell-for-leather spirit down in Amon Carter's town of Fort Worth movee on to San Fran- cisco to cut some carnival capers at their big fair Gyp salesmen of fake stock are cleaning up among foreign born servants in New York who have tng over a period of years George Baft and Paramount have decided to call it a day The last disa-g ement oc-c when George refused to accept Norman Kras a his director and stepped out of the cast of You And Me He wa suspended nnd promised to xetum to Paramount if the J24000 he lost Curing hie layoff was refunded Apparently the money was not paid him and yesterday ha stepped out of Paramount after having been with the company for over five yean Both Paramount and Raft stated It was an amicable agreement Raft waa one of the highest-priced actors on the lot having received 14000 a week for his services Paramount has definitely stolen a inarch on any other company with ambitions for producing Carmen by tying up the world film rights to Bizet's famous opera The outers must have been asleep at ths twitch in believing the property in the public domain but Para got the Jump on the musical srore and what is Carman without its thrilling music? Frank Lloyd will produce and direct it and Howard Fetabrook ia preparing the adaptation I don't feel like a fortune teller in forecasting that operatic Gladys Swarthout will he the star of the pleture which will probably ba disappointing news to Lily Pons who had her heart set on singing Carmen as the piece de resistance of her movie career Might well get used to celling Equipage by its new title sea-drills now that tha Anton Litvak production la finally set to go into production with Miriam Hopkins starred The deal was closed today between R-K-0 end Sam Goldwyn for the loan of Miriam and as one of those noblesse oblige gestures so popular between studios now R-K-0 will loan 8am their favorite writer Dudley Nichole to prepare the script for hie super-special Tha Real Glory Chatter in Hollywood: say I didn't warn you If that Douglass Montgomery-Whitney Bourne romance that began so hectically in London doesn't wind up at the altar in New York as soon as Douglass can catch a boat to follow the girl friend to America The only reason he let her out of hie sight for the span of the trip across la because of an injured wrist which kept him in London for mediral attention Doug hae been matrimonially rumored many but this looks like the real thing Both Warner Bros and Twentieth Century-Fox are working furiously to complete their Chicago fire epics Each studio will have a story dealing with Mrs O'Leary's cow and the subsequent conflagration However Jack Warner haa registered the title The Chicago Fire so that's one up In hia favor Henry Johnson and Robertson White are writing the script for Warners while Gene Fowler is preparing the Twentieth Century opus When Steamboat Mary comes rund the bend it will have Polly Moran and Alison Sklpworth aa the co-starring skippers teamed in the first of a aeries of pictures Republic will make with these two grand troupers Not since the hilarious days when Polly was teamed with beloved Marie Dressier baa any feminine tie-up promised so much comedy and good too Even the title sounds reminiscent of the old Dressier hits Ralph Staub will probably direct Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random: Allan Tombln well known around Hollywood marrying Beth Hale an Australian beauty In Honolulu thera with Netcher and both have been stranded by the shipping trike Claudette Colbert quite sick remaining at Palm Springe until ahe is definitely better Mary Pickford dancing with John Beach AN EVENING OF MUSIC A limited number of seats will he available to the public at THE PHALERON QUINTET Assisted by ARMAND GIRARD FAMOUS BARITONE AND INCLUDING Marion Nicholson First Violinist Sophia CaravaccI Pianist Peggy Neal Violin and Viola Alha Cravero Violinist with Standard Oil Symphony Aurora Cravero Cellist John Wharry Lewis Program Director and Arranger Under the Auspices California Teachers Association FRESNO HIGH SCHOOL MONDAY NOV 23rd 8:15 Tickets on sale Monday Nov 18 Fresno High School Office Phone 3-8181 By a K-INTYKJS Oddments: There must be something a mite wrong with civilisation for a suicide in Jersey to leave a note such thia: "I'm tired living In a world that doesn't believe In me when I am utterly sincere All I asked for was a job with livable pay Even elf destruction I have no fear that whatever ie beyond can help but be a little better than that which I am And The passing of ths veteran Thomas in Buffalo recalled interesting aspects of hie 81-year-old career but no paper I saw referred to hie various contests for the Vanderbilt Cup race To win that cup waa his supreme ambition The Vanderbilt courie wee twenty miles and the cup was donated by Vanderbilt Jr In one of the earliest of these racei Thomas entered not one but five flyers all painted bright red One was driven by a strapping Frenchman imported for the contest He wore a beard waist length a skull cap and huge goggles And drove like a madman giving tha appearance of a veritable demon And Louie Bromfield the novelist ie on his way again from his home in Senile France to settle in America Twice the double taxee have caused him to abandon his European home but this time the trip ia to be permanent Almost every other American novelist who planned to live end write over save Edith Wharton haa returned And Joe Louis the Negro fighter ie in pickle with his spectacular career He la getting so good that not many fight fane care to see him any more Until they can find some one who will give him a battle worth while the receipts are likely to bo slim Louis with the single exception of Schmeling has been able to slap them all down to the resin without raising a mild sweat He was all right aa a curiosity for a while to draw patronage But everybody hae seen him now in real Ufa or the films and untU he finds a formidable opponent hie road to big wealth ie likely to be a bit rocky Bugs Baer proved again at the homecoming dinner to Robert Rip-: ley he is No 1 speaker on hie banquet feeL He can play with an audience much as a cat with a mouse His best sallies too are the extemporaneous trigger stuff which he lets go with a rat-a-tat-tat that puts 'em in stitches A diner out must brave the tumulta of Mulberry Street hard Charge Of Light Brigade Now Is At Warner Bros The Charge Of The 'Light BrI- gade a Warner Bros picture co-starring Errol Flynn and OUvia DeHavllland now Ie playing at Warner Bros Fresno Theater The spirit of Tennyson's poem la aid to carry through the picture to the although the tragic story of the two English brothers who love the earns Scottish girl makes up the real substance of the picture It is at an army poet in India that the idyll of Captain Geoffrey Vickers and Elsa Campbell begins and ends The ill-fated lovers are portrayed by Flynn and Mice DeHavllland One of the moat famous cavalry chargee in hletory la re-enacted in thie production rig gunge These people have heard of America ae the land of glorious op- portunity and quick money and are! easy prey for accomplished guile' Tha trick la the old one of skin-rame artists They secure a sum or investment promising extravagant interest In a couple of months the victim receives perhaps a tenth of tha investment That is the come-on In most casee they turn over everything to the rascals In case they do not the come-on Dodsworth Is New Screen Feature A Wilson Theater Sinclair Lewie' unsentimental chronicle of a sentimental hero Dodsworth which Bret won success as a novel and then ae a pay which ran for almost two years now hae been made accessible to a till larger audience aa a film It will be presented on the Wilson Theater screen to-day Walter Huston again ie Sam Dodsworth and Sidney Howard who dramatized the Lewie hook ie once more the author of the screen play Ruth Chatterton Ie cast aa frivolous selfish and extravagant wife Fran and Mary Astor aa Mrs Cortright Mme Ouspenskaya famous Russian actress and Gregory Gays are the only actors besides Huston who played in the stage version Sidney Howard clalma the screen version ie far truer to Lewie novel than the play because the screen brings much of the color richness and variety of the Dodsworth' wanderings through Europe which were impossible to produce on the stage Wodehouee'e Jeeves is brought to the screen In Thank You Jeeves the companion picture on this program Arthur Treacher is cast in the title role as at a night spot Billie Burke wearing a very chic coat designed by her daughter Patricia who is now at Universal doing research on design Bill Henry and Grace Durkin have already signed tha lease on a Beverly Hills house tha ring is bought and tha wedding aet for next month Peggy Conklin making testa in New York for Danton David Selsnlck negotiating with 8am Bella Spewack for an original story Walter Lang who has been very sick hoping to be able to resume megaphoning on Monday Gene Fowler of all people sporting a monocle but only because hie pecs are broken Helen Mack NOWi about the only actress in Hollywood superstitious about Frl the 13th she waa born that day CAMERAS Make Excellent Presents Basil All Linas Maria sal Still Camaras Ttrmi Csa Ba Arranirl Freme Camera Exchange 2037 MERCED ST -a vaa Ne sal Fallen) Rhythm On The Range Is Kinema Offering Rhythm On Tha Range featuring Bing Crosby and two new stars of the screen Bob Burns and Martha Raye opened yesterday at tha Kinema Theater accompanied by 'Little Min Nobody starring Jana Withers Blng Crosby rings six new song bite in hie latnt outdoor picture Featured are Bob Burns radio star of dry remarks and the bazooka and Martha Raye who boasts an acrobatic face equal to Joa Brown's The story is the tale of a cow hand who puts all the money he wins at a New York rodeo into the purchase of a bull then rides back west with the bull and a stowaway The story of Little Miss Nobody ie concerned with a mischievous orphan whoss pranlu are the bane and at the same time the joy of an asylum When she tries to be good and do her pal Betty Jean Hainey a good turn Jane really gets into trouble and ie sent to- a reform school Enroute she escapee and finds refuge in the pet shop of an escaped convict who la being blackmailed by an ex-convict The supporting cast includes Jane Darwell Ralph Morgan Sara Ha-den and Betty Jean Hainey Extra cartoon and Fox News complete the program Jury Asks Mercy For Film Beauty Attackers LOS ANGELES Nov 14 (A) Convicted of attacking a former film beauty by a Jury which reo-ommended leniency Elwood and Homer Gidney brothers and Harvey Zifce will appear November 25th for sentencing Jurors Including four women deliberated eleven hours before deriding last night that the trio wee guilty of taking Marvel Rea 33 to a eucalyptus grove and repeat-jedly mistreating her Presenting Treble New Rill and considers it lucky Grace Moore returning to Columbia after three days of battling the flu Arline Judge making her stand-in Arline Ryan's birthday with a star sapphire Thirteen-year-old Edith Fellows making her debut aa head soloist at St Church this Sunday Mary Aetor another flu victim much improveed this week Grade Allcn'e Christmas gift from George Burns will be the deed to their new a pretty swell gift we calls it MELODY AND BABY SING" with All Fare Adolph Mcojoa Geo Hill Frisco Side-Splitting Comedy DANCE Of The SUN GOD" By That Sensational and Daring GYPSY GLENN RED HOT 5-1(13 1 HkHIEi 0 KHiernu TO-NIGHT 8:40 MAJOR STUDIO PREVIEW! it SPICE7 DAEING To Mary With Love Is Feature At State Warner Baxter and Myraa I are co-starred in To With Love currently playing at the State Theater with Sing Baby Sing To With Love ia love story of a romantic couple and their years together Opening with the wedding of Baxter and Mies Loy the film moves swiftly through the hectic days of tha late twentlee when industrial empirea were rising and the nation lived and laughed as the crest of fortune mounted ever higher Scarcely ie their honeymoon over than Baxter plunges into business only to be wiped out by the crash of 1929 With Alice Faye Michael Whalen Adolphe Menjqu Gregory Rat-off Ted Healy Patsy Kelly end the Ritz brothers Sing Baby Sing ia a comedy from start to finish Four song hits including Love Will Tell You Turned The Tables On Me Sing Baby Sing and When Did You Leave Heaven? are featured in the production A Fox News completes the Rhythm on the Range Bias Frsacec Varner Bh Bara AIm MISS NOBODY" Jaa Balsh Marrsa Eslra Csrtwn Metier New Seats Vrle XJ end 10 TO-DAY SUNDAY it Ihe UNIVERSITY PLAYHOUSE UJHELYI will give a VIOLIN RECITAL TICKETS $1 at Hockett-Co wan's ALSO THAT FAMOl'S OVKETIZI AND THE SCREE IS THE LIFE" TO-DAY MONDAY AND TUESDAY! STARTS TO-DAY-1 1:45 A A Picture Marked For FOX THEATRE VISALIA Sunday Monday Tuesday Special request showing! If already seen it SEE IT AGAIN! the year's funniest! TOjYOUR DYING fcDAY YOU'LL'REMEj THIS STORIj Aboithi turned iuermd fcshtewh smart? enough The Screen Trembles With The Thunder Of Immortal Hoof-Beau And The Heart -U Beau Of A Dcathln Love! ERROL FLYNN OLIVIA deHAVILLAND HeCHARGEof tKe UGHT BRIGADE Srnmmtd tf Tanm Bn fitm Tmmymm't ffmar Am mi! PATBJC KNOWLES HENRY STEPHENSON NIGEL BRUCE Doasid Crisp David Niven Robot Bum Diiecttd by Midurl Csnii 1 nrw ALSO Fresno High School Auditorium BIG WITH GUY KIBBEE FRI SAT NIGHTS NOVEMBER 8:15 Federal Theatre Projects Presents CHANNING Inspiring Drama of the Power of FAITH In the Public Square They Called Him "THE FOOL" who wore a CROWN OF THORNS STARTS 3 DAYS 8 'UMIYMSA C'MlOf lYjs CittoGt PQIIHLMBHRD sx a s- it MY MAN Presented by the same brilliant cast of 40 Stage Favorite and the same excellent production that won the plaudits of thousands of theater-goers at the Mason Theatre Los Angeles and Columbia Theatre San Francisco All Seats 25c and Reserved XAX included Beats on Sale at Hockett-Cowan Music Co 1253 Fulton 8L And At AU City Schools Also Hanford Wednesday Visalia Thursday 19th With MADELEINE CARROLL AND GEORGE BRENT also ON THE with ROGER PRYOR AND GRACE BRADLEY 7.