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FAGE TWESTY-SIX THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1935. Television Reaches Stage of Perfection High ALONG THE Department of Justice Agents Glorified in 'G Men Which Opens at Rivoli Today RCA Anxious to Give NewInventionaTrial Pulitzer Prize Awards Cause Great Furore 'Something Gay9 Is Really Gay Tallulah Bankhead's Latest Play at the Morosco Theatre, New York, Hailed as Exceeding, ly Witty and Sophisticated the script having called for both leading men to play the piano, it was discovered that both Hugh Sinclair and Walter Pidgeon, who were first chosen, were accomplished pianists. The aura of pleasant gracious-ness and epigrammatic skill which envelopes the characters of "Something Gay" transcends the footlights and penet'ates deep within the playgoers' sensibilities, rendering him cheerfully oblivious to the more prosaic world and completely satisfied with the delightful play end Its charming people. Tallulah Bankhead, who is starred in "Something Gay" at the Morosco Theater, New York, unlike most actresses ready to accept any play that comes their way, bides her time until she is given the chance to appear In something which will provide her with the kind of background, atmosphere and plot most suited to her vibrant, alive personality.

Such a production is her newest play, "Something Gay," a comedy by Adelaide Hetlbron. The plot concerns a gay young wife, her blustering husband, a charming playwright, and an attractive society girl, who all become involved in an entirely original quadrangle of love, intrigue and misunderstanding. Probably no other words can more fittingly describe the story than those of the title; It Is definitely something witty, sophisticated and gay. The beautiful and talented Miss Bankhead, as the young wife, has never performed to better advantage, and Thomas Mitchell, an actor in his own rank, has directed the distinguished and interesting cast with an easy grace. One difficulty in casting the play was surprisingly surmounted when, New Laurels Edythe Wright Makes 6 Brunswick Records in One Week EDYTHE WRIGHT Lovely Edythe Wright of High land Park, whose star has been ris ing on the radio horizon during the past six months as a result of her vocal efforts with Frank Crum's orchestra at the Robert Treat Hotel isewarK, completed six phono graph records for the Brunswick Record Company last week.

Miss Wright, who has the advan. tage over other vocalists in the re 4k. A 1 oy-i iiikl ner appearance is as striking as her voice, has been fea turing a new song number, "Broth er Seek and You Shall Find," written by one of the Crum orchestra members, and will have her picture on the cover of the sheet music for this popular selection when it is pub- nsnea mis week. According to present plans she expects to make a motion picture short subject at one of the New York studios within the next month. She is heard over WOR several nights weekly.

ft ft 1 James Cagney Has Lead Role In Daring Film Most Thrilling Picture Of the Year Attracts Wide Interest The American public has long ad mired, the daring government agents who devcte their lives to the administration of justice and the eradication of crime, although its knowledge of the work of these men has been of a second-hand nature. Along comes a motion picture producer and presto! Glorification Is complete. Credit In no small measure Is due the producers of Men," as thrilling a motion picture as has been produced in recent years, for bringing to Uncle Sam's Department of Justice agents their just share of glory. A vast amount of research was necessary by the First National Company, makers of the film, which opens a full week run at tne KK.U Rivoli Theatre this afternoon. In order to assure technical accuracy in the fingerprinting and ballistics department, the studio called upon Frank P.

Gompert, head of the criminological department of the Los Angeles County sheriff's office, to aid in furnishing these divisions. Expert Lends His Aid Gompert obtained fingerprinting apparatus, selector devices, magnified photographs of bullets, fingerprint comparators, microscopes, helixometers and a maze of other mysterious apparatus employed by the modern criminological laboratory. The result of this care has resulted in one of the most gripping films ever produced. It is a tremendous force in bringing to the public's attention the dangerous work carried on by the government In their battles sgainst criminals. NEW MAE WEST PICTURE to Tins RKO STATE Hailed by New York critics as Mae West's best picture since "She Done Him Wrong," her newest comedy-drama, "Goin' To Town," will open at the RKO State Theatre here for five days starting May 27, it was announced by David Levin, manager.

STAGE: ALL COMEDY RKO VAUDEVILLE SHOW O'Donnell Blair Demarest Sibley and Other Comedy Acts ENTIRE WEEK BEG. TODAY! CONTINUOUS FIRST SHOW Gmms EanaHy TO AVOID THE CROWDS Sarnoff Tells of New Developments DAVTD SARNOFF President of the RCA Color Movies Ready for Public The progress of motion pictures seems destined to be one of endless changes. From the days of the old nickelodeon to the present highly perfected sound pictures, the screen has advanced far beyond the fondest dreams of the early Inventors. Word now comes from the west coast that the screen will soon see another million dollar change. Robert Edmond Jones, color designer of the new all-color picture "Becky Sharp" arriving last week from Hollywood, told reporters that the new color achievements are so great that the black-and-white form of picture will soon be passe.

Color pictures today are so radically improved over the old form, which caused eye-strain, that the days of pictures In black-and-white are numbered. Once a few good color films are released, the film industry will have to become color conscious. A Striking Difference "Becky Sharp" which features Miriam Hopkins Is the first of these new ail-color films to be. released. The natural color beauties of the clothing and surroundings are brought out to the most perfect degree.

Those who saw "La Cuc- caracha" will remember the vast Improvement in the color of this film as compared with old color pictures. Everyone in the studios will have to learn to think in terms of color, Mr. Jones said concerning the new movie revolution. A cameraman knowing color will easily be able to replace a director who lacks color sense and experience. 3-Pieca Suites Reupholstered Finest Materials $35 Up SLIPCOVERS, Baby Carriages Rellned and Repainted $3.75 up Aulo Tops Made MATTRESSES AND QIILTS MADE N.

B. Upholstering Mattress Shop 425 George New B'wck Phone 7022 i I 4 4 -i 5 1 A nJ SXteJi jfz Old Maid' Did Not Win Critics' Approval at Its Premier By MARK BARRON Associated Press Staff Writer NEW YORK, May the explosive attack upon their choice of "The Old Maid" for their award this year, the Pulitzer Prize play committee should be convinced that their annual task Is comparable to that of a fleet footed lad who dares to kick a hornet's nest Led by Clayton Hamilton, erstwhile member of the Pulitzer jury, the critics of the choice of the hit, which stars Judith Anderson and Helen Menken, argue several reasons why the prize should have gone elsewhere. They point out that "The Old Maid" did not receive the extremely enthusiastic reviews given to several other plays current on Broadway. Too. they said, "The Old Maid" is not an original play as the Pulitzer rules specify.

It is Zoe Akins' adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel. However, Miss Aklns points out, no one complained when "The Green Pastures," Marc Connelly's adaptation of Roark Bradford's stories, was given the honor. Criticism Ever Present But, judging from past records, the Pulitzer drama jury should be weathered to bombardments on their opinions. In 1924 there was a tornado of criticism because the prize went to Hatcher Hughes' "Hell Bent For Heaven" Instead of to George Kelly's "The Show Off." True, Kelly's hurt feelings were salved the following year when they gave the prize to his "Craig's Wife." When Susan Glaspell's drama, 'Alison's House," was chosen In 1931 there were mutterings of discontent. The play had been a box office failure, and, although reopened, the Pulitzer honor proved no stimulus to attract customers.

Trouble Last Year, Too The most vociferous rebellion against the Pulitzer jury choice came when "Men In White" was selected for the 1933-34 season. The play committee had agreed on "Mary of Scotland," but when it came to a vote of the executive committee the Sidney Kingsley drama of hospital life was chosen instead. So angered was the play committee that it resigned. This year a new committee com posed of William Lyon Phelps, Stark Young and John Erskine chose "The Old Maid." Having done so, they are now quite busy dodging the same deluge of brickbats that descends almost every year on the Pulitzer prize judges. Vincent Salario on WAAT Next Saturday Vincent Salario of 143 Lee avenue, this city, will make a bid for radio recognition next Saturday night when he appears on station WAAT In Jersey City during a "Newcomers Hour" presentation.

Salario is well-known In this vi cinity as a mellow-voiced tenor, featuring popular songs. He has been heard at the Middlesex County Junior College programs in Perth Amboy and at local weddings. It will not be his first air ven ture. he having appeared on WTNJ in Trenton about a year ago. Friday night he will appear at a St.

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Scboll i Balanced Posture Arch Supports, including complete servicing and individual fitting at the following prices per pair. $1 oo so $250 $3" J5fl0 BOSTON New Brunswick 3fl Church St NO ADVANCE IN PRICES!) FEDERAL AGENTS (G-MEN) DECLARE WAR ON GANGDOM LOCAL RIALTO Reviews, Comment On Films IF ARTHUR BIRMINGHAM, manager of the RKO Riv-11 Theatre, adds ten pounds to his height this week, it will not be as a result of eating more food. Arthur is strange that way. We mean, he is the type of individual who is so engrossed in his business that he thrives on its success. If we appear to be beating around the bush please have patience for we are trying- to convey the fact that Men" smash-hit drama, which opens a full week's run at the RKO Rivoli Theatre this afternoon, is Just the tonic to restore perfect health to the debonair manager of the George street theatre.

Time and again over a period of wto years, Mr. Birmingham has confided to us his earnest hope and desire of being able to book an "outstanding" picture at his theatre. Not that the double-feature programs are not entertaining. The fact is, though, that one can hardly expect two outstanding pictures on a single program. That's poor showmanship.

One can therefore well imagine the elation which came over Birmingham last Wednesday morning about 11:30 o'clock when his New York booking office phoned to tell him that 'G' Men" had been booked for a full week on a SINGLE FEATURE PROGRAM starting today It was as though Arthur had been Informed he won a million dollars on a sweepstakes tickejt. He couldn't believe it! THE PHENOMENAL SUCCESS tot Men" throughout the country Is not lust mere luck. There some thing sensationally great about the picture and cast. James Cagney and Robert Armstrong, we are told, put. en the grandest bit of acting ever seen on the silver screen.

And Uncle Sam's justice department can will be proud of the glorification which it receives in this "spatter-Ins; and crackling, siren-shrieking" drama. See it by all means. You'll be sorry if you don't There Is something Infinitely touching about very piece of music the lat beloved Victor Herbert has written. LUte the music of other great composers his songs will never die, Herbert' operettas are still being presented on the stage. The first of them has been brought to the screen under the original title of "Naughty Marietta," and plays for the last times today at the RKO State Theatre.

Nelson Eddy, nationally-famed vocalist, who aDDeared in this city a few months ago as part of the Rutgers concert series, makes his film debut in this enchanting story. He is ably supported by Jeanette Mac-Donald and a large cast. They say the "Sweet Mystery of Life" num ber is one of the most thrilling songs aver filmed. There comes a time every year when the film market finds itself flooded with mystery stories some good, some bad. Fortunately for local theatregoers, the majority have been decidedly good.

Now comes what is considered to be the best of them. It is titled, "The Bride of Frankenstein which opened simultaneously at the Opera House here and the Roxy Theatre J.n New York Friday. BORIS KABLOFF stepped into the limelight as a successor to Lon Chaney as the original Franken stein monster. He repeats his role with utter ease and with magnificent success. You'll like it, if you like mystery stories, and if you don't well, here's a thrill you shouldn't miss.

The film continues all week at the. Liberty street show place. David Snaper is a typical showman in that he has rare vision and foresight. If Dave knows a picture can only stand up many performances, he books it for a one-day showing. At the same time he usually knows In advance how a good picture can draw.

Consequently "Roberta," brilliant musical comedy-drama with Fred Ast taire and Ginger Rogers uas booked for three days at the Strand. It plays fur the last times today and If you haven't seen it, you should! Gorgeous Gloria Stuart, aT eyeful in any picture, shares the spotlight with Nils Asther in "The Love Captive," which plays today only at the Capitol Theatre in South River. Phil Klivan, manager of the down-county thoatre, has also brought back as a revival Joe E. Brown's lively comedy, "Circus Clown." CHARLES LAt'GHTON'S recita tion of Lincoln's Gettysburg address which he presents so admirably in "Ruggles of Red Gap" is destined to go down in the movie annals as cne of the most touching things ever seen screened. It seems almost inconceivable that Laughton had to argue with the film's director before he was permitted to have the Gettysburg address in it.

"Ruggles of Red Gap" is now on the Park Theatre screen In addition to "Shadow of Doubt," featuring Ricardo Cortez nd Virginia Bruce. SPENCE ON AIR Walter Spence, world champion swimmer and the world's record holder for the 100-yard dash, will be heard over WOR tonight at p. m. cn the Boys' Club program. His topic will be "Swimming at Camp and In the Olympics." LAST TIMES TODAY (CONTINUOUS) Dollar Experimental Station Now Being Built GREAT ADVANCES MADE THIS YEAR By WILL BALT1N Television in the home, which came a step nearer to reility last week when David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, announced that high definition television was to be taken from the laboratory for the first comprehensive field demonstration in the United States, is, in its present form, 100 per cent more perfect than it was less than 18 months ago.

So rapid has been the progress in the development of this new and startling art, that the RCA is using rare Judgment in Etaging these so-ralled "field demonstrations" first, and thus save the radio set owner money in the long run. As Mr. Sarnoff pointed out in his all-important report to the stockholders last week: "Important as it is from the standpoint of public policy to develop a system of television communication whereby a single event, program or pronouncement of national interest may be broadcast by sight and sound to the country as a whole, premature standardization would freeze the art. It would prevent the free play of technical development and retard the day when television could become a member in full standing of the radio family. Clearly, the first stage of television is field demonstration by which the basis may be set for technical standards." He also said that because the new art is making such rapid technical progress, television sets which may be perfect today, may be ob solete tomorrow.

Many present local radio owners will remember how the regenerative radio sets had to be discarded after the powerful WJZ transmitter was placed into operation several years ago. Tests to Cost a Million It is with this in view that the "field demonstrations" have been planned which will cost $1,000,000, Mr. Sarnoff said in his report. The fact that television is prac tically here does not mean that radio sets will no longer be useful Mr. Sarnoff asserted that he cannot impress upon the stockholders too strongly the fact that radio and television are two separate units and both will be used when sight and sound arrive.

In other words, your radio set of today or the one you expect to buy will be utilized as one-half of television when it is introduced to the home. Technical Progress Made From a technical standpoint, television has made considerable yes, even mazing progress. The RCA president admits that "while the problem of interconnection (linking one television station to another like the chain radio stations) still remains one of the great obstacles to the extension of sign transmission and reception, an outstanding accomplishment in the field of television research is the invention and perfection by RCA engineers of the "This is an electric eye, which has advanced the technique of television by facilitating the pickup of studio action and permitting the broadcast of remote scenes, thereby giving to the television transmitter the function of a camera lens. Through the use of the iconoscope street scenes and studio performances have been experimentally transmitted and received," Mr. Sarnoff asserted.

Another technical triumph for RCA which was admitted by its president is the exceptional clarity of the pictures as they are received. It was only a short time ago that the best television set could only send pictures at the rate of 30 lines per square inch. As Clear as the Movies This means that when a picture was sent through space it had to be more or less "cut up" into lines. There are 30 of these lines per square inch. Hence, upon its reception the picture was almost indiscernible.

However, the RCA engineers have made such remarkable progress that a picture may now be seen at the rate of 343 lines per square inch. This, it Is said, makes the televised picture as clear as the motion picture you now see at your local theatre. And what Is more, this 343-line inch can be enlarged without losing its definition. Also in thW respect, the picture frequency of the earlier television system was about 12 per second. This has nov been raised to the equivalent of 6 per second.

Which means that any moving object can be sent through, space with little difficult. When you ko to the theatre to see a motion picture, you are not aware of the fact that 20 frames or pictures are shooting through the camera per second. There is barely a flicke. as the picture unwinds. Television has gone one better and 60 units or pictures may be sent through space.

Certainly there will not be the slightest flicker. Scoffers Should Take Heed Those who have been prone to scoff at television's early arrival should remember that the RCA is spending a million dollars Tor its so-called "tests" No "uncertain" experiment is worth that much. Television is definitely in the air! Mr. Sarnoff In closing points out that if the demonstrations are successful and television is finally accepted it will be "an achievement which will be secondly only to the world-wide transmission of sound through space." TODAY'S FILM CALENDAR RKO STATE "Naughty Marietta." Stage: vaudeville. RKO RIVOLI Men." OPERA HOI SE "Bride of Frankenstein." STRAND "Roberta." CAPITOL "Love Captive and "Circus Clown." PARK "Ruggles of Red Gap" and "Shadow of Doubt." TODAY (SUNDAY) STARTS AT 1 P.

M. "It's a tremendous picture and worth fighting your way in to see Rose Pelsuick N. Y. Eve. Journal ik ik ik N.

Y. Daily News CAGNEY MARGARET LINDSAY I MONDAYk FRIDAY 'iff vjjk Iff Imf Vc'Nk 4VlU I'M It- KwW Hear QjlH ls WL 1 De wS1 jV '1 Ji "-f -Jbgaa Jr "yrllSflrf Been i Screen: Musical Smash! JEANETTE MacDONALD NELSON EDDY In "NAUGHTY MARIETTA" WILLIAM Added WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONY "The Robber Kitten" J7 Through Glamoroui Jean Harlow -and that "old sraoothy" Bill Powell in a joyous mmic splashed romance Thtie SongHHn nKNK. "Reckless" "HtDeedla Dum" "Down At Clancy's" "Everything's Done I is I rf if ANN DVORAK S.Jil&'t A A A Firs JAUES I tf 1 iff National picture with mow HQ. with Franchot TON May ROBSON 1 2 FEATURES DAILY FREE. PARKING A MIOHUAND PARK NEW JeRKY( sIOnDAY, MONDAY and TUESDAY.

MAY lSand 14 "RUGGLES OF RED GAP" With CHAS. LAUGHTON, MARY BO LAND, CHARLIE RUGGLES "SHADOW OF DOUBT" With VIRGINIA BRUCE. RICARDO CORTEZ WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY. MAY 15 and 18 "TIMES SQUARE LADY" With VIRGINIA BRUCE, ROBERT TAYLOR "THE RIGHT TO LIVE" ith JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON. GEORGE BRENT FRIDAY and SATURDAY.

MAY 17 and 18 "SEQUOIA" With JEAN PARKER "WHILE THE PATIENT SLEPT" With ALINE MacMAHON, GUY KIBBEE TECHNICOLOR SHORT "SHOW KIDS" Saturday Matinee Another Episode "Mystery Mountain" ROBERT ARMSTRONG In Huge Cast.