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I TWELVE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1938 'You Can't Take It With You' at Florida Proves Tops In Humor Prize Comedy Most Screwy Film of Year was announced that he would play the role of Lincoln, gives a performance that is in every way satisfying. He looks very much like Lincoln and has the slow, soft speech that Lincoln had. Muriel Kirkland gives the Mary Todd role the ruthless, bitter quality that it needs. Adele Long-mire, a New Orleans girl making her Broadway debut, Is the pretty, fresh Ann Rutledge.

Rice has directed the production with authority, and especially effective are his movement of scenes In Which there are a large number of people. It appears that the playwright-producers are starting with distinguished success. 3 4v "You Can't Take It With You" current offering it the Florida theater is something like Christmas: you look forward to it for 1 a long time and men ti au over. Rut vou've had plenty of fun while it lasted. "You Can't Take It With You' i nJ sv.

r-vt 'V N4 is just like that and your only regret will be it didn't last more than 130 minutes. That may ap PUT YOUR I W.C i 1 I miim, LINCOLN PLAY PORTRAYS NEW mmmmmmmmtmm mumuturDtm 1 l'- a 1. Mischa Auer gives Edward Arnold a lesson in wrestling while Dub Taylor, Ann Miller, James Stewart, Mary Forbes, Spring Byington and Jean Arthur look on in a scene from "You Can't Take It With You" at the Florida today, Monday and Tuesday. 2. Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew on a new kind of "man-hunt" in "Listen Darling," at the Florida Wednesday and Thursday.

3. John Halliday and Deanna Durbin in a scene from "That Certain Age" starting Saturday at the Florida. 4. Jack LaRue, Claire Trevor and Charles Blckford in Peter B. Kyne'i "Valley of the Giants" at the Plaza Tuesday and Wednesday.

5. Gail Page and the Lane Sisters, Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary, who play the title roles in Fanny Hurst's "Four Daughters," at the Plaza starting Thursday for four days. PLAYHOUSE PIANIST AND ACCORDIONIST FACET OF MAN Dramatists Turn to History By MARK BARRON NEW YORK. (JP) In recent seasons there has come a trend of truth among Broadway dramatists when they have woven their plots around historical figures, making them appear as the human beings they were rather than the frozen public leaders that most of the history books paint them. So Robert E.

Sherwood sketches an unusually interesting and fresh facet of Lincoln in his new drama, "Abe Lincoln of Illinois." This is the first production of that group of five playwrights Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, S. N. Sidney Howard and Sherwood who decided to present their own plays rather than sell them to other managers. Forced Into Politics Sherwood's story is simply that of Lincoln when, as a young man, he started his political career in Mentor Graham's cabin at New Salem, 111., in the 1830 s. It takes him on to Springfield in the 1840 when he was a law partner with Stuart.

Then it moves again to the Illinois elections of 1858, then to the Lincoln campaign headquarters at the Illinois state house on the evening of election day, Nov. 6, 1860. The story closes with Lincoln boarding the train which is to take him to Washington. Lincoln was, so this play portrays, a young man with very honest principles, with a sense of humor and a sense of human values. He was a man forced into the presidency almost against his will because he didn't like politics when he discovered that he would be obligated to repay in favors those who were helping him to get elected.

This was one of his first dis-illusionments, the discovery that his co-workers were not supporting him and his principles through any sense of patriotic duty but simply for the things they knew they could demand of him if only they could get him into the White House. Goaded on By Wife Too, he was goaded on by the surging ambitions of his wife, Mary Todd. She was a relentless woman who very definitely wanted to go to the White House. She had a caustic tongue and plagued Lincoln bitterly every time he even hinted that he didn't want to be elected; that he much preferred to be just a lawyer. And this was undoubtedly true as Sherwood has pictured him.

But, by the time he had learned enough about politics for him to realize that he wasn't going to be happy in that career it was too late for him to withdraw. He owed too many obligations to his party workers, and even if he could have escaped those he couldn't escape the ambitions of Mary Todd. Raymond Massey, the Canadian actor about whom there were some editorial protests when it pear an astonishingly lone time for a single feature, but you won mind it a bit as you follow the antics of one of the screwiest families who ever came out of Hol-lvwood. The picture is a screen version of the Pulitrer pme play by Kaufman and Hart. Robert Ris-kin was scenario author and both he and Frank Capra.

director, Jiave turned it into one of the outstanding movie hits of the sea-on. All the- action is centered around Grandpa Vanderhof, played by Lionel Barrymore. Grandpa is an easy-going, lovable old philosopher who believes in everyone doing exactly what he wants to do. That's what Grandpa himself did 35 years previous to the opening of the play when he started to work one day, turned back and never went to his office again. Most of his time is spent in the picture in stamp collecting, playing the harmonica, attending graduation exercises, throwing darts at the bull's eye and seeing that his favorite granddaughter (Jean Arthur) gets the man she loves.

No jitterbug would be able to describe the Vanderhof family. There's Grandpa's daughter (Spring Byington) who keeps on writing plays and stories because someone left a typewriter at the home six years ago a granddaughter (Ann Miller), who wants to be a dancer a son-in-law (Samuel Hinds), who likes to make and explode firecrackers a Russian dancing teacher (Mis-cha Auer) who comes in at meal time a grandson-in-law (Dub Taylor), who plays the xylophone the ice man (Halliwell Hobbes), who came to the house five years ago and never left the bookkeeper (Donald Meek) who likes to make things i and Donald and Reba (Eddie Anderson and Lillian Yarbo), negroes who serve the screwy family and like it. Into this conglomeration moves Edward Arnold and Mary Forbes of the upper codfish aristocracy, and their son, played by James Stewart. If there hadn't been Grandpa's favorite granddaughter and James Stewart there probably wouldn't have been any story, although, frankly, a family like Grandpa and his household would spread news wherever they'd be. Funniest scene in the entire play, in our estimation: Grandpa and the internal revenue collector.

And next funniest: Grandpa saying grace. In addition to the picture there's a Paramount newsreel and a technicolor short, "Popeye Meets Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." L. B. 4i, HOURS TO LIVE Researchers working on "Dawn Fatrol" discovered that the average "flying lifetime" of English aviators during one period of the World War was four and one-half hours. SHORE DINNERS BILL HAYS J2T S3 Treaor Inland OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Dr.

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Son. 11 to I p.m. Home Cooked Dinnerj 35c to 50c JCepAn to ivvnrvritii Studio now open (or Gilbert School of Dancing 1st Ave No. 6th St. Alhatnbra Arcade 4 i Fidler in Hollywood: GARY COOPER'S BABY STARS IN FILM H10NTH Proud Papa 'Sees' Daughter Grow By JIMMIE FIDLER HOLLYWOOD Idol Chatter: Errol Flynn is one star who will never make a singie he couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket.

In-a-line description: Marie Wilsona jitterbug with the hives. Each of the four biggest studios uses enough electric current to supply an average city of 50.000 population. If you think Mischa Auer is long and lanky, you should see his secretary he tops me doss cy lour inches and weighs 10 pounds less. Bill Powell's illness, counting lost time less income tax, has set him back a little more than $100,000. No love lost: Luise Rainer and Paulette Goddard.

With 12 Japanese girls working in "Trade Winds," the studio had to give 10 of them wigs to conceal American style bobs. To day's puzzler: If George Raft, wearing a size seven, pays $45 a pair for his shoes, what would the bootmaker charge Walter Pidgeon, who wears size 13 'j? I never see Anita Louise with out thinking of a Watteau paint ingand vice versa. Glenda Farrell jumped her Warner Brothers contract because ing too hard I i ri A tit An A has made five pictures without a day off. Ad in a Hollywood paper "Will trade ANITA $18,000 Rolls Royce, nearly new, for small chicken ranch, well stocked." Clara Kimball Young has a nice role in "Frontiers" here's hoping it's the start of that come-back she has been praying for. Mention of General Oscar Westover, recently killed in an air crash, brought to light an odd little anecdote this morning.

Some months ago, a famous lady of the flickers, having been champagned at a farewell party, arrived at the airport to catch a night plane east. The dispatcher, noting her very tipsy condition, refused to let her on the plane seems there's a federal law against it. Insulted, she telephoned Washington and demanded to speak to anyone connected with aeronautics. The operator, impressed by the star's name, connected her with General Westover, who soon got a perfect picture of the situation. 'I'll fly out first thing in the morning and personally take care of it," he announced soothing and the glamourous one, after warning everyone in the airport that he was "in for it now," went home to sleep it off.

A few days ago, in the Warner Brothers cafe, Dick Powell said that he wanted to buy a dog and was im mediately buried under an avalanche of advice "Get a Dober-man!" urged Bette Davis. "A ichniu-zer!" argued Errol Flynn. "A setter!" rotested Hugh Herbert. A within the next 10 minutes the superiority of every known brand of pedigreed pooch had been plead by its advocate. Hollywood is a doggy town and nothing excites our ar gumentative dispositions quicker man the relative mer ts of our pets.

Today, meeting Dick on the boulevard, I asked him what kind of dog he finally selected. "A EAR TO THE GROUND LISTEN'! THAT THl'ND- KKOIS KOAK IS THE MIGHTY WAVE OF AC I. AIM A(iOKI)M) YES. TEKDAY'N PREMIERE! Hnnnri iftrr round nf ap-plaoir from record breik-inx xorilrnrn St. Peteriborf taket It ta Iti heart TODAY, TUES! EVERYTHING 11 ill 11 JEAN ARTHl'R.

JAMES I. BARRYMORE, HMVARO ARNOLD, Mlaehi Auer. An Miller, Sprint Brine-tnn. Donald Meek. H.

R. Vt arnrr. Feature at it Robert Benchley "An Evening Alone" "POPEYE MEETS ALI BABA" 1 Mat. lOf-SAc Era. 10e-40e 7 2 Movie Quia i I.att HITS IT Bay i.

S0NJA HENIE Rlrhard Oreene, Roddy Khuen, faenar Romero, Joan Davla In "My Lucky Star" and T.ANNY CI.ORIA ROSS STUART "The Lady Objects" MONDAY ONLY! Stase p.m. PICK SPENCER and Band In a lovely ANN DIXON. Screen from I p.m. Lew Ayrea 'King of Kewtboyt" and Betty i a 1 Campm t'onfeaiiona." 4 10o 25c f) Movie Qnii Hltt Mon. Toe.

Jack London's loaty romance of nntsmed Alaaka! with EO R(i RAFT, DOROTHY LAMOITR, UN RY FONDA. John Barrymore, Lynn Overman, Aklm Tamlraff. Plus the Jones Family "Safetr in Numbers" I 2Movl Quia Hit alT TODAY and Mon. ROBERT TAYLOR Edward Arnold, Morcan, Maureen Frank O'Sul- llvan In "The Crowd Roars" Vj PU STAN OLIVER LAUREL St HARDY "BLOCKHEADS" YOU'VE EVER i ASKED FOR IN A PICTURE 1 EXTRA I t) Movie i TODAY- I t3 I Ml II lOci 20c mi, ww.vwaifitottQgoFw i Jimmie Davis, above, pianist and accordionist, featured in the stage show presentation at the Playhouse theater tonight, has traveled throughout the United States with a number of "big time" shows and is now a member of Rex McDonald Dixians and the Playhouse Swingsters. He has been a resident of St.

Petersburg since 1920. Tonight's stage offering is acheduled for 8:30 o'clock and will be in addition to two feature pictures, "You're in the Army Now," a first run film starring Wallace Ford and Anna Lee, and "Fools for Scandal," with Carole Lombard, The picture pro-gram will run continuously from 1 p.m. mongrel," he answered with a grin. "I bought him in the pound tor two bucks and everyone ought to be satisfied. He combines all the recommended breeds." For all his taciturn mannerisms, Gary Cooper is as proud a papa as Hollywood can show and I saw concrete evidence of it last night when he ran for me a home movie starring his 13-nionths-old daughter, Maria Veronica.

Gary started that reel when the baby was five months old and has achieved a most novel effect. Each month, with the baby in precisely the same place on the living room floor, he shoots a few more feet of film. Watching it on the screen, you seem to see the baby grow. He plans to add more footage, at regular intervals, until Maria is a full-grown young lady. Today's most disgruntled Holly-woodite is Mr.

Arthur Treacher, currently playing in "The Little Princess" with Shirley Temple. After seeing the first rushes, Darryl Zanuck decided that Treacher didn't look his part and went into a huddle with the company makeup man who advanced the proposal that the Treacher hair should be permanently waved. The suggestion brought a roar of rage from Arthur but he finally gave in with the plaintive query, "How permanent are these things, anyway" In his case it will be about six weeks. Lunched in the Derby with Jack Oakie, and one of our famous ladies, who is so proud of having once won an Academy award that she is a public nuisance, stopped to say hello. Her wrist, she informed us, was sprained and sore.

And I think she was sorer than the wrist when Jack asked, slyly; "Have you been trying to wear that Academy statuette of yours on your charm bracelet?" Waltz Club Will Begin Season at Coliseum Monday The Get-Acquainted Waltz club, veteran St. Petersburg organization of dancers who prefer the graceful whirling field of terpsi-chorean endeavor, will inaugurate its twelfth season at the Coliseum on Monday night. Fred Buchanan is president of the club. This will be the first of four dancing events slated for the Col iseum during the coming week. On Thursday the St.

Petersburg Democratic club will hold its annual ball; on Friday the younger set will gather for their regular "Stooge" dance, and on Saturday a gift balloon ball will be staged. Rex MacDonald and his Dixians will provide music for all four events. NO MORE AVIATION William A. Wellman. dlrertlno "Men With Wings." with Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Campbell, sayi that now that he has done an aviation nic- ture in color, embracing its history, he will never do another flying picture.

Sow Keadx! PECAN ROLLS AUNT MARTHA'S CANDY SHOP 242 First Ave. No. Dial 42-911 This Week at HUEY LONG NOMINATED Hucy Long was entered by Winfield, in the search by Bob Burns, the Arkansas traveler, for the "Proudest Town in America," based upon sons who have won national fame. SUNDAY FLORIDA "You Can't Take It With You," with Lionel Barry-more, Edward Arnold. Jean Arthur, James Stewart; "An Evening Alone," with Robert Benchley; "Popeye Meets Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." LA PLAZA "My Lucky Star." with Sonia Henie.

Richard PICTURE HOME Claude Rains is so proud of his Pennsylvania farm he is urging Warners to make a copy of it for use in motion pictures. Greene, Joan Davis? "The Lady oxuarx. ROXY "Spawn of the North," with George Raft, Dorothy Lamour, Henry Fonda; "Safety in Numbers," with the Jones Family. CAMEO "The Crowd Roars," with Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Maureen O'SulIivan; "Blockheads," with Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. PLAYHOUSE "Fools for Scandal," with Carole Lombard, Fer-nand Gravet; "You're in the Army Now," with Wallace Ford, Anna Lee; stage show.

coS WMM SHOW Night 10c-25c III I SMOKING PERMITTED IN BALCONY WALLACE FORD ANNA LEE ffh. IV FIRST Rl'N I the Theaters Objects," with Lanny Ross, Gloria BOW WOW HOUSE All Jenkins' old New York home was recently remodelel into a dog and cat hospital. MONDAY Can't Take It With You." with Lionel Barry-more. Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, James Stewart; "An Evening Alone," with Robert Benchley; "Popeye Meets Ali Baba and the ruiiy imevFS. LA PLAZA "King of Newsboys" first run), with Lew Ayres; i campus t.oniessions, wnn uctty urabie.

stage show at 8:30 p.m.: Ann Dixon presents "The Waltz" and Dick Spencer and his band. ROXY "Spawn of the North," with George Raft, Dorothy Lamour. Henry Fonda; "Safety in Numbers," with the Jones Family. CAMEO "The Crowd Roars," with Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Maureen O'SulIivan; "Blockheads," with Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. PLAYHOUSE "Fools for Scandal," with Carole Lombard, Fer-nand Gravet; "You're In the Army Now," with Wallace Ford, Anna Lee.

NXt tn A ACTS BIG TIME VAUDEVILLE DANCING-COLISEUM Monday Friday Saturday GRAND HALLOWEEN BALL Monday Night, Oct. 3lst $50.09 CASH COSTUME PPIZES 9 P.M. TIL CALX 6122 ADM. 35c RABBIT'S FUNNY HABIT Tiny Janet Chapman' pet rabbit always sits beside her in her high chair at meal-times. Y.

W. C. A. CLASSES U1N UUK WITH OTAor- The FLAPPERETTS i AijlL DEVILISH DAMSELS In Their Flrt I.ortl Appramnro MUSIC BY THE PLAYHOUSE ORCHESTRA UNDER DIRECTION OF BEN LUPICA FEATURING JIMMIE DA VIES ON THE IVORYS BALLROOM DANCING OCTOBER 25 NOVEMBER 22 Hours for $2.00 Professor Rrlrhelderfer Gymnastics October 25-November I Classes for $1.50 Mn. J.

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