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ST. PETERSBURG TIMIS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1939 THIRTY-TllREB 9. October Brings Thrilling Dramas to St. Petersburg Screens Gioria Jean- CAubteu Smith THE UNDER-PUP 7 1 LA PLAZA CARYORMJT-KAYFRAWCIS 'IN NAfAE ONLY" FLOXICA TODAY THROUGH TUMWtf ADOLPW MCNJOU V--V (A I ROSALIND RUSSELL 6QLDEN POV A Jj JOAN CRAWFORD LV VV YKy 1 1 "THE WQJAEN' w3 Playhouse to Show First Run Warner Brothers Pictures Contract for the first showing Brothers and First National pictures has been negotiated by the Playhouse theater, it was announced yesterday by Bill and Bob The Women' Proves an Outstanding Hit as Well as Stunt Picture Movie Has Three of Screen's Greatest Feminine Stars By MARION AITCIIISON (Timet Movie Reviewer) The outstanding "stunt" picture of the ieaon. "The Women," proved itself an outstanding hit as well when it opened its engagement at the Florida theater Saturday.

It's a "stunt" picture, of course, because its cast is composed entirely of women with not a man in sight. Just the same, it's nothing but men the women have on their minds and what minds Boardman, co-managers of the The contract will give the Playhouse exclusive showing of films produced by the two stu dios, which boast such stars as Bette Davis, Paul Muni, James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. Bob Boardman said last night the contract had been signed in At lanta. Preparations are underway for the biggest season in the theater's history, Boardman said, and fea ture pictures will be supple mented by shorts and newsreels that are new and interesting.

First picture to be shown un der the new policy will be "The Old Maid," starring Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins and George Brent. Other films slated for winter showing include "Dust Be My Destiny," with John Garfield and Priscilla Lane; "Roaring Twenties," with James Cagney; "On Your Toes," with Vera Zorina; "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn, which will be filmed in technicolor; "We Are Not in St. Petersburg of all Warner theater. Alone," with Paul Muni; "A Child Is Born" and "Espionage Agent." "The Old Maid" will open at the Playhouse Nov. 5.

Star Student Richard Denning, young actor playing the romantic lead oppo-sita Martha Raye in "The Farmer's Daughter," not only was a student body president in his last year in college but he led his class in scholarship, headed the dramatic society, and was awarded the president's prize for being the student in his class "most likely to succeed." ACTS BEST SELLERS John Howard is rapidly becoming a best-seller star. Having Just finished playing the lead in Lloyd C. Douglas' "Disputed Passage" at Paramount, he has been loaned to Universal to portray the principal role in "Green Hell," which led the book lists six years ago. CHILDREN ALWAYS lOe STAGE SHOW TONKiHT 6-ACTS SINfilNt; DANCING MISIC SWEET and SWING By the SWINGSTERS Two Hits On Screen irom 1 P. M.

Hof-bfoooVd, kvr-pUch romance when tht talk of th tropics become! th foast of Ntw York's night world and is plunged headlong into a notorious mwdr costl GIRL FROM RIO MOVITA WARREN HUH ALAN BALDWIN I I A N. With the Camera Fiends rHKNfUis runirtv LYNN RARI NT they are! Mary, in fact, is about the only normal one among them, while Sylvia is the kitty-cat to end all kitty-cats and Crystal is the sort of siren any wife might fear. These three are played by Norma Shearer, who is entirely charming; Rosalind Russell, who is as devastatingly funny as any lomedienne we've ever seen, and Joan Crawford, who, we regret to report, comes out rather a poor third, though it isn't entirely her fault the role's not a very nice one. In addition there are Phyllis Povah as a young mother who has so many children you're sur prised she has any time to gossip; Paulette Goddard as another but more pleasant vamp; Mary Bo-land as a frequent but very impermanent bride, and Joan Fontaine as a fluttery fiancee. The trouble all begins when Sylvia, champion gossip of her set, goes to a beauty parlor and finds out about Mary's husband and Crystal.

Of course she can hardly wait until she manages to see that Mary finds out about it, and once having started the ball rolling she neglects no opportunity to hasten its pace. 1 The picture's played against the smartest of settings and there are plenty of stunning costumes (as well as some worn by Miss Russell that take full advantage of fashion's puckishness). While the film has its serious moments, the comedy is of the sort that is irresistible. "Battle Fleets of England" is the title of the March of Time which is included in the Florida program, scheduled to remain through Tuesday. Open I 1 P.

M. Today Mat. 20c Eve. 25c 1 rim Pre-Release Films, Maybe Even A World Premiere, Slated Here Downtown Sparks theaters, all set for a banner season, will bring St. Petersburg some of the first choice of major films from Hollywood studios, Bolivar Hyde local manager, announced .7" "Si- 5n FLORIDA smrs hixt utumay kx tours GARY COOPf A ANDREA LflDS 'the real glory" A ROCKO! Ri(ht bHwcca the Mt.

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jj I Tyrone KnJ 1 4 .1 IP Youngsters Seek Glory On Broadway Ntw Faces Appear In Current Plays By MARK BARRON NEW YORK (IP) Embroidering a sudden upturn in theatrical production, Broadway is becoming more and more crowded today with aspiring young talent. From the inexpensive and tiny rooms of the Rehearsal club to the more affluent apartments overlooking Central park, the doors of Broadway are jammed with fresh new faces hopeful of stardom. The competition of movies, radio and other rival entertainment mediums, most stage producers agree, have increased rather than lessened the talent supply for the theater. "There is much more young tal ent coming to the Broadway theater today than there was in the days before talking pictures and radio achieved such prominence, said Theresa Helburn, executive director of the New York Theater guild. She had just finished casting the 34 roles in the guild production of William Saroyan drama, "The Time of Your Life." "Seeing and hearing so many movies and radio programs has given the youngsters fresh incentive to try for a career in one of the several entertainment med iums.

SERIOUS ABOUT CAREERS "Among the hundreds of new faces we have interviewed this season we find that most of the youngsters who are really serious about their careers come to the Broadway stage first for experience and training rather than make the immediate jump into Hollywood in an attempt to become overnight glamor girls or Robert Taylors." Several exciting examples have happened on Broadway in the last couple of seasons. Mary Jartin, unable to win movie recognition, came on to Broadway and won overnight stardom by singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" in the musical comedy "Leave It to Me." Orson Welles, who was a bit actor on Broadway five seasons ago, has thrust himself so high in the theater that the movies lured him back to be producer, director, writer and actor. He is still in his twenties. The formula of getting aboard the springboard to stardom, Miss Helburn points out. begins with a thorough preparation and per-serverance.

Take three typical examples from the ranks flocking the stage booking offices at the moment: LONG INTERESTED IN STAGE Tonia Lawton is a pretty 22-year-old brunet from Oneonta, N. and a graduate of Ithaca college. "I decided I wanted to be an actress when I played the fairy queen In the third grade," she said. "Most of my experience up to now has been playing in flops. "My first role was in a play called 'In the Bag' and it closed almost before the third act curtain came down.

I was in 'Howdy Stranger' and one or two other plays and they all closed quickly. "But, the experience in those come-and-go 'quickies' taught me UK HKSTHA BILL'S PLACE oandy Blvd. DANCE TONITE (Oprn All Nit S.turdtf Nile) Adml.nion 20c Celebrate Bill's Birthday, Oct. 17th Trr BrhFrn Arim. olLl HAYS' A' Girl From Rio (mm Pictured above are Movita and Warren Hull, co-stars in the motion picture, "The Girl From Rio," which opens today at the Playhouse theater.

Movita will be remembered as the native star of "Mutiny On the Bounty." A second feature, "Chasing Danger," starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari, will complete the film program scheduled to run today through Tuesday. A matinee will be presented today and the weekly stag show will be presented tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Theater Time Clock (Sunday, Oct. I) FLORIDA "The Women," 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35. "March of Time," 3:30, 6:20, 9.15.

LA PLAZA "Angels Wash Their Faces," 1:20, 4:55, 8:30. "Wizard of Oz," 2:50, 6:20, 9:54. ROXY "Bachelor Mother," 1, 4:15, 7:15, 10. "When Tomorrow Comes," 2:40, 5:45, 9. CAMEO "Second Fiddle," 1:05, 4, 6:55, 9:55.

"Good Girls Go To Paris," 2:45, 5:45, 8:40. PLAYHOUSE "Chasing Danger," 1:07, 3:16. 5:25, 7:34, 10:28. "Girl From Rio," 2:07, 4:15, 6:25, 9:19. Stage Show, 8:34.

fear of child welfare groups and employes to the bone without tests make him run the gamut of pen-and-ink emotions. "If he passes all these satisfac torily, he gets a special test for the part in mind. If he succeeds in a minor role if he clicks with the public then we make him the hero of his own cartoon." The elf-like beings in "The Happy Tots" passed the tests and are in their second color rhap sody. The Blue Birds, a new "family" group, are in their third cartoon. But Bronis favors three newcomers in "The House That Jack Built" an ostrich, a beaver and a bear.

Especially the ostrich. "There's one actor," he says, "that won't lay an egg." Dancing Lessons Dally Prof. R. A. Reichelderfer Detroit Hotel Ball Room much.

I had a chance to take over the leading role in a touring company of 'Yes, My Darling Daugh but to get it I had to learn the entire role (40 sides, which is about 1 hour, 15 minutes of dialogue if acted uninterrupted) in four hours. I did it, but it would have been impossible if I hadn't had the training of quick study from shuttling in and out of so many failures within a short space of time." Miss Lawton, aside from her study in dramatic school, spent two years in Athens studying the history and technique of the Greek theater. She speaks and writes Greek fluently. DRAMATICS 8TUDENT Margaret Lund, also 22, came to New York to see the World's fair and remained to become an actress. "It wasn't a whim of the mo ment," this blond Norwegian actress from Coquille, said.

"It was a definite plan and my chief problem was to get from Oregon to Broadway. At Leland Stanford university in California and at the University of Oregon I spe cialized in dramatics. "My father is an Oregon timber broker and I don't think he suspected I was headed for a stage career. I started east on a pleasure trip and stopped in Marquette, to play summer stock for seven weeks. I came on to New York to see the fair and started the round of producers' offices.

"I made one mistake in my dramatic studies. I thought of myself as an actress to play parts of women with "a sweet nature." But, producers think otherwise. They cast me only for parts of "the other woman" type. So I've had to readjust myself to be an actress of catty, bitter or disagreeable roles." ALERTNESS PAYS The young actress has to be as alertly on call to travel as a fireman. Vada Ward, a fetching 21-year-old ingenue, found this out a fortnight ago when, while traveling the round of Broadway casting offices, she got a quick call to report in Rochester, N.

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666 Central Phone 6992 IJL tf lit 0 RETURNS FOR MORE Following two triDS east, one for the New York premiere of "Beau Geste" and the other to judge the redhead contest in Des Moines, Iowa, Susan Havward. currently in "$1,000 a Touch down," has returned to Hollywood and will report immediately. PLAY WATER POLO Ray Milland, star of Para- mount's "Untamed." and Fred MacMurray, who plays the lead ing, role in the same studio "Re member the Night," have become water polo addicts. With a erouD of neighboring actors they engage in me aquatic sport on nearly every week-end in MacMurrsyfs mg pool. Hit 1 I CHASING DANGER These Juvenile Stars of Films Don't Mind Being Slave-Driven HOLLYWOOD.

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These films, to be shown at the Florida, LaPlaza, Roxy, Cameo, Capitol, Pheil and Ninth Street theaters, will include pre-release engagements and possibly a world premiere, he said. New season releases begin this week-end witn MGMi "The Women," current offering at the Florida theater. The new child singing discovery, Gloria Jean, will be at the theater Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in "The "Under Pup," double featured with Richard Greene and Richard PCix in "Here Am I a Stranger." Samuel Goldwyn's "The Real Glory," starring Gary Cooper, will be next Saturday's attraction. Other films at the Florida theater this month are: Oct. 18-20, Wallace Beery and Chester Morris in "Thunder Afloat" and Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew in "Bright Boys;" Oct.

21, "Hollywood Cavalcade," with Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Buster Keaton; Oct. 29, Leslie Howard in his own production of "Intermezzo" and Basil Rathbone and Victor McLaglen in "Rio;" and, final October feature, Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold. Among pictures at local theaters this from studios of Twentieth-Century Fox, MGM, RKO-Radio, United Artists, Columbia, Universal, Samuel Gold-wyn. Walt Disney and Selznick- International are: "Another Thin Uan." with William Powell; KBabes in Arms," featuring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland; Nelson Eddy in "Balalika;" "Broadway Melody of 1940;" "Marx Brothers at the Circus;" "Northwest Passage;" Greta Garbo in "Ninotchka;" "Judge Hardy and Son;" "I Married an Angel;" "Abe Lincoln in Illinois;" "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," featuring Charles Laughton; "Vigil in the Night," with Carole Lom bard; Shirley Temple in "The Bluebird:" "Drums Along the Mohawk;" "Grapes of Wrath;" "Raffles;" "Rebecca;" "My Son, My Son;" "Of Mice and Men;" "Our Town;" "The Thief of Bag dad;" 'Two Years Before the Mast." A 1 A 1 I 1 wan LMsney 1 lecnmcuior car toon-feature, "Pinocchio;" "Green Hell;" "Susan and God;" "The Tree of Liberty;" "Five Little Peppers;" "Tin Hats;" "Eternally Yours;" "The American Way;" flvanhoe; "Tht Deerslayer; Swiss Family Robinson;" "The Ramparts Watch;" Wesley Rug gies' "Arizona," and others.

AFTERTHOUGHT Adding $50,000 to the budget after tht picture had supposedly ien finished. Paramount sent a Ideation expedition to Texas to film a new and more spectacular efding for "Geronimo," story of the Indian wars, featuring Pres ton Foster, Ellen Drew and Andy Have You Dined At Our Newly Remodeled and Redecorated Restaurant drive their juvenile stars without wno can worK tneir lour-iegged wnimper irom tne SfUA. James Bronis is one. He's the head of the Screen Gems, a Co lumbia producing organization. "Our 'stock company'" explains Bronis, "is composed of characters developed in our ani mated cartoons.

"Our lively juvenile star, Scrappy, often works in 10 or 11 pictures at once, yet the educational authorities never have to reprove us. "Krazy Kat may work in half a dozen of the 27 pictures we have in production now without suffering the slightest physical harm or inciting the anger of any Animated Animals guild. "There is no danger if one of our stars being tied up in another picture or at another studio. But we still have casting problems." The trouble is, says Bronis, you can never tell how appealing a cartoon character, however, quaint or humorous on paper, will be when brought to life. "We give each new character a 'physical' examination," says Bronis.

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