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Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 29

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TWENTY-NINK ST. PETERSBURG TIMES. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939 Movie Spotlight This Week Focuses on Washington Scene LA PLAZA TUESDAY WEDNESDAY FREDRIC MARCH WARNER BAXTER. IN TH ROAD TO GLORY" LA PLAZA NEW" THURSDAY 4 DAYS ROSALIND RUSSELL NORMA SHEARER PHYLLIS POVAH MTH WOMEN" c.v ii mf i 'in mi -I' eh nv 'V if 9 -sr. FLORIDA WEDNESDAY THURSO AY FRIDAY lorctta Uounq-David (liven "ETERNALLY YOURS" FLORIDA NEXT SATURDAY 4 DAYS MICKEY ROOM EY-JUDY 6ARLANC BABES IN FIOWOA TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY JAMES STEWART-ASTR ID ALLWYW IKI -MR.

SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON" Florida to Show They'll Both Star With Circus in Tampa Monday 'Mr. Smith' Proves Bang-Up Film Fare; Awarded Four Stars I IV. J- 4 i James Stewart and Jean Arthur Head Cast in Florida's Feature By MARION AITCHISON (Times Movie Reviewer) Presenting Mr. Smith and associates when "Mr. Smith ml Goes to Washington" by way of the Florida theater screen: Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), idealistic young innocent appointed to the senate, is thrown to the wolves of his local graft ring when he introduces a bill for a boys' camp which conflicts with a dam project.

He is all bound round by graft, whose dangerous possibilities are realized I "Babes in Arms" "Babes In Arms." the screen's first real musical comedy in several months, has been boaked for four-day engagement at the Florida theater, starting next Sunday, Nov. 5. Based on the celebrated Rogers and Hart stage success which ran 289 performances on Broadway, the new film has in addition to Rogers and Hart music, several new hit tunes by Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed, Harold Ar len and E. Y. Harburg.

With Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland reunited as its stars. Babes in Arms" boasts of the biggest cast of song, dance and acting performers since "The Great Ziegfield." Supporting the youthful stars Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee. June Preisser, Grace Hays, Betty Jaynes, Henry Hull, Margaret Hamilton and a great many more. There are several unusual and delightful musical production numbers in the film. Coliseum Offers Dancing School A "triple teaching" combination at the Coliseum dancing school will furnish instruction in the latest in ballroom and tap dances this season.

G. W. Gilbert, member of the Dancing Masters' club, is in charge. Emery Poudrier and Joseph Japour, starting their fifteenth season in the city, will be associates. The school will introduce "The Belmont." and a new increasingly popular ballroom step.

Ghost Night Dance In observance of Halloween, the municipal pier ballroom plans a costume dance, with favors for everyone and special prizes for the best costumes, Tuesday night. BILL'S PLACE CANDY BLVD. DANCE T0NITE Gala Halloween Dance TUESDAY NITE nig moiiT Vt.Ul today: Sisters under the big top are elephant, and Mile. Bette, aerialist MH.1G in Universal Appeal TODAY! MOV. TIES.

2 HITS LAST DAY GINGER ROGERS WALTER CONNOLLY "5th Avenue Girl" and GLORIA JEAN THE UNDER-PUP' MONDAY ONLY JOR K. "BKM ARK Or SPOOKS" nil AC IIOI.l TRAM-ED IN THE SK" (PHOTO PAY AT 2 Hlta Today JtDY GARLAND, Ray Bnlaer. Frank Morgan, Bert Lahr, Jack Dairy in "The Wizard OS Oz" la TECHNICOLOR and JOE PENNER "THE DAY THE BOOKIES WEPT" P. LIONEL BARRYMORE MB CEDBIC HARDHICKE comes fTlMl'i trjVJJj I "Babe I Judy OarUniJ -SsiS 4ni. (, 10c 20c HITS TODAT A MON.

i Myrtle, two-ton performing star, seen above. Both are Barnum it Bailey circus, showing lavishly-costumed and gaily- lighted presentation. immediately after the evening performance tomorrow, the circus will entrain for its Sarasota win ter quarters. Entertainments Places to Go, Things to Do Items under this heading may occupy minimum of fiva Unci or a maximum of 10 llnea. (Paid Advertisement!) Contract Bridge, beginners class, 2 p.m.

Advanced class, Tucs. Sc 2 p.m. Special Oct. rates. May Roberts, 430 1 2 5th St.

2nd floor. MERRIEST MUSICAL! HONOLULU 5Ufe. Ridin ind ftcrteii Surt Elenor POWtLL Kobt.TOUHS Ctorti BURNS I Cricii ALLEM "THE HII.AKIWl MAT. MX. 3:00 II I jll FEATURE? IlkTjVofcJ TODAY! DON STARTED EARLY Lovey Warren, who models and voices the role of the Princess Glory in "Gulliver's Travels," started her own dancing school in Emporia, when she was 14 years old.

She operated the school for five years. 0 r.VE. MAT. OPKN 11:45 25C 200 CHILDREN 18c TWO BIG HITS CONTINl'Ol'S FROM 1 P.M. imstiCilltpltushtilticktt! Hi jfckil Hum! Hurt tup! QRORITY HOtfff IMf una SHIRLEY ELLISON IUUU IUI K1I PUKI (KO KAOIO HIT '0.

IT COULD llAFPEtlTOYOU' ON STAGE TONIGHT, 8:30 ALL STAR ACTS FEATURING THESE WINNERS: Jackie Fisher Ruth.TiUett Tevis Breaker Dick Taylor Regie Crowe i Ray Hoff MUSIC BY THE SWINGSTERS TAMPA I. OCT. FREMONT WEST TAMPA Rectyled In Beauty And Splendor For A Chanting World 1 The Ultimate In ENXSYMENIT, Combined with COMFORT-EARTH'S LARGEST TENT NOW 100 AIR CONDITIONED mill nificent New Opening j- THE WORLD COMES TO THE WORLD'S FAIR" P.nw tf Product by CHAKIES I MAIM GIGANTld HOST OP NEW'SENSATiQNS NEVER BEFORE ON THIS CONTINENT Now BigRtr Than Efcr-GARG ANTUA THE GREAT, World-Fimou. CUnl Gorilli On View In MAMMOTH New MENAGERIE TERRELL JACOBS, Tin Nm Jam Khw BATTLINQ SLIONSIGERS a LEOPARDS GRAND NEW HORSE FAIR MlOHTIEST MULTlTUDlT6r'CinCUS CHAMPIONS EVER At SEMtLED 10.000 MARVELS 800 PEERLESS PF.R-PORMERS 1 00 CLOWNS- 50 ELEPHANTS 1000 MENAGERIE ANIMALS 41 TENTS 4TRAINSOF DOUBLE-LENGTH STEEL RAILROAD CARS I OADED WITH WONDERS FROM EVERY LAND 8:15 P. M.

POORS OPEN 1 7 POPULAR PRCCS Timr.TS ciRCi day at i.i; cirrm drig store, franklin ZACK AS WM.I, AS AT mm m-si 01 mm 30 "mm Theater Time Clock (Sunday, Oct. 29) FLORID "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1:19, 4, 6:50, 9.35. LA PLAZA "Fifth Avenue Girl," 1,4:05, 7:10. 10.

"The Under Pup," 2.37, 5:42, 8:47. ROXY "Wizard of Oz." 1. 4:05, 7, 10. "The Day the Bookies Wept," 3:04, 5:55, 9:05. CAMEO "Lady of the Tropics'- 1:25, 4:55.

8:25. "On Borrowed Time," 2:25, 6:25, 9:55. PLAYHOUSE "Sorority House," 1:08, 3:31, 6:03. "It Could Happen to 2:11. 4:43, 7:15.

10:36. "All Star," Stage Show, 8:27. PARK "Three Musketeers," 3, 5:48, 8:36. "Honolulu," 4:12, 7, 9:48. 9th Street Theater Opens Nov.

5 9th Street thealer located at Ninth street and Twelfth avenue north, will have a first-run major screen production for its opening program next Sunday, Nov. 5. The film, a brand new one fr.om the studios of Universal Pictures corporation, is a smashing action-melodrama of Yankee courage fighting human beasts of prey in the perilous tropics. "Tropic Fury" is the title of the new production and its cast of stars include Richard Arlen. Andy Devine.

Beverly Roberts and Samuel S. Hinds. Companion feature on the Ninth Street opening bill will be Cecil B. DeMille's celebrated spectacle, "Union Pacific," with Joel Mc-Crea, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston. Lynne Overman.

Akim Tamiroff and a cast of thousands. Funny Faces in Movies Popular HOLLYWOOD JP) Some of them couldn't win a beauty contest in Uganda, but actors with odd faces keep right on facing the cameras while the beautiful and handsome wonder and wait. Such star names as Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, Boris Kar- loff and Victor McLaglen come to mind quickly. And there's an army of leser players, seldom at liberty simply because they have good "character" faces definitely off the classic. Edna May Oliver is an exam ple.

Expressions which others get from eating green persimmons are natural with her. Bert Lahr's Won face in "The Wizard of Oz" is memorable. Eddie Collins' rubber mouth won him a similar assignment portraying a bulldog in "The Blue Bird." Rondo Hatton big ears and Joan Davis' facial contortions are familiar trademarks. "Your face is your fortune a Hollvwood truism particularly if it's a shade on the ugly side. Screen Actors Get Dousing HOLLYWOOD.

lP) Beauteous blond Madeleine Carroll wasn't so beauteous yesterday on reaching home from Rancho Santa Anita. Neither were Douglas Fairbanks Tullio Carminati and Lynn Overman. They fell into nearby Lake Baldwin from an improvised river boat which sprang a leak and sank in 15 feet of water in filming an African picture. Director E. H.

Griffith and other members of the company rescued the players in "native" canoes. DIAL 2111 (New Nimber) FOR CORRECT TIME Ailontatie Time-Teller COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. oo late by Clarissa Saunders (Jean Arthur), his wise and disillusioned secretary who, deciding it's all too futile, walks out on him but returns to pick up the pieces and put them together just in time to prod him into a filibuster against Senior Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), who once believed "lost causes were the only causes worth fighting for" but who finally, In the interests of personal progress, learned to compromise with Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), who has a corrupt hold on most of the enterprises, private and political, in Smith's home state and who expends, every effort' through the papers and radio he controls to keep the boy's constituents from learning what he is trying to get across to them as he wears out quorum relays of senators under the sympathetic tolerance of The president of the senate (Harry Carey), who sees he gets a square deal while Diz Moore (Thomas Mitchell) "poet of the Washington press." sees that his confreres send out tUe right dispatches in spite of realizing that it's Smith, instead of himself, whom Saunders has fallen in love with. VMr. Smith Goes to Washing ton" is bang-up entertainment if we were one to scatter around stars we'd give it four of them.

It is swiftly paced and bright with humor to balance its more serious "implications. James Stewart is, of course, an ideal selection for the wide-eyed director of the Boy Rangers and Jean Arthur is crisply efficient as the cynical veteran of many a Washington skirmish who pro duces a lot of moral support just in time. Of the supporting cast, both Claude Rains and Edward Arnold give splendid performances but we're of the opinion that Harry Carey as the vice president and Thomas Mitchell as the newsman make the most telling impression. A travel picture on Africa. Popeye cartoon, and newsreel complete the program, billed to remain through Tuesday.

ESCORTS PARENTS John Howard, star of "Disputed Passage," and considered one of the most eligible young bachelors in Hollywood, always takes his parents, with whom he resides in Brentwood, to previews of his pictures. TOGETHER AGAIN Jackie Cooper and Betty Field, who score as a top young acting team in "What a Life," are paired again in the same studio's pic-turization of Booth Tarkington's famous novel, "Seventeen." STOP FOR A GIANT Of 10c Beer la Nir.tlinf Rr rhern flnrn Till I A.M. BAR-N-YARD GRILL 9th St, It Uth Ave. So. of WPA Orchestra To Play in Park St.

Petersburg WPA orchestra, a unit of the Florida music pro ject, sponsored by the state plan ning board, will present its weekly public concert in Williams park tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. B. Cintura will conduct. The pro gram follows: 1. March Military Tactics Rosey 2.

Overture Hungarian Lustspiel Keler-Bela 3. Selection Maytime Romberg 4. Bandanna Sketches White (a) Nobody Knows the Trou ble I've Seen (b) Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child 5. Concert Waltz Espana Walteufel 8. Mazurka and Czardas from Coppelia Delibes 7.

Request The Bells of St. Mary's Adams 8. Humoresque The Donkey and the Driver Herbert 9. Hawaiian Patrol Aloha Stewart Star Spangled Banner. Film Kisses End In Incinerator HOLLYWOOD () The odds and ends of kisses and don't think there aren't a flock of them cluttering up cutting room waste baskets meet the same fate as other over-length scenes.

They are burned up, and not of their own heat, either. They are burned with uninteresting scenes. erroneous scenes, scraps of film. Maybe a million hearts beat faster when Errol Flynn takrs Bette Davis into his arms and smacks her like he meant it. But when they burn up the beginnings and the ends, no one cares not even the assistant film editor's second assistant.

AFTERTHOUGHT Two months after the picture had supposedly been finished, Paiomount sent a location troupe to Fort Bliss. to film a panoramic added scene for "Ger-onimo," story of the Apacht reign of terror in the southwest. The entire cavalry detachment of the army post will take part In the new final scene. BIG PAY ROLL The Fleischer studio at Miami Wis just passed the $1,000,000 a year mark on its pay roll. The studio's rapid expansion is due to the production of "Gulliver's Travels." full-length feature cartoon version of the Jonathan Swift classic.

Approximately 500 artists and other technical experts ire employed on the picture. COSTUMES FOR HALLOWEEN and All Other Occasions! ALL NKW STOCK 1 I.OVD SPANKLKR. Mir. Ln II 645 Central I 0 Ph. 72-033 I opk.n Tlh :00 AMECIIE The RITZ BROTHERS featured with Ringling Bros, and in Tampa tomorrow.

Tomorrow is circus day for the Tampa bay area, as Ringling Bros, and Barnum Bailey close the 1939 season with two performances in Tampa. St. Petersburg fans will find the circus lot conveniently located on Fremont avenue in West Tampa. The afternoon show starts promptly at 2:15. while the final performance will start at 8:15.

And a word fo the wise circus performances start on time. The big show's menagerie tent housing 1009 animals, ranging from penguins to elephants and including Gargantua the gorilla and the show's horse tent, will be thrown open to the public an hour before show time. Tickets may be obtained at the gate or at Liggct's drug store, Franklin and Zack streets, Tampa. All tickets and passes are ex changed for numbered scat reser vations at the door of the big top. The circus is half hoping, for a hot day tomorrow, in order that the show may demonstrate its new air-conditioning plant.

This huge device makes the canvas big top, seating 12.000 persons, cooly comfortable whatever the outside temperature. Featured this year is the circus' opening spectacle, a processional pageant entitled "The World Comes to the World's Fair." Most of the show's 2,000 animals and 800 performers appear in this Palace of Dolls 4th St. at 41th Ave. OPEN DAILY World famiiUK exhibit. Rare antique.

$1,000 button dnll. Beautiful coxtume types. Dnlla' churrh weddinr. Tea and cakea tervrd free. Adm.

Benefit arranged. kTh Leaf Kfdinr, Xjahnto DANCE Classes every Tuesday and Friday, 10:30 to 11:30 m. Print I.ttmnn Dallv Coliseum Dancing School "Where Good Daneera Are Made" G. W. GILBERT, Director DIAL vr ST.

PETERSBURG LITTLE THEATRE Presents "NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH" By AYX RAND MntROR LAKE JR. HIGH 8:20 P.M. ADMISSION Me RfcSKBV ATIOK8 AT BOOTH, 4TH A CENTRAL in THREE MUSKETEERS" td.MKDY YKRSION PI.I NMVS P. P. Mad.

Glad AT THE Oct. 31, 8:30 1 ill fM0J That HALLOWEEN BALL -J RECREATION PIER MISIC BY THE SOUTHERNERS Admission 25c Favors Fhone 6929 Prizes for Best Costumes 4 Tuesday, ROXY COFFEE SHOP "Next to Roxy Theater" OUR SUNDAY FEATURE FULL COURSE SUNDAY DINNER JOE RAVEL IE OECEESTEA ii 'On Borrowed Time' yi aad Roht. Hd -7r TAYLOR LAMARR "Lady of the Tropics" i9TTn1TABTHtT OPENS NOV. 5 Choice Fruit Cop Oranf Jnlr Tntnutn Jnira Chirkea Saup hole of Salad Stuffed Prunct Col Slaw Lettuce and Tomato Choice of Kouthcra Fried fhirken Baked Viriinia Ham, Fruit Saur Roant I.amh, Mint Jelly Rnast Reef, Brown Gravy Oyatera or Srallnns with Tartar Sauce Choice of Two Parnley Bntlered Potatoea Candied Yama Garde Prat Stewed Cor Served with Hot Belli, Coffee, Tea, Bnttermilk 9 P. M.

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