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PART THREE PAGE ELEVEN YORK PLAYW TAMPA SUNDAY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1938 comedy," a "Yorkshire farce, and sev London's Booming Theaters eral other less, impressive things, but it has been playing to full houses for nearly a month now and promises to Offer 2 Critical Failures Ace Reporter Writes Play On Dictators Movie-Of-The-Month Coons Picks Calls Donat run well into the season. NewCostume Plays Arrive On Broadway 'Citadel' As Best; Star-Of-The-Month Perhaps more important than either Morgan's fellow critics agree that of these plays is "The White Guard," LONDON, Nov. 5. (Associated the play is interesting and even dis Press) The London theater, boomirg play originally written in Russian since the crisis is featuring two criti by Michael Bulgakov and adapted to the English stage by Rodney Ackland, cal failures Charles Morgan's "The tinguished, but they are not waling to say it is up to his abilities or that it is in any way important. Flashing Stream," and J.

B. Priestley's who knows no Russian. NEW Nov. 5. (Associated Similarly, the critics are amused and Ackland had the Russian manu When We Are Married." This is Morgan's first play, and the interested by Priestley's new offering.

script translated literally into English Press.) In those last days of the admirable old New York World one ot but it is definitely in a minor key. author of "The Fountain" has started and then rewrote this translation, xna By MARK BARRON NEW YORK, Nov. 5. (A.P.) Without their history books Broadway playwrights would be in a sorry way its ace reporters was Oliver H. P.

Gar a colossal argument. 'When We Are Married" has a thin result has been well received. It Is on rett, a rewrite man who translerred In a long Shavian prefatory essay of the few plays in the city requiring his eloquent typewriter to the scenario to the play he states that humor is the adult mind. plot about three Yorkshire couples celebrating their silver wedding together. During the celebration they discover they havs all been married "mills of Hollywood.

easy, and with casual confidence lumps But the instinct for news remains together Shakespeare, Shelley, Milton, AUIAMBRAOAFE strong within him, as vividly shown by a bogus minister and have "gone Wordsworth, Jesus and Nelson as men who had no humor. in his new Broadway drama, "Waltz gray in sin." in Goose Step," a sultry, revealing pic TREK r.T.ASS TURKEY That is about the extent ot the Then he plunges his audience into play based on the idea of "single ture of anonymous Fascist and Nazi WINK NNER 50c WINK DINNER story. Priestley's dialogue makes up Fill! Course Dinner governments. VHlow mid the rest. ness of mind" a play in which men and women on a monastic island discuss life and love and the destruc Chicken Flirt Explains Play It has been called "an irresponsible 10X K.

I.fa-tte a In a preface Garrett explains he tion of the world in terms of higher mathematics. has tried to keep it from being a propaganda play, to say what he has Centro Asturiano Being familiar, as dramatic critic of to say in terms of excitement end in thnr search for materia for new drama today. 'A: fortnight from now Blanche Yurka will arrive on Broadway, as good Queen Bess in Ferdinand Bruckner's play, "Gloriana." This will give the Rialto about a dozen plays dealing with life from the ancient past. Already first nighters have seen two Abraham Lincolns, two George Bernard Shi two Queen Victorias, one Peter Stuyvesant and this week arrived the delayed Mercury theater production of "Danton's Death" which has Danton, Robespierre and other famous figures of the French revolution. Orson Welles Stars Postponed several times, it was not expected that "Dan ton's Death" would be ready for a Broadway first night until next week, but it was suddenly brought in after its director and star, Orson Welles, was catapulted into an unexpected spotlight by his broadcast last Sunday night of H.

G. Welles' "War'of the Worlds." melodrama. He wants "to make it the London Times, with the tricks of the theater, Morgan has dressed up Nebraska and Palm Ave. evident that it is with fascism general his metaphysics with a pulp-magazine ly I am dealing not with its peculiar manifestations in a particular nation." story. Here is the brilliant young woman Garrett defeats his own intention for venturing amcng a group of secluded and sex-hungry men.

he is still the good reporter and there is no mistaking the Characters and He was in Budapest four years ago when the Munich purge Here is a brave experiment with an aerial torpedo which, msgr.etized by the enemy bomber will, track it to took place, and he saw other signs in destruction. Here also are the baser vices: Lust middle Europe of what was to come. He attempts to report in this drama and jealousy. But even these have A not so much what has happened but failed to convince the critics that Mor to interpret why these dark days have gan's men and women are human or So -realistic was the performance of settled upon present day Europe and that his theory is true. how they were maneuvered by the his company in dramatizing an imagi miimh iiiiii f'liiiiiiiilrriMiiirii nary attack on this earth bv men from leaders." ALENCIA GARDEN Mars that hundre ds of listeners RftVwrt Dorurf.

rieturrl with nurse fTovee Bland) and wealthv oatient (Penelope Dudlev- There is "the leader" and he has 811 GR. CENTRAL r- been written so that at times he re TIU1UI OVUC 14V11I VltWWV) homes in terror. sembles Hitler and at other times he law apanisn rooa fW; 1 Liquet Cocktails i i ml seems to be Mussolini The Mercury production of "Dan-ton's Death" is far different from the The leading role really is that of By ROBBIN COONS AP Feature Service Writer HOLLYWOOD This is probably all wrong. "It's practically Count Gottfried von Laidi. He is drawn as a combination of a half doz' en of either purged or surviving lead one seen before by, Broadway first nighters.

Welles has made an almost tabloid version of this drama of the French revolution, rarely allowing more than three or lour characters a rule in this town that a movie that's colossal automatically is Where The Best FRIENDS Get Together I Night or day you'll always discover a world of fun and entertainment at the Cocktail Lounge ers of middle European politics. He a movie that's best. A movie that's a spectacle is a cinch for STONE CRABS at 1403 Tampa St. Ph. M-7150 a clever mri who knows how to handle crowds and, more important, how to handle "the leader." the stage at a time with the mob first place indicated only by offstage voices.

But somehow this department, de Is Not Effective Count Cruel Man The count is the cruel little man spite two "colossals" With Wings" and is going over This is less enective tnan previous board for "The who manipulates the strings that work productions the whole strength of Check-Up Last Month's Best "If I Were Kin (Paramount) Frank Lloyd directing Ronald Colman, Frances. Dee. This Month's Runner-Up "Men With Wings" (Paramount) William Wellman directing Fred Ray Milland, Louise Campbell in spectacular techni-color. Star-of-the-Month Robert Donat in "The Citadel." Character of the Month Eddie Albert in "Brother Rat." Also Recommended Suez, The Sisters, Service de Luxe, The Mad Miss Manton, Angels with Dirty Faces, Brother Rat, Listen Darling, The Young Dr. Kildare.

I like it first because it has a story TITO GUIZAR IN THE FIRST ALL MUSICAL PICTURE IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES "ALL A EN EL RANCHO GRANDE" 7 BIG NIGHTS STARTING TONIGHT 6:30 TO 12 I. M. NIGHTLY 10c and 25c AT.SO "THE STUTTERING BISHOP" Double Program' the. puppet "the who writes his speeches, who "suggests" certain party members be purged. the French revolution was in its scenes of noisy and rebellious mobs, and here that very essence of revolution to tell and a significant story.

A. J. Cronin's authorship is practically a The count has little faith in the i-i Ar-v1 iio ehAirn 1 tr Vnr cVi a rl mirC I guarantee. MVUUll, II U11V TV li I MJ Uliuuu I a medical assistant, he soon bumps into the prevailing system which makes the doctor dependent upon a miners' individual whims for his fees. Meets Obstacles Half -starved and fuming at his helplessness to improve conditions.

He moves to another post. Before he goes, however, he blows up with the help of practical, hard-drinking Denny (Richardson) a leaking sewer which has caused a typhoid epidemic. At the new post, he meets practi moving back of curtains or voices I like it for. its acting. Robert Do- mob spirit of the party members.

"They are bullies who interpret biceps as brains," he comments shouting offstage. nat's performance is different from "Young Welles is effective in his ftnd tons his work as "The Count of in tne end tne count, wno nad al dynamic speech of St. Just, the speech nrnti. nricfn Thwt a smipnriiri and attempts to justify the revolution sympathetic role for Rosalind Russell ways annoyed "the leader" when ths latter said "liquidated" by insisting that what "the leader" really meant its methods. But, here the produc who is due for new attention because of it.

Entertainment Nitely by the Floridan Trio 5 to 79 'Til? is weak for he delivers it as a solitary figure upon the stage. In the cally the same obstacles. The position BROADWAY I'Max Reinhardt production the mob Had Expert Directing: And I like it for its direction by 15c TODAY 5c until events lead him into the charmed circle of "society doctors." They show him the way to easy money and was "murdered," was both liquidated and murdered himself. "The leader" was left to shout his lungs out at his mollified millions, but the thought is left he has liquidated the one brain surrounding St. Just added so much King Vidor, who incorporated a wealth Las ovedades plenty of it.

more fire to the speech. Won Praise Before called for a benedict, and the scenes of Andrew's quick courtship of Christine (Miss Russell) are most amusing. With his new wife he undertakes serious research on the miners' coughing spells. But here too, because the miners are boss and do tolerate of telling and touching incidents, who "THE SINGING MARINE" AND "Ta nan's Revenge" NEWS SnORT CARTOON Little by little Andrew galled by Most of these historical plays have lost no opportunity for dramatic effect in a (necessarily) rather talky film. that had always been clever enough previously to maneuver him out of past failures joins these money-suck It's title! "The Citadel," refers to ing parasites.

Loyal Christine looks on certain death and failure. such goings-on, he is frustrated and the unseen goal toward which medical been successes, and the Mercury pl-ayers hope their "Danton's Death" will be as successful as the current "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." "Danton's in dismay. In the end, he returns to Henry Oscar, an English actor mak-his high principles, flays the syco- mg his debut on the American stage, Famous Throughout the U. S. for Finest resigns in disgust Drops Principles men, as tne nero sees at, snouia dc working.

phants, lights lor nis own to ns sinisterlv excellent and authorita- Death" was received with acclaim practice, and calls for a professional tive as the count and Leo Chalzel is When Andrew goes to the After hopefully hanging out his sign in London, he and Christine starve when it was done in German here by "house-cleaning." varied enough so that he seems facets mining center of Blaenelly to serve as the Max Reinhardt players in 1927, of all present day dictators. The Reinhardt staged his productidh as a- great revolutionary spectacle which director has given "the leader," a make-up that prevents a physical re of Lucile. Another outstanding per make, quick changes to appear on both their radio programs and in their Double For overflowed tne gtganuc. century formance in that production was by semblance to none of. the current dic Broadway shows.

Fortunately, they theater stage. Paul Hartmann did a its sinele American player, the late Announcing tators. can make these quick moves because robust job as Danton, but the acting Rosamond Pinchot, who was found There is good reporting In this dra honors were earned on by tnree per-1 dead last January from carbon mon- New York police are affable, cooperative FOOD Visit Our Spanish Patio The Best in Liquors and Wines Business Men's LUNCH, 50c Served Daily 11 to 3 Y-1381 1416 7th Ave. formers who had comparatively minor oxide poisoning in the garage on her Long Island estate. Cagney Isn't Worried Now roles.

Most of the time the shifts are ar ma, written with adroitness. Whether it will succeed depends upon whether Broadway audiences are not too weary or too jittery about dramatizations of Europe's headaches. Arnold Korff who has since de Has Curious History Danton's Death" has a rather ranged in ambulances or patrol wagons. Some of our biggest stars have been carted in these polics flying-jen-nys, shuttling back and forth from serted to Hollywood, electrified the first night audience with his dramatic reading of St. Just's speech from atop 1 The two women in the cast have curious history.

It was written by a youthful Hessian exile in Zurich 101 years ago when he was 24 years old. The stripling playwright, George so little to do that it seems practically an all-male oast. radio station to Long Island movie EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 6TH TAMPA'S MOST POPULAR THEATRE One of the Theatres THEATRE" (Formerly THE FRANKLIN THEATRE) PRICES ALWAYS: 10c CHILDREN, 25c ADULTS HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5. Press.) What's going to happsn studios to a Broadway theater.

gallows while the rebellious mob milled below. Lili Darvas, wife of the Hungarian playwright, Ferenc Molnar, was exquisitely beautiful in tha role to James Cagney's double, now that It's a gay merry-go-round if you he's had his one brief taste of glory, Tampa Little Theater can keep up with the speed. Buchner, never saw his play for it was not produced until 60 years after his death. In Zurich he spent long is a matter of conjecture. That is.

it To Give 3-Act Comedy is or everyone except Frankie Vaselle. days studying the French revolution Starrs TUESDAY TftlMinft SHOW GROUNDS Burlesque Operetta Arrives Into the American Music hall, When you see "Angels With Dirty Ifiltirit Fremont Ave. West Tampa 2 Quiz Pictures Faces" you will be struck by the amaz which was a rambling church before and became so unnerved by- what he read that he turned to writing to calm himself. But, in writing he could not forget the terror of the revo The Tampa Little theater will pre ing resemblance between Vaselle and group of Park avenue socialites lfIts a barraae of hilaritv! TWO DAYS, TWICE DAILY cagney. vaselle, whose film name transformed it into a smart place of sent "One of the Family," a three-act comedy, Tuesday night at 8:15 o'clock has become Frankie Burke, plays Cag NOV.

II NOV. lutionary history- and so began' writing ancient songs and dances, there arrived the newest of burlesque in the federated clubs building. The rr ney as a boy in the early sequences about that subject. i performance will b2 open to the public mm fthat story. tttST HATtONAC "I mustn't rest a second until Dan PtCTUK and to theater members.

Vaselle says, "Well, I got what I This is "The Girl from Wyoming," it aajMaaMBaaxaBHMnaaaaaaaaaa i ton is under the guillotine: And then sleep, sleep he wrote a friend. He wanted. I'm on the way now." Two new faces -will be seen in the cast. Billie Frecker, a new player, and Also Boris Karloff The Warner studio says, "We'll try was forced to flee from police before Aleen Williams, a junior player ap to use him maybe make him one he could sell his play and when his a lyrical satire of a Harvard boy who takes Horace Greeley's advice and gees west. In his noble manner he makes many an Indian bite the dust, sneers at rattlesnakes and otherwise overcomes all the terrors of the pearing in her first major production, of the 'Dead End' gang." "MR.

WONG, DETECTIVE" family found he had turned play will take leading roles. There seems to be little likelihood wright they disowned him. Stars Keep in Motion that Vaselle ever will have another opportunity to portray Cagney as a Other members of the cast are Doris Eichelberger, Mrs. Edward A. Hill, Grace Frecker, Cecilia Van Orden, Once this life on Broadway was pioneer west as only a Harvard man could so triumph.

boy. Stories calling for such "dou simple. Hilda Sweat, Sydney Gurr, Joe It is broad fantasy, almost bur bles" don't happen very often. But I Where once the performers had the Painter and Wyley Hancock. Vaselle isn't worried.

mere opportunity of being either in lesque, and the show overflows with singing waiters, trapeze performers, shooting cowpunchers, card tricksters He doesn't remember exactly when a Broadway show or in a local vaude ville house, they now swerve daily STARTING SUNDAY he started "acting like Cagney," but he thinks it was about four years from stage to screen to radio to tele and other such citizens who participated in the westward dash of '49. June Walker is the lusty cowgirl who vision, often appearing in the several media on the same day. ago, when he was 13. Everybody told him how much he looked like Cagney, so he decided he'd better be like him all the time. The star who once counted on just comes to the rescue of the Harvard greenhorn and -then finds that she doing a two-hour Broadway perform has lost her heart to him.

Miss ance at night now frequently is up at TUNE I' IN ON 'wf fr WDAE Special Extra! "BELIEVE IT OR NOT" By RIPLEY The Master Amazement takes you to the most Amazing Places in the World. NOW SHOWING Walker gives as able a performance as she did when she first donned dawn to shoot a movie scene in the Long Island movie studios, then blonde wig and played the lead in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." quick dash back to Broadway or Rockefeller Center for a broadcast While no great work of dramatic art, "The Girl from Wyoming" makes and then to the theater for a flesh and-blcod performance. for a noisy, playful evening and the Helen Claire, the blonde who lured audience at least gets the illusion of having a good time. raves from the critics for her kidding performance of Velvet O'Tools in the CITY HATTERS Presents Joe Adams, the Singing Hatter Sylvia Goynes accompanist I CITY HATTERS 620 Tampa St. Phone 2928 We Clean and Block Hats Called for and Delivered cissie tortus also is apoeanne in Frankie hitch-hiked twice to Hollywood from his home in Brooklyn talking out of the side of his mouth all the way.

He tried every device to get into the studio where Cagney works. Once he caught up with Cagney, on a location, but no sooner did he start showing the star "how much I was like him" than the cops hustled him away. Before he left here after the second visit, Frankie appeared in an amateur night show doing an imitation of his favorite actor. In the audience at the time was talent scout Solly Biano. But he wasn't interested because a Cagney wasn't one of his problems at that time.

Finally Gets Back Months, later, Frankie was a bellboy comedy, "Kiss the Boys Goodbye, an extramural performance on Broad still is up and out early. She won way. Performing alone, she satirizes various peoples and scenes with a her first recognition by playing many characters in Columbia's episodic ra 1 XSty. Sim rm A touch of comedy and sophistication that delights and establishes her with dio series, "Grand Central and now, like Orson Welles, continues Kutn Draper and Angna Enters as her radio work along with her suc one of the theater's top flight solo cess in the theater. tars.

Welles Seldom Rests Welles, a young and not too wealthy Hinges Solve Problem in Las Vegas, when he read young man, broke onto Broadway a Of Hoop-Skirt Handling couple of seasons ago because he did such lusty roaring on a mysterious radio program in which he played "The Shadow." Continuing his ra dio work, he helped organize the Mer I Today lltrrllr 1 2801 NORTH pl00 I I JMJ)J CwjjL HOWARD AVE. WTyM 'IUc hjlfeiwJ AD0LFHE MENJ0U AHDRE LEEDS 20c "F0X HUNTING" PATHE NEWS I disney cartoon cury thsater players, who have been successful in their first few plays on Broadway, one oi nis associates is including: Martin Gabel, who now plays the ro GARGANTUA The GREAT Largest and Moil Ferocioui GORILLA mantic interest in the radio serial "Big Sister." KTgr aten on i nit continent. That "Big Sister" dramatic series Bring 'Em Back Alive FRANK BUCK With Hi Caravan of Recently Captured might well be a spring board for bi the news he'd been hoping for. He telephoned the studio and was put off by being told the job had been filled. Nevertheless, he came to Hollywood a third time.

Take it up from here, with gestures, Frankie: "What d'ya think I couldn't get in the studio! The man at the gate and the girl at the desk said they didn't know anything about a 'young I even showed them how good I was. I didn't know nobody, so I was going to hitch-hike back to Las Vegas, "I was standing on a corner, in downtown L.A., when a guy drove up and said, 'Hop in you're the fellow I been looking He drove me to the studio and I got the job." The fellow who drove up was a very frantic Solly Biano. He had tried to find the imitator he had seen in an amateur show without success when he heard about the caller at the studio gates. ginners to. the stage for Dorothy Mc HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

5. (A.P.) Hoops, girls, here's a hoop with hinges. A crisis occurred in the day "of a modern hoop-skirter even as a happen to you and you and that crisis demanded an invention. Florence Rice, who places practically all of her fashion faith in zippers, was required to climb and climb is the word into the styles of 1850 as of Boston. That meant a' hoop skirt, slightly modernized, however, in the 1938 manner.

Florence thinks other moderns, who may feel obliged to follow the fashion trend toward hoops, will be much better off if they demand and get hinges. The answer, as provided for Florence by a movie tailor, has the hoop jointad where it is attached to the vertical wires on the sides. Thus the back of the skirt may be partly tipped up sufficiently, in fact, to slide a chair under it. Mot- lOc-ZQe Nite, IOc-ZSc MAT. 10c-1Se.

NITE I0c-20e Guire also went from it to take the BEASTS PROM DISTANT WILDS TERRELL JACOBS MABEL STARK Tlia Hon King ThaTigar Quean Unprecedented Hoat of Circua Championa tO.OOO PE -4 TEltDIE leading feminine role In the Pulitzer prize winning "Our Town" and the blonde Haila Stoddard left it to appear in "A Woman's a Fool To Be ARCNIC STARS TO CLOWNS 400 HOMSCS HIT HINACFRIC ANIMALS HERDS OP iVoVoOS Clevtr." LEPHANTS WORLD'S LARGEST TENT TRAIN AFTER TRAIN at Stl RAILROAD CARS LOA DID WITH WONDERS FROM EVERY LANO Ned Wever, who was well received as the doctor in "Case History," shifts weekly from Broadway to play in the TWICE DAILV.2A8P.M POPULAR PRICES DOORS OPEN 1 7 P. M. Love Finds Andy Hardy" With Mickey Rooney Disney Cartoon and News I "PRISON BREAK" I Glenda Farrell, Barton McLone I Crime Short, Serial, News Tickets on s-le Circus Days ot Liggett' radio racket breaking series, "Her Drug Store, Franklin at Zack and ot Honor, Nancy James." the Show Grounds. Many other Broadway stars have to.