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THE SUNDAY MISSOULIAN, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1934. 3 Screen Cmrreiit Events of the StaMe and Entertainment For the Week "Little Women" Comes to Wilma Famous Story Fitted to Screen HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP -CI I AT THE RIALTO. Todav and Monday Jame Dunn and Claire Trevor In "Jimmy and Sally." Paramount world News. 'Kissing Time." Vltaphone revue. "Sport In Any Language," sport reel.

Tuesdar to Thursday sum sum- Intimate Glimpses and Inside Stuff on the Movie Colony 1 merville and Zasu Pitt in "Love, Honor and Oh Baby," feature com-edv. "Around Acropolis," travelogue. date, there lsnt much doubt as to her future on the screen. They tell a story of how, when only eight years of age and making the rounds of New York booking offices on her own, she crowned an agent with an Ink well because he told her she was too young and too homely to act. Chlmp-Dog Fight Johnny Weissmuller's big police dog has gone into retirement for a while.

Johnny recently took him out on the set where he is making "Tarzan and His Mate" and the dog got into a fight with Yama, the chimpanzee working in the picture. And Yama scored a kayo. Love Before Borine, Love must be grand. Verree Teas-dale has Just rejected the leading role in "The Human Element" to be produced on the stage in London this winter. "Any other year I would have leaped at such an offer," she remarked.

"But now I can't accept it. I happen to be very much in love and the gentleman has to remain In Hollywood. So I am staying here too." The gentleman Is Adolphe Menjou. jji'uiwi itu'i mi 'iM'iimiMi It' "Plane Crazy," comedy. "March of -BY DAN THOMAS the Years," novelty.

Friday and Saturday "The King of Wild Horsee," unusual feature. 'Phantom of the Air," with Tom Tyler. "In the Sunny south," trav elogue. "A Drug on the Market," comedy. chance than these starlets," claims Schuessler.

"There is no glamour surrounding them. They work like dogs for everything they get. As a result girls like Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Frances Dee, Ann Dvorak and others who start as extras are able to stay on top once they get there. "The Cinderella girls cant do that. They're licked before they start because they can't take it.

Their slight bit of glory Is too much for them. They forget to study and work and as a result soon pass into oblivion, usually with broken hearts. Movie and the Law. And now Harry Green arises to remark that studying to be a lawyer is the best training for a film actor. "They teach you how to rend contracts In a law school," he declares, "and that's of vital importance in Hollywood." Looking for Things.

Looks like we've hit a "now you tell me week" In the film colony. Everybody wants to know something. Ann Dvorak wants to know the whereabouts of her father, Edward McKlm, whom she has not seen for 13 years. Ginger Rogers wants someone to suggest a new first name for her, one which will fit the dramatic roles she now is playing. And the Fox studios want to know where they can find 10 trotting horses capable of rehearsing a race and then running It as rehearsed.

This is for a sequence in Will Rogers new film, "David Har-um," and sounds to me like a rather large order. If Helen Mack retains th tirM. Hollywood. "As soon as I can find a story to fit Lee Tracy, I plan to make another picture with him." This statement was made to me the other night by Darrj'l Zanuck, production chief for Twentieth Century Pictures. And it carries out the prediction that Tracy Is far from through in pictures because of that little incident down In Mexico City.

As a matter of fact, Lee has been free-lancing and doing very nicely for himself. It required plenty of money to convince Charlie that he and Janet should be teamed again plus a stipulation that the stories will be to Charlie's liking. The Price of Fame. Jimmy Durante, vacationing at Palm Springs, decided to spend a quiet evening at the local movie house. En route to the theater he AT THE NEW WILMA.

Today to Tuesday Katherine Hepburn In "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott. A super feature with Joan Bennett. Paul Lukas, Jean Parker and Edna May Oliver. Fox Movietone News. Wednesday and Thursday Ron ald Coleman In "The Masquerader." COLLEGE MEN TAKI TO HAT.

A Fox Movietone News. "Not Tonight, From left to right, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee and Jean Parker, playing Jo, Amy, Meg and Beth in Louisa M. Alcott'i great story, "Little Women." Josephine," musical comedy revue. Paramount Pictorial. Friday and Saturday By popular demand, "Sons of the Desert," super comedy with Laurel and Hardy.

Par but under somewhat the same conditions which greeted the book. "Sex and sophistication have been Ames, Iowa. W) The "natleM college boy la disappearing at Iowa State college. A questionnaire to campus fraternities brought information that 40 per cent of the men wore hats to classes, while 70 per cent were hatted when they went on "dates." More conservative clothes are being worn, it was amount News. "I Eats My Spinach," cartoon.

"Poppln' the Cork," special musical comedy revue. the keystones of a large per cent of modern talkies. Hundreds of censorship boards, throughout the world, battle against these produce tlons, Just as years ago, the mothers In New York of the nation, fearful of the influ Baking soda dissolved hi water makes an excellent mouth wash. lng spirit which has been hers to v' IV; A VVt' ence upon their children of the sensational and fiery novels of that day, battled to squash them. It was rather a futile struggle however, for BY PAUL HARRISON.

New York. The Dhonoaranh oeo- ole have taken most of the fun and in those days women were not or ingenuity out of the business of ganized. In 1865, I believe, there was but one woman's club in all making off-stage noises, seldom anv more does a prowler behind the Today! Hew Wilma l'HEY LEAP FROM i'HE EH3 BOOK. AND MYXLP America and but one women's col lege, Vassar. "I am confident, as are RKO sots come upon a stage-hand industriously rolling lead shot on a drum-head to make the sound of rain, or chuff-chufflng sandpaper and banging a bell to let the audi Radio executives, that our version of this story, produced with absolute fidelity to the letter and spirit ence know that old No.

7 is leaving the station. of the original book, will create a sensation In the theatrical world and will be viewed by millions of Wooden blocks no longer need be The world' moat be loved family of gjLrla In the picture America clanrjed toeether when the hero is people, young and old, who ordi narlly do not patronize film houses; supposed to be galloping home from th hunt. Nor do suoers have to be has waited three out From "Little Women" this "bible of girlhood," step some of the hired to go into a huddle behind wmmmi most popular of Hollywood's per of a century to ieet the sets and make a noise like an annroechinsr mob. All a property sonalities. man him to do these davs Is call UP one of the big phonograph compa Katharine Hepburn, the shooting star of the screen, for she flashes from almost nowhere to the highest realm in the firmament, plays Jo, the romping, restless, genius sister.

nies and oraer a lew recoras. Trains, crowds, street traffic, storms. battles, airplanes, birds, happy chil Louisa M. Alcott'a "Little Women" comes to the motion-picture screen In an elaborate production designed to animate this classic of wholesome romance with all Its native thrill, sweetness and power. The version Is said to adequately encompass all the adventures of "Little Women" that brought the book recognition as a classic and that even now, 65 years after its publication cause It to demand a brisk sale.

The film story, as produced by RKO-Radlo opens when the four girl heroines are entering young womanhood and have just begun to take themselves seriously. It tells the strange story of Beth, her beautiful life and more beautiful death. It carries the complete moulding of Jo from the advanced miss of her time who hated marriage through her romance with Laurie and later with Professor Bhaer, whom she marries in the end. When the book was first published, Its sweetness, beauty and sheer simplicity poured Itself boldly Into a sea of salacious novels and periodicals many of which could not have been sent through the mails today. According to the research of RKO-Radlo covering the Sixties the publication of "Little Women" Immediately put Louisa Alcot on a pedestal of fame, and the book swept through the United States and Great Britain like a wave of healing lotion, redeeming the ideals of young humanity from the callous and reckless morals brought about by the depression of the Civil War.

The story of four lovely girls and their progress Into an expression of womanhood in its full beauty gripped the entire English speaking world. It is said to have marked the beginning of the end of loosely written literature, which disappeared more or less, to make its reappearance during the World war. Today the story is rated a classic. The book is read and studied in schools throughout the nation. It a sort of girls' lesson in life, because in its mysterious fashion and Its genius, It makes of doing good and being good the happiest of accomplishment.

"As I look back over the career of this celebrated story, I can not help but feel that the screen version of it will have the same effect upon theater-goers as a whole, as the book had upon the reading public." says Director George Cukor. "This film, which to me. Is the sweetest, yet most powerful story ever told in celluloid, makes its de dren, carousels these ana practically every other sound which pos-siblv can become Incidental to the Do you recognize the actress at the left and the young actor at the right, above? Perhaps the photo inset at lower right will help. At least it will recall those earlier days of the silent movies, when Clara Kimball Young for it's she thrilled our hearts as do the stars of today. Now Miss Young is back in the movies, to make her first "talkie" with Jackie Coogan that's the young man beside her as his mother.

Amy is enacted by Joan Bennett. Paul Lukas brings the quiet dignity of the old country to the role of Fritz Bhaer, the professor fiance. Meg is played by Frances Dee. Edna May Oliver is Aunt March, from action of a play have been recorded. All that necessary is to await tne cue and start the phonograph.

Tin tltetrt JaJr whom many a storm is loosed. Douglass Montgomery is the young, Noises In the Wing. Some off-stage noises, though, stopped at a cigar stand. "Gimme given numerous headaches on prev aristocratic grandson of Mr. Laur "Morning GJorjulring tn itntation of Jovlintttl a coupla nickel stogies," he said to the clerk.

ence, the rich and irascible neighbor, played by Henry Stephenson ious occasions. But the headaches always vanish when the returns start rolling In. The clerk, upon recognizing him, immediately announced who he was nr Spring Byington is Marmee. Samuel Hinds is the father and Civil War soldier who hopes to come back from the front more proud than so that everyone In the store could It Pays to Kick. Although no figures are available, hear.

A crowd collected as if by magic. must be so accurately timed that they still are produced by oldfash-loned contraptions. In "The World Waits," a melodrama concerning an Antarctic expedition, it was necessary to have an airplane crash at Just the right instant. So the stage director balanced a bundle of thin boxwood, together with a few iron bars, on a stepladder. As this was tipped over some of the stagehands crumpled big sheets of cellophane, it Is reported that the salary Charles iSXathanne HEPBURN ever of the little women.

Mabel "Boy," said Durante, throwing Colcord is Hannah, the easily, flus back his shoulders and puffing out his chest, "change that order to half a dozen Corona-Coronaa." in Farrell will receive from Fox, for making two pictures with Janet Gaynor during the coming year, Is more than double what he was receiving when he asked to be released from his contract with that, studio about a year ago. tered maid. John Davis Lodge is Brooke, Laurie's tutor, who brings down the wrath of old Aunt March for seeking the hand of Meg in marriage and causes Jo to frown at the thought of disrupting the coterie. Nydla Westman is Mamie, tittle Womci Garbo's I'nlucky Break. The other night Garbo broke a Farrell left Fox because he felt 1 rule of long standing she appeared in public.

The occasion was the by LOUISA and the result was gratifying realistic. Another show. "Eight Bells," required the creaking of rigging aboard a sailing ship. No records of such a sound were available, so they finally set up a rusty-hinged TL 5 that he was becoming Just a stooge for Miss Gaynor. Since then he has the maid In Mrs.

Kirke's boarding MAY ALCOTT preview of her new film, "Queen house in New York, where Jo comes Christina." And then the film went mid alone to seek fame and fortune. all to pieces at the beginning of the k' So here Is the story and the char second reel, and the preview had to Moorish Mode JOAN BENNETT door which was swung back ana forth. NEW Kv. I 1 IT I. I.I A Off-stage pistol shots usually acters that move majestically across the modern screen, bringing breaths of the roses of New England, giving the world of today a living picture are genuine, but there was one be postponed until the following evening.

In Other People's Clothes. They tell the story about Stephen 2 ca my. FRANCES DEE short-lived thriller of last season PA 1 lt of an age that will live forever in ffl JEAN PARKER 'J EJo. Mr Olivet UK tradition. which even tried to fake that sound on the opening night, at least.

One of the characters slunk off the set, obviously bent on self- Ames being all burned up when he saw a honeymoon picture of his ex-wife, Adrlenne Ames, and Bruce It Is now on the screen of the New Wllma theater. destruction. This was the drama VWi -1 Henry 5ttphaioa 7'; i tic climax of the whole show. In a few moments a dull report was 4 "Jimmy and Sally" Picture Shows Youngsters' Romance heard patently the plop of an electric light bulb dropped into a wooden tub. The audience tittered and the play was spoiled.

MA; A couple of summers ago a stock SPECIAL NOTE i Due to the extrrnn btngth of the fture there will be four complete ahows today Instead of the etrntofnary five. The first show start at 1:30 then at 4:39, 6:48 and 9 P. M. 15c and 40c Fox Movietone News Cabot, with Bruce wearing one of his overcoats. Well, Ames has had his Inning now.

When Raqucl Torres went to Europe recently, the only request made of her by Charles Feldman was to bring him a dozen shirts. The shirts were duly bought. But on the way back to Hollywood, Raquel stopped in New York for a while. There she was wen quite frequently. And now they say that Ames Is wearing the shirts bought originally for Feldman.

Why Go to College? Six years ago the First National studio brought 10 college men to Hollywood. Each mnn had a six-month contract with the studio and high hopes of becoming a noU'd company was playing "Strictly Dishonorable" in an outlying town. If you recall that neat comedy, there is an episode in which the ingenue hears a cat meowing outside the window. She goes to the window and talks to the cat. "Well, what a A Tip Be Sure You Com Early! )' 4' nice klttyl" she exclaims.

"Me-ow!" says the cat. Pretty soon the girl asks the cat how many kittens it Is going to have. On this occasion the off-stage voice had an inspira How! Rialto tion that almost stopped the show. screen star. It replied: "Three-owl" Giving Arton a Hand.

Although this is a better than av Fresh as Ihe Fountain Of Youth! 10e and 30c Pi I 4 A erage theatrical season, the Stage Relief Fund and its workers are no less busy than the day when they started out with a prayer, a few dollars, a case of canned goods and UBII -1 I -II I a couple of dresses to aid the town's unemployed performers. It has grown into quite an enterprise, however, having already distributed Claire Trevor and James Dunn In "Jimmy and something like 1100,000, several tons finally breaks with him. Then he of groceries and, in a year, about heads west and while there he real l7.es what he has failed to appreel 30.000 articles of clothing Excit ate, both in Job and a sweetheart, 7 i ed actors and actresses are always tumbling into the clothing department to get an opera cape, and and returns, only to find more flif flculties awaiting him. james duhh Preview sources report that James evening dress, a magician's silk hat or something else which might help Dunn and Claire Trevor who por them to get or hold a Job. Some tray the featured roles as the mis Today, John Wetwood of Princeton Is the only one of the 10 still In Hollywood.

And he is working as Fredrlc March's "stand-In" In "Death Takes a Holiday." That's as close as he has come to stardom. Another Thriller. Everyone who saw "Bring Tm Bark Alive" will be glad to hear that another trent Is coming In "Wild Cargo." This film also was made by Frank Buck, who recently cabled from Bingnpore that he will be home in the near future with his new film. Outstanding feature of the new picture Is the capture of a rare white rhinoceros. After his capture the animal managed to break Joo-ie and charged his captors, putting up a vicloua flfrht.

All of the battle was photographed. Cinderella girls, who spring from nowhere into the film spotlight overnight, are the most unfortunate girls In the world. Tills Is the opinion of Fred Sehuessler, carting director at the RKO studio. He has formed It from watching the Cinderella girl who have appeared In his own studio during the lAt three years. During that time 32 girls literally have been pulled out of the skies, signed to contracts and Immediately thrust Into featured roles.

And of the entire gTOup only one, Betty Furnerji, has been able to make headway. The have dropped out of sight. "Even extra girls have better understanding sweethearts have times these garment are returned, neatly cleaned and pressed. And occasionally new ones are sent in their most Important roles to date In support of Dunn and Miss Trevor who was last seen opposite Spencer their stead. 1:30 to 7 to i 11 P.

M. I I Tracy in "The Mad Oame," Is Har The money for- the fund comes partly from Individual donations, mostly from benefit1! given by the vey Stephens, who will be remem America's boy friend finds a new sweetheart! James Dunn whose many successes have made him one of Miss America's "boy friend's" and Claire Trevor who is rapidly gaining an equally Important position in the hearts of the fans, are teamed in the new Fox Film production "Jimmy and Saily," which comes to the Rialto theater today to remain for an engagement of two days. It's the romance of two real youngsters, living across an apartment house well who because they lack money and have extravagant ideas must postpone their marriage. The more they postpone the marriage date, the more their quarrels increase. He is the publicity man for a large corporation, whose attempts at putting across what he considers to be sure-fire stunts, continuously gets him into hot water.

After a number of these stunts, he finds himself without a Job. Meanwhile, his sweetheart tells him she doesn bered for his outstanding perform costs of successful Broadway shows anee in "The Worst Woman In Paris?" Some of the other mem JIMMY DUNN'S AIRIEST, MERRIEST ROLE A youngster with great idea about life and love in high speed romance set to music! bers of the cast are Lya Lys, Jed The theater takes care of its own, and there probably is no other profession with such a small percentage of members actually desti Prouty, Gloria Roy, Alma Lloyd and John Arledge. tute. The direction Is by James from the story by Paul Scho- Your attention, gentlemen, is directed to the accessories. Her sash may look like somebody's necktie, but when you put it together with hat, bag and sandal to match, you've got what they call the Moorish mode.

And Greta Gran-stedt, the Swedish film star, is disporting the new style at Coral Cable, Fie, field and Marguerite Roberts. Two of the country's foremost song British railways lead the world In speed, the average express train rates of the four principal countries being: Britain, l-9 miles an hour: United States, 41.3 miles an PARAMOUNT NEWS "KISSIN'G TIME Mualral Comedy "Sport In Any Language" Novelty writers. Jay Oorney and Sidnor Clare are responsible for the song numbers. "It's the Irish in Me" and "You're My Thrill," which are fea hour; France, 40.8, and Germany, iXs bis idea tad. tured la tUi cooed.

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