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18 the Hartford daily courant: Tuesday, april ii, 1939. rr rv ir -r TT For Your Information Hollywood Today Entertainment By M. Oakley Christoph Lambs Dedicate Placque Memorial (o Will Rogers New York. April 10-(AP.) Will Rogers was commemorated in bronze today at the Church of the Transfiguration (the Little Church Around the Corner shrine of the Lambs Club of which he was a member. A placque which carried the Inscription "American Ambassador of Good Will Without Portfolio" was presented to Dr.

Randolph Ray, rector of the church, by M. Sayle Taylor, secretary of the Lambs. The memorial was placed beneath By Shellah Graham Deanna Durbin's Mother Denies That Her 16-Years-Old Daughter, is in Love and Calls Marriage Rumors Silly Random Notes 4 i Six a nee of Ethel Waters, who became a dramatic star in it overnight. "Oscar Wilde" A sensitive play on a sensitive subject, made bright by some of Mr. Wilde's best epigrams and made moving by Robert Mor-ley's performance.

"Outward Bound" A revival with an all-star cast of the play about the people who discovered they were dead. Minority report: I didn't care for it in the first place. "The American Way" Fredric March and Florence Eldridge and 250 others in a great big pageant of a play that is clever enough to have your heart flapping like a flag. "The Little Foxes" A mature melodrama by Lillian Hellman with a number of excellences, among them Tallulah Bankhead. It's the kind of melodrama in which all the violent evil is piled up for a good purpose which means it's the very best kind of melodrama.

"The Philadelphia Story" Katharine Hepburn looks very beautiful in a sentimental comedy by Philip Barry, who seems to have decided to stop making sense and start making money. "The Primrose Path" rowdy, rollicking comedy about three generations of fancy girls. It's violent laughter on the edge of tragedy About Local Bright spots: In Deanna Dur-bins film at E. M. Loews these few days the awing of Charles Win-ninger is such a delight.

That bit wherein he listens to his lovely young daughter, Deanna, tell him of her breaking heart, yet hears nothing she says, is fraught with meaning. Touches like this must strike every parent who sees it with the realization of the tremendous emotional responsibility inherent in their position. "To be sorrowful without reason is as Russian as caviar." was one of Deanna's lines which nor. only-made us laugh but recalled Mischa Auer who visited Hartftrd last year and said, "1 am only happy when I am very sad!" Prom "Wife. Husband and Friend" i at the Palace: The priceless theme; wherein a wife who has been wreck- ing her husband and home in her; ambition for a career when she has no talent at all, and a husband who by merest chance discovers he really has the abiutv friend-wife It's the DeMaupassarX touch.

"Androcies and the Lion" which is i to be the first play given in the new Loomis School Theater is an elongated fable which has a laugh and a moral. The Vernon and Irene Castle film coming to the Strand Wednesday has set in maion the usual crop of His "Bubbles" suffers from camera shyness overheard on the "Gone With the Wind" set Clark Gable telling Leslie Howard. "Gosh, it feels marvelous to be free again of publicity." I have been by someone who should know mat Mr. Howard's secretary-manager, Violet Connington, accompanied him to Hollywood at the express command of Mrs. Howard, who considers her Leslie far too attractive to be on his own in a city where the attractive women outnumber the men by five to one.

A wise precaution, Mrs. Howard. Deanna's Not In Love. The skates on which Sonja Henie won her last Olympic championship, are on 'exhibition at the San Francisco World's Fair and are insured at $10,000 Deanna Durbin's mother insists that her daughter is only 16 years old and not 17-going-on-18. as recently printed not in this column.

"And that's why all that talk of Doanna being in love is so silly. In the first place, Deanna doesn't have permission to marrv until she is 21. And she will not many until it is right and proper for her to do so." Maybe Deanna will have something else to say. But don't take any of the above too seriously. The whole thing smacks of a build-up for Deanna's next picture which, bv a strange coincidence, is titled "First Love." Gustave Machaty.

Who. aa you probably recollect, directed a certain Hedy Lamarr in the sensational "Ecstasy," is writing a sequel titled "Girl of Ecstasy," and wants an unknown Hollywood girl to play the lead. Why not give the part to Hedy Lamarr? She is practically unknown to American movie fans. Hedy is still waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for the "go' signal for her next movie. (Copyright, 1939, by NANA, Inc.) Gus The Guzzler.

Gas Goose title character In Walt Disney's latest Technicolor film. "Donald's Cousin Gus," is a man of few words. He doesn't talk when he eats, and he eats all the time. Hollywood, April 10. Unless CharUe Chaplin's "Dictator" is ready for shooting pretty soon, Syd Chaplin, who was brought ovir from London to act as technical advisor, will return to that city without waiting for the starting date.

I gather he is tired of sitting around. One complete script of "The Dictator" is actually finished but Charlie doesn't like it and the writers are starting again from scratch. A Row in the Making. When Brian Aheme's mother met Olivia de Havilland, recently, she was ultranice to Olivia and finally said rather significantly, "My son must be very fond of you." "Really?" replied Olivia politely. "Yes." continued Brian's mother, "My son has a large photograph of you in his bedroom." And, as Olivia continued to look blank, "You know the one you're wearing a wig." "Really?" repeated Olivia and decided to investigate.

It turned out to be a portrait of Norma Shearer! By the way, Norma's forthcoming picture, "The Women," was going to be and may still be done in technicolor unless Norma's protests result in black and white. Miss Shearer considers that Technicolor does not flatter her looks. All of which seems to be the beginning of a first class row, in which I back Norma. "Nothing to it." savs Edmund Goulding, referring to the reported romance between the stars Bette Davis and George Brent of his current film. "The Old Maid." "But." adds Eddie, "it's good for the picture isn't it?" Tyrone Power finally broke down and helped his sister get a job at his studio but not as an actress, as the lady wanted.

She is a reader in the scenario department Chester Morris lunched the other day with his wife and children at the Brown Derby but says there is still no chance of a reconciliation Robert Taylor is rated the best insurance "risk" with local iasur-ance companies. I remember, wlien Bob first came to Hollywood, he was so pale and narrow-chested he was ordered by his studio to report to the gymnasium every day for bodybuilding exercises. RIaxie Woos a Maid. The town's newest romancers Maxie Rosenbloom and Gloria Hoi-. den.

Maxle sends his adored one a solitary flower every day in the largest box he can find Wayne i Morris is lending his wife a hand with her screen tests at Warners. 1 Tomorrow contraQictions and denials of what hanasomer tne signature, it the Castles did originate and what seems the niore difficult it is to they did not They do say that a decipller it. xnanks greatly, widely circulated magazine was i plagued by just such differences of The Mark Twain Masquers are of-opinion. fering Dodie Smith's comedv at the We've gathered together these few Avery Memorial April 26, 27 and bits on up-to-the-minute dancing 28th. news for you, by the way.

This group deserves great credit According to Walter Soby who has for the courage which has carried "studied it for more than 40 years them over difficult spots. In it are the average person of today i persons of varying ages and it is out on the floor and into a fox trot. one-step is passe the fast waltz (seeing the natives waltz at what seemed terrific speed, comparatively speaking, was one of the minor surprises we received on our first visit to Vienna) is popular. the shag-hop in which partners face the line of direction, is a favorite. The Lambech Walk like all routine-dances finds it hard to survive.

The tango and Rasita Royce. shown here performing her famous "Dance of the Doves." will be one of the featured act? on the new stage show opening Wednesday for five days at the State Theater. rnumoa nna nine iavor in nariiora i on weanesaay at tne state Theater, because orchestras play them so sel- will be held at the Connecticut dom. The waltz has never re- School for Bovs, a state training gained the popularity it surrendered school for youths at Meriden, to-when the fox-trot came in. And night at 8 o'clock, the Lambeth Walk's successor is i Two hundred and seventy bovs.

"Neath the Spreading Chestnut who have just returned from an Tree." Easter vacation on the honor parole A Convenient Catalogue Of Broadway Stage Hits and by something less than a mile being an important work of art. "The White Steed" the Catholic- Church in a small town in Ireland is the framework for this allegory about Fascism and man by Paul Vincent Carroll. Distinguished in the writing and the acting. Tobacco Koaa uie dirt about, life in Georgia. Now well past its fifth year.

"What A Life" George Abbott and a friendly cast up to hilarious tricks in a high school. With Music. "The Boys From Syracuse" two lines of dialogue and most of the plot remains from Shakespeare's Comedv of Errors, but tney didn need Willie to make this seem very good. Heiizapoppin a buncn or not very good vaudeville acts wrapped up in a straightjacket and struggling up and down the aisles and all over the sc3ge while guns go off. "The Hot Mikado" Bill Robinson and a Negro cast swing the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta more and bet ter than the Federal Theaters "Tne Swing Mikado." "Leave It To Me wunam oax-ton, Victor Moore.

Sophie Tucker. and Mary Manin doing a strip-tease while affirming that her heart is the property of daddy. "Pins and Needles Tne garment union's very literate spoof of the front pages, with many new numbers added and the wonderful house party atmosphere retained. "Set to Music" Ethel Merman. Jimmy Durante and pretty nearly everything else you need for a wild night away from home.

(Copyright, 1939, By NANA, Inc.) Admirer Leaps on Stage, Kisses Pianist's Hands San Francisco, April 10. (AP.1 An unidentified man leaped to the stage and kissed both hands of Ig-nace Jan Paderewski when the 78-years-old virtuoso finished his piano recital at the Civic Auitorium yesterday. A Husky Hero. Allan Lane, now playing opposite Sally Eilers in "They Made Her a Spy." is a rugged six-footer who won letters at Notre Dame in football, baseball and basketball, later played pro football and baseball, Her Fifth Amazing II III IN i-GREY PARRISH ttfiii nr strut I a 1 1 I I i I li sa i i iiTi nilu 1 1 i a i ii i II liJ.1 Plus "RISKY BUSINESS" Georre Murphy Dorothea Kent I 4 II 11 Mill a mural, the ninth of ine rz stations of the cross. Dowling Will Appear Here In 'Our Town' Thornton Wilder's Pulit zer Prize Play Scheduled at Bushnell For April 19 Thornton Wilder 's play "Our Town." which Messrs O.

B. Wee and Prank McCoy will present at the Bushnell Memorial Wednesday evening. April 19. carries with it the prestige attached to having been decreed worthy of the Pulitzer Prize as the best play of the year. The eminent and noted Eddie Dowling.

one of the best loved and best known players of the theater is starred in this production which carries in the cast most of the original members. The play is another example of the phenomenon, not rare in literary annals, that of a novelist turned playright. Having achieved the Pulitzer Prize for his unusual and distinguished novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," one of Mr. Wilder's first remarks was that now he would like to become a playwright and "Our Town" eventuated. In his play he has written in a character called the "Stage Manager," played by Mr.

Dowling, the role being roughly similar to an author, and not a few of Mr. Wilder's own reflections about life and people will be founnd issuing from the lips of the "Stage Manager." Acts Are Titled. The action of "Our Town," beginning in a New England town in 1901 and running through the lifetime of the pjople concerned in it, proceeds as a novel might proceed, unfettered by rigid bonds of time, with a bold free treatment that gives a unique interest to the play. The acts are titled instead of numbered. Act One is called "The Daily Life." Act Two Is "Love and Marriage" and Act Three as the Stage Manager confides in the audience, just preceding it Reckon you can guess what it's about be glad to hear of anyone who has such an animal for sale.

As a youngster, Miss Piatt lived in the Philippines, where her father was a U. S. Naval surgeon. Next door neighbors had a mongoose which was Louise's favorite pet. "They look like a cross between a kitten and A fox and are the most playful animals in the world," she explained.

Any offers should be addressed to her in care of M-G-M. "The Wizard of Oz" Is making screen history in many ways, latest of which is In securing sound effects. A sound crew has just spent a week at Catalina Island recording 15.000 feet, of bird calls and songs at the bird farm there. In all, the men made records of all 8000 rare birds, individually and collectively, the most compel te group of bird noises ever attempted. Fredie Bartholomew's greatest Hollywood thrill came recently when he became 15 years of age.

It was the signal for him to don a tuxedo for the first time. On the same day, Freddie arranged for Bobbie Grogan. a boy his same age in a Chicago Sanitarium, have a birthday party there. The star met the youth while on his personal appearance tour. Earl Johnson, famous dog trainer and canine authority, served as technical adviser on "G-Dog." in which Tim Holt plays his first leading role for RKO Radio.

aLLYn LA liMiiui, Uoue. rairbanks. Jr. "The Vounir In r'raniisk tiaal "Girl Downstairs." DIUAI I Ireland's Greatest Stae Screen Star TOM BURKE in FATHER O'FLYNN Plus: Fredric March "Tradewlnds" Tonight, Weaver High Aud. Latest Palestine Film A Home for Refugees Plus MARCH OF TIME REVIEW Admission MUSIC'.

I WOKT EQ. VJHO It I II IVVi I 1 I r'l Was a Convict VAi Bnrtftn MocLone I Thimble Theater On'Local Screens ALLYN I'm Prom Missouri; I War; a Convict. CENTRAL Wings of the Navy; Persons in Hiding. COLONIAL Zaza; St. Louis Blues.

E. M. LOEWS Three Smart Girls Grow Up; Risky Business. LENOX Wings of the Navy; Persons in Hiding. LOEWS POLI PALACE Wife, Husband and Friend; Winner Take All.

LOEWS POLI Broadway Serenade; Fast and Loose. LYRIC Wings of the Navy; Persoas in Hiding. PRINCESS Honolulu; Arizona Wildcat. PROVEN PICTURE Jesse James; Hold That Kiss. REGAL Prison Without Bars; The Crisis.

RIALTO Pardon Our Nerve; Ambush. RIVOLI Father O'Flynn; Tradewins. STATE Patricia Ellis, Vincent Lpez, on stage; Undercover Agent, on screen. STRAND Dodge City; Women in the Wind. WEBSTER Lone Wolf; Spy Hunt; Mr.

Doodle Kicks Off. perhaps this fact which helps their productions to strike a more realistic note than many semi-professional groups are abl? to attain. That is one of the reasons for their success, two others are, their enviable esprit-de-corps and Miss Elizabeth Kimball's intelligent direction. A special screening of "Streets of New York" starring Jackie Cooper, which will have its world Dremiere system, win see tne arama oi street urchins who are rehabilitated by the understanding of the law. A group of Hartford police, civic and court officials have been invited to the showing.

Cinematters To insure aitflipntirity rn1 airnr. ity girls from the University of ouuuiern tjamornia servea as tecn-nical advisers on RKO Radio's college film, "Sorority House," featuring Anne Shirley and James Ellison. Dealing with the work of a circus adjuster in smoothing over complaints of patrons and others. RKO Radio's "Fixer Dugan" brings Lee Tracy back to the screen in a comedy' drama. Virginia Weidler and Peggy Shannon also are featured.

Freddie Bartholomew is a Rembrandt in the making. The young star has just discovered a latent talent for painting and it has become his chief hobby, even to the exclusion of football and building soapbox racers. The two outstanding Bartholomew masterpieces to date, done in water color, are Freddie's impression of Ferdinand the Bull and another little something which he has titled "The Volga Boatman at Catalina Island." The first piece of furnishing of any description which Clark Gable installed in his new Encino ranch home, was a Lionel Barrymore etching of a farm landscape. Wanted! a housebroken mongoose. Louise Piatt, leading ladv of "A Hundred to One," isn't kidding.

She wants a mongoose for a pet and will STARTS TODAY! CHARLES BOYER I.ORETTA YOl'NG CARAVAN 2ND HIT Alice Fave, Constance Bennett TAIL-SPIN FRIDAY! Victor MrLaelen "PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER" Jean Harlow -SARA I'OUA" COMING! A I Mark Twain Masquers i Present 1 "CALL IT A DAY" I 9. By Dodst Smith I ELIZABETH KIMBALL, Director I PRIL 26, 27. 28 I at AVERY MEMORIAL i TEL, 7-6621 50c, Sic, $1.00 i "Without Problem. Protet or Prop- I Uganda" New York World-TtVgrim I I PRINCESS Eleanor Powell-Rnhert Youn In HONOLULU Also Jane Wlthers-Lro Carillo in TI1K ARIZONA WILDCAT Starrs Wed. TAIL SPIN and THE MAD MISS ANTON His Swing Orchestra 2nd DeLuxe Hit! "ON TRIAL" with Margaret LINDSAY LAST DAY! ERROL FLYN.V.

OLIVIA DEHAVILLAND "DODGE CITY" in Technicolor and "WOMEN IN THE WIND" Morn. 25c Aft. 25c-35e STAGE SHOWS TODAY 2:00. 4:30, 8:15 20c to 25c to 5:30. Eve 40c.

Children 10c to 5:30 HITS OF Billy Rose's CASA AN A A "Killer Diller Vaudeville" b. t. times the play than that. As a matter of fact, I think that there's many a better play with le.ss interesting characters and vice versa. "I Must Love Someone" Jack Kirkland's investigation of the Flo-radora sextet.

"Falls upon its subject like a wet and dirty blanket." (Wolfert. Your old friend Nancy Carroll is in it now up to her pretty ankles. "Kiss the Boys Goodbye" Clare Luce's very successful (commercially) comedy about the difficulties of casting a movie which is not called "Gone With the Wind." It's a poor, dull play from almost every viewpoint, but nobody seems able to prove that to the cash customers. Powerful Melodrama. "Mamba's Daughters" A Negro melodrama by the Heywards, made genuinely powerful by the perform- MISS EL'NICE H.

AVERY will speak on "FdRWAKD TRENDS BEHIND 1 HE NEWS" for the benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Vassar Club of Hartford The West Middle School Auditorium Aprtl 13. 1939, 8:15 P. M. Adm. $1.00 Student Admission 50c LAST DAYS LAST 3 DAYS playingVs YOUNG' BAXTER Will'.

HUSBAND nmmm BINNIE BARNES 2nd HIT I WINNER TAKE ALL t. TONY MAHTIN-EIORIA STUART Starts Friday Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES" Richard Greene Basil Rathbone Wendy Rarrie 2nd Hit "Almost a Gentleman" fjf JEANETTE I Ci motnonRiH BROADWAY SERENADE It MCM HIT WITH I PtISSUl AW AYRIS fBsfBrld I ay BY IRA WOLFERT. New York: Here is a catalogue of what's what in the town's theaters, and, if you're contemplating a trip here soon, you can do worse than paste it in your new spring hat. First, the straight plays. Next, the eight with music.

both categories are in alphabetical order. Plays: "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." by Robert E. Sherwood, may not be the greatest possible Lincoln play, but it certainly is the best one you've ever seen. It's made even more distinguished by Raymond Massey's performance. "Awake and Sing" Revival of Clifford Odets's stormy epic about poverty, done by the Group Theater in a manner to make it seem like a classic of our times.

Portrait" The life of Jesus Christ as experienced by his very mortal family. With Judith Anderson's Mary to touch off a miraculous idea, it makes you wonder what you've been missing by not going to church. "Gentle People" Train Shaw's saga about a couple of mice who become men and trap a rat has Fran-chot Tone and Sylvia Sidney in it to make it secure at the box office, but I think there's a little more to H3 EXTRA! first trms to Hrtt.r OH THE RAPE CZECH0 SLOVAKIA Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen tiLNGA DIN" Richard Dix. Lucille Ball "TWKLVK CROWOKD HOI RS" Olivia He liavilland. Geo.

Brent WINGS OF THE NAVY" .1. Fdcar Hoover's 'PERSONS IN HIDING" mantra Olivia Ie liavilland. Geo. Brent "WINGS OF THE NAVY" J. F.dgar Hoover's 'PERSONS IN HIDING Olivia De liavilland, Geo.

Brent "WINGS OF THE NAVY" i. Fdirar Hoover's "PERSONS IN HIDING" Eleanor Powell. Koht. Younf HONOLI LU Gail Patrick. Otto Kruger DISBARRED" The mail: For E.

Swing music, according to our definition is music plentifully punctuated with personal improvisations and played at fast or moderate tempo. Seldom if ever played slowly. If you have any-thing to add. send it along. To D.

J. of Eagleville, Connecticut: The answer to your note will be in the mail as soon as we have copies enough to go around. Thanks for the nice word. The Silas Deane Players, in one of the most interesting replies to this column's request for local amateur organizations to write in their hopes, plans, ambitions and standards of production, tell us: "Our productions will never rival any produced on the professional stage but we are interested in obtaining a wholesome contact with the world of drama. To this end study groups have been organized Good luck to your organization one and all.

Keep us posted. To Thorn Conrov. director of the Little Theater Of Hartford: Your next production is built around a sure-fire theme stage-stmck-ness. Because aren't we all? You must be knee-deep in ingenues the cast is so full of them. Here's anticipating "Stage Door" will be in good shape when it onens Wednesday.

And thanks, too, for the Nostalgic echoes: Of the (Mrs, Arthur Shipman Barn. Mrs. Shipman says people used to come to see the what-why-and-wherefores of it when it was part of the theater life of Hartford Joseph Thurston relating the beauties of the acting of John Barrymore, lately returned to the stage in a a comedy when he played heroic and romantic roles, mentioning in particular the plav no one could ever forget, "The Jest." We're getting the personnel of each band that comes to town, so if you young jitterbugs want to know who's-who in them, drop us a line and we'll send copies along. Will you please, when you write in, print your names and addresses. Berlin Choral Society Fourth Annual Spring Concert ANNA KASKAS Chorus of 125 Voices WILLIAM V.

HARRIS, Director Friday, April 14,8:15 New Britain Senior High School Auditorium Tirkft on Sale at Gallup A- Alfred's In Hartford and I.iRgett Unix Store in New Britain. M. BUSHNELL MEMORIAL This Thurs. Children's Mat. 2 Eve.

at 8:15 FATHER HUBBARD World-famous "Glacier Priest" nith New Movies of Adventure "CLIFF DWELLERS OF THE FAR NORTH" TEL. 5-317 ADl'LTS 50c; HILDRF.N 25c EVE, 50c, 75c, SI Vincent Lopez and 1 Patricia Ellis Betty Hutton Abbott Gostello HORRORS BIO DAYSl LAST Thirty fH7 i I HER NEW MERMAID A DREAM NORMA ,11 mm TIMES I HP Mil M7GE. 11 I I If II WORLDS "DANCE la Um SCREEN WORLD PREMIERE Th mots powerful ranM tm to Kll your it with Moral Only on ot lh many great dramatic moments to lore lor you when UNLOVED UNWANTED brare-hearted Cimpy purred an in his tight lor lite by Jimmy, aallan! qentlemaB ot the streets! THIS II rMt STORV Of A KID WHO WAS rouOM (nouom ro 00 $rioMri MONOGRAM PICTURE! eraana THRILLING FASCINATING FAIR FEATURE of the DOVES" I i ivmm-msswwng" i retrrroiTi I Mac mmn SiUMBRELLA CALM) IjJ It RHYTHM ROC KID III im rUTKM FVWffTMB FAN irfMTftflfM IYO-YOI gleamingTCASC A DE 1 iflyiiTSr-M 1 nm 3 1 1 liiauvaiCMviintM.MrilMtrm 'fc El METEORS MHO ftUXY BTTRTON BOB MIX BEN DOV IOUO CUUR sac its' 5 Vk'UfkA li i Starring Popeye Now Showing: "The Invisible Force." Tomorrow: "First and Second Section Coming Through." I BUSHNELL NIGHT ONLY flDDII 1Q MEMORIAL I WEDNESDAY Hi IllL 13 O. E. WET.

and FRANK MoCOY PRESENT EDDIE DOWLING In Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize Play ZToZZ i I I A ri FOUND THISX 1 I THE SPIR1KS I lAHOV VA FAIR FISHT OUR TOWN Af Placed Entire Season In hew lork Kotr O'ing to the short notice on which this, play has been booked, there will be no mailing of circulars or order blanks to patrons for performance. WINDOW and TELEPHONE SALES NOW TEL. F.TS H.l. M.fiS. 12 20.