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Section 1PXGE THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1939 v- sA i if i nJSI i BFtM' iVy v. 'U' Ruth Ilussey and EdwarcLG. Robinson as they appear in the film coming Thursday to the Century War Proves Wailing Wall For Hollywood's Studios Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall and Jeffrey Lynn seem to have things' under control in this scene from the current attraction at the Stanley Anna Neale, in the film coming to the Hippodrome, following "Fifth Avenue Girl" Hendrik Van Loon Film Sam Goldwyn's Letter Jclts His As Other Lots, Start Healthy Employes Lay-Offs 1st ii Will Open TimeTheater which opens Friday on North street The film tell the momentous developments in the world during tha past UJrty years and contains news shots, blended in to fit the script, from all parts of the globe. Ia addition to tha feature picture there will be a complete newsreel show. First Run Houses "The Fight For Peace," a factual By HAZLITT PEPYS story by Hendrik Van Loon, will be the feature attraction at Time Theater the Misses Davis and Lombard may account in some degree for the fact Hollywood.

SAI.IUEL GOLDWYN'S employes were thrown into, a state of terror the other day when the producer that they are recognized as the screen me sect letter to industry heads calling for aggressive action in dealing with (V the problems created by the war. He ft declared that picture quality must not be sacrificed and that there must be no wholesale firing of wage earners. His staff was alarmed because 5- similar pronunciamentos from other producers in which promises of sus tamed employment and wages were two most competent performers. Box-Office Value Of Nostalgia Now that the box-office value of nostalgia has been discovered, every effort is being made to find subjects permitting the use of oldtime music. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" started it, and several films followed reviving the songs of a generation ago.

The patrons have benefited emotionally, theater operators have profited financially, but Bing Crosby is the only performer who has gained any practical advantage from the fad; an automobile manufacturer gave him a car for singing "In My Merry. Oldsmo-bile" in "The Star Maker." Newest in the cycle is "Swanee River," which deals with the life of Stephen Foster, who is being portrayed by Don Ameche. Ameche; with Tyrone Power, apparently symbolizes all historical figures in the opinion of studio executives. Andrea Leeds will be seen as Jane McDowell, Foster's wife, and made were followed in every case by the ruthless discharge of low-salaried people. Four other studios all issued reassuring statements and laid off an Current CENTURY "The Man In the Jron Mask," with Louis Hay ward and Joan Bennett.

HIPPODROME "Fijth Avenue Girl," with Ginger Rogers and Walter Connolly. KEITHS with Victor McLag-len, Basil Rathbone and Sigrid Gurie. UTTLE "The Road to Glory," with Frederic March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore. STANLEY "Espionage Agent," with Joel McCrea and Brenda Marshall. NEW "The Rains Came," with Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy and George Brent Coming CENTURY "Blackmail," with Edward G.

Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart and Bobs Starts Thursday. 4 KEITHS "All Quiet On the Western Front," uncensored version. Follows "Rio." NEW "Here I Am a Stranger," with Richard Dix, Richard Greene and Brenda Joyce. Opens Friday. STANLEY "Honeymoon In Bali," with Madeline Carroll.

Starts Saturday. HIPPODROME "Nurse Edith Cavell," with Anna Neagle. Follows "Fifth Avenue Girl" estimated 2,000 employes the same Al Jokon is playing E. P. Christy, the minstrel king of Foster's era.

While thirty-two Foster tunes will provide m4VMilM -J to background music to the exclusion of all modern airs, because of their mel L30 P.M. -AleanderDumos-fn 7.rWI;a.iu. 1 odic qualities musical attention will be centered on "Jeanie With the Light- s' i 1 4ft ri i 4 Brown Hair," "Old Folks at Home," "Oh, Suzanna," "Ol Black and "My Old Kentucky Home." Ameche I ic. mw mmmm mi hi iiii inarj rmiv UlJ Tha On Girl Hl Riot on tha Loosa! I She turn tha Social I I Whirl Int a Hurrt- a will render the first three with the 1 a LOUIS HAYWARD QL JOAN BENNETT Jm Kr a- 1 LkJ-L- umoeL VnH4 Jlftiiii flfj iV STARTS THURSDAY I BLtCiaiAIL I FRIDAY Basil Rathbone and Siprrid Gurie are in the film at Keiths RICHARD CREr.NK KICIIARI) IHV KATII AKINK AL.DRIOCE HKKMtA JOYCK In "IIF.KK I AM HTRANtiKK" Hall Johnson Choir singing the latter two. Film Hardly Likely To Be Factual Although "Swanea River" Is being made on a substantial budget and in color, a perusal of the script does not warrant excessive optimism in anticipating that the film is to be a factual account of Foster's life.

The movies are inclined to take a romantic view of events anyway, and Ameche is opposed to anything except the noblest of portrayals. It is doubtful that realism can triumph over these two forces. -II W1IF SIUII VVUllh SPENOER TOY RICHARD OEDRIO HARDWIOKE HMCY KIUT in "STANLEY AM) LIVINGSTONE'' CENTRE THKATKK Goldwyn's Staff As Yet Untouched As yet the Goldwyn staff has not suffered, which, coupled with the obscure meaning of the letter, makes the incident one of mystery. The note recited a number of well-known facts, giving considerable emphasis to the loss of foreign business. It then called for the appointment by the producers and the various guilds of a fact-finding committee to "examine all angles and phases of the situation." Ralph Morgan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, replied with great promptness that he considered the idea a good one.

but Joseph M. Schenk, president of the Motion Picture Producers Association, told Goldwyn in reasonably polite language to mind his own business. The text of the Goldwyn letter failed to make clear what the producer hoped to achieve; its only result, as far as observers can determine, was to get the Goldwyn name in the papers. The impression has grown to a firm conviction that the industry is using the war for a wailing wall. The screen Is one of America's activities which will profit most from the conflict, and in spite of all the figures which its leaders cite, those who know and hose opinions are valued declare that there is not the slightest cause for pessimism.

omen's Pictures Coming Up Again The screen is turning once again to women's pictures, a broad classification that generally means the stories are sad and tear-provoking. To the executive mind, women are like Russiansthey are only happy when they are miserable. Newest of the somber cycle is "Vigil in the Night," with Carole Lombard, 'Anne Shirley and Brian Aherne. The film is a translation of Dr. A.

J. Cronin's novel which served as an indictment of the English hospital system and the treatment of nurses. The picture is the first to. use the present war as a background. The film smarted with no deviation in the script from Cronin's detail.

Production was halted due to Miss Lombard's illness. Ti A i muu NOVYI VERREE TEASOALC J. 1 iiMH ELLISON I he Npproaching ocreen VJVinter Carnival-; 3 iMfWt CAN tIM GERMAN ARMY ILDTiriLIE tiKS1 innrfsmAsn tn rum.n li nit This makes it improbable that the tha film is dominated by Rooney and his mugging. Thera is scarcely a foot of film without him, which is a little too much even for a picture devoted to the rising generation. Nevertheless "Babes in Arms" provides a sprightly hour of entertainment and relaxation.

film will attain any great note as a IrlARCIIoTinEi historic document, but will have to de I aa flf IHMI muf MALUI ft SI1EID0II pend upon its music and scenic beauty for acclaim. Much of it is being filmed on the Sacramento river, which simulates the Ohio at Louisville. An old river boat has been chartered and an vie "1,000 A TOUCHDOWN," with Joe E. Erown and Martha Raye. The con with LORETTA FISHER "BABES IN ARMS," with Mickey! Rooney and i Judy Garland.

The Rodgers and Hart musical of two years ago with which Mitzi Green intrigued Broadway has been used as the basis for a comedy of youth which is tuneful, sparkling and thoroughly enjoyable. Its plot, which is employed only to allow the introduction of several delightful songs, deals with the children in a colony of vaudeville old-timers. The parents are broke and the kids put on their own show which, of course, takes Manhattan by storm. While there are a number of talented youngsters in the piece, as well as such accomplished veterans as Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Hamilton and Barnett Parker, Tha 1 RANDALL SISTERS DEIOIIllRt 1.1... attempt made to capture authentic ill THEATER 1700 Blk.

N. Charles St. OPENS OCT. 6 Full Showing of UEUSREELS Ruihed Her by PUn PLUS HENDRIK VAN LOON'S THE FIGHT for JPEfiSE For One Work Only vergence of the world's two greatest oral phenomena is probably more of a boon to press agents than it will be to audiences. Naturally, the story HatM by tlM Critm at On HMi'mt Cnxtxt Praductiaml "DORSE EDITH Retgfe COMA MAT OLIVfR -MAT OttOM B.

WAKMCM-2AMI rTT MNDCM PLIS-A BfG STAGE SHOW atmosphere. Salvaging Operations On "I Take This Woman" One of the studios began salvaging defies analysis. It deals with a night mare university, of which Miss Raye is the patroness and Mr. Brown the savior. The picture will be enjoyed by anyone looking for an evening of operations this week in an effort to rescue its million-dollar investment in "I Take This Woman," its costliest I N.I 10; raucous hilarity, but no new ideas 7.

dtc SATURDAY fumble to date. The film was started a year ago with Hedy Lamarr and Spencer Tracy in the fond hope that ad y-- OREGORY ftATOf. J.55!l HEXT: sacha guitry in "STOUT OF A CHEAT" MarMURRAY JccUimH iHily Nfwt. N. I.

vantage could be taken from Miss rHnnn in Ban Lamarr's success in "Algiers." Every Iff lif RATHBONE OL- artd when shooting was resumed the thing seemed to happen to "I Take This Josef von Sternberg was replaced by Frank Borzage as director, a number of cast changes Mn marching! Clunn homh H.rc.d rllwwtw. WAR. Hr wlmt wr rloMi to natlmia. Be pownrftil. hiulo rauir account.

Nut a ulngln lak ht hi immI. Uaccnmircd by any lorclim government. Davlil Him, acreen narrator, la maKtiltlccnt. were made, the troupe became bogged down in the plot and finally the executives decided that million dollars or no TI K. TOO A MONO AT TUESDAY SPENCER TRACY Nancy Kelly Richard Green In "STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE" million dollars, it would be fatal to war had started and so the script writers quickly rewrote the closing sequences to use the conflict to force Improvement of hospital facilities and conditions.

Aherne was given a final speech about the hope for peace and that out of the war may come a realization of the value of hospitals. Miss Lombard is being deglamorized as much as a woman of her personality can be. She will appear only in Robert Kent Helen Mack "CALLING ALL MARINES" VICTOR Ttl TOUT RtPatf UcLAGLEN Miss Lamarr to release the picture, and it was shelved. With all lots talking about economy, WED. WILLI BETTV MORA In AM BOYD RANGE WAR" WEI.

ANI THI'RS. -Death 0, a champion" LYNN OVERMAN a) VIRGINIA DALE SAT. BINO CROSBY In "THE STAR MAKER'1 however, the studio will start filming added scenes within the next few tU TO 1136 NIOHTSaOc Wh mrm. JACK HOLT "HIDDEN POWER" somber and unromantic attire: her MEAN HARLOW tmit-raiinH-tumut L0RETTA Y0UNGrSU II1AD6E EVANS KKI. ANI SAT.

MICKEY ROONEY JUDY GARLAND and hundreds of enfcrfaiiMrf inM-G-M's "BABES IN ARMS" 'You'll rsve about Rooney, go ga-ga over Garland, have the time of your life! It's the most delightfully difftrtnt, most. A first costume is a nurse's uniform, her second a street suit and the third a very shabby outfit. Aside from Bette Davis, she is the only star in Holly TV PLATINUM BLONDE VICTOR McLAGLEN "EX-CHAMP" days. James K. McGuinness has been working on a new treatment for some time in an effort to utilize as much of the old footage as possible.

The original Ben Hccht ending, in which Miss Lamarr commits suicide because a man makes a pass at her, seemed the most ridiculous part of the first version, and it is expected that McGuinness will find a somewhat more logical con NEXT ATTRACTION ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT THE UNCENSORED VERSIOM UNCENSORED BV WAR OR MILITARY AUTHORITIES wood who dares appear before her fans in clothes and makeup that fi' her characterizations. One of the rules never violated by other stars is that 7th Hardy Hit! Today Tues.v Wed. Hi WPUMXM I Storrt Toimrtm rV gloriously youthful, musical. M-G-M has ever made! TODAY TOMORROW TUESDAY somewhere in every picture there must be a sequence in which the actresses are garishly dressed and CRYSTAL AMES BINDER ROSEN mBmrlmk ScfMationa T. tiM-IITI iiU-tU.

UL. KEITHS ROOFS featuring THE TOWNSMEN I APIIISSIOI CHAEGS. MIMIEUM SOt clusion. He does not believe that the kind of girl portrayed by Miss Lamar REX 4SC0 Terk ti. Robert Taylor Hedy Lamarr LADY OF THE TROPICS 15c Adults Everr Day to 8.30 P.

M. 13c beautiful to behold. The attitude of would seek such a solution..