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THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 21, 1933. PART II. 13 2ingclccrfmcs New Start Planned on "Nana" in Ten Days; News and Gossip of Studio and Theater BENNETT ADDED Blondes Preferred in New Film Hobnobbing in Hollywood ETHERITES REMAIN AT STARRETT SIGNED Charles Starrett, former Dartmouth football star, has been signed for the Juvenile role opposite Rochelle Hudson In "Mr. Skitch," TO FILM CAST With GRACE KINGSLEY A movle-lsh butler yesterday an 'Othello' to Be Offered Sunday "Othello" will be presented Sunday night at the Hollywood Playhouse under the management of George K.

Arthur, with Ian Keith and Irving Pichel playing the leading roles. Trio of Stars Reported in PARAMOUNT Pearce Troupe Held Over swerea a Hollywood door, with a "What can I do for ypu, madame?" i Radio "Inside" Yarn 1 Bobbe Arnst Is holding forth nightly Ruth Abbott, sister-in-law of Colleen Moore, writes us she is in Chicago playing the role of Kitty Packard (the role which Alice White played here at the Belasco, A middle-aged woman who walked WRITER ASSIGNED Agnes Christine Johnston has been assigned by Merian C. Cooper to write the screen play of "Long Lost Father." for Second Week; Screen a bit too carefully and whose eyes lacked the luster and mobility of German Actors Requested to and Jean Harlow in the film) in Program Changes Return to Homeland Al Pearce and his Gang have cracked all house records at the Walter Woolf Wins Role in Paramount Theater in their current ft "She Made Her Bed" BY EDWIN SCIIALLERT engagement, and are being held over, beginning today, for another week. Morey Amsterdam, Andy Andrews, Cal Pearce, Tizzy Lish, Lord Bilgewater, Carlyle Bennett, Anxious days over that picture, "Nana" and there were plenty-are becoming a bit more sanguine, Mabel Todd, the Three Cheers, the Hit. i Three Rhythmettes and other fa vorltes are in this group.

On the screen the Paramount presents "Golden Harvest," a story the usual eyes, answered, Tis Maurice Chevalier I wish to see." "But he isn't seeing anyone he is sick In bed," said butler. "I believe he'll see me," the woman ventured. "Please tell him I'm the Nebraska woman the woman who'a going blind." Soon a flustered butler returned and ushered the little woman up miles of cushioned stairway into a Napoleon the First bedroom, where Maurice Chevalier, a wide smile on his face, sat propped among luxurious pillows, nursing a battered arm. Blanche Cameron, Lincoln (Neb.) schoolma'am, had attained the unattainable. She was actually within reaching and speaking distance of Maurice Chevalier.

All the fine speeches she had rehearsed on the train were forgotten. All she could say was a feeble "Maurice," as he extended his hand. Chevalier choked a little. He Had not forgotten the letter Mtes Cameron wrote him a few months back, which read: "Please, If It is possible, will you make another picture within the next few months. My doctor tells me that within the next of the struggle between wheat gamblers in the Chicago pit and the 1 wheat farmers themselves.

Chester Morris and Richard Arlen have "Dinner at Eight" Anderson Lawlor cast for a nice role in Universale "Musical Romance." AI Boasberg was rldinf with a talkative and boring actor the other day. A3 they came to a stop light another car drew up beside them and the occupant Indulged in a huge yawn. Boas-berg glanced at the neighbor and turned to his companion, "Shush!" he said, "you're Ruby Keeler arriving in New York today jU6t in time to celebrate with Al Jolson their fifth wedding anniversary Aline MacMahon writes from New York that she is celebrating with her husband, Clarence Stein, well known architect, the success of one of his pet schemes the government has Just approved his hillside housing project Ruth Donnelly always reflects at home, says her husband, Basil de Gulchard, the role which she happens to be playing in a picture. Ruth says she can't help it, but Basil says he hopes "Convention City" will soon be finished, as in it Ruth plays a heckling wife Luclle La Verne looking for Shakespearean actors to appear in her production of "The Merchant of Venice," but having a hard time finding them. She lives at the Natallna Apartments, Just in case you are a Shakespearean actor out dramatic roles as two brothers split In their views.

Genevieve Tobin and Roscoe Ates are also featured. Buster Crabbe in Chapter 10 of the adventure play, "Tarzan," is to be an added attraction. NEW FILM Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond Enact romantic roles in "Brief Moment," which comes to the Hillstreet Theater screen tomorrow. The picture is a film version of the S. N.

Behrman stage play. six months I'll be totally blind. And I do enjoy your pictures so much. I want one more picture of ducer and will leave Saturday for Europe to confer with Winfleld Sheehan, deal for his services having been made in New York. He yours to carry along with me into the darkness." will produce a picture of the "Caval AT LOEWS STARS TWO Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter Head the Cast of "Paddy" on Screen "Paddy, the Next Best Thing," starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter, opens today at Loew's State Theater, with Ed Lowry returning to the stage as master of ceremonies.

The new film, a comedy-drama Heard on the Boulevard cade" order, mayhap "The World Moves On." Fox company recently signed up Grady Sutton and Lois January according to all indications. Cast, director, story and virtually everything else has been altered In the meanwhile, but it looks as If a new start would be made in about ten days, with a script provided by Wil-lard Mack, an efficient play doctor. The main thing that happened yesterday was the bringing up of replacements. Richard Bennett has been assigned a role that is different from any in the original-different anyway as to character and importance, and there was tome forecasting "of the fact that Mae Clarke will appear in the art originally given to Pert Kelton, while a leading man will probably be chosen today. Bennett will iiave a part which Is described as being as dominating as the one that he played in the Samuel Goldwyn production of "Ar-rowsmith." Instead of an eminent scientist, however, he will be the banker patron of Miss Sten.

There was real danger that the production of "Nana" would be called off altogether a week ago, but it begins to look as if it would go through now. The "Inside' of Radio If everything turns out as prognosticated there's a picture in the offlng with a cast that looks exceptionally interesting. This is "Radio Romeos," reported purchased by Warner Brothers, with the players to include Edward G. Robinson, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. The story has been written by Paul Finder Moss -and Jerry Wald, and is an original for the screen.

It is the "inside" on radio. It is said that the two will also be under contract, beginning October 2. "Radio Romeos" will also be published as a novel. There is a chance of the screen title being altered. While Powell and Miss Keeler have been seen together, combination with Robinson is new.

Moss, one of the authors, handled Powell's radio affairs in the East for several seasons. of a Job In particular, Miss La Verne is searching for Genevieve Hamper to play the lead. Charles Cochran, the London pro leaping around in the surf at La-guna Fay Wray celebrating her birthday in bed with an attack of flu Muriel Klrkland ducer. MORE Robinson Visits lunching every day with Philip Fav- Queen and Gryphon Cast ersham Constance Cum- More "Alice in Wonderland" cast mings trying to give away five Per sian kittens Charlie Far Boyhood Chum Edward G. Robinson, film star, the first picture, and Sylvia Sidney was originally slated for that.

No word of her return yet. Lyle Talbot and Guy Kibbee are in "Broadway and Back;" Edgar Kennedy, signed six weeks ago for "Duck Soup," did just one small bit yesterday with Harpo Marx, Leonid SnegofI is the junkman in "Smoky." Murray Artist at Being Funny Many performers have made comedy their business, but Ken Murray, who will be seen at the Belasco Theater October 2, in "Louder Please," has almost made a fine art of being funny. Besides the stage, he enjoys distinction in other fields of comedy, radio, the screen, vaudeville and as a writer. In "Louder Please." the young comic is to be supported by Sheila Terry, Billy Taft and Mathew Betz. Bradford Mills is producing.

ing, and what a cast it will be by the time it is completed. Edna Mae rell and Virginia Valli planning an directed by Harry Lachman, tells a story of a gay colleen who gets into no end of trouble because of her love for her sister's beau. Sup Oliver will play the role of the Red extended trip in Europe is a frequent visitor in the dressing-room of Noel Madison back Rochelle Hudson feeding the bears used in the big tourist camp scene "I 4 '( PPPM Jg porting the stars are Margaret Lindsay, Mary McCormic, Walter Queen, while William Austin, who used to be pretty prominent in Paramount pictures, and who has been in England for a year and a half, is to enact the Gryphon; He in "Mr. Skitch," but ZaSu Pitts stage at El Capltan Theater where Connolly, Harvey Stephens, Joseph Kerrigan and Fiske O'Hara. the latter is playing a return engagement of "Counsellor-at-Law." Robinson and Madison are old Don Barclay, comedian, will be standing by.

Miss Pitts knows her bears one bit her during the filming of a comedy The Rocky twins, Larry Hart and others in a party at the Montmartre, where just returned Tuesday. Boisterous Comedy Assured boyhood friends, having been neighbors in New York City. one of the featured entertainers on the stage, along with Lowry. Bar Laurel and Hardy will pep up the clay was with the Ziegfeld Follies for three years, and also has ap comedy of "The Hollywood Party," and it's the first time they have been over at for a film peared in other Broadway revues. "Three Little Pigs." Walt Disney's since "Rogue Song" with Lawrence Silly Symphony, will augment the program.

Tibbett. The cast of "Hollywood Party" now numbers Marie Dressier, Joan Actor Busy in Two Mediums Crawford, Jean Harlow, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Jack Pearl, Charles Butterworth, Polly Moran, George Givot, June Clyde. Eddie Herbert Evans, who essays an Important role in the Kerry Shaw Qulllan, the Albertina Rasch Ballet and Mickey Mouse. And that's an ensemble! Cabot and Dee Teamed comedy, "Romance Collect," which opens at the Hollywood Music Box Monday night, is well represented along Hollywood Boulevard these days as he is appearing in "Secrets" and "Reunion in Vienna," as well as working with Slim Summerville ir "Tin Pants." It's Bruce Cabot and Frances Dee, 7 Loved Woman9 to Be Held at Warner Houses After enjoying a successful week, "I Loved a Woman," starring Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis, begins its second seven days today at both Warner Brothers' Hollywood and Downtown theaters.

Kay Francis is seen as a woman who wins world fame through love and ruthlessness. Genevieve Tobin, Murray Kinrtell, Robert Barrat, George Blackwood, Robert McWade, Henry Kolker, J. Farrell MacDon-ald, Paul Porcasi and William V. Mong are others. It was directed by Alfred E.

Green. who will be teamed in "Hide in the Dark, and simultaneously Miss Dee has signed up with Fox for pictures in addition to It's said she'll make sixteen over a three-year period. She still has three more to do for The De rise has been pretty consistent since "Silver Chord" and she's said to do some of her very best work in "Little Women." German Actors Asked to Return All predictions that German players would be asked to return home to make pictures in their native land are being borne out, and it isn't simply the non-Jewish group either. The order is more or less of the blanket type, regardless of race. Even Erich Pommer, Ernst Lubitsch and others have been mentioned as among those asked to come back.

It is definitely known that Pommer, working in Paris, has had this request. Return of Dorothea Wieck is being sought, but her contract will not permit her to leave for some time, and she is seemingly rather won over to the idea of American appearances. Status of Marlene Dietrich is also interesting under the circumstances. Gottfried Rein-hardt, here to study the films, is not affected, he declares, because he is not German but a Czecho-Slovakian. Where contracts exist for players, they are not expected to be affected for the term of these agreements.

WHO WOULDN'T GET WELL? A straight two-year contract, without options, was signed by John Meehan, screen author and scenarist, from a hospital bed yesterday. officials tracked him down. The writer leaves the hospital today. 'MMM 4 1 TOTI if otl 1 vi i -ay 7 Picture Pageant Lenore Ulrich takes occasion to deny that she has made any deal with as rumored around. She took a test yesterday in New York for Paramount instead.

Charlie Farrell and Virginia Valli are just about to leave for Europe. Charlie having done his stint in "The Shakedown." George Cukor will direct "Living in a Big Way," with Marie Dressier and Jean Harlow, it's soon on that. Arthur Hornblow's work for Samuel Goldwyn will be distributed between Frederick Kohlmar, who becomes production assistant, and George Oppenheimer, who becomes editorial assistant to Goldwyn, with Richard Day sharing in a little as art director of the features. B. P.

Schulberg Is returning to Hollywood betimes. He sailed yesterday from Paris, and will arrive in New York the 26th inst. This sets at rest rumors of his severance of connections. "Reunion" will be Li 4 1 Mr Ii "Ifl 'JIILUH 1 I I A I An immortal screen combination to enchant and enthrall you in their ii i mi m0 'imtfmafs jf II 1 L.J 1 1 CI JI LAST DAY LIONEL BARRYMORE Woolf Enters lectures Much dickering there has been for Walter Woolf's time in the movies, but nothing settled. Now he has joined the Charles R.

Rogers unit under a term contract and will play a featured role in "She Made Her with Charles Rug-gles, Marguerite Churchill and Gregory Ratoff. The picture starts Monday. Woolf was one of the leading principals here in "Music in the Air' on the stage. Ada May, who also was In that musical, is doing a Fanchon and Marco show, while Vivienne Segal is in "The Cat and the Canary." Pichel Prefers Films Irving Pichel gains a real bright spot in "Viva Villa." He will play the hole of Fiero, next in importance to Beery, who is Villa himself. It Is understood that Pichel had a chance to direct Helen Hayes on the stage in New York in "Mary, Queen of Scots," but preferred the film" assignment.

Howard Hawks is to direct the picture. Fox Signs Erik Charell Fox is still luring prominent European stage producers. Latest is Erik Charell, who staged "White Horse and "Casanova" in London, after a long association with the Grosses Schauspielhaus in He is credited also with the production of "Congress Dances" for the screen. He has been signed up by Sidney R. Kent as associate pro- "ONE MAN'S JOURNEY 1 TiiEfOTBfSrTHinfr AT HOLLYWOOD Another great stage show II I.

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