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Canteen Set for Women PARTI 7 Actor 'Doubles lor Secretary AT HOLLYWOOD NEW YORK, May 7. The col AND FILM LosansdcsCimcs SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1 943 lective frown of the American Theater Wing has become a smile now that it has been decided what to do with the numerous Waaes, "Waves" and woman marines who cannot be accommodated at the Stage Door Canteen for servicemen but are obviously entitled to some hangout of their own. They'll have tea-dances, the first to take place in the 'Hotel Roosevelt grill May 23. The Stage Door Canteen opened a year ago, before the it' Si' Hull on Screen Charles Trowbridge is practically making a career out of doubling for Secretary of State Cordell Hull on the screen. His latest portrayal of the statesman takes place in "Mission to Moscow," which will open next Wednesday at Warners Hollywood, Downtown and Wiltern theaters.

He previously doubled for Secretary Hull in "Sergeant York" and a number of patriotic short subjects. "Edge of Darkness," in its third and final week, will have late showings at the three Warner theaters tonight advent of servicewomen and met a serious need existing at that Marcy McGuire Lead in 'Seven Days Ashore Sonny Tuits Wins Role in 'Dr. Wasselb' Albeit Dekker to Play Bat Masteison BV KDWIN SCHALLERT What "Seven Days Ieave" did for the Army "Seven Days Ashore," it is intended, shall do for the Navy. Pay your money and take your choice, therefore, when the new picture shows. The earlier musical that featured Lucille Ball, Victor Mature, Marcy McGuire and others turned out to be soundly popular, despite the fact that it received jibes from critics.

That's the reason R.K.O. has decided to follow it with another similar production. Director this time ill he John Auer, heretofore with instead of Tim Whelan. He will also produce the picture. And the chances are it will be woven about Miss McGuire, who made a hit with her sinsrins of "I Get the Neck of the time.

Paul Ash, who'll conduct a 100-man orchestra at the Greek war-relief show May 18 in Madison Square Garden, will recruit his musicians from near-by Army camps. St, ETHEL WATERS ROCHESTER LENA HORNE "DR. SCREEN DUO Marsha Hunt and James Craig ore paired in "The Human Comedy," which will open at Chinese, Loew's State, Ritz and Carthay Circle Thursday. NEW ASSISTANT" Statu MAY 13th urn I MUM 'Cabin in the Sky' Rich in Melody, Humdnness THE HUMAN COMEDY 1 1 iiiLLinifi SAROYAN'S mahs. None of the men enjoyed these constant reminders that the world is in such a mess, and I don't believe civilians do either." Mark Sandrich's next will be a romantic story with little if any war.

MADE IT THRILLING Albert Ievino's story, which is written around the Monroe Doctrine, has made American history live. It's really an adventure story, patterned after "Robin Hood." Twentieth has the first go on it. If they don't buy it, Hal Wallis wants to look at it for Humphrey Bo-gart. And McMillan may bring it out in book form. Bob Hope put it over when he played a charity golf game at Shreveport, La.

He did a strip tease right down to his shorts sold clothes right off his back, and also sold half a million dollars' worth of War Bonds. Now the girls want to try it OUR WAY Jean Ruth, who originated "Reveille With Beverly," a overlooked entirely when screen credits were given out. But she's getting the fan mail from all the towns the picture's played, and quite right, too. John Hubbard's mother Madge tells me that in the summer of a boy of high school age had his shoes stolen as he slept in the park in East Chicago. He was bumming his way to Akron, where the carnival he'd been working for closed.

John's mother fixed him up with an old pair of John's shoes, and told him she hoped they'd bring him as much luck as they had John. When John was wearing them, he got a Hollywood contract. Last week Mother Hubbard had a letter from overseas from the shoeless boy who wrote: "Just saw your son in 'Youth on After the show, our commanding officer asked me to make a few remarks. So I told the 800 soldiers about the shoes you gave me. They sure were lucky because twice while I've worn them, Eve pulled through af-.

fairs in which death hit men on either side of me. Signed 1 "PRIVATE CHARLES M. PHILLIPS." Richard Whorf got a look at Wally Ford's new wind-wooing alfalfa beard for "A Thousand Shall Fall" and yelled, "Hey, fellows! Get a load of the new face that's doubling for Leo the Lion!" Released by the Chicago Tribune-New Vori News Syndicate. 1943 CHINESE IOIWS CARTHAY RITZ Turhan Bey, Turkish Valentino who supported Maria Montez and Jon Hall in two pictures, finally gets a starring role in "The Mad Ghoul," with, that delightful Irishman, Jimmy Hogan, putting him through his paces. I suppose the "Ghoul" i.s a combination of Frankenstein, Cat People and Boris Karloff only Turhan is sexier.

Hunt Stromberg wants to do a comedy with the Marx clan all in one bundle fcr his next. Composer Bernard Herman comes west to score "Jane Eyre." Randy Scott returns to 20th to play that Texan bad man, Sam Bass, the desperado with a big heart. It's a boy for Roz Russell 6 -pounder, too. Now that Gene Tierney is having a baby and she's out of "One Destiny," part's turned over to Maureen O'Hara. But Bill Goetz has his fingers crossed, hoping she won't up and announce the coming of a blessed event WELL, I SWAX Walt Disney showed me a letter he'd had from Wichita Falls, in which a mother wrote: "Guess you'll lie surprised to learn that Donald Duck is now a living person.

That's our son's name. He's six iand one-half months old. "Hope you don't mind, but we've sort of adopted you as a godfather. My husband's a corporal the Army Air Force at Sheppard Field, and our son has caused a sensation. Unknown soldiers and civilians, too, call Just to get a look at Donald Duck." Letter was signed, "Mrs.

E. E. Duck." She adds, "We bought Donald his first War Bond. We haven't got a million, but we can afford to 'keep 'em Well, godfather's going to add to Donald's collection. WHAT'S AYROXG What the heck's going on? Producer Nunnally Johnson jumped in as director of "Holy Matrimony," same day Writer Dudley Nichols turned director, and Director Frank Tuttle did a stretch of acting all on different lots.

Let's see if we can't get a woman in there somewhere. Our only female director, Dorothy Arzner, gave over her job to a male. AIX'T IT THE TRUTH? Private Jimmy Collins, from Victorville Air Base, writes, "We sure agree with you that movie moguls are putting out too many war pictures. In the last eleven days (they might have been any eleven days) eight pictures were directly on the war "Corregidor," "Air Force," "Bataan," and a series of Nazified European dray- (Reprint! from Yestrdiy'i tats Edition) Chicken" and "A Touch of Texas1' in the first melodious opus. Of the personnel of "Seven Days Leave'' both Victor Mature and Desi Arnaz are in the service, while Miss Ball has transferred to Metro.

So they can't be recaptured. BOXXY Tl'FTS TO APPEAR WITH PAULETTK Six months to become a first-line star is the, record of Sonny Tufts, who is much exploited by Paramount. He hasn't been seen as yet, but "So Proudly We Hail" is expected to remedy 11 that. Because of this picture he interested Cecil B. De Mille for 'The Story of Dr.

Wassell," and now he hag been chosen as the vis-a-vis of Paulette Goddard in the comedy, "All Around the Town." They shine as a team in "So Proudly," you see. Pretty pood record for an erstwhile night club singer of New Tork and Florida. MOVIELAXD JOTTINGS AM) CASTINGS Albert Dekker as Bat Masterson, Barry Sullivan and Porter Hall will form a triumvirate in "The Gunmaster," Harry Sherman feature, with Claire Trevor, already mentioned, as the girl. George BY EDWIN" SCHALLERT Fantasy fraught with human poken Drama ness, conjured into being by a war between the forces of MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT good and of evil, finds bountiful )(1 THE WHOLETOWN IS TALKING ABOU and melodious expression in "Cabin in the Sky," a story of ii I 'V colored folk which is the main attraction at five different Fox West Coast theaters. The roll call of these showhouses in Archainbaud is to direct.

Role of Masterson is one of the most is through so real in fact that he decides to discard his various vices, chief of which are gambling and the lure Georgia Brown (Miss Home) exerts for him. The wages of sin turn out to be death during the delirium of Joe, but. even as she is faithful to him beyond death in his imagination, so is his wife Petunia devoted to him in life and sees that he is both saved and recovered. Everything, therefore, comes out happily in the long run for the chap who decides he'd better stick to the straight path. Yes, "Cabin in the Sky" is a delightful and fascinating picture for those who appreciate imagination and melody.

It has been well directed by Vincente Minelli and skillfully produced by Arthur Freed from the screen play by Joseph Schrank. On the same program is "Dr. eludes Grauman's Chinese, Important ever to come the way of Dekker. Loew's State, Ritz, Carthay Cir Sam Wood plans a vacation trip to New York, which will take In the premiere of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," before he starts cle, and Rivoli, the last named "The Land Is Bright'' at Columbia. added for this special event.

The production is one of the John Hubbard and Edmund Lowe have been in "Restless Lady" with Evelyn Keyes, which will be made by Sam Bischoff first of these pretensions deal ing with emotions and sent! ments of the Negro race that ha; at Columbia. fiERVICEMEX TO PICK TP IX ARMS' BEAUTIES Samuel Goldwyn is making a real patriotic play and looks as been proffered since "The Green If he had evolved a super-duper ballyhoo idea, as is his wont, by Pastures." And personally I have always thought of "Cabin in the Sky" as a lighter interpretation of similar moods, even rsr (W raw WWILU1 si 337 SOUTH MAIN STREET advising the servicemen that they may help pick the girls for "Up in Arms." Goldwyn, it seems, is convinced that most of Gillespie's New Assistant," which though there are no actual re the beauties of the land have a beau or a fiance in the armed services, and he is asking the men to submit pictures of their favorite charmer. He wants 16 of the most beautiful damsels, incidentally, ever brought to the screen in "Up in Arms." Bet has Susan Peters as guest star and Lionel Barrymore in his familiar role. Instead of one new assistant he has three, Van Johnson, Richard Quine and Keye Luke. Most of the others are The picture neatly stresses comedy plus suspense and was directed by Willis It all ends up with a typical Hollywood pick.

REEL NOTES REELED OFF BRIEFLY Twentieth Century-Fox confirms a deal for the purchase of a story that is semibiographical about Benny Goodman, which will be tilled as ''King of Highlights will be the Goodman conquest of Carnegie Hall and Hollywood Bowl, Leonard Sillman has 'purchased two blackouts from Gene Stacy In "New Faces" and he's to incorporate in the Coast production A Scoop! Japaneso Pictures on the Bombing of Pearl Harbor and Capture of Corregidor I The Laugh Hit Everyone is Talking About a number of the best acts from his New York shows that haven't been seen here. He's having a problem getting a theater, for US? CNtnCTfSHOWIMia HOLLYWOOD Only there's a shortage of "legit" houses. Shirley Patterson will play the lead in "The Batman," a ferial at the Darmour studios. She was formerly a star In westerns. Marjorie Gateson joins "Nobody's Darling" in which Mary Lee, Jonathan Hale and Gladys George have other leading parts.

MIlIC INVITID El Capitan Has Seat Problem There's a housing problem at El Capitan where Ken Murray's "Blackouts of 191.3" goes into its 47th week tomorrow. Since last June when this variety revue opened the problem has existed how to get enough seats for the patrons who want to enjoy the fun. Over the weekend "Blackouts" will be seen five times with a matinee, this afternoon and two tomorrow. rifir- JTIUHl Stage Director Ingenious Shoe rationing is no particular i pair of red dress slippers which 59 Captured Jap Filmsl OF PEARL HARBOR" "FALL OF CORREGIDCR" NOW' WARNZRS semblances. IlocliPstor on Hand Perhaps some audience members are already acquainted with the music film from its prior stage version.

Like the picture that footligin original starred the gifted Ethel Waters. As we saw it here this did not, however, have the benefit of the presence of Rochester, whose gravel-throated enunciation has never been utilized to such comic advantage as in this film. Prominent also in the cast is Lena Home, whose allure is one both of voice and personality and who is cast in a vampish role that gives plenty of scope for her special attributes. She will undoubtedly prove herself a favorite because of the picture. Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, John V.

Sub-lett, known as Bubbles, Oscar Tolk and numerous bthers are in essential roles, while Duke Ellington and his orchestra and Hall Johnson Choir supply an effulgent background of music. In Imaginative Mood The combination of people is one of the most effective that might be Imagined for this sort of entertainment and the applause at the showing which I witnessed at the Chinese The. afer was a compliment to their efforts as well as the character of the feature. This applause singled out individual numbers and was a notable tribute at the spiritualized climax, which witnessed the rascally Little Joe on his way to heaven with his wife Petunia whose pleadings have won him an entrance into the pearly gates. Dream Sequences Mostly "Cabin in the Sky" is a dream.

Hut the dream is one that becomes a very real experience for Little Joe Jackson before it p.hiTh promem lor uoromy Neumann, answered the purpose except IP I HOttrWOOO DOWNTOWN VVH7THN TICKETS for Individual Performances NOW nitni nvn' P.M. r.rjy.Bess-Gypsjk'M-Firety director and comedienne of the revues at the Turnabout Theater. Months before rationing went Into effect Miss Neumann earned the title of "One Boot McNeu-mann" by furnishing Frances Osborne with only one hip boot in the comedy sketch. "Brun- I 1 i 1 Mo--'-- I IVES. SI.

10 S3. 30 WfO MATS. IS. la S3 30 that they were the open-toe kind and were not very authentic for a true "Russian" dancer. However ingenuity came to the front again.

Miss Osborne appears with the red slippers and they look quite real since Miss Neumann had the actress paint her toes a nice shiny red. SAT. MATS. SI 10 10 SJ 75 Ih M(Kt ml IMmI IpaM. H0PHOMtOMV CHOICE SEASON EX-STRIPPER CAST IN PLAY Bridget Margaret Hart is determined to be an actress.

Yesterday she signed a contract to play a role in the version of "Cry Havoc" which Jules Leventhal is to send over his Atlantic Coast circuit, starting at the Windsor Theater in the Bronx the week of May 25. Bridget is the former Margie Hart of "Wine. Women and Song," She did a strip tease in it until the city fathers closed it down. TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE ALL 4 SHOWS fO THI MCI Of 3 hilde Rides Again." The director could see no reason for a second boot that would not be eeen by the audience. Now in a new comedy sketch at the Turnabout, "Sonia Mc-Gonigle," Frances Osborne wears two red leather boots.

This was quite a problem for Miss Neu- M0y 31 urn wira mraLiia jnarni ctt nrsu as mini iniuis irc in full view of the audience. She ordered shiny red oil cloth for the tops and Miss Osborne had a MAT. PERCY YARAM-JUKE WALKER TODAY 2 WKS. BEG. NEXT MON.

(Also Sun. Night, May 16) Stage Alley Popular Spot The stage alley between the Mayan and the Belasco theaters is a merry place these clays and nights. Bet ween scenes and during rehearsal periods, the soldier actors of "Hey. Rookie!" and the members of "Big Time," the Ed Wynn troupe, fraternize, play cards and have a high old time as they await their cues. While Wynn is foremost in the the "Big Time" frolic, he is up to his ears in supporting stars.

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