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ftimes OCTOBER 4, 1938. PART I. IQ TUESDAY MORNING. BEAUTY FOUND IN OUTPOST Mexican Film Comedy Listed Mexico's best comedy of the Emma Roldanm Tete Casus Claire Trevor Likely Lead in 'Stage Coach' and' Jorge Trevino. Around and About in Hollywood BY READ KENDALL Baritone Will Sing Tonight BY ISABEL MORSE JONES Lawrence Tibbett arrived yesterday after six months spent in year, "Padre de Mas de Cuatro" (Tough Guy,) will have its American premiere tomorrow at California and Electric theaters.

Leopoldo Ortin (Chato) plays the lead. Others in the cast are Rosita Gonzales, Sara Garcia, Victor M. Torres, Alfredo del Diestro, Producer to Travel Producer Albert Lewin will follow his original plan for a European vacation and will leave in about three weeks, he announced yesterday. The car in which Joan Craw ford drove to film fame thirteen Australia singing sixty-hve con years ago yesterday began TOMORROW! Powell Debates Offers Bogart, Crisp Assigned Muni Sought for Stage Child in 'Star-Maker' screen comeback when the -star certs. This is the longest time the American baritone has ever been out of the United States asked to pilot it An old automobile was needed for her new picture, "The Shining In one city he gave sixteen con certs, thirteen in succession Hour," so, as a sentimental ges which is a record.

ture, Miss Crawford requested Ar if I i i I -vs-v: "SlLt that the rattling old 1924 vintage Tibbett found the Australians interested in the same programs Dhaeton she used in her first im he sings in America, although portant role in "The Boob," starring Gertrude Olmstead and George K. Arthur, be brought he had been warned that the natives might take exception to some of his ballads. "Glorv from the prop room. Holly Road" was the biggest hit of all wood's most active cinematically He discovered that music was the one thing which would break yet least driven machine, which has carried more film celebrities in front of the cameras probably than anv other, has been idle down prejudice and political bar Aiwfc TECHNICOLOR PRODOCTIOK riers, wnen he wasn singing he was fishing. since Mickey Rooney and Fred die Bartholomew made "The Tonight Tibbett will sing num bers by Brahms, Deems Taylor Devil Is a Sissy." Despite its age and use, the speedometer Tschaikowsky, an aria from "Rigoletto" as well as a group of Negro spirituals at Philharmonic Auditorium.

The popular bari shows it has gone only 682 miles. The car was seen for the first time on the screen carrying Pauline Frederick and Mae Busch in "Married Flirts." It tone opens L. E. Behymer's new concert season. Brother and Sister Sik has since served such film greats as John Gilbert, Lon Chaney, Eleanor Boardman, Lew Cody, Claire Windsor, Rene Adoree, BY EDWIN SCHALLERT Claire Trevor may go gallivanting away from the home lot again.

That's Twentieth Century, of course. Tests have already been made of the blonde actress for ttte lead in "Stage Coach" at Walter Wanger's studio, and, though the deal is not closed yet, there's a pretty fair chance that she will be the final choice in this picture to be directed by John Ford. Miss Trevor recently played in two features at Warners one "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," with Edward G. Robinson, and the other "Valley of the Giants," just recently shown.

She was a nominee for the Academy Award last year for the best supporting performance as a result of "Dead End." Powell Mentioned for 'The Rains Came' Will William Powell appear in "The Rains Came" at Twentieth Century-Fox? There are reports of anglings for this actor to work in the picture at the Zanuck studio. Also there have been indications that he will yet do "The Thin Man Returns," but nothing set as yet. Powell is home, and well on the recovery road from his recent operation. In fact, he will probably be ready to return to work, in three weeks. If Powell should play in "The Thin Man Returns" that automatically would mean Myrna Loy's association with the film, although it is understood that if some other actor were substituted she would not do the feature.

It's probable that Powell will make a picture at some other studio than first. He has an arrangement with Myron Selznick, when that actors representative goes into production, and has a film ready. Gleanings From Studio Citadel Humphrey Bogart will depict a desperado in "Oklahoma Kid," while Donald Crisp will be another leading figure in the plot. One of the major scenes is a big land rush. Give Joint Recital jjh 1 Exciting dvntur byond the Kliybr pti whr tht Mcrtd "drumo" of India bot a maiiag of hi.

whara man mutt fight for thair livaa igaintt tha fiarca nativat of a borderland and woman mutt daxa all to ba with tha man that lova Ramon Novarro, Greta Garbo, Thelma and Sol Babitz, brother Lillian Gish, Bessie Love, Marie and sister of a gifted Los An Dressier, Buster Keaton, Wal geies tamuy, appeared oetore a lace Beer Jean Harlow, Norma with Shearer and Lionel and John Barrymore. Miss Crawford will SABU capacity audience at the Yiddish Club on Sunset Boulevard. Thelma Babitz is a skilled dancer, a member of the Martha Graham Dancers of New York. Her brother is one of the young Ragmond MASSEY drive Melvyn Douglas and Margaret Sullavan in the new pic Desmond TESTER Valeria HOBSON Valerie Hobson furnishes the feminine appeal of "Drums," story of intrigue and adventure in India. Sabu, native boy, is starred in the film opening tomorrow at the Four Star.

Raymond Massey is featured. ture. and promising members of the Lesser Stops Breen violin section of the Philhar SABU Remember htm in "ElipbiDl Bi" monic. From Playing Football WALT DISNET yrctcna MICKEY'S PARROT PETE SMITH'S FISTICUFFS with MAXBAER The concert consisted of solo dances of racial themes and the If there wasn't such a friendly 'IF I WERE KING LEADS SCREEN FARE ON BROADWAY feeling between them, Bobby Breen probably would be visual izing Producer Sol Lesser as the BY NORBERT LUSK big bad wolf. And for a good 4 STAR WILSHIRE.nrLtBRIi YOikl211 NEW YORK, Oct.

reason, witnout saying anything to Lesser, Bobby went out outstanding modern music played was by Stravinsky and Achron. Miss Babitz has strong and convincing ideas and she managed to hold the attention of her audience without props or lighting to aid her. Young Sol Babitz has technical facility and a flair for mod-ernistists' difficulties. He has an aristocratic tone. Ii'i itii Bon Amaziif ia DRUMS ness more than enthusiasm marks the reviews of "If I Were CONTINUOUS ntOM 3:30 P.M.

40c to 6 50c p'ut ux nitaa King," which opened at the Para for the lightweight football team at Black-Foxe Military Academy. He wanted to be a halfback and finally made the grade. Just before the team's first game. mount Wednesday as a regular it, "Secretly he knows, and we all know, that he always dresses for dinner." Basil Rathbone fares better as Louis XI. In the opinion of many, he gives the outstanding performance.

Certainly, it is the most striking and zestful, if not actually so finely subtle as his show in conjunction with Tom mv Dorsey's band. The steadi I Bobby told Lesser and invited ness of Frank Lloyd's fine direc UotW'S iUU (SHaumans chinehI THE 116 TOWN GUIS TODAY, Clark GABLE Myrna LOY Gene Autry him to see the contest. Lesser didn't accept, but he did forbid Bobby playing. With a new picture starting in three weeks, characters played with less dis guise than the French King. ENDS TOO HOT TO HANDLE "MEET tht GIRLS" torial hand is recognized and applauded, while Preston Stur-ges's light, tongue-in-cheek treatment of the romantic theme is given its due as a concession to the modern viewpoint The critics dutifully record Frances Dee is called "sweet" and "pretty" in her well-bred to Headline Stage Show the producer didn't want to take any chances of injury to his young star Franchot Tone was spotted at Babe masquerade of the ingenue hero ine.

All very well for the mod and we dp mean 0j these and other virtues of the ern version but a far cry from Hensley's Club 17 with Virginia work but they do not urge film- VJU ii ST: 5 the majestic, declamatory acting "Four Star Revue," stage show, Lane in a party with Tom Brown goers tojnspect a masterpiece of of Cecilia Loftus, Gladys Han son and Virginia Hammond who popular entertainment. The pic opening Thursday at the Para and Natalie Draper Stu Erwin wanted to catch up with panic ifi lh el At long last Paul Muni may return to the stage. Tempting is the fact that Gilbert Miller is the producer that is doing the bidding, and that the subject sounds portentous the drama "War and Peace." Lloyd Bacon has been given a new contract for seven years at Warners. John Payne, seen currently in "Garden of the Moon," will have the lead in "Row, Row, Row." Child Singer Wins 'Star-Maker' Lead After a maze of legal complications over guardianship Charles R. Rogers has clinched his contract with the 13-year-old child singer, Beverly Jane Stillwagon, and will feature her in "Star-Maker," the film that will present a fictional character, somewhat resembling Gus Edwards, the discoverer of famous youngsters in vaudeville.

1 The young girl, who will be known on the screen as Linda Ware, has gifts for singing popular and serious numbers, and ability as pianist, and even as a composer. In other words, she knows her music. It was during the Rogers regime at Universal, incidentally, that Deanna Durbin arrived professionally. Miss Warp'a agnt is Jack Sherrill, who handled the Durbin affairs at that time. Arthur Caesar i3 writing the story of "Star-Maker." Ruth Weston, who has completed work in "Made for Each Other" at Selznick International, left yesterday for New York to fill a stage engagement in "The Life of 0.

0. Mclntyre." Jackie Cooper was snowed in temporarily in Sonora Pass with the company working in "The Eagle Scout" serial. Movieland Jottings and Castings Betty Blythe has been signed for "Little Tough Guys" at Warners. Jan Buckingham has also been cast. Samuel Hinds, Bill Gould and Claire Whitney are in "Westside Miracle." ture does not seem to be a paddock mount Theater, will be headed his correspondence on his trip "must," yet nothing apparently rk fv is held against it.

Equivocation by the singing cowboy, Gene Autry. "Campus Confessions," to New York to do a picture. In his hasty departure ne grabbed 1 I 1 i is the keynote of critical report a gay collegiate story, is booked a ponaDie pnonograpn msieaa of his typewriter It was the waiters who asked for autographs when Shirley Temple and opinion. VILLON PURIFIED Ronald Colman is well re ceived in the stellar role with played Katharine on the stage. JUST OXE WEEK A single Week for "Carefree" at Radio City Music Hall is without precedent for Fred As-taire and Ginger Rogers as a team.

Reviews indicated no such short life for the picture at this theater, where audiences are perfectly attuned to the refined, witty entertainment offered by these stars. Autry, often referred to as Public Cowboy Xo. 1, is one of! the most popular stars on the dined at the Brown Derby with out, however, causing anyone to shout acclaim for his best per her parents Ann Sheridan is wearing slacks made of screen, his fan mail exceeding formance. Instead, it is cata that of any other screen cornhusks. A Mexican woman logued as his familiar portrayal As a matter of fact, critics de cured the husks by some method which softened them and then wove them into cloth.

numbering some 38,000 fan letters each month. Others appearing in "Four Star Revue" will include Betty clared tnem netter than ever and their dancing more skilled of a "sensitive swashbuckler." Francois Villon is cleaned up and purified, a gentleman whose boasted friendship with cutthroats, thiev.es and wantons is said to carry no conviction at all. As one of the reviewers puts and original than in some pre Actress and Friend Victims of Burglar Grable, who also stars in the feature film attraction; Pat Rooney, and Herman Tim-berg, Jr. vious pictures, slight fault was found with the obvious story in some quarters, but not strongly While Ann Evers, young enough to account for the com psrative failure of the show to starlet, and her friend, Beverly Higgins, were attending a theater, burglars broke into catch on in a big way. woman, now 06 years of age, who had been with the Ruggles family since her teens, left them about ten years ago to live with uaroen of the Moon" has a their Hollywood apartment and Mae West to Direct, Star SAN FRANCISCO.

Oct. 3. (JP) wallop for Strand Theater audi ences Whose reactions make a stripped it of all clothing and personal possessions, which were her own folks in the South. second week a foregone conclu Some time later, the album, sion. critics call the picture "swell," too, not so much for "Spy Ring" already has its cast including Ralph Bellamy, nay Wray, Regis Toomey and Lorna Gray at Columbia.

Christy Ca-banne is to direct this picture early start. Bruce Cabot has finally been selected to play the heavy in "Dodge City." Laura Hope Crews has been signed for "Idiot's Delight" with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. Noah Beery is being tested for the role of Napoleon in "Juarez" at Warners. Two All-American football players will be seen in "The Duke of West Point." One is James Flavin, formerly of the national military academy, and the other Nick Lukats, formerly of Notre Dame. John Barrymore is to have the lead in "The Great Man Votes," at which is one of the first films he has starred in at that studio since "Bill of Divorcement," in which he played the father of Katharine Hepburn.

Reginald Gardiner has been signed for "Katherine the Last," with Francisca Gaal and Rita Johnson. which has likenesses of both Charlie and his brother Wesley, the producer-director, when they were kids, and their parents, Organization of a 85,000,000 "Mae West Empire Pictures, to produce pictures starring Mae West, motion-picture actress, was announced today by Louis Lurie, --T San B'rancisco promoter. what it has to say but the way it is said. Continuously diverting in the light, modern manner, it is basically sound because of characterizations and a stoiy that never flags but makes steady progress toward a vie-torius conclusion. Lurie said the company will Sl() 1 produce four pictures a year, two written by and starring Mae West and the other two directed by her.

He added arrangements valued at approximately $3000. The loot included a full-length fur coat, a blue fox jacket belonging to Miss Higgins, dresses, lingerie, stockings, toilet articles and even a check for $25 which Miss Evers had not cashed? Unfortunately, the two girls didn't have burglary insurance Milton Berle and Jack Oakie batched it at the Mad Russian Cafe John Howard has made application to an athletic organization for a license to referee football and basketball games While flying over a corner of Muroc Dry Lake, Robert Cummings spotted a stranded glider on the lake bed. He made a landing and found it grandparents and great-grandparents, as well as numerous relatives, was found missing. In a letter, the housekeeper, always implicitly trustworthy, admitted that she had appropriated the book to keep her memories of the family she had so long served. Ruggles is having a duplicate set made to send back to her Bob Hope matching coins with Ed Lasker, Tom McAvitty and Jimmy Saphir, are pending with United Artists to be distributing agency.

First picture on the schedule is "Catherine the Great" from scrips written by Miss West. Pat O'Brien is even more highly praised than usual for one of the most emphatic and sparkling exhibits of the season. He runs away with the acting honors but by no means steals the show from John Payne. The latter's ease of manner, good looks, acting ability and persuasive singing cause him to be picked for quick stardom by 'GUESTS OF MARCADO' UNUSUAL STAGE MELODRAMA BY KATHERINE T. VON BLON An extraordinary play, and the plot was inter- Gu mm and paying the luncheon bill at Sardi's William Keigh-ley and Genevieve Tobin have tentatively planned their honeymoon date during the Christmas to be Harvey Stephens, with estingly purveyed.

nine and turbulent from its whom, he recently played in utimuii-jtiiW nXW0W firm I i macabre initial act until the ex films. He gave Stephens a tow more than one astute judge of appealing talent among the re for a start, got him under way citing denouement, is "Guests of viewers. and a few nours later the two holidays. The director and his actress wife will be busy with assignments until then, when they plan to sail for Honolulu. were cocktaiung together in Marcado," by Paul Fix, now run ning at the Call Board Theater Cfree parking ssSS) Hollywood Francis Led 'tor erer and Margo entertained friends in the Hollywood Roose With some building of scenes and characters and a general li; lllttll So far, Keighley has not spld his present home and he is mighty glad now that he didn't receive any substantial offers for his Honolulu place which he had velt Cinegrill.

iaMUfiit.i JTJTENTJLE COURT! Xj "pete ruHaHr-litaBiTwarlk: frukit tarn i previously put up for sale. Robert Rlordan brought his magnetic personality and excellent acting talents most convincingly to the part of the pilot in love with his employer's wife. Elisbeth Drake was winsome and charmingly effective as the demure little air hostess on her way to Hollywood and picture fame. Howard Ames was excellent as the co-pilot. Wesley Meredith gave a dramatic rendition of the wronged husband.

Dale Jennings was outstanding in his portrayal of the "screwy" passenger, actually discovered to be insane. Gertrude Aitken played with vivacity as the Maurice Rimerman pyoved himself a character actor of individual talents as the gangster. Ex-Servant Sends Back Family Album 'Hi SMITH'S timely novelty 1 Mir tit', a 'l it i.i 1 1 i i v. 11 'ii 'FOOTBALL A An heirloom that traces the CMTHT family back for four generations in photographs was recovered THRILLS 2 TH RULING HIT DEATH STRim.WrrH Tim ft. ONLY WITKESSI Baiiliag myitry with tha talaphona tima lignil if lr tight alibi yesterday by Charlie Ruggles with the receipt of a large album rsi tl At inn nnnftnrannn nlACKDCRANT.

Hubert I "MtujXr sss smxiuoi J. InT 1 1 1 irtTr nJ from a former servant. The tightening, this play would offer enough stimulation and originality to be Broadway material It is slightly reminiscent of "Merrily We Roll Along." The first act is a gruesome bit with cadavers ranged about the mortuary of the town of cado, while officials of the plane company and a very progressive young reporter attempt to delve into the lives of the participants in the tragedy. The accident has seemingly been caused by a shot in the back delivered to the pilot, from an unknown source. The second act takes the spec-! tator back to the waiting room tn TIME OUT Weik.

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