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12 PART I. Stage Farce Entertains 'Harlem Cavalcade Due on Broadway; Other Notes TODAY'S SHOWS An old-fashioned farce-comedy Co Ansele Simes expense, Illustrating popular dance steps. The films will be distributed among Army camps throughout the country. Leon Ames, in "Guest in the House," will be guest of honor at the annual spring luncheon, Thursday, of the Brooklyn The WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1942 20f Buys Sfeinbeck Sensafion for $300,000 NEW YORK, April 28. "Harlem Cavalcade" will open Thursday night at the Ritz.

Una Mae Carlisle, singer and song writer, is the latest addition to the cast of the Negro variety show. Now that "Of V. We Sing" has closed, the American Youth Theater is busy with "Let Freedom Sing," a new patriotic revue slated for a Broadway house about June 1. Sketches are by Sam Locke and music by Marc Blitzstein, Earl Robinson, George Kleinsinger, Lou Cooper and Fred Spielman. OPERETTA RETURN'S "Blossom Time," most popular of all the Shubert operettas, plays a week's engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, beginning May 11.

Everett Marshall will be starred. The company has just closed a coast-to-coast tour. Novelist Vera Caspary is dramatizing her soon-to-be-published novel, "Laura," with the aid of Kate Smith xSingies' Set Metro Plans Unique Opus If OS THE SCREE.X "LARCENY, and "SOLDIERS IN WHITE" at Warners Hollywood and Downtown. IY FAVORITE BLONDE" at the Paramount Hollywood and Downtown. "WOMAN OP THE YEAR" and "THIS TIME FOR KEEPS" at Loew's State and Chinese.

"SABOTEUR" and "MEXICAN SPITFIRE AT SEA at Pantages and Hillstreet, "JOAN" OF PARIS" at the Car-thay Circle, "HELLZAPOPPIN at the Hawaii. "9 BACHELORS" at the Esquire. "FANTASIA" at the Four Star. "JUNGLE BOOK" and 'ABOUT FACE" at United Artists and Fox, Wilshire. "BALTIC DEPUTY" and Soviet short films at Grand.

OX THE STAGE "LIFE WITH FATHER" at Music Box. "THE DRUNKARD" at tht Theatre Mart. "N.T.G. REVUE" at th Flo entine Gardens. "STAR SPANGLED GLAMOUR" at Earl Carroll's.

"YALE PUPPETEERS" and "NO STRINGS REVUE" at Turnabout. "SHE LOST IT IN CAMPB-CHE" at Musart. Joe E. Biown to Warble Seventh 'Spitfire' Slated Massen May Play Any a LY0 DANCE TEAM Grace Poggi and Igor will be featured in N.T.G.'s revue, "Red, White and Beautiful," which opens tomorrow night at the Florentine Gardens. ON APPROVAL What's Doing in Little Theaters BY KATHERIXE VOX BLOX with modern flourishes is "Or chids to Uncle" by Kay Mansfield and Val King, which ifept the audience immensely, entertained at the Hollywood Woman's Club Auditorium.

ihe plot centers about a precious old character, Uncle Pete Kennedy, who arrives from South America with a fabulous bank account. The conniving of his niece. Martha Sheffield; a widow and. her progeny to get a slice of the bonanza is obvious even to the old gentleman who though of the folksy type, yet carries a shrewd bit of gray matter in his cranium. He hopes to settle their anxiety by making a will in which none of them participate.

In fact, he wills his richest property, a $1,000,000 silver mine, to the first baby in the family who shall also bear his name. The ensuing "baby derby" provides humor no end. As the mischievous uncle, George Routh utilized all the old tricks of the profession and a few new ones to turn in a robust characterization. a 1 Taylour gave an excellent portrait of a slightly muddled minister. Doris Mansfield trouped with spirit and revealed an attractive personality.

Midge Cotton brought some animated comedy to the scene. Verna Phillips, as a middle-aged spinster, had the audience in stitches. Jaqueline Smith was ef fective and Viola Vivian was flightily In character as the moth er. Others noted were Gladys Hall, William S. Hughston, Bob Turner, Bob Kay, Dick Tossell and Johnny Gordon.

Screwball Opus Still on View-Though it3 own producers insist that "any similarity between 'Hellzapoppin' and a motion picture is purely coincidental," the Olsen-Johnson fun show entering its 12th week today at the Hawaii Theater may be officially classified as such. Movements reported under way yesterday would urge the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize "Hellzapoppin' as the "screwiest and funniest film of 1942." Duo-Piano Concert Scheduled Tonight Ignace Hilsberg and Gladys Ko-ven are playing a duo-piano concert tonight in the Hollywood Radio Playhouse. The program is representative. Hilsberg, who came to Southern California from New York a few years ago, having been on the faculty of Juilliard for years, nas been soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and given several successful re citals. Miss Koven played a duo program at the Friday Morning Club with him a few years ago and was highly praised.

STARTS FRIDAY I Kummer, "Clarence" by Booth Tarkington, "The Baby Cyclone" byGeorge Cohan and "Abie's Irish Rose by Ann Nichols. Stressing the American, theme, this series, by some of the most famous humorists, should have BLISS-HAYDEN: Lela Bliss announces that she will give try-out to a brand-new play for Archie Selwyn In "Errant Angel," by Albert Sherrill, New York playwright. Casting is now going on. itirrant Angel is a satire on infidelity. It is forged about the experiences of twollv announces its first gold star, 111 enormous appeal.

Pasaiipna rpcrrptfnllv hut rrniirl. for one of its most talented and handsome young actors, Al Speare, who was killed in action during the bombing of Burma. Pasadenans to Give Musical Pasadena Community Playhouse will stage "Lovely Miss Linley!" from May 5 to i6. Set to music is the story of Eliza Linley, toast of the London concert hall, and Richard Brins-ley Sheridan, top-ranking playwright of his day. Nita Carroll, star of the operatic stage, will be seen and heard in the name role with Sheridan being played by Tod Koch, Southern California singer.

'KINGS ROW TO BEGIN RUN "Kings Row" begins a run tonight at Warners Wiltern Theater. Ann Sheridan, Robert Cum-mings, Ronald Reagan and Betty Field are featured in the story of a small Midwest town. "Road to Happiness," with John Boles, is companion picture. GRAND 730 S. GRAND PhM Mil.

SI2I Shot Cwit. I Sat. 4 Sun. PAUL ROBESON IN ADDED TREAT THE SOVIET HIT SCAMNGUUNNY( ater Fellowship. Norma Shearer Returns to Comedy Field Norma Shearer returns to the field of comedy, the medium which brought her initial film fame, in "We Were Dancing," screen adaptation of Noel Cow ard's "Tonight At 8:30," which opens tomorrow at Loew's State and Grauman's Chinese theaters Melvyn Douglas is starred op posite the actress and other mem bers of the cast are Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman, Marjorie Main, Reginald Owen, Alan Mowbray and Florence Bates.

Miss Shearer is seen as the daughter of a penniless aristocrat who mistakenly falls in love with an equally high born, and equally broke, chap portrayed by Doug' las. Sharing the program is "Joe Smith, American," featuring Rob ert Young and Marsha Hunt. Sandstorm Scene Called Spectacular Almost five tons of fuller's earth, propelled by 20 electrically driven fans, were used in the Nevada sandstorm sequence of "Saboteur," Pnscilla Lane-Robert Cummings film at R.K.O.-Hill-street and Pantages Hollywood theaters. The scene was filmed on a man-made desert on the studio's sound stage No. 12, called the largest motion picture of its kind.

'Mexican Spitfire At Sea," and Disney's "Donald Gets Drafted," share the program. VMA1N ADULTS ONLY ONE WLIX OHVf 1UA Here's the (I0 Racket King J3 and his mob! They'll fill you with laffs I blast you jjk with hysterics! X' KlHfoW- El Mi mill IIM fnF hu. iinrnffii owyAKaViuKua mm am am aai ai m. By Edwin Schallert The most provocative book lately published, John Steinbeck's The Moon 13 Down," has purchased for the films with price reported as $300,000. This tops any previous record for buys for the screen, in the opinion of Oscar Serlin, who is producing the play version.

Twentieth Century-Fox acquires the rights, according to announcement yesterday. Deals for other important properties show such totals as "Lady In the Dark," "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "Room Service," "The American Way" and "Abe Lincoln In Illinois," $250,000 each; "My Sister Eileen," "You Can't Take It With You," $200,000. Now It remains for "Life With Father" to surpass them all unless Serlin himself decides to produce the movie version. As a book, "The Moon la Down" sold 500,000 copies in two months. Plan of Darryl aZnuck at 20th is to produce the picture as soon as possible to take advantage of the current vogue for the subject.

Kate Smith Films to Aid U.S.O. One of the most striking gestures in behalf of war relief is to be credited to none other than Kate Smith, and the channel for the dispensing of her efforts will be the films. She has signed a contract with Columbia to make her appearance in a series of shorts to be titled "America Sings With Kate Smith." These will signalize her return to the cinema after a 10-year lapse of time. She was named once in the interim for a 20th Century-Fox production, but nothing came of that. She was in "Hello Everybody" at.

Paramount in 1932. She has helped to promote numerous movies through her broadcasts during the past decade. The Kate Smith shorts will be a contribution to help fill the coffers of the U.S.O. The star accepts only $1 as compensation under her contract. This is necessary to make the agreement binding, but everything el.se accrues in profits to the service aid organization.

Most of the songs will be of a patriotic character and, as indicated by the "America Sings" part of the title, will call for audiences to take part. Metro Announces Novel Episodic Production Every once in a while it happens somebody projecting the bright idea of making an episodic picture. At least the hope is that it will turn out brightly. And if you remember "If I Mad a Million" there is a precedent, too, for such luminosity. "Tales of Manhattan" is another exhibit but recently completed.

This time it's eMtro-Goldwyn-Mayer which proposes a feature called "Now We Are 21," an original by Jerry Schwartz. This will be right up to the minute in dealing with the building of the new Army. Each episode will be In charge of a different director, wherein the picture will resemble "If I Had a Million" rather than "Talcs of Manhattan," for the latter was generaled throughout by Julien Duvivier. All the directors will be of the younger group at M.G.M., including Jules Dassin, Fred Zinnemann, Charles Lederer, Fred Wilcox, Edward Cahn, Joe Newman and David Miller. Young players like Tatricia Dane, Johnny Davis, Gene Kelly, Ray McDonald, Virginia O'Brien, james Warren and Barry Wilson are to appear.

News Clips From Studio Town Ever since Joe E. Brown took part in the light opera the idea of his singing seems to be in favor. So in the filmization of "Lazybones" he will whoop out a number called "Dixie" by Mort Greene and Harry Revoll. Judy Canova's songs wHl Include "Pull the Trigger" and "Backyard Barbecue." Ida Lupino will be well enough to return to work Monday on "The Hard Way" at Warners. Republic has decided to call its "Ice-Capadcs of 1913" the "Ice-Capades Follies." Anna Neagle, at the party given at R.K.O.

studio, caught the rye of everybody owing to her radiant appearance. She is more attractive even than in the past and this fact should tempt almost any other star to follow the example she set and take a trip to England. Seventh of the "Mexican Spitfire" scries will be "Mexican Spitfire's Elephant." It Is a story of international crooks with much night club scenery thrown in. As usual the feature will star Lupe Vclcz and Leon Errol. Series of eight outdoor features will spotlight Bob Wills and his Texas Tlayboys with Russell Hayden at Columbia.

Walter (Dub) Taylor will be featured in a comedy part. Role of Anya, the heavy in "Journey for Margaret," may be played by Osa Massen, provided she can finish her role in "Iceland" in time. "Journey for Margaret" starts shooting May 15. Effort is being made at R.K.O. to obtain the.

rights to "The 11th Commandment," written by George Vadeo; as a possible picture for David Miller, director. Rosalind Russell has returned to Columbia studio to begin rehearsals for "My Sister Eileen." Word was received from Dorothy Lamour yesterday that she had sold $103,000 in bonds Sunday. She will be away five weeks on this campaign. "PROUD VALLEY" George Sklar, who has taken leave of absence from his Hollywood scenario duties. "Love and Lumbago," new farce by Ole Lind, will be given at the Malin Theater in W.

44th St. Friday and Sunday. Leonard Elliott, actor and night-club satirist, has been signed for several roles in Eugene S. Bryden's forthcoming repertory series. Friday night's preview of "The Walking Gentleman" at the Belasco hag been taken by the Pyramid League of New York.

DEBUT SLATED Ludmilla Pitoeff, French actress-manager, makes her American debut on the evenings of May 20 and 21 at the Barbizon-Plaza Theater in "The Tidings Brought to Mary," Paul Claudel play. The Barn "Priorities" dance team, will make a series of shorts this week, at their own Grand to Show 'Proud Valley' Starring Paul Robeson, "Proud Valley," a story of the Welsh coal miners, has been booked to open Friday at the Grand The ater. During the course of the film Robeson offers six songs with the assistance of the Eisteddfod Singers. III AVrDlllC 8 bdi SECRET YOUNG Itllll RDNT I Kraut im nn III IH imi.tHHtWW'KlHOU 1 LAST DAY fy.a A TOMORROW! fat) firiu 1 riBUluilt Alllttl ww )IIMU wmuil QthStoa? Cbcatcts Spoken Drama Mart Villain Has Film Role Nestor Paiva, Lawyer Cribbs of "The Drunkard" at the Theatre Mart, is spending his day at Universal, where he is playing a sinster role in "Broadway." Paiva says the word villain is from the Latin villanus, from villa, a village. Anyway, he is hunting for a song called "Hata Me and the World is Mine." Ha thinks it should be dedicated to him.

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CALL BOARD: Elizabeth Mc- Fadden's "Double Door," regarded as the ne plus ultra in the way of murder mysteries, is to follow immediately after Mol-nar's "The Swan," which opens May 6, according to Douglass Cooper. Readings will be held Sunday afternoon for "Double Door" at the theater. Among well-known players featured in "The Swan," under the direction of Bonnie Jean Tait, are Loti Lengyel, Herbert Tait, Ronald Leslie, Peggy Bashford and Jane Allen. NUT SHELL THEATER: Car-ol and Jodie Gray, the two engaging children who appeared in "Catch as Catch Can," are products of Symona' Boniface's Nut Shell Theater. They took part recently in "Splashes of Life" at the Nut Shell Theater and played in the same opus at the Defense House.

Jodie, the tinier of these two fascinators, is 5 years old and Carol is 7. MAX REIN1IARDT WORKSHOP: Samson Raphaelson's skittish comedy, "Skylark," is now casting at the Max Rein-hardt Evening Workshop. Celeste Grunn of the Junior Workshop group has "Spotlight Sadie" in rehearsal, with pretty little Jeanne Watkins, child actress, playing the name part of a little movie actress. Margene Nevill, a tiny charmer; Mala Powers and Roger Mandell are others fea-twred. "Ever Since Eve," the latest Florence Ryerson-Colin Clement comedy, is now being cast by the Junior teen-age group.

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