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"AUGUST 29, 1937. PART III. 3. SUNDAY MORNING NEW OFFERINGS NEWS OF STAGE AND SCREEN FILM INFORMATION 11 Vogues Proves Hit in New York Pilgrimage Play Enters Final Week Fifteenth Season of Famed Bible Drama to End Next Sunday 4 tUMUUU 1V.IU1C as Unique; "Topper" Wins High Praise BY NORBERT LUSK NEW YORK, Aug. 28.

(Exclu pi i 'fj give) Walter Wanger's "Vogues of 1938" rings the bell on several nth i WSMMmMSSSSSS 1 tec. counts, not the least of which is its appeal to audiences which fill to overflowing Radio City Music Hall. Not alone because 1 A 1 4.1.. 1 stimulating color photography irH f4 -jlliliilil ini iiiiilimiaiwlijam 1 the screen has capmrea hut because it is the only pic ture that qualifies as a forecast of fashion. At the same time its "message" is conveyed with freshness and originality, tne usual narade of mincinff.

swav- GEORGE MURPHY AND ELEANOR POWELL That's why "I'm Feelin' Like a Million," sings Murphy to Miss Powell as they sit in the park in "Broadway Melody of 1938," current at the United Artists and Fox Wilshire. SONJA HENIE AND TYRONE POWER Pretty skating teacher at an Alpine resort meets handsome Prince, traveling incognito, in "Thin Ice," coming to the screen Wednesday at Loew's State and Chinese. Ing mannequins missing from a spectacle that has taste ana i beauty. UNIQUE FILM Seven performances remain in the fifteenth season of the Pilgrimage Play now showing in its original outdoor theater in the hills of Hollywood. Out-of-town visitors have continued to wend their way in an actual pilgrimage to the renowned Biblical drama, according to Lloyd D.

Mitchell, general manager, who said the list of visitors tops any previous season. Final performance will be given one week from tonight The impressive drama has elicited praise from the thousands who have attended during the past six weeks. The naturalness and humanness of the interpretations have been- especially noted by audiences. Robert G. Vignola has directed the play this season, winning the plaudits of critic and layman alike.

The extraordinary lighting effects were developed by Adrian Awan, technical director. The cast, of 100 is headed by Nelson Leigh, who portrays with fine taste the role of Jesus of Nazareth. He is supported by the following principals: BeMtr Blythe, Mildred Wheat, Janet Scott, Montague Shaw, Wayland Parisia, David Henderson, Robert White, Stanley Price, Dr. Cleveland Kleihauer, Dorothy Fay Southworth, Claire McDowell, Lafayette McKee, Harry Burk-hardt, Claude Gilbert," Lowden Adams, John 1 James Welch, Sam Glasse, Mack Williams, Roy Ben Bess, Charles Bates. ODD AND INTERESTING Town Called Hollywood It also has a story that while unimportant is substantial enough to interest the spectators BY READ KENDALL in the characters, inform him of the dressmaknig racket, at least Tommy Lyman sends word that he is still heading the show at Houses get the personality of those who live in them.

Neil some of its nicer phases, and to The Oaks in New York Hamilton is finding out now that he's moving back into the home lift the picture above the category of a mere fashion show. In short, unusual discrimination is Grace Moore will- visit Benito which he rented to Greta Garbo Mussolini in Rome' on her European tour at his request evident in every department of OLYMPE BRADNA Little Olympe Bradna, who came to Hollywood froiti the Parisian "Folies Bergere" two years ago, plays opposite George Raft in "Souls at Sea" at Paramount Theater. the enterprise and the picture emerges as the only one of its kind, vastly superior to any- thing that has gone before. With all his horror make-ups, Harvey Stephens comments, Boris Karloff hasn't dared the ultimate making up to look like There's an air of mystery about the place, he admits, which has him a bit baffled. The first few days he spent in untacking the shades and removing the blinds This, in brief, is the sum of Continued from First Page his men could turn out.

The breakaways were carved out of yucca then, yucca being a feather-light wood which splintered beautifully when somebody was konked on the bean. There is a scarcity of it now, due to forest fires, and most studios use balsa instead. Mr. Cushing's commerce is mainly with the independents, although Paramount, Radio and others still think of him in" a pinch. "My overhead is less than the studios'," he said, "but I pay my men the same union scale." LARRY SEMON, BUSTER Keaton, Lyons and Moran, the Hallroora Boys, Lloyd Hamilton, Jack White, the Stern Brothers and most of charged.

When they emerge, they're or anything else parents want to make of them. YOU'LL PROBABLY BE hearing about Dr. Eugene G. Steinhof, if you haven't already. He's an authority on color who's been giving courses at University College but it's likely he'll be more famous for a new system of illumination, make-up and treatment of sets he has devised for color films.

Dr. Steinhof has embodied his idea in a color stage, the most notable feature of which, he says, is its flexibility a stage illuminated by a central unit capable of changing the color of all or part of the stage as desired, of balancing light and shade, and of which the lady of mystery kept HOLLYWOOD LABORATORY TESTS "HUMAN GUINEA PIGS" tightly closed. One little souvenir critical opinions, except that one or two reviewers comment oq the predominance of evening costumes in the style forecast to a passport photo. Balks Against Using Substitute Conductor Recording of the musical numbers for Lily Pons's new of Garbo's habitation, which Hamilton says he will preserve, the exclusion of a complete range is some writing on the dressing-room wall where have been re Continued from First Fage of clothes. BENNETT PKAISED Performances are of a high or picture ceased when she refused acts in pantomime whatever corded some dates and figures that imply weights.

Evidently Garbo kept careful track of her "Our next step, the most difficult of all, is to introduce the subject to himself call it spiritual surgery, ego building or whatever. It is a program of to accept a substitute to replace der, Joan Bennett being credited comes to his mind tragedy or comedy in response to the scene before him. (With Miss Gill we Andre Kostelanetz, who planed with a singularly real and con Actress Has Pen Name Goodee Montgomery writes under the pen name of Donna vincing character of far more used a man sitting, head In correction, a breaking down of poundage with her private scales. Seep Watch on Vacation to New York for a radio broadcast. Miss Pons explained that "Kostie" had arranged her musical numbers and had con depth than was looked for in a hands, at a table.

Her reaction fashion film, while the breath was instinctively tragic.) The taking loveliness of Helen Vin only sound is a metronome tick son almost cancels the feline 1 ing its purpose to upset the sub ducted her so long that she would not be at her best. He will return tomorrow Phil Regan came out with a bloody quality of the character she complexes and Inhibitions, arrived at by what we have learned from all the previous tests. One girl, for instance, always had a 'prop smile, traceable to the embarrassment of wearing braces on the teeth at an early age. We broke her of ject's intellectual pattern. plays.

Of course, Warner Bax "This sDontaneous, unpremedi ter, long since a critics favorite. nose in a night-club brawl scene tated camera test is followed During what has been one of the busiest working periods of her screen career, Irene Dunne has kept her Alaskan vacation plans as the bright spot of the future. She has a chart with numbered squares and every night she crosses off another la thought also to gain from for his new picture Na YOUNG AMECHEjl after a twenty-minute rest by a second. The subject has now color, and Mischa Auer becomes more youthful in front of the that been allowed to consider the sit Technicolor cameras. All in all "The last step is an easy one: The business of superficial design in clothes, make-up and so L0UE IMDER FIRE" than Friedman, the Hollywood lawyer man, returned from his New York vacation with a new bride Ann Sothern, visiting her husband in Chicago, got the picture is a tremendous hit on.

It is the finishing touch." date with a red pencil. There are still 100 days to go Porter Hall points out that an elevator operator has his up and downs. and will be held over. TOPPER" POPULAR I "Topper" likewise is a review lost and asked for directions at a Mack believes that 25 per cent of the people are potential actors and actresses. A good many of uation carefully, and must react to it in the opposite manner comically, if the first action was tragic, or vice versa.

A third test Is the re-enactment of the first but consciously improving on it or changing the concept entirely. This is to show us how the subject intellectual- WILDandWOOLLY ers' favorite at the Capitol. -Its England has its Epsom Downs. Paramount studio has its up and them may have places in his fu fire station. All the firemen wanted to know about Hollywood and Ann was rewarded for her stories with a ride on the hook and ladder to a real fire.

originality and wit, fascinating trick photography and bubbling! downs, too. Virginia Van Upp is under contract, and Johnny ture "Americana." They don't know it yet but stranger things have happened. whimsicality endear it to audiences, too. Roland Young is izes. Downs is an actor Hollywood's most unusual stand-in is Jack Parker, a devout reader Strange Calls considered perfect, Constance Bennett is said to give her best VAUDEVILLE BEST TRAINING of English classics, with the man Prove Annoyance performance and Cary Grant EWORLD NO ADVANCE in PRICES! Owinj to the trtnanJout ner of an Oxford graduate, al comes off with flying colors as Because of a series of funny though he has never been abroad.

GROUND FOR FILM COMEDIANS a light comedian who gams in adroitness and easy charm, while telephone calls, Gracie Fields He reveals he picked up his Billie Burke again plays with went down to the Sheriff's office and obtained a permit to carry a 1 inurtit in "Thin lea wa skill. The picture could easily Though the dearth of new tal gun Shirley Ross's insurance company ordered her to fill another week but the the ater is due to close for renova English speech and his Interest In the classics while working as stand-in for most of -the noted English actors who have come to Hollywood. Currently he is serving as such for Walter Pid-geon at Universal. for those who seek the laugh trade that is to 'play' every club, every social gathering, to learn by trial-and-error route what comedy is." ent with training has been answered in some measure by the scores of "little theaters," Irving arj you to toma aarly for ckoica ititil cut out taking flying lessons from tion and refurbishing to welcome Cummings declares that the next Broadway Melody of 1938." OLD-FASHIONEtt FILM couple of years will show the Eddie Anderson, the assistant director Michael Broderick, who writes poetry for high-class magazines, is really Kitty most pressing demand the screen the Strand, is Piano Noise has known for the type of come neered at 'by some but the ap Kelly, the comedienne Earl Felton, the writer, has thir dian formerly developed by vaudeville. ALLAN JONES Swashbuckling young Spanish grandee in "Firefly" ot Four Star Theater.

BEN BLUE Supplies comedy in "High, Wide and screening at the Carthay. peal of the picture i3 recognized by the majority of critics. Of "With musicals now such box- ty-seven radios scattered around his home Director Frank Stumps Him Speaking of unrewarded effort, consider the case of Rufe Davis, who was signed by B. P. Schul-berg for "Blossoms on Broadway." Generally regarded as one course, the story Is theatrical and old-fashioned, but as "Stella "Dallas" preceded it and won high McDonald and his wife, Goodee Montgomery, sojourned at En-senada for a spell Lana favor, with "Madame soon to Turner, who used to go out with Smallest Actor in Picture Needs Boy for Stand-in Ernest Truex, conscious of the fact that he will never reach the heights of a Gary Cooper, does boast of one distinction which sets him apart from other actors.

He is the only featured player in motion pictures who needs a 10-year-old boy for a stand-in. Reason is that the actor is five of the best of imitators, Davis follow, why shouldn't Kay Francis have a tussle with stagy mother love, too? confesses after thirty-five years i There is no more ingratiating Wayne Morris, put in an appearance at the Hawaiian Paradise with Charles Howard Leif Erickson and his wife, Fran of unmitigated effort he has failed in the supreme goal of his life, I.e., the ability to imitate every Instrument in the average orchestra. He cannot make a ces Farmer, own a boat again and they dock it at Balboa Carole Lombard purchased the entire wardrobe that Travis Ban-ton designed for her in "Nothing Sacred." noise like a piano Billy and Beverly Bemis art off to Chicago to an engagement at the famous Chez Paree office leaders, the comic who can get laughs without depending upon the story situations to carry him is in a position to name his own price," says Cummings, now directing "The Merry-Go-Round of 1938" for Universal. "Look at Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Cantor, Burns and Allen, the Marx Brothers, and so on. "These are the experts in evaluating what we may call 'vaudeville' comedy.

They know what is sure-fire, through their lng experience in working in back of the footlights. They know that a matinee audience might 'roll into the aisle' over a gag that an, evening crowd would sneer at, that a scream in New York might be received like a mother-in-law in In motion pictures, just as in radio, they're able to weave all the angles into a happy medium. "Vaudeville has been the only training ground. Now that it has faded, there is only one course feet, two Inches tall smallest keeping complexions "constant." There's a lot more, all based on the doctor's theory that the trouble with color pictures now Is not with the various processes, which are coming along okeh, but with our reactions to them. We are seeing the colors as they are, maybe, but not as we want to see them.

And there's a difference. For instance: In a recent outdoor film, a white dog lay in the shadow of a green tree, which made the dog appear green. This, says Dr. Steinhof, happens to be an absolutely natural fact but the spectator knows a green dog is nonsense, and will have none of him. He wants to recognize his illusion of a white dog AS a white dog natural or not.

"So that's the problem of color," Steinhof concludes. "To create an illusion of the real NOT reality." man to get prominent screen billing and exactly twelve and one-half inches under Cooper, whom he supports in "The Adventures of Marco Polo." tar, none who appeals more strongly to the feminine picture-goer, and, if she does not stir the deeper emotions of the critics, at least Miss Francis never gives her public short measure in the matter of clothes and costume changes. Here she adds wigs to her protean equipment, so there is virtually nothing lacking. It is a rich production sustained by admirable acting on the part of everyone. Especially fine is Basil Rathbone, as usual, and the second appearance of Jane Bryan confirms the pronounced impression made in her first picture.

She is hailed as an ingenue of uncommon depth and sensitivity. Mary Maguire also gives the impression of charm and skill in a small role. The picture is tloing excellent business and will remain a second week. Comedienne Signed the other oldtimers were on Gabe and Cushing's books. Not all the prop3 they manufactured were breakaways.

Mr. Cushing is proudest of a canvas bull he threw together for $15 on an hour's notice, for a burlesque called "Mud and Sand." And only recently, Warners wanted a bowing mike, in a hurry. Yes, just that: a microphone on a stand which would genuflect as required. Mr. Cushing got around that one by rigging a piece of garden hose with a movable rod through it.

During prohibition there was a terrific run on phoney five and ten-gallon crocks, fake bathtubs, and all the naturally comical paraphernalia of bootlegging and home brew. When sound came in, breakaway bottles could no longer be made of the usual wax, which emits a feeble plop! and plaster had to be substituted. Plaster tinkles. With sound, too, dawned the decline of slapstick; and one fateful day Mr. Cushing carted away $1000 worth of obsolete props to the Junk yard.

Today his specialty is really copperplatlng cop 1 a busts and copperplate baby shoes. Parents who want to preserve baby shoes bring them to him, and he exposes them to a process similar to that by which batteries are Radio studio has exercised its option on the continued services of Helen Broderick, comedienne, 1, Jm'AX 0-t currently enacting a featured role in "The Life of the Tarty." I if mm mm ml mmz. i ii A tii u.mt Ill 11X 0.. JL- Tunesmiths Busy 1 After listing seventy-two song ideas" for "Rebecca of Sunny-brook Farm," their current assignment at Twentieth Century-Fox, Tunesmiths Lew Pollack and Sidney Mitchell will select four to be completely developed for Darryl Zanuck'8 approval. 2Jttn isunnt i I JAIYIUtL UULIWTN BARBARA STANWYCK RSEWS JEROME KERN 4 OSCAR HAMME1 II ,1 II I 4Vt no riATun 2 GREAT II The JONES FAMILY Amartca'i NLf 1 Fmlly nlf ptlitlet Ifulh tlckttl ALAN HALE IARIARA O'NEIL I (V ScrMntUr VictM Hhom tot Sink Y.

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