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DAILY NEWS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7. 45 SUBSTITUTE Hudson Theatre to Be "Legit" House Again Clark Gable was in second place, Rurreedinjr the late Will Rogers. The ten leaders: Shirley, Gable, Fred Axtaire and Ginger Rogers as a team, Taylor, Joe K. Brown, Dick Powell, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, lunette Macdonald and Gary Cooper.

LAUNCHES HALF-SIZE TOWNSEND PENSIONS Washington, D. Jan. 6 4'). A half-portion Townsend pension bill, providing maximum payments of instead of $200 monthly to persons more than 60 years old, was started on an uncertain coins through Congress today by Keprr sentative McGroarty STAGE PLAYS SHIRLEY TOPS BOX OFFICE FIELD AGAIN Shirley Temple, darling of the screen, was the biggest box-office attraction las-t year, according to a survey announced yesterday by the trade journal, Motion Picture Herald. It was her second consecutive year as the leader.

Robert Taylor, feminine heart throb, who was eighty-third in 1935, pulled up to No. 4 jwwiiljon. STAGE PLAYS Opening Tonight "The Eternal Road," much postponed Max Reinhardt spectacle, is again scheduled to open tonight at the Manhattan Opera House. Curtain at 8:30. p-ZI 111 I 66 Peppermiir 99 A Small Revue By Erika Mann (Reprinted from yesterday's late editions) By BURNS MANTLE.

Erika Mann, the tall, dark daughter of Thomas Mann, novelist, recently exiled from Germany, aided by a sextette of her professional friends, staged a sort of lyceum vaudeville at the Chanin auditorium last night. "The Peppermill" she called it, and there are credits indicating that it has been given in Europe a matter of a thousand times. Which would seem to indicate that parts of Europe must be in a pretty bad way for entertainment. The title is presumed to suggest a seasoning of sorts. It is, I regret 4o report, season- Erika Mann definitely foreign to our taste.

A frankly amateur entertainment at best. Yi 1 isa Selznick iie-Puiicli ai ays Filiiilaiid If it isn't the Columbia Broad- casting Company taking over a legitimate theatre from a manager, it's a manager taking over a legitimate theatre from the C. B. S. Today it is Manager Sam H.

Grisman mho is about to restore the comfortable" old Hudson Theatre to the uses of the drama. This play-bouse has been a broadcasting studio for a number of years. Grisman, producer of "Tobacco Road," will occupy the Hudson Feb. 2 and will seek to rent it to ether managers. He has no play projects of his own.

With Jack Kirkland he also the operator cf the Forrest Theatre, where "Tobacco Road" is playing. A season ago C. B. S. operated the Avon, Little and Hudson Theatres as studios.

The Little lias gone back to the legit and Ane Nichols and it is reported that the Avon will be released within a few months. But a week cr so ago, the broadcasting company took over the Golden Theatre, causing John Golden to move a few doors into the Masque, and it has operated Hammerstein's Manhattan Theatre since the beginning of the season. Add to Broadway's hospital news: Francis Cleveland, son of the late President Grover Cleveland, has replaced Charles Trexler as Lord Byron in "Aged 26," Trexler being ill with pneumonia Illness of Sir Cedric Hardwicke caused cancellation of Tuesday right's performance of "Promise," but Sir Cedric was on deck again last night. Leila Bliss and Harry Hayden, who operate a theatre in Hollywood, have invaded New York with the intention of producing here a play called "Thirsty Soil," by Raymond Bond. Maude Allen, Norman Crawford and Virginia Carroll, who were in the play in Hollywood, will be in the cast here.

An associate in the venture will be E. John Brandeis, an Omaha theatre man. The WPA Federal Theatre, which has been consolidated and simplified, now has only twenty-three plays in rehearsal. These include "Dr. Faustus," "Native Ground," "The Sun and "Processional," "No More Frontier," "Power" and "Sun Up." "Dr.

Faustus" will open tomorrow night Maxine Elliott's. IN LEADING ROLE Rex O'Malley will have the leading role in a farce by Lula Voll-mer, which the Laurence Rivers office will place in rehearsal within two weeks. There is no title now, but a few weeks ago it was "Calling All Squirrels." GIRL GOLFER WEDS London, Jan. 6 (U.R). Joyce Wethered, famous golfer, was mar-Tied today to Sir John Heathcoat Amory at St.

George's Church in Hanover Square. Many persons prominent in society and sports attended. DRAPER DATES Ruth Draper has added a couple ef dates to her New York engagement. She will give a matinee this afternoon and an evening performance Sunday at the Morosco Theatre. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS Luncheon Yeal Cutlet Choice of Two Fresh Vegetables Roll and Buffer .35 Bits for Ailing Star in Long-Run Comedy.

CLAIRE CARLETON was drafted last night to replace the ailing Shirley Booth in "Three Men On a Horse." It wasn't one of those last-minute affairs in which an actress had to get up an entire role in ten or twelve minutes, because Miss Carleton played Miss Booth's role for eight months in the London company of the Cecil Holm comedy. there was an astonishing absence of talent of any discernible quality. This judgment, however, is based on the first nine numbers only. Miss Mann, a reader of poetry in her own right, and an actress of credited achievement in Germany, served as her own mistress of ceremony. She gave the evening such touches of literateness and lucidity as were revealed.

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on me suo- ject. "Absolutely nothing to say," he said. Selznick declined to state whether he had even seen a man named Charles Glore, said to be socially prominent in Chicago, whom Hollywood folk maintain he put to sleep with one punch. Present! at the party were Claudette Colbert and her husband, Dr. Joel Pressman; Joan Bennett and her husband, Scenarist Gene Mar-key, Madeleine Carroll, blonde English actress, Robert Ryskind, scenarist, and a number of studio executives.

The story circulating in the movie colony is this: The film people were sitting at a table when Glore, uninvited, came over and sat down. Selznick, as host of the group, asked him to leave. Glore's reply stirred the Hollywood group to action. Several of the movie men sprang to arms, but it was Selznick who reached Glore first and knocked him out. 1MB niTHWnBBI I I I LOW-DOWN BURLESK IN A TOP-HAT miMSICY'S ORIENTAL fc'WAY NEAR 51ST Genuiae kat MINSKY BURLESK INmrt Paafc laaaa CI F-4I4J Hrw Ska-a, M.aala tto Sal.

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