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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1935 Jane Withers Stars in 'Qinger' at the Music Hall Films in Brooklyn Cteile Wolff The Screen Radio Dial Log If I May Say So By JO HANSON -By WINSTON BURDETT- -By ARTHUR POLLOCK HEY arc nice people, the people of the United States of Amenca. Drama of Buccaneering Days to (ict Third Airing More News Dramatization Programs Other Air Events Jane Withers' First Vehicle, at the Music Hall New Films at the Albee, the Fox and the Strand which the victim is tied as a steel sword descends to slash his body. The only thing wanted is a crew of people on whom Mr. Lugosi can try out these machines. With thia in mind, he Invites the girl he loves, her fiance and her father, who has refused to sanction his passion for his daughter, to his home for the weekend.

In the middle of th enlght, he gets Karloff to drag tHem downstairs, and with his mighty repertoire of laughs, chortles, grins and grimaces in marvelous play, sonsigns them to death-dealing machines. The father takes the pendulum and the affianced pair to the "pit," i.e., the crushing room. This beautiful sadistic orgy is all spoiled, of course, because hideous Mr. Lugosi himself lands in the "pit" and his guests safe and sound. Obse radiolators must like dramas of buc After making allowance for the wisecracking precocity of her lines raneertng or eke NBC would not be offering "Morgan Sails th Caribbean." with Prank Black conducting, for tne third time in a year.

The drama, based on the epic poem by B-'rton Braley, will be routed over WJZ early next month in a night period, the two previous presentation! having been in the afternoon present setup on Radio Theater over WABC calls lor Helen Hayes to do "Bunty Pulls the Strings. Monday, July at 9 p.m.. and Wallace Beery in on the second of I As soon as you get out of New York City you begin to notice It. Down through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona to Calilomla.

they are easygoing humans never Impatient when you ask them to pause and tell you iur way, always polite. A friendly people Ask a man at Times Square which subway you ought to take to Brooklyn and you will see the difference at once. If the poppies blow red all over Frailer, the Black-Eed BuaalU carpet the fields of the Middle West and the thiMles grow blue and shoulder high even in some of the mofi barren places. And the people are like the flowers, smiling In spite of the aridity. Even in those gray towns In which the gas station provides the only touch of pretuness and modernity.

"How do you do, sir?" says the proprietor of a tourists' camp in Texas as another Texan drives up with hb wife. sure am glad to make your acquaintance, sir," replies the man in the car. "Can I look at your cabins?" "You sure can. sir," is the answer. He looks.

Apparently they do not strike his fancy. He starts nd the occasionally excessive dramatic burden she Is made to carry, one must recognize that Jane Withers, besides being sweet and adorable, can act as well. This, of course, is no news to those who saw the 8-year-old brunette in "Bright Eyes, perhaps the fact that she can be sweet and adorable is. There is In "Ginger" ns trace of the venomous brat who plagued Miss Temple In the earlier picture; Miss Withers is made to be eminently likeable and is provided with a story that, if too often sugary, is none the less rich in the qualities which make a vehicle. Her producers were obviously set on demonstrating that she Is a match 1 broa .1 of Ginjer' Wednesday.

It Will be none other rk spjonsors are lending con- than Pinky son of Hazel, aged 3. ears to any one with a good Richard Svihus 'the kids In the nrustrioo neighborhood call him Swiss it ideal sell. Rumors hlmsplf onK. a mm 4.vear.old. loat that both Ed Wynn Richard, we are informed.

Is a Mon.sor and Harry Horlick's darn good reader. He doesn't even chain hacker are keen about stumble on three-syllable words. Claude Rains, who has become a the a go specialist in supernatural horror. grc plays the title role of a vaudeville seer who falls under the influence of psychic woman and becomes a genuine prophet In "The Clalrvoy-: MUl Wulff it tiding in the rati of 'The Silver Rox nl Waller Harluig' OgUtt-quit Playhoute, OgUltquit, lucli op. neti a nc lor Shirley Temple in her blond rival's own field.

That they or rather Miss Withers have succeeded in this and made a thoroughly enjoyable picture, doesn't lessen one's disappointment that (hey should put her forward as a competitor when she has special talents all her own. But at least they have given her ample opportunity to try her wings in directions other than that of sentiment and her flights, taken individually, arc all successful save for those emotional crises, which of necessity, aeem several sizes too large for her. The body of the narrative Miss Withers carries almost by herself. She is ever before the camera and runs the gamut of childlike emo- i tions as well as some that aren't so childlike. She is alternately hoy-1 denish and lovable, gagging and de- She bops back to her old home Fox Brooklyn Theater.

9th Ave. and, of course, is happily doing a dramatized news series five Thev tel: Us h( nights a week in 15-minute period; own vl.ript on N. B. C. The typewriter sponsor will back That offstage commotion In the March of Time" on C.

B. this Merry Minstrels broadcast last Fall in a similar setup. time had something to do with the And. Judging the radio picture, it fllture conduct of the program, la looks like Ed Wynn will not be on luding a change in announcers the new oil show when it bows in Vincent Lopez and his orchestra Sept. 23 for the present tvpe of be8in a feries of CBS Pro8raiI show with Maestro Eddie Duchln is from Memphis, tomorrow, clicking aplenty.

I Thelma Nevins and Johnny Mor- ris continue as featured vocalists On the dotted line bright news with the Lopez orchestra Po-indeed about Alexander Woollcott hce Commissioner Lewis J. Valen- At the Albee Stage News prletor, "I sure am glad to have met you." I ask a waitress in a cafe the cafes, for all the lure of the word, are very disappointing, being merely bare lunchrooms if ahc knows what the temperature is today by the thermometer. I am interested. It ought to be hot but it doesn't seem so. Docs she know? "No.

SIR, I surely don't 1 ask another question. "Yes. sir, I surely dn IN SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, a drab little town, rusty and gray with dust, the waitress brings the check at the end of the meal, "I sure thank you," she says as she puts it face down upon the table. And when I came to the door of that restaurant forlorn cafe the night man on duty, a lanky youth, stepped forward to meet me, put his arm about my shoulder and said. Come right in, sir." And, all along the road from East to West, when you leave, the parting word is, "I sure hope you will stop in again, sir That's nice.

It makes you like your country. They are big people, too. the Texans, and the Californlans and the men and women of Arizona and New Mexico. Tall and lank, most of them, tall and heavy very many. And a good looking race.

The height and the heft belong to the women as well as the men, but the good looks, or so it seems to me, are the property more largely of the men. Height and heft become the women less. They seem gawky. Their bones and feet are altogether too large to suit my esthetic sense. It appears to be a peculiarity of the waitresses, too, mure; sne Dunesques ureta uarDo and Zasu Pitts and enacts the bal i The Hedgerow Theater in Rose 1 Valley, Pa begins its second annual Shaw festival Monday night in honor of its most popular play and Chief Inspector John WABC Sunday, Oct.

cony scene from "Romeo and Juliet' without making it ridiculous. What inspired the makers of "The wright's 79th birthday, Is usual in these demonstrations of i of infant skill, the character of the of 1 50 child is a rather fabulous mixture. Raven would be hard to say, but one can bo reasonably certain that it wasn't the poem of Edgar Poe, whose title they have appropriated. Having painted genuinely macabre portraits in "Crime Without Passion," "The Invisible Man" and "The Man Who Reclaimed Hist Head," Rains again presents an effectively sinister portrayal in this new Gaumont-British production. Rains' role is a vivid one, and he performs It with relish.

Again he i Is provided with a charcater that Is unusual and eccentric; and because of his performance he may be I classed as a melancholy genius. Miss Wray, whose experiences in "King I Kong" also place her In the eerie class, and Miss Baxter, are both satisfactory; while fine work in a minor role is contributed by Mary Clare as mother of the Great Max-lmus. Maurice Elvey's direction Is splendid. His handling of the tunnel dis-aster is realistic and powerful. A fast pace and no little tension pre- vail throughout the picture.

L. E. C. At the Strand James Dunn is appearing at the Brooklyn Strand this week in an MtnUslng comedy, "The Daring Young Man." Frequent outbursts of laugh- ter attested last night to the effect- iveness of the production, which Miss Withers' scenes are of three kinds, those in which she is precocious and amusing because pos The combination of Karloff and Lugosi must have been too much for them, and they evidently obliged to sessed of a sophistication beyond her years; those in which she is a child and charming for her childish ways and those where she really pile horror on silly horror in order timely and interesting debate on WEVD scheduled fur tomorrow. A debate on "The President's Wealth Tax Program." Speaking in support of the program will be Congressman Vito Marcantonio.

progressive of New York, and against this tax program the speaker will be Percy C. Magnus, president of the New York Board of Trade Gertrude Berg says that her newest radio script, "The House of Glass," Is due for a screening, with bids on hand from at least three motion picture producers gag forgive us): The two Dons on the Jack Ilenuv program, Bestor and Wilson, got Into a terrific argument over their fan mall. It got so terrible they tore the postcard in half. to justny the presence or two sucn master-fiends in a single picture. Seery and other police officials visited the police department of Boston recently for the purpose of examining the new two-way radio engineers installed.

While riding in the radio car in Boston. Commissioner Valentine asked to speak to one of his co-workers in New York and in less time than it takes to make an ordinary phone call. Valentine was talking with one ot his policemen in Manhattan. Commenting on his experience with the Boston two-way radio. Valentine said: "It is one of the marvels of the age.

It Is the most astounding experience I ever had. I'M going to thoroughly look into the two-way radio system when I get back. We haven't anything like it in New York." Valentine added that he would send Seery to Boston acis. sne acts, 1 am glad to report. ft is just possible, of course, that a great deal and with much vitality len little rouge is to be the waitresses there is leptly, all in one round them the air of girls ik very healthy.

I am sse women who live on and her comic sense is a lively one. "The Raven" does represent Universal idea of a plausible screei version of the Poe classic, for some to use the rouge badly. On most of the wot discovered, though they smoke freely. On not a great deal more. But they put it on spot like a puppet.

This Is unfortunate, glvi in the wrong profession. Otherwise they lr afraid they know very little about' beauty, tl the plains and in the mountains among writing for the stage. The festival will continue for nine days, during which time six Shaw plays will be i performed. The highlight of this year's celebration will take place next Friday, with the opening of "The Doctor's I Dilemma." the 10th Shavian play las well as the 113th addition to Hedgerow's repertory. This play, although written in 1906, is as po- tent today in its satire on the medical profession as it was then.

It will be repeated on Saturday and i the following Monday. The festivities open with "Heart-, break House," with "Arms and the Man" as the second offering. Other presentations will be "Saint Joan" on the 24th. and "Androcles and the Lion" and "Candida," playing the 25th and 30th respectively. 1 The Summer Theater at Stam Her part is that of an orphan child brought up by an alcoholic pains have been taken that the eerie bird should cast an at Shakespearean actor of the barnstorm era.

The sentiment is pro pheric shadow ovtr its events, but would be mete pleasant vided by her somewhat maternal aitachmfisi to this picturesque fig lieve that the titli of the film after all. a naftertoought. Follov of the "One Man' ure. When he is sent to jail Miss Withers is taken into the custody or no Poe, il a very tawdry tie iiii learn lha melodrama. Amon its attrac for the first time one of the may be rated as better than average Summer entertainment.

Chief hon- ins for a ten-day study of the new a series of cieath-traps built to Mr. Dunn, but to the the script will get on the air next AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN of a wealthy family and the subsequent story revolves about the conversion of the household to her boisterous ways and slangy speech. She greets the youngster in the home (Jack Searl), a bespectacled along lines sugges' id, we are told, by "The Pit and the Pendulum." Bela Lugosi, as a Poe-crazed doc- AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN humorous direction of the film and the Inclusion of several interesting situations. Mr. Dunn is genial as ford.

has engaged Lenore Ulric to play the starring role dur- YOU would expect the women of California to sense a little more of it, since in that State the sky and the water vibrate with alluring color and the fields and the door yards are breathtaking with the bright hues of strange flowers we never see in the East, flowers that seem to grow on high trees and spread all over the landscape. Or is it that nature, outdoing them, makes the women of California humble? I don't know. My impression is that California Is full of athletes, women athletes, men athletes, all friendly, contented, complacent, a little bovine. It's the climate, no doubt. They live in sunshine.

Nature is good. There is nothing more for them to do about it. They don't have to try hard at the and ably supported by Mae ng the week ot July 22 in "The other improvement on the poet's fancy, Mr. Karloff is provided with Clark. student, who practices on the han, with the words, "So yotrte studying to be an angel?" The tether silt Paradise.

a new nlav bv FEATURE FILMS SHOWING TODAY As the other half of a twin bin, brand new make-up more de vastating tha nany by which his the Strand offers "Alias Mary Dow," featuring Sally Eilers. The plot- Frederick Jackson, author of "The Bishop Misbehaves." The supporting cast includes Frederic Tozere, Franklin Heller. Cordelia Macclon-ald. Francis Pierlot. Betty Fouche, William Nichols, Georgia Graham.

cealed. It would be curious, some- fore deals with the kidnaping of a llvli child and the substitution, years me, to get god look at Mr. Kar- Bela Lugosi, it seems, has read too uch in the works of Poe. for be later, of a young lady at the aylna Eloise Eubank anc very respectable. The other night in the cook-e U.

S. Grant Hotel in San Diego a lonely radio an takes even more quick! into nor confidence and soon srw has prim Jack Searl riding down th banister. The lady of the house, who dabbles in children's problems, finally realizes through Miss Withers' antics that she knows nothing about them. After a few months in this company the child's distaste for high society gets the better of her and she sets out to find her "uncle," who has retreated from her life in order to give her a better chance. mother's bedside.

The mother, portrayed by Katharine Alexander, of sides keeping a dummy of the raven is desk, he has converted nis overs, the villain is van wohle cellar into an elaborate tor- quished. Miss Eilers gets her man and all turns out well. As if any chamber. There is a cruamng whose walls enclose to stifle ccupants, and a stone block to would expect anything else. I.

C. nouncer tried his best to get an edge on, wanting company badly. He was shunned. In the bar were only middle-aged ladles of the type one sees so often with guide books in Europe. They smoked, they drank quietly.

The poor boy who wanted to get drunk sat at the bar alone, trying to talk to some one. Every one avoided him. And when he came to talk to me, and whispered, "Let's you and me go out and have some fun!" the bouncer told him to be on his way, he was annoying people. He came back to me and apologized humbly. Yes, I'm afraid the people of California, Southern California, at least, are a little smug.

It's not their fault. It's nature's. Nature is enough. They are contented. Margaret Anglin opens a week's bfdford Em v1 Monday night at the oiio.

ami Ti.roop A Nlht tb, Rlt, ind Th. Cape Playhnu i Drum-. "i n.ni Hi Ivor Nrwllo's Mora comedy hit, "Fresh Fields." It is Uw'a Brcmn, Bm i h. 'the first time this play, which ran 1, MM Tn. pam cataaM i for 14 consecutive months in Eng- 00 Vi.

Ml" land, has been seen in this part 0f I Ntinai 730 Washington An Induration and th? vii.u the country and the Dennis en- Sar0T' BedIrd A- Lincoln rt. Becky sharp iln Min.m Hopkin, gagement is prior to Miss Anglin iRKO 4LB(iE Bojot'GH hau, and downtown opening in it on Broadway, in Oc- rumterUMb 6brl-od and' taMMmlpTi B'U Miss Anglin plays the part of ArncMtjj Lady Crabbe. an impoverished Eng. Mmrt, 590 Pui'on st cool and TraaalMt S3, lish gentlewoman who is reduced to I RKO, nd Sharp and Dai or Fiandfrj frnm s' :0" PhPP'a COOL Go Into Your Danra and Thf MratCTT at Today's Radio Program mHEY go in for education a quod deal, too. Seem I badly to improve their minds.

I don't know what to think of of mt verj Australia and America in Order to I rrrminal. Fourth Avt. and 'n M. Cardinal Rlrbfllon and Fndrr Iho Pamn pay her servants and maintain her Pulton st nd Mvrt: Wlr 'h tut. A.m,, Vnm America family home.

1 bofoi (in park them. Sometimes I think this is the real America, the 1 P.M. TO 7 P.M. think it is our country in its most stodgy Erecting the play, for which Eugene Fitsch made the settings. 8- th-New Utrecht Joan k--m Mnrt BEST BETS FOR THE EVENING 0- 6:30 Description running of the Classic Stakes, Arlington Park.

Chicago, WABC, WEAF. Symphony Concert from Lewisohn Stadium, Jose Iturbl, conductor, WOR. 0- 9:30 Goldman Band Concert from Prospect Park, WJZ 5- 9:00 From London: H. V. Kaltenborn, who interviewed Mussolini this week on "What Next for Italy?" WABC.

o- 9:30 Premiere, "G-Men." Dramatizations of authentic cases from Department of Justice flies, WEAF. Al Jolson presents Henry Hull, actor; Wilie Howard, comedian; Loretta Turnbull, champion outboard racer, others, WEAF. of the future, state of mind. I shouldn't succeeded in i The fact is that Calit.u'iiia ii i ii.r ra i inppendalo. Blossom Mac- bfnsonhfrst ngle real Califomian.

It seems they all Donald and Mary Sargent will sup-I Orienul. asth st'-iath Ave.j.; Cr.f.,d. Robert v. Mor. racuse, or Washington, or Montana or tne company wno appear in the bkk.iiihn hi tt he man from 125th St.

on the street east include Eda Heinemann, For- "rTnlt iu nLrni" E' San Diego Exposition. "How do you, rest Orr, Dorothy Blackburn, Dud- luxedo. cw.r. pv i.r Brxmou tmt mJJJ n. nJEftlfiLP'' resnretabilitv in California?" I ked.

Iey Hawle? and PhiliP Huston. Bl SHWICK come from Niagara Falls, 125th Manhattan. I car the other night going a New Yorker, stand this 1 he whispered be- AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN and The Nu.it, "I was converted by Aimee Semple Macphi 45 hind his hand. Thank heaven, I have spent an evening EAF NJaurlceBpitalnr 0 Adaptabie lo Modern der in Mexico. There is a little of the Latin touch there, iltlle anything' r.nirc ''w'' Can" hUni- a seat color, a little chic even, a little good wholesome humanly natural Yes, California needs some of the spice of si do rftVS THKATni ai '-cooled iK() f.

r. CJlSrK Um AWAKE ANdIInG nil wonder in Hollywood the movie actors throw wild partie: it in self-defense. AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN i.r 'T'V8'-' w'siV i LlMtfMlWZ CARL CARROLL I ViMllf Wit SKETCH BOOK -fKu-M M.rRlon'.'tul'l rbe'i'nereUon, CAHKFUU.Y COOLtD C.AHT inn ffiffij Borla Karlofl. The Bride o( Fr.nlteiwSbl Music News Church Avonu. a himik turns' I Two opera broadcasts from the Stage of the Festisplelhaus burg, Austria, during the Salzburg muse festival next month one to be conducted by Arturo Toscaninl and the other by Bruno Walter-are scheduled for broadcast by the N.B.C.

Mozart's "Don Giovar WJZ Children's llBJH ersonTappea i 'be heard on Thursday, Aug. 1. at 2:15 p.m., E.D.S.T.. over an N.B..C-WEAF network. The leading role will be sung by Dusolina Gm 10 P.M.

TO 1 A.M. Other principals in this prrlorrn.i: to be conducted by Bruno Wall I Poo's "THE RAVEN" I THt CHILDRtN HOUR titht 8tll. mm I BORIS KARLOFF BELA LUCoSI i I K.nj.a t- mr 1 or.ei (, r.r RldUnl will be Luise Helletsgruber. Lotte 0 WABC Jan Garber Schoene, lino uorgion, Lazzari and Ezio Pinza. The second broadcast WLWL Sports.

J. A. Bui WABC Press-Radio News. TtmTt oTif p.m." portion of Beethoven's "Fldelio," IK CAREFULLY COOLED A- B.iVvV i'rdrfa mV Matinee Adven.rOU,HN,P,ht, 9h" A I T. WU 4.i -it I i AVIM SLCIION midnight SHOW tonight ANDERSON MENKEN AvtNXii D'' The old maid fV? iw, Toscaninl conducting.

This heard from 2:15 to 2:45 pi Aug. 31. The cast selected ranlni includes Luise Helletsgruber, Lotte Lehman. Alfred Jerger. J.

V. Manowards, Richard Mayr and Helge Roswaenge. Alexander D. Richardson, organ WSl MATTSH JANE WITHERS in Qrhi. I I I "GINGER" i K'w'" v- Th "ia Or ist, will give a rental at the Brook lyn Museum on July 27.

Including music by Rogers Dvorak. Bizet Sibelius. Handel. Wagner and Liszt Joseph Wetzel, tenor, will assist AMUSEMENTS HROOK1.VN i -MmvwiHT showtom.hu Bet on Blondes" LONG ISLAND STEEPLECHASE FRONT DnfttUAuaaj" LU A TO I n.rr7 MW. m.m..

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