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1 1 Ml BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1936 Katharine Cornell Stars in "Wingless Victory" More New Films Arrive Ml In "All Editions" In (Born to Dance? The Theater The Screen ii ARTHUR POLLOCK; WINSTON BXJRDETTa A 1 Karloff Thriller Heads Bill at Brooklyn Strand Boris Karloff, the master of horror, in "The Man Who Lived Again," heads the double-feature program beginning today at the Brooklyn Strand Theater. Sharing the pro gram is James Dunn in "Come Closer, Folks," with Marian Marsh and Wynne Gibson. "The Man Who Lived Again" presents Karloff as a famous doctor to whom the entire scientific world bowed til he started talking about transferring the mind, which he called the thought content of the brain, from one body to another. He was driven out of Genoa for his crazy ideas, and in London they laughed and hooted so loudly that they drove him mad. "Come Closer, Folks" Is the story 'College Holiday with Jack Benny, Is the New Musical at the Manhattan Paramount 'Jungle Princess' Opens at Rialto If you would like to see Oracle Allen, dressed as a Greek goddess, race a railway train in a four-steed chariot, or Martha Raye, as a sort of feminine Samson, knock Jack Benny for a loop or, for that matter, Mr.

Benny himself trying hard to pass It all off with one of his inimitable wisecracks, then your theater this Christmas week Is the Manhattan Paramount. "College Holiday" is full of high comedy scenes like this. Armed with her little slingshot, Miss Allen plasters the faces of her fellow players with marshmallows, while Miss Raye displays her biblical strength by toppling over a temple stage set with a mighty heave of her right arm. Meanwhile, the screen swarms with members of Hollywood's I-' Kr Katharine Cornell Appears at the Empire Theater in Maxwell Anderson's 'The Wingless Victory' Katharine Cornell, eager, eloquent and rich In loveliness, Is back on the New York stage, returning this time In one of the acid and beautifully worded plays of Maxwell Anderson, "The Wingless Victory." It began to play at the Old Empire Theater last night, whither It may not attract crowds forever, though it cannot help but draw those who like to savor the choicest of the theater's fruits. Miss Cornell plays with that warmth and consuming earnestness that are invariably hers; Mr.

Anderson, who adventures further and more felicitously Into the English language than any other writer for the American theater, spins brusque and bitter and beautiful words for her and her players. younger set saucy Eleanore Whlt-o Mr. Anderson can be angry with out getting upset and so when, as of one of those street corner salesmen who sell anything to anybody as long as they keep ahead of the police. To Film Kant or Novel Purchase of motion picture rights to "Arouse and Beware," MacKlnlay Kantor's novel, Is announced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Another acquisition by the same company is "You'll Be Married by Noon," original story by Harry Ruskin, which Sam Zimbalist will produce.

ney, bouncing Johnny Downs, Marsha Hunt and innumerable others who sing, dance and declare their freshman loves in a string of pallid ditties. Chalk the film up as Just another college extravaganza, with tunes that are barely passing tie. it Gladys Griswold in the new play at the Longacre. and humor that rates a rather low D. 'College Holiday A Paramount vioture.

produced Harlan Thompson; directed br Frank Tuttle from a icreen plar by J. McBvor, Harlan Ware, Henrr Meyers and Jar Oorner: sonss by Ralph Rainier, Leo Robin, Burton Lane and Ralph Freed; presented br Adolph Zukor at the New York Paramount Theater with the lollowlni cut: J. Davit Bowtter Jack Benny Oeorte Hymen Oeorge Burna Calliope Dove Oracle Allen Carola Oavt Mary Boland Daisy Schlonenheimer Martha Raye Sylvia Smith Marsha Hunt Eleanore Wayne. Whitney Dick Winters Lelf Erlkaon Johnny Jones Johnny Downs Felice L'Hommedleu. Bradna Barry Taylor Louis Da Pron State Hand Ben Blue Hercules Dove Etlenne Olrardot 'The Wingless Victory' A play by Maxwell Anderson.

Presented by Katharine Cornell at the Empire Theater. Staged by Guthrie McClintic. Settings and costumes by Jo Mielziner. THE CAST A Oirl Mary Michael Rev. Phlneas McQueston Kent Smith Jared Muruo Arthur Chatterton Winston Urquhart.

John Wlnthrop Mrs. Shannon Ruel McQueston. McCormlck Venture Lois Jameson Faith Insalls Ruth Matteson Happy Penny Barry Kelly Letty Theodora Pleadwell Nathaniel McQueston Abel Oparre Katharine Cornell Toala Helen Zelinsltaya Dunan Claire Howard Harry John Winthrop Van Zandt Victor Calton Longshoreman Franklin Dlvls rather neatly alternated between hair-raising dramas of the grande passion full of wiggling hourls, and equally halr-ralslng murders. Last week we had Mr. Karloff, this week we have Miss Lamour.

Both leave From all the hubbub there emerges something like a story, a blend of undergraduate romance and eugenics. It appears that a crackpot professor has Induced a silly millionairess Mary Boland to sponsor his back-to-the-Oreeks program, which is to be effected by a process of scientific mating. Jack Benny, an Impecunious band leader, imports to California what he calls WW. us practically speechless. zan himself.

Miss Lamour has a way with tigers as well as men and she romps through these fiendish jungle passes as much at home as you and I are in a Brooklyn parlor. Miss Lamour Is seen as Ulan, a dainty gal, for whom Paramount have constructed a really terrifying Jungle in which the wild beastics roar and things go flop In the night and man alone remains cool as a cucumber. Her explorer admirer, however, la anything but cool. Ulan rouses all his primitive, manly passion. "Jungle Princess" marks the occasion of the Rlalto's first anniversary.

The screen of the Rialto is WILLIAM GILMORE. show, which features Kenny Sar MOTION PICTURES gent, Miriam Verne, "Katherine Conklin and Sylvia Froos. a iitiYiJiiinu Eleanor Powell and Jamet Stewart in the musical film which will share the program with 'Plying Hostess at Loevfg Metropolitan starting tomorrow. in "The Wingless Victory," he decides to lift the skin off the Christians of New England In 1800 and show the horrid humans underneath he does it with the cold, sharp edge of thorough, apt and penetrating words. They are the New England-era of Salem, a parson and his mother, a number of elders of the church and all the smaller, equally pinched fry of a town which, though its ships sail all over the world and home again, has few minds In it that have ever traveled or learned anything except by gossip and a perverted understanding of the Bible.

They are full of mean-Bess and sin and rotten, pious words. The Rev. Fhineas McQueston's young brother, an articulate boy who hasn't yet amounted to anything at all In their eyes, is telling them off In stinging suave phrases In the first act and ends his talks with the disturbing news, dropped In the dried ears of his mother and his brother, that that other and wilder brother who went off to sea seven years before is coming back (n a five-masted ship, his own, laden with precious spices to make htm rich and help them out of the respectable penury Mo which they have fallen. They hat t.im but his wealth will make not entirely unwelcome. But there Is more news.

It seems he has on board two dark-skinned women, heathen In fact, and two children, dark and his own, and If he isn't married to both of them he's married at least to one. The reverend brother says they shan't enter the house, the dark women. The mother, more practical, says they shall. They do and live to die of it. For the town is full of hate of them, hate of them as heathen and as people of a different color.

The elders and the judges and the mer At the Rialto "JTJNOLS a Paramount picture, produced by S. Lloyd Sheldon; directed by William Thlela: screen play by Cyril Hume, Oerald Oeraihty and Oouvenneur Morris; from a story by Max Marcln; presented at the Rialto Theater with a cast Including Dorothy Lamour, Ray Mllland. Aklm Tamlrod, Lynn Overman and MoUy Lamont. The Rialto Theater with tactful foresight has seen fit to present us with a drama of nudity and the South Seas at this time of year when all we New Yorkers have are the pool and sun lamps of the St. Oeorge Hotel.

"Jungle Princess" brings Dorothy Lamour to town, a creature fit to be the mate of Uar- the "cream of the college crop" ostensibly to further the professor's mating experiments but actually in order to throw a collegiate minstrel show which, he hopes, will get his doddering business out of the red. How the Greek program is defeated by the spirit of modern jazz and how the college boys and girls contrive to select their mates in the time-honored, non-sclentlflc fashion this furnishes the story. Martha Raye does her acrobatic burlesques and Miss Allen, as the girl with the perfect mind in the perfect body, races all over the place in quest of a modern Apollo Belvedere and this supplies the humor. Miss Raye is really an engaging clown when she isn't made to shout too much, and Mr. Benny Is an able master of ceremonies when he is given a story he can get away with, but as It is he actually has to apologize for this one.

Perhaps Mr. Benny feels as we do about it. If we must have these college musicals, let the co-eds be as modern as they please but let them, at least, keep it above the level of a campus brawl. Glen Gray and his Casa Loma orchestra head the Paramount stage to sing-song. But Nathaniel Is a hollow fellow good enough only to be defeated and perhaps Mr.

Abel is shrewdly cast. Myron McCor-mick has more luxuriant talents, a crisp speech, precise and agile movements. He can act. He plays the younger brother. Kent Smith is the cold, implacable Phineas, Effie Shannon the more plastic but still icy mother, Ruth Matteson an expressive friend of the unfortunate family.

crisis brings one of the play's most striking scenes. She is finer, nobler than all of these little people put together. She goes. She goes on board the ship that will take her away, faces there at night the future, a future that will find her two little daughters unable ever to be anything better than inmates of brothels somewhere In the East, since that can be the only lot of half-castes. She gives them black hemlock to drink and drinks it herself, dying at the feet of Nathaniel when, tormented by love of her and contempt for himself, he comes to tell her he will go away with her.

Perhaps Mr. Anderson is a little obsessed with his rare gift for giving words a meaning, for long, full speeches, spending more time on the ideas of his characters than on the characters themselves. It is a pleasant obsession to find in a playwright these days, but one not too well calculated to make his plays reach the widest audiences. It Gable, Crawford Named For 'Saratoga' Leads Clark Gable and Joan Crawford have been selected by Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer to co-star in "Saratoga," an original story by Anita Loos and Robert Hopkins, which Bernard Hy-man will produce. Gable and Miss Crawford last appeared together In "Love on the Run," and previously were co-starred in "Forsaking All Others," "Possessed" and other vehicles.

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Men 6.So. Loses It. 10 Powerful drama. man and a woman love so deeply that fear ii conquered by their and hate defeated by their souls. PLAZA 58.

If HDUinUil am Sai YIDDISH THEATERS grows more and more interested In the souls of his fellow human beings. And his fellow human beings in an age that likes to think of itself as sophisticated prefer less soul and more concrete excitement. Miss Cornell attempts no accent for her Malayan, giving her the purest, simplest speech, letting It suit the purity and wise simplicity of the woman's thought. She looks the dark princess, understands her, has all her compassion, all her courage, all her force. If she remains still Katharine Cornell, she does so without missing any of the character's meaning, losing any of its loveliness and appeal.

Walter Abel has come back from the postures of Hollywood to try by postures to seem to be the bold Nathaniel of the play. Nature made him for simple roles. Given the Job of being picturesque, dashing, he can only walk with long steps, stand with one foot extended before the other and Intone in a loud voice. For shading he changes from talk chants and the mere neighbors are glad to borrow the money of Nathaniel, the dashing brother come home, repaying him only with contempt and hatred for his wife. Bhe is a gentle, educated Christian, a Malay princess, who knows at once what this Christian world holds for her.

One Winter serves to spoil the happiness she and Nathaniel hoped to find here in his home, the love that came home with him. The folk of the town are too much for him. Though be detests his own people, curses them, defies them, he begins to hate, while still loving, his dark wife. And when the elders and the judges and the other good people of Salem discover that he came by the ship he owns not altogether properly according to law, they get him Into so tight a corner that he aides with them when they tell her to go back where she came from, back wherever she can find room to live In the China Seas. That New Yiddish Ml i Mnsleal Cl I THfATOf tun mm 1ml iHOPHmomm iRCllM DENI mm, iushwick i 4 Ywrr, prospect Iill!" ICilEE i iMiGMMM greenpoint i BARBARA 4 GfV (Ml'lIJlJ STANWYCK McCREA 4 t9At STRAND P' i IK -iff CP A WARNER I 1 mvou BAXTER 1 rx JUNE LANG eota'r ,1 "White 1 HUNTER" i zv--r7-zz 1 QUINTUPLETS i mmnm2m --JK.

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8:0. FIRST MAT. XMAS DAY, 1:40 Bfilfln AHERnE UT fTlSllaalO mciisur, WllU WILFRID EVA LUCILE LAWS0N LE GALLIENNE WATSON GUILD Bid W. of Broadway MOTION PICTURES Mats. TODAY and 1:40.

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KAUFMAN aad EDNA FERBER Uh MARGARET SULLAVAN Starts TOMORROW UNITED ARTISTS ROVO LA Mf'SIC BOX 4.1th VY. ot B'way B'way at 49th St Midnita Showi, Mats. Cnrlitxu Day and Sat at 2:30 Si Si New Ls Orch 2 M- Bale '1 2 E-Prltti Urcn KlUior10, 1 ASit. MILTON SHUBERT srnenUtns Lsuih Hit Swing your ladyi 4th St. W.

sf B'y. Nelt Mat. SI-S2 RLACK LIMELIGHT "Welcome hlU A thriller." WlnenelJ Winifred Aleiander Ororje I.FNIIIAN KIRKIAND CI) KAON MANSFIELD, W. 47 ftt. BRy.

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alus Us THE FAMOUS ROXYXMAS SHOW! i rrr Hear Dick flit Ll'( PiH Out Heads Totthe' IMpr "SHIRLEY'S BEST AND THE BEST of the NEW PICTURES!" -ion WILLIAM BOfHNft, World. Murom SECOND TEAR LAVGH SMASH Roy meets girl "A ribald and julry time." Gee. J. Nathan GILBERT MILLER amenta RUTH GORDON The country wife HENRY MILLER'S Theatre, 134 W. 45 St.

Eva. 8:40. Mats. TODAY and 1:40 Extra Holiday Matinee Dee. 10 CORT THEATRE.

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8:40. Mats. Thuri. and Hat. at 1:40 ROSERT AUCf JOHN C.

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45tb St. Ev(a. 8:40 Mats. Wedneaday and Saturday at 1:40 EXTRA MATS. TOM'W and NEW YEAR'S DAY TICKETS NOW FOR NEW-YEAR'S EVE GILBERT MILLER presents HELEN HAYES Victoria regina BROADHURST.

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