The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 31

Part Four Motors and Home Modernization REV 1 'II li a sS 0 YEAR. NO. 124. SPOKANE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1935. SUNDAY MORNING.

1 FAMOUS LITTLE STAR OF STAGE AND SCREEN AT FOX TODAY IN SCREEN VERSION OF HER PLAY Film "Bunker Bean" With John Arledge ,1 2 "Alice Adams" Script Worthy of the Best HKO-Radio announce that "Bunker Bean," Harry Leon Wilson novel which was made as a silent, picture will be filmed as a talkie. The title role will be played by John Arledge. William Siktrom will supervise. I Merits Place Among "10 Best" of YearHcp I ''T) burn in Line for Academy RewardFred Stone for Will Rogers Niche. "Bunker Bean" is one of Harry Leon Wilson's most hilarious stories, taking rank with "Ruggles ef Red Gap." John Arledge is a graduate of the vaudeville stage.

lie entered films in 1931 and his pictures include "Young Sinners," "Daddy Long Legs," "Hertabreak," "Jimmy and Sally," "Old Man Rhythm," "Spider" and "Olsen's Big Moment." He sas recently put tinder I long-term contract by RK0- Radio. I Shoot Color ature rom 0 0 I i 1 C. 4- 1 i IN iii. 1 A i 4 (' 1 i .1 1 1 4 '7'. 1 I I 1 't'-'4i.

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Be M. it "Alice Adams" Is an illustration of what Hollywood can do when It has a script. It has players, directors and tecnnical departments that can perform miraclesalmost, but more times than not tins composite of skill is lost when pinned to poor But In "Alice Adams" Miss Katharine Hepburn and her coplayers sailed to triumph on an excellent story. A Broadway so that the productio i remain open. studio would have said that it was tI nt7t have been Aodllucteed Ade Amnsy And now, by the irony of late.

it too actionless but Hollywood fnal would seem as though Mr. Stone had learned a lot since then. It can hariIcome west to vets into Mr. ItetXere die psychological subject and create empty shoes. And if nobody can fill an emotional climax, quite Mr.

Stone will easiiy b. able to with nothing but the revelation of a carry on ote an exponent of homespun young girl's emotions as she, a little Americanism whrh the late come-nobody on the fringe of small-town than Made traditional. society, struggles valaintly to break, through its snobbish barriers. All I haven't read anything the thia took aensitive direction. It wee reaction of the public to Mr.

Stones more or less like walking a tight ropo'perforniance in 'Alice Adams, tns for George Stevens. the director. But picture le but released, bot I expect Mr. Stevens croased without tumbling to hear that Mr. Stone will become a off and Miss Hepburn goes down with.H II nod i hi Hot- a- star own 1 one more triumph.

ly wond hu my permission to put turn should think this Booth the top of the greaaed pole winces Urn Mary. although not most important, of course. Tarkington, would turn up as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, Once I got excused from school to when the toll le taken In January. a matinee ot Fred Stone in "The And that Miss Ilepburn'a poignantly. Rd Mill." It made a terrific impres- beautiful "Ain" might be considered -sion on me, although I can rememfor the Hollywood academy award as 'bet more about the Joy of walking out the most skillfully conceived and act-1 echool than of the happenings In eel performance of the year.

Red Mill." But I recall Mr. 1Stones antics as he picked roses unOne cf the enigmas of Hollywood is Mer a becond-htory window where a why one studio can take one star and' maiden was supposed to be find ecripta for her that gradually insl and the uproarioua laugh-crease her stature and do nothing he created when, with feet in some another afar. I refer to Miss Hepburn way encased In the acenery. he leaned and Miss Ann, Harding. lout over the stage at any angle he These two young women came That was something to talk the horizon in the same in those days.

manner. In Miss Hepburn's case, svithl But totlaY it is one of the oldest the exception of a couple of in the movies. Every slapstick ent pictures, she has achieved severalIcomedian has used it. Joe E. Brown triumphs, in "Morning used it the other day in "Bright following her sensational "Bill of Di-1Lights" when he stood on a box and vorcement," and now "Alice feet anchored leaned out over But Miss Harding after "Holiday" anththe audience.

And there are Still "East Lynne," has never emerged solaughe in the old gag, but when new that she could be seen for her poorlor almost new, it must have been pictures. lback in the days of "The Red Mril," And this happens within the virtually made the show. 00 i'' With Pioneer struggling 'i through 5000 stories in search of 7 i a suitable one for the second 51 three component technicolor effort. it appeared this week 1 that Warners may use the tint i' A ed screen for "The Green Pas- tures," according to the New I 7 York Times. While the picture would have a a broad appeal in black and white, the ''4 brothers believe that color would be the final touch to make it a sensa- tional success In all probability Max il Reinhardt will produce the film with Marc Connelly writing the script and 1 codirecting, Rumors persist that Al t- Jolson will play "De Lewd." Technicolor has progressed to the 1-1 point where an attempt will be made to photograph an outdoor picture.

Walter Wanger has announced that -S will film The Trail of the Lone- 41some Pine" in the tinted medium and i that most, of the footage will be in surroundings, A i :.1:: I i 1 1 7.L, 1,:.4. 7, fi tl4 li 1 It tI lionnonomme A GREAT ACTRESS IN THE MIDST OF A GREAT MOMENTMiss Elisabeth Bergner, whom many critics claim is the worlds greatest actress, is at the Fox in "Escape Me Never," a gicturization of the play that won her plaudits on Broadway last winter. Miss Bergner will be remembered in "Catherine the Great." Show 'Dream' to Kcy Cities on Octobcr 9 Three Noted Stage Ladies Set Pace for Road Season Aged Stars Win Openind Later Start. on Broadway studio gates, One ecrrespondent in Hollywood stated. ing Will Rogers death, 11U1110 BAUM correspondent in Hollywood stated.

following Will Rogers death, Heretofore, whenever exteriors were necessary, the sets have been built indoors and lighted. There was no open air shooting in "Becky Sharp." The great outdoors is appealing to Hollywood. Metro is planning the Innovation of making most of "Rose Marie" in the open spaces, even photographing the totem pole dance on location at Lake Tahoe. Although studio publicity declares that all recording will be done outdoors, including the rendition of "Indian Love Call." in all probability the sound track will be made In the studio with playbacks taken to the mountains for the photographing. Originally planned for Grace Moore, the picture will star Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

W. EL Van Dyke will direct, SchumannIleink Is Latest to Find Screen Studios Ready With Contract. Season Will Be at Least Month LateOctober to See Big Rush. Mr. Stone la another living ex-One ample of the assertion that "Lite Begins at 40," ot posaibly even 60 or that Irvin Cobb was to be groomed to 70.

Madame la Just take the famous comedian's place.Igetting started in her Hollywood Maybe he is possessed of talents thatcaretr can be developed into that of the comedian, being a humorist, but to Another bit of propaganda against me, he lacks the lovableness that tithe custom of double billing pictures comedian must possess to become en-is set forth this week in the New York deared to a public. Times aith figures to mate the in-But since seeing Fred Stone In "Al- dustry stop, look and listen Edward Ire Adams" and his superb head of Reliance Pictures. deance it would seem to me that there1clare3 that Hollywood is losing stands the candidate to succeed Wi111000.000 in potential revenue annually Rogers in the presentation of home-Ithrough the double bill. spun Americanism. The Industry's attitude toward the Upon one occasion, when Mr.

Stone double bill is entirely Impersonal. All was forced to let his show go on with- they want Is to see the most dollars out him, due to an accident, it was roll in at the box office. But If they Mr. Rogers who flew pair, and took lbelleve that so many of them are the crippled stage comedian's place 'Continued on palm two Sam E. Morris, vice president of Warner Brothers, in charge of foreign distribution, left the United Statea for England with the British negative of Max Reinhardt's production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," to arrange for the English presentations of the spectacular film achievement.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" already is scheduled to have simultaneous world premiere showings in Stratford-on-Avon, New York, and other capitals, The date of the international openings of the film has been set for October 9. All of the engagements of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" will be on a two-a-day, road show basis. Its premieres in such major American cities as Washington, a C. Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia and New Orleans will also coincide with the London and Stratford-onAvon showings. Kocps His "Roasts." Hugh Herbert hs-s the strangest scrapbook in Hollywood.

It contains nothing but bad notices. He says good ones make actors vain. Ethel Barrymore, Katharine Cornell and Eva Le Gal I ienne Wilt TourMammoth Productions May Also See Country. Things arc looking much better for the road this seasoneven Spokane has had a road show this early In the season. There may be more on the road.

Some of the famous leading ladies of the stage are likely to lead the vanguard of Broadway productions that will pack trunks and scenery into baggage cars and climb aboard Pullmans for another adventure into the highways and byways of the land. They are not strangers to the road play, "Victoria Regina," on Broadway --such stars as Eva Le Gallienne, at the same time that, the Cornell Katharine Cornell and Ethel Barry- repertory is being worked off. Not more. They have one thing in corn- since Jane Cowl and Ethel Barrymore monall are eschewing the gold of challenged each other some years Hollywood for the less certain emolu- ago has Broadway seen such promise ments of one-night stands and an oc- of interesting rivalry. casional week's run as they hit the larger cities, Walter Hampden, perennial trouper, may stick to Broadway for a change Miss Cornell, of course, will be de- this season.

Be has a new play. tamed on Broadway for a while with Achilles Had a Neel," and hopes it new and old plays but has mapped will be good enough to give him a out a tour that will take her mainly long Broadway run. He tried it out through the south. Miss Le Gallienne in California last year and seems eat-will take out a bunch of Ibsen dramas Wied it ts what he has been looking and at least two from the Spanish. for As previously stated, Miss Barrymore will tour in The Constant Wife," John Golden may be the first legiplaying a lot of one-nighters that i timate manager to take advantage of haven't seen a show since the advent, the new law in New York legalizing of talking pictures.

She believes there, i Sunday performances, even if Equity is gold In those 'smaller citiesand I will require double pay for actors in there 1st I StInrinv hrork Prntant nhatle aro tn III ge'In In will require double pay for actors MI there tat Sunday shows. Present plans are to repertory is being worked off. Not since Jane Cowl and Ethel Barrymore' challenged each other some years ago has Broadway seen such promise of Interesting rivalry. Walter Hampden, perennial trouper, may stick to Broadway for a change this season. Be has a new play.

"Achilles Had a Heel," and hopes it will be good enough to give him a long Broadway run. He tried it out In California last year and seems eatisfied itia what he has been looking for John Golden may be the first legi HIS SPARKLERS ONCE MADE BROADWAY GLITTER NIGHTLY French Diva Style Ideal NEW YORK, Sept. 14.The legitimate season of 1935-36 will be about a month later than last year in reaching its production stride. There are Just as many attractions slated for Broadway, but managers, new and old, are taking their time. The traditional Labor day starting period no longer exists.

By the middle of September last year, 16 new shows had been delicered to Broadway, but they weren't received with acclaim. When the critical notices were a succession of pannings the managers let out loud laments. One even asked Equity to do something about it. Early Shows Poor. Later it was clearly established that the shows were at fault, not the reviewers.

By the same time, this year, however, there will not have been more than four or five arrivals. The number of shows in rehearsal has grown to a baker's dozen currently, but at the same time last season a score were being put into shape. The long July hest wave and the return of high temperatures during part of August may account for managerial tardiness. The first slated multiple premiere card for the new season will be for the week of September 23, when three or four attractions are due in, although the week previous may have two arrivals. Another three are due September 30, which ushers in October.

It Ls that month when the new show cards will be heaviest. Sant Harris Not Idle. While Sam H. Harris is not exactly taking time out to worry about it, there is some question as to what shawl he will send to the post after "Jubilee!" "First Lady" had seemed the likely choice. but George S.

Its co-author with Katharine Dayton, Is still in Hollywood and will not return until the middle of this month.1 He is, in fact, still doing a little work out there on the play. This leaves the Mn. 2 spot open for "Sing Before Breakfast," by Allen Boretz and John P. Murray, reported to be a rowdy farce and just but ripe for autumn capers. Somewhere on the Barris horizon, too, is still the happy plan to restore the Music Box revues.

Irving Berlin is due from the coast about October I to do something about it. Hides Four Dead Men, After all that delay about getting their new play under way, Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon were pretty cagy about it when it happened. It had not only acquired a Slight Case ot Murder" but it was actually in rehearsal before the general public heard about it. It seems that the play is about a gangster who goes into the legitimate liquor business, rents a house at Sara' toga, finds and hides the bodies of four murdered men who were his enemies in the old days. and then learns that there in a reward for them.

It should be just about ready when the 1Saratoga caravan gets home. Helen Hayes' New Play. 1, 0 1 1 4 I 0 4 1 "I''''''' IAMIlOte 1. .1 1 I I d''''" i 1 l' 1 t-, i 1. 44, i i (,.

di'i, 1 1 i ,.1 4 i i i 1 11 I I tt 1 Life in the movies seems to I begin at 20 or 60or later. The 1 signing of Madame Ernestine 1 Schumann-Heink to a movie contract added another name to the list of people who yearned to be in pictures, but couldn't reach that goal until 1 the late at ternoon of life. Madame Schumann-Heink is 14. Her film ambitions for many yeara were well known to producers. Yet, despite her long career In opera and the extraordinary renown attached to her name, she had to it until this year before they were fulfilled.

And now, as result, of a few scenes in one picture, she is in greater demand than the most alluring of the colony's professional charmers. That's Hollywood! Her experience, in this respect, closely paralleled that of the late Marie Dreaster. In the hat lour years of her life, she became one of the five most important players, male or female, on the screen. They tied her with an iron-clad contract, paid her a fabulous salary and made her starring pictures as rapidly as porsible. Yet, she was well past 50 before all this happened.

And she had been on the stage since her 'teens. What's more, Miss Dressler actually had been able to get her foot in the movie door years ago in the days of two-reel comedies and "Tillie's Punctured Romance." But she was Just another comedienne. then. Long after all this had pasmd and she apparently was ready for the fire-I side and slippers, a role came in Garbc's "Anna Christie," From that the panic was On. So, too, with W.

C. Fields, who trouped in vaudeville to: years and was starred in the Ziegftld Follies but couldn't crash the pearly gates of Hollywood until two years ago, when his 60th birthday already was In sight, May Robson is 10 and an important star, But five years ago she was Just a name. listed in casting directories under the heading, "character actresses." The former English navy officer. Sir Guy Standing, had a long and distinguished stage career behind him before he came to Hollywood. His agents tried -for years without success to bring him to the attention of producers.

After one picturethe father In "The Story of Temple Drake" ia dozen executives were trampled in the rush to get his signature on a contract. He is60. Two other Instances have occurred within the last year. A Pasadena lawyer, Samuel Hinds, reached his 60th birthday, wearied of his profession, and decided to become an actor, merely as an avocaItion. He played the white-haired doctor in Claudette Colbert's "Private Worlds," Now he has all the assurances of a greater career in an adopt-led profession.

Another was Lucille Watson who left the stage after a brilliant career and was retired and living in Prance for 15 years. She came back for a character role in "What Every Woman Knows." Bernard Newman, world-lamous designer, creator or the stunning gowns in the musical "Roberta," says three qualities are important to any woman who would appear well-dressed. Lily Pons has them all, he says. "The first of these qualities is a good figure," Newman stated. "Much can be done to offset defects by the designs themselves, but a perfect figure, such as Miss Pons possesses, is an invaluable asset.

"The second essential is the ability to wear clothes well. Miss Pons has that innate chic born in most Frenchwomen, that certain Parisian touch which invariably manages to give a gown style. "Last, she has extremely good taste of her own. She knows instinctively what is smart, a quality essential to any woman who would appear well-dressed." Newman is currently creating the gowns to be worn by the French singer in "Love Song" RICO-Radio's musical romance in which she makes her screen debut. The action of the film takes place in the smartest centers of present-day Europe and demands not only chic modern clothes, but brilliant costumes to be worn for the various operatic numbers which Miss Pons sings in the film.

But regardless of the style demandedmodern or periodNewman has found the lovely star of the Metropolitan Opera ideal to gown. John Cromwell is directing "Love Song." bring out his new play, "A Touch of Three traveling ladies. of course, do, Brimstone, formerly "All Bow Down," hot make a road Beason. But others at the Golden theater one week from have plans as wellsome fairly am- today. Be believes the advantage of bitious.

Billie Rose already is figurine opening without competition with on an all-country tour for rival openings will be worth the addialthough it will be almost like moving tional coat. an actual circus to transport it. In New York, it will have to groin 000 weekly to pay the bills, but it will We have often wondered how al be cut down to road show possibill- manager felt who turned down 1 ties. acript that turned out to be a smash I hit Irving Cooper once held the Horse," Max Gordon thinks he has figured script of Thre Men on a out a way of getting "The Great but let Alex Yokel have it, Cooper, now Waltz" en the road, although he spent Please, Mr. Pres- has another, I something like $100000 to get a New idea." by Franke Hope, and will pro- York theater ready for it.

It, too, has duce it himself. He has signed Kate been rebuilt for the road and will Mayhew for a hill-billy mother, move by special train of le cars, half W. W. H. carrying scenery and properties.

The 1 company includes 120 people and 50 AMUSEMENTS etage hands are needed to handle it, 13 being experts who travel with the show. New Films. Misr; Glory," with Gordon knowa something of the Marion Davies. road, for he had "Dodsworth" out last1 Me Nevet," with year with Walter Huston. He'll sencl, Elizabeth Bergner and "Here Comes that ahow out again for eight months the Band," with Ted Lewis.

of one and two night stands. Girl Friend," with Ann Sothern and Jack Haley, and Other shows likely to go on tour 39 with Madeleine Carroll, Steps," this year are "The Old Maid." "Awake and Sing "Waiting for Lefty," 'Kind of a Dictator." with Clive Brook and Madeleine Car- Lady." "Life Beene at 8:40," "The! roll (first run), and "Polies Bergere," Children's Hour" and "Personal Ap- pearance." "Anything Goes" and with Maurice Chevalier. "The Green Pastures" will tour unless Other Films. the picture versions beat them to it. of Indiscretion," with "Three Men on a Horse," of course, May Robson, Madge Evans and Paul "Thumbs Up" and "Ode to Liberty" Lukas, and "Charlie Chan in Egypt," already are at it.

with Warner Oland and Stepin Fetchlt. A Minneapolis committee of women with Loretta selecting plays and players for the Young, Charles Boyer and Jean Parkeight-week season of the civic theater er, and "The Winning Ticket," with have scratched off the names of Ethel Louise Fazenda. Barrymore and Cornelia Otis Skinner of Life," with The management wanted both stars, Claudette Colbert and Warren Wilbut the voluntary committee spurned Ham, and "Stolen Harmony," with them and voted on full eight weeks George Raft. of recent Broadway hits. Seven recent with James offerings have been recommended.

Cagnev and Ann Dvorak. and "The Man Wins," with Edmund Lowe There are signa that Broadway will and Jack Holt. are another strueale for supremacyi Post Cowboy Million-involving two fine and popular ac-; aire," with George O'Brien, and "The tressesfleten Hayes and Katharine Cat and the Fiddle," with Jeanette Cornell Mica Hayes has won fame' McDonald and Ramon Novarro. in pictures; Miss Cornell hRs dodged, DEW Two full-length features to-them, Miss Hayes will have a new day. Four New Features.

First National announces that Its September production schedule will include four important stories for winter release, "Money Man." starring Edward O. Robinson with Bette Davis as his leading lady, will be the first of the Geptember productions "A Present From Margate," with Josephine Hutchinson and Warren William. will follow the Robinson film. Then, in rapid succession. "I Found Stella Parrish," starring Kay Francis with Ian Hunter as her leading man, and "In the Legion," starring Joe E.

Brown, will go before the -1, i 1 fi Ilmslionoomm Since Helen Hayes will be concerned this season with "Victoria Regina," for Gilbert Miller, it is of course definite that slit sill not appearfor Max Gordon in "Pride and Prejudice," as originally announced, These near-autumn days at Skowhegan, find Owen Davis considering, of all things for Owen Davis (Continued on page two.) Mickey's Grand Opera. Walt Disney has placed in production a new Mickey Mouse film, Micky 's Grand Opera," costarring Donald Duck end Clara Cluck, soon to be released through United Artists. Donald Duck claims he'll win by a knockout in the fifth roundelay. Gown Provos Popular. Genevieve Tobin wore a white dinner gown in a recent picture, and within three weeks had received 41 letters asking to buy it and four asking for it as a gilt.

"DIAMOND spectacular figure on Eroadwau in the gay Ws who hc7pert to keep them gay, with his flash of diamonds and bank roll. $1000000 of which he is Wd to hare offerel to Lillian Russell to marry him. The plcture, called "Diamond Jtm," is coming to the State. '1 4 I.