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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1934 MI More New Films Have Local Premieres Stage and Screen Reverting to Type 'THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS' RUBE WOLF The Theaters Reverting to Type By ARTHUR POLLOCK Bj ART 'Come of Age, a Precious Play in Verne and With Music, Has a Magical Effect at Maxine Elliott's Theater Towers Don Pedro Room To Be Open Sundays A bit of Broadway glamor will come to Brooklyn Sunday night, when for the first time in its history the Towers will open the doors of its Don Pedro Room to Sunday night diners and dancers. The Sunday opening comes after many requests made to the management, and will be operated as the Sunday Night Supper Club. Rosalean Betz and Gene Seville, who have been dancing in the Don Pedro Room since repeal, will make their final appearance Sunday evening in a new dance number. Miss Betz, who is listed in Philadelphia's "Who's Who," is the daughter of John E. Betz, millionaire brewer.

She gave up society to become a dancer. The Don Pedro Room of th Towers will be closed each Monday. OH YEAH! (Few Anglo-Saxons care to be advertised as poets. Charles Hanson Towne in the New York American.) I let my hair grow long; outdoors as I go 'long, The people cry, "Golly, a poet" My collar's Byronic, I do need a tonic A poet, and, boy, don't I show it! My face is ascetic, my outlook's esthetic, I glow when the moon is in crescent; When I lamp a blondie, in dectyl and spondee I rave until I'm incandescent. Let anyone babble in verses I dabble, Let people point at me and crow it; Though I'm Anglo-Saxon, as loud as a klaxon I'll warble, "Tra la, I'm a poet!" JULIAN LEWIS.

The stage's most lovely treasure of the season came to view at the Maxine Elliott Theater last night, a play unfolded In music and words, the words by Clemence Dane, the music by Richard Addinsell. There has been nothing in a long while to offer so rich an emotional experience. It made a rare evening. The audience stayed long to express its feeling by applause, to show a vivid appreciation of the finest playing Judith Anderson has ever done and of an astonishingly delicate and sensitive performance by a young English actor named Stephen Haggard and to call for Clemence Dane. Miss Dane, with her love of the fine flavor of the past, has taken Thomas Chatterton as the figure about which to weave her play, the POSTMARKS AND POSTSCRIPTS The new edition of "Going Places" is off the press at last! For the past two months we've been working very hard to revise the booklet and bring it up to date.

Today the first copies came tumbling from the presses. The hundreds who have already sent in stamped and self-addressed envelopes will receive their booklets Monday. Judging by the advance requests the initial run of 10,000 will be exhausted in no time at all or less. Those wishing copies should get their stamped and self-addressed envelopes in to the "Reverting to Type" department in a hurry. Or else they may have to wait again.

The energetic, if not handtome, netv Master of Ceremonies at the Roxy Theater. he witnessed the preview of "Moulin Rouge," too, t'other day and agrees with me that it is Connie Bennett's best to date And Vera Van re ports this conversation overheard on Broadway: Panhandler: 'bay, boss, will you give me a dime for a sandwich?" Bige Hearted Guy "Let me see the sandwich!" STAGE WHISPERS Arthur Strauss Sorry no could make but, then, I warned you. Maud' L. Waterman Will return when check through mass of verse. A lot being used in new Sunday section.

Murray Yes, that Bing Crosby AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN fntm Frank Camp, at the Connecticut which continues at The By MARTIN 'Eight Girls in a a II.OKW'8 VALENCIA. Jamaica Ave. M-G-M'j "DINNER AT EIOHT." with 12 Bit Stars) On the State ALEX HYDE AND ORtH HARRY SAVOY othera TODAY WITH LOEWS "ACE" VAUDEVILLE TODAY LOEWS GATES, Gates and Broadway MARX Ouit Su: JOHN HENRY In Perm LOEWS BAYRIDOE, 72d Ave. MARX DUCK SOUP; Billy Glaian; sthert TODAY ON LOEWS PERFECT TALKING SCREENS TODAY LOEWS KINGS, Fiatbush-Tilden Ava.Marlon Davlet. Bing Crosby, Going Hollywood: Our Gmff LOEWS PITKIN.

Pitkin Saratoea. Marlon Davlet, Bing Crosby, Going Hollywood: Our Gangj LOEWS BREVOORT.Brev'rt-BfdfordKATHARINE HEPBURN, loin Bennett. Little Women! LOEWS CENTURY, Nostrand-P'ksldeBEFORE DAWN and SWEETHEART OF SIGMA CHI LOEWS MELBA. Llvinuston-Hanover. toJiliSSn'd 4 MARX BROS, in "Duck Soup" LOEWS ALPINE.

69th and Fifth LOEWS Bedford. Bedford-BerBen 1 Plus! mad Afe and Mickey Mouse LOEWS BROADWAY. B'wav Mvrtle Features ISetv Program at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater Hollywood, it appears, is still determined to produce another "Maed chen in Uniform," but so far the efforts of the California moviemakers to create even a pale imitation of that magnificent German film have been conspicuously unsuccessful. The latest attempt is "Eight Girls in a I urn iTHrtaTrererafjnTTUirT i ziTrrnrLj iutlm Boat," which arrived yesterday at adaptation of a German picture, "Acht Maedels im Boot," which is said to have been a sensational success on the Continent. It is supposed to 1111 be concerned with a girls' school in Switzerland, more particularly with the eight girl members of the school's' rowing team.

But with the ex ARTHUR George Butterly Jr. tells me about hijinks at the Village Barn t'other night with the Three Octaves, barn singers, doing most of the cutting up From First Division Exchanges comes an invitation to a Radio City housewarming this afternoon another invitation tells me about a preview at the Warner Theater of "World a Mil lion Years Ago," and in the corner is a note saying: "Not a Motion Picture" Mr. Schuster of Simon and Schuster writes requesting a few extra copies of Hope Fay's poem about the three Simon and Schuster authors who became daddies Evalynne P. Rogers sends along some verse and in her note remarks, "You might be interested to know that my friend, Miss Violet Alleyn Storey, suggested my contributing to your column" and Jack Benny wires: "My auto for 1934 is a small bus that goes about a block, then stops. Jt's a spurt REJECTIONS Swift as the homing pigeon, With sure, instinctive aim, 1 The manuscripts I send abroad, Come winding home again.

Each bears upon it's pristine breast, Once smoothed with loving care, The imprint of some menial thumb, Finding vexation there. But ere I banish them to dust, To every one I clip The emblem of their gallant seige A neat rejection slip. Dorothy von Arx Mount. EXPLANATION Typographical errors are so annoyingas annoying to the columnist as to the reader. One yesterday was particularly exasperating and in response to Grover Bent's query we'll straighten it out.

We wrote about Richard Halibur-ton's old trick of sending only 11 roses to a favored lady, with a note saying: "There are only 11 here, because the 12th one is you, my dear." When it appeared yesterday it read: "Because the 12th one is FOR you, my dear." destroying the whole meaning of the item. And, in answer to a half dozen letters chiding us about it. we do know that the Crash took place in 1929 and it was a slip (or a slop) of the machine that made the date 1928 so much for the nasty notes here's a funny one from Jack Schuster saying: Whenever anyone complains about radio announcers advertising blah, they should be comforted with the knowledge that they're not radio announcers' wives" The Press Photographers shoot me a flash announcing that Helen Morgan and Irene Bordoni are two more head-liners added to the list of stars who will be present at the photog's annual dance at the Hotel Com modore Feb. 2 Seymour Treu hold drops me a line saying that AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN THE THEATRE GUILD nrevnta MAXIVELI ANDERSON'S new olny MARY OF SCOTLAND HELEN PHILIP HELEN with HAVES MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN Sid West of Broadway Eye. Mat.

Today and MEN IN WHITE R--n "The leasnn'i first Intelligent dram." I.TEK ITiVctfB, Jffrror. BROADHI'RST 44 W. of B'way Matinees Wed. and Alio to S3 CAROL SAX Dresents F.FrHfl A nfW n'" bv I. GOLDEN! FORREST 49 W.

,1 B'way. CHi. 4-7070 EVES. $1 le JO Mat. TODAY.

50e ta $2 I 8:45 Wed. 50e te $1.50 I Intl. Cril'KTVl' 11 1 SAILOR, BEWARE! me i proarioim naval lomfrtT LYCEl'M 4. E. or B'y.

Evs. 8:10 Matinees Thursday ahd Saturday. ZMi DwipM Dr Wimtn and Tom Wmthsrly trumt SHE LOVES ME NOT The Srnnon'a Comedy Smash Hit HOW AHD LIXDSAr A'lsplpd from Edward Hnpe't Nnrei 4llth ST. W. of B'way.

LAe. Eys. 1 3 Mats. Wed. COo 1 10 and 2:40 SU t0 LAURENCE RIVERS.

Ine. n'eteoij The PURSUIT of HAPPINESS "Delightful tnmedv en bundling." AVON Theelre. 45 W. of B'way. CHI.

4-7B60 Evt. :45. SI to 52.50. MMi. Thuri.

A THE PICC0LI ronnnccA WFEKV FAREWELL ENGAGEMENT Matt. Thltl Thurl Frl. at 3:30 Week and 2:30. 50e to $1.50 Every Evening. Including Sunday, 50e to 52.00 HUDSON 44th Eust of B'way HENRY HULL In J0BACC0 ROAD A new play by JACK IRKLAND Based an Erikina Caldwell's novel MASQl'E TnE.V.

W. 4.T St. F.vK. at Matinee Thursday and SaturdaT at 2:40 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE WILLIEA EUGENE HOWARD, EVERETT MARSHALL. JANE ROMAN.

PATRICIA BOWMAN. VILMA A BUDDY EBSEN. DON ROSS, (then WINTER GARDEN, B'way ind 50th En Matinees Thursday Saturday, 3:30 'Pied Piper' at Roxy Walt Disney's celebrated Silly Symphony in color, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," is an added attraction on the new screen program at the Roxy Theater. The feature film is "I Was a Spy," with Madeleine Carroll, Conrad Veidt and Herbert Marshall. Rube Wolf la the new master of ceremonies on the stage.

blessed-event report appeared In the Hollywood Reporter first, but Win-chell will have the exact news on the air tomorrow. Okay. Ed Ruffln Glad you liked. Violet D. Finlaw Chuckle.

Ray Thomas Yes, that's the same gag Cantor told from the Paramount stage only this week. J. T. L. But doesn't rate It.

Poets Judgments next week. You-all A bow from the hip. And don't forget to write for your booklet. Y'welcome. AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN 9 "CONVENTION with loan Blonde)), Arfolphs Men Jo MID.VITE SHOW TONItE SHOWING TODAY crrTtnti SECTION Kon.

with Robert Helen Maek nnVt VTnu vi cirr-i-m, Berkeley nd rom Headquarter, jonn monneii, jnmes uaaney, Ruuy Keeler SECTION viii ana woman I Stole Shooter and Penal Code Jone, and Carnival Ladv mug-reran Irene Dunn. In "IF I WERE PflIC" "SON OF KONG." Witts Robert Arnslreeg "SON OP KONG" Robert Armstronf ft Helen Mark TOMYToll i tcWMADISONl I I CVRTLI WTCROFT I ijUrJp IKFNMORtZ I 111 llirlMUND Hill i ITILYOU I. iW I0RPHEUM iJWjEMfROSPECT ft tMim ROBERT MONTGOMERY and MADGE EVANS in "FUGITIVE LOVERS" Max BAER srartt rmioAt "Eskimo" Dillij Minshii'f FLATBUSH AV. EXT. NE.

8-7520 Complete Shows Oct and "ICc till 10 a.m. to 5 a.m. TONIGHT AT 11:311 to SI. 00 MIDNITE SHOW TON ITE I rilB lANHI PAH I tUKASl iTr "BY CANDLELIGHT" Strata. Spectacular tte reu I FRFODIf BtRRENS Orel.

MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT ALL SCATS 1i AFTH t. M. "8 GIRLS IN A BOAT" s. EDDIE GARR-3 SISTERS IRENE DUNNE in "IF I WERE FREE" On lhrSt4gl Albee AIU. Bklytl PhoneTR yaooo JaMnia Lang larta A law PoKack 1 Mention Eagle When Shopping FEATURE FILMS BAY Rinrc FortWaY.

BRfh.Pf. MamllfAn ii I Wal I i "Come of A play In music and words by Clemence Dane and Richard Addinsell. Presented at the Maxine Elliott Theater bv Delos Chappel. Staged by Miss Dane, settings by James Reynolds. Orchestra conducted by Macklln Marrow, THE CAST A Boy Stephen Haggard A Shadow of Death Frederick O.

Lewis A Woman Judith Anderson A Man John W. Austin Friends of the Woman Edna James. Clara Palmer, Dorothy JohnMr). Mabel Gore. Virginia vnlland, Katherine Tracy, Helen Wills, Alice Swanson.

Malcolm Soltan, Jeremy Bowman, Judd Carrel, Harold Webster, Wheeler Dryden, Ralph Stuart Singer for the Woman Dorothy Johnson River Music Helen Wills Singer for the Ralph Stuart An Entertainer Muriel Rahn verse is worded with the speech of today, slang and all, and yet the effect is never that of a stunt, the feeling is not once cheapened. Miss Dane's Chatterton remains Chatterton even when the music is jazz and the speech inelegant. It is an exquisite love story. For though the woman has not the boy's depth and cannot find words for what she feels, she matches in her ignorant, automatic way his feeling. It is her tragedy more than his.

Judith Anderson is one of those exceptional actresses, who, though she knows all the tricks and can act without thinking, still remains aware that there are plays so fine that mere skill is not good enough. So she forgets all she knows and is moved by them. For the role of the woman she is perfect, even to the hard note in the voice, a voice in which she finds a hysterical unsteadiness, as evidence of her fresh love for the boy instead of a caressing softness. Never has her suffering seemed so genuine, never has it melted her so completely, made her so fluent. Stephen Haggard, who is not known at all here, was rewarded by the audience as If his playing were magnificent.

And I shouldn't wonder but what it is. He has the advantage of Miss Anderson in that his acting is a surprise. Its effect last night was magical. The rest are all. they should be.

Little is asked of them. Miss Dane staged her play almost as eloquently as it is written. And a man named Delos Chappell produced it. Strange fellow. and the clearest picture of what repeal has done to the bootleg racket is contained in a letter we've just received from a former Chicago bootlegger, gunman, murderer and top-spot big-shot, who writes that he's broke, that his wife and two kids haven't got a nickel, and can we get him a job as bodyguard to some big-wig flicker producer! We sometimes wonder, when we look at the pictures of those New England society femm.es, in a cigarette maker's ads, if no good-looking women ever smoke 'em! Vince Barnet, the ribber, knows that that steak he had at the Derby the other night came from a prize steer, as advertised, because he found a piece of the blue ribbon in it, and it's odd that some of the dirtiest prizefighters we've ever hissed are sponsored by the local American Legion, which stands essentially for clean sport.

We sometimes wish we could sneak off in a corner and enjoy a nice, sniffly cold, without having everyone we meet suggest a remedy, it wasn't until twe broke our knee that we learned why a doctor calls his clientele his "practice." We don't ever seem able to remember, when using a paper towel, whether it's "rub, don't blot," or "blot, don't and each time we see a copy of "Esquire," we wonder whatever became of George Howe, who used to draw those English-y men for the Franklin Simon ads. We wish people who telephone before nine in the morning wouldn't! We like Gene Fowler's inscription in the first hundred copies of "Timberline" Palm trees with geraniums growing up 'em. Skeet shooting, especially when we can hit a few the repaint job on Gary Cooper's erstwhile yellow and green believe it or not Duesen-berg the four tons of diamonds Lupe Velez wears even to prize fights liquors in the swanky Marie-Brizzard bottles, which make swell Colonial lamps California sunshine when, as and if and anything Damon Runyon writes. Katharine Hepburn acts in, George Cukor directs and Jes.se Lasky produces! But we could live without those sloppy white-. in the fan mags those cereal emulsions that are supposed to take the place of coffee and the reports of California disasters in Florida newspapers do you mind? Bookbinding of early days consisted of rolling the script on cylinders.

Railroad trains from all over Europe land in Hamburg. Eighty thousand persons daily visit the city libraries in Tokio, Japan, American talking pictures are reported to be the most popular in Egypt and Palestine, poet boy who died before he was fully 18, of discouragement and arsenic. She shows him first as he lies dead, as Death comes to lead him off to hell. The boy, though he killed himself, is reluctant to go. He has not yet come of age, he objects.

Life was not kind. He would like to go back to life, to know love, and when he reaches his maturity he will not longer hesitate. He goes back to life and death is to come to him again when he is 21. And because as the two talked years have passed with each word, we see him next in the present. He is the same eager, hungry boy and his words are music.

He is in love with a beautiful woman wiser than he concerning the surfaces of life, ardent, ignorant, experienced. They love completely, she teasing a little always because, being older and having lost lovers before, she is not sure of him, he without reservation. He is not starving now, succeeding instead. Though it is the jazz ago and his gifts bring success in the form of a commission to write book and lyrics for a big revue he might be a Noel Coward if he were not softer and less bent he remains the boy he was. a boy with great delicacy of feeling.

He and the woman quarrel. And when he does not come to her cocktail party, crowded with her cheap friends, she gets drunk and, thinking that his success has prompted him to ditch her, disgraces herself and him. When they see each other again, because she begs to talk to him, she is ashamed, he disillusioned. It is over. She cannot say all the regretful things with which her mind is bursting, cannot find words to explain her conduct until she realizes that she feels like a boy who has killed himself and would like to know that he hadn't, that he could come back and live again.

As she thus describes her pitiful regret he remembers what he did a century and a half before and knows that he has come of age. The woman a moment or two later finds that he is dead. This touching story Clemence Dane tells In moving words, her characters talking frankly in verse as music plays in the same rhythm, the boy often speaking to the woman the words of songs that are sung at the same time by other voices outside the windows. The Hollywood By RIAN JAMES A COLUMNIST SITS DOWN AND THINKS IT OVER You get the world's most amazing night-time view from the mountain-top home of Preston Sturgis, the playwright, but if we lived there we'd be afraid to go home at night without a bodyguard, and we still get goose-pimples when we reflect that It was J. "Pinky" Wolfson, the scribe, wltt knows more about fire-arms than anyone in town, who aocl-dentally shot himself while cleaning a gun! Although a flock of wise-acres are all too ready to label Bruce Cabot "Adrienne Ames' husband," who really ever heard of HER before she was married to him? Roadside stands that specialize in 'hamburger," "chirkenburger," "turkeyburgcr, and "nut-burger" are beginning to bore ns to death, and we get a chuckle out of all those super-ultra fancy beer signs that have to come down, now that everything's back.

Actors who tell you why they were lousy in their last opera get under our fingernails, and we like Jack Gains' requirement that a critic knows at least as much as the person he picks on. We still wonder why agents who bombard you to death before you sign with 'em, forget you're alive immedi- airly afterward, and one of the reasons for discounting Emerson's "Compensation" is the luck of the Ratoff, who rates less than that even. Locally, Crepe Su-zettes taste like wet blotters! One of the things we've always wanted to know is who gets off all the myriad snappy wisecracks that are credited to Dorothy Parker. Nine-tenths of all the Christmas trees in Hollywood were trimmed in blue lights, although in France a blue light signifies a death. We wish someone would tell the local restaurateurs that a good salad dressing isn't worth a nickel, if the salad is so wet when it's served that you can't taste it! We've never lived in a community where more disastrous things happen, or where fewer precautions are taken against them, and in a six-years' columnar fling, we have learned that the more vehement the denial the quicker the divorce.

We believe the stunt of publishing "special" first editions a racket, This is the first edition of "Going Places" since the last one put out by Rian James (take a bow) in 1932. It lists many new restaurants and gives a complete picture of New York after repeal. Some 250 spots are completely covered, including the recent arrivals such as the Casino de Paree and Palais Royal. THE GENERAL LINEUP The style and makeup of the booklet have been changed somewhat. As laid out now, the listing begins with the best restaurants in the Times Square area under the heading of "Restaurants of the Rialto." Then follow other outstanding restaurants such as Luchow's and Moneta's which are off the beaten track.

They are found under an "Epics for the Epicuribus" department. The French restaurants are listed in a special section and a department headed "Around the World in 80 Courses" covers the more exotic foreign eateries. A "Sea Food" department winds up our straight restaurant coverage. Then comes the hotels, a listing of swank supper clubs, the Broadway spots, Greenwich Village's byways and Harlem's hi-de-highways. A special section is also devoted to Brooklyn something that hasn't been done in the past.

Just shoot along a stamped and self-addressed envelope and a copy is yours with the compliments of Art Arthur and The Eagle! SPAT ABOCT SPATS The letter litter brings us an assortment of things this week. Here's a note from A. S. F. saying: "Bravo for your picture in that great big Eagle advertisement but, by the way, did you notice that the last button of your vest is open? Getting fat?" S'funny, but I always thought the last button on your vest had to be open if you wanted to be the glass of fashion and the mold of form, doncherknow.

Clarence Edward Heller kids us about the picture, too. "I see by that photo of you in The Eagle that you are wearing spats. It tempts me to ask the time-worn question, Do you suffer from spats before the The Sage of Flatbush also- has this suggestion to make that somebody invent a process by which gravies are prepared in such hues that they shall match the eater's raiment so nobody will notice the stains. he adds, "a gentleman wearing a cop's uniform came around the other night; now Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore." HOPE'S POEM IN DEMAND More odds and ends Eddie Burns postcards from Beaumont, to remark: "In this part of the country a man wearing a coat is a barbarian" note from AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN THE THEATRE GUILD vmfnti AH WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD S3 W.

of B'y. Fvi. 8:30 Mallneea TODAY and THURSDAY, marilyn miller WEBB HElEN BR0DERICK AS THOUSANDS CHEER ETHEL WATERS MUSIC BOX Theatre. W. 45 St.

Eva. Matineea Thursday and Saturday, Ballet MONTE CARLO RUSSE ST. JAMES 44 W. of B'waT Every Eve. Ine.

:30. Matt. Wed. and Set. Eveninra.

to S3. Matineea. SI to tVi.iSO LAST 7 DAYS Wood Ford Meader Champagne, sec 44TH 8T. W. at B'aay En.

8:30. 50a 13. Met. Wed. Mi ta 12: Sat, sat la 52.50 judith anderson Come of age by CLEMENCE DANE A RICHARD AD DINSEtL MAXINE ELLIOTT 3Mh.

E. el B'ay Evi. 1:50. 13 30 le 5. Mat.

S3.20 ta 55c Matinee Satnrday. ASc THE THEATRE GUILD nrernti Eugene O'Neill's New Play Days without end HENRY MILLER'S 43 E. or B'wav En. 8:40. Man.

Today and 8:10 FARL CARROLL'S MURDER VANITIPS BIG AT THE ILJ mqxth MAJESTIC. W. 44th St. Ey. SOo to Wed.

Mat-. 50 ta Sat. 50e ta $2.50 8:45 FRANK MERLIN presents FALSE DREAMS, FAREWELL A New Play by HUGH STANCE LITTLE Thea. 44 way. LAe.

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50 ta 12.75 I Tax MIRIAM HOPKINS JEZEBEL ETHEL BARRYMORB 143 W. 47 St. En. Mill mm Wad. and SaU IM Militia Captain in the comedy the Avon Theater Screen DICKSTEIN Faint Echo of 'Maedchen in the Brooklyn Paramount.

This is an one of the girls is shown flunking 'Eight Girls in a Boat' A Paramount picture based on story bv Helmut Bradnis. adapted by Lewis Poster and directed by Richard Wallace. At the Brooklyn Paramount, THE CAST Christa Storm Dorothy Wilson Diivid Perrin. Montgomery Hanna Kay Johnson "Pickles" Barbara Barondess Prau Kreuger Ferike Boros Storm Walter Connolly Paul Lang James Bush Smallman Colin Campbell Hortense Peggy Montgomery Elizabeth Margaret Marquis Bobby Marjorie Cavalier Mary Virginia Hall Katza Kay Hammond thing to elicit the high praise of European critics, but which in its present version must be appraised as less- than a triumphant example of movie art. The wle of the unhappy Christa is played by Dorothy Wilson, whose claim to fame appears to be that she has risen to her present status from a humble beginning as a stenographer in the offices of Radio Pictures.

Her talents as an actress are still limited, though she shows promise of improving with experience. Douglass Montgomery, who has given up his former screen name of Kent Douglas, is the young chemistry student, and he does fairly well. The best performances, however, are turned in by Walter Connolly and Kay Johnson in their respective minor roles of Christa's wealthy father and the comely captain o' the "crew." On the Paramount's stage this week Eddie Garr, former comedian of "Strike Me Pink," is the head-liner of a vaudeville revue which features also the Three Sisters, the popular harmony singers, and the- dancing team of Bradley and Jerome. Other attractions on the Paramount's new bill are Rube Remaret and Olive Sibley in "Non-sensicalities" Stan Meyers and his Music Kings and the 24 Carlos Romero Girls. AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN 4 TIMES TODAY, SiM, A B'war end 4.lh St.

In 'QUEEN CHRISTINA" An M-G-M Picture Twin Dally: 2:50. 4 Times 2:50. 9:50, 1:50, 1 Time. 8un. and 2:50.

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50 to S2.00 Itf Annittnarf Sof Screen 9now RADIO CITY MUSIC HAIL 1 JO St. 4 6 HACI NATION Oni II JO A. M. FRANCIS LEDERER tm "MaN Of TWO WORLDS" at 1 1 2:1.1 5:00. 10 22 ana an Anmveriary aiag spectacle laatsirleig "MUSIC HAH.

ON PAHAPI" wu wt oo Qua raT tt TtH avanwe ana Iota Straat ii A 65c.r. 'I WAS A SPY' RUBE WOLF anil ROXY RtVUC MIPMtTE aftf 11 p.wy rncr GEO. ARLISS In k. niSRAFM" CONTINUOUS AT POPULAR PRICES EDDIE CANTOR ROMAN SCANDALS" floor Oni 1:30 A. M.

a urn Mas I atogmttJT Stanley. 5th Ave. and 75th St.7. and Mv' ception of a single episode in which an oral test in history, "Eight Girls in a Boat," is only remotely connected with a school, and after an introductory scene the boat which gives the production its name is for-i ever hidden from sight. The new picture at the Paramount, then is neither very directly concerned with eight girls (the cast contains 16 girls of whom only one has an important role) nor with a boat whose only apparent reason for existing is the fact that it offers the girls an excuse for parading around in one-piece bathing suits.

What drama there Is to be found in this curiously designed production centers around the petite and fragile Christa Storm, who while the is referred to once or twice as "the stroke on the crew," seems too tiny to paddle a canoe. It is Christa who is doomed to suffer and suffer throughout the story because, It seems, she is going to have a baby and is afraid to tell anyone about it. Once she tries to commit suicide, a depressing incident which, we suppose, represents the picture's mild climax. And, eventually, when Christa's secret is out and she regains courage to face the world again, she leaves the school and goes away with her lover, the young chemistry student, who has promised to marry her. That Is "Eight Girls In a Boat" a picture which in its original German edition may have been some- Theater News "The Green Bay Tree," at the Cort Theater, reaches its 100th per formance this evening Coburrf Goodwin has replaced Eric Dressier in "Theodora, the Queen," the Mil-ward-Hawkes play, due here the week of Jan.

29 Arch Selwyn announces that he has arranged to present Elizabeth Bergner here next October in her present London play, "Escape Me Never." "Mackerel Skies," the John Hag-gart play which George Bushar is producing in association with John Tuerk, will open at the William A. Brady Playhouse, Tuesday, Jan. 23 Members of the casts of two Broadway shows, "Jezebel" and "Murder in the Vanities," will entertain this evening at the Actors' Dinner Club. Mrs. Owen Davis will act as mistress of ceremonies.

-e Washington owned 317 slaves, some of them belonging to his wife. Sheridan started on his march through Georgia Nov. 12. 1864. VEZ SUNDAY NIGHT CLUB Dinner and Supper Dancing No cover or minimum charge DON PEDRO ROOM Bob Fallon and Hit Orcheatra TOWERS HOTEL Clark Willow Brooklyn RESTAURANTS MANHATTAN fi rmrn fl" 8t- niwrida.

sT. 1 'tJ Uqunr Llrense R. 218 Delightful Spanish retreat Fervlnn native and American dishes. Entertainment, dancing at rllnnffr. supper.

DON ALBERTO and ilia tango archeatra, CH. 3-4646. BEDFORD S.a.or. Bedford AV. and Lincoln Son of BOROL'GH HALL AND monae Homohell and Golden Harvest Rt.r.eorie Playhouse, 100 Pineapple.

Feature, Eootlitht Parade and Couenr. the Killer xc iu Ave. ana ucan ai monism reriae. j. uagney.

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