Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 11

Amusements Amusements Eleven Richmond Times-Dispatch Saturday January 25 1941 33S3E3S GRAND MITt JUDY GARLAND ENDS TODAYS' Blazing Action in the LanA of Thrills 1 LITRE NELLIE KELLY Movie Clock BYRD Bay" Paul Muni Gene Tierney Feature starts 1:23 3:26 5:24 7:29 9:35 COLONIAL "Virginia" Madeleine Carroll Fred MacMurray Feature starts 11:25 1:25 3:25 5:25 7:25 9:25 "Son of Monte Cristo Louis Hayward Joan Bennett Feature starts 11:50 2:20 4:45 7:15 9:47 On the screen With Henry' Jackie Cooper "Kitty Foyle" Ginger Rogers Dennis Morgan James Craig Feature starts 10:54 12:59 3:04 5:09 7:14 9:19 JUDY GARLAND LITTLE NELLIE KELLY" With SMILEY BURNETTE JUNE STOREY RETURNED BY POPULAR DEMAND! ALSO: "THE GREEN ARCHER" No 10 TOMORROW The RITZ Bros and ANDREWS Sisters in "ARGENTINE vll i ULS DIAL S-M57 UM JACKIE COOPER BONITA GRANVILLE GALLANT SONS' BED BYDEB Chap Midget Auto Races MIAMI FLA Midget auto racing is attracting big crowds at the Flagler Speedway where the nation's leading drivers have already checked in for £he season's thrice-weekly program under the arc-lights Harry Sheeler of New Jersey and Pip Henson of Chicago who won championship honors on the northern circuit last summer are already on the scene in Miami PATRICK HENRY DIAL -1130 IIBJH DONALD BARRY "ONE MAN'S LAW" FLASH GORDON Chap It has a premiere and Governor Price makes his appearance at the Colonial Theatre to view the picture and to greet the visiting players from the cast Stirling Hayden (left) and Tom Rutherfoord City Students May See Liberty Film All Richmond school children 'ill have an opportunity to see the motion picture feature of Liberty which has been termed the Cavalcade of America at the afternoon showings next week at the Park Theatre through the cooperation of the Richmond Board of Education Superintendent Jesse II Binford announced in a letter sent to all grade school and high school principals that classes could be dismissed after their regular recess periods next week to enable those students anxious to see this pictorial of past and present Americanism to attend the afternoon performances Because of the limited capacity of the Park Theatre which was selected for this-showing because of the desire for a full engagement and also for the lower admission scale for school children all students are urged to attend the afternoon shows and thus make the evening hours available for more adults The starting time for of Liberty" will be 11:28 A 1:27 3:26 5:23 7:24 and 9:23 Parochial Schools Notified "The Rev Francis Byrne of the Richmond Catholic Schools has notified all parochial school principals of these showings and indorsed both the picture and the purpose for which it is being shown nationally Most of these schools are dismissed earlier than the high schools and in time to attend the midaftemoon performance Compiled from 112 features and documentary films and edited by Cecil deMille of Liberty" is sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America of which Will If Hays is president and introduced In Richmond under the auspices of The Times-Dispatch and The News Leader This is a united effort of the entire film industry and all profits will be donated to emergency defense welfare work "Land of Liberty" contains some 200 scenes of thrilling action with 139 stars It is not a reissue but a condensation of outstanding historical events filmed and recorded during the past 23 years with March of Time commentary and new scenes of current defense measures Nearly one-half of the pictures from which these scenes were taken have not been seen by the present generation of moviegoers and many of the others were never shown in Richmond Hayward Is Success In Sequel NOW OPEN 11 A JuottU BENNETTHAYWARD uUhB SON of MONTE CRISTO with GEO SANDERS plot NEW! EXCITING! (CARTOON) LOEWS NEWS EDDIE WEAVER PARK Tomorrow OF beiR presented In Richmond indsr IN ihiskw of The Richmond Tlmee- Prefetch and The Richmond Nti Leader STATE! BREST 139 FAMED STARS! 200 SPECTACULAR SCENES! 1000 EXPLOSIVE THRILLS! Starts 10:30 isrsamim- Edward Small the producer who owns a valuable young star named Louis Hayward and an unquenchable love of swishing swords puts' the two together again for "The Son of Monte Cristo" currently playing at Loew's Here is a picture which you will swear you have seen before It is all about a mythical kindom in middle Europe headed by a beautiful but powerless grand duchess who tries to escape the clutches of a juggernaut general with delusions of grandeur and who is rescued at the very last nick of time by a black-masked hedgehopper The settings are familiar to all who have ever seen a picture backgrounded in the Balkans the dialogue could have been lifted right out of some Graustarkian opus of a decade back except that a few phrases about liberty and dictators and freedom of the press give the script a certain phoney timeliness In spite of the fact that this is the sort of show that a movie-public with an average age-of-fourtecn was raised upon the stars Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett put their best efforts into it Since the story has a "Mark of flavor Hayward finds himself in the desperate plight of having to top the performance of Tyrone Power who was once trying to top the memory of the senior Fairbanks Hayward does the best he can with the material at hand and wrings considerable humor from the scenes in which he masquerades as a foolish fop Miss Bennett acts the imperial lady with an icy restraint that must have chilled the sound stages Best performance of the lot is delivered as usual by George Sanders as the devilish dictator who covets his beautiful duchess to such an extent that he would turn over the whole principality to the Russians Just the same it's worth while going to this week to hear Eddie Weaver play Ravel's 'Bolero" The news and a Travel-talk complete the bill Amateurs and professionals meet Stirling Hayden from Hollywood pauses for a moment before the premiere of to chat with three members of the cast of to be presented by the Theatre Guild shortly Left to right above are Mary Barbour Dixon Marjorie Watts Mr Hayden and Alice Chisholm Tha whole aactfmg' drama mf Ammrkm talaecopad brta 100 eeinataa ef broolfilaea actloa! into the Colonial this week will find a film much to his liking Looks as if what this State needs is more Edward Griffith 'Virginia' Packs Theatre At Premiere Despite Rain parhope never ogota tuck eraaa anferfola-' AMONG THE 139 GREAT STARS YOU WILL SEE: don aaiccHE CEoaei aaiui EDWARD ARNOLD INNIE MRNEI JONH lARRYMORE LIONEL UNRVMORE WARNER CARTER WALTER NRIT0N JOEL RkCREA VICTOR RklAGLEN FREDRIC MARCH RAYMOND ASSET HIT MONTGOMERY ANNA NEAGLE GAIL PATRICE GEORGE RAFT LMISE RAINER PAM A ORISON ANN MTHERF0RD JOSEPH SCHILORNAOT RANDOLPH SCOn JAMES STEWART LEWIS STONE MARGRNET SMIAVAN RRIM TAMIR0FF SPENCER TRACT LORETTA YOUNG I Hampton Welcomes Dorothy Maynor HAMPfON Miss Dorothy Maynor who this time a few years ago was busy cramming for her midyear exams in home economics at Hampton Institute returned to her alma mater last night to receive the greatest ovation in her brilliant young career as one of America's greatest sopranos More than 2200 listeners packed Ogden Hall from Hampton campus and applauded wildly as Miss Maynor smilingly gave them what they wanted She sang Beethoven Strauss Faure Bazet DeBussy and Moussorgsky She sang Negro spirituals She sang popular songs and finally after seven encores she asked the entire student body jot 1000 to join with her in singing the traditional Hampton spirituals she knows so well Every seat was taken as side by side with the student body sat prominent governmental officials Virginia social leaders Army and Navy officers and such distinguished citizens as the Rev Harry Emerson Fosdick They were all paying tribute to the glorious voice of the roly-poly girl who spent 10 years at Hampton Institute working in the school laundry to pay her tuition singing in the choir and finally teaching in Phenix School This is her second visit to the school since she was discovered by Koussevitzky a year and a half ago Dr Malcolm MacLean president of Hampton Institute said that "no ovation could be too great for one of Hampton's most distinguished graduates NOW PARK WALLACE IEERY WALTER BRENNAN GE0R8E (RENT VIRGINIA IRUC4 0R MRNI LEO CARRILLO CLAUDETTE COLBERT GARY COOPER ETTE DRVIt DEAD EN0 NIDI AKNARO 0IX IRENE DUNNE HENRV FONDA JANET GAVN0R dennis Morgan! JAMES CRAIG i INAUGURAL SCENES ROBERT LIVINGSTON BOB STEEL RUFE DAVIS IN "LONE STAR RAIDERS" Today RayMILLAND Claudette COLBERT MT i mm frwm Mtle flh nMIhV to He MMMn will to to to Ito tMito Klto ItoiMtry Einstein Makes Bow as Violinist PRINCETON Dr Albert Einstein mathematician made his local public debut as a violinist yesterday at a benefit and received such a hearty applause that he responded with an encore Einstein played four classical numbers three of them on the program as a prelude to a playlet presented by school children Proceeds were for the American Service Committee tide Today ffiMEE) ENDS TODAY! SPENCER TRACY In BETTE DAVIS Herbert MARSHALL "Tha LETTER" BROOKLYN THRILLS and LAUGHS OPEN 1 JUDY GARLAND Grerae MVBPHT Charlra WIXMXGEK NELLIE By Edith Lindeman Yes a good picture this Paramount film that opened at the Colonial last night Certainly there were no disappointed patrons among the capacity crowd that filled the theatre for the premiere even though they came in drenched from waiting in a solid-packed line until the doors should open and let them in out of yesterday sudden and vicious storm A broadcast in the lobby took place on scheduled time with visiting stars Stirling Hayden and Tom Rutherfoord telling of their joy of being in Richmond rain and all: and a group of notables headed by Governor Price extolling the picture and all it would mean to the State The microphone was handed in turn to General Gardner Waller adjutant-general of Virginia: Jesse Johnson who spoke for Mayor Ambler Colonel Talbee of Camp Lee Commander Irwin Sherritt United States Navy Robert Porterfield of Abingdon's Barter Theatre and a few lesser lights like motion picture reviewers Band Soaks In Silence Outside it kept on raining and the John Marshall band which had come to play for the festivities Sot pretty wet waiting for the roadcast to end They weren't allowed to blow one blast of or thump one thump of "Hail the until the microphones were closed for fear that a wayward strain of music might get on the air and bring the wrath of A A down upon the Colonial Theatre Eight o'clock saw the opening of the doors Eight-five found the theatre almost filled At 8:30 the color guard of the Blues trooped the colors while the crowd was momentarily silenced Then came the picture a film that brought appreciative laughter and applause from the audience with almost every line "The Second Invasion" The Edward Griffith production set against the opulent background of Blue Ridge Mountains its rolling fields and gracious trees demonstrates at once why Mr Griffith did not care 1c do a picture about the Old Dominion in lifeless black and white The added fact that Star Madeleine Carroll is the loveliest thing in technicolor may have had some weight also All Virginians will be pleased with the theme of the story too' Griffith himself collaborated with Screen Writer Virginia Van Upp co script a yam about second invasion of the an invasion of recent years brought about when Northern money has purchased Southern homes The script Is so cleverly constructed that no new wars will be fought across the Mason-Dixon Line because both Southerners and Yankees will feel that Mr Griffith is on their side The romantic angle is built up when Miss Carroll a bom Virginian comes home after an absence of 20 years for the purpose of selling the old place She defers her plan after encountering the Negro servants who belong on the place and who regard her almost as a reincarnation of her grandmother- She puts the idea out of her mind entirely after a few good looks at Fred MacMurray who lives next door and who takes a fierce Virginia pride in his land and ancestry Conflict rears its head when Stirling Hayden the filthy-rich New Yorker pays court to the lady Familiar Anecdotes Reappear Into the story have been woven dozens of Virginiana dear to the hearts of the State anecdotes that have been repeated for years (remember the one about the Virginians five of them wise and five of them foolish?) ghost stories that have come straight off some of our oldest family trees a skeleton or two is dusted off and taken out of the closet strictly indigenous bits of gossip pleasantries and manners of speech are thick as bees in the dialogue Though the story may be thin in spots and a bit implausible in others it has the cosy charm for a Virginian that he gets from a visit with a parcel of second cousins whom he seen for quite a while Miss Carroll in addition' to being beautiful manages to hold sympathy for herself even while vacillating interminably between her two suitors Fred MacMurray somehow or other turns his mid-western self into a plausible Virginia farmer Hayden Is Outstanding Most arresting member of the cast however is Stirling Hayden who in his first role gives much -promise of a brilliant future Good looking extremely tall and following no pattern for former leading men Hayden demonstrates in thiaifilm his potentialities for future roles more suitable to his personality Richmond-son Tom Rutherfoord with the most thankless role assigned to him rates special applause for playing the part as it was written even though he found himself a heel and a worn-down-and-out Southern Excellent as all the adults may be a five-year-old youngster puts the picture in her own little overall pocket She is Carolyn Lee cast here as Fred MacMurray's daughter Her role is long and exacting but she plays it with something more than mere cuteness In addition Carolyn was the only member of the cast allowed to assume a Southern accent for the simple reason that she is the only one who could make it sound natural Louise Beavers Applauded Last audience showed its approval for the Negro players particularly Louise Beavers always a favorite with local fans Leigh Whipper -in a few short scenes leaves an indelible impression of the century-old onetime slave who has home to At the close of the performance Stirling Hayden and Tom Rutherfoord made more friends for themselves and the picture by their personal appearances Small Carolyn Lee also scheduled to appear is still bedded with flu in Charlottesville Yes it's a good picture with a full load of laughter action romance and the touch of pathos that all good pictures should have Everybody had a fine time last night and everybody who pops WILLIAM BOYD (Hopalong Caasidy) "THREE MEN FROM TEXAS" GBEEK ABCHEB" He 'With Ah DVORAK Willian I0YD Return Engagement JEAN ARTHUR WILLIAM HOLDEN la "ARIZONA" Eadi Taday Diek FORAN Petty MORAN "The MUMMY'S HAND" BYR0 Now! ROMANCE AD VENTURE' mow colonial Carolyn Lee the "little lady who stole the show I iA.