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The Morning Herald from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 7

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1938 HE MORNING HERALD, UNIONTOWN, PA. iAGE SEVEN THEATERS AMUSEMENTS NIGHT CLUBS "True Confession" Latest Laugh Hit Opens Monday on State Theater Program BILLED FOR SHOWING NEXT WEEK HwtM VLB iLVfc fia WB I "The Awful Truth" BjjglpM Cited By Critics Adventurous Penn Program The latest laugh film by Irene Found above are cloie-up scenes from the coining attratlons at the local theatres. Upper left find team that have made the name of Torchy Blane famous. They are Barton MacLane and Glenda Farrell. These two appear Monday and Tuesday In the latest of the Torchy Blano Center: Is a scene taken famoua picture "The Awful Truth" which was chosen by America's outstanding critics as one of tho ten leading films of the year.

This great fllimlzatlon has been chosen by the management of the Capitol to head the double feature program opening on Monday. Right: taken from the laugh film "True Confession," having It's first local showing Monday at tho State, It those two "truthful Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray. Filmizalion of Great French Play, "Mon Crime" Has Fine Cast Comedy runs wild in Para-mount's latest laugh-fest, "True which, with Carola Lombard, Fred MacMurray and John Barrymore sharing co-starring honors, opens Monday at the State Theatre. "True Confession," directed by Wesley Ruggles and adapted from the famous French play, "Mon Crime," by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr, is the hilarious tale of a girl who'd rather lie than eat, and her straight-la truth-is-the-only-policy husband. This unfortunate- honesty of Mao-Murray, playing the young husband.

Is the causo of his extreme poverty, which Miss Lombard, his wire, trie to cure by getting a job. This, however, she lias to do secretly, because MacMurray feels that It would hurt his prcflllgo if his wife were know to be working. The first dny on tho job. Miss Lon bard walks out on hor amorous bosa, and almost Immediately after she learns that he has been mysteriously murdorod, and that sho Is under suspicion of having committed tho niur der. MacMurray agrees to defend huj wife, but only on condition that sh tell him the truth.

She tries to explain that sho la Innocont, but ht doesn't believe this, and finally la dosporatlon she "confesses' that sht killed her boss In self-defenBO. Ai Miss Lombard says this, she reallie! Ihnt Uie publicity her husband will receive will bring him before tho public and will help his business. The trial Is conducted along th lines ot a "Belf-defense" plea, and Misa Lombard Is acquitted. Just a she had figured, the publicity bring! MacMurray more cases than he can handle, and she Is given a contract to write tier life story for a newspaper syndicate. Just at this time, an occentrlo derelict, John Barrymore, attempt! to blackmail Miss Lombard, teilinf hor that he will tell her husband sh lied to him unless ho buys her off, but MacMurray accidentally overhears Barrymore's threat and force! him to reveal that the murder wai really committed by his crook brota-er-ln-law, since killed In a holdup.

Barrymore, his blackmail schem! washed up, vanishes, and MacMurray, turns hie attention to his lying wife. He Is furious at the deception, and Vroceeds to give her a graphic lesson in how bad lying Is, In one of the most laugh-provoklug finishes brought to the screen in many, many moons. Supporting tho Btage stars in "Tru! Confession" is a stellar collection ot film favorites, headed by Una MorkeL Edgar Kennedy, Lynne Overman, Frlti Feld, John T. Murray, Porter Hall, Richard Carle and Tommy Dugan. FILM OF LAUGHS HEADS PROGRAM AI CAPITOL Irene Dunno Holds Leading Hole In "Awful Truth" Opening Monday.

Irene Dunno, tho Theodorable screen coniodlenno, scores mightily In tho year's cholcost comedy role as Lucy Wnrrlnor In Columbia's "The Awrul Truth," has boon selected by Capitol ninnagemont to head doublo feature Ireno merely scratched tho surface of hor comedy capabilities in "Thcodorn Goes Wild." It remained for her hilarious clowning In "Tho Awful Truth" to ro-vcnl the trcasuro-trovo of talent In her Inlinltablo personality. This gay, madcap story of tho Wnrrlnors, played by Miss Dunno as Lucy nnd Cavy Grant us Jerry, Is so uproarlouBly funny It should make tho annual ten best list in a walk. The fun starts when Jerry and Lucy do-cldo to separate with the only bono of contention the custody of Mr. Smith, their wlro-hair terrier. Tho court allows Mr.

Smith to Lucy but pormlts Jerry lo visit tho dog. Thus mnny of tho film's outstanding comedy scenes arise out of Jorry's visltB to Lucy's apartment while she is entertaining Impatient suitors. Lo Affaire Warrlner takes Its most ludlcroiiB turn, however, when Jerry announces his engagement to a flighty young thing with a social register background. Lucy, determined to win Jerry back at all coats, attends tho sumptuous engagement party, posing as Jerry's sister, and by actions totally unbecoming a lady, manages to have horself and her "brother" thrown out on their collective oar. "Colossal" was coined for Just such a Irene and Cary, teamed for tho first time, of course, superb.

Ralph Bellamy glvos a dehclously hill-billy flavor to his Oklahoma oil tycoon. The veteran Cecil Cunningham plays Miss Dunne's dour Aunt Fatsy. Alexander B'Arcy Is excellently romantic as the French vocal teacher. "The Awful Truth" Is handsomely mounted. No less Important than nil Iheso qualities Is tho finished direction by Leo McCaroy.

In "Tho Awful Truth" he has unequestionably mado one of the standout films of tho year nnd probably its best comedy. Jessie Matthews vehicle-, "Gang way" comploto tho program. The story of "Gangway" Is i Ingenious lhan ono expects from a musical, nn almoBt perfect tnlo, wel away from tho beaten track of the "show within the show," but conceived so as to glvo every opportunity to Jessie for the songs and dances in which sho excels. The dialogue la sprightly and placed in the hands or actors with extraordinary capacity for making the most of 1L Mike Hears Rattle, Skeleton Is Cause A strange rattlo, apparently com-ng from nowhere, bothered the sound inglneera on Metro Goldwyu-Mayor's 'Benefits Forgot" Bet. The scene was tho olHce of Hobert McWade, playing the head of a medical college.

Finally, it was traced to the caso In which an articulated skeleton hung. A draft arm air from tho lights causod the bones to rattlo. I his Is the first authentic case of rattling a family skeleton I ever saw," remarked Di rector Clarence Brown as the lights were changed to eliminate the draft and rattle. Dunno "The Awful Truth" was voted as being one of the ten best films produced tills year. This announce ment was made following the poll of l.ho leading movio critics of United States.

Tho film will head tho double fea ture showing Monday and Tuesday at the Capitol. rn Aclor, Due to Banjo Most worried man in Hollywood is Cliff Edwards. Ho has a good Job and ho wants to work, but a hors won't let him! It began when Edwards, doprlved of his ukulele, struck a discordant note on his banjo during a sceno with Nelson Eddy in Molro-Goldwyn-May-er's "The Girl of the Golden West." Eddy's horse, with the singing star aboard, bolted out of the scene and headed for Edwards with Bnarllng teeth. Edwards wns chased at breakneck speed all over the Bet and he finally escaped through a door. That was a week ago, but a horso never forgets.

Edwards was not working yesterday, but ho visited the mountain Bet where Eddy, Leo Car-rillo and Loonnrd Penn, on horseback, weie singing "Soldiers of Fortune" at tile head of forty bandits. Again Eddy's horse espied lid-wards, lowered Its head and started after him. Edwards, aftor being chased all over Lot Two, found refuge atop ono of the big light towers. Huslon Keepsake Lost on Location Clarence Brown's Calabasas ranch is being raked ovor with minute care as a result of the fight between Walter Huston and James for whicli the Brown property served as a location in "Benefits Forgot." Huston, In his costume, wore a watch and chain, and to the chain waB attached a gold pencil, given him by the stage cast In honor of hia work in "Dodsworth." In tho fight the pencil broke away and was lost. Brown has most of his gardeners at work searching through tho wheat stubble and cornfields where tha battle was staged.

"Ill Wind" Working Two Ways for Star Tho rain worked two way? for Warren William. Tho day before he had spent all bis spare time between scenes In "Arseno Lupin Returns," at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, polishing his truck trailer. "I Just drovo It home last night and to work this lie lamented, "and now look at it. all muddy. But there's a blessing in the rain my ranch, like all tho others, noeds It badly." Shanghai Film On Capitol Card The exotic atmosphere of the interior of North China rarely if ever be- tore shown in a motion picture particularly timely today with China In tho headlines corueB to the screen in "West of Shanghai," a melodrama tic thriller from Warner Bros, which plays for the last times today at th Capitol as the first hit on a sensa tional double-bill.

Boris Karloff, chiefly familiar movie audiences from his playing of "hsrror" pictures, Is a war lord. He Is a Chinese bandit general, and, for tunately, isn't In tho least horrible He's genial and good-natured and despite the fact that he does a little killing now and then rather like able fellow on the whole. The audi onces seemed highly pleased with him and the story. Presto! Vanishing- Star's Film Puzzle Nobody but Houdinl could have dono It. Jeanette MacDonald vanished com pletely from sight in the midst of one of her scenes for "The Girl of the Golden West." it was in the Polka Saloon.

A score of miners and gamblers were crowd ed around as Misa MacDonald was to step from behind the bar, discover a birthday present, a piano, in the adjoining daiice hall, and advance across the room to The cameras were turning. "Go, Jeanette," said Director Rob-Grt 2. Leonard. Miss MacDonald stepped forth, and then it happened. The miners and gamblers stampeded, thundered en masse into the dance hall.

"Whoa! Whoal Whoa!" Leonard was yelling. Order returned but Miss MacDonald was gone. Leonard called for her. "Here I am, Pop, In my dressing room." Buddy Ehsen and Cliff Edwards, befitting the Golden West, had thought a stampede might liven things up a bit, and Misa MacDonald had joined in the fun. Men Hailed Vainer Than Gentler Sex Even though he's taking a Eoclt at his own sex.

Director Edwin L. Marin has decided that men are more vain than women, a recent experience. He waB Interviewing male and fe-malo dancers for the finale in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayeris "Everybody Sing." He asked them all to fill out cards for his file. Name, age and weight were among the questions asked. When Marin looked over the hundreds of applications, he found that only three girls had failed to Gtate their age.

But more than haJf of the boys left that space blankl Eight Flyers in Air Picture Personnel Eight flyers are directly connected with tho fllmlzation of Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer's "Test Pilot." They are Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Diiector Victor Fleming, Louis D. Lighten, psoducer, Wally Wallace, sound engineer, Charles Marshall, cameraman, and Paul Mantz and Kay Moore, technical advisors. Torchy Blane, Blonde, Heads Latest Douglas Fairbanks Picture Will Complete Bill. That clever young girl reporter Torchy Blane now deplctod for the third time by the gay and laugh-provoking Glenda Farrell "will be seen gain Monday at the Penn In "Torchy Blane, The Adventurous Blonde," Leading the double feature program. Chosen to complete bill Is the latest Douglas Fairbanks film "When Thief Meets Thief." "Torchy Blane, The Adventurous Blonde" is described as even funnier end more eiclting than its two predecessors in the series, "Smart Blonde" and "Flyaway Baby," In which the Bame pair of players were the principals.

It la tale about how a quartet of male reporters, irked by Torchy's scoring of so many "scoops" over them, try to get vengeance. They hire an out-of-work actor to play the part of a corpse and give Torchy a lot of misinformation about a supposed murder. She hustles to lier paper and writes a big story about the crime, and the rramera chuckle when Torchy's sheet appear on the street. But the gag boomerangs on the boys, because the fake murder turns out to be an actual murder, which Torchy and Steve solve, and the conspirators are the ones that prove out of luck. mxmm REPUBLIC LAST TIMES TODAY "There's never been a funnier Jane Wlthen picture." JANE WITHERS "45 FATHERS" The Hartmam (The screens newest ventriloquist comedy team.) ADDED "Meet the Maestrp's" with Phil Calloway, Rusi Morgan.

NEWS DICK TRACY CASH AWARD T0N1TE AT 7 O'CLOCK SUN. MON. TUES. "The highest, widest, handsomest show that ever sang Its golden way across the screen." THIS OUTSTANDING CAST Irene Dunne, Dorothy Lamour, Randolph Scott, Aitim Tamlroff Raymond Walburn, Ben Blue William Frawley, Charles Blckford "HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME" Superb Surrounding Program Jay Freeman's Orchestra Hollywood Stars at Work and Play. Technicolor Cartoon.

"We highly recommend thla outstanding program for your thorough satisfaction and enjoyment." ROOSEVELT: THEATRES REPUBLIC Last Showing Today Bert Lahr and Alice Brady In "MERRY GO-ROUND OF 1938" Sunday Only 2 Outstanding Features Wyne Gibson and Warren Hull In MICHAEL O'HALLORAN' Another Action Feature Plus Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Cartoon Frances Dee Tops Cast of 'Wells Fargo' Lovely Frances Dee, co-starred with Joel McCrea and Bob Burns In the lead of Frank Lloyd's cavalcade of empire, "Wella Fargo," which opens next Thursday at the State Theatre, owes her present position In the top ranks of cinema favorites to a youthful lark. Visiting Hollywood "just for fun" while on vacation from school. Miss Dee heard that Fox Studios needed coeds for a campus picture which was about to start work. So she naively applied, was given one of tho roles, and has been acting ever since. Miss Dee did extra work for a time and then attracted tho attention of Maurice Chevalier, then at the height of hia popularity, who decided tha she was Just the leading woman he needed to play opposite him in The Playboy of Paris," a role which catapulted her right to the very top.

The brunette star has been seen in "Follow Through," "The Man From Monte Carlo," "Along Came Youth," "An American Tragedy," "The Night of June 13," "Finishing School" and "Little Women," in addition to her most recent success opposite Gary Cooper In "Souls at Sea." Aviation Experts Rush to Aid Gable Clark GabTe will have the mosi Tanious group of technical advisers in the history of motion pictured, in his new starring vehicle, "Test Pi- with Spencer Tracy and Myrni Loy. Voluntary offers reached the star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from Vic- 'leming, who will direct tho pic ture, himself a licensed pilot and War veteran; Wallace Beery, Eddie Norrls and Clarence Brown, the director. In addition, Gable also has a promise of technical aid from James Mattern, noted 'round-the- world flier, and James Stewart, aviation enthusiast. "All I need now," said Gable, "is plane and a whole lot of air with out opposition traffic." The star is spending much of his me with pilot-colleagues at the stu dio and at various airports in the iclnity of Los Angeles, mailing an intensive study for the picture. FIRST SHOPPING Rose Stradner this week completed her first shopping tour since coming to America.

The Metro-GoIdwyn-JIay-er actress, who has the lead opposite dward G. Robmson in "The Last Gangster," bought several winter nnd a nutria fur coat. Leslie Mitchell, proclaimed as hav ing the perfect face for television, will give up broadcasting In London to enter the movie field. i i I "Ebb Tide" Proves To Be Big Success Tbo most stirring color photography that has reached the screen so far, combined with the efforts of a brilliant cast, makes "Ebb Tide," the first sea-picture ever filmed In Technicolor, which opened last night at the State Theatre, a truly exciting film. Taken from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, the film Is played by Oscar Homolka, noted Viennese star, Frances Farmer, Ray Mlllaud, Lloyd Nolau and Barry Fitzgerald.

"Ebb Tide" tells the story of a pair of young lovers who meet under unfavorable circumstances in the South Seas, who go perilous adventures and a typhoon together at sea, and who finally worx out their destinies on an isle dominated by a madman. John Wayne Heads Cast Of "Born to the West Life Is just one gay lark for John Wnyno, bappy-go-lucky cowhand In "Born to the West," Z.ane Grey's no tion drania which opens today at the Penn Theatre, until he happens to drift into a cow town where his cousin, John Mack Brown, is the big power. Brown offerB to give Wayne a Job but the latter refuses until he sees Marsha Hunt and decides to hang around. In order to win the girl it beconieB uecessaiy for him to break up a rustlers' band, expose a gang of crooked gamblers, head a cattle drive through dangerous country and to prove to Miss Hunt that he's a better man than his cousin all of which ho does to everybody's satisfaction. HAPPY ACTRESS Gladys George Is particularly happy about her role in "Love Is a Headache" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

It marks her debut as a screen corned ienne and she claims that "gentlemen prefer comediennes." IMES TUUAY Mighty Feature TJ E3 PRODUCTiONSllJl Ifowi MON. St TUBS. It's so funny It has Hollywood hystorlcal Broadway bellowing; Main St. mlrth-qnaku Gopher Oulcb ffuffuw-lnfl IRENE CARY DUNN GRANT "THE AWFUlTTrUTH" JESiMrfTOEWS In "GANGWAY" amm boris "v'aiH plfKARLOFrV HwEsf of! Shanghai! Kll Stooges Ml LAST TIMESri arrl.rffj jct Exotic South Sea Romance -iX In Technicolor! i tBITlDT With OSCAR HOMOLKA FRANCES FARMER RAY MILLAND NOW PLAYING tOP.0 CARTOON FRANK HAWKS at "MYSTERIOUS FREE TODAY Mysterious Pilot Airplane STARTS MONDAY CAROLE LOMBARD FRED MACMURRAY JOHN BARRYMORE IN "TRUE CONFESSION" IMPORTANT TO THEATRE GOERS On Monday and Tuesday The Capitol Takes Pride and Pleasure in Presenting YEAR'S PRIZE-WINNING PICTURE "THE AWFUL TRUTH" Just selected as one of the 10 Best Pictures of The Year In A Nation-Widc Poll By Film Critics 1 MAC'S BAR-B-Q WINES -LIQUORS -BEER.

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