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"PAGE TEN SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938 Screen and Stage Personalities Current Attractions at Local Theatres ft Watch The Birdie Muni Registers Anger Formby Ranks Eighth As a Boxoffice Star 4, By MILTON BROXNER Jv 838 'f i A courtroom scene showing Paul Muni in "Bordertown" which, due to popular demand, opens at the Capitol theatre today for a return showing in Shamokin. -SCREEN GHATS By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 14 All over tha lot: There was a first scene be tween Marie An toinette and Louis XV (Norma Shearer and John Barrymore). Lords and ladles of the court stood about In their brilliant costumes and overstuffed wigs, and looked on with flickerings of special interest. Mr.

Barrymore recently had been aroused from his 4 an oozing chair and was ready for BSe action. Whatever his state of I Somnolence away from the camera, the actor has been snapping into his lines with the old Barrymore fire. Miss Shearer always knows her part. I never blows a scene. Director van Dyiw toid the as- kj sistant cameraman to "Spin "em." I Arcer a lew seconds ne cauea.

ac- ton! Bliss Shearer looked at Barry- more as though to speak. There was I a long silence. The camera contin-S ned to turn, and onlookers fidgeted. She had forzotten her lines. When "the lines finally came they were mapoken in a rush, as though by a 0 tciiru ingenue iiigii school senior play.

Van Dyke said, "Oil 5 "A few minutes later, after a suc- cessful take, Miss Shearer explain-Z ed: She said that almost as long as she could remember she had wanted to play opposite Barrymore. She used to see him on the stage. Later, when he was working on the Metro 2 lot, but always in other pictures, 5 (he'd visit his sets and watch him 2 work. They had no scenes together JJ In "Romeo and Juliet." I when uus scene came along she was stricken speechless by her long-standing awe of a great actor And Says Woo-Woo On the "Crime of Dr. Hallett" set uvs wiui certain cnaracierisucs.

7 vmrn win nivv rprra'n rninnioTinc jm i u.r I'liHim- rr Mr i-iisi tfi hir than nrrfinarr pvt t-q mnnL'avc vl 1)1 I yl I P. Psnrt theatre. They discovered that, unlike most men's prisons, the gaols for feminina offenders all over the country have radically different standards and regulations of dress for the inmates. In the matter of dress at California's celebrated women's prison at Tehachipi, the inmates are allowed to "go as they please." Barring hat, furs and coats they wear the same ensembles as they did "outside," before their- incarceration. Slacks ara even de rigueur in this morern Good old Charles Winninger, "Cap'n Henry" of "Show Boat," tried his hand at candid cameraing during the filming of Mae West's "Every Day's a Holiday," the laugh-filled comedy of life and love in Little Old New York now playing at the Victoria theatre, while the cameraman wasn't looking, and behold his first result! Mae and her leading man, Edmund Lowe, in a lovey-dovey pose! He meant to take some more but ran out of plates.

Lowe and Winninger are only two of the gents vie-ing for Miss West's favor in the film. The others are Walter Catlett, Charles Butterworth, Lloyd Nolan and Chester Oonklin. The other woman in the triangu lar romance is an American society woman, who plays with the hand some young proprietor of the "mg.u club, a flirtation' which the mad youth takes seriously, and which ends in tragedy. Margaret Lindsay has the role of the society woman. "Women In Prison" What may be the height of fashion for milady's garb in the California state women's prison at Tehachipi is a strictly taboo mode in the Michigan House of Correction for Girls.

These and other interesting findings, relating to dress styles in women's prisons were made by the research department of Columbia Pictures in preparation for the filming of "Women In Prison," a realistic and dramatic story of girls behind bars, now showing at the Capitol BINGO TONIGHT CITY CAFE E. Sunbury St. LONDON. Feb. 14 (NEA) He was No.

8 on the list of the world's greatest box-office attractions dur ing 1937. His annual salary is nearly $100,000. He is equally famed, in England, as a star of radio, cinema and vaudeville. George Formby like father, like son. Yet few Americans prcbably ever have heard of George Formby, a comedian who, like the more internationally renowned Gracie Fields, is a product of North England.

George Formby hails from Wigan as did his father, the first George. And you might as well know that this dreary Lancashire town is the butt of all the wits of the music halls. Formby's career shows that heredity and environment are stronger than man's will. His father was an cld-time vaudeville favorite. Britons adored him.

Young George, however, wanted to be a jockey. At the age cf 10 and weighing 55 poimds, his prcud father let him ride the family's race horse, a nag called "Eliza." The would-be jockey's version of that race was: "Rain mud mumps last place in a huge field." He is careful to explain that- he and not Eliza had the mumps. It cured him of the race course. After ill picturization of the colorful life in a town on the American border, with its night clubs and gambling resorts frequented by American millionaires and bored society women seeking diversion. It is in this atmosphere that Paul Muni, in the role of a foreign youth, rises to riches and power as the proprietor of a fashionable night club and gaming hall.

Handsome, magnetic, he is loved by two women, one a fiery adventuress who slays her husband to try to win him, and, when scorned, charges him with the murder. The part is pla3'ed by Bette Davis, Who is said to surpass even her splendid performance in "Of Human Bondage." Capitol Bordertown' Paul Muni and Bette Davis Co-Starred First Time in Drama of Eternal Triangle Two of the greatest stars of the modern screen, Paul Muni and Bette Davis, come to the Capitol today in their only co-starring picture, "Bordertown," w'hich is brought back to this city by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Because of his work in "Pasteur" and "The Life of Emile' Zola," Muni has been acclaimed as the screen's greatest character actor, while Bette Davis' superb acting in such pic tures as "Dangerous" and "Marked Woman" has won for her a tremendous following. The picture, suggested by Carroll Graham's novel, is a stark, realistic CAPUT OIL PRESENTING ONE OF THE SEASON'S OUTSTANDING jnoiuceys. The two most outstanding are one that looks like Katharine Hepburn and one that looks like Hugh Herbert and says "Woe-woo." VICTORIA P-R-O-G-R.

A-M-S See Again The Immortal Film Only These Two Could Bring You! JJane Withers is joining Carole win Blonde ot Biuftette Gentlemen prefer Mae as the gal who made the Nineties Gay Majestic 'High Flyers' Wheeler and Woolsey, Hifh Voltage Fonmakers, Blend Talentj With Lupe Velei Wheeler and Woolsey, the two high-voltage funmakers of the screen, take to the air in what is said to be the maddest, merriest or all their big-laugh comedies, the new RKO-Radio picture, "High Flyers." Fiery Lupe Velez is their leading lady, with Marjorie Lord, Margaret Dumont and Jack Carson appear ing in prominent roles. The comedians are cast as operators of a trick airplane concession, with Wheeler as a grounded ace giving flying lessons, while Woolsey officiates as "barker." Trouble starts when the pair accept a proposition to fly out to sea and pick up a package which will be tossed overboard from an incoming steamer. They steal a plane from the harbor police, meet the steamer and get the package. It contains jewels belonging to Arlington, owner of a country estate, which have been stolen aboard the steamer by a confederate of the crook who has employed them. Chased by a revenue cutter, they fly inland, and crash down on the Arlington estate, where the owner mistakes them for detectives sent to investigate a series of thefts which have recently taken place there.

The real culprit is a' deg, "Spot" a canine kleptomaniac, whose thievish propensities cause all sorts cf complications. The jewels are hidden, stolen again several times, until finally the partners recover the loot for its owner. Other players in the cast are Charles Judels, Lucien Prival and Herbert Evans. GARBO MAY PLAY HISTORIC ROLE PHILADELPHIA. Feb.

14 (U.R Greta Garbo may play on the screen the role of Armego; Prints, daughter of Pennsylvania's first governor, Chairman Frank W. Melvin of the state's 300th anniversary commission disclosed today. Sigfried Edstrom, chairman of the New Sweden Tercentenary Commission in Stockholm, Informed Melvin that he had talked with the motion picture actress at her vacation es tate near the Swedish capital and that she assured him she willingly would make the film if Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios would agree to produce it. Johan Printz was the leader of the first band of Swedish immigrants to come to the new world and became governor of New Sweden, the little colony et up on Tinicum Island in the Delaware River near Philadelphia 300 years ago, the first settlement in what now ts Pennsylvania. Armegot presided as her fathers hostess in the executive mansion and history says her life was a dramatic and glamorous one, combining love, business and social duties.

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Unwilling to trade on the family name, he worked for some time as George Hoy. He started in his own North England. He had a line of broad Lancashire patter and he sang his own songs to his own accompaniment on a ukelele. Newcastle loved him. Blackpool Atlantic City of the working pecple of north England-adored him.

"Command" Performance, Like Father He worked his way south. To his astonishment London not only understood but like his Lancashire stuff. He began to broadcast. He got parts in films as the funny man. He had speaking roles in the famous Christmas pantomimes which are a feature of every British holiday theatrical season.

Financially he was on Easy Street. The triumph of his 33-year-old life so far was last November when he was one of the artists in the "command" vaudeville performance attended by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Twenty-four years before, his father had had a similar honor. King George and Queen Mary had given him a tie pin and cuff links. "Young George" wore them for luck the night he made the new king laugh.

That set the seal on his reputation. He had arrived just as his father had. with LUPE VELEZ MARJORIE LORD Margaret DUMONT JACK CARSON Academy Award Short "THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY" in Technicolor MILT BRITTOX ORCH. Modern and Old Timo DANCE Tuesday Night MASONIC HALL Mount Camel Held by CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Admission SOc Dancing 9:00 to 1:00 NOW thru WED. 250 5:30 DOUBLE FEATURE NEWS SPORTS CAHOON SCOTT COLTON ARTHUR 10PT MAYO MITHOT ANN OORAN Dtrccttd by lembtrl Hiily A COtUMMA PICTURI BE TTB JLUJ Valentine Dance Tonight at ihe WARSAW TAVERN 819 Chestnut Kulpmont Music by EDDIE LUBERESKI J.

ZALEWSKl. Prop. TODAY and TOMORROW '3a '2 SKYWAY SLEUTHING BY A PAIR OF CLOUD-BUST ING CLOWNS! RK0 RADIO PICTURE Lombard, Gladys Swarthout and KDSt other feminine stars in the realm of low comedy. On an outdoor set for Jhe picture 'Gypsy." she And Robert Wilcox were dashing, f-ith a car and trailer, through a barrage of vegetables thrown by an angry crowd. The scene was supposed to end with a ripe tomato squishing over the frightened face Miss Withers.

They tried it five times, and the players were well pelted with cabbages, carrots and such. But a property man, a former pitcher, had difficulty attaining accuracy with the tomatoes. A dozen of them had been prepared by hollowing them out and stuffing them with catsup, and they were hard to handle. There was applause when he finally connected, perfectly, splattering the star. Miss Withers licked her lips and asked, "Anybody got a hamburger?" Maestro Montgomery Robert Montgomery sings for the first time on the screen in "Wooden Wedding," and he's nervous as a newcomer who has to kiss Greta Garbo.

Lurks in far corners of the sound stage and tries out his voice in undertones. He wishes he had had a little more time for practice, but he has been wry busy. "I'm gonta sneak out early this afternoon and take a music lesson," he confided. "But dont pell, anybody, or they'll put me in a Pete Smith short to round out the day." Fears It's Old Age John Qualen is typed, by this time, as an expectant father. In "Street Scene," "Arrowsmith," "Black Fury" and "Whipsaw" he had numerous children, but that record was top- Ded.

of course, when he assumed the role of Papa Dionne in "The Country Doctor." (He also has three youngsters of his own.) But now, in "The Joy of Loving," Mr. Qualen is merely a little Swedish cook on a tramp steamer and childless. The actor fears he may "be getting old. DANCE TONIGHT Wednesday and Saturday New Diamond Cafe 1256 Cbemunr St Choice Liquors, Wines and Beer PENNY BINGO Every Monday and Thursday Starting at o'clock CAMERON HOUSE N. First It.

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