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Daily News from Los Angeles, California • 16

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They've DoneTtighf by 'You Can't Take; It With You' 7 m. By IIARRY MINES 77; Product lon of Spanish pic- tures in Hollywood wlU be re- sunted within ihijBert inonth, according to 'an ahnouncement today by. Frank- Z. Clement, noted Argentine producer and head of' Industrial CUnemato- -grafted Argentina, S. A-r who 'will put his most ambitious pic s-tursr -Cantacla ro1before th4 cameras 7 here, Instead of Buenos Aires, as originally In will Wait untll later to begin South American production, feeling that he needs Hollywood's superior technical and -casting facilities orr'Canta claro.

The producer will open offices at Grand National studios today andwirislgna contract-' this week with one of the three major film compuiies that are dicker ing for world distribution rights to the production, which iis the -Mggest Spanish picture attempt ed to date. 1 Cantaciaro, a fomantlc novel 'V by Romulo--Gallegos, foremost writer of Venezuela, la consid ered the Spanish Gone With ths Wind, haying passed' its 198th Not io long" ago there was often reason enough to un-i happily igh and mutter in anticipation and later on realiza-i tion when a sucqessf ul stage play was bought and converted -into armotionpicture. By. the time mammoth Hollywood brains introduced what: was declared to be necessary changes, one" never recognized' the original it had become so altered, and not always to its advantage. Lately Jiowever, there jeejns tojiave arisen a jjhanjje--pf heart.Cinema heaven lie praised, are doing all right by fottlighflare'Wheir they; bring it before the cam 'era.

Often, surprisingly -enough, in the they improve on the work so that the film becomes, superior to the show frpni which it.was adapted. J- This lesgthy preamble Is a way of Informing all and suw, rich man. Hie' beautiful Mary dry that In celluloid form You Forbea playiT'hia There a telUng dramatic scene for which better thau It wae In.the.tbe-; h. B. Warner reaps pnlM-.

AndL afer. Thank director Frank Harry Davenports -characterin'. Capra and writer Robert Rlwkin tlol jof th.pight. for-this. They've done a splen- superb.

did Job on George Kaufmana Young love Is represented -by Mom' Hart's Pulitaer prise Arthur and Jimmie Stew bit. If Kaufmman and Hart, arent pleased by what Cprn aad Rlskln have' achieved; then they should have their heads e- a mined. It cost Harry Cohin of Columbia $129,000 to purchase the rlghta to You Cant Take It With You No seer is tieedfed to pre- diet that Cohn wiU make many more times that sum in profits. Audiences of the World, mean-- wiU enjoy 9125,000 In entertainment value. The CapraTRiakin treatment Is on view, at the RKO-Hlllatreet and Pantages Hollywood the-atari.

Go see It. It is superb containing rich; human in-i tercet. philosophic teachings that arent lcky, and stresses AmNieUnAlMgi 1 9 the wacky goings-on of the- mad rd Sycamore family which, does CnQIYipiOIIS pleases when It pleases, OF HUMOR like Dennis OKeefe te laugh It oft for purposes sf a and. Florence Rice when you take slapstick scene la Vacation from I 1 ITS NICE TO HAVE A SENSE tumble sn the floor. They had Love at MGM.

jfp? there is a heartwarming drama -aad even a-moment-or- two rof tragedy. the Sycamores and their friends are still present In all their glory. Grandpa goes to commencement exercises at Go--T7lumbla. throws darts In the front room, and points. out value ot the simple things In life.

Penny writes -her plays, having begun when some- body had delivered a the house by mistake some years before. Daughter- Essie-is a terrible-dancer, but Is on her. toes dil- or whipping up candy in the -kitchen. Her husband Ed beats tunes on the xylophone and prints, without knowing it, com- munlstlc statements which he puts Into boxes of Essies candy and sells. Father Sycamore -and the iceman mix up fire- Deadline Set For Tickets Season ticket subscribers of the 1 Philharmonic orchestra of Los -Angeles' have until October.

10 to renew their application! for the 1938-39 season of sym JChA 20th. Jubilee, season of the Philharmonic- orchestra will open -November 3-4 with a pair of concerts directed by Dr. Otto Ktemperer-. and featuring the virtuoso playing of Yehudi Men renowned young American Violinist Two concert series have been scheduled by Southern California Symphony association for the coming season. The regular fortnightly aeason vULbq given Thursday night Friday after noon and a new' popular price series will be given on 10 Friday and Saturday nigh are' to be 12 pairs of the events At hlghUghtoLthe coming season will be nine performances of -S.

Huroks new Ballet Russe deM6hreCafTo-t0-be-preseTvted in Shrine auditorium in January and February. Four of the performance! will be offered as part of the two aeason aeries of Motion Picture Greatest Year AlbermMayDo Play. Next Year Luis Albeml, who is shortly to go on an extensiv personal appearance tour under the direction of Irwin Zeltner and Associates, mad a name for himself on the stage before coming to Hollywood, and hopes the day will com when the studios will film scenes before an audience. Albernl still loves the stage and may do a Broadway play next year If his motion picture schedule yCUSINNIRS Watoafestutaasccit iBCUMMUBSSSa III1IT Paramount works In the basement which go Swiiin JUliicif wnlllj lyl SIC An unexpected champion of dance music popped up In Los Angeles today to also put her stamp I of approval', on the shag and the Mg apple as well. She la lflle.

Paquerette of the Ballet Jooss, a dance group rated aa me of the foremost In the world. Now liv-' ing in California, -Mlle Paths will give the first of a series of modern dance recitals on October 6, at the Jooss-Leeder Dance auditorium In Hollywood. ited out that al Qfafas a for years. the United States has been borrowing Its exhiMtton dance technique from foreign peoples the French, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedes, and those International'. nomads, Gypsies.

vThen suddenly, music came into vogue causing groups of young people all over the country to begin to dance original, lively steps. It Is the awakening of a national-dance-; expression, she says, healthy and uninhibited. The shag and the big apple are the. first gen- uinely American folk dances ever to hie created. As such, they should be encouraged, for from them will develop a lasting type -of 'American dance." Motion Pictured Greatest Year 'Alien Corn Opens at Belasco October 14 HaUed as one of Sidney Howards most popular dramas, Alfen Corn, opening October 14 at the Belasco theater, la the emotional story of a young -YU ennese pianist In a.

small mid-western college. The Howard drama, starring vehicle for Katharine Cornell on the New York stage, Is based on the American prejudice against foreign bom artists and "a'leemta; small atnwrtuTiriTcrimy mldwestera communities Helen Waren, currently ap- pea ring as Fay Fromkin in the -Hollywood lywood playhouse production-of Having Wonderful Time. is cast -In the-leading don Lewis, character actor of the-Naw-York -stage-with more than 300 role to his credit will bte, seen as Ottokar Brandt! Max pollock directs. 1 a STAGE ATTRACTIIONS oil at unexpected moments Mr. Kllinsky, Essies dancing teacher, wanders round the "household expounding the theory' that lousy! -In the midst the 'mad Sycamores, theres a somewhat sane daughter, Alice, who Is la leva with her wealthy, young employer, Tony.

Tony brings Ms aristocratic aad saobblah father aad mother to meet the Sycamores. All boll breaks loose, the entire party winding In JailWbea government mea brrivo to arrest Ed for being a radical, aad the fireworks ao-rideatly explode at that point. Grandpa, in the midst of the confusion, is his benign, good humored self, and Is able to drive home an lmportftnt change of viewpoint to Tonys father, a Wall street tycoon, who has lost 1 Me sense of proportion because he has placed the value of making money above everything else. Then Alice and Tony's romance, which had been halted because thousaruLand its 12th editioiu It. rigm was originally purchased for the screen by 20th Century-Fox for Jose Mojick and ws secured from that company by Senor Clemente, who will cast the most popular.

Spanish speaking stars in the production. Clemente is closing a deal with Paul Kohner for the aerv Ices of Jose Lopes Rubio, top Latincreenwrlterr-who-ls ln MexlcpClty at -present-Nemn to bring tlatlons are under way Augustin Lara, Mexicos foremost to Hollywood to write the music for the production. SOHATA" Lele Shew TOVIGIR StwOUlSna. MIS. VUiftilM.X.W IW.

IMI I V.M. ROSE PAULY and Irene Jeseuer aa Elektra aad Chryaothonis la Elrktra," to be presented November 10 during the eagugemeat ef the Saa Fraadace Graad Opera company at Shrine auditorium. of misunderstanding, is aMe to continue. V. MTou Cant Take You" was fast and 1 2 4 J-S- to! mori, the plot having been moUvated.

and the mores humanised. The plight of Tonys lather dominates most 4 the latter -portions of the pic Production Starts Production was launched today on On Third of a at the Eastern Service studios, Astoria, Long Island, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erlkson beading the cast under the direction of Dudley Murphy. Additional members of the Produ ndudVA.lMW?rth William Fay, Jean Benfdict, Keith Kss see, Henry Adrian and Robert Devsre. Ohs Third of a Nstlonrlslw JbyPqramounL inn hi ISSS STVLKf i GARDEN. WMOONi lUlimi 1)011 MTlfj mtciitt iniDSiT Iii: ililllliMir MltBr-bUbrseS frakis lam WHIiiMOJHiTHiftHUKT nuAW ntusa Tomorrow SMASH WEEK 'Volpone' Next At Mayan Special Interest has been evidenced In the revival by' Federal theater-of Volpone, Ben Jon-son's' satirical drama set to.fol-, low ''Run Little Chillun into the Mayan theater, November 4.

The revival of "Volpone' 1 16th century audiences with its audacity and boldness The character qf Volpone Is a designing min who lives' recklessly ln.a. greedy attempt: to acquire endleM wealth. Peter lie recta. Motion Pictures Greatest Year SPOKEN DRAMA jMtoudiA vVMIVA. Sjr HACHeL Cnurntn PUY1lOSE I UI.M we a.

"THE MAYOR and the PftJMA-DONNA THE EEAECHIS ef HATTIE And a Repertoire oF SIX PLAYS at sveav KMMMW ture when in his Mg buainesa coup he betrays a friend and realizes what a ee if iih. unhappy wn Ml the years. -M ecrlpt abounds la new lines aad situations, besides' keeplug faith with Rauf wann aad Hart's dialogue and characterisations Rlskln builds 2" and Hart, by tks ceaflnes ef.the prescealum arrh, were forceH to Uy Mat at. Caprai direction la vigorous and sincere. Theres sentimentality aplenty, but It has been handled with restraint.

Comedy, 55? fBclor. played S- SlJff, Luh value. one of -I highlights being a night Jurt session that is hilarious. In lw boy Rlrl love theme has been heightened ad-vantageoualy. (,, As Grandpa.

Lionel Barrymore ncvllnti The Mtn6 or Spring Samuel Hindi, Hai- Lwell Hobbea, Dub Taylor, Lll- Hen -Yarhn and Eddie-Anderson, representing the Sycamores' amt their pals, Edward Arnold Vbhla best gives one of tbe performances as woumeadwouri ANkCOMmCNMUCTHt-PUY3 Mtu OtUCIHAL N.Y MUSIC SONGS Kjr'jLWUSmRE-IBILLIIfEAIRI jun ant omtvr. ion atlTekir OCTOBER 13 1415 lasmit nifbriiisnai I mns itm Vidal Rafael Falcon Jwaouin Pardaea lOA.MXonLiSSZSU. BIoiiom LAST TIME TONIGHT aomiuOfein MAWfeiue Having Wonderful Time" in MOOIILIGHT I pESQUIREl ms UOUYWDOD aww i.

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