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Daily News from Los Angeles, California • 16

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DAILY NEWS, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. SATURDAY, 'JANUARY 28, 1 939 Solution Ready But No Murder Foreign Filin Variety Is Keynote of Midnight Bill Fails to Click Here i Grade Allen checked lit at Paramount ahd promptly started 1 solving a mystery of a murder that had not yet been com-' mltted. It didn't bother Grade, however. No one told her that in The Grade Allen Murder Case the murder had been postponed because of weather and aha went blithely ahead. They had intended to kill Ben- nie the Buzzard but there, waa too much fog1 to work out of doors.

Bennie will be neatly bumped off at some future date, -probably after Grade has solved the' mystery of who killed him. Tonight the Orpheum theater again becomes sf rendezvous for late showgoers with -the last complete stage and screen performance starting at 11:30 p. m. Variety is the keynote of the current stage show with 1 Leon Navara heading the' bill. The-wizard of the ivories and former bandleader displays that a concert grand can be made lntp a straight man with hilarious results.

Prestidigitation that won the Slaudita of the critics is supplied Tommy Martin while others Include Rosemarie Dering, Paul Bauer and company. Walter Thompson, Janalee Moore and the popular A1 Lyons and hie orchestra. Two first run features hold the attention of the screen with Illegal Traffic and The Long Shot. -By SABA BOYNOFF fl- If Europa Film had released "Bergslagnfolk'' 1 (People of Bergsliftn) as an industrial film dealing with fanning and pilniwy tn Sweden, everything would have been fine. Un? fortunately, it pretends en-tertalnment, 'and entertainment Is dependent-on something more than long scenes of waving grain fields, well fed farm hands at work, plowshares cutting through the rich- earth and the fryhnipsi details of drilling for copper.

Thepicture, which opened yesterday at the Grand theater, has soma slight story but by the time you think you might be aide to work up an Interest In It along comes another reel of waving grain. If Rudolph Landing had not returned to his native town from America with newfangled Ideas far mining copper in the rich farming country the romance between Karin, daughter ef wealthy Captain Leven-aklold, and Bertil Akennan, fanner, might have flourished to Its logical -'conclusion. termers aad financiers of the community, however, listened not to the advice ef the stolid Bertil who urged them to stick with the soil aad forget their dreams of dabbling la copper. Piqued that Bertil refused to What! Fighting' Already 1 Newlyweds Joan Woodbury and Henry Wilcoxon had their first fight. It wasnt in real but in reel life.

The battle -occurred at 20th Century-Fox, where the couple waa making added scenes for their latest film, Dangerous Cargoes. All of Them Are Busy DRAMA OF PRISON WALLS In Columbia's Let Vs Live provides Henry Fonda with assignment With Fonda In the film Is Maureen OSuOlraa. Hatton May Accept 'Pharaoh's Daughter' WARNERS VeighborhoodFTheatre? 'Zaza Has Special IEVERLT FRESHMAN YEAR mil MM WILSNIRB KING OF THE UNDERWORLD Proof of the popularity of the cast currently appearing in They Made Me a Criminal at Warner Bros. Hollywood end Downtown theaters, cornea from the Warner Bros, studio production office. John Garfield, zoomed to stardom in this his second picture, is now busily engaged in portraying Porfirio Diaz in Juarez which co-stars Paul Muni and Bette Davia.

The Dead End Kids, co-starred with Garfield in They Made Me a Criminal, are now cutting capers in Hell's Kitchen. Claude Rains is portraying the lead role in the all star Technicolor subject, Sons of Liberty, that (teals with Haym Salomon, the patriot who helped finance the Americaif revolution. Ann Sheridan is currently appearing in The Roaring Road. Cline Signed for Color Photography Wilfrid M. Cline haa.geen engaged by David O.JSelznick to handle Technicolor photography on Gone With the.

Wind. CUne will be associated with Lee Games on photography of the production. Games rates as one of the top cinematographers of the industry, while CUne, through his aerial photography on Men With Wings and Technicolor photography on Selznick's Tom cepted as the expert fORUM THERES THAT WOHAN ASAIS Hhm pa. Illl MM W. PICO Raymond Hatton this week received an offer to appear in the Broadway production of Alden Nashs Pharaohs Daughter, which is slated to open in New York in late April It has been many years since Hatton haa ap-peared in a legitimate production and he is anxious to accept the offer.

Refusal would only be prompted by previous film commitments. Author Nash leaves Hollywood next month to supervise the staging of the play. Join the venture, Karin turned to the young engineer who HsiHlgtOsPk. FRESHMAN 1714 Pacific im. YEAR KING OF THE UNDERWORLD son or FRAHKENOTEIH 47i w.

am at mn color cameraman. Ths Paramount theater night will have a special preview showing of Zaza. An entire new program opens tomorrow at the Paramount. This Sunday opening features Claudette Colbert in Zaza." Appearing with Miss Colbert In this revealing story of a French music star is Herbert Marshall. Others in the cast include Bert Lahr, Helen Westley, Genevieve Tobin, Walter Catlett and Constance Collier.

Albert Lewin produced this Paramount picture which was directed by George Cukor. On stage Fanchon and Marco win present Varieties." In this show Geraldine and Joe, international entertainers, wiU provide numerous laughs, the Sher-ven Brothers Rodeoliers" will offer unique musical monkey-shines and Marie and her Pets should prove to be a circus of fun. The Fanchonettes and Rube Wolfs music will round ourthe' program. later proved to be something of a heel, for after reading the analylats report on the copper yield he failed to ten the investors that it was no go, lpat it out with the cash. Karin thereupon returned to Bertn, a repentant and wiser woman, and the picture doses on the pastoral scene, with Karla and Bertil strolling hand la hand through the waving grain.

Moral: Man should know better than to desert the earth. Hazy characterization, lack of action and too many long apeeches make the picture about as exdting as cold coffee. old folks win like it, how- ever, because of its many scenes of ths home country. In the cast: Hugo Bjorne, -Cerda Bjorne, Karin Ekelund, Arnold Sjoatrand and Sten Undgren. Gunnar Olsson di-rected, and English titles- trans- lata tha-4lalA 4 SEA.N ELES1DOWNTO.WN ntlCX4RA'N EUE--STN 6IGHBORHOODI LOS ANGELES ALVARADO 25c Oraatwcy at MS HA4WM IIN FIRST LOS ANGELES SHOWING ORPHANS OF THE STREET, TEARS THE VEIL FROM SECRET -IIVES DARK RAPTURE LAST TIMES TONIGHT ROOM SERVICE-MEN WITH WINGS STARTINQ SUNDAY THE GREAT WALTZ DOWN ON THE FARM mi OndlMR Praw IIJ4P.

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