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Monday October 18 1937 Buffalo Evening News 4 Amusement concert debut here tonight 4ng-ing three solos with the Pasadena Federal Symphony orchestra A lyric soprano ahe Is 22 years old Miss Shapiro Gives Admirable Recital Program Presents Wide Range qf Demands All Met With Ease RITZ BROTHERS CAVORT AT HIPP Begins in is Lively Film Play MUNI IS SUPERB IN ZOLA PICTURE Great Lakes Presents Gripping Historical Drama Myma Tells of Attempts To Quit Oriental Roles Film First Success as Chinese Beauty Led to Demands for Her in Pictures of Far East By VICTOR KNOX HOLLYWOOD Oct 18 Your correspondent often has wondered how it happened that such a wholesomely-provocative young westerner as Myma Loy could have been successfully concealed so long behind the mask of a noxious Oriental beauty He asked her about It in her lustrous-white dressing room oh the set of "The Four a picture in which there do not happen to be four of anything and none of them named Mary and she said she guessed it was Just one of those things ELLEN MrADOO TCP RING GLENDALE Cal- Oct 18 I Ellen Wilson McAdoo daughter of- Senator William McAdoo Democrat of California makes hef TEAEGEK Zaqr IN and athletically inclined one of the best tennis players in these and seems to have unusual talent for acting He came out here with his actress-wife Gladys George when she made Is the Word for He had appeared with her in stock married her while they were both playing on Broadway in and had decided to -give up acting entirely to devote all his time to the profitable manufacturing busines he had inherited from his father Fred Da tig Metro casting director caught sight of him one day and had him take a screen test Almost before he knew what was happening he found himself playing Jeanette MacDonald's discarded lover in "The He was put under-contract immediately and next appeared in Two which was the first of the two released He played the heavy Dr Wool-cott and made an unsuually favorable Impression even in competition with Virginia Bruce Franchot Tone and Maureen His third was Women Men and now he's working in Four He's lYa inches over 6 feet tall weighs a solid 185 pounds has very dark brown hair and brown eyes Besides playing tennis he swims fishes and enthusastlcally shoots targets to pieces with pistols and rifles He looks as if he could dance or plaly football with equal facility and cause all the girls to exclaim he a Besides that a regular fellow Cardigan Billed For 1938 Filming Jon Hall Star of Hurricane Slated for Leading Role in New Film UR or MIS ZOLA A Waror Bros yndwtlM directed by WUltern Dteterla: alary by Hatni Harold and Gosa Hcrcaoa reran play by Htlm Harold Ooaa Hercsss and Norman HotUy Halao pbotacrapbad by Tony Claudio prorated ai the Great Lake theater be-linlai Oct IS Tha coat: mile Zola a Paul Mast Alexandrine Zola Gloria Hoidaa Capl Alfred Dreyfua Joseph SchUdkraut Lucie Dreyfua Gala donderaaard Piarro Dreyfus Dickie Moore Jeaaaa Dreyfua Holla Oaurvitch Maltre Labor! Doaald Criap Oeorcca Cleuscaccau Grant Mitehdl Charpcaticr Jlba Lltel Mr Kieharda Luaaaden Kara Hclea Kieharda Marcia Mae Jours Minister of war Gilbert Xmery Chief at staff Harrr Davenport Commander of Parle Ralph Moreau CM Sandherr Walter Kiataford CM Pleauart Henry O'Neill MaS Walata-Zaterhaar Hebert Barrat MaJ Dor! Louis Calhara Nana Zrla O'Brien Moore Oavalraaa Menton Lava MaJ Henry Robert Warwick Van Caaaall Prank Sharldaa Anatola Prance err la Carnovaky Paul Caaanuo Vladimir dokoloff 1C Delaaeraua Charlaa Hickman Superbly acted by one of the greatest character actors aided by a splendid cast of fellow players "The Life of Emile at the Great Lakes is one of the most important historical dramatic entertainments to crane out of Hollywood in recent years life and times inescapably interwoven with one of greatest public scandals the -Dreyfus case provides even more dramatic interest emotional content' and excellent characterization for the star 'Paul Muni and the director William Dieterle than did their last joint production Story of Louis Story interest mounts until the film reaches its climax in the courtroom scenes Here it is that Muni in addressing the jury shows his skill in facial expression and inflection This the longest sequence in the picture is engagingly acted and well worth your time The picture is more than two hours long Every facet of vivid life and work is hlghpointed by the star and director The French author who labored over his books and articles far in the night in the interests of justice truth honesty and the glory of the republic is a human dynamic personage in hands This is the film billed as Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola which drew a comment from the star that it would be more fitting to announce it as Muni in The Life of Mr Emile respect for the character is tremendous and he has applied himself to make Zola a graphic portrayal physically and intellectually Scene after scene stands out vividly The young author and his painter friend Cezanne are starving in a Paris garret A chance meeting and interview with a tragic lady of light love beautifully played by Erin O'Brien-Moore leads to first successful novel He becomes France's most prominent author Prepared to settle back and enjoy a life of ease Zola is drawn into the Dreyfus affair Young Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested for treason is railroaded to Devil's Island for a crime he did not commit Zola takes up the cause is tried for libel after writing the famous article and is forced to flee to England A new regime comes into power Dreyfus is vindicated and Zola returns to Paris as a hero Anatole France who delivered funeral oration spoke -of him as moment of the conscience of The film story has Zola die the day Dreyfus is reinstated in the army Numerous other historical events have been changed to suit the purposes but these are of email begins nr A 30th Century-Fox picture directed William A Setter acreas play by Karl Tub berp and Dor SttUnsar baead torlea by Darrell Ware: photographed by Robert Planck presented at Shea'a Hippo-drome theater beglaniag Oct IS- with tho following cait: Rita Brothers Themecleta 811 oaggttaatiiuaiiJSSI DSW8 Band leader Tony Martin Janet O'Hara Gloria Slnart Conch O-Harn I mi Stono George Black Nat PandlateR Bob Haynar Dick Baldwin CllddleS tattaiitMtte JOSB lESTSD Polly Dixie Dunher Radio announcer Zd ThorgoMM raieo Stearni Sr Jed Prouty Deon Moss Maurice Case Mias Murphy Marjorie Wearer Bdwla Cabot Nugent Olli Stearns Bieha Cook Jr BIlug Robert lavcij Qilks In Chancy Jr ret pred Kohler Jr Bnmy and Mary Lou Brewster Twine Coach Burke Charles Wilxon Acting captain Prank Bully Rooter Robert Murphy RCfSrCS imiiMMinii aeAWBH Willlu By ROUJN PALMER Good old Lombardy a school ways may be observed at the Hippodrome this week is attended by the Ritz brothers Joan Davis and Nat Pendleton and so seems a bit more squirrely than most of those screen colleges in which the students never seem to study anything but love proms football and comical capers The Ritz brothers are working their way through Lombardy by operating the Klassy Kampus Klothes tailor shop They ting topical songs dress up like Indians or that famous Revolutionary fife and drum trio and are energetically and everlastingly goofy Nat Pendleton is an Indian and he says things like with the brothers responding nothing of it been in the red so long beginning to feel like Indians or go back to with the boys answering we had a reservation go back to it Miss Davis seems to have majored at Lombardy in the ancient art of falling on what has been termed the seat of comedy She reaches a high point of perfection when she sits down in a tub of water That likable Dick Baldwin and the attractive blonde Gloria Stuart carry on a romance with the necessary' many misunderstandings and Tony Martin directs the school orchestra and sings Fred Stone is the veteran football coach whom some of the meddling alumni brothers are plotting to have tossed out Several musical numbers have been written especially for the production although there seems to be no necessity for bragging or going into detail about them here They sound like most of the college sweetheart and rah-rah songs that have been heard before At the performance we attended two 12-year-olds rolled around in their seats in high glee from start to finish while a fat man three rows back slept audibly during much of the action two circumstances that would seem to constitute significant comment Also that publicity line putting on the Ritzes in Begins in gives something of the flavor of the entertainment The Hippodrome has a most enjoyable assortment of short subjects including a Gran tl and Rice novelty showing queer animal pets such as the Giant Panda and the Australian wallaby one of those news-cameraman thrillers showing automobile spills and a motorcycle hill-climbing contest that also had the 12-year-olds in roars and a new Betty Boop cartoon illustrating a number -of devices for easing the lives of dogs cats and goldfish It is the kind of program that ought to help if anything will to put out of its misery the double-feature ASTOUNDING THRILL-SHOTS NOW BEING SHOWN All THOSE LOVING LAFFINS niX IN THE 1 I 1 I 6 i i 4- I BUCCANEER STAR Franciska GaaL This new Paramount star soon will appear in Cecil with Fredric March account and Warners have done a highly creditable piece of workmanship in handling the material and subject Muni has admirable support from the entire cast Outstanding are the performances of Joseph Schildkraut as the unfortunate Dreyfus Gale Sondergaard as his wife and Donald Crisp who defends Zola in the trial scenes Movietone scenes of the war in China showing the bombing of Nanking drew applause when Japanese plane was felled by antiaircraft guns also a colored car noon about love in a hat shop ONE-ACT PLAYS PLANNED Studio Theater Group to Present Four Dramas Wednesday A group of four one-act plays will be presented by 22 Studio Players under direction of Miss Jane Keeler Wednesday morning at 11:30 in the Twen tieth Century club The plays authors and casts are: Seat In the by Pinero with Lorraine Rice and John Bar rett Refuse to Be by Smith with Gary Barton Jean Plumb Clifford Jones and Nat Barrell by Paul Halvey with Selma Cohen and Paul by A Herbert with Grace West Helen Lyvers Deborah Davis Mrs Merrill Meyer Mrs Thomas Hemen-way Ethel Hinton Mary Frances O'Neill Dorothy Strootman Eva Knelser Polly Wiggins Rachel Wilson and Maurice Bley A luncheon will follow the dramatic program 0UMWOODI I 1 I I -i Bmadwav A PI WARNER HA! "HEAVE A RIP RAD TO UiViE9RA In the Gee rye Raft In "SOULS AT 9a Smart la TH LADY ESCAPES" By MARY GAIL CLARK Eudice Shapiro young Buffalo violinist the very gifted daughter of a local musician gave a recital with Eva Rautenberg pianist in the Hotel Statler ballroom Sunday evening which revealed definite growth In artistic stature since her last performance hereabouts The program made up of a Reger Sonata for violin alone the Brahms minor violin and piano sonata the Beethoven Romance In a Concerto by Conus and some Sarasate Spanish danene presented a wide range of technical and musical demands which Miss Shapiro met with an ease poise and control that were wholly admirable In fact her possession of the essential attributes of musical sensibility together with plenty of technical reserve power should carry her a long way If die continues to develop as she has thus far her career will bear watching The musical Interest of the program centered in the Third Sonata of Brahms which contains some of his most felicitous writing for the combined instruments The idiom la so characteristic so fresh and alive in the sombre beauty of the opening the ingenious and imaginative treatment of the long pedal point in the first movement and in the coda a moment which so -frequently Inspires Brahms to a mood of exalted reflectiveness Miss Shapiro gave a straightforward unsentimental reading well-adjusted as to tempi clear in form and musically expressive both in detail and in the shaping of burger climaxes In this her colleague Miss Rautenberg collaborated with the flexibility and fine sense of style which marked her performance throughout the evening The Reger and Conus pieces laid emphasis on external and technical rather -than musical values a phase of concert programs which like the poor we have always with us in one form or another But at any rate there was every opportunity to observe a fulness and beauty of tone a sureness of intonation that was a delight and a fine springing vitality that enlivened the entire performance The concert was given under the auspices of the Jewish Liberal Arts club for the benefit of the Scholarship fund and the audience filled the ballroom CHARGE TO BE SOFTENED Alice White to File an Amended Divorce Complaint Special to tha Imm Xnxni Xtwx LOS ANGELES Oct Alice White actress has agreed to amend her divorce complaint against her writer-husband Sidney (Cy) Bartlett it was revealed today Miss White will receive $10000 for- pulling her punches the money to be paid over a two-year period Miss White will say merely that Mr Bartlett was sullen and given to Her original charges were much more severe The amended complaint will be filed tomorrow it was stated 1 THE SHOW GOES ON BUFFALO Doubla Wrddin 13:09 3:39 9:09 7:49 and 10:09 evtrtnra 7:19 and 9:30 GREAT Tha Ufa of Balia Zola 11 A 1:10 3:39 9:39 7:90 and 10:09 LAFAYETTE Tha Shtik Steps Out 1013 A 12:39 3:19 9:93 9:30 and 10:57 Born Reekie 11:29 A 2:06 4:4 7:19 and 9:49 SHKAS HIPPODROME Ufa Batina In Galicia a 1:14 3:33 9:4 7:99 and 10:10 SHEA'S Ufa af tha Parly 12 2:30 9:1 7:94 a ad 10:32 Behind Headlines 10:90 A 1:2 4:0 9:44 and 9:22 Burleaaue 13:4 3:1 7:29 And 9:40 Mldnitht show Saturday tlid BOMBING OF NANKING DOWNTOWN SHEA SCREENS IAN" on the LOOSE! AISLES! WHAT A JOY JAMBOREE! and they let IN knew It! MYRNA and TW tefetbar! pin SHEA'S BUFFALO a Aft a PIm 1 9D9 I l-r8 994 A 19 a PkiM was typed played one Chinese role and after that every time there was another to fill somebody said: the Loy girl she plays Chinese parts' And there I she laughed She' can laugh now now that her slant-eyed nightmare is Just a memory but it was no laughing matter a few years ago 1 tried often to break away she said "I played a few white women but they were hard characters and no improvement and there was always another sensuous Oriental part waiting for me Nobody could picture my doing anything else played my last Chinese role in Daughter found out she was supposed to have a touch of sadism so thought it wss time to you think your name might have had something to do with your being She nodded "I do now You may think it odd but it never occurred to me then though took the name Loy I was Myma Williams of because it was short and easy to remember and I liked the sound of it was a long time afterwards that was looking in the city directory and saw Loy and next or some such name And that was the first I realized that Loy had an Oriental suggestion Just never thought of it that way The great public clamor for Myrna Loy began about an hour after Thin hit the screens which was if you stop to think of it a surprisingly short time ago However she had been plugging along in Occidental respectability for quite a while before Nora Charles the perfect combination of loving wife and wise-cracking sophisticated pal brought her stardom was in The Animal with Leslie Howard that I definitely broke away from the type that had haunted me ever since Nataclja Rambova got me my first screen part After that I played in a lot of pictures before Thin Those who have followed Myma Loy with consistent devotion will recall that Brand of these pictures The Wet Parade Vanity Fair Thirteen Women When Ladies Meet The Prizefighter and the Lady Penthouse and Men In White The entrancing girl from Montana thinks Nora is one swell person glad coming back" she said Thin I hear But my next picture I guess will be with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy That's what Tracy was Just in here talking Mimi pf Four carefully smoothed out a fold in her slinky white evening gown with a freckled hand heard a lot of criticism of Nora that she's too good to be she remarked don't think so really Do you? I think that while she may be unusual she is far from see Although she is Intrigued by her screen success as a whimsical wife of the first beglamored screen wives she attempt to take the character home with her know some actresses say they live their' characters off screen as well as on while they are playing them but think it is usually a pose I leave my role at the studio at night and don't think of it again until I get back in the As Mrs Arthur Homblow Jr Myma Loy is chatelaine of a finely-appointed smoothly-run home In Beverly Hills but she makes no pretense of being intensely-domes-tic She is not inclined toward the strenuous life either "I swim a little and play tennis a little and dance some and once in a while 1 ride but my husband doesn't like me to ride He thinks it's dangerous and it really is you know I'm just not much of an outdoor 1 A fellow stuck his head in the door ready for you Miss he said she smiled getting up and snatching a quick look at the mirror have to go hold up production you know Goodbye for now" So your correspondent went over and talked to Leonard Penn who was fidgeting on a long bench in full dress and looking a little bored 'with biggest chore which is waiting for something to happen It is very likely in the cards that this handsome young man who reminds you alternately of Buddy Rogers and Ricardo Cortex will be one of the screen's top-notch leading men before long Penn is youthfully buoyant and vital but at the same time a smoothie He is square-shouldered ERLANG ER dats in thur sevsi MAT SATURDAY GI1BIKI MILLER' Tovamch MARTA ABBA RUDOLF FORSTER SEATS NOW fipj HR at rr acratty style omelnlhadj ssss- OPTO MYTHIC EYESIGHT BPSCIAUBT Weekly llentkly (iGGG n0cn- THE RIDGE Clark Gable Powell "Manhattan Mete drama" Joe Brown "Riding on Aw" Ep I "Jungle Menace" RIVERSIDE 124 Street0 Warner Baxter Wallace Seenr Elizabeth Allan "SLAVE SHIS" Blue RocheWe Hudson "Sht Med To Eel BROADWAY Dck Powen Dons Weston SINGING MARINE Also Disney's Revue GENESEE IBM GENSSEB at Deal Fred MacMurray Frances Farmer "EXCLUSIVE- Alto FRAME-UP JEFFERSON Jefferaeo at Fmy Lew Ayres Dorothy Lamour Tran from MADRID Ah IN A BUNGALOW" VARSITY iSftrVLTJS Bob Bums Martha Raya "MOUNTAIN MUSIC" Atao "MEN IN EXILE" VICTORIA ay Temple Victor McLegtetu "WEI WHLIE WINKIE" Also FRAM-UP" Ferry at Croat Fellow the Neighborhood Theater programs daily in the Buffalo Evening Newt HOTEL STATLER BEGINNING FRIDAY OCTOBER 22nd mm it Dance like yew never danced before See the new steps demonstrated by Arthur Murray famous New York dancing experts Try the new dance steps yourself under their direction AND THE MUSICI HAPPY FELTOH AND HIS ORCHESTRA PLAY THAT SWING-CHROMATIC RHYTHM DINNER DANCING Every Evening including Sunday- SUPPER DANCING Friday and Saturday HOTEL STATIEE? WILLIAM By LOUELLA PARSONS Copyright 137 by lumio Ivnmra Haw LOS ANGELES Oct one of Robert typical romances and widely read when it was published some years ago is now the property of Samuel Goldwyn That means it is to be a next Goldwyn offering Jon Hall who was taken from the unknown ranks to receive the male lead in is expected to be a sensation so Sam is preparing for that pleasant emergency by ordering prepared for him Hall a nephew of James Hall co-author of and on the is part Tahitian and lived next door to Director John Ford in Hollywood He never let his movie aspirations be known however and Ford never even talked with his leading man until they met on the set for work The prize fighters at the Hollywood legion stadium who depend on Lupe Velez for vocal encouragement every Friday night will have to struggle along without her cheers as Lupe is going to be gone from them for a long time As soon as she finishes her next picture in Mexico she leaves the middle of December for New York to play the lead in James new show Remember Richard Barthelmess made a signal success in Postman Always Rings the play based on widely read novel The -story that Douglas Fairbanks Jr is completely cured of his enthusiasm for producing pictures in England is a little exaggerated Young Doug himself says returning to England to produce a new picture just as soon as I finish Wonderful In the future XU spend six months of the year in London and six in Hollywood There's a definite place in England for American producers who know the English market and I think my long residence there qualifies me on that Rochester every hour CL 1751 Depot Nsvsr Bafora Such Prafsa! vary cHtte wT man atiHd wlte aaaa aaita la acclahatefl this tremendous hit! PAUL MUNI "He Life of Emile He EXPOSED the GREATEST SCANDAL of modern timM! la ptckaS a faded paaa fraai tha atraata at Paris and made hat tha laiaiartal FOOTBALL GOES SCREWBALL I in i new hieh-ho in comedy DOUBLEWEDDING community ALLENDALE I REGENT nfCl" arszi Plua Muea! Act to New "Love Bungalow" New' Hara'i tha "Libeled lady" Man" pat Zenana! Create Cemedy Caat ta Year's Blest PUN SHOW! JOE PERI IUED Gtnt Raymond Parkyakarkus Harriitt Hilliard Victor Moara Lw 7jdcyjg28rfiwjtfc4Hdajnii4avy I mime rat BteadcU "Back In KEXWY BAKER tn "Mr Pnd Takes thn All TRIANGLE and SOUTH PARE Ronald Cotnan Edward Everett Hortorv Jane Wyatt "LOST HORIZON" Travel CAPITOL CENTRAL PARK jian Arthur Edward Amnid "EASY LIVING" Victor Monra Beulah Bondi WAY FOR TOMORROW" ELLEN TERRY 167 GRANT ST Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy "Cao- tama Courageous" Omlow Stcvena "You Can't Buy Luck" Comedy Cartoon AIR CONDITIONED Mam at Can area Jean Arthur Edward Arnold "EASY LIVING" Pint Helen Burgeia "Night Mystery" FRANKLIN Find Mac Murray Frances Farmer "Excka-sive" Milton Berle Joe Petmer Perkyeker-1 kus' "New Feces et 1937" Selected Shorts GRANADA 2176 MAIN Shirley Temple Victor McLaglan Juno Lang "WEE WILLIE WINKIE" The Janes Famdy "BIG BUSINESS" LITTLE Today and tomorrow: "Mans Dio Magd" romantic drama Extra: ZigeunerMut" I RNAcel comedy of love on skis NEW ARIEL HIGN at MICHIGAN j' Eleanor Pewoil Jemea Stewart "Bom to Mmim Hopkins Joel McCre i "Woman Chases JAen" Sen el Cartoon JEEP CONTEST EVENING NEWS Nmt 9 teDH a9 9 9S99R I Name Address i "STELLA DALLAS" with BARBARA STANWYCK JOHN BOLES ANNE SHIRLEY EXTRAI EDGAR BERGEN ond CHARLIE in "NECKING PARTY" KENSINGTONimNORTHPARId ROOS EVE LT Hartal at North Park Bahart Tartar Bmi PawaH WA MELODY OP 1AU- rk iaar it i- Bailey at Kendnetea PAY IPBRIRN QCEWT1W" AMY THE G1BV 1 Tn nffninr blank appMeantaErma-e abide by anntms tulra ar InrWI awards Contestants aims mwra thmn IS and garmna wbe earn all ar part af linne a antsitainara ar barrrd fw jhanne aJRrda Onwarts ate ataaad at Phes a Buffalo every Ttandif qf audience datamnnra winner Ceowvtantswin penned tn appyr Pines am tea AW and HE send blank Jaap Cantam Anctar Ruffaln Eisnlnc Raws SHIRLEY TEMPLE I Vic ter McLeflen "Wee WHIie Winkle? 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