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I v. 2 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1936 The option of Buddv Joan Marsh has been signed by Sentinel Productions for the lead in "What Becomes of Newt of the Stage and Screen Ehiten has just hyn taken up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for another 12 months. 4 i the Children?" STANLEY Gloria Stuart and Warner Baiter in "The Prisoner of Shark Island" FULTOX Carole Lombard and Treston Foster in "Love Before Breakfast" WHERE TOGO FAT, CHEERFUL NERO WOLF HAS FILMFUTURE Irving Thalberg May Sign Ten-Year Contract. PEXX Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times." WHEN TO cc 11 I By Louella O. Parsons Motion Picture Editor, Universal Service.

Copyright, 1936. by Universal Service, Inc. LOS ANGELES, March 6. Detectives, from time immemorial, have been pictured as long and lanky -with inscrutable smiles and an indefatiguable energy. Well, Harry Cohn is going to give us a new type of sleuth.

one is described as a fat. rful. beer drinking private investi-gator with a passion for flowers. He's so lazy he never leaves his house but insteadj sends out a leg- i i man to get his 1 clues. 1 Lionel Standor.

If you've been i a A -X complex i P7 Wt 'lM rjTl iS M. Models. mf Xr, ifr j07 lcXJotj 1 iw a 1 I i I 1 reading the series of detective stories featurng Nero Wolfe hy Rex Stout in a popular magazine, you've probably guessed that Monsieur Cohn has bought them and will bring them to the screen. Kd- ward Arnold plays the portly hero, with Lionel Stander in the role of the leg-man. so you can see there will be plenty of comedy.

The first one of the series is "Fer de Lance" and it well be produced for Columbia by B. P. Schulberg. COXFFRENCE after conference has been held the last few days with Irving Thalberg, Schrnck and Edwin Ioeb, the attorney. It all concerns a new 10-year contract for Irving which Schenck is urging the young producer to sign.

1 am told unofficially that the new piece ot paper calls for a young fortune, but that's as it should be, for "Mutiny on the Bounty" and other of the Thalberg epics are cleaning up at the box office. The Schencks now plan to leave on Friday. ET TU, BKl'TE! Tat O'Brien, the most affable, most lovable Irishman in the world, is pouting at Warner, -Msasf -w-ssswa? every Saturday night snuw muue by FRAN EICHLtR Minimum Chare only $1 00 ShMpitd fyA OLIVER BUILDING WARN KK -I 'red Astaire in "Follow the Fleet" AIM" CINEMA One ol the Russian boys in "Road to Life." Opens tomorrow. CASIXO Lloyd Xolan and Peggy Coiiklin in "One Way Ticket" AL IX Jean Hersholt and Dorothy Peterson in "The Country Doctor" Brothers. Pat Ken Francis Plays BURLESQUE'S "FIRST irki icc nil il pel I 1 ItW i i ii tw kerii need or hi I hi' I i.

tail Alberto Casabona, Violitii; last year was given a special contract bc-cause Jack 'The Country Doctor" Alvin LADY" AT VARIETY The New Films Tonight at Barth "Ken" Francis and his orchestra Hinda Wausau Brings Own Show Warner aid Jfc that he necr fl Andre BKNOIST ft' Program include oncofo, p. Ii fchaihowiihy nnd The WifrruVDe by Paeorvnt CARNEGIE MUSIC HILL Here Next Week. will furnish the dance music at Barth's Crystal Ballroom tonight. Jack Santa and his band have been register ed a kick. Well, Pat's Hinda Wausau, the "First Lady WArlnacrfat fxa Marrh IB tt Charlie Chaplin's First in Five Years, "Modern Times," Arrives at the Penn; Alvin Gets Dionne Quintuplets in "The Country Doctor" objection this' booked for the following Saturday.

of Burlesque" and for the last seven II Cf Hi 'Vii rirkPta 1.S. raid) at dtrwk.ii medico who has kept them alive and healthy for almost two years now. For a reel or more, the captivating Dionnes frolic about on the floor of their Callender nursery, performing with a cunning naturalness that is both thrilling and amazing. As alike as peas in a pod, they mix playfully with Dr. time is SI age Struck." Seem months featured dancer at Leon and Eddie's in New York, opens a he prefers NOW By Harold W.

Cohen Those five miracles of the medical profession, the Dionne Quintuplets, are glorified with an almost Ziegfeldian flourish in "The Country Doctor." And it is only proper that they should be, for a more personable collection of tiny stars you will probably never encounter again, and their perpetuation in celluloid is not only a fitting tribute to the youngsters themselves but also to the modest rural week's engagement at the Variety I PLAYINC BARTH'S DANCE 818 Liberty Avenue, Downior KEN' FRANCIS ORCHESTf tomorrow at midnight in her own show, "From Hollywood to Pitts Jean Hersholt and Nurse Dorothy burgh." Miss Wausau, known from Peterson, reveal a deportment that has remained unspoiled in face of their world-wide adulation and coast to coast for her beauty and On ntt dancing, comes to Pittsburgh after register the most attractive simul an absence of four years. Since taneous debuts the cinema has her last appearance here she has toured the continent, as well as On Krren WARNER BAXTER in misnF if SHARK ISLAND' with r.lnrln Stuart JIN CllEf fc.i B.nn.M in irl filing ever recorded. desolate existence. Happily, too, he remains the helpless imp tossing off the injustices of mankind with a flick of his foot, an upraised eyebrow, a twist of the bamboo stick or a shrug of his unkempt shoulder. But the fact remains that "Modern Times," although filled with a number of brilliant bits, doesn't achieve the comic solidity of Mr.

Chaplin's past undertakings. It is episodically hilarious but never consistently so, and you come away from the Penn remembering, not so much the heroic Chaplinesque figure as a nut-and-bolt factory, a this country. It is genuine triumph for these charming tots but permit this de Supporting Miss Wausau are a number of prominent burlesque Glorification Via Canada partment to assure you that "The i "Pat T7TTT Country Doctor" isn't confined The little mustache and bamboo cane which identify the First Citizen of Hollywood have been restored to an eager, long-patient movie public for the first time in five years. In the paradoxically-labeled "Modern Times," the one and only Mr. Chaplin stirs a curious mixture of comedy, philosophy and sociology with his pantomimic gifts, and reminds us, somewhat shakily this time, it seems, that he is still the peerless master of the inaudible screen.

At the risk of being branded a heretic, however, your correspondent must confess to a certain disappointment in "Modern Times," To be sure, there is no precedent for an analysis of any Chaplin photoplay unless it is the precedent he has himself established since the beginning of his world-wide celebrity. For alone of all the cinema's greats, Mr. Chaplin has alone to the Dionnes. Although 2ND BIG WEEK 2.V I mil to be in a play Tat O'Brien. which he feels doesn't do right by him.

So he has been suspended. CHATTER IN HOLLYWOOD: The unluckiest girl in Hollywood is Frances Marion. Accidents just happen to her right out of the sky. She went to bed the other night with a bone hairpin in her hair and during the night she turned over on her side and the hairpin nearly punctured her eardrum, causing her terrific pain and discomfort. So severe have been her earaches that she has gone to La Quinta to recuperate.

DON' AMECHE, whose name means nothing to movie fans but who is so popular on the air, is now on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot ready to step into "Turmoil," which is to star Jean Her.holt. Jean is now a full-fledged star since his work in "The Country Doctor" and Anifrlie plays his son in "Turmoil' SNAPSHOTS of Hollywood collected at random: Adele Astaire and Lord Cavendijih lingering be- the value of their presence here can hardly be computed, except in i.iv.rl performers, including Frank X. Silk, old-time comic; Fred (Falls) Binder, Johnny Cook, Milt Bronson, former musical comedy star; Iona O'Donnell, soprano and violinist; Mimi Lynn and the dance team of Condos and Allen. ROGER! mm ASTAIRE "FOLLOW THE flW dollars and cents to the shrewd Mr. Zanuck, the picture at the Alvin is pretty much in its own right a rich, warm dramatization ii i 1 1 I i i i tl' IS of the heartaches and happinesses of a general practitioner in the Cana JAMES CAGNET 1'al "CEILING ZERO' red flag, a feeding machine and a song.

Read in leftist suggestions if you will, but Mr. Chaplin himself would be the first to admit that "Modern Times" is essentially a comedy. This despite a foreword that insists the picture is "a story of industry of individual enter- dian northwoods. In addition, the scene showing the lL HE arrival of the quintuplets is defin "Big Hearted Herbert" At I. K.

S. on Tuesday "Big Hearted Herbert," which J. C. Nugent played on Broadway last season with considerable success, will be the next production of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement Flayers. ft If itely one of the most hilarious cinema A I'' L5 9 to I'" TlTM" passages of the year.

Truth, they bulwarkea himself against mechan- prise humanity crusading in pur- ROBINSON in LUNCHES 90c nr. i x-- -In Thr Air." I say, is stranger tnan nction. It is often funnier, too, although liberties have no doubt been taken with the historical delivery. Even so, it is an episode that frankly lends itself to It is to be presented for one performance only at the I. K.

S. auditorium Tuesday night, March 10, under the direction of Louis Isaacs. i humor and that subsequent bit in which the father (John Qualen) 1 ha tries to bargain with the city editor ical advancements, shrouded in continued silence, content with the oneness which is his by heritage achievement. Thus it is impossible to judge "Modern Times" by existing standards, for critical slide-rules dissolve before the Chaplin shrine. Happily, he is still the same lovable tramp, the forlorn derelict upon whom the world spills its minor furies, the tragic little clown looking for a snatch of peace and happiness in a civilization apparently bent on plaguing his on the boat which was to have taken them to England; Lord and 11 tl of a country weekly for a cut-rate birth insertion (the regular scale is i 10 cents a head) is likewise a price Lariv Plnnkf-tt 3 i ma lW A.

also still here, vh One. (pAcuUunJ CIVIC STRING ORCHESTRA HARVKY OAl'L, Conductor MILDKKD DII.LI.VG, Harpist FRANCES BLA1SDELL, Flautist CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH If, (936 rirketa M.on. (Tax Kiempt) at (HriH-krtt) less piece of fooling. For the most part, however, "The REGENT r.Bt Mhrrrr mum tM I ti 1 hf-nl ft the guests of Country Doctor" concerns Mr. i Hersholt's efforts to get a hospital Cary Grant 1 Jean Ha 1 SCHENLEY I fc- 111 for the isolated community and Oakland f'lcVltinrr IVio JAMES CAGNE PAT VCX Claude Rains, I proceeds to tell how he is being exiled in disgrace by a villainous lit lida Wit Vfrtl fcftli rook of ace tori QUI i.

pi lnf Of of 1 Un EN Par the Pat of. ma tea uni da; thi Me l.V tki of SI tl 'V rt on la suit of happiness. It is a meaningless prelude that may possibly give rise to the fear that Mr. Chaplin is perhaps taking his admitted genius a bit too seriously. At the beginning of the picture he is a factory worker whose single duty is to twist nuts and bolts with deadly monotony as they pass him on an endless treadmill.

Then his slave-driving employer selects him to try out a mechanical eating machine and the strain, as the machinery goes haywire and slaps food into his face, is too much for him. He goes mad, wrecks the plant and is dispatched to a psy-chopathio hospital. His eventual release subjects the unhappy outcast to even more discomfitures. When he picks up a red flag that drops from a passing truck and finds himself at the head of a red parade, police arrest him as a communistic menace; in jail, he accidentally prevents an outbreak and receives the run of the prison. Life is beginning to look up when a pardon arrives and Mr.

Chaplin, against his will, is forced to go out and brave the world again. The gamin (Paulette Goddard) he has previously befriended obtains MANOR Sq. Hill O'BRIEN A lyric tribite to the Soviet htro who wait history Wild. Homeltit Boyi wh Know No LAWS: NO MORALS! English Dialogue Translation rMni EW BARRY I'cnn Seventh Edw. Everett Horton, "$10 RAISE" Lyle Talbot, "CHINATOWN SQUAD" company foreman when a father-to-be pulls him off the ship and brings him back to preside at the From Pick To Pictures KENYON North Kid STUART ER tl I unveiling of a miniature girls' JUNE TRAVi: ROWLAND Wilklmthorg i i thro ugh with Jean Harlow.

his role of Napoleon, off for his farm in Pennsylvania to supervise the spring planting; Heather Angel home from the hospital minus her tonsils; Mary Boland home from the hospital and ready for work on "Early to Bed" not a bad title for a marquee: Vi Bradley, torch singer and wife of Robert Andrews, reported to be waiting for a visit from the stork. That's all today. See you Monday! 809 Liberty Ave. COurt 2304 "CE LIU IMIIII Harrl ETNA Ktna IODA SCARI.KT "KMPEROK JONtS." TODAY AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE ZE SO. HILLS basket ball team.

Whereupon the physician gets his hospital and a decoration from the king as well. In the title role, Mr. Hersholt gives an earnest and sincerely moving performance; Miss Peterson is enormously helpful as his caustic Florence Nightingale; Slim Summerville and John Qualen handle the comedy relief effectively, and June Lang and Michael Qualen permit the romantic interest to intrude as lightly as possible. And the Dionnes by the way, what ever happened to Mama and Papa Dionne? Man-in, Dormon ARSENAL 4109 Kntlrr St. Coming Attractions VI' "I EAST LIBERTY for him a cafe job as a singing I I I PLAZA Bloomflld I'llR, LIBERTY I'enn A Shady EDDIE CANl BELMAR "STRIKE waiter and it is in this one episode that Mr.

Chaplin makes his lone concession to sound. Forgetting the words and forced to improvise, he lets loose in a pleasant voice a curious jabberwocky that seems to be a combination of French, Span- i RITZ 6th Ave. CASINO Cnnrt 3337 II lsn ana ana even il ais- I 3 Floor Shows Tonite 2 12:15 2:13 A. M. CAMERA- PHONE East Liberty Carrick Eagles Get Tommy Carlyn Band Tommy Carlyn's orchestra, winner of a trophy in a band contest held at the Grotto last month, will furnish the music tonight for a dance in the Carrick Eagles' ballroom.

Sally Rice, blues singer, will be an added feature. ALVIN alter Huston in "Rhodes, the Empire Buildpr." ART ON EM A Franz Lehars "Gypsy Iove Song." CASINO "I Conquer the Sea," with Steffi Duna, and "15 Minutes From Broadway." FT.XTON Conrad Yeidt in "King of the Damned," with Helen Vinson and Noah Beery, and Jessie Matthews in "First a Girl." NIXON Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's "Idiot's Delight." Opens March 16. PENN Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in "Wife vs. Secretary." STANLEY Paul Muni in "The Story of Louis Pasteur" and Xavier Cugat's hand.

PALACE Inhnny Yieal rladv Temple cSnewhall Thoma 3 Ich Ksqulres Hlfn Wilr-K LER0Y BRADLEY'S 0RCH. JACK BENNY UNA MERKEL In "IT'S IN THE AIR" Mm. Kod "1HK KAI.I.K'S MKMM' HARRIS FAMILY RICHARD ARI.CV In "THE CALLING OF DAN MATTHEWS" BORIS KAKLOKF I lil'M in "THE INVISIBLE RAY" CARRICK MELROSE JANE WITHERS "THIS IS THE LIFE" iteoTge O'Brirn 'WhUperlnij Amith fipraku" CARNEGIE NEW CARNEGIE JEAN HARLOW-SPENCER TRACY in "RIFF RAFF" A Inn "Our Gang illU- of 332 Diamond Hi" lAc Alay tor pleases him. Mr. Chaplin should know that this is easily the high spot of "Modern Times." It may further convince him that dialogue does not necessarily have to interfere with his pantomime.

Certainly anything would be an improvement on the nondescript subtitles he employs here. For "Modern Times" is that in name only. Otherwise it is an antedated exhibit parading the genius of an ageless clown. HOLLYWOOD Potomac Ave. Jormont ljCVAD .1,1 f.1 MODEL Butlrr SI.

t.a' A' Dl A A II PRINCE Amhridee FOOD FAIR, TONIGHT GRAND FINALS IN MOVIE DOUBLE CONTEST 7:30 SHIRLEY TEMPLE 8:30 GROWN-UP STARS Closing Night Bargains! MOTOR SQUARE GARDEN 7:30 to 10:30 (', NORTHSIDE AMBRIDGE EDGAR EDWARDS. Discovered by M-G-M working with pick and shovel on a Hollywood labor gang, young Mr. Edwards has been awarded an acting contract at the studio. Also a playwright, with three full-length dramas to his credit, Edwards bear a striking resemblance to Paul Muni. 111 MONICA BANNISTER.

Canadian girl who gave up a business career as store manager to become one of the 'Glorified" beauties in "The Great Ziegfeld." By the way, the picture, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer, will be road -showed this spring. Ambrldio 6ARDEN JANE WITHERS-PINKY T0MLIN In Cyclones at Grill The Silver Cyclones, sensational skating act, will head the show tonight at the Smithfield Grill. Dancing will be to the music of Fran Eichler's 12-piece orchestra. Ira" 1 Grace Bradley Moving Grace Bradley is moving from th home in Van Nuys to a new home not far from Cecil B. De Hille's estate in the Los Feliz Hills.

John P. Harrtn MEMORIAL "PADDY O'DAY" with Gorgt Givot Jl fill if 1-45 inarirs mrklnrd "hASi ()t JAVA MrRiBport.