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1 -22 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939 Only a Few Mnr. Outdoor Fun j) Latest ews of the Stage and Screen 3 1 aliaaaaTa i I II Claire Trevor and George Rait in "I Stole A Million." PEJTN" Virginia IVeidler and Xorma Shearer in "The Women." STANLEY Carole Lombard, Cary Grant xnd Kay Francis In "In Xame Only." OPEN fon77 Casino Opens September 10 SUNDAY M0Kjft. Film Star Owes Debt To Diohnes blidnisht Show Will Launch Johnny LONg "is CRCHESTEi New Season. George Jaffa plans to reopen the Casino burlycue palace with a TODAY SUNDAY In FREE 01 midnight 'show Sunday, September 10. For the tiast week Mr.

Jaffe has been in New York arranging for shows to play the theater during the fall and winter season. The Sensational Thrills Way Up i LABOR DAY Celebrafe $869 NASH AWARDED fr-HOLIDAY CONCERTS jf same policy that prevailed in the past will be in effect this season. This means that all shows will Jean Hersholt Admits Dr. Christian Career Due to Quints. By Frederick C.

Othman United Pits Hollywood Correspondent. HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1. Teun Hersholt, who is the best beloved actor in Hollywood, reported today that if anybody ever owed a debt to a benefactor, he owes it to the Dionne Quintuplets. come here from Washington, D.

1 i -p- jJt I -v fessi a I -'C f1-'1 W'f v-7 I sit 2 V3 9i I do opening a week's engagement with a Sunday midnight show. fc.ur- ficient shows have been booked to assure a 40-week season. The opening September 10 will bring Valerie Parks' own show, featuring a cast of 20 principals "TH SI. I I TTt They've started him on the road to becoming: a millionaire. CLUiii RAFT -TREVOR and a chorus of 18 girls.

Miss Parks, if you need to be reminded, is a disrober. Vic Plant and Billy Wallace are the featured The part the quins played in Hersholt's life makes about as odd a story as ever comes out of the movies' topsy-turvy land. Here's what happened: Women Must Pay In 1936 Twentieth Century-Fox igned the Dionnes to star in a At Midnight Show The women, who take a beating movie called "The Country Doctor in the film, will take another in and sent Hersholt to Ontario to take the part of Dr. Roy Dafoe, who brought the quints into this world. The children were excel the pocketbook when they go with their boy friends to see "The Women" at a special midnight lent, but Hersholt was better.

irole Lombard, Cary Grast J-ie made sucn a hit that an show tomorrow night in the "IN NAME ONLY" advertising agency sought his serv Penn. II ices to carry on the trials and the For the midnight performance Kay Francis Grantlaad Itiea 'biKinliefcr Ci Cyasr Masical Shan uiw Cite triumphs of a country doctor on a radio program. Hersholt conferred with his friend, the Danish consul only, women will have to pay for the tickets. Actually, the money will probably come from the men's general in New York, on what pockets anyway, but the intentions of the Penn's management un name to give the aerial doc. The consul decided that "Paul Chris doubtedly are good.

Smnd Wk HEDY LAMARR-ROBFRT TATL8I "LADY OF THE TROPICS" tian" was a typically Danish pame. The box office will remain open until midnight for the AMERICA" Becomes Dr. Christian. So Jean, who came from Den BREAKING THE hlS ALVJ William HoMcii and liaibara Manwyck in "Golden Boy." SENATOR Randolph Scott, Ralph liellamy and Frances Iee in "Coast Guard." WAKVKH lledy Jjimarr and Robert Taylor in "liaily of the Tropics." mark more than a quarter of a Air-Conditfonrd MiiTwi century ago, became Dr. Christian In a weekly transcontinental broad cast.

This time she has a straight role, but even those who have a nostalgic Red Nichols and Band Stays at the Willows Red Nichols and his band and the Five Pennies, along with it. iiS A IM'nwl lnref "Sun Never Srj His performance as the kindly affinity for the Carole who lives on Gertrude Lmvrence to Open Nixon Season September 18 the lunatic fringe will have to ad mit she acquits herself in capable Old Sawbones who makes many a citizen angry but fixes everything up all right in the end, struck a responsive public chord. Not only The New Films 'The Women" Offered at the Penn; "In Name Only" at Stanley. Johnny Duffy, organist, con fashion. tinuing to please dance patrons at The object of her illicit affection Brian VrtarV-f ATTAIN nw "For Imt tr few the Willows.

EM did Hersholt's sponsors sell a lot is Cary Grant, who is fast achiev' Maestro Nichols veers from old- "Skylark," Samson Raphaelson's New Comedy, Will Be Offered as Initial Production. of their product but Hersholt him elf received more than 75.000 let fashioned jazz to swing. Johnny ing in the cinema world the place once held by Robert Montgomery. Duffy is still supplying organlogues ters from listeners, asking for more RANDOLPH SCOTT ANCY KELLEY Mr. Montgomery, you will remem THE PENN.

vanity-tickling theme, set frrth in of the same. between dances in the Willows Marine Room. The Nixon Theater will inaugu ber, was ever the insouciant play outstanding hits, "Accent on Youth Many of his correspondents the picture, that women are that way because they're "that way" rate the stage season September boy who toyed with women and "The Jazz Singer." to his To review that spitting, clawing menage of feline femininity that comes to the Penn's screen under ought medical advice. They IS by ringing up the curtain on credit about men. thought he was a real doctor, 25c "FRONT! MARSHtli Samson Raphaelson's new comedy.

For the past few years, Mr. 40W There's no use picking out any hearts as if they were cocktail glasses. Mr. Grant, too, is a debonair sort and being paired with La Lombard is all to his advantage. flit g.mdttl.mad Jt'H'UHliHil- "Skylark," which stars Gertrude Many more said they surely would like to see Doc Christian on the Raphaelson has been a Hollywood the dissembling title of "The Women" calls for a diplomacy that (events seem to indicate) is quite particular actress for honors.

You scenarist. Lawrence. In selecting Pittsburgh as one of creen. Mr. Grant is married to a mer can say Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard and lacking even among statesmen.

If The story of the "Skylark" explores that well-known pattern, "KID FCflN MUM "Tamn Fibii i two cities to see Miss Lawrence in cenary dame played by Kay Fran OKVt iGW SHEARER CRAWFORD ROSALIND "THE WOMEN" Norma Shearer are all swelL But one says the film is good, he is in This looked like a good idea to Hersholt and to his agent, William Stephens. It looked so extra good cis. He doesn't like her and wants her new vehicle prior to a Broad common to both geometry and the Benin- i w'ti "Man About imminent danger of being lam so are the rest. a divorce so he can marry Carole. Mar.

I Roland I'anli-ttr (ioddard way opening, John Uolden was mindful of the hit his star scored drama, the triangle. The other side in this case is not a woman, how basted as a cad by the Society for Upholding the Sweetness and De She kids him along into believing SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Only one thing impedes the action in "The Women." That is the lavish fashion show in technicolor that Stephens gave up agenting, got financial aid from Howard Lang and organized Stephens-Lang here last January in "Susan and he'll get one. ever. Instead of a secretary, it is "IIKI.IS klTIST "Spate Life I' GOODBTi corum of American Womanhood If one says it's bad, he will be re God." the husband's business that comes The payoff comes when Miss MIDNIGHT SHOW SUNDAY NIGHT iroductions. especially to that has as much place in the picture as a man would have.

between himself and his wife. Francis informs Mr. Grant, who "Skylark" was produced last sea MR. CHIPr garded by his fellow men as a Far Marrt4 Clef an Sweetheart! Only son after Miss Lawrence's long and Mr. Golden has given the play has been living not only in hope of urn i wn nest aay la 1 iiteti "The Women" is no chromo, no successful tour in "Susan and pusillanimous creature, so afraid of women that he'd get up in the III.

liUCI I IflTflW street car to offer one of them his I.AST 2 DATS an able company, including Donald Cook and Glenn Anders. Early in October he plans to take the play to Broadway. getting the divorce but also with Miss Iombard, that she harbors no such separation. This upsets Miss Lombard considerably. sentimental lavalier for a lady to wear next to her heart.

She'll put it in the closet with the rest of the skeletons. V. J. God." It was seen in Boston and Chicago. It is written by Samsonj Raphaelson, who has two other i Oalf "DAUGHtfcRS CGiS seat.

Anyway (please, ladies, don't Clark CABLE ft 0v eggui It also upsets Mr. Grant. He gets COLBERT ARTHUR send your tar and feathers C. O. drunk and catches pneumonia.

"IT HA rrEN E.SM mMR. DEEDS GOES ONE NIGHT' TO TOWN1 "The Women" is a spanking Lionel Children's Plays This catches Miss Francis off good show. We're sure the ladies "ON BUREObED Ii tin "Chan will admit it themselves, even if her guard, and the horrid truth that shs was only hanging onto To Be Presented 'Tarzan Finds they're the ones who take the him for his and his father's fnrtrf spanking. that Includes "The Dancing Darlings," have been held over indefinitely at Lou Passarello's New Penn. Dolly Cushman, vocalist, offers a special arrangement of "Basin Street Blues" and Joe Morroco, accordionist, scores with his "Dark Eyes." A string octet also performs nightly.

Launching the ninth season of Some years ago a gentleman by 1 EACHLLfiR mi3 RIVIERA Fiwpnrt Road Aapinwall ST. 9A.1 FRAN EICHLER ORCH. Ni Covr Charge the name of Schopenhauer achieved THE STANLEY. Hollywood still believes that the shortest distance between two points the start and the finish of a film is a triangle instead of a straight line, and it's that same geometric and. emotional pattern that is sedulously followed in the Stanley's "In Name Only." Carole Lombard, a veteran of three-sided romances long before she skidded into her recent cycle of screwball roles, is up to her old tricks again in "In Name Only." children's plays in Pittsburgh, the New York Children's Theater and quite a reputation for himself by HO "YOUfcG1 VK' VMM the Junior Programs Company of New York will present a series of money is brought to light.

Confronted with this, of course, she has to renounce him. That makes it easy for Mr. Grant and Miss Lombard to make it legal. In its lighter moments and in a few of its more sombre ones, the film is good, solid entertainment. V.

J. EilM''HsKKiT six dramas here. EXTRA TWICE HAILX HIST. ATTY. ANDREW T.

PARK "SMASHING MARIHUANA IN PGH." intimating that when the original woman left the Garden of Eden, everything was not for the best. He was the philosopher of the misogynists. Now, the women themselves have All plays will be given at 10:30 MM-'. Hold "Kiddies" Day Todav at West View o'clock Saturday mornings in the K(H I BUM) akn "Crxhinj Itn Schenley Theater. The schedule follows: "Under the Lilacs," October 21; "Haensel and Gretel," No til "U.N HtiKKOMU I IMK" "Kiddies' Day" will be observed a today at West View park, with 8 JM f3r 'IT'S A WONOf Bfiil i every child under 16 being allowed rV aiataTaTnrII 1 vember "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp," November 25; "Pocahontas," February 10; "Old King Cole," March 9, and "Rip Van By Osborne B.

Bond Stamps to enjoy any amusement or re OAGNKT ft "Each Dawn 1 5 freshment for a nickel. La Winkle," April 20. Benny Burton and his orchestra will play tonight and Labor Day, When the new Panama Canal commemorative was issued a couple with the Radio Entertainers ap New Peim Floor Show pearing at Talkie Temple tomor of weeks ago, first day covers canceled on board the U. S. S.

Charles make Dr. Christian movies. This company has signed a contract with R-K-O to release at least three such films and Hersholt is in the midst of acting in the first one, entitled "Meet Dr. Christian." Making 445th Picture. It is his 445th picture.

He has pent 26 solid years as a movie ctor and for a record unique in Hollywood still gets top billings the star. "Only difference in this picture nd all the others I've played in," Hersholt grinned, "is the fact that I've got a financial interest in it. "It used to be that I didn't care how much time the producers wasted, or how many mistakes they made. But now I even keep an eye on my watch to stop the day's shooting exactly on the dot so we don't have to pay the carpenters overtime. "It has given me a completely new outlook on the movie business.

I've about decided that if all actors, directors, and writers could be paid on a percentage basis, motion pictures probably would be a lot better than they are." Hersholt, who own one of the finest collections of first editions in th west, said he didn't have much time for his books any more. Heads Relief Fund. Not only is he an actor, working daily on the set, but he is president of tho motion picture relief fund, which administers thousands dollars to down-at-the-heel actors every year; he is starting his radio show for the winter season in a few weeks; he is a member of the executive committee of the Screen Actors' Guild, which is involved in serious strife with the American Federation of Labor, and he is vice president of the Masquers, Hollywood's counterpart of the New York's Lambs' Club. AH this keeps him so busy doing things for other people that he doesn't have much time for him-elf. And that's why we said, advisedly, in the first paragraph, that he's the movies' best beloved actor.

To Stay Indefinitely Ralph Allen and his orchestra, row afternoon and night. Roller-skating begins in the ballroom next Saturday. The park will nd DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF MAURICE SPITALNY and HI KDKA Orrhntra THE PINES Perry Highway. WK. il3l.

its season next Sunday. along with the entire floor show ton totaled 230,974. There were 374,396 stamps sold on the first day of issue and these had a value of $11,231.88. The following day. when the stamp was issued at the philatelic agency, stamp sales amounted to 423,908, valued at and there were 11,863 covers canceled.

A Triangle Minns a Side Mozambique the same set of stamps issued for Cape Verda in connection with President Carmona's tour have been issued with the necessary change in colony plate and an additional denomination the 3e dark green. Whitfield King Company report from England that they have just received a small lot of Tibetan stamps that are of the latest printing. Collectors should exercise caution in purchasing Tibetan stamps. We have received a consignment of these stamps of the 1933 issue from India, all of which we believe to be forgeries. We have them unused and used, both perforated and imperforate, also on entires, but we do not think these covers have ever seen Tibet and consider that the postmarks are also forgeries.

Penny SinRltton "Arthur -RI nhlF TAk'FS A VUtTI' fieo. Brien "TIMBER STAE WEST VIEW PARK Many collectors are of the im out-Schoepenhauered Schoepen-hauer. It's a good thing that Clare Booth (herself of the sex she depicts as unfair) wrote the play from which the scenario was plotted. It's also a good thing that two women, Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, wrote the screen script. It would be awfully tough on him had a man done either job.

Even the thickest-headed male in the audience would get the idea from "The Women" that life on the distaff side is not all sweetness and light. The film's excursions into the no-man's-land of beauty parlors, reducing gymnasiums and the rooms where ladies retire to powder their inquisitive noses reveal femininity mentally as well as physically undraped. The women have let down their hair. We're afraid they'll be picking up pins for years to come. The ramifications of the story will not interest you much.

The characters make the story; not the story the characters. Briefly, it's a harem-searum expose of what gossip can do to women and what women can do with gossip. There are 135 women in the picture and there aren't any men. (Feel better, now, don't you, Horace?) Some of the women are twentieth century Medicis, with poisoned tongues instead of envenomed wines. They're the prettiest bunch of cats you ever saw, outside an alley fence.

But even so, you'll come out of the Penn muttering: "The women, bless 'em. I love em." The reason for your love is the I Air-conditions'! J-k nnrnthy Kdp' fW-nnv l.ao.nr KorWi "MAN ABOUT TOWV pression that the covers which they have received as first day covers, even though postmarked as having been on the U. S. Charleston, were actually prepared and sent to them from New York. This, however, is not the case.

Robert E. Fellers, today is KIDDIES DAY! ALL FUN FEATURES FOR A NICKEL! Se RIDES 5c AMUSEMENTS Se Se ALL AMUSEMENTS 5c 1 o'clock until 7 (Kiddies under 16) superintendent of the postoffice de I Air-eonditiontH) f( JOHN GARKIKI.n SISTKIt partment's division of stamps assures all collectors that none of the first day covers were postmarked anywhere else than on the BENNY BURTON'S MUSIC siiSFiiiiaiiiii Charleston. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Mr. Bond will he glad to answer questions about stamp collecting.

Address him in care of the Post-Gazette, enclosing a 3-cent stamped, addressed envelope for reply. Do not send stamps for examination or appraisal, as we cannot undertake this work. SUNDAY PENNY ARTIHR SINGLETON LAKE The Printing Press commemorat- "Blondie Takes A acatsfj tive will definitely be issued for the first time at New York, on Sep tember 25. It will show for its de Ths Radio Entertainers afternoon and evening: New Features Free Acts LABOR DAY Grand Amateur Finals Free Acts Fireworks Benny Burton's Music "ON BORROWED lg sign the Stephen Daye press. i a IVfTHf Skating and Dancing Season at Palisades Afghanistan has issued a new Star in "Golden Boy" Flies Here Next Week fa postage stamp of 3poul denomination.

It is orange in color and has for its central design the barracks and arsenal at Kabul. Roller Skating, Saturday, Sept. 9th Park open Sunday, Sept. I Oth Air-conditionelJ fl, Mickey Rooney "ANDY HARDY (jEIS SPKlM I Air-cndttionca! "Dead End Kids Marsha "HELL'S KITCHEN Where to Go When to Go Plans for its twenty-fifth skating and dancing season have been announced by the Palisades, McKees-port. The skating season will open next Friday, with skaters performing to music of a newly-installed Hammond electric organ.

Benny Burton and his broadcasting orchestra will launch the dancing next Saturday. mw jim, jm. j. mni' t.t 'Wire In Turkey six values of the current postage series have been overprinted to commemorate the annexation of the Sanjak of Hatay. The inscription reads "Hatayin-Anavatana-Kavusmasi 2371939." William Holden, Rouben Mamoul-lan's screen find who has the title role in "Golden Boy," will fly to Pittsburgh from New York city Wednesday to make a personal appearance on the Alvin stage.

The theater has scheduled a midnight show of "Golden Boy" for tomorrow night, as an early Labor Day attraction. Our Gang Comedy Jf -Jr William lloldra Barbara Stanwyrfe SALLY EILEKS-Al-I AV utucv uinc Hf-'R A -r -fc Adolphe Men Jon New numerals have been placed Al-VIW Barbara Stanwyclt and William Holden in "Golden Boy." Feature atarts at 9:50. 11:53, 1:5 3:59, :02, 8:05 and 10:08. ART CINEMA "Mr. Ieeda Go to Town" and "It Happened Ona Night." Starts at 11:30, 1:15, 3:10, 6:50, and 10:30.

GOLDEN BOY" Dennis O'Keefe "Bttro hm Lp To ease such summer discomforts quickly put just "2 drops" in each nostrO. Xemand PENETROXS! BxnriolDb Srott. FraTW lit "COAST Gt'ARD" rins "A Woman the Jea'at" 4 Air -condition' a fvr Krrol n.vnn-Olivia BARRY "Assastn of Youth. Feature Dancing at The Riviera Indoors After Monday Tbe Lane listers Jfibn Garfield "DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS" Cellophane-wrapped iruar- over the old values and the overprinting has been done in black. We learn from London that two sets of stamps are in preparation by Portugal.

One set will be for the Portuguese colony of St. Thomas and Prince Islands. It will be identical with the 1938 series except that the name of the colony is to be spelled TOME PRI-CIPE" which is a change from "PRINCIPE" used for the last series. anteed avee.r.te aspirin, Robert Donat "GOODBYK MK. CHIPS" "ROBIN Jon Hall-Dorothy l.anjw "THE HLRRiNh, Edn.

Best "PRISON WTHOLJ The Riviera, Aspinwall, will wind tip the season in the outdoor ter 6tlllt PURE AtMttl 6: 1 If1' Randolph Seott. Nanry Kellr 'FRONTIER MARSHALL" Piua Zero Hour" race after Labor Day and dancing will be held indoors, with Fran Eichler and his orchestra supply start, at 11:23. 12:55, 2:27, 4:09. 5:41. 7:13.

8:55. 10:27. T'l-TON Georste Raft and Claire Trevor in "I Stole a Million." Starts at 11, 12:51, 2:54, 4:51. 6:48, 8:45 and 10:42. PENN "The Women." 8tart at 10:46.

1:34, 4:27, 7:17 and 10:05. SENATOR Frieda Inecourt in "A Woman la the Judge" and Randy Scott and France Dee in "Coast Guard." Starts at 10:35, 11:53, 2:15, 4:37, 6:59 and 9:21. STANI.gr Cary Grant and Carole Lombard in "In Name Only." Start at 11:35, 1:45. 5:55, 8:05 and 10:15. HAK.VER Hedy I.amarr and Robert Taylor In "Lady of tha Tropirs." Starts at 11:32, 1:42.

3:52, 6:02, 6:12 and 10:22. BRENTWOOD PARK ADMISSION 40c rONlTK KKKK Checking favrkint; Claatdette Colbert-James "ITS A WONDER 1 1 1 I jiyldULii, ing the music. SAVE TIME Use the NEW phone number of the Post-Gazette's Bulgaria has issued a series of TRAVEL CAK Cary flrant. Jean Arthur "0HLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS" Plua "Rota at WaihinatM Melvyn DouKlas TKIJ. NO TAI-KS" Plm "Rounea at tha RedwaoaV1 Johnny WeiRsmnller "TABAN FIN US A SON" Plm "Saalleri mi tht Ranoe" Jsmen Stewart Clatidtte Pnlherl "IT'S A WON0EIFUL WORLD" rha "Straata Raw York" five upright pictorials to com FCTN'FEST SFPRGMK! Here we have Gertrude Lawrence and Donald Cook in a scene from "Skylark," Samson Raphaelson's comedy which, opens the I'itlslmrgU stage season September at the Mon.

There is a triangle to the story, hut this time, the other side is not a woman, but Miss Lawrence's husband's devotion to his business, instead of to her. "KFIWH," VII IT UrMICr -t- modernized want ad department. memorate the athletic congress held at Sofia late in July. 1. MrKIRS II MI 1 7 t.

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