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10 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1940- ne Drag a creen a if The Drama Desk vr- "mtc' nrrisnnallv'sclcctedcierit picture James Dunn Can Thank Stanley Stage Of Big-Time Gets a Flock Names Today worthy of "rave" endorsement. These pictures vCrC; "Cnndhxe. Mr. Chits" "Wutberinp Hcizkts" At Bill Green's With Airliners Goddard "Ghost Breakers." Fred Niblo, once one of the screen's most famous directors (he made "Ben is beak in the Hollywood picture again, this time a an actor. He has just been signed by Paramount to play Henry Aldrich's father in the sequel to "What a Life." Dalies Franta, concert pianist who made his movie debut in "Balalaika" (he played Ilona Massey's brother) is leaving for England and the role of Franz Liszt in Robert Donat's "Life of Chopin." The Bing Crosby-Bob Hope "Follow Thru" will be a remake of the picture Paramount made in 1930 with Buddy Rogers, Nancy Carroll and Jack Haley.

Antonio Moreno is in Mexico City organizing a motion picture producing company there with American capital. Louis is Mother She Invested Wisely And Well for Actor At Right Time By Fredrick C. Othman Unlwd Prefs Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 29. This is a story about old Mrs.

Jessie Dunn, whom we as one oi tne nnesi momers i there ever was. If every movie actor had one like Mrs. there 'd be no need for the Motion Picture Relief Society. Her son. James remember him? "Pygmalion" "Dark Victorf "The "Love "Babes In Arms" We mailed out letters, we stopped friends at we bellowed our enthusiasm to every available car about the fine entertainment in these particular pictures.

We were sure they would prove the better of t': best we were to play during 1939. Imagine our thrill late in December when the "Jo Best Pictures" polls" came rolling in from all over America. There in most final lists were our eight personal selections Loews Penn TODAY, we again stick out our neck to endorse a picture as destined to be a "10 a picture that possesses all the elements of greatness. "liirautisir iipli Miiilfcii mi I i told us about her today. In the early 1930's James Dunn was the hottest voiins- actor in town.

You EDMUND IXWE BOSSES Hollywood and the radio contribute two outstanding names to the Stanley's array of stage talent today, Mr. Ixwe from the movies and Mr. Downey, the Irish tenor, from the networks. They'll be featured along with Clyde McCoy and his Sugar Blues orchestra while the screen eets Carole Liombard, Brian Aherne and Anne Shirley in "Vigil in the Night." saw him in such movies as "Bad Girl," "Stand Up and Cheer" and dozens more. Shirley Temple got her first chance with him in Baby Take a Bow." For nearly decade Dunn the thousands of dollars.

When- 1 1 I i 1 1 a i ji I AAA 1 IT. to do witn it. But nis motner ma and that's what this disnatch is The New Film Spencer Tracy Comes to the Penn in Kenneth Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer faithful production of Kenneth Rohcru novel of American Adventure, made in Glorious Tcchnicvlor starring The Two" Time 'Academy Award Winner SPIfiuEdllu 1F11EV with Robert Young Walter Brennan Ruth Hussey Nat Pendleton We suggest you see it Today Sincerely, lOEHI'l PEE1EI Chas. E. Kurtzman about.

Mrs. Dunn made her son save his money. She did more than that. Roberts9 "Northwest Passage She took it away from him and invested it herself. I tvi.

I.M I used to have," he said, "trying to wheedle $50 from her." iTifni lit i niui Virtually all of Dunn's money WCX1U ill AJ XCCL1 CZSUeaLC, a LU WO, UU11U3 Local Scrappings Jake Soltz, the 'Rhumba Theater owner, and Dorothy Leissand were married yesterday and will spend their honeymoon in New York and Kansas City Lon Chaney, has just been borrowed by Cecil B. DeMille from Hal Roach for "Northwest Mounted Police," which no doubt means he'll have to withdraw from Columnist Ed Sullivan's unit. Lang 'Thompson, whose theme song for years has been an old tune called "You Darlin'," is burning up plenty these days because Harms has just published a new number under the title of "You, You The Al Mercurs are back from Florida. Aside' to Peter Lind Hayes: Don't mention it. Gabe Rubin is thinking about interrupting his foreign picture policy at the Art Cinema for a series of Hollywood-made reissues.

Morton Downey comes to the Stanley today with his tonsils still intact. He almost lost them in a Cleveland hospital last week but didn't. Joey Sims' band plays for the Junior Hadassah benefit dance at the Hotel Roosevelt Sunday night, The column mentioned the other day that Allen Davis was manager of the Manor Theater. Seems he resigned a month ago and Jack Kahn, an assistant at the Sohen-ley, is at the moment filling that spot. Maybe Ruth Chatterton would have done just as well if she had taken her "Tonight We Dance" to isroaa-way after all, providing, of course, she felt a return to Broadway was imperative.

That play, which Pittsburgh saw and grieved over a couple of months ago, couldn't possible have received more of a pan ning from the Manhattan reviewers than the one she finally did pick, "Leave Her. to Heaven." Joe Burns, the music contact man in this territory, used to be half of a very funny vaudeville team, Burns and Kissen. Husk O'Hare is now the distributor for a charged water outfit in Chicago. Opening Today Rita Chester Morris and Richard Dix in The Marines Fly High," with Lucille Ball, and Virginia Weidler in "Bad Little Angel," with Gene Reynolds and Guy Kibbee. Stanley Carole Lombard and Brian Aherene in "Vigil in the Night," with Anne Shirley, and on the stage Clyde McCoy's orchestra, Morton Downey and Edmund Lowe.

Under the heading of "What Happened on Friday and Saturday?" the theatrical weekly, "Variety," runs the following item this week: "On Sunday, Catherine Turney, co-author with Jerry Horwin of John Barrymore's 'My Dear married George Reynolds, Barrymore's understudy (and a bit actor in the play). She took sick on Monday, got worse on Tuesday, and on Wednesday underwent an emergency appendectomy. Thursday she started recovering." Incidentally, this column reported when Miss Turney and Reynolds were here early in January that they would march to the altar shortly. East and West Grace McDonald, who is tem porarily replacing the ailinsr Mitzi Green in "Three After Three," will go into Irving Berlin's new musical, "Louisiana Purchase." 'Edith T-: xvmg, one-ume stocK company lavorice in Pittsburgh and more lately of the Lunts' touring troupe, is a last-minute addition to the cast of "The Burning Deck," which opens tonight on Broadway. Twentieth Century-Fox is reported to have signed John Steinbeck to write "Highway 66," a sequel to "The Grapes of George White is plotting another edition of his "Scandals" for next fall George Abbott expects to keep "Too Many Girls" going in New York all' summer and send it on a tour in the fall.

Don't count on it too much, however, since Mr. JEANNE BAXTER With the Airliners at Bill Green's Casino for a two-week engagement is Miss Baxter, doing the vocals. The band is under the baton of Stewart Braden, a onetime protege of Tommy Dorsey. Abbott said the same thing about "The Boys From Syracuse" a year ago. Carlyle Blackwen, the matinee idol of the silent movie days, is now representing a wholesale li quor establishment on the Broad way night club belt Twentieth Century-Fox is testing Neil Fontaine, 20-year-old dance band leader and son of Evan Burroughs Fontaine Sophie Tucker opens an engagement at Ben Marden's Gran Casino Nacional in Havana Monday night.

Producer Vinton Freedley's efforts to sign Peter Lorre for the Burgess Meredith-Ingrid Bergman revival of Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom" have been unavailing. Mr. Lorre prefers to remain in Hollywood and has just checked in at Columbia for the lead in that studio's latest horror picture, "Dead Man's Isle." From Hollywood Katherine Emery, who was one of the two school teachers in the stage version of "The Children's Hour," will make her screen debut in "January Heights" at Warner Brothers. She'll be featured with Miriam Hopkins. R-K-O's movie version of "The Drunkard" has a new title.

"And the Villain Still Pursued Her." Add Robert Ryan, former Dartmouth College heavy weight boxing champion, to the cast of the Bob Hope-Paulette TONIGHT at 8:30 Syria Mosque iffsburgh A UP ana trust iunas. auu wxien sua- denly the time came as it comes in nil mnvip artnrs wVipn his rn- tion wasn't picked up, it didn't .1 IT. AH4.i.. II I ii I I I 1 wria iiiuciitriiur in i wealthy. So wiselv had Mrs.

Dunn invested his earnings that he continued to make a handsome income without turnine a hand. When he married Frances Gifford, his mother turned 1- l. i 1 that he was old enough not to spend it foolishly. Yet she did keep one are in the hole. ik isccuicu oiiiy a tiic lijxic.

lie eaid, "but now you can bet I'm grateful. She established one trust fund that I can't touch until I'm 50. la 1 Vf t-xw It k) Bromfield has been signed by R-K-O to write the screen play of "Half A Rogue" for Charles Laughton. Addenda Charles Bickford may return to the Broadway stage this spring in Paul Vincent Carroll's "The Old Foolishness." Those recent benefit performances of hit shows in Manhattan have netted the Fin nish Relief Fund more than $50,000. Neil McFee Skinner goes into the Broadway-bound "Worth A Million" with Charlie Chase, Taylor Holmes, Patsy Flick and Cobina Wright Jr.

Benny Goodman's band opens at the Cocoanut Grove in Hollywood on March 19. Helen Kane is mapping a come back, switching from her "boop- boop-a-doops" to a light opera style "Gone With the Wind," as of this week, has already grossed more than $10,000,000. Charlie Chaplin's "The Dictator" is virtually completed, but it will not be released until mid-summer. Heller, Howard For Yacht Club A new floor show headed by Johnny Howard, who comes out of the mid-west with a reputation of being one of the brightest young masters of ceremonies in the business, opens tonight at the Yacht Club. Also headlining the revue will be Jackie Heller, who closed an engagement last night at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis and will check into the river night spot for a fortnight's run.

There will be two other acts and a line of girls in the show, with Herman Middleman's orchestra, featuring Shirley Heller as vocalist, continuing, of course. Gable Stars Clark Gable will star in "Boom Town," virile story of the oil fields, which takes Gable back to his early days when he was an Oklahoma oil field worker. It will be directed by Jack Conway and produced by Sam Zimbalist. Sun. March 3.

at SiOO Symphony 25 'or A.M. 19 I r. "II Mil A 4 GUy vis 1st RUN da MARKET ST. TODAY 'mm I STARTS TODAY 25c TO 12:30 DM STAFI TM PTTPCnTJI Ana tnen, lor tne rest or my life, I'll get an income of $900 per 1 montn. inacs reaiiy sometning to nnc fnrwopH aw A A SmA AAV A AJAfekVWsVIi SQil7E K1S(S17 AND HIS SUGAR BLUES ORCHESTRA Uatunng THE LOVELY BENNETT SISTS5S WAYNE GREGG Horfon BWJZW7 STAR OF STAGE AND EAI3IO We must agree that it is.

In the meantime, Dunn has a big chunk of money invested in an airplane company that's manu- apflirinm fMinlniv li 44... luviui iIS uauuu siiijs lur uio army and if it weren't for the fact that he gets bored twiddling his thumbs, life for him would be hlinltv-rlnrv- "I joined the Lakeside Country 5 Club and nlaved eolf until I wore all the skin off my hands," he HOLLYVOOD FAVOEITE THE COLLEGIANS FRITZ REINER, Musical Director Lea Luboshutz, violinist Felix Salmond, cellist Program includes Beethoven 7th Symphony, Brahms Concerto for Violin and llo. Hagner Frelude io 'Die Tickets: $1 to S3 at Kaufmann's Today Syria Mosque Box Of Are Tonight. tijii. in: i iv i ip a i i nvpr i np COUntrv ann fripri tn havp fun Ruf mi A uau xiave finmcHlirKT i-i irt fcv w.

I r. 1 4 A 1 I a So he got it, and you've guessed it. James Dunn now is co-starring with Jean Parker in Monogram's "Son of the Navy." He's glad to be earning the money, of course, but more important yet to him is the feeling that he's of some use again to the world. MORTON DOWNEY 99 W. Cohen a lion.

Of hardship and heroism it speaks with brusque affection, wresting from the opening saga of the Rogers Rangers something of the indomintable pioneer cour age that is the heritage of the country. Only the movies can assemble these American legends of conquest so expertly, and Mr. Vidor has shot his photoplay full of the crack stuffs that make romance and adventure on the screen stick to the ribs. The torturous march to the Indian village so many hundreds of miles away, through swampland and over rocky crags, through hunger, starvation- and illness, and across the rapids on a human chain, is charged with ac tion and excitement, building, a cumulative suspense that bursts with fury on "the morning of the surprise attack. It is then that Mr.

vidor dem onstrates his matchless talent for pulling mob scenes up by their boot-straps and pushing them pell mell into a blistering inferno. The cinema has never witnessed either a more blazing battle or a bloodier one as the Rangers set fire to the Indian village and then blast their gunpowder in the faces of the bewildered enemy. For half an hour almost, the slaughter lasts, and it is hardly for the squeamish. It is for those who like their pulses ragged and their adventure bold. And even this is not all, for there remains the flight back to safety, with the shadows of the French and Indians at their heels; the days that seemed like years when a few grains of corn had to keep a man alive or send him off into the wilderness a raving maniac.

Even this Mr. Vidor has managed to keep in dramatic focus a less able director would have simply called it quits after such a magnificent massacre. The actor is often a more or less negligible factor in the movie spectacle, circa eighteenth century, but that is not the case in "Northwest Passage." Mr. Tracy's Major Rogers is always a three-dimensional figure here, executing the purely personal drama with distinguished thoroughness, making the man just as heroic as the exploits of his gallant band, and bringing to the character all of those engaging qualities to make his certain encore ever so welcome. Mr.

Robert Young, too, turns in an admirable performance as the young Harvard exile who is acceptably shanghaied by the Rangers commander, and Mr. Walter Brenan, who doesn't know what it is to do any wrong, is his usually excellent self as Mr. Young's faithful watch-dog. Leo is roaring again, all right, and the howl is coming to him. Q3I 1 1 1 1 4 I J.

I CHILDREN iniiuifiMin-iui 1 HCRRT! LAST 2 DATS ADULTS tic HOUSE OF MAGIC" WORLD'8 FAIR HIT! ALSO "PLANETS ON PARADE" They will not march again for centuries. TODAY AT 3, 8 and P. M. HURRY! WE START OUR 3r BIO WEEK! "GONE WITH THE WIND" DOORS OPEN 9 A.M. 2 Continuous Performances Starting 9:30 A.M.

2nd FEATURE STARTS 2:30 P.M. Positively No Tickets Sold After 2:30 P. man shows ..) u.t, met. i SUNDAY SWT. Al 9nmtt WEEKOIV MATS.

IMkmi KM RtMnM 7Sf md. tu Now Ticket Sale to March 14 WARNER' II I Manager, Loew Pcnn 4 DRAMATIC AKD COMEDY STAR II RECORD WEEK! JS Mia FRIDAY" SUrrlnr Cary Grant Bosatlnd Bussell LEGAL NOTICE. Sewickley, Allegheny County, havire granted, all persons Indebted to said will make payment and those having will present them to Charles K. thanor. Executor, Beaver Sewickley.

Fa Self, Evashwick A. Cab lltnrnpv that letters lesiameniary on nf v. ID9 Oi Aiexanoer ounnan, mi.i:. Homestead, Allegheny County, having tr-granted, all persons indebted to said will make payment and those having will present them to Irene Sushak. trlx.

123 W. 10th Homestead, r- r. XL its an odd little picture about orpnan wno leaves tne asylum and By Harold It's a teeming tale of adventure Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has whipped together in "Northwest Passage' Out of the hell-and-high-water cloth from which the grand manner is spun in the movies comes this legend of the great Indian fighter, Major Robert Rogers, who cut through a wilderness and paved the way for a nation. And since Mr. Spencer Tracy is playing the heroic servant of the crown, all's safe and well beneath where the trembling tumult flows.

"Northwest Passage" is really a misnomer since the photoplay covers only Book One of Mr. Kenneth Roberts' novel and ends just as Major Rogers and his rangers shove off from New Hampshire to find that short cut to the western ocean. But once into the book, the producers probably discovered its beginning alone was enough to fill the screen with an exciting two hours, and so they have saved for themselves Mr. Roberts' central theme and a sequel as well. Certainly nobody will complain about the curtailment, since any addenda on the heels of Major Rogers' roaring encounter with ths savage redskins along the banks of the St.

Lawrence river would have been strictly an anti-climax. Nothing could possibly top this bloody battle, which hits a new high in the cinema's Injun lore by the way, so it's just as well that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has re served the rangers' discovery of the great northwest passage for the future. Under Mr. King Vidor's sweep ing direction, and with the gen tleman's understandable devotion to the beauty of the great out doors when a technicolor camera stands by his side, "Northwest Passage" leaps to the challenge of a spectacular best-seller and brings the movie month of March in like Where to Go When to Go STRIA MOSOI Plttshureh Svmnhnnv. Fritz Reiner conducting: Lea Luboshutz, violinist, ana enx salmond, 'cellist.

Tonight at 8:30. NIXON Katharine Cornell In "No Time For Comedy." with Francla Lederer. Tonight at 8:30. "Our 8:30. Tonight at GARDENS All-European Ice Revue.

To night at 8:30. BUHL fLAMCTAKJUM "Flaneta ob Parade" and also on stage "House of Magic." Shows at 3. 8 and 9. ALVIN John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," with Henry Fonda. Starts 10:13, 12:41, 3:09, 5:37, 8:18 and 10:32.

ART CINEMA Maurtca 8chwarta In Yiddish picture wltfi English sub-titles. Starts at 11:35, 1:25. 3:19, 6:53. 8:35 and 10:17. BARRY Roy Rogers in "Days of Jesse James" and "Sued for Libel," with Kent Taylor.

Complete shows at 11, 12:13, 2:31, 4:49, 7:07 and 9:25. CASINO Georgia Sot hern In "Top Hat ters" and movie shorts. Shows at 12:30 3:45, 7 and 9:35. FrLTON Mae West and W. C.

Fields in "My Little Chickadee." Starts at 11:21, 1.12, 3:03. 4:54. 6:45. 8:36 and 10:27. PENN Spencer Tracy in "Northwest Passage." Starts at 11:26, 2:04, 4:51 7:29 and 10:09.

KITZ "MarinM Flv Wiirh -a-llh rVisetar Morris and Richard Dix, and Virginia weiaier in "aa Little Angel." com plete shows at 9:30, 10:47, 1:16, 3:54 6:32 and 9:10. SENATOR "His Girl Friday," witli Rosa lind Rusyell and Cary Grant. Starts at 11:43. 1:48, 3:53, 5:58, 9:19 and 10:23. STAN LET Carole Lombard and Brian Aherne in "Vigil In the Night" and Clyde McCoy's orchestra, Morton Downey and Edmund Lowe.

Picture at 11, 1:150, 4:40, 7:30 and 10:30. Stage at 12:50, and 9:30. WARNER Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in "Gone With the Wind." Showings a 10 a. 2:30 and 8. M3IS Til Flnt Hut Wna af Vnrl rltPrlR8ID SIZZLING REDHEAD GEORGIA soTUEnn Fastest Thing On.

Heels And Her TOP HATTERS" I I A Si So- 1 NEW 5th AVE. ot STARTS adopting himself some parents. He I chooses Dunn, a navy officer, and Miss Parker. Only they're not married. The plot goes on from there.

When we dropped by the set, Pro-f ducer Grant Withers, who used to i be a leading man himself, was biting his finder nails. Director William Nigh was beating a nervous tatoo with his riding crop. The cameraman was using minutes that seemed like hours trying to light the set. The only people not worried were the actors. A dozen of them, dressed in naval uniforms, were sprawled on a living-room floor un-5 der a Christmas tree, playing with an elaborate electric train.

A couple of them got into a bitter argument over proper operation of the trans- former. Ten minutes later Wither, too, was playing with the train. on AUTHOR Of THE B. lnA.l- 'lIRflDT All ICE CARNIVAL 52.20. Mat.

Sat. 75. X.10, J1.25. S1.63. LKGAL NOTICE.

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No. 6035 Of 1939 Notice that letters testamentary on the estate of Harry Weiss, deceased, late of Sewickley, Allegheny County, having been granted, all persons indebted to said estate will make payment and those ha vine claims will pre sent them to Sara C. Sharpe Weiss, Executrix. 61S Straight Sewickley. Pa.

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767 of 1940. Notice that letters testamentary on the estate of Maria A. Bhanor, deceased, late of Borough of Nifffrtfy 8 1 33 "Some business," remarked Di rector Night. The lights eventually were adjusted and the manufacture of a movie was resumed. NIXON LAST TWO DAYS! KcLtkOtUiL CO RM ELL lTHE PLAYWRIGHT present SM BEHRMANS NEWEST SUCCESS TIME for COMEDY FRANCIS LEDERER MARGALOGIUMOBE JOHM WILLIAMS -MISS CORNELL NEXT WEEK Seats Today CORNELIA OTIS Cq RJ EE EUa 1 Edna His Wife" EVERY EVENING EXCEPT WED.

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