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-22- PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1943 RADPV News of the Stag and Scree Like Father, Like Daughter Ends May Beegle Series Tonight Hollywood By Hugh Dixon Things and Stuff HOLLYWOOD, March 18. Joe Louis, out here to appear in "This Is the Army" for Warner Brothers, may not know it, but there a movement afoot among the brass hats in Washington to send him and Billy Conn abroad to put on exhibition bouts for the American overseas task forces. The Jimmy Ritzes have arranged an out of court settlement. Laird Cregar wants a retraction from that columnist who wrote he was once a doorman at the Capitol theater in New York. It was the Paramount theater.

Twentieth Century-Fox is bringing the Roller Skating Van 1 roia 1 7 1 39 1 i of VIVIEN LEIGH THOMAS MITCHELL Scarlett O'Hara (Miss Leigh) gets herempestuousnesss honestly in "Gone With the Wind," from her old man, played by Mr. Mitchell. The amazing GWTW, which had already previously played a total of 16 weeks in downtown Pittsburgh, has done so well in Its latest return, at the Fulton, it's being held there for another week beginning tomorrow. The New Film The Nan Wyrm-Jimmie Van Heu-sen romance is on again in full now that she's returned to town. William Saroyan's favorite story concerns the man with a cello which had only a single string, over which he would bow for hours at a time, always holding his finger in the same place.

His wife endured this noise for waiting patiently for her husband either to die of boredom or destroy the instrument. But neither of these things happened and finally in desperation she turned to him and said: "I have observed that when others play that magnificent instrument, there are four strings over which to draw the bow, and the players move their fingers about continuously." The man stopped playing for a moment, looked at his wife wisely, shook his head sadly and told her: "You are a woman. Your hair is long and your sense is short. Of course, the others have four strings and move their fingers about constantly. They are looking for the place; I've found it." Where lo Go When to Go SVRIA MOSQIE Lawrence Tibbett.

Tonight at 8:30. MXO.N George Gergbwin'i "Porgy and Bess," witn Todd Duncan and Etta mpten. Tonight at 8:15. GARDENS "ice Follies of 1943." To- night at 8:30. Bond matinee at 2:30..

PLAYHOUSE "The Cradle Song." To-. night at 8:30. BIHL fLAXETARICM "Navigating By the Stars" at 3 and 8:30 and "Micro Zoo" at 2:30. 4. 8 and 9:30.

ART CINEMA "The Blonde Captive" and "Queen of Broadway." with Rocheiie Hudson and Larry (Buster) Crabbe. Complete shows at 10:30. 12:40, 2:48. 4:56, 7:14 and 9:22. BARRY Roy Rogers In Idaho" and! "Truck Busters," with Richard Travis.

Complete shows at 11, 1:08, 3:47, 6:26 and CASINO Black and White Revue" and movie shorts. Shows at 12:30, 3:30, 7 nd FCLTON Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh "Gone With the Wind" at 11:33, 3:51 and 8:07. HARRIS "The Desperadoes," with Ran dolph Scott and Glenn Ford, at 10:45, 3:20. 5:40. 7:55 and 10:15.

PENN "Hitler's Children," with Bonita Granville and Tim Holt, at 11:11, 2:51, 4:41, 6:31. 8:21 and 10:11. BITZ Greer Garson and Ronald Colman in "Random Harvest," at 10:18, 1:10, 4:05. 7 and 9:53. SENATOR "The Avengers." with Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr, at 10:45, 1:05.

3:25. 5:45, 8:05 and 10:30. STANLEY Simone Simon in "Tiie Cat People" and Duke Ellington's band. Picture at 11. 1:50, 4:35.

7:30 and 10:20. Stage at 12:50. 3:35. 6:30 and 9:20. WARNER "Star Spangled Rhythm." witn all-star cast, at 11:49, 2:26, 5:03, 7:40 and 10:17.

THE ities troupe to town for a spe cialty in the Betty Grable pic ture. "Pin-Up Girl." Edith Gwynn- says that with men scarce as they are now, most or the movie cuties are spending their time date-dreaming. Insiders are getting quite a laugh out of that big play, with daily spreads and lay-outs, one of the local dailies is giving to that drunken driver charge against Herman Mankiewicz. Jane Withers heads for Detroit shortly to star in "The First Year" on the stage for Henry Duffy His M. D.

has told Johnny Mercer, the hit master, to relax for six months. A big laugh at Slapsie-Maxie's is the bit where Maxie Rosen-bloom threatens to punch Jackie Gleason on the nose. "Go ahead, hif me." pleads Jackie, "make me Veronica Lake's husband, John Detlie, with the army engineers at Seattle, has been promoted from captain to major. David O. Selznick has made Sir Alexander Korda an offer for his interests in -United Artists.

Cartoon of the Week, in "The New It shows a grocer telling a clerk, "no, I'm afraid you don't get the as the latter places a sign over a row of canned goods. The sign reads: "One can, six points, two cans for 11 points." Looking Back Our Town 10 Years Ago: Myrna Loy and Ramon Novarro were go ing 6teady. Ann Dvorak and Warners kissed and made up and she returned to the studio after 14 months of idleness. The Ed ward G. Robinsons had a son Eleanor Boardman divorced King Vidor.

Marion Davies and Norma Shearer were both battling for The Barretts of Wimpole Street' at MGM. Jack Dempsey was courting Hannah Williams, who had just Renovated Roger vvoiie Kahn. George Bernard Shaw was here for a visit, insulting every body. Harry Gerguson (Prince Mike Romanoff) was sentenced to 90 days in the Federal Detention Home after pleading guilty to per jury and re-entering the United States illegally after being de ported. The soldiers' paper at Camp Roberts prints the one about a tough sergeant who had a group of recent arrivals lined up in the barracks.

"How many of youse guys went to college?" he asked. Five raised their hands. "All right," the sergeant told them, 'you pick the cigaret butts up off the floor." Then the three-striper asked how many of them had gone to high school. Several more raised their hands. "Okay, you pick the matches up off the floor." Turning to the others, the sergeant said: "The rest of youse guys with no eddication stand around and learn something." Chatter Carole Landis savs she wore a sweater all of the time while en tertaining the troops in North Africa only.

because the boys were hungry for signs of civilization." Billie Burke's coming back to the movies again, her play, "This Rock," having flopped Broad way. She got. great notices but the show didn't. Cornelia Otis Skinner's book will be a biographical story of her family, with especial emphasis on life with father, the great actor, Otis Skinner. Biggest howl on Fred Allen's program the other night came when Joe Besser said he used to be 4-F but was now 1-A.

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MODEL unit- "IN WHICH WE ES, Mai! t-fx-f 'NnjtsJ'g! AMBRIDGE. aannan ArM TV i a rTmsaBBansnTBaaTiriasT-Tiii i IT 1 AT 1-1 -aSNMMMS- The Drama Desk -By Harold V. Cohen Local Scrapping Earl Carroll arrived in town Wednesday night, tossed a party at the Fort Pitt Hotel's Dutch Room for the entire "Vanities" cast and it ended in practically a free-for-all when some long-stand ing bad blood among several members of the troupe spilled Betty Falvo, who is so-o-o pretty, now singing with Etzi Covato's band at the Villa Madrid and family history's repeating itself. It was just about 15 years ago that Betty's older sister, Bebe Falvo, now Diane Ward, a London star and owner with her husband of the famed Cocoanut Grove night club, got her start with Covato's crew at the old Flotilla Club. The Stanley musicians tossed a dinner party the other evening for their departing.

Army-bound conductor Max Adkins, at Kramer's and presented him with a military wrist watch. Frank Andrini's accordion ace, Dominick Tremarkie, is leaving him this week-end to take a war job and will be, replaced by Al Azzaro. Johnny Harris is behind the movement to organize a Variety Club tent in New York City, the only Metropolitan center that so far doesn't have a chapter. Aleen (Wetstein) Leslie, the former Pittsburgh columnist. has just sold Paramount another original story for the Henry Aldrich series, "Henry Aldrich Rocks the Billy Revel, of the Terrace Itooiil dance team of Allen and Revel, is the brother of Harry Revel, the song-writer who with Mack Gordon wrote some of the nation's outstanding hits several years ago, among them "Did You Ever See a Dream Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman's cute vocalist, is now Mrs.

Dave Barbour, wife of the band's guitar player. Vaughn O'Neill, ex-assistant manager of the Penn here, has been transferred from Cleveland to Syracuse, N. where he will manage the Loew's State Theater. Washington hears that the Army plans to disband "This Is the Army" after the picturiza-tion is completed at Warner Brothers, which would mean, of course, that the prospective return engagement at tbe Nixon the week of June 7 is out. Lieutenant Tony McGrath, a former Pittsburgh lawyer, writes that a captain in his outfit is Dick Tander, of the old vaudeville team of Rarick (Guy) and Tander, which played here several times.

Add cash contributions to the Variety Club Canteen: Democratic Women's Guild of Allegheny County, $100; Squirrel Hill Chapter 442, of the Order of Eastern Star, $10, and anonymous, $20. Dick Powell fades from the air waves April 3, a war casualty. His sponsor can no longer get sufficient material for the product. Mike" Vogel, a well-known figure on Pittsburgh's Film Row and, for that matter, Film Rows everywhere, has resigned as publicity director of station WHN in New York and will head shortly for Hollywood and a new The Andrews Sisters have been tentatively pencilled into the Stanley for either the week of April 16 or 23 and Johnny Long's band comes in the thirtieth. Betty Hill, the tap dancer at the Villa Madrid, isn't to be confused with the Betty Hill who recently sang at the William Penn with Herb Hagernor's band and in the floor show, too.

Opening Today Stanley Simone Simon in VThe Cat People," with Kent Smith, Jane Randolph and Tom Conway, and Duke Ellington's band. Addenda Donald Cook has been out the touring "Claudia" all week with bronchitis, the first time he's missed a performance in the hit since it opened more than two years ago. Robert Champlain, understudy and stage manager, is substituting for him. Harold Lloyd's first production under his new Columbia contract will be Mr. Winkle Goes To War," from the novel by Theodore Pratt.

"Mr. Winkle" is a 44-year-old inductee in the army with the 18 and 19-year-old class. Lillian Harvey, the screen actress, is in New York looking for a play. Clifford Odets has put aside for the time being his adaptation of an old German, drama called "Notes For a Dream." Russell Janney is thinking about reviving Vaganbond King" with one or two name singers and possibly Walter Hampden in the role of Louis XI. Esther Williams, the swimming star who made her motion picture debut in "Andy Hardy's Double Life," has joined Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne in the cast of "A Guy Named Joe." New Screwball Bill Listed for IS'ite Court An entirely new screwball bill Will be presented beginning next Monday night at Swartz' Nite Court of Fun.

Boogie Woogie Sherman remains in charge of the production, which features Maxie Simon. Little Joey Klein Bobby O'Brien and Charlotte Moore. Ottilia 3 at Oasis Pat Caramela is retaining Ot tilia and her trio to provide the entertainment for tomorrow night at his Oasis, Bower Hill road, Mt Lebanon. The group, which spe cializes in Hawaiian music, has LAWRENCE TIBBETT America's leading baritone and a Metropolitan Opera star, Mr. Tibbett will give a concert tonight at Syria Mosque.

It's the closing event in May Beegle's 1942-43 series. Art Cinema Holds Bill Fourth Week The Art Cinema's current dou ble-feature program, restricted to adults only, goes into its fourth week tomorrow. "The Blonde Captive" tops the bill, a factual adventure account of the discovery among a tribe of savages of a white woman who refuses to leave the native haunts when a group of her own people discover the woman. "Queen of Broadway," co starring Larry (Buster) Crabbe and Rocheiie Hudson, is the other picture. mosqce 'TONIGHT AT 8:45 TIBBETT $1.10 to $3.30 Mellor's and HaU Tonite MAT.

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Flus MKKO-ZOO e.H(V Compare THE FOOD THECR0W0 THE MUSIC BIG 5-ACT FlcorShovv 2sHons MGHTXT ATMOSPHERE CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES UNCUTI FULL-LENGTH! Exactly as Previously Shown! 'Hitler's From 'Education For at the Penn By Harold V. Cohen Things are obvious, contrived and feebly hysterical in 'Hitler's Children." The RKO picture, adapted suggested would be Ibetter word here from Mr. Gre- gor Ziemer's "Education For Death," a factual frightening account of the way Germany trains the Nazi youth for mass inhumani ties, barely touches on the original, contenting itself with a highly the atrical treatment that has all of the cheap tricks of a five-and-ten cent melodrama. The plot Mr. Emmet Lavery has cooked up to fill in between the one or two effective moments the movie possesses creaks like an ox-drawn cart and the acting of Miss Bonita Granville, Mr.

Tim Holt, Mr. Kent Smith and Mr. Otto Kru- ger is straight out of the senior class play. "Hitler's Children" only superficially surveys the methods by which the Nazis have shaped their younger generation into a single, brutal image, pre ferring to concentrate on a rou tine boy-girl romance set among the usual conventions. Mr.

Holt's an American-born young Nazi infected by the ideologies of Der Fuehrer and destined to go places in the party. Miss Granville's a German-born Ameri can who hates everything the Nazis stand for. But they love each other with a burning pas sion, of course and in the end, she opens his eyes to the horror of it all and they die together in a court-room shouting a warning to young Germany over a nationwide radio hook-up. Mr. Holt wouldn't have had his mouth open five seconds, spouting such treason in a Nazi court, before said mouth would have been full of swastika lead, but "Hitler's Children" permits him to speak his piece in full 'ere the bullets spit and martyrdom overtakes him.

The picture is jam-packed with such stupid contrivances and whatever effect the few honest details in the narrative produce is completely dissolved by the overall distortions and fumbling inconsistencies. There is very little in "Hitler's Children" that the journals haven't dramatized considerably better merely by straightforward news accounts, and as for the fictional content, it's unrelieved hooey. In the past, Mr. Holt, Miss Granville, Mr. Kruger.

and Mr. Smith Ion the stage, since this is his first "Hollywood experience) have turned in some fairly decent performances, so Mr. Edward STA illi ON Dmytryk, the director, must as sume part of the blame for their complete amateurishness here, and he can take full responsibility for the picture's general atmosphere of incredibility. Mr. H.

B. Warner has one brief affecting scene as an anti-Nazi bishop and Mr. Gavin Muir, as a German major, does a lot with a bit but otherwise the people are as unreal as "Hitler's Children" itself. And that's practically a new Hollywood high in unreality. Tons of Dirt Twenty tons of dirt were used in a landslide scene on the set of Alaska Highway," a Pine-Thomas production.

Bill Henry, who cracked a rib recently in a scene in which he falls off a cliff, had his injury somewhat aggravated in a series of 10 shots long-shots, mediunv shots and closeups with Richard Arlen and Joe Sawyer, as two tons of dirt were showered down upon them in each take. Follows Brother After 15 Years MAURICE SPITALNY The first orchestra conductor the Stanley Theater had was Phil Spitalny. Today, 15 years later, his brother, Maurice Spitalny, falls heir to the same job, succeeding Max Adkins, who leaves for the army tomorrow. A i ml I I I I lit mill I III I I I I I I I 1 1 It I I 1 1 CZI I I I I II 1 1- III Ml I -I Vf III mm TIM HOLT BONITA GRANVILLE NOV 30c to 12:30 LOEITS PEHH EXTRA ADDED "AT THE FRONT IN NORTH AFRICA" KX 'F-Vl'lUl'lJ'il'ltN an. B3UO Randolph Scott Glenn Ford "The Desperadoes" IN TECHNICOLOR ALSO "AT THE FRONT" THE BATTLE FOR NORTH AFRICA IN TECHNICOLOR RALPH RICHARDSON DEBORAH KERR 'THE AVENGERS' 1 10:30 A AK "AT THE FRONT" T.

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