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-18 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1936- Ginger Rogers, a native of Texas, has just been named an honorary admiral in the navy of her state. Newt of the Stage and Screen Countess Lier Mniffret been signed for role in the Lasky-riekford picture, "One Rainy Afternoon." 1 3 i WHERE TOGO The New Films WHEN TO rr. Says Women Have Deeper Feeling for Lowly Lesters Strike Me Pink If You Won 't Think They All Deserve to Be Glorified VIII MXO.N Henry Hiri Perfect Gentleman, Fang and Claw PLAY PLANNED US CAGNEY HAS FIGHTON HAND 'Stage Struck on List At Warners With Cast Set. At Warner. jonignt at jo svri Mosiit with Nuthun tonio Mtxre; st MO.

AI. IN Irene in "MaKnihcr-' 11:17. 4.pj, ART INLM Vlenline Tff.rr Mary Servoss, "Ada" of "Tobacco Road," Believes They Get Fuller Perspective of Folk Play; Points to Sell-Out Matinees Everywhere. By Harold W. Cohen 1 Mary Servoss, who is Henry Hull's leading lady in "Tobacco vr" Road." which stays at the Xixon for another week, believes that 11 -the women in the audience get a fuller perspective of this Amor- ican folk play bv their deeper understanding of the woman mxto.v viewpoint of the social and eco rA By Louella O.

Parsons Motion Picture Ertltor. Universal Service. Copyright, 1936. by Universal Service. Inc.

no. Ine 8nvth Speak-and Br It is quite nice to approach a photoplay expecting practically nothing at all. In that frame of mind, you're certain to be a pushover for the slightest indication of excellence and a passive, I-told-you -1 thought so correspondent when the object of your professional observations sits down perfunctorily and permanently behind the eight-ball. Perhaps that is why "The Perfect Gentleman" seems to be one of the friendliest and warmest come- jdies of the new season. Of course it has for a head start Mr.

Frank Morgan, who is invariably a source I of satisfaction, and Miss Cicely ANGELES, Jan. 16. TJie James Carney-Warner Brothers argument is still in a deadlock with both sides re it if nomic problems of the lowly Lesters who live their almost animalistic existence from day to day along "Tobacco Road." Women, according to Miss Servoss, fully understand the naive humor and essentially feminine strategy of the character she portrays as the slatternly wife and mother of the 17 children of Jeeter Lester, the lazy shiftless Georgia cracker. "And I must be right." says Miss Servoss, "because everywhere that we have played. fflW UAvL' GSUIVS Rnhrrt Valine -3 7 SHr RIIAsyl it Marls nrt 10:13.

STWI.KY I.Hv Much." anil Tnhy Wing n1 KHiur. i 1 1 Slusc Hi 12.Sn. .1 i V4RII.TV Mint Tm Stm at 2 is sn-i MAR.NKK KranK 1 flaw" und Th with FranK nlflEf. CimifiM, v. 4:14.

nnl 4:14. unfl fusing any of the suggested compromises. Cagney still insists upon his right to make one outside picture and to have supervision of his stories, directors and cast while Warners call attention to the terms of his existing contract. The chances are that they will both tell it to a judge. Courtneidge, a long-time darling of the London music halls, but then even that isn't reason enough to look for.

anything so amusing and entertaining. It just goes to show you that, the unpredictability of Hollywood can sometimes be pleas Mary Servoss is "Ada Mary Servoos As Herself. I- New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Df liver, Louis, and I could go on sounding like an atlas all our matinees have been solid And matinees are. of course. I fit Vl vSra i-V -J VV However, worse battles than this little fracas predominantly women.

Miss Servoss, whose role in "Tobacco Road" is rather seamy and sordid, enjoys playing the part im- "zrsjirs on thp rri: ant, too. In a modest way, "The Perfect Gentleman" has the qualities of a perfect farce and when you can add to this two players with the intelligence and shrewd comic values of Mr. Morgan and Miss Courtneidge, the prescription is virtually hole-nroof. Mr. Morsan S4V ironed out, so whether Cagney MORE IB 0 mensely despite the fact that her make-up and wardrobe succeed in completely effacing the natural charm and beauty of her off-stage is peeved or not i is a likeable, lazy Major Hoople personality, Ada," commented I who recounts his wildly imagina- "Jeeter's wife tive adventures at the first sign Out in Hollywood, Samuel Goldwyn is rapidly winning for himself the title of "The Screen's Ziegfeld." In fact, to be.

known as a Goldwyn Girl these days is a mark of distinction for any member of the movie ensembles. Here are a dozen or so of Mr. Goldwyn's 1936 glorified darlings, all of whom, and more, you'll see in Eddie Cantor's latest musical, "Strike Me rink," when it arrives next Wednesday at the Penn. plans are rapidly materializing for the pro-duction of "Stage Struck," with the warring James and Ruby Keeler as stars. The Yacht or an audience and Miss Courtneidge is a provincial actress just about to make her London debut Miss Servoss, referring to her part, "isn't such a bad sort, despite her rather casual affair with the itinerant South Carolinan, persuaded to dally awhile on his way to when they meet.

It is Mr. Morgan who acciden- i Texas. For a downtrodden soul The Drama Desk Ruby Keeler. Club boys, who tally turns her opening perform- she has quite a sense of humor." are on their way back to New York, will return in March to add a little extra color to this film event. By Harold W.

Cohen In sharp contrast to her present role was Mary Servoss' start in her professional stage career. When she was 14, she played page to Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet" in Chicago, the city of her birth. Then followed training with the famous Oliver Morosco stock company in Los Angeles, where she soon be vviypi 2ndTV Jane Withers At Fulton In 'Paddy O'Day' O'Brien's 'Whispering Smith Speaks, Also On the Bill. East and West Alex Yokel, who opened his "Julie the Great," with Beth Merrill, in Washington this week, will close it THE MORE I SEE of Herbert Marshall the more I understand why he is so much sought after by the studios. He has that elusive something which registers 100 ner cent even in pic tures that are not so good.

He tomorrow night for script revisions. ance from hopeless failure to great success and who continues with her in an act until he steps down again into poverty and oblivion because of his son, a promising young vicar. But it isn't long before the two old cronies meet up again and solidify their partnership via the marriage route. If all this sounds like the day before yesterday's leftovers, it doesn't begin to tell of the hilarious inventiveness Mr. Morgan and Miss Courtneidge have injected into "The Perfect Gentleman." Their auctioneering at the Lord Bishop's lawn party for charity; Miss Courtneidge's rumba with Herbert Mundin; the scene in which the two leading players have tea on a London-bound tram; Miss Courtneidge's Bishop resenting monologue and Mr.

Morgan's encounters with his sister, landlady and tailor's delivery boy all of There may be some who wonder mm-w'iv fj i i i iryi Vlfs MET. 5 park i CUfr- pprtten; jr Sep Z7rrrrtt? "1 came the leading lady of that organization. Her first New York engagement was in the leading role of "Upstairs and Down," followed by leads in "Watch Your Neighbor," "Young Woodley" and "Tiger Cats," the last with Katharine Cornell. Then David Belasco sent for her and presented her as Portia opposite David Warfield in "The Merchant of Venice," which enjoyed a triumphant tour after its Broadway engagement. Later Miss Servoss added to her Shakespearean reper has been traveling around on "Porgy and Bess" stays on loan considerably and now he is Broadway for eight more perform- coming back to his own studio, ances.

It was to have finished up Paramount, to be starred in tomorrow. The tour starts in Phil- "Something to Live For," an adelphia January 27. William original story by Robert Yost, Henry has been added to the cast and the chances are that Mary j0f M-G-M's "Romeo and Juliet." Astor, who returns to the screen J. Clarence Derwent will play the after an absence of several (prime minister in Max Reinhardt's months, will have one of the fern- I production of "The Eternal Road." inine leads although nothing is Nazimova will visit exactly 48 definitely set. (towns in "Ghosts." Because of I illness, Lewis Stone has been forced THE MARX BROTHERS are! to withdraw from Twentieth Cen-! lucky for Allen Jones.

He was just tury-Fox's "The Country Doctor." 1 trying to get along at Metro-Gold- He will be succeeded by Erank at the rise to popularity of little Jane Withers; for such "Paddy O'Day," which opened at the Fulton yesterday, is a made-to-order film. It explains practically everything. Jane is versatile. She uses a County Cork brogue more than an inch thick, then doubles in Russian. She sings, dances, talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair.

She is Wednesday, Bebe Daniels decided to abandon her proposed visit to New York and remain in Pittsburgh for the two days preceding her engagement at the Stanley. "The Magnificent Obsession" is giving the Alvin its best business since "Steamboat Round the Bend" and will be held there for a second week. What local radio editor backed out of an offer the other day to get into his bathing suit and climb into the tank with Lottie Slayer's diving girls at the Stanley to see how the disappearing stunt worked? Nick Troilo is offering Ed Sullivan (New York columnist) and his Dawn Patrol Revue to the downtown theaters. The demand for "Toba-ceo Road' tickets is wearing Arthur Low and Dave Shanahan, the Nixon box-office men, down to a frazzle. Sammy Stept, the former Pittsburgh tunesmith, has just been engaged by Republic Pictures to write the songs for "Laughing Irish Eyes," which will co-star Nancy Carroll and Thil Regan.

these bits send the picture spin ning happily into your affections, III I 1 I 1 I 1 A tv I about the personification of expres- and ours. toire as the Queen Mother in the Norman Bel Geddes production of "Hamlet." Her success on Broadway was sensational as the tragically unfaithful wife in Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," in which she also endeared herself to London ij i rm ri 1 1 1 1 1 1 i fil vw V- i hi v-h I I LI II 1 LI A 1 4Sl5KMr The other item at the Warner is Mr. Frank Buck's "Fang and Claw," in which the intrepid explorer invades the Asiatic jungles, apparently having covered Africa pretty thoroughly. The new Buck I Wntr rvr Reicher. The news about the London showing of "The Old Maid" is that Charles B.

Cochran will be i its sponsor. After a long search, Evelyn Laye has been signed for the Broadway production of "Sweet i Aloes." She'll have the role Diana Wynyard created in London and the play goes into rehearsal the audiences. Returning to America she was seen as both Otto Krugcr's and Paul Muni's leading lady In iun, au or it done to a purpose, the drawing of a child character that might spring from life. More than anything else, Jane is human; she might be the child that lives down the block. Many little sidelights in "Paddy O'Day" are memorable, none of them more so, perhaps, than Jane's look of trust and confidence as she turns to speak to the motorcycle Mayer when I ing Thalberg cast him in Zeppo Marx' place for the juvenile lead in "A Night at the Opera." He sang "Alone," as you probably rein er, and sang hi mself riht into the hearts of the camera record is interesting and i "Counsellor-at-Law." And now she's the mother of Henry Hull's 17 children in "Tobacco Road," of course.

I A ml rvi I week after next. Clark Robinson is to design the settings for "Mainly for Lovers." R-K-O has changed the title of "The Crppn 7 V. tt cr "lieu aue nues Upon D1S "enry Vresents handlebars. It is a bit to remember Robert E. ine ran-i Jane is net .7" Shadow" to "Muss 'Em Un." Pres.

i fied Forest" on the coast shortly. Alan Jones. public. Now he even a bit educational but much of the excitement has vanished from these wild-life exercises and an eternal sameness seems to dog their foot-steps. Here Mr.

Buck captures several pythons, a baby rhino, a trainload of monkies, a bird of paradise and a few other assorted specimens. But he did all this as long ago as "Bring 'Em Back Alive," and much better too, it seemed. Perhaps the animals were more camera-conscious then. ishein asked to play again the ton Foster and Margaret Callahan I Conrad Nagel will have the role 'uc is ui me film. It tells the story of a child escaped from Ellis Island to find trace of her mother, in' service in a Long Island home of wealth.

She forth Marx brother in "Take Me have the leads Leslie Howard created on Broad- uui 10 tne t.aa uame and, ot Crawford, Helen Broderick's son iwav last season. ine piece is Enright Kiddie Show The program for tomorrow morning's weekly kiddie show at the Enright will include Ken Maynard in "The Western three cartoons; Billy Roland comedy: a new chapter of Tom Mix in "The Miracle another episode of "The Great Air Mystery" and children's song party and amateur stage contest. muriit', L'j sin when he finishes has been engaged for "Danger, Men scheduled to open in San Francisco finds the place through that Boat at Universal. Working." He appeared earlier this metime next week. patrolman, and is wel lomed to the me when the band season in the short-lived "Sweet servants' hall by the news of hr by the news of her with "Show That reminds 25 to 12:30 P.M.

Addenda mother's death. The cook, butler and the others decide to protect piayen ine music Goes -Round Mystery of Life." "Squaring the and Around" and the Hollywood Circle" was a quick flop in Chicago, stadium fight crowd sang it, Harpo Paramount has purchased the asked in an audible voice the name screen rights to David Garth's of -the piece and said he hadn't i "Cabin Cruiser." Errol Flvnn Amateur Night Set At Klein's Turf Cafe A w. ntAi.H "NT! 1- 1 I utm iM 4 Bi ui i T.M'K Mom SCHKMKV THEATRE AN. IH In Mi heard it. nuidLcui A-xigui.

win oe neia ax Klein's Turf Cafe tonight along "HEIDI Grisman Jack Kirkland and Sam 4 OF HOLLYWOOD collected at random: Bebe Daniels aiicl Hal Roach celebrating their has just received a new five-year contract from Warners at double his old salary. George Gershwin expects 'Porgy and Bess" to be included in the renertorv of thf Mstrnnniifan TKKMi.NT The Original New York Star By V. Y. Children's 'hMir 3lir li at Mrllir- 1" S.V' until CLAUDETTE COLIFIT fFB MuMUlllV la with the regular floor show consisting of Sally Foster, Ellen Vargo, Howdy Allen, Art Specter and lona Spronk. Billy Rose and his orchestra will furnish the dance music.

"BRIDE COMES HOME" i IlEjY HULL birthdays with a wlfh Robert Vnnnv Extrn "MARCH OF TIMK" dinner given at Opera Company next season the Roach: stan Kavanaugh. the comedy jug-home; Leopold gier, goes into the Fol. 1 lips" tonight i Rig FmlnM Frank Buck's the child from the immigration of-! fleers and from their mistresses, maiden ladies of more than certain age, and their master, the nephew of the spinsters. That nephew (Pinky Tomlin) is a naturalist with a yen to possess a pink-toed African cuckoo and other stuffed specimens. He protects Jane from the aunts, who leave for a long trip.

Then come two Russians, played with gusto by George Givot and Rita Cansino, to get Pinky into a night club speculation, with Jane as prime entertainer. The club has a smash opening, with the aunts interfering and an immigration arrest looming, but Pinky steps in with a logical climax. There are several songs, all of them adequate. Tomlin's newest aftermath to his "Object of My Affections" is "Changing My Ambition," which may not reach the popularity of its predecessor but FULTONNOW "TOKACCO JtOAflr' rrtr: Miht. fl.o.

I.Ho. I'iOK mnit Mat. Or, 1Hf, I '0 thr.mi,?5 1 J.hn Shl dirt "Parne.l," "FANG end CLAW- PERFECT GEKTLEMIJf" "Moon Over Mulberry Street" will be 150 performances old on Broadway tomorrow night. Ruth Weston, William Harrigan, Selena Royle and Edward Trevor are to head the cast of "Among Those Sailing." An Equity check-up reveals only two resident stock companies in the entire country this season. Boston has one, and Miami the other.

Joe Penner is being offered for personal appearances in a unit at $9,000 a week. A new story by Rupert Hughes, "Section 213," has been bought by First National for George Brent. George S. Kaufman's and Edna Ferber's next collaboration for the stage won't be ready until fall. They did "The Royal Family" together several seasons ago, you may recall.

Warners have signed Fritr and Jean Hubert for a series of two-reelers. Pitt Players Will Do "Candida" Next Month m. rrom the Broadway stage hit. for TWO BIG FEATURES Fntnll Morflta. CrrH.

Hralhrr AaH. Hrrl-n melodrama material, which would have reached the mark acceptably if it had been keyed a bit faster and some of the extraneous matter removed. The locale is the junction town of Sleepy Cat in Colorado; the name may have affected the picture somewhat. H. A.

C. if orcnestra. Metro. mt a es here 5s Mm. np-rt wcpir Wednesday morning.

Doris JANE WITHERS in "PADDY O'DAY" rin Tnf. um.ai-in -ii-ii-ii-i ii i i HEH V-W5 decide his movie Dudlpy took a Plane for Hollywood! GEO. O'BRIEN In "WHISPERING SMITH SPEAKS" FRISCO 10 "-tr iuture; he has I nours wo offers-' r-tv-u oinciais discussing her, rnn A shady Monlrnw I0R1 LIBERTY Maritnl IJn1a. RlrarWi I -TONIGHT! SYRIA MOSQUE TONIGHT! inuvle assignment, hoarded another air liner yesterday and will be back in the East today in time for the first rehearsal of "End of Summer." This is the S. N.

Behr- "I Mam a in ntiptm Two Mnr Wlnnrrn "Livts of a Bengal Laneir" 44NAUGHTYr MARIETTA" I PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY '4 MliHT AT THF. l''i, a 'Sh UnMn'l Tah 1' Raft and Joan Hrnnrtt (. rank Davis, Jlean Harlow. assistant to farnie Hyman, wins his first job in "Petticoat Fever;" Joi McCrea, Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon, the stellar members nfjhe "These Three" cast, at home with bad colds; Jean Harlow and BiQ Powell at the Club Seville, spending some of Bill's race winnings; that's all today. See you tomorrow! MODARELLI, Conductor irhlllj tnin.

lifrogram: Hebrr, Pfr ANTONIO MILSTEIN ANTONIO ROUNDITIS? Inlin" Tvrhalknwsky Rlh Smphony Tickets: 75c to 52.50 iMnrt'-nm son at MELLOR'S. TONITE AT MOSQUE I THK MI.AIIV LIMtKHM l'nh All Valvra Tnwn al lh man play in which Ina Claire will play the lead. Opening Today Stanley Lily Pons in "I Dream Too Much," with Henry Fonda, Osgood Perkins and Eric Blore, and Bebe Daniels, Ren Lyon, Toby Wing and Johnny Terkins on the stage. Will May finldmarh Violin Cnnrrrlo I HARLEM CASINO 1714 nlr Avf. TO.

7 STAR SHOW 2 NITELY TWO FlSTf. REGENT Kaat lherly The Pitt Players have started rehearsals on their second play of the season, "Candida," by George Bernard Shaw. The play will be given at the Y. M. W.

H. A. auditorium February 19. The cast, directed by Carl B. Cass, includes Louise McKirdy, Herrymon Mau-rer, Marquis de Basscourte Patterson, Charles W.

Blaker, Betty Knop and William Kunkel. Leroy Bradley's Orchestra goes over well. Miss Cansino makes an eye-filling Russian and the others are of Hollywood's best. That Jane Withers is no quick-blooming figure in pictures is a certainty. Her place seems fixed.

A ride in a stolen locomotive is the climax to "Whispering Smith Speaks," an adaptation to the screen of a railroad yarn by Frank H. Spearman. In it, George O'Brien trades mustang, chaps and sombrero for the chugging gas-scooter, crowbar and oilcan of a track-walker on a back-country railroad. He is the son of the president of a Grade A line, ambitions to make good on his own. He does and spoils one of his father's pet deals, by which the heroine, played by Irene Ware, would have sold her tunesten- Ex-Tech Star Making Good SCHENLEY Oakland The Theater Guild has just optioned "And Stars Remain," a new play by Julius and Philip Epstein, it TURF CAFE "'tnnr TONITE AMATEUR NITE! 1.

ui---- ill KM lK BELMAR Hnmcvood Ilon With Th KcKiilnr f'lixir show SAI.I.Y KOSTKR Kl.l.KN VAKI.IH- Artistic i tor production next season. The Epstein brothers, who graduated a I few years ago from Penn State, where one of them, Julius, was an intercollegiate boxing chamnion. nunin Al I BII.I.V RONE'ft OKHFSTR PLAZA Henry Fonda, leading man of have been on the coast since 1933 1 Pons in "I Dream Too Much." crowds "ifn i RecordCrowds I offtZff A A' Mi, n' writing for pictures, and they're in began his theatrical career as a KENYON Norlh Side -ew ork now. on a leave of ab- designer and painter of stage bearing home-site for a compara- 1 tive song. It is all familiar enough sence from Hollywood, conferring scenery, TODAY AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD THEATER nil' ARSENAL 4 to Bullrr St.

Ihr I wun tne uuua directorate on their drama. rr ROWLAND Wllklnahurc 1 rccTTi llSfJ A This Picture I EAST LIBERTY SO. HILLS Dnrmont MAHOUT LIBERTY rrnn Shad Tun More ID.Iff Hlla "NAUGHTY MARIETTA" "LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER" HmptU ETNA rtna KIO" MANOR Hill NIKO HELD OVER By POPULAR DEMAND 2nd monday Wu iuIiiMA NIGHT, JANUARY 20 SEATS NOW AT BOX OFFICE THE SENSATIONAL DRAMATIC HIT JACK KIRKLAND AND SAM H. GRISMAN PRESENT The Original New York Star HARRIS FAMILY GEOROE ARLISS In "MISTER HOBO" I.iovi- RITZ llh Ate. CARRICK MELROSE Local Scrappings Neville Flpeson is here visiting his mother for a few days before going to Miami, where he opens a night club engagement with Sheila Barrett late this month.

They were a tremendous hit for several weeks at the Radio City Rainbow room, much so that they've been re-booked into the spot for an indefinite engagement starting the middle of March. Fleeson and Miss Barrett just closed there Tuesday night, Cledge Roberts (Clifford Edge of Pitts-hurgh), who used to do stock work around here, has been signed for a role in the forthcoming Broadway production of "The Sap Runs High." With the closing of "The Drunkard." Irene Cowan has left town for her home in Cleveland. Baby Hines, the 300-pound blues-shouer. will be in the next show at the Harlem Casino. When her plane was forced down here CAMERA- T.aat l.llvrt in- H.i "In Old Kentucky" have nmrdy Cartoon 1 A f'l- "THE 1MI PALACE M2 niamond M-Mr Ala CARNEGIE i TVTa two nsTtr NEW CARNEGIE CHESTER MORRIS-SALLY EILERS In "PURSUIT" IN HOLLYWOOD Onrmnnl ON-' a PATTI LITTELL.

farnegie drama graduate 1935 who has just joined the Tree Major Children's The-pfr, of New York. Miss Littell nil come to the Schenley fo-rnjrrow morning in the "Heidi," in'U-hich another ex-rittsburgher, f.v McDonald, has the title I. JO" Tj ARMSTRONG i NORTHSIDE "TOUJACC By JACK KJEKLAJfD on Xvvti by Ersktne CaMwd "Ml" AMBRIOGE Amhrtnfe 1. GAPf GARDEN Barbara Stanwtrk Pmton Fontrr in "ANNIE OAKLEY" Ziza Pitt "THE AFFAIR OF SUSAN" S- 50t 7S. 1.

JI.50 fm. jnhn P. Marrta MEMORIAL MrReeapart.