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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1937- g. Phil Harris and his band have been added to Charles Ruses' MWX of the STAGE and Madge Evans is being tested at the Selz-nick studio for the feminine lead in "Prisonor of Zenda." in supporting -ast Turn Off the in a scene from "Black Legion. Foran STANLEY Humphrer Bogart and Dick PEXX Jean Arthur and Gary Cooper in a scene from "The Plainsman. ROACH SIGNS BENNETT FOR TWO A YEAR TODAY 1 lolorei DPI I ft itil for Connie On if -New uea.i win oe "Topper." i. I 4 By Louella O.

Parsons Motion Picture Editor, Universal Servics. Copyright, 1837, Universal Service, Inc. OOUGUJJ Bjs'I i LOS ANGELES. Jan. 29 nrjryinff west with a wardrobe 1 1 guaranteed to make Hollywood sit up and take notice, as wel it as the movie fans throughout the country, is Constance Ben nett.

She is com ing back to wear those expensive clothes in "Top- i rst I Pi fl aTU aif I tH I ISmith comedy fin waicn sne is 1 to star for Hal Roach Along with all these New York Peter lorri Connie Bennett. IjJii. -v is carrying a contract with i Jf-wctt for two a year, with Top-lf as her first A smart comedy ll1 I 1 1 ivL, 1 14 I li.j Mms i 4 irw Lf It C. 3 I fir-i I 'Jaw 4 StftfiraMiMMltiMiraiini'i-nri-ni-n Hfflniaifffin-inrifiiriiniinirniiMnnfiii mm imof iHiiinn uTifrifn n' i'iif r'fi nP "TiiinfTnr I niiiin i n'm v' ap. im miiiimnij iir; An ti iihiiiiii- 'T" Tni mi mir its- a snould really put her back on MltiV ivur its where she was a few years ago, if wir ve tae excellent support la tftaand that expert and a leading man to be BWAM DONUVY HELEN WOoa WIM MORGAN.

TK)Z u2 from the ranks of Holly of theft popular actors, and arjl cu in pjcxuRE is all any actor i to establish, or re-establish, Hh'r in the eyes of the Holly- producers. John Boles work VCraig's Wife" turned the trick made our producers realize ItSat he was much more than a singing actor. Sam Goldwyn, who has had his eye on John ever since Craig's Wife," has now signed him for the role of the husband in "Stella Dallas" opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Anne Shirley. This 3s the same role that did much for Ronald Col man when he played it in the silent version in 1925. John, however, won't be irivine ud sine- 4Kg, entirely, for he is promised to Paramount for Jack Benny's "Artists and Models." km nn ditii i FLLTOJV 1'eter Lorre and Brian Donlevy in ALVIX James Cagney in "Great Guy WARNEK Margot Grahame and Anne Shirley in "Make Way for a Lady." XbUA VI-.

OUUIiAVAX is go- rg to have a baby! At least, we iiear a strong rumor that says so. about the coming awards, and it in whether or not any of the former winners still starring will be able 3fom the Inside The New Films '00 noiww to repeat this year. THERE IS A KEEN sense of Barclay Baxter is still appearing in character leads, but Mary Pickford is now a picture producer and radio star. Norma Shearer and George Arliss were selected by the Academy for the finest performances in 1929-30. Miss Shearer is still a star.

Arliss has returned to England, and is seldom seen by American film fans. Lionel Barrymore and Marie Dressier divided the honors in 1930-31. Barrymore continues to hold his ene humor among the children of Ed fl husband, 1 a Hey-fward, has just been In town fand the proud father-to-be just couldn't keep from dropping a broad hint. Margaret will leave I the "stage door" company in a jsnort time to rrepare for the ward Arnold. The three of them, One of the few important Elizabeth, 18; William Edward, 15, 7 LLlT5 "Black Legion Writes a Sordid Chapter in American History Across the Stanley Screen; Penn Gets Cecil B.

DeMille's "Plainsman." By Harold W. Cohen stars to receive a percentage of and Dorothy Jane, 9, have written a play of their own which they the earnings of her picture is Grace Moore. And these earn plan to produce on 16-mm. film with their father in the starring picture colony. Dave Chasen is building a restaurant at the intersection of Beverly boulevard and Doheny drive in Beverly Hills, and Eddie Tierney is searching for a suitable location for the South Sea Island type of dining place that he plans to erect.

ings present something of a role. They have made a formal request of Arnold's producer to The cinema, with flying fists and Money, for instance, earned in "loan" them their parent for the role. But the title of their script Germany, must be invested in Ger many. It may not be taken out of Francis A opened a restaurant not long ago on Pico the country. The same law exists shot for trying to extricate his pal from the legion.

In fact, all of the acting is first-class, down through Helen Flint, Joseph Sawyer, Ann Sheridan, Henry Brandon, Alonzo Price and Clifford Soubier. Put a "must" after "Black Legion" on your moviegoing schedule. It is the year's most absorbing photoplay and an eloquent plea for justice and tolerance. n.essea event. M.Suliavan.

This baby will cause a lot of upsets 3i plans, for Universal would have liked to make another Sulla-van picture, and soon, i I CHATTER IS HOLLYWOOD: Rumor is current that when Mrs. Humphrey Bogart leaves for New York at the ex- piration of her place among the stars, but "The Grand Old Lady of the Screen" died shortly after reaching the top in pictures. The first place went to Katharine Hepburn and Charles Laughton in 1932-33. Miss Hepburn still gets star billing. Laugh-ton has gone to England.

The period for this award extended over 15 months. The award period had formerly been from September to September, but was changed in order to cover a calendar year. Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable were the fortunate ones in 1934, boulevard; Jack LaRue is the pro in France, and in Italy money accumulated there must be spent prietor of one on Ventura boulevard, and Hank Mann, the well-known character actor, owns a cafe in Hollywood. The late Thelma Todd owned one on the ocean front is, "How to Raise Children!" SUDDENLY GLIMPSING her name on the marquee of a Los Angeles theater where "Crack-Up" is playing so excited pretty Helen Wood, Twentieth Century-Fox's young leading lady, that she actually dropped an armful of packages. Traffic snarled itself into a knot while two policemen at the busy intersection helped Helen recover her scattered effects and guided her safely across the street.

there. Miss Moore plans to purchase real estate in these foreign countries. AS A MATTER OF FACT, the stars and executives of today are present 1 'The Plainsman" EDMUND LOWE, EUSSA LMDIj is "Mod Holiday" oho Anns Shirley. Herbert icomrnci sue near Santa Monica and it is still operated by her estate. Carroll Naish owns an interest in a Los twill not return.

i im "Make Way JoroLejV Jin other words, far more cautious with their Bette Davis and Victor McLaglen Angeles cafe. in 1935. All four are still starring the Bogarts are to have an am- 5 DICK POWELL, JOAN UON-BIJ in pictures. With 1936 behind us, Apparently, after losing money in other investments, the motion pic speculation is high in film circles i "GOLDDIGGERS Or i I suit hestur ture player of today has decided that no matter what happens, peo icable separation. She was formerly Mary Phillips, well-known stage actress, and came money and investments than ever they have been before.

Numbers of them have found that hard-earned dollars will bring them pleasant dividends when invested in restaurants. Somerset House, a rather exclusive restaurant-club, is owned by Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard. Una Merkel, Richard Arlen and other prominent members of the ple must eat. :30 to 6:30. 1c rw.Tsr si 17 Art Cinema from Httmn WHEN YOU SEE "Happiness 109 Liberty i LAMOI in J.nfjl.

PriMW. 1 BRiwiauis Preferred," the production PENN. The growing popularity in that cinema commodity known as the hoss opr'y is still further reflected by the fact that even Mr. Cecil B. (for bath-tubs) DeMille has gotten around to one.

No ordinary hoss opr'y, however, is Mr. DeMille's; he gives it an epic sweep, corrals the star dust of "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," fills the whole thing with an abundance of historical misinformation and kicks up enough western hoopla to give the most rabid two-gun addict an evening of seat-edged excitement. Mr. DeMille doesn't want to make history, he just wants to make pictures, so what does it matter if his Wild Bill Hicock (Gary Cooper), 2000iecvu.

which features Warren William, Karen Morley and Lewis Stone, you will have an opportunity to test ft EVE ALE FOR THE WfiST TIM the keeness of your powers of TODAY AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD THEATER A number of the snow scenes in No 'Dead End' In Her Career Mary Fhillips. ut nere 10 3ln her husband after a highly success- ful Broadway season. Several reasons are given for the parting one is that Mrs. Bogart does not like Hollywood, and another that she and Humphrey have not been get- 1 ting along for some time. 1.

ALMOST THE LAST words Ethel Merman said when she bid adieu to Hollywood were: "I'll be seeing you soon." Well, she will be seeing Hollywood all right, but it hasn't been soon it's all of six 1 J.J V.nn red-hot indignation, delivers an uncompromising melodramatic truth in "Black Legion." A scorching indictment of the hooded hoodlums who terrorized the mid-west early last year, it is also rattling good movie fodder, bitter, direct, ruthless and unwavering. There has never been another studio in all Hollywood to match the Freres Warner for squeezing the last drop of printer's ink from a screaming headline, and "Black Legion" stakes their claim all over again. They pull no punches here, nor do they romanticize any of the revolting facts, wisely choosing instead to hit straight from the shoulder in exposing the sordid details of this vicious social leper. It isn't a pretty picture, but cold, hard reality is seldom pretty, and "Black Legion" doesn't soften the horror of the Michigan outrages. The brutal floggings, the reckless burnings and the shameless arrogance of these "100 per cent Americans" are set down with harrowing vividness, and that such things "did happen here" will hardly move you to any particular nationalistic pride.

The strength of the photoplay, however, lies not so much in its blazing Fascistic implications as in the great personal tragedy of its average man. He is Frank Taylor, a contented millworker, a happy husband and a proud father. He dries the dishes after dinner, likes to play bridge and go to the movies, and will drop everything to listen with his small son to the radio adventures of some fictional superman. A typical middle-class American, he hopes that some day a pay raise will permit him to buy the family a new car, Ruth a vacuum sweeper and Buddy a Louisville slugger baseball bat. Then in a flash his whole makeup changes when Dombrowski wins the foreman's job over him.

Frank Taylor is ripe for the poisonous propaganda about "America for Americans and not foreigners." He joins the legion and becomes snarling, vindictive and arrogant. The revolver and black robe unbalance his sanity, and murder is only a step away. There is enough man EAST LIBERTY, his, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), 1 WIUWM'IJWJ" and his Buffalo Bill Cody (James Ellison) will go unrecognized be the film were shot in Hollywood, and an almost equal number were filmed in genuine snow at Truckee, where the players didn't have to pretend they were cold. By one of the minor miracles wrought daily by film craftsmen, however, the sequences matched perfectly. See if you can distinguish the real from the false.

ONLY NINE OF THE 16 mo ftCOOPERk ARTHUR, yond the Rockies? For Mr. DeMille's purposes, they're all they HARRIS LIBERTY DEANNA DURBIN-R4Y W-L5 "THREE SARTjIRljl harrisTamily Johnny Weism.lier-M. "TARZ4N ESCAPES" Also "Ring AroMtheJrtW jnontns since sne ooarucu vuuw-chor- fcr Broadway. She has signed FLAIilSMAll Bfer Features Lt contract Wlin mervjru iciuj B. M-redfth.

Marga REGENT East Liberty An her famous blues singing in me WLNTtKKT "Stag Me a Lore Soar' Rodgers and Hart musical which Memn is rjreDarine. And with rSCHENLEY lMiss Merman will be Fernand that handsome Parisian who tion picture players who have re ceived Hollywood's highest honor, the award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance of the year, urnPMT SQUARE -BELOVED ENEMY will head for Hollywood again just KENTON North Side Sally Eilers "WITHOUT OROf Will Rogers "STATE FAIR are today considered active screen DICK POWELL JOAN BLONDELL V1CTO MOORE -GOLD-DIGGERS OF 1937- PITTSBURGH 1 News nee should be, historically and otherwise, and if he wants to advance General Custer's last stand a decade or so, who's to deny him his inalienable rights as the movies' super-specialist Anyway, he's crowded a lot of fun and fury into "The Plainsman" and it stirs the screen with a series of Indian fights, street brawls, trigger duels and all of the other action hints in the Wild West primer. Then, too, Mr. DeMille always has the knack of making things seem very important, and his glorified western at times really fools you into believing that it's quite the saga. In a foreword, Mr.

DeMille explains that "the story compresses stars. SO. HILLS CAR RICK ROWLAND ha soon as he finishes a picture engagement in France. I SNAPSHOTS OF HOLLYWOOD COLLECTED AT RANDOM: Constance Bennett's close friends report that she her estranged husband, the Marquis La Falaise, again and again she was in New York; MELROSE wwr Edward rt "MEET iLFt Dick Foran. The Mnti PLAYHOUSE 22C Cralt Aven.

Third and La Wdt LABURNUM GROVE Mritary by J. g. MrMt-. Kvry Evfjnmff $15 mad $IXX RfFT- mi BARBARA STANWTCK MANOR Sq. HUi Joel McCrea "Banjo On My Knee' "CARNEGIE.

Several of them are no longer in this country, one is dead, and others have turned to radio or the stage. Janet Gaylor, who shared the first award with Emil Jannings in 1927-28, and Fredric March, who captured the coveted honors with Helen Hayes in 1931-32, are now co-starring in David O. Selznick's technicolor picture, "A Star Is Born." Jannings has returned to Germany and Miss Hayes is dividing her time between the radio v-tions -wjuwwer 4448 MAE WEST "CO WEST, IOCN6 ARSENAL NEW CARNEGIE Martha "HIDEAWAY GIRL 4109 Btotler Bt. "Come Closer. Folks many years, many lives and widely Short SuDiee" P1S Mitt Mi i TA 6(.

LLm sewet "Strip-Tea-" Sensation Harris ETNA separated events into one narrative in an attempt to do justice to the ROCKS SHIRLEY TEMPLE ROBERT T0OKG UKEES SHEA'S ORPHEUM- Dionne Quintuplds-J" He in "REUNION BELMAR Louise Steward STOWAWAY and the legitimate theater. The award went to Mary Pick ertude Michael beaued by Douglass Montgomery and Sylvia Sydney by Norman Krasna at the Tuesday night Cocoanut Grove 1 party; if you're a diet fiend, youll I be interested to know that Jack Conway claims he lost 21 pounds in 21 days on bread and milk; June Gale and Bill Faye, brother Alice, a cute twosome at a night spot; Jimmy Stewart and Simone Simon had to leave their -jhamburgers at a cafe uneaten, they were so mobbed by fans the i ether midnight; Stu Erwin mod- IN ford and Warner Baxter in 1928-29, "SWING YOUR BABY Aim NORTKSIDE PLAZA Moomlleid FRA NK McHTXJH JOAN BLONDEU. "THRISE MEN ON A HORSE STUART ERWIN GARDEN HOLLYWOOD PAUL DOGUEIiEAlk "PIGSM.V PABADIT ROBERT TAYLORAN PA" Potomac At. Johnny W-issmuller "Tai-aa Escajiea" FRENCH PIANIST 1st Frlx Paris Conservatory TONIGHT BOB CLAYMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA I ths beaaUfal HOTEL KOOSEVELT GOLD ROOM S1.S0 minimum the person. Bes.

At. 3700 SfrToiJER K0DEL Batter St. Concert Friday, Feb. 8:30 p.m. HARRIS MT.

OLIVER i(iL. CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL courage of the plainsman of the West" and then promptly forgets all about the poor plainsman. Instead he concentrates on Wild Bill Hicock and his pursuit of Jack Latimer, a renegade who ha3 been selling repeating rifles illegally to the Indians; on Wild Bill's romantic skirmishes with Calamity Jane and on Buffalo Bill's inability to quit scouting long enough to set up a hotel with his wife from back East But what is the history of the frontier to a man who has rewritten even the Bible? Nothing. So if Mr. DeMille has taken liberties, he has done it in a first-rate cause, for "The Plainsman" is a rich-brown, teeming, big-scale western heaped with incident, inaccuracy and the old hero hokum.

The acting lis excellent but Mr. DeMille steals the show. He always does. Ie always wilL STRAND Tickets $1.14, 1.71. S.28 at estly announced that he worked 'his way through college playing poker after he cleaned out the gang at the studio; Sophie Tucker guest of honor at a rousing reception given at a night spot by old time vaudevillians in the merry troupe were Burns and "Murder By An An stt- HHlTr Brocketts.

Mellor's, 604 Wood St. WHBELEB WOOI.SfT "SILLY BILLIES" ToB of the Desert" ERROL. FL.YNN CHARGE OF THE LKiHT BRIGADE" Pigskin Parade" CLARK GABLE Joan Crawford ON THE tU Without Orders" ERROL FLYNK "CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" 'Otd Hatch" ELEA.NOR "ROSE BOWT PLAZA CAFE hood left in him at the end, however, to turn state's evidence and take his medicine, life imprisonment, with the others. "Black Legion's" only omission is the ultimate fate of the ex-oil stock promoters who are supposed to be the racketeering brains behind the organization, and that must come under the heading of unfinished business. Certainly there's no reason why Director Archie Mayo, who has done a grand job, by the way, didn't include them in the final round-up.

For Humphrey Bogart, "Black Legion" is a complete triumph. Tn the leading role," he is practically flawless and his graphic description of Frank Taylor's slow disintegration has been handled with rare skill and good judgment. Certainly it was no easy job to win sympathy for the character but Mr. Bogart does just that, making Frank Taylor seem like a victim of circumstances rather than a hardened, cowardly citizen. Impressive, too, is Erin O'Brien Moore's performance as the bewildered wife, and Dick Foran leaves Warner Brothers' ranch long enough to do a piece of work as th young man who gets RlTZ Fifth Sixth Are.

Zlfl Fifth Ave. I I IT'S NEW IT'S DIFFERENT "The Parisian Swing; Revue' Direct From Broadway! Reservations Court 8948 Leslie Howard-Nor? iftf REGAL W--Mba-ir cr.rtrie March in tcudi in CAMERA- BARTH'S DANCE TONITEI 1HOIWI QUINTUPLETS "REDWOW" SninLC i PWQN a L-bcrty HARRIS PALACE 818 Liberty Downtowa "Joe" Pape Orchestra STUART ERWIN i V-n, the Jack Bennys, Gus Van Edgar Allan Woolf; Mary 1 rr I recovered from the flu, out with the boy friend, Cdije Grainger. Thafa all for todal. See you Monday! Joan Poses for Artist Joan Crawford is using up her 4 between scenes for 'The Last ft Irs. Cheyney" by posing for an j'ortrait.

The India I TkriH-cke4 Mfjr roimrnc Yv8i JAKIES CAGKEY If Sst. Em. Post story 111 I "GREAT GUY" II V. with MAE CLARKE III. Extra la Person Ml jS WILLI! RYAN V'VV Fhmw Checker jrfjrS.

Admission 31e includes Checking Paty Kelly "PIGSKIN PARADE" PRrT.CE Annbrldce Silver soors" J1ADV CORRELL. Under contract to B. P. Schul-berg for pictures, Miss Correll has been permitted by the producer to finish up her tour in Norman Bel Geddes production of Sidney Kingsley's successful melodrama, "Dead End," before turning to Hollywood. She'll be seen in the leading feminine role when the play comes to the Nixon the week of February 8.

WM. POWELL MTKNA LOT AMBRIDGE STAtWth "After the Thin Man' AmbridR Gary Cooper-" THE GENERAL 01 Sing Old Song i Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy will "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" as a duet in "May-time." John P. Harris GRETA GARBO Robert Taylor "CAntfLLE" MEMORIAL Ann ceTS "THE LADY CONSE" ME ifceeeport LJ.