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Tweatth Centary- rx is tertox XZyrs Ley from Metro for Cie ia "He rjarried Cb WEe." Leo CarrOe ku signed fcjr Sol Lesser fer Catty Cmi'i next picture, "Flshermtl'i Wharf." Nevs 'f 5Hd cir(siii 54. Aw' WOlV Bl The Neur Film Lon Moves Up Several Notches Diva Durbin's Fan Mail Her Look Out Tliar, Mus Judy, A Killer'a on the -Warpath ways like that For every elimi 'You Ccn't Take J7Uh Bisse Worry st C70 You9 at Alvin One Of Year's Best. By Harold W. Cohen One of the best pictures of the aT rinrii l.irm oi VAJumry nation in the flay. It has aced something priceless of its own-and TYou Cant Take It With You" comes through here a richer, more substantial' and certainly a more legitimate entertainment Mr.

Capra has always been aa uncanny judge of actors and he has cast Ton -Cant Take It With You" with his usual Lionel Have Set Young Star Up as Example. By Frederick C. Othman year has come along in "You Cant Take It With You." It's an adapta if' tion of the play that brought George jig- HOLLYWOOD, Sept. -29. The incredible Deanna Durbin, S.

Kaufman and Moss Hart the Pulitzer prize in 1937 and those two distinguished collaborators have met their cinema counterparts here in Frank Capra, director, and RoIh II I ert Riskin, writer. For "You Can't Takett With while brillianUy cast not an actors', show, it belongs almost Barrymore Is superlative as Kinaiy Grandpa Vanderhof; James Stewart and Jean Arthur make the. romantic interest more than just an apologetic intrusion Auer's ballet-master is screamingly funny; Donald Meek's Mr. Poppins is both a triumph for Riskin and Mr. Meek and all through the excellent company, from Spring Byington, Halliwell Hobbes, Ann Miller Samuel S.

Hinds, Lillian Yarbo Dub Taylor and Eddie Anderson, representing the Vanderhof -Sycamore tribe, to Edward Arnold and Mary Forbes, as the aristocratic Kirbys, here is a group to challenge the best that Hollywood has to offer. That goes, too, for Too Cant Take It With You" itself in spades. a gray-, eyed junior nign scnooi tudcnt who leaped to fame, fortune and position as kind of Juvenile Emily Post, celebrated her second anniversary today as a movie star. Only there wasn't any celebration. She merely told about her movie career at the luncheon table, where she slowly ate a club sandwich and then gulped a chunk of chocolate cake when she discovered she was- late for her daily singing lesson.

The 16-year-old Deanna said 4 A A I .1 A. L-1L exclusively to Mr. Capra and Mr. Out of something that was originally an antic inspection of a screwball family, they have 'fashioned a photoplay, that in addition to being amusing, even hilarious in spots, is, also touching, dramatically sound and socially conscious. The Kaufman-Hart work was merely a succession of lively caricatures; the Capra-Riskin elabora mm Si 'Boys Towh Stays lfl APWIKfl TflKITC' I uilla sonTino CURTIS GUCKERT'S ORCH FLOOR SHOW Italian A- a At Warner Again Th wnur will hold the Mickey 320-lft W.

LIBEBTI AVE. UE. 4-857. WEfcK DAVs 5c MINSJ Rooney-Spencer Tracy hit, "Boys Tmra" fra second week, giving mm i one oi ine iuuiki ia ered her was her fan mail. Half of it Is from youngsters, and half of them want to know, whether she has dates, and how lata she stays up nights, and whether she uses liptsick, and whatnot "They seem to have short of set me up as an example," she said.

"I'm not exactly a goody-goody, but I do have to watch my step when they all seem to want to do LOU BREESE. It was just a few weeks back that Mr. Breese and his band visited the New Penn here; today they return but to a theater, the Stanley, instead of a night spot1 The orchestra win augment Chester Morris personal appearance -while the screen gets Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone hi "Three Loves Has Nancy." i 0 Sr: the picture three weeks, on 1 a a COLISEUM GrpnhMra- Thursday, October I WW HAL KEMP i Just like I do. AND HIS ORCHESTRA tion Is a three-dimensional structure, eagerly, encompassing both; people and situations and fitting them to well-tailored movement It is perfectly true that of the two versions, the first had more more midsection guffaws," but it is just as true that the screen copy is more human. When the celluloid 4 "You Take It You" wants to be funny, it can split your sides, but that isn't either Mr.

Capra's or Mr. Riskin's chief object They have captured other qualities, such as sentiment and tenderness, and their Vanderhofs, Sycamores and Kirbys are folks of real flesh and blood and not whacky jacks on the loose from a zoo. They have found philosophical Grandpa Vanderhof and his scatter-brained brood just as engaging as Mr. Kaufman and Mf. Hart but they have likewise developed- a case? for the wealthy, elite-minded Kirbys and made the clash of the two families more equitable.

In fact Mr. Capra and Mr. Ris its i downtown nrsx-run. piayea seven days at the Penn before moving to the V-; Based on Father Flanagan's home for abandoned youths near Omaha, Neb "Boys Town" was directed by Norman Taurog1 and also features Henry Hull, Frankie Thomas, Bobs Watson, Sidney Miller and Gene Reynolds. Villa Sortino Opens "Only a few weeks ago I was starting on That Certain Age' and musician who operates the spot will again set aside Wednesday as HUCK-STm tw.V Tmfcrw.

4QTiacUXt l.SS Im raid I I somehow the word got out that I celebrity night at the Villa. JUDY GARLAND SOOTTT BECKETT "And 100 redskins bit the reads Miss Garland as young Mr. Beckett sneaks up on her to add a little reality tothe situation between scenes for "Listen, Darling," at Metro-Goldwjm-Mayer. 1 New Season' Tonight The Drama Desk The Villa Sortino, on West Lib erty avenue in Dormont will re- open tonight for the fall and win By Harold W. Cohen ter season with Curtis Guckert's East and West orchestra and a floor show.

There Kilbuck Theaters "Mr. and Phipps," was a student at Para- will be souvenirs for first-night kin have stocked "You Cant Take guests. was going to have a love affair in It and elope. "That was a mistake, but immediately I began to get letters from mothers of girls, asking me please not to do any such thing. They feared that I'd be putting ideas in their daughters' heads.

"Anyway we did make the picture. The plot has me falling madly In love with Melvyn Douglas, who's old enough to be my father and who thinks I'm just a little nuisance, which I am. I discover that am, too, and the picture ends happily. "So a few nights becfc we had sneak preview and when the audience left the theater, the Ushers handed ont cards for com--ment. Two little girls wrote that -they loved the picture, because I had taught them about life.

Imagine that! i "Imagine me teaching anybody anything about life!" It With You" with rich and rare Vince Sortino, tho well-known goodies and it remains a swift spirited fable in addition to an enormously attractive show. Grand mount's scnooi ior young -actors in Hollywood last year. Those four Marlene Dietrichs the cute Miller Sisters dance on at the Nixon cafe are a pick-me-up for tired eyes. Failure of the Pirates to come through will cost Pittsburgh cafe owners and innkeepers a cool half million. pa Vanderhof is still a grand old codger who suddenly decided 30 years before that it was silly to work any longer; Penny Sycamore continues to write plays because a typewriter -was accidentally deliv Remember Jeanne Madden, the ered to her door; Essie dances Jimmy Durante's asking price to appear in the J.

FMcEvoy-Arthur Schwartz musical, "Swing to the Left" is too high so the producers are now dickering with Ken Mur-ray and Bert Wheeler. G. Pat Collins has been signed for a role in "Case History," that first play by a Cleveland surgeon. Director John Farrow and Warners have Agreed to cancel their contract. Burgess Meredith says it isn't so that he's been engaged for the new Mare Connelly show.

Add Eddie Foy, Jr, to the castl of "Secret Service of the Air," formerly "Murder Plane." Courtney Burr has relinquished his option Far So Good" by Arthur Jarrett and Marcel Klauber. Doris Dalton will be in Georre S. Kaufman's and little Scranton girl who made a couple of pictures for Warner Brothers, came to Pittsburgh with the flying "Gold-Diggers" and was Deanna laughed and finished that Chocolate cake. In 193S she was a pupil at Los nw dropped by the studio line a not potato following her return to Hollywood? Well, she has just Angeles' Bret Harte Junior High school. She took singing lessons 1 popped "into news again, 1 mis time from New York, as the result nf her snrresflf ul audition for the badly and her husband, Ed, prints revolutionary circulars on a hand-press; Papa Sycamore and Mr.

De-Pinna illegally manufacture fireworks in the basement and a newcomer wondrously named Mr- Pop-pins has been introduced to -amplify the Vanderhof -philosophy of living. You may miss the truth game when first the Vanderhofs and Kirbys meet and the alcoholic actress Penny, picks up on a bus, but then the big apple and night club sequences will amply repay you for their absence. The "picture is al- KSoaaSRSa ingenue lead in. the new Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musical, 'Knickerbocker Holiday starring kunnesnnrmMtl Walter Huston. r.

"Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid." aen Addenda Both Edmund Lowe and Douglas Montgomery have been approached to do the leading role in that play called "The Whistling Hangman" It's Fay Bainter who will be Priscilla Lane's mother In the screen version of "Yea, My Darling Daughter" As a result of his and she appeared In a recital. An agent heard and first thing she knew she was signed to a six-month contract at 950 a week by M-G-M. She didn't do anything to earn her money and at the end of the six months, to the studio's everlasting chagrin, she was let out Universal snapped her up and put her into a minor opus entitled Three Smart Girls." It surprised everybody by being a resounding success. It made Deanna a star over night She made her second picture last summer. It was entitled "100 Men and A Girl" The studio, In the throes of reorganization, rushed The day after the preview, the film was released nationallyand the dollars poured in.

Deanna literally kept Universal from going bankrupt The studio's in good financial condition now, but Deanna's still a bargain at a week. She gets $1,750 more from the manufacturers of Deanna Durbin dresses doilies and That brings her annual earnings to S15640Q a year, which Is more than enough for the Durbins. Hailed aa one Greatest Films. performance in "Missouri Legend." Dean Jagg'er has been awarded AU Times! feature billing by Producer Guthrie McClintic Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell have assured Max Gordon that they will have their adaptation of The Happiest Man" finished by November 1 Uni versal has borrowed I sPEHCEn nmiEV mam "TO" DD (HID DD Marshall irom Twentieth Century- Fox to direct W. Fields, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man" Hal Rand, Sally Band's brother, will do a Jitterbug dance number with Joan Crawford in The Shin She lives with her mother and ing Hour" Dhat announced UOV7 PUIYUIC father, who is a real estate agent nation-wide tour of the Federal Xast winter she had her income up Theater Projects to jto $4,000 a week.

"But it wasn't worth it" she said. Glory," in association with Lee 3rd DIG 17 BBS 25 to 12:30 P. M. 000r starts iks A y' -VJ Sy '7X The love of cool MP Gby. InhnltelyJeilrtUe Janerou TTic love of warm, child-like the safety of bis V.

Hf hideaway the 'Vfe WALTER VANGER prawn. jj- Charles Boyer Yl xi A $250,000 Harta SSit CMlMt rktvt. Shubert, has been called off. made the extra money on a radio program, but I had to work too hard. I didn't have any time for myself.

So I Quit it and I'm not going to sign any more radio con tracts." "C1CK TEACY RETUSRS" Sidney Blackmer gets the spot originally announced for Alan Baxter in "Trade Winds" at Walter Wanger's. Boston draws two tryouts the same night November 7, "The Boys From Syracuse" and "The Flying Ginzburgs." Monogram has purchased Jack London's "Wolf Call" for John Carroll. Three leading members of the American ballet, Andre Eglev-sky, Leda Anchutina and Annabelle Lyon, go into the Dwight Deere Wiman operetta, "Great Lady." John Qualen has checked in at M-G-M for the Robert Taylor-Wallace Beery picture, "Stand Up and Fight" That forthcoming musical version of "Clear All has a new title, "I'm an American." Opening Today Penn "Algiers," with Hedy La-marr, Charles Boyer and Sigrid Gurie. Stanley Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone in Three Loves Has. Nancy" and Chester Morris on the stage with Lou Breese's band.

With the bands': Gene Krupa opens a six-week stay at the Palo-mar Ballroom in Los Angeles November 2. Sammy Kaye is at the Hotel Commodore in New York. Manhattan's Hotel Lincoln gets Artie Shaw for the season October 26. Xavier Cugat is at Philadelphia's Aracdia Cafe. Rudy Val-lee draws the San Francisco Auto Show plum the week of November IL Local Scrappings -Gene Gaudette, who first came here as Don Bestors personal representative several years ago, is now a band manager in New York, with the Teddy King outfit as his latest account An-gelo Di Palma's son, Leonard, has come on from Cleveland to enroll at Duquesne University.

Before quitting town, Dick (Hotcha) Gardner -was Informed that his engagement at the Ches Faree in Omaha had been cancelled in" order to allow him to open the new supper room at the Commo-" dore Perry Hotel in Toledo. It a boy st the Paul Beltha. He's the R-K-O booker. In George 8. Kaufman's and Moss Hart forthcoming "Fabulous Invalid, Kay Duncan, the Carnegie Tech gal, plays "Libby Holman," whom she understudied on the road last season in "Yon Never Seens the musical outfit Jack Watte wCl baton at the Hotel' Sohenley'sf Continental Rmki i Her third picture, released last winter, was "Mad About Music" It was as successful as her two Caara Jiagel tat "TiBwr Cairo" BUCK JONES "Bteaaavr a Aria .1 V.

a first efforts. She hopes her cur -if rent picture will bo good, but she hasn't much time to worry about It because she already has started studying music for her next one. It's about a circus and all I know about It Is that I sing an obligatto to a Sous march from the back of an elephant," she said. The story still Is being written and it hasn't any title yet" She said she was going into a production schedule calling for her to make two and one-half pictures a year. "That doesn't' sound like so many," she said, "but when you aing in a film, you've got to work just twice as long as you do when you only talk.

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