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-PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939- 12 Irene rw. wve ABifr." Ck 3:47. s-m Where to GoWhen to Go News of St age and Girls Grw 3:03. 5:12. VTKON "Tha Brown Danube," with Far rv.n Jaareer.

Tonight at SHFRID4N snrr "The Little Fr -M Madden- aM fLJ mans. BrrY Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur in "The Whole Town's Talking" and James Cagney In ''Great Guy." Complete shows at 11. 2:20, 5:35 and 8:50. CASINO Sherry Briton In "Lingerie Lassies" and movie shorta.

Continuous from noon. fl'LTON Blng Crosby. Joan Blondell and Mischa Auer In "East Side of Heaven." Starta at II. 12:57. 2:45.

4:42. 6:39. The Drama Desk fliHOtisl "Meet My Sister." tn Ktoim Urake a.nl Kdward malne. io-flight at 8:30. ALV1.N "The Story of Alexander Granam Bell," with lon Ameche.

lxretta Young and Henry Fonda. Starts at 3:36. 5:43, 7:50 and 10:07. ART C1EMA Sacha Gultry in 'The Moves to Senator With Her 'Sister9 Hat-Check Girl Now Movie Star Girl Cellist On the Way and 9:35 4t '4 starts at nV By Harold W. Cohen 8:27 and 10:24.

and 10:13. ii Story of a Cheat." Starta ai 1:22. 3:09. 4:56. 6:43, 8:30 and 10:17.

1 m.W. -TV, wvt III I year and will return to Hollywood for a role in "Hotel for Women" Local Scrappings To Stardom at Twentieth Century-Fox. Hitler's "Mein Kampf is being drama V. I George Macready, who plays Fay Wray's sweetheart in "The Brown Danube," went into the cast at the last minute, a substitution for William Post, who couldn't get away from New York on account of radio commitments. Fred Waring and most of his tized by Thomas Grant, a Baltimore newspaperman, and Earl W.

Wal-dron. Frank Fay's effort to revive big-time vaudeville in New York must be set down as a failure. His show closed there last night after running about six weeks. Helen Gilbert Ruins All Those Work And Win Stories. gang, still slap-happy over their great new radio contract for that cigaret sponsor, seeing "Wuthering Ilka Chase, the stage's best-dressedi woman who was in "The tor a couple of seasons (she played: Heights" at a midnight screening the one with the sharpest claws in! SrirT (( IS THIS STRANGE LOVE STORY FROM jpJ Wi THE PRODUCER OF "THE HURRICANE" 7 SDEEW the original cast) has joined Robert By Frederick C.

Othman (Tnitvl I'rrsn Hllvwrwl Virrpntvinrt'nt. HOLLYWOOD, April 19. -Helen fJilbert, who never lid any acting before in her life, vC'- got back from Florida this week with a swell tan, looking like one Montgomery in "Stronger Than De buck less than the proverbial mil sire" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The new S. N.

Behrman com lion. Paderewski, who will stepped before the Metro play the Mosque May 6, is headed edy, "No Time for Comedy," starring Katharine Cornell, has all ofi for a $250,000 gross on his current Goldwyn-Mayer cameras today the ear-marks of a smash hit. It concert tour. drew fine notices in the Manhattan press and seats are already selling The Claudette Colbert-Don Ameche-John Barrymore "Mid two months in advance. "Daily night" will follow "Wuthering Heights" into the Penn.

Jean Wald, who was home over Variety" on the coast referred to the Louis-Roper fight yesterday as "a colossal short." Bill Robinson and the cast of "The Hot Mik jrwi a full-fledged movie star. She was hungry because she hadn't had any breakfast she was too excited to eat but she acquitted herself beautifully in a dramatic scene with Lewis Stone. Then she was fnterviewed for the first time in her 23 years. This is the interview. And all we can say is that Helen Gilbert has ruined all those fine stories about the week-end, returned to Colum bits, a couple of days ago and found that the Fort Hayes Hotel ado" are organizing a Gilbert and The fall, shattering force of Emily Bronte's world-famous book is all here in the masterful picture that everyone is praising as the year's finest entertainment, Sullivan Swing Society to investi gate other works of the Savoyards there had picked up her all-girl band's option for an indefinite period.

Today is Art Levy's which might lend themselves to jitterbug adaptation. Slapsie (the Columbia excaange man Maxie Rosenbloom and Johnny (Scat) Davis have been set for ager birthday, so congratulations, Velma Cooper, who series of one-reel boxing comedies travels with her daughter. Donna at Warner Brothers. I Dae, has a hard time convincing folks she tsn't the Fred Waring how hard it is to become a movie actress. It wasn't hard for her.

When the blonde and blue-eyed Miss Gilbert was 10, her father ran a music store in Superior, Wis. The most impressive-looking Instrument he had for sale was a cello. Helen wanted it, and since the cello business wasn't rushing In Superior, her father gave it to her. She learned to play it. By the time she was 15 she was canary's sister.

Gordon Goodman, the Penn From That Town Called Hollywood sylvanians' sock warbler, was, be Boris, Morros' new producing lieve it or not, a Golden Gloves boxing champion in the 147-pound class 15 years ago. Edith company will follow the Laurel SAMUEL GOLDWYN Hardy "Aviators" with a remake NAN GREY. She and Helen Parrish play Deanna Durbin's sisters in the fine "Three Smart Girls Grow Up," which moves today to the Senator after two big weeks at the Alvin. Miss Grey was also with Miss Durbin in the original "Three Smart Girls." Warman Skinner, Carnegie Tech known in the Northwest as cello prodigy. of Jules Verne's "Around the speech instructress and summer presents World in Eighty Days." Don Bed It wasn't long before she was theater impresario, seeing the mat doe (he graduated from the Car playing in symphony orchestras, inee performance of "The Brown negie Tech drama school) gets the giving recitals and hob-nobbing role of Borneo in Columbia's screen Danube" yesterday.

That show, by the way, isn't going to New with musical big-wigs. A few more years passed and she married version of "Golden Boy." David April 19, 1919, with "Bonds of In York next week as planned. It'll Selznick expects to wind up "Gone Mischa Bakaleinikoff, the orchestra remain on the road at least an terest" and Katharine Hepburn's current hit, "The Philadelphia With the Wind" by mid-June. That leader. She learned to talk Russian other fortnight for further revv will probably mean an early fall LINDA HAYES.

A few weeks ago she was Rachelle Germano, hat-check girl so she'd be a better companion to Story" is the Guild's 125th produc sions. More than five minutes came release. Judith Barrett, one of the out of that overlong first act after tion. Walter Hampden is the latest actor to take up Thornton 14 starlets Paramount has stamped her husband. A Box-Office Draw.

in a San Francisco night club. f-starriut MERLE OBERON LAURENCE OLIVIER DAVID NIVEN with Flora Robson Donald Crisp Geraldine Fitzgerald Screenplay by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Directed by William Wyler From the world famous stove! by Emily Bronte Released thru United Artists the opening performance. for stardom this year, has been as Now she's Linda Hayes, with a long-term movie contract at Two years ago he came to Holly signed the second feminine lead in Their "annual headache" is what the movie people call daylight savings time. Charlie Lynch, Wilder's Pulitzer Prize play, "Our Town." He's going into the midwest with it shortly. Broadway producers are considering a wood to make music for the pic Lloyd Douglas' "Disputed Pas K-K-O and the second feminine tures produced at Columbia studios sage, with Dorothy Lamour, John lead in Lupe Velez new picture, "The Girl From Mexico." arr nrss i in i a Howard and Akim Tamiroff.

His bride came with him. Soon she general reduction in the price of Warner Brothers' former manager in Butler, Pa, is distributing "The Little Flower of Jesus" in the West Add Helen Ericson, one of theater tickets for the World's was playing in Los Angeles' phil harmonic orchestra. the four Twentieth Century-Fox Critics Disagree Fair trade. Lewis Stone, ac Virginia territory. She was the most beautiful mu cording to the M-G-M press de actresses who visited Pittsburgh in February on that "Tail Spin" ex Til sician ever to appear with that or JH -OChl U.

O. 1 laV When "Outward Bound" was first partment, has become so thoroughly identified with the role of ploitation stunt, to the cast of "The ganization. Her eyes were brilliant blue, her hair ash-blonde and her i. I nm.Ji-w,- 1 Wwt- done on Broadway 15 years ago, it ones Family at the Grand Can Judge Hardy in the family series yon. Lud Gluskin, the maestro on NEW YORK, April ran exactly 143 performances which of that name ihat he now gets LAST DAY! 25c TO IRENE DUNNE CHARLES BOYER 'WE AFFil Dick Powell's radio program, has figure super-perfect.

Many a patron of the philharmonic attended its concerts principally to look at its New York drama critics' circle wa? 61111 lltLie IUU; many letters from movie fans re been signed by Edward Small as questing legal advice. couldn't make up its collective l- -ff chiefly with the fact that the Play- musical director for "The Man in the Iron Mask." Linda Winters, an award to what it thought the housc current all-star whom Charlie Chaplin "discovered best American play of the season. i. i a few months ago in a Carmel AMERICA'S MOST THRILLING STOW (CaL) stock company, goes into fiiv vnt0. T.stfi- mark, turning in its 144th perform- NIXON TONIGHT 8:20 MAT.

SAT. 2:20 BONHIS ami SOMNES pnnH lady cellist. Members of the orchestra added to their earnings by playing the musical backgrounds in the movie studios. Miss Gilbert did a great deal of this work, sawing away at her cello late at night and on Sunday afternoons in barren sound stages tl over town. Lillian Hellman's drama which ance iasi mgnt 10 oecome me nr5l Frank Capra's "Mr.

Smith Goes to Washington" with James Stewart. stars Tallulah Bankhead: five Py lo 1LS, Otes to "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" original recuru in a revival. THE BROWN Robert E. Sherwood's drama which Addenda The Theater Guild celebrated its twentieth anniversary last night. The organization was launched on stars Raymond Massey, and two FVier nnA Went votes each to "Rocket to the 0 0 fV DANUBE Last fall she was at work at Metro, playing in the symphony orchestra retained for the picture, "Sweethearts." That was almost a by KURNE1 HERSME1 Moon" and "My Heart's in the That fine actor, John Halliday, is Highlands," Group Theater produc- closing his Honolulu home after a mtii FAY WRAY a DUN JAGGER tions.

The award for the best foreign NIXON HEXT WEEK SEATS NOW Tbe Theatre Guild. present Squirrel Hill Group Gives play went to "The White Steed," by Paul Vincent Carroll. agney, Robinson Bohemian Lomic Upera ALFRED LUHT AND LYNN FOHTANNE In Barry KeissnesL career in itself. The film was in production a full six months. Director W.

S. Van Dyke dropped around to the recording stage every now and again to hear the music and admire the cello player. He, too, thought she was beautiful. He also thought she was Russian. He finally told Mrs.

Bakaleinikoff that he believed she should have a screen test. He said he thought that If she could speak English without an accent, she had a chance as a movie actress. "Sweethearts" eventually was completed, the musicians were dismissed and Van Dyke forgot ib'if he cellist. The Bartered Bride9' Will Be Repeated In Taylor James Cagney and Edward G. Allderdice High School Tonight.

Robinson, two of tke screen's fav IN TWO PLAYS Tues. Wed. Aed. Mat. "THE SEA GULL" Fri.

Sat. Sat. Mat. "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" orite tough guys, are the stars of An interlude from the culture the two revivals at the Barry. i.

CiAiiw -Aft? I Robinson is in "The Whole Town's Czechoslovakia was re-enacted Talking," a former "ten best" pic- here last nieht "without the per- frilhnin11 -the mission of Adolf Hitler," when httle clerk Dedrich Smetana's colorful Bo- who is, mistaken MAm yoomr AT UOMl for the nation's hemian comic opera, "The Baf- most sought-after gangster. The i 1. INC tlAlt--aAl tar plays a dual role, with Jean Yf, lish by a cast of local performers 1 a 1 TTl 1 1 Arthur and Wallace Ford heading Sullavan Says No. A couple of weeks ago he was appointed director of the picture, "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever." For the first time in his popular series of films, the script stressed not only the performances of Lewis SECOND a WEEK BING CROSBY JOAN BLONDEL MISCHA AUER FastSfdeofteavex while a sprightly series of village dances and an original "circus" by a group of Allderdice day students lend action to the show. Proceeds will be used by the Allderdice PTA to pay for the school's new organ.

"The Bartered Bride" concerns a village belle whose peasant lover accepts a bribe from a marriage broker to renounce her hand so that she can be married to a rich man's son. Of course there's a trick to it. Equally tricky, however, was the feat of Directors Emma Steiner and Maynard Samsen in fashioning a creditable performance with a cast of school teachers, stenographers, housewives, businessmen and career girls. his supporting cast. xayior Aiiaera.ce n.ga scnooi.

Cagney in "Great Guy" is a mem- ra htd, neVCr ber of the department of weights Pittsburgh before accord-and measures in a big city who mg to lts sPnsors. the Allderdice exposes the tricky scales and false Parent-Teachers Association. It measures which enable merchants wlU be rePeated at 8:15 o'clock to-to cheat customers. ni8ht by the Squirrel Hill Com Stone and Mickey Rooney, but of the latter's school teacher. The studio wanted to give the part to Margaret Sullavan, but she was busy in another role.

Finally the production office phoned Van THEsrororoFA tnLfll munity Choral Society, composed mainly of students in an Allderdice adult evening school class Hail Picture Eau TUU. Irr JOHN EMS KIKE Dyke and told him his leading lady Although nope to iorm me nucleus ior Jury Secrets" will not be released a -Civic pea f.roup- had been hired. Her name was Helen Gilbert, the office said. "And he had no idea who I was," she reported. "He'd always thought of me as Mrs.

Bakaleini for several months it already has lie leous in me prouueuun are handled by well-known district singers including Mrs. Katherine i world-wide publicity. A Amateur radio operators the film Winter, Frank Roup, Rosemary features the "hams" are talkine about it nightly through the ether. Lerch, Herbert C. McGee, Frank Chermock, S.

Allen Glassner, Mil ton Hayes, Mary Louis North and Opening Today koff. Anyhow I got the job and 1 did my first scene this morning and I wish Mr. Van Dyke would hurry up and announce luncheon. I had to get to the studio at 6:30 a. and I'd studied my lines so long last night that I was so nervous I couldn't eat my i Dwight Blackwood.

Smetana live ly score is played by 25 members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Or i 'A 1 'i chestra- Authentic costumes of brilliant Alvin "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell," with Don Ameche, Loretta Young and Henry Fonda. Senator (moving from the Alvin) Deanna Durbin in "Three Smart Girls Grow Up." hues help to capture for the pro Her performance with Stone didn't reflect her nervousness, nor duction the enthusiasm and flair of nineteenth century Slav foke-lore, her hunger. Van Dyke said he be lieved she would become a top star She said she would try her best. So we're jotting a note on our calendar to interview Helen Gilbert a year hence. We hope she'll be a Twentieth Century-Fox Presents DARRYL F.

ZANUCK'S Production of THE STORY OF G2ZAHAMBELL with DON LORETTA HENRY AMECHE YOUNG FONDA Charles Coburn Gene Lockhart Spring Byington Sally Blane Polly Ann Young Georgiana Young A Cosmopolitan Production Directed by Irving Cummings Associate Producer. Kenneth Macgowan Screen Play by Lamar Trottt Original story by Ray Harris headliner. If not there one con olation. We can go to the sym phony concerts any night, sit down front and admire the lady cello player. ill '3--'---Y- i7i.i:ii.i:!.i!n:n:ii.B:i.hM.'n.:TTnni TT I TTTT1 XI Alt Mm.

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