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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1939 Latest News of the Stage and Screen TOW STANLEY Lja Lys in a scene from "Confessions of a Nazi Bit Player Coast's Top ALVTX Richard Dix and Gail ratrick in "Alan of ConQuest." VESX Ann Rutherford and Mickey Rooney in "The Hardys Ride High." MM i Liquor Man PARK Ofl SUNOM oved Am us! -20- DAHCII Ill Armand Kaliz Has IMadc jr rv '-ir 1 -x -r- 1 ffiM lit nri5 7 Vaks-Mos Ft.ee Concerts I A Fortune Out There Since Repeal. By Frederick C. Othman United tress Hollywood Correspondent. HOLLYWOOD, May 5. ti 1 ti ill I a)4 I sr 1 r) Kk FULTON Varncr In "The Return of the Cisco Kid." WARNER Kay Francis, William Gargan and Janet Shaw in "Women in the Wind." SENATOR Tom Dugan, AVarren Ifymer, Sam Caites and Fay Uainter in 'The Lady and the Mob." Opens tomorrow.

Concert Season Comes The New Films ''Confessions of a Nazi Spy" at Stanley; Penn Gets "Hardys Ride High." By Harold W. Cohen Paderewski to Give Recital; Several Scheduled for Post-Season. Leads Festival I Aw Armand Kaliz, bit actor, who )s the excitable frenchman you see in virtually every movie calling for an excitable Frenchman, turns out to be something a lot more than that. He's one of the leading wholesale liquor dealers in the West. His last picture was "Midnight" with Claudette Colbert; his next is with Hedy Lamarr at Metro and even if he never played in another movie, Hollywood's taste for Scotch whisky and vintage wines would keep him on easy street.

Kaliz entered the liquor business upon repeal when one of the biggest importers was looking for somebody in Hollywood who knew a good wine when he tasted it. Kaliz, who'd been drinking wine since he was 5 in Paris, got the job. Soon thereafter he opened his own importing business and it's Been booming ever since. lie makes a specialty of what he calls "collector's iU-iiis." These are bottles of beverages so rare they really shouldn't be drunk at all. Many of Kaliz' customers don't appreciate the superb finality of his goods, hut since they pay rash, he doesn't complain.

Kaliz's first picture was "The Temptress" with Greta Garbo. He soon was doing fine in one film after another. "And then Walter Fitzmaurice wanted me to do a characterization in 'Vacation From Love," he said. "I put on whiskers, very magnificent whiskers, like my father used to wear. And I've been wearing whiskers ever since.

"Two more parts and I'll have to buy a new beard." LAST NICiHT we saw previewed the Hal Roach family picture. "Fury." Hal Roach produced and directed it. Hal Roach Jr. was the assistant director. Seventeen-year-old Margaret Roach played the second feminine lead and it was a good, rousing show about rip-snorting life in Australia.

If you see it, be sure to look quickly for the scene showing the kookaburra, or Australian jackass rird, sitting on the limb of a tree, laughing. This scene lasts 15 seconds. And it took Roach 15 days of intermittent effort, plus some SlJion. to Droduce it. He first had to rent the only kookaburra birds On the Tacific coast and pay the salary of their keeper.

Birds and keeper arrived at the ntudio from Catalina Island and ate their heads off, with nary a laugh. Even the keeper didn't laugh. He couldn't, he was too hoarse from making chuckling noises at his stubborn pets. He finally told Roach that his wife seemed to have a way with kookaburras. Only she was in Santa Barbara.

Roach sent for her. She spent two more days coaxing the kookaburras into good humor. She finally got 15 seconds' worth of Australian laughter. This is what you'll hear on the screen and probably never would have noticed had you not read to the end of this dispatch. (Advertisement.) West View to Open Week From Tomorrow West View is getting ready for the grand opening of its thirty-third season a week from tomorrow when Nick Luca.s, stage, screen and radio singer, will bring his Platinum Blondes Revue to the park for one day only.

The redecorated ballroom relights on May 20 with Fran Eichler's orchestra and the following Tuesday Gray Gordon comes in for a single night's engagement. Gordon's appearance will mark the inaugural of West View's daily picnic season. Green Starts Dinner Sessions on Sundays Something new. Sunday evening dinner sessions, will be inaugurated at Bill Green's tomorrow. Johnny Duffy, who for several months has been delighting the crowds at Green's with his electric organ solos, will be at the console throughout the dinner sessions to play whatever the guests request.

Where to Go When to Go MRU MOSOrE Faderewski. Tonight at MXON The Titt Cup and Gown CMiih' "At Your Service." Tonight at 8:30. m.4t HOLM1; "Meet Mr Sister." witn fcaoise Urakt and Edward Blaine. Torn en i at Al.VIN Richard Dlx In "Man of Conquest." Starts at 11:22. 1:32.

3:42, 5 52 8:02 and 10:12. ART I.Nfc.MA Paderewxkl In "Moonllcht Sonata" and Harry Baur In "The Xjfe and lnves nf Beethoven." Complete ahowi at 11:31. 2:70. 6:05, 8 and JSAKRY Bonita Granville la "Nancy rrew. Reporter" and Jack Holt In 'Whlspertnjc Enemies." Complete ahow 11.

12:01. 2:26. 4:51, 6:11, 7:16 and 9:11. Casino Cuhanita in "World1 Fair J'rolice" and movla ihorta. Continuous from noon.

rrLTON Warner Baxter In "The Return of the Claco Kid." Start at 1:27. 3:18. 8:05. 6:64. 8:43 and 10:32.

rr.N Mickey Rooney In "The Bardvs Ride HiKh." Start at 11:36. 1:43. 3:50, :04 and 10:11. SKMATOK ivn Ameche and Loretta Young in "The Story of Alexander Hraham Bell. start at 11:15 1:27 3:39.

and 10:11. ST A.N LEY Edward Kohlnson In "Con- fesaton of a Nazi Spy." start at 10:30, wviif. Franc, "Women the Wind and Anna May Wong In "King i ef Chinatown." Complete ehowg at 11, 11 MIDHITE SHOlJ 'THE A NAZI SPl fDw. e. mmw tu r.Xtm Ijilf.t IMiOHs 0FES is KAY FRAM 1 HTLUis "WOMEN IN THE lb-, AK1M TAM1K0FF, 1VM "king of tmrf ro: ESSES! I tt.

jackik c.mi-i:k-f. M'l; PETER M'KKE-WB MR. Jim a KENT TVIf.R TOT kalph Bti.uj -i, "SMASHINii THE Sfl CHAT. aVti1 cJTThi5J-I "THE OKLAnu'L' Mat. OnI Ni LESLIE HOWARD- RATH BONE ('" "Hound the GLEN DA F.RKELI rrea Henry LI- Charles St, MICKEY Dnnvcv i ir- U.lVl Ail IN BERN AKI' III kti.i(ll 1 1 fr-HtrhannS Car- Oram Jack Holt 'Strange UJ 4.TO fF i Boris KTloff n'-TI'V'l I i A il ET'MPBr Bom E5iii4.f"'ii) Lir" thoroughgoing Hollywood entertainment.

It is holding and frequently quite exciting, and the players have endowed it with just the right kind of unspectacular performances. Mr. Edward G. Robinson shrewdly underplays the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent; Mr. Paul Lukas, Mr.

Francis Lederer, Miss Dorothy Tree and Mr. George Sanders are excellent as the plotters, and there is a splendid duplicate (only the clubfoot is missing) of Paul Goebbels by an unidentified actor whose amazing dialogue becomes all the more amazing when you realize that every word of it is a matter of journalistic record. "It's your American privilege to see it," insists the advertisements for "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." And so it is, not only your privilege, but also your duty. I I rnrt- I illlLii PSSjHR ffj' Mil i idor I iOW. I Ice.

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JUST 2 M0RE PERFORMANCES WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP RODE REDUCED PRICE MAT. TODAY 2:30 Children She Adult 85c FINAL PERFORMANCE TOMTE 8:30 Admission b5; 1.111 $1.25 1.5(l SEE ALL WINNERS IN ACTION TONIGHT IN FINAL CONTEST FOR MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP. PRIZES DUQUESIIE GARDEN CanKghter, Statesman, Texas Sam Houston 'MAN OF CONQUEST Birhard Iix Juan Fontaine Lata Kay Don Arrorhf Loretu Totinc Henrr Knmia "ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL" ''twr F. Baribolomrw "SPIRIT OK CI EVER" rim MYSTERIOUS MISS 'POWELL," vJtSK.ii t- YOUNG "HONOLLLL" Kdurd Greene Basil Kathbona "H8HIID of tin BASKERVILLES" Tyrone Power Henry Fonda Nancy Kflly. "JESSE JAMES" wrr lilt ItCUKO 7," 1 Henest Ma' FllB RIDE A CROOKED MILE" Mafy Carlisle Fif "VIS, THOROUGHBREDS' Pl'B "MySTERIOUS RinF" Ory Cooper Merle Ohemn 'COWBOY AND THE IADY" PliB "CHAN IN HONOLULU" Lsii iQPENING TONITEi mxr I 1 "RETURN OF THE I 1 CISCO KIDJJ BBiaBBnBannal in City to Close Tonight Events Lois Odle, pianists, and Naomi Thompson, soprano.

Free Organ Recitals. Dr. Marshall Bidwell will give the following organ recital, devoted to compositions of contemporary American composers, at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Carnegie Music Hall: Prelude and Fugue H. Oetting Andante Cantabile from the First Sonata Phillip James Fugue in Minor Robert Goodale Carillon Leo Sowerby Andante Cantabile Gaston Dethier Antiphon on the Litany Alan Floyd Ariel Van Denman Thompson Lament Ralph Lewando Danse Gracieuse Garth Edmondson La Blume Harvey B. Gaul frelude.

Variation and Fucue on "Dundee" Roland Diggle Dr. Bidwells program for 4 clock tomorrow afternoon fol lows: Fantasy Dialogue Boellmann Meditation a Sainte Clothilde James Minuet from Symphony in Flat, Mozart Musical Snuff-box Liadow fiiena. Ualher (b. Toccata, "Electa ut Dallier Llebesfreud Kreisler Dreams Stoughton Elfln Dance Edmundson Serenade Toselli Concert Overture In Minor Rogers Dr. Caspar Koch will be heard in the usual free organ recital in Northside Carnegie Hall at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

Richard Benson, tenor, will be the guest soloist, with Lyman Almy Perkins at the piano. The program follows: Prelude Dethier To the Rising Sun Torjussen Fantasia st. Saen. Tenor Solos: a Blue Are Her Eyes Watts Clorinda Morgan June Reach In Elysian Fields Gluck Konae d' Amour Westerhout Angelus du Soir Tenor Solo: Celesta Alda VerHi Marche Pittoresque Kroeger MOW! ROONEY and the Whole Hardy Family in The Hardys Ride High LEWIS STONE MICKEY R0ONFV CECILIA PARKER AN RUTHERFORD Extra "DREAM OF IXJVE" The Life of Prantz Liszt STARTS FRIDAY: Cecil B. De Mille's "UNION PACIFir" Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea -DANCE TO PAUL BURTON'S MUSIC BILL GREEN'S ETfry Night wept Sunday SUNDAY EVENING DINNER SESSIONS Johnny Dnffy at the Organ NOW! 20s MAT.

30c EVE. DANCE TONITE mm With Paderewski's recital tonight at the Mosque bringing the major concert season to a close, a series of post-season events will engage the attention of music-lovers during the next two weeks. Mostyn Thomas, San Carlo Opera Company baritone, will be the guest artist at the annual Gymanfa Ganu (Song Festival) held tomorrow night in Trinity Cathedral by the Welsh Society of Pittsburgh. Dr. D.

West Richards of Youngs-town, will direct the festival, consisting of hymns sung in the Italian, or bel canto, style. Mychailo Holynsky, whose tenor voice has won him the sobriquet of "The Ukrainian Caruso," will give a recital at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Lithuanian Hall Southside, under sponsorship of the Joint Ukranian Committee of Pitts burgh. Holynsky formerly sang with the state opera houses of Berlin, Kiev, Odessa, and Moscow. He recently concluded a concert tour of Can ada, Music Festival May 15-18. The first annual Pittsburgh Music Festival, sponsored by the Musicians' Club of Pittsburgh, will be given May 15 to 18 in Carnegie Music Hall, with Dr.

Harvey Gaul acting as director. The festival will include orchestra night, May 15; choral night, May 16; public school music night, May 17; university night, May 18. The student symphony orchestra of Carnegie Institute of Technology will give a concert tomorrow night in Carnegie Music Hall, under the direction of J. Vick O'Brien. Soloists will be Margaret Nock and Kennywood Dancers Get Airliners Tonight Earl Truxell and his WrCAE Airliners, featuring Jeanne Baxter and Ernie Lavish, will play at Kenny-wood Park's dancing pavillion tonight.

Next Saturday the Tommy Carlyn band is to wind up the series of pre-picnic dances, the reg ular season opening May 17. Tomorrow at the free concert stage, Izzy Cervone and his Amer ican Legion Band will be on hand, together with the acrobatic Sieg frieds, singing Jimmy Conrad, and Louie Amen, trick pianist. Informal Dancing Begins at Schenley Along with the usual harbingers of spring comes the announcement from the Schenley Hotel that the annual informal dancing season begins tonight. Howard Baum, whose music has been featured at the formal gatherings in the Continental Room this winter, will remain and the hotel also announces a continuation of its It is to the everlasting credit of the Freres Warner that they have written "Confessions of A Nazi Spy" in truth instead of hysteria. Nobody would have blamed them much had they pursued a different, and perhaps more aggressive course, but the producers have stuck admirably to facts, and the facts speak for themselves, eloquently and challengingly.

In sharp, vigorous fashion, "Confessions of A Nazi Spy" has dramatized the actual court records of Mr. Leon G. Turrou's amazing discoveries, presented the existing situation in a calm, completely methodical manner, and contrasted the opposing ideologies of Fascism and Democracy without rancor, vindictiveness or jingoism. In fact, by its very reticence, the picture achieves more than it could have ever possibly hoped for. It is not so much what "Confessions of A Nazi Spy" says, but what it leaves unsaid and what it implies.

Here is a condition, the photoplay relates in effect, believe or disbelieve, support or condemn, but first, last and always, know it is the truth. Warners haven't drawn on fiction, they have gone to the courts and the newspapers for their material, and they have fashioned a document that every American should carry close to both his heart and hi3 head. This isn't the usual spy melodrama; more to the point, it isn't a spy melodrama at all. Call the whole thing a visual expose, a warning and a clear, concise analysis of the Nazi philosophy. Democracy needs plenty of defending these days, that's a point most of us agree upon, and the Freres Warner have done their bit of defending with this admirable motion picture.

It's high time anyway somebody said something on the screen about the pernicious influences at work in this country, about the ugly undermining of the fundamental principles of Americanism and about the passiveness of a people whose very foundations are being uprooted by a power-mad house painter. The bacteria is spreading, and "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" should do much to vaccinate an easy-going nation against the smallpox of isms and hatred. The whole Nazi background stands menacingly against the simple, uncontaminated, frightening facts of "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." About that background itself, the picture wisely says nothing, for we are ostensibly at peace with a foreign power. All it says is that this country must be left alone, and that no other land has the right to brew its philosophy on these free, democratic shores. Lest all this suggest that the picture at the Stanley is no more that a screen editorial, let us hasten to assure you that "Confes- "Hardys Ride High9' PENN.

If "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" shakes your confidence a bit in the American way, "The Hardys Ride High" will quickly restore -it For come war, peace, flood or other disaster, the Hardys, praise be, are still with us, constant, American, symbolic and good for the soul. What if factory-made formula does rear its ugly head a bit in the present episode, we need people like the Hardys to re-state fundamentals, no matter how familiar they may be, every so often. They're so reassuring and substantial, both the Hardys and their fundamentals. It's Mickey Rooney, the people's choice (as Andy Hardy, that is, and not Huck Finn), who continues to sparkplug the family and ride them not only high, but also wide, handsome and profitable. This time he Mickey, the playboy, heir ap parent to $2,000,000, meeting a chorus girl for the first time and running like the blazes when she turns up in her apartment with negligee and cocktail shaker; Mickey passing up cigarets by lying that they're bad for his throat, and Mickey declining strong drink be cause, he fibs glibly, the curse of alcohol is upon the Hardys and he must resist spirits as he would the plague.

Yes, Mickey's the father of all the world's Andy Hardys, to the manor born and forever the living model of American juvenilia. Too bati that some day he must grow up. This time the Hardys almost inherit a fortune but honesty remains the best policy with them and Judge Hardy refuses to destroy the one bit of evidence that stands between him ami two million dollars. So back to Carvel they go from; Detroit, Ma Hardy with an iron frying pan shp's always DR. D.

WEST RICHARDS. Dr. Richards will lead the Welsh Society of Pittsburgh's song festival tomorrow night at Trinity Cathedral. Mostyn Thomas, Welsh baritone, with the San Carlo Opera Company, will he guest artist. sticks in her throat; Judge Hardy with another new slant on human nature; Aunt Milly with memories, and Andy with enough additional experience to sweep Polly off her feet again.

Here is it the sixth of the series and the Hardys, with hardly any reservations, are still riding high in our affections and yours. May Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer keep them always there. 'French -Models' Next for Casino "French Models," a new show on the Hirst burlesque wheel this season, brings Jean Carter and June Darling to the Casino tomorrow at midnight for a week's engagement. They're the revue's principal disrobers. Harry Evanson heads the comedy department and he's supported by Hebert Barris.

For the balance of the current season, Manager George Jaffe will keep a permanent house chorus under the direction of Natalie Cartiere, who will stage all of the production numbers. Only Stage Seats Left For Paderewski Recital A few seats on the stage and standing room are still available to patrons who throng to Syria Mosque tonight to hear Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, May KPPglH STiTimiTirP ypfprrlav All No Cover Cha in.