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Foster Dubs Self Times Square Cowboy T7 THE THEATER 'Jane Eyre' Enters Second Week at Cass Actor in 'Abie's Irish Rose Has Pleasant London Memories BY G. SHAW Free Prcs Drama Editor GRATIFYING WAS THE MANNER in which Detroiters took "Jane Eyre" unto themselves the past week, with unmistakable relish. The response to the combination of Sylvia Sidney. Luther Adler and the Charlotte Bronte story, which continues at the Cass, BY ERNEST FOSTER Cnited Preu Corrnpodiieot HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (UP) Preston Foster was telling some incidents of his acting career, and eventually William Bendix said admiringly: "You sure have handled yourself well. Pres." "Of course I have," kidded Foster.

"You know I didn't get where I am because of my talent." So now Foster is known as "no talent" on the set at Camp Pendleton, where 20th Century-Fox is making "Guadalcanal Diary." All his life Foster has struggled for a security rooted in the land. He now has a 750-acre ranch in the San Fernando design to the most vulgar saddle In the world had worked. I was going to have flashing neon lights on it." He likes to speak of himself as an illiterate. "What's that?" he asks. "Remember, I didn't get past the fifth grade." Actually, he finished three years in high school and has been reading in too many plays and movies not to have a pretty fine sense of literary values.

In addition, he has an inex-haustive knowledge of such subjects as navigation, animal husbandry, crop rotation and others connected with his hobbies of ranching and yachting. In back of all his self -deprecation is probably a desire to liked by other people. He runs It well and profitably and is a good farmer. But he never talks about his ranch without some derisive reference to himself as a "Times Square Cowboy." "Pard," he says after some intelligent comment on ranching, 'this cow waddy lern't a heap aridin' that ol' Broadway frontier." Foster takes great pleasure in displaying his one known vanity. Before the war interrupted he was an inveterate parade rider.

He would tow his beautiful palomino horse 500 miles in a trailer just to ride in a good parade. His rival and superior in thi3 field was Leo Carrillo. "But I would have taken him," adds the actor, "if my 4' TWICE TODAY MAT. 3 p. m.

NITE 8:30 111 came somewhat in the nature of a surprise in several quarters, of which this corner happened to be one. It was not a question of value as to players or play. But there was the matter of general un-familiarity with the tale. And the fact that although Miss Sidney and Adler have long been prominent professionally their visits to Detroit were infrequent. The outcome goes to prove how wrong one can be in making a prediction, while hoping for the best.

Several factors combine to make "Jane Eyre" a decidedly agreeable adventure in playgoing. Helen Jerome has handled the adaptation of the novel with a directness and discernment that makes for good drama. The direction of Mr. Adler produces agreeable fluidity of action, the seven scenes into which the play POSITIVELY LAST TWO WEEKS DON'T MISS Dolly Dawn, with plenty of pulchritude as well as a gifted vocalist, opens in the Bowery show Monday night. i i Vergel Cook is the vivacious -and gossipy maid who puts some comic touches into "Jane Eyre," in which Sylvia Sidney and Luther Adler enter their second week at the Cass Sunday night.

Shaw 'j'jp is divided following so smoothly one is inclined to forget the brief but necessary interruptions. Best of all, there is Miss Sidney in an appealing characterization of the waif who becomes a governess in forbidding Thornfield Hall, with its family skeleton that does not always confine itself to a closet, but slips forth to add chilling moments. And Adler as the morose master of Thornfield, whose dark past is constantly bobbing up to plague him, a characterization which grows in stature as he warms under the presence of the little governess, only to have the contentment he craves snatched away by a relentless fate. All this i3 brought about with an appropriate bow to another century in the matter of appointments which preserves the proper atmosphere without permitting the action to become too stilted. A considerable achievement in itself.

Try out Became Matter of Years THAT FABLED stage figure, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," and stayed on indefinitely, had nothing on Robert Leonard, genial Ftage manager and understudy who stepped into the role of Solomon Levy in "Abie's Irish Rose," at the Shubert Lafayette, when Alfred White, creator of the role, was summoned to New York by the illness of his wife. Leonard ha It on Sheridan Whiteside of the "Dinner" episode. For while Whiteside made himself universally detested Leonard built up a popularity which might still have kept him abroad If he had not elected to return to America. That was when he went to London. England, for a two-week tryout at one of the leading West End theaters and stayed for 10 years.

Edward Laurillard. of the famous London firm of Grossmith and Laurillard, was in New York in 1914, on the lookout for outstanding talent for a new London production. He came across Leonard, playing in a vaudeville sketch, and signed him for two weeks and a round-trip Atlantic ticket. It was Leonard's first fling at the legitimate stage. His role was the "fat" part of Mawruss Perlmutter in "Potash and Perlmutter." It turned into one of the biggest hits in the history of the Queen's Theater, where it ran 85 weeks into the teeth of World War I.

Leonard and the late Augustus York, in the name parts, became London stars overnight. Became First of Long Scries Betty Bonney is featured vocalist with Jan Savitt and his orchestra at Eastwood Gardens, where they will play for the Sunday afternoon jam session. Ruth and Harry Dwyer, rhythm dancers, are among the featured performers at Club Casanova. UNDER PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF ANNE NICHOLS i llar niiirfi' ii i i' "mm nrvv mi SAT. MATS.

NIGHTS .1 .65 PERFECT COMFORT COOL COMPLETELY AIR CONDITIONED at 3 P. M. BARGAIN MAT. TODAY Screen Players Get Only Pointless Food HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (AP) Few eating scenes which might whet the appetites of rationed America will be shown on the screen in future films. If action in a story demands a meal table setting, it is now handled by showing covered dishes being carried in, and then skipping to the plate-changing part of the meal.

Studios are not wholly altruistic in this change, however, for it is just as difficult for them to secure rationed items as it is for the housewife. Since plaster and paint imitations of roasts and foods look just like that in the camera, this solution is out. If you see players actually eating you'll know it is something unrationed, as in the scene in "The Human Comedy" where Mickey Rooney -is shown partaking of breakfast cereal. Born Abroad, He's American HOLLYWOOD, July 24 David Leland, eleven-year-old American-English boy who went through the Battle of France and saw the United States for the first time in 1941 when his family managed to get to America, makes his motion picture debut in "The Hour Before the Dawn." Although he speaks with a decided English accent, he has, strangely enough, never seen England. His father is an American who was for years in business in Europe.

His mother is English. He was born in Italy and lived there the first five years of his life, later moving to Cannes, France. The family was there during the fall of France and for a year afterwards. When the children began to suffer from malnutrition, the Lelands headed for New York by way of Lisbon. 8:30 Donald Brian plays the hot-tempered Celtic father of Louise Snyder in "Abies Irish Rose," still jogging along merrily at the Shubert-Lafayette.

'Royal Family' Ends Engagement Sunday With the Sunday evening performance the Catholic Theater will bring its presentation of "The Royal Family" to a close, in its Jefferson Avenue workshop-playhouse. It also announced cancellation of "The Yellow Jacket," which was in preparation. "A presentation of such worth as to make it a pleasurable experience." Lett l. Shatr, Free Press. "Salute to Miss Sidney and to Mr.

Adler. The audience had a great time." Rnstell McLauchlin, A'etcs. "Has great charm. If it's romance you're looking for, the Caes has plenty this week." Charle Gentry, Timet. 1 fev SYLVIA LUTHER Burt Preston, baritone, is prominent in the floor show at Club Haymarket.

in CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S (, I Ml I Last SfBsQ Weeks Dramatized bu Helen Jerome I STARTING FRIDAY! ATTRACTIVE SUMMER PRICES I $1.10 and 55c EVENINGS $1.65 and $1.10. MATS. Ja, "POTASH AND PERLMUTTER" was such a success it became the first of a series of four over a period of 10 years. In each Bob played his original role of Perlmutter. The second was "Potash and Perlmutter in Society." In 1918 "Business Before Pleasure" was the adventure of the two in the motion picture industry, while "Partners Again" later found them in the automobile field.

Between these productions Leonard and York were headline In such famous London vaudeville houses as the Palladium, Coliseum, Victoria Palace and Holborne. Empire. In 1917 Leonard replaced the famous English comedian, George Robey, in the musical "Other Bing Boys" at the London Opera House. He was included In such outstandingly exquisite casts as that of the St. James Theater production of "Golden Boy." However, the role which endeared him most of all to Londoners was that of Perlmutter.

If you recall that amusingly lovable character it is easy to understand how his portrayal of Abie's father at the Shubert Lafayette the past week was flawless. The final two weeks of "Abie's Irish Rose" is announced. Fay Courteney's Death Stirs Memories THE DEATH in New York the past week of Fay Courteney brought back to many Detroiters memories of those old Lyceum Theater day3 when she was a reigning local favorite, playing season after season with Vaughan Glaser in his stock presentations. Miss Courteney made her Detroit debut in 1908 in the role of Kathie, the waitress, opposite the Prince Karl Heinrich of Glaser in "Old Heidelberg," the romantic drama from which in later years stemmed "The Student Prince." She became popular overnight, and her prestige increased with each return, until she became something of an institution with playgoers. Miss Courteney was one of the theater's most versatile women, being able to play ingenues or leads with equal facility.

There was an appealing quality to her work, and a personality that reached out over the footlights. Born in San Francisco, Miss Courteney made her first big success in California as Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." After a season with Charles Frohman in "Sky Farm" she joined the Empire Stock Company in Columbus, Ohio, as ingenue. She quickly rose to leading roles, and then became co-star in Cleveland with Vaughan Glaser before becoming established in Detroit. Toronto and Rochester also were favored with her presence. She created the role of Edna Earl in "St.

Elmo," long a Glaser standby, playing it both on the stage and screen. Later she returned to San Francisco as a star at the Alcazar in "Happiness" and other plays. In recent years she had devoted herself to radio work in New York, except for a season in Chicago in "The Curtain Rises." Miss Courteney died suddenly in her apartment in New York, July 18. She leaves a sister in Idaho, where the services were held privately. Metro Glamour Clan Is Now Widely Scattered HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (AP) With the departure of Joan Crawford from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer recently went the last of the original glamor clan which flourished for so many years under the guidance of Louis B.

Mayer. Greta Garbo is no longer under contract; Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Eleanor Powell and Norma Shearer are likewise outside the fold. Jean Harlow, Renee Adoree and John Gilbert are dead. Clark Gable is in the Army, and may not return to films. Robert Montgomery, Jimmy Stewart and Robert Taylor are all in the armed forces.

Metro, which topped the list of studios in number of important stars for many years, now has yielded first place to Warners. HELEN RUSSELL LOUISE LA MARR 3 Mervyn Nelson, comedy satirist, is entertaining patrons of Club Royale. 9 hi Ii xfik niw i m' MONROE FARM ERHJ RR CONLEY jjAiZlt tfiVg baritone CONT. 11 A. M.

AL PAGE 0 CO. YOUMG J2 to 11 P.M. MONKEY KIRKLAND til STAR CAST OF 40 JOHN LADD CO. LEONARD SEEL Exciting Balancing And His Orchestra DIXON Comedy CALIFORNIA WHIRLWINDS VIRGINIA GOODRICH BURT PRESTON MEL SNYDER, M. C.

TWO Vh HOURS OLD TIME YODVIL SHOWS 1 KRS. DANCING SEVEN NIGHTS A WEEK DONALD PkV THE MERRIESt" i SCREEN HIT IN YEARS! If jW A Universal Picture jj Off 400 SM7-S DMt-iN fARKINd i960 W. WARREN It WYOMING NO. 84 SI Role Makes Grant Blackboard Actor HOLLYWOOD, July 24 AP) Cary Grant, not a technical-minded man, is having his troubles portraying a submarine captain in "Destination Tokyo." He says it is making a blackboard actor out of him. There is some highly technical dialogue, as well as action for Cary, and it is getting him down.

"Me, I'm a parlor performer, myself," says Cary. "Give me a fireplace to lean against and some gadget to twirl in my fingers, and I can ad lib endlessly. Inside of a submarine, with throttles, periscopes, wheels, dials and knobs, it's different. I can't keep my mind on what to do, and say the right thing." DDfaffiTflDiiiel Circus Closing at Edgewater A Sunday matinee and two night performances will mark the final appearance of Watkins Circus, free open-air attraction at Edgewater Park. Starting Monday, the free outdoor feature will be Ben Bouton, known as "The Man In the Clouds," in an amazing acrobatic exhibition at the top of a swaying pole 135 feet in the air.

Bouton is one of the very few aerial artists in the country today who performs at this great height, which accounts for his stratosphere billing. These warm days find throngs seeking shelter from the heat in Edgewaters cool, shaded picnic grove, and availing themselves of the park's athletic facilities, which includes a baseball diamond. Edgewater's twenty thrill rides are available for fun-seekers and there are other amusements for persons of all ages. THIS original "Where to Dine" guide in Detroit ofters a fine variety of restaurants with the most reasonable prices on their menus. HF fl RAIL 6545 Woodward Near Crand kit DllHwU mHIIm for the folks in the new center district FOR THE FOLKS IN THE NEW CENTER OISTRICT BRASS RAILS 20 West Adams in 116 Miehitan at GrlswoK QUALITY FOODS.

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