ENJOY A GAY, COOL FOURTH Show LOEWS FOR HOLIDAY SHOWS “Crime of Dr. Forbes” Play Leads in New Film at the Fox Lombard-M’Murray Now Playing at the Fox Is Fine Fare for Holiday “The Princess Comes Across” Contains Henry Armetta, Gloria Stuart and Robert Many Familiar Ingredients but is I Kent Featured in New Film-Ozzie Nelson, Bright and Amusing. Harriet Hilliard Star in Stage Show. BT ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. Princess Comes Across’’ represents a touch of in theartical BY E. de S. MELCHER. (irT^HE genius booking for July Fourth. More fun than a firecracker, less brll- "THE CRIME OF DOCTOR FORBES," now playing at the Fox, Holly- \ I llant than a skyrocket, It is a sort ot comic plnwheel, slightly oil wood crusades In favor of “mercy killing.” At least It almost does—and the axle but amusing enough to behold on a hot holiday afternoon. then It decides to let the subject down gently, preferring to have Its audi- miss it will not a Those a Those who go to the beach and probably shed tear. ence and the medical fraternity make up Its own mind about subject IN who stay in town and visit the Earle will find it gayer than our ovet-popu- for and for years. -j— ■« — Which people have been crusading against A _ At anv rate, the new Fox film is not the wild-eyed mystery yarn which The ingredients of a transatlantic you might expect from the title. It is a moderately whore” and the collapse of the great in too well somber treatise (helped immeasurably by the comic melodrama in general Impersonation before the microphones, known to need Identification—scoun- * Mr. Armetta) on how a young doctor fell in love Porter Hall, Douglas Dumbrille, George heroine and I- with his boss’ wife and how the boss (also a doctor) drels, gendarmes, hero, Barbler and William Frawley weave assorted comic relief. In this in- and while he was out in Arlaona. and bob merrily amidst threats, Irlel"* aThJ‘.'l,ler1nt half killed himself I SW"*» Dra^r***] ♦*<• stance Miss Carole lombard is a sort Spencer Trtee and how when he wanted to die, knowing that he Broadway humor and a deluge of Miss 1 In •TURY” I didn't have long to live and suffering like biases of Princess Mike Romanoff, a hand- Skipworth’s sarcasm, delivered In her ^AH from pain, he asked his friends to end it all by some Brooklyn girl who could find no best hoity-toity manner. The roman- giving him one grain too much of morphine. better way to fame and filmdom than tic principals also tread some rather Pack Up Your Lunch and Nobody actually does this—but the young to pretend to be the flower of Swedish rugged trails, but conquer them with BATHE AT doctor (Robert Kent) is accused of it—and this royalty. Her friendly little imper- fine footwork and good nature. results in a court battle which is heard around the sonation converted Into a nightmare On the Earle stage this week will iW4CO-VISTA told But by various murderers, ON THE MAGOTHY world. The solution need not be you. blackmailers, be found a routine acrobatic act by The Finest Place in Maryland it is rather wasted since the participants are all inquisitive swains and others too Prosper and Marat, Steve Evans’ ex- Where No Intoixcantt Are Sold. Thru Annapolis. Balto. Bird.. 7 ml lea t# as were scarce to mention, she as much scrambled up at the end they eventually cellent but now time-wom imitations, Jones sta.. turn right, follow signs. lands at the beginning. in New York, reduced to the a smooth dance trio called Harris, The best of the picture is Henry Armetta's point of crying into a microphone Claire and Shannon, and the yipee “Hello antics in the court room. Mr. Armetta shines again ma. can you hear me out there yodelllngs of Louise Massey and her ■ *- ui in in a typical Armetta role May mere De muie Brooklyn?" Westerners. The latter of these acts who does a satis- him! Others in the cast include newcomer, Robert Kent, This confessional further endears headlines the bill with several cow- not a Gloria still beautiful, but still her to the heart of an boy numbers and Miss factory Job as the doctor, and Stuart, King Mantell, Massey sings °' finished actress. elongated concertina player who had "Old Fashioned Song” as an encore. ACADEMY r“Sff W BBT* • • * • been While it had to do with buf- E. Lawrence Phillips' Theatre Beautiful making mooey eyes, attempting nothing Continuous From 1:00 P.M. Ozzie Nelson s Orches- rPHE Fox stage show is given over this week to popular to protect her regal name and other- falo and the plains, the final num- “PRIDE OF THE MARINE S.“ With CHARLES BICKFORD and FLORENCE A to roll-em-ln-the-alsles Cass wise himself ber was far the best of the lot. tra, to handsome Harriett Hilliard and thrusting into the pic- by RICE in “FOR THE Gloria Stuart and Robert are two in The Crime Dr. ture from to Ambrose Also a timely item for the Fourth is with FRED KOHLER._ Dailey. Tne result is a iasi, amusing Kent of those principally involved of Southampton _SERVICE." In which all three star. Forbes,” motion picture drama based on a recent front-page news story. The film now is Light. In the end we find Miss Lom- a short subject entitled “Song of a ACUTAW CLAEENDON. VA musical show A3H 1 UN WARNER OLAND in 'CHAR- shown at Loew’s Fox bard with Fred Nation," which tells with reverent sin- If you sit near enough to the stage being Theater. vigorously clinching LIE CHAN AT THE CIRCUS.''__ whilst Alison cerity a legend about Francis Scott you will realise why Hollywood has New MacMurray. Sklpworth fADAIINA 11th and N. C. Aee. 8.E. Spirit the of "The LAKULINA York Air Conditioned. Miss Hilliard makes bitter about the two of Key and birth Star grown to be so fond of frlps “LAWLESS RIDERS.'' and “FIRST A Mrs. Nelson). Mrs. them. Spangled Banner.” The scene is GIRL'