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amusements. pme of her big Holmby Hills place. The Temple* are putting their Barbara Sudden Swiss Royalties house on the market. So is Joan Stanwyck, Aged 100, Crawford. Preston Foster had a deal all set Swim—FUN-©a»ce which Still a of Fire Give Author a for his show place tops the LAJJLJLJ '.LLÏFMMIF Lady Suspicion ridge between Beverly Hills and the J* San Fernando Valley, but the night were to be the at the Hilton Thinks Germans Are Smuggling the papers signed, 'Great Man's Lady,' Earle, "buyer" ducked out of town. GlenechQ Nazi miHiid hf U>« North American open Gives Her His Books Dislike; *Λ Bright Acting Role; Despite Alliance, me.) κουτκITÏ*I»îr?T CAR Newspaper a.v ROIND?«. motor *0t»via on Mr. Meek Steal a Show MASS. AVENUE-;ï IN 20 •lW' Dennis Day Popular Stage May AMUSEMENTS. Bt jay carmody. By HAROLD HEFFERNAN. There is something dramatic in 's tottering en- Sights and sounds: trance as a old woman in "The Great Man's Lady" at the Earle 100-year Fed witk and other matter that now makes has her and up propaganda "approved" this week. But once Miss Stanwyck made appearance have taken to Ρ !X-SATURDAY ^ up their entire reading diet, the German people smuggling [dountou/n launched upon her reminiscences, drama goes strangely out of the story into the country books "of their own choice—books that do not preach and it settles down into a semi-listlese affair which is saved from dullness the Nazi ideology. Miss and versatile As the by Stanwyck's energetic performance. great That's the conviction of Author James Hilton, on the basis of royalties man s iaay, u is om.v mu mm, .->uc wnicn ne nas recenwy rcceiveu-i should dominate the picture but ! GREAT MAN'S LADY.'· Paramount from Switzerland, and which he I Joel Stanwyck and turned out to be just so much talk. hardly to the degree of putting production starrlna Barbara of Joel McCrea. produced and directed by says are "fantastically out pro- for 13 c C r e the I've worn this beard years M a, William Wellman. acreeplay by William L. to what the territory would i man him- River, based upon a short atory by Vina portion and It's become my trademark.: great Delmar. At the Earle. in almost support." that's all," Woolley talked back to self, The Cast. been at Paramount Hannah Sempler Barbara Stanwyck Hilton has the boys at 20th Century-Fox. "The total eclipse. Ethan Joel McCrea Cecil B. De Mille Hoyt Studio, working for play "The Man Who Came to Din- That is what Steely Edwards the BOS WE IL UtNE RAYMOND Oirl biographer. Katharine Stevens on a screen treatment of story j CONNIE an ner" made it tamous and the picture PATSY KELLY FRANK PARKER happens, Mr. Sempler Thurston Hall of Lieut. Comdr. Corydon Wassell. error in the Mr. CadvMlader _Lloyd Corriran helped, too. McDaniel Swiss publishers are in Fri- which Delilah Etta "My "My actor friends used to tell writing Frisbee Frank M. Thomas on German Hil- Ψ bourg. the border," me it was sure death to my film seems to have Senator Knobs William B. Davidson BOB HOPE Persia Mary Treen ton said. "The extraordinary high career to try to keep the beard. But left the usually Citv editor Lucien Littlefield have come to IH royalty figures that me wood— «QOING SPANISH" admirable Mc- Pogey Bnowflake (Fred Toones) I notice, that—let knock me on "Goodbye. Mr. Chips.' 'Lost I've and of OF CHICO" a mood kept pretty busy many "THE ADVENTURES Crea in and 'Random Harvest' Horizon' my critics aren't anywhere merely to walk nothing compared to her discovery whisper from there can only be accounted around. through the mo- that the unshakable strength and for by the explanation that some "I'm always ready to cut it off tions of being a lofty vision which inspired her first is one in Switzerland buying my for a picture—providing the studio man. love for Ethan Hoyt (McCrea) were great, books and smuggling them into an- will continue afterward Man's illusions. These were my salary "Great largely things other From some other c*moey. country. until it grows out again." Lady."' well off in him, but so were suspicion, I believe that things I have heard, The studio has shied away from the track of comedy which Miss jealousy, a fondness for drink, and country is Germany itself." that proposition. Woolley has been Stanwyck has been following lately, a tendency to curl up when the All three books Hilton mentions earning in the neighborhood of is another tale of the inspiration going got too tough. At the end. are banned in Germany, presumably $4,000 a week. It takes at least 16 can be to a as in the she which a woman's love however, beginning is not con- because their philosophy weeks to cultivate a growth such as man. That always has been a good was the faithful one whose heart BUY WAR BONOS AND STAMPS AT ANY sidered conducive to the Nazi way he displays. LOCAL THEATER and even in this instance it could remember only the noble utory AT LONG LAST—Those who have been the screen of life. "The story of Dr. Wassell" * * * * saw in him and which waiting for iith * Ν· c- A" «■*·. All Time Schedule* Given in Warner frequently creates the impression things she since a ηηην ιιι& version of "This Above All" imll find it listed as the Palace's next will be even less welcome, Screen stars with huge homes ■•HIIULinfl Air-Conditioned Bros.' Ads Indicate Time Feature la that it really is better than it looks. she forced him to show to the world. "BLUE. WHITE AND PERFECT LLOYD I Presented. large percentage of its gross goes and of land are them as can attraction. Its stars are Joan Fontaine and Tyrone Power. plenty getting NOLAN. "ARIZONA CYCLONE." JOHN That it actually is not better seems "Great Man s Lady." you relief. THEATRES to United States Navy off their hands as quickly as they MACK BROWN. 8erial. Cartoon. HAVING MATINÊÛT to be the fault in its method of see, provides Miss Stanwyck with a * * * * cases that rinri Γ 2ΐοβ ρ». λ»«. n.w. re. 0Ϊ81 ! her can—but in too many vUvLb Apparently carried goodly part and it is handling various char- Air-Conditioned AMBASSADOR presentation. Arnold Stang, under isn't very fast. There's nobody Matinee 1 P.M. &Λ££ idea of Miss Stan- of it that saves the picture from Continuous. Mat. 1 P.M. away by the aging acter names, is just a voice to an to them ABBOTT and COSTELLO in RIO RITA role is a nowadays eager grab up. » 45. BARBARA STANWYCK. JOEL Mc- to 100—which worked out so ordinariness. McCrea's Glamour and a Miniature listeners, Feature at 1:40, 3:40. 5:35. 7:35. wyck estimated 40,000.000 radio Claudette Colbert managed to dis- "Captain Midnight" (Mat. Only). Disney CREA in THE GREAT MANS of Helen affair, the ambi- ] LADY." At beautifully in the case very ambigious seen Cartoon. 1:30. 3:30, 8:?6, 7:25, but soon hell be by perhaps _ seemed much too 9:30. News and Cartoon. in "Victoria Regina" and guity of which a " Hayes j Model Team as many screen fans. And he's Ethel Barrymore in "White Oaks" much for him to overcome. The Mother-Daughter AMUSEMENTS. CONGBESS 'SPAA"· 624 ft30e sight they'll not aoon forget—a Double Feature Program. APOLLO HMSit Nr>FME Wellman decided consequence is that he plays it. with ! YOUR —Director William in quaint, big-nosed, big-eyed and WILLIAM BOYD in "STICK TO FAY EMERSON. VAN JOHNSON In the flash-back trick in telling an understandable puzzlement. Not. Most Popular Business GUN8." At 1:18. 4:04. β:3·^. f>:00. MURDER IN THE BIO HOUSE At upon practically chinless youth in horn- LUPE VELEZ and LEON ERROL in 1. 3:40, «:20. 0. Also WILLIAM GAR- On this in much more substantial Is the ISTH AT SEA" At GAN his story. occasion, spite part rimmed a Ster- "MEXICAN SPITFIRE MARGARE1 LINDSAY in Don glasses: pint-sized 2:19. 5:05. 10:00. DESPERATE CHANCE of Miss Stanwycks attractiveness assigned to Brian Donlevy, who By Whitehead, AT 6 7:33. FOR ELLERY ling Halloway with dark hair. IKO QUEEN At 2. 4:40, 7.15, 10. as a KEITH'S dame with two wanders through the picture Wide P. as a fiery grand World. When the 19-year-old Stang was DUMBARTON 1S*Air^Co'ndl tinned "Qan> Butter»,' No. smart who abandons his in her age, the technique gambler circles two M13 Cona. At·. N.W. ciphers WHITE PLAINS. Ν. Y. almost unknown in radio BOSTON BLACKIE. AVAV AH have confidence to a moody, IRENE ATAbUR »o. ·ΛΟΟ. Mat. I P.J*. looks hackneyed. It might game play heard that a show DUNNE "CONTO88iqis°OFwith CHESTER MORRI8. HARRIET Case-hardened commuters who pour through New York's Grand years ago he PRESTON POSTER. LYNN BAPI In to snow uei m stricken lover in the forgotten HtLLIARD. Also "ROYAL MOUNTED been better merely Central Station are frequently startled these days by the sight of beauteous called "Meet Mr. Meek"' was being SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN At back corner of the PATROL." with CHARLES 8TARRETT. 1. 3, 4:65. 8:30. 8:10. 9:50. one brief fadeout scene looking story's triangle. the RUSSELL HAYDEN. Alao "The Snider Ne·»*, Kersti Vickers and her daughter. Penny Ann. cast. Having no illusions about "Jr. G-Men of the Air,'' No. 4. her love from the of * * + * Returns." at objectivity For Kersti and Penny Ann are something special—and when you put vocal and visual impression he cre- 100 if Mr. Wellman could not Dennis the man who 1342 Good Hope Kd. SE. years Day, young them side by side, they're just twice as special, a couple of platinum-haired ated on folks, he applied for the title FA1BLAWN AVE. GHAND overcome t he entirely. and who DAN DAILEY. JR., DONNA REEU in ^temptation pretends to be^naive sings girls a lot of fun. role. The instant the producers saw SABU in RUDYARD KIPLING'S "JUNGLE ] glamour having in Technicolor. Also Cartoon •MOKEY.·' At 1. 3:50. 6:46. 9:35. "Great Man's Lady," which Para- so on Jack radio BOOK." effectively Benny's Penny is a miniature of her mother. Both have the same blond hair him and heard his voice they cast and Serial. Also ZASU PITTS, SLIM SUMMER- mount treated to a generous budget, ft fine he&dliner for the I VILLE in "MISS POLLY. At show, makes fliiu UiUC c* J J VA nil· VUbl/V ΙΟΙ not as Mr. 3:05, VJI-O, him In the show—but Τ Adnlt» see. Free Parking. I H. 8:50. the effects of sacrificial CRCT'llUnUnUflDU· I "Cap!. Midnight." examines stage program which Harry Anger their cos- wrote in a for him Alr-Conditioned heightened by matching Meek. They part Dble. Feat.—J. love upon the career of a fiery has fashioned for this week. By before the camera or model at a COOPER. 8. FOSTER In nrvrnv ν liuh * ε n.e. tumes. That's why they are becom- in which he was meeker than Meek. •GLAMOUR BOY." and B. CRAWFORD fibTLIILI LI. 3300. Mat. 1 P.M. the fashion show. " young man who opened up way of a recording Benny intro- the In "NORTH TO THE KLONDIKE Cont. Parklnc Space Available te fatrni, ing the most popular mother-daugh- That gives a rough idea of 2:45. Last lived to the theater They are finding themselves more Complete Show at 8:30. GEORGE RAFT. PAT O'BRIEN ill frontier, represent duces Day to audience, team in the business. for a in Holly- ter modeling I latest bidder place 2533 BROADWAY.·' At 1:25. 3:36. 5:45, It a» its liberal Senator, and died to after which the now and more in demand and draw the 7:55. 0:40. "Jr. of the wandering whose real name is Pen- wood's clubby little group of eccen- HIGHLAND Γ"· G-Men Air, in a fine Penny, model's fee of an hour and PAUL HENREID I No. 1 (Matinee Only). Cartoon. become the top figure minstrel of the program sings sev- regular $5 and on WARCH OF TIME MICHELE MORGAN elope, doesn't mind the stares of trics. He's from Brooklyn "''"pS'""''"» In "JOAN OF PARI8." At 1:30. 3:45. | of statuary. Miss Stan- eral His association each. Penny is buying War stamps 'SM Wit. Ave. N.W. piece equine popular songs. ; the curious and them with from seven radio shows to 5:55. 7:45. P:40. Alao Cartoon. ΓΆΐνΤΒΤbiUiTLH was the ignores with most of leave 1 wo. 3346. Ma». 1P.M. wyck, a girl of passion, with the old master has taught Day her savings. 3227 M St. N.W. WHITE ONLY. ; all the indifference of a make his debut in "Sweet or Hot." »s y,'Î!!naton" I ΠΜΙ | Parkin· Space Available to Patrons. a left a airy 4-year- And it be well to here Disnty? Symphony Hour" UUU Air-Cooled. source of the love, girl who some comedy tricks of his own might say GEORGE RAPT. PAT O BRŒN in old career woman who looks 3 and an RKO musical co-starring Victor Double Feature Program. BROADWAY. At 3:36, 60. home in the that both mother and are 1:25, 6 luxurious Philadelphia which fit very nicely into his daughter , TOM TYLER. RUFF DAVIS 7:45. »:40. "Jr. G-Men of the Air.·1 acts twice her age. Mature and Lucille Ball. There's ®rson Well#»' late 40s—her own teens—to help act. natural platinum blonds. Kersti In "WESTWARD. HO" Also "SUDAN." No. 1. (Mâtine» Only). Cartoon. popular As for it's a thrill to en excellent chance, according to "The "/u Northing Like It Ever Seen Before. to his the1 Kersti, big came to this with her °ni/lC