1936-03-29 [P F-5]

MAXWELL ANDERSON’S LATEST COMES TO THE NATIONAL Spectacular Film • Players In Small Roles Eagerly Awaited Lead Best Screen Lives H. G. Wells’ “Things to Come” to Have D. C. “Bit” Actors Are Always Happy, Busy and Premiere in the Near Future—Raymond Free From the Cares of Movie Starred. Massey Stardom. By E. de S. Melcher. ff^T'AHINGS TO COME,” H. G. Wells’ story which was filmed by Alex- By Slieilah Graham. (Copyright, 1936. by the North American ander Korda in England, will have a spectacular local premiere Newspaper Alliance. Inc ). in the very near future Rumor has it that certain diplomats are March 28.—The happiest, busiest people, with the -*■ longest beating each other over the head in order to get tickets and the screen lives in this crazy spot called Hollywood art not the stars, the Whole town is reaching some kind of a boiling-point in anticipation thereof. producers, nor even the writers, but the featured and small bit players Already the film has attracted much attention. The story is based on HOLLYWOOD,—the familiar shock troopers who play tough-looking gangsters, wise- Mr. Wells’ book, "The Shape of*- cracking reporters, detectives, butlers, ingenues, juveniles, mothers, sisters, weak Things to come. And judging from younger brothers, and grizzled veterans—the unadvertised heroes and heroines marks and limitations of our present what is to come, the only really sen- of the screen who never receive time have been washed out by 4C top*---— sible time to live would seem to be hilllno onH ncuor nnvap n-i n nnlH years of confusion, And it is a scien- mix—me nrsi vuet, incidentally, ne in the when and I will statuettes from the Academy of Mo- year 2036, you tific order of what other had ever played. Since then he has society; for tion be able to throw rockets around the Picture Arts and Sciences. done 13 4 alternative to perpetual conflict can valet*. "silly ass" English- moon and our week-end out- Very few of them strive for stardom. taking the future hold for us?’’ men and 17 other roles—an average at the moon’s Atlantic Why should they? While stars are ings City. * * * * of a picture a month for the last "Things to Come” has been pub- fighting studios for higher pay, appro- 3 “'T'HE book upon which this story years. He is now under contract lished in book form and students of priate stories, more publicity end rests, ’The Shape of Things to to Twentieth Century-Pox to play the films should be interested in its less requeue pic- "Jeeves,” the famous Come,’ is essentially an imaginative P. G. Wode- shape and contents. We quote here- ture appearances, discussion of social and political forces house character, the butler of all but- with a "note to the reader" which is featured players and possibilities, and a film is no lers. included In the to jog from picture preface acquaint place for argument. The conclusions Glenda Farrell has a record of 29 with the fact that sce- to picture, re- you writing of that book therefore are taken for ] pictures for Warner Bros. Of late narios is no cinch these days and pea ting the roles 1 she granted in this film, and a new story has been teamed with Joan that even Mr. Wells went they know best. ■ through has been invented to display them, Blondell and given featured billing, some kind of a battle In order to contributing to I get a story woven first about the life of but it is all the same to Glenda. She the success of his material can picture just right. one man. John Cabal, who is an play anything from a rough-and- the "ncte"—"was the the pictures ’This"—says aviator, who passes unscathed through ready process server, as per "Traveling first film •treatment' written the w i t hout sharing by both war and epidemic and becomes Saleslady." to the lady of leisure she author actual and he the responsibility for production, the stalwart gray-haired leader and portrayed in "In Caiiente.” In of failure, en- found much more difficulty making inspiration of the airsmen. and then For years Walter Connolly resisted succes- hancing reputa- it than he did in any of its in the second part, about his grand- the blandishments of producers who trade it. tions irrespective ; sors. He learned his upon son, Oswald head of the World tried to lure him to Cabal, of Hollywood. Only His in film the films' the that previous effort writing, Council, and a living embodiment of promise he could devote six merits and, above ‘The King Who Was a King.' was the spirit of human adventure, who months to the footlights induced him all, h a r v e s ting an entirely amateurish effort which finds himself in a new conflict with to sign a screen contract. Now Hol- sizable incomes, 52 weeks in ... payable never reached the screen. An ear- the conservative and reactionary ele- lywood casting directors are wishing each year. lier treatment was made, discussed, ments that are still strong in the he was quintuplets. But, even if Lionel Stander. one of the latest worked upon for a little and dis- human community. there were five of him, a place could and most versatile recruits to this carded. It was a prentice effort and "The film moves swiftly through be lound for every one. contented fraternity, came to the the author owes much to the friendly opening scenes of warfare, destruction screen a year ago. enacting the generosity of Alexander Korda. Lajos and deepening misery, and broadens part of the in "The Scoundrel." in Biro and Cameron Menzies, who put out to display the grandiose spectacle poet Noel Coward was all their experience at his disposal of a reconstructed world. Mankind, which starred. Since then the comic has during this revision. They were by a great moral and intellectual brassy-voiced ap- in a dozen greatly excited by the general con- effort, has solved the main economic peared nearly productions. "And one an -A' °' ception. but they found the draft and social perplexities that distress every picture,” Stander ACADEMY' r'r8r,b To for us adds. : E. quite impracticable production. today, and lives either upon a Lawrence Phillies' Theatre Beautiful His last for Columbia was Matinee ":00 A second treatment was then written. cleansed and beautiful countryside or picture PM Frank "Mr. Deeds Comes to SHIRLEY TEMPLE in This, with various modifications, was in grgat, half-subterranean cities, Capra's ! "THE LITTLEST REBEL" in which he the of FORCED LANDING-" made into a scenario of the old Town," plays part wfth ESTHER type. bedded in the hills, flooded with arti- | _RALSTON and ONSLOW STEVENS This scenario was set aside for ficial Gary Cooper's secretary-bodyguard. again light and sweet and clean with 50A 74b « s.w. Before that he was a ASHIFY/ADI ILL 1 s second version, and this again was perfectly conditioned air. Incessant gangster's pal in National «3I8 "If You Could in the SPENCER in revised and put back into the form exploration is the essential thing in Only Cook"; JE"RIPFAIRAFT ?nd TRACY prize-fighting business in “The Milky of the present treatment,” etc. science, and some of the young and CLARENDON VA. nDllllHlASHTON more adventurous have become Way," with Harold Lloyd, and Harry Monday—JOE PENNER and * spirits * * * Richman's in "The JACK OAKIE in COLLEGIATE urgent to reach out to the moon. tough bodyguard is a Music Goes ’Round.” He also ap- CAROIINA 1,‘h, * * c. atstê: essentially spectacular "On this the drama of the conclud- ^ WILL ROGERS in •‘•y'HIS in "The .ItYt film. It shows the world devas- ing portion turns. Cabal's daughter peared Gay Deception," “IN OLD KENTUCKY.” tated by modern warfare, the fabric and her lover, Maurice Passworthy, "Hooray For Love." "Page Miss and "We re in the In of society shattered and the woud have volunteered to leave the earth Glory" Money.” (NEW) CIRCLE Phone' West *0958 his next "Fer de Lance.” his depopulated by a new pestilence, the on the moon voyage, they have been picture, of which the role is more and will re- Wandering Sickness, accepted on account of their excep- important ^fll-EÔR^ÛânSHardy Comedy. Thicker Than Water ." peculiar horror is that the sufferer, tional fitness, and Cabal is torn be- veal him as the "leg-msn." assistant *343 Wisconsin like a stricken with the to Nero Wolfe, the noted fat detective. UUITIDAIADlIMBARTON I Ase sheep gid, tween instinctive tenderness and uit JOHNNY DOWNS and Arthur wanders infectiously until death ends heroic exaltation. The has Treacher’s first motion pic- BURGESS in CORONADO expedition Pictorial“TTY, in has ture role in 1933 was that of a valet Review and Metro News the wandering. The pestilence com- aroused widespread among Burgess Meredith, popular young stage player, is starred, and Margo. Mexican actress. 7cho has appeared several films, opposition anacostm d wars in comes to the National one tomorrow in an R-K-O short with Ruth Et- FAIR I AWN ~c~ pletes the social disorganization the more esthetic types in the com- the central feminine role Maxiceli Anderson's “Winterset" which for u'eek. starting night. r«II\L/ATYIl IRENE DUNNE In have begun. munity. who resent the sternness of "MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION."_ "Mankind, however, is not exter- the rule of the men of science and B4h Between F and G “*LITTI 1 1 LL F AfonstlfOB toolDDed minated by this sickness; some types are in revolt against what they re- “PUDDING” SHOW "Great Ziegfeld.” of the screen of MONDAY ROBT.

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