Cinderella Revived She Also Serves Entertainment ‘The Last Gangster” 1 Legend Plentiful \t the Columbia. pULL of prison mclodramatics and I Next Week Beginning * In Crawford Film In Hotel” tough yeggs, "The Last Gangster” Monday Night “Hollywood low has moved down to the Columbia ^GEORGE ABBOTT’S ;o take up again its P street run. Prin- “Mannequin” at Palace Shows Joan New Dick Powell Musical :ipally notable for his characteriza- Brings tion, "The Last Gangster” presents In Role She Portrays Best. Much to Mr. Edward G. Robinson as the Ed- Gayety the Earle. ward G. Robinson gunman to end all 463 LAUGHS Edward G. Robinson Spencer Tracy Excellent. Baker on gunmen, which Seats Benny Stage. probably would be a good idea no mat- Now! New Prices! By JAY CARMODY. ter how well Mr. Robinson plays By IIARRY Mac ARTHUR. \ MATINEES Wed., Sat., 50c to $1.50 gangster roles. There is no denying, I Cinderella legend which she has lived, unless her biographers have Brothers Warner have been lavish unto with the enter- prodigality of course, that it is the sort of thing I done her wrong, has been revived for Joan Crawford's picture, “Manne- tainment with which they have endowed TOMORROW NIGHT AT Hollywood Hotel,” the new he does to perfection and at which he 8:30 which at the Palace. It not be the fllmusical quin,” opened yesterday may at the Earle. There is sufficient here for at least two ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY has no peers, so it is a satisfying ex- THEpicture which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has been to restore Miss musicals and one seeking THE slap-happy romantic comedy, with left over to find President's Birthday Committee enough perience him just once more Crawford to her old This for a A unounces box-offlcc standing. department is approximately couple of shorts (and not Vitaphone shorts, at that). of with Therein, his teeth in a role, snarling at the A COMMAND PERFORMANCE positive that it is not that but it is so much beter “Hie lies the fault one picture, than, say, course, only could find with ‘‘Hollywood Hotel,” but we don’t law. Bride Wore Red,” that it makes Miss>-—— intend to complain about its -—- ! length*— In “The Last Gangster” Mr. Robin- “BETWEEN the DEVIL” Crawford at least a one-two shot tor tawdriness of It all, and since she can- when every one of its numerous reels Inflated film a star, performance that's son, the toughest of tough guys, finds B’WAY MFSICAI, COMEDY HIT recovery instead of the one-five that not seize the moon, she seizes the is peppered with and full of dizzy comedy satire and sharp wit. And a himself committed to Alcatraz for a REMAINING ORCH. Ct AA she was before they remembered her man (Alan music. young Curtis, a newcomer). lilting slight bit of genius on the part of the slight matter of TAX as the if neglect concerning SEATS, EXEMPT *WiUU old, not the original, Cin- That turns out to be a mistake which We don't intend to either was complain studio the casting of Glenda Far- business with his Government, and' PROCFFDS TO WARM derella girl. is obvious to one in the world when SPRINT.s K)| NDMIQN every considerable of all this footage rell as the star’s secretary, Miss Far- you, too, remember that March 15 is Two encouraging items in “Manne- Miss Crawford. of except A dozen times celluloid is devoted to Rosemary rell always the of on the way. On his release which giving impression he sets out quin” should prove encouraging in the course of the Lane, but that is to subsequent action, something else again being one of the most discerning peo- find his ex-wife and their son, to the last-ditch Crawford fans are she has to tell and will apportunity the young be taken up later. The point ple in any given room and Miss Lane, being imbued to the teeth with the Spencer Tracy's acting and Prank Bor- man what a heel he really is in com- at the moment is that the Warner in this instance, the idea that he should hand direction. giving impression his trade rage's Mr. Tracy distinctly parison with Mr. Tracy’s genuine ro- Bros.’ formula for musical down pictures that that crack—90 per cent temper to his offspring. He is such a is more limited in the part of a mantic for tycoon urge her, but heroines ap- still works, too. This formula, as and 10 cent broken man when who per mental—was meant he finally reaches began with nothing than he was parently are made of more stupid differing from the Zanuck Vaudeville for her. the conclusion it will be just as well In “Captains Courageous,” but he stuff than audiences. She tries'to stick Theorem, consists of first putting a And there’s more. There's the late for the boy to be brought up a fine comes with a sincere to the by through per- young man in spite of the team to work on a pull script fairly solid Ted Healy, capping his screen career father like Jimmy Stewart and a formance that convinces you, even of Tracy’s honesty, wealth and love— tailored yarn to Dick Powell’s measure, with a swell performance: there's mother like Rose Stradner, an im- while you are suspecting that it did a sufficiently drawn-out to process surrounding Mr. Powell with the love- Hugh Herbert, at his complete bat- portation who probably will earn what- not convince him. That is acting. As make a which picture Crawford fans liest lass on the lot at the moment and tiest; there is ever salary M-G-M her. that for Mr. plenty of jive for the pays you Borzage. he injects some neat are bound to like in of its chal- a number of spite members of the Warner swing fans, from Mr. Good- almost hate to see him get shot to die symbolic ideas into the of to Benjamin beginning lenge credulity. In the end, how- stock in a comedy company, and then man’s vipers; there’s a btirring ar- gutter, mugg that he is. the picture which you remember after ever. a heel turns out to be a heel and getting good bands to play a couple rangement of “Dark All this is a pretty heavy dose of the picture has turned out quite as you Mr. Eyes” by Ray- Tracy gets Mr. Curtis’ girl and of hit tunes. but Mr. mond Paige’s Orchestra; there are a melodrama, Robinson is so knew it would. every one who deserves it is very In "Hollywood Hotel” the the raft of hit enthusiastically mean that it becomes As director of it story tunes, including ‘Silhouet- “Mannequin,” is happy, indeed. writers believable turned out could easily have ted in the Moonlight,” “Hitch Your and sometimes even packs Mr. Borzage's first duty to make Jessie As John Hennessy, the old Hester been another "Stand-In,” a gay and Wagon to a Star” and a sturdy punch. At any rate it is a Cassidy's (Miss Crawford) Hester street street who “Like a Fish Out boy stuck by life’s simpler satirical to see Jab at the movie making in- of Water,” and there is Miss Louella pleasure Mr. Robinson bare his surroundings something terrible to con- virtues and became a big success, dustry, had the Warner boys wanted' Parsons to fangs and snarl at the forces of right template. He does it with such sim- is play herself naturally. She Tracy introduced to the picture as pub- to stick to straight comedy without never looked lovelier. only he can. H. M. plicities as a squawling baby, a light lic in a guise that is destined to make music. It presents Mr. Powell as a bulb that burns fitfully in the tene- him a more with * * * * popular figure young with a movie ment hall, and an of saxophone player "UOLLYWOOD HOTEL” needs no array garbage women audiences. While he gives a PRICES contract, who on his first day in show cans in the hall which give her life of EVELYN LAYE, stage accompanying to fBMMB NOWMM| convincing portrayal a part some- is the studio t» 12 IUm an The Hollywood assigned by the a ■ \lfyk£) 40c Balcony 1 effect you have not seen since what too simple for his undeniable popular British stage and screen star, plays one of the im- give Earle whole fistful of en- I 25c, the task of taking its top star to a ■ 3S« 12 It 5:30 P.M. I 66c Orch. mU Ntzz. I “Dead End.” It is a combination of he portant roles in the musical comedy “Between the Devil.” tertainment, but there is one anyway, I talents, also demonstrates that it isn't the but comes premiere. Only star, a CliiUff Uiwkr extremely effective touches, much bet- he-men can wear dinner ivhich to the National Theater for one performance only, light diversion, which happily! 1 jackets with- her double, the star off in § I2»25c_>ijxjjnj«^ ter than those which one tomorrow having gone doesn’t take too much i encounters out changing their essential character. night, as the opening event in the President’s birth- up time. Prin- I | seclusion to have a tantrum. Next when the moves over into its ball the show is BURNS i story Next to if are not day festivities. cipally stage Benny Baker, ’BOB Tracy, you blinded when she sees what I JOEL MctS area.