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1939-04-14 [P D-4] Mr. Is Erskine Hawkins Ann Corio Returns King, Cress Hillary, Richard Dana. Olivier Lucky Star But Marjorie Raye, Leonie Thurston. They Qot Up Early Back at Howard To Star at Pearl Mylie, Irving Karo and Wade Gayety and Wade. The Howard Theater brings to Ann Corio, the lissome, dark- Of a at the Races tressed, flashing-eyed lass whose * Day town today one of the standout admirers are almost as AMUSEMENTS. legion as __ shows of its the return season, Shirley Temple’s, returns to the He Interviewed and Press of Erskine Hawkins Escapes Being engagement Gayety Sunday for her final ap- 3rd and IflSTuieek and his orchestra, T street hit of pearance of the season. Ends With a Profit; The who Up the Yuletide season. The screen young lady proudly bears the title of Most TH£ LAW attraction is "Up the River,” prison “Stageland's Beau- National Schedule Revised tiful Girl” will be comedy with Arthur Treacher, Slim supported in the new Bv JAY CARMODY. Summerville, Preston Foster and burlesque revue by Manny VAMISH£S All motion stars Bill Robinson. picture should be interviewed at race tracks. At AMUSEMENTS. Mr. Hawkins is a lad who is least all motion picture should be interviewed at race tracks if yes- sta^s a terday's session at Bowie with Laurence Olivier is a criterion. Everybody rapidly gaining reputation as one of the warmest of the Involved. Mr. Olivier and the couple of Washington critics who got out, warm when it comes to an completely forgot to be professional, became just so many customers of jamming over- heated Musicians and the bangtails, had a good time and, miracle of miracles, ended up with a trumpet. "jitterbugs” are wont to go into prom. me prom, mciuemaiiy, was V-- RK0 a certain of just a plain proletarian one, nothing degree ecstasy over his a modest, very unactorlike bet on it KEITHS to reduce the national debt when in- triple-tongue doings with high regis- if he likes the looks of the horse. come tax dawns next March 15. ter notes and his ability to crack day * * * * that C above high C. Making Bowie the scene of the TODAY* The four-hour “Hamlet” will dom- Edna Mae Harris, late of the get-together was no accident. Mr. inate the Maurice Evans engage- cast of "Green Pastures,” tops the Olivier, star of "Wuthering Heights” ment at the National in of spite any cast of entertainers on the Hawkins which will open at the Palace April ... It will be previous arrangements swing jamboree, and others are 20, had to be there to present a played the week straight through Tip, Tap and Toe, whose dancing trophy to the winner of the Wuther- until when Mr. Evans and Saturday, you have seen in films, and Earl ing Heights handicap. He came his company will do “Henry IV,” and Frances. over from Baltimore where he is both matinee and night ... It is a playing this week in “No Time for matter of stage dimensions which do AMUSEMENTS. Comedy" with Katharine Cornell. not permit the easy switching from looked like an to kill It apportunity one production to the other Va- two birds with one stone, so the ; riety Club, sponsor of a benefit per- critics of the two cities were invited | formance of "The Mother,” with come one to along. And. if any does Alla Nazimova at the National on think it was a better idea than not Monday night, wants the world to 1 most have, he publicity departments | know there still are seats The never has lived the effort through fund will go to one of the club’s I I of actually winning a daily double. worthy welfare projects Tomor- Interviews, under such circum- row's the day when one can begin stances, are matters of one just ques- ! going out into the open for one's tion and one answer instead of lots DURBIN entertainment; in other words, the of questions and an equal number of official opening of Glen Echo for Eve*. 85c, (1.10. SI.65, S2.S0. St.25 • answers. Moreover, the NAN GREY HELEN PARRISH question the 1939 season And any undue Mat*. 85c. SI.10. SI.65, St.20. Inc), tal often to be asked the happens by amount of rain during the early WEEK BEG. NEXT MON. EVE. at 8:30 who would chap normally provide weeks of this year will be unfair to Matinee* Wed. A Sat. at 2:30 the in this case Mr. Olivier. answer, Leonard Schloss, who had more than “Midnight” is supposed to be the setting of the comedy, but here Claudette Colbert and John Almost he beat the scribes a normal share of it to contend seem always, Barrymore to have arisen betimes to dawdle over breakfast. “Midnight” tomorrow starts a rrziirovr with last to the point of: season. second week at Loew’s Palace Theater. 'ftSMAkrmis “What are you playing in the next "I one?” THE MOTHER t/ They, a couple of old daily double Errol to Montgomery went to his family KMacWOrSLutPtay tyUrUS Uf? winners and obvious Flynn Play home in where the A New Universal Picture consequently Past and Present Linked Pasadena, movies Etci.—55e, *1.10. *1.65. (2.20, (2.75 authorities on such matters as the ar first “discovered" him acting at the Mat!.—55c. *1.10. (1.65. (2.20. Incl. Taz Simon Boli\ —SEAT SALE NOW— WITH subsequent winner, would utter their Community Playhouse. CHARLES WINNINGER Simon Bolivar, the George Wash- decision solemnly, and Mr. Olivier ROBERT • WILLIAM In Vocal of South America, will be AMUSEMENTS. CUMMINGS LUNDIGAN, would listen intently. Then he Chamber Music ington _^ LECTURE played on the screen by Errol Flynn would go play his own choice. He NATIONAL PRESS CLUB { She the You i in a Warner Bros, film to be named Sings Songs ended the program far ahead of his Mile. Presents trans-lux APRIL IB, 8:30 P.M. Boulanger Novel after the SUNDAY, advisors. liberator who brought de- WAR FLEETS READY IN k Have Asked Her to to the Latin MEDITERRANEAN BASEBALLS ■ ROBERT DELL Sing And mocracy republics. BIRTHDAY : REMBRANDT B A day at the races with Mr. Delightful for Geneva Correspondent Manchester Guardian Program Warners also have under con- DISNEY C ARTOON "THE LAST ROSE oT~SUMMER" Olivier is illuminating, however, in j\«» «[<>...■ CAN EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY BE SAVED? The sideration the casting of Bette Davis other respects than getting the Goolidge Foundation Questions by a panel of distinruishrd k "INVITATION TO THE DANCE" as Manuela Sanz, Bolivar's inspira- persona. Dr. John W. Sludebaker, presiding answers to the questions usually ^oV^hortsubjects1£kI By ALICE EVERSMAN. tion. Tickets, $ 1.10._DROOP8,_l 300 G Street. Ik "BECAUSE" • "LA CAPINERA" i asked of celebrities or celebrities- Addod The past and the present were linked to-be. One discovers that he has no together in the delightful pro- A of vocal chamber sense of a star, which is gram music given last evening at the of Con- »»limit sma being by Library __ ; Now Edition gress under the Actor Iti/lYtTYir Th« Story Of no means the same as no Coolidge Foundation and directed the Returns having by noted French 12 TILL 5 II "Match oi Titno" Nadia I T9M0M0W—ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY j ■ m «**»**• VERNON and sense. He will over the first musician, Boulanger. Among the composers Absent from more 4 i 111 II get part represented, those of Hollywood for urn Am today were placed side side with 1 ALL-STAR CARTOON I l.llri 4 of that sentence, of course, -.after by the celebrated names of four cen- than a year. Douglass Montgomery IRENE CASTLE turies ago, whose works have “Wuthering Heights” lor it is a pic- endured the test of time. The juxtaposition has returned to the scene of his Ilf 8UU." SHOW’KVffi with vvcia ffOfflMMO P0PW \ iiiicimuuiu, iviiie. ture to make his face familiar to a i .ouuianger* first success to assume a | "Tho acting CM— Ifc-M* Me * Valerie Parks Ann Corio I Uqlr said, so that one could a stow starts 10 30 a wr. FRED ASTAIRE which does not know him as judge how was had by Miss Trask's "It a featured role with Bob and public Was Hope Duckling" She won the ! much of the past is in the I^^^^NOt^^^START^UNDA^ Academy yet. That he will get over the latter present Lording's Daughter.” Paulette Goddard in Paramount's and vice versa. Award for is seriously to be questioned. He | The songs from the 16th cen- "The Cat and the Canary." "bringing to the During her visit to this ■^GINGER seems to be a young man with an country tury were choice selections in which Upon returning from New York e+dt.7//R//ZS screen the spirit and per- Wrogers she has been accompanied by a unshakable equilibrium. j every variety of mood was to be sonification of I" quartet of singers, consisting of found. youth So far as the public at Bowie was John Dowlands “Plow. AMUSEMENTS. Noemie Perugia, soprano: Nathalie concerned, Mr. Olivier was just an- My Tears,” Marenzios "Ahi Dis- Kedroff, contralto: Hugues Cuenod, other guy a camel's-hair pietate Marte," Palestrina's “Alla wearing tenor, and Doda Conrad, bass, whose coat. no attention to him Riva del Tebro,” the I_ They paid anonymous tree Admission M performance of a special type of 15th and he returned the compliment. It century composer's “In Su E Jk I Amusement music has aroused great interest.
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