t when Barbara was there a the first week In couple April, when the record price paid for a director in for his boxer role In of weeks ago. Or can it? picture to being released. "Whiplash" Hollywood. “But what can I do?" moans Dane. Joan tells me that she When I Lorring checked with Veronica Irene Dunne has definitely put her "I have to lose 9 pounds In seven is an Hollywood: having operation on her nose Lake’s studio to find out why she signature to the “Mama” role in days.” Hell lose hls friends If he Ina that she will turn her into backed at the Claire, Not the Author, Follows hopes out, last hour, from “I Remember Mama.” This RKO keeps using that stuff! Beery the heroine, instead of the menace, the Are radio "People Funny” pro- picture is now shaping up quite a (Releaied by North American Newspaper in her Joan is a Alliance.) pictures. great gram In Salt Lake City, they told cast with Barbara Bel Geddes as In Late Raimu’s little and here’s Is One of National’s actress, wishing me-that she did not like the script, the oldest daughter and Oscar Gay her luck with the transformation. and Play she thought it was too late to Homolka repeating his Broadway AMUSEMENTS By Jay Carmody Footsteps I’m told that Lana Turner will change it. It sure made a lot of “Uncle” role. ■ Sheilah Graham not be doing after people mad at the time. The feelings of Playwright George Kelly toward the female sex have By “Coquette” all, though, Charles Boyer is taking his wife not been As and that it has been for Veronica, for the record, was very kindly. every one should know, really, Mr. Kelly has made Wallace Beery is taking time off shelved, to New York for a 10-day whirl. a the time being anyway. obliging as to all matters concerned quite career writing blistering or ironically comic plays about women. to play the baker in Capitol Pic- It’s her first trip in a long time. * * * * with the launching of her His latest, "The Fatal Weakness” falls into the latter category and, oddly tures’ remake of “The Baker’s picture, Then Charles returns here for a “Ramrod.” enough, it suggests that perhaps even now, Mr. Kelly might properly mend Wife!” That, my friends, is the John Garfield turned down picture before taking off for • • • Europe. his attitude. It is quite clear that he is deeply in debt to Ina Claire for casting of the year. The picture is "Nightmare Alley” and the $200,000 Don't go near Dane Clark! He saving "Trie Fatal weakness from to be made in Hungary by Alexan- salary that went with it. “Be- George Stevens received $75,000 for smells to high heaven—literally— own “THE FATAL WEAKNESS." a comedy der Paal. Its woeful weakness as a play. Incidentally, the Raimu cause,” says John, “they wouldn’t his one week of directing the final because Trainer Mushy Callahan Without In three acts starring Ina Claire, written version of the Miss Claire, the drama by Georee Kelly, produced by the Theater Marcel Pagnol story meet my other terms.” What they sequence in "A Miracle Can Hap- rubs him all over with some foul which opened a fortnight at the Guild under the supervision of Lawrence is now being reissued. were he wouldn’t I stuff after the I,aligner and Theresa Helburn. with setting say, but I’d have pen.” would say that this was the strenuous workouts National Theater last a night, prob- by Donald Oerslager. At the National Do you want Gary Cooper for a nightmare if I ever turned down AMUSEMENTS ably would have closed long ago in THE CAST. picture? Gary has changed his mind $200,000. AMUSEMENTS New York. With her, and entirely Mrs. Paul Espensbade_ Ina Claire about until Anna Mary Glldea idling November, and William Wyler has been awarded because of her, "The Fatal Weak- he’ll Mrs. Mabel Wentz_ Jane Seymour HAS A WAY—Dane Clark make a movie now—if he finds its highest citation by the Amer- Penny __ _Jennifer ness” is an entertaining resume of Howard the one, and for Mr. Paul Espenshade_Howard St. John plays the leading role in “That right $300,000 and ican Legion for his contribution to how charming, a brilliant actress Vernon a Hassett John Larson Way With Women,” scheduled percentage of the profits. the rehabilitation for be- can be in even an veterans, uninspired spot cause of the NOW Doocs at the Earle’s next screen Barbara Stanwyck and Robert way he used Harold I Opm 10:15 un. f-. of writing. to flutter a handkerchief, Miss * attraction. Taylor, after thawing out in the Russey.in "The Best Years of Our Claire endows these with a kind of It is she to whom audiences may South France for 10 days, will Lives.” be for a fascination. blithely grateful pleasant have a couple of weeks in the Swiss Fred is UrnSheridan how she sfiould feel about the poor MacMurray joining the evening, with perhaps just a pinch The situation Then in llw Warner Sensation quite unoriginal other woman in the case. Alps. they will take another cement immortals in the forecourt f; of gratitude bestowed upon the around which “The Fatal Weakness” chance on and of The emotional processes by which London, will be Grauman’s Chinese Theater. author who lured her out of five is built is that one of the husband there for the of And these problems are disposed of put opening Barbara’s they hope to get Claudette Prentiss years’ retirement. who goes philandering at 52 and picture, “The Other Love.” [Nora no strain whatever upon Miss It cant Colbert, his co-star in “The Egg This very thought may have oc- finds that he has lost just enough possibly be as cold as and Claire’s expertness. It is no trick agall it was I,” to Join him in the goo. m Kelt Brace cured to Mr. in the course to this time. Kelly agility get caught at all for her to reveal the intuitive // of directing “The Fatal Weakness,” He is caught, of course, by the other — | SMiir awareness with which a wife % behnett// which is produced by the Theater woman, which means that his wife watches her husband look in a Where _AMUSEMENTS Guild, a smart old admirer of Miss is'left the As the and When Ala Now it holding bag. wife, mirror. It is even less of a trick I lowing fatosata | Claire's. Miss Claire makes bag-holding Current lor her to show feminine suscepti- Theater Attractions CwutHatiM Hill, Tins. Em., Mir. 1$, 1:30 * * * * graceful enough that other women bility to a rhyming couplet about CmM st Rvuiia Plukti! might be tempted to try it them- and Time of Showing The fatal weakness of the female love, or what a women get out selves. jab upon which the Kelly comedy of the marriage ceremony phrase, Stage. dwells is its incurable romanticism. ‘‘The Fatal Weakness” is almost “forsaking all others.” National—“The Fatal Weakness”; THE BIG HITS! HOROWITZ OF ► her one never 8:30 Only wAiImIm *NMr>ni Thli Sum Women, he says, are hopelessly in exclusively play, that These are the elements of a fine p.m. i QijiU*V her off the so la iKifil—$2.40. $3, $3.50, lid. in i Doors Open 10:30 im. love with love, even when the emo- permits stage far that old jest which she makes the finer, Screen. she Mrs. 1108 C all's) NA.715I tion involves a woman’s very own cannot call back through an and through which she should make Capitol—"The Bachelor’s Daugh- Demy's, (Camp' 11 I husband and another female. Kelly open bedroom door or from the Kelly take back some of those ters”; a.m., 1:45, 4:30. 7:15 and Dceglas FAIBBlHKS.il. of the 9:55 in R.K.0.'s y laughs at this, no doubt sardon- foyer family apartment. things he has said about women. pm. Stage shows: 12:45, 3:30, 6:15 and 9 TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES ically; but Miss Claire just seems It is a gay and engaging portrait, * * * * pm. ^NATIONAL SYMPHONY Columbia—"The rSINBAD the to be laughing with it and demon- with just the right wistful touches, Hie quite stock associates of Miss Lady in the HANS XINDLER, Conductor SAILOR1! CARD! IMA >’**> * N- c. s.e. 11 IfAHUL1JIA that it is brave, and wist- that she of a fe- Claire in “The Fatal Weakness” Lake”; a.m„ 1:05, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30 Morch 12—8:30 Cont from 8:45 p M 'st.rating paints fluttery Tomorrow, P.M. Ik Maureen y. Walter "IP I’M LUCKY.” VIVIAN BLAINE, PERRY WARNER BROS/ THEATERS look better than usual the aura and 9:40 p.m. ful, and maybe basically important male who, after 28 years of mar- in. (All Subscription Series) COMO. Plus "LIGHT HOUSE.” JOHN Far additional inferautien pkaae Earle—“Nora LITE!.. to the species going. riage, must make a series of impor- she throws across the Espenshade Prentiss”; 10:30 a.m., theater! direct ar call Upablle MM. keeping ^b’hadtslezak All Time Sehedalea Glean In Warner room. The *12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:20 and 9:35 Orchestral 2103 po’Av*-N W- Rl-01(4 This attifude of hers is not able tant decisions.