has arrived at that comfortable stage the nice idea of a June wedding : Once Critics’ Retains the Crown in life when food seems to matter Claudette Colbert is expected back here * Coward, Doctors Sun more than film work—so we Pet, Take Away doubt soon, but without the baby erroneous whether we shall see her here for rumor gave as the reason for her trip * some time. abroad. Talking about babies, Loretta Critics a Pet * * * * Puts in From Bette Davis Young wants to adopt another infant.. Cary Grant and Phyllis Brooks, or tCcpyrluht, 1038. by the North American rather Miss Brooks, are toying with Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) 1 That Sad News, However, Runs Into Old Sol and Star Just Don’t amusements. amusements. _ Happy Report by Edgerton Get Along—Player-Studio * On Hollywood Trip. Fights Picking Up. W 7^®■ By JAY CARMODY. 7JrTyT By SHEILAH GRAHAM. a NOTHER day, another Illusion Seems to be more and gone! getting April 8 (N.A.N.A.).—Bette Davis has been forbidden— morp that way' This day thp V(lnlshing illusion is the one that Noel /\ by her doctor—to play tennis or sit in the su.i until after 4 p.m, Coward was the enduringly inventive genius of the a theater, chap Hollywood's most actress me will the J /-\* sun-allergic tells she abide by ON <s who. for all the brittleness of his viewpoint, for all his ★ STAGE Ac superficiality, HOLLYWOOD,decision of the Screen Actors’ Guild, regarding her refusal (and at least could be counted upon to find a fresh approach to an old ? subject. consequent suspension) to appear in “Comet Over Broadw'ay.” Bette now ► Well, if the London critics know what are and asserts they talking about, they at her walk-out was inspired by her role—which she considered un- His NEWEST , least always sound as if they do, Mr. w----— // suitable. *--- and GREATEST {* Coward no longer has wings. Mr. * * * * // Coward, with center piece of his one-act play cycle is the they say downright | i 'Fights between stars and studios dead, Broadway stage season I REVUE has to Somerset Maugham for criticism is to [ bluntness, given the London the- are 1 n c r about expire for the summer, that Mr. easing ater a very dull in a musical Maugham replied: "I hope added to which Paul has been evening every year. Re- number called this is a good play. It was not when “Operette." cent names on frightened by the avalanche of flops * The chief I wrote it.” Well, Mr. Maugham criticism of the production got the garnered by film emoters in New York his suspended or Is a hard wish so far as the box-office Which thing to believe if you have appeal black lists in- reminds me, Grace Moore of "Fumed Oak" been an admirer of the Onward play- was concerned. The is another Holly wood hater, who wants clude ‘Dick Pow- ■ * public loved the idea of a to has been H?fL*f It is that Casper return, but 9% writing technique plainly ell. who refused informed she the Coward touch is missing, that Milquetoast getting drunk one dav, must lose excess poundage first— In A Million When II CAUOWAYWw^^m his role in Chance *■ Is telling his family what he thought of it about 20 “Operette" just another musical "Garden of the pounds, we'd say. Grace down to the last, Hi of Ho De Ho drama that deals with a chorus dirty name, then Orders Are Shoot To Kill! De-Highness girl Moon”; Margaret // who is in love with a member of the walking out never to return. It may have been the Lindsay, who set which does not accept chorus girls Coward touch which the sulked at home _AMUSEMENTS. at face value. It's to be thing acquired through the play- supposed until her part in poignant, you know. wright's portrayal of the central char- this was OYERi/l^ picture / No one is shocked that the acter, but there was the Coward touch cotton'club sparkling I and it made no changed to her Mr. Onward has taken such an un- difference about the U Wl-TW HTTh taste; Henry TONIGHT AT *:StO sparklmg theme, but rather that he comparative antiquity of the theme. Mfl Fonda, who walk- V Next Hat. Tumor, at 2:50 is no reason to assume " REVUE could to it a There, that Shrilah Graham. SECOND WALL impart WEEK nothing beyond ed out of "A sense one dull play in the of Coward OP DELIRIOUS HILARITY AND WAm»IMI.SmaiMe|Ne« 11// cycle that he, too, was bored. Mr. <4if^ dramas means Letter of Introduction”; Barbara HOMELY PHILOSOPHY pramof If Coward has been known to take old that something serious Jean PL has to the Stanwyck, Arthur, Jimmy «'S ANDREWS tales before and dress them up in the happened playwright’s Cagney, Ann Dvorak, George Raft kS<(«ito.,in peculiar Coward fashion to elicit the talent. Any one is entitled to write a // bad at time, and if thousands and not forgetting Miss Davis' famous [ ] play any Valentino a long, loud huzzahs of critics. There is Rudolph demonstrates facet of the love-making THE SEASON'S HIGH IN of fight with Warners two years ago. LAUGHTER LEWIS E.LAWES a that when he sent the other human beings take advantage technique that has secured to him the title POPULAR MATINEE TOMORROW legend, indeed, of “motion pictures' *cosnoroinu momctiw //slxcTsCLUB of that The question to be answered is, SEATS // manuscript of "Fumed Oak," the liberty of action, why not Noel greatest lover.” Vilma Banky is the subject in this scene AVAILABLE from should film folk be for lor All Remaining Prrformanrci ,.„k STUMP & STUMPY Coward? It seems a bit strange, how- “The Son of the Sheik,” to be revived at the Little be- suspended // Theater, consider • ever, that he could not think a striking against pictures they DICK FORAN JUNE TRAVIS up ginning Sunday. NEXT WEEK BEG. MON. EVE. // n II AT ARMORS to their careers? We don't • single trick to conceal his apparent damaging SEATS NOW JOHN litel dick purcell I 25-Entertainers-25 rvoiier silver spring, md. boredom with his think so. plot. He never gave MAX GORDON preaenfa the aateah III ..... ■ ■ Every Evening Except to be a I Warner Bros. Successor to If _, _ very umph sort of a movie. * * * * Mon.. 1:30 to 10:30 any indication of the exhaustibility SKfllltlQ We met Randolph who Little Will Offer of his of Scott, spoiled Paul Muni is just like the rest I ADMISSION _10c supply clevernesses. the “ALCATRAZ ISLAND7, ■}• Irish Sweeps for a lot of English- of the stars who leave E5f3g3MI IVInK SKATES * * * Hollywood, _3oo * and he asked Venerable Films. men, about Washington vowing they will never another Special rates to skatin, parties over 40 iqake “THE WOMEN” A on Tues. and Wed. Mr. Joseph S. Edgerton gets the rest Airport and why don't they do some- memories will be brought to and return mated? by Clare Boothe MANY film, to sign a long-term r 1 thing about it? And — Phone Shep. 506 S. S. 761 of this column to give you an aviation Joan Bennett the fore in the minds of patrons contract. But Paul has a better of 40 All Woimr was but she was s._S5r. *1.10, editor's own story of what it is like there, hiding behind at the Little Theater next week when reason than most for his change of *1.65. *2.20. *2.16 smoked TOPULAR MATS. WED St SAT. to visit Hollywood. Take it, Joe: glasses and she didn't even the management presents a program, mind. The film situation THEATER PARKING European J 65c. >1.10, *1,65, *2.20 line, Tai) Dear Jay: look at us reporters. I must confess, every item of which dates back more 6 P.M. TO I might just as well confess right though, that we did peek at her once than a decade in screen history. In AMUSEMENTS. NOW SHOWING now that a vacation trip to Hollywood in a while, just to see was she real. addition to the feature, ‘'The Son of 1 A.M. by air is apt to be a pretty confusing She seemed to be, at that. At least, the Sheik,” in which Rudolph Valen- affair, leaving the traveler she took a drink of water once, and tino plays two roles and which will 5 BIG last complete CAPITAL wondering GARAGE whether St. Louis, after all, is not that wasn’t in the movie, either. be receiving its first revival showing SHOW STARTS west of Kansas City and whether And so we finally headed for home in the world; an old comedy, a ven- SHOWS TODAY 9:36 p.m. {mlMihcltt Wichita isn't just across the street, and on the way we looked at the Rose erable newsreel and an appropriate Great Comedy Instant Curb from Amarillo, or did I take a nap Bowl and the Santa Anita track and scenic short subject filmed in the then? Just so. impressions of Holly- the observatory on Mount Wilson, and ! ’20s are to be offered. Service wood. during a ''streamlined” flying olive, orange, walnut, date, fig, lemon As a further aid to creation of the HFD/vnL hours a dav. j 1/ f vacation are and other orchards, of a cinema ** V WjU Barbecue. Steak likely to have some desert', sand, | atmosphere house before FOOD puzzling features, in retrospect. It's snow, cactus, phony cowboys, dirty the advent of talking pictures, the the sad cows, ! Little has a to l m'1 speed that does it, Jay—it's a Indians, rivers, canyons, engaged pianist pro- SHOP Drive'i'n.