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RADIO CITY GLEE CLUB AMUSEMENTS. >. of Grace Moore Scores Eddy’s Lapses Memory TO OPEN HERE FRIDAY Hoover Greets Film Star _ Famous Choral Group Comes to 111 '»“• *i*0 PM.. Me-tJ.20. Irks Feminine Screen Stars’ ■ ■ M M«d * Sat. at t:30 In New PM.. SJe-St.iw due. Operetta Earle Theater for Its Ini- ■ Tai) tial Because of “I- y Appearance. Out” Proves That an Baritone Unpopular Song of New York's most famous I M£s-500^h.s1”. I 4‘The King Steps Opera ’ QNE A Sat. I Tax choral groups, the Radio City Can Still Be Young, Slim Am-Better-Than-My-N eighbor’ Music Hall Glee Club, will make its Singer HENRY HULL Attitude. first Washington appearance at the I I and Attractive. Earle Theater, starting Friday. BY SHEILAH GRAHAM. An all-male organization with a BY E. de S. MELChER. ■“TOBACCO B0A0” I newest real-life membership of 24, the Music Hall Glee DOESN’T to be an old-fashioned opera singer any more. By old- May 19 <n.a.nj D.—Ginger Rogers’ pay Club is directed by a young woman, A Carmen does is Jimmy Ste wart, rising handsome-homely screen fashioned we mean large, square, violent and hysterical. dancing partner Miss Vln Lindbe. Baxter has ust turned down his third offer in six not dare All herself with chocolate And a hefty Juliet is one of actor .. Warner j drops. In the group of 24 young men, Ni,'bT 500 *?. his a id name attached to a can of chili those things that even the Metropolitan knows won’t swell the box office. months to have picture I-| Hollywood, there are half a dozen IT fraternity | s Director Eddie Suth- || | she i to Singers today are normal, healthy people. They realize that their girth Loretta Young is denying engaged lowers Eddie Incloses chaps, a prize fighter, an assistant tannot be Mediterranean in size. They know that when they sing they must erland, but admits he sends her 1 dally. pever T"* } motion picture cameraman, a dia- | nnt Innlr lik* tortured hiillfrnn Their limhs must a card with his floral offering, but* mond setter, a former mathematics be slim, their eyes bright, their throats swanlike, something with them each time fathered the same canard at puts Eddy, professor and an Olympic champion and must not 200 pounds more so will know they are from and they certainly weigh the lady Atlanta Chattanooga.” discus thrower. The personnel has more than their man. Last time It was a horseshoe, leading him. been assembled from such typical Grace Moore was almost the first to start before the time .. ^ Errol Flynn’s latest nickname American cities as Denver, Colo.; this before Geraldine a Unstick ... fashion—although years “Joseph”—due to his passion for Baker, Or eg.; Oberlln, Ohio; Mc- had amazed a I Farrar operagoers by being wisp- Sally Rand’* pet bright-colored sports clothes—was Keesport, Pa.; Bayonne. N. J.; Webb /INPBRSONIX like Miss Moore, however, more than to Marguerite. greeting pro- wished on him by Patricia Ellis. Mr. City, Mo., and Wichita, Kans., as BOLES any one, created a sensation in the entertainment “So (JOHN1 ANO^ONTHI SCAIINm tI | ducers, you Flynn is settling in California for as well as from abroad. world low a TO by having spirit, poundage, grand d o n’t recognize long as his screen life lasts, and he There are only two native New V *AJWESSAGE GARCIAmI 1 a beautiful head of hair and a with my smile, personality me recently bought 10 acres of property Yorkers in the organization, but there all in one. Although never by any means one on,” Z I clothe* on he near Mulholland drive which are natives of Bremen, Germany; Bai- fp nut IIC staci (mow rS of the “Met's” rare nightingales* many a more would be if good plans to build a mansion appropriate ts, Prodolia, Ukranla; the counties of TTUU! 'ftitJe I celebrated froze | irtaiLtcifctUnu "fet/tm songbird with envy when they it didn’t belong for the star of “Captain Blood” and Sussex and Yorkshire, England; MUSIC. FSSTlVAlt “J saw what Miss Moore had in the a certain accomplished to "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Grlmstad, Norway; GIrvin, Scotland, 2:10 p. M.—American Vniver- I films—and harrowed rushed to the scales sopranos nameless stage Bebe Daniels has a new and Barcelona, 1 tilr Glee Club. I opened Spain. 1 Ted J and cried like babies when they saw that they actress Joan t;K P. M.—Orchestra of shop, next to the Holywood Brown Their program at the Earle Thea- Loman and the Francis too tipped many pounds for Hollywood to like Bennett will be a called "The American Maid,” ter will Include the "Soldiers’ Chorus” thpm. Derby, guest of honor and specializes in nautical-flavored from "Faust,” one of their special- Fortunately, too. Miss Moore didn't wear out her cinema welcome in rvr» P Q S t. sportswear. The best curry this ties, a medley of old ballads and a ene fell swoop. While her second couldn’t touch the it still picture first, bound maiden gh#Uah Graham side of Calcutta is to be found at the number wherein they imitate a Ger- that she was a handsome proved creature, gay, smiling, and a bear for the voyage of the West Side Tennis Club, where the man band. right note. And now in her third, "The which see Alan Mowbray tells King Steps Out,” you'll Queen Mary stars flock of a Sunday evening. tiS-iHot* n♦ tiiQ Co flo cVtn nmifftc orraln ____ of a sign he saw in Hollywood’s only The other day Shirley Temple rushed _AMUSEMENTS. that she and Pons have the us for loans at your Lily right pawnshop—"See into her studio room, shout- Boles admitted that he got his man ... dressing idea—that acting and a sense of hu- earliest inconvenience." I Miss Hynes couldn’t be sure ing. “One-shot Temple, that's me. (cji^R-TAYLOIM are J. director the Federal Bureau of Investi- mor as essential as the long- Edgar Hoover, of her ’Tis in Full Swing cm* Boles has had more fans and cur- never miss.” Her mother thought r'SMMl h drawn-out and sorrows of for- backstage is shown welcoming John Boles, screen star J°,£N griefs gation, infant was her V AOSAIP COIMAM-CIAUDITTI COtllgT Y than Johnny Weismuller or Rudy Mr. Dietrich's daughter, Marla, precocious discussing VvlCTOA MCi.AOi.IM-AOSAl.INO ausnuY mer pudgy operatics. rently appearing at the Fox, to the Department of Justice. Marlene Vallee When the ladies and does acting proficiency and gave her a * * # * young Boles made a tour of the department yesterday and acquainted is taking dancing lessons, come into the theater, to in Miss Diet- severe dressing down. Through her will this third Moore according himself with houS to get his man. most of her practicing enjoy tears she was 1 manager Gene Ford, they say right rich’s on the David Selz- Shirley explained only film. It is Vien- bungalow SIDNEY-%I/M“Mtl light, typically about her at darts. .. /3VA*j7 away. “What can we do to see Mr. nlck lot Isabel Jewell, under Di- talking prowess <« and some of 1 P. M. to Midnite A. trite**? FoNDA nese. Fritz Kreisler's Lionel that the reason Bmily Boles?’* The answer to that is, HOME GREETS rector Frank Capra’s instructions, is Stander says pleasantest music is sung by the star SOLDIERS’ TRAIL m LONESOME PI “There's can can Film Tomorrow meals a in order to polo shirts are so poDUlar in the studios vJ{k with nothing you do—you Opens eating six day great charm. Then again the is because the men And it more FIFTY either see him or you can't, according MITCHELL DANCE REVUE "CHOW BOAT,” motion picture increase her weight. Capra is shoot- ’yes’ Columbia company has seen to it that comfortables to in a shirt to your credentials" Boles. Gracie ‘Lost Horizon” chronologically, nod polo • the adaptation of the stage suc- ing theatre story is studded with humorous than in a stiff one. BIG FEATURES Barrie, et al„ entertained yesterday at and he it was all right for Isa- UnGAYFTY I LI I Coat. 10:30 AM.-II Interest. Annual Presentation of cess, with music by Jerome Kern says PM / Sam Wheeler's Variety 90 [Copyright, 1936, by the North American STAGE 4 SCREEN PRESENTATION Variety Club luncheon and with Irene Dunne in the bel to weigh her customary pounds in Air-Cooled Thus the film should appeal to And Dancing SENSATIONAL at the Willard The hat check girl Is Received With at the beginning of the picture, but Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) DAMAGED | every one—not just Moore admirers. Program starring role, opens tomorrow Ballroom to McWilliame’ Band j was more excited than one over any at 7:30 o'clock at RKO- toward the end she must be plumper. Franchot Tone fans will find him at Cheers Veterans. night 9 P. M. MODEli ft seeing and hearing Boles Her by At the time of wiring, Isabel weighs of 12 from Every SOULS_ his best. The spluttering, gutteral Keith's Theater. hand shook when she us our Anna T. Mitchell dancers were and is that she’ll | gave 'T'HE Jones Miss 97 pounds, worrying WeekNite._ Herman Bing has never been so gram- A Allan plays opposite PLAYBOY AT COLUMBIA hat and she “Do ........ — said, you suppose an at be too fat for comfort when the pic- ,l ,- matically overcome as when he waits given exceptional reception Dunne, Charles Winninger plays tTT"-^ Mr.
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