————————1——•*•*_ *■"?_ > MJLJl JL Francis Lederer is an u) in London considering icvAibij puitauir ceu sne nax ur eo you nave to be rich to feel tha* Singer )fTer from Charles B. Cochran to ftp- i writer Claude so he can Text Awaits Schools’ Gene flven Binyon way? Offers >ear in a Alibi London Miriam meditate on the Markey play set where she is * * * * WILL BE BRIDE OF has been a bath for "DEATH Hopkins taking forking. “What will you have?” Inquired tha RAY” INVENTOR. three now—for a of * * * * days picture, genial stranger at the big Hollywood of Films As :ourse. And when a of the A mere matter of Recognition Simone’s Escort gentleman selling several party. “Some more of this terrible jress tried to crash the closed set, ] lundred dollars’ worth of tickets would champagne," said the bored guest be- Miriam sent out word if that, he were fore realizing he was lave insured work another week, mak- addressing hi* A Press Agent Drops Glamour He Must i gentleman, he would go home. host, Jack Warner. Says Get Acquainted, I'm to ng four in all, for the New York Which, glad report, he did ... Music (Copyrlsht, 1937, by the North American Hall of “The Talk to Be Practical. As Will Dld-tlmer Mae Busch says, "Old-tim- showing Prisoner of Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) They Play ers who say they want to make a Zenda.” Which would have meant About Mr. Strickland. In Picture comeback make me tired. We just enormous prestige and better theater Together. :arry on” The best-tended spot in prospects all over the world. “Why trans-lux sssh BY JAY CARMODY. BY Hollywood is the little park containing lon’fyou buy up the tickets?” an exec- NEWS: LEGION. WAR SHEILAH GRAHAM. GonxaxA picture publicity men think of everything, including, upon i memorial statue to Valen- utive suggested to millionaire boss Wins. Ra res ucpicmuci *•* n.iv .n.j.—x^uxixm oxiearer s escort to an Rudolph m MARCH OF TIME occasion, things they should not. An exception to the latter classi- tino. Jock Whitney. “It wouldn't be ethi- recent previews has been David Lewis, associate producer at V/arners. fication of publicity men's ideas has just been introduced into the * * * * cal,” he replied. What this business MKC1E0 Gene Markey says that the reason he is going around with SHORUUBJECTS world by Barrett dint of work in Carole needs is more MOTION Kiesling. By hard, intelligent his Simone is a Lombard is so full of girlish ethical-minded men. Hv““* Simon just little matter of business. She in time—at appears spare such mojpents when he is not telling the world of the genius his next gags it’s difficult to film, and he has to get to know her. Some call it love and some getting pretty of Greta Garbo, the glamour of Joan Crawford, or the brittle wit of Robert call up with her. You all know that it work! Sight of the week: Errol Flynn taking Lill Damita to the keep Montgomery—Mr. Kieslimr who works <•-—-— she women’s serf inn of U/acimo«v ---- presented Clark Gable with an old for has a book. M-G-M. produced automobile. But maybe this is news. a busy man who must be spared the have "How Talking Pictures Are Made’ her hair trimmed, and himself Wallace Beery, injured a week She bestowed of ago several hobby horses Is the name of It de- responsibility reading un-Noel to the men’s the volume. is department to have the when he shot himself in the thigh upon Director Mitchell Leisen in an- Cowardish efforts to write like Noel same chore signed primarily as a text book, ar per- with a blank revolver, is returning to swer to his moan, for a horse ■ "Oh, and Coward. formed on examination of the ways and works o: his work in “Bad Man of Brimstone.” the wide-open spaces.” And her latest Strickland, who has brown eyes and beard. Hollywood which anticipates the daj But how about a little practice in the wavy hair and the faint remnant of a * * • when the schools will build, so tc use of firearms first, Wally? Yankee dialect (all irrele- speak, a modern wing on the old three probably Mae West is * * * * vant characteristics since this is not r's. (As if they had not already done boasting of the Hollywood is full of screwy stories. to be on a to consternation of supposed pasted village 20 pounds she But this one wins it, the parents whe first prize. ... A post office admits to a shed do not believe in ornamenting educa- wall), deep from her working girl in Los Angeles is assert- enthusiasm for In addi- tion.) Washington. too-ample figure. ing that many years ago her poverty- —TONIGHT AT 8:30— tion to liking the of ama- That As a result of Kiesling's book, foi job directing threat stricken mother offered several of her NEXT MATINEE teur TOMORROW which a players, for whom he has so much of a singing children for he will accept general audi- adoption. Now, her John Golden ambition they need not have any Joan Crawford is mother is ence with pleasure, in spite of the sick and wants to be re- presents he likes various other fact it is designed for students, the themselves, coming true, united with her family. According to i The International Star things. One of them is to sit in Du- with Joan 40,000,000 persons who cannot get intc plan- this girl, two children—both boys— GERTRUDE LAWRENCE pont circle and watch the life to break studios in any one year can now fine locaj ning have been traced. One to the flag- In a RACHEL CROTHERs Cnmedr swirl He has not been into at the out what they’d see if they could gei past. quite song ship Lexington and the other— “SUSAN AND GOD” able to pin down the idea, but he feels earliest possible believe it or in. It is that kind of book, a practica 8h'“,h Ur*hlra not—is, so this girl says, with there’s the material for a in picture. Di- our own thing written in a terse style that play it; Robert Taylor, who she says paul McGrath something typical of Washington. rector Eddie Sutherland is showing was Dr. and Mrs. must have provided the perfect writing adopted by Brugh Night* — Orchestra. 92.00. Balcony, * * * * a and escape for a man who has done sc gold sapphire cigarette case, when Bob was 4 years old. She saw (first six rows.), 91.50, (next O rows). 91.00. 2nd ideas for the Civic given to him by a female admirer, Bob before his Balcony. 50c. Plus Tax. much glamour literature in his time. departure for England, Matinee—Orchestra. 91.50. Balcony. gTRICKLAND'S that he cost him You 91.00. That Kiesling is an authority or Theater are easy ideas with which says $150,000. and, with his usual good manners 2nd Balcony. 50c. Plus tax. f that out. Dick Powell the motion picture industry is evidenl to trail along. He believes the com- figure subs and tact, Mr. Taylor promised to look for Alan voice in in any one of his book's information- munity theater should choose its play Mowbray's ‘‘Holly- into the matter on his return. Well, wood Hotel.” Nice Alan. packed pages. He should know it, o: list with the thought of supplementing, GANNA WALSKA, going, well, well, now you tell a story. course, for his association with it goes rather than duplicating, the commer- Polish opera singer, who is | Thank You Washington back to the days when pictures shiv- cial theater and motion pictures. In shown leaving her London Critics For Your Praise ered across the wher feeling that way, Strickland as an Hotel September 12, will silently screen, After This Cecil B. de Mille was just beginning intelligent citizen is always prepared marry Harry Grindell-Mat- Seeing thews, inventor the “death to feel his real scope, and no one hac to be outnumbered by persons who do of Picture At A Preview she P Another Earle Show to Rave About! the slightest idea the camera woulc not. ray.” Previously has ynar- "\ ried millionaires. acquire its present colossal signifi- It develops, toward the end of those four —A. P. Photo. DOORS OPEN TODAY cance. ham and eggs of three paragraphs ago, ill 10:00 AM. /- * * * * if that Strickland did not know he was It Takes A Great Cast to Interpret This # of o: to continue CPEAKING writing, it is one his association with the < Romantic k >ix Shows Enthralling Story An Absorbing Screen the many interesting ideas of F j little theater idea after leaving St. j Today Louis. He Cowles Strickland that there shoulc thought he might be going j Sx the Earle. Treatise ... A Strong be more of it in Washington with back to New York, or going to a type- of Sea” GARY GEORGE Savage Indictment reference to the drama. Strickland writer to get those play thoughts out J jIX presentations "Souls at and who, if any one does not know it, i: of his mind. The thought was de- | five stage shows, featuring A Strong^ Picture .“ 1 aa will the new director of Washington'! veloping into something quite pro- ! Ray Hutton, be offered at the R. Kelley, E arle Civic Theater, thinks the communitj found until the Washington opportu- i today. Time* theater comes into its own only wher nity arrived.