Musicals Hit Road All Back Tokyo They’re Agaiti For the Army Five New Pictures in Week Merely Serve By the Associated Press NEW YORK. All of Screen’s Stereotypes Tokyo, not Broadway, will be the By Jay Carmody * bub of the theater world, or at least the musical of it, Fire new motion picture* opened simultaneously In dofntown comedy part with revival of the USO- theaters on Thursday. That is a most unusual thing in these days this year, when routine screen dramas settle down for runs of a fortnight, or: Camp Shows circuit in the Pacific longer. and more ambitious plans than ever. Rare as it is, however, there was something still more striking In The young shavers in the new the situation. teen-age army of occupation, fresh It is well nigh Impossible to conceive of any five pictures more from home and up-to-the-minute entertainment, have ordered 56 mu- painfully calculated to display the character stereotypes which have * sical revues from USO-Camp Shows obsessions. Hardly a one of these familiar fixtures, become Hollywood’s for the Pacific circuit, darkened a of movies, Is miss- the ones who have walked through long parade after V-J day when the Army con- last week. ing in the five which dropped out of the bag centrated the troops in large cities. Bat It Was Betty Grable. (There are only some 30-odd plays Broad- The closest approach to an exception to this rule was represented of all types this winter on calendar). Grable, of all possible people. In “The Shocking Miss Pil- way’s fluctuating by Betty The 19-year-old replacements Grable a “typewriter," which Is what typists were grim,” Mty plays dispersed to distant outposts disdain was first making Its approach called back In 1874 when the machine the small variety units, legitimate this different sort of girl might to polite commerce. All hope that plays, and concerts, which did such have a sort of freshness to enliven the lives of moviegoers disappeared valiant service behind the lines for when the “typewriter” turned out to be just Betty Grable again. the older boys during the dangerous While it is true that Miss Grade’s acting art Is inadequate to days. They want musical revues for the made of five or six acts: Juggling, concealing her real-life identity, she is not entirely to blame up handbalancing, knockabout or com- fact that the picture is just another collection of stereotypes. Being edy adagio dancers, a line of chorus it the whole collection of Beacon street cliches, about Boston, presents girls and a master of ceremonies. all writers fall back when pinched for time or imagina- the ones upon No Comediennes. tion,, or both. Broadway's reservoir of perform- the aunt of This strictly stock assemblage Includes spinster ers was exhausted early in the talent zeal to the cause or masculine energy who has devoted her whole call and USO-Camp Shows had to Pritchard acts in 18 other cities. women’s suffrage; the semistuffy son of the patrician audition new of the Pritchard Ship- Harry Krivit, musical producer who family; the midget-minded office manager Beacon street freaks conducted the auditions, found: ping Co., and a depressing motley of supposedly house keeper, and Rich- “There are leads of excellent women a a mad a mad boarding HIT Edward Andrews, Pauline Lord, Jeanne Shepherd composed of mad poet, painter, A PLAY RETURNS—Being primal donnas you might Bostonian who thinks the in Glass M which makes its second appearance singers, and maddest of all, a scholarly feminine ard Jones in a polite moment "The enagerie," call them, but runny women are Just will remain the National two weeks. English language needs a general overhauling. ifi Washington tomorrow night. It at for non-existent. Joan Davis and Fanny They Make Actors Listless. Brice haven’t anything remotely re- have seen them, and sembling The country Regardless of how many times audiences competition. them with any genuine sign of From Bach to to Stardom is starved for good novelty acts.” how totally unable the cast is to infuse Boogie-Woogie is the of the week. Krlvit’s tour turned up some a recent portrait of life, the group in “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim” prize THE “NEW" JIMMY STEWART.—Being statistics. "I got more acts the ones. Believes in quaint actor as he returning from the war over The others are really Jose Iturbi All Kinds of Music, but he the appears after Nof Only Enjoys in Detroit than any place,” says. role in Frank widely- und of slickness has gone into the monot- find out Europe to play the leading Capra’s A certain diminishing “I haven't been able to is the one or two of the current All of Life, Too for discussed. “It’s a Wonderful Life." The film ony of the types—actually stereotypes—In Enjoying why the city is such a magnet picture, scheduled at Keith’s. but it does not work. acrobats and very good ones, too. next attraction offerings, really Sheilah Graham • 4 By Chicago provided more girls for manifest in “The Man I Love," In which Ida for Warner Bros. Filming, sched- This is most clearly probably will, but It’s so difficult to the chorus line than any other club singer. Mias Lupino HOLLYWOOD. to start last November, has Lupino is to be found as a frustrated night choose in Hollywood—all the women town. I took two complete dance uled she is rather more "When a businessman gets an- been until February or is fresh at this sort of thing. What is more, are so beautiful.’’ lines from the little town of Ot- postponed But the noyed, they say it’s temper But Hollywood: March. Edward Arnold set for a many star* with bigger reputations. He’s of and 1 per- tawa, HI., 100 miles from Chicago.” talented than great when an actor gets peeved, it’s kidding, course, in at is Ida can do about it. a leading role “Saigon Singer” role she essays is so unfresh that there nothing sonally doubt whether any female Like Shows Fast. Blushes; temperament.” Bogart MOM. ... A Warner unit, headed In one more night club, singing three or the here can collar the boy. He seems 8he is merely one more girl Jose Iturbi is the boy making Shows on the GI circuit run 15 by Writer-Director John Huston, is time trying to redeem * too content with life as it is. It’s four more songs, and having a wretched speech and he knows a lot about per cent faster than Broadway. Gig Young, prospecting Mexico locations for the actors and He Collects Pianos, Too. are ner- morbid from his artistic miseries. temperament, possibly “The men overseas now Humphrey Bogart starrer, “Treas- pianist after Fish who with Miss Lupino in “171* Man I about businessmen. And And he should be. He seems to vous," Krivlt says, "so they want Expert ure of the Sierra Madre.” An- Naturally the people go is with club talking with and observing Mr. have nearly everything—a lovely the entertainment fast paced. ■tough Ouy Humphrey Bogart other comedy Is Love” are precisely the same ones who have gone night “Jiggs and Maggie Iturbi for the past two years, I house in Beverly Hills and a paint- When we do a Broadway- musical said to have blushed one of the in the works at Monogram... Jen- fables ever since the first one was photographed. j think I know quita a bit about Mr. ing collection valued at half a mil- over there we eliminate intermis- his- nifer Jones and Joseph Cotten hacks among the five new picture* are the ones to deepest blushes in Hollywood The ultimate Iturbi. lion dollars that includes Renoirs sions and write out repetitions in to co-star in "Portrait of in a scene in scheduled in “San These are led by the reformed prisoner, it in 90 minutes in- tory last week, when be found Quentin.” “This is my fifth picture,” Jose and a Goya. order to stage Jenny” for David Selznick.... Para- and formed a prisoners’ welfare league stead of the 150 minutes that Broad- “Dark Passage” at Wamer’s Jie had the one who went straight tells me at Metro, where he is “And I have a terrific ejection mount’s “The Big Clock” will star into life. This is an uses.” blue which introduced local self-government penal starring with Jeanette MacDonald of pipes,” he tells me. “Seven years way to appear in baby pajamas, Ray Milland. Richard Ney, an- no more tired shows out of the tired among screen characters, but he is in “The Birds and the Bees.” He I was told that it was better to Camp pulled You-never-can-tell dept.—Gig nounced last week as Gene Tierney’s extremely type ago December to or the as usual. I European theater 31, whose professional specialty interest in “The Ghost and than the faithful, beautiful and dumb girl friend, unregenerate is playing himself Then, smoke a pipe than a cigar. was Young, heart concentrate on the Pacific program in Warner films (see threaten to undo the whole structure of when he marries Jeanette in the told it would cost me only 15 cento is romantics Mrs. Muir.” was unable to accept the bandit whose depredations and another for 187 hospitals in Me Never”) lec- * picture, she takes the name of Mrs a day. i$ut it costs me $15 every “Escape recently role. Too many previous assign- reform. Gen. Oirtfcr on “The Care penal Iturbi. says Jose, who is for a new America, requited by tured a boys’ club ments. Warner’s “Three Bad Buffoon Is Also Back. “Natch,” two days pipe!” That of Bradley, veterans’ administrator. and of Tropical Fish”! the first with a sense Iturbi also collects He Feeding Men,” slated for production early from picture to picture are. a melan- giusician pianos. entertainment in Europe a new These feeble hand-me-downs humor I have ever met. Civilian Paramount is cooking up this summer, has been switched to a owns 33. No, he doesn’t carry them to but the worst one of the lot will have to be the loyal dumlj- has become sufficiently plentiful contract for Jose Iturbi Ronald Star Morris has choly lot, When Jose returns to Hollywood around with him—they are in the later date. Wayne The crushing, burden carried JOSE ITURBI. take care of the ETO. Reagan’s 2-year-old son, Mike, is to Naval Reserve cluck friend of the hero. impossible, from his imminent personal ap- cities of United States to be take his fighting to be big £he .. Katharine Hep- devil is congealed into the horrible assignment and chicken-poxing squadron aboard a carrier for two by this poor pearance tour in Mexico South studio. And on hand for his concerts. vacation in was drained out of him Lillian Bums at the bum plhns an extensive weeks active June. An- The last ounce of humor, of course, America, he will be the solo star of Attractions duty in funny I still do," he tells me. “And it If you saw “,” Coming Connecticut, starting next month.,.. affair—John Charles with the first picture of prison life ever made. Metro’s musical, now titled, other family years ago, possibly huge was wonderful. Before the first you saw Iturbi’s two cute grand- Glass Me- Scheduled marriage of Osa Massen, A NATIONAL—“The Farrow, age 5 months, is making his came of course. "The Triumph of Music.” better live not After sound in, , lesson I was scared to death; after children in the picture. They nagerie," with Pauline Lord, according to boulevard gossip, is for the week derives from the sheer mischance title would be “The Triumph of like John him. “One lilies of her ~TSee~ HOLLYWOOD, Page C-7T" Hollywood’s “out” * the first lesson I felt with boogie-woogie starting tomorrow night. to take place until delivery This one, Iturbi.” The boy certainly has the new pictures is an English production. Barrymore!" and one likes classical music.” And CAPITOL—“Lady in the Lake,” new car. She doesn’t want to honey- that one of made in " such exaggerated good Hollywood! likes to make and both from their in a bus that rattles. “Wicked Lady is a sort of dizzy sequel to painfully Iturbi pictures they get granddad. with Robert Montgomery, moon Studied serious musician I’ve name This 4 F. M. Her to Heaven” and “The Strange Woman." Acting, the people he makes pictures with He is the first starting Thursday. Influence of films dept.—New Constitution Hill, Afternoon, compositions as “Leave New Pallih Genlue nf the “When I came to make my first week when I was met who admits — with screen kisses here is like Iturbi. Last liking boogie- “Humoresque,” for torrid — that beautiful female who is flendishness incarnate, EARLE H g- ■ Pianolorle In Kan Hal I It presents again ‘As Thousands Cheer,’ I. on the set I found iturbi at the ! Pecks” Eleanor Parker never will be exhausted for picture, piano woogie Joan Crawford, starting "Gregory woman whose fascination seemingly confesses the are a was very scared,” with a group of electricians and “But when I to the to Thursday. complains that local gourmets of her effect upon movie audiences. Jhe go hospitals movie makers regardless famous piano maestro. “And in round him. He was a a Wonderful becoming just too, too interested in one is grips playing entertain the sick veterans,” says KEITH’S—“It’s introduced in the case of«this had to address a He makes the best single new character coloring my first scene I number written by a friend of an who is one of the few big-shot Life,” with James Stewart, her butler. crepes Mason. Jose, Bach. a out of even Janies of a thousand. Scared? t » this side of Paris. Program:*£Jonas Chopin Handel, Mazaii, she makes sap crowd suzettes that she is so wicked that electrician. entertainers who still does, “I’m starting Thursday. te Hubert and Beethoven. Secret Heart,” well, they are the ones was I was used to ad- N—“Blue Stork notes: To Doris Warner Vidor, And, as for those in "The petrified! Enjoys His Life. surprised, because the boys want METROPOLITA Sub: $1.20, $1.80, $2.40, $3 Ind Tut. but of M. Warner—a ■ dressing musicians, of course, find a famous music. Their Skies,” with Bing Crosby daughter Harry “Mildred Pierce." .. How often do you call good last seen’in , what.we Bwoffici it Hill Opim 11 A.M—HE. 2661 of the this was different.” Fred Astaire, starting boy, 7 pounds, 15 ounces. Mer- the they prove is that loyalty musician doing a kind, simple thing favorites are Debussy’s ‘Clair de and Altogether, major point the most sensible note: Joan Crawford re- Constitution Fib. 16. 4 FJ4. 80, Jose did like-that? Lune’ and Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Thursday. cantile Hill, Sir. AH., kind can be lamentably overworked. vacation screen's __ thing under the circumstances. He Love Life of turned from her Gotham “I believe in enjoying whatever I Sonata.’ •PALACE—“The took lessons in acting. Hardy," with Mickey with 11 trunks, all full. She left do," says Jcae. "Airti I have no pa- Iturbi was bom in Spain. The Andy * “Every (lay I a lesson with Hollywood with but. four. ^ad tience with people who complain last time he visited Europe was in Rooney. Carries On PIX—“Crime Over London, Because of commitments in the Ezio Pinza about what they’re doing.” 1934. “I don’t want to go back there "Warld'e (TMtut mantle Iuh"—TIME. Elegant, Burlesque ---a__---, Tuesday. East, John Van Druten will be un- Jose looks as he starting la tacllil—$1.20, $1.10, $2.40, $3.00 By Jean Meegan though enjoys for a while. It would make me too able to direct “Voice of the Turtle” everything he does, Although around to see all the destruction.” Mrs. Berstr’s. 1108 6 (Cimpbill'i) HA. 7151 think they’re unhappy NEW YORK. performed in the Army, Broadway: the time his daughter took her own Next to the United States, the coun- come around Bop Hopes now and life he was very ill and nerve- which is most music loving in Burlesque, for years the blousy, without the try for jobs. They’re dead Musicals Praised shattered. He came through that Iturbi’s is Holland. of show business, opinion 2 WEEKI T,"Mr,w 8,30 brash, black sheep radio. very well. (Released by the North American Newi- IIATIAHAI ^ B#*a ft the For • Wads. A Salt, at 2iSQ IRKO KEITH’S is going elegant “Burlesque,” he claims, “is Avoiding Iturbi is in his early 50s, although paper Alliance.) IIA I IUHHL nutlflfeas DOORS OPEN I0t«5 • SUN. 12 NOON is. a At least, Eddie Lynch says it only place where anybody can get he looks younger. There have been form Old Formula who is a pro- chance anymore. It's the only rumors of marriage to Jean Dal- seld tooem- Eddie, an oldtlmer Tickets told by this Theatre are net transferable, and are eobject with a number Olivia Is sdmii- of live show great This was the week that Times rymple, the pretty play producer. Popular nliance with the known policy of the The.itre a* to porsons.cBtltls^ to, ducer for the Eastern burlesque not to that admission will of theaters running 52 weeks a year, Critic Brooks Atkinson (no •push- Jose says he’s fond of her, but By the Aisociated Press sion If presented by any person eonformlne policy, retnsed and no refand made. succinctly:' a be wheel, says two and four shows day.” over he) came right opt and said, there doesn’t seem to be a marriage HOLLYWOOD. ©Tsai-; in of bums bringing in on what the ‘‘If has ever in the offing. with movie “The days Kids are broken anything derogatory Popularity girl pro- ae Theatre Nile — Imricae Theetre Society Serin their shoes “Burma Road,” been written about Broadway in this “I don’t say I’ll never get mar- is Olivia de Havil- their lunch and taking performers call the ducers these days UAH hath AH he me hastily. “I THRATtl'l IOVILIIST ITININO." GtOtGE a derisive tag for Rochester, Dayton, column, it is hereby withdrawn, ried,” interrupts land, due to her Academy Award «THI off is over.” him/ We Toledo and Youngstown. After eight expunged and extirpated.” Two mu- She says she read •tarrinc LAWRENCE More exp’ Uy, he boasts: potentialities. I weeks in that boot camp they’re sicals “that broke the formula for five scripts in 24 hours and 16 in AMERICA’S play to ft lftdics and gentle* Schedules • have ready for the big league. a commercial musical show” caused Today’s one week, but still hasn’t found &'* TIERNEY JBh men audience. The strippers supposedly c*-' ►'»** {MUTEST PUT!' Mr. A’s expunging: “Street Scene" CAPITOL—“The Secret Heart”: anything she likes. She is looking IAITOH MaeMNI graduated to silver fox capes, plat- An Imitative Trade. nail DOWIIN* and LOUIS J. SlUOia proceet and “Finian’s Rainbow” » The 1:55, 4:35, 7:15 and 10 p.m. for a warm, romantic story with form shoes, hats and gloves—and Atlantic is the Valhalla of City music and dance critics cauglft up ♦ Stage shows: 1:10, 3:50, 6:30 the same feeling, but without the NAItV MANNON take 'em off to symphonic “A of weeks they the business. couple with these two last week, and and 9:15 p.m. of “to Each His Own.” i. CAIOt FORMAN music.” “and you show^ aging asypect , PAULINE LORD at the Globe,” Lynch says, raves. — was a Sunday’s papers carried their COLUMBIA “The Razor’s There is a posibility she will wait )¥ His reference to strippers own ticket.” The STARTS TMUNS,—JAMES STEWAET can write your ! Most talked-about young dancer of 6:45 and until after the awards before resum- the Those ladies Edge": 1:35, 4:05, slip of tongue. Globe, it seems, ha* standards: $2.20 is Anita whose “IT’S A WONPENFUL LIFE" as “exotic the *ar Alvarez, 9:25 pm. ing work. now are referred to and the comics rvestAsstm&em reserved seats, as top dances in ‘Tinian* are every bit EARLE—“The Mart I Love”: Olivia won’t do “Voice, of the dancers.” must wear makeup. .. This of good as the long-hairs say.. 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35 and 9:45 not because Jack War- IBIH SSWIIM A ■ASSS Jdtlt There’s been a delicate shift Turtle,” but 1 earner Cram by TISHSStt WIU.ISBS Stated by One of the legends $hich Lyjmh was a week of soft, sweet notices from flesh to comedy. In p.m. ner wouldn’t permit her return to emphasis swears is true is that performers from the reviewers—Bobby Clark’s trade, HIPPODROME —“The Young the lot she broke away from. She M>Ua*M the salty slang of the Lynch of their 24-week charmed L_1 in the last weeks antics in “Sweethearts” in Heart ”: 2:05, 5:20 and 8:30 felt there wasn’t enough left of the LIMITED ENDADEMENT BED. MON., PEB. IT TODAY... Seen tpe* IMS explains: ._. send themselves telegrams even if they found * comics. We book booking the writing boys, p.m. play after* the censorable portions CLAUDETTE COLBERT “We’re featuring me at and reading: “Contact once,” the operetta itself antique. KEITH’S—“San Quentin”: 1:55, were deleted. first and second banana, you WALTER PI00E0N a bearing the name of a rival wheel. “The Yearling” and “Lady in the 8:05 and 10:05 a man (straight 4, 6, pm. know, comics: ‘yes’ The net result of that fiction is a Lake” also made New York appear- a featured LITTLE—“Henry the Fifth”: man), two strippers and pay boost of $25 a week. ances during the week, and hate 2:30 and* 8:30 I the dame who rides in the p.m. p n strip, is the most imitative settled down to long runs. Bob ! METROPOLITAN — “The "The SECRET Pullman.” Burlesque MTIONAL symphony into a new of any business in the world. Per- Montgomery’s pioneering Wicked Lady”: 1:15, 3:20, HANS KiNDLER, C nductor t New York Is Oat. kind of direction created reams of ; ^ formers swipe material from vaude- 5:30, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. M. • HEART" usually associated with Not is this The SUN., Feb. 9—4 P. HAMILTON O’BRIEN-MOORE Boston, the legitimate theater—and comment. only I 'PALACE—“The Shocking Miss GQEQSQ and book bans, is ville, but it also is beans. Back Bay houses. Costumes Year Of the Yearling, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35 on the bur- other burlesque Pilgrim": „1, :: BACH BEETHOVEN ii JEAN CARROLL'JOHNNY 00WN8 an stopover of events from MGM jamcs RENNIE important after those the year special and 9:45 Tbt Me Baara lift I Four houses were are consciously patterned p.m. Sii(ln( Omli| tin lesque circuit. and sets —for coming up is “The Beginning PIX—“The Great Dictator”: 1, at the start of the of screen and stage stars, :: BRAHMS H06*A* TMafc a DrM HOFFMAN running there or the End,” the picture about Hall are fast from Broadway 3:55, 6:50 and 9:40 p.m. <, Confutation Paid BarlinDir It are still flourishing. snapped *up Hl|kaat Warltf season and two the atomic bomb which everyone and shorts. eric*, sot, *1.20. *1.80 $a.«oi (t« are Burlesque managers shrug TRANS-LUX—News Bon Orace, Kltt s. San Francisco and Los Angeles flops. wants to review. Its slated to fol- lncl.) Symphony _Coming_ our talent all from 1 1830 O St. H.W., HA 7332. “So what. They raid Continuous p.m. ,, the only other cities supporting two low the Lake’s Lady into N. Y.’s Y09 t»J ROBERT MONTROMERY New York is the time.” ■ burlesque theaters. Theater. Biggest hit in Myittrioutly Starring in i Insiders say the real “characters" Capitol «p HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSO. CROUSE the only big city where burlesque the neighborhood circuit right now “LADY IN THl LAKE”- the musicians in the orchestra WITH /] isn’t It has been banned are is “The Jolson holdover ace. (Authors of'LIFE FATHER*) acceptable. house. tells Story,” White for several pit of a burlesque Lynch «M • • on the Great Way ... Leo Durocher (who just had his KATHERINE MESKILL DONALD KOHLER JOHN LESLIE a story about last year in Cleveland years. * day in court) subject of most radio been on when he was sitting out front Pulitzer foze for Best Play of J946! Burlesque business nas jokes of {he week—or anyhow, a tie the service- watching one of his units and slightly since most of with the Georgia Governors. N. Y. $140, 1J0, 2.40, 3.00, 3.00 C Th smelled something burning. Pun- men were mustered out, according newsreel theater hit the For. Wed. Mats.. SI.20, LS0; Entire Orch. SAW 1 |(-> smoke was from the ^marquee The magazine esti- gent curling up on latter with its 340 i to Billboard. maximum the Sat. Mats., 81.20, 1J0, 2.40, V TODAY ... Rttrt Iti JO He over and saw the }Eres„ tptt mates that a minimum of 750 strip- pit. peered line, “Three Georgia Governors 1” Pleaie Eneloee Self-AAdreuci Stamped Envelope jj 150 drummer working over an electric | pers are working now, plus BETTY comics and 75 straight men. Twen- plate. Lvnch ran for the house manager ty-six theaters belonging to the big m m m m m m m GRABLE “Don’t smell fish ■ m m wheels are lighted. and asked you I mm m Bx-GI’s, “the kids.” Lynch says burning?” » n nodded: DICK “who always were a scream in theii The house manager parlors back home and got up and I “Sure. It’s Friday.” LOFIKI •ROBERT AtDA | "MAKES YOU FEEL HAYMES U-1|IM ■ J tmm 3 S "THE * r Coming THURSDAY w ' HtOCfBBflfEIT A MILLION!"* SHOCKING K LIKE hi Wrner Bros.’ 9 m MISS PILGRIM" r-ifj That’s what you’ll tell everybody w ■ TEOHMOOIOR " I .— ., -. ... “Tfc# NUN H about the movie with the miracle TiiHatniY JotJim, LOVE’] UKI^