Friday, November 12, 1913 fHB TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Page S Musical Films Stage and Screen "Zooming" Zooming the only verb to de scribe the present state of musical ‘Princess O'Rourke9 Now Playing films in Hollywood, according to By TED TAtLOR Admires Eighteen Feet of Beauty Harry Link, who handles the Leo At Paramount Theater Feist distribution of music for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Often called HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 8 (FP)—Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer A fresh and charming picture that hits just the right note of relief from the stresses of these times is the new Warner Bros, comedy, out to the coast as a “trouble has turned 100 acres near Calabasas, Calif., into Chinese “Princess O’Rourke,” which bgan its local engagement Friday at the shooter,” Mr. Link returned last farms for Dragon Seed and has begun to sow. Pearl Buck’s Paramount Theater. week with a broad smile and good Directed by Norman Krasna, one of Hollywood’s top flight book about fighting China will be one of those $3,000,000 I •W news. scenarists, “Princess O’Rourke” No less than thirteen musical films. This one ought to be worth it. Dragon Seed is counted I" marks that writer’s initial bow as k. productions are under way or plan on to make China’s struggle 1 fa* wrz a director. And adding to the gen Hiya. Mom! vivid to millions of Amer Chinese studio is done from 10 p. eral propitiousness of the occasion, ned for Metro for the present year, - Mr. Krasna also wrote the story, a which represents an all-time high. icans. The picture will be six m. until dawn. “At these hours it rpfafy the current is reliable as the city 4 frothy comedy of errors that Five or six musical pictures per months. Some acenes will use Jn ^■fa^A sparkles with wit and charm. 1,500 extras. Jack Conway re sleeps.” ■ year was in the past considered a quires eight assistant directors. TOMORROW’S AUDI ENCE. 4/' , Olivia in Princess Role A * substantial figure. Bundled up with The Chinese heroine is played Free China has only 40 theaters , i 1 Key characters in the yam are the current batch of thirteen are equipped to show standard film. Olivia de Havilland and Robert \ Ii by Katharine Hepburn and the contracts with some of the coun- chief male is Walter Huston. Tens of millions of Chinese have Cummins, who star in the ro never seen a movie. Bitt refugees mantic story. Olivia is in the role ry’s leading orchestras, to be fea Some Chinese play Chinese how tured in these 1943 films. The ever—Keye Luke, Clarence Lung, from coastal towns have carried of a royal princess in exile. stories inland of the pictures that Bored and unhappy, she spends names involved include those of Hayward Soo Hoc, Tai Ling fa 'X IMf * Harry James, Vaughn Monroe, Won6. move, so itinerant showmen with her days in a luxurious New York mobile 16mm projectors find in Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Kay hotel suite. To get her out of “that Kyser, Xavier Cugat and Bob Cros First Effort to Show China's War trigued audiences waiting when t'-i. mood” her guardian uncle, played by. Never has sunny California, they pitch screen. by Charles Boburn, sends her on a This is the first attempt to been so packed with melodic notes, show the war through Chinese There art not 8,000 of tljese plane trip to California. Since plane travel terrifies her, Maria fills her running the gamut of everything eyes. China (Paramount) gave projectors for all China. They too from symphony to jive. some idea of the spirit of Chinese are instruments of war in which self with sleeping pills and when fighters but the principal charact China is sadly lacking. the plane runs into heavy fog and Ae Thousands Cheer ers were American. The Flying turns back to New York, tbs prin M-G-M s technicolor hft, “As China’s Movies Part of War 'fa, Dragons (Republic) was really cess is in deep slumber. Thousands Cheer”, soon to be seen about Americans. . The three movie studios are npt Co-pilot Eddie O’Rourke (Robert at Loew’s, appears to Mr. Link to operated as an entertainment in MGM will follow Dragon Seed i-: Cummings) tries frantically to stand ont as the most impressive with a picture about China’s dustry. Miss Lee’s current film or f. awaken her, and when all efforts musical show now being prepared child guerrillas. This is also based the recently filmed drama of the ir fail he enlists the aid of his friend’s for release. This is a Joseph Pater- on Miss Buck’s book, which had underground in occupied China, wife to put her to bed. The princess nak production, directed by George enough material for two movies. Devil’s Paradise, are exceptions. . x^ awakens to find herself in love with Sidney, with Kathryn Grayson, China’s studios are arsenals of in Gene Kelly, Mary Astor and John Eddie and after a few dates he pro ••-■♦-A HOLLYWOOD’S MADAME struction. Central Film turns out poses marriage. Under the impres Boles in leading parts. Contributors CHIANG. Speaking of the - Chi newsreels and educational films to the musical score include Lew nese Hepburn, One World (20th- V sion that she is a penniless refugee for the public. China Film makes Eddie brushes aside her refusal and Brown, Ralph Freed, “Yip” Har Fox) will probably have Merle army training subjects. Educa & won’t take no for an answer. burg, Harold Roma and’ Walter Oberon as Mme. Chiang Kai-shek. tional Film prepares education for Jurmann. This picture also presents W. Sanctions Marriage CHINA CRAWFORD. China’s China’s youngsters. • ’ ” ” '5 a regular galaxy of Metro stars in fed The princess finds herself in <■- own movie star is Lilly Lee, now UNMOTION PICTURES. The scenes of Army camp entertain making Caught on the Border at quite a predicament. How to break A- '^V) r ' ment where they appear and do im 16mm films used in China, even the news to Uncle! But good old jg studio in Free China. Miss Lee those brought from Hollywood, promptu numbers—a kind of “show 1^ her director, Ho Fei-kwan, Uncle comes to the rescue nobly. within a show”. are not “pitcures that move’-' as He’s known all about her love serious artists and “very hum- America knows them. Each film Some of the otJier musical pic in their work,” according to is an 11-foot strip containing 175 through the reports of a secret tures which, look of particular in Col. W. Mason Wright, who heads key scenes from the original. Each service man and grants his ap A GLAMOROUS modern terest are *Meet the People,” a U. S. Army film unit in China. frame is stopped on the screen proval. Though Eddie is not of mother is Marta Linden, who has “Right About Face,* a new Kay “What they are . unable to and a commentator tells what it’s royal blood, he comes of a family played mothers to both Mickey Kyser production, ’’Broadway achieve in elaborate production about. This is because shipping rich in the production of sons. Such Rooney and Virginia Weidler in Rhythm.” and “Girl Crazy” star a prolific, male strain delights they achieve by simplicity of de space is precious, operating skill •r.! a number of their M-G-M .Ht ring Mickey Rooney and Judy Gar sign and movement,” the colonel scarce. The tdns of millions still Uncle and the marriage is heartily land and featuring Jimmy Dorsey. have a surprise waiting them in sanctioned. pictures. wrote to The Hollywood Reporter. al •.z'i'V.i,, Confirming the predicted trend “Each shot is rehearsed until per postwar days when real movies Informed that his penniless refu away from heavy drama and war fect. Film is too precious to with sound come to them. DOt Lo.-1 .aLxic* indul^vd in by uh me ovi at tht Studio du. u.g li.c *i..mng gee is a royal princess, Eddie falls stories to more escapist entertain of Thousands Cheer” when he suddenly encounters three of the six-foot tall “Glamazons” featured in into an unhappy daze, where he un Yodels^ Too waste on bad takes. BEST BET. The City That ment, Mr. Link predicted that the “The studio is operated on mili the Technicolor musical extravaganza. They are, left to right, Bunny Waters, Helen Ford, and Helen comfortably remains until he is in upward rush in musicals and in use Stopped Hitler (Soviet Para formed that he must give up his of name bands as an integral partk tary lines. Miss Lee gets the wage mount). Stalingrad’s relentless O’Hara. of a lieutenant-colonel — about story. Introducing Katiska, the American citizenship to become a of stones would be a stable phase prince consort. He rebels, quarrels of Hollywood expansion and prob $400 Chinese a month. Her extras death rocket. bring the total up to about $2,000 Galaxy of Stars in Two Ragging with Uncle and the marriage is off. ‘-r e ably continue at equal pace for a Chinese a month. This would buy CORRECTION PLEASE. Diet- But Uncle did not reckon with long time to come. Joan Crawford a couple of pairs rich won’t wear pants of gold All-Time Screen Triumphs Maria. With the help of the famous of sheer stockings.” chain in Kismet (MGM) after all. The Scale White House Scottie, Falla, and the Wright says shooting in the The chain kept breaking. President of the United States, f fa'** 6? Perhaps never before have so many top-ranking stars appeared Maria and Eddie are married in the 'I ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★★★★ ★ > on one program as in the new shows showing this week at the Princess NEW DEAL right by a sleepy Supreme Court Theatre. Squinty and Gus are searching justice. ••'ll Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy and George Brent are starred in the Besides Charles Coburn, the sup picturization of Louis Bromfield’s best-seller, “The Rains Came,” for new talent to take part in their : ST/iR LIFELINES ; Friday night poker games. The porting cast of "Princess O’Rourke” 'far. Starts TODAY while Ronald Colman* Claudette regular suckers are shying away. includes Jack Carson and Jane X'f * Ry ETHEL VINE * Colbert, Rosalind Russell and Wyman. • Come on in, fellows, and get your t:' Victor McLaglen appear in Ouida’s Brunette feet wet. famed novel, “Under Two Flags.” POPULAR the Millionaire’s Club which was One of the few bona fide farm intended for Local 12. Weil, ■k—'fat All the fascinating, romantic I The committeeman for Finish girls in Hollywood today is Donna Madam, we can remember when characters of the Bromfield story Grind is finding himself very popu ANN RL’THER FORD is Reed, who was born on Jan. 27; you wanted to become a member of Whistling in Brooklyn,” be when snow locked the Iowa corn come to life in “The Rains Came.” lar with the fellows there since Local 12. Also, we know that your cause that is the title of her fields in a gripping white blanket. A drama of human emotions at they caught him staying after work husband is a member. We don’t see to squeal to the boss on what he She is appealing in “Dr. Gilles their peak, and the catastrophic any good reason for your animosity forthcoming M-G-M picture with thought he saw each day. Just a * pie’s Criminal Case,” her latest unless perhaps that $25 you get for Red Skelton. Ann got a glimpse powers of nature at their wildest, little suggestion to the boss—re under a longterm Metro-Goldwyn- being an officer in the Scale Work of the “Dodgers’* in action, as I® the picture has been hailed as one member a dog will carry a bone to Mayer contract, showing this week ers has changed your mind. It’s sur sequences were shot at Ebbets of the screen’s all-time “greats.” you, but he will also carry it away. at Loew’s New Valentine Theatre. The climax of the film, in which prising what a little money does to Field in Them Bums working William R. Mullenger is her an enormous dam breaks and adds ATTENTION HUNTERS some people. before the camera. father, who continues as a typical to the havoc of the flood that is Open season on stool pigeons. No farmer, while her mother, Hazel, already sweeping Ranchipur, is bag limit. One reported seen in still is a thoroughly competent one of the most spectacular scenes Dept. 25. These birds can be recog HOW LC2W5 farm woman. As a child, Donna ever brought to the screen. nized very easily by the whispered handled a variety of chores on the In “Under Two Flags,” the un conferences they hold with bosses. farm back home, including herding I? forgettable romantic novel of the 2 B*g Hits! with her brother, Keith, and two French Foreign Legion, romance MADAM SECRETARY VALENTINE younger sisters, Lavonne and and spectacle are again dominant. The recording secretary of the j > ST. CLAIR AT ADAMS gillie. Climax of the film comes in a Scale Workers Union, sometimes Determined to lead a career of lonely outpost in the Sahara, and affectionately known as Ma Per kins, was overheard talking in the her own ,Donna drove an old fam DONNA REED a valiant fight against overwhelm- ily jalopy to Los Angeles in 1938. ing» odds, while the memories of hall the other day while studying She was intent on a business New Star Colman and McLaglen burn with DOROTHY FORD, one of the the War Chest record. She said, as career and studied stenography remembrance Qf the women in six-foot beauties featured in she pointed to a certain depart and secretarial efficiency for two Miss Reed was the heroine in her their lives. M-G-M’c musical, “Thousands ment’s record book, “And these are years at Los Angeles City College. first picture with Robert Sterling Clarence Brown, famed for a Cheer,” is a favorite of the boys the fellows who went CIO”, and fol An afternoon job helped her pay as the leading man and Van Hef long list of cinematic achieve at the San Diego Naval Base. lowed this crack up with one about K.-t her way. lin as a federal sleuth. ments, directed “The Rains Buy STAMPS and BO^DS at LOEWS! Named campus queen in De Following her initial film role, Came,” while Frank Lloyd, equally cember, 1940, the attendant pub M-G-M cast her in “The Bugle acclaimed for his many triumphs, licity resulted in three telephone Sounds,” in which Wallace Beery directed “Unffer Two Flags.” calls by ag many studios within 24 was starred. This netted her a Both films are 20th Century-Fox SUPERIOR hours. However, in February, sizable part in “The Courtship of productions. at JEFFERSOH 1941, when she graduated, she Andy Hardy” and more important Esquire OPEN DAILY II A. M. I A N/- w took a screen test at Metro-Gold- assignments. She has also ap 30c UNTIL 6 P. M. wyn-Mayer. Van Heflin appeared peared in “The Human Cdinedy.” opposite her in the test and two Donna Reed has deep brown By Request da^ys latei" they were both cast by eyes, golden brown hair and is five 0 a the studio it) “The Get-Away.” feet three inches tall. She weighs Big Hits! 115 pounds. ' 2 RETURN ENGAGEMENT $ i CHAS.COBWN'OTiWMWN BUNDRO'S BAR Ji 3 SPEhCER TRACY t Kpnfnekv I • c