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Y^FRIDAY^ and MRS yam: 11:30 am., 1:35, S:30, 6:10, His Name Is Never in 7:35 and 3:45 pm. Film for Frances Where and When Prances Lights, Colombia—"I Take This Woman,” Parmer wiU join George Current Theater Attractions with Spencer Tracy and Hedy La* Brent and Humphrey Bogart in » But He Could Put It There marr: 11:15 a.m., 1:30, 3:25, 5:30, “Money and the Woman." which and Time of Showing 7:35 and 3:41 pm. Warner Bros, will from National—"Streets of Paris," rol- produce Little—“The Lion Has Wings,” Guthrie McGlintic, Hand licking musical with Carmen Mi- James M. Cain’s adaptation of his Guiding powerful and dramatic ones: 11:15 randa: 8:30 own novel. Kurt Of Turned Director pm. am., 1:10, 2:55, 4:35, 6:20, 8 and Bernhardt, who ‘Key Largo,* Earle—"Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bul- 9:45 p.m. directed “Crossroads of the World," let," of a noted scientist: Not Chance biography Trans-Lux—News and shorts; recent Importation, will direct By Choice, 10:15 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:05 and 10 continuous from 10 a.m. \ "Money and the Woman.” By JAY CARMODY. p.m. Stage shows: 12:05, 3:05,8 and 8:55 His name never goes up in lights nor does he ever get notices as a pm. _AMUSEMENTS._ _AMUSEMENTS._ player, but believe you the actors with whom Guthrie McClintic works, Capitol—“Broadway Melody of the husband of Katharine Cornell is a man who could achieve both if 1940,” with Eleanor Powell and Fred he tried. Mr. McClintic has become a director by choice. It gives him a Astaire: 10:45 am., 1:35, 4:25, 7:15 I ■ ■ chance to work with the drama on a much more expansive scale than and 10 pm. Stage shows: 12:45, ¥ woulo be possible were he to limit himself to an acting role. 3:35, 6:25 and 9:10 pm. J |1 Mr. McClintic, whose name comes to mind (when Paul Muni’s Keith’s—“Vigil In the Night.” anouia; in connection witn iveys Carole Lombard goes dramatic in a Largo” which he directed, started 11:35 McClintic directed plays illustrates hospital: am., 1:35, 3:35, 5:35, his professional career as an actor. 7:35 and 9:35 starts TOMORROW the point. “Mamba's Daughters," pm. That was shortly after his quick of course, was melodrama. “No Palace—"Gone With the Wind," surrender of the University of You’ll Laugh ... Love... and Cheer This Hit Time for Comedy” was a drawing- with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Washington—the Pacific Washing- room and Continuous performance from 9:45 That’s Made for the of the Grin! ton—in favor of the curriculum of comedy “Key Largo,” Wearing which comes to the National on am. through 2:45 p.m. Reserved the New York's Academy of I It’ll You Dublin’ With Monday, is tragedy in the Maxwell seat showing at 8 pm. Keep Up Howls,..! Dramatic Art. The major trouble Anderson manner. An eclectic with him as an actor turned out per- Metropolitan—"His Girl Friday,” son, Mr. McClintic. Rosalind Russell to be not his acting, but the fact in a gay newspaper The of actors who meet I Priscilla r Thomas that he could not from variety keep being with McClintic direction in the fascinated by all other aspects of AMUSEMENTS. course of an average season will __ the theater. That, obviously, is a LANE" 5 t** tell MITCHELL I any curious person that the most unactorlike performance and man who works as their maestro is by way of atonement for it, Mr. still fundamentally an actor. He I McClintic became a director. ("Key I has hands as eloquent as any mu- Largo” will be his third contribu- TONIGHT AT 8:30 ‘THREE CHIUS ^IRISH' sician’s, eyes that can turn as hor- NEXT MATINEE RAT. *:*0 A tion to the National's season, the LAST • Warner Bros. Drama with rified as any in the business over T'"H Comedy other two having been "Mamba’s All-Star a hammy feature, a voice of sur- Big All-Girl Bitl Daughters” and “No Time for BOBBY CLARK • prising range, pitch and volume and Dennis MORGAN Alan HALE Comedy.”) LlIELLA || CARMEN a body as fluid as a dancer’s. NOT ONLY DISASTERS—Good in threes GEAR l| MIRANDA « As a director Mr. McClintic is a things, too, travel sometimes, as witness the Dennis Sis- IRENE HERVEY WILLIAM LUNDIGAN Of the McClintic mind, also an im- ters. The beautiful object lesson for those lassies are featured singers with Ted Lewis' Orchestra, opening tomorrow on the Earle portant factor in successful direc- Hollywood and Broadway geniuses stage. tion the McClintic admirers insist it The Master Showman is Back in the same business who all High-Hatted spend is one of the most adventurous as .*J.‘T5,N*-A-0*rNK" HOFFMAN their time being worried lest they ENTIRE BROADWAY FRODUCTION well as the most gifted in show tures a at $50,000 should be typed. He has an amaz- year per picture. lit. Navt Mail, Evi., Mar. 11 *'»« s»i» business. That, indeed, is why Mr. And it's a waste of time offering ingly simple and effective way of That in TED LEWIS & his ORCH. McClintic prefers his present role Title him $49,099. It’s or avoiding being typed, merely by not Change $50,000 nothing. in the theater- As an actor he might doing the same type of play until fAIIL MUNI «IC be limited to one role, perhaps two, a/ndffaAU’MeM! Hmce he has done another type of play. Siaqe in a season. As a director he has Mr. ‘Tobias and A casual review of the last three Caught Rathbone Angel’ an to create several £%£& KEY All-New Talent RADIO ACES opportunity E»m LARGO featuring Including I.•» * *" «*. *.»«. Mat. Wa«. 1 dozen, which cover a far more sat- Is * !•».. Performance in Edison Role King-Smith Play 1.15, *.tO, 1.75. Tax incL I THE HACKERS • MARIE • isfactory area of human nature and Tracy’s "Tobias and the Angel,” which HOLLIS DENNIS SISTERS the circumstance it is likely to meet. Pleases of opens at the King-Smith Studio BETTY JANE SMITH • CHARLES (Snowball) WHITTIER THEATER PARKING He likes directing for that reason Daughter Inventor; Playhouse Saturday night, will bring more Keinert Wolff, the direc- 6 P.M. TO perhaps than any other, even playhouse Week March 10-16 .last DAY “Story of DR. EHRLICH'S MAGIC BULLET’’ i C. B. S. RADIO REVUE ‘Turnabout’ Is Work a if it never him before an Easy tor, before Washington audience ■ brings i 12 p.m. audience as an for the first time. j*y° actor gets before an By SHEILAH GRAHAM. BELASCO THEATRE audience. Mr. Wolff, supported by a cast of CAPITAL GARAGE HOLLYWOOD. * * * * students at the King-Smith school, 1320 N. Y. Aye., Bet. 13th & 14th When Basil Rathbone was handed a scenario titled "The Monster,” LUISE RAINER will play the Archangel Raphael, Van Dine Story Speaking of the behind-the- he gave it back to Paramount without reading it. A wise man in the studio In Penan I A S. S. the role he created in the first Battling scenes personalities of “Key Largo,” retitled it "Destiny” and sent the same script back to Rathbone. He read American production of the comedy in George Bernard Shaw's LOANS there is Maxwell Anderson, another it, liked it, and assures me on the set that it is not a horror picture. “I’m seven years ago. VANCE” important contributor to the vehicle with horror and Basil. "A man has PHILO 74 years of buying, selling and through villainy,” says only so many "Tobias I “CALLING and the Angel” is the story SAINT JOAN " which will star Mr. Muni. villains in him, and I’ve played <>- A Warner Bros. Mystery with on diamonds, etc. of a god who takes a on \ lending jewelry, Mr. Anderson, who used to be an Hu mine. holiday Directed by Erwin Piscator Liberal Loans at Lowest Possible Rates. cap. (Lucky it’s the boss holding up earth, here amusing himself by per- old newspaperman himself, as nearly Basil tells me the story of “Des- the production!) forming sleight-of-hand tricks with GALA OPENING | every one seems to have been, has tiny.” Rathbone tomorrow JAMES STEPHENSON CASH FOR OLD GOLD Menjou is dressed, fit to kill, in a the lives of human beings. It was EVENINGS at S:M A5e le II.M T0I*° a number of qualities which news- is a psychiatrist MATS.—Wed., Sat. at 2:30 Me to midcct ClFVtNSQH MB HBU (Government License) black cutaway (with an oversized one of the successes of the London (2 papermen admire, not the least of with a killing Seat! Non on Sale at white carnation in his lapel) and theater in the 1930 season. WASHINGTON CIVIC THEATER them an unwillingness to succumb to complex. He kills BIS 14th St N W. Phone DI. 1000 E. HEIDENHEIMER black and white striped trousers. He RED behests to be interviewed. It is his his first wife and AMUSEMENTS. CROSS BENEFIT Established 1866 shares a dressing room with his notion that a writer’s writings should the man with LOAN OFFICE 1215 H St. N.W. wife. It's funny to watch them pre- 505 Klnc St., be a pretty good explanation of whom she has tend to upstage each other.
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