1933-10-28 [P B-14]
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WAR SHADOW % l I NEWS DRAMA Jack Pearl Makes His Bow O’Neill s Whirl at Comedy J GIVES PLOT { Comedy Team at the Rialto IS UNFOLDED AT COLUMBIA Movie Bid of As a Star of the Movies TO VIVID PLAY , Brings $100,000 Miss and Frances Dee Leads Spirited Bidding Ends There With Culver City But “Meet the Baron" Has a Group of Featured Stanwyck Studio Winner, Hollywood Going Lewis and His Musicians Mr. at Comedians—Ted Kruger f Junior League. Produce Harmony in Gran d Old Manner. S the Earle. Incidents. My Mollie Merrick. E. de S. Melcher. AYS that illuminate the heart of Incident* of news »nd By jyjAGNlFlED Calif., October 28.—Happy days seem to be here nationalism, it the period of war, picture gathering among the big again for playwrights, with M. G. M. paying what the boys in the new at Loew's is a stories furnish the background of Hollywood call ‘‘a hunnerd gran”—one hundred thousand dol- (i EET THE BARON.’’ comedy fyx, shoot out of the pl^y. ‘‘Ever in My \ \ in which this country’s most “Headline Shooter/' the new film at HOLLYWOOD,lars to you—for Eugene O'Neill's hit, “Ah, Wilderness frolic /\/l mad and amusing Heart,” -which presents, at the Earle 1 make Some of our favorite nitwits Four weeks of with almost / V A insane clov.ns sprightly. and Otto the Columbia Theater. and bidding, every in the Zasu and Theater. Barbara Stanwyck Earthquakes company busi- _Jimmie Durante, Jack Pearl. Ted Healy. Pitts, ness coming in on the deal, ended in the Culver in situations which are other catastrophes come in rapid suc- City studio paying even Edna Oliver—run around as they may. Kruger typical May gathering laughs this topnotch price for the gayest drama of adolescence our of those experienced by men and women cession, and there Is a in which American in a film which is and always ridiculous. It plot genius has yet written. rowdy, naughty, funny an both sides of the Atlantic when persons who are guilty of unfalthfui of film comedies Walter Huston may play the Cohan part. Cohan is. however, one of the more entertaining receipt :lreir loyalty was questioned. performance of contract duties attempt George himself at which will (barring Miss West's furor at the Palace), and one yes- Depth ot the anguish that may have to prevent their shortcomings from be- be producing on the Fox lot this year. Or again, Lionel off.” Barry- terdays first high school audience “laughed its head come to some of those who were put on coming known to the public. They re- more may get the role. nave Been trained to smile neiore The purpose of th» film is to present and the grill may easily be understood by sort to violence and detention of those —»jiu uuuuy OI that is baf- in- is c-ary urant—will lead “Baron Munchausen,” alias Jack Pearl, the camera with a coyness an audience watching the admirable who have the evidence of Hollywood really going junior a their faulty bride to the altar, according to cur- motion audiences. Full of and The main of two league In a great big way. A few years to picture fling alarming. point terpretation given by these splendid work. rent gossip, during the month of De- comes when these stand- to be found ago a lot of actresses were represented radio honor, medals, beard and all. Mr. the plot girls, actors. There is also much Apparently the purpose Is to reveal cember. Vivian Gaye, manageress of as from the leisure class—the Pearl saunters into the picture world lug under the year’s trickiest showers, ; that reaches the soul of the observer in some of the excitement and in- coming Sari | peril Marltza, has been Randy Scott * with that of words in- find themselves showerless—and Mr. the mutual devotion of the American volved In such service as wealthy group—or the exclusive social ability gargling j is performed idea, for some time now. Randv and stead of them, and making and his are asked to her German j set. Then investigation claimed that speaking Healy "stooges” girl and professor-husband, by these "headline shooters”; to show 1 Cary have the same that old clan of occupied house on as over the come and fix them. At this the storms the common they belonged to good much fuss English language point as the of unthinking prejudice interest that is to be found these hyar hills. And if one marries, [ middle class—which isn't a as does Jimmie Durante. As a pseudo film's dialogue is unprintable. beat upon them. Notwithstanding the among the experts, and to create a ro- gay, hearty why not t’other? them. explorer who returns to this country * * # * fine record of Miss Stanwyck, it is mance between a "sob sister" and the thing against in the Baron's he is welcomed doubtful if she has ever before reached camera man However, to go on to the first subject. is disguise, rPHIS week's stage show at the Fox of the news reel. Destruc- Gary Cooper still seen about with with crowned w’ith is seen in We now have the social elect in our Lindbergh honors, the point of perfection that tion on a large scale becomes a matter Sondra Shaw. She is the very lovely is is turned over in its entirety to Ted midst. There's Elizabeth Young. 18. blond who a great many more, and finally asked the quiet display of a growing affection of dally routine, and the combined array sometimes takes the part of Lewis, that idol of young America who has and daughter of Judge William Young Ann to Cuddle-on-the-Hudson, where a for the man of another race who of news stories has the fascination of Harding in very youthful sequences. refuses to grow old. Mr. Lewis not only orbit. With ot New who the girls’ college wants him to speak. been brought into her their gathering, carried to the extreme. York, ideally personifies And she looks enough like Ann to make does not get old. but he gets better. He A of a Here troubles and Ted Healy and superb acting, she is further aided by Fiances Dee. as the woman reporter, new regime. graduate Spence's, good at such times in a remains one of the real of very convincing Zasu Pitts begin. Mr. Healy. to our geniuses the almost human service of the has a role success on the stage, she is now in manner. •'show” that is well fitted to her There’s no keeping the girls of steals the show. With business. to the in the Garbo Her way thinking, camera, and as an introduction personal characteristics, with the stoic Hollywood picture. away from Cooper. He has that male his of havd-hpaded he Yesterday's matinee proved that the mother is a Schermerhorn. one of the gang ‘stooges.’' hard experiences of the world struggle. bearing of a person who is never sur- and helpless manner so typical of the Lewis menthods. unique in stagecraft fine old Dutch families of New York. pops up here and there, knocking his It prepares the mind for a completed prised. and the capacity for enthusiastic cowboy, which makes them all think on the music lore, have not either become antiquated a of the Allen Is a of a yes-men head, playing plav that is marked by phase devotion to her which lets no Judeth product select it's to be a □r a profession going cinch until on certain shower-bath and be- stodgy. Against dimly lighted back- ideal of in the East and pipes war that defies any obstacle stand in the finishing school daugh- Part of the until is a he still his ‘‘And When psychology “SLIM” SUMMERVILLE AND ZASU PITTS way of a perfect manager by having so unseemly that even Edna ground presents and can only be associated William and ter of Mrs. Marie Elliott, socialy promi- name of Jack Moss. He at humanity In a scene from "Love. Honor and Oh. Baby!” the new Universal film which performance. Gargan travels every- May Oliver comes in for the kind of My Baby Smiles Me,” his more than that wins. nent in Boston. with the spirit Its week run at the Rialto. Ralph Bellamy make up a triangle where with Cooper. When a duenna is ac- effective “Isn't She a Pretty Thing'’ are in an began today mauling she is not generally Scenes of the production which carries both the romantic interest wanted, Jack Moss and "she” is) and other novelties. Frances Fuller Is a niece of United is the duenna rie customed to. Jazz American village and among the people and the humor luxe of This his best number i which is a feature of the world. When he is not Mr. Healv's debut is quite as auspici- season, however, behind the lines in France. Charges States Senator Byrne of South Carolina the whole production. From the news wanted Le Moss has a way of letting ous as that of Mr. Pearl's. He and is devoted to Peanuts,” in which he Inflamed the and attended finishing schools in against Germany had standpoint. Mr. Bellamy is an outsider the ground open up and swallow nim. have been tosses peanuts into the hats of happy Charleston, Washington and New York. Pearl and Durante wisely put j people back home, and the young pro- Having won the favor of the He is for school and watches his little young a formal bow to be- good quotes, and has learned together.