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Colleen Likes Ann Sheridan Gets Feminine Lead in Stardom Now Rarely Exists It Here, With ‘Winter Carnival* On the Ann Sheridan has been signed by Broadway Stage Walter Wanger for the leading fem- NEW YORK. Tearle nor Miss Rawlings, with only Reservations inine role in “Winter Carnival.” Miss BT the Auoclated Preu. the latter being excellent, and tha The star as it Sheridan, whose stellar achieve- system, used to be, critics cared very little for Mr. rarely exists on Broadway today. Tearle's production and even less Miss ments in the have Fitzgerald’s past year high- Stardom, in the back-stage world, for the play. lighted the season in Hollywood, is means that a player is View Is important One comforting thought is that Nothing that his name will be fea- quickly winning the reputation of enough whatever the merits of various the most tured above all advertising or other But Yellow Hills alluring American screen players in dramas and their re- exploitation of the play. beauty since Jean Harlow. spective ranks as players, there is Take the Broadway playbill of By Hubbard Keavy, In lending Ann Sheridan to Mr. a change in that authors are at today, and judge how the names at Associated Press 8taS Wanger, the Warner Bros. Studio last being given billing with stars, Writer. are featured. Raymond Massey is has favored that producer over three producers and scenic designers. HOLLYWOOD. starred in "Abe Lincoln of Illinois,” others who also were seeking her There was a time when There was something about Ger- but the fact that brought stardom Eugene services. Wanger’s reputation for O’Neill, W. Somerset aldine Fitzgerald Lindsay-Hogg’s there was that the play proved so Maughan, his sponsorship of Hedy Lamarr as Clare house that made it different from sensational it brought star quality Philip Barry, Boothe, Robert fllmdom’s outstanding glamor girl E. Sherwood, Elmer Rice other movieland houses. Although it to the leading character. and other and his Introduction to the screen writers would not be is and inside and it Judith Anderson is starred in advertised as large white, out, of a number of its foremost authors of •earned to be beauties, "Family Portrait,” which is right- their many hit plays. oppressive. were the factors in Miss deciding so because Today It is being recognized that was fully she has been starred I wondering why I didn’t like Sheridan’s first authors are assignment away in so as important if not as it when Geraldine many dramas in the past 10 and her husband, from her home studio. beautiful as stars. years and she is doubly so in this Miss Boothe is Edward Lindsay-Hogg, returned also In "Winter Carnival” she appears picture of the mother of Jesus. beautiful. from a delayed shopping trip. They as an American-born noblewoman In the "Hot Mikado” Bill Rob- apologized for being late and then who finds romance at one of Amer- inson is merely featured, but here announced they were getting ready ica’s gayest sports events, the Dart- is a performer who should be starred to go back to Ireland as soon as they mouth Winter Carnival. Her in both now and in can role, the dozens of mu- get away. addition to her the ,.>RUTORRDIO affording biggest sicals he has appeared in in the SERVICE ON When Geraldine came here, via acting of her > opportunity career, is past years. _ALL MAKES Broadway, from Dublin's Gate Thea- said also to give her her most elab- Nancy Carroll is starred in “I ter she said she knew she wouldn't orate screen wardrobe. Must Love Someone,” but the catch like Hollywood well enough to stay is that while Miss Carroll has been LiJULLIENlNtT^i indefinitely. And so, despite en- starred in the movies she hasn’t I443PST.N.W. N0.8075 treaties and she was al- promises, been on the stage. That billing is lowed to a Graham sign contract which keeps in striking contrast to “The Phila- her here (Continued Reminding You .. but six months at a time. From First Page.) delphia Story” in which Katharine The first period is about to end. Hepburn is merely featured in small next picture is with Dancer Eleanor phone ME. 0764 "Strange part of it is, we do like type, just as Sylvia Sidney and Powell. Whether the new combina- it here right well,” said Lindsay- Franchot Tone are billed the same tion will be successful remains to PROMPT RADIO Hogg, who prefers to be called Eddie way in “The Gentle People” despite 1 be seen. I like Fred and will be hereafter. His wife Personally my the fact that all three are starred SERVICE with 50c agreed. Ginger—although I don’t like Here is Ethel Waters, who got her training as an actress im- in movies. some of the by scripts they try to personating guests in the mirrors she used to wash at a Phila- You can to the established "But we think this house isn’t en- dance Jump to the winning post. with Willie in LEETH BROS. joyable,” added Geraldine. “There's delphia hotel, Bryant an exciting moment from hit of six years, “Tobacco Road,” Norma Shearer has had "Mamba’s Her AUTO RADIO SPECIALISTS about it .” more than Daughters.” performance was adjudged the best and find Eddie Garr starred in that something Geraldine likes a mild her Fitzgerald Lindsay-Hogg Hollywood—in share of mistcastlng recently, of the season by Mark Barron, Associated Press drama critic. extravaganza. Garr is a vaudeville 122013th N.W. 8 a.m. to 8 "We can't see anything,” sort p.m. explained of way—say about six months a year. What's more her but I think she is absolutely right (Story on page F-l.) —Associated Press Photo. performer who has succeeded the her husband, me to look to see urging contract reads so she san have her Hollyivood just that way, and for the gentle Mary Haines in "The half dozen different actors who have if I could see something they hadn’t leave it too. Press —Associated Photo. Women,” although, as I stated in been Jeeter Lester, none stars but seen. "Were sort of hemmed in should have stopped making movie best picture made by Douglas Fair- by this column recently, I think Joan now Garr is billed as that. hills.” love to movie maidens 20 two banks, jr„ with Doug in the swash- Tender Bent? Crawford is wrong for the "other aged Stardom is a nebulous Geraldine said, obviously thinking personality who says she woke up role of really qual- That was it. woman.” buckling Rupert of Hent- Looking through years ago—at least. on and on 1aurV&nl..Stsus! of the blue-green of her own hills. one morning, about five years ago, zau. His worst was ity Broadway, probably windows on three sides the “Having Won- of living “You Talking about isn’t it I understand it was Bette Davis any other theatrical street. It is might be victims of claustro- with her mind fully made up to go Joan, high derful in which was COMPLETE AUTO SERVICE room, one could see Time,” Doug only steep hills— time she was cast as odd the actors and actresses phobia.” I suggested, tentatively. on the stage. Up to that time she something who suggested the postponement a way “Whose is typical everyday young man. And Service for Car! green tinged by yellow,” "That's it!” exclaimed other than of "The Miracle." in which she want their names featured. For in- Any Any the Lind- had been studying art. Her voice the-girl-who-was-born- yet producers seem to prefer cast- “But we re a poor-and-rises-to-riches? Yes, this will the nun who comes to a bad stance, M. Cohan or Katha- say-Hoggs. victims only was too high, director told her, play ing him as the latter in typical George a happens to her in “The In her recent Bette rine Cornell can their names in mild sort of way.” and suggested she lower it again Wom- end. pictures everyday dull pictures with duller display Central Auto Works Attractions en.” How can we believe in the has run the of in in the most with Coming “When we come back,” Eddie de- "I spent three months working on gamut misery box-office grosses. They could make insignificant type, 443 Eye St. N.W. Dl. 6161 “we'll a on poor-girl part of Joan's movies when "Jezebel," in which she fades out the exception that Miss Cornell does clared, get house top of my voice, and then I went on the millions on Doug if he were given PALACE—The Samuel Goldwyn we know she has insist that her one of those hills.” stage,” she says. And apparently it earned millions going to her death in a yellow fe- the right roles. Katharine be spelled production of Emily Bronte’s her 10 There is no doubt the Lindsay- was as simple as all that. She during years of front-rank ver colony; "Dark Victory,” in which with an “A,” but their names are is on the When George Raft is cast other •'Wuthering Heights" Hoggs will be back. So far this assorted roles at the stardom? she goes blind before dying; sure signs of stardom to their au- 1 BRAKE LINING played Gate, than as a schedule next, set for open- gangster, or dance man, diences. year, Geraldine is the movies’ most made a few pictures in England and An example of consistently good "Juarez,” where she goes crazy.