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Bishop,” Martha Scott as a sort of AMISEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. Midwestern, feminine Mr. Chips: 11 at Where and When a.m.. 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 p.m. Lady Eve/ Palace, 6:30 and NOW SHOWING IfThe Current Theater Attractions Stage shows: 12:55, 3:45, 9:15 p.m. 4th and Florida N.E. Time of Bit of Nonsense and Showing Earle—“The Great Lie,” roman- fA Gay Stage. tic drama with Bette Davis: 11 version a.m„ 1-40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. The Human National—“Theater,” stage DIAMOND FRONTIER Sturges Touch, Very One, the Somerset novel, Stage shows: 12:55, 3:40, 6:25 and of Maugham VICTOR M'lA&LIN Otis Skinner: 8:30 9:10 p.m. Makes with Cornelia I_I Stanwyck-Fonda Comedy Sea p.m. Metropolitan—“The Wolf," 19—THRILLING RIDkS—19 of Screen. piracy on the high seas: 11 a.m., SO— HIGH-CLASS SHOWS->0 A Merry Sort Jest 5—FREE ACTS—6 Keith’s—“The Devil and Miss 1:35, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 pm. “NIGHT OF THE MAYAS” Featuring By JAY CARMODY. Jones,” bright comic affair with Little—“The Emperor Jones,” with <La Noche de lot Manas) about 2:30 as we it became Arthur: 11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:25, Mexican Prize-Winning Film Fome time last fall, p.m, remember it, Jean Paul Robeson: 11 am, 12:45, 2:35, Spanish Language with English Sub-titles March of apparent the movies were about to have a new “touch” to supplement the 5:30, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. 4:20, 6:10, 8 and 9:50 p.m. SUNDAY, APRIL 20 ZACCHINI 7:15 and 9:25 Shot from a cannon over 2 Ferris Wheel* Lubitsch, Capra and other touches. The Preston Sturges’ touch, this one Time: 1, 3:05, 5:10, Columbia—“Tobacco Road,” with X shows: 5, 7 and 0 PM. seems safe now to welcome the touch CHILDREN S DAY Vsvas to be. It completely Sturges’ p.m. Charley Grapewin as the screen's JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER a established and highly welcome thing. The new ro- Kith and Q Sts. X.W. SATURDAY ™;as definitely justification Palace—“The Lady Eve,” Jeeter Lester: 11:20 a.m., 1:20, 3:25, Admission f>5c. Including Tax. “The a 1 5c—All All Shows—5c t therefore, is iiis third picture, Lady Eve,” sparkling, nonsensical mantic comedy by Preston Sturges: 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 p.m. Auspices Washington Chapter Rides, Rescue Ship Mission * fr romance revolving aDout a naive 12:05, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40 p.m. Trans-Lux—News and shorts; con- _American arms of “THE LADY EVE.” a Paramount pro- ! man in the — 10 am. *'young trapped duction starring Barbara Stanwyck and Capitol “Cheers for Miss tinuous from ft sophisticated lady. With the Henry Fonda Produced by Paul Jones, | written and directed by Preston Sturges. t a s s lonate co- AMUSEMENTS. :p At the Palace. AMUSEMENTS.__ __ so to The Cast. Operation, Jean Barbara Stanwyck *peak,of Barbara Charles Henry Fonda •'Colonel” t a and Harrington Charles Coburn JS nwyck Mr. Pike Eugene Pallette enry Fonda, Muggsy William Demarest BeUeitjieahd Ttiumpk Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith Eric Blore a -gives quality Gerald Melville Cooper «of freshness to a Martha Martha O’Driscoll Mrs. Pike_Janet Beecher which has itJest j Burrows _ Robert Creig Held Over the i Gertrude _Dora Clement l^vertaxed Pike’s chef _Luis Alberni —ingenuity of j Lscores of other watching her female shipmates fail and ; Feature At 1100 am.-1:40 425-7:10• 9:55 p.m. Jwriters in their efforts to snag the rich directors whose young man. has him in her state- » names are better room putting on her shoes, all within forgotten. the space of a few minutes. A There is really short time later she has him back revolu- nothing again, cozily discussing love and tionary about Jay C'armody. BETTE DAVIS marriage with only the lightest of method of writing ana in Warner Bros. Sturges emphasis upon the latter. Either a All he does is directing picture. sequence might have fallen with a his characters into a divide proper noisy plop into bad taste, but of saints and sinners, proportion Sturges is so gay and deft, and his on the latter, and with the accent players likewise, that the impulse to life can let them show how merry brood sinister implications into the it is not taken too seriously. be when interval hasn't a chance. It merely "The That's all he does in Lady looks seasonal. makes Eve" but the Sturges’ touch Tlie real magic of the writer- a lot more. the it, look like Happily, director of “The Lady Eve comes in * is such that one is likely deception a later passage in which he makes Astor that the Brent to overlook the fact one accept without argument the its Mary in George romance is laggard reaching notion that the young man could be consummation and that Stugrse lets dumb enough to be taken in by a Plus GALA STAGE SHOW an occasional cliche get mixed in trick of mistaken identity. It's bother with the frivolity. Don't sheer nonsense, and it's fun. LORRAINE & ROGNAN-BEN YOST’S in your head about either weakness When his frivolity requires the CONTINENTALS-THE HELLMAN’S The Lady Eve.” They are weak use of plain slapstick, the director in new Dances weaknesses. of "The Lady Eve" uses it boldly. and ROXYETTES the star He makes a really funny rifhning HORROR, 1941 STYLE—Lon Chaney, jr„ son of famed As by Sturges, the hero of a series of in another • Warner Bros. imagined gag out soup-spillings, who his own quota of movie fans day, rich man who frightened (Fonda) is a young pratt-falls, etc., which in the course to become today’s successor to Franken- in dons the above disguise has wasted his substance scientific of a dinner party take his hero Monster, in the picture stein’s monster. He's the “Man Made study, a young man charmed by through three formal suits, ending °' Theaters Hatinr Matinees. which arrives next Friday at the Metropolitan. EARIE snakes instead of pursuing knowl- up in white dinner jacket. It must of that name, ACADEMY p"«'r" L. Lawrence Phillips Theatre Beautiful AMBASSADOR * ;«• and notoriety in the bettah be ( from .*» PM. *K edge genius. Next ontinuoUK Mat I PM. He from a year * * * * Coming Friday GINGER ROGERS Starring in BETTE DAVIE GEORGE night spots. emerges 10 that she would DANCING._ BRENT in does score and years "THE GREAT LIE” “KITTY •THE GREAT LIE With MARY the Amazon—and all that Miss Stanwyck, who possibly has FOYLE,” ASTOR. At 1:05. up re a 11 v married life. IRENE DUNNE & CARY GRANT J:I0. 5:20. 7.25. fall favorite actress in the prefer GOOD DANCERS With DENNIS MORGAN and JAMES to a young man—to (literally) not been your should be lured CRAIG Also Just why one anv Katherine Im- a ad- one of most are a social asset to ALSO HELD OVER into the clutches of lovely past, has her engaging of Rumba 561? Conn. into such serious contemplation prove your Fox-Trot. Walts, Tanso, -“PENNY SERENADE” “GLAMOUR FOR SALE.” AVAf ON Aye. N W. venturess (Miss S.) In the midst roles as the at the ftlALUHlVo. 2IUMI Mat. M sophisticated young lady a cinematic heroine in and Conta 1 P j the life of __With_ANITA LOUISE._ Special Holidav Matinees All This of him the old whamho at in "The Lady Eve.” So does Fonda,! we AT AMBASSADOR on JOE COOK in Person IX!h * Mass. Aye TH. iVO. 4HO0 giving this weather, is something JACK ROLLINS STUDIOS stage APPY Week—| PM. a • show Place of the Natian’a Capital GEORGE BRENT ANN bridge, with the co-operation of who is working an extremely far it Is a 1011 Conn. Ave. DF. 5770 SHERIDAN couldn't answer. Possibly free Parking for Over 5INI Cars in JHONEYMOON FOR THREE 'At father (Charles Coburn) cry from those dramatic roles which 1.05, 2 50. 4 .'I*', scampish tribute to Miss Scott's performance “SO ENDS OUR NIGHT.” 6:15, S. 0 40. and another associate, she betrays he prefers. He cuts a fine comic in- and to a picture which proves AMUSEMENTS._ With FREDRIC MARCH. MARGARET her calling as adventuress by fall- figure all the way through Sturges’ to overcome the SULLIVAN. Friday Feature a’ 1 :3h. AVE GRAND teresting enough 4:18, 8:54. ft::p.\ Saturday Feature at in love with the goon. It has never a finer one than his the Special Holidav Matinees All Thil ing picture, induced by ~. 4:38. 8:54. Kiddies' lackadaisical mood ft:3«». Saturday Week—1 P.M. thousands of times, maybe mounting horror during a passage Miss SHow Starts at 1 P.M. MADEI.EINE happened heat. At any rate, the Bishop CARROLL MR ED MaC- more, in but colored by in which Miss S. is making up a 1331 H st NF- ATI 8300 ML'RRAY in "VIRGINIA All pictures, film is the sort of person Now rtlLJAJATI AQ •*105. of this Open Daily Matinee 1 P M. 5:15. 7:25. J*:35. it is something to laugh cavalcade of past and disastrous a woman Sturges, one likes to contemplate, 1 f. M. TO MIDNITE On Screen at as if it were an item w4iich romances with which to torture his finding her.