-—*- -v**^^ppp* . iff i jri^^Ti"r *»»»«» TlTim they arc not dancing together, PAULETTE GODDARD and FRED ASTAIRE borrow Artie Shaw’s horn to keep the rhythm going in “ HEDY LAMARR the musical comedy picture, Second Chorus,” showing at the Michigan. CLARK GABLE is telling FELIX BRESSART and that tlicir plans for escape to America depend upon thr utmost caution •Br K _ i if recy during th> coUrst XTf tfti Russ%aH comedy, “Comrade X,” now Hollywood ‘Discovers’ America 'cMt JhBBBbI in its thud week at the United Artists. As It Loses the European Market Detroit to See Ist Play Authored By LOI'ELLA O. PARSONS HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 4.,' By Golden Boy From Golden Gate OTANDING as we are on the ‘ very threshold of 1941 with .1 clean book for our records, It 'The Time Your is gratifying to those of us who of Lifcf MOVIE FARE love the motion picture industry by William Saroyan MICHIGAN—“Second Chorus," starring Fred Astaire and to look back over 1940 and to at Cass Monday Paulette Goddard. . for ourselves how many FOX “Hudson's Bay,” starring Paul Muni and Gene ctents belong on the cradit side Tierney. oT the ledger. By CH \RI.ES GENTRY UNITED ARTISTS —"Comrade X." starring Clark Gable At the beginning of the year Golden Boy from the Hollywood was fared with its t’PHAT and Hedy Lamarr; "The Long Voyage Home." starring gravest crisis, a loss'of 40 per Golden Gate, William Saro- John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell and lan Hunter. ••cnT of it* foreign market, and yan, who hav crashed hi* wav PALM-STATE —“Love They Neighbor," starring Jack .1 i« to the everlasting credit of through tiie rigid ranks of Benny, Fred Allen and Mary Martin; "Texas Rangers motion picture makers that so m® apr vrellent is the grade of enter- America’s leading playwrights, is Ride Again," starring John Howard, Ellen Drew and tainment turned out that 194 b iho author of "The Time of Your Akim TamirofT. jj^^H actually symbolizes a record for Life," opening Monday night at ADAMS—"Thief of Bagdad," starring June Duprez, Sabu, more fine pictures than any pre- ' *** % tE' the Cass Theater. John Justin and Conrad Veidt; “Sandy Gets Her Man," > ceding year. ¦'.* > - a '+'- ¦> '< * h t W This he the first Saroyan starring Sandy. dK. s * will Baby Discover America U.i/' \ ¦*„ ¦ L-\ Furthermore. Hollywood dis- play Detroit will see and it is CINEMA "Queen of Destiny," starring Anna Neagle; a > * covered America and in the year ' ~* one of his most successful ef- film concert, featuring Paderewski. '' •* ; just passed we had more real Vv i4l forts: and one for w hich he re- American screen plays and finer fused boih the Pulitzer and New in an old wooden house on San stance." with Sir Cedric Hard- appreciation great of America s York Drama Critics' awards. Franciseo Bay with his ' mother w’ieke. men than at any time in the hu ' tory of motion picture*. N ”V*/^ Revitalizes Theater and sister. Disdaining a com- Incidentally there is still • Je£v The loss of the European mar- fortable New York a[>artrncn f' last chance to see “Hellzapop- ' * ** ‘ The consensus of opinion ” ket made it essential for the •A j*r/ he prefers to do all of his work ptn' for an extra performance, producers to turn out no pic- among even those who deny his bundled up sweaters in an un- the final will ture that the great American Lovely GESE TIERS'EY as she appears genius and consider him some- in one. be given thii public would not appreciate and in thr role of Lady Barbara opposite Paul thing of a bumptious upstart, is heated room with all the win- evening at the Cass, to accom- enjoy. Muni in thr stirring adventure drama, “Hud- lhat the young man from San dows open. He sits Surrounded modate those who were unable Britain's plight and America's Francisco has brought some- by a litter of magazines and to get seats before. needs this past year became son’s Bay,” current on Fox Theater screen. thing new, vital and refreshing Hollywood’s problem. the Certain is manuscripts which make him own In to theater. it that chain-smoking Mystery Revue Next my years have know n he has defied convention with an and his no mean : all I never Keyhole Portrait >d^Lj£^ such generous giving. Under the abandon which would make the fire hazard. Following the Saroyan play i /-B^Orra*- on leadership of Samuel Goldwyn sedate take reluge in an air raid Mother His Critic Sunday. January 12. Dante the Red Cro«s raised $440.1YX) shelter. and Moi-Yo Miller will open and with Louis B Mayer’s help As a playwright ho is as the- While the radio is going in- with their mystery revue. "Sim | yS^p the Community Chest's budget Bressart’s Mustache atrical as any of the characters cessantly. he types all of his Sala Bim." was increased to $405,000. he creates and the legends about stories or plays and then gives This is magic 4 described as a I The Motion Picture Relief. him during the past two years them to his mother to read, ex- show with a musical comedy Ann Lehr's Guild and other or- legion. that he to and t are cept has translate twist judging from its ac- v, r ;'v ganizations profited from Hol- Never the Same Twice all into Armenian them before claim on Broadway is certainly lywood's giving spirit. By HARRIET Colorful or Affected? his mother can act as critic. much more professional and \ „ IB B>**- rARSONS JS entertaining presentation Sp*«i»l is the of a play than J^B * Chaplin'» to THE DETROIT TIMES Although he has been writing Such author > "VP9 Film V”it- short stories for some time, it is which had New York critics that which the Cass offered last M ah. BBBBBBRr things hap- HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 4 doing year. Many of Interest only within the |>ast two seasons handsprings last, season J()H\ Jt'STIX ns the charming prince pened in 1940. Charlie Chaplin OIS mustache is his trade mark. It's never the same twice, hut and which we shall see for the it's distinctive, that he has achieved such wide- end JUSE DL'PREZ as the exotic princess made a comedy—" The Great always because Felix Bressart laboriously spread as a dramaturgist. first time Monday evening. creates a new nose for each he plays. fame provide th( enchanting romantic atmosphere Dictator" and admitted his tickler role Ever since he He lives up to his role with a The leading roles will be Institute Acquires marriage to made hfs debut as Grow whirl!, Paulette Goddard. the music teacher in "Three Smart Girls picturesque passion his played by Dowling and is the highpoint of the Technicolor. Up" been in which Eddie ‘ Walter Wanger, who was criti- Bressart has demand. enemies, mostly other play- Julie Haydon. who was last seen Arobin n Sight spectacle, The Bag- the hilarious New Exhibit Thief of cized severely in 19.19 for It was his performance as one of the three Soviet wrights. sheer as the Car- dad," call affectation. here Brigid in Paul AN now its its second week at the Adams. quality of his pictures, came commissars in "Ninotchka" which really put him over as a comedy According to report, he lives roll play, "Shadow and Sub- EXHIBITION of modem back with two outstanding epics sensation. Felix longed to come painting';, assembled by the Mu- --"Foreign Correspondent" and to the United States from the seum of Modem Art in New " York is the shown "The Long Voyage Home time saw his first first to be In Women and Youth Pay Richard Greene David Niven. he American the galleries of the Detroit Insti- ¦¦ movie. - tute of Arts for sx _ Patric Knowles, Robert Coote. , ..-JeT . T the year 1941. John Farrow all joined the His popularity as a European The exhibition will remain on army. comedian kept him busy in Lon- view for the current month. To Movie Stars Temple It is of particular Create Shirley stepped out of don. Paris. Berlin and Vienna interest By SARA the movies, returns in 1941. sjyJt A because, for the most part, the HAMILTON heroines follow along like but until two years ago . . . finally Katharine Hepburn, who paintings are those Sprrlal in THK DETROIT TIMES Mary's little lamb? Not that In arrived in New York in July, from Euro- the women fans the Hollywood was ¥ ‘ pean galleries and collections, to see vernacular of . . don't bke 1938 . remained there for W '4- HOLLYWOOD, Jan 4 the gals, "washed up." staged m&\ ¦ in this country to remain for the hut romance is ro- considered two months to take out his first 117HO goes to the movie* 7 mance and right there In the a spectacular comeback In "The citizenship papers. duration of the war. The exhibi- »» One look at the Motion row of winners is its potency. Philadelphia Story.” tion includes also pictures from Picture Herald's list of the 10 Ix'gorry. Visit* Director the collections of the Museum of stars of 1940 Brilliant Future Modem Art. acquired within the host moneymaking And now for another to Hollywood to A *•. the cve-opener. Then came [ (Jr fMr last two years which were pre- reveals the answer. It's tant What about At the beginning of 1941, new visit Director Henry women and the the those Koster * viously owned by German mu- youth of tremendously high-priced artists who face a brilliant fu- whom he had known in Europe land who keep the old movie stars who demand a king's ran- #W A A w seums. ture arc . Glenn Ford. Ruth Hus- . . ei*;ht figured he had little chance Many of the repre- wheels going. and with of som for every picture they make sey. Albert Rasaerman. Joan breaking artists the big heros, who —and get it. The Garbos. Hep- of into American mo- sented are leaders of the mod- list time can Leslie. Philip Dorn. Gene Tier- vies because "here is so much deny it! burns. Cary Grants, Claudette course, em school. There willbe approx- ney, John Carroll and. of talent in Hollywood" ... To his imately 50 paintings by It's the women who pay to Colberts and others. Where are Carole Landis, who probably such they on this list of favorites? surprise Koster promptly cast artists as Picasso. Derain. Cha- see sueh favorites as he-men has made the most sensational sequel to Try to find them, that's all. him in the Deanna gall. Kirehner. Koschka, Gable, Tracy, Cagney and the strides of any actress with the Durbin's “Three Smart Girls." Cezanne. Tyrone as Isn't it likely, then, that Hol- exception Matisse. Renoir. De La Fresnaye. handsome Power well of Betty Grable. Then William Thiele, who had Bombois, as Crponer Crosby. And it's the lywood may begin to wonder if Two Negroes made names for Braque, Ensor and all those wads and wads of rash directed him in a foreign version others. youth of the land who pay on themselves in 1940—Ben Carter of "Private Secretary,” gave the to demanded and received for each line see Rooney, the top and Willie Best him a role in M-G-M's "Bridal W'inner. and Judy Garland, the performance may he a hit on the Outstanding marriages were side Suite." Michigan Symphony - ridiculous they fig- . •*« ¦second actress on the list -the when those of Vivien Leigh and Lau- j -4k. B HMK|i T ure Rooney, the king Ernst Lubitsch, a great Other being Ilrtte Davis in of the lot. rence Obvier, Sonja Henie and ad- ninth place, who just couldn't be has only recently been boosted Dan Topping. Jane Wyman and mirer of Bressari's brand of Resumes Series overlooked. It's the kids who to a four-figure salary, and a Ronald Reagan. William Powell comedy, handed him his first mighty little four figures at really big break in "Ninotchka” THE MICHIGAN SYM- love Autrey and Beery and who and Diana Lewis. Martha Scott PHONY ORCHESTRA under that. . arc mainly responsible for their he puts on like varnish, . . So many people wrote in the And at that Judy Garland is asking about him direction of Valter Poole names adorning the list. and Carl Alsap. Wesley Ruggles that Metro will be heard in concert Wed- another comparatively small and Marcel Rogez, Loretta Young placed him under contract. nesday. 8:30 wage earner and the rest of the at p. m.. at the Will They Take Hint? and Tom Lewis and Lana Turner Detroit Institute of Arts. winners are all straight sal- Shaw, Orchestra Leader So with women boys and Artie Artists being featured Include and children aried and felrls. Oh *ure. A divorce followed Tumer- in governing old king box office to they get nice fat salaries, we the Since then he's been seen George Galvani. basso; Flortan sueh Shaw nuptials within four "Shop Around the Comer." Wittman. viola, August an extent, isn’t it likely agree, but Ihey are far from the r and "Es<*pe" < organ. movie producers will take the fabulous sums demanded by months and Carole Landis and and "Comrade X" and EDDIE DOW US G and JULIE HAYDQS as thrii appear in on of Mackelberghe, An added Willis Hunt Jr. were married currently portraying or- attraction be the world hint and build up the he-men other *tars who never make the is the the scenes from William Saroyan's stage hit, "The Time Your Life," will pre- and idols next year of miere of Symjihony in E Minor kid and let team. (Continued an Pag* Tea) (Contonued on Page 11) opening tomorrow night, at the Cars Theater. by Arthur Wade PH TOMAL fIEMEW January 3b 1041 PAGE 9