Sunday, February 7, 1943 DETROIT SUNDAY TIMES (PHOSE CHERRY 8800) PART 2, PAGE 7 d3er(in Reject* Select ofWo vie Version ofMi*Colorful jCifeStory. Priorities 7 ,ie t He Will Turn Film Actor Makes Debut When Hollywood Makes Here Tonight His This Is the Army By CHARLES GENTRY By LOCELLA O. PARSONS Tjßpr New York and Chieago SI niton PlflSM Sdltnr I»lrrnnttonnl Now* Snrrlm WHILEhave both had priorities - «. fl 1942," HOLLYWOOD. Feb, on catching "Priorities of - *'Rlijffyf'frL / f Detroit gets its turn to view MUCH has been written about , No. 1 v w'"j,£ vtJV'.' bhßmßf ~i>v' i,- sJ I j this elaborate variety show lo- SOcompoaer of popular hit. tunea, that there is very little I night when it opens a two-week can add. Better writers, such as the late Alexander Woollcott, engagement at ihe Cass Theater. With such headliners as Lou have written the atory of the slender, dark-eyed Berlin boy on the side and who came Holtz. Willie Howard. Bert ' who atarted as a piano player east -r Wheeler and Hanl it looks fL here from Rusaia at the age of 4. like vaudeville didn't go so far m ‘2 .. J < His story is well known to every American who likes to away * after all. what a chance there is for the poor boy and* girl in Fj<£ § I They're all together heading hear our §y§pßHf a galaxy of well known acts, glorious country. pretty girls and elaborate gags. Yet always there is something *new about Irving. He was During the last two years either just finished a song that has swept the, country or he been a definite trend there has is writing r new musical for to revise the revue, to bring the good days when motion pictures. back old < W&L .. there was no sweeter sound than Personally, I like Irving so the patter of comedians w’hose ' much I always welcome any jokes were tried if not true, him, ft ...- chance to talk with and just for laughs. . mHhHEEhBhBHKHh i JJSt so when he asked me to have The Right Idea 111 a cocktail with him I accepted M ISIgI

alacrity. it *' Burlesque has had its inning with We had be- Broadway it an tween the matinee and evening and is giving k I outing, so it is only right that performance of "This Is the variety, done on the scale that Army" when it played in Los made such theaters as the Tem- Angeles. ple and the Palace, should have * a new day. in If &-J .-•¦A V'¦ At least that was the Idea be- Takes Pride hind the production of this Irving, with his eve* aglow, i WW - 'C /*) show and ihe way New York bad just had word that this and Chicago took to it, it would certainly seem to have been the army show would net Uncle Sam millions -not only the two right one. V u mm Besides the four-star comedi- million already made, but the ans who headline the show, receipts from the copyrights of there will also be Gene Sheldon, the popular song numbers which HEDY LAMARR as the sultry Tondelayo banio-plaving comic who is he over to the had turned his uses her wdles to ensnare WALTER PIDGEOM a master of musical pantomime; country'. Wa Luba Malina. the exotic singer, His pride in being able to do during the course of "White Cargo,” showing who has created as much of a something for his country is on the screen of the Michigan Theater. sensation as Lena Horne wdth indicative of the character of her bizarre songs. this man. He says only m this Peggy tnd Morn and Lari country would It be possible to m mm Al|»hah«»tleal News Bureau: and Conchita arc the two dance produce such a musical as "This teams, and novelty acts include? is the Army." W Loretta Fincher, the Helen Irving is so imbued wiih this Reynold Skaters and Kelly musical, to he A 1 - new which is and Lora Saunders. IX)R A SAUNDERS and WILLIE HOWARD in a comedy scene from the made into a motion picture and JEANNE CAGNEY has News of the Film Stars, Matinees this ue*»k will be Broadway hit show, "Priorities of 1942,” which opena tonight at the Cass. then taken abroad for the sol- ton Wednesday, Saturday and diers overseas, that it is difficult a featured role in "Yankee Sunday. to get him to talk about any- Doodle Dandy" which stars The Wilson continues to pa-k 7 7 thing else, hut there was one her brother, James Cagney, From TV Right Through 'll ?he customers wn and *end thing I had on my mind and them but hysterical o\er th- and which continues at J.he Cargo Hedy that was his own life story. By SARA HAMILTON of Chariotte Greenwood White With Lamarr, Palma-State Theater. antics \ KpocUl to THF. DF.TSOIT TIMES in "Leaning on Letty." 7 Shies at Life Story * "Lett/’ has certainly made a lot of new friends and matine»s "Why don’t you let the motion HOLLYWOOD. Feh. fi. find countless youngsters who Nights on Film Bill film your life story?" |7OR lads in camps at home Exotic Arabian " have never seen her before. flrture*asked. ‘* Miss Durbin * and overseas, hungry for Pacific, wai one of the bent TEARING a peek at the week “The Arabian Nights” in techni- action in the but is soon picture* news of Hollywood, here, friends Played in Australia A ever made and your Hfe 1* just ahead, we find a lot of in- color. Of course. Burton and the coming up with “Random liar* a* eolorful, Just as exciting and is our alphabetical news bureau When the war is over. Cha-- teresting new film* coming in other translates would never vest.” just as full of patriotism as was all ready for clipping. intends to take "Lem" s A Miller, lotte recognize this plot as bearing This is the James story George Insists She —Ann heart-free and which we’ve been hearing about Hilton M. Cohan’s career.” around the world. She started lovely, who spends all her spare for some time past. any resemblance to the original of two wars, which co-stars for Irving shook his head slowly ¦V I to in 1930 and got as far as time* at army camps, has gone Wa HS§ ’* and said: ‘ talcs, is a queen named the first time Greer Garson and «fm ,Bpr Australia where this same com- White Cargo, at the Michi- hut there "No, not while T alive. I back to brunette. Prefer her as jigjw and boys the am W pany. Russell Fillmore. Isohel gan, has Hedy Lamarr as the Scheherazade, the just Ronald Colman. Both book have told Ellin and the young- Adult Now a blonde, hoys? J^r Withers. Charles Martin and B—Betty famous Am Tondelayo.'" the took it from there. and the film have attracted ster* that when I am dead and Hutton broke her Romaine Callender. pja>ed for *1 By engagement and looking Monte/, the attention we imagine gone they ran do anything they NEIL RAC is B/C .-. four months in Sydney and Mel- African dazzler that drove men Maria wide and around again. No crowding f! J the United Artists will have want with my life story, hut as special »« Tur nrTaoiT Tiwr»* bourne. ihan a malana mos- lovely, gets her biggest break there, fellows. madder quite an engagement with this long a* I am here I don’t want Feb. 6 Tonight begins the last tw > to date in this one and Jon Hall HOLLYWOOD. C Cupid clipped Carole Lan- quito. one. It put In the movies." as on weeks for "Leaning On Lefty" plays the Caliph who fights with Irving IN PRIVATE life as well dis in London. But that won’t in- The love story of the I the screen. Deanna Durbin because Mis« Greenwood has to We don t think you'll get trop- was page copy terfere wiht ’her visit to camps his brother. Leif Erikson. over Coban Film Stays Berlins front grown up keeps. return to Fox for her new ical fever from watching Hedy were marTled years has for in America and abroad. Wh+S the Bagdad babe. But even if when they She isn’t kidding when she movie. undulate through the part hut The popularity of “Yankee ago. She was the daughter of D—Dorothy Lamour. a steady This is the last week f.»r the story has nothing to do with Doodle Dandy.” in the seccnd Kay, says she wants no part of her visitor, is hardly recognizable, #r ue bet your temperature will Clarence Mac multi-million- Watch On the Rhine" a» th* the original, there's plenty of week of its return engagement aire. and although the telegraph former unsophisticated movie according to the hoys at Holly- Lata yette, where Margaret ri*e. harem, beauties in , at the Palms-State. proves that magnate's opposition to his roles. wood canteen, without that Anglin. may the Katharine Warren ami She dances in this one and dashing horsemen and sand, a single feature can hold its daughter's marriage to the song You have seen new sarong. Walter ere giving an ex- sand, everywhere own any day. Durbin already in her current gets all the boys going with her sand you look. with a double bill composer was overcome before cellent performance of the Lil- As you undoubtedly know, he died, it is still a very touchy Universal picture. "The Amazing Maybe She ll Marry lian Heilman play new movements. Even Walter 'Random Harvest’ Soon this is the musical biography of subject with Irving. He will Mrs. Holiday." but Deanna de- This wil! he followed by two and Carlson, the anything E Eleanor Powell, who taps 1 Pidgoon Richard a George M. Cohan, grpat never discuss his romance. clares we haven't seen Weeks ’ and The United Artists is stand- rt - out Morse node messages over of ‘Tobacco Road couple of staunch lads, break song and dance man, who * then a return-of "Stage Door." ing by with "Stand By for passed away only recently. Hat Happy Marriage This poised, resourceful young the radio to the signal corps down over Hedy in dark makeup. lads, marry with Martha Scott and Glenda Action.’ the Robert Taylor- The Michigan will follow woman is a far cry from the shy mav actor Glenn Farrell. The Fox is just as exotic noth Charles Laughton drama of Cargo” At the time he married Ellin little girl that one used to see Ford, and then again— . .;¦ -j %¦ “White with another her 'R&fw stage show presenting that ex- MacKay father threatened on the sets while she was mak- F France* Gifford, who folks tremely likable young maestro, to disinherit her. Irving answered ing some of her biggest hits. say is the loveliest girl in all Vaughn Monroe and his hand, his future father-in-law with: Hollywood, has no better half "Well, along with several interesting that’* all right. I'll Craves Straight Drama and does answer letters. Write give her a million dollars rm- M-G-M. acts. "How rould I do tho«e role* to self." cer- After that “Star Spangled these again?” she asked. “I am ma- G—Greer Garson. almost After all years their tain to win that academy Oscar Rhythm.” Paramount’s all-out- marriage is still a very happy ture now. and I think the fans for-entertainment special comes who have followed my for "Mrs. Miniver." still carries lx one. He adores the gentle, blue career unused license to wed along. This is the lavish film want to see me grow about that eyed Ellin and she is so proud gracefully Ensign Richard Ney. which has everybody on the of Irving that she cannot keep Into portrayals that are suitable Lamarr (1) ¦ T R Paramount lot from Paulette out of her voice, or eyes, to my real age. I would like to H Hedv is mad it her her studio; f2> love with Goddard to prop boy, in it.— when she looks at him. They try that kind of straight drama at in C G. have charming daughters that would not even require me John L*der. A fine combination. three Massey, divorced 't 4 f at time they to sing.” I Ilona who and Christmas says that were all reunited in Detroit, Deanna, who was married to Alan Curtis, she has where the Army" Ensign Vaughn Paul April IS. a date with YOU at the New Musicale Meeting "This Is was canteen. playing 1941. is intelligently facing shr Y’ork THE STUDENT LEAGUE of "We had a Christmas tree in same maior problem with which the Tuesday Musicale will hold A Blue Judy I *¦'+ ; its program and business meet- (Continued on Pago Nine) (Continued on Next rage) ing in the downtown branch of J Judy Garland is so blue the YWCA Tuesday at 8 p. m. and heartsick since the failure of her marriage to Dave Rose. Why •' R, . S not write her, fellows? K Katharine Hepburn, whose wBgFjB& J g 1 j New York play is none too good, MR ML | Film Clock is coming hack* to Hollywood for Spencer Tracy MICHIGAN—"White Cargo.” / I \ another of those two-some things. 11 a. m.. 2 04. 5:10. 8:18. 11:22 v p. m : “Dr. Gillespie’s New As- L—Lana Turner, who will pfißKßr.' By R() sistant,” 12 46, 3:52. 6:58, 10 04 make no more pictures until p. m. after her hahy is bom, needs a • • • hit nf heartening cheer, ton. FOX -“Arabian Nights.” 11 since her annulment from Steve / JjH •'•.¦¦:;•'¦:;¦ ;v;/'vv Crane. Get out the pens. hoys. ELYSE KNOX, former a. m . 2:01, 5:02. 8:03. 11 04 p. ¦ JB^ m: “Life Begins at Eight M Martha O Driscoll. blonde artists’ model, 1b one of Thirty,” 12.29, 3:30, 6:31, 9:32 and a cutie. says she's engaged several featured harem p. m. to no one Her heart belongs to beauties in the ' • • • the hoys in the service. Hurray! technicolor N Nancy Coleman. Warner s ft lm. "Arabian Nights/* »*>, UNITED ARTISTS—“Eyes in 5:18, hopeful, should he on your list showing at the Fox Theater. the Night.” 11 a. m . 2:24. 1 coming stars. Sure, 9:12 p. m : "Stand bv For Ac- of she* P f / single. tion,” 12:24, 3:48, 7:12, 10 36 \ w f* O Olivia de Havilland gets p. m. her eyes Figures Don’t Lie • • • stars in every time Lt. John Huston gets a leave. PALMS-S TATE “Ya nkee VFDA ANN BORG, featured Doodle Dandy.” 11:06 a. m., 1:49, SHe Want* to Park with Don Amrrhe, Janet Blair and 4:32, 7:15, 9:50 p. m. Oakie, in the < Gregory RatofT • * # (loridard r Paulette is look- musical “Something to ing for a permanent spot too Shout BROADWAY CAPITOL About," has been advised by stu- “One* Upon * Honeymoon,” park her heart. Any sugges- ' * f, tion* dents of the Wilson 4' •¦''• ', ‘,''^^ Art School. In [mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bßssp^mbiihp- mPt&str ; £*&&& 12:45, 4:10. 7:35. 11 p. nr; ’’¦ r »v.- ¦'iit' ‘¦** v'v'lvV.V.' *il “Henry Aldrich, Editor,” 2:59. Q -Questions about Holly- St. Louis, that, they had selected 6:25, 9:45 p m. wood from service boy* any- her as the girl with the "taosC • and as the • • where will he answered by thia figure KATHARINE WARREN WALTER CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD department. Venus-like in all Mflfls- GILBERT m Sara and Kurt Mueller in lovable L#tty Madison in tha farce, “Lean- ADAMS “China Girl.” 11 a. HELEN KANE, famed "boop-a-doop"' lady Hayworth woed The award ia the fourth 1:55, :50, 7:45. 10 p m.; R—Rita is only On the Rhine,” which start* its ing Letty,” which begin* a third week nv, 4 40 who the of th* present show at Club waiting that final decree of “perfect figure" award MfasjFWf ••Watch On “Tba Man in th« Trunk," 12 44, is star Mrs. haa received in the past three final week at the Lafgyette tonight. tonight at the Wilson Theater. 3.39, 6.34, 9.29 jx m. Casanova, begins a second week there Monday. (Continued on Next Page)