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_0______EIGHT PAGES. ,• WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 5, 1939. 4 — Awards Are Shakespeare Once More Is Ever Good In the Air Business Academy’s Honors Maurice Evans Now

/ To Be Bestowed Scores Again as This Month Fal^taff By Douglas W. Churchill. By Ira Wolfert. HOLLYWOOD. NEW YORK. With its enthusiasm held in leash, To the producers along Broadway the town is engaged in the contest Shakespeare has come to be known to determine the annual awards of as "6 per cent Willie.” He is a the Academy of Motion Picture Arts safe man to do business with. If and Sciences. Late this month the you don't want to get either rich or banquet will be held (ringside seats poor, out just want a nice whirl of $25, semi-genius seats $10) at which activity and a return of your money the industry's opinions on the best with slightly more interest than a picture, actor, producer et al. will bank would pay, then 6 per cent be made public. Frequently the Wilile is your man. » chioces have been for suspect, poli- “All you need,” a producer tells tics that would have amazed Tam- me, "is some one to say the words many Hall have been employed. It loud enough.” And there is a long is that there will be improbable any list of recent Shakespeare failures— this The great change year. thing Tallulah Bankhead’s “Antony and that the is the perplexes citizenry Cleopatra,” Estelle Winwood’s “Mer- unworthiness of the 1938 , product, ry Wives of Windsor,” first Walter and those studios which have con- Huston and Brian Aherne in ducted in the vigorous campaigns “Othello.” then Philip Merivale and are in steam- past having difficulty Gladys Cooper in “Othello,” Leslie the over the can- ing up population Howard’s “Hamlet” and a rather didates have to offer. they effective if intelligible “As You Minimum interest surrounds the Like It”—to prove that, when you bestowal of the Thalberg award, don’t say the words loud enough, which last year had the town at you are in trouble. fever Its is to re- pitch. purpose “The words,” says this most suc- ward a for "the most producer cessful of recent Shakespearean pro- consistent of high quality production ducers, “are the thing. Poor, starved achievement." Although Hollywood people in this world! If you get felt that either David O. Selznick Shakespeare's words said for them, or Samuel Goldwyn was the logical they think the production is won- candidate last a of 12 year, jury derful. They think a miracle has Academy members decided on Dar- JOHN HAMILTON happened.” ryl Zanuck of Fox. In his accept- in John Steinbeck’s Mice and Men," Up to this week that seemed a ance speech Mr. Zanuck was hon- Plays "Candy,” play, "01 a one- reasonable explanation for the phe- for he said that while which comes to the National Theater tomorrow night for estly modest, nomenal acclaim with which Mau- he not have deserved it for week engagement. may rice Evans has been greeted here. 1937, ne would try to merit it lor ,--—-•: But this week Mr. Evans made the 1938. He then went out and pro- transition from Hamlet to Sir John duced and "Re- "Suez," “Kidnaped" Falstaff in the first part of “Henry becca of and the Means Action Sunnybrook Farm,” ‘Action’ That IV.” and, although it may be a its Academy promptly changed little annoying to those with other method of award and threw the re- favorites to hear it said quite so sponsibility for this year's selection Better Pictures often, the time has come to say it in the of the members at laps large. Brings again: He is the greatest actor now With and Selznick out Goldwyn living. of the running this year; with Zan- Current Film Attractions Bespeak No doubt you understand such a uck eliminated because, as he said, as to so he received it in advance, and with Return to First phrase, applied subjective Metro's record admittedly dismal, Principles. a creator as an actor, has no mean- ing except as a measure of the en- the consensus here is that Hal Wal- Civic Gets Attention lis of Warners should receive the thusiasm the actor's performance has stirred. In time, I don't trophy. As a program, the Warner my By Jay Carmody. believe I have called more than one releases for 1938 were higher in or two other actors “the entertainment value than those of Some one in Hollywood obviously has looked up the definition of greatest now living,” while even those with any other lot. Wallis, little known "action” recently'- Or has been reminded of it by some highly Interested has been the longer times have not sent that to the public, guiding critic in the form of a boss or a stockholder. The result, where it has factor in the schedule and phrase soaring for more than six shaping been tempered with other considerations, has been beneficial. Action or the films. or seven contemporary actors. When fashioning A screen but it is funda- ! movement may not in itself make grade drama, an actor can compel a reviewer to Selecting the best and the picture mental to it. Absence of the quality, for which a high gloss and monu- make a fool of himself right out best performance is affording the mental settings were substituted, accounted for some of the super-super in public, then he is being very great industry members a difficult prob- failures the 1938 The these films did not make indeed—perhaps the greatest in our lem. Because all of the good pic- among pictures. money remains in the of the who time. tures were of about the same quality —which presumably pockets patrons stayed What is memorable level, it is probable that force of away—can be counted well lost by the studios if it stimulated them to go particularly about Mr. Evans’ is habit will govern the choice of the back to first principles, the first of which is that moving pictures should performance the that has come over his best film, and the Academy’s bronze change move. voice. As Richard II, Hamlet, Ro- Oscar will go to Frank Capra's ‘‘You Students of the screen drama, smart enough never to get a meo and even this Can’t Take It With You.” The people Napoleon, young the list of current to note how much in a award for the outstanding per- B, can run right through pictures Englishman spoke ringing tenor, so ardent and resonant that formance by an actor appears to be action is an influence in their quality. the air in the theater literally anybody’s in a wide-open race. A Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester (above) play the Jesse James in the so titled is a matter The idealization of picture And here again is Charles Laughton (above) in "The Beach- under its sud- substantial faction feels that Bette roles in “The Beachcomberwhich will be the Earle’s quaked impact. Now, leading of practically negligible moment with even querulous customers because comber.” June Preisser (below) sends you your first Valentine for Falstaff. he has Davis should be honored for her screen attraction starting Friday. Claire Luce (below) has the denly, acquired the film is teeming with violence and gusto. One never has time to pause a bit early perhaps, but still acceptable, no doubt. The a fat voice. A hearty, beefy, smack- work in “Jezebel,” but within the important feminine part in “Of Mice and Men.” greeting, and reflect upon the circumstance that maybe Jesse was not like that. It younger half of the popular sister team has just signed with ing, gurgling uproar burbles from last week a vigorous campaign has is like that is a fellow with M-G-M. his fills the theater been launched in behalf of Norma is enough that the Jesse who tempestuous lips, again, makes each clear and Shearer for “Marie Antoinette.” The qualities. It is an entertaining picture even though the morals surgeons syllable crystal yet manages to have that extraordi- first move in this crusade was to performed one of their most delicate operations on the Midwest bandit's Blackboard nary quality familiar in healthy fat announce that Miss Shearer has Barrymore’s actual record. men—the quality of beer pouring. joined the Screen Actors’ Guild, Clare Boothe Now Returns The major excellence of “Gunga Din" is of the same piece. Character His makeup, too. is quite ex- something she had consistently re- is not the brush-ofl that might be expected in a film traordinary. From a slender man, fused to do, for her political mana- Would Stars development given Help Many but it is subordinate to them. Din and trim, he turns himself into no chance as of such sweep and swirling movement, spry » gers knew she had To the News Once More a man born to waddle. It isn't same fellow read about in not the same at an of the guild. Harold is not the you Kipling, quite opponent By Heffernan. done with padding—though padding It must be understood that men- HOLLYWOOD. least, but he is much more the man of action and an undeniably appealing By Mark Barron, has its part in it—nor is it done by tion of these names does not consti- John Barrymore was lying flat in bed for a sequence in “The Great fellow. The derring-do in which he is a participant is absolutely terrific. Associated Press Staff Writer. arranging the false hair around the tute a prediction; Hollywood corre- Man Votes.” Peter Holden who plays his small son, had crawled under "Wings of the Navy," a timely offering from Warner's dealing with the NEW YORK. face in such a mam.er that the face spondents have been notoriously de- the covers with him, and wohn, staring straight up at the ceiling, began to the current movie building of flyers, is another interesting contribution actually seems to be large and thick ficient in anticipating Academy philosophizing to the youngster in a long, string of words. ! There’s a slim, blond, young lady, who is causing such a con- ponderous menu which finds its basically appealing quality in exciting movement. fragile and to emerge from a large, thick awards. As a matter of fact, the Barrymore’s unbroken speech lasted a fin two minutes, but he took sternation among the literati and critics of Broadway and Piccadilly, that The same may be said for "Stand Up and Fight" at the Columbia, the body. The point is to learn to live sometimes peculiar selections of the it in stride. It was a one-take shot, without a single blowup—an unusual one suspects she may, like Lorelei, lime innocent men to their destruction. second in a series of to show that Robert is more with these materials and fabrics so have been for the pictures designed Taylor she has them past responsible acmevement ior so long a scene. •< In her beguiling way already rising atop soapboxes, spouting that do not them false. than a Adonis. you play many polls that have originated Not once did simple from columns and issuing manifestoes from their governmental Barrymore’s eyes stars take their scripts to bed with newspaper An actor ran make the most gro- outside of Hollywood within the last rove from the Had offices. ceiling. they them. Proof of Bette s diligence in Kaufman First to See a Play tesque balloon of a belly seem his two or three years. Those interested wavered even a trifle to the or light this respect was entered in Los In “Of Mice and Men.” The young lady is Clare Boothe, who is gentle, witty and well man- by the way he pats it. in the screen have become increas- left, his neat flow of oratory might court for her ex- nerea amia me sou, green sum With so fine a the Angeles records, S. Kaufman, unlike Noel Coward, is too well established as performance, ingly aware of the part politics have been George and who interrupted. husband, Harmon Nelson, testified in white colors of her home, plays as "The Women" and “Kiss play speeds along like the great has in the Academy vote, and a writer to be recognized generally for the variety of his talents. But played For, dangling up there by his obtaining his divorce, that the act- is as savage as a tiger cat (or a event that it is. For "Henry IV” is in the hope of bestowing honor the Boys Goodbye.” knees from a trapeze arrangement, female) when she writes such hit one of the really fine works of the where honor is due. various groups (See HEFFERNAN, Page F-2.) (Continued on Page F-2, Column 1.) two weeks ago, had just out of camera range, was a man Everything, language's greatest writer. If it have undertaken to name their own 1 ■ ■ ■ — named George French, holding a I just gotten quiet and peaceful. “The weren't for Sir John, it would be “bests.” In spite of these onslaughts, blackboard with Barrymore s lines Women." after a Tong Broadway Hotspur who would get all the at- In the public mind the Academy- printed on it in la age sized letters. run, had departed. “Kiss the Boys tention. Hotspur is one of the great awards remain official and supreme. Barrymore and his dialogue black- Screen Is One Place Where Youth Does Not Rule Goodbye" was still a smash hit on cnaract^ oi our literature, ana a man who has Would You Trust board have by now become a sort of Broadway and a new company was Wesley Addy, young minor An Elephant? Hollywood tradition. They move to- opening in Chicago. Producer Brock been hiding his virtues in Power Is That He Is Too the in the current from one studio to another Only Criticism of Tyrone Young, Pemberton was smiling and won- roles, plays part ■ Frank Whitbeck’s for gether penchant with a hot Crinkle as John to keep up with dering when he would have time production spur. elephants at last is producing rev- attempts his free-lance calls. And a Face Has Held Back Many Another to produce one or two other plays he has and dash and vigor, and, enue. In his youth Whitbeck trav- many Baby he has in his portfolio. Miss Boothe with Edmond O’Brien to make eled with a circus and a When the actor first decided that David” and was hailed as ! Astaire—making his first film ap- developed Sheilah Graham. to the majority of picture report- “Tol'able her attractive of Prince Hal was an utter By | had just returned from Caro- something fondness for For sev- memorizing dialogue no fault of his own— ! a new He has made 50 pearance in the same picture—was pachyderms. ers—through discovery'- lina and was suffused and Henry Edwards to give dignity waste of time, various workers on 33. Ronald plantation eral years he has been head of HOLLYWOOD. he did his best. As “Jesse James” pictures in the eight years that fol- approximately Colman, of the Falstaff to write with suspicious quiet. and authority King, Metro's and the sets were delegated Is Power too for name but still think of who is now 49, started movie- advertising department, Tyrone young in the picture of that Tyrone lowed. producers Then it does not lack for the contrast he down his lines and hold up the at 34. Fredric March was happened. in memory of his canvas-festooned picture work? The question seems was so good-looking that I, for one, him as a juvenile and won't give emoting needs. he has a of board him. But recently it's in view of 30. Raft was 35. Leslie The book of “Kiss the Boys Good- days pair pet elephants. for silly Tyrone's starring went halfway to accept him as the him a chanoe to prove otherwise. George It takes a like the cur- and French was Random production When Hal Roach ‘'It’s become a specialized job status and his obvious New was 20 when he Howard, Spencer Tracy, Charles bye” published by began Spring popularity bold, bad bandit. But the Lew Ayres also rent one, an artful production illu- has dowm on Barrymore’s per- Herbert Marshall and House and Heywood Broun wrote Again.” adapted from H. C. Bun- gone with fans—mostly female—of all York critics were less kind and again appeared in “All Quiet on the West- Boyer, many minated with talent, to demonstrate “Zenobia's he rent- sonal pay roll as “dialogue coach.” is the him 10 more were all 30 or more when the foreword, a polite preface in ner's Infidelity,” ages. My query prompted by slammed down on poor Mr. Power. ern Front.” It has taken they what every generation seems to have doesn’t actually need a first which he that Miss 4 end the Whitbeck to follow Barrymore reviewers’ criticism leveled his first suc- made their pictures. suggested pets against And Not because he gave years to prove that to discover anew—that is, that blackboard. He can memorize lines why? Boothe should eliminate one of the Tyrone after each of his four last cess was not a flash in a boyish pan. like Errol When one (See CHURCHILL, Page F-27) a bad performance—he was good. Comparative youngsters Shakespeare is modern. as well as 'most any other actor, • characters so that she could inject just pictures. Now, at 30, he is at last getting who is now 29: Brent. himself to His only crime was that he looked Flynn, George and (See WOLFERT, Page F-2.) but he refuses to apply should him in one of her future plays When flashed too for the dramatic roles that keep 31; Paul Muni, 36—lie started film Attractions the task. “Lloyds of London” young tough-guy part. destroy him more violently. The Coming are afoot unless him employed for the next 10 years. acting 10 years ago—and Cary mind is full of my on the screen the critics conceded Predictions that, character he was of is one “My always That face of Johnny Downs Grant roles date from two speaking PALACE—"Idiot’s Delight,” M- told a that had done a in the near future Tyrone plays baby good Film Schedules own private thoughts.” he Tyrone good job all that all the opening night critics Today's screen version of the suited to his (he has a liability. It did years back, when he was 28—Robert G-M’s one should I —but said that in spite of a little roles more years proved identified as Broun himself. director day. "Why a kid KEITH’S—“Gunga Din.” heroic is to when he was for hifei when he was Taylor and John Garfield, both only Robert Sherwood play, it with a lot of words that white powder on his hair he looked is 24—came pictures right clutter but was Wherewith, Miss Boothe wrote a adventure film inspired by Gable his decline will be as in “Our Gang” comedies 26—all of them looked many years next here. Clark don’t mean anything to me?” too young for the patriotic business- 22), speedy tried to make the older than their years—or can preface also to precede that of the Kipling poem: 1:15, 3:20, and Norma Shearer have man. After “Marie Antoinette” as his rise to film fame. hopeless when he you Barry mux e is me wuj Broun's. that Broun 7:30 and 9:35 film as a leading young man. be sure they would still be languish- Remarking 5:25, p.m. the leading roles. brave or bold enough to came a universal charge that Power Now let’s look at this thing grade Hollywood old. He in a cul de sac—or suf- does not like her plays at all, she the was too Johnny is now 22 years ing juvenile EARLE—“Wings of Navy,” EARLE—"The Beachcomber,” make use of a blackboard, but direc- boyish for the gallant squarely. Is youth in a screen hero "When Mr. Broun does not Count will have to wait until his shoulders fering the present role problems of says, gobs of thrills in the air, the new Charles Laughton- tors feel that at least 20 big-name Ferson, the lover of the mid- a handicap? Don Ameche says he writes bril- his disappear Tyrone Power. like something very and shows: Continu- could well afford to emulate dle-aged French Queen. As De The other I asked him fill out and dimples stage Elsa Lanchester picture players "Yes.” day take liantly indeed. He is a man born slow-witted in was un- before the film producers big (Copyright, 1939. by the North Americin ous from 2 p.m. which has been highly his example. These Lessups “Suqz.” Tyrone when Brother Jim Ameche would to strafe, bom to wear a hair shirt.” chances on him. Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) who have would save themselves much believable as the great canal builder him in a movie career. Jim CAPITOL—“Honolulu.” Eleanor praised by those actors join But, Miss Boothe proceeds and their studios well as a radio Robert Cummings was 23 when an<} Powell’s new musical dance seen it in New York, starts mental torture has done pretty per- has He is now proclaims that this story she 7:25 and 10:15 Friday. Russ Morgan and plenty of money in retakes if they former. I was surprised at Don’s he statred in pictures. fest: 2. 4:35, in a written of Cindy Lou, a Southern his orchestra make their could resort to such methods of reply: “He is too young for the 26. He never fails to turn good p.m. Stage shows: 3:35, 6:25 his still gal who is trying to kidnap the role lines recorded. • In another two 'film but and 9:10 p.m. first Washington appear- getting their movies. years, may- performance, in is face stands out like of Scarlet O’Hara the movies, ance to the stage bill. about inking be—but not now.” Jim is 23. youthful-looking LITTLE—“Ballerina.” poignant top How do they go advancement. really a social document. She says minds? a sore thumb against of a ballet stu- of these passages into their It is a fact that extremely boy- that it is a dramatic story young CAPITOL—“Tailspin,” saga for -Murphy, who is really expose too few, directors men do not Ditto George dent who meets up with life: women who fly airplanes, Some of them—all ish-looking young go His of what she calls a true Fascist the only a Juvenile in appearance. and with Constance Bennett and complain—study their parts very far in Hollywood. There are movement in this country, the 2, 4. 5:55, 7:50 9:45 p.m. at- age—35—ability and experience en- Alice a of night before. Most, however, dozens of them who apparently get of Southerns PALACE—"Jesse James,” new Faye playing pair title him to meatier roles, but his banding together to “cram” before shooting to a start—and then as Fascist action drama the the important ladybirds, tempt just away good him down to which she says is much inspired by cause a face and physique tie There will be time, and, as a consequence, never amount to much. as the brown and black shirt move- life of the famed outlaw: opens Friday. the flimsiest of parts. a new show accom- lot of unnecessary and costly blow-up was 19 old ment. 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:35 p.m. stage Tom Brown years when Fairbanks, jr., was only it. delays. Douglas panying he scored a success in “Tom Brown 17 whn he debuted in the silent In the midst of this argument METROPOLITAN—“They Made The “quickest study” in Hollywood, KEITH’S—"You Can't cheat an of Culver”—currently being remade “Stella Dallas.” He is now 30, and there arrived here a provoking cable Me a Criminal,” John Gar- man, woman or child, is Shirley in his role. Honest Man,” with W. C. with Jackie Cooper Tom it is only in the past three years dispatch from England. They are field in some vigorous do- Temple, famous for her single takes Fields attempting to prove is now 25 years old and working hard that Doug has been considered ma- currently having trouble in London ings: 2, 3:55, 5:50, 7:50 and and feared by less agile-minded the It to Messrs. McCarthy and to dissipate general impression ture to play grownup men trying to present Miss Boothe’s “The 9:50 p.m. adult supporting players because she enough Bergen, follows that he is too young to play im- in his Women,” which the London Daily and “Gunga is to them in their own pictures. COLUMBIA—“Stand Up which is apt prompt roles. He wants to play list of es- Telegram describes as "a stinging Din,” expected to falter. Shirley’s portant A look over the today’s Fight,” R. Taylor wallops lines should they roles that have a bite in stay awhile. tough-guy tablished male favorites shows, with attack on rich women in New York W. and vice versa: lines for the following day are read Beery 2, them but is usually cast as an in- few that they were all and the trouble they cause by gos- 7:50 and COLUMBIA—“Kentucky,” with to her her mother at home just exceptions, 3:45, 5:40, 9:§£ p.m. by nocuous kid brother, who never gets with their first The Lord Chamberlain, the all its horses and its blue her full-grown men sip.” before retiring, and photographic far in the in the is shocked BELASCO—“Dark Rapture,” the « very picture—or films. William Powell was 31 in English censor, utterly grass in technicolor, returns mind retains them right through Armand Dennis-Leila Roose- building up of his career. “Sherlock Holmes.” Clark Gable by the way in which Miss Boothe to F street Friday for an- time on the set. She never velt Dennis expedition re- shooting Richard Cromwell the 30 mark. Nelson satirizes her sex. He is demanding other downtown week. Its and the Good-looking had touched veals the inside of Africa: forgets, never blows up, that she the title to "Amer- are and Is another who made the mistake of Eddy was 31 when he first flashed change stars Richard Green proper seems to come Continuous from 2 p.m. interpretation at too an into the hearts of feminine film- ican Women” before he will permit Loretta Young. entering pictures young * naturally. 1 Fred CLARK GABLE. it to be other TYRONE POWER. age. He was 20 when he made goers in "Dancing Lady.” played. Bette Davis and a number of 4