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Ojsaf Character Pete Michon are acrobatically comic and Bert Astaire’s Talent Can Live With Sailors Frohman Is all right as mas- * Triangle “Tovarich” to ter of Comes Earle ceremonies. There is a line of 16 Gae Foster girls to do some supple- Without Miss mental dancing and Teddy Eddy’a Rogers As Screen band is the foundation upon which th# Gay Comedy whole thing is built. j. c. “Damsel in Distress” at Keiths Happy Spirit of Stage Play Lives On Is Fare of Satisfactory Dance, In Picture Version Starring Music and Laughter. Boyer and Colbert. By JAY CARMODY. Last Two Times i frT"\OVARICH," that romantic comedy which so Mat. YOU have been wondering how Fred Astaire could get along without delighted many hearts 2:30; Eve. 8:30 I as a stage play, is destined to delight vastly more hearts as a motion Ginger Rogers. “Damsel in Distress," which opened last night at Keith’s, I picture. While not identical with the original drama in MAX GORDON will ease your mind on that score very quickly. Astaire with George treatment, it is an nice mixture of humor and heart IP Burns and Gracie Allen, new extraordinarily appeal Prasants Prior to Reggie Gardner, four and artfully con- Broadway which shows that Hollywood can do well the trived dances and Gershwin’s last (and by pearls cast before it by the George excellent) melodies makes out "broad-A” theater. well The Earle, where it opened yesterday, should be one of very indeed. Damsel in Distress" is not a great but it is a picture, or call U1<S • your important porw if it Is ROUND YOUNG goo a one in spite 01 a plot that we -•-— your mind to barge around to forget IN PERSON IN expect to become petrified any day- standing features of the show, Gardner (thank Heaven) was born. the January bills. stage now. But not. of course, when it is "Frolics of 1938," which involves vocal That he does not do a single one of his In turning their cameras on this being whipped around by P. G. Wode- and orchestral music, and tale of a of dancing, as it is in inimitable imitations—of wallpaper, gallant pair royal Rus- WNM6TMW- house, this particular case. comedy specialties. The stage show, trains going mad, orchestra conductors sians who are living in exile ond pov- A new Clere Rummer Reverting to Miss Rogers, who is a however, is nothing particularly to Comedy by —will not strike you as a serious loss, erty, and being very happy about It, Eve».. $2.75. type we revert to' easily, it is a re- bother head about. Nina Allen $2.20, $1.65. $1.10, because it Warner Bros, have made it a some- your 55c, Tax Incl. note not to have her is made up in so many other freshing around. and her eight silvertones, vocalists, do Barrain Matinee ways. what less subtle bit of Robert Sher- Today It is rather fun seeing Astaire going Veni” and several 55c. $1.10, $1.65 view "Veni, things like it so to George Gershwin's swan songs are wood’s elfin writing. In of the solo, speak, in spite of all that without fairly lifting you out of the others not the most distinguished music of fact that the alteration wreaks no seri- who contribute so hand- your seat with enthusiasm. Joe and his brilliant ous to the of the NEXT MONDAY somely to the entertainment of the career, but they are damage spirit story, and makes it even better picture. He is a natural for a Wode- hummable, singable, dancable, which probably EDDIE DOWLING Presents are three nice from the of the house hero, a daffy, implausible fel- qualities for any pieces standpoint larger of screen music. it will have as a one can- low with just the right amount of ‘‘Nice Work If You appeal film, SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE Can Get It," not with the minor revisions. drollery in his antics and his accent. "Foggy Day in London quarrel In thn Very Hnmin Play The big dance number of "Damsel Town,” “Things Are Looking Up,” all "Tovarich,” which 1s probably going in Distress” is not that drum dance numbers which you have been hear- to be the Russian vocabulary of mil- for some SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE about which so much has been said, ing time, are fetching things lions of Americans from now on, in their Paul V. Carroll but a rimble-ramble number which different ways. means ‘‘comrade.’’ As a drama, it has FRED ASTAIRE By With a Stellar Cast makes uses of revolving tables, tread- One of the better twists of "Damsel to do with the hard life and fine, GEORGE GRACIE Indtfdlnt mills, distorting mirrors, sliding stairs, in Distress,” musically speaking, is the bright, tender love of a pair of dis- BURNS * ALLEN SARA ALLGOOD and rolling barrels, and a few other de- situation in which the castle madrigal carded nobles who become the abso- vices which make amusement singers and orchestra turn suddenly lutely perfect servants of a wealthy in JULIE HAYDON parks A DAMSEL DISTRESS Seat Sale Now! As in from their amusing. partners this original lays to a swing interpreta- family living in Paris. Mikail and the GEORCE GERSHWIN MUSIC Nights: Hr,c to Wed. and Sat. conception. Burns and Allen substi- tion of "Nice Work.” The choir, made Grand Duchess Tatiana are not the Matinees. 85c to *‘4.20. And... • tute for Miss Rogers and while they up of an assortment of males and fe- ordinary impoverished pair, let it be inject (deliberately) a grotesque tone males ranging from 125-pounders to understood, for they have in their here EXCLUSIVE..! and there, don't you think they 7-footers, looks so exactly like a group keeping 40,000,000.000 francs, the SPECIAL 3 REEL cannot carry their part of the job that never would sing swing that you untouchable property of the thor- EE of From to and not too elated about the are ND WttK really dancing with Astaire. They can’t believe your ears at first. Ray left right, looking any arrangement, Wayne Morris, oughly dead Czar. People of honor, MAGICAL w-ill Doris Weston and Pat all whom can in into surprise you not only in this big Noble, the old bandsman whom Holly- O’Brien, of you find “Submarine D-l,” which moved they cannot touch a sou of the fund. DORMAN ALLErS number but in the another involving a tap wood has absorbed as it has so many Metropolitan yesterday. So they go to work. And they love it. MOTION PICTURE OP EDDY routine in which everyone is stepping first-class batonmen, helps out quite And their employers, who have not the both POWELL lovely and gracefully. a bit with the music and plays not too slightest idea of the background of the BOMBING of im M G-Mt The drum dance is a trick affair badly the part of a comedy wishy- butler and maid, are charmed by their in which Astaire uses hands, heels, washy Englishman. Palace Holds enormous talents and graciousness to toes and The Law Harasses the virtually every part of the The damsel who is in such distress, Again the point of falling madly in love with PANAY 'ROfAUE" anatomy to dash off a pretty compli- a lovely blond on the cuckoo side, is the newcomers. You can see for your- mm WALT DISNEY'S cated number even for him. It pro- interpreted by Joan Fontaine. Miss self that a situation like that Is full of vides an "LONESOME GHOSTS" entirely satisfactory closing Fontaine is just as pretty as ever in Mr. Edward Robinson “Big” Film, comedy possibilities, most of which momc note for a drama which was ALICE PAVE ^ca*ou not born the exquisite settings provided by are realized by the direction and inter- so la “YOU'RE A SWEETHEART" MARCH • LOMBARD' exclusively to dance that other im- Pandro S. Berman, but her reputation pretation of the drama. portant elements were “Rosalie” "NOTHING SACRED" ignoied. as one of filmdom's coming stars will * * * * * * * * And He’s His Old Self in “The Last not be noticeably enhanced by her por- v feo&tUcirfor w'ho is BOYER and Claudette ■yjytODEHOUSE, clever that trayal of Lady Alyce. She is a bit too at the QHARLES Gangster,” Capitol. Colbert are cast as way, has made neat use of his unbending about life at this stage of Splendor Features Mikail and 1 Tatiana and make them as win- talent for daffy characterization in her career, it seems. Not at all the “Band Revue” on they Wagon Stage. a of characters as scenarizing “Damsel in Distress.” He | same way is Montagu Love, who gives Song and Dance ning pair you have has fed met in a in wads of weeks. enough inane dialogue to a corking performance as the wise old By HARRY Mac ARTHUR. movie They Gracie Allen to have moments where John nourish her into quite Lord Marshbottom who has found out IS quite a satisfying experience to find Mr. Edward G. Robinson once Production. slapstickish sets a a Marta Jf funny person again, and his part of things about life and makes constant more on the side of the law. He is at his best when he can narrow' Halliday and Abba did not wrong i i OSALIE,” the picture of ^that the for have in the butler, Keggs, Reggie Gardner wise use of his discoveries. his eyes, pull up one corner of his mouth and leer satanically; when he |—~v them stage version, but is excellent I J magnificent distances, re- enough to earn him for- Also on the screen at Keith's are IT can growl short, squat, ugly words and snarl at “the coppers." they convey the impression of warmth, I \ mains in the “city of mag- giveness for the triteness of some of Norman Alley’s grim pictures of the In the new picture, “The Last Mr.
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