1937-10-02 [P C-20]

Bette Davis’ Cruel Fate Hold That Line, Boys! Made Daft Place 7— w ~~ ■—■ ■ College "V i * Continues at Beginning Next Monday Earle Mad —Seat Sale Now— Ritz Freres Fir«t By Subscription Play, Theatre Guild and American Theatre Society. T*>» Theatre Gplld, Inc., Present! ! Warner’s Star Sufferer Excellent Gastoa Brothers Star in Baty’a Dramatization of Capitol’s Flaubert * Novel In Film of Mother Love. “Life Begins in College.” Band on “iHaftamrltouary” Gugat Stage. Big on Wiik CONSTANCE CUMMINGS Apple Stage. Play Adapted and Directed by BY JAY Benn CARMODY. ... W. I.ery BY HARRY MacARTHUR. Settings and Costumes by Lee 8imonson still is picking on Bette Davis. It is the accepted order of things , was never like this. At least the one we spent a of i'tht*—*:••>«: Bale., **.00, that her film fate shall be a cruel one, but in “That Certain Woman,” couple Jl .jO, *11.00; *nd Bale., 77c; Mata., months in the vicinity of was never like dear old the —Orch.. **.00; Bale., now at the Earle, it becomes downright scabrous. Lombardy, *..00.'V';!„ institution of the arts and which *1.50, *100; *nd Bale., 77e. LIFE The picture, concocted of all the established elements of the tear- higher learning through the Ritz Pius tax. COLLEGEbrothers run rampant in “Life in College." the new jerker formula, is Warner Bros.’ contribution to the current cycle of mother- Begins picture at Loews Capitol. If it had been we might have stuck around love films. It is something that no woman should miss if only to convince for three | months; it would have been fun. -—--ZZ^ herself the more thoroughly that all*---- Last year it took “Pigskin Parade to start the foot ball season off with incu otc utcwio, ivvjio, ui juot in/' Buuig places, am gives mai impres- the proper merriment and now comes' r_ tie boys at heart. Those implication: sion, only the places are not the this little Item to kid the pants oil Sisters,* local dance on run all the way through the pic tun same at all. In Fonda's lavor it lasses, tap THE WHOLE TOWN'S LAUGHING-WITH of any serious ideas you may have their toes, and Nelson’s Cats batter and often they are contrived in t can be said that the script writer « form that about the gridiron sport. That is if one another in a match. And manages to be deeply mov- could not have written it more ef- boxing The RITZ BROTHERS When it is Mis: serious ideas about the gridiron sport there’s the Big Apple, demonstrated ing. they are, usually fectively if his worst enemy were wear the pants in your family. (All with a vim the Davis who makes them that way. He: going to play it. Mr. Fonda’s rich by Crosley lassies, ‘LIFE BEGINSln COLLEGE" right; can we help it if we got sent to } H/UCA. long practice in suffering, • thougf young man is inept in his every TONY MARTIN GLORIA STUART 1 hardly in silence, turns out to be £ see the Ritz brothers?) thought and gesture and Fonda ■ a Oh rfteSdzae I strangely saving grace at moment: The guys are nuts. Or has that Howard Is Loaned. brings him to life with what seems BIG when all seems about to be lost. been said before? Anyhow, they still IO ACTS...1— 1 at times to be obvious distaste for HOWARD, Paramount lead- The Valentine’s massacre ir are. They also are looney, daft, JOHN**' ; 16 DANCING MISS AMERICAS I % day the whole thing. ing man, has been loaned to RKO- Chicago is the from which giddy, delirious, deranged and de- featuring “BIG APPLE” I springboard As the misunderstood husband, who Radio for a role in the production the script writer leaped with thii mented, not to mention aberrant. would like to have Miss Davis wreck tentatively titled, “It Never Happened latest armful of trouble for Miss Da- And they are funny. Extremely funny. ^-J I his home if she Before.” Howard’s only would, Ian Hun- of latest for Para- vis. When the picture opens, she i: This, course, is only the opinion ter shows himself once more as a mount is “Hold ’Em Navy,” a foot- the widow of one of the slain of those who roar gayly at the sight gang- capable actor. Anita Louise, War- ball story. sters. She is to establish s of that Harry Ritz walk and admit- trying ner's is prettiest blond, called upon is not held not \f, new and solid place for herself ir tedly by those suscep- to do very little as the invalid wife the world. The press, which Warner’s tible to the Ritz brand of Insanity. of Fonda’s but she is TRANS-LUX seem weakling, espe- The have not determined we all shall hate susceptibles. however, NEWS: POLITICS. WAR. 1 “DEAD END” cially lovely to look at in that wheel- loot Ball, Races. Cartoon. B is doing its best to keep her from suc- been cheated by "Life Begins in Col- chair. COMEDY. "AVIATOR f——V urUA SYLVIA SIDNEY cess. but her boss, a misunderstooc lege." There is much of the Ritz i* SHORTY.” ■*(“•■ • JOEL McCREA husband, is the kind of person whc * * * * brothers’ mad fantasy and whether HUCItO can frustrate the press single-handed The mad Ritz Brothers (or they are impersonating rhumba dan- is a very appealing child that does that adjective make it redundancy?) don foot ball togs lor some SHORTSUBJEOSj/Jsl He is a fine man, and Miss Davi: JT the extracurricular cers, tailors, foot ball players or In- 'sb- —L of activities of their school in at the new ~" should have loved him. She does not the studio has found to play the days "Life Begins College,” comedy dians they make for now on the screen at Loew’s Capitol. up generously S Showt jiti) ton OptnWs Instead she loves a wealthy weaklinf aftermath of that brief honeymoon of any minor shortcomings the film /-HaHzrntinin Miss who marries her. then goes home t< Davis and Fonda. His name is may have. Nat Pendelton, by the n^r“STELLA DALLAS’’ father because father says, “Com* Dwane Day, which somehow seems a way, is definitely not one of the pic- \ I iOHN BOLES‘Barbara STANWYCK shame since he looks home.’’ There’s an annulment of thi just like a kid Where and When ture's shortcomings. The stolid In- N marriage, a baby, and all the othei named Butch. Films Attain New Thriller dian with so much money to spend elements that make this familiar On the whole, Edward he has to have that Nat up Goulding help por- BETTE HENRY * vicious circle. who directed the picture and Miss Current Theater Attractions trays is one of the major comedy 1 * * * GAYETY THEATRE * Davis are to be congratulated on New Color and Time of Showing. graces of “Life Begins in College” DAVIS FONDA : On Screen W«rwfr In firm <'T*at because of Miss Davis and Iai doing so much with so little that and is guaranteed to make you for- BURLESK STARTING 1 Hunter, the picture is consider- was fresh from the standpoint of get for the moment that income tax > SUNDAY MATINEE Keith’s—“Walter Wanger’s Vogues “That Certain Woman" AETI R THREE SUCCESSFUL ably better than its hackneyed plot entertainment. returns must be filed by next March —On Stag*-— YEARS IN EUROPE of 1938,” Hollywood leads the fashion It attains conviction and suspense am Xavier Cugat and his band and In At “Met” 15. Or remind you. Also present is 1 “Vogues” in 11:25 MISS parade bright color: a.m., XAKIBCUMUORCH emotional impact in spite of you specialists contribute the vaudeville Miss Joan Davis, whose hilarious an- 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:30 fl.m. determination not to be caught b; portion of the bill. Senor Cugat's tics make any film brighter. JERRI that combination of circumstance: music Is a proper blending of that Picture at Keith’s Earle—"That Certain Woman,” Bulldog Drummond The story probably is hidden some- ©CALL EY again. There are intervals betweei which is Latin and that which is. more and more tragedy envelops where in the wig Harry Ritz wears _M the conviction and suspense and tear; say, domestic. After he and his band Has Wealth of Bette Davis: 10 a.m 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, Back With More for one scene, if there is a story. 7:25 and when one feels entirely free from i thoroughly demonstrate the musician- 9:50 p.m. Stage shows: And if there is. it is played by Fred all to find one’s self 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:25, 6:45 and 9:10 Gloria Joan only drawn bad : ship which has won them a wide Eye Appeal. p.m. Melodrama. Stone, Stuart, Marsh and “BULLDOG DRUMMOND I into the thick of the disaster all ove: audience, the singers, dancers and Capitol—"Life Begins at College.” Dick Baldwyn and sung by Tony f marches on. And if again. comics he has chosen to fill out the OLOR you Ritz Brothers madness in the halls of BY ROBERT R. PHILLIPS, Jr. Martin. BACK” Henry Ponda, who has been givint 55 minutes do bits would see the ultimate of the 11 a.m.. 1:40. 7:10 famous old home of Did we mention the Ritz brothers? COMES their to prove that learning: 4:25, A Paramount Ptetur* W-lh \ j audiences the impression he wa I he also is a good showman.

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