' ——RKOWflfmu/Q — “The at Palace It in “Met” Where and When ■ ■■ ® 8**0 Firefly” Say Song Depicts N Q | ^ Is Current Theater Attractions Stately Operetta Big Prison and Time of Showing. • Ton will mo HEPBtThr, Pace of National—“To Be Continued,“ a new Lavish Spectacle Is Slow, “Politics” comedy with Luella Gear: 8:30 p.m. an* ROGER8 togothor, But Its Music Is Sweet and Palace—“The Firefly,” Jeanette Mac- la tho Broadway atago Litel Performance Donald in the Friml operetta: 11 a.m., •aoeoas that haa bo* Settings Imposing. 1:35, 4:15, 6:55 and B:35 p.m. eomo tho highlight of _• Is “Alcatraz” Keith's—“Stage Door,” Hepburn, all tho ocTOOB’a bow big By JAY CARMODY. Rogers, a story of Broadway called bet- picture*, I don’t expect a story as tightly written as if Clifford Odets were its Feature. ter than that of the play: 11:15 a.m., author when you go to see Rudolph Friml’s “The Firefly," which 1:21, 3:27, 5:37, 7:39 and 9:45 p.m. opened yesterday at Loew’s Palace. Nor do you get it. What you do U'T'HE ROCK” is the subject of Capitol—"Double Honeymoon,” ro- YOUget is a big colorful musical of the turn-of-the-century type in which the current screen attrac- mance in two doses: 11:05 a.m., 1:45, Alan Jones and Jeanette MacDonald | sing charmingly and fall charmingly in § tlon at the Metropolitan. 4:30, 7:15 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows: love against one of those Alice-in-Wonderland backgrounds which have be- It was inevitable. Prac- 12:50, 3:40, 6:25 and 9:05 p.m. comp thp hallmark M-O-TM nrw —.— _ tically everything which makes head- Earle—“It’s Love I’m After,” Leslie tas. Its story is a maundering, unex- “When a Maid Comes lines throughout the Nation comes to Howard to the De citing tale which does not matter Knocking at attempts dodge HEPBURN & the attention of and ROGERS Your Heart" and "A Woman’s Kiss.” Hollywood, Holly- Havilland affection 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, much because there always is a gay In wood usually attempts to do some- and addition to the donkey serenade 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows: 1, AD01PRE MERJOD glorious song somewhere along thing about it in the celluloid medium. the number, Jones lends his lyric tenor to 3:45, 6:30 and 9:15 p.m. and with oAn Patrick o long, winding road. “The Rock” is forbid- corptaihck collier > “Gianina Mia” and “Sympathy,” two Alcatraz, the MaiMnAlU... hilonieo. M As a to the ANDREA LEEDS 0 LUCILLE BALL supplement splendor of the finer ancestors of the ding carcel (it being California) in current drama against a backdrop of prison of it all, two novelties are added in Friml San Francisco Bay wherein dwell the AbOEDI creations. bars and walls: 11:55 ADDED! the form of Miss MacDonald’s danc- most disturbing of Uncle Sam's in- a.m., 2, 4, 5:55, You definitely cannot go on 7:55, 9:50 ing (it’s the truth! and the substitu- wrong voluntary tenants. p.m. the music of “The WALTDISNEY'S tion of Jones for Nelson Eddy. Miss Firefly.” Columbia—“Ali Baba Goes to Town,” L1LJTHE_____ As for Miss MacDonald's John Litel, who appears quite at cartoon in technicolor MacDonald's dancing, Eddie Cantor nonsense a MARCH 01 TIME dancing is entirely ac- ease in a role which is under tur- she had to do it in order to be the cafe thoroughly • ceptable and Jones’ tenor voice is ban: 11:55 a.m., 1:55, 3:55, 7:55 and PLUTO’S QUINPUPLETS NOVEMBER ISSUE enchantress that Nina foreign to his other stage or screen Maria was sup- 9:55 quite adequate to the requirements chores, a likable p.m. posed to be. Positively she does not let plays thug—a crimi- which Eddy has taken care of in the Trans-Lux—News and shorts. Show Comin*:LILY PONS. Eric Bloro, Jack OJdo.’-HTTTlNGrA NEW HIQW down on this part of the character. nal sent to Leavenworth on a tax past. For a third evasion runs 1 hour and 15 minutes continu- eye-appealing effect, As most dancers want to be actresses charge ("protection" associa- there is a much greater use of that tions are his ously from 10 a.m. to midnight. or singers, Miss MacDonald enters into racket)’ moved to the film which was revival of the sepia-tinted employed the of No. 1 steel chateau after a row, Little—"Showboat,” spirit her dancing in a manner prison ■ in one of the better sequences of involved in a murder Jerome Kern-Edna Ferber musical: i-. \ which indicates that sopranos have a (within the “Maytime," to of the 11 a.m., 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:25 and 9:30 w’hich, course, suppressed desire to be Pavlowas. It prison walls, of all places). Mr. Litel current spectacle is a logical succes- carries the which p.m. is a quite pleasing from picture, is not sur- departure — sor. It also helps you to that His is a Ambassador "The Prisoner of forget the conventional pattern. prising. convincing portrayal the pace of “The Firefly’’ is not far of the criminal who is not so Zenda," blood, thunder and love: 1:10, Warren William, the man who looks base imra ~W. removed from funereal. as to countenance willful homicide. 3:15, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:35 p.m. ll 1 ■ like John Barrymore and is sorry for ^ "Trl Some take Penn—“Heidi,” Temple and Her- By way or making the picture more it, plays the tall, dark and handsome might issue with the depiction of an Alcatraz sholt: 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 piquant from the standpoint of music, rival of Jones for the hand of Miss “toughie” as a personable but p.m. STARTS TODAY the producing company has supple- MacDonald. Harry Daniell, Billy Gil- fellow, the actor ( does his work well, and the charac- Sheridan—“The Awful Truth,” mari- mented the original Friml score with bert and Douglas Dumbrille are others She’s in terization is tal one of the Madcaptivating the modernistic treatment of Herbert in the vast cast who have important not by way of a glorifi- comedy, year’s brightest: Her Newest and ui me uuu 7:45 Gayest Stothart. The latter, M-G-M’s bright- things to do. utwsty men. 2, 3:55, 5:50, and 9:45 p.m. Ann Sheridan the moll" Tivoli—“Heidi”: 2, 3:50, 7:35 Musical Romance / est musical talent, has shown due re- So coming down to brass tacks, plays “gang 5:40, in a satisfying fashion. That Miss and 9:30 p.m. spect for his elder even though he has “The Firefly” has song and charm is, Sheridan is very to the Uptown—“Heidi”: 2, 5:50, 7:45 added two vocal creations of his own. and splendor. If these serve the pur- Whatever may be on the minds of Jeanette MacDonald satisfying eye 3:55, and ear. She is one of the and 9:45 One of them, "The Donkey Parade,” pose which M-G-M obviously hoped and Allan Jones in this scene, you can bet the stars of “The smoothest- p.m. appearing "molls'' to a Howard—“West of a will be found an extremely pleasing they would, you won’t mind that it Firefly” will sing a duet about it. The picture, latest of Miss grace gang Shanghai,” but that is no GRACE picture, and Boris Karloff thriller: 7:30 MOORE Insert. Pictorially it involves the has a tedious story, tediously told. MacDonald’s numerous musical successes, is now playing at objection, 12:30, 4, it supplies one of the two reasons and 10:15 shows: 6 amorous figure of Jones serenading They probably will. Loetv’s Palace. why p.m. Stage 2:30, “Gat’’ (friend Litel) decides to be a and 9 p.m. Miss MacDonald as she rides along a better man after he beats the murder mountain highway in a mule-drawn from ‘‘Minnie # be delivered the The other coach. I “rap." reason is his daugh- 9^%Jc^miemce There is a lot of scenery In Moocher." with * * * * ter, played by Mary McGuire, who the sequence, quite a bit of music and AS FOR bringing her band of artists proves herself a youngster of accept- comedy and, rather more than the She Cooks and Chats here to serenade < and not sweetly) able talent. The cast also includes other items, there is a youngster who 6 the political geniuses who draw tax one Vladimir Sokoloff, who is the Ivyn looks strangely like a youthful Pan BARGAIN MAT. SAT. bills, Miss Moore wants it understood actual murderer of “Bull" (da punk romping ahead of the coach piping 50c, $1.00, $1.50, Plus Tax that the of a screen artist “Gat" wuz gonna burn fur jj out Grace Moore Talks From Taxes to glamour bumpin’). his exuberant little heart. It is a Morris Green it James J. is an expensive thing. A rich back- He doesn't have much to do, but one Fen very even if, its Present beguiling thing by wishes that he had more work DOUGLAS Plum ground is no less important to the for very length, it seems to have over- Puddings. his HEAR MISS MOORE artist, she feels, than a factory and Warner Bros’, salary in this piece.