New In New Film Crosby-Raye Film Farce at n? ——----Stirring Witty Capitol tTnKiuxii&fll Has Moments Big Kids Newspaper Films Mat. at * 30. Tealftkt at S:30 I But Better Parts or of “Double Edna May Oliver Garries Show Nothing” Are Placed Against To Pinnacle of Laughter. Some Stuff. Hackneyed D. G. Tearn on Stage. BY JAY CABMODY. BY ROBERT B. left out PHILLIPS. Jr. Prlera tlnal. Bob Burns, substituted Andy Devine, and made anothf Tail: E?ee.—(trail, ft* tOt week Loews Baleen*. Bing Crosby-Martha Capitol Theater, nee Loew s Fox. double nee the Fox, kl.KI and SI Ui lleeead Bal- Raye picture out at Paramount not long ag< •nn r. Mr is celebrating its tenth anniversary as a major presentation house in Mata.—Entire Orek., SI .Ms The film, "Double or Nothing,” at the Palace an Tnlira kirat opened yesterday and Balaam, Sl.lOt Entire those who like this city, perhaps the most welcome surprise at its birthday party Srrnnd Baleonr, S6*. THEY Bing Crosby and Martha Raye are to be s going it THISis a rather choice comedy known as "My Dear Miss Aldrich.” Dis- pleased won t make a bit of difference how we felt. We felt disappointe< ONE In of the mirth tinctly labeled "class B" when it left the M-G-M studio, this parcel of celluloid WEEK STARTING spite and laughter which Director Reed and his cast manage when unwrapped, unreeled, or whatever it is do to NEXT MON. EVE. AT S:30 to into -————— you celluloid, reveals itself get spots, there were others John Goltri as an and a1*-=-—-— into wmch let old wrinkles intelligent witty farce, ~ they come. So is that in which Miss Raye, a preaenta reversal of form no doubt due to the Nsn Mi A M, Tha That was as bad as Iffr Oesi International Star bad, the para- old strip-tease girl, goes into her son HASLETT and Evelyn of ministrations of a screen writer named 'J'ALBOT phrase Shakespeare attempted in and dance and whei Tyner, both were GERTRUDE LAWRENCE undressing Herman J. Manklewicz. Washingtonians, that last sentence. In a RACHKI. CROTBPRS bands strike up the old theme son{ obviously the most welcome perform- Can ad? Valiant is the “My Dear Miss Aldrich” was written word for the attempt The times and places she chooses fc ers on the vaudeville program yester- fMOWjL2iu1Jj "SUSAN AND ROD" that has been made to freshen directly for Edna May Oliver, and in up the the act make it one of the amus day, although for some reason that Welcome Back in m with most it MADELEINE | story of “Double or that skilled comedienne lays aside has Nothing.” It is ing sequences of the film. It is funnj been consistently and repeatedly "K"a“ OSGOOD decked out with some of the trite exaggerations which PERKINS some pretty trick even the second time she does it. a mystery to us during the last five CARROLL I stuff have marred her more recent screen Settings be Jo MtcMnor thought up by Hollywood’s art- years, a great many people seemed to Francis HOKACt ! Crosby’s night club, toward whic' Nlrhl*—-Orchestra. St.*o. Bate#**. ful situation creators, and even trick- appearances. Here she snorts and dith- think the the picture is turn monologues of one Johnny (Brat si* raw?). II.Bft: (next S rewa). always working, ers in the best la Oliver ier stuff worked out by the director manner, set- Burke were Mebbe LEOERER *t tn- 2nd Baleen?, #5a. Ine. Tax. out to be a very lavish bu screamingly funny. In Columbia C*m*4y R\m HEIDT affair, a ■ irmmrrr Maimeaa. IVednesda* and and camera crew. The ting pace that keeps every moment of so. At least tatvrdaiv combination, when the floor show on Mr. Haslett’s act was ( IDS ALEMTE Orchestra. comes it some the SI.05. Baleen?. SI.It. one supposes, is for the film foolish if not alive. Miss graced with a “IT’S ALL 2nd responsible how seems to fall short of the decora shrewd choice of songs Baleen?, Me. iae. tax. final effect in which a huge revolving Oliver also contributes handsomely to befitting his voice (and tours’’ tions and the applause of the peopl almost all his BRIGADIERS —SEATS NOW— stage is used to move a night club the script writer's intentions by pok- shadow-boxing habits have sitting around at the tables. Ob disap- twin-8»t Cw>m A Cssrp fatt■ HWLS AT SEA" into the building next door just as ing a proper amount of impatient sar- peared of late) and Miss viously they can’t have been peopl Tyner was the sheriff is about to take over the casm at the cinema's concepts of news- as usual swift and who live in towns where vaudevill incredibly apt at original site. Think of that! paper life. the keys. still lives, for they would have rec “Double or Nothing,” which won’t While none might suspect from Locw’t CAPITOL ognized every act, the Cal The show has 16 Harry Crosley Girls one a especially its Dear surprise any bit, casts Crosby title, “My Miss Aldrich” is to it [1* gary brothers. give the revue touch; Larry Col- as a wandering, wistful troubador— a newspaper comedy-melodrama, a FtHiri it• * * * * lins to perform some agile tricks of 11:31 I2:4t-2:5S• 5.1I- 7:25-9:45 a boy with a laugh in his heart, a phrase that recently has struck fear tone pi best of the clut and musicianship with a trom- tear in his an specialty night and some nausea Dear voice and ambition to 'J'HE into the souls of the the i RONALD COLMAN 9My MISS ALDRICH' I so far as bone; dances of Pritchard and own a club. we were concerned, wa more ardent } night The action is dif- believers in the cinema. Lord to melt in In Frank Columbia I the sing band; not Th nicely with the danc- Capra's EDNA MAY ferent this time, in that his desire sing, swing. It is, however, acutely leavened with 1 OLIVE* I which ing girl numbers, and an m. c. named to own a club from the sing band, substitutes the hu the I MAUREEN 0 SILLIVAR night springs irony, ribbing gaudy socks off most Sammy Walsh. Mr. Walsh LOST ■ man voice for the various instru is no Red [ HORIZON | fact that if he can double his $5,000 of Hollywood’s great and inaccuraute He ■ WALTER PID6E0N ments, simulates Skelton, is no Johnny Perkins. I with it he will get a million dollars everything you hea masterpieces about work. next in rMenoN«“TKT WWT FOWET" newspaper In fact he is an m. c. I PLUS iZjrftiu ■ extra in big bands, the vibra scarcely and from an eccentric old gent who including Assisting in this very decent bit of his It contribution to the general gayety mow 1 is watching it from phone. is to the acoompanimen M all, presumably, tarring and feathering are Walter was anything but ^A£^rsary of this band that "Th gay. heaven. Three others are in on the Bing sings Pidgeon and Maureen O’Sullivan, the TRANS-LUX Mni»SU..«.». I scheme Moon Got in which Quite different from all these other with Bing. And four members My Fvves,” ough former one of the NEWS: obviously more useful who WAR. POLITICS. I of to be the hit number of o: people, have talents and voices the eccentric’s family are "Double men on PARIS; SPORT-THRILLS: pitted leading the coast today, and and __I Nothing.” That’s at his whatnot, is a little lass named Agl FENCING: CARTOON 1 against Bing and his pals. You guess Crosby ol( Miss O’Sullivan, like her senior col- the rest of it. best, the troubadour with the torch Judy Starr. She has no voice, yet is league, Miss Oliver, at last found in a clever to utrcito MAW “The Natural Thing to Do" and "A1 enough put over several song ♦ * * * reasonable role. Janet Beecher and SHORTSUBJECTsjflsJ You Want to Do Is numbers. She seems to be no BING CROSBY « Dance” are a cou Paul have small dancer, GLORIA DICKSON Harvey roles, afid she is at ease suspense of “Double or Noth- pie of others which ; yet when a bit of MARTHA RAYE you probably wil there is not a hoofing 1 1'J'HE Plays the young wife whose life is wrecked when her husband night club scene in the is called for. Miss Starr ing” is an intermittent thing. The like. is what is Roller Rink DOUBLE OB WOTUBiB1* i is convicted on circumstantial evidence in Won’t whole darned picture. Not a night known for Skating H interval in which it is best maintained If Paramount “They Forget ,” as, lack of a more expres- had pulled the bettei the Le that where the Roy-produced cinema version of Ward Greene’s club, is, room is full of sive a At Cm is when a golf pro starts for moments of "Double or \ Meryyn term, personality. But cer- Armory, Silver Md. shooting Nothing’ “Death in the bad smoke and torch Spring, the Deep South,” coming to the Metropolitan Friday. jokes, singers. tainly. $4,000 hole-in-one prize on a golf closer together by out some o leaving Every Evening 7:30 to 10:30 Except Thurt. range which the fortune-seeking quar- the dull ones, It would have been i i tet uses as one device to double the happier picture.