■stand why film stars are afraid to ieturn to the stag*. Margaret Sulla- d U ATIONAL ft. Howard and Charles Revue at Fuses van, Leslie “That Girl From Paris” 1 PI Nitea. RJcRJ’.S. Mil. Rat, Capitol Musical Show Laughton have all been highly suc- ■' II (3* ta *1.70 Mae. tax). Ml Peart* Play at Americao Tkaaiar Beauty cessful in their stage comebacks. It's 9 Saeiaty of the dough and pleasantness life At Keith’s a 9 AMERICAN fRrlA::tl:i'/iOKD0N ITAHc SUCCtN Nonsense With Satire in Hollywood that keeps actors away Proves Riot 9 _*. A. Mi y E R from Broadway—not the fear of flop- ping.” Low Comedy and High Scorn Alternate in Katharine Hepburn: "I prefer living Lily Pons Demonstrates Previous Movie Suc- In New York to Hollywood—particu- 9 * war Jnmc MARCVERITt the Thin In the Summer, when all the cess Was No if TIIU|A Lavish Show—“After larly Fluke, in Tuneful and MB * iae/ujire^ one dislikes are away on vaca- JiftmfwrlttJe»,/ people SANII tRANCH on Screen. tion and It Is possible to do exactly as B t Man” Funny Picture. ■ one pleases.” MIRAMOVALARIMORE’STAM JAY CARMODY. JOHN BY Mae West: “I'm more concerned BY HARKY MaeARTHUR. B tf HAYDEN 9 C. I. FTER THE THIN MAN" is just another motion picture, but it takes than StHiMff >y CAITH HOP H over the women in my audience MEAKIN hasn’t had any box-offlce girls collapsing from the a subordinate to the stage show at Loew s Capitol Theater A position the men.” atrain of the day’s labors during the past few weeks, but he's this week. The "Folies Parisienne,” French Casino revue, is too sr.: so I N*it W**k—Stats Sailing Z_\ Fairbanks, “I'm the New Year off the way. Pons’ new Douglas starting right Lily picture, H Fifth Play of Anerlcan Theater * too colorful, too piquant and too fresh to surrender the large, weary of gadding about from country HARDIE“That Girl From Paris,” which opened at Keiths last night, is H Seciety even to the talented team of William Powell and Myrna Loy. I’m right, of way to country. Now that I’m back, something that is bound to have the movie-goers of the town again beating ■ HERMAN SHUMLIN PraaaaU It is a and nonsensical thing that has been fashioned from the (Fairbanks and his gay here to stay.” paths to Fifteenth street. It’s practically a young riot. MS7^* most discussed play into the vaudeville show., in St. Moritz, French largest ► wife are currently Miss Pons demonstrated in her first picture, of course, that her talents Br/«£. OF THE GENERATION- ever brought to the Capitol stage." • -- course, infuses a ludicrous dance with Switzerland.) re not confined to sweetly snd easily4 >•-” Sometimes the and nonsense “It’s terrible to be gayety enough to make it pointed. Luise Rainer: chanting notes so high technicians go Just pathos women are at of comedy; I ... I will marry capitalists heart, and ■children's carry the quintessence Clever! chained to Hollywood nuts trying to catch them on a sound all the other are tinctured with lively when I love a man so much I can’t things perpetrated by the again they * a * * track. She showed then that her LILLIAN color of a I I once loved a man like quartet, this probably 1s the only or- ■HOUR HILLMAN] aatire. Yet whatever the help myself. is one cameras catch at 'T'HE revue comes back to the personality ■ Nlakti. ate ta S*.7Is III If. Wat. i en- kiddies, chestra of its kind ever gathered to- given moment, it contrives to be j that. It was wonderful." its best (which is mighty good) and J til Sat,. >3c la it.ta. lat. tax. | but brings along the adults, in “I couldn’t go gether. And, as if they were not tertaining. The revue is smartly | Barbara Stanwyck: that she had a definite flair for play- another pantomimic dance by the La- that again. enough, the studio assigned Herman dressed and subtly lighted at all times, through all (marriage) ing light comedy. Now. in “That Girl burdened with Varre brothers. It is broader than it all my illusions about love.” Bing to a fat role, too. even when it is least | I’ve lost From Paris,” she comes forward to ■" iw> is long, at certain moments; but only “The ,IOIP PIT tI*C and especially when the light- Clark Gable: sophisticated prove first And If “That Girl Prom Paris” were unur i XVXaA 1 11 9 .ic clothing j at that film success was no those who are pretty expert recog- more interesting. She has la U TV a wiikinctoi iNBiiTvnoa ing is subdued almost to the point of woman is fluke, no once-and-done proposition. not the gay, tingling comedy it is. it nizing broadness will know just which had darkness. more to offer. She has experi- would be worth seeing anyhow for just itself is one of moment is which kind. and men. As far as picture those fact ence with life rpHE two sequences, Lily Pons singing LILY PONS It is a pretty well-established by Alice Kavan is another dancer who affairs in the vein I'm concerned, the demure little girl frothy pleasant "The Blue Danube” with a modern time that the French have a way this must be mentioned. Hers is the most Hollywood has discovered it can RAYMOND • JACK OAKIE is a very dull proposition.” can’t be described. You have I CINE w that the "swing” ith them and in copying way and handle with Is as tactfully, perhaps effectively, Fred MacMurray: “The simple, un- perfection. It de- to see It. Parisienne" ar- And the movies haven't creators of the “Folies interlude of the whole void of sense as it is of lighted per- unaffected type of airl full wit and had a dance as hilarious as I THAT GIRL/ -PARIS' rived at more universal than sophisticated, recently something formance. gay good humor. The is this— • offers more than the sophisticated, story Lucille Ball's attempt to do a graceful Is New Sea| Wta IMI New L..|K. sophisticated in its appeal. Sophisti- The musical score of these follies Is if it matters: A artificial variety." really young French musical routine after in- I Hmmrt Trmaklm Smt Im Mamit cation is not but it is not over comedy soap lacking, catchy always, with the vocalizations learned never lass with a glorious voice flees the Mary Pickford: “I've stead of resin has been put on her stressed. It could not be with so gen- handled citizen who pleasantly by Marguerite to say ‘never.’ moneyed is trying to shoes. eral an audience In mind. Howard. Simone Simon: “People who call finance her career, atowa away in the • • • cabin of four lads * * * * me temperamental are crazy." in an American 'VHE revue opens with a dog, pony through the pleasant novelty Norma Shearer: 'When couples “swing” band, falls in love with one rpHUS, of them, attaches herself to the and monkey act. They are cute of such a stage show one comes to work in different professions, how gang and animals who have mastered lots of cute “After the Thin Man,” the week's film can they understand each other?” brings on immigration officers, Greeting* ®o 911 should uH and all sorts of _ tricks and then start the show with a attraction. It is a sequel to that Dick Powell: “Marriage matrimony wild pleasant quality of, shall one say, pouf. extraordinarily Jolly detective story be a publicity medium. It’s a very doings. Now Miss Pons • Yes, the more one looks at it, the which teamed William Powell and private affair.” (Shades of his New is pretty accurately in the role of a more ‘'pouf” seems just the word.) The Mvrna Loy last year. York honeymoon! > | cast, young French by the North American lass with a Gautiers have done well with their Powell has same adroitness (Copjritht. 1937. ; glorious voice. She is Mr. the Newspaper Alliance. Inc > I completely attractive as a animals. in the reading of smart dialogue, comedienne, to be sure, but best of all. she has After the ponies, the dogs and the Miss Loy is just as pretty and no plenty of opportunity to sing. She monkeys, there is Frieda Sullivan. She less talented, Dashlell Hammett has GOV. AND MRS. NICE has new songs—“Seal It With a Kiss." not sound French, but if her written just as deftly and W. S. Van may ! "Call to Arms," “Love snd Learn”— acrobatic does not belong in Dyke directs quite like W. S. Van dancing RECEIVE PUBLIC TODAY snd she has old songs. If that aria any revue, then audience Dyke. Those four items add up to yesterday’s Hene Damur, one of the principals of Franz Lehar's latest she does from “Barber of Seville” was did not know what it was clapping attractive film fare. If you do not which is I operetta, scheduled for presentation at the National 1 ever done in cleaner, sweeter, more about. When Miss Sullivan into insist that it be as good as “The goes Theater on January 11. Dennis King and Helen Gleason play First New Tear Reception in New inspiring voice, it certainly must have Thin it is a considerable treat. ♦ he wings, the revue still belongs as Man,” the roles. been leading House Starts something. much to the children in the audience If you do insist that it be that good, Government will be unreasonable.