Sunday, February 7, 1943 DETROIT SUNDAY TIMES (PHOSE CHERRY 8800) PART 2, PAGE 7 d3er(in Reject* Select ofWo vie Version ofMi*Colorful jCifeStory. Priorities 7 ,ie t He Will Turn Film Actor Makes Debut When Hollywood Makes Here Tonight His This Is the Army By CHARLES GENTRY By LOCELLA O. PARSONS Tjßpr New York and Chieago SI niton PlflSM Sdltnr I»lrrnnttonnl Now* Snrrlm WHILEhave both had priorities - «. fl 1942," HOLLYWOOD. Feb, on catching "Priorities of - *'Rlijffyf'frL / f Detroit gets its turn to view MUCH has been written about Irving Berlin, No. 1 v w'"j,£ vtJV'.' bhßmßf ~i>v' i,- sJ I j this elaborate variety show lo- SOcompoaer of popular hit. tunea, that there is very little I night when it opens a two-week can add. Better writers, such as the late Alexander Woollcott, engagement at ihe Cass Theater. With such headliners as Lou have written the atory of the slender, dark-eyed Berlin boy on the side and who came Holtz. Willie Howard. Bert ' who atarted as a piano player east -r Wheeler and Hanl it looks fL here from Rusaia at the age of 4. like vaudeville didn't go so far m ‘2 .. J < His story is well known to every American who likes to away * after all. what a chance there is for the poor boy and* girl in Fj<£ § I They're all together heading hear our §y§pßHf a galaxy of well known acts, glorious country. pretty girls and elaborate gags. Yet always there is something *new about Irving. He was During the last two years either just finished a song that has swept the, country or he been a definite trend there has is writing r new musical for to revise the revue, to bring the good days when motion pictures. back old < W&L .. there was no sweeter sound than Personally, I like Irving so the patter of comedians w’hose ' much I always welcome any jokes were tried if not true, him, ft ...- chance to talk with and just for laughs. mHhHEEhBhBHKHh i JJSt so when he asked me to have The Right Idea 111 a cocktail with him I accepted M ISIgI alacrity. it *' Burlesque has had its inning with We had be- Broadway it an tween the matinee and evening and is giving k I outing, so it is only right that performance of "This Is the variety, done on the scale that Army" when it played in Los made such theaters as the Tem- Angeles. ple and the Palace, should have * a new day. in If &-J .-•¦A V'¦ At least that was the Idea be- Takes Pride hind the production of this Irving, with his eve* aglow, i WW - 'C /*) show and ihe way New York bad just had word that this and Chicago took to it, it would certainly seem to have been the army show would net Uncle Sam millions -not only the two right one. V u mm Besides the four-star comedi- million already made, but the ans who headline the show, receipts from the copyrights of there will also be Gene Sheldon, the popular song numbers which HEDY LAMARR as the sultry Tondelayo banio-plaving comic who is he over to the had turned his uses her wdles to ensnare WALTER PIDGEOM a master of musical pantomime; country'. Wa Luba Malina. the exotic singer, His pride in being able to do during the course of "White Cargo,” showing who has created as much of a something for his country is on the screen of the Michigan Theater. sensation as Lena Horne wdth indicative of the character of her bizarre songs. this man. He says only m this Peggy tnd Morn and Lari country would It be possible to m mm Al|»hah«»tleal News Bureau: and Conchita arc the two dance produce such a musical as "This teams, and novelty acts include? is the Army." W Loretta Fincher, the Helen Irving is so imbued wiih this Reynold Skaters and Kelly musical, to he A 1 - new which is and Lora Saunders. IX)R A SAUNDERS and WILLIE HOWARD in a comedy scene from the made into a motion picture and JEANNE CAGNEY has News of the Film Stars, Matinees this ue*»k will be Broadway hit show, "Priorities of 1942,” which opena tonight at the Cass. then taken abroad for the sol- ton Wednesday, Saturday and diers overseas, that it is difficult a featured role in "Yankee Sunday. to get him to talk about any- Doodle Dandy" which stars The Wilson continues to pa-k 7 7 thing else, hut there was one her brother, James Cagney, From TV Right Through 'll ?he customers wn and *end thing I had on my mind and them but hysterical o\er th- and which continues at J.he Cargo Hedy that was his own life story. By SARA HAMILTON of Chariotte Greenwood White With Lamarr, Palma-State Theater. antics \ KpocUl to THF. DF.TSOIT TIMES in "Leaning on Letty." 7 Shies at Life Story * "Lett/’ has certainly made a lot of new friends and matine»s "Why don’t you let the motion HOLLYWOOD. Feh. fi. find countless youngsters who Nights on Film Bill film your life story?" |7OR lads in camps at home Exotic Arabian " have never seen her before. flrture*asked. ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy* Miss Durbin * and overseas, hungry for Pacific, wai one of the bent TEARING a peek at the week “The Arabian Nights” in techni- action in the but is soon picture* news of Hollywood, here, friends Played in Australia A ever made and your Hfe 1* just ahead, we find a lot of in- color. Of course. Burton and the coming up with “Random liar* a* eolorful, Just as exciting and is our alphabetical news bureau When the war is over. Cha-- teresting new film* coming in other translates would never vest.” just as full of patriotism as was all ready for clipping. intends to take "Lem" s A Miller, lotte recognize this plot as bearing This is the James story George Insists She —Ann heart-free and which we’ve been hearing about Hilton M. Cohan’s career.” around the world. She started lovely, who spends all her spare for some time past. any resemblance to the original of two wars, which co-stars for Irving shook his head slowly ¦V I to in 1930 and got as far as time* at army camps, has gone Wa HS§ ’* and said: ‘ talcs, is a queen named the first time Greer Garson and «fm ,Bpr Australia where this same com- White Cargo, at the Michi- hut there "No, not while T alive. I back to brunette. Prefer her as jigjw and boys the am W pany. Russell Fillmore. Isohel gan, has Hedy Lamarr as the Scheherazade, the just Ronald Colman. Both book have told Ellin and the young- Adult Now a blonde, hoys? J^r Withers. Charles Martin and B—Betty famous Am Tondelayo.'" the took it from there. and the film have attracted ster* that when I am dead and Hutton broke her Romaine Callender. pja>ed for *1 By engagement and looking Monte/, the attention we imagine gone they ran do anything they NEIL RAC is B/C .-. four months in Sydney and Mel- African dazzler that drove men Maria wide and around again. No crowding f! J the United Artists will have want with my life story, hut as special »« Tur nrTaoiT Tiwr»* bourne. ihan a malana mos- lovely, gets her biggest break there, fellows. madder quite an engagement with this long a* I am here I don’t want Feb. 6 Tonight begins the last tw > to date in this one and Jon Hall HOLLYWOOD. C Cupid clipped Carole Lan- quito. one. It put In the movies." as on weeks for "Leaning On Lefty" plays the Caliph who fights with Irving IN PRIVATE life as well dis in London. But that won’t in- The love story of the I the screen. Deanna Durbin because Mis« Greenwood has to We don t think you'll get trop- was page copy terfere wiht ’her visit to camps his brother. Leif Erikson. over Coban Film Stays Berlins front grown up keeps. return to Fox for her new ical fever from watching Hedy were marTled years has for in America and abroad. Wh+S the Bagdad babe. But even if when they She isn’t kidding when she movie. undulate through the part hut The popularity of “Yankee ago. She was the daughter of D—Dorothy Lamour. a steady This is the last week f.»r the story has nothing to do with Doodle Dandy.” in the seccnd Kay, says she wants no part of her visitor, is hardly recognizable, #r ue bet your temperature will Clarence Mac multi-million- Watch On the Rhine" a» th* the original, there's plenty of week of its return engagement aire. and although the telegraph former unsophisticated movie according to the hoys at Holly- Lata yette, where Margaret ri*e. harem, beauties in technicolor, at the Palms-State. proves that magnate's opposition to his roles. wood canteen, without that Anglin. may the Katharine Warren ami She dances in this one and dashing horsemen and sand, a single feature can hold its daughter's marriage to the song You have seen new sarong. Walter ere giving an ex- sand, everywhere own any day. Durbin already in her current gets all the boys going with her sand you look. with a double bill composer was overcome before cellent performance of the Lil- As you undoubtedly know, he died, it is still a very touchy Universal picture.