Hollywood, Too, It PLAYERS TO BE TESTED Seems, Wins Award for Role in National’s Film FOR “GREAT GARRICK” Suffers Actor Famine Cast Selections to Be Ma^e Care- fully for New Mervyn Le Roy Picture. Its Wail for on Talent, Top of Broadway’s LEAST 200 famous Hollywood players will be tested within the Lament, Makes It Seem Some One’s month for principal roles In "The Great Garrick,” which will be Mervyn Exaggerating. Le Roy's fourth production for Warner Bros, release, and in which Brian BY JAY CARMODY. Aherne, Olivia de Havilland and Ed- crazy. All last week in New York every one wept about ward Everett Horton have been raids on already Hollywood Broadway acting talent. Producers couldn't cast cast. STARTS shows, they sobbed, implying that the who playwright created any Tests have begun at the Warner SOMEBODY'Sdrama larger than a triangle (eternal.) was of FRIDAY hopelessly ignorant the studio, under the of Le acting situation. supervision Roy and James Whale, who will direct The speakers, at the American Theater Council Convention i^norerf *Vie the The series of tests PLUS BIG ract that their audiences were made' picture. long will be up to large extent of actors not'work- complete, including wardrobe, STAGE Fall.” In the and ing at the moment. And that the long years he has been make-up dialogue tests. SHOW bitter-sweet "I want each in Lambs' Club was glutted with others, playing suave, parts, he player ‘The Great must have & to do Garrick' to fit his or her to • ranging from 20 to 70 years, with developed quite yen part per- Le nothing better to do than play something different. Such a strong fection,” Roy said, in announcing yen, indeed, that murder would seem the series of tests in ad- LOLW'S checkers. One did not survey the month-long hall to be just the thing to the vance of the which will bed room situation, but one sus- vary shooting date, CAPITOL of it be in June. pected it would reveal scores of dam- monotony all. There have been probably that Mr. "Mr. Whale sels sighing that they had not been reports Montgomery is a and I believe that the best caught in one of Hollywood's talent pretty high-class murderer in the purposes of the comedy will be raids. play which Emlyn Williams intro- served if the cast is selected leisurely, • duced to last after The one ray of sunshine in all Broadway Fall. This intensive testing. We want Er- department wouldn't know nest that verbal gloom was the feeling about that, Vajda's written word actually NATIONAL THEATRE that personally, until the is to come to life on the screen NAtlonal 0501 Hollywood at least was well picture H. B. WARNER. in "The Spencer TRACY stocked. screened by Loew's tomorrow after- Great Garrick,” and therefore will There would be pictures, *"e Frank capra-directed Horizon,” now in its third week at the National 2:30—Twice Daily—8:30 one noon. Thlnu,raM "Lost test about 200 of best Gladyt GEORGE felt, to fill next Winter's empty Theater, has been voted the Screen Actors’ Guild Award for "the best the available SEATS—50c At it will supporting performance of 500 nights. That was consoling. But any rate, be nice to go- any player for the month of March.’’ players in Hollywood. The principals Franchot TONE to the movies and I All SeatM Rtierved it did not last again. They have -- even the bit will be se- very long. One came players in tht Thrill Dnmi movies in New of lected back to Washington to a desk piled York, course, but with an eye to complete fit- Mats. 50c, 75c, those living one ness for the high with unread news from Holly- stage people keep MENJOU IS ADDITION characters described in ‘Ttuyfarj/im a fit* and aome at 81.00 wood. too busy to permit them. And the And. in the very first sen- seeing script.” • • we did want to sneak Wealth sfACE w/Wr* tence of the out for an- of Fun the Eves. first By time tests have been a 50c, 75c, $lf piece, one read? Witty Found TO “STAGE DOOR” CAST made other at PHIL REGAN some "If you are young, handsome, tal- peek “Captains Courageous" cast of 50 principals will, have been and at 81.58 V and a of Elizabeth I ented, prepared to starve a little, and glimpse Bergner selected for "The Great Garrick.” POPEYE i&eS&i&l (Plus Tax) of in “Dreaming Lips.” R-K-O Film Version of Stage Hit The 200 to masculine gender, pack your bag In “Carnival in Flanders” players be tested will ac- Mr.-Md Mrs. JESSE CRAWFORD and come to Hollywood. The short- to Star tually represent 600 tests, each Hepburn and being other acU one age of available leading men is creat- rJ''ELEGRAMS, telegram cor- tested for costume, make-up and dia- |_^ ing unprecedented opportunities for recting another, say that Hardie Ginger Rogers. logue. nfTTTiwnnrrhr Meakin is French Comedy Hit on Belasco Screen I llpl 11 III Li F4IL newcomers.” entertaining at dinner to- ^DOLPHE MENJOU has been signed Unless some one is morrow night ... at the exaggerating, Mayflower, to the role of and in Brown Passes Town play the producer 6am Goldwyn is going to have to be- honor of Christy Cabanne, Again—Joe Through BELASCO now Marsha in “Stage Door," which will star Gin- come a Noel Coward and write his Hunt and others here for the own of R-K-O's and Phil Eats Breakfast. plays, play his own leads, sing making Annapolis pic- Regan ger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn. m-_ ture his own songs and his And a nice letter from Earl Gail Patrick has I ^ maybe grind BY HARRY MacARTHUR. been borrowed from own camera. And on this side of Hunt, Marsha's father, which was ace contribution to the of cinema Paramount to play the part of Linda “TURN OFF THE the continent Maxwell higher in the pile than the library outstanding comedies, MOON*"-/ Anderson will telegrams, “Carnival in had said Flanders," has now come back to the Belasco for a return in R-K-O Radio Pictures’ have to declaim as well as create the already she would be in screening CHAS. RUGGLES ELEANORE town engagement at the spot where so many people rolled gayly about the verse that thunders so and would we see her would of the season's poignantly aisles past Broadway stage victor WHITNEY JOHNNY we! FRANCE'Slaughing at it last season. It's something to be seen if you missed McLAGLEN DOWNS.. i of human frailties and She is two-thirds of the & | assininlties. it before and if hit. | drama you did see it don’t let that stop you because it looks just as PHIL HARRIS KENNY BAKER as department's — Unless, we say, some one favorite local girl ■ —on is ex- good this season as it did last. in i ■ 11 ■ ■ i t'acr who made good, Menjou appeared support of Miss aggerating. Some one probably is. anywhere Those There’s MoaillUriow »] a wealth of humor, ranging from knife-edged satire on the in CALIFORNIA COLLEGIANS Arlington background shots used in Hepburn R-K-O Radio's “Morn- UK | iomies oi man ro complete siapsticic,' »■-——---. Coj^yof lanct Fredric B. if "This Is My Affair,” at the the in *C450fV- LOUISE MASSEY i THE WESTERNERS WARNER, you ha,ve not Palace, in this tale. Most of it is ing Glory," picture which her GAYNOR-MARCH H. were subtle and j made by local Movietone cam- it's better than m heard, won the month’s “best nimble that the last film he made. acting won an academy award. His ‘tfSfet i*3oU<’ "m ott m Mtm dm Aha eras Arthur De wit, keeps you engrossed | Titta is proud of He hopes so, anyhow. There's an- TECHNICOLOR supporting performance” award for and on but it also is latest work was .^JN Sen Tito) t Tmuth them and your toes, the “Cafe Metropole," Acclaimed his work in “Lost Horizon.” At why not When other one coming up, "Pit for a King,” by >1 Tie Utoato) any the show ! kind of hilarity which makes for that for Twentieth Century-Pox. Nation's frit* he won goes on, Mrs. Jesse Crawford but the comic won't rate, the one offered by the I make this until Miss lea at Beat on with it good, healthy laughter that starts Patrick is at present Screen goes she was he finishes with the base ball season engaged Fletire ©f the Actor's Guild, the only one Saturday in in so it somewhere the region of the dia- Paramount's “Artists and Models." YW. awarded at the ill, seemed impossible that she ! in Chicago, where he’s being moment. phragm. broadcasting A Ala could play but I the Birmingham, beauty, she was Mark Freeland, the picture's escort play she did and games. hasn't It's good fun all of the tiipe, this one of the of that its missed a performance since Before Joe finds his checks winners company's through three weeks’ run at the of luggage “Panther Girl" NOW SHOWING •Unfinished bright fantasy the good wives of to contest, sponsored in National, thinks the honor is but business from New' dash of! with John Miller, the ath- York: the village of Boom, who faltered not connection with the production of one-twelfth as as Rudy Vallee sending his best letic coach at (one of the “PRINCE & THE great it will be some when their Mercersburg PAUPER” I to all his friends in husbands went into hiding best “Tjje Island of Lost Souls," which time next Winter.