THEATER AND CINEMA AND PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEM « Ju.ir.ir ■ ^ ...V I __ »-r Next Week'* Films. DHIL REGAN and Winifred Shaw,! The State of the Actor “New Wants Noted Star in First Screen Role *■ Hollywood” Stage two of Warner Bros, young fea- tured players, will come to the stage st the Earle Theater on Friday In a Of and Talent Instead of Beauty ipedal personal appearance. Regan, Today Yesterday ‘the singing Irishman,” has been heard in “Sweet Adeline," "In Cal- Mias Are Lean Nine Newcomers to the Movies Have Exhib- lente” and other pictures, while These Considered Days, But the Shaw gained her greatest fame sing- of In "Gold of Some Years Did Not ited Unusual Stage Ability—Days of the ing "Lullaby Broadway," Trouper Ago Find Diggers of 1935” and "The Lady in the Well-Known Goose “Beautiful and Dumb” at an End. Red,” in "In Caliente.” Always On the screen, a new Warner Bros, comedy, "Don't Bet on Blondes." will Hanging High. be the principal attraction. Warren By E. de S. Melcher. William, Guy Klbbe and Claire Dodd Swarthout, are some of the newcomers in the movies: Gladys head the cast. By Lucius Beebe. Pons, Nino Martini, Mary Ellis, Michael Helen Gahagan, Lily William Powell and Luise Ranter the state of the actor. The times, we are told, are lean, Bartlett, Fred Stone, Blanche Yurka and Freida Inescourt. The are teamed in "Escapade” which and circumstances of adversity narrowly touch the pocketbook HEREstory of their screen contracts is unusual. They are not the comes to Loew's Palace next, Friday. of the unhappy trouper. Few enough of them are employed at all. and the very handsome and the very beautiful. They have very young Mady Christians and Virgins Bruce, CONSIDERThose who are employed but infrequently connect with dramas in fields other than the screen. And now, suddenly, all had successes two of the screen's most beautiful of even moderate duration. The happy fellows who, like Humphrey when are not quite so young as they used to be, they land in they stars; Frank Morgan and many others Bogart, suddenly become associated with success again (and highly and the air is full of them again. Hollywood of established reputations people the enough merited, too, in Mr. Bogart's case) are all too few, and mostly to tne nauuuiu. This goes to show that youth is no Fiddle," wmcn came cast of this gay movie. Robert Z. they are only enabled to pay off deficiencies and arrears to the landlord longer essential to the movies. And He completely forgot about pictures, Leonard directed "Escaped,” which is and the wine merchant. Take it from any o< the dolorously leagued a little more that talent is becoming more and more saw himself putting on baaed on the German play "Mas- mourners supporting the bar and every so often determinedly with- the middle-twenties bo. Because a face happens to be weight, losing querade.” drawing an errant foot from the cuspidor at the Lambs or the Players, were es- next best to Venus doesn't mean that years, which he imagined the lot of the play actor is a lean and vastly unsatisfactory one. The and made a Hollywood wants It any more. The sential to film fame, par- R-K-O Keith's announces that the shadow of want is ever overcasting his progress, and why, in the name himself over beauty contests which used to send ticularly good name for Merlan C. Cooper production of the of Junius Brutis Booth, did he ever become an actor, anyway? the radio. H. Rider fantastic adven- some good looking baby doll to the Haggard’s And as contrast to this dismal; way. this was all too true of the Coast have folded their tents and gone Suddenly Miss Moore needed an- ture story. “She.” will open at that circumstance there is Invariably res- status of the Thespian of the golden “The most beautiful other good singer for “Love Me For- theater on Thursday, July 4. Helen quietly bye-bye. urrrected the wistful past. Those, era of the American stage. Not, cer- in the world” is no snatched ! ever." She heard Bartlett over the Gahagan, stage and opera star, makes girl longer indeed, were the days. At every hand tainlv, that actors today are lapped air one night. She decided that he screen debut In the while up by Producer Zilch and starred in his picture, the lambent glow of affluence and in the silk and scented down of the Cinderella Plum." Mack was the man. Bartlett flew to the other roles are Tilly, prominent played by cast a radiance ultimate but he was prestige happy upon luxury, at least they would even coast. Within a day appear- Randolph Scott, who scored In 'Ro- Bennett's bathing beauties : the artist. Nations delighted to honor need not frequent the hotels where, before the cameras. berta”; Nigel Bruce, current on the have had a hard time of it today. i ing ! him, and old men from their Union as Wilson Mizner observed, the only Keith screen In Helen The road to fame on the screen is “Becky Sharp”; League chimney corners tottered house rules were "No taking opium no a track affair that Mack and others of Im- longer single T ILY PONS a few yea/s ago had no many equal forth to cast largesse at his con- in the elevators and guests must bury starts at nowhere and ends with a portance on the screen and stage. intention of going in the movies. gress-gaitered feet. Look, for ex- their own dead." Certainly Tallulah “star.” The films today want so people | And so far as Mary Ellis is concerned, ample. at Mr. Booth, well founded Bankhead or Leslie Howard have who have made their mark, who mean Marlene Dietrich’s latest starring if you've read Joseph Vernon Reed'a in this world's goods that he could never had to rough it in this unseemly and who can also act. vehicle. “Devil Is the Woman.” Is the something “The Falls" you know that summon all eligible troupers to share fashion in Mr. Max hand- Curtain attraction slated for Loew's Columbia Herring's career on the in opera and i his mansion and his heritage of 16 somely upholstered Gotham Hotel, and her stage, Theater next Lionel case of the nine men- starting Friday. one feels people in light opera, has been both popular Gramercy Park. Mansfield, too, was tolerably certain that, in Atwill, Edward Everett Horton. Alison his r.ioned above is a case in point. and dramatic, but that she had no an affluent fellow, his evening studs, tower suite at the Waldorf. Wal- Skipworth and Caesar Romero are the All of them have touched 30. Some ideas whatsoever a few years ago of genuine pearls almost as big as the ter Huston is seldom if ever redured ■ four outstanding personalities who of them by only a year—others by a the films. caviar he affected for hors d'oeuvres; to the expedient of warming his cof- attempting give chief support to Miss Dietrich. good score, and more. Miss Swarthout, i Nino Martini, without the voice that his sealskin surtout not of the Hud- fee over a gas jet. The news photo- 1 being a very good looking woman, as he has cultivated with great care and son Bay, but of the more authentic graphs of the week showed Fred “Murder In the Fleet,” a baffling, well as an excellent opera singer,! would have had variety. Nobody ever heard of Uncle Astaire arriving in town on an extra- enthusiasm, probably humorous and highly entertaining should perhaps not be on the list. of the movies John Drewr walking to a matinee. fare limited in what can as little chance crashing mystery filmed against the panorama I scarcely will have been a Likewise. Miss .Gahagan. who you as had if swim- No, sir; Patrick and the bays were less than suite of de luxe Johnny Wiessmuller of Navy life, and four entertaining Bee shortly in “She" and who is un- hadn’t him into the I and half a before state rooms, and William Gaxton has ming brought acts of vaudeville headlined by the there, century one of the handsomest as even this opulent era throngs rio'ed been seen, at one time or questionably spotlight. And Fred Stone, popular sensational new presentation, "Billy | another, in Astor Place and were dis- the women in the world. Neither of these as he has been on musical comedy ! only commanding sparkling wine of Rose's Small-Time Cavalcade,” will ! the are. however, what we'd call strictly stages lo these many years, has been pelled by the military over the rival Champagne in the company of comprise the entertainment on screen movie and that is why they to make contract merits of a local boy making good as some of the town's most types, far too busy any and stage starting next Friday at expensive Hamlet, and one hailing from the folk at the La El Morocco. have been included here. with Hollywood. Loew's Fox Theater. Robert Taylor Michael Bartlett, who is said to ! shores of Albion. Then again, Blanche Yurka. as well and Jean Parker share stellar honors --- have made a decided personal hit in known as she Is on the and able stage, in the film and the cast also includes the new Grace Moore pirture. never with “The Wild Duck" as few to cope Ted Healy. Una Merkel, Jean Hers- Cast of Three Films, dreamed a year or so ago that he American actresses have, has not been 'T'HERE is, to be sure, no field ot en- holt.