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Up And Down Broadway
By JACK GAVER
United Presa Staff Correspondent
NBW YORK—(UP)—The production of "One Man Show" brings
Jed Harris back for one of his periodic Jousts with the Broadway that
hailed him as "miracle boy" back in the '20's. This drama by Ruth Good
man and Augustus Goetz is one that is going to be heartily liked or dis
liked and probably will wind up making money.
Goldilocks
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Fame come* naturally to per
>ct beauty Lorraine Miller, se
lected by M-G-M as one of twleve
glorified girls' In the technicolor
musical, ’’Zlegfeld Follies.” Pro
ducers took another look and gave
her a dramatic spot In the Van
Johnson starrer, “Between Two
Women.’’
In The Local
Theaters
POLl'S
Now playing at Loew-Poll is the
popular "Music for Millions” star
ring little Margaret O’Brien, cur
rent favorite of the youngsters, and
oldsters too. Also starring that
lovable comedian Jimmy Durante in
a role just suited to his talents—
including his singing of “Umbriago”.
Harry Adler, noted harmonica play
er, aind Jose Iturbi, famous piano
player and conductor supply the
musical note to this film. June
Allyson gives a heart-warming per
formance in this her first dramatic
role. Marsha Hunt, Hugh Herbert.
Marie Wilson, Harry Davenport and
others make this a thoroughly en
joyable film for all.
Starting Thursday at the Poll is
the mystery thriller "Hangover
Square" starring Linda Darnell,
Laird Cregar and George Sanders.
Laird Cregar as the tragic composer
makes a villlan one cannot help
but feel sympathy for. George San
der* as the Scotland Yard psychia
trist who tries to help him, give an
excellent performance in a role well
suited to his talents Linda Darnell,
a sultry cabaret singer plays the
romantic lead. London’s gaslight
era. which serves as the setting,
give* the proceedings an effective
ecri* atmosphere.
AJso on same program is “The
Big Show-off” starring Arthur Lake
the “Dagwood” of the Blondie
scrle*. Dale Evans, the romantic
lead, dings some pleasing num
bers.
STRAND
Joseph Cotten started his career
in pictures playing the role of a
70-year-old man. Each successive
role made him a bit younger. Now,
in his latest picture, "I’ll Be Seeing
You," showing at the Strand the
ater with Ginger Rogers co-starring
Cotten plays a sergeant who 1s sup
posed to be a little younger than the
actor is. According to Joe, if this
sort of thing keeps on he’ll have to
go into court to get approval of a
minor’s contract.
He was bom in Petersburg, Va ,
under the same name he still car
ries. As a very young man he de
cided he ought to be an actor. He
was so insistent that his family
finally agreed to give him sufficient
funds to study at the Hickman
School of Expression in Washington,
D C.
He played professional football on
the Department of Interior team.
It was a Job that paid a salary, thus
permitting him to finish the year at
school. He breezed into New York
with great confidence, but wound up
selling paint after every producer
in town refused to think he was an
actor. Finally he went to Hollywood
to appear in ’’Citizen Kane."
The companion feature is "Griss
ly’s Millions," starring Virginia Grey
and Paul Kelly.
Anne Shirley's new Beverly Hill;
home will have no standard dininf
room but a dining alcove with cir
cular table and built-in seats to ac
commodate six. Extra guests wll
be fed at small folding tables. . .
First name of Aina Constant, nev
RKO Radio player, means "Always'
in the language of a South Pacifii
Island, according to a letter from ;
aoldier stationed there.
Mickey 8cott, who hasn’t made i
movie since his appearance in thi
old "Our Gang” comedies, make:
his debut as a grown-up actor ii
Warner Bros. Jungle war drama
"Objective, Burma!" starring Erro
Flynn.
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gallery run by a father and hts
daughter. They are good at finding
unknown young Americans and
bringing them to the fore. The
father's dream is some day to get
enough money to establish a Mu
seum of American Art. The rela
tionship between father and daugh
ter is extremely close—there is more
than a hint of the Electra fixation—
and just at the moment when two
new men come into her life, Joining
the artist, who has known her a
long time and wants to marry her,
the father decides to get out and
let the girl run the gallery by her
self.
One of the newcomers is a mil
lionaire art patron who fancies the
girl and she, hoping to get her
father back, makes a bargain with
him to finance the museum proj
ect. Marriage Is not part of the bar
gain, and when the father learns of
it he is appalled and turns it down.
Meanwhile, there has been a young
diplomat on the scene making a play
for the girl and she suddenly discov
ers she loves him. So, in trying to
teach his daughter a little self-re
liance. the father really docs lose
her because the bridegroom-to-be
insists that if the girl goes with him
it is for good—that she s not to have
the chance again to come under her
father’s domination.
The play is extremely literate and
has considerably more on the ball
than the ordinary run of drama
Broadway gets these days, but so far
as I am concerned, it fails to come
off sufficiently to make it a thing
| that must be seen. The girl’s rcla
; tionships with the 1 ien in her life,
even that with the father, are never
clearly defined or worked out. Even
though Constance Cummings did as
good a job with the role as you could
expect, I came away without ever
having been able to understand the
character she was portraying. And
that all-important ingredient was
missing—that something that causes
you to feel that the make-believe
you are watching matters a great
deal, at least at the time you are
watching it. No spark.
The cast is about as good a one
as you could put together. Prank
Conroy is the father. James Ren
nie the millionaire, Hugh Franklin
the artist, and John Archer the dip
lomat. Harris directed.
SHEPHARD TRAUBE. who did so j
much with "Angel Street,” the ixsy
chological thriller that ran for three
years and was tops In Its field, has
brought in what he hopes is a suc
cessor. "The Stranger." It isn't.
"The Stranger,’’ by Leslie Reade,
is one of those Jack-the-Ripper
tales, laid, as usual, in London. The
time is lBJifl and the action occurs
in a workman’s Socialist club. The I
central character is a Russian cob- i
blei, not long in England, who
wanders into the club and quickly is
suspected of being the killer who is
mutilating women in the White
chapel district. He is able to over
come the first display of suspicion,
but later seems to be soundly
trapped. The end is extremely anti
climatic and ruinous to the proceed
ings.
Eduard Franz does a good job as
the cobbler. Others in important
roles include Eugene Sigaloff. Al
fred Hesse, Kim Spalding, Stanley
Bell, Perry Wilson, Eva Leonard -
Boyne, and Wendy Atkin. Traube
directed.
"SIGNATURE!” is a play , which
Elizabeth McFadden has fashioned
after a short story of Melville Davis
son Post about the murder of a
wealthy landowner occurs in the
conference room of a courthouse
presided over by a judge whose ac
tions quickly indicate that he has
something on his conscience besides
a suit of clothes. In short, there
never Is any doubt that he is the
guilty man. but the play is concern
ed with exposing him and prevent
ing him from railroading a nice
young fellow who’s in love with a
nice young girl.
It is not an impressive drama by
any means and there are long
stretches of talk that just weigh
tiie thing down beyond hope of re
covery. Its melodramatic moment*
border dangerously on the corny at
times and occasionally it seems lr>
danger of slipping over the border
into travesty.
Frederic Tozere plays the judge
and the supporting players include
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and Kathryn Grayson. “This Is exactly the way it is done by Mrs. Astor’s horse,” he explains. The trio are
taking time out during production of the new Hollywood musical, “Anchors Aweigh,” in which they share
leads with Frank Sinatra. Gene, incidentally, is a real sailor now, just going through his boot training.
HOLLYWOOD
GOSSIP
Hollywood—Randolph Scott and
hi.s motorcycle are a familiar sight
In Hollywood. He rode it to work
while filming International’s Tech
nicolor production, "Belle of the
Yukon," uses it also for social trips.
Hollywood—Sonja Henie took
many a bad tumble while filming
skating scenes for her International
Technicolor production. "It's a
Pleasure!” but her luck held out.
During the many years of her skat
ing career she has never broken a
bone.
Hollywood—John Cromwell, who
directed Dorothy McGuire in RKO
Radio’s “The Enchanted Cottage,”
says "She combines the best quali
ties of Katherine Hepburn, Con
stance Talmadge and Sis Hopkins—
Donald Murphy, Lawrence Fletch
er, Anne Jackson, Helen Ray, John
McKee and Peter Pann. Roy Har
grave directed the play for pro
ducers Richard Skinner and Doro
thy Willard.
yet slie has a style distinctly her!
own.”
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Hollywood—Pat O’Brien gives no I
sympathy to Director Ray Enright, j
Dialogue Director Jo Graham and |
actor Joe Crehan on RKO Radio’s
“Man Alive” Vegetarians, the trio j
never has tasted meat—but Pat will j
never give up his corned beef and '
cabbage.
PERMANENT CASTING
Byron Barr, featured in Pine
Thomas’ "Follow That Woman,”
had had 43 jobs and was begin
ning to believe that he was a misfit
until suddenly he realized that he
wanted to be an actor.
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When Paramount producers Bill
Pine and Bill Thomas put "Follow 1
Tiiat Woman,” starring William
Gargan and Marjorie Reynolds, be
fore the cameras it will be their
twenty-eighth feature length pic
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"Roughly Speaking,” the best
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Louise Randall Pierson which War
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Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson
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only in glamour clothes, gets her
first chance to wear sequins when
she steps out in a stunning evening
gown in Paramount's “Salty
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By ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent
Hollywood—We’re still spinning
oday after a taste of the Hollywood ,
octal whirl. Lana Turner's birth
lay party in the afternoon and a j
iarty at Deanna Durbin’s house in f
he evening. Both eligible bachelor (
:irls, too. And Johason an old mar- ,
led guy with two kids. i
So we had to be content with j
naking passes at our notebook. ;
The sensation of Lana Turner’s i
>irthday party and ate a piece of
["urban Bey. Turhan has taken a ,
ot of ribbing in the press for never ,
ippearing in public without his j
jipe. He brought, the pipe to Lana’s
Urthday party and aate a piece of :
:ake with his fork and pipe in the
lame hand without dropping a
;rumb.
It was Lana’s 24th birthday and
;he cried when she saw the cake
urith 16 candles. But then I guess
ill actresses cry when they become
i year older.
The cast and crew of Lana's new
movie, "Weekend at the Waldorf,”
rurhan. and Lana's 18-month-old
baby. Cheryl Christine, were all
there. In her excitement, Lana
kissed Turhan almost as many times
as she kissed Cheryl Christine.
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Director Robert Z. Leonard an
nounced that he and Lana are
neighbors, separated only by a
couple of fairways on the Bel-Air
golf course. “When she moved in,”
Leonard said, "I bought a pair of
night glasses and trained them on
her bedroom. Later I learned it was
the baby’s bedroom. It was a great
disappointment. When I bought
the house the real estate man whis
pered to me, ’You can see Lana Tur
ner's bedroom’.”
It was our first visit to Deanna
Durbin's home, which is one of the
sveliest In Hollywood. It Is so
eautiful, In fact, that one of the
uests commented, “Everything
oes back to the studio prop depart
nent In the morning.’’
The festivities centered In the
ilayroom which has the largest flre
ilace we’ve ever seen outside of
lecil B. DeMllle's pictures. It cov
rs the entire length of one wall
ind the fireplace Itself is six feet
ilgh. (We stood In it to prove It
o somebody and darned near
jurned off our coattails.)'
Deanna was proundest, though, of
ome hand-painted linen Chinese
vail paper in the dining room. It
s removable. When you move you
ust peel it off, roll it up and re
lang it in the new house.
DDD LIGHTS
The light fixtures in her bedroom
were made of plates of an odd de
sign and Deanna chuckled while
showing them to us. “I went to a
iinner party the other night,” she
said, “and we ate off plates with
the identical design. I had a funny
reeling that all of a sudden the
steaks would light up.”
The party broke up early—mid
night—which is practically mid
afternoon in the Hollywood social
whirl—because Deanna had a 7 a.
m. studio call.
We were glad. Somebody would
have had to chop down another one
of those giant California Redwood
trees to keep that fireplace going.
Dennis Morgan, training for his
role as Col. Robert L. Scott of the
“Flying Tigers’’ in Warner Bros.'
drama, “God Is My Co-Pilot," got
in 100 so-called ying hours with
out leaving the ground. He “flew”
in a Link Trainer, under Col.
Scott s personal supervision. The
trainers do everything an airplane
does—except fly.
Dolphinesque
Esther Williams, literally swam
her way to stardom. Once a na
tional champion swimmer, she did
so well in M-G-M films that she's
been elevated to stardom . She
splashes around In forthcoming
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going to pay for — indirectly any
way. Kurt Kreuger does nasty Nazi
roles in motion pictures to flnanca
his operatic training under Nina
Koshetz. Currently Kreuger por
trays a German air ace in Warner
Bros.’ ‘ Hotel Berlin.” He is going
to be a tenor.
Anne McKee, 19-year-old sister of
Andrea King, featured In Warner
Bros.' drama. “Hotel Berlin,” mak
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