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Drama News and Reviews
G. Cooper and Sub Chaser
Are Amusing Comedy Team
By Jay Carmody
Gary Cooper and an experimental submarine chaser are a
comedy pair you would not want to miss in "You're in the Navy
Now.” which opened yesterday at the Palace.
Their misadventures are funnier than some of the ad libs that
sneaked into television during the recent Gen. Douglas MacArthur
excitement. This, as no one should need to be told, is pretty
ciuat* tu uiutuuu&.
The 20th Century-Pox produc
tion which sheds such a humorous
light on at least one small side
of war is based upon an anecdote
which Washington's John W
Hazard wrote some time ago fox
the New Yorker magazine. Film
rights were purchased before the
ink was dry on the first proofs of
the story, a genuinely flattering
commentary on 20th C-P's literary
taste. t
Somebody out there knows a
Joke when he reads it even when
it is not actually like all other
Jokes.
Cooper’s subdued style lifts it
to the level of something special
in screen comedy by carrying it
artfully across stretches of defi
nite bog.
* # * *
Hazard’s original piece was
called "The U.S.S. Teakettle.”
This was the nickname of a ludi
crous small ship and the woefully
embarrassed crew that put her
through a series of tests with a
special type of steam powerplant.
The idea was that if the experi
mental steam engine could be
made to work, sub chasers would
be 10 knots faster.
If it did not work, which it did
Tlftt fnr anHlocc tfinl
was always the prospect that the
crew would be blown to Hades, be
come a sitting duck for an enemy
submarine, or be left to sit out
the war in some wave trough off
the coast of Virginia.
A* compared with the Teakettle,
the Kom-Tiki of recent literary
fame was as safe as a ship’s model
in a naval museum.
* * * *
What made the story of the
Teakettle more splendidly ridicu
lous than ever was its crew, of
which Cooper plays the hapless
skipper. Being sensible, in its
military-minded way, the Navy
naturally could not bother to as
semble a seaworthy crew for the
Teakettle tests. It took them.
Job lot, from the civilian enlis
tees. officers and men. These
eould not have been more flabber
gasted by their assignment than
a corner loafer suddenly asked to
work out a dispersal plan for
Government personnel in Wash
ington.
Most of the action of the film
directed by Henry Hathaway is
confined to the U. S. S. 1168, the
ship s serial number. This is as
it should be for no place could
be funnier than any corner of this
desperately mismanned vessel, es
pecially in her engine room.
"YOU’RE IN THE NAVY NOW,” a ?Oth
Fox picture, produced by Fred Kohlmar.
directed by Henry Hathaway, screenplay
by Richard Murphy, from an article in the
; New1 Yorker hv John W. Hazard. At the
Palace.
THE CAST
Lt. John Harkness Gary Cooper
Elite . c.. _ Jane Greer
Larrabee MUlard Mitchell
Lt. Bill Barron _ Eddie ■■ Albert
Commander Reynolds John Mclntlre
Admiral Tennant _ Ray Collins
Captain Eliot Harry Von Zell
Enslan Anthony Barbo Jack Webb
Ensign Chuck Dorrgnce Richard Erdman
Noiclll . _ _ Harvey Lembeck
Rvan - — _ Henry Slate
Commander , _ Ed Begley
Battleship Admiral_t Fay Roope
Ho'tlthan k. :_Charles Tennen
Wascvearski .,1_Charles Buchtnglfi
Morse Jack Warden
Crew Members Ken Harvey. Lee Martin.
Jerry Hausner. Charles Smith
New Boy - James Cornell
Shore Patrolmen oTen Gordon. Laurence
Hugo
DoctorDamian OFlynn
Here Amid the wicked looking
boilers, pipes, pressure gauges,
mysterious valves the novice skip
per and his crew pay lor their
patriotism with a series of hujnil
iations almost beyond endurance.
Being towed back to Norfolk navftl
base trom trial run after trial run
ultimately becomes a fate worse
than being blown up in the At
lantic. In ,the case of the latter,
Capt. Cooper and his men would
at least escape the jibes of their
fellow seamen.
Hathaway, Cooper and an en
thusiastic cast including Millard
Mitchell, Jack Webb, and Eddie
Albert, keep the flavor of "You’re
In the Navy Now” both human
and hilarious. Oddly enough, they
;are able to keep the story moving
iwhen the Teakettle is firmly re
j fusing to budge without a tow
rope. This requires the ocoasional
'injection of bits of busines made
familiar by other films, but these
are handled well.
Even the scripts romantic cliche,
in which Jane Greer plays the
Wave wife of Skipper Cooper, is
treated with some degree of fresh
ness. This is quite a test, b«t one
fitting for the picture which
reaches such a dizzily comic cli>
max as this one. In this final se
quence, the Teakettle not only runs
at breakneck speed but freezes her
throttles at the wide open posi
tion, with the threat of running
ashore as far inland as, say Ohio.
The Palace picture could well be
your dish of tea this week end.i
or maybe next, unless you have'
something irresistibly special on.
* * * *
Bulletin board: Erica Thimey’s
dance group will present “The
Pied Piper of Hamline” at Roose
velt High School auditorium to
morrow under the auspices of the
American Association of Univer
sity Women. . . . The perform
ance is set for 2:30. .. . Kay De
Witt’s successor as vocalist at the
Capitol Theater is Marian Kiatta.
Eastern High School alumna, and
a graduate of several “Going Na
itive” revues.... "Outward Bound,”
Sutton Vane’s fantasy-comedy,
will be the third and final produc
tion of the Kensington Players'
season, May 3-5. . . . Kensington
Junior High School auditorium
will be the scene of the three per
formances, which * are being di
rected by Mrs. Gertrude Gantz.
. . . Add Kensington drama notes:
“The Belle of the West” will be
presented as the annual spring
| operetta of the Kensington Junior
| High School students tonight and
tomorrow night.
I _
PARIS WAS QAY—At the
time of "Lady Paname,” which
opens today at the Dupont
Theater with Louis Jouvet as
its male star. Cuzy Delair
plays the merry girl.
Where and When
Current Screen Attractions
and Time of Showing
State.
Arena—“The Glass Menagerie,"
8:30 p.m.
New Gayety — “Oklahoma!”,
8:30 p.m.
Screen.
Ambassador—“The Lemon Drop
Kid"; 1:25, 3:25, 5:30, 7:30 and
8i40 p.m.
Capitol —"Ma and Pa Kettle
Back on the Farm"; 11:00 a;m.,
1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10:00 p.m.
Stage shows: 3:45, 6:30 and 9:16
p.m. >
Columbia—•'Three Guys Named
Mike”: 11:35 am 1:85 3-35
5:40, 7:40 and 9:45 p.m.,
Dupont—“Lady Paname"; 1:10,
3:20! 5:25, 7:35 and 9:46 p.m.
Keith’s—“My Forbidden Past”;
11:50 a.m., 1:50, 3:50, 5:50, 7:50
and 9:55 p.m.
Little — “Chjartet”; 2:3Qjf 5:55
and 9:25 p.iit>
Metropolitan — “Valentino”;
11:30 a.m.,*1:30, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40
and 9:45 p.nj.
National—"Kim”; 11:20 a.m„
1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20 and 9:20 p.m.
Palace — “You're in the Navy
Now”; 11:30 a.m., 1:35, 3:35, 5:40,
7:45 and 9:50 p.m.
Pix—“Striptease Murder CAse”;
2:15. 5:00, 7:40 and 10:25 p.m.
Playhouse — “Tales of Hoff
mann”; 2:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Plaia — “The Mudlark”; 11:00
a m. 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 and
10:00 p.m.
Trans-Lux — “No Orchids for
Miss Blandish”; 11:30 a.m., 1:35,
3:35, 5:40 7:45 and 9:50 p.m.
Warner — “The Lemon Dron
Kid”; 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:35. 5:40
7:45 and 9:50 p.m.
Thank You,
Miss Main ’
*
Mo Kettle Makes
Some Thin Jokes
A Lot Funnier
'•'MA AND PA KETTLE BACK ON TOE
FARM." a Universal picture, produced by
Leonard Ooldsteln. directed by Edward
Sedgwick, story and Screenplay by Jack
Henley. At the Capitol.
The Cast.
Ha. Kettle ..... Marjorie Main
Pa Kettle _Percy Kilbrid*
Tom Kettle_ Richard Long
Kim Kettle _ Meg Randal!
Jonathan Parker_ Ray Collins
Elizabeth Parker __Barbara Brown
Billy Reed___Emory Parnell
Manson _Peter bSedi
Crowbar_Teddy Mart
Seoduck _•___Oliver Hake
a., u_ti_A.at_
wJ ■ j mwvni • ■
Ma and Pa Kettle came back
to town yesterday, though their
return may have gone virtually
unnoticed, what with one thing
and another. Their vehicle this
time is titled, no.t with any start
ling show of imagination, “Ma
and Pa Kettle Back on the
Farm” and you’ll find it at the
Capitol.
Two. things are made fairly
clear by the new adventure it
the Kettles, who mushroomed into
a serial out of an appearance in
"The Egg and I.” One is that the
joke about the family life of the
Kettles and their 15 offspring is
growing a little thin and the
other is that Majnrie Main Is
such a funny woman that it
doesn’t make much difference how
thin the joke is.
Ma and Pa are involved this
time, give Writer Jack Henley
credit, in two full-fledged plots.
One of them revolves around the
arrival of their first grandchild
an event which also brings with
j it a great deal of mother-in-law
trouble. Question: Will Kim Ket
j tie pack up her offspring and take
; nff for Boston with her mother?
The other plot concerns Pa’s
j discovery oofe afternoon that he
seems to be*": radioactive and his
accompanying • assumption that
the old farm is loaded with ura
nium ore. Question: Will the
two city slickers who turn up
[with a clicking Geiger-counter do
Ma and Pa out of their rightful
wealth? j
There shouldn’t be much doubt
about the ultimate solution of
either problem. Director Edward
Sedgwick has seen to it, however
that the path to the ultimate and
(to quote the great James Dur
ante) forlorn conclusion, is stud
ded with the usual accoutrements
of life at the Kettles. These In
clude folding beds, pigs in the
parlor, collapsing chicken houses,
Indian dances, explosions and a
fine cross-country chase in a
senile automobile.
Miss Main, with some help
from Percy Kilbride, will see
that you stay awake, too.
Julian Huxley Speaks j
On Human Personality
( Julian Huxley, biologist and
humanist, last night urged
adaptation of “our system of
thought to the present situation."
Dr. Huxley'told an audience at
the Interior Department Audi
torium that the present world
situation is causing the rise of
a system he said could be called
“transhumanism" because it rep
resents the human personality
trying to transcend itself.
His address was the first of a
two-session lecture on "Knowl
edge. Morality and Destiny” and
the third of the William Alanson
White Memorial lectures. Dr.
Huxley will conclude his talks at
8:30 o’clock tonight at the audi
torium.
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