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Bv Vera
Brown
I n«t«*r Turnii:
I ATEST «i»noc hon is t 1 <•
Pa rkridg ll 'tK deviled bv
East Sider* this summer «hn
say the 'N e*t Sufi rs are r-1
anlid in it: They don’t kuk on
the corners.
'"Much n.ore fun than the
Bubble Dance,” »ay* • jitter*
buff expert
"String of Prarla, >ou know.
Boy. are you square! Every
body know* The String.”
The String, it appears, is a
-vnoopattd jazz number by the
late Glenn Miller. But Ihr
String is not so pood for the
//op fi* Celery Stalk* at Mid
night.
The town’s real jitterbug en
thusiasts do their serious danc
ing Friday rights. They loarl
Into ffiarku and drive around
until they find a crowd whose
jitterbuppinp is nbove par.
Afterward they rut up to
somebody's Kip (home to you!
and have coke and sandwiches.
Sunday nights their dancing
goes conservative, they say.
* * •
Off lh«* IKeeoril:
1 BIG fus« iipht up to
- * Police ( umniiovinner Bttf
ienper about that Receiving
Hospital stenographer whom the
oops took in the Black Maria
o\er to headquarters to \xw a
purse-snatching suspect but
over her protest.
She said she was scared to go.
• • •
Sharp:
Nothing m*ke» Tador v.n
cent Stock *o furious at flip
pant treatment of men'* fash
ion*. He contend* that male*
take their clothe* a* aerioutly a*
women do.
Right now he reporta that one
V. S. mill i« producing woolen *
aa fine at any Engtiah mill can
turn out. The trick i« to aimu
latf England'a moiat atmoaphere
and chalky water.
Men'a looter clothing today i*
a protest against tight-fitting
army uniform*. And the hoy*
are asking for specially designed
slacks for bowling.—
• ♦ *
Serve- Self:
Howard ailor in town on
that “fly your own plane”
instead of “drive yourself” idea.
Because he w-ants a certain type
of airplane for the rental chain,
he has designed his own around
Detroit engines.
* • • •
lln-n-n!
FRED MATTHAEI never wnr-
rles shout losing nny of
those rute live lambs he likes to
rsrt in from his farm to pep up
get-togethers.
He lets them wander among
the guests, who are so en
chanted that they smuggle them
out under coats and In boxes.
But 24 hours later the lambs
rorne home to Matthael, drag
ging their tails behind them.
That's about as long as the
kidnapers ran stand the bleating
which goes on day and night.
Fred says they’re lonesome—
the lambs.
lit
Lllfrlli:
CX)MING up. life stories of
J Bing Crosby (with foreword
by B. Hope), Willie How ard and
Xavier Cugat.
» * *
And Louella O. Par*on», Timea
columnist, ha* signed a contract
to do an added monthly letter
from Hollywood for Cosmopoli
tan.
» • *.
DUlHff Side:
MOST important collector (fe
male) of
balls in town is Emma Havanis,
hat check girl at Case Cadillac.
She has 123. and she ships
them home to Dad. down on the
farm near Waynesburg, Pa.
He keeps them in a huge tray
on top of his radio. Only Tiger
she’s missed: A 1 Benton.
Her favorite Tiger: Eddie
Mayo. •
But she has the autograph on
cowhide of all the players in the
American League and of all
those Cubs, too
• • •
Itig Tim**:
Mt'fclC C OKI*. OF \MF.RIC
the big hooking agency. Is
expanding here to make this
office on a par with New \ ork
and Chicago. *
Vice President ll <« “Bart”
S/rton has been sent in to MC
e deal.
• # •
'Squeeze* „%rrivi*w:
MA J. GEN "S QUF.EZ £"
WURTSMITH. who fought
through the skirt from Darwin
to Okinawa, landed at Selfrtdge
Field today
‘‘Squrrar’’ is now commander
of the 13th, which led the air
attack at Okinawa.
Mr* Wurt*mith ha* hern liv
inf hare with a brother.
• • •
August 1 <2l pola N< in
the middle of a Ir-Kk
with 10-foot train a bib ur *r
her chin --eating a h amhui . * r,
on that Hollywood set.
• • •
Decamber, 1936 fo* Claire
getting that ktnr dulan'r tele
phone call at the Book (torn
Bupdapeat—and telling her Hun
garian friend the newt ak>di<»-
lion of King Edward.
Films in Review
\U ( MARI KS (iKXTRT
Durbin
In Mystery
DEANNA TURBIN dtps her
pretty lingers into her first rpur
rfi r mystery with some rather
amusing results in “Lady on a
Because Miss
had a much Ai fa
better story to ■ Mi
effort, obvious-
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The title hap- m kbin
pens. in the first place, to be mis
leading localise practically none
of the action takes place on a
train. It so happens that on ar
riving in New York, she hapjx'ns
to witness a murder from her
compartment window while the
train makes a brief stop.
DETEC TIVE DEANNA
Since the j>olice and a mystery
story writer do not believe her,
ishe first turns sleuth, night club
j singer and finally potential victim
!while pursuing her quest for the
killer.
We don’t know any San Fran
cisco debutantes, hut we re quite
sure that they would he able to
extricate themselves from such
predicaments as Miss Durbin gets
herself involved in, with just the
use of a little common sense.
However, the script writers
have evidently considered com
’ men sense as being excess bag
• gage, because it isn’t to be found
even in the baggage car.
Deanna encounters a weird
family living in a ghostly old
ni.inse on Long Island where the
will of the murdered man is being
read.
They mistake her for the sole
heiress who-is really a night club
singer with all the hidden charms
of a cobra.
.She meddles some more and
finds herself mijiersonating the
! singer, a twist of script which
gives Deanna a chance to sing
j “Give Me a Little Kiss’* with a
, baby voice and a sultry sort of
“Night and Day.”
ON THE FLOOR
In fact, all the grim details
'lake place in this night club,
called the Circus Club, a smart
sjxit where more happens to cus
tomers than any three rings could
! hold.
This is, of course, the most pre
posterous part of the whole af
fair. While murders ate being
committed, mirrors smashed and
customers slugged, it never occurs
to the chief parties that they
could resort to such a simple ex
pedient as walking out of the
front door and calling a taxi.
But if reason knows no bounds,
neither do the guys who dreamed
this up. The only thing they can
do is to be sure that Miss Durbin
is going to have a better story
next time, if she’s going to remain
the queen of the Universal lot
However, they have given her
an excellent supporting cast,
which includes Ralph Bellamy.
George Coulouris; Dan Duryea
and Samuel Hinds.
Comedy Team
In State Film
WE'VE LONG wondered about
how Abbott and Costello man
aged to get into motion pictures
and were quit:' sure that “Ab
bott and OMello in Hollywood,”
which opened on the screen of the
Palms-State yesterday will not
give you the slightest inkling of
an answer, amusing comedy
though it is.
This ex-burlesque team is at
it again, this time appearing as
two barbers who try to make the
grade as actors' agents.
They get to first base, only
after they champion the cause
of a young newcomer, who has a
good voice and a face like an
unmade bed.
They are. of course, pursued by
a smooth villain, who is an. estab
lished star, jealous of the new
comer.
It > the usual hokum with a
hit of actual background thrown
in. because most of the action
t ikes place right in the M-G-M
studio. They a/e chased all over
the jot morning M-G-M’s with a
finale in a circus set-up that left
us uneontrolahle, because we
, couldn't find our hat
Actually the initial scenes In
the barber shop and one bit with
the singer are tunny. The rest i«
just dull. C G.
Acts at Top Hat
Share Top Billing
TONY RAFT’S comedy and
M. rii Leone s songs share equal
lulling in the current variety floor
shew at Huh Top Hat in River
Rouge
Rot. whose chores include the
Ms. of steering the show, has 1
bet-rimr a fixture at the club,
having built his popularity on a
• dati<>n of laugnts. Blond Merri
L- >tx*. in tlx 1 second week of her
return to the club, employs a
singing style that has placed her
-’h in the tanks of vocal favor
! *y Wellr.t i s dancing Top
fl.it. j* ue much ir^'evidence
w.*t i numfx rof musical comedy
routines, wfule Frank GiHm and
hi- orchestra are the musical
highlight. j
Michigan
Film, Grim
- A HERO’S lot is not always a
happy one and we find a rather
tragic example of this in “Bride,
of the Marines.” the picture which
• opened at tin- Michigan yesterday.'
‘a This film is based on the actual
story oi A 1 Schmid, the one-man
U. S. Marine Cor/is who was cited
for such Iktoichmpmm
. i
Actually the
film deals only jg
with bis j
battle exploits.Tl
It is rath er^
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country. oxßrir.LD
We first discover him as a
rather smart-aleck chap, working
in a Philadelphia machine shop,
S footloose and fancy free about
everything, until he becomes in
itrigued with a girl who tells
him ofL
HIS DREAM (tlRI*.
She is really the girl in Al's
life, but he doesn’t get seriously
interested in her until after Pearl
!Harbor, a place that Schmid, ac
cording to the movie version, had
never heard of.
Eleanor Parker a newcomer to
the screen and a girl with defi
nite dramatic promise, plays the
girl friend and docs it beautifully.
She says nothing when he en
lists in marine corps, but follows
him to the fare-thec-wcll point
and promises to wait for him.
The seine then shifts to the
machine gun pit on Guadalcanal
arid the courageous action in
which Schmid starred so magnifi
cently, resulting in the complete
loss of his eyesight.
The rest of the drama is con
cerned with his truculent dismis
sal of all aid and his complete
belief that his eyesight will be
restored.
NOBLE SACRIFICE
When he finally doesn’t see
the light, he tries to break off his
engaged promise with the girl, be
lieving that she’s onjy sticking
with him out of sheer pity and not
for true love’s own sake.
It takes a lot of convincing to
break down this arrogant pride
and that is the principal concern
of the picture.
Although Garfield plays one of
his usual wise-guy roles, he doe*; a
tremendous job of it and Miss
Parker underplays right Down to
the last line of dialogue.
However, it does start out as a
man’s picture and finishes as a
sentimental journey for feminine
interest chiefly. Most Important
are the surrounding buddies, the
main one being Dane Clark, who
is a terrific actor and who steals
several of the scenes, when Gar
field Isn't looking, even though he
is supposed to he blind.
Latin Film
At C inema
IF “DONA BARBARA." cur
rently showing at the Cinema
Theater, is Mexico's prize winning
film as publicized in the ads, then
there’s a fortune waiting for some
enterprising Hollywood pic
ture producer who will take the
chanty of turning out celluloid
stories in that Latin country.
By far one of the letter south
of the border film products to
come this way. "Dona Barbara”
nevertheless has too many faults
which keep it down to a "B” level
movie.
The acting abilities of Maria
Felix and Julian Soler, leading
characters, are above question.
There’s quite a few tense dra
matic moments and the continuity
is beyond belief. But, the cutting
room exports must have taken a
siesta because its running time
ruins its chances for any film
greatness.
It is strange, too, that Latin
folks can babble so fast and
furious in Spanish and say so
little in the English subtitles,
many of which were omitted at
the height of interesting se
quences it is frustrating to those
of us who only understand Eng
, hsh.
With locales in Mexico City and
Venezuela, tlx* film is a story of
a beautiful girl who develops a
hatred toward all men after being
forcibly seduced by a group of
viscious seamen. She rises to
wealth and jxjwer in the ranch
country, wreaking her vengeance
on males who oppose her. But
she meets her Waterloo in the
person of a handsome, brainy
cowboy who proves that a woman
dictates only from her heart.
Old Favorites
At Wonder Bar
There's music in the air nightly
at Sammy Sofferin’s Wonder Bar
on fashionable Washington 81vd..;
where A 1 Nalli and his crew of
music makers entertain. The or-'
chestra features current tunes as
well as the old favorites, and
songstresses Judy Baker and
Alyene Mason gamer applause for
their vocal selections. A top re
quest number is the new “Some
Sunday Morning ”
During interludes. Bette Carroll
. ernei tains with songs and piano
i selections.
Ballet Russe Opens
Masonic Series Here
By (HARLER GENTRY .
THE BALLET RI’SSE DE
MONTE CARLO opened the Ma
sonic concert course here last
night with a program which
danced the gamut from classical
ballet (o honky-tonk burlesque.
This season this company has
kept all the promise * of iU
prospectus and brought us all the
stars who didn't appear last year,
as well as a very fine corps de
ballet.
But although the company is in
excellent form, they didn't seem
quite as enthusiastic about put
ting on last night’s performance
as they have in previous appear
ances here.
This may be purtly due to the
orchestra which w'as sadly out of
sorts with the company and ob
viously showed that there had
been no rehearsal, despite the
frantic attempts of conductors
BoutnikofT and Balahan to get the
musicians and the dancers to
geth< i
COLD AUDIENCE
Also there was a curious lack
of interest on the part of the
packed house, which was made
up mostly of subscription concert
goers. rather than halletmaines.
The performance opened with
the usual classical starter, “Les
Sylphides," which with its Corot
j like setting and studied grace,
never fails to charm. Miles. Kras
sovska. Etheridge and Tallchief
proved delightful with Leon Da
nielian as the solo male.
The rM'W’ ballet, “Frankie and
Johnnie" however, proved to be
another story. This modern dance
parody, based on the famous bar
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The drugstore set
and the reducing problem
£'vr>< if she’s pounds overweight, a girl
[j just has to have something to drink,
when the gang is ordering chocolate sodas
and malteds.
And that’s only one problem that face*
mothers of tubbv teens.
“At fifteen, it’s so hard to stick to a
iliet. What do you suggest?”
"Trouble is, girls go to such extremes.
Can you give me a well-balanced diet tor
adolescents’”
• • •
Questions like these have been coming to
u*_by the hundreds —from worried
rhothers.
Fond mothers, proud mothers, anxious
mothers, mothers who confessed they had
agonized through a too-plump youth
themselves—and they weren’t going to let
their offspring in tor that. Not it they
could help it!
ft m+rh’ Parent! art almost as pleased as
daughters, when the pesky pounds disappear
So they wrote to Good Housekeeping.
We got to work.
Happilv, a charming fourteen year old
named Margie, who’d been struggling to
lose weight, agreed to collaborate.
ifte tiiaArtf tm ofiftorpi
Margie wore a size lf>. Her favorite movie
star wore a size 1 2.
Margie s posture was had. s he stooped,
to try to conceal her weight.
Margie’s gang hangs out at <he drug
store soda fountain. \N hat to do'
Many reducing dieti wouldn’t g<v«
room ballad, has been executed
in such a manner thaf it is
strictly an affront to good taste.
A VULGAR EXHIBIT
It is cheap, vulgar and com
pletely violates the ru’es of pan
tomime by having bailly delivered
lyrics accompany the action,
which is more disgusting than it
is amusing.
"Fancy Free” and other ballets
of that ilk, have a certain rowdy
and fantastic quality which makes
them plausible, but “FYankie and
Johnnie” would even miss the
boat at a burlesque house, were
it given permission to be pre- j
sented there.
“Danses Conrcrtantrs,” the new
Stravinsky ballet which was given I
its premiere here last year, was
beautifully done, although its
chief appeal is of a technical
order.
This series of neo-classic dances
arranged in suite-like form, were
principally intriguing because
they offered the evening’s first
glimpse of Alexandra Danilova,
whose elegance and elan have
not diminished one bit. She is
itruly one of the world’s great bal
lerinas and a constant delight to
the beholder.
Heads Marine League
1 KALAMAZOO, Oct. 13—Nor
bprt Rybmski, a veteran of World
'War 11, has been elected com
mandant of the Southwestern
Michigan detachment of the Ma
rine Corps League. Rybinski’s
• chief of staff is Mrs. Dorothy
! Price.
M.»rgie all the protein*, vitamin*, and
minerals an adolescent needs.
Add to this the fact that chops and
steaks, which used to he such an important
part of reducing diets, may he hard to get
and you have a neat problem.
Our nutritionists and medical experts
put their heads together to solve it.
Meantime, the beauty department came
up with welcome exercise, grooming, and
costume ideas designed to make a girl look
slimmer during the reducing process.
How 1k pemdi uatudktd
The diet our nutritionists and medical
experts worked out was a np-roanng
success.
Margie had plenty to eat—but she are
the right foods. Our diet wasn’t faddy or
extreme. It included desserts a Junior
Miss enjoys. And lunch-lnix menus, too.
In short, here was a diet a girl could
stick to, without taxing will power.
And if did take off the pounds’ Thir
teen of them!
Within two months, Margie was wear
ing the coveted size 1 2 —and beaming! Mie
was standing with a slim-girl stame.
Showing surprising poise, for a fourteen
year old, moreover.
If you look in Good Housekeeping for
October you’ll find before-and-after pic
tures of Margie together with the exer
nse routine that will help. In the same
issue there’s a question-and-answer page
addressed to mothers of "tubby todfllers,”
to help them nip the “tubby-teen” prob
lem in the bud.
Good Housekeeping
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959 EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW TORK 19, N. Y. * BUY VICTORY BONOS
Bowlero Opens
Doors Monday
THE BOWLERO. Detroit’s new
est dancing and entertainment
rendevous. makes its public debut
Monday. October 15.
Located in the Woodward
avenue lobby of the Great Lakes
Bowling Center. Baltimore at
Woodward, the Bowlero manage
ment spared no effort to provide
i the utmost in comfort and un
usual environment in creating
this new spot.
Madelon Baker, local singing 1
favorite, and Bob Carney's band
will provide the nightly enter
tainment.
• DAY! BruiNNINO
Vlt>y MON., OCT. 15
Totheiob
Bankhead
FOOLISH NOTION
4 Corner by PMtUP IARIY .4*
DONALD COOK • JOHN KMCRY
AUlttT MAtHCt
£>-•«*« b r JOHN C. WU4OM
BESTS NOW—Box offW* op.* 10 t« I
: J 60, 3 00. 1 80. 1 20 ( T»i \
»*. S*t. Bit.,: 300 t* 120\ I*. /
sham*— Adventure# of Rusty." 11 a. m ,
1 S 3 4 46. 7:39. 10:33 p ra.. "The Won
der Man." 13 07, 3. 5:53. 8:48. 11 39 p m
BROADWAY CAPlTOL—"Phantom of 43(1
Street," 11 03 a m . 3. 4 SO. 7 45. 10 35
8 m.; "Blood on the Sun," 13:05, 3, 5 50,
.45. 11 30 p m
< IMMt—-Dotia Barbara." 13 noon. 3 20,
4 49. 7 IS. 9 47 p m
DOWNTOWN—"Danferoua Intruder." 12 09.
3 36. .5 03. 8 18. 10:33 p. m., 12 50 a m,
ataae show, 1 48. 4 13. T. 36, 9 43. 13 mid
air ht
Pislil'K “Valley of Declalon” 12 30,
4:35. •: 13 p m. 13:01 a m.; "Royal
Scandal." 3:51. 0 39. 10 27 p m
POX "Crlmaon Canary." 1120 atp .
3;13, 5:10. * 05,. 11 p m; "Lady on a
Train." 12 38. 3:33. 6 38. 923 p. m,
13 18 a. m.
MADISON—"RoyaI Scandal." 11 13 a m.
1:57, 6:43, 10 37 p m "Valley of Decl-
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For those of you who can’t get a copv of
October Good Housekeeping, we ha\e
reprinted our reducing routine in a special
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lor 10* postage.
A t Our Own Soda f ountain — an impromptu one
set up for the purpose —ire concocted a drink the
drugstore set could sip trhile slimming.
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teen age reducing is typical of Good
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such things in their stride. For we’re ac
customed to study and analyze theories,
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- And the products you see in our adver
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Film Time Clock
alon " 12 48 4 il, HIM «. 13 01 a m
I MICHKeAN—"Pride of the Marines." 11
1 a m J 17. 5 34. « 11 p m , 12 36 a. m.J
Sensation limiters," 1 23. 4 50, 601#
11 24 p m
PALM*-* I ATP "The Silver Pleat." 11
a. in, 2 OS. 5.16. s 24, 11:33 p. ml
Abbott and Costello In Hollywood," 12:21#
j 3 29 ti 17, 9 45 p m, 13 53 a m.
I 51111) ARTISTS— Her lllchneaa and th«
BelltMiy," 11 a. in 2 22, 5 44. !)•>« p. m.
12 26 a. m "Hidden lye," 1:09, 4:31#
7.53. 11:15 p. m
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