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Famed Stage Hit to Open On Dec. 25

Play Based on Jane Austen Classic Now on Tour in Midwest.

“yes r} ; : Pride and Prejudice alo AIL’ ) : Helen Jerome's dramatization of Jane Austen's great novel, has been announced bv y al » TY LL \ Vincent Burke as English’s holiday attraction. The popular Broadway production of last season, now on tour of a few Middle Western cities, will open Dec. 25 for two evening and Saturday matinee performances Miss Austen's novel has been a ! 1] for more than a cent than a million copies } { old), and is enjoved toaay as much as when it set a new on when first published The reason is, perhaps, because it deals in a witty, dramatic way with ernal phenomenon—the ceasemen by women, and

men-—in other words of Miss Austen's book ind Prejudice,” with rural England and 8, concerns the efforts net to “marry off’ her ree attractive daughters and the dif tie caused by pride on on the other, ling this understanding of enurse, is highly success-

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Max Clordon's Mis dramatization of the book. Muriel Kirkland in the

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production of

role, was recogV one of the 1935-36 New Prof. William placing it in

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the best plays of

York season Lyon his list of 10 best plays remarked: ire production as near n as human efforts a perfect play, 1 } perfectly fectly acted I ut d delight audiences will ‘kKland for the first “Pride nd Prejudice” hy road show Her “Strictly Dishonorable

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Indianapolis see time, being her first hit was ' She walked production after 10 months on Broadway xing the ears of her leading Her next important part was that of Polaire in “The Greeks Had Word It” A comedy of manners, a costume play of a time when social graces and per 11 deportment were emphasized, “Pride and Prejudice,” | Mr. Gordon's press representas S. M. Weller, requires e skill is matched by personal 1ess and charm It was with this in mind, according to Mr. that Miss Kirkland, Mollie Eugene Rawls, Evalyn Byrd, Helen Strickland, Esther Mitchell and JFran ces Brandt were tant roles

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nusical pro ion starring Grace Moore, were filled this week with of Gene Morgan and Robert McKenzie Cary Grant is the star's leading Others in the cast are Henry Stephenson Catherine Doucet, Aline MacMahon, Thomas Mitchell Luis Auberni, Edgar Kennedy, MarCorday, Soledad Jiminez, Pat West, Harry Holman, Billy Gilbert, Lucille Ward, Emma Dunn and Pearce

Creorge Robert Riskin who furnished the is also co«directing with ry Lachman, The musical num- | are being staged by Leon Leonidoff, impresario from Radio ) ic Hall

ART DIRECTOR WEDS WIDOW

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IOLL YW OOD, Dec. -Ed M.-G.-M. art director, and Torbert Lee, widow of the and radio magnate, Don were honeymooning today after ‘ise elopement to Tijuana,

Anwabelle late auto Lee | su Mexic They were married last week-end, putting far ahead from Christmas Dav, the date originally set. They told friends the news last night and said they wanted to be marri to celebrat e completion of ir new Beverly Hills mansion.

PUZZLE TO FRIENDS

the date

Friends of Margot Grahame, now D ng the title role in “Night w OSS are at a loss to know how she keeps her trim, graceful figure. The British actress is not athletically inclined, never diets and

admits that roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, and macaroni and heese are her favorite dishes,

TEACHER AND ACTRESS

Helen Jerome Eddy, veteran screen actress, devotes herself to stage work and is prominently iden-

tified with the Pasadena Community Play ‘ers as both instructor and actress.

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’ IS BOOKED FOR BRIEF STAY AT ENGLISH

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16,

NO. | CAMERAMAN TURNS FEW CRANKS

t takes a half dozen technicians to tuck Zasu Pitts into her bed

for the above scene. Museum's phone number,

Almost Forgotten How to

Run Machine, Karl Freund Admits.

BY ERNIE PYLE Times Special Writer HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16. — You have to get up early to have breakfast with a Hollywood cameraman. It was only half an hour after day-

light when I rang Karl Freund's doorbell. ! Now I always thought movie

cameramen were lean, irresponsbilelooking voung men with their caps | turned backwards, like race drivers. That's the reason I could hardly believe it when Karl Freund walked out, of the bedroom, all dressed for | work He's 45 vears old, weighs 200 | pounds, wears shell glasses, and has | wavy black hair turning gray. He | looks big and loose. His pants flop | all over when he walks. Karl said | he had been up till 3 that morning | reading the script of the new pic- | ture. He he didn't look sleepy. There was breakfast at my place. |

But just a tall glass at Karl's. “This | is my liquid day,” he said. “Two | days a week. This is Se Se

pineapple juice, two-thirds water. Loses 52 Pounds in 5 Months |

“I've lost 52 pounds in five months. Used to weigh 272. The | first three weeks I almost died with

nine inches around the waist. Cost me a lot of money. Had to | have all new clothes.” We drove in Karl's small sedan 30 | miles into the hills, to “location.” The picture was “Parnell,” by MGM. | The day's scenes were of Clark | Gable watching Irish peasants being | evicted. | A lot of people were already there | when we arrived at 8 o'clock. There | were a dozen in the camera crew, and Karl started telling them where to line up the cameras. Everybody kept saying “Hello | Karl.” Everybody respects him. Everybody loves him. He's a jovial | Bohemian, with an accent; he says | ‘devil-up” for develop.

He's Really an Artist

A first cameraman is a big shot | in movie-making. He doesn't run | the camera at all. Just tells others | how to run it. In fact, union rules | forbid him to run it more than 25 | cent of the time. He stands off and looks and says put the camera here. Ang crank it] up so high. And set it for such and | such & light. And put the arc lights | l:ere, and the reflectors there. Karl Freund is an artist. “I don | care anything at all for the camera he says. “I've Has for- | gotten how tO run one. S Just something to play on, like _ ave | a piano to play on. I talk with a camera.” Freund lives in a world of lights and shadows. All day he ‘walks around the set, holding up his light | meter, giving an order for a new | camera setting; squinting at the ol through a dark monocle, saying, ‘Let's hurry, there's a cloud coming”; or velling at Director John Stahl, * ‘Turn him around & litile more, John."

At Tt For 30 Years

He knows the weaknesses of the | plavers. He can shadow off an | actor's big nose, or cover up circles, | or avoid lop ears. Karl says all the really big stars are swell to work with, He likes Gable. They call each other Clark and Karl. Karl has been at it 30 years. The first movie house in Berlin was right next door to him. He got a job running the projection machine. Then he drifted into newsreals. He couldn't get in the Germany army. He was too fat. So he ate a lot, to keep fat. Used to drink

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| Last Laugh” | man movies.

| pictures, | to his chest, and then while taking

| writer.

| set up the machinery. | took it down. We just got in the car

| (Pat) Di ‘Cicco,

| Tracy and Margot Grahame.

The camera is focusing on the Metropolitan Art

two gallons of beer a day. But he saw a lot of the war as a newsreel man, anyway, He was in German movies from the start. He photographed “The and other famous GerHe invented the idea of moving a camera while taking he would strap a camera

Emil Jannings in a drunk scene he would stagger around too, just like Jannings.

He's a Writer, Too

He came to America seven years ago. Couldn't speak a word of English. He's pretty good now, though. He'll become a citizen in February. He came to America as a director, but a short time a®o he went back | to the camera to photograph ‘The | Good Earth.” He says it's better to be a cameraman than a director. You have just as much field for artistic expression, and you get 52 weeks pay (a director's contract is for 40 weeks) and you don’t have so much responsibility. Freund is the only cameraman in Hollywood with a three-way contract—cameraman, director and Between pictures he writes scenarios, and MGM gets first crack at them. He has sold several.

Pretty Good Pay, Too The day’s shooting stopped a little |

| after 4, when the sun went behind a | today of Nicholas Schenck, presi- | hill.

| manual work all day. | a headache. Now I feel fine. I've | >

lost

Karl hadn't done a lick of | Other men

and drove away. After dinner, we went to the | MGM laboratories to look at the day's film after it was devil-upped. Karl always does that for the first couple of days on a new picture. After that he just phones down at

| night. He said the stuff was all right

for that day. Some movie people told me later that Freund was the greatest light and shadow man in the business. They said these cameramen are wonderful. They said there are no bad first cameramen. That the very poorest are extremely good. And Freund is among the best.

They said he probably made from |

$750 to $1000 a week.

Next: Ernie "talks “high-brow"” | stuff with With Jean x Muir,

$1 LEFT WIDOWER BY THELMA TODD

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16.—Pasquale former husband of

Thelma Todd, actress who was

| found dead near her sidewalk cafe

a year ago today, was awarded $1 in her will. The estate, which was distributed today, totaled $33,716. The remainder went to Miss Todd's

| mother, Mrs. Alice Elizabeth Todd.

COLLECTS SNUFF BOXES

Lily Pons, records as a hobby. She possesses a shuff box and inkwell used by Lord Nelson,

PRINGLE GIVEN ROLE

Aileen Pringle, one of the m prominent stars of the silent screen & decade ago, has an important role In “Criminal Lawyer,” with Lee

Other men |

operatic star, collects | snuff and jewel boxes and historical

| Stars,” a story of war and revolt in | Dublin, won the Motion Picture ost | Academy Award for his screen play of “The Informer.’

Indiana Due To Reopen ~ Christmas

Double Bill to Feature New Bobby Breen and | Lily Pons Films.

| |

| BY JAMES THRASHER | Many people have won- | 'dered, during the last few | months, what was the mat- | ter with the Indiana Theater. | ‘Well, the answer is “Nothing.” Dark since last spring, ‘except for the stage producition of “The Great Waltz,” the big Washington-st movie house is to reopen on Christ-

‘mas Day. The same management that has controlled the theater since 1933 again will be in charge, according [to A. W. Baker, Circle manager, |who announced the opening. “Rainbow on the River,” which stars Bobby Breen, child ssinging sensation of the Eddie Cantor radio programs, will be the first attraction. With May Robson, Charles | Butterworth, Alan Mowbray and | Benita Hume also in the cast, | “Rainbow r 1 the River” tells of an | orphan reared by a Negro “mammy” in New Orleans’ French quar- | ter. A change of scenery takes him to g§ new-found grandmother in | New York. Jealous relatives nearly send him to an orphanage, but the | charm of his singing finally wins | out. | The second film is to bring Lily | Pons to the local screen in her new | | comedy, “That Girl From Paris.” Gene Raymond and Jack Oakie | head the supporting cast. “Winterset,” originally booked for the Circle, will follow the new Pons picture. Based on Maxwell Anderson’s prize-winning New York stage success, it ‘introduces to movie audiences the play's stars, Burgess Meredith, Margo and Eduardo Ciannelli. Other important stage stars will be seen in Sean O'Casey's “The Plough and the Stars,” which is to ‘offer Una O'Connor, J. C. Nugent and Barry Fitzgerald from the Dublin Players, as well as Bar bara Stanwyck and Preston Foster. Like “The Informer,” this picture | (deals with the Irish revolution of | the 1920s. | Among later atéractions already booked are ‘‘History 1s Made at Night,” which features Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer and Leo Carillo. Stage attractions also will be presented as they are availadle, Mr. Baker announces.

Picture Merger To Be Reopened

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16.—Arrival

dent of M-G-M, will pave the way for new negotiations toward the financial merger of Twentieth Cenh-tury-Fox and Gaumont-British films, first proposed last summer. Successful meetings have been reported between Sidney R. Kent, Fox president; Joseph M. Schenck, president of the board, and Maurice and Isadore Ostrer of Gaumont-

British. The merger would be a technical | move to consolidate Loew's, Inc. as

pictures. The firm already controls Twentieth Century = Fox and M-G-M.

MOVIE'S RELEASE SET FOR DEC. 24

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16. — “More Than & Secretary,” starring Jean

Arthur and George Brent and featuring Lionel Stander, Ruth Donrelly, Regihald Denny and Dorothea Kent, is to be nationally released Dec. 24. Alfred E. Green directed the production from the Dale Van | Every screen play of Matt Taylor's | Colliers’ Magazine story. Other players include Charles Hal- | ton, Geraldine Hall, C. L. Sherwood, Charles Irwin, Myrna Marsh, | Dorothy Short, Josephine McKim, | Joy Kendall, Cyril Ring, Thomas | Bicketts, Ann Merrill, Francis Sayles, | Homer Dickerson, Richard Scott, | George Hickman and Ralph MeCuliough.

ACADEMY WINNER

Dudley Nichols, who wrote the screen play of “The Plough and the

"xtra!

SPAN ISH WAR F ilms |

with SALLY ETLERS ROBT. ARMSTRONG

STARS PUT FINISHING TOUCHES ON MAKEUP

Makeup shots on the set of “College Holiday,” which comes to the Circle Friday. Eleanore Whitney (left), thing about those lips the next routine,

diminutive dancer, does someGracie (Madame Pom-

padour) Burns puts a finishing touch on George (Louis XIV) Burns before they take oft on a stately minuet.

Farming Source of Fun For Comedian Herbert

Times fpecial

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16. —Hugh Herbert's San Fernando Valley ranch | | house has a front porch on each end. actor or a presidential candidate can fully appreciate. When a friend or admirer rings either doorbell at the Herbert home, all the comedian of “Sing Me a Love Song” has to do is come out, sit down with the visitor

and start to tell stories.

The house itself is easily located by any person who gets on the right street, because a gaily painted totem pole stands beside the front gate.

Hugh found the pole in one of the® ~ old buildings on the ranch when he | kitchen, between visits to the huge bought it. The old buildings are | refrigerator which holds a great

still there, shelter and interesting assortment of ani- |

for the strange

mals that call Hugh's ranch their

home. There

is Cougar, a giant black

Great Dane who likes to lick Hugh's genial face when the comedian is

clean-shaven. reasons Mr. ble beard when he is spending the | day at home. ! pert’'s house dog and a great fa- | | vorite, and Pudgy and Domi are a

This is one of the Herbert wears a stub-

Gertie is Mrs. Her-

pair of coach dogs. Likes to Show Farm

Ten minutes on one of the front porches is enough for the nervous

comic. to show

barns and corral where Bess,

By that time he is itching

“farm,” the his

his visitor his

fine Jersey cow, chews contentedly,

and where Forani,

a long-legged

calf presented to Hugh by Foran and named for the donor, sleeps in

the sun.

There is also a pig called

Minnie and, a little farther away, a flock of chickens lorded over by

Herman, When

a blooded rooster. these have been inspected

and admired, Hugh hurries his visitor on toward another enclosure,

stopping apricots

to pick peaches, grapes, and other fruits, green or

ripe, on the way. “These,” he announces when he

nears a certain shed,” goats.”

berts’ Cookie,

are the HerThere are

Elmer and Googoo; and

Hugh calls them to him, one at a

time, by

name.

He spends a minute or two with

his flock

of turkeys, quacks a com- | the most powerful single unit in| forting word to his ducks and re-|

turns his visitor to the house. . Kitchen Important Place

nt is

a rambling, comfortable |

country house built according to the |

Herberts’

There is a large informal sun- room |

ideas of pleasant living.

—‘for Mrs. Herbert's bridge parties,”

explains

Hugh, and a comfortable

library and living-room where Hugh can sit and think. There is a small, sunny dinning-room, and then there is the kitchen. The kitchen is very important in

Hugh's opinion. useful and congenial purposes. special table has

It serves several A

been built, on

rollers, and it fits into one corner of the kitchen where padded benches

[have been built into the walls.

Three Hugh's guests sit while they

| sample the home-made sweet butter. | drink goat's milk or beer, and nibble | at well -aged cheese.

Hugh tells his best stories in the

Puss, |

It is a convenience that only an |

| variety of good things to eat and drink—most of them products of | his own farm. | As a farmer Hugh Herbert is a kind of hit-and-miss agriculturist. | He pinches his peaches, picks his grapes green and gloats over the | fact that his goats respond when be | calls them by name. No natural farmer is Hugh—but as & host, there is none better. *

Korda Hires Sternberg

"|, Claudius,' to Be Put Into Production.

Times Special LONDON, Dec. 16.—Joseph Von Sternberg has been signed by Alexander Korda to direct “I, Claudius,” the screen version of Robert Gfaves’ fictionalized biagraphy of the Roman emperor, with Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon. Mr. Von Sternberg takes the place of Korda himself as director. The British producer announced, upon | the completion of “Rembrandt,” | that he was retiring ‘as director and | would devote all his time to production activities. “I, Claudius,” will go into pro- | duction within two weeks, awaiting | the release of Mr. Von Sternberg | from a London nursing home, where | he is recuperating from a minor | operation. Art Director Vincent Korda and technical experts of London Film have returned from Rome, Where they acquired background material for sets in the ancient capital. Mr. Laughton also recently returned from the Italian capital where he

spent several weeks on a similar mission.

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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

ATOLLO

“Gan This Be Dixie” with Jane Withers, Sli Be elite and Helen wot at 189, 3:58. 5:57, 7:96 | an }

CIRCLE

‘Past Meets West with George { Atliss and Lucfe Mannheim, at 4:44, 7:36 and 10:28. Also, | Th Orders,” with Sally Hjleis | and Robert Armstrong, at 12:48, | | 6:32 and 9:24, Spanish ciyit War | film at 12:24, 3:16, 6:08 and 9. {

CIVIC THEATER

“Libel!” presented by Civie Theater players and guest players, Curtain at 8:30.

KEITH'S

“Riddle Me This,” presented > the Federal Players. Curtain at 8:15,

LOEW'S

“Born to Dance,” with Eleanor

Powell and James Stewart, at 11, 110, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50 and 10, LYRIC ‘Polo Joe," on screen, with Joe EB, Brown and Oarol Huglies, at 11:43, 5:21, 8:15 an 10: 39. Also “Beil's Hawalian Poltes. on stage, at 1:02, 3:46, 6:40 and 9:34,

ALAMO

“Trailing West,” with Dick Poran, Also ‘House of Becrets,” with Leslie

Fenton, AMBASSADOR r From the Shoulder.” Also a8 Giv My f

Life,” with Frances Drak e. OHIO “Crime of Dr, Forbes,” with Gloria Stuart. Also “A Son Comes Home,”

with Macy Boland.

COLUMBIA SIGNS YOUNG ACTRESS

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16. —Peggy Stratford, young stage ingenue and leading lady and a newcomer to the screen, has been placed under long-term ‘contract by Columbia, After atténding the University of California, Miss Stratford joined the Reginald Travers Reportoire Company as an understudy. In a | short time she was playing leads and | ingenue roles. She remained with the company {wo years.

BEAUTIFUL

Lloyd Plans 2 Films Year

Purchases Original Story for

1937 Program.

| Times Specinl

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16. = Two starring comedies a year instead of one will be Harold Lloyd's future program. He has two stories in line for production, one just purchased, It is “Walls of Jericho,” an orige

inal by Francis and Marian Cockrell, and will continue Lloyd in his familiar characterization of an overly-eager perpetual freshméh type who becomes involved in fare

lcical adventure and awkwardly bash

ful romance. It will be filmed as second picture on Lloyd's 1937 schedule. His first, from an untitled original of his own, is expected to go before the cameras within a month.

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