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FUN IN HOLLYWOOD

“Right back at you,” says Mrs. Frank Tuttle to the candid cameraman, as her director-husband looks on.

Shakespeare

Preparing Country for Winter Season on Stage

Network Cuttings Fall Short but Foreshadow Success For Theater, Bard's Real Medium; Meredith Hamlet by 1938 Predicted.

By JAMES THRASHER Maybe this story belongs on the radio page, because it’s

about the Shakespeare.

much-ballyhooed

with more Shakespeare than it Tonight CBS will offer Les-* lie Howard and Rosalind Rus- | sell in “Much Ado About Nothing,” while John Barrymore will continue his NBC series with “Twelith Night.” Two delight- | ful comedies, yet those who listened | to either of the dual performances last week may approach their radios tonight with somewhat less san- | guine hopes. In the 15 years of rapidly devel- | oping radio entertainment, the drama has lagged behind its sisters, legitimate and otherwise. The rea-| son is evident, if a bit cryptic: You | can sing, play, conduct an orchestra, lecture, crack jokes, describe or re- | cite for an invisible audience—but you can't act. Shakespearean excerpts on the radio should be as successful as Wagnerian excerpts on the concert stage, but they are not. For the dull summer season, when its comedians and musicians take | vacations, the older networks must have chosen to do some cuttings from the Bard's plays because they knew that the general public, to paraphrase Philip Hale, “had the fear of Shakespeare before their eyes.” The fact that these broadcasting companies could assemble a group of our finest English-speaking actors to recite portions of the world’s greatest plays does not guarantee success. In fact, I think that | Shakespeare was the poorest possi- | ble choice for serious dramatic broadcasting. That author himself ! probably would be amused to know | that his “Hamlet” or “Tempest” | had been pared to an hour's playing time, with sedulous care to preserve the ‘‘plot.”

Bard Disdained Plots

Shakespeare’s disdain for plots, ! their source or credibility, is too well | known to need any comment. He | cribbed without apology, for his |

But these broadcasts are a buildup for the coming theater season’s Shakespeare productions, whether they mean to be or not, and autumn will find this country

on Radio

network presentations of

has seen in many, many years.

Durante Is Back Again

Noisy Comedian to Play for

‘College Hero."

Times Specinl HOLLYWOOD, Durante, star comedian, last picture appearance “Carnival,” this week from a series of Broadway

was

stage appearances, which kept him | | papers today.

from films for several seasons.

He was engaged for a featured |

the magazine story by Corey Ford.

After years as a headliner on vaudeville stage with his partners, Clayton and Jackson, Durante entered the legitimate field and appeared in “Show Girl,” “New Yorkers,” “Strike Me Pink,” and numerous other musical successes. His latest stage appearances were in “Jumbo” and “Red, Hot and Blue.” Between his theatrical engagements Durante made several pictures, including “Palooka,” “Hollywood Party,” “Student Tour,” “Strictly Dynamite” and George White's “Scandals.”

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FRANK BUCK WAITS NEW ZOO SHIPLOAD |

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July Buck has finished his 16-episode |

July 19. —Jimmy | whose | in | returns to the screen |

character actor, and Bill Pine, the

TAME PENGUIN TO MAKE DEBUT

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 19—Valued at $10,000, Pete, the only tamed penguin in the world, will make its film debut in RKO’s “Take the Heir,” in which Guy Kibbee and Cora Witherspoon have the top comedy roles. Pete was born in New Zealand and came into the possession of Ralph Luxford, owner and trainer, when four months old. It required approximately two years to teach the bird the 40 tricks it performs. “It required 15 months to teach Pete not to bite,” said Luxford. “Three times I went to the hospital with badly lacerated hands, The most difficult problem faced by the trainer is the fact that a penguin is the one living thing which has no fear of anything. “Food means nothing to it, so it cannot be cajoled into doing tricks with tidbits. The only thing which apparently gives pleasure to a penguin is to scratch it under its bill. The birds do this to each other and go into a kind of trance as a result.”

| Brent Files for

U. S. Citizenship

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 19.—George

| Brent, husky Irish movie star, had his first United States citizenship |

“I've planned to do this for the

12 years that I've been in the

reau, “but I've never been in one spot long enough to go through with it.” Brent is a native of Ireland, where he survived a hazardous revolutionary career before entering movies. He is 33. The actor, once mentioned romantically with Greta. Garbo, sued last week for annulment of his Mexican marriage to Constance Worth, young Australian screen beauty.

CECIL DE MILLE CLAIMS NEW FIND

By United Press

HOLLYWOOD, July 19.—Cecil B. De Mille, who “discovered” Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Leatrice Joy, Lila Lee and other stars, an-

“find” is an Atlanta, Ga. society

| girl who never has had stage or

plots are, for the most part, mere | Serial, “The Jungle Menace,” for | screen experience.

props :0or his matchless poetry and character delineation. His immortality rests on the inexorable | beauty of language, prodigal pro- | fusion of imagery and the credible | humanness of his characters. As to Burgess Meredith's “Ham- | let.” which opened the CBS series | last week, many have found cause! for cheering in his performance. | Hailed as the “Hamlet of 1940” last season, they are now moving him up to 1938. This may be true, and Mr. | Meredith may make an excellent | Hamlet, but to base the assumption | on his radio portrayal is to make | the wish father to the thought. No one could have fashioned al Hamlet out of the shreds and patches of the radio version. We | must see Hamlet, and he must make | us feel that, between his exits and | entrances, the change and turmoil have not stopped. This can't be| done before a microphone. { On paper, the two Shakespearean series look like a lavish bounty, but the donors can reap little artistic satisfaction for their pains. Nor can the public, decently grateful but disappointed. The consolation goes to those who love the theater. For this “noble experiment” has proved again that there is only one wholly satisfactory medium for Shakespeare. The theater is as important and as deathless as the plays themselves.

FIRST BOOMERANG

Mary Maguire lived 17 of her 18 years in Australia, never saw a boomerang until an Australian admirer sent her one to Hollywood.

MARTHA RAYE ho “Hideaway Girl” plus

Bette Davis—"MARKED WOMAN”

LAST CHIR LE

4 DAYS!

immediate release and leaves for New York tnis week to arrange Government formalities for the arrival of a new shipload of wild animals from the Malay Peninsula.

Mr. Buck's new jungle friends will arrive on the freighter “Steel Traveler,” and will include lions, tigers, pythons, leopards and monkeys, all captured by him on his last expedition. They will be transferred to the Buck Zoo in Amityville, L. I.

EAT ON SET

Alice Faye, Director Norman Taurog, Don Ameche and Louise Hovick have been eating their luncheon on the big set of “You Can't

| Have Everything” ever since Alice

got a dressing room with an electric range in it. Alice explains that she doesn't cock well, but her hairdresser does.

HOLDS AIR RECORD

Ann Sothern, who is featured with Jack Haley, Mary Boland and Edward Everett Horton in “Danger— Love at Work,” is Hollywood's leading air traveler. Since her marriage last fall to Roger Pryor, she has covered 34,000 miles in planes in order to spend the spare time between pictures with her orchestra-leader husband, in the East.

GBI R 1 OZONIZED AIR

| Wm, LAST DAYS

(23)

She is Evel;n Keyes, signed up by the director to the first personal contract he had given in 10 years, merely on the impression he.obtained in a short social introduction,

director's aid.

Incidents in Composer's

‘Rhapsody in Blue' Once Rejected by Jolson,

W. C. Fields Says.

HOLLYWOOD, June 19, (NEA)—As is always the case when one of Hollywood's better known and better liked personages passes away, intimate friends of these people begin to remember little incidents and anecdotes concerning their lives and careers. Now friends of the late | George Gershwin are telling | stories long forgotten about his spectacular rise in the | music world. | W. C. Fields recalls an early ediYon of George White's “Scandals,” | for which Gershwin wrote the mu- | sical score. Al Jolson had supplied | a large part of the money that was | backing the show, and Fields was | one of the headliners. Gershwin | had written the music and sub- | mitted it to Jolson for approval.

Among the music was “The | Rhapsody in Blue.” Jolson threw | it out of the show as not being apThe musical director,

pressed with the score, however, and resolved to play it himself. The rest is history. About two months ago Gershwin was being honored at a banquet in Los Angeles, and among those present was another famous composer, Irving Berlin. Berlin was invited to conduct the orchestra in a medley of his own works, and was handed a baton. “What do I do with this?” he asked. “Just follow the orchestra,” he was advised. At the con[clusion of his numbers Gershwin | was handed the baton; “Here is a | man that can really read music,” said Berlin to the people present.

Stravinsky and Gershwin

When the great composer, Igor | Stravinsky, came to Hollywood re- | cently, Gershwin was one of his first | callers. “Maestro,” said Gershwin to

19.—Frank | bounced today his latest movie | Stravinsky, “I'd like to take a course

in orchestration from you while you | He here. I realize that your time

| {

De Mille was struck by her “well- |

bred manner,” and modulated voice, he said.

PRINCE IN HOLLYWOOD

| |

Prince Pratapsingh Gaekwar, heir | to one of the world’s greatest for-

tunes, which he

will inherit from |

his grandfather, the present Gaek- | war of Baroda, was a recent visitor |

in Hollywood.

Life Related

Grown-up Jackie Coogan, first of the famous child stars, takes off on the Susie-Q with his fiancee, Betty Grable.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Wee Willie Winkie.’ Temple and Victor McLaglen, 1:13, 3.27, 5:47, 7:55 and 10:09,

CIRCLE

“Easy Living,” with Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold, at 12:42, 3:53, 7:04 and 10:15. Also “Last Train From Madrid,” with Dorothy Lamour and Lew Ayres, at 11:24, 2:35, 5:46 and 8:57.

vith Shirley at 11,

LOEW'S

“The Emperor's Candlesticks,” 1k :50, 4:40, 7:50 and__10 “Pick a Star Patsy Kelley, 9:10.

at . : . Iso J with Jack Haley and at 12:35, 3:30, 6:20 and

LYRIC “Ever Since Eve,” with Marion Davies and Robert Montgomery, on screen at 11:26, 2:06, 5:06, 7:56 and 10:36. Also “Stardust Revie on stage at 1, 3:40,

6:40 and 9:30 OHI0

Woman,” “Hideway

Bette with

with Girl,”

“Marked Davis. Also Martha Raye. AMBASSADOR “Kid Gallahad.” with Edward G Robinson. Also "Girl From Scotland Yard.” ALAMO

Destiny.” with Ken “1 Promise to Pay.”

of Also

“Boots Maynard.

Indiana Girl Wins Paris Scholarship

' Joan Robinson, Pianist, of

Bloomington, Gets Wooley Award.

Miss Joan Robinson of | Bloomington, talented young pianist and former pupil of Prof. Ernest Hoffzimmer at Indiana University, has won the Wooley scholarship | in Paris, where she is study- | ing. The award carries a

cash prize

|is valuable, | pay for it.” | “So you're willing to pay,” said | Stravinsky. “How much do you make |a year?” “About two hundred thousand dollars a year.” answered Gershwin. “You make two hundred thousand a year?” said Stravinsky. “I'll take | orchestration from you.”

and I am willing to

Name Calmed Cop Benny Rubin tells one of Gersh|win's favorite stories on himself. Gershwin’s father was arrested by {a traffic officer in New York for | speeding. | “You can’t arrest me,” { father. “George Gershwin son.” The traffic officer let him go be- | cause he thought the father had | said, “Judge Gershwin is my son.”

BETTE NOW AUTHOR

Bette Davis is writing a series of articles on Hollywood for a national magazine. She sold a single article not long ago.

POWELL IS IMPROVED By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 19.—William Powell was reported by his physician today to be recovering satisfactorily from a nervous disorder which caused his collapse at a film studio Friday.

said the is my

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A serious moment in the lives of Eleanore Whitney and Johnny Downs, popular young players and off-set sweethearts.

States House. She also played in the Grand Prix competition at the Paris Conservatoire, winning one of the high places. Miss Robinson, who was heard in recital in Indianapolis in June, 1936, has been studying at the Paris Conservatoire with Prof. Victor Staub. Prof. Staub is well known as the teacher of Jose Iturbi and other famous pianists. The young Bloomington pianist went to him at the suggestion of Prof. Hoffzimmer, who was a Staub pupil for three years in Cologne.

TOM BROWN WED TO SOCIETY GIRL

| By United Press

HOLLYWOOD, July 19. — The Fourth of July high-seas marriage of Tom Brown, young movie actor, and Natalie Draper, Beverly Hills society girl, was announced today. They were married by the cap-

tain of a chartered yacht beyond the 12-mile limit off Santa Catalina Island. Witnesses included screen players Anne Shirley and

and a year's residence at the United | John Payne.

YOUTHFUL ACTOR ASPIRES TO LAW

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, July 19.—Freddie Bartholomew is absolutely sincere in training for the legal profession. When, if ever, the time rolls around when screen roles are few and far between, Freddie will have an ace in the hole.

And to prove he’s sincere, Frede die is about to attend summer school. Having passed his examinations at the end of the first year of high school, the young star in another two weeks will start courses in typing and commercial law. They're entirely apart from his regular cure riculum,

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