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CATERER

TUESDAY, AUG. 17,

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Alfred Etcheverry of the New York Theater Guild has been appointed director of the Civic Theater, succeeding Fréderick Burleigh, who resighed to assume a similar position at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Wallace O. Lee, Civic president, announced the closing of the contract today. Mr. who was a classmate of Mr.

leigh's at Yale, is to take up his new duties this fall. The appointment was made on the recommendation of a committee

consisting of Harold Tharp, chair- | Mortimer Furscott, Rosamond | Van Camp Hill, Walter Jackson and | Etcheverry |

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Eunice Dissette. Mr. was chosen from several applicants | whom the committee during the summer, The new director is a native of Berkeley, Cal, where his father is a University of California faculty member. Mr. Etcheverry graduated from that university after a year at Leland Stanford. He then spent three years in the drama department of the Yale Graduate School where he directed several major pro-

ductions as well as writing a comedy |

that.was performed there. Worked With Guild

Mr. have been

Since leaving Yale, verry’'s winter seasons

spent with the Theater Guild in all | For |

phases of theatrical production. the past three summers he has directed and appeared with the permanent stock company at the The-ater-by-the-Sea, Matunuck, R. I. His experience also has included a | vear in Europe. Mr. Burleigh,

statement from Cohassett, Mass,

where he is directing summer pro- | | talented and efficient director

duciions, said: “Tt is a great satisfaction to know |

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Alfred Etcheverry

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“You Can’t Have Everything,” with Don Ameche and Alice Faye, at 11:05, 1:02, 3:19, 5:25, 7:33 and 9:40

CIRCLE

“Artists and Models,” with Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Gail Patrick and Richard Arlen, at 12:32. 3:42, 6:52 and 10:02. Also “Wild Money.” with Edward Everett Horton and Louise Campbell. at 11:23, 2:23, 5:43 and 8:53.

LOEW'S

“Stella Pallas,” with Barbara Stanwvck and John Boles, at 12:25, 3:35, 6:50 and 10. Also “The Frame-Up,” with Paul Kelly and Jacqueline Wells, at 11:15, 2:25, 5:40 and 8:50.

LYRIC

“Mr. Dodd Takes the Air,” with Kenny Baker and Frank McHugh, at 11:24, 2:08, 4:58, 7:40 and 10:24. “New Stars on Parade” at 1:10, 3:48, 6:42 and 9:4

OHIO

“Kid Galahad,” with Edward G. Robinson and Beite Davis. Also ““Yangle Princess,” with Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland.

AMBASSADOR

with Bob Burne “The Publie

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“Meuntain Music,” Martha Rave. Also Pays.” ALAMO “A Night of Mvstery.”

Karns Iso "Big Business,” Prouty,

with Roscoe with Jed

in a apes sibility has been placed in very able | hands.

“I know that Mr. Etcheverry is a and

I am certain that the Civic Theater

that the position of director at the | patrons will be pleased with his

Oivie has been given to a man of |

work.”

Warren William's Home

Shows Inventive Genius

By JOHN R. WOOFENDEN

Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. William started in.

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e Rube Goldberg left off. Warren |

The difference being that whereas Rube’s wondrous inventions some- | times fell short of being entirely practical, Warren's are decidedly work- |

able. In fact, deviges that it's for the first time.

The mechanical wonders start out at the front ne

reach out of the car door and open ¢ a box which contains a telephone. | The phone is counterbalanced and | automatically swings back into place | after you have used it.

You phone the house, tell them |

who's arriving, and if the Williams are at home and wish to see you, a buzzer is pressed in the house

and the electrically controlled iron |

gates swing open. Your car passes over a tube which provides the electrical impulse to close the gates behind you. Inside, his private den is reached in most novel fashion. The head of Warren's bed, in the adjoining low-

er room, appears to be pyramided |

in a modern sort of style. As a matter of fact, the wooden pyramid turns out to be a steps which leads into room,

the chart

Lights Automatic

The steps contain a series of drawers and cupboards for books, magazines and pipes, and reading lights turn on automatically when certain of the cupboards are opened. Similarly in all the clothes cabinets the lights go on as the door opens. Suits are hung on two uers of racks, as in a clothing store. Pyramided revolving shelves hold hats, shoes and the like. All the drawers, recesses, shelves, cabinets and racks are numbered, so that in selecting an ensemble for any -purpose, for screen or private use, Mr. William has everything ready at hand in the same place every time. When working in a picture, such as “The Firefly,” in which he is currently teamed with Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones, the star sets aside space for his uniforms and their accoutrements. As the Colonel, later Geny de Rougemont, in “The Firefly, has a series of uniforms, capes, oy sword belts and boots which or-| dinarily would be kept at the studio, except for the fact that he prefers to change in his auto-dressing room on the way home, thus saving time. This auto dressing room is worth a story in itself. It is a delivery truck® body, 1937 model, with the] front seats closed off from the body by ‘a black curtain. The interior is insulated with a cork and rubber composition which absorbs most of the rumble. On the one side is a full length leather couch, with cupboard space underneath. Warren has recently been experimenting to determine how fast the car can be driven around & curve before he

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his Encino ranch home is such a mass of labor-saving | rather breath-taking for the visitor who arrives there |

You drive up, |

Brent's Suit

Validity of Marriages Mexico Attacked.

Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.—George

short flight of |

Brent's marriage annulment suit aroused new interest in the movie | colony today after the actor's attorneys raised the point that Mexican marriages are binding only upon | Mexicans. Mr. Brent seeks to annul his mar-

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[riage in Tijuana to Constance | Worth, blond Australian actress. Miss Worth opposes the suit. Amelia Gonzales was called to testify as a Mexican legal expert yesterday. He said: “Many of the Mexican weddings so popular with your movie players are illegal through their failure to comply with the domicile law, Un- | less one or both of the contracting [parties is or was a resident of the Mexican Republic, the marriage 1s null and void.” Such an interpretation would jeopardize the marriages of several Hollywood couples who have eloped across the border. J. J. Remus, formerly Mr. Brent's valet, was another witness. He said the officiating Tijuana magistrate did not ask for health certificates as required by Mexican law, and did not inquire whether either principal had been divorced before he per-

| Claudette Colbert claims the most | loyal film fan in the country. The | fan, Mrs. Catherine Fries of Portland, has written to Miss Colbert

once a month, for seven vears, and

has seen every picture at least five | in which the star has ap-|

| times peared.

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formed the marriage. Mr. Brent was | { | divorced from Ruth Chatterton, ac- |

CLAUDETTE'S LOYAL FAN

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Gary Plans .Haven for

Cow Hands

Co-Operative Farm to Take Care of Out-of-Work Actors.

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17.— In all Hollywood there is no more discordant sight than that faithful squad of spurred and booted cowboys who stand so disconsolately and out of place at the busy corner of Cahuenga and Hollywood Boulevard. | These are the remnants of a once | mighty battalion of raw-boned, | gangling cow hands who left their ranges in Montana, the Dakotas | land New Mexico during the short | | but® vigorous reign of Western pic- | tures.

| Today

But the old outfit still hangs on. | | You can see them daily in their 10gallon hats, boots, spurs and bow- | legs waiting for an independent | | producer of Westerns to chance | along, pile them into a truck bound | for location and food. | Many an able actor has emerged | from their midst—Jack Holt, War- | ner Baxter, Richard Dix, Tom Mix | and, most notable of them all, Gary | Cooper. But of this lot Cooper | seems to have the most permanent | interest in these former coworkers { of his. | When Archie Samuel Goldwyn's of Marco Polo,” was at his wits end | | getting Tartar warriors for id | production starring Cooper, Gary | | came to the rescue. e | Gave Work Tip With that modesty which is his most significant virtue, Cooper left his set, hopped into a borrowed fiivver (he has the most powerful and | fastest Duesenberg in the world) and parked at Cahuenga. Quietly he went up to the squad of cowboys. "I hear there's plenty | of work at Sam Goldwyn’'s,” he said. “Why don’t you guys go over? And pass the word around.” And as quietly as he had come he | left. It is significant that Cooper has | never forgotten these former pals. |

Mayo, directing

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Isabel Charms Hollywood

Poker-playing Miss Jeans in pensive mood.

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ikes Cinema, Horse Racing

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17, (NEA)—You know what Englishmen often

{ will say when youre introduced— *Chahmed, I'm sure!”

Well, that’s what Isabel Jeans said to Hollywood, and Hollywood is

replying in kind.

The screen colony really is charmed by Miss Jeans

because she is such an eminently distinguished actress and such a regu-

lar person. So frank. Quite! When she came here to flutter in warner Brothers’ “Tonight's Our | Night,” the film version of “Tovarich.” Miss Jeans answered many questions with complete candor, and voluntarily revealed that she is charter member—THE charter member. really—of the Claude Rains matrimonial guild. She was the first of Mr. Rains’ five wives. They were divorced in 1918. and for 17 years she has been the wife of Gilbert Edward Wake- | field, the noted (in England) bar- | rister. As I said, Miss Jeans is here to do a job of fluttering, somewhat in | the Spring Byington or Alice Brady manner. But on the stage in England she didnt play many silly, giggling roles. She played everything. Indeed, her record of play and screen credits occupies more than a page in “Who's Who in the Theater.” Born In London

She seems much too attractive and |

she thinks she may stick around | awhile, Likes Cinema and Poker

| Miss Jeans likes the cinema very much. Oh, definitely! She likes Gary | Cooper and Greta Garbo and Miss | Rainer and Charles Boyer and Les- | lie Howard. | She also likes bacon and eggs, | hor se racing and poker. Plays a fine { game of poker. Not once in her life | has she tried to fill an inside | straight, or has she ever drawn two [cards to a flush except when she was bluffing. | She has a big, expensive car which | she drives fast. Also two pets—a cat named Wendy that likes to go | swimming in the bathtub, and a | parrot named Jacques that speaks

|only French.

ROBERT YOUNG ON TRAILER TRIP

| Times Special

| HOLLYWOOD, Aug. | Young today left on his first auto-

Mr. Young, who

| translates his regard for the range | telitale years. She is fairly tall and | pecently completed a role opposite

| hands into practical action. | Plans Co-operative Farm In order to take these jobless cow= |

boys off the streets and to better |

| their condition, Cooper plans to pur-

chase a tract of between 25 and 30 | acres in the San Fernando Valley, | near Triunfo—40 miles from Holly- | | wood. | He plans to make this land a cooperative farm to which his hapless | friends in chaps may come and work | for themselves during periods of | | idleness. Cooper has announced that he | would like to distribute this co-op- | erative farm among some 30 or 50 motion picture cowboys and stunt men, build a dormitory and | lhouse and stock the place with { cattle, horses and fowl. In effect, Cooper will say this to i his friends: “Here is a place for you | to come to. I'm turning the opera- | tion over to you to make as much ‘out of as you can. | Profits to Be Theirs | “I don’t want a cent out of the profits; that's yours. And don't think I'm giving you charity. While | I'm helping my friends theyre re-! paying me by building values in an investment I can afford to make, “I'm going to give you fellows five years in which to make good. If {you fail I'll take the property over and turn it over to another group.” That is Gary Cooper's plan for his friends, the Hollywood cowboys. It will begin operating shortly after the star has completed his current assighment in “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” And then, perhaps, the Hollywood cowboy will vanish, along with other futilities, from that boulevard that is known as “the street of a million sighs.”

SWIM-DANCE WESTLAKE

PAUL COLLINS’ ORCHESTRA Featuring JENNIFER SHEFFER Every evening except Monday

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Clarence Bud. ington Kelland's

GARFIELD LINCOLN

weighs “a bit over eight stone” (124 | pounds, actually), and wears her | | hair something like Luise Rainer’s.

The actress was born in London, |

daughter of an art critic, and planned to become a singer. But | Sir Herbert Tree changed her mind by giving her an acting job at 15. Since-hen she has appeared with almost everybody, counting Noel

| Coward, Ivor Novello and England's

latest gift to the Shakespearean | dray-ma, John Gielgud. Once she was directed by Bernard Shaw. This “Tovarich” thing marks her American movie debut, but she played in about 10 English films. Anton Litvak, the director, brought her from London for the current picture, and now she's here

| Joan Crawford in “The Bride Wore Red,” will be gone three weeks. He will be accompanied by his wife and daughter.

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Burlesque Petition Due

This Week

[Support Claimed for Reopening of Keith's; Lessor Fights Plan.

A petition signed by persons favoring the opening of Keith’s Theater on a vaudeville, burlesque and motion picture basis is to be presented to Mayor Kern on Thursday, Julius Sagalowsky, attorney for Jack O. Kane, said today. Mayor Kern received a petition yesterday protesting the proposed | opening from George Kuhn of Klein | & Kuhn, Inc, the lessors’ repre- | sentatives, Mr. Kane has announced the opening for Aug. 27, with Robert M. Simons as manager. I. B. A. circuit shows are to be presented.

merchants operating on Pennsylvania St. between Washington and Ohio Sts, and by all but one of the Consolidated Building's tenants, Mr. Kuhn said. Mr. Sagolowsky was present at the | Mayor's office yesterday with representatives of the American Federation of Labor and local motion picture exhibitors, and made the appointment for Thursday. Maintaining that opponents of the theater's proposed policy were under a misapprehension, Mu. Sagolowsky said, “The shows will

| Ruby Keeler Has Operation

Sponsor

In a cablegram from Paris, Lawrence Tibbett, distinguished American baritone, has informed Bomar Cramer that he will act as honorary sponsor of the new Bomar Cramer Piano Studios, which are to open in September, Mr. Cramer's other honorary sponsor is an equally noted artist, Rudolph Ganz of the Chicago Musical College. Mr. Tibbett currently is in Paris in the course of his first European tour of opera and recital appearances.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17.--Ruby Keeler, dancing star and wife of Al Jolson, was operated upon yes= terday for appendicitis at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Dr. E. GC, Moore, who perfarmed the opera« tion, said the surgery was success= ful and Miss Keeler's condition was good.

The petition opposing the opening | was signed by all but three of the |

conform to all State laws and “ity

ordinances covering the situation. Mr. Kane's petition represents mer- | chants on both sides of Pennsylvania St. I think the best people in town will attend these shows after Keith's opens.”

Ray illand—Dorotlnv rn

“JUNGLE PRINCESS”

Plus Edward G. “Kid Galahad”

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GREYHOUND

OB BULLOCK (wearing the dark helmet) is recognized as one of the great No. 3’s of polo. Polo enthusiasts will agree with Bob Bullock when he says that playing polo takes healthy nerves. He says: “I've smoked Camels for close to 20 years. They're certainly made to order for steady smokers. Camels never jangle my nerves.” Camels are made from finer, more expensive tobaccos.

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