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Snead a at? I 4 “Laughing Woman,” with ~ Helen Mencken; in 1937, in. “The Country Wife” with Ruth Gordon, Last /| year. he played in the Drama Critics’ Award play, “The White Steed”

PAGE 26 ___ ‘Marx Bros.

‘Home Again By PAUL HARRISON

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Go Back to Lany Ways

J ‘Chaos Back at Loew's as

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‘Bungling Boys' Go to ‘Circus.’

The Marxes are back down their own alley -at Loew’s this week in a wacky and welcome little item called “Marx Bros. at the Circus.” Last time out the brothers took a rather rough detour in “Room Service.” But now Groucho ’is back in his loping stride, Chico has been re-

‘ turned to his puns and: piano, and

Harpo is doing his monkey business at the old stand. In

_ short, chaos has been restored and

the Marxes are back to normal. Their excursion under the big top has some pretty wonderful moments for those to whom the brothers are

- as food and drink. The complete

Marxists may prepare to hold their sides and the hats when Chico and Harpo start searching the sleeping strong man’s room for: the Iiissing wallet. Or when Groucho has a little tete-a-tete with the upsidedown girl, hanging from the ceiling with the help of suction shoes. Likewise when Harpo jumps aboard an ostrich and breaks up a potential

. riot on the circus lot.

And There’s a Story There is, of course, a read of story and a romance that need concern no one. It's about the young socialite who deserts society for

the sawdust, falls in love with one

of the performers and has the tidy sum of $10,000 stolen’ from him by his chief creditor. Eventually, with the assistance of Attorney Loophole, the legal eagle (Groucho, naturally), he gives a circus performance on his rich aunt’s lawn, and in place of a scheduled symphony orchestra. It all winds up with auntie being shot from acannon, and landing on a trapez with the villain, Harpo, Chico and a gorilla. It's like that. Kenny Baker sings a couple of times, and Florence Rice takes care of the other side of the romantic team. And once again Margaret Dumont, that soul of outraged dignity, is buffeted and bludgeoned and wooed by the irresistible Groucho himself. But most of the film’s footage is given over to the three Marxes, which is as it should

It’s a Mad 90 Minutes

The _hair-splitting connoisseurs may not find this the best of the Marxian output. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t merry and mad as a Marx hare, and a welcome 90 minutes of nonsense. Loew's second picture—or associate feature, to use the approved terminology—is a prison picture with a novel twist. There is no jail break, nor any riot, and not a single tear gas bomb is thrown. Rather it is about a doctor who is sent to the penitentiary for removing a bullet from a youngster whom he had brought. into the world and allowing the boy to escape police. He is forced to work in the prison’s jute mill But when an emergency arises he saves a man's

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| | Director Raoul Walsh's home and ‘ |lbank account "Were under attachment by his divorced wife, Miriam ‘ {Cooper Walsh, today. Mrs.

' {divorce granted in 1927. Mr. Walsh ‘Iwas to pay $500 a month, but the ' lamount was reduced five yours ago to $325.

| JOLSON IN HOLLYWOOD

1 | Al Jolson, who slipped out of town ! | while Ruby Keeler brought suit for i | divorce against him, was back in

Just three jumps ahead of the hostile Indians, Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert get a little assistance from a friendly redskin in “Drums Along the Mohawk,” which moved olay from the Indiana to the

Apollo,

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Foiling a desperate character of the Alamo’s current “Heroes in

life. Later he is accused of giving the patient a lethal dose of sedative. A second time he jumps into the breach with his medical skill and incidentally restores the prison doctor's faltering courage. The prisoner's name is cleared and he returns to civilian life. Good performances by Walter Connolly and Onslow Stevens add considerably to the picture's merit. J

DIRECTOR'S WIFE SEEKS ALIMONY

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—

Walsh soughtsto collect $46,650 alimony. She contended that Mr. Walsh is in arrears under the terms of their

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—

Hollywood today because of a severe cold. He had no comment to

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BALTIMORE, Md. Nov. 17 (U. P.).—The war has slowed the British motion picture industry but the English are carrying on with production of propaganda pictures, Alexander Korda, the film producer, said today after his-arrival by Atlantic Clipper. ~* ae “I flew to America principally. because I was in a hurry to join my wife,” Mr. Korda said. Mrs. Korda

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here is Dick Purcell, No. 1 hero Blue.

GIVE LOCAL YOUTH WABASH PLAY ROLE

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Nov. 17 —Scarlet Masque, the Wabash College dramatic organization, is rehearsing “Brother Rat” for performance somtime. before the Christmas holidays. ‘Dr. Waldo H. Furgason, of the college faculty, is directing. George Hayman, freshman from Indianapolis, has been assigned a part in the production, and William F. Boyd, a junior, also of Indiaalapolis, is a student member of the committee arranging the produce tion,

ACTOR IS CONVICTED IN PUNCHY DISPUTE

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 (U. P.) — Jack Clifford, actor, was under conviction of battery today for punching a motorist, who already had a broken jaw, in. a squabble over a traffic jam. Frank Seltzer, film director, said one side of his jaw was fractured and Clifford dislocated the other side after he told the actor to “learn how to drive.” Clifford faces sentence and probation hearing on Nov. 15..

veteran - character

Rough weather between here and Bermuda upset the movie man. Rough weather in New York Harbor caused the Clipper to be rerouted here. . : “I don’t want to see another airplane for at least 24 hours,” he said as he boarded a train for New York.

Actor Refuses To Join Army

LONDON, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—Desmond Tester, young English’ actor who played the part of a Highland drummer boy in the motion picture “Drums,” was registered today as a conscientious objector and was assigned to farm work. “For me, killing is utterly wrong

and futile, I refuse to do it,” he said. : He also refused to: participate in entertainments for troops or appear in a propaganda film, saying “I

“| consider, aiding or abetting or. help-

ing the army in any way to be equally wrong.”

WHEN DOES IT START?

' APOLLO Drums Along the Mohawk,” with Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Ede na May Oliver, at 11:22, 1:27, 3:32, 5:37, 7:42 and 9:47. CIRCLE “First Love,” with Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Helen Parrish, at 12:45, 3:55, 7 and 10:05, “Missing Evidence,” with Preston Foster, Jrome.. Hervey, at 11:44, 2:50, an

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inee at 2:3 INDIANA “Rulers of the Sea,” with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Margaret Lockwood, a Pyife, at 12:24, 3:38, 6:52 and

10:0 ur Neighbors, the Carters,” with Frank Craven, Fay Bainter, at 11, 2:14, 5:28 and 8:42. LOEW'’S “The Marx Bros. at the Circus,” with the Marx Bros., Florence Rice Renny Baker, at 12:45, 3:50, 6:55

“Those High Gray Walls,” with Walter Connally, at 11:15, 2:20, 5:25

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“Heaven on a Barbed Wire Fence,” with Jean Rogers, on screen at 11:35, 1:43, 3:51, 5:59, 8:17 and 10:25.

Jean Arthur Has Whipped Hellywood— | ‘But There's No Plegsure | in Her Victory

HOLLYWOOD, Nov.-17 Tend Arthur has licked Hollywood Just as she vowed ‘she'd lick it. ‘Studios are bidding for a chance to star her, and Broadway wants her to. come ‘back. Critics have. polished up some nice adjectives to frame their verdict that she’s a swell actress, ‘and agents and producers are sending her scripts to read. Miss Arthur has beaten Hollywood after some 14 years of disappointments, but those same years"

seem to have cheated her of the capacity for enjoying her triumph. Today she’s a scared, jittrey introvert huddled in an ivory tower and biting her nails. © When she steps in front of a camera, everything's dandy;. there is warmth and confidence. When the director says “Cut,” she looks around for a place to hide. No other - player, Garbo, offers so much contrast.

| There is such a dearth of pleasant

anecdote about Miss Arthur that it was considered big news when

she co-operated in a‘ surprise

birthday celebration ' for nk Capra on the set of “Mr. Smil

- Goes to. Washington.” She asked -|-him to come to her dressing. room

to “explain something in the script, and she detained ‘him a couple of minutes while other members of the cast arranged a cake and refreshments. That's all there was to it. She gives no interviews but is too shy to refuse them pointblank.

Any such requests must -be re-

ferred through her own studie to her husband, Frank Ross, vice - president in charge of production at the Hal Roach lot. If Miss Arthur is working at the time, she is said to be “too busy.” If she isn’ tworking, she is said to be “not available,” 2 2 » 7 MR. ROSS, whom she married in the East in June, 1932, when he was a realtor and builder, is believed by most of Hollywood to have coached her into into her attitude of aloofness. Just as good a guess, though, is that he merely is ‘shielding her according to her own wishes. Miss Arthur dreads still came eras and will not pose for fashions or the publicity informals which are accepted by most ace tresses as routine chores. Only the other day a news photogra-

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you sit around the set with the rest of us? We'd love to have you.” Miss Arthur looked startled, then softened and said, “All right, Thanks.” But when she tried it, the rest of the company were so puzzled by the gesture of friendliness that they were ill-at-ease and silent. Miss Arthur went back to her dressing room, but after that she often asked Miss Miller to come in and talk. The Texas cutie even taught the star some rudiments of tap dancing.

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