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® : | Opening Tomorrow | | Circle “VICTORY”—With Frederic March, Betty Field, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Jerome Cowan. Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. Directed by John Cromwell. Conrad’s sultry story of the would-be hermit and the girl pianist pitted against a terrifying band of cut-throats. THE ALDRICH FAMILY IN “LIFE WITH HENRY”—With Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernst, Eddie Bracken. Produced and directec. by Jay Theodore Reed. Screen play by Clifford Goldsmith end Don Hartman. Henry Aldrich, met first in “What a Life” and subsequently in many radio programs, continiies his adventures in this one. | Indiana “SECOND CHORUS”—With Fred Astaire, Pauleite Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Charles Butterworth, Artie Shaw. Produced by Boris Morros. Directed by. H. (J. Potter. : : About two perennial collegians who manage a prespercus dance band, hire a beautiful secretary, lose their band when one of the boys absent-mindedly graduates, and finally land jobs with Artie Shaw. “TEXAS RANGERS RIDE AGAIN"—With John Howard, Ellen Drew, Akim Tamiroff. Directed by James Hogan.

| Loew's “FLIGHT COMMANID”—With Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly. Directed by Frank Borzage. How a Pensacola cadet makes a go of it with a crack squadron of the Naval Air Force in fan |Diego. # “THE LONE WOLF KEEPS A DATE”—With Warren William, Frances Robinson, Eric Elor¢. Directed by Sidney Salkow. How the Lone Wolf rescues the girl and the kidnaped millionaire and also recovers his stolen stamp album. Lyric VAUDEVILLE—With Johnny Burke, Hugh Castle, Ruthie Barnes,|, Jim Gilbreath. “HUDSON’S BAY”—-With Paul Muni, Gene Tiermey, Laird Gregor. Directed by Irving Pichel. | How a banished English nobleman and two French-Canadian trappers founded the famous Hudson's Bay Company in the days of Charles II. ; '

LAST DAY — RAYMOND SCOTT AND ORCHESTRA ® 7

ALWAYS A GOOD SHO

Pioneers.

If 20th Century-Fox’s history is correct, here are the three boys who put the North American fur business on its feet. Paul Muni, John Sutton and Laird Cregar (left to right) play the founders of the Fl udson’s Bay Co. in the film called “Hudson’s Bay,” coming to the Lyric tomorrow.

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HOLLYWOOTI}, Jan. 16.—If you pick up this newspaper one of ‘hese days and sce a headline, “Hollywood Star Slugs Director,” itll probably be Joel McCrea and William Wellman, It would be, anyway, if I were McCrea, although I must admit that so far the big lunk has been a model of fprebearance and good humor under Wild Willie's re-

lentless ribbing. The razzing campaign is all built on the swell job Mr. McCrea did in “Foreign Correspondent,” the Wanger thriller released just before the actor] went over to Paramount to make “Reaching for the Sun.” (It isp’t the sun he’s really reaching ior, because he plays a New England fisherman who turns steel worker to earn his heart’s desife—an outboard motor. He gets it, and Ellen Drew, too, before it’s over). Anyway, the director never lets

/up for a momen: on .the] theme,

and he’ll ask visitors in a lound voice: “Did ycdu see ‘Foreign Correspondent’? Wasn't McCrea swell!—it put him right on top, didn’t it? Well, just wait—this picture’s going tp put him right back where he was.” ® &» ”

ELABORATELY, Director Well-

| man addresses him as “Gary” or

“Mr. Cooper.” ‘Today he had a new name. The set was cold, with

lots of artificial rain and wind ma- | chines,

and Acior McCrea was huddled on the sidelines with coat

| collar up, cap pulled down and a

blanket around him, Mr. Wellman, very solicifous, kept asking him gently: “Wouldn't you like

| another shawl, Mother McCrea?”

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No matter what the actor does, it’s usually wrong. In one scene Ellen Drew shows him her palm, says acidly: “See those lines in my hand?” "And McCrea, not understanding, says, “Huh?¥ This time, the director was delighted with the first take. “Excellent, Mr. ((ooper!” he exclaimed.. “If we could only get that much expression into. your other lines, what a picture we'd make!” | 2 ” ” ANOTHER line is, “Nice day for

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a picnic,” but the star tried saying, precisely, “It’s ‘a nice day for a picnic.” The director warned him sternly to stick to the script and quit trying to build up his part. “Just because you were a hit in ‘Foreign Correspondent,’ don’t get swell-headed and get the idea you can write your own dialog,” he snapped. No doubt Mr. McCrea knows what everyone else in the company realizes—that Mr. Wellman is delighted with the star’s success and is just as proud of the performance he’s turning out now. But I hope Mr. McCrea doesn’t forget it; six weeks is a long time to keep grinning under Mr. Wellman’s jabs. ” ” »

RIBBING his top players is a definite part of Wild Bill's directing technique. In the past, a few stars have been outraged by his sarcastic jibes, but most of ’em try to bear up bravely. He dreads the emotional letdown between scenes; he believes these dull interludes affect players’ acting, so he tries to keep them keyed up. He likes his people to be good-natured, but he'd rather prod them into indignation than allow them to get bored. That's why he'll talk like this to a Stanwyck, a Bennett, a Colbert, or anybody: “Miss Garbo, 1 wish you’d bring your scrapbooks to the studio tomorrow. I'd like to know who it was who ever called you an actress. Or — “That was magnificent Greta. The scene wrung my heart. It carried me clear back to my days in the Brookline, Mass., dramatic club. If I had a fiddle I'd play ‘Hearts and Flowers’—if I could play a fiddle. Or if I had a piece of bread I'd take a couple of slices off your ego and have a ham sandwich. Now for God’s sake go back in there and play that scene right!”

Barbara Awaits

Downey's Return

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16 (U, P.).— Barbara Bennett was in bed, “all broken up”. today, while Morton Downey, the Irish lyric tenor, flew home to beg her to forget about divorcing him. Mr. Downey, who once sang love songs over the radio for $6000 a week, reserved air passage at New

westbound plane at Memphis, Tenn. What would be the outcome of his ‘hurried trip home remained to be seen. When he telephoned her from New Orleans: : for ' another chance to make their 12-year-old marriage a success, she told .him that she would do nothing “irrevocable” until she had. heard him. Miss Bennett still refused to dis-

secluded herself at home with her five children, and a friend who answered the telephone said she was “all broken up” over the published dispatches about her troubles. Joan and Constance Bennett, her actress sisters, found the news incredible. They said they thought she had been one of the happiest married women in Hollywood,

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Johnnie Burke, Vaudeville's Rookie of World War |, Back at Lyric in Old Role

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BACK IN THE DAYS of World War I a slightly bewildered looking young man named Johnnie Burke first wandered on to the nation’s vaudeville stages, clad in khaki uniform, and rolled the audiences in the aisles with his droll tale of the rookie draftee in the A. E. F, Time passed, the war ended, came disarmament, prohibition,

in Europe. A new generation grew up, and the world changed. But Johnnie Burke didn’t. Periodically he could be seen in the

f few remaining vaudeville houses,

still clad in khaki, still telling the same old story about the rookie

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Well, - Johnnie Burke will be back at the Lyric for a week beginning tomorrow. He has top billing, too—something hasn't happened in years. take a look at that billing; “Number 158 in the 1917 draft.” Johnnie Burke stood still for 20-odd years and the world revolved around him. And now he suddenly has one of the timeliest acts in show business. There's something rather astronomical about the whole thing.

NOTES FROM THE WEST COAST dream world, contributed by the studio press departments: “Warner Baxter, now starring with Ingrid Bergman in Columbia’s ‘Legacy,’ has 21 separate electrical devices in his palatial Bel Aire home and can, for instance, open every door in the

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“In her current picture, ‘Road to Zanzibar,” Dorothy Lamour of sarong fame wears no sarong, and it is her second consecutive picture minus- this type of apparel, made famous by her. Dorothy wears some elephant-ear leaves in one scene, however.”

Just as a gesture to the Hays office, probably. ’

2 Er. What's in a name: Young Susanna Foster's vehicle, which started out as “There's Magic in Music,” will reach the screen as “The Hard Boiled Canary.”—J,T.

AA Ly dd iy | 17% CRITERION SEEKS $1,500,000. IN_SUIT HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 16 (U. P.)— Criterion Pictures Corp. has filed suit: for $1,500,000 damages in Federal Court against the Motion Picture ' Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., claiming the studio's picture, “Damaged Goods,” was not given a certificate of approval. The studio complained that the Producers , and :Distributors office denied ‘its picture approval in 1937, and then later gave approval to an= other com 's film, “Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet,” which dealt with the same subject, syphilis.

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