Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page eighteen Winnipeg free press saturday july 16, 1938 Edith Fellows 120 Follst totos Biolack new Holt Ude bbb France Lorn Imirie parts Beacon visiting turns in the Beacon theatre s new stage show commencing saturday come from Cleveland. The featured Ace is that of Lemoind duo a pair of wire and juggling stars. Ruth and Clarence Walker present a Clever act of singing dancing and comedy and Jean i a mind appears in an acrobatic num Ber of excellent Quality. Buddy Stevens favorite local dance instrumentalist and Maurice Taylor popular local renor will be heard in song hits. Bill Moore and the band have arranged some nitty selections. Photoplay for saturday sunday mid photoplay with trenchant plea blockade thrill movie condemn ing War is at metropolitan theatre and Oliver Hardy. For the balance of the week the booking be sinner take All and Wise girl. The first is a briskly played mystery de states. Bijou hitting a new High and Speed to spare Are showing this week end and until next thursday at the Bijou theatre. Lily Pons and Jack Are co starred in the former film. The plot deals with a Romance Between miss Pons and John Howard and with an ingenious scheme through Hwy Ich Oakie seeks to have the lady discovered by his publicity seeking employer. E. E. Hor Toru these two themes Are interwoven with the Story in hilarious fashion and Lead to surprising results. Miss Pons. A Singer with How Ard s orchestra in Paris yearns to be an opera Star and quarrels with Howard she tries to obtain an interview with Horton a pompous big game Hunter and opera Patron. Oakie Horton s press agent works out a scheme whereby Hor ton should discover her As a Bird girl. The other picture with Dorothy Wil son in the leading role is a Story of riotous Speed and among the Short subjects is a cartoon. A Star is hatched. Harold Lloyd s 15th wedding anniversary was celebrated by members of his studio company with a ceremony and the presentation of a Crystal Ball to the comedian by Elliott directing professor beware All Winnipeg is talking about this yay sparkling comedy hit be sure and see a today Complete shows at 11.15, 1.15. 3.20. 5.20, 7.25. 9.30. Gen y 0 in g Mccrea bum mice David Niven Stuart Erwin Marjorie Weaver Pauline Moore binn1e Barnes Jane Darwell Walt Disney s s the Moth an Dionne quintuplets in symphony 0 the flame Golf stars in action at Pinehurst Jeanette Eddy go Uchwat 3u001t Ebsen Leo Carrizo Little bantamweight far news general s in t War. War is fought a Between soldiers. This is murder. Can t the world do something to Stop it has the world lost its these Are the final words of blockade on the double Bill at the metropolitan theatre with which Henry Fonda expresses the bitter Ness in his heart at the conditions in Spain. Fonda is surely Indig Nant and so is the picture Indig Nant though it takes n o sides in the fierce civil strife. Opposite Fonda there is Madeleine Carroll the two meeting with High adventures in the War torn country but the tragic occurrences that pervade the Story after peaceful pastoral Early scenes but emphasize the film s purpose a plea against War and the horror of drawing non combatants into the awful vortex. It is Well played by a Strong cast chief of the support being Leo car Rillo. Spying counter espionage in Trigue All have their place in the production but transcending All these is the message against the futility the intense horror of armed conflict Between Peoples. Woman against woman is the companion picture a cleverly directed and skilfully portrayed Story of married life with Herbert Marshall Virginia Bruce and Mary Astor in the chief roles. It is presented from the comedy drama Angle and is a smart bit of Cinema entertainment with society As its background. The offering depends for interest More on what is said rather than what is done. . At the King s theatre. Monday to wednesday the offerings will be breakfast for two and another Dawn. The former is a Happy scrappy affair a Young woman entering big business to take the careless living Man whom she loves. Bar Bara Stanwyck and Herbert Ala shall arc the two chiefly concerned. Mountains desert and lots of fighting Are seen in the other picture a Romance with Kay fran Cis. Errol Flynn and Ian Hunter in. The chief roles. For the rest of the week the presentations will be Hawaii Calls a vehicle for the pleasing singing of Bobby Ereen boy Tenor and love under fire in which a Scotland Yard Sleuth takes a Holiday in Spain. This is Don Ameche and he has a tempestuous Romance with Loretta Young. Tower occupying the screen at the Tower theatre saturday to tuesday Are the Barrier and a Damsel in distress. The former a Story by Bex Beach is a Romance of Alaska with he Man action. In the cast Are Jean Parker Leo Carrillo James Ellison Otto Kruger Andy Clyde Robert Barrat and Sara Haden. The other is a comedy Story of English life with its chief characters played by Fred Astaire Joan Fontaine and Burns and Allen in comedy parts. For the second half of the week the selections Are the big City in which Spencer Tracy is mixed zip in a taxicab company War and Luise Rainer is his immigrant wife whom he saves from deportation and i met him in Paris a joyous comedy drama of Paris and the Alps with Claudette Colbert Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young in the Stellar roles. Valour feature pictures on the twin Bill at the valour theatre saturday to tuesday Are double wedding and the Devil is a Sissy. Myrna Loy in the first film prevents her Young sister from marrying William Powell a penniless artist and then Falls in love with him. Herself. A magistrate in the second picture tells Freddie Bartholomew Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney mischievous lads that As it takes a Brave boy to be Good and it is so easy to be bad the Devil must be a Sissy. That assertion changes the boys ideas. During the rest of the week the selections will be Heidi in which Shirley Temple brings love to hearts filled with hate and a twinkle to eyes filled with tears and gives an embittered old Man Jean her Sholt self exiled to a Mountain top a renewed zest for the company of his fellow men. The other is a colourful yarn of lumber Camps with Edward Arnold head ing the cast. Crescent at the Crescent theatre this week end and monday the pictures Are. The buc Caneer and 45 fathers. The former pre sents Fredric March As a pirate who aids the United states in its War against England in 1812. The film shows the burning of Washington and the Louisi Ana of the picturesque Creole Days in the other movie Jan Withers is doped by members of a bachelors club and she leads them a merry dance with her Madcap escapades. For the following part of the week there will be shown Holly Wood hotel a lavish and spectacular Pic Ture based on the radio programme Bear ing the same name with Dick Powell starring and Madame a in which a Young Man John 3eal, defends a woman on a charge of killing a Man the woman unknown to him being his own Mother. Walter Catlett Star of Ziegfeld follies in Days when w. C. Fields de Wynn and Eddie Cantor were its featured comics has been selected for a principal role with Claudette Colbert and Herbert mar shall in Paramount s Zaza. That Large Basket of Flowers Judy Gar land received on the love finds and Hardy set was from a fellow worker Don Castle with the note thanks Judy for being so Sweet to a Novice Furby judge Hardy s children and bulldog or Urmond s peril open saturday at the fur Fay theatre and continue to tuesday. The former film is the third of the Hardy family series and a sequel to Vou re Only Young once. It is a family comedy with Lewis Stone Mickey Rooney Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden As its members. They to to Washington. As the judge is appointed on a Power commission and he turns the tables on political enemies when they seek to trap the daughter in indiscretions. The other picture brings the popular Sleuth up against the top thrill mystery of his career. For the second part of the week Here will be she married an artist concerning artists and the Art of Loving them and danger patrol about the risks taken by men who handle Nitro Glycerine in the Oil Fields. Elm booking at the Elm theatre for Satur Day to tuesday Are Ever since eve and fit for a Kinoff. The former deals with the ugly duckling Beautiful Swan theme with Marion Davies As the duckling Swan parsonage and Robert Montgomery playing opposite. In the other Paul Kelly puts a few things Over on Joe e. Brown m the Way of foreign corresponding for newspapers that is. Until Joe learns the ropes. Then he does things to his rival. For the balance of the week the pictures will be double wedding in which Myrna Loy prevents her Young Lover from from marrying William Powell and then Falls in love with him herself and beloved enemy with Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne in a Story of the Irish revolt. Times Wells Fargo and mad Holiday Are show ing at the times theatre saturday Mon tuesday the first is a Romance the joining of the West to the East by the Wells Fargo Traff with Joel Mccrea and Frances Dee in the chief roles and the second is a suspense Ful affair in which Edmund Lowe is a movie Star who turns Amateur detective in the search for a lost Diamond. For the second part of the week the picture will be life begins in College in which there is some of the craziest football played that was Ever seen on the screen and never seen on a Field with the Bitz Brothers As the demonstrators and Knight without Armour a romantic Story to incs the Volution with Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat heading the cast. Rialto they gave him a gun and outlaws of the Orient open at the Rialto theatre saturday and run until tuesday. The former is a War Story but its significance lies in the fact that it carries on into the Era of peace in which the hearts and souls of men still carry wartime wounds. This picture reflects the Man Spencer Tracy whose remarkable performances have made him one of the movies greatest stars. The other picture is a real thriller with plenty of excite ment for All. In the second part of the week the presentations will be turn off the Moon with Charles Ruggles. Eleanor Whitney Johnny Downs and Ben Blue in the principal roles of a hilarious Story and the Man who lived twice dealing with a criminal who after a brain operation became a great doctor. Ralph Bellamy is the Star. Nairn Arlington Rosalie and the Westland Case Are the current attractions at the Arlington theatre where they run until monday. Nothing has been overlooked to make the former a memorable film. The stars Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell Are excellent in their singing and dancing specialities. The other is a murder mys Tery with drama and comedy in fairly balanced quantities. For the balance of the week the bookings Are Navy Blue and Gold a Snappy Story of Annapolis u. S. Naval Academy with Robert Young James Stewart Tom Brown Frank Al Bertson and others in the cast and ail american chump with Stuart Erwin As a lightning calculator who can beat an starland something to sing about and Paradise entertaining patrons at the starland theatre this week and next week. James Cagney Long the bad boy of the screen is. In something to sing about a cheery individual in a cheerful picture. He s a band Leader a singing ubarl2, but still prone to fight if he thinks somebody is trying to put something Over on him. In the other film Frank Morgan a capitalist wins a contest and a trip to an. Alpine resort he masquerades As a poor Man. Making his Valet. Reginald Owen act As a Man of wealth. His daughter Florence Rice and his housekeeper. Edna May Oliver. Discover his purpose and induce the hotel Folk to play up to him. Human Quaty producer John Grierson pays visit to Winnipeg by Frank Morriss John Grierson is a Small Scot with Large Blue eyes and a moustache and he preaches the gospel of the documentary film with the Fervour of a Prophet. If you have thought of documentary films at All you have regarded them As rather Dull but worthy manifestations of a scattered group of intellectuals. But five minutes with or. Grierson who comes from London and who is a producer member of the advisory films Council of great Britain and you change your mind. He stopped Over in Winnipeg a Short time ago in his capacity As adviser to the Canadian government in the matter of improving the Quality of the news reels and giving an impetus to the production of documentary films in the Dominion. The writer was Lucky enough to talk with rather have or. Grierson talk to a solid hour and a hah late one night. Or. Grierson is a Good producer and after you have listened to him for a minute or so you know just Why. He states his theme clearly and concisely and then proceeds to develop it with such convincing detail that you Are carried along with mounting interest or. Grierson s approach to the documentary fact formula. Is no Cut and dried he wants the facts of course but he is just As concerned with human beings and their problems. Using some phase of life for instance he seeks to show it in relation to the needs of men and women. Storm signals Story. The weather for instance. One of his assistants. Miss Evelyn spice a Canadian girl from Saskatchewan was assigned to do a Story on storm signals. Who she immediately asked herself depends on storm signals to guide them in the everyday tasks of making a maintaining a Home what Are these people like where do they live what do they do armed with this information she set out with a cameraman photo graphed these people in their natural haunts without the artifices of any school of acting and built up a film that was hailed for its human Quality. A storm was the villain and the guardians of the weather signals were the heroes Loho saved the Day for human be Ings. I hear your picture on the British broadcasting corporation was a Fine we said. Said or. Grierson it was All right but it was much too Long. We should have Cut modest about work. He about is extraordinarily modest his work and he can criticize false moves and resolve to do better in future. His aim As we have said is to take put Bones in them. And to make blood course through their veins. We did one picture not so Long he said in which we showed first the working face of a Man. Lovingly on a who was piece of craftsmanship. Later we showed a Man working on an air plane motor. Both faces were the same. A fashionable West end Audi ence cheered that film. They cheered because we had shown them that the love of Fine crafts Manship was not dead in or. Grierson thinks Canadian news reels Are. Pretty awful and he thinks we should do something about them. They Are routine and Dull when they should be human. And the pretty Post card Scenic bore him. You know the sort of thing. The voice of the announcer is droning on about the Sun sink ing on dear Aid Lake wich Pichee and the Fisherman who has had a Fine Day. The camera slowly takes in the expanse of scenery the Sun goes Down and the audience won Ders when the Marx Brothers Are going to appear. Not for or. Grierson s dish. He wants to make travel films vital. He wants them to reflect something of the Canadian a Mere pastel copy of things the United states is doing. He s hoping to do something about them. And we re wishing him Luck. Uptown due for screening at the Uptown the atre in the opening half of the new week Are bringing up baby and Romance in the dark. Katharine Hepburn reveals her Talent As a comedienne in the first film with Gary Grant playing opposite her. The lady virtually kidnaps Grant to assist her in bringing up baby said baby being a tame Leopard sen to her by her brother. The other is delectable entertainment developing the love affairs of a hungarian operatic favorite with Gladys Swar Thoutt John Boles and John Barrymore in the principal in the second part of the week there will be shown the Giri of the Golden West. Also on the Bill there will be several excellent Short subjects. Jean Ette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy play the romantic leads in the feature film veritable Parade of song music and spectacle. Support is Given by an excellent cast and photography is admirable. Martha Raye swing singing Glamor girl of the screen has been seen at film Colony rendezvous wearing two doves in her hair during the filming of her new Paramount give me a Sailor. Play production Manitoba drama festival to hold summer school dealing with the problem of How to produce a play a series of lec Tures on dramatics is being Given at the summer school at the univer sity of Manitoba. The lectures commenced july 4 and will conclude Friday july 29. They have been arranged by the Manitoba drama league. The lecturers Are Irene Craig John Craig a. O. Smith Jean Smith Herbert Richardson and Kathle Eai Parker. Various phases of play production embracing Back ground selection of material or animation movement and gesture make up diction Staple stage de sign stage properties costuming etc., Are being covered briefly in the to lectures and it is the desire of he Manitoba drama league to assist those people who Are intending to produce a play or who wish to exr tend their present knowledge of the theatrical production from the Amateur Angle. The course has been made As practical As possible within the limits of one hour lecture periods and students Are bringing their problems to the lecturers and a number of important Points have been ironed but so far. The concluding lecture Friday july 29, will be Given by mrs. Arthur o. Smith Secretary of the Manitoba drama league in which she will outline the Aims of the organization. This occasion All lecturers will be present to answer questions and give advice concern ing the executive of the league will entertain members of the group in formally at the close. The pictures love under fire and be tween two women form the dual Fea Ture Bill at the Park theatre in the first half of the new week. The former film presents Don Ameche As a Scotland Yard Sleuth taking a Holiday in War torn Spain where he has a Romance with Lor Etta Young the two meeting with some remarkable adventures. The other is a Story of love and tense emotions in a Large City Hospital with Franchot tone Maureen o Sullivan and Virginia Bruce forming the usual Triangle. For the second part of the week the attractions Are the Barrier a Story of Romance in Alaska with James Elison and Jean Parker in the leading roles supported by Leo Carrillo Otto Kruger Robert Andy Clyde and Sara Haden and Back in circulation in which. Pat o Brien and Joan Blondell save a woman charged with murder. Fox Rebecca of sunny roof farm and Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo make up the two feature Bill at the Fox theatre opening saturday and continuing to Fri Day. It s a changed farm from the time when Mary Pickford appeared in the first Story. Now it has. Shirley Temple radio. Song fun n every Hin but it s enjoyable for All that. The second film is another melodrama in which Warner Oland As the chinese Sleuth and his no. 1 son Keye Luke Chase Bond thieves and a murderer and get into prison themselves because of key s mis pronunciation of the French language. Not As Many of Chan s proverbs this time but the. Story maintains interest All through with Keye Luke furnishing much fun. Wonderland a yank at Oxford and beg borrow or steel Are being shown this week end and monday at the wonderland theatre. The first is a Story of undergraduate life at Oxford with Robert Taylor As Winner of a scholarship in an american City enrolling at the ancient seat of learning. He proves he can play a he Man role As Well As the bes. The other is an exaggerated comedy movie and has Speed in action and Good work by Frank Morgan Florence Rice and John real. For the rest of the week the selections will be merrily we live with con stance Bennett co starred with Brian therme in the Story Ofa Peculiar family and it s All yours marked by constant High comedy surprises and Madeleine Carroll. Francis Lederer and Mischa Auer heading the cast. Plaza the awful truth and Midnight intruder Are scheduled for three Days run at the Plaza theatre commencing saturday. The former belongs on anybody s must see list being Brilliant comedy played with distinction and restraint and never veering from its hilarious course. In the other Louis Hay Ward and j. C. No gent through taking Possession of an uninhabited House slip into the shoes of a Rich Man s son and his companion and so into a string of adventures. In the second part of the week the attractions will be i la take Romance an exultant fiesta of song comedy and Romance with Grace Moore cavorting amiably through new York night clubs and penthouses and life begins with love in which Douglas Montgomery Breaks his word after promising a Street Corner spotter he will give away als his Money. Rose second honeymoon and merry go round of 1938 will occupy the screen at the Rose theatre monday to wednesday. When Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in their first film meet and kiss under a Miami Moon their love becomes news and they prove to be exciting Sweet hearts. Merry go round is a steam roller of hilarity a grouch destroying comedy. Billy House Mischa Auer Jimmy Savo and Bert Lahr Are the chief fun makers. In the following part of the week there will be seen Happy Landing in which Sonja Henie world skating Marvel has a delightful Romance with Don Ameche and thank you or. Moto another Story. Of the Oriental detective played by Peter in which he searches for hidden treasure sup Posedly buried hundreds of years ago. College opening saturday at the College theatre. Mannequin and love is a head ache continue to tuesday. In the former film Joan Crawford Spencer Tracy and Alan Curtis figure in a swiftly moving Story of modern Young persons against a background of new York s tenements and penthouses. The other is a comedy in which Gladys George and Franchot tone have Stellar roles with support from Ted Healy who died since the Pic Ture was made. Mickey Rooney Frank Morgan and Virginia Weidler Are also in the cast in the second half of the week the pictures will be big broadcast of 1938, a lavishly produced spectacle with a splendid cast of comedians and specially artists and carnival Queen in which Crooks Rob Banks under cover of a travelling carnival. Mac s for the opening half of the week at Mac s theatre the Road Back and the women marry have been chosen for screening. The former etches life in Germany after the armistice the Story being written by Erich Maria Remarque author of All quiet on the Western front. In the other featuring Josephine Hutchinson and George Murphy the theme is provided by the exposing and curbing of gangster activities. For the second half of the week the bookings Are Ali Baba goes to town. In which most of the film in a Brilliant spectacle. Is provided by Eddie Cantor supported by an excellent cast and Way out one of the funniest photo comedies in which Laurel and meet with ventures and misadventures in the Gay so s wild West. Fast action in Cinema stories Lone Wolf Story and Little miss Roughneck Garrick s dual Bill Lederer takes the a chief role of the Lone Wou in Paris sharing screen Bill ing with Little miss Roughneck at theatre in its new show. The Story follows the customary routine in such cases in which the gentleman jewel thief occasionally rough and always brisk comes to the help of those in emergent situations. There s nothing controversial about this particular Clauer. It has fast action As search proceeds for some stolen Crown jewels of a mythical kingdom turn up missing. The boy King cannot be crowned until the jewels Are re stored to their rightful place and the Lone Wolf helps Princess Nia played by Frances Drake to recover them. A highly placed Soldier statesman to be the moving spirit of the culprits. These stories by Louis Joseph Vance carry plenty of excitement and this one is Well endowed with that element of movie attraction. In fact the 67 minutes it runs Are quite crowded and audiences Don t care to miss any of it. Yot rag Edith Fellows turns in a Surprise in Little miss Roughneck by singing an aria from rigoletto and she does it really Well. It s a Hollywood backstage Story with Edith kidnapping herself to obtain publicity. Leo Carrillo in a nondescript character presents the Ace performance and there s also1 a cute Little lad unnamed who does smart work in bits. Carrillo also sings and plays the Osborne during the first half of the new week at the Osborne theatre the two feature will contain everybody sing and Back in circulation. In the first picture Alan Jones is a singing chef and Judy Garland is a swinging schoolgirl and there win be appreciation of their work As Well As that of Fanny Brice. Reginald Owen Billie Burke. Reginald Gardiner and Lynne Carver. The other presents1 Pat o Brien and Joan Blondell in a Story i revolving around the death in mysterious circumstances of a millionaire. Bluebeard s eighth wife and the leave of frightened men Are on the dual Bill for the second part of the week. The first has Claudette Colbert as1 Gary Coopers eighth venture in Matri Mony bringing the much married millionaire to. Has Knees and humbling his Pride of the first time. The other is a Nero Wolfe detective Story with Walter Connolly As the detective. Palace bulldog Drimmond comes Back and my dear miss Aldrich constitute monday to wednesday. The Kirsti is an adventure mystery that races excitingly from the drop of the first clue through situations romantic dangerous and sinister the other is a photoplay in which a role of. A specially written Story was created for Edna May Oliver. She s a Puzzle fan and by Means of puzzles helps to solve the heroine s disappearance. For thurs Day to saturday the list includes Mau proof and thoroughbreds Don t cry. In there of a the pid Rosalind Walter hoofs arid beating hearts mingle to no vide dramatic thrills in tie the Roxy theatre has arrs show Man proof and they get in the initial half of the news in the former film Myrna i Walter Pidgeon who Russell Franchot tone Lores j but keeps that Little and Myrna determines to sen married couple and grab pid herself. The other is a search ment of mob hysteria and in the Sucre a Dong part of offerings will be the and wine woman and former shows Errol Flynn grandmother As a manhood and restricted then he sees Joan 31 restrictions Are off. Well told Story of the Borses the dominating Gold is where you find it an juju at work will be shown. Thea ixe in the. Opening ing week. The photo drama produced in. Lift str co starring land and George Brent from Claude Rains John. Lindsay and Barton Macl Antr. F picture continues the adventure Sterling comedy team of and Barton of torchy Blane Gar Rej m the second portion of schedule brings a Yante at Arsene Lupini returns. To is Star of this first to Oxford University As Wjk scholarship in a Western Eiliv himself a True wow events in Fec sports picture is about the Man jewel 1hief. De the Bill at the de luxe saturday to tuesday is Marti ice and espionage. Thin of Ranee Hibi Tion of the ing of Sorda Kenius worm if and a Romance Between Berss Power. Silvery Alpine slopes Tifful settings for much the other is a Story of intrigue with Edmund l Evans and Ketti Gaffigan Mutl pal roles. For the second a week the attractions will a stranger. An absorbing macabre with Ann hard inst11 Rathbone in the chief get married a Romance weather forecaster Ralph b Ida Lupino. Reginald Denny some menace in the Case. Having finished directing. Me Wyn mayor s a criminal by Fenton is harvesting his Van Guys ranch. A Joan Crawford goes h usually for an hour i week Seback Riding mornings a Brig Crosby who Sang in St. Aloysius boys choir Back Home in Spokane is a choir Singer again in Paramount s sine 11 largest herds of native Stock assembled in Texas in modern times a Clark Gable s next outdoor expedition to Dona Massey carries a purse of natural Bamboo cloth with bar catch of Bamboo stalk with ends circled with Gold Eleanor Lynn s favorite animal is the log yet she had never owned one until going to Hollywood last year. R4caril0, Czan has East As Robert Benchley s son in the a est to a As a result of her outstanding performance m fast company. Claire Dodd Nas been Given an important role in w isl has which stars Rooert Montgomery and Janet Gaynor. i at 4.05, ;