Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday november 1, Page nine nov. Curtain s studio awaited with j the movie going Public s reaction has the Young Winnipeg born real screen Romance but in first love. Met up with a handsome lad named liable happened. J in a Ai Uhri is. Today was wearing a Large i amethyst Conga fitment ring giver by Ronald Reagan actor. She nil Ihen Izairi no wedding Dat e has been set miss Wyman came to Holywood n St. Joseph. To. Reagan for to Letti girl Marly was a radio announcer at away i Dos Monics Iowa. I Side rave her a fight. The picture Deanna s Osa Johnson Voclav. Will be pics arc in Rupany january fur Tore the Road production of tobacco Road opened. It s strange the Way tobacco Road seems to elude me. Four years ago i journeyed to Chi Cago in anticipation of seeing it and when i arrived it had been closed by a shocked mayor. During the whole of my visit a controversy raged As to whether tobacco Road is a fit play to witness. It re opened the night after i left. The burlesque show was a Dis appointment. Now burlesque can be Rowdy and very funny. But the Minneapolis company seems to think that anything in the Way of vulgarity goes. It was a tribute to a min Neapolis audience that Many of them left during the As this department did. This will have to be in the Way of a continued article since i Haven t spoken yet of Marie Wilson and a number of other things. Marie vill have to come tomorrow. I think i be found answer to i Valiti Claude Kaikis Edward Arnold Guy kit been Bomas Mitchell Beuth Bondi or Jolo ofor happened of Negm by Frank Morriss what promised to be a quiet Vaca Tion in Minneapolis during the last two weeks turned into a eventful to Merle Potter motion picture editor of the times Tribune. I met Marie Wilson again 1 saw a burlesque show. Listened to the Minneapolis sym phony witnessed an old time Melo drama attended a number motion picture previews and generally had a wonderful time. Call it a Busman s Holiday and you d be Cor rect. In addition to that i was made the first Canadian member the motion picture critics of America an organization which was born in Detroit just a few weeks More about that in another article. Having admired or. Potter s work for some time i paid a Courtesy Call on him. Only to be overwhelmed with spontaneous kindness. If or. Potter did t hand me the keys to the City he certainly handed me passes to every show in Minneapolis. Incidentally i saw students of the i University of Minnesota in a production of Thornton Wilder s our town. It was particularly interest ing in View of the fact that the John Holden players opened their season with the same play. It unfair course to compare i group of amateurs with a profession Stock company but one could not help noticing that the University students worked too hard for laughs when the play should have evoked i tender chuckles As or. Holder 1 and his company did. It will be one of the unsolved mysteries so far As i this department is concerned Why Winnipeg neglected our town when it played Here. It a Beautiful play beautifully Dor j. One Day too late. In some respects it was a Dis appointing visit. I got into town one Day too late to see Lunt and Fon Taine in taming of the shrew. And had whether she s really dumb. The screen could t spare Alice Brady. It s poignant that Alice had to fight an incurable disease when she was just beginning to come into her own. Miss Brady had been a Fine dramatic actress. She had appeared in mourning becomes elec tra and other magnificent plays. But because she made her debut in the talkies As a Loose brained woman she was typed for years. Then came mrs. 0 in in old Chicago who will forget her As the Mother in Young or. Lincoln a Salute to a very Gal Lant trouper. At s today on the stage Burns twins dance Novelty artists and other democracy Triumph St. John s High. Pupils Are self governing body an Experiment on the Art of sell government is being car ried on at St. John s High school where students Are being allowed to not Only look after their various activities but discipline themselves As Well. This system was introduced last and improved the morale of the school to such an extent that principal a j. Reeve was encouraged to carry on with the idea with the result that it went into effect again last week. Self discipline is the Only kind Marlene Dietrich and Una Mekkel the tight in the women evidently has nothing on the scrap be tween. Marlene and Una in destry rides again. Miss Dietrich who used to be languid and exotic for a picture is now rough and Tough for Here is a scene from the picture and for the moment Una seems to have the worst of it. Dude foe column care of your children acts 5.55, 9.20 with films featuring american artists 2 do luxe screen hits 2. Georc5 Bernard Shaw s pygmalion nil it slice to waft Wimly ii Aury also sudden Money Chas adults la g . 15c sat. To 5 . Mac s tonight at 8.30 the famous farce comedy parlor bedroom and Bath ims Blondel off the record Van Cison tone the girl downstairs ;