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Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - April 24, 1939, Oakland, California B Oakland Tribune monday april 24, t t t t t vital in play producing Long intervals separate inspiration staging As Wilder Steinbeck testify by Wood Soanes those who think that writing a play is but the inspiration of the moment and that production is the next suppose there Are some such misguided individuals May find in this fable about our a fable vouched for by no less than Thornton Wilder the author and Jed Harris to Lite it was in 1927 that Harris then actively engaged in break ing records with such items As the Royal fam the front co Quette and others had a Chat suggested it would be fun to do a play together. It was not until 1937 that the script of that play our which opens at the Curran tonight was delivered and then it came about Only through the action of Harris imprisoning Wilder in a secluded Nook on Long Island and keeping him trapped unti the f Nal scene was written. Between the Promise and the Ful filament Wilder had been variously Lone Wolf to r furnish Roxie thrills Friday film to Star Warren William new Blondie farce billed devotees of the Louis Joseph occupied. He had taught Vance mystery Laden novels Are play next at Fox Oakland dark Victory hailed As drama Triumph Brent supports Star heralded As one of the year s greatest romantic dramas dark starring Bette Davis Heads new Bill at the Fox Oakland this coming thursday. Playing a Gay Leader of a younger society set miss Davis is said to give the finest performance of her career As a girl blessed with wealth and friends into whose life comes a trag Edy in the Foi Iti i a Iii sell Iyub Judi Ady a catastrophe which she Battles with courage and a great love. George Brent plays opposite the Star while Humphrey Bogart has an important role and Geraldine Fitz Gerald an Irish lass makes her i american in too i in lighter vein is the companion feature society starring Walter Pidgeon and Virginia Bruce. Tive literature at the University of Chicago. He had written three novels the pulitzer prize Winner the Bridge of san Luis the woman of Andres and heaven s my he also had done some More for the translation of Andre obey s be viol de which the least said the soonest mended and an adaptation of a doll s presentation of which brought Many headaches and few dollars to the Harris coffers. I wonder Why Harris did t lose Confidence but he s a strange fellow end he Felt that Wilder had a play in him somewhere although there was Small indication of that in la nevertheless Wilder spent ten years mulling Over our it and that was that. While All this was going on Young John Steinbeck a Salinas Young Man was diligently trying to find Hin Rolf after graduation from Stan Ford he settled Down to writing in 1920, picking new York As a studio. His first Job in the big City was As a reporter but a City editor soon remedied that. Then since even in new York it is fun to eat he got a Job working on the new Madison Square gardens building toting to the bricklayers. Steinbeck was glad to get enough Money to get Back to California and a Job As watchman High in the sierras where he actually got Down to writing. He did his first novel there cup of and turned out a couple of others before he won National recognition with Tortilla with Fame upon him in the Tor Tilla Story he wrote in dubious a Story of the strike among the agricultural workers of califor Nia and then struck Gold with of mice and first As an experimental novel and then As a play. Oddly enough a Harris played a part in his Jed but the older Sam Harris who was inter ested in the piece by George s. Kaufman. It is not necessary to re port that of mice and men won the critics Circle prize the year town won the pulitzer prize. Geary tonight. Otherwise the last week has been interesting Only for two luncheon Given the local critics by Federal commissioner George Creel with Blanche Bates presiding As hostess in her capacity of wife to Creel and the arrival of Barrett Kiesling of my Mon one of his annual missions of movie Good will. Commissioner Creel is a Little an noyed at the Lack of patronage to the Federal theater project on treasure Island and assembled the clans to take them on a tour of the project one of the Best ideas for promoting Trade however came in a moment of jesting from mrs. Creel they Don t watch out i la do Well if Blanche Bates will pome put of retirement even to play Topsy in Uncle Tom s Cabin Shell be assured of a Welcome. At that i can think of a lot worse things than a Bates Camille. Maybe i m a Little prejudiced about the lady but there Are a Good Many More who Bounce their Money at the ticket windows and feel the same Way. Promised their fill of that particular kind of entertainment at the moxie soon for one of the features of the coming program is the Lone Wolf spy to be shown along with the Columbia comedy Blondie meets the scheduled for open ing Friday. Warren William will play the role of the suave adventurer who is rated by Many As fiction s gayest Bandit. In his new adventures he turns spy Hunter with Ida Lupino and Rita Hayworth As the romantic involvements. Blondie s second venture onto the screen again finds Penny Singleton As the better half of Dagwood enacted by Arthur Lake. Little Larry Simms will be baby dumpling. While the moxie fans Are awaiting program Topper takes a trip continues taking its daily toll of ugh from those who enjoy this Arthur Lake As the harried husband in Blondie meets the which is the next attraction at the Roxie. Phone inquiries on pygmalion stagger girls the Telephone girls at the Para mount Are having quite a time these Days. Some of the questions concerning pygmalion have been quite surprising to say the least and some of the answers have been even funnier. Here Are some of them no sir is not a Story concern ing piss or pygmies no mad ame a thousand times no pygmalion is not a costume kind of screwy entertainment. To j no pygmalion is not land Young Constance Bennett and Shaw is not the film fire gets i Cabot eyebrows a use Cabot v Ore a of false eyebrows during the final weeks of filming of Dodge which is now showing in its third week at the orpheus. They substituted for the real ones Cabot lost during the making of a spectacular scene for the technicolor drama. He is playing the Vil lain and supposedly is making an escape from a burning railway bag Gage car in which he had locked enrol Flynn and Olivia dehavilland. Father Mother and son in real life James Lucille and Russell Gleason enact the same roles in my wife s the second film attraction on the program. Mary Hart Tommy Ryan and Harry Davenport play other members of the Higgins family. Slow motion pictures of the Louis Roper fight at Wrigley Field Are included in the Bill. Current along with that new cartoon so Many Are talking Day at the Billie Burke Are the stars. My son i featured Star it s Leslie is a criminal is the second no Johnnie in t in the picture and neither Are there sir animals yes George Ber Nard Shaw prefers his whole name be used and pygmalion tells a Story in a very modern no Madame or. Shaw does not run around a is As far As we i m sorry or. Hovard does not v. Ear a Beard or Shaw has the Beard it s is n no. Madame. Miss does compositions m 1 you Don t say. Of you know or. Young composers play numbers to taught at Berkeley High school by Dorah Dooley o Neill will make up what do you know about a program to be presented by the school s music department on thurs Day evening. May 4. Young compos ers will interpret instrumental and vocal solos ensemble numbers will include a Trio written by Mary Jane Morrow and an ave Maria by Jack Wilson Sung by a quartet of mixed voices. Popular music will be represented by a song composed by Margie Gott Fridson and played by a 10-piece girls dance band. The Berkeley Hiah school dance band under direction of William o Donnell of the music department will play an orig Inal arrangement by Edward White. An outstanding feature of the pop Muir will be a suite for orchestra composed by Kenneth Siqueira. Titled treasure the suite will contain three parts Tower of the Sun court of reflections and elephant towers Earl Morton director of the High school orchestra will yield the Baton of the 54-Jicce musical aggregation to the Young composer for interpretation of his work. Other High school composers rep resented on the program Are Vir Ginia merchant Andrea de grass Betty Platt Michiko Fujii Jean Paul Margaret Shepherd. Jack Balch Gordon Connell. Howard Miller Emylie Myers Grace wares Marilyn Gordon and Louise Graham that won t or. Shaw be surprised what you re taking his advice you re seeing the picture 20 times is zat and so on. Pygmalion has a companion Fca . To stage anything goes when anything goes the musical comedy by Cole Porter and p. G. Wodehouse is presented by the senior class of the University of California on May 19 in the greek theater it will be a somewhat Dif Ferent musical than the new York Success. The script is being re written and the lyrics to the Sev dial hit songs Are being localized and brought up to Date by the seniors in Little theater in the Peli can Campus humor Magazine and daily California staff men. The extravaganza will have one of the largest choruses in this his tory of the show business. Many f Ati v h Rytir Unie Mieia Karaen now new film Lucien Littlefield character actor and master of make up has reject his second stage offer within a to take an important role in what a comedy based upon the Broadway stage hit by Clifford Goldsmith. When director Ted Reed paged Littlefield for the role of or. Pat Terson Pedantic Meanie the actor was forced to step out of the cast of open the Santa Barbara production in which he was playing the part originally done by Noel Coward. Toppart your neighbourhood Shehter Al Cerrito san Pablo at Fairmount Robert Taylor. Wallace been in stand up i fight Zaza Claudette Colbert Herbert Marshall Bette Davis registering dark Victory in the picture of that name which is for the Fox Oakland on thursday. Ture the great Man Star j prominent seniors Are going to Fin ring that picture stealer John Barrymore. 3 v i roles comedy Tram headache in the lace wedding scene in the Folies at California a the comedy High lights is a motorized per ambulatory. It is a Verv funny vehicle and its operation has everyone in the aisles but Eddie Lewis who pays the Bills on this Side of the Atlantic for Clifford c. Fischer pro Ducer of the show. Lewis is convinced that the per ambulatory is an expensive luxury and he can prove his Point in a Jiffy by consulting his Little Black books. The baby buggy it seems was originally constructed for a Mere in French francs and that was fair enough considering that the vehicle contains a put put engine As a Means of propulsion. The concert scheduled for but since the Folies Bergere o clock in the High school on s mercy Way at he sex rim will be open to the Public. Swing Mikado assured Here position seven weeks ago the per ambulatory has been a repair Man s Delight. To Date Lewis has expended including the sales and things like this worry Lewis and he is Given to brooding. Lured by the Hope of almost cer Tain financial returns of some mag As for master Kiesling he is talk Nituda a private producer will take ing color in a Large Way this year Over the Federal theater s swin indicating that my a after having steered Clear of technicolor productions until quite recently has finally capitulated and gone in for the tinted photography on a big scale. Otherwise his report was that All s Well in Hollywood and the Goose hangs High. Another ambassador Good will t certain will Hays said the same thing in these columns not so vary Long ago. Kiesling has grounds for plagiarism suit or vice versa Complete exactly As it in milled London and cur rom c is Mort Mikado on May 1 in new York that will not affect production of the modernized version of the Gil Bert Sullivan operetta Heie according to Charles p. To Chin North Ern California director of the Federal theater. The Swine Mikado will be produced at the Alcazar some time in july. The same cast of negroes now appearing in run Little the record smashing musical drama now i in its fifteenth week at the will be used for the swing according to Teevin. The Gilbert Sullivan opus will be taken Over in new York by Ber Nard Ulrich Chicago producer. Mem Bers of the cast will be paid those salaries required by actors equity for private productions. Uwi private producers first planned to present run Little but backed out fearing that the play might not draw As much patronage As it has. Piedmont theater Piedmont at Linda tomorrow a wednesday Cotton Ball Climax of school season Albany april 24. Climaxing their College careers in grease paint. Not Only in the chorus Large but the Pulchritudof the clas., is being gathered and the women s chorus appears As one that will compare with the Best Earl Carroll could gather in his Day. Tracy to enter boat in race Lee Tracy who has Lone been one of the most aident yachtsmen in the film Colony is already pre paring his boat the adore for the big California Honolulu race which gets the starting gun july fourth. We managed to grab off a sixth place in 1936 and with certain changes and improvements i have expected to draw Many truckloads of plants arrive for four Day exhibition Labouring from Early morning until late at night workmen Are Rushing to completion the architectural set Ting for the 10th annual California Spring Garden show which opens wednesday evening with a formal preview for sponsors. On thursday morning the first of the anticipated visitors will see the Floral spectacle the theme of which is Shangrila interpreting the scene of Beauty suggested by James Hil ton s prize winning novel lost the first of Many truckloads of plants arrived today at the exposition building 10th and Follon sections allotted each of the Many exhibits. The great colonnaded Rotunda overlooking the entire Floral. Panorama has been completed the j towering Sircle of Redwood Trees reaching to the Topmost Point of the building have been placed the fountains and classic pools Are ready for the surrounding blooms. Four Days nights Vious show the Garden event is expected to be even More Beautiful than an horticultural exhibit or created Here. The California Spring j Garden show famous throughout the nation will be held for four Days and nights starting thursday morning at 9 o clock and concluding sunday at Midnight it was pointed out by show directors. H. M. Butterfield is chairman of judging and assisting him in award ing ribbons and medals will be the following Flower and Garden authorities miss Ethel Abeele James a Bishop. P. H Brydon James j. J to inoaks2300 Budd mrs. Willa Clair Cloys John it of Oviln Alwil Micker Rooney m Daly mrs. Charles Derby i Wauer Connolly m Huckleberry finn Thomas a. Dimucci. Fred Frey nor Bur Mel o Connors Dennis o veil Gillespie. Edward Goeppner p. H. Graves prof. John w. Gregg b. Hoisholt John l. Hughes. Prof. Stafford Jory. Charles j. Lagomarsino. Mrs. Jerome b. Landfield Richard Lohrmann and William Mathews. Other judges listed Fred March. Alan Mccahon Bich Ard Mclntosh Thomas Munro Wil Liam Munro Zimmo Peters mrs. George Pollock g re re the Robert Saxe mrs. J a a Cannavo William e. Schmidt prof h w. Shepherd mrs. Edna Spencer Elsa up Man. S l Vistica Fred grand Lake District grand Lake 2ioo Georee Brent Oluia de Havilland of the Thev made it a trim Mil Jovi up e d Koji i. .1. phone Fruitvale 4100 Jack Bexar Joan Bennett in artists h m dels abroad Little Toush Guys in society Misch Auer Eastmont District foothill blvd. At 74tb Humphrey Bogart Kay Francis in Kins of the off the record Pat o been Joan Blondell North Oakland East 11th St. District ptt7 East 12th St at 7th ave. Te-2232 Iii Garr Cooper Merle Oberon Cowboy and the Peter Loire in most curious or Molo Allendale District 38th a or Hopkins Jesse James throne Power Nancy Kelly Henry Fonda a Man to remember with Edward Ellis Hopkins Laurel distr t ttt3ttt Honkins near 38th Avenue u Raldi. Phone an Dover 8800 new de late of smile the Arr Walters. Eric Walther Thomas West i Jeanette Macdonia m sweethearts and Jack Whitehead. Among the most interested patrons night. Wednesday will be Joseph l. Callaghan. Father of and grand daughter Joan Pelletier Callaghan Albany Albany i Solano at san Pablo Bing Crosby and Franciska Gaal no in heart with Tanet Gaynor was one of the first Garden show directors and it was largely because of his enthusiasm that the first exhibition was held since that time. 10 years ago. Has served As a director of the Board and has watched the Little Garden exhibit grow into the immerse nationally Alameda Central at welter uni irl i Sketers Dox Ameche and the Ritz Epos. Fisherman s wharf with Bobby Breen famous horticultural event that it now is. It was pointed out 4743 Jean Arthur 1 "yot1 can t take it with you Lionel St wart Mischa Auer Joan Pelletier tries out one of he new spiral staircases built for the Spring Garden show which opens at the exposition auditorium wednesday evening. With her is her grand father Joseph l. Callaghan called father of the Garden Taylor Good risk Robert Taylor today was informed i by one of the largest insurance companies that he is considered among the Best insurance risks of any of the Holly Wood stars due to his clean manner of living and the care he j takes of his Heath and physique. J cup s Park t Odd Alameda e. O j ivnj.1 u Gleed a f blew in Chinatown. Gene Authy in Prairie Moon Vogue Telephone Alameda 3100 Shirley Temple the Little Princess technicolor Richard Green Anita Loai be Cesar Romero March of time Back Groi. No for w Betteley grand illusion due on Piedmont screen barred in itch and Germany grand illusion tomorrow comes to the Piedmont theater. Piedmont at Linda for a two Day showing. Among the candidates for says the fast talking actor Yucai s award As who is currently filming fixer Best picture of the year grand Dugan i illusion is the Story of prisoners in Tracy s Crew of eight Are All Ama-1 Germany Durins the world War eur Powell is tentatively listed As one of inc old salts for this year s Gruel Long cruise. Present plans Call for mrs. Tracy to accompany her husband to san Francisco there to Board the regular passenger boat arriving m Honolulu in time to prepare a Wel come for Lee and his Crew. Lecture scheduled by brother Leo brother Leo is being sponsored by Laurentian Institute no 70 in a filmed with French and German dialog and supplemented by com plete English titles the picture deals with people taken from All walks of life and of different nationalities thrown together by the wheels of Fate in the cast Are Erich von Stroheim Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnoy. Sharing the Piedmont s Bill is while new York starring Michael Whalen. Observance of pubic schools lecture the Ideal of Complete Liv week n Cotton Ball sponsored by he will speak Nix Widnes the girls league of Albany High Day evening at o clock at the Church players to give show april 29 school will be held at 8 o clock Fri Day night in Cornell school auditorium. With High school shop and class room work on display at open women s City club. 1428 Street. The Oun Selian choral will also Render several selections arrangements b Helen Burke have been and her committee san Leardro Apul ai1cc i three act her will be presented under the sponsorship of the women s auxiliary of the made san Llandro episcopal Church on april 29 at 8 p m m the Washington Rodriguez Savme Butler. Or Deville Genevicve Theresa Braun Theresa be a variety of musical enter a Ibec House throughout the week the Edith Smith Mae Flynn. Edna Jor and worm Cotton Ball ,1, be High Light of the Gensen Kathryn Freeman. Beatrice school social season. Male pupils May attend the affair upon invite lion by league members. Arrange Monts Are a Csc made by Eva Vila league president Lois Duff Bonnie Lee Mcduffee Theresa de Monte Betty seed Florence Elizabeth Bench. Illusion French German titles also while new York sleeps Mary Agnes Connolly. Peggy con la scats 20c any time Mon. And toes. Door open 6 f. M Nolly Maude Carr Aileen Mccosker Dorothy Carr and Mae Pup Chas. Boyer Loretta tonne in Shanghai cart Grant Mikva lot in see Sally s new the Peacock the great Waltz also Jane Withers always in trouble times today Academy award winners Spencer tract ones. A wed. Bint Crosky pennies from screen Sci Matioli Vince Barnett Reed Hadley als c. G. Robinson in Thunder in the City als Bette in the Sisters Sunburst tomorrow again stars Wile Beulah Bondi last teamed with Lionel Barrymore when she made a memorable impression As the wife of president Andrew Jackson in the gorgeous will join him again Jean Arthur. You can t take it with you a trip Constance Roland Bennett Young Biliie Burke Alan Mowbray Oakland girl to play in Stockton recital Stockton april be is Granny to his Gramp in on Bor Tance Mccarl. Daughter of or. And mrs. M. D. Mccarl of 875 trestle Glen Road Oakland will be presented this evening As piano soloist on the third student recital of the season at the College of the Pacific conservatory of music. Miss Mccarl will play three num Bers. She is a student of John Gil Christ Elliott. Leslie Howard Bernard Shaw s pygmalion with Wendy h1ller the Greit Man votes California to 2.w matinee at 1 30 Huckleberry finn Mickev Booney next time i Mam practical Pis United artists Joan Crawford James Stewart leu Asres also fast and Loose with Robt Montgomery Rosalid Russell to to in Oaks 2300 u. Tyrone Power Nancy Kelly Henry Fonda i there s that woman Asam. Mel Dogulas Solano at the Alameda Gryga i Victor Mclaglen Gary Grant girl downstairs with Franchot tone criminal re sensational Sefki Errol Flynn Dodge City technic oof is Louis Roper fight pics state theatres Telephone. A Tegoart Coo foothill Bird Seminary Tyrone Power Nancv Kelly Henry Fonda secrets of a nurse with Edmund Lowe Fruitvale ave Hopkins St. Louis blues Dorothy Lamour Lloyd Nolan ride a crooked Akim Tamiroff i c1 h Tot b y foothill blvd Fairfax Ralh Raa Eleanor Powell a tonne bums Allen i newsboys Home with Jackie Cooner Home starts and 10.00 Honolulu starts at p a f e 14tfl St 37th a i Ritu l Valet Mickey Rooney adventures of Huckleberry finn Dennis o Keefe. Burn Emu o Connor College Al Shaft urls win Eleanor pm Ell a. A inns Burns Allen ride a crooked Akim tar mrok san Pablo Stanford Boris Karloff Bobby Breen in Fisherman s Park by Al a f f Auk. W it i Fisherman s wharf Bobby Breen Leo Carrillo Henry Armetta there s that woman again Mel. Douglas d h t b sri ave e i5th r aleut Dick Hokan Gloria Dickson in heart of the North say it in French with Bay Milland Piedmont and Linda Don Ameche and the Ritz Bros. Gangster s boy with Jackie coopt i san Pablo near University Gary Grant and Victor Mcl Aglet Singleton Arthur Adeline at a caws Lohin James Tyrone Power Nancy Kelly Henry Peck s bad boy with circus Tommy cup ii met College at 9.1iiaj.w Jesse Tyrone Power Nancy Kelly Henry Fondu wharf with Breem 16th week Alcazar Ell ii for her we sin Franesco r. A. Tomter Matlo projects Palace Hayward san Leandro Tyrone Power Nancy Kelly Henry Fonda there s that woman again. Mel Douglas 577 Nelson edit Freedom _ Withers a Ariosa

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