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  • PART 7-PA.GE ~.

    fA Little Aboutthe Movies onCity's Screens

    "Daytime WIfe" [See review onthis page] Chicago

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    "Destry RIdes Again." Westernthrtller co starring Marlene DietrIchand James Stewart Others In thecast are MIscha Auer, Br ian Donlevy,and Ilene Hervey Palace

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    "Meet Dr Chrfsttan." The first ofa serres of films about a countrydoctor who trres to establish a hospital In the small town where he practrees TItle role IS played by JeanHersholt Dorothy Lovett and Robcrt Baldwm are also featured Palace

    'i' *"Mr. Smith Goes to Washmgton."

    'A small town boy JS appointed bygovernor to serve unexpired term ofa deceased United States senatorJames Stewart plays t.itle role Supporting players are Jean Arthur,Claude Rams, and Edward Arnold:Apollo

    * *"Eternally Yours." Mar-ital diffl-culties between a lady and a greatmagician who are really madly Inlove Loretta Young opposite DaVIdNIven GarrIck

    * *"The Roar-ing Twent.ics.' Gang-dam and bootleggmg during the yearsfolloWIng the world war FeaturesJames Cagney, Pr iscil la Lane, GladysGeorge, and Humphrey Bogart Onental, Sheridan, LIdo, Tower, Piccadilly

    " OJ:"The Pr-ivate LIves of Ellzabeth

    and Essex." Dramatic tale of the!tnstoncal romance between QueenElIzabeth and Essex Bette DaVISand Errol Flynn co starred Othersfeatured are OlIVIa de Havllland,Donald Cl'1Sp, and Alan Hale Roose:velt. * .~"Nmotchka" A daughter of Rus·

    sia goes to Paris and really learnshow to Iive, love, and laugh GretaGarbo plays t itlc role OPPOSIte Mel~Iyn Douglas United Artists

    *' *••Dancmg Co ed " A publlcity agent•• plants" a beautiful dancer In a college and starts a dance centesamong co-eds Lana Turner playsfemmme lead opposite RIchard Carlson Ann Rutherford, Lee Bowman,and Roscoe Karns in the cast StateLake, Belmont, Shendan.

    * 'l'" Generals WIthout But ton s,

    Drama of child life, based on novelby LOUIS Pergand Jean Murat andCIJ de May play Ieading roles Sono-tone * >I."The Heart of Pans." Shopkeeper

    befriends gir'l accused of murdermgher lover Co stars Raimu and MIchele Morgan. World Playhouse.

    * *"JamaIca Inn." A d apt e d fromstory by Daphne Du Maurter aboutthe cruel leader of a gang of piratesalong the Corn ish coast. CharlesLaughton 15 starred Leslie Banks,Robert Newton, and Maureen 0 Harafeatured. Uptown, Marbro.

    * *"FIrst Love." Deanna Durbm playsher first romantic role. Robert Stackplays male lead Others In cast areHelen Parnsh, Eugene Pallette, andLeatrice Joy. Uptown, Marbro, TI-voli,

    O! *"Rule,.!! of the Sea." Dramatic

    tale about the first steam boat thatcrossed the Atlantic, Features Douglas F'airbanks Jr, Margaret Lock-wood, WIll Fyffe, and George Ban-croft. 'I'lvoli

    ~ *"The Real Glory." FIlm IS basedon days when the inhabitants on thePhIIlppme Islands were attacked bytne Moros. Gary Cooper, AndreaLeeds, DaVId NIven, and RegmaldOwen head the cast Granada, South-town, Harding, Avalon.

    ~ ~.•"$1,000 a Touchdown." Comedy co·

    starr,ng Joe E Brown and MarthaRaye Senate, Manor, HIghland, Howard, Lake, Rhodes, Ogden, Ramova.

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    CHICAGO U TDAY TRIBU TE: D'F,CEMBER 17

    MR. SMITH GOES TO RIDE

    James Stewart is much in our midSTthese days. You can seehim as Smith in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washingl'on" at theApollo, and as Destry in "Destry Rides Again" at the Palace.

    'Dey-time Wifel

    AblyActed. butDialog Is Weak

    "DAY-TIME WIFE"Produced by 20th Century FoxDirected by Gregory RatoffPresented at the Chicago theater

    THE CAST.Ken Norton Tyrone PowerJane Linda DarnellBernard Dexter •••••• Warren WilliamBlanche ••••••••••• Binnie BarnesKitty •••••••••• Wendy BarrieMISS Applegate .•••••••• Joan DaVISMrs Dexter •••••••••• Joan ValerieCoco ••••••••• Leonid KinskevMeloourne ••••••.•. Mildred GoverM,ss Briggs Renie Rie no

    By Mae Tinee.Good Mormng!What does a secretary have that a

    WIfe hasn't got WhICh makes a husband-the WIfe s husband-park theWIfe at home and take the secretarysteppmg'LIttle Mrs Norton wants to know

    For to this unsuspectmg and devotedlittle WIfe of a year has come unrmstakable evidence that when papa sayshe's workmg, why papa's really shirk-trig [pome] WIth the assistance of theblonde who takes hIS dictation •Now Jane herself JS no slouch. Nor

    IS she a gtrj who likes to stay athome. She's pretty, she's popular,and she proves that she's perspica-CIOUS For, having made up her mindthat no other woman shall wrest herman from her she decides to, so tospeak, put herself m the would bewrester's shoes and learn about sec-retanes from a secretary-same bemgherself.

    She lands m the office of a phi-Iandering, marrted Mr Dexter, bUSI-ness acquaintance of Ken Norton'sShe leaves for work mornings afterKen has departed and skedaddleshome at night arrrvmg In her ownboudoir Just a hop ahead of her un-suspectmg husband whom she's ableto keep m the dark thru the ableconnivance of her colored maid, Mel-bourne ••••As you WIll surmise, It Isn't long

    before Mr Dexter and "MISS Blake"are seen lunching, etc. And then therecomes that awful eve when Ken, reallyfor business reasons, breaks a dateWIth hIS WIfe AND finds himself andsecretary dining WIth Dexter and" secretary" at a most sophisttcatednight club ••• OUCH!While this so-called sophisticated

    comedy drama IS ably acted and sump-tuously staged, I didn't find 1t so hot.Too ObVIOUS, and the dialog is, attimes, the last word in banality,See you tomorrow.

    THE WEEK'S NEW IUOVIES:••Daytdme WIfe," starring TyronePower, Linda Darnell and BinnieBarnes, Chicago.

    •• Destry RIdes Again," starring Mar-lene Dletrrch, James Stewart, MIS-cha Auer, and BrIan Donlevy, Pal-ace.

    •• Meet Dr. ChrIstIan," starring JeanHersholt, Palace.

    " ~Irssrng EVIdence," starring PrestonFoster and Irene Hervey, RIalto.

    CONTINUED:"Mr. SmIth Goes to Washrngton,"starrmg James Stewart and JeanArthur, Apollo.

    "Eternally Yours," starrmg LorettaYoung and DaVId NIven, Garrick.

    •• The Roaring TwentIes," starrmgJames Cagney and PnscIlla Lane,Oriental and neIghborhood theaters.

    •• The PrIvate LIves of Ehzalleth andEssex," starnng Bette DaVIS andErrol Flynn, Roosevelt.

    •• Nrnotchka," starring Greta Garboand Melvyn Douglas, Umted ArtIsts.

    •• Dancing Co-ed," starrmg LanaTurner and RIChard Carlson, State-Lake and neIghborhood theaters.

    •• Generals WIthout Buttons," star-rmg Jean Murat and Claude May.Sonotone.

    "The Heart of ParIS," s tar r I n gRalmu and MIChele Morgan, WorldPlayhouse.

    C01\IING:•• The Hunchback of Notre Dame,"starrmg Charles Laughton andMaureen O'Hara Palace, Dec. 25.

    •• Eve~ythlng Happens at NIght,"starnng SOnJa Heme, Ray Milland,ChIcago, Dec. 22.

    •• Intermezzo," starring LeslIe How-ard and Ingnd Bergman, Apollo;soon

    •• The Housekeeper's Daughter," star-rlIlg Joan Bennett and AdolpheMenjou, Roosevelt; soon.

    Notes of Musicand Musicians

    The ftrst performance of Christ-mas orator io, "The Mass of Chrrst,"WIll be given at the St James Meth-OdISt church, 4611 EllIS avenue, thisafternoon at 4 30 o'clock. Mrs Walter DIll Scott wrote the lIbretto forwhich Bethuel GlOSS, choir directorand organist of the church, suppl iedthe mUSIC The SOlOISts WIll be Maurine Smith Gross, soprano, MarciaSandahl, contr alto , Eugene Dressler,tenor, and Raymond Koch, bass

    Vitaly Schnee, pianist, WIll be thefeatured artrst on a benefit concertto be presented by the Yal dai Ammiat the Hamilton hotel, 18 South Dear-born street, tonight at 8 15 o'clockThe entire proceeds of the affair WIllgo to ald homeless Polrsh chIldren

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    "Honeymoon In Bali." A" career"glrl gives up her work for marriage,Stars Madeleme Carroll and FredMacMurray. Granada, Southtown,Hardmg.

    * '""The Cat and the Canary," Mys-tery comedy starrmg Bob Hope and I ,-----Paulette Goddard. varsity, RIVIera. CHI CAGO,~ *"Babes in Arms." The youngsters F I L M S

    of down and out vaudeville perform-ers organize their own company andstage a successful show. Leadingplayers are MIckey Rooney, JudyGarland, and Charles Wrnnmger.Century, Norshore, Congress, Gate-way, ParadIse, Pantheon, Nortown,Belmont, Stratford, Lamar, LIdo, Deer·path, Regal

    * *"FIfth Avenue GIrl." A man ofgreat wealth hues a gIrl he meets ona park bench to stra1ghten out the:mantal dIfficultIes for hIS famIlyICast mcludes Gmger Rogers, WalterConnolly, Verree Teasdale, JamesAllIson, and TIm Holt McVlckers,Century, Norshore, Congress, Gate-v,ay, ParadIse, Pantheon, Nortown,Belmont, CapItol, EsqUIre, Lamar,Teatro, Tower, PIccadIlly.

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    " The Rains Came." Screen adapta·tion of the novel by LOUIS BromfieldStars Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, andGeorge Brent Termrnal, Crystal,BIltmore, Central Park, Berwyn,State, La Grange, TIvolI [DownersGrove] Senate, Manor, Beverly, Jef-fery, Rhodes, Ogden, Crown, Alamo,AmerIcan Broadway Strand, MarshallSquare, Vogue, Devon, Buckmgham,Forest, York, WIlmette, AtlantIc, MId·west, Peoples, Ramova

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    "ROARING TWENTIES"GInger Rogets-'Vm Connolly

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