Show fJ Al AI Jolson Pushes Over First First c With Minstrel Show I. I By Walter Winchell Notes of ef an Innocent Bystander The First Nights The season op opened ned with such a flourish Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day night that two sets of reviewers reviewers reviewers re re- re- re viewers found employment The first stringers guessed wrong and saw Jupiter Laughs Its It's a drama about British medicos love and clinical lingo The work by A. A 3 J. CronIn was in John Andersons Anderson's words not a very good play though Jessica Tandy and Alexander Alexander Alexander Alexan Alexan- der Knox were attractive players Sim Sala Bim the other Monday nighter was magic by a trickster named Dante He had the Times alternate crying Marvelous Marvelous Marvelous Mar before he was through Al AI Jolson hurried in Wednesday night flanked by Martha Raye and plenty of songs His piece is called Hold On to Your Hats flats The best of the minstrels won a thundering welcome Mr Watts name of the Trib said the most important thing is that Mr Jolson is the Jolson Jolson Jolson Jol Jol- Jol- Jol son of old old and and Watts name was taking about a man who 10 no years ago was billed as the worlds world's greatest entertainer This first nighter fighter concluded his praise with For that matter last night was not the first time this innocent bystander was a pushover for Al Jolson The Magic The hIm film bookers took the week off and only a taste of cinema got to market market mar mar- ket Hired Wife Wile is the best of a fairish lot This is one of those the passion affairs nothing original but redeemed by some gay patter Rosalind Russell Russell Russell Rus Rus- sell Virginia Bruce B. B Aherne and Mr Benchley are the chief banter- banter Men Against the Sky is good of its kind sturdy and topical Its It's all about making a plane good enough for the I with a lot of exciting up in the air Richard Dix and nd Wendy Barrie sit in the love seat and all right too The Front Pages As long as the Rome and Berlin papers keep printing Britain doesn't need a propaganda force The axis' axis squawks about the British attacks will have the whole world despising ing them even more than now The trouble with covering plane attacks attacks at at- tacks confides James Aldrich from the British Mediterranean fleet is that you develop a tendency to see sky things you think are planes Of course you feel much relieved when they are planes The editorial edi edl- tonal salutes to the history and meaning of the City of London made shudders across the body We recall sin similar lar editorials about Prague Warsaw Vienna and Paris Paris much much too loo oo reminiscent of an obituary notice The n Headliners Revealed Dick Powell Im through with musical musi must cal movies for good Why get getso so sore at musicals They merely brought you fame fortune and Blondell Said Ginger Rogers Id like to go on the stage Why honey chile of not havin worries Announced Ray Milland Youre never lonely in Hollywood theres there's al always always al- al ways room for one bore Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Taylors Taylor's remarkable remark A dead star is the deadest thing on earth So are a lotta live li ones Errol Flynns Flynn's slander Hollywood Holly is a jungle Look Lookout Lookout Lookout out there boy Africa's liable to sue you for libel Laval's lah de dah We Ve in France are an m m- dependent government We cai cas do what pleases us Hi He means so long as it doesn't di db please Berlin |