Show SUNDAY MORNING JULY 23 1 939 INCITES LAUGH WHILE SEEKING OPERA CAREER Judy Canova Fell In Love Started Unpredictable By MARK BARRON July 22 AP)— Canova fell In love and that the unpredictable shenanDJudy which have her today reigans viving the trend on Broadway for boisterous laughable comediennes who play on the rough side As the movie struck country gal in the musical comedy "Yokel Boy" the brunette lass from Georgia excited cheers from the critics which left her with the philosophy that there are rewards to romance other than just getting your man “I thought the man was my big moment but all I did was to run tele-- ’ up a frightening long distance New ‘ was in he because phone bilj York and I was in Hollywood" Miss Canova said explaining why she came to Broadway from her chores in musical movies here she discovered that ' theArriving wasn’t here and also friend boy that she wasn’t in love with him anyway It was "just the vampire” Hn her the fatal fascination of seeing her telephone bill mount up Miss Canova who has a big is a grinning hiouth and pigtails new cycle of that type of comedienne so popular about ten years ago when Helen Kane and Zelma O’Neill were across the Rialto stages She sings in a lusty coloratura voice that started her toward an opera career shortly after she left her home in Unadilla Ga "That's way out from nowhere down in Dooly county" From Unadilla she moved to Fla 'and there she Jacksonville ’ went to a party where she heard ’ another Georgia girl sing a hill billy song That fascinated Miss i Canova and wrhen she moved to N C she began Hendersonville v numbers in her operatic singing in the same much hill billy fashion manner that singers now offer Lomond" in a swing version to Comic Singing 0"Loch — "So that was when I changed Singing to comic - from straight her singing" she said curving how and mouth showing generous “ she dwells on a high note with the ease of a Swiss yo- - ' NEW YORK ’ -- a -- - dler “But I haven’t abandoned opera because I found I could progress faster by singing to make people -“Just like I havelaugh” she said n’t forsaken love because once I about talking got over long distance telephones ' "Now that ‘Yokel Boy’ seems well established on Broadway and I am not wandering about the coun-th- y so much I have started my opera training again I am going to sponsor a school that will take youngsters and give Opromising training they need for opera Not only are there many talented young singers who need only the training but there are many lost because they are never able to get that training "I still want to do something about myself in opera and I want to do something about those youngsters who are just starting out This comedy singing is great and lucrative but I love opera and now that I can afford it I hope ” over-enthusiast- ic I get there” Miss Canova however can never get quite away from her inclination to get a laugh out of a song "Sometimes I can sing a G above high C" she said “Practicing this I got Lily Pons phonograph record of her singing the mad scene in ‘Lucia and I tried to sing along — with Miss Pons But everytime I ’ do I suddenly find that I am swinging the mad scene and Doni zetti’s music lends itself admirably to swing” In' "Yokel Boy" she has several hit songs among the numbers that critics called Lew Brown’s best score in his years of compoing Broadway song hits but the one she likes best is "Catherine The Great” because it strikes a happy medium for her It is both a costume number and it is overflowing with laughs-Shhits that high lusty G and then suddenly warbles a comic that has variation of captivated Broadway audiences as much as it has movie and radio Q semi-operat- ic e Jlsteners f Has to Keep Her Figure j"I can’t get fat like opera singers though Miss Canova remarked t - "A girl has to keep her figure Sure every day See ilI I exercise plenty this turban I have on my head It isn’t a hat at all It’s just a bolt of cloth that I have to drape In the shape of a hat every time I put -- f -- ‘ it on By the time you drape it just that way you’ve had enough - exercise to wind a colt "Also I talked myself out of my southern drawl Not that I didn’t like it I just knew I never had a chance’ for that Scarlett O’Hari role anyway Not enough English accent you see” Miss Canova suddenly stood up sneezed1 "It’s almost curtain’ time” she said glancing at a midget watch set in a ring on her index finger "I catch a lot of- colds in this Yankee country and I’ve got to get this one cured in the next hour so that I can sing tonight” She grinned' yodeled a G above a high C jingled her charm bracelet that has a head of Paul White-ma- n in the center- - and started walking fast toward the Broadway that with the aid of a collapsing romance happily lured her from Hollywood ftnd Binnie Barnes and Randolph Scott (left) In “Fron-tie- r SHOW MENU Marshal” at the Egyptian Mickey Rooney and Ann Rutherford Heft center) In “Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever” at the Orpheum Wallace Beery Loraine Johnson Alan Curtis In "Sergeant Madden” Joan Crawford (upper right) in (right center) at the Paramount and Alice Faye and Tyrone Colonial 1939” at the "Ice Follies of of Square” at the Ogden “Rose Washington in Power (lower right) romantic dramas Melodious full of excitement thrills adventure and suspense abound on theatre programs here Sunday The entertainment is as follows: Western Adventure Thrills At Egyptian Now showing at the Egyptian theatre are "Frontier Marshal” and Binnie starring Randolph Scott Take All” Barnes and “Winner Gloria and Martin Tony featuring Stuart Blood-tinglin- g action is the order of the day in this first hit the Saga of Tombstone Arizona This tells the vivid stirring production wildest wickedest story of the west old the of town dangerous where life wasn’t worth a- lead marnickel— until a the at law shal brought in the Scott is Lord Baldwin's fund for refugees in London receives nearly 100 contributions a day comedy "Million Dollar Legs" In the picture though it’s John Hartley who has the key to Betty Co- refreshingly Differing lyn Venable Russell Hayden ert Barrat Sidney Toler and C the film "one Henry Gordon make best-acte- d westof the best-caerns of the season The story relates the toughening experiences of a tenderfoot who ’finds love life and hope in the land where Part of the toughening process consists of being the unwilling target of a gunman’s bullet Love Is personified by the luscious Evelyn Venable Toughness and tenderness are skillfully combined when Woods given up for dead by his murderous assailant is rescued by Barrat who brings him home to be nursed back to health by Miss Venable Fireworks really begin when she becomes the center of two opposing forces A two-rePopeye color cartoon "News of the Day” and complete the program Ogden Offers Musical from previous college films "Million Dollar Legs” is the humorous and well-kn- it story of youth revoltbenevolent despothe ing against tism of a liberal donor who runs the college because of his fat contributions The bright young castt consisting of Betty Grable Jackie Coogan Joyce Mathews Donald O’Connor Larry Crabbe and John Hartley make the most of every humorous situation and there are plenty A color cartoon "Goldie-lock- s and the Three Bears” and the latest news complete the bill which runs through Wednesday Paramount to Show Army Western Shows The power and sincerity of a magnificent portrayal by Wallace Beery the camera magic of Director Josef von Sternberg the crackling action with which he has infused his film and a group of inspired performances by a trio of young secondary leads make "Sergeant Madden” which is now playing at the Paramount theatre memorable and thrilling entertainment Story of the New York police "Sergeant Madden” presents Beery in the title role as a thirty-yeveteran of the force His despair is his son Dennis played by Alan Curtis a hotheaded young "smart guy” who knows a quicker way to sucess than his father’s plodding methods hut runs afoul of the law He becomes a one-ma- n crime wave leaving robberies sensational escapes and a trail of broken hearts behind him his father who must track him down the girl he loves and his adopted Johnson as Laraine brother and daughter Beery’s adopted Curtis’ wife and Tom Brown as the adopted son give splendid perOther featured parts formances are expertly handled by Fay Holden Marc Lawrence David Gor-ce- y and Horace MacMahon The companion feature Zane men-are-m- en el ’s and Romantic Dramas The Ogden theatre on Sunday will feature a romantic tuneful program — "Rose of Washington Square” starring Alice Faye Tyshooting end of a sixgun and rone Power and A1 Jolson seen in the title role as Wyatt Earp York New "While starring Sleeps” exploits tamed whose fabulous Michael Whalen Power sings for Tombstone and who stayed alive in the first time on the screen because nobody ever beat him to "Rose by of Square” Washington the draw while Nancy Kelly un-is the songs heard in the film Among brave beautiful a as cast are "My Man” "Toot Toot Tootthe man flinching girl who followed sie Goodbye” T’m Sorry I Made n town in she loved to this ” "The Vamp” You Cry” the hope of saving him from himAn Heart” of Curse "The Aching self Romero has the colorful role Showers” “Mammy” “April of Dob Holliday elegant gambler "Rose of Washington Square’ by and deadly killer a man who for F Hanley and Ballard James reasons best known to himself has "I'm Always Chasing Macdonald ekst to given up a useful life in the town "I’m Just Wild About Rainbows” come to this wild borderland Here I Come” "California two Harry” to wait for death Loved by these "Avalon" and Climaxing women he was feared by every d is a new hits song memory-filleman— until Wyatt Earp walked in Never of "I in the today swing Binnie Barnes is seen as- Jerry Knew Heaven Could Speak” esvolcanic dance hall queen one of pecially written for the picture by the two women whose desperate Mack Gordon and Harry Revel AI a dramatic rivalry contributes Jolson the star who sings back the note to the story and John Carra-din- e past everyone wants to remember plays the villainous proprietor in the film the hall of the roisterous dance Wednesday will be “The Starting of Pleasure Palace Vanishes" starring MargarLady Starting Tuesday are "Career and Paul Lukas and Lockwood et ShirAnne starring Edward : Ellis Gentleman” a "Almost starring ArchJohn ley Alice Arden and Ellison James featurLondon” er and "Saint In Colonial Presents Thrills ing George Sandors’ and Romance Orpheum Presents New Kid” with Oklahoma "The' “Andy Hardy” “Legs” title role is the in James Cagney of the Hardy The lucky seventh of an empire drama the surging Gets Family series "Andy Hardy thrilldramatic and its creation in the Spring Fever” heading "Heritage ing action held audiences spell-at bill today at the Orpheum Grey’s master-classi- c theatre is proof that audiences of the Desert” boasts an unusual bound when it opened Saturday like these pictures and that is more than keeppace set by the the splendid up ing - gun-fighti- ng wide-ope- “Ja-Da- ar - two-featu- re Metro-Goldwyn-Ma- Adults 10c — Kiddies 10c NOW! 2 BIG HITS rr: J V'sk Doors Open 12:45 lOo-iS- c The stars of Alexander’s Ragtime Band TYRONE POWER ALICE FAYE in “ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE” With AI Jolson PLUS HIT NO 2 Michael Whalen in WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS’ the Colonial theatre The new Cagney starring picture is a rousing melodrama of the open spaces laid in the days when homesteaders were erasing the last frontier in the United States It is a tale of the great land rush and other events which followed the opening up of Oklahoma terri tory to settlement in 1893 but it scores primarily as thrilling en tertainment — made memorable by superb acting by the star and such as Humphrey Bogart players Rosemary Lane and Donald Crisp The second feature on the Colonial’s current program is "Ice Follies of 1939” with Joan Crawford Lew Ayres and James Stewart The story centers about Mary McKay a singing ice skater who through a series of strange twists of fate finds herself on the top rung of the ladder to film fame Her quick ascent however leaves husband Jimmie Stewart behind and the manner in which the two are finally reunited supplies: plenty of punch to the dramatic action of semi-histor- ic the story A novelty and the latest news events round out the program ‘Radio Flashes Ethel Clark's & Gertrude Lintz trainer of Gargantua gorilla star of Barnum and Bailey’s circus and Charles Marvin Cowart who clung for an hour and forty minutes to a rope dangling from the dirigible Akron will tell of their thrilling experiences and be initiated into the Order of Adventurers when that nov- thor of two compositions A wrist give injury almost forced him to up his music but after an extend-sume- d his studies and has arranged vacation from the piano he re- lt night with her oils When Louise Massey singing star of "Plantation Tarty” first Mrs el club meets over KLO and the NBC-Blu- e network Monday afternoon at five o’clock Mrs Lintz is no ordinary animal trainer but a scientist who is helping her doctor husband to study the intelligence of gorillas and other great of apes Mr Cowart was one three sailors who were untable to go of the ropes with which they were towing the Akron to her Cowart’s mooring companions to their deaths dropped Dynamic Maury Maverick mayor of San Antonio and a former member of congress will join the cast of experts of the "Information Please” program on Tuesy Mdy-o- r day afternoon at Maverick attended the University of Texas and upon his graduation entered the lurpber business He was both gassed and wounded while serving with the AEF and received two citations for bravery under fire His grandfather Samuel Maverick refused to brand stray cattle found on his Texas ranch and this gave rise to the term "Maverick Cattle” used today throughout the entire southwest to describe all strays To Mark Birthday Walter Baulfuss conductor of National Farm and Home Hour orchestra every week day at nine-thira m and the Viennese ensemble (Monday through Friday eight a m) will celebrate his birthday m a musical way on the former program Wednesday He will present fourteen of his own numbers including the well known and loved "My Isle of Golden Dreams” "Your Eyes Have Told Me So” “Golden Sands and Silvery Seas” and "Come Love to Me” Charles Sears NBC tenor will be heard as the singer "Mr Blaufuss has devoted most of his life to music At the age of ten he toured the country as a piano soloist and at fifteen was the au five-thirt- Dance Band On Magic Key Time Bob Zurke and his swingcopat-or- S latest addition to the ranks of the nation’s leading dance orchestras will present a group of hits they recently recorded during their initial guest appearance on the Magic Key program Monday y to p m from NBC-Blu- e netover KLO and the work The Smoothies popular vocal trio famous for their recordings and Ed Gardner comedian also will be featured Colonel Stoopna-gl- e as master of ceremonies the concert orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret the Rodgers Sisters in another of their "rhymLe-Ring the news” specialties and enMiller Philadelphia radio the talent tertainer' complete five-thirt- six-thir- ty oy roster expects tp entertan more American tourists this year than in any previous twelve-mont- h Bermuda ty ed and conducted the musical por- tions of the National Farm and Home Hour for seven years Irene Rich isn’t going to let her daughters get ahead of her Daughter Frances is a famous sculptress and Jane is getting a reputation as a photographer so Mother Rich is taking up oil painting She says she does not know a great deal about it yet except that it is so fascinating that she stays up past midnight almost every went to Hollywood the bosses out there decided she would have to learn to ride a horse in spite of the fact that Louise rode horseback about the western range almost as soon as she learned to walk The movie moguls thought it undignified for her to jump on manner as was her nag leap-fro- g her practice Manifests Pride Andre Kostelanetz is manifesting great pride these days but it is not over any musical accomplishments — - rather a picture showing him with a long string of fish he caught while vacationing in New Hampshire "Roll Out the Barrel” — from London comes wprd that this gay phrase is now blanketing the British Isles in a tuneful tempest after1 taking this country by storm "The Beer Barrel Polka” has started another musicraze in London that has the experts guessing Neither radio nor motion pictures has played any part in popularizing this piece as for some reason it is banned to radio But it is a big hit with dance goers and 'in the music halls The name of Margatet Anglin is an honorable one in the theatre The star of the footlights in plays ranging from “Count of Monte of Cristo” to the epic tragedies is she and Euripedes Sophocles now heard as star of the NBC radio serial (Monday at four p m) "Orphans of Divorce” Miss TODAY MONDAY "Oh! What a Day' That Will Be” a sermon In song conveying a universal plea for world peace will be Ray Perkins featured Vocal selection on the Letters Home broadcast from New York world’s fair on Sunday from two forty-fiv- e to three p m over KLO and the NBC-Blu- e as network Perkins inwill ceremonies of postmaster troduce the four winners of the weekly letter writing contest and present thenf with the cash awards Man has better eyesight than any other living creature of lapd or sea MONDAY AT 1L A M TWO BIG SMASHING FEATURES— AT REGULAR BARGAIN PRICES! NOW PLAYING 'HP yJ1 2— GRAND HITS— 2 r? KING OF THE Home Letter Has Sermon In Song OPEN t j Anglin counts as her greatest thrill the time she played "Elec-tra- ” at the Greek theatre of the University of California She says "at the end of the 'play there was a dead silence It lasted over a minute and we were sure we had failed completely Then suddenly there was a great roar such as I have never heard - and the students and faculty came roaring onto the stage in quite the most audience demonstraimpressive tion I have ever seen” The effect of the Greek play Is peculiar as there are no breaks or intermissions The emotion mounts and there is a stillness at the end and then the audience breaks the silence Gets High Rating The National Broadcasting company’s Blue network received the highest listener rating ever obtained by a single network for a single program when it carried the broadcast of Joe Louis’ Championship bout with Tony Galento A listener survey made for1 NBC of the fight fixes the listening audience at 531 per cent a new world’s record for a one time program aired by one network it was stated by Keith Kiggens director of the NBC Blue network AT ANY PRICE" “NO FINER ENTERTAINMENT LAWLESS WEST! ‘t-- t 4 1 'lit rnl M?t flamed ill HUMPHREY BOGART ROSEMARY LANE-Donal- d Crisp PLUS THIS GRAND ROMANCE OF TWO BOYS AND A GIRL FTP fj? inn rs One Price ‘ 'J co-sta- yer preceding productions Told entertainingly the story is of how Judge Hardy almost faces ruin through being mulcted by crooked promoters and how young in love Andy falls romantically ‘ teacher class dramatics with his The Judge finally manages to regain his money and Andy returns to his old sweetheart Polly Benedict before the last reel is over The high spot of the evening for laughs is the high school play In which Andy plays the leading role This is so expertly handled by Di rector W S Van Dyke II that all of us should be able to see our selves of some years back In’ that hilarious presentation Again Lewis Stone is splendid as the Judge Fay Holden as Mother Hardy Sara Haden as Aunt Milly and Cecilia Parker as the sister Marian In the Orpheum’s second feature those scrappy newlyweds Betty who Grable and Jackie Coogan have patched things up again ap and HARNESS MAKERS FADE QUINCY in— (UP)— The J B Schott Manufacturing company has made harness saddles Ovhich other similar equipment in s" Quincy for the last 80 years will be dissolved as soon as the necesary papers are returned from the secretary of state’s office At the plant’s peak it employed 125 men full time pear together for the second time in the hilariously funny campus ed’s heart EveRob- st theatre - s ly fine cast Donald Woods r Love runs riot amid I whirling swirling thrills on the ice! 1 The ICE FOLLIES OF with TcaDROVfZI AhnCURTIS LarnraJOmiSOII 1939 starring JOAN ' with JAMES CRAWFORD STEWART -- LEWIS STONE LEW AYRES A Stars and Skating Beauties of "INTERNATIONAL ICE FOLLIES" la Gorswus TECHNICOLOR let Ballet! —Extra Added— Popeye Cartoon “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp” Latest News Flashes eel ttro!duyn-tyt- t wcturi Added NOVELTY — NEWS X rriMit Pktr with Doncld Woods Evelyn VensMo Russell Hoyden Robert Beirut Sidney Toler vmu hy uy i Kerry Staan Prdatflas A KSCKTW THE WHm —' |