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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1940 News of the Stage and Screen 1 lsw-tj, The Drama Desk The Flier and the Fair By Harold W. Cohen Scranpincs The Man Who Came to 1 5W1 i A 7 or1 cunpany will see the New The Gardens, where a. block of tickets j7 mmmmmmmsmm miJnieht nerformance of Funniest line in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" is when the doctor aks Sheridan Whiteside what the best news would be that he could give him and Sherry replies: "That you have hydrophobia." After seeing "The Bank Dick," it should be perfectly obvious to everybody that excess baggage like Charlie McCarthy or Mae West isn't for W. C. Fields.

It should also be perfectly obvious that nobody but Mahatma Kane Jeeves, who happens to be W. C. Fields, should write for him either. tV I' JiiM Follies." Allen Tolley i fleeted president of the Tep Club for The other new officers are i Gardner, vice president; Freed, secretary, and Joe treasurer. Carmen, the i incer who was such a sen-it the old Plaza Cafe a few aro, is in town visiting Dorothy Wenzel, the is home from New Trick of the Year: Five or six horsemen swinging that stamped ing cattle herd around to bowl over the Apaches in "Arizona." Actual for the holidays.

ly it would have taken the great wall of China to do it. Jean Arthur needs Frank Capra. Pants seem to uninhibit a lot of actresses. Take Olivia De Havil land, for instance she's more nat tural in "Santa Fe Trail" than she's ever been. One-word description of that strip number 300-pound Happy Hyatt does in burlesque: Insanitease.

That was a erood caDtion in one of the New York papers over the picture of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh going back to England. It read. "The Long Voyage Home." From Hollywood Cecil B. DeMille is trying to borrow James Stewart from M-G-M for the part of Stephen Osier in "RPn the Wild Wind." May Rob- sS vv ROBERT TAYLOR Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Flight Command," which recently had a stratospheric world premiere in four different parts of Xorth America and South America, will be the Stanley's New RUTH HUSSEY Year's attraction. It stars Mr.

Taylor, and 'features the up-and-coming Miss Hussey and Walter Pidgeon, and tonight with a special midnight show. son gets the title role in Warners' "Miss Wheelwright Discovers America." And at the same studio, Arthur Kennedy and Joan Perry vrond thouRhts after welnjf Tb- F)lUe" the other night: a uonderful show it Hut (horns iinale, "On Parade," a military precision number on s'hiit' of the world. I rirk ami Frack don't do enough. Heiniet Brock and Evelyn ('hamller U' better every season. Ami Be iChrhardt gets ttir.

Ib-e Shipstads and (Kcir all of whom could rdire on their profits as ntill doing their stuff on ic oiid still giving the newcomers thr pb-nty of compete in. Uiiby and Bobby in tlm first-act finale, the "winu NnH" The grace of I'jn'r nml wack, Osborne Col-on tno (ialbraiWi Brothers; thf bn nthtaking peed of Harris he nil. and the funny McKellan Brother. The Penguin Family, so rutr. Von wonder how nun felling editions can be im-proved upon.

Shea, the (lancer and Car-ni'iii' Toch drama graduate, home tor tiir holidays with her two part-rrtv, the Thompson Brothers of San I1. They open at a Boston night rhn, the Cocoanut Grove, next i and may come here to the Nixon Cafe after that. John I.i.arn's deal for a Miami nigrht vot this season fell through when If flew down there and the prospective sellers raided the ante. The Playhouse's next how will be Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" with Leonard Persky in the title rle. It is to be presented the nights of January 19 and 21.

To IT. City: 11) Diosa Costello did work the Bath and Turf Club I i.t in Atlantic City (2) She is not married. (3) She now Hollywood making a picture, TQ Mot iri Argentina," for Oprning Today Fulton Paul Muni in TODAY cutter WW f0 tforr wif. IS yw-1 vt 60O p.m. 6i have been set for the leads in "Strange Alibi." Jean Parker and Richard Allen will be co-starred In "Power Dive," the first William Pine-Bill Thomas independent production for Paramount release.

R-K-O may continue Donald MacBride and Alan Mowbray in a series of pictures on backstage life. They've already done "Curtain Call" and "Show Business." Paramount has taken up the option of Margaret Hayes, who recently had her name changed from Dana Dale. Fuzzy Knight has joined Fred McMurray, 3Iary Martin and Robert Preston in "New York Town." W. S. VanDyke has been granted a 14-day leave of absence by the Marine Corps to finish directing the Robert Montgomery Ingrid Bergman picture, "Rage of Heaven." Honey Bee Keller Back at Casino I A tt.

Cr.lel.ll, 3M4 United Stiles t2 "4jS fs'M' WhjtHinr'-'t--- s-ns with Laire C'regar. Tirrn.y, Sutton and evening at 6 Mfl nriiir. This o'rlork mi GENE TIERNEY Laird Cregar John Sutton Virginia Field Vincent Price Nigel Bruce "-vB JHftt I Ohsorralinn I'ost a to "Prof. Tmt was strictly, to coin a word, hical error. Raymond should have been for his pel f.irinancp in "Santa Fe Trul" and not "Abe Lincoln In Miriois." And to tho.se who no- A Broadway headliner for the last three years, Honey Bee Keller, making her first tour since early 1938, is the current headliner at the Casino, where she.

is starring in "Step Lively Girls." The blonde disrober and her own show were brought here especially for the holiday week by George Jaffe, who has been negotiating for Miss Keller's return here for several months. The comedy of "Step Lively Girls" is in the hands of Billy (Cheese 'n' Crackers) Hagan and Sammy Smith, while the two other tease artists in the cast are Dolly Dawson and Patricia Morgan. The cast also includes Charles Harris, Belle Rochelle, Stanley Simmons, the Ballatores, the Rexfords and Al Blanc. ViAOT EVE only nine Pictures in Tha TkeNKSTIEST AnatioBDraaa was ii Md Mason's ir Best list, that not to coin a WOr ord, a ttlDfJIGflf i.l -J" mi 'i- wa, 3Sjir iver sroaaBt ts the Screes! error. "My the other seine correction was Post-Gazette's Five-.

Now that. "Love is here vnn mav V(Y" Ml.lr 1 1 I-'' i edr Thv Neighbor Villella at Balconatles TONIGHT Joe Villella and his orchestra are all thai Allen wanted the -it 1.1 premiere in Old Orchard. and Jack Benny held out for V.a-ikegan, III But it really should ive staged in Harlem, in lament of Rochester's e-ste There are those who insist the nuld ueatlier on Christmas Day was arraiik-cd by the Warner publicity department to plug the swell "Christmas In staying indefinitely at the Balcon-ades, with Joe doing the m. c. chores for the shows and conducting the Kiddie Kar Sweepstakes.

Favors, noisemakers and breakfast ALL SEATR 3r, plus 4c tax RALPH BELLAMY MARGARET LINDSAY Michael Whalen Charley Grapewin TICKETS NOW ON SALE ALL SEATS 6Sc TANILE will top off the New Year's eve REGULAR PERFORMANCES BEGIN WEDNESDAY LAST TIMES TODAY "SANTA FE TRAIL" festivities at the Route SI spot. ELLERY QUEEN MASTER DETECTIVE UK THAT WAS A HON EX JOE nui0.0Vf Those DEAD END KIDS TS FOP Bobby Jordan Lo Gorcry EVP Doo ir. 1 VDfn ihm --Ml Last Day: Gene Auiry ivaiuh' a 6 BIGGEST STAGE SHOW IN TOWN BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW NEW YEAR'S EVE MIDN1TE FUN JAMBOREE FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY i a. je i i i i i maim bvy-v jf i mm NOW TELL US THE PHILADELPHIA STOH (Won fcsor obouf the great start There's CAJ? GRANT, KATHARINE HEPBURN, JAMES STEWART and a big M-G-M supporting east COMING SOON iifia lie J1 MILKMAN'S MATINEE A. M.

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