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BROOKLYN EAGLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 193H Telephone MAin 4-6200 9 News and Opinion of Holiday-Week Events on Stage and Screen For Ad Result! Due Thursday at the Albee TTlie Screen The Theater ARTHUR POLLOCK HERBERT COII Ulajcstic Reopens New Season Starts With Crother's Hit, 'Susan And God' By ROBERT FRANCIS The Majestic Theater has been dark or a long time too long. Last night, under the sponsorship of O. E. Wee and Prank McCoy, the loot-lights blazed again and the old playhouse filled for a fresh start Charles Laughton Excels as Beachcomber 'Blossom Time', With Its Entrancing Schubert Music Adapted by Sigmund Romberg, Is Heard Again at the 46th St. Theater.

That veteran operetta about Franz Schubert called "Blossom Time' is back in town again after a score or so of years and the Schubert music, adapted by Slgmund Romberg, Is as good as ever. That Schubert man is a promising composer. At Rivoli Fine Hitchcock Mystery at Globe Film Operetta Arrives at Waldorf. Charles Laughton is no ordinary actor. In his last four or five pictures ht has not played ordinary roles.

Perhaps he couldn't play them well enough to satisfy himself, for his greatness Is in his dramatic expression of psychological complexities, not of ordinary human simplicities. His Bllgh was the portrait of a martinet, a sadistic tyrant; his Barrett, a neurotic attempting to restrain an incest-complex; his Henry VIII, a crude sensualist. These are not people one passes often In the street. Nor is his new role of Ginger Ted in "The Beachcomber" which had its premiere at the Rivoli Theater Christmas Eve a common spectacle. Ginger Ted Is a cast-off from so- with a girl and losing her still holds pretty well, too.

Though It varies slightly from the boy-meets-giM formula, the variation is a useful one- renunciation almost always pays everybody knows, has been trouplng everywhere. It came back yesterday afternoon to the 46th Stref Theater, where On '4 'y- vA "Hellzapoppin" first exploded itself' Into the consciousness of New York ers, and some of the "Hellzapoppin" spirit still clings about the playhouse. Now and then it is Impossible to forget Olsen and Johnson are no longer there, if you happen to be watching the actors. A couple of them are little short of astonishing. This sweet' story with music of life In Vienna in Schubert's day is peopled by actors as romantic as the players who burlesque their heads off in the exaggerated melodramas of the American Music Hall.

You can't always be sure they are being Viennese or simply "Hellzapoppin." Not that they aren't experienced. These are no amateurs, not by a long shot. They do their work, some of them, with an ela orate badness achievable only through long years of practice. The truth is that many members of the cast have worked In the Summer stadia at Jones Beach at Randall's Island, where their audiences were a mile away and they had to exaggerate to get their effects. But don't think the audience at the 46th Street Theater didn't like their heroics yesterday.

They did. When Harry K. Morton and Douglas Leavltt competed at spitting In each other's eyes there were roars of laughter. In vaudeville that would have been sound enough hokum. In "Blossom Time" it seemed something short of Viennese.

But, of course, the old Vienna is gone now. This may be the Vienna of today. Everett Marshall plays Franz Schubert, poor and gentle, struggling at his song-writing, gaining fame, letting his heart beat for little Mitzi who, after the necessary com plications, realizes that she really loves the current Casanova. Mr. Marshall sings with his customary fervor.

Mary McCoy is Mitzl. Mar-jorie Ford and Grade Worth her The story about his falling in love In play plots. "Blossom Time," as the country for years, making good 'Blossom Time' BaoIe and lrrlcs adapted from tha orlrl nal ol A. M. Winner and H.

Reichaft by Doroth; Donnelly. MuUc by Frani Bchu bert, adapted by Sltmund Romberi. Re-vlyed at the 46th Street Theater by the alrairi. Shubert. Stated by Edward Scan- Ion.

Settings by Watson Barratt. THE CAST Kuppelwelser Neville Landor Voael Allen Kaymona Flower Girl Bettt Davis Von Schwlndt Joseph Toner Rellabruna Charlotte Lansing Count Sharntoff Wheeler Uryden Schubert Everett Marshall Mltzl Mary McCoy Fritzi Marjorie Pord Kltzl Oracle Worth Erkman Ernest Goodhart Binder Burt Raeburn Domeyer John Wheeler Krani Douglas Leavltt Schober Boy Cropper Rosl Virginia, Vonne Mrs. Krani Zella Russell Emmy Alyre Chapelle Novotney Harry K. Morton Mrs. Cobllrg Lockwood Danseuse Alyce chapelle sisters, all three clever enough.

Charlotte Lansing Is the Bellabruna, whose jealousies cause trouble. And Roy Cropper plays the charmer she is Jealous of. Mr. Cropper's roman ticism is on one or two occasions prodigious. But they make "Blossom Time" fast and sure.

And the music delights. Lubitsch for Garbo Film Ernst Lubitsch has been signed by Metro Gooldwyn Mayer to direct Greta Garbo In "Ninotchka," In which the Swedish actress will be starred. He will also produce and direct a story for M-G-M which he had previously Intended to do in dependently under the title "The Shop Around the Corner." "Ninotchka" is a story with a back ground of espionage In Paris. 3 and a new season. The occasion was the presentation for the first time ln Brooklyn of Rachel Crothers satirical comedy, "Susan and God which set Broadway to laughing all through last year.

It's a fine thing to have another legitimate house open in Brooklyn. The Majestic is a landmark and deserves enthusiastic support. If subsequent offerings are on a par with the lurrent one, there is no reason why it shouldn get It. If you haven't seen or heard about Miss Crothers delightful play, we won't spoil it for you by going into the plot. In general, it's about a frivolous young matron addicted to fads and posings, who finally gets her come-uppence, and learns that she has to give as well as take.

The author has the happy faculty of lampooning the commonplace deftly and gently, She views her Susan's posturings with an amu.sed and sympathetic eye and endows her with a sparkle and zest which make you like her, too, even when she makes you want to wring her neck. In fact, you'll probably like all of it. It's grand fun from beginning to end. Lily Cahlll plays the Susan created last year by Gertrude Lawrence and Walter Gilbert makes an excellent adoring and long-suffering husband. The cast as a whole is exceptionally competent, containing such names as Derek Fairman, Da- mtan O'Flynn and Judy Parrish.

and all of them do well by their lines. we are told that it is the intention at the Majestic not only to bring over road companies of Broadway hits but to sponsor previews of New York productions. In other words, to bring back those halcvon days when Montgomery and Stone opened the old playhouse with the "Wizard of Oz" and give Brooklyn a legitimate theater of its own' again. How long they will keeo it ud nat urally depends on the customers. At any rate, it's there for them now, and if Brooklyn wants to it can keep it there.

CIRCUS- -BROOKLYN Matinee 1:30 P. M. Evening P. M. W.

P. A. 'FEDERAL THEATRE GREAT 3-ring CIRCUS At I06lh Infantry Arneery, B.dlerd and Atlantie 300 Peesla Clewni. Animals 55-Plete Band Wsrld a Chamelen One-Arm Lion Trainer an .11 w.iiiuiBn mhuh. eitnni erven Sent.

40e Band Concert 2 and P.M. ea.h oay. Wednesday Eve Veteran Jr. Carps Drum. File FEDERAL THEATER PROJECT nam Eujons thutk jvvh street, Boa ol I way teeeatins l.eei TW 4.S7I4 DALY'S TMEATir AM Secsel.

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a For which is announced Albee. "Sharpshooters" will be the ciety who is attempting to avenge a romance, blighted by his stern father, by sinking himself in the crudeness of civilization in the Eastern Archipelago. He is a wastrel, a sot. A lewd, bestial man. It is practically impossible to line up Laughton's roles and choose from til em one that was better man me qthers.

That he sucoeeaea in man hr.e anv one of them clear and con' is in itself a masterstroke. JThat he makes Ginger Ted an un eierstandable creature Is a tremen Hous accomplishment. That he makes him at first despicable and then, by gradual shadings, wins him a small degree of audience avmDhat'iy is nothing short genius. But it is no greater than his Other nortrayals. Ginger Ted is but one more un forgettable firure In the magnificent Laughton gallery.

You must know by now that "The Beachcomber' is strictly aauit. You must also- know that it Is no commonplace subject. You might even be thinking that it is much too highbrow for entertainment. The last thought must be com nletely erased. The new Rivoli film it powerful, absorbing, significant, and, above all, an Irresistible study of character.

In terms of entertain merit, it is the screen equivalent of "Oscar Wilde." Laughton, of course, demands most attention. But It is impossible to lose sight of his wife, Elsa Lan Chester, who, as Martha Jones, rep resents a similar psychologic com plex who has chosen a diametrically opposite means of escape. Disgusted with civilization as she saw it ex emplified by her drunken father, she has come to the Eastern Archi' pelago with her reverend brother as a missionary. Her portrait of Martha is not nearly so clear-cut as Is Laughton's Ginger, but it represents a trior oughly skillful performance. Ginger's activities in the East are, she thinks, disgraceful.

His wild escapades during hk drunken orgies, she complains, undoes all of the good Jones missionary work among the natives. And his Immorality is unconscionable. Not Imprisonment, not hard labor with a common black road-gang will cure him. Nothing short of deportation will satisfy her. But the Dutch gover nor of the islands will not hear of that.

He agrees that Ginger is in corrigible, but he is a white man Ai and he brings occasional relief from the loneliness of the governor's life. Martha really believes that there Is some good in Ginger as there Is according to the poet in the worst of us. He is kind to his mongrel, Dudley. But she finds that he is even better thai she thought, for he volunteers to aid her in battling typhoid on a neighboring island. Ond when he ignores her while they spend a night alone on a barren Island, she proves to be quite nor mally insulted.

She Is the woman spurned" who becomes "a vessel of wrath." i The story comes from the Vessel of Wrath series by W. Somerset Maugham. With the help of Tyronne Guthrie, Robert Newton and Dolly Mollinger, the picture goes among the top dozen of the year. A magnificent piece of work by Director Pommer, Screenwriter Cormack and Mr. and Mrs.

Laughton. Hitchcock's Art THE LADY VANISHES" An Alfred Hitchcock oiccure released through 0Ln Century-Pox. Based en a screen play by Sidney Oilllat and Frank Launder. Presented at the Globe Theater with ft ca.st Including Margaret Lockwood, Michael LI OEWS lOYdW 1 1 MIPWITt HOWS LOFW'S KINGS Flatainh and Tlldoa Avsauts LOEW'S PITKIN Pltkla and Siratoas Avtnun LOEW'S APLINE 9th and Filth Av.aue LOEW'S BAY RIDGE 72d Street end Third Avenue LUtWR HLUr ORO loe 'AKK Snbmarlno DUT WEST WITH TRE ureas Arkansas E. Little E.

Coma vacation Returns to Stage Elsie Janis With her "Gang" she returns to Broadway next Sunday night (at the Music Box) in the first of a series of Sunday night Informal revues N. Y. Paramount Holds' Jack Benny Comedy "Artists and Models Abroad" and Glen Gray and the Casa Loma orchestra, the N. Y. Paramount's double holiday attraction, remains over for a second week at the Times Square theater starting tomorrow.

During the entire engagement the Paramount will offer six de luxe shows daily and on New Year's Eve will present a special midnight stage and screen show. Costarred in the feature are Jack Benny and Joan Bennett. STAGE PLAYS BROOKLYN I NOW Al I urrk GOLDEN BOY nars joiro ss 9aiuC 3 tern. I MAJESTIC NEvins LILY CAHILL 10HS golden "L1 s-fWIelei. COMEDY HIT Men.

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Mnn Jan. nana. Lais liamer, rernaa Graveii Traveler, Bob Burns, John Heal Brown. a-Urting With Fata. Leo Carrillo: Edith Fellows, CIHr Edwarda Brown, Flirting With Fate.

Lea Carrllle; On, Bangers, Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Colman, l( I Were King. Frances Dee; From Love, Dennis O'Keefe, F. Rica Brown. Fllrtln. With F.L.

r- Patrol. Rlrhard Green. K.n.. v.n.. LEGITIMATE THEATERS MANHATTAN I OFVV'S BREVOORT toMl de Lose, Cn.s.

Ruggies ROf.DrKl':,l,nd.R.".' Citadel; 'The Beachcomber' A Mayflower picture released through Paramount, Produced and directed by Erich Pommer from a screen play by Bartlett Cormack based on an original story by W. Somerset Maugham. Presented at the Rivoli Theater. THE CAST Ginger Ted Charles Laughton Martha Jones Miss Lanchester Dr. Owen Jones Tyronne Guthrie The Controleur Robert Newton Lia Dolly Mollinger Katl RoAlta Garcia Sergeant Henrik J.

Solomon Captain Pred Groves Dudley Himself governess mysteriously disappears from the compartment while Iris is asleep. And everybody on the trains with the exception of one Gilbert who looks like a romantic lead and doesn't disappoint denies that Iris was ever seen with another woman. A brain specialist, Dr. Harz, tries to tell her that she Is suff ing from hallucinations caused by the blow at the station. Iris almost believes him, after a while, and so do you.

Hitchcock does strange things to audiences. But he never fails to sat isfy. He has a logical explanation for everything that happens after this point at the Globe, and he un reels It artfully both photographi cally and dramatically. Paul Lukas makes a convincing brain specialist; Dame May Whitty plays Miss Froy with fine restraint; Margaret Lockwood, lead In "To the Victor," pairs with Michael Red grave to carry the action of the play, as Iris and Gilbert, and to straighten out the tangled strings, finally, leaving only a few loose ends. It looks like another Hitchcock hit.

Bootlegged Concert "FORBIDDEN MUSIC" AO Ace picture directed by Walter Forde from a screen play by L. Du Garde Peach and Marion Dlx. Adapted by Rudolf Bernauer from an original story by Fritz Koselka and Armln Rob nson. Presented at the Waldorf Theater with a cast including Jimmy Durante. Richard Tauber, Diana Napier, June Clyde, Derrick de Marney, Esme Percy, George Hayes and John Hey-worth.

Forbidden Music," the second ar rival in the Waldorf Theater's new first-run policy, bears two stamps of its foreign origin: It pokes fun ob viously at some of the laughable ideas of European dictators, particularly Herr Hitler, and it makes no attempt to disguise the old-fashioned form of simple operetta in favor of streamlined musicals in the Hollywood manner. Both ideas are laudable. And they were undoubtedly approached with good Intentions, for "Forbidden Music" has a reasonable operetta cast and a past-master by the name of Oscar Straus as composer of the operetta score. Yet the will is greater than the deed, for the "musical sa tire on dictatorships" doesn't quite come off. It makes the gestures of operetta.

and it frolics through a series of sly situations. But its frolicking Is done with a smile rather than a laugh. It lacks the robust spirit that used to send operetta audiences out of the theater gayly humming melodies that were no better than these, and remembering stray lines of wit days after they were sung. It might have profited, by more of Durante brand of comedy. fritz uoselka and Armin Robin son built their story on an incident that occured early in the nineteenth century.

For practical purposes they nevisea a mythical Grand Duchy of Lucco that was under the power of its creditor, Austria, because its reo. pie preferred making music to making money. To combat this happy out, unioruinate situation, the Prin cess Regent outlawed all musical instruments and forbade sinelne in the Duchy. Without much difficulty we can think of comparable orders or the day. But her proclamation onlv an gered her subjects.

They had their music bootlegged, with the help of Jimmy Durante, an American newspaper correspondent; Richard Tau- oer. an exiled Lucco tenor: June Clyde and Derrick de Marney. And when the Princess Regent tried to end this by Jailing its leaders, she found herself with a revolution to quell. That may also be a wishful prophecy. More spirited direction bv Walter Forde and brighter writing by the battalion of scriptmen might have raised the general standard of "Forbidden Music" to the height of the Ftraus score which, despite a fuzzy soundtrack.

Includes three worthy additions to his record: "Simple Little Melody," "Smile for Me" and Heaven in a Song." L.ovc on kis "LIEBESBRIEFE ADS DEM ENOADIN" 'Love Leilers from Er.Kftdln"!. A Grrman- anguag comedy produced and directed. Luis Trenker and presented at the 8fith Oarden Theater with a cast Including Trenker, Carla Rust. Erlka von Thelrmann. Chariot! Daudert, Paul Heidemann and obert Dorsay, At Christmas time It is pleasant to see the sparkle of snow, even if it is confined to the w.reen.

Yorkvllle la having more than its share this ICE SKATING BROOKLYN 3SISSIONS rrilIOCHiST AM.r 1 I a) I ATLA ATLAN 1 II. AVtS. I dinner, rmn urey Brown. Flirting With Fate, Leo ('arrllls; On, Rangers, Roy Rogrra, Mary Hart School, Anne Sblrlev. Nan Grey: Musketeers, Margaret Lindsay Brown.

Flirting With Fate, Leo Carrillo; On. Rangers, Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Brown. Flirting With Fate, Leo Carrillo; On, Rangers. Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Brown. Flirting With Fate.

Leo Carrillo; R4T "ogers. Mary Hart Wings, technicolor. Fred MacMurray Darling, Judy Garland. Freddie Bartholomew Brown. Flirting With Fate.

Leo Carrillo; on Rangers, Roy Rogftra, Mary Hart LOEW'S BROADWAY Broaritay and Myrtle Avenue LOEW'S CENTI'RY Nostrand and Parkilde Avenuei LOEW'S COVEY ISLAND Surf and stillwell Avenuei LOEW'S 4HTH 8T Ssth Street and New Utrecht Aenua LOEW'S GATES Gattt Avenus and Brtadwav LOEW'S KAMEO tsetera Parkvsv Mattran aM LOEW'S MELRA Llvlnteton Street asd Minever Plate RKO Kenmore, Chureh.Fiathuth Ave. RKO Prospect. Ninth Ave RKO Madison. Myrtle-Wy, keif RKO Dvaer. 6th St.

and Filth Ave RKO Kushwick. Howard Ave RKO Republic, Grand snd Keae RKO Greenpoint. 825 Manhatlaa RKO Tilyou. Surf and Ceoey 111, Avel RKO Orphrum, Furton pi Dick Olivia loe Come Girls' Broadway loe E. Come loe lome loe E.

Hen With Listen loe E. Come "JUST SHIRLEY TEMPLE YoXI. AROUND THE CORNER" Arleen Wbelan in "Thanks as the next attraction at the second feature. 'Golden Boy' Odels Prize Ring Drama Revived at Brooklyn Shubcrt By ROBERT FRANCIS After a week of pre-Christmas vacation the Brooklyn Shubert Theater again opened its doors yesterday afternoon with a revival of Clifford Odels' success of last year, "Golden Boy." It is a good selection for the holiday trade, for nearly everybody seems to like a prize fight story, and yesterday's appreciative audience apparently was no exception. While "Golden Boy" to me has never seemed a great play, it will probably be a popular one whenever it is played.

It is the old, old story of the dirty fringes of the fight game, of the boy who seeks Jame week at the 86th St. Garden Theater, where Luis Trenker, the Ger man skier, is producing, directing and acting in "Love Letters From Engadin." There is a plenitude of beautiful snow scenes in the picturesque Alp country, and Trenker sees to it that all of the thrills expected from skiing are well represented in his film. But Trenker is essentially a sportsman. He is not a practiced hand at producing, directing or act ing. And he is not an accomplished comedian a personality that most comedies need.

What humor there is comes from the idea of the story itself which finds an enterprising innkeeper sending love letters over the signature of the famous skier to prospective customers in lieu of more conventional advertising. The guests, therefore, are mostly feminine and mostly romantic. Their most popular trick Is to get lost on skis at night so that the bewildered skimaster can come to rescue them under the most promising circum stances. Carla Rust. Erika von Thellmann and Charlott Daudert are always worth rescuing.

They act well, too. MOTION PICTURES UtE FEATURE IMS a. M.l M-G-M's TECHNICOtOR MUSICAL i JcemM ftrtwdwti 8irt Nelson MacDONALD EDDY in Victoi SWEETHEARTS Herbert' RADIO CITY MUSIC HALl 501 $1. 6th Ave. Doofi Opi 9.13 A.

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Am. HHhSt CHARLES LAUGHTON? -'The BEACHCOMBER' nil VLI aeiri lus iio a. at. anowiTi aMOwal PMSOM GLEN GRAY BENNY BENNETT UtO ui io MOMS ASMif 1 ANwlwTsuTm Paranount TMMt Will I a I I I. and quick money only to find them worthless.

There's hokum in it, but it's human and interesting always with frequent moments of stjirk drama and these, combined with crackline dialogue, add up to a rattling good evening's entertain ment. Also, it is peopled with char acters you won't soon forget: Joe Bonaparte, the youngster torn be tween his fiddle and his fists, Is a picture of tragic frustration; old Bonaparte, his devoted, fruit-selling father; Fuselli, whom the war left with a gun and an itching trigger-finger; a whole parade of them fighters, managers, hangers-on, pa thetic or comic as the case may be, but all caught with an uncanny accuracy which is Clifford Odets' stock in trade. It is well worth the seeing. Joseph Pevney again plays the be wildered Joe. He has had plenty of experience with it improves with each repetition.

Muriel Campbell is the Lorna of the current edition and makes the 'tramp from Newark' pathetic and believable. Producer Cosentino has assembled an excellent cast. Perhaps due to last week's lay-off there has been longer opportunity for rehearsal. Anyway, it's all extremely well done. 'Angels' Held Over At Local Paramount "Angels With Dirty Faces." starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, will be held over for a second week at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater beginning tomorrow.

The co-feature will be the Jones family in "Down on the Farm." The "Dead End" Kids, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft play featured roles in "Angels With Dirty Faces." The film is a melodrama of two boys of the slums, one of whom Cagney as Rocky Sullivan) becomes a gang ster, while the other (O'Brien) grows up to become a priest. MOTION PICTURES B'KlYN flotbuih al D.Kalb PARAMOUNT JAMES CAGNEY-PAT O'BRIEN "Otad Imt" KM Hplira Socart "ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES" fonts amity "Down On Tfco Farm' FOX Flolbuth at Navini Dtck Foran Gloria Dtckaon Gala Pit Allen ItnKlna "HEART OF THE NORTH CMMess Ptrtenaiecsi it Paeihjr rrteas I J. LESLIE HOWAKD 2 1 smart San I PYGMALION ProJurU hi Gatrwlfaacei. A -M-tt-Af Htl 2 St to I P.M. at All flCTflD Timet.

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8 :40 Mats. New Year's Week: Jan. 4 A 7 FRlTand'sAT BAr-HI EVERETT MARSHALL In the Immortal Musim! Blossom time 8TBFET THEATRE, W. el B'way. En.

1:30 Opms Tonight at 8:40 Sharj, WII.t.lAM KII.Ct'LI.EN prcscTifj RRIGHT REBEL A PLAY ABOIT LORD BVROV by STANLEY YOI NG I Yf 4it E. ol H'wav. 1R. URST MATINEE TIII'RSPAY at 2:40 Open, TONIGHT 8:40 nH- CONTEMPORARY prcs-nt. nON'TTHROW GLASS HOUSES A Comedy bv DORIS FRASKI I.

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lit Thereafter lo rt.lc. Entire Orcb Olirnlns Niihl ti thereafter III NATIONAL 41 St flu. II KiSil 1.1 MTINLE SaturiLiy at III 1ST 1 U'Ft'KS IVININRSalS i.1 I 1 WatSat.lP 1.5 II Maurice Evans Vr' HAMLET KM 1UKTY SI'. JAMES. 44th 8t.

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12 2d UUTTLinu (iitf. III. Hon M'i'cf Sol riltl.ll BARRY'S Here come the clowns BOOTH. 4V CI. G-'9i9.

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44 St. Fvs. In 34 III Orrh. Seats on Sale for New icnr'a I vr. SHDIUinC TDDfl 1 Triangle, Klnei H'way and t.

i Voene C.ne. I.I Nostrand, and Nea.r.nd. BAY RIDGE renter. 81.1k Ave. and wih 8t Eleetra, 7th 81.

and Third Ave Stanley, Filth Ave, and 75th St BEDFORD Apollo. Fulton snd Threes National 720 ws.hlnsten Ave. Rogers, ftnien tar Sullivan Savoy, 15 1 Bettlord Ave Rtmnl HAM. AVI) FEATURE FILH1S I1" 12th St Isn't Ton Belle Just Around Redgrave. Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers.

Naughton Wayne and Basil Radford. There is no mistaking an Alfred Hitchcock picture. No other current screen director has shown his talent for building suspense with a camera or for highlighting the most reasonable elements of a mystery drama to make even the mediocre appear sound. That Is his accomplishment at the Globe Theater this week where "The Lady Vanishes" is the new tenant. It is not a perfect mystery yarn, a once you stop to consider it in retrospect.

But it is a startling, exciting affair that hasn't a moment's letdown In all of its 85-mlnutes, and it is always logical in its unfolding. As in "The Girl Was Young," an earlier 1938 Hitchcock film, the mys- tery is not deep. The Hitchcock technique compensates for that, although there is less evidence, this time, of the direc'or's penchant for humor. It is no1, the best Hitchcock piece of the year. But here is a director who has a wide margin to work with before he drops from the grade of good to pretty good.

He is still within a safe distance after filming "The Lady Vanishes." The title is an accurate tion of the plot. The lady in question is Miss Froy. who Identifies her Sinners: alio The Pride of the We.t Uncoln; T.ri.o and the Green Goddess also The Mysterious Mr. Moto Davis. The Time Out for Murder Certain Air: al.o A Man to Remember Power In Nuer; In lumbers the Corner; Hard to Get nnuVTnivu Rooncy In Stablematrs; also Drums noirield.

Oullield snd Fultes St. rankrnalrin: also llrarula Mornart at. end Rsckw.ll PI. Port of se.rn and ampo, oole.s one St. t.rorge Plsvhou.e.

Il Plnensel. 8t Siihms rlne Patrol; al.o The Mad Ml-. Manlon Jr.r"fi V'i. 81 Certain Are; A Man to Rcmrn.l.rr Tivoll. Fulton 81.

and Myrtle Av The Mad Miss Manton; alao Gangster Boy BRIGHTON BEACH Oceana, nrimton Braeh ATBt'SH Astor, Flalbuih nesr Chureh rinema. N.wklrk Ave. and E. 16th Flatbuah. Chureh asd Flatbueh Glenwood, I47S Flstbueh Ave Granada, Chureh and heitrsnd It Happened Trader Rrtle Melodrama; Sign of the Cross One Night; Little Miss Marker Horn; alao Whom the Gode Destroy bv Ihe Police: The Man Wilh Inn Facet Davis, The Sisters: Go Chaae our.

elf EAST U.ATBI Sll Avenue Ave. E. did St Belle Davis in The Sisters; Breaking the Ira GERRITSEN REACH Graham, 31 1 Whitney Ave Lane Sisters In Four Daughters; Juvenile Court PARK SLOPE Atlantie. Flstbuth Are. snd Dean 81 Sing.

You Yaune He self as a governess. She appears to be a pleasant woman who likes to listen to street singers. You know she isn't so ordinary, though, for one of the singers Is strangled under kthe balcony of her hotel room. And some one trys to finish her off by "aiming a flower box at her head. The box, instead, hits Iris Henderson, a casual acquaintance, who is standing with her on a small European railway platform.

It doesn't do any harm and it makes their friendship more secure. Trk is dazed by the blow and the continue their Journey to Eng-tnd In the same train compnrt- rnent, have tea together. Then the Carlton. Flstbueh and Seventh Submarine Patrol; al.o service ric Luve I'lasa. Flalbuih Ave.

and Park Place al.o The Nut I arm Pro.oeel park we.t.Ulh Can't Take It With Ynu; Time Sloojc. KINGS HIGHWAY Jewel, Klnta Highway and Oee.n kwy Abraham Lincoln; ako Me Are Only Human AVKNVk SEC TION Avenue Thea Ave. li IBIS Krlle Davis In The Breaking Ihe Ire Travmore. Avenue and E. 46th Ironkensleln; also Drarula.

with Rela l.iignvl RIDIiEWOOD Colonial. 1746 Broadway Submarine Patrol: al.o Service de Luxe Rivoli, Myrtle and wilioa aAi 1 he Garden of the Moon: Army Girl, Pre. Ion lo.trr SHKEPSIIEAD RAY Sheep. head, Shoesehead Bay, Veechiee. Submarine Patrol; also Ihere Goes Mv Heart SOt TH BROOKLYN Ssnder's Globe, 226 15th St Sim You alao The Last Express.