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19 BROOKLYN EAGLE, THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1941 New Sturges Comedy Author's Dilemma Fills Fox Picture 'Honeymoon for Starring Ann Sheridan, 'Arizona' Remains At Boro Paramount -Arizona." starring Jean Arthur, and featuring William Holden, will remain at the Brooklyn Paramount Tntater for a second week through next Tuesday, it was announced to-, day. The co-feature Is "Lift) WltH Henry," starring Jackie Cooper. The Paramount's next attraction! will be "This Thing Called Love," featuring Rosalind Russell, Robert Montgomery' and Gene Raymond, and "The Case of the Black Parrot." Is 'The Lady Eve' With Fonda, Stanwyck at Paramount; Criterion Shows Rathbone's 'Mad Doctor' By HERBERT COHX "The Lady Eve" is Preston Sturges' way of sneering at the law of averages and laying down the gauntlet to the fates. "The Lady Eve" that arrived yesterday at the N.

Y. Paramount Is Sturges third hit out of his last three tries. Sometimes he has got to crack, but that time is not now: "The Lady Eve" is a honey, close to the mark of "The Great McGinty." Moreover, it gets to be a honey by 1 Brent, Is New Comedy George Brent is an amusing low when he wants to be and yes- terday, when "Honeymoon "for Three" came into the Fox Brook- lyn Theater, he wanted to be and often was, despite the shortcomings of a hardly bright script. Ann 1 Sheridan, his co-star, found equal handicaps in the story's lack of luster, but stie too managed to avoid some of the pitfalls of the screen i i a route that has brought misery to THE LADY EVE' Trumbo to Be Host At Benefit Party Dal ton Trumbo. screen and radio playwright, will play host to a bene fit party at his Hollywood home Saturday night for the aid of tht American Rescue Ship Mission.

A Feramount tlrture. directed tnd written Presion Siurgs. Irom itnrjr by Mnnekton Hofft Prtttiutd the Kew Yon Firkmount Thum. THE CAST nn. A k- Wf it I'M fj I ti kVj 4 J-- TV ui a Jf in iJLTSiS Birbin Stinwvck Hfnr Pond Charks Coburn Eusne Plitie William Demarest -Erie Blorp Melflllft Cooprr Charles Cotonrl Hamrtitnn- Mr.

Hit MlUMT Sir Alfred Grld i ON NEARBY play. The whole thing is nothing more than this: a writer of fiction arrives in Cleveland for a lecture along with his fiancee-secretary i they Ye Brent and Miss Sheridan, of course), and one of Mr. Brent's SCREENS Ida I lininrt in "Hinh irm Sturges' credit, along with the feat I into the yarn, the trouble being that often he injects mere Inanities. And, of course, this serves to hamper Mr. Brent and Miss Sheridan no little.

Ruggles does better than anybody of keeping Er.c Blore and Melvin loaay ar neign the old admirers 0.sa Massen) Is posi borhood theaters and at tive she has secretly been the in Century Circuit's Kingsway, spiration for the heroine of his last I else in prosecuting the original in-novel, and Mr. Brent finds it neces- i lention of the script. He manage sary to "take her out" merely to to be decidedly comical as the remove her idealistic ideas. Ail of cheap sport who becomes enmeshed which brings the lady's husband in Miss Sheridan's luscious Rugsles) to Miss Sheri- pany. And Miss Massen has a real-dan.

And Miss Massen's family ly effective line when she confides fears shell disgrace the family to Brent: "Our romance was so other more practiced hands. "The Lady Eve" is slapstick. Probably Preston Sturges also walks under ladders, purposely smashes mirrors and lures black cats to cross his path. You can never tell about a man who risks a hit on slapstick. It is not a special kind of slapstick, either Just an assortment of falls i that floors somber Henry Fonda no fewer than six times, four times into or under a liberal assortment of good.

But it is hilariously funny, even for one who thought he had long since passed the Keystone saturation point. The more subtle qualities of "The Lady Eve," though, are pure Sturges touches a peppery variety of dialogue, brisk and imaginative direction, an astuteness in casting and a batch of novelty camera work. Sturges focuses his camera in Lady Eve's pocket mirror while she watches Charles Pike, the beer-hating beer heir, better known as Hopsy, set the fortune huntresses swooning, or he watches with a dialogueless sound track while Lady Eve woos bewildered Hopsy and makes him think he is wooing her. The result is often convulsing. It is never less than delightfully refreshing.

So that man Sturges Is back again with his bag of comic writing and directing tricks, working wonders on a story that has been told Cooper under restraint and drawing two more smooth performances from Eugene Pallette and William Demarest. It is all part of the slick Sturges method of making beautiful, slide-splitting comedies. Tony Pastor and his orchestra and Ben Blue are the headliners of the New York Paramount's stage presentation, with Ella Logan and Toy and Wing supplying the specialties. Rathbone Thriller At Loew's Criterion "THI MAD DOCTOR." Pammnunt pleture. direct by T.m Whelan.

trom a screen play by Howard J. Green. Pre-aented at Criterion Theater, THE CAST Dr. Oeorae Sebastian -Basil Rathbone Linda Boothe Ellen Drew picious. But he gets away with his murder and comes on to New York to make wealthy Ellen Drew, who has a suicide complex, his next victim.

This time his plans go askew. First he really falls in love with her and cures her neurosis; then he cures himself of his mania so that he doesn't want to kill Ellen when he makes her his wife, and finally John Howard, the good-looking young reporter from the Star, Is fast catching up with his wicked past. Dr. Rathbone should have known better than to steal our Mr. Howard's girl friend.

He couldn't win, for Mr. Howard never loses. But the audience doesn't win at the Criterion, either, even though "The Mad Doctor" picks up speed toward the end and steps up its ethereal so empty of somethlng-ness." "Honeymoon for Three," you see. does have its moments. The Fox's second feature, "Captain Caution," features Victor Mature, Bruce Cabot and Louis Piatt, and concerns the robust endeavors of sea privateers to profit from the War of 1812.

It's somewhat overdressed but abounding in exciting duels A. R. name, altogether. What is more, Mr. Brent eventually gets an alienation of affections suit heaped upon him.

The Epstein Twins. Julius and Philip, try diligently to enliven the dialogue, and do a brave Job, and, indeed, help to bolster Earl Baldwin's screen story. Ar, for Lluyd Bacon, his direction attempts to pump whatever frivolities possible IN NIW FILM AT ALBEE The Andrews Sisters Patty, Moxene and LaVerne who ore featured with Abbott and Costello in "Buck Privates," opening today with "Murder Among Friends." Oil Sawyer John Howard MOTION PICTURES Louise Watlcin Barbara Allen Ralph Moraan -Martin Kosleclc Dr. Downer Maui lea Orm I suspense. It also adds a subway i killing a shooting and a suicide to I its earlier assorted grimness, which I makes for an overdose of homicide, except for confirmed sadists.

I H. C. i I Gabrielle," Leonardo Bercovlci's TRW THE STORY "MAO 006 Alfh Viki Wells Heads Cast At the Star Theater "Whirl of Girls," a new girlie revue staged by Eddie Lynch with a cast of 63 singers, dancers and comedians, will open for a week's engagement tomorrow at the Brooklyn Star Theater. Continuous performances will be given daily and Sunday with amateurs as an added attraction on Tuesday. Viki Wells, a glamorous redhead, will top the cast that includes Ra-mona, sensational European dancer; Margie Roy, Doris Weston, Rita De-vere, Tommy (Moe) Raft, Joe Freed, Jimmy Pinto, Danny Tucker and Joe Lyons.

The schizophrenic Basil Rath-bone, who is as nice as you please as Sherlock Holmes, is exhibiting his nastier side as "The Mad Doctor'' at Loew's Criterion Theater Mr. Rathbone Is extremely nasty, which is quite becoming to Howard Green's screen play. But so much nastiness in one session is sometimes hard to take. That's the trouble at the Criterion. Dr.

Rathbone, a psychoanalyst, has a way of murdering his wives so that death seems to be due to penumonia. He has Just staged his little trick at the opening of "The Mad Doctor" and he has the local medico confused and a little sus dramatization of the Thomas Mann story published under the title of "Tristan," will be presented by before, the one about the lovely gambler who planned to "take" the handsome heir, but who lost her heart to him instead. But that story has never been told the way Sturges tells It. And never before has it been given the comic twist that finds the pretty swindler, having once been tossed over by the enlightened heir, hoaxing her way back into his confused life posing as an innocent British noblewoman. Nor has any one ever before hit on the idea of making Fonda so amusing a boob or Barbara Stanwyck so seductive a comedienne or Charles Coburn so deft and charming a card sharp.

It is all to dians and with a story to help, rather than to hamper, them. Laugh at Draft Indeed, Abbott and Costello make the draft pretty laughable business even though it certainly Isn't. It seems Bud is selling 10-cent neckties on a street corner while Lou tries to co-operate and suddenly they are being chased by Nat Pendleton the cop. and they seek shelter in a movie theater merely to find it has been converted into an army recruiting station. From this point on the antics are even more comical, especially the drill routine portion that brings forth slapstick of a really subtle nature.

The Andrews Sisters are pleasant army hostesses and, of course, they contribute several of their appeallngly passionate, rhythmic vocal numbrs. But always Abbott and Costello are the folks to watch. There's a great plenty of homicide in "Murder Among Friends," the Albee's co-feature, co-starring Mar-Jorle Weaver and John Hubbard, romancers who find themselves in a pleasing dilemma with the signing of a pact that will deliver $200,000 to the one who remains alive. KR. Rowland Leigh at the Maxine Elliott Theater during tne week of March 17.

Eleanor Lynn, John Cromwell and Harold Vermilyea have the leading roles. Abbott, Costello Downright Funny In 'Buck Privates' Pepper Albee Picture Dealing With Draft With Riotous Antics The somewhat stumpy, stoutish, silly and dark one sometimes looks met like Mayor LaGuardia than LaGuardia does, and is always telling people he's "a ba-a-ad boy." He's Lou Costello. The rather lean, longUh and exasperated one who doesn't look like Mayor LaGuardia at all Is the chap who tries to control Costello's ideas. He's Bud Abbott. Together, as usual, they Invaded the Albee Theater today along with the singing Andrews Sisters In "Buck Privates," the first of the draft comedies, and they definitely are funny, and rousing, too.

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