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AVI BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 193ft "Movie FirsUNighters View New Chaplin Film Other Photoplays Arrive 20 March, Hepburn Co-Star Myrna Loy At the Brooklyn Strand In 'Mary ol Scotland Fredric March has been signed by Picture Parade The Screen MARTIN 'DICKSTEINi iBy WINSTON BVRDETT: RKO Radio Pictures to co-star with Katharine Hepburn In her forthcoming screen version of "Mary of a successful stage play Ten Productions to Face Paramount Cameras by Maxwell Anderson i i. Marcb, who nas just compietea 1 1 'Modern With Charlie Chaplin, Opens at the Rivoli 'The Lady Consents' Comes to the Center Theater Charlie Chaplin's, satire of the machine age, "Modern Times," had Its first showing last night at the Rivoli Theater under circumstances the leading role In "Anthony Adverse" for Warner Brothers, will play the Earl Bothwell, done on the stage by Philip Merivale. John Ford will direct "Mary ol Scotland' and Dudley Nichols is Writing the screeu play. This Is the This Month Music Hall and Brooklyn Strand Usher in New Programs Today Unprecedented Spring activity is planned at the Paramount West Coast studios, where no less than 10 productions are scheduled to get under way before the end of the current month. Such top-flight stars as W.

C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Jack Oakle, George Raft and Carole Lombard are among those slated to face the Cameras in new pictures during the next few weeks. Raft and Miss Lombard, as weSe probably told you before, an to be teamed again In "Concertina," which William K. Howard will direct The ---5 A 5 ty v. director-author combination responsible for the RKO Radio hits, "The 9 that left no doubt that this was an "event." If you have kept up.

at with the advance publicity which has attended the picture, you are aware that this is in every respect a Chaplin creation: Chaplin wrote jilt, directed it and produced it, and even composed the accompanying tcore. More provocative than this, however, was the fact that in "Modern Times" he promised to give bis own satirical Indictment of Industrial Civilization, to set himself loose among the machines and play havoc two stars will be supported In the production by such favorites as Alison Bkipworth, George Barbier and WmiamJrawley. Crosby's follow-Up to i Ss at I with the mammoth contraptions of a modern factory. It was an order "Anything Goes," which arrived- Which invited comparison with with Warren Williams and Dolores yesterday at the N. Y.

Paramount, Rio, and "Moonlight on the will be "Rhythm on the Range." The redoubtable Bing will have the Prairie," starring Dick Foran. Informer" and "The Lost Patrol." Miss Hepburn has Just arrived In Hollywood after a long vacation in the East and the picture will go Into production within the next few days. Outstanding Bill Due V. At the Met. Tomorrow One of the outstanding double-feature film programs of the sea son will begin a week's run tomorrow at Loew Metropolitan Theater.

Sharing the bill will be Myrna Loy's newest starring production, in which Spencer Tracy plays the masculine lead and "King of Burlesque The latter, described as one of the gayest musical productions of the year, features Warner Baxter, Jack Oakle and Alice Faye. Pictures opening at Brooklyn the -Va If role of a cowboy In this one, with Norman Taurog directing. aters tomorrow are: Whlpsaw," with Myrna Loy, and John Howard, immediately fol- In 'Whiptaw, which will ghare the bill with 'King of Burlesque at Metro-politan beginning King of Burlesque," with Warner lowin his role with Fred MacMur- 'Modern Times' Written, directed nd produced by Charles Chaplin and released through United ArtUU. Mutlc composed Charles Chaplin. THE CAST A Tramp.

Charles Chaplin A Oamln Paulette Ooddard A Cafe Proprietor. Henry Bergman A Mechanic Chester Conklln The Burglars Stealer Stanford Rank Mann touts Natheuz President ol a Steel Corporation. Allen Oarcla Baxter, Jack Oakle and Alice Faye, at Loews Metropolitan; "Next Time Love," starring Margaret Sullivan, and "Paddy OTJay," with Jane ray and Joan Bennett In "13 Hours by Air," will go Into "Border Flight-Tom Brown and Frances Farmer also are scheduled for appearance In this original story by, Swing Scott, which Scott himself will direct. Withers, at the Albee: and "Dan current feature, "Celling Zero," will gerous with Jack Holt, and The Lone Wolf Returns," at the be held over at that house for a sec ond week. Fox.

The Brooklyn Paramount's W. C. Fields, as has already been reported here, is due to face the cameras soon in "Poppy," which will MOTION PICTURES -Rene Clair; and, Indeed, "Modern Times" is far too reminiscent of "A Nous la Liberte" not to suffer greatly by the comparison. It is almost totally lacking in the qualities of pace and continuity which a 3l screen satire requires in order to i be consistently effective. It fails, "too, to maintain its satiric note be-yond the opening sequences.

What begins as a rather heavy lampooning 'gets lost in a series of first-rate slapstick acts and ends up as an "Modern Tunes" is, of course, funny picture; it Is also a very disappointing one. As a director, Chaplin has the eye of a master-vaudevillian. As a story-teller, he has the heart of a sentimentalist. His picture. In other words, moves abruptly from episode to episode and from the hilarious to the pathetic.

The ingredients of plot are much the same as In "-City Lights." There is Charlie's sympathy for the weak and "the oppressed, and there is the poor little homeless girl whom he As night watchman in a air of noble forbearance are not to mark the comedian's return to the screen after a lengthy Illness. seem a trifle awkward. In "The Lady Consents" she is as ladylike as "IXlLUIIVt ITAKVii LAIt TIMII TODAY "CHARLIE CNAN't SECRET MKT. ever and the weight of her emotions does not prevent her from being, on The musical planned for Eleanore Whitney, Robert Cummin gs, Johnny Downs, Porter HaL, Olympe Bradna, occasion, facetious. But her quail' Colin Clive and Del Rio in 'Th Widow From Monte Carlo the chief attraction on the new double-feature bill at the Strand starting today.

Elizabeth Patterson and Erik Rhodes is to be called "Three Cheers for Love," which sounds like a swell title for a movie musical. And speaking of love, Paramount's Spring ties are definitely out of place in so uninspired a picture, and her high seriousness wears an embarrassed air against so trite a setting. The film discourses in familiar schedule also Includes a picture in terms on the problems of marriage, New Films for Albee triguingly labeled "Something to Live For." Meanwhile, Walter compatibility and divorce as they present themselves to a trio of New Wanger. who releases his produc tions through Paramount has in mind to produce "The Case Against department store, he roller-skates with a proud swagger, around the Vork socialites. We meet Or.

Michael Talbot (Herbert Marshall), who after seven years of bliss with a devoted wife (Miss Harding), encounters a determined young lady who has run off with a trunkful of trophies in Mrs. Ames" and "Spendthrift Madeleine Carroll and Walter Pldgeon have been chosen as leads for the former, with the latter not toy department; as entertainer in a' night club, he sings an absurd ''ditty In some mongrel Latin tongue of his own Invention. When he and yet cast. The New nouncing all claims on Mr. Marshall Miss Harding were wilfully Inviting 1 spins terhood.

But the athletic damsel whom Mr. Marshall takes to be his second wife proves less enchanting on closer inspection, and he realizes that the happiest seven years of his life are, alas, behind him. A little sheepishly at first, and then with greater heart, he seeks again the more congenial company of Miss The film comes suddenly to a happy denouement, with the aid. of a second divorce, a readjustment of. finances and a fat alimony for the second wife.

Herbert Marshall, by his worldly manner and stooped elegance, makes the Oxonian husband a fairly presentable person and Margaret Lindsay is properly priggish and catty as his athlete wife. "Next Time We Love," starring Margaret Sullavan and "Paddy ODay," a lavish new song, dance and comedy picture with little Jane Withers, will be the features at the RKO Albee Theater, starting tomorrow. Miss Sullavan's vehicle, based on a novel ny Ursula Parrott, is a modern romantle drama with settings in New York, Russia, Siberia, China, Rome and Switzerland, while the lovable starlet' of "Paddy Day" plays the part of a tiny Irish lass in Manhattan. "Next Time We Love" features, besides Miss Sullavan, Jame's Stewart, Ray Mllland, Grant Mitchell, Anna Demetrio and Robert McWade. Supporting Jane Withers in "Paddy OTJay" are Pinky Tomlln, Rita Cansino, Jane Darwell and George Givot, the "Greek New pictures have their premieres today at tin Music Hall and the Brooklyn Strand.

At the big Radio City playhouse Warner Brothers' tennis and golf tournaments on the coast. Shortly after their first meeting it develops that Talbot and this young Amazon have been "seen" everywhere together; from which we gather that they must be desperately in love and that, in some way or other, Miss Harding must be forced out of the picture. Eager to please and impelled, perhaps, by her notion of what a modern woman should do in such circumstances, Miss Harding sheds a few tears and takes her lonely way to Reno. You would think that by thus re- screen production of Robert the girl find a shack in an abandoned lot, Charlie is hit on the 'head by a beam, falls In through the floor and out through the wall Into the water. Every so often he Is packed into a patrol car and "taken off to jail.

It Is obvious that his sentimental weakness for the little fellow he has been impersonating all thAe ''years got the better of his lnten- "tions as a satirist. His satire runs 1ts course very quickly. Compared with Clair's films, the factory se- -f'lcraences at the beginning of "Modern Times" are deliberate and me- chanical. Chaplin gets caught in Sherwood's stage hit "The Petrified Forest," makes Its debut with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in the leading roles. The Brooklyn Strand's new program includes two features "The Widow From Monte I T.rT7 wonfeMWrk' you've never seen! Crowded vfZr with and comedy! It's oneof the big- I get musical treat of the year! See it tad thrill! "Ik WARNER BAXTER AtttE FAYE JACK OAKIE DIXIE DUNBAR -e 'SaFl if FATS WALLER AllilNE JUDGE MONA BARRIE jMyrna the girl)ioiie 'ITT 'fy A been waiting for comes to 1 ffii SPENCER TRACjr- MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES factory wheels and is carried back and forth in the machinery; he is used to test out a feeding device by which the workers don't have to lift a hand in order to con-Isume a plate of soup, some corn on j.the cob and a dish of ice cream.

The i device, of course, gets out of order, while the salesman struggles with the elaborate switches Charlie is battered by the mouth-wiper and has iron nuts forced into his mouth 'Instead of bonbons. His facial ex-ipresBlons throughout this long or-s-deal are excruciating. But satire rand slapstick do not mix. The comparison with Clair is not. Incidentally, gratuitous, for Chaplin Invites it at his very first He is shown as a factory hand whose Job it Is to fasten two -nuts on a bolt as it passes before sJJbS HITS kSTf I I O0HLIfiHTi I pr Ml 77 -gaj Jk VSfff? 1'VV LLiAM 1 SY sad iwtnAJ( DOLORES nil rySlDEL RIO 'y rT i 'THE WIDOW FROM Ki Vamw 1 I monte.

CARLO" SLT I if Sb broke the man who I It broke the bank at Mont ft Carlo. Warner Bra, bit fl III with great cast! f. uj v. A i "mt mr ia sWiirr M4 STARTS TOM'W PREVIEW TONIGHT Cemeett p.m. See 2 FHms plwt Ceaaelete Siege Skew I "him on a moving strip.

The scene is an obvious steal from "A Nous la Liberte," in which the workers in the phonograph factory stand be- fore a similar strip, each contrib- WkIMM nm III GEORGE i utlng his special bit to the machine. There are other points in "Modern Times" where one can discern the mm Jtorj tf Bti etarieWeVjspint beginning of a Clair idea; but the sustained development and the ARLISS final absurdities are missing. iiiifiuniiii.il "Modern Times" has the advantage of printed titles, for even in A lOVAIl! VACAIONO this day of the talkie Chaplin ab Jures the spoken word. In addition to the dialogue, the film is rich in Starts Today at 9 A. M.

UNITED ARTISTS RIVOLI THEATRE Broadway at 49th st. 4 such captions as "Dawn" and "Ten 1 Days Later," which continually ob- UOBO I struct the course of the action. The sound effects are, however, excel 1 HB A G-B Picture Slent, and Chaplin's musical accompaniment, while not especially melodious. Is rhythmically very ef fectlve and fits well with the styl I Cstaesell r. i sjirijift CenNnveut rYeoi 9 A.

M. MidiHte Shows Every NjgM POPULAR PRICES The One and Only laed character of the acting. All the members of the cast are ffc complished pantomimists, and Paul am 0 ette Goddard makes an idyllic poor girl. The mounting of the film and ml Tit STORY the camera-work are everywhere CHARLIE arm a rrn rvnlff ROLff distinguished; only the hand of knowing director is lacking. wBIG STAGE REVUE N1RSKA FORSYTHE, SEAMOH FARRELL 3 GOBS "MICKEY" KING DOROTHY PROBY OTHERS THE GAE FOSTER GIRLS FREDDY MACK.

ROXYORCH. At the Center "The Lady Consents," an RKO-Ridlo NVMV ANY SEAT CNHSMN 251 35; 15' tileture. directed by Stephen Roberts Screen Play by P. J. Wolfson end Anthony Velller.

from a story by P. Wolf- Alwm Ml SCAT EXCEPT filOOGnn YllilQS eon. THE CAST: Anna Talbot Ann Harding Michael Talbot Herbert Marshall Jem Mannerly Margaret Lindsay Stanley Ashton Walter Abel WoHdTtUgrn Jim Talbot Edward Ellis I.ardl Hobart Cavanaugh SI Susan Ilka Chase TOMODMW OF LOUIS Ann Harding, whose appearances I LEAVE It have been pretty infrequent of late JACK becomes involved in some rather hackneyed matrimonial difficulties They shouldn't have married, but they did! married, but they did! YOU LIMP." ffcJ In "The Lady Consents," the new PASTEUR film at the Center Theater. As the screen's most earnest exemplar of 0 LT ROBERT ARMSTRONtt RACE BRADLEY I Ceenkl. Httun "DANGEROUS 'r high-minded womanhood, Miss Har- 'CEILING iEROf GOES OH YOUR MUST S5 ding requires material more dignl SULLfWfln fled than that provided her in this i picture if her astringent glance and WATERS LIST OF FILMS" MOTION PICTURES 'U RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL SHOWPIACE OF THE NATION KOCKEFEUEK CENTER WORLD PREMIERE TODAY masterpiece ol Ihe icreen, rich in emotional power and menial excitement.

The stars you sow together in "01 Human Bondage" ajve a performance every thinking man and woman will treasure and LESLIE HOWARD and BETTE DAVIS IN "The Potrifiod Forest" From the play by Robert E. Sherwood-A Warner Brothers Picture, A New Wall Disney Mickey Mouse "Mickey's F0I9 Teem" ON THE GREAT STAGE. MARCH OF LIGHT'. Leonidoll's brilliant loolllght parade, with Music Hall cast and specialties. Symphony Orchestra under the direction ol Erno Rapee.

Poors open 11:30 A. M. Picture at 13:00. 3.39. 6:13.

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