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The following text was pulled by a computer and may not be accurate. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1936 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, Learns Chinese HELP overcome language To obstacles, the Chinese Nationalist Government assigned a special representative as aid to Director William A. Seiter and his during the filming of company "Stowaway," the new Shirley Temple film at the Roxy Theater. The picture, which has a number of scenes lad in China, is the first ever made in Hollywood to use the Mandarin dialect, the official court language of China and the one the Nationalist Government is attempting to make universal throughout the republic. Paul Fong, a native of Canton and a graduate of both the University of Missouri and Columbia University, is the language expert whom the Nationalist Government assigned to help on the 20th Century-Fox production. Never before has a Hollywood company attempted to overcome the tremendous language obstacle imposed by the Mandarin dialect, because practically all the available Chinese film extras in Los Angeles speak only the Cantonese dialect. Miss Temple, therefore, was not the only one who had to learn the Chinese language, but the Chinese themselves. The little star, however, had to learn more words than any of the Chinese. She uses a vocabulary of about 400 words during the various Chinese scenes in "Stowaway"; in addition, she sings A song in Chinese. While Mr. Fong held language classes on the film set daily, rehearsing various Mandarin dialect lines with the Chinese appearing in various street and mob scenes, Miss Temple studied her Chinese under Bessie Nyl, a native of Shanghai and a graduate student at the University of Southern California. The Nationalist Government started its crusade sometime ago to consolidate the hundred or more various dialects into Mandarin. Nearly all the schools throughout the country now teach the Mandarin dialect only. The Cantonese, Mr. Fong explained, seem to have had more wanderlust than residents of other provinces of China, for practically all of the Chinese in the United States and other countries are from Canton and therefore speak only the Cantonese dialect. It is expected, however, that other companies now will co-operate with the Nationalist Government since many of the Chinese film extras are able to speak some Mandarin after the completion of "Stowaway," which uses some 900 Chinese in its Shanghai, Hong Kong and Chinese village scenes. MOTION PICTURES HELD OVER THIRD WEEK 1 'BORN TO DANCE" An M-G-M Musical Hit, with ELEANOR POWELL Coming Christmas Day *AFTER THE THIN MAN" BROADWAY CAPITOL and 51ST ST. Better than the prize winning play FULTON a DE BIG • HITS JANE WYATT • THE LUCKIEST GIRL in the WORLD* SHIRLEY TEMPLE "STOWAWAY" ROBERT ALICE FAYE YOUNG BIG HOLIDAY REVUE ON STAGE 25* . 1 P.M. ROXY 7th 50th Ave. St. Rainbow on the River' May Robson and Bobby Breen are the principal players in the new film at the Music Hall. He Never Spanks the Kids In his own home Frank McHugh? isn't funny. He is, in fact, one of the most sedate and serious minded husbands and fathers in the whole of Hollywood. He has three children - Peter, aged 7, Susan, 5, and Michael, who isn't quite 2, and he takes his duties as a father very seriously. He has never spanked his children because he doesn't believe in it, but he is, when necessary, a stern disciplinarian. He is also an expert at extracting slivers and he can bandage a toe expertly. The silly laugh which he has made famous in pictures, but which has no place in his first starring role, that of Erwin Trowbridge in "Three Men on a Horse," now at the Brooklyn Paramount, is never heard around the McHugh house. He goes to the Parent-Teacher gatherings at the schools his children attend and he never misses a school program in which they are scheduled to perform. He presides at the family dinner table and MOTION PICTURES and DeKalb 00 3 Jean MEN Blondell ON • A Frank HORSE McHugh with - "ROSE BOWL" G Brooklyn STRAND Fulton at Rockwell PI "EASY TO TAKE" 'WHITE LEGION** 2 PARAMOUNT BROOKLYN FOX Flatbush at Nevins WILLIAM POWELL S KAY FRANCIS in "ONE WAY PASSAGE" 2 "KING OF HOCKEY" / LLOYDS OF LONDON A 20th Century- Fox Picture. ASTOR Sun. 4th Big 6.00. Week Dally 2:45. 8 45. Mats. •'WAY & 45th St. $1. E ex See to to 1 $ (plus - RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL50th St. &. 6th Ave. • Doors Open 12.00 Noon BOBBY BREEN in "RAINBOW ON THE RIVER" ON THE STAGE: BOBBY BREEN in "'PEACE ON EARTH", and Leonidoff's "CHRISTMAS GREETINGS** Picture at 12:05, 2:41, 5:15, 7:49, 10:23 1st Mezzanine seats reserved CO. 5.6535 Experience From The Air "The screen star of tomorrow is very apt to be the shivering amaat a small town radio microteur phone today. "Unexpectedly, radio has supplanted the stock company as a training ground for actors." No less an authority than Wallace Beery, film veteran and radio headliner, volunteered this information during filming of "Old Hutch," now showing at Loew's Metropolitan with "Mad Holiday." During the past year, Beery has made it a point to visit hundreds of radio stations, small and large, all over the country. "I discovered," he said, "that one of the most popular programs on and station is the straight broadcast of a stage play. Consequently, there is a great demand for these and for actors to play in them. "In the large cities the casts are usually made up of professional, sta actors. In smaller towns they are amateurs--the same people who not many years ago flocked to stock companies for training. Screen scouts are aware of this, and many a contract has been won from a voice first heard on a radio." From his own experience, Beerybelieves the microphone to be a sound dramatic instructor. Sacco and Vanzetti Transmuted Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," the verse drama which won the award last Spring of the New York Drama Critics Circle, may now be seen in a film version at the Albee, with Burgess Meredith, Margo and Eduardo Ciannelli appearing in their original Broadway roles. "Winterset" is the fourth of Mr. Anderson's plays to be transmitted into celluloid--the other three being "What Price Glory," a classic of silent pictures; "Saturday's Children" and the recent historical photoplay, "Mary of Scotland." The theme of Mr. Anderson's drama is social justice; the actual story takes its rise from an incident suggested by the Sacco and Vanzetti case. After establishing this background in its early sequences- - the trial and execution of an innocent man for a holdup and murder- story pursues the efforts of the dead man's son to vindicate his father's name. His search leads him to New York's waterfront, where the other characters implicated in the crime are brought together in a series of fateful meetings. "The Luckiest Girl in the World," with Jane Wyatt and Louis Hayward, is the second feature at the Albee. LOEW'S LEADS IN BROOKLYN! watches the children's manners. Movie "shop talk" is barred when the children are present. In "Three Men on a Horse" McHugh is a greeting -card writer who is also a genius at picking the ponies. The film is based on the stage play by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. Besides Mr. McHugh the cast includes Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes, Allen Jenkins, Sam Levene and Teddy Hart. The picture was directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with screen play by Laird Doyle. "Rose Bowl," with Tom Brown and Eleanore Whitney, is the second feature at the Paramount. MOTION PICTURES with WALLACE BEERY HOLIDAY' ELISSA LOWE FRIDAY •BORN to DANCE' METROPOLITAN BROOKLYN 2-FEATURES Old HUTCH "3 MEN ON A HORSE" NEW YORK B'way & 47th Street POPULAR PRICES COMING-"GOLD DIGGERS of 1937" ASH WEEK! CHARLES LAUGHTON as with GERTRUDE "REMBRANDT" LAWRENCE UNITED RIVOLI 49th Broadway at ARTISTS Street MIDNITE SHOWS PARAMOUNT sQ. TIMES BING CROSBY FROM "PENNIES HEAVEN** in Person -ART SHAW and HIS BAND JANE COOPER- -Doors Open at 8:30 A.M. VALENCIA .Irene Dunne, Theodora Goes Wild, Melvyn Douglas; Merriek Road Old Hutch, Wallace Beery: It Happened in LOEW'S Jamaica Avenue and Queens KINGS ....Edward Arnold, Come and Get It; Tarzan Escapes, LOEW'S Flatbush and Tilden Avenues Johnny Weissmuller; It Happened in Brooklyn LOEW'S PITKIN * .. Edward Arnold, Come and Get It: Pitkin and Saratoga Avenues plus Tarzan Escapes, Johnny Weissmuller Broadcast of 1937, Jack Benny, Magnificent Burns Brute and Allens LOEW'S MELBA Big Livingston St. and Hanover Place plus Victor MeLaglen, Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, Gladys George; Avenue Broadway plus The Legion of Terror, Bruce Cabot LOEW'S GATES Gates and Is the Word for Carrie, Gladys George; LOEW'S Street • The Legion of Terror, Bruce Cabot BEDFORD Valiant Bedford Avenue and Bergen plus LOEW'S 46TH ST. ... Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, Gladys Cabot George; 46th Street and New Utrecht The Legion of Terror, Bruce George; Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, Gladys LOEW'S KAMEO and Nostrand • The Legion of Terror, Bruce Cabot Eastern Parkway plus Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, Gladys George; LOEW'S BROADWAY Avenue • The Legion of Terror, Bruce Cabot Broadway and Myrtle plus A Woman Rebels, Herbert LOEW'S BORO PARK. • . Katharine Hepburn, Wanted. Jane Turner, Lee Tracy 51st Street and Utrecht Broadcast of 1937, Jack Benny, Burns and Allen; Marshall; plus LOEW'S BAY . . . . . . . ... Victor MeLaglen, Magnificent Brute RIDGE. Big 72d Street and Third Valiant Word for Carrie, Gladys George; Avenue plus LOEW'S Fifth Avenue . ... ... The Legion of Terror, Bruce Cabot ALPINE Is 69th Street and plus LOEW'S BREVOORT - Jean Harlow. the Libeled Lady: plus Follow Your Powell, Myrna Loy, Speneer Breveort Place and Bedford Avenue Tracy McCrea, Adventure in Manhat• LOEW'S CENTURY Avenues In His Steps, Eric Linden Jean Arthur, Nestrand and Is the Word for Carrie, Gladys George; Parkside tan; plus LOEW'S CONEY ISLAND. Valiant The Legion of Terror, Bruce Cabot Surf and Stilwell Avenues Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, Gladys George; plus LOEW'S ORIENTAL The Legion of Terror, Bruce Cabot 86th Street and 18th Avenue plus FEATURE FILMS SHOWING TODAY BAY RIDGE Sing. Baby, Sing: and Gorgeous Hussy Center, Sixth Ave. and Third Ave..... Hush Money: Under Your Spell and 56th St......... Electra, 75th St. The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell, Myrna Loy Fifth Ave. and 75th St....... Stanley, BEDFORD F. March, 0. de Havilland Lincoln, Bedford Ave. and PI... Anthony. Dirigible Apollo, Fulton and Throop. Adverse, Lincoln Ave... Cain and Mabel: and -Lady Be Careful National Thea., 720 Washington Lincola of the Light Brigade; Make Way for a Lady Savoy, Bedford Ave. and Place.. Charge BOROUGH HALL AND DOWNTOWN Condemned: Don't Turn 'Em Loose Cumberland, Cumberland and Fulton... I Stand in Manhattan Duffield and Fulton Sts...•... Gay Desperado; Adventure Powell, Myrna Loy Duffield, St. George Playhouse, 100 Pineapple. The Gay Desperado: Adventure in Manhattan The Great Ziegfeld, William Terminal, Ave. and Dean St..... and Devil Is a Sissy Tivoli, Fulton St. and Myrtle Ave....... Pigskin Parade: BEACH Oceana, Brighten Beach BRIGHTON. The Devil Is a Sissy; Gay Desperado BUSHWICK Libeled Lady: and Follow Your Heart Colonial, Broadway and Chauncey St.... CONEY ISLAND Pigskin Parade: and Craig's Wife Surf, Surf Ave. and 32d St. CROWN HEIGHTS St...... Gay Desperado: Smartest Girl in Town Carroll, Utica Pl.- Ave.... Polo Joe: and A Woman Rebels Ave, and Carroll Congress, St. John's PL.- Kingston Ave.... Dodsworth: and End of the Trail Rivera, St. John's FLATBUSH Parade, Palsy Kelly, Stuart Erwin; Craig's Albemarle, Flatbush and Albemarle Pigskin Rosalind Russell Wife, J. MacDonald, C. Gable Boles, Astor, Flatbush Ave., near Church.. San Ladies in Love, Loretta Young; Francisco, S. Tracy, Farragut, Flatbush Ave. -Farragut Rd... Janet Gaynor. Desperado, Leo Carrillo Nino Martini. Gay Flatbush Aves.... The World Moves On: Shoot the Works Flatbush Ave.......... Federal Agent; $1.000 a Minute Flatbush. Church and Dodsworth: and 15 Maiden Lane Glenwood, 1475 Granada, Church and Nostrand Aves.... the Light Brigade: Make War for a Lady Kenmore, Church and Flatbush. Charge RKO Pigskin Parade: and Craig's Wife Leader, Coney Isl. Ave.- Newkirk Ave.... Patsy Kelly, Stuart Erwin; Ladies Marine, Flatbush Ave. and Kings in Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young H'wy. Pigskin Parade, Love. Patsy Kelly, Stuart Erwin; Craig's Patio, Flatbush and Midwood. Wife. Boles. Rosalind Russell .....Pigskin Parade, Great Ziegfeld, Wm, Powell. Myrna Parkside, Flatbush and Parkside Aves.. Complete! Walter Huston; Can This Be Dixie? Flatbush Ave. -Cortelyou Road... Dodsworth, Rialto, EAST Dodsworth: and Alibi for Murder FLATBUSH Theatre, Ave. D- E, 43d St., Avenue D PARK SLOPE St.. Cain and Mabel; and Dodsworth Atlantic. Flatbush Ave. and Dean Parade: and Devil Is a Sissy Carlton, and Fatal Lady: and Last Journey Flatbush Seventh Aves, ... Pigskin Plaza, Flatbush Ave. and Park Place... Brigade; Make Way for a Lady St.- Fifth Ave.... Charge of the Light RK0 Prospect, Ninth KINGS HIGHWAY Tracy in Libeled Lady} Avalon, Kinge Highway and E. 18th St. From Shoulder, Ralph Bellamy Harlow. Powell, Loy, Straight Opera, Warner Oland; Career Kingsway, Kings -Coney Ist. Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen Ave... Charlie Chan at the Woman. Died at Dawn: Can This Be Dixie? Quentin Rd., or. Kings H'way, General Triangle, AVENUE SECTION Parade. Palsy Kelly, Stuart Erwin; Craig's Midwood, Avenue J and E. 13th St.... Pigskin Rosalind Russell Wife, John Boles, AVENUE U Dawn: Can This Be Dixie? SECTION Avenue U Thea., Ave. U- -E. 18th St.... General Died at Kelly, Stuart Erwin; Craig's Coney Isl. and Avenue U Pigskin Parade, Patsy Rosalind Russell Mayfair, Wife, John Boles, E. 46th St.... Speed; and Alibi for Murder Traymore, Avenue N and RIDGEWOOD Glenwood, Myrtle Ave. and Decatur St... Dodsworth; and Light Brigade; Make Way for a Lady End of Trail Madison, Myrtle- Wyekeff Aves... Charge of the Girl the Front Page Aves.. Pigskin Parade: and on RK0 Parthenon, Libeled Lady: and Follow Your Heart Wyckoff Myrtle and Cypress Aves., Hussy; Arizona Raiders; Amateurs Rivoli, Myrtle and Wilson Aves..... Gorgeous SHEEPSHEAD BAY Voorhies.. Pigskin Parade; and Craig's wife Sheepshead, Sheepshead Bay, Broadway...... Parade: and Girl en the Front Page WILLIAMSBURG Alba, Flushing and PigskinBrooklyn Eagle · Sun, Dec 20, 1936 · Page Page 63 · (Brooklyn, New York)