AMCSEMEXT9 THE NEW YORK SUN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934. AMUSEMENTS 29

The New Talkies •The Affairt of Cellini* a Bedroom Farce

in Florentine Costume.

By EILEEN CREELMAN. Hollywood has discovered sixteenth century Florence, and

I lively spot it seems to have been. "The Affairs of Ceilini" is a politf bedroom farce with the quick tempo of good com­edy, the swashbuckling melodrama of an old Fairbanks film gnri the jrorgeous trapping! of a lavish historical drama. Its mbject, for all the wealth of costuming and casting, is peek-ajboo-l-sfe-you triangle humor.

CONSTANCE BENNETT

Thp triancle in "The Affairs of (

CtlUai" li really a quartet. Love : was HgW >n medieval Florence. , licht tJ ]['(' 1 ,splr- M r n loved and lived, s» 1"\ ed and died. It wasn't a H l W of grpat import either way. ^ l 1 h iritripne. murder, tyr­anny t»kf>ri f o r Pranted among the commonplaces of daily life, fast comedy melodrama has a perfect laekgrwnd.

The P'.ike nf Florence, one Ales-aandrn with a befuddled manner and an infantile sense of humor. has powei of life and death over his subjects His wife, for all his attempts to enjoy little peccadilloes, had atoolute power over him. He ; was as henpecked an autocrat as my communist could wish to see.

Into the lives of this happy pair eome one Cellini, a bombastic scoundrel of a prince charming with a honeyed tongue and a way with women, and a pretty putty­like statue of a woman, one Angela. The Duchess proceeds to annex the •oMsmith, while the Duke steals the little model away from his ap­parently helpless subject. The plot develops Into a whirlwind of a farce with Cellini constantly ap­proaching df-ath and dancing away from it. With both the Duke and the goldsmith unable to interest the peasant Angela in sweet ro­mance, with both Duke and Duch­ess intent upon discovering each other's affairs while concealing their own.

It is all played up to the hilt by a cast that seemed to enjoy the proceedings hugely. Frank Morgan, perfectly cast as the comical Duke, provides the picture's merriest mo­ments Fay Wray is happily se- i lected as the cold but amiable . beautv Fredric March, in a Fair­banks type of athletic farce, is handsome if a little self-conscious, ) an Cellini Only Constance Ben- < nett with her pert prom-trotting j twentieth century prettiness, seems I too modern for her part. She I throws a little out of key those Magnificent settings of great ban- j tuetini halls, ft! '•• rl ire dungeon*. | of glittering garments and gleam­ing sword-play. "The Affairs of Cellini," for all that, is a hilarious affair.

'Their Big Moment' ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville

again join forces in a semislapttick comedy that actually has a plot behind its merry-making. Miss Pitts of the fluttering hands and I uncertain voice turns out to be a medium, an unconscious and quite unwilling medium who gets herself in and out of a murder mystery with a good deal of fright and profit.

Their Bie Moment" i» the May-fair's new talkie: and it concerns the activities of LaSalle and Com­pany, a small vaudeville troupa headed by a magician and a mind-reader Disgusted by the stupidities of Tillie. the magician's assistant, the medium walks out of the act an hour before the troupe is offered W.onn to help, through a fake se­ance, a grieving young widow.

Tillie selected to play the medium because she knows the signals, is terrified of ghosts but sorry for the widow. Her partners. William Gaxton and the gawky Slim Sum­merville. make her go through with the stunt. Tillie, in spite of re-peatpd rehearsals, in spite of the prentice of the widow, the girl's family and the sinister figure of another fake spiritualist, goes into a real trance. She talks of murder and of warnings, and awakens to find the household In panic and her parents in danger. Through another trumped-up seance and some amus­ing leger-de-main, the vaudeville troup» discovers the real murderer •f the girl's husband.

ft'l an entertaining little piece, this "Their Bip Moment," in an un-pretentiouK way. Miss Pitts is her usual hewildesing self, while Julie Haydon, a? the despairing widow, is * handsome addition to any cast. *h* ioeks like a young and friendly Ann Hardint.

ZASU PITTS

C i n d e r e l l a t o W e d C o p ' s S o n SEES NEW LOVE * OF COUNTRY LIFE

Adopted Heir of Late Rich Adelaide Pierce Announces Engagement at Boston.

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BOSTON, Sept. 6.—Miss Editha Pierce Davis, 22 years old, a waiter's daughter, known as the "Cinderella Girl," plans to wed the son of a Boston police official, it "was learned today.

At her Marshfield noma Miss B o y S c O U t S F i n d

In "The Affair* of Cellini" at the Rivoli.

BIG LIQUOR FEE HURTS $1200 Lump Sum Payment

, Bart Some Renewah.

Davis confirmed a rumor that she soon would become the bride of Charles Wallace, son of Sergt. Charles J. Wallace of the Boston police department traffic bureau.

"Our engagement will soon be announced. We haven't decided as to the date for the wedding," ahe said.

Miss Davis's life is a story book. Her mother dead and her father unable to care for her, ahe was taken several years ago by Mrs. Adelaide Pierce, a wealthy widow, once a child of poverty herself, who had known Editha's father, Thomas T. Scanlon.

Misting Man's Body

Lehman Thinks Youth Will Avoid Cities More.

SYRACrSK.Sept. « (U. P.).-Gov. Herbert H. Lehman recounted his efforts on behalf of agriculture and restated his faith in the farms of New York State in an address to­day at the State fair.

"I believe we are coming into a better appreciation of the advan­tages of rural life here in the East,"

i the Governor said. "Until com-

SHERRILL, N. Y., Sept 5 (A.P.>. Coroner Nelson O. Brooks today

began an investigation into the, . . . death of Fred W. Mesle, 45. whose | paratively recently nearly all of the body was found on the outskirts of schools and teachers, and the par-

employed, even with college-trained young men and women who cannot get jobs. There i* a growing belief that we need more decentralization of our cities; not necessarily more farmers, but more dwellers in the rural districts -men and women who will live in the country and more in nearby stunII towns and cities.

"We have been to a considerable extent a nation of uneasy seekers of some will-o-the-wisp, or of the fool'a gold at the end of the rain­bow. 1 believe that more of our young people are now going to turn their faces home to seek their op­portunity right in our own New York countryside."

The Attorney-General's that the $1,200 fee for

Sherrill yesterday by Boy Scout searchers.

Mesle, a native of Niagara Palls, employed by Oneida Community. Ltd., was last seen August 30 when hia wife and children left for Niagara Falls for a visit.

Tee Sand-Box Home Bothered Mother Wren

NEW HARTFORD. Conn. (U ents themselves, have taught and P.).—A wren who built her nest at influenced our young oeople to go ! one end of a sand-box on the first to the cities. Opportunity was al- j tee at Green Woods Country Club, v. ays away off somewhere else. raised her family under a handicap.

"If that were ever true, it is not , Golfers continually were lifting up now. The frontiers are gone, the lid and taking sand from the The cities are filled with un-1 other end.

WINDOW SMASHED

Negro Rede Ditperted After Protemt at Cafeteria.

Forty policemen, answering a riot call, dispersed a Negro com­munist group last night after Its members had stormed the Empire Cafeteria at 306 Lenox avenue.

A large plate glass window of the cafeteria was smashed as the crowd, numbering about 8,000, bowled over aix policemen on duty near the cafeteria. The demonstra­tion w n ataged by the Young Lib­erators, a Negro communist fac­tion. The police restored order in a few minutea.

The trouble arose, the police said, from the demands of the Young Liberatora that the cafeteria em­ploy Negro countermen instead ef white help. Organization pickets have been on duty at the cafeteria for some time.

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I Mrs. Pierce was reputedly worth I

ruling j $4,000,000 at that time. Editha liauor w a s r e a r ' d , n luxury'- She trav , . eled widely and completed her edu-

licenses must be paid in full at the ; c a t i o n a t t h e e x c l u 8 i v e Kendall time of application for a license j Hall School at Beverly Farms, was conceded at the State Liquor A renowned beauty, Mrs. Pierce Authority as one of the chief *» h e r « « * twenties married John

„ ., „ I Eartlett Pierce, cofounder and vice-reasons for the failure of a num-. p r e s i d e n t o f t h e A r n e r i c a n Radiator ber of license holders to file re-: Company, then in his late sixties.

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May fair.

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Paul Harvey

Constance Bennett Scoffs At Divorce Talk

newal applications to date. Offi­cials admitted that there would probably be a considerable falling off from the 12.000 wine and liquor licenses in the State at the present time.

Many complaints have been re­ceived by the liquor board, but only the legislature can change the situation, it was said. For restaur­ants in New York city, no matter what size, this means an immediate outlay of $1,200 in cash, and the new license does not become effec­tive until October 1.

A telegram urging Gov. Lehman to devise a plan whereby the $1,200 fee could be paid semi-annually

I rather than annually has been sent jto Albany by the Protective Associ­ation of Retail Beer. Wine A Liquor Dealers, Inc., of 250 West Fifty-

! seventh street.

Man Escapes Death Under Subway Train

PARIS. Sept. « (U. P.>. Con­stance Bennett, addressed in Pari* as Mme. La Marquise de la Falaise et de la Coudraye said todav that , t a m „ -Ryan 4« vears old of QM she had no intention of divorcing Southern Boulevard, the Bronx, fell her husband, the Marquis Henri, i »« * r ° n t o f * northbound I. R. T.

. •A. , . , i . n , «* - ,« «-*»ti„» . H< : train early today from'the platform Any talk of my getting a di-, o f ^ , £ £ ^ M t and Brook ave-vorce ia ridiculous and absurd." she n u e nation of the Pelham Bay di •aid.

Miss Bennett hurried to a hospital where her Marquia la suffering from auto-intoxication and said ahe understood he was "not seriously ill."

They lived together until 1918. when Mr. Pierce died, leaving his > widow $4,000,000 of his $5,000,000 estate.

Soon after Mr. Pierce died Mrs. Pierce was named corespondent in the divorce suit of Mrs. Aida Davis against Howard Clark Davis, a wealthy Boston broker. Mr«, Davis also brought a $250,000 alienation of affections suit against Mrs. Pierce. Mrs. Davis won her di­vorce. The alienation suit wa* settled out of court.

In 1921 Mrs. Pierce marri d Da­vis. They separated in 1928, in which year he legally adopted Editha, and three years later the couple were divorced.

M n , Pleree D r o w n e d .

On July 1, 1932. Mrs. Pierce was drowned in Lake Suntaug at Lynn-field, when the canoe in whirh she and Richard H. Bennett, a New York lawyer, were riding, capsized A coroner's verdict of accidental drowning wa.« returned. Mr Ben-nf c was Mrs. Pierce's financial ad­viser.

I'nder Mrs. Pierce's will. Editha received the palatial e«tatf\ The Acres, a $100,000 trust fund and a large block of "valuable stock."

Shortly after Mrs. Pierce's death Editha closed The Acres and went to live with relatives. For a time she contemplated training for a nurse, but she is still living with her father at Marshfield.

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chfri-ine, a debutante, and the dean's

daughter nearly romancing Bing out

of college... It's Bing*. Best!. . . Based

on the play that panicked Broadway!

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vision. Although one car passed over him, he escaped with minor lacerations and contusions. The motorman of the train slammed on the brakes when Ryan toppled to the tracks, and the passengers then piled out of the train expecting to

•<i .hail K» . , , , H . . ;„ » . - ; . w . *>« confronted with the sight of a I shall be staying in Paris for a i l t „ | U | % t , , f l ^ y I n , t e i ! d R y a n i Herman Kuivinen found 204 spar month, purely for a rest." she said, j crawled from beneath the second rows drowned ny an overnight "I haven't completed by plans yet." car. virtually uninjured. rain.

Raia Drowns 204 Sparrows. ASHTABULA. Ohio (U. P . ) . -

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Free Concerts Arranged For This Evening

Free concerts will be given at I % o'rinr-k this evening by the ; Municipal ?vmphonv Orchestra in ' Forw p a r k anrt hy t h e Hudson : Conrrr Band in" Washington *Tme Park.

Th*re win h a a pur,iic dance on ! th» Central Park Mall to the music hV the Metropolitan Dance Or- !

ratrtrs aftf another in Prospect ' Park Brooklyn, with the Univer-•tj Danr* Oirhestra.

Boy Returns After Odd Disappearance

•'*rk Tsft, is years old. of 2Stl WghtOTi Thirteenth street. Brook-Ivrt, wfloaa fimilv reported to the Wles laat April" IS that he had •istppeare^ under mysterious cir-' " has returned home,

RADIO U M C l f M A I I sHOW PLACE of the NATION r I T V • • • \k9 *mw I Vr I I a ^ \ lav lam ROCKEFELLER CENTER * • • 7 W h o r o b e t t e r p i c t u r e s o r e s h o w n R V w K C r C L L C K V.CIN I CK

"'Jt h^ = ""' cleared up the nyfttr* ? h" & appearance, according to tn# pniice.

Thrmigti the youth's older broth­er DsvHJ Taft, the police learned ^ " " ! v of .lark's return. The •Whar Mid Jack had come across h* r< ntry from \A™ Angele.*, had

m weigh! and was fn poor health. Wjirt asserten that his hrother ™* Mm he had been taken to *'""• i hy four women who de-""H him there last week. From *r'"r;« according to David, Jack rj***" h»i iray to Lag Ssgrtu J*1" h» WWW to the home of an

*'* Rrfote his disappearance J.rV *s» a radio entertainer who. .t- - .nun, ' t i i r n u m ' r woo i "«« the name Danny Dawn. I

World Prmmterm Today at 11:30 A.M.

Flit? moaf glorioma mmtiemt romance mt mil timet

'Uttorly charming, o delightful •ntmrtainmant"—Mmry Plckford

*Ono of tho most radiant porsonaHHas an scroon*—Ruth Chaff rton

"I was thi-Mod with it"—Gloria Smanson

Also—WALT DISNEY'S Neweit Silly

Symphony in Color "PECULIAR PENGUINS"

\JruXCi ONE NIGHT OF LOVE*

a with 1UUIO CAtNNNATI • LTU TAtSOT • MONA SASSII • Otrectael by VKTOt SCMMTZINOfS

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On the Stmgm: A CHARACTERISTIC MUSIC HALL REVUE

"SPOT-LIGHT" Produced by LEON LEONIDOFF; footuring Ths Music Holt Roclcsttas,

GUo Club, Corps ds Ballot, a group of "Twolvo Grands", Nina

Whitnsy, Dorothy Kendrick, Robert Woodo. Alico Dudley and

Jock Colo, Nicholas Daks. Carlos Pttsrson and Ths Brsdwins.

MUSIC HALL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, direction of Emo Rapoo.

1st Meiionine Soots May lo Reserved . . . Telephone COLumbus 5-6535

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