Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-19
A Shakespeare, vac.tie..-Franc

A Shakespearean Vacatf0n-Frances
Starr has a lovely summer home.
wildheart, at Lake George. where
she first came under the management
of David Belasco. AS one of her rec
reations the past summer Miss Starr
set herself to the task Of mastering
two Shakespearean roles. Miss Starr 8
admirers hope that some day Mr.. Be
lasco will give her the chance to play
one of the Shakespe arean heroines
she recently has been studying. This
favorite Belasco actress. it is believed.
would make q charming Beatrice lin
Much Ado About Nothing" and an
equally delightful Viola in Twelfth
Night"
Rumor for some time past has it
that ethe famous producer would put
on a wonderful production of The
Merchant of Venice" with David War
field as Shylock. Could it be that
Portia Is one of the roles Miss Starr
was studying the past summer?
An Omcfal Beauty.-Frances Jordon,
who plays Jeanette in Fred Stones
Jack O. Lantern" has the distinction
Of having her pictured face on 100000
surance and distributed in every
cantonment in this country and in
France and England during the war.
Over a year ago the war risk bureau
issued an invitation to the sweet
in the service to enter a competition
for the honor of having their por-
traits adorn its calendar.
: Within a month over 100. 900 photo
graphs had been sent to the judges,
out. Pretty faces were numerous
but finally 1t simmered down to a
few, and at last Miss Jerdon was
made happy by an official telegram
saying that her face had been select
ed. Today her features should be
familiar to more ex-soldiers and
sailors than that Of any other woman
in the world
Miss Jordon is a native Of Atlanta
Ga, and with her sister Lautatoria
came north a little over two years
ago and went into musical comedy
Was a Columbia Plnyer.-Heler
Holmes was leading woman of the
Columbia players turing the finaI
twenty-one weeks Of it's existence
and while with the company played
many parts, each role she essayed be-
ing a fresh triumph. She has a hos,
Of washington friends and admirers
who will look forward with pleasure
to her coming to the ShubertGarrick
Theater tomorrow evening. when she
will create the principal feminine part
in Eve and the Man." the new occult
drama by Frederick Bruegger.
~ Different Roads-There is {
similarity in the success achieved BY
Samuel Shipman and Max MARGIN
the young playwrights who Jointly
wrote The Woman in Room 49,
Yet no two men writing for the the
alter today are more disSimilar IL
temperament and aspirations. o.
have reached success by such widel,
different routes.
Mr.. Shipman is from the East Sid,
and Is graduate of Columbia
where he read Ibsen, Euripides
Shakespeare. Sheridan. Strindberi
and DAnnunZio, and determined L
write along the same lines In hi
undergraduate days he dramatizet
the "Kreutzer Sonata" and resolved
forthwith thereafter TO write plays
He soon had trunkful.
Mr.. MARGIN. on the other hand. ha,
little faith in Ibsen and Shakespear
as limousine getters- His motto wa
"A play should drive away dull car
first for the playwright, then 70
the public" Acting on this principl
he proceeded to absorb material b.
way of the newspaper route. He wa
every KIM OF a reporter, Out Spe
cialized In murder trials. He GOV
cred all the Thaw trials. But Mar
Gin wasn't satisfied. One day he sa
down before his inspired typewrite
and commanded 1t to write him
500 short story. 1t did, and fror
that time forward he confesses I
having made 5000 a week by tn
fiction route. without a single rejec
tion.
In the intervals he began writinI
plays. His technical education wa
exceedingly simple He picked ou
the half dozen current successes, say
them half dozen times, learne
how they were done and proceede
to do likewise. Soon he had coupl
of plays ready which he proceede
a. H. Woods DO one coha