The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-22


Just a few weeks before Mr..
Hopper's last Washington stock
engagement, some four years ago,
was talking with the lannented
Garry McGarry about his plans
for season Of repertoire at the
old Garrick Theater on she site
now occupied by the Hecht Com.
pany magnificences.
had ia choice OF De Wolf
Hopper in his Gilbert and Sulli-
van reyivals or Jack Norworth
and some other guest stars and
took Norworth," said Garry.
Norworth opened in My Lady
Friends" and did $1,000 on the
week. Loveable Mr.. McGarry
limped out of town--smiIing ike
the good Snowman and theater
gambler that he was-and left
Washington to its summer ate.
Hopper came in a few weeks
later under the direction of
George Samnis and proceeded to
clean up. Breaks Like these are
what make the amusement bust
ness gamble and trying TO
guess the public fancy at the
moment such a problem.
Marion Davies. who has de-.
veloped such flair for lampoon.
ing Hollywood contemporaries BY
her talents in mimicry, would
probably have reveleC at this
scene nipped from publicity bar
rage that cutters this desk:
Seen and overheard IN the
Paramount lot Pola Negri be-
ing directed by Ludwig Berger.
in Fedora. Berger showing
Negri how he wants a certain
piece of business done. Negri
disagreeing.
But want it done that
way. / am Berger. shaping
himself on the chest.
And - siaps on her own
chest. lam Negri.
II am Bergerp'
Il am Negri! !! n
Il am Berger r.
II ann ad }infinitu1n.
1t ended with both pulling 4
Charlie Paddock to SchuIberg's
office.
YES, / know, ven are Negri
both ways.
Florenz Zlegfeld's Rio Rita"
closed it's spring road tour Satur-
day night in Boston where it was
playing a return engagement.
although the receipts averaged
$4.400 performance in Boston
on the second visit. The pro-
Queer sends the following expIana-
ton:
II intended to keep Rio Rita.
out all summer but Ismust have d
minimum Of S37 900 week IN.
come for the necessary expenses.
At that figure / would Co no
better than break even I pro-
duced Rio Rita at a cost of
$40, 900, realizing that only the
best would survive under present
theatrical conditions and it mas
played sixteen months to gross
receipts Of 1892, 900. but to main
tain the organization on tour at
this time Of year would be finan-
cial folly for have so far only
gotten back the expense of pro.
duction, as the operating costs
are so great. I have never asked
artists to take a cut in salaries
and do not intend to start now.
John Schelhaus. once the best
copy boys on the Washington
Times, has returned to the city
after his second season with
oh - 4,l1
up with the Cochran forces for
a season OF stock in Baltimore.
Somebody. presumably a friend
of Willard sMack's. telephones this
department that the playwright
who wrote the humorous dialogue
which registers so effectively in
the Vitaphone short comedy, "The
Bookworn" at the Metropolitan
Theater. was Mr.. Willard Mack.
Also Bryan Foy directed it.
While on the subject of Mr..
Mack, 1T is an appropriate time
to mention that he is notifying
theater managers he is available
for summer stock engagements,
preferably in his own plays.
Warnings Pennsylvanians who
have played some 25 weeks in
Washington, mostly under the
Stanley-Crandall auspices, provided
the American Jazz music for the
MenJou-Carver nuptials in Paris.
Noted in the New York prints.
Lenore Sorsby, one of our Wash
ington actresses. opened on Broad.
way last night in a new show
Get Me In The Movies"
That crash heard on e street
in the vicinity of the National
theater on Friday night. was
merely MIR. Stephen Erlanger
Cochran's new bus in it's first
collision. It looked too aristo'
cratic parked outside the play
house so careless motorist made
hamburger of a front fender.
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