Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-12
STAGE NOTES.
From Here and There

| A FTER playing SIS performances in
- New York, ziegfeld's SHOW Boat"
moved TO Boston with an encourage of
212 people to present the work flttingly
! in the Massachusetts, capital. The gov
ernor the mayor and a lot of others
were present at Ihe opening.
Ten plays current in New York have
by now run 200 or more consecutive
| performances. "Blackbirds" heads the
| list with 470, Strange Interlude" comes
next with 410, "Skidding' follows with
405 and so on. Good fair or middling
business is being done by As big produc-
! tons. Is the stage dead?
NINA" David Belasco's spectacular
production, which has meant another
conspicuous success for Lerlore Uric,
will soon end its New York run. Nearly
eight weeks will be needed to dismantle
the steel construction in the auditorium
necessitated by the play, which, 1e-
markable as it may seem, is to be put
on tour next season by Morris Gest,
presently occupied with his Hippodrome
presentation of the Freiburg Passion
Play"
"Courtesan," the new play by Irving
Kaye Davis, is to have only one char
acter. O'Neill's short bit, Before
Breakfast" also had but one player;
several have had only two.
George Bernard Shaw's latest play,
THE Apple Cart" which the Theater
Guild bought sight unseen" for pres
entation next season, deals with
democratic minded king of a century
hence, who. in his desire to take an
active part in the politics of his realm,
abdicates the throne and becomes a
cabinet minister. There are women in
~, oil
American tourists in Paris will con-
tinue to be provided with theatrical
fare redolent of their native strand.
Ten plays of American authorship or
presentation have served this purpose
in as many months. Four different
American ventures are planned for
or current Yankee hits have been
Broadway" SHOW Boat" "Rose
Marie Gershwin's Tip Toes" and
THE Trial of Mary Dugan."
The English Players at the Theater
Albert Premier have occupied them
selves with Journeys End" the British
war play which has SO gripped New
York this season.
French pieces which have proven
particularly interesting include "Melo,"
by Bernstein: 81 'Ennemie," by Andre
Paul Antoine; Departure" at the
Theater de TAvenue, and "Topaze,"
which continues at the Varieties.
London playgoers continue to be In
terested by Paris Bound Philip
Barry's Broadway success, at the Lyric.
Edna Best and Herbert Marshal. recent
ly married, have the leading roles.
The Theater Guilds presentation of
"Porgy" and 1.-THE Little Accident"
both American works, hold we'll
British dramas which are meeting
approval include Mines 1.-The Ivory
Door, THE Infinite Shoeblack," at the
Arts Theater; These Few Ashes" and
Rope" the first play of 25-year- old
Patrick Hamilton, a study in morbid
vanity" drawn from De Quincy and the
Leopold-Loeb case.
Sybil Thorndike is playing the wears
nagging wife in the London production
of Danes Mariners" which was pro-
duced in New York some time ago.
Miss Thor. bikes husband and both of
their child In have roles.
Hits of the Budapest theatrical sea-
son have been either local or of Ameri-
can origin. Both The Trial of Mary
Dugan" and Good News" were out
A play, THE Grey Dress" by
Countess Margit Bethlen, wife of
Hungarys prime minister, opened at
the Vigszinhaz a few weeks ago: the
newspapers did their best to sing the
praises OF the prominent authoress.
what Price Glory" with its virility
Gern1anized, has been doing well in
Berlin.