The Washington times., 1929-06-22

Put them all together and there
etsnds Herbert. Rawlinson, master of
ceremonies de luxe.
MALvINA,
The FarraRut.
Re the Motion Picture Editor:
Thanks for the plug. Wish you
wINcHELL.
New York.
10 the Motion Picture Editor;
'I certainly wish to. thank you on
behalf of myself and all the other
W. w. wa You surely have been
kind in printing all that information
nheut Wesley Eddy Not many edi-
this, and we most certainly apprecI-
ate It, Any additional Information
you may be able to get will be re-
csived in the same manner.
'I think we have hit on the right
way to bring Mr. Eddy back. II any
IL the time. Not long ago Freddy
Sherman, the juvenile lead at the
National TheateT. left. much in the
same way, az did Wesley. A few
son whatever, and l determined to
find out the reason. 1t was this.
Several OF his admirers got together
and decided to get UP a petition to
bring him back and that is just
what they did. WhetheF this brought
him back or not, 10 not known. bnt
am sure that at least 1t helped.
Now any w. w. W.. who wishes to
hafp in this way may dq so. by get
ting peopIe who wish him back, tC
sign their name and address on h
piece Of paper. Head the paper like
thfs.-We Want Wesley--and list the
names ana addresses below. When
you have filled the entire sheet in
this manner send It to Benny at Sl1
Rittenhouse st. N. W.. and will see
that it gets into the hands of the
proper person.
I hope we get quite a few names.
az I am sure It. will help. Send them
IN a. soon as possible. I am also
glad to see how many real admirers
Mr.. Eddy has left hehind him. and
how the W. w. W. club has increased
In membership these last few weeks"
A w. WV.
GIL RitteDhouse st. n. W.
NJ the Dramatic Editor:
''It has been noted that you referred
C. A. W.'s query as to how Rain"
which the Players will do next week.
cnincided with the aforementioned
stss elsan ,,II play schs sdn.s m policy, srvsd sf;
consistently, to the undersigned. Well.
It does coincide. perfectly. and one
fs led to wonder If c. A. W. ever
saw the snow.
'"rhe Player mana cement has adul.
terated this clean" policy with a
modicm OF reasoning and in past
aeasons plays which gould be .classed
as verging on moral candof have
snatchersas Irwin beds; ..sprinE
Cleaning why Men Leave Home"
There has been ne comp.aiKt. The
clean-play policy was never meant to
be interpreted as meaning that the
GtnaE y the Nzttnnaf
competing with Christian EndeavOrers
in the race for salvation. II was
meant to insure the general patron
age against the embarrassment of
walking into theater they had been
taught tG respect To discover their
confidence was abused by sitting at
sue such plays as The .' CAPTIVE" Pleas
sticky niceness Of the theater in the the
Nineties as box office merit. then
women would still be wearing long
skirts and the movies yet in their
infancy.
Rain Is not a smutty play. 1t
II as moral as the Bible for the Bible
teaches the unfrocking of hypocrisy,
and II is exactly this which composes
the. central theme-the unthroninE Of
The slang that Sadie Thompson uses
in Rain is behind that affected by
today's crop OF cute incorrigibles stlll
In their teens.
produced on Broadway last season,
was one reason for the number of
revivais at this theater this summe..
HAROLD PHILLIPS,
National Theater.
"Dear Mr.. Kelley: ,s
Your column OF June z Is most
IntefestinB to me, not only because
of the discussion OF the Guild which
you undertake, but because of the
rrAa q ~ inc hs.tS
the work of Bernard Simon and Ar
thur Ryan. and the Guild system in
general a
the Guild ON the part of the New
York Review is, as you must UNDER
stand, simply carried on because we
removed our bookings from the shu-
bert office to the Erlanger one and
Eve have never, insofar as
know. issued any art for arts sake"
propaganda and 1t has been met
toned many time in interviews with
various member of the Guild
Directorate that it is, we hope on a
firm financial basis. On the other
hand. the guild is, think. some
what different from what you speak
of as the average commercial Ven-
tnre of the theater. 1t undertakes
In New York which are obviously de-
stIned to fail in the commercial
sense. During the past season 0ne
can mention both Dynamo" anu
duced with the idea that it would
last long. On the road You have to
date seen nothing but the Guilds
successes. We hope to develop our
road clientele to the point where
they will be interested in seeing not
only the outright success but the
more special riays which are pro-
dnced largely from sense OF duty.
This sense of duty" In the theater,
I might add. is displayed not only by
Arthur Hopkins. Eva LIE Gallienne's .
Civic Repertory Company and
occasionally by other orgaqizati tioDs. 1t
is representative of movement
which. think you viii agree with
me. has had a tremendous effect upon
the theater of recent years and
which Is leading to the fast disap-
pearance of what we both know as
the 0ld-fashioned manager.
"our snbscription. plan which Will
be cut into Washington next year
makes the price of seats for all at
fractions $2.50: and in the case Of
s'Strange Interlude" I'M New York,
whers the box office price was SAFE
aweek. we gladly accommodated hold
ers OF matinee subscriptions (pFices
even lowerl to see the play In days
Of its extraordinarily heavy demand.
IN discussion or the COM
msrcIal aspects of the Guild. hope
you will try to see the point that
unless our audience is organized II
would be impossible for us to attract
large numbers to our plays. with.
the Guild the emphasis in addition
to putting on plays is also upon
the development OF a fine acting
ensemble and by sending parts Of
this company on to the road you
can readily understand that We cIlt
in halt our New York resources For
this reason. we are now completing
period NJ readjGStment which. has
extended throughout the past season
ard from now on Alice Brady, Otto
Kruger Frank Conroy and many
other fine actors will be added 10 the