The Washington times., 1929-02-06
.GLEANINGS
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SCREENINGS
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

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the Belasco musical comedy
company as guest stars Begin
ming Sunday night, February II.
The musical they will offer is
mo, No Nanette," in which
they starred for two seasons
on the road for Harry Frazee.
Their Washington contract is
for two weeks.
Patti Harold, daughter of the
grand opera star, has been prop
ositioned to become guest lead
ing woman of the Belasco ruSi-
cal comedy company later. If
she accepts she will be the star
of Little Nellie Kelly" a
George M. Cohan revival.
Next season the National The
ater will be able to play sound
pictures if and when dark weeks
impend. The order has gone in
for the wiring.
George Bancroft, in "Wolf of
Wall Street." rolled up $4,000
at the Rialto on Broadway last
week. This against $4,000 for
die previous seven days with
smother picture. Augurs we'll
for Earle Theater business, be-
ginning Friday midnight.
An underworld" scout reports
that the Gayety Theater benefit
for the families of the gamblers
in jail was not planned until or
ganized charities had failed to
act on a petition for a relief
and letter to the White House
brought no answer. Then three
months rent was paid for one
family to stop an eviction and
the benefit performance was ar
ranged.
Vincent Colling, musical di-
rector of the Savoy Musical
Comedy Company, is not flirting
with that girl in the merry
merry. She's his wife.
Louis Wolheim, who villains
all over Loew's Palace in THE
Awakening" is an ex-professor
of mathematics at Cornell Uni
versity, although he doesn't
look it.
The proposal of a new stock
company for Keith's lags be-
cause the necessary capital is
not enthused over the pros
poets of a repertoire war.
Also a proposal to exchange
the Albee building, including
the Keith Theater, for property
on Connecticut Avenue, red hot
month ago, has apparently run
into difficulties.
The proof readers who chase
commas and semi-colons for a
pastime sometimes let one get
by. For example this faux
pas in the esteemed Detroit
Free Press:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80
A.P. .)-President elect Hovoer
has contributed $1,000 to the
communist chest fund now being
raised here. President Coolidge
already had contributed, but the
amount was not revealed.
Demands of the musicians that
II men must occupy the Rialto
pit have frightened off one or
two possible lesees.
The William Hartman Rap
leys will pass up Palm Beach
this season in favor of a Medi-
terranean cruise starting in
April.
"shopworn Angel" which
comes to Loew's Palace Satur-
day, is one of Paramount's s
agreeable surprises. Booked
into the Paramount on Broad
way for expected $3.50 business,
it broke a record. And then
| proved it was not a mistake by
doing the same thing in the
Brooklyn Paramount.
Producer Jed Harris has can
celled Atlanta from the route
assigned to "Coquette." Mum
bling against a play that has a
Dixie girl Norma Besant) NOR
ally skid caused the change in
booking. Atlanta also turned
thumbs down on Road to
Rome"
Judas" the Basil Rathbone
play which closed last Saturday
night in New York, did $62
Saturday matinee. Which is
one of the reasons it closed.
Romaine Calender will not be
with the National Players this
season. His part in Lenore Vi.
ric's "Mima" has So more words
in it than that of the star. Ro-
maine, incidentally, is not poor
actor, speaking, of course, finan-
cially. He has a large nest egg;
in fact, around the Lambs Club
the pinochle players call it an
omelet.
Hollywood was 21 years old
yesterday. And as one disap-
pointed actor said, it took it a
H of long time to learn to
talk.
Fannie Brice of "Fioretta"
and also the Vitaphone star IF
"My Man" (due at the Metro
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