Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
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STAGE NOTES
UWE went to Hoboken for fun. and
we were happy until we became

GIVE went to Hoboken for fun. and
w We we're happy until we became
fad with New Yorks smart sci"
Christopher Morley. revival chieftain in
the BLACK Crook" and After Dark"
ventures. told group OF Columbia Uni
versity Summer students Monday. Nor
ley declared that 1.-THE smart New
Yorker. who drove to Hoboken in his
town car was more rowdy and noisy
than the Hoboken rabble." and con-
tinued with the bleak philosophy that
the life Of the ultra smart is so I'M
happy, so empty, that when they do
find something to enjoy they can't con-
troll themselves" Wherever his audi
ences came from, however empty and
fatuous their lives, they put something
to the tune of two or three hundred
thousand dollars into Mr.. Morley's cof-
fers. That, too, one may suppose, added
to his melancholy.
Commenting that. in place Of the
talkie scare. which not long past threat
ened to paralyze Broadway, there is
springing up in the breasts Of New York
producers bliSsful confidence that the
coming season will be one of the most
profitable in recent years for the legiti-
mate stage, r. p. Dunno, jr., notes that
already more than 200 plays are being
groomed for Broadway. Some observers
interpret these signs as meaning that
the novelty of the talkies has worn of
II that Is the case, there Is yet wanting
any indication that the movie producers
are worried about what is to become of
their more than 500 talking pictures.
Nor. for that matter. does the public
seem to be worrying about absorbing all
haZarded that, for the first time in the
history of the theater, everybody is
happy?
Pirandello's "LaZzaro," mentioned in
this column last week as a prize piece
being bid for by five New York pro-
ducers, has been acquired for this coun-
try by Charles Hopkins and will be Of
fered in January.
All the Barrymores were recently
working in Los Angeles at the same
time, Lionel directing talking films,
busy with new picture and Ethel APP
pearing at the Mason Opera House in
The Kingdom of God" and 1.-THE Love
Duel" A story. incidentally, is told of
visit which John Barrymore paid to
haberdashery in Hollywood where,
after ordering this and that to be sent
to his home, he had turned to leave
the shop when the clerk asked:
And your name. please?"
. odIi yLHoIc, TcpueO the LON Juan OF
the silver sheet.
which Barrymore, please?" patient
ly inquired the clerk.
The perfect eyebrows rose in faint
surprise. John gave the fellow one look.
Ethel" he snapped, and strobe from
the place.
George M. Cohan, who has frequently
jumped into the casts of his own plays
on short notice. will play the principal
role in his latest work. Gambling -
which he is taking to the Fulton, in
New York, August 26. The play marks
Mr. Cohan's entry as an author into the
field Of mystery plots.
Florenz ziegfeld announces that the
new theater which will hear his name in
London will open November 80 with
Rio Rita" Mr. Ziegfeld will produce
all Of the shows to be presented in his
London house and will maintain COM
plete control of its MANAGEMENT.
ALA Nazimova has severed connec-
tons with Eva lie Gallienne's Civic
Pcpertory Theater for reasons unan-
nounced. She has been outstanding this
season in 1.-THE Cherry Orchard, !"
"Katerina" and "On the High Road"
and was scheduled to play Trina in "The
Sea Gull" with which the Civic Reper-
tory Theater will open the new season.
DR.. Otto Hitner's show boat troupe
charmed st. Louis recently out on the
river front with lonesome pine mel
ler," which was mot without its tender
passages" The Hitner shows has been
storming the hamlets and villages of the
Mississippi. the Ohio, the Illinois and
Monongahela Rivers for the past 20
years. They still like the old mellers
best, DR.. Hitner told reporter, 1.-THE
new stuff doesn't CO."