The Washington times., 1929-05-28
.GLEANINGS.
AND
SCREENINGS.
b ANDREW r. KELLEY

headed towards the DuBn leagues
This anent an unofficial obser-
walton given refuge in these
columns yesterday.
Via Mr.. Mackay's Postal tele-
graph comes this red-hot reply:
Dear Andy: Despite the critic
who has never been closer to the
stage than the second balcony,
there will never be q Barrymore
in the bushes. Lady Ethel is
still doing capacity business in
the love duel and Jack and
Lionel are no. only the best, but
most distinguished Of all screen
actors. Now l know why we
have d Jones law and why they
send six-year-old boys to the
reformatory (Signed),
CHARLES McCLINT0CK.
As Major Bowes says, thank
you Charlie" / regarded the
dark and jagged knock as q
poke at John Barrymore and
not entirely undeserved. But
any communication from Lady
EtheI's favorite advance repre-
sentative is authentic enough to
require attention. ] will re-
serve further prediction as to
Hamlet jack destiny until he
offers us his first talking pic
'ture, Redemption" Meanwhile
/ suggest. Mr.. Nc Clintock and
his boon companion, Col. Frank
r. Morse. come to the Wash
ington Auditorium, June 5, and
hear Mr.. Darrow tell US why
there should be no Jones law.
Ethel Barrymore will close her
show for one day, Wednesday,
June S, while she goes to Moy-
Ian, Pa, to watch her 18-year-
old daughter graduate from
Notre Dame Academy. Thirty
years ago the stage star COM
pleted her academic studies at
the same institution and George
Drew Barrymore, Ethel's mother,
also received O Notre Dame
diploma.
Definite information is with
held as to whether Ethel Barry
more Colt will follow the tradi-
ton of this royal stage family
and adopt the footlights for .
career. She has acted in the
school plays and is said to
possess a fine speaking voice.
Life appears to be just one
terrible role after another for
Estelle Taylor. She is . slant
eyed vampire in where East
Meets East"--Lon Chaney's lat
est at the Palace--and her chief
success seems to be in driving
Lloyd Hughes into a violent case
of overacting. Tod Browning
wrote the story and directed it,
which is another reason why the
influx of Broadway writing
talent and stage directors to
Hollywood can be viewed with
out alarm.
For 21 years David Belasco
and Mrs. Leslie Carter never ex-
changed q word. The famous
producer broke with his star
when she married Lou Payne
in 1906. This was after her
sensational success in Heart Of
Maryland and "Zaza" under the
Belasco management. The be-
nign David always opposed
marriage for his women stars.
Now the row has been patched
I'D and there are rumors that
Mrs. Carter will appear again
under the direction of the old
master. There is a pretty senti-
mental touch to the report al
though it sounds much like the
pardon that came too late.
T. Fox Movietone Follies, just
new making business brisk
around the National Press Club
corner, is being exhibited simul-
taneously in 10 key cities. The
simultaneous showing may be
attributed to the fact that all
the big production companies
have musical comedy features
either in the cutting room or
ready for immediate release.
Paramount is offering the Four
Marx Brothers in 'The Cocoa
nuts" done in the straight musi-
cal comedy@mood for the screen.
Universal last night opened
broadway" on Broadway and
tonight the Warner Brothers
will relight the Winter Garden
with "On With the Show" an
other feature which depends
largely upon girls and melody
for its lure.
"Alibi," a play which debuted
in Washington under the name
of zone of the Finest" and
subsequently became a mild
stage success under the title OF
''Nightstick," comes to the Coz
lumbia Theater S saturday.
Although Chester Morris is re-
puted to give SenSaCioha!Ay
effective performance as the
young detective in the screen
drama, he is not featured in the
advance advertising for the
simple reason that he is COM
plete1y q stranger to the aver
age movie fan.
Mary Roberts Rinehart, one
of Americas foremost writers
and an upper Massachusetts
Avenue resident, hits out right
and left at the large number
of assassins and malefactors
who have tried to kill the thea
ter. The article is in the June
issue of the Theater Magazine.
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