Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Stage Notes
ESIREE," q comedy by Sacha
Guitry, will be presented in
New York this Fall by the
English Players of Paris, 1t

New YORK this ran py The
- English Players of Paris, II
has been announced. The
play has been translated into Englisn
BY Nine. Andre Merry and Edward Ster-
ling. The latter, with Frank Reynolds,
heads the English Players. This group
Is known to many American travellers,
who have seen their productions at the
Theater Albert Premier.
Two more foreign plays have been
purchased by the Theater Guild for
eventual presentation In New York
One, Red Dust" by Kirchon and
Cupensky, is described as "a study Of
contemporary life in Russia under the
younger Soviet regime" The other play
is THE Motive" by Lombard Franck,
author of Karl and Anna" which is to
be the guilds first production Of the
coming season. 1.-THE Motive" is said
to be in the nature of psychoanalyti-
cal study dealing with the motive be-
hind crime.
1t has been announced by Arch Sell
wyn that Ernest Truck will have the
featured role in Monckton Hoffe's
drama, MANY Waters" scheduled for
New York production in October Truck
will be the only American in the cast
English actors and actresses who ap-
peared in the London production have
already been engaged.
Journeys End" the British war play
originally written for Little Theater
presentation and subsequently, a ire
mendous success on the professional
boards, passed It's Tooth perform
ance in New York last Monday, its
fiftieth performance in Paris last Sat
urday night Ca record for any play In
the English language in France) and
this Tuesday evening celebrates It's
200th performance by the original Lon
don company. At the request of the
war department of Great Britain the
tire production on Armistice Sday.
La Castiglione," an elaborate COS
tune play in which Mime. Gamma
Walska made her debut as an actress
in Paris recently, is to be given by hel
in New York in an English adaptation
next season. Fifteen special perform.
ances in French we're given at the
Coincide des Champs Elysees, owned by
Nine. Walska. 1t Is intimated that she
New York production, though she die
not sing in the French version Of the
play.
George Gershwin's symphonic compo-
sition, An American in Paris" which
was first played In New York last Win.
ter by the Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra, has been incorporated In the
Ziegfeld musical comedy, Show Girl,
to open in Boston tomorrow evening
The work is to be interpreted in pan.
tomime by Eddie Foy, jr., and the AL.
bertha Rasch dancers.
The production of Bernard Shaw's
latest play, 1.-THE Apple Cart" at the
Polish Theater in Warsaw is described
in dispatches as not only an artistic
sensation, but a political sensation a,
well, due to the vivid analogy between
1.-The Apple Cart" and the present sit.
uation in Poland. The play, which the
Theater Guild is to present in the Fall
was well received by the reviewers
Shaw Is working on another play which
concerns the life of Jesus, report has 1t
Luigi Pirandello, italian playwright
and one Of the worlds best known dra.
matte figures today, has gone to Berlir
| for the staging of his six Character.
| in Search of an Author" Later he viii
lecture In Belgium, representing italy II
series OF international lectures where
Valery and Bourdelle will speak fol
France, G.. K. Chesterton for England
and Stefan Zweig and H. Mann fol
Germany.
A new play by Don Marquis. every
thing Is Jake" based on 1.-THE OLE
Soak's History of the World" is ex.
pected to be staged in New York mex
SSuoOA W Vic 1IOuuCcIS O6ntIal 6u
reau. The well known and genial char.
| acter is, this time, placed in Paris, adj
vance notices hint.
London is reported to have taker
Caprice" and Lynn Fontanne to 1T
bosom. The comedy actress is besieget
| every night by autograph hunters.
After an engagement Of IL weeks Oti
| Skinner established a personal recorS
for Chicago appearances with the clos
| ing Of "A Hundred Years Old" las
| night. The play, translated from tn,
Spanish of the Quintero broth.
ers. Is scheduled for Broadway produc
ton October IA, with weeks showing
in Atlantic City, Baltimore and Wash.
ington prior to the New York engage.
ment.
Ethel Barrymore's next play OF
Broadway (probably in the 1880 season.
is to be dramatization Of Julia Peter.
kin's Scarlet Sister Mary" Miss Bar.
rymore is to appear in blackface. Or
July 8 the star commences her repertory
tour with THE Love Duel" and "Tht
Kingdom of God"
Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell
authors of Little Accident" have beer
awarded the Megrue prize of $500 of.
fered by the Dramatists' Guild of the
Authors League of America. This j.
the first OF 10 years awards from 9
fund donated by the late Roi Cooper
Megrue and his mother, Stella Cooper
Megrue. Under the terms of the aware
the winning play must be one which
is produced in New York and makes
the audience little brighter and q lit
tie more cheered up when it leaves the
theater than when it came m"