Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28


American life. Mostly his viewpoint is
that Of the rare and inflnitesimal mi
nority of truly adult, civilized and cul-
tured human beings.
Barry was born in Rochester in 1896,
and after elementary education N his
home town, for the higher learning ne
went to Yale. Although he spent two
Summers on the Rochester Post
Express doing general reporting and al
ways had the idea that it would be nice
to be a writer his serious intention was
to be physician.
When America entered the war he
went to London and served on the stan
Of the American Embassy. In the
Spring Of 1919 he returned to Yale and
that Spring was graduated. That Fail
he went to Harvard, where Prof. George
Pierce Baker was still conducting his
At Workshop. with the idea OF devoting
himself to playwriting, but his family
advised the advertising business.
Ultimately he convinced his family
he really was cut out for playwriting
and so they consented to his returning
to Harvard. Here he wrote several
plays Some have never been produced.
He wrote, however, a play called you
and L" 1t was this play which in 1921
took the Harvard prize. His next was
I'm a Garden" with Laurette Taylor.
they received critical acclaim, were not
box-of1ce triumphs. They were White
Wings" fantasy, and John" drama
about John the Baptist.
However, the subsequent production.
Paris Bound" proved that Barry could
write good plays that also attracted the
public and made money. Paris
Bound" was followed by Holiday" Mr..
Barry's last play, which attracted wide
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the Theater Guild last season.
His most recent plays were written in
France. He likes to write of Americans
because he is one and because he con-
siders them a dramatic people. But by
going abroad he believes he can get a
better perspective upon his countrymen
than when living among them.
The cast of Hail and Farewell is
headed by Zita Johann, last seen in
New York in uncle Vanya," and by
Herbert Marshall, young London lead
ing man who was seen on these shores
in 1928 in Frederick Lonsdale's comedy.
1.-THE High Road" Others are Pat
OBrien. John T. Doyle, Adele Schuyler,
Drew Price, Mary Elizabeth Forbes,
Eileen Byron and Marie Bruce.
PHILIP GOES FORTH"
WHEN Laurence Rivers presents
w George Kellys new play Philip
Goes Forth" at the National Theater
for four days only, commencing We'd
nesday night, January Z, with Sat-
urday matinee, it will be the first new
play by the dramatist on the local stage
after an absence of several years.
Kelly's record in the theater is as well
known as that of any American play
wright. His plays have always been
widely discussed.
THE Torch-Bearers," his first full
length play, produced in 1922, followed
a series of one-act plays which APP
peared on the Keith Orpheum circuit.
1.-THE Torch-Bearers' was a comic
thrust at the little theater movement.
Audiences everywhere were delighted to
see either themselves or their friends
satirized on the stage. The play became
vogue and enjoys lasting popularity.
1.-The Show Off," the next Kelly play,
was produced in 1924 and ran for
nearly two years. It was developed
from the central character of his
earlier vaudeville sketch, Poor Aubrey"
Although it was pronounced to be the
best comedy which had as yet been
written by an American, narrowly
missed the Pulitzer prize. Mr.. Kelly,
however, was awarded Pulitzer prize
honors for 1925 for his next play,
"Craig'S Wife"
Laurence Rivers, the theatrical firm
presenting Phillip Goes FORTH" is also