The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-01-28
GLEANINGS
SCREENINGS
By ANDREW r. KELLEY

Boston opening was postponed
from Friday until last night
with great confusion resulting
through Friday and Saturday
performances being sold out
clean before it was decided the
curtain would not rise.
Wesley Eddy broke the at
tendance record for seven days
at Loew's Palace last week
with more than $4,000 paid ad-
missions. He failed to touch
the $4,000 financial record,
because that high water box
office mark was made New
Year week with an extra mid
night show to welcome 1880
and a so cents admission for
the holiday, instead of the reg
ular Is cents to / p. m.
At Constitution Hall on Fri
day afternoon, the best must
clans that can be recruited in
Washington,-80 Of them
will give a symphony concert
that Earle Dorsey assures me
will be one music lovers will re-
member. q
1t will be the first public
appearance of the National
Symphony Orchestra and every
man who fills a chair when
Conductor Rudolph Schueller
raises his baton is prepared to
show that the city can have
high class music with all local
talent-an organization which
can challenge any of the tour
ing orchestras arriving heralded
by great regulations and world
famous conductors.
You will recognize a good
many of the faces for they are
solo musicians in the theater
orchestras. Most of them have
devoted a lifetime to music
and are keen for this oppor-
tunity to show what they can
do in a real session with the
classics. They want the Ma
tional Symphony to be a self
supporting and top-notch Or
chestra, worthy of the National
Capital and rejecting credit
upon their local union.
This desk has been simply
deluged with biographical data
supplied by Business Manager
George Gaul, designed to show,
for instance, that the cello
player at the Fox is one of
the best in the world, that
the string and brass sections
have artists with genuine rec
ords in music, that from con-
cert master to tympani. the po-
sitions will be manned by ex-
perts.
Speaker Longworth is one
of their strongest boosters and
local society and patrons Of
music have taken up the cause
of the National Symphony.
Mrs. Greene has contributed her
efficient ticket selling organiza-
ton and the hope is for sch
out. I trust they reach the
goal because, in the frequent
flurries over wage scales and
the talk about competition
from the screen and employ
ment depression, we are apt to
forget that some of the best
musicians in the world fill
chairs in the Washington
theater orchestras.
Paul j. Schwarz. erstwhile
orchestra leader at the Belasco,
and now making melody at the
Washington Hotel, sends an
announcement of the arrival
in the SchWarz mansion of a
seven-pound, five ounces baby
girl, whose voice right now
appears to be high soprano.
Miss Grace Moore, the Metro
politan Opera soprano, just
signed by Metro-Goldwyn to
inject golden notes into the
films, will make her first recital
appearance since signing the
documents at Washington on
February 5 at the MayfloWer
Hotel. She will replace Rosa
Ponselle in the scheduled con-
certs of Mrs. Lawrence Town
send. Her first Hollywood as
signment will be as leading
woman for Lawrence Tibbett,
fellow artist at the Metropol1-
tan.
Miss Moore was studying at
the Wilson-G Greene school when
she received her summons to
professional fame. In the
Emusic Box Revue" she re-
vealed such a glorious voice
that, after one season, the
prima donna deserted the friv-
olous musicals for the operate
stage. She is a Tennessee girl
and strikingly pretty, an asset
which makes her appear Ger
tain for greater fame in pic
lures.
Universal pictures prints the
names of the cast in the fea.
ture at the beginning and end
of the film performance, there
by sponsoring a practice which
finds such favor with movie
audiences-and particularly crit
ics-all producers could copy
it to advantage.
What is the objection to max
ing this universal custom (no
pun intended), by all Holly
wood? It takes less than a
minute to read the names f
the cast tucked on to the end
of the feature when audiences
are perhaps eager to identify
some player who has done good