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Evening star., 1930-11-30
Roar China Not Coming

VXORD has come through Maurice
w Colbourne, the New York Theater
Guilds most recent emissary to this
city and well known in London and
New York for his acting, writing and
lecturing, etc. that the guild Is laying
plans for something of an innovation.
1t seems that, due to the difficulties
of scenic effects and arrangements, the
guild production Of Roar China" cur
rently running in New York and sched-
uled for an appearance here at the
National Theater will not come here
after all.
Not wishing to disappoint its pa
irons. the guild is trying to manipulate
the highly original scheme of Turing
entire audiences from this and other
cities-such as Boston-to its portals
instead Of transplanting the portals
here and there. In other words, If
plans become realities, the guild will
provide a special train, at specially re-
duced prices and a special perform
ance for Washingtonians who are will
ing to travel up to New York. Called
mayhap-the guild express" hardy
theatricalites from this town may
cruise to New York instead of to the
National and witness what seems TO
be one OF the hits of the current sea-
son.
This is, Of course, still a nebulous
dream, but, as in such ventures as nine
hours of Strange Interlude" and other
side-steppings. the guild may find itself
again at the head of a real innovation.
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Directed the PLAY.

. OBERT MILTON, director Of "Out-
~ ward Bound" the Warner Bros. and
Vitaphone picture at the Metropolitan,
was associated with Richard Mansfield.
Charles Frohman, Mrs Fiske and George
Arliss as director prior to his associa-
ton with the screen.
He was born in Russia and first stud
led to become a priest of the Greek
Church. His father being q well known
stage director, however, it was natural,
after receiving his education In st.
Petersburg and Munich, to turn to the
theater. and he was given small role
under his father at the Royal Theater.
From then on the stage superseded the
church in the young mans aspirations.
Then followed many years Of acting
and directing.
Three years ago Mr. Milton began his
directorial work for the cinema. His
first was "The Wild Party" followed
by Charming Sinners" THE Dummy"
and Behind the Makeup" Warner
Bros. then signed him to make "Out-
ward Bound" from the pen Of Sutton
Vane, because he was familiar with the
production, having directed the prigi-
nal stage production of the play in
America, with much the same cast as
appears in the cinema version.
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Native Songs Heard.

"THE LOVE FLOWER" is the theme
song Of THE Love Trader" Tif-
fany's drama Of New England love in
the South Seas. 1t was written by
Jimmy Guest and Richard Coburn. Co
burn, the lyricist, has had his name
associated with songs of the past few
years. including Avalon" and "Whis-
pering"
"The Love Flower" Is sung to I.eatrice
Joy by Roland Drew, who portrays the
character Of an island prince and adds
a pleasiAR baritone voice to his histri-
onic ability.
Noah Beery, whose bass voice has
been an unknown asset during the
years of silent pictures, and who has
become popular since the advent Of the
talking pictures, sings an old sailor
ditty dug up by Harold Shumate, the
story's author. while on a preliminary
trip TO the South Seas. The title is
"Only One Port for q Sailor"
Sol Hooppi, whose Hawaiian orchestra
Is known all over the country, provides
native songs and furnishes the native
musicians and singers to interpret them
In the picture there were over so native
singers and musicians. Jimmy Spencer,
another well known in the field of
South Sea Island music, functions with
a group Of musicians in providing mu-
sical backgrounds for the romantic love
sequences.
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The Why of Melodrama.

"MELODRAdA," says George NJ.
Cohan, "is one of the earliest
forms of the dramatic art. Its p,
larity has been continuous from the
times of Seneca up to the present day.
This is not strange, for the popular
appeal of melodrama Is permanent
one. 1t represents mans struggle for
self-preservation and his fight ag. inst
nature, society and environment. 1t
moves people Of all nations, of all ages,
conditions, and all because it appeals
to the fundamental emotions of hum-.n
love. hate, hope, fear, despair and
Jealousy.
THE villain, the villainess as well as
the hero and the heroine, each repre-
sent the struggles which take place
daily in real life. Thus their expert
ences arouse interest and sympathy in
all classes Of play patrons. Women in
particular love melodrama, because 1t
stimulates their Imagination, permits
them to enjoy the contemplation from
a safe distance of many novel thrills
that conventional society forbids and
their own individual experience would
probably never provide.
But melodrama Is not q formless
thing; 1t is highly organized. and in
cludes exactly 81 different and distinct
situations which playwrights have used
all over the world for ages. Most OF
these dramatists, however, have built
their plays around two or three OF these
situations"
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THAT airy persiflage and gayety
which makes Lawrence Grossmith
delight on the stage doesn't come of
with his grease paint. It's In his
blood. It's traditional heritage in his
well known English theatrical family
which, for five generations, has played
a great part in the annals Of the Lon
don stage.
Mr.. Grossmith shares honors with
Grace George and A. Z. Matthews in
st. John Ervines sparkling comedy,
THE First Mrs. Fraser" at the Belasco
this week. He's been playing Philip
ingly persistent suitor, for well nigh q
year in New Work. "It Is a delightful
comedy role" he says.
Mr.. Grossmith gravely avows that
the rose is his favorite flower, yellow
his favorite color, that he thinks first
class tennis the most thrilling sport to
watch, that golf Is the game he himself
plays oftenest. Exercise in the city?
Era daily walk.
How long a walk, Mr.. Grossmith?"
'As far as the nearest taxi"
Regarding the Grossmith habit Of
going on the stage, 1t was begun by a
couple of his great-great uncles around
the year 1900. Lawrence's grandfather,
the first George Grossmith of the Lon
don stage, gave readings Of Dickens
works. Lawrence's father, the second
George, made the name famous BY
creating leading roles in 1.-The Trial by
Jury" "The Sorcerer" and one after
another the rest of the Gilbert and
Sullivan operas. For IL years, under
one management, George Grossmith
reigned at the Savoy Theater.
"I was, of course" says Lawrence
Grossmith, brought up on talk Of the
theater. I cannot remember a single
week of the theatrical season in Lon
don when there was not some Gros-
smith on the London stage
The third George GroSsmith is
Lawrence's elder brother, known on
both sides of the Atlantic and at pres
ent in Hollywood. Lawrence, too, has
been borrowed from the London stage
for many New York production. He
appeared in America first with Lily
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Keeps Things Moving.

come Danger" was o happy teaming Of
the two, with a slightly greater burden
Of responsibility on action than on dia-
logue.
Now comes the most recent confection
from the happy ha-ha house Of Lloyd
Feet First" It is said to be 'crammed
full Of action" OF course, it is a talk
ing picture, and the lines are in their
proper places, funny, romantic, whim-
sical lines. But the advance reports
have 1t that the action carries the main
burden of the production.
Audiences will see Harold in all kinds
of scrapes. He keeps things moving all
the time to the accompaniment Of
laughter,
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Finding New Faces.

"THE most tremendous and difficult
l task of the casting directors of
Hollywood Is that Of finding new faces
for the SCREEN" according to Fred
Datig, who acts in that capacity for
Paramount.
"The Paramount studio casting offices
are open from IL until l every day for
the interviewing of new personalities,
to assist us in this unending search" {"
he explains. Between 100 and $50
persons are registered daily as a result
Of these interviews. Out of this aston
ishing number of new applicants an av-
erage of one month Is given a test for
small part or a possible contract.
"A casting director Is required to
see every new and important film re-
leased that he may be thoroughly
versed In the appearance of new and
interesting players. This picture show
scouting demands five nights out of
every week"
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continues his opening act for more than
an hour, instead of breaking it up with
intermisSions. This act Is said to be
one of the wittiest and swiftest the
first dramatist of England" has ever
devised, with his maSterful quill, tech
nique and charm.
THE Apple Cart" like q good many
other Shaw comedies, upsets the rules
of the theater and of the drama. One
of the speeches. given to the King, Is
a mere $500 words long.
In the cast, selected with particular
care, will be Tom Powers, Violet Kemble
Cooper, Claude Rains, Ernest Cossart,
Frederick Truesdell, Jane Wheatley, Eva
Leonard Boyne, Barbara Allen, w. H.
Sans, John Dunn, Hannah c. Clark,
George Graham, Audrey Ridgwell,
George Colours, Ferdinand Hast and
others.
The play was staged by Philip Moeller
The settings were done by Lee Simon
son. The scenes of the three acts were
fashioned with the double purpose of
providing colorful backgrounds and
suggesting, by their reStrainedly fu-
turistic design, the fact that the action
takes place 80 years from now.
BELASCO-"The First Mrs. Fraser"
FOR well nigh a year Grace George,
the distinguished American comedi-
enne. and those noted English actors,
A. E. Matthews and Lawrence Gros-
smith, have been delighting New York
In THE First Mrs. Fraser" Now they
are coming to the Shubert-BelaSco The
ater In this comedy of divorce and re-
marriage by st. John Ervine for the
week commencing tomorrow night. Sell
dom are three such past masters in the
airy art of comedy found in one play.
THE First Mrs. Fraser" comes her
aided as humorously human and true
to smart-set society the world over" It
has been not only q long-run success
in New York, but also in London, in
Berlin and elsewhere on the Continent.
Mr.. Ervine, deftly combining q dozen
fascinating characters with theme
that in itself makes for croSS-purpoSes,
embroiders his theme with the wit and
epigram one might expect from London
playWrights. His first" and second"
Mrs. Frasers fence in deadly earnest,
but with the poised shafts Of irony.
And there are constant chuckleS in the
plight Of James Fraser, who comes for
sympathy and understanding to his d.
vorced wife, q circumstance much re.
sented by her ardent suitor, Philip
Logan.
In key with this well groomed slice
of modern life Is the scenery designed
by Livingston Platt Miss George her.
self staged the play. Her company, in
addition to Mr.. Matthews and Mr..
GroSsmith, includes Phyllis Elgar, Ruth
Benson Blinn, Charles Campbell, May
Marshall and Lowell Gilmore.
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Oakie on the Defensive.

get serious about II. She's sure TO tell
me what q great kidder am.
If start to squawk about the price
pay for suits, the tailor laughs, rubs
his hands and says. You always have
to have your fun, don't you? Now that
you've had your little joke, Mr.. Oakie,
you will admit that this suit is a great
and, Of course, I get stuck"
"Yet, II do honestly try to impress
the higher ups. they tell me to save
my humor for the screen"
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Theater Guild Month.

DECEMBER will be "Theater Guild
month" at the National Theater,
with George Bernard Shaw's "The APP
pie Cart" week beginning Monday, De-
cember l.; the premiere of "In the
Meantime" the week of the 9th and
"Garrick Gaieties" the week of the 18th.
And the National promises a joyous
attraction for the Yuletide season in
week beginning Monday, December 29.
This engagement will have double in
terest for Washington playgoers as fea-
tured in the cast Is Minor Watson. the
first and one Of the most popular of the
National Theater Players leading men.
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IT Is notable that every film that
astute young comedian Harold Lloyd
has ever produced has been successful,
largely because he has never allowed
the action-continuity TO lag for .
minute.
When he made his first tallxie, "Wel-
come Danger" he was confronted with
q problem. Would the dialogue slow
up action2 He attacked this problem
with his customary vigor and as o re-
suit made q huge success Of welcome
Danger" AS most folks will remem-
ber, dialogue was not permitted to slow
up action in that show. Rather action
carried dialogue along with 1t. wei
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Youngest Director.

Ray McCAREY. who recently COM
pleted kid the Kidder," his second
Pathe comedy, Is the youngest film di-
rector In Hollywood. In spite of his age
and the fact that he has been in the
industry only five years, young McCarey
earned his promotion when Pathe Off
cials elevated him from an assistant
director to q full-fledged megaphone
wielder.
His first assignment on the lot was
to assist Joseph Santley with the direc-
ton of Swing High" Pathes circus
special, for which he also wrote the
continuity. Subsequently he worked
with Russell Mack on Eddie Quillan' S
recent production, might Hawk" It
was following this that Pathe execu-
tives realized that young McCarey pos
sessed ability Of no mean grade. Hence
he was awarded his initial directorial
assignment, 1.-TWO Plus Fours," the first
Of series Of college comedies.
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Three Talkie Triumphs.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS is Of the
- opinion that to date the three tri-
umphS OF the talking pictures have
been Mickey Mouse's animated cartoon
antics, Will Rogers wit and acting
and Edmund Goulding's direction of
THE Tresspasser" and 1.-THE Devils
Holiday"
Mickey Mouse combines sound and
motion perfectly, 1t appears to Fair
banks, who has long admired the struc-
ture Of these animated cartoons. Rog-
ers' characterizations in "They had to
See Paris" and $50 This Is London"
seemed art to Fairbanks. And Could
ing he admired so much as a talking
picture director that he picked him to
direct Reaching for the Moon" VIII
liam Anthony McGuire's story and IrV-
ing Berlin's first film production.
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GAYETY-"Sugar Babies"

COUGAR BABIES" after six seasons
- OF success, is at the Gayety this
week and, 1t is claimed. its latest ven-
ture will be found about everything
neediul to keep up with the spirit Of
the day, including beauty, with colorful
scenes laid In Hungary, Holland and
Spain. and a helpful aggregation OF
comedians, singers and dancers, headed
by Harry (Hello Jake) Fields, support
ed by Patricia Kelly, FloSsie DeVere and
Chuck Callahan, who are featured, and
Rags Ragland, Charles Hendricks, Lew
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their 1880 song and dance re-
Il vue, Good Gracious, Godfrey"
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights, December IL, IL and 13, at the
ctty's community playhouse, Mckinley
Auditorium, Second and T streets north
east, with a cast of principals and
chorus including outstanding members
of last years show and q goodly num-
ber of promising new players recently
added TO this talented club OF college
students.
The experienced guiding hand Of
Denis E. Connell will coach the show,
Ralph Kennedy will be its managing
director, and Carl Wells is this years
musical director, with Dorothy Scheme
ken as the dance director.
The book of Good Gracious, Cod
frey Is by Frank WeStbrook and
Fletcher Henderson, and the musical
numbers are the work of Bill Jemison,
Carl Wells and others. Up-to-date
songs and dances will be big feature
Of this years show, which also will be
most spectacular.
Fifty students will appear in the
piece, including SO lovely girls. Co.'S
tunes are under the direction of Kitty
Boykin and settings under John Red
mond's artistic direction.
SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY, Tomorrow.
THE Shakespeare Society meets tomor-
row evening in the auditorium Of
the Corcoran Art Gallery. Parts or
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CURRENT ToPICs-Tuesday.
CLARA W. McQUOWN-Friday.

Friday morning at IL o'clock Miss
Clara w. McQuown will give her third
talk for this Winter on questions of the
hour in national and international af-
fairs, in the assembly room of the
Washington Club, 1910 Seventeenth
street.
She will discuss several questions Of
local Importance and matters relative
to Congress. Under foreign affairs, her
principal subjects will be THE Soviet
Economic Policy" and THE Growing
Rapprochement Between Russia and
Italy"
Miss McQuown's talks, which are
open to the public, are interpretative
reviews Of political questions and are
given every Friday morning.
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Judith Anderson.

JUDITH ANDERSON, who appears in
y Pirandello's "As You Desire Me"
learned her art in the grinding mill of
stock companies.
She first attracted the attention of
New York playgoers as Jessie Weston
in peter Weston" with the late Frank
Keenan,. and became a star through her
acting in Cobra"
Born in South Australia, she made
her debut in Sydney, and after her
success In America she returned to her
native country to appear in Cobra" :"
Tea for Three" and "The Green Hat"
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TACK OAKIE says there are disad-
yantapes I'm having a reputation

TACK OAKIE says there are 0lsao-
y vantages in having a reputation
as Q wise-cracker.
Arriving in Hollywood three years
ago with his now famous grin, Oakie
made some fast returns In his verbal
encounters and suddenly found him.
self regarded as q wit.
Now" he says from the deck OF the
battleship where scenes for sea Legs"
his latest picture, were being made, I'm
expected to say something funny every
time I open my mouth. IT'S impossible.
There aren't that many funny things.
I'm human, whether look 1t or
not. and my mind never gave lightning
any lessons In speed. Even II wanted
to. which DON'T couldn't talk smart
cracks all the time.
THE guy with whom try to carry
on an ordinary conversation goes away
and says so that's Oakie the wise
cracker? II he's funny, I'm Charlie
Chaplin and Harold Lloyd combined
"I can't fall In love with O girl and
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cal extravaganza"
in which MIR. Shaw
is said to wreak
his brilliant humor
on kings, cabinets,
America of today,
England Of tomor-
row and all the
gilded ca b b a 6 e
heads of politics in
pei erpetuity. He
twits and Jok kes
royalty and the
commoners to his
hearts cont e n t.
But the denoue-
ment Is said to re-
veal that "Kings
are still trumps."
Being a law unto
l. ~. GAAwt
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A Veteran of Rank.

7 AwRENCE MARSTON, who staged
- LAS You Desire Me-" also staged
Death Takes Holiday" and has been
connected with the stage for half GEN.
tury as actor, director and playwright.
His name has been associated with
many of the fine things of the stage.
Evening star., 1930-11-30

Leroy, Fay Tunis, Babe Abbott and
Gary & Evans, with an expertly trained,
good-looking chorus.
SHOW BOAT-TOnight.
JAMES ADAMS Floating Theater
(the original Show Boat, is an
nounced at the Cameron street wharf
in Alexandria with "Mr. Jim Bailey"
a drama redolent Of the type used at
the turn Of the century. The opening
weeks attraction, Gossip" closed last
night and records show the bulk Of
the patronage was from Washington.
Jim Bailey" opens tonight, at $50
o'clock.
This Is the first time in Washington's
history that real show boat has ap-
peared In Its environs, and the novelty
has registered quickly. Aboard, for
instance, are four of the original people
whom Edna Ferber fashioned as char
acters for her novel, "Show Boat"
These are Charles Hunter and Beulah
Adams, originals Of Ravenell and Mag
nolis; Pop Nell, as himself, and Joe
Gum, the Old Man River who still
maintains he can sniff the air and tell
the boat management II the weather
will be fair at the next river landing.
Alexandria buses leave Twelfth and
VIC ANCAluC 0ACCI AOL IllC W1ldIl aIlu
return to Washington after the show
JANET RICHARDS-Tomorr
MISS JANET RICHARDS at her lee
ture at 10:45 tomorrow morning
at the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth
street and New York avenue, on Public
Questions: Home and Foreign, will re-
view the outstanding developments in
the worlds work for the past week,
including list Of q few Of the things
which as Nation, despite hard times,
We have to be thankful for. She will
also define the cryptic phrase "imple-
menting the Pact" and state why, all
foreign rumors to the contrary, i'm
plementing' is improbable Relations
between Italy and Russia also will be
reviewed with q statement concerning
the latest regulations promulgated by
the United States Treasury to halt
dumping In this county Of convict
made goods from Soviet Russia.
CURRENT TOPICs-Tuesday.
MRS. GEORGETTE RASs HOW
Ava ARDS Tuesday morning Current
topics talk at the Carlton Hotel at IL
O'Clock, which will include q resume Of
the weeks happenings, both home and
abroad will be supplemented by a re-
view Of some OF the recent books which
will be given by Mrs. George F. Bow
erman. discussion Of Some Good
Books for Children" will precede Mrs
Bowerman's review.
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MOTHER MINE"
Famed as a Comedian.

Langtry in "The Degenerates." return
ed again in 1907 to join Lew Fields in
About Town." and at that time put
his young brother-in-law on the stage
and invented his nom de theater, Ver-
non Castle
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Knows a Thing or Two.

RESIDES being one Of the cleverest
~ comedians on the screen, Harry
Langdon Is an accomplished cartoonist,
an eccentric dancer, plays nine musical
instruments and sings. "See America
Thirst" his latest picture, is a satire on
the liquor racket practiced by American
gangsters.
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Washington's Players
What Various Dramatic Organizations Are Doing
and Propose Do.

acts and Of "AS You Like It."
arranged in three scenes, will be pre-
sented. The first scene is between
Rosalind, disguised as a youth, played
by Olyve Barbee, and Celie, In the gllise
Of o shepherdess, by Irma Vaughan.
The second scene includes Audrey, by
Ada Louise Townsend: william. by T.
Weed Harvey, and Touchstone, the
jester, by Clarence E. RuebSam, who
has enacted the same role in every one
Of the society's 16 full productions of
the play. In the third scene Rosalind
and Celia appear with Oliver, played
by Thomas M. Cahill. The arrange
ment and direction is by Mabel Owens
Wilcox.
''MOTHER MINE"
THE Grace Church (Georgetown)
Dramatic Club will present q three
act play entitled Mother Mine" De-
cember IL and IL at the parish hall
on Wisconsin avenue. The play is
simple, moving story of q woman's
love for humanity.
The main character, Mrs. Peasley,
Mother Mine" Is played by Miss Edith
L. Allnutt. The cast also includes Mrs.
E. Huntington, Mrs. p. Nelson, Miss P.
Bayley, Miss Virginia Ballinger, Miss
Helen Malone and Messrs. T. C. Bais-
den, Marvin Smith, Ps e. Nelson and
w. A. Mattice.
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NATIONAL-"The Apple Cart"

NATIUNAL@Tn Inc Apple OaTI.
YEW YORK'S Theater Guild an
nounces one of this theatrical
seasons most interesting ex-
pectationS at the National The
ater Monday night. when 1t will
eSent George Bernard Shaw's newest
~, 1.-The Apple Cart" called "a polti-
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G. w. U. TRoUBADoURs.

Troubadours of George Wash
ington University will present
their 1880 song and dance re-
Il vue, Good Gracious, Godfrey"
ThurSday Friday ond SATURDAY.
Evening star., 1930-11-30
In Capital Theaters

Leroy, Fay Tunis, Babe Abbott and
Gary & Evans, with an expertly trained,
good-looking chorus.
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COMING to personalities, many
Of the men and women high
IN the affairs of movieland speak
well Of the fact that Thomas
Meighan Is returning to the make
up box. This star dropped from
public view at the height of his
screen career. It seems that he
simply decided to quit his Job and
take life easy. However, the Fox
company has prevailed upon him
to play for the sound pictures, and
he will be flashing across the
screen within short time.
Meighan Is a better actor than
many of the male players who are
now claSSed as stars around the
Hollywood studios. And he will
not be confronted with the hard
ship Of beginning at the bottom