Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
= LENN HUNTER, who, since the
great success of his Clarence"
Y and Merton Of the Movies, f"

Y and Merton of the Movies"
seemed by way Of becoming
sort of Peter Pan of the Amer
lean theater comes back to Broadway
almost grown-up, as an American SOL
der in Robert e. Sherwood's Waterloo
Bridge" Miss June Walker, late or
"The Bachelor Father" plays opposite
Mr.. Hunter as an American chorus girl
who had gone to England with THE
Pink Lady" joined an English company
which died" in the provinces and left
her stranded there.
The two meet on Waterloo Bridge
during a midnight air raid in November
Of 1917; the boy just out OF military
hospital after being wounded at the
front; the girl, one Of those waiting to
pick up the soldiers and sailors on leave
as they came from Waterloo Station. In
the hullaballoo of sirens and anti-air-
craft shells the two Americans get &C
Quainted, run to cover together and
finally find themselves taking tea IN the
girls attic room in cheap lodging
house.
The boy tells her how the sound Of
her American voice, after all his
months of horror and loneliness, took
him home again. Bit by bit he shows
what a nice, decent. If somewhat sap
headed, youngster he Is; how he has
tumbled head over heels in love with
her. What her real life in England has
been he doesn't even suspect. He ends
by appealing to the girls better nature.
Such Is the situation which the au-
thor endeavors to carry on through the
next two scenes-in Myras room next
day and again on Waterloo Bridge, just
as the Young soldier is being unex-
pectedly called back to the front again
to a more or less plausible and
happy" ending.
The result, while interesting most OF
the time, struck us, in view OF the tragic
| Implications of the theme, as indiher-
entIy successful. And this was due. not
so much to the main theme-for q
homesick, girl-sick doughboy, just out o.
| hospital and the trenches might plaus'
IDLY do almost anything in the circunl'
stances-but lay rather in the embroid'
cry and accessories.
Glenn Hunter worked desperately te
keep his well remembered boyish awk'
! wardness and charm and yet to SHOW
that he had been to war and could be
rather hard-bitten man after all. HI
turned on the charm, sprinkled the line:
and action with it, jerkily and often in
| coherently, as is his wont. In the NOR
embarrassed and boyish bits he wa
sometimes very good and his exit. afte
he had kissed Myra for the first TIM
and remarked sheepishly, That wa
rather embarrassing, wasn't it," brough
out a gust of applause.
Miss June Walker was quite right II
the folksy and "Amurican" side Of he
role, but as already intimated, neve
suggester and possibly author and di
rector didn't intend that she should
the inevitably tragic implications Of tn
part.
/ n ~ n
IRON time to time during the las
L year or so we have run across tn
curious combination of words, "Angn
Enters" and fancied, like many others
doubtless, that enters" was verb. !
is not, it seems, but proper noun, ant
the name, at any rate for the stage, o
an unusual and talented American
dancer.
Miss Enters Is generally spoken Of a
a dancer, but she is not one of those
who, with much more or less agonize
capering, depict the Monday morning
of q morning glory. She is dancer, =
be sure. But she is also painter (sh
studied painting) in the sense that sh
shows q painters sense of color, model
ing, the eloquence of drapery, its line!
folds, moods so to speak. in the picture
which she makes with her body. She
q lively antiquarian. In the sense tina
she has studied sympathetically an
painstakingly medieval painting wit
the view OF turning 1t, suddenly, In he
Episodes" to life. And she is, at tn
same time, modern, and what S
many dancers are not, a humorist an
satirist. In short, while she chooses t
express herself in dance form, she be
longs in the gallery Of Ruth Draper o
Yvette Guilbert.
During her recent performances II
New York she danced a Strauss walt
in which, in simple Summer dress ant