Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

in a setting of wind and wave. Play
wright Buchanan has drawn a graphic
etching of the rough life at sea. making
his people entirely natural, entirely I'M
idealized with his writing characterized
by beautiful and effective restraint.
The story pivots about Esther Miller,
daughter of sturdy mariner, left I'M
protected by his death. There are roug j
men on the windiamm5r and thu action
is both exciting and fraught with
interest.
sweet Adeline," featuring Hslen
Morgan, which was originally booked
for the National next week, has made
such a striking hit in Philadelphia that
its sponsors have decided TO prolohg its
engagement in the City of Brotherly
Love. Washington will have the attrac-
ton later, however, at the National, for
the week Of February =,
1.-THE BLUE GHOST"
"THE BLUE GHOST" the latest
superthrilling mystery play by
Bernard j. McOwen, author of 1.-THE
Skull" and John P Riewerts, that drew
thousands and theatergoers during its
long run at the Forrest Theater, New
York City, will be the attraction next
week, commencing Sunday, January IL,
at the Shubert- Belasco Theater. Pre-
ssnted under the producing banner OF
Jimmie Cooper it is said to contain all
the thrills, the mystery, the tingling sus-
pense, the electrIfying surprises that
have made melodrama of this sort one
of the most popular forms OF enter
tainment.
1t is said to be a play of intense in
terest, dealing with what happened TO
esx tad
action takes place in the home OF
doctor, situated on the edge of the
sea. The only other occupant of the
holRe is his servant, Jasper, Negro
valet. A desperate criminal, known as
1.-THE Blue Ghost" wants something that
is in the house and will stop at nothing
to get it. The doctor calls in police
inspector to get at the bottom of the
affair and then the fun commences.
The entire original production and
cast, which includes Seena Owen, Nate
Busby, Leslie King, Bernard j. McOwen,
Douglas Cosgroye, Allen Franklin,
Stephen Clark and Frank du Frame,
are promised direct from His Majesty's
Theater, Montreal.
"GREEN GROW THE LHACS."
WHEN Green Grow the Lilacs" is
w presented by the Theater Guild at
the National Monday, January 10, a
Washington audience will see for the
first time a production staged by a
young man who gives every promise OF
becoming one of the foremost men, in
his particular line of the American
stage. His name is Herbert j. Biber-
man, and he but lately achieved dis
tinction in New York by his strikingly
original and picturesque staging of the
Guild production Roar China IAN
accompliSfrn ent In pictorial display and
the handling Of stage groupings sufti-
Gent of itself TO make the reputation
Of any man.
Mr.. Biberman's accomplishments with
the Oklahoma scene and people OF
Green Grow the Lilacs" are yet to
be shown to Washington. However the
production may impress the beholder,
he may be sure, at least, that the
director has very definite knowledge OF
the matter in hand and a sound artistic
reason for every detail of his direction.
In order to gain the requisite first-hand
knowledge of the life represented in the
play. Mr.. Biberman went last Spring to
Oklahoma. He found there new civil
ization quite different from the Okla
l1ona of Mr.. Riggs drama, which is
dated 30 or 40 years ago. The height
of modernity had quite obliterated the
Older and finer conditions of life that
existed before the discovery of oil. So
the director went further in quest of the
frontier, and in the Southwest, chiefly
IN Arizona and New Mexico, he found
the atmosphere ne sought. Further
more, he engaged for many of the minor
roles men and women whose lives have
been spent on the plains.
Mr.. Biberman, Philadelphia, gradu-
sted from the University of Pennsyl-
vania and then took course in