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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

THE current week will be memo
rable for the presentation
Of a new play by Sir Arthur
Wing Pinerto, in his day &C
counted a master craftsman,
who in 1.-THE Second Mrs. Tan
queray" was conceded to have
conceived and to have logically
developed the best serious play of
his generation. Sir Arthur, in his
time, after a probation in a law
Office and then as an actor, wrote
upward Of so plays and made q
number Of tranSlationS from the
French. Although still going at
the ripe age of rs, he is not at all
ancient, as his "Mid-Channel," il.
which the gifted Ethel Barrymore
delighted her hosts Of admirers in
1909, will attest, and late reports
have it he is still going strong and
proposes to write other plays to
follow Or. Harmer," which will be
seen at the BelaSco this week.
England regarded Sir Arthur in
his earlier days as the best
equipped and most skillful play
wright of the English-speaking
world. And to this compliment
may be added his own testimony
that America rewarded him even
more generously in the matter of
patronage than his native land.
There was reason for it, for dur
ing the "nineties," with Henry
Arthur Jones, Sir Arthur Wing
Pinero was supreme in the Eng
disappearing theater. 1t was
largely due to this gifted pair of
playwrights that English drama
lists began to put their plays in
print, and by them doubtless George
Bernard Shaw was induced to fol-
low suit, because he could find no
producer who was willing to take
the chance of presenting his
works. Pinero is not an emo
tional dramatiSt. His plays are
intellectual in character, based
rather upon logic than passion, as
one distinguished writer has said.
His characters nearly all are Eng
lish. This brief outline of the
famous dramatist is modeStly and
very humbly advanced for the in
formation of those whose knowl-
edge of the theater may be large
ly limited to the Hollywood idea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

A WEEK later, the Theater Guild
will claim the attention of
playloverS at the National, with
its fifth offering Of the current
season, Elizabeth the Queen"
which, the advance notices recite,
has been Snatched from the
height of overwhelming triumph
in New York to make coed the
promise of its presentation in the
National Capital, and this for the
first time in the history Of the
theater." Alexander Woolcott, the
distinguished critic of New York,
referring to this fact, adds: with
any other management in what is
fancifully called the legitimate
theater the scoring Of such sue
cess would have been a signal to
postpone all other plays indefinite
ly, for Elizabeth the Queen could
count on crowded houses for at
least IL months, and Miss Fon-
tame and Mr.. Lunt would have
been expected to settle back in
their new roles as into a steamer
chair, growing stale and indiffer-
ent in them with endless repeti-
ton" The Maxwell Anderson
play, we are advised, IDEALS with
England as it YVES just emerging
from the sites of barbarity, salty,
rough-Sinning and, as far as the
common people were concerned, q
beStiality of life hard to conceive
today, except for the court, where
the mire Of general living was
bridged over with a gIittering coat,
much in the manner Of the
famous incident of Sir Walter
Raleigh and the Queen"
x \ 4 x
RIVALING this promising attrac-
ton of the Theater Guild at
the National, and no less worthy
Of careful attention by those who
love the theater as it should be,
the BelaSco will present, with
William A. Brady as the producer,
Elmer Rlce'S famous Pulitzer prize
winner, Street Scene" a play
that seems to have SenSationally
overwhelmed the world of the
theater, at least that section cen
tered in the great metropolis. A
Chicago critic has acclaimed
Street Scene" as elmer than King
Lear finer than Les Miserables. !"
A Pittsburgh critic says, Street
Scene is SophocleS up-to-date,
Euripides on the East Side, Arts
tophaneS reading the tabloids-a
wonderful play, perfectly acted"
1t has been commended by even
Gov. Alfred e. Smith, who said 1t
was well staged, well played and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
What a Barbara!

BARBARA STANWYCK, the star Of
- "Ten Cents a Dance" at R-K-O
Keith's Theater, was born in Brooklyn,
started west for New York and then
kept going until she reached Hollywood.
The entire, country now knows that she
has arrived.
In her childhood she aspired to be
the heroine of one of those old-fash-
Toned, hit-and-run, knock down and-
drag-out melodrams. To prepare for
the role, she used to throw herself
downstairs every day. Mother vetoed
the motion.
She was a telephone operator for two
years. Now she refuses to answer any
telephone for any reason. Worked in
the pattern room of Condo Mast pub
locations; fired when they learned she
thought patterns were paper doll cut
outs.
She heard about musical revue in
rehearsal. Broke all broad jump rec
ords to ask for job, and landed, feet
first, in the chorus. Later attracted
favorable attention playing small part
in ~The Moose Then Arthur Hopkins
gave her the role of Bonnie in
"Burlesque" and she proved she be-
longed in the top rank.
During the run of "Burlesque" in New
York, she fell in love with Frank Fay,
who had to leave for Detroit with a
show. He telegraphsd, asking Barbara
to marry him in Detroit. She reached
there Sunday afternoon. was married
and returned to New York for Mon
days performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
ReViVals on Broadway
By Percy Hammond.

whimsy at which Mr.. Hilne is so exc
pert, and ends on a note of straight
comedy again. Most spectators would
prefer that Mr. Milne had seen his way
to continue on the first line all the way
through.
A successful English politician, man
on whom success has closed in" meets
after a separation of 20 years, boy
hood friend, who brings him back mo-
mentarily to the days of his youth. Al
most Immediately afterward he finds
himself by chance housed for the night
in the very house in which he used
to meet the girl he then loved-now
married to another man.
Partly through dream, which takes
him back into sort of nightmare mix
ture of his boyhood and his adult life
and partly through an actual meeting
with his one-time lady love in her
preSent-day garden, he realizes how
completely that earlier self has died
and what priceless things he has lost
or thrown away. For moment both
he and the woman think they can find
road back to their youth, then "suc-
cess closes in on him" again (among
other things he gets the long dreamed
of appointment as chancellor of the ex-
chequer) and he returns, bitterly, to
his career.
1t may be objected, of course, that
Mr.. Mines implied argument that in
order to achieve worldly success, at
least as a British politician, one must
trample on all ones better nature, is
not quite adult or sound, that the claims
of the adult world and life scarcely get
a run for their money in his play. But
it isn't necessary to press this objection
too strenuously-after all, this is Mr..
Mines play. He has taken common
and perfectly recognizable mood-a
mans inconsistencies for the youth he
used to be-and made it into a story
that is quite real and poignant ene4sgh
for the purposes of this particular Bay.
x X
A ND he steers his way about between
actuality and fantasy with hight
ness of touch, flneness of feeliE< and
constant theatrical eloquence. Tie cast
is adroitly chosen and all do their work
admirably. Louis Calhern is Just right
as the successful politician himself,
while about him Miss Gladys Hanson as
the coming mans cold, scheming wife,
Eric Bloke as the prime minister's light
minded secretary, Jane Wyatt as the
politicians daughter-an contribute to
the authentic atmosphere of intelligent
worldliness. Sylvia Field, in her brief
scene in the garden as the girl he used
to know, plays with a delicacy, tor
tured wistfulness, which gives that short
excursion in the world irrevocably lost
all the responsiveness which its author
must have hoped for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
NORA FORD
Gayey-
Quickest Flight on Record.

CHATTERING the speediest airplane
records. Nancy Carroll, Paramount
film star, recently travelled from New
York to Palm Beach, Fla, in 80 min
utes. She did It without leaving the
main building OF the Paramount New
York studio! The transition was made
in the course of filming "Stolen
Heaven" Miss CAROLS current picture,
now at the Rialto Theater. The story
opens in New York rooming house
and ends up in Palm Beach. Adjacent
stages at the studio represented New
York and Palm Beach locales.
New York scenes for stolen Heaven"
were made first and were followed i'm
mediately by the Palm Beach action.
Several hundred minor players figured
in the Florida scenes and the Havana
Casino Orchestra, recently at the Cen
trail Park Casino, New York's most ex-
elusive dining dancing rendezvous, fur
nished the music. Wheelchairs. Sum-
mer clothes and palm trees replaced the
drab Winter garb and scenery of New
York.
Phillips Holmes, who played opposite
Miss Carroll in THE Devils Holiday"
has the leading male role in stolen
Heaven" which George Abbott directed
from story by Dana Burnet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Drama Still Militant
By w. H. Landvoigt

ME temples of Thespis might
have been darkened the
A past week, when penitent
souls were bathed in humil-
ity and others, less mindful of
the hereafter, were Stacking their
pace and resting up, because of
the Lenten season, had it not been
for the non-prcfesSional devotees
of dramatic expression and the
Trader Horn audible drama at the
National. The African picture,
which has been confidently her
aided as "one Of the screens
greatest accomplishments" intro
duced into the contemplative
atmosphere of the holy season
mere or less of the disposition to
debate and, TO some extent, the
suggestion that AL that glitters
is not gold" Some wonderful
scenes and the educational value
of the picture, together with the
general curiosity excited by the
advance notices, combined to
compliment the film masterpiece
with capacity audiences twice
daily throughout the week. In
fact, 50 great has been the patron
age that the ro-Goldwyn-
Mayer celluloid drama will con-
tinue to crowd out the legitimate
a week longer at the National.
There is little, if any, doubt that
the picture displays rare wonders
and beauties of the Dark Con-
tinent that command both interest
and admiration, and the public
verdict must be accepted even
against the critical opinion that
has dared to challenge it. It is
not unlikely that the romantic
side of the story has contributed
to the difference of opinion among
those who have seen the picture,
and that improvement is possible
in that respect. The mixture of
Caucasicn romance with Darkest
Africa is very apt to suggest ice
cream and a pancake fried on a
hot shovel to the emotional appe-
tite that is disposed to be tenn
peramental. Otherwise, judged by
Ats drawing powers, the producers
have solved one of the dramatic
problems of the ages with Trader
Horn" Unquestionably 1t is what
the public wants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

PRING must be somewhere near,
for the all-Star cast revival has
appeared on Broadway-thiS
~ time in the shape of Sir James
Barrie's Admirable Crichton,"
with Walter Hampton in the role of
the omniscient English butler, which
William Gillette played on the first
| presentation of the play in New York
quarter of a century ago. Mr.. Gill
| lette sat in a stage box at the first night
and after the performance spoke a few
words in which he gave a whimsical
message from the author, suggesting
! that another ending for the play might
have been written, which would have
| permitted Lady Mary to marry the
great Crichton after all.
The comedy shows its years some
what. The war filled England with
Admirable Crichtons-butlers, chauf-
feurs mechanics and whatnot, who
turned out to be more dashing soldiers
than their masters-and the idea that
there might be a tropical island where
all the stock figures in the English So
| cial ritual might be turned upside down
IS a good deal less incredible and rather
less funny than it seemed in 1903
The latter date was good deal near
err the FIN de steele" cleverness of the
'90s than is 1881, and the Honorable
Ernest Woolley and his epigrams haven't
quite the fresh Satirical value that they
used to have, when that young man
might have been matched any evening
in contemporary smart English COM
edies. There are moments in the pres
ent revival when the humor seems just
the least bit thin, when one wishes that
the players, instead of dragging it out
as if each sentence and farcical pit CT
by-play was priceless, would speed
things up bit.
Mr.. Hampton was at his best on the
island, when he was really king and
could play in the straight grand man
ner which comes most easily to him.
AS the butler, back in England, he was
less at ease; severe, without quite let
ting the unconscious hunnor OF the role
shine through its pompousneSs. Miss
BANTER, too, was at her best as the
back-to-nature aristocrat, with her feel
ings uncovered at last--as was natural
and also less happy in disengaging the
similarly unconscious hulnor of her part
as the normal" Lady Mary. Both Mary
Hone and PhilliS Connard, partly, no
doubt, because of their natural English
accents, were rather more amusing as
Lady Mary's sisters in the first srene.
But such nieetieS are possibly of not
great import in the revival of a more
or less famous old play, where the main
thing is that it shall be soundly pre-
sented, so as to give those who never
saw it before some real measure of its
worth and old-timers pleasant memo
ry Such production, Sir James play
undoubtedly receives. Fife Shannon as
the Countess Brocklehurst, Estelle Win
wood as Tweeny, Huburt bruce as the
Earl of Loan and Ernest Glendenning
as the light-minded Lord Hon. Ernest
Woolley are among the Other players
who assist IN a thoroughly pleasant If
not wildly exciting evening.
x X X X
A A. MILNE'S new play, "Give Me
"a Yesterday" starts out In a vein
of straight satiric comedy, reverts to tie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

On the Stage.
BELASCO-Pineros "Dr Harmer" Opens tomorrow evening
CAYETY-eles Beauty Row" (buresque). This afternoon
and evening
On the Screen.
NATIONAI-"Trader Horn" afternoon this
ming o'clock.
RIALTO-"Stolen Heaven" This afternoon and evening
in Scandal Sheet" This afternoon and
evening.
R-K-o KEITHS-"Ten Dance" This afternoon and
evening.
FOX-"Three Rogues" This afternoon and evening.
EARLE-"The Heiress." This afternoon evening
for the Moon" This afternoon and
evening.
METROPOLITAN Daniels in my afternoon
and evening"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Elsie Janis Helped.

ELSIE JANIS, internationally known
~ as stage star and high in the lit
erary world, contributed important,
bright, sophisticated dialogue to the
Douglas Fairbanks United Artist pic
ture, Reaching for the Moon" now at
Loew's Columbia Theater.
The story and direction Of the pic
ture were done by Edmund Goulding,
who, because of Miss Janis talents,
asked her to do additional dialogue for
certain scenes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Wants No Makeup.

GEORGE BANCROFT, who appears
~ in Scandal Sheet at Loew's Pal
ace Theater this week, never uses make
up on the screen.
He was the first actor to insist that
he be photographed without even a
powder base. Camera men objected
strenuously at first, but after few
shots agreed with the star that he was
right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Dog Feminine Impersonator.

MORE or less, human feminine in
- personators have been numerous
on the stage and screen. Now Pete"
the famous "Our Gang" dog, springs
into distinction with the claim of being
the first feminine impersonator among
the CANNES, for he portrays the part of
mother" to four healthy puppies in a
recent "Our Gang" comedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26
RADIO CITY" BUILDING PROJECT,
COSTING MILLIONS, TO BEGIN
Elaborate Landscaping Plan, Including
Sunken Plaza and Roof Effects, Lends
Interest to Operations In New York.

an Office or club building Just east Of
the International Music Hail. the size
of which has not yet been determined.
A large area in the south block is being
left out Of the building picture at pres
ent while negotiations are continuing
with the Metropolitan opera Co. for a
new opera house.
THE plans, slightly changed in de-
tail from the preliminary ones an
nounced some months ago. show radi-
cal innovation in architectural city
planning" the building corporation re-
ports. 1.-THE lower roofs and setbacks OF
the building in the three blocks will be
turned into modern and much magnt-
fed Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Seven
acres of intensive landscaping will be
devoted to waterfalls, fountains, reflect
ing pools, trees, Shrubbery, formal flower
beds, multi-colored tile walks, grass
plots. and statuary Plans for covering
the outer walls of the buildings with a
heavy network of living ivy are also
tentative part of the scenic picture.
Sunken Plaza Planned.
IAN acre of ground space, visible
from the street will be devoted to a
sunken plaza studded with a central
3O-foot fountain, smaller fountains,
statuary, grass, flowers and mosaic
pavements. In following out this plan.
more than $17,500,000 worth Of open
land area will be devoted to beautifica-
ton for the public's benefit, without
any revenue to the owners of the de-
velopment Between a quarter million
and a half million dollars will be spent
on the general landscaping
Forty feet above the roof of the To-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26
Big Kitchen

Equipped with Frigid-
aire, la t e st type gas
range, 6-ft. one-piece
porcelain sink, built-in
cabinets, inlaid linoleum
and Sanitas wall cover
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26

story wing in the center block, a curved
waterfall, a miniature of the famous
horseshoe falls of Niagara, will send q
tumbling torrent through series OF
cascades to end at the roof level IN q
rejecting pool, from 80 to 100 feet long
and Is or 80 feet wide. The waterfall
Will have so feet of spillway, with ap-
proximately a 30-foot radius between
the ends of the arch. The water from
INTO ribbon pool thence about ~
feet into another ribbon pool, from
which it will spill into the large re-
Meeting pool at the roof level Foun-
tains will play at each end of the lower
pool.
"Thirty-foot trees, shrubbery, grass,
flowers and multichromatic walks Will
lurnlsn general background for the
water effects.
scaping above the studios of the broad
casting company, in the lower roof
area between the main building and
the main east wall of the 16-story
wing. These areas will be at the
thirteenth and eleventh floor levels and
connected by stairways. They will have
terraces, formal flower gardens, benches
and geometric grass plots, with at least
two small fountains. The general APP
pearance will be that of a formal
garden.
handspring on Roof.
Extensive landscaping will be
worked out on the roofs Of the Inter
national Music Hall and of the sound
motion picture theater. On the
north side of the music hall and
the south side of the sound the
alter there will be 3O-foot hedges
of beech, hemlock or linden, so
that as one gazes at the gardens the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26
BUILT BY DUNCAN BUILT RIGHT
Dinette

A convenience and re-
finement of much high
er priced homes now
featured by DUNCAN in
a popular priced home.
Just off the kitchen
ideal for breakfast and
lunch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26

Actual construction work on the
building of New York's Radio City," a
program designed to bring into being
the worlds greatest entertainment. of
fee and shop center under one owner
ship, will be started shortly in a large
area in the heart of Gotham. The cost
of the entire project will run into many
millions
Bids have been received from gen.
eral contractors for the construction of
three of the most important units in
the colossal midtown building project
to be erected for John D. Rockefeller,
jr., interests, it is announced in a house
organ published by Radio Corporation
of America.
The largest of the three units for
which bids have been received is q &C.
story Office building with a 16-storv
wing. This structure will have a floor
space of 100000 square feet, nearly
half million square feet in excess of
any other Office building in the world,
the building interests say.
A second unit is the Internal Music
Hall, designed to be the worlds largest
theater, which will be flanked by a 81
story office building. Another unit of
the development will be a capacious
sound motion picture theater complet-
ing the triumvirate of structures with
which contractors now are concerned.
Elaborate handspring.
Some of the unusual details, just re-
vealed, show elaborate plans for develop
ment of landscaping along lines of the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
The site of the development runs from
Fifth to Sixth avenues and from Forty
eighth to Fifty-flrSt streets.
In addition to the three structures
for which bids have been received, latest
plans for the development show seven
other building units. They include two
Office buildings of As stories each in the
north and south blocks; two six-story
Office buildings fronting on Fifth ave-
nue.; 13-story department store facing
Fifth avenue in the northern block, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26
Two Baths

.Colored tile bath
rooms on the second
floor; one adjoining the
master bed room. One
with bath and shower.
Newest artistic fixtures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26

hedges will form a frame for the pic
ture The rest of these two roofs will
be devoted to formal gardens, with
hedges, grass plots, flower beds, foun-
tains and rejecting pools.
Trees rising to a height of 80 or
35 feet, planted in at least three feet
of earth and anchored to the roof, will
be prominent features of the general
scheme. All the roofs and set-backs
beneath the 16-story level will be fully
Handicapped. A piping and sprinkling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26

system, underneath the earth, will
water the Handicapped area"
On the roof of the 66-story building
viii be arranged what is described as
the most commodious observation space
ever designed for a skyscraper.
The architects for the project are
Reinhard e. Hofmeister: Corbett,
Harrison q MacMurray, and Hood g.
Fouilhoux
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26
Col. Hunt BUYS Home.

Col. Irwin L. Hunt. U. S. A., has pur-
chased the large English style attached
dwelling at 1902 @ street In Foxhaii
Village, it is announced by the ONCE
of Boss e. Phelps. builders, who han
died the transaction. The house con-
tains eight main rooms and two baths
and includes a studio room.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-17

Rosalie PohL. Virginia Pattee. OIL
via Pacheco. Lorene Robinson. LIZ
Ian Runvon. Madge Singer. Lucille
Schrieber. Katherine Sanbo-n. Dor
othy Ann Schmidt. Lucy Wise.
Katherine Wilson. Jeanelle Willis
and Lucille Littiefield.
BOys-CnarleS Baker. Antonio
Barreda. Fred BaSSett. Reid Beeson.
Donald Bennett. W. H. Benway.
Roland BeEhear. Avis Bolton. Ban
croft Bowman. Edgar Brown. Rob-
ertO CO.ungo. Raul Cardinal. Raul
CaVazos. Raul Champion. Jose
Chzpa. Frank CorreZ. Kermit Gro
mack. Harold Dennis. Custer DR.
YER. F~ustorEio Garcia. Martin Gar
cia. jose dr. In Cara. Robert de In
Cara. Zeferino Gonzales. Robert
Goodrich. John Green. Benjamin
Hicks. Susanna Hada. Clarence
Johnston. Harry KoTalski. Abraham
King. Vidal Longoria. Isido-o Lon
goria. George Morris. Frank Math-
srs. Gordon NcInniS. Harvey Ed
ward Nuckols. Eduardo Perez. John
Rove. Orville Ralph. Zadoc Rosen-
thai. Enrique Salcana. Robert Still
vel. Thomas Sweeney. Uriah Steg-