Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

w. NAL dress rehearsals Of
- two new plays on their way
to premieres in New York,
where only premieres really
are premieres, honored Washing
ton during the week, and, in all
probability, provided rare, If not
the best theater that may be ex-
pected here during the current
season. Even for that we are
truly grateful. According to the
mode, each presented a problem.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow"-the
title seems destined for another
change-deals with the yearning
for motherhood by childlesS
wife, a theme treated with poetic
thought and diction, although
faced with difficulties inexplicable
TO the frivolous mind, by play
wright whose ideals may have
sought the heights. Always in the
thought of the audience, however,
his work will be met with the
never ending conflict between the
viewpoints of those who reverent-
ly look toward the conSummation
Of a divine purpose and those who
can never rid their minds Of sex
coagulation. Perhaps, with this
In sight, the poet, in spite OF his
conception and the poesy with
which his story is clothed, at
times, has seemed oyerzealous
although his purpose Is never per-
Initted to be obscured. In the
hight Of current thought and man
ners his task was prodigiouS. How
well he has accomplished 1t must
ever remain a question with the
individual and whether he ap-
proacheS the subject with a spirit
Of pure and honest humanity, or
IN a mood less holy. Nevertheless,
It La an honest and a beautiful
effort, and Gilbert Miller, its pro-
ducer, has placed it in an adj
nnirable setting.
$3.50
IN the George Kelly play, Phillip
Goes Forth" the playwright
has wrought upon a problem less
embarrassing, but, nevertheless,
exacting. The hero, aged %, worn
10 q fragile with the exactions Of
o commercial career, longs to ex-
press himself, and so goes forth
on his heaven-sent mission to
write a play. And where better
may he find the material to fire
his inspiration than in a conven-
tional boarding house, whose mis-
tresS once graced the stage her
self and who feastS her boarderS
with memories Of her career,
aided by the adornmentS of her
home that once had CARRIED a
Cleopatra and pillow covers and
eases that once had added to the
lovelineSs of equally famous char
acters of the footlightS? But,
alas, for the human quest! Even
tually he returns with the con-
viction that If one hasn't anything
20 express, why strive for express
sion, conclusion eloQuently sup
ported by his father with an UNI
finished play which he, himself,
had once thought might lead to
fame and fortune. There Is not a
great deal that is new IN Mr..
Kelly'S plot and story, but, oh, how
wonderfully well he has refash-
toned the old garment into bril-
liant product of fancy to clothe
the weary mind with entertain
Enentl It is one Of the best illus
traEions In a long while Of what
Che playwright, lacking a theme,
may do with old material, IL only
he knows how to do it. And may
the writer be pardoned for recon-
mending 1t most heartily to the
gentlemen Of brilliant minds in
search Of expression, who are sup
plying the theater and the movies
with their drama today?
so, leaving pleasant memories Of
the pest we enter the current