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Evening star., 1932-11-20

1T was a pleasure to hear Daniel
Frohman 'reminiSce" the
other night at Constitution Hall.
1t was also a pleasure to see and
hear Otis Skinner, who had come
all the way from his rolling Ver-
mont hills" for the purpose of in
Producing his friend. Drama en-
thuSiasts enjoyed Mr.. Frohman's
verbal snapshots of the past, his
memories of peter Pans" first
night, of Lionel Barrymore, who
preferred to paint rather than
take a part whiEh was "too big"
for him: of Ethel, who was more
expert first as a pianist than as
an actress; of John, who didn't
like acting anyway; Of the evo-
luton of Hamlet" and how it
was originally a three-act drama;
of Charlotte Cushman, Mary An
derSon and those hosts of others
who are only ghosts and shadows
to much of the present genera
ton.
Mr.. Frohman paid the ladies
particularly high compliment. He
pointed out the fact that Broad
ways three major hits at the mo-
ment are brain children of the
weaker sex ("Another Language"
Dinner at Eight"-that's only
half true-and when Ladies
Meet').
Ladies in the audience were
viSibly stirred.
Evening star., 1932-11-20

liability, standing at the head of the
list with a percentage of .662. with MI.
Mor6aunt Hall sitting at the bottom
with a sparse .403 Watts was wrong
19 times in his estimates and in four
instances he gave evasive yes-and-no
verdicts, sin vigorously penalized by
Variety's exacting score boys. Now l.
the senior play reviewer OF Mr.. wait 5
newspaper. erred but once in the period
covered; I failed in no case to aVoW
my opinions fortnight outstanding ana
unafraid, and achieved proud per-
centage of .929, or but II scant points
behind perfect Yet, despite this ap-
proximate infallibility, an humble sixth
place was the best I could win, with
only three of my rivals registered as less
dependable than I.
1t is with reluctance that the devas-
tating comparison is pursued and 1t Is
continued not SO much to humiliate the
picture critics as to reconcile those
theatergoers who complain of the frallty
of critics of the drama. Perhaps these
protestants will be more patient with
US when they learn that the highest
score made by a film reviewer was Coz
and that the lowest made by play re-
viewer was .813. Here am !, whose rec
ord is practically f1awless and marred
only by single blunder, away down in
sixth place. excelled in authenticity by
nearly all my confreres.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
They're All "JOiners"

mittees. He is also prominent In
Danish American societies and has
been on the directorate of two banks.
Lionel Barrymore is interested in the
Peoples Forum and once served as
chairman of meeting to introduce a
lecturer. Wallace Beery, Metro-Gold-
wyn- Mayors flying star, is active, not
only in aviation organizations and
committees, but in the Ancient Order
of the Mystic Shrine. Marion Davies
is famous for her own charities, their
organization, her interest in veterans
societies and her clinic.
Norma Shearer is prominent In the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, as is Conrad Nagel, who also
is a leader in the work of the Motion
Picture Relief. Ramon Novarro is in
terested in the work of several musical
societies and John MILAN is in an or
ganization of ex-MarineS. He was a
member of the Marine Corps during
the war. Buster Keaton is life mem
Der of the National Vaudeville Associa
ton. Clark Gable, who. with Jean
Harlow, is now being seen on the screen
in Red Dust" belongs to a theatrical
society,"
Evening star., 1932-11-20

accounts of His company. I planned
to be His burSar when He came unto
His throne There was night when I
stood upon hill and saw the world
swirl past me- Cities and armies, tribes
and senates and navieS all melted TO a
mist and went swirling by, beneath the
stars. The wind and sound beat upon
mine ears and I guessed something of
the iron delight of power" The crafty
Caiaphas then cynically remarks, so
that, Iscariot, was why thou didSt love
the man"
0'THE DARK HOURS" is more than
just another Passion play, be-
cause it engages Mr.. Marquis gallant
gifts of song and characterization
These, it seems, are richer than his en-
dowments as a dramatist, since missing
from his treasury of talents is the
knack of show business, the effective
cryptic trickery that lures the more or
less wary public to the ticket marts. He
was ll-advised, 1 think, when he was
persuaded against his wishes to exhibit
the Nazarene upon the platform. 1t is
an impossible feat, and no one could
fail in it more miserably than the actor
who endeavored to perSonify Him at
ducer (Mrs. Marquis) seemed ashamed
of him, and sought through awkward
devices to screen him from public view.
In a previous report of THE Dark
Hours" I tried to say that Mr.. Miller
did well as the cosmic traitor. But in
the hasty lingering of my caligraph the
IS" escaped, and so it happened that
Judas was described as comic"
traitor Mr.. Miller and his IScariot are
anything but comic. apologize to both
of them, and especially to Mr.. Miller,
because he was fine in the best and most
graceful manner of the theater, repre-
senting the bewilderment and confusion
of the arch double-crosser completely
Il take no more chances). Mrs, Mar
quis ably directed the actions and in
ertias of the play. The last scene at
the foot of the cross was an eloquent
tableau, depicting with all the stages
spurious aids the earth trembling with
horror, and the sympathetic sun with
drawing his light from spectacle too
awful to be counterfeited in Broad
way playhouse.
NARIETY'S latest bulletin on the
trustworthiness of New York thea
ter critics emphasizes the remarkable
superiority OF those who survey the
regular" dramas over their brethren OF
the cinema. AS an illustration. Mr.
Watts, who measures films for o news
paper. surDasses all his colleagues IN re-
Evening star., 1932-11-20

~ RAMATISTS who write Passion
plays find it interesting to eX-
plain, each in his own in
~ genious way, the reasons for
Judas betrayal Of the Saviour
All of them suspect that he was more
than a cold mercenary, and he has been
pictured as many types of man, from a
loVelorn romantic, jealous of the Mag
dalene, to an impatient, fiery radical,
tCmenting an honest revolt against his
Leaders gentle policies. In THE Dark
Hours" Don Marquis causes Iscariot to
justify himself as a helpless figure in
the scheme of salvation, doomed by the
ineXorable laws. Of foreordination to
play a despicable but essential role.
This, perhaps, is as satisfactory q mo-
tive as any, and Mr.. Marquis and the
actor, Hugh Miller, make it quite con-
vincing.
In his first interview with Caiaphas,
Judas tells the high priest that Jesus
has cast spell on him. Demons from
hell infeSt his soul, he cries, until, III
Mr.. Marquis words, he is "a city full
Of spirits and they riot in the streets" "
Yea, l am bewitched," he continues,
Il am cavern of ghosts which war
with one another, and they cry out and
make a windy tumult in my head!"
Jesus of Nazareth has done this thing
to him, he means in an acute agony.
He and I have been tied together
tied together. We were born to be each
one the others bane." At the Feast of
the Tabernacle, he recalls, He said to
Peter, L have chosen you twelve and
one of you is a devil And when He
said it He looked at me-He looked az
me! If / am, it IS He who hath thought
me devil and seen me devil and
thus made devil out of me. There is
no escape from Him! On every side ]
am beleaguered! His eyes are thou
sand cohorts and / am encompassed
about!" Fear has knawed at him until
his heart is ragged. 1t has been a
hound upon his track Poor Judas. But
Just as you are beginning to feel sorry
for him as a hap.ess utensn Of fate, he
says to Caiaphcc, Thirty pieces of sill
yer? 1t is not much
For Mr.. Marquis Judas does not for
get the yenal aspects CT his tradition
Although he is convinced that he Is
accursed, he admits that he has been
influenced to treachery by the money
| urge in one of tae authors most
pregnant para graphs. Expressing his
| thwarted ambitions to the high priest
he says, if Mr. Marquis I permit whal
| is probably an inaccurate quotation. .
| thoughtsthat He was to be King OF tht
| Jews, and had this been So ] should
| have been His chamberlain. It was
who carried the money and kept the
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Face the Music Coming.

IRVING BERLIN'S latest musical
show, Face the Music" starring
Mary Boland and a large company of
Broadway musical comedy favorites,
will make an early appearance at the
National Theater. This is the show
that satirizes the recent political up
heaval in New York that brought about
Jimmy Walkers resignation as mayor
and lampoons a city government much
after the manner that George Kauf-
mans "Of Thee I Sing" Kaufman
also directed the book of the new Ber-
lin show.
Face the Music" is the first big
musical show that Irving Berlin has
written in five years and, running true
to form, he contributed an evening
full of popular song hits, including
Another Cup of Coffee, Another Piece
of Pie" Soft Light and Sweet Music"
and Castles in Spain"
Immediately following the termina-
ton of its current Boston engagement,
where it will inaugurate this week a
country tour after a long run
at the New Amsterdam Theater in New
York, it will be seen here for week.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
PALACE-"Prosperity."

MARIE DRESSLER and Polly Moran
make their latest co-starring ap-
pearance on the screen in Prosperity
at Loew's Palace Theater this week, a
story written especially for them by
Zelda Sears and directed by Sam Wood
The homely small-town atmosphere
of earlier Dressler-Moran hits, as
Caught Short" and Politics" is again
used in Prosperity" but this time
Marie and Polly are seen as mother
in-laws whose constantly quarreling.
pickering and interference with the
domestic life of their children and their
children provide the plot with round
of merriment. Norman Foster, star of
"Skyscraper Souls" and Young Man of
Evening star., 1932-11-20
In Washington Theaters This Week.

NATIoNAL-Ethel Barrymore in Encore" Tomorrow
ming at $40 o'clock.
GAYETY-sam Mchaels and Empire Girls" Vhs after
and evening.
PALACE-"ProSperity" This afternoon and evening.
EARE-Troube in Paradise and vaudeville. This afternoon
and evening.
LOEWS FOX-"Too Busy to Work. and vaudeville This after
and evening.
KEITHS-The Dangerous Game" This afternoon and
evening
COLUMBIA-Payment Deferred This afternoon and evening
METROPOLITAN Fugitive From Chain Gang. This
afternoon and evening.
RIALTO-"Afraid Tell" afternoon and evening.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Lecture on Bali Today.

BURTON HOLMES will be heard in
the second of his season series of
lectures at the national Theater this
afternoon at o'clock His subject
today has to do with Bali, known, in
the terms of Mr.. Holmes, as THE Lost
Paradise" and said by him to be the
happiest place on earth.
Mr.. Holmes, in his finished and ar
tistic manner, brings to his audience
the real Bali in all its unspoiled glory
and in its full dress of color as well
as in its unique and lovely poetry of
motion. The motion picture portion of
the Holmes lectures this year are
marked by an exquisite example of
cinematic art, his subjects being given
the advantage Of the latest artistry in
photography and projection.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Janet Richards.

MISS JANET RICHARDS in her talk
III tomorrow morning on Affairs Po-
litical and International will make
the usual review of the high lights in
the worlds work for the past week,
with particular reference to the recent
developments in the foreign debt situa-
ton as viewed In Washington and in
the various European capitals, and the
proposed conference of the President
and the President-elect concerning the
attitude to be assumed by the United
States toward postponement of interest
payments. Other problems confront
ing the President and Congress will also
be considered. The talks are given
every Monday morning at II o'clock In
the red parlor OF tha willard Hotel,
main door.
Evening star., 1932-11-20

tings are designed by Robert Edmond
Jones.
more, Arthur Hopkins has chosen
prominent actors, including Siegfried
Rumann of Grand Hotel fame, Frank
Conroy. who was her leading man in
THE Constant Wife" Sebastian Brag-
giotti, who recently appeared with
Katharine Cornell, and Alfred A. Hesse,
who supported Miss Barrymore IN De
classee." Others of Importance in the
cast are Josephine Hull. George Drew
Mendum. Iris Whitney, Margaret inck,
Misha Ferenzo, Clement Wilenchik and
James MacCOll
Evening star., 1932-11-20
LOEW'S FOX-"Too Busy to Work"
WILL ROGERS new movie, "Too

M ILL ftOSGTbO LcH ulOf1Gs 4OO
w Busy to Work." is the current at
traction at Loew's Fox Theater. The
story concerns the adventures of a
philosophical and kindly vagabond and
his search for his daughter, whom his
unfaithful wife took with her when
she ran away with a more aristocratic
man while he was away fighting in the
war.
Marion Nixon portrays the leading
feminine role as Rogers daughter and
also lends the romantic angle to the
film with Dick Powell, seen here re-
Gently in Blessed Event" Among the
others who have important parts in the
picture are Constantine Romanoff.
Douglas Cosgrove, Louise Beavers and
Jack O'Hara.
Headlining the f1ve-act vaudeville
this week is Will Osborne and his
famous radio recording orchestra. 9th
ers featured are the Nichon brothers,
Joe and Pete, two of vaudeville's best
known acrobatic comedians; Valentine
Vox, ventriloquist, and the Andresens
in Perfection in Balance" AS spe-
cial extra added attraction, the wan
dering MINISTRIES of the Columbia
Broadcasting Co-Lee Refs and Artie
Dunn-are presented.
Phil Lampkin offers his customary
overture and short subjects, news reel
and cartoons complete the bill.
Evening star., 1932-11-20

{ or WlttgenSJeln
and Sheridan Glib
ney, and advanced
re ports indicate
that it is high
comedy of the sort
an adniring pub
lie has always liked
to see Miss Barry
more e m b el lis h.
Her local appear
ances at the Ma
tional will be all
next week. with
matinees Wednes-
day and Saturday.
Encore" is said
to portray color
full happenings in
the life of a prilna
d0f1rna It's GET
Evening star., 1932-11-20
RIALTo-"Afraid to Talk"

!" & FRAID TO TALK. which IS Show
ing at the Rialto Theater, with
Sidney Fox and Eric Linden in the
pivotal roles, was adapted from the
play, Merry Go-Round, which play
was halted in New York when it had
scarcely opened. As a film, the play
has undergone becoming change Of
title. but it is still the ruthless expose
of city-gang government. In the sup
porting cast are Reginald Barlow, Ed
ward Martindel, Joyce Compton. Tully
Marshall, Louis Calhern, Mayo Methot,
Edward Arnold and George Meeker.
The Rialto completes its current pro-
gram with selected screen novelties. as
well as a short comedy, and Graham
McNamee as the Talking Reporter in
the latest Universal News.
Evening star., 1932-11-20

= TARS and players of the screen,
says Donald Henderson Clarke.
though they seeek to avoid pub
~ lie appearances where crowds Of
autograph hunters and curiosity
seekers surround them, still manage 20
be active in various social welfare and
public service organizations in the
screen colony.
Chambers of commerce, bank dlrec-
torates. clubs and associations all have
representatives of the film world among
their active members.
Jean Hershcit, for instance, is mem.
Der of the Beverly Hills Chamber OF
Commerce and serves on several COM
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Makes Debut.

7 ESLIE BANKS. well known stage
II actor starred in "Springtime for
Henry" in New York, makes an i'm
portant screen debut in The Most
Dangerous Game" now nc E.K-0
Keith's. Josi kzeCEsa ard Fsy WraV
are others of che featured ca -
Evening star., 1932-11-20
NATIONAL@"Encore."

r. THEL BARRYMORE is coming
- to town! Her engagement here
this time will have even more
IL than the customary interest, be-
cause she is presented by
Arthur Hopkins, under whose manage
ment she scored some of her greatest
successes a few seasons ago, and she
appears in a new play. en- route to New
York. The play is Encore" by Vic
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Once a Gown Model.

SIDNEY FOX, In Afraid to TaIk,"
- now at the Rialto. was once
gown model in New York And this
despite her diminutive size-she's not
five feet tall.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
COLUMBTA-"Payment Deferred

Foot Bali and Footwork," and a news
reel.
COLUMBIA-"Paymen Deferred
"DAYMENT DEFERRED" Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer's film version Of
the New York mystery play hit, is the
feature attraction this week at Loew's
Columbia Theater, with the celebrated
English actor, Charles Laughton, re-
peating the role he made famous both
in London and on Broadway, The play,
which deals with a unique treatment
of a murderer and his crime, is an
adaptation of c. S. Forester's novel,
one of the best-sellers among mystery
stories, and was first presented in Lon
don, where it created a sensation, with
Laughton's performance hailed as one
of the artistic successes of the year.
Later its triumph was repeated in New
York.
A distinguished cast appears with
laughter, including Neil Hamilton,
Maureen O'Sullivan, Dorothy Petersen,
Verree Teasdale, Ray Milland. Billy
Bevans, Halliwell Hobbs and William
Stack The picture was filmed under
the direction of Lothar Mendes, who
has previously directed such hits as
Interference" and Convoy"
The program also includes Flip
the Frog" cartoon and Lloyd Hamil-
ton comedy, entitled False impress
sions"
Evening star., 1932-11-20
EARLE-"Trouble in Paradise"

MIRIAM HOPKINS, Kay Francis and
l Herbert Marshall are to be seen
this week at Warner Bros. Earle
Theater in Trouble in Paradise" Ernst
Lubtsch's latest production for Para
mount. The story tells of Miss Hop
kia5 and Marshall, two supe-~ per
crooks who prey in suave fsshic1 Upon
European society. The struggle be-
tween Miss Hopkins, on the one hand.
and Miss Francis, en- the ether. for
Marshalls affection. leads to highly
amusing ciinaa.; The cast also in
c1udes Charlie Ruggies, Edward Everett
Horton, c. Aubrey Smith and Robert
Greic.
Heading the ctage Is Barney Rapp
and Ills New Englandsrs. group of 18
young entertainers who sing, dance and
clown IN the ensemble are Jane Allen,
Kay Picture and Babe Miller. Other
acts are Bob Hall. the extemporaneous
chap who sings songs made to order
while you wait; Edith Evans and Ray
Mayer, cowboy and girl in round
up of song, music and comedy: Carlton
Emmy and His Mad Ways. and Maxine
Doyle, mistress of ceremonies.
The Complementary program con-
sists of the latest issue OF the Graham
McNamee news reel and the Earle
orchestral prelude.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Current Attractions

Manhattan" is the son in the current
picture, and Anita Page the girl.
In addition to the feature, Loew's
Palace offers "Over the Counter"
revue subject; a foot ball film called
Foot Ball and Footwork," and q news
reel
Evening star., 1932-11-20
METRoPoLITAN-"I Am a Fugitive"

'ABlN IN The COTTON, the First
~ National attraction starring Rich
ard BarthelIness, will be the new holi-
Gay week feature starting Thanksgiving
day at Warner Bros. Metropolitan
Theater, following the current showing
of Il Am a Fugitive" which will end
on Wednesday night. The South,
grown up and modernized, but still ad-
herring to its old romantic color and
living with its gallant traditions, is the
background for the story of Cabin in
the Cotton" In the South of today, in
the planter, the share -cropper, the poor
white and the Negro, Harry Harrison
Kroll, who wrote the novel, has found
source of new and vital story material.
Typically American, the lives of these
people are filed with incidents little
known and still less understood by their
Eastern, Nothern and Western brothers.
Bette Davis and Dorothy Jordan
share honorS as leading ladies. The
cast is completed by Henry B. Walthall,
Dorothy Peterson, Hardie Albright,
David Landau, Tully Marshall, Edmund
BreeSe and many others.
The program will be completed by
special short real subjects which in
clude the newest issue of the Para
mount Sound News.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
KEITHS-"The Most Dangerous
Game"

EICTION'S strangest ordeal has now
been visualized on the talking
screen by Merriam G. Cooper and
Ernest B. Schoedsack, wanderers in the
earth's forgotten places, and they have
combined this in The Most Danger
Gus Came" current at R-K-O Keith's.
In an eerie setting-a jungle island
Of the Caribbean-the film makers
have woven into celluloid the startling
theme that dominates this Richard
Connells prize winning story
Leslie Banks of the New York stage
portrayS Count Zaroff, whose weird
trophy room holds the Scalps of his
countless victims. Robert Armstrong
enacts one of the roles-a victim Of
zaroff'S deadly Tartar war bow. Joel
McCrea and Fay Wray prc:say the
romantic pair whom the sinister man
hunts in the Jungle fasrnesSeS
Evening star., 1932-11-20
GAYETY-Empire Girls.

GAM MICHAELS and his Empire Girls
~ are the attraction this week at the
Gayety starting with today's matinee.
Featured in this revue, other than the
ebulient Mr.. Michaels, who heads the
cast as top comedian, are Virginia Muz-
zie, Ruth Bradley, Lew Powers, Snookie
Woods, Joe and Ernestine, Bob Sand
berg and Minor Reed A fast-stepping
chorus, plenty Of dancing and extra
quality singing are said to make this
show one Of the highlights Of the bur.
lesque year. Matinees will be given
daily.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
New York Theatergoers
See Latest Passion Play
Don Marquis Is the Author of The Dark Hours,
Which Deals in Different Way With Affairs
of Iscariot-Percentage of Drama Critics
By Percy Hammond.

RANIATISTS who write company I
interesting 10 He
4 his a
- the for hill
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Cinema World Halls New
"Bad Man of the Screen"
Charles Laughton Wins the Title With His Work
In Payment Deferred" Film Which Went to
the Studio After Successful Stage Run.
By E. de S. Melcher.

OLLYWOOD rejoic- pleasure to hear Daniel
II ing in the most complete Frohman renlnlSce the
hadan revival has other night at Constitution Hall
The Washington times., 1932-09-02
DRIVE FOR DEBT
HOLIDAY ST|RS
CONGRESS-

An admission that a drive is on
to extend the Hoover war debt
moratorium came yesterday from
Representative Will r. Wood Of
Indiana, an Administration leader
on appropriation in the House.
This significant development
followed publication by the Hearst
papers yesterday of the six-point
plan of Montagu Norman, gov.
ernor Of the Bank of England,
for the liquidation" OF Europe's
debts to the United States.
Wood conferred Wednesday
with President Hoover.
Cancella ton Move
The Indiana Representative de-
cfined to disclose the source of his
Information. but said
1T looks to me as If there
will be new move for GanCella-
tiOn Of the war debts or an ex-
tension of the moratorium.
Il do not know how or where
this move will originate, but ap-
parently the debtor countries
are maneuvering for q way to
get out of paying their just
debts to the United States.
II am against cancellation of
these debts.
II am against granting an ex-
tension of the moratorium un.
der present conditions.
The debtor countries have
made no efforts to economic
and Get their financial houses
in order. If they would reduce
their vast aTmamentS they
would save . lot of money.
The American taxpayers
ought not to have to carry
these debts on top of their
present tax burdens, especially
hen the debtor nations do not
make the slightest move to cut
their budgets"
AyreS Opposed
Rep. W. A. Ayres CD, of Kan
Sas, also gave expression to con.
gressional unrest over Montagu
Norman's secret conferences with
Government leaders. The Kan
san is chairman of the naval an
preparations subcommittee of the
House. He concurred in Woods
views that a drive is on to extend
The Hoover moratorium or bring
about cancellation.