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Evening star., 1933-04-02
Students in Debut Tonight

THE Clifford Brooke Academy of
= Stage Training in the Dramatic Arts
will present its first-term students to-
night at the National Theater in scenes
from William Shakespeare's pastoral
comedy, "As You Like IT." Richard
Brinsley Sheridan's famous comedy,
THE School for Scandal" and "The
Charm School," by Alice Duer Miller
and Robert Milton.
A large number of Washington's s
promising stage aspirants, among whom
are a number of the younger set, will
make their stage debut in this perform
ance. All the students in the academy
will participate. Prominent parts will
be taken by Charlotte Mayo, Sarah Pol
lard. Lila La Garde, Louise Harrison
Gwynn, Charlotte Patterson, Maud
Howell Smith, Maxine Doyle, Ruth
Simpson, Gwendolyn Tonahill, Helen
Ryan, Emma CHM Baker, Barbara
Davis, Helen Shields, Maurice Joyce,
Isham Keith, Alice Green, j. B. Davis,
Jeanne Butler, Edwin Rice, George H.
Calvert, jr.; Howard Whitfield. Edward
A. Finlayson, r. T. Kreuzberg, Walter
Studdiford, Wilbur T. Belts, Marshall
Baggett, Theodore Tenley, Fritz frey,
Theodore Bray, Frank H. Cogswell.
Grace Harmon, Lucie Sharp, Roselle
Mangan, Mary Murphy, Jacquelin Tow
son, Barbara Ann Culley and Louise
Foust.
Stage managers are Howard Whit
field, Ruth Harsha Mckenzie and Ed
ward A. Finlayson.
Mr.. Brooke will direct and stage this
entertainment.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Wanted to Be Bad.

1T WANT to be bad,' insisted Claud-
ette Colbert, dark-haired, dark
eyed movie star.
20. K.," said Cecil B. De Mile, noted
movie director. And Claudette got the
most villainous feminine role HOLLYWOOD
has had to offer in some years.
She Is cast as the Empress Poppaea
beautiful but cruel consort of Nero,
sixth and last of the Caesars, In De
Miles THE Sign of the Cross" Miss
Colbert went to great pains to secure
the role. Competition was strong, for
under the new system of exchanging
actors recently put in effect In Holly
wood. players under contract to every
studio in the film capital were eligible
Tor the role. And even stars fight to
get themselves jobs In De Miles pic
lures.
That was part of Miss Colbert's
reason for wanting to be Poppaea. The
other part, she admits, was that she
was tired of good-girl roles Since her
entrance to the movies after winning
stage success on Broadway, she has
never played a role that called for more
than mild naughtiness. Being too good
gal in her roles was beginning to get
on her nerves, she said.
De Mile had interviewed over q score
Of outstanding woman players when
Claudette came along and demanded a
screen test in the role. De Mile watched
her while she took the test. Then he
turned to the cameramen. You don't
have to bother to develop that negative, +"
he told them. 1--WE seen enough"
Claudette got the role.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Little Women" Saturday

CLARE TREE MAJORS special
dramatization of Louisa Alcott's
childhood classic, Little Women" will
be presented at the National Theater
next Saturday morning. Mrs. Majors
play takes child audiences through the
first part of the story. and ends before
the sadness Of Beth's death and the
love affairs of the girls.
The characters will be portrayed by
popular members of the Children's The
ater Glare Tree Major will appear in
the cast doubling as Hannah, the
Marches maid, and Aunt March, the
difficult relative of the girls
Boyish 10, who sells her hair to help
her family in time of trouble; Beth, the
delicate and gentle member OF the
March household; impetuous Amy,
whose girlish problems provide constant
merriment, and lovely Meg, the first
really to fall In love-here are the four
girls who have had more admiring read
ers than any other four in literature
Kindly Mrs. March. stern Aunt March,
big-hearted Hannah, and the dashing
Lawrie all help to make Little Wom-
en-" the most popular play in the Chill
drens Theater series, which Is being
presented in Washington under the aus
pices of the Women's International
League.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
A Woman's Playwright

the dramatist's imagination. That is
not true. 1t could happen, and proba-
bly, has happened many times, and un-
doubtedly 1t has been handled by my
fictitious Rogers Woodruff and carried
of with no greater feminine fact than
Is displayed by my two ladies in the
case"
For all that, however, the fact re-
mains that, as has been claimed so
often before, Miss Crothers remains the
woman's champion in the theater, and
the response of the feminine theater-
goers, as evidenced at matinee perform
ances where the male attendance is
swamped to the extent of about fifty
to one, is full and appreciative. They
go to see themselves dissected and with
true cunning by the playwright who
knows them SO well. They go to laugh
at their own faults and failings, which
Miss Crothers knows how to make SO
amusing in the theater and to bask in
the knowledge that femininity will al
ways triumph-in Rachel Crothers
play.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Full Production at Fox.

FOLLOWING a temporary cessation
Of activities. the Fox Hollywood
studios, both at Westwood and in
Hollywood proper, are once again in
full production. At Fox Movietone
City, at Westwood. the wheels of cine
matte industry are turning under the
direction Of Winfield r. Sheehan, vice
president In charge of production At
this plant my Lips Betray," Lillian
Harvey's first American production, as
well as Five Cents GLASS;" have just
been put into work.
Five Cents a Glass" Is Frank
Craven's first original story for the
screen, which he will direct as well.
Marian Nixon and Norman Foster are
featured in this production.
Adorable" and Pilgrimage" picked
up where they had left of. Janet Gay
nor and Henry Carat, international
stage and screen star, are being fea-
tured in the former, a light musical
romance, while Heather Angel, Norman
Foster, Henrietta Crosman and Marian
Nixon are co-featured in the latter.
This week "The Power and the
Glory" with Spencer Tracy and Col
leen Moore; Hold Me Tight" with
James Dunn and Sally Eilers, and 81
Loved You Wednesday," with Warner
Baxter and ELISA Landi, were put into
production.
At the Hollywood studio, under the
aegis of Sol M. Wurtzel, executive pro-
ducer, THE Lady Cop" from the story
by Judith Ravel and Lowell Brentano
will soon be started as a part of a
schedule of 20 features in English and
six motion pictures in foreign Ian
guages.
Two Spanish films, Songs OF the
South Seas" starring Jose Mojica
grand opera star and concert tenor
and "The Romantic Widow" starring
Catalina Barcena, were placed in pro-
duction this week.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
In Washington Theaters This Week.

NATIONAL-"When Ladies Meet" Tomorrow night at 800
o'clock.
GAYETY-Beer Brew Girls" buresque This afternoon
evening"
PALACE-"Gabriel
evening.
Missing" Morton Downey
This afternoon and evening.
LOEWs FOx-"Men Must Fight" and vaudeville This after
noon and evening
R-K-O KEITHS-"King Kong" This afternoon evening.
METROPOLITAN of the Cross" This afternoon
evening
Destination Unknown" This afternoon evening
COLUMBIA"smoke Lightning" today Internal
starts tomorrow
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Moscow Theatrical Festival.

THE first Moscow Theatrical Festival,
1 with an elaborately arranged pro-
gram covering the dates from June l
through June Is, will be the goal Of
a tour to Soviet Russia conducted by
Oliver M. Sayler, well known author
of books on the Russian theater, ac-
cording to recent announcement
by the Drama League Travel Bu-
reau, under whose auspices the tour
will be made, with the cooperation Of
Intourist, Inc, the official Soviet Travel
Bureau. The schedule Of the tour calls
for sailing from New York on the North
German Lloyd Berlin ON May 10, brief
stop-overs in Copenhagen and Hell
singfors, arrival in Leningrad on May
q, four days of sightseeing and play
going in the old Russian capital, 10
days of attendance at the Theater
Festival in Moscow, and return via
Leningrad and the Baltic Sea to New
York on the S. S. Dresden on June 25.
Members of the group, who wish to do
so, may remain in Moscow for the last
five days of the festival, or return by
rail to a Western European port for
sailing, at a small additional expense.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

their wigs and their masks. We
are pleased, too, when such a
charming actress as Ina Claire
allows herself to play the game
with the rest of the cast in "Biog-
raphy," where she is technically
the star, but in which she prefers
the play to be more important
than the player. We are used
now to the Paul NUNS who pro-
claim that what they do shall
not be shouted to the skies except
as they affect the rest of the play
and as they carry out the mean
ing of the plot. And we are used
to the Lunts and the Fontannes
and the Cowards, each a star in
hjs~own right, who capitulate to
the spoken word and enter into
the spirit of the theater as
brothers and sisters in arms
rather than knights and ladies
carrying their own plumes high.
We are used, in other words, to
the theater of many rather than
to the theater Of one. On the
screen, too, when Kay Francis has
real co-partner as she had in
George Brent in "The Keyhole,"
we are more satisfied than when
she plays almost completely a
starring role" Miss Pickford has
given in to the trend of the times
by hiring a veteran and popular
actor such as Leslie Howard to
play opposite her, instead of doing
as she did in the old days, get
ting some white-haired boy and
planting him there as foil
rather than as an actor. And the
sudden disappearance of Charles
Farrell proves that he had to have
his Janet Gaynor, and that with
out her he is celluloidly lost.
This juggling of players is
healthy sign, and the giving in of
the star system a healthy sign,
too.
Mr.. Cohan will always be one of
the worlds most natural actors.
When he is on the stage you are
apt to forget that there is stage.
His ease is extraordinary, his
facial twists consummately de-
signed, and his walk and talk at
tuned to the most natural strings
OF everyday bearing. Nevertheless.
we should have preferred him in
a play, and not a monologue. Al
though the character of Parker
was an interesting one, it never
probed deep enough to become
either wonderfully great or Won
derfully sympathetic. He was a
nice, genial bench sitter, straight
cuckoo" who came into the play
as he went out, and who never
allowed the rest of his copatriots
to get under his skin.
He was, however, all Cohan-
and two hours of any one is too
much all at once. Even the divine
Sarah must have palled if she
sat on a park bench and talked
for that long.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Kaufman Writes Comedy.

GEORGE S. KAUFMAN has at last
~ been persuaded to write an orig
inal screen comedy. In partnership
with Robert Sherwood, he will write
the story of Eddie Cantor's next pic
ture for Samuel Goldwyn.
Authoring some of the most success
full plays the theater has seen In this
generation, kaufman has refused to
write screen originals Nor would he
consider trip to the Hollywood stu
dios. He has been content to rest on
the laurels of Dinner at Eight" THE
Royal Family" "Of Thee I Sing"
"Once in a Lifetime" and Animal
Crackers" selling the screen rights to
those vehicles at the proper time and
letting the films do the best they could
with them. His work, he claimed,
ended with the stage play.
The Kaufman-Sherwood comedy will
have a background Of Roman an
tiquity In q modern girl-and-music
treatment.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Girl Scouts Choice.

TANET GAYNOR, Fox Film star, has
> been chosen by 100000 members of
the National Girl Scouts as the most
popular film star on the screen, 1t was
announced last week at Girl Scout
headquarters in New York.
Miss Gaynor Is at work opposite
Henry Carat in Adorable" She has
been chosen the screens leading femi-
nine player three times before IN ma
tional polls.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
To Star in Prelude to Love.

"DRELUDE TO LOVE-" a screen play
by Ralph Block. Is announced by
Executive Producer Merriam g. Cooper
as Ann Hardings next starring produce
ton for R-K-O Radio Pictures. Cooper
and Associate Producer Kenneth Mac.
gowan have selected Irving Pichel.
actor director, to direct Miss Harding.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Paramount Buys Two Plays.

PARAMOUNT has purchased Noel
Coward's stage hit, Design for Liv-
ing" and James Hagan's "One Sunday
Afternoon" which also is having sue
cessful Broadway run. Screen produo-
tion will start soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-09

Nearly 10:30! Yes, that was right. Janet looked again to make sure. The morning was nearly half gone. How could she have slept so late?
 Instead of bothering to answer this question Janet smuggled down again into the warm covers. But she was only postponing the evil moment. Presently, with a shiver for the chilly air, she sat up, pushed down the sheets and blan- kets and was out of bed. She crossed the room and closed the window. Then, standing in the middle of the room, she stretched her arms luxuriously above her head.
 Half an hour later Janet had bathed, dressed and was busy squeezing orange juice with g. green glass reamer. The perco- . lator was bubbling and the pleas- ant odors of toast and bacon n1in- gled in the air. Janet had finished her own breakfast and was pre- pairing a tray for Mollie.
 When it was ready she carried it across the hall. A muffled voice answered her knock. There was the sound of the bolt turning and the door opened. Mollie, still in pajamas, the yellow hair frowzled wildly, appeared in the narrow opening.
 "Oh!" she exclaimed: Aren't you the angel. And does that cof- fee smell good! Come in!"
 Janet entered and set down the tray. Sorry to be so late" she said. T overslept. Get back into bed, Mollie. I'll pull that little table over and set the tray on it.. You want to drink the coffee while it's hot"
 Mollie compiled. Propped up. with pillows behind her, she raised the steaming cup to her lips.
 nounced. You shouldn't have bothered like this though, Janet. l feel lots better this morning. I'd have gone down to the cor ner restaurant only was lazy. My colds loosened and my head doesn't ache"
 "Then it's just the time to be careful" Janet told her. Really you shouldn't go out to-day. It's wet and miserable. If you stay right there in bed you'll feel a lot better for it tomorrow"
 
 Mollie helped herself to some of the crisp bacon. "A cook like you" she said dreamily. lis sim ply wasted sitting all day at Q Typewriter. Why don't you get married, Janet?"
 "Why don't you?'
 Because" said Mollie vigor- ously. 'nobody's asked me. That's not the reason you don't, though. I'm telling you, Janet, if swell guy liks Rolf .a Carlyle lyle wanted ante nine me you can bet your bankroll wouldn't waste a minute! Not me!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-09
SS5E YOUR CHILDREN
 By Olive Roberts Barton
O7o55 s7 VA sfaVcf. Wc

| We cannot force fear out of Q
 little child. We cannot whip it scold it out. or shame 1t out. Moreover, we cannot keep fear | from developing, talk as we may
 about ways and means to do it. A little fellow who loves his
 bath tub may scream at his first sight of the sea; child raised in
 a bungalow may go into mysteries
 if he is taken to the top of tall
 building; and one who never saw Q
 COW or had any unpleasant ex-
 and run for his life If COW looks
 over the fence.
 am speaking here of actual
 fears, not obscssive ones built by
 imagination or association. If a little child suddenly screams
 at height, or a waterfall, or q
 COW, should take him away. Then, if possible, when he is
 well over that first shock and has
 had time to forget-not the vl- sion, but his terror of it--some time when he is quite happy and his attention engaged with new toy or picking flowers, or story you are telling him, let him have just a short glimpse on the inon-
 ster. Then without any remarks,
 or even calling his attention to 1t, pass on. Be very unconcerned
 yourself and act as though tho
 ogre was unworthy of your notice. However, there are cases where
 e child cannot erase his first ter TOT 50 easily. If this happens and you have tried in vain to help him, don't be too persistent. Wait un- til he is older at least. Never use force, and don't sacrifice him to your own ideas of courage or what he ought to do.
 Many Fears
 | I speak of height, water, and animals. These are only Q few examples. A train, fire engine. an elevator, an escalator, a merry go.round, or . boat can produce agonizing horror in q small child. | It doesn't matter what 1t Is, the principle of feor is the same. It
 is this you wish to overcome rath-
 CT than to popularize the object
 itself.
 Have sympathy for his fear. but l the best way to show 1t is not to show 1t. mean treat 1t casually without fuss, or coddling. Either ! extreme will very likely only make him worse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-09
FAY WRAY
THE STORY l OF SUE

Grace didn't try to wink back the tears. She knew that she couldn't. All the pent-up emotions of the last few months. all the strain of the days when she had wanted to cry and couldn't. be. cause she was too tired or too proud or there were people around, came crowding in the tears. :.
 She felt Jimmy's arms around her, close and enfolding.
 "Why, honey, I didn't know. !. His cheek was against her own and he was pressing her head a. gainst his shoulder. "Go ahead, dearest, cry it out. You'll feel bet ter"
 He didn't say anything more as the sobs went on-just pressed his lips against the warm hollow | in the back of her neck and put big white handkerchief in her hand.
 As the sobs abated and she wiped her eyes with it, she notic- ed that she had been clutching the blue chiffon handkerchief. It was Q wet, bedraggled blue ball now.
 ""All right darling?" Jimmy was | asking.
 "Fine-" but her voice trembled and she smiled mistily.
 i've been seventeen kinds of a dumbbell-" she could hear him apologizing, pleading, but the words ran away into nothingness. They didn't matter. Just the fact that she was there with Jimmy and his arms were around her counted.
 Outside the dusk began to come down over the street. The after noon had passed and they hadn't know it. Luncheon had been late, she remembered now. Not until one-thirty. It was after four o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-09
o los3 NEA SERVICE. INC

four blocks and she had reached Temple avenue. Here there were shops, many of them with lighted windows. Street cars changed by and c policeman directed traffic. Pedestrians most of them In coupies--ali seemed hurrying to get somewhere. Halfway down the block Janet saw Q restaurant. It was Q place where the food was we'll cooked, appetizingly served. Often on Sundays Janet ate there. It had been almost II when she had breakfasted and now she realized that she was hungry. She considered entering and ordering a meal. But if she did that she might miss Rolf's telephone call. Suddenly Janet was eager to be home. If he should call and fail to reach her he would think she had made other plans and might not call again. She turned and re- traced her steps. It seemed she could not walk fast enough. Ac- tually it was only 25 minutes from the time she left the room- ing house until she was back.
 There was no message on the hall table. Janet rapped at Mrs Snyder's door and asked if any one had called her. No one had. Well that was all right thenl She went up the stairs.
 Of course Rolf hadn't promised to telephone. Hhe had only said that he might if he could break away early" Janet reminded her. self of this while she prepared ( supper of left-overs. The supper was not particularly appetizing but she was no longer hungry. She ate, washed the dishes and cleared them away.
 six-thirty came and no mes sage. Why was she so restless ? There had been other Sundays when she and Rolf had had sepa- rate engagements. Not many of them, but still 0 few.
 By eight o'clock Janet told her self he wasn't going to call. To prove that she wasn't even ex- pecting a message she slipped off her frock, got into pajamas and a robe. Then she crossed the hall to talk to Mollie.
 Anyhow she could hear the telephone as clearly in Mollie's room as in her own.
 The invalid was sitting at table writing a letter. Mo1lie's conversation, contrary to expecta- tions, did not prove cheering. It was devoted chiefly to the details of Cousin Evelyn's latest opera ton. It was to Cousin Evelyn that Mollie was writing.
 Janet, as soon as she could made an excuse and came away. In the hall she was surprised to find the door of her room open. She stepped forward and felt for the light switch. Tn another in- stant the room was ablaze with electricity.
 Janet gave a little gasp. 1n the center of the room, facing her, stood a man sine had never | seen before.
 ITO he COntlnued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-09

Course it's none of my business but I think you're making big mistake"
 Isn't 1t a big mistake to get married when you haven't any moneyT
 "Plenty of people do it."
 "Well-Rolf and don't want to do things that way. We're go- ing to start right"
 It was the same argument she had used with Rolf. we want to start right" Janet had said over and over and he had found no an- swer. There was nothing wrong with the argument; it was as good as ever. But suddenly, in the midst of an explanation why it was so much better to wait and save instead of rushing heedlessly into matrimony, Janet found her. self faltering. After all she wanted to marry Rolf! Last night together .-. at dinner in what a home with Rolf would be like. Any place in the world where she and Rolf were together would be gay and cheerful. And they could be so happy! Was money really so fearfully impor- tant--compared with happiness? Then resolution returned. Janet shifted the conversation and sat half listening while Mollie, who was seldom quiet, rattled on in Q long description of what one of her friends had seen on a trip to Chicago.
 Presently Janet arose to go. The last of the buttered toast had been finished, the last drop of cof- fee gone. Mollie had settled herr self in the covers and said sho might be able to take Q nap.
 Remember" Janet told her as she paused in the doorway, If there's anything at all you want just knock and I'll get it for you.'' Back in her own room she sci to work energetically. After all Rolf might telephone. He hadn't said positively that he'd spend the whole day with that friend from out of town. If he came there were half dozen tasks that should be out of the way first. She began with a shampoo brushing her hair, rubbing foamy suds into 1t, rinsing them out and repeating the process. The rub ping and rinsing and vigorous dry ing that followed took more than 6 half hour. Out of the process the taffy colored hair emerged a fluffy, loosely waving mass. Janet used pins to set the wave as she liked it. That was one of the advantages of having naturally curling hair. She manicured her nails, pressed a fresh collar and cuff set. remembered the rip in the lining of her coat sleeve and set to work repairing 1t.
 Time drifted by. Outside the snow had stopped and then begun again. It was so dark in the room that Janet had turned on the table