Evening star., 1933-07-03
Juliets Ready
ToGive Stage
Great Revival
Miss Cornell and Miss
LIE Gallienne to Tour
Country in Role.
STARS TO AVOID
CLASH IN DATES
Coming Season to Provide
Versions of Classic for
Whole Nation.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

n YEXT season will witness the
N greatest revival Of JulietS since
VI the food. From coast to coast
/ Y ShakespeareS tragic young hero
inc will be seen in practically
every hamlet and farm.
This is exciting news, inasmuch as
two of our first ladies of the theater
are the cause for it. Katharine Cornell
released from Sidney Howard'S drama
of nightingale starving in our West
ern wheatlands, Allen Corn" will start
on her repertory program in the Fall;
and Eva LeGallienne will do the same.
According to word received this morn
ing from the indefatigable Ray Hender-
son, "out of her great regard for the
aims and achievements Of Eva LEGAL
lienne, who Is also to include Romeo
and Juliet in her repertory on the road
this Fall. Miss Cornell has arranged her
own route so that there will be no clash
in dates with Miss LeGallienne, who is
announced to open her season on the
Atlantic Coast in October, while Miss
Cornell, beginning late in November in
Buffalo, will 60 directly to the Midwest
and Pacific Coast. The few cities where
both actresses appear are so booked
that there will be an interval of one to
three months between the two Juliets. "
Without meaning to be selfish, we
hope that Washington gets both Juliets,
whether they come within a year or
week of each other. Miss LeGallienne's
Characterization is, of course, well
known. But this is, vulgarly speaking,
Miss Cornell's first crack at her." and
1t would do little harm to set one
actress up against the other.
The matter, though, of the tour is
something new in theater ''politesse. -
dnfr iyS,y, 10 ant Of !,
others way and not to outdo each other
in this little game Is matter Of re-
straint and sincere regard for each
other. How easy, for instance, for one
OF them to hog theater the week be-
fore the other arrives and squeeze dry
whatever cash customers there are in
town. How easy for each to claim
that she is "the greatest Juliet of all
time" (Which, of course, both of them
will be called by some reviewer before
the season is over). How easy for
them to snarl and growl and throw
bricks at each other, while Romeo
climbs the festive balcony.
Instead, however, they will pick their
routes carefully-and managers on
both sides of the fence will see what
can be done so that most towns get
but one Juliet This IS legitimate care
but in this case somewhat ground
less-inasmuch as these two ladies are
SO great in their own rights that they
could play Camille right next door
to each other and still do plenty of
business.
In fact, Miss Cornell and Miss LIE
Gallienne are the two bright angels
of the stage at the moment-the out
standing revivers of the "road"-the
greatest boosters of the theater in the
provinces" While other producers
moan and bow their heads, these
stanch supporters of the theater, who
any day of the week can make money
on Broadway, pack up their belongings
and shove off into the hinterlandS to
prove that all Is not dead west or north
or south Of the Great White Way"
They do this at a time when it would
be much more comfortable and much
more profitable to stick close to the
home plate. Like Miss Barrymore,
however, they must of to the sticks and
play their little play to the pipes of
the multitude in the wilderness. All
OF which goes to prove how fond they
are Of their theater-and how fond the
theater Is Of them.
THE Loew people are having a fearful
time trying to figure out whether
their advertisements should read,
''Loew's leads in Washington" or
''Loew's lead In Washington" You see
they have three theaters-and in spite
OF the distinct singular aspect of Loew,
they feel that with three theaters in
the air there should be something
plural about it. 1t took two gram
marians. the Webster dictionary and a
couple Of board meetings to settle the
matter
THE most exciting news of the day
- is that Burns and Allen are COM
ing to Loew's Fox the week of July 49,
Starting Friday you may smoke in
the mezzanine of Keith's theater.
Smoking will start with Bed Of Roses, -
the new Constance Bennet finn.
Advice to local belle who went to
New York in quest of motion-p picture
career: TRY stock for at least year
before you have test" The lady, as
a matter Of fact, came very near being
featured with Lanny Ross in a new
film.
The Nobel Prize" a play which
Washington is very likely to see next
season. is being tried out in Westport
tonight. Otis Skinner is starred. Also
in the cast is owen Davis, jr., remem-
bered for his juvenile (National Play
ers) work here.
Too bad about the Mary Pickford-
Douglas Fairbanks bust-up. And what
about Norma Talmadge arriving in Hol-
1ywood with George Jessel the other
day and denying that there was any
romance" between them?
THE discussion of next seasons
Juliets reminds us that the talkies
have not as yet taken this lady over
the jumps. Shakespeare, in fact, is
not a money maker in Hollywood. But
II some wary producer. bound on art
for arts sake, and caring little for the
clink of coin, was to set about filming
Romeo and Juliet" who would play
Juliet and who would play Romeo?
Now that Alice has been settled Cor
rather unsettled), We might as well
start on someone else-this time the
only restriction being that Mae Vests
course, Miss West as Juliet is the first
thing that comes to mind. Juliet would
be tough" business to film. How
ever, with the right amount of coach
ing, by, say. a West Coast Clifford
Brooke to bring out the Shakespeare
in her voice, Loretta Young would be
happy choice-and if they could keeI
Johnny c'Tarzan") Weissmuller from
playing Romeo (the ladies would want
such q man in tights, the Romea
britches would probably become Fred.
ric March best.
FIFTEENTH STREET was rouset
L from its tepid state of calm las
Saturday night by an unusual sight
Those who passed by R-K-O Keith
Theater scratched their heads and wen
away wondering. Behind the bars o
the ticket window sat new ticket
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