Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-22
BY CHARLES wITACRE FORBES.

n YEW YORK, April 22.-Without
parallel hereabouts is the news
N that there viii be . sequel to
/ Y che of the most popular shows
of recent years, OF Thee !
Sing" It will have the same authors,
all OF the character people and most
of the leads. 1t will be staged by Sam
Harris and will say pertinent things
about the present administration. The
authors. of course. are George kauf-
man. Morrie Ryskind. George and Ira
Gershwin. The title will be Let EN-
Eat Cake" suggested by the reputed
adnonition of Marie Antoinette. VIII
liam Gaxton, Victor Moore and LOIS
Moran again will be in the leadlng
parts. Boston has been fixed as the
focal point for opening. because "Oi
Thee I Sing" opened there and COM
pany has gone back to the Huo CITY,
playing its seventy-second consecutive
week. also a unique item.
"Of Thee Sing was the only musi-
cal show ever to get the Pulitzer prize,
and the second term of President Win
tergreen and his associates is expected
to cause much fun when it is brought
before the public. Tickets will be
cheaper for the new effort. for when the
show reaches New York it will 60 to a
larger theater than the small Music
Box, where its predecessor sold out at
IS IN the box Office and as much as
$3.50 with the specs on good nights.
THE exodus for Chicago, where e
L Worlds Fair starts June /. is being
timidly started. Katharine Cornell. in
Allen Corn" is leaving for Philadel-
phia, with Chicago the next stop. 1t is
thought that many who are hanging on
will follow. There Is accurately docu-
mented only one musical show for the
Summer-George Whites Scandals"
Moss Hart and Irving Berlin, wearied
of chasing each other all over the coun-
try to collaborate in "A Thousand
Cheers" which Harris will stage when
they complete the job, have gone to
Bermuda together. with the suggestion
that rapidity would be helpful.
T OOKING over the list. We find that
II the following offerings are really
doing good business: Take Chance.
Biography" Design for Living =,
ALLEN Corn" "For Services Rendered.
Music in the Air" Autumn Crocus,"
"One Sunday Afternoon" Strike Me
Pink" THE Late Christopher Bean, :"
Dinner at Eight" Both Your Houses"
Gay Divorce" and "Forsaking All
Others"
U'THE TRAGEDY OF THE AGES
L a passion play. stopped after a
week and a half. Cherry Orchard"
left Wednesday after q performances.
Alice in Wonderland" may close on
May and Design for Living" of all
things, making mere money than we
have lately heard about, will shut down
Of its own accord on May q. There
will be plenty of others, but the man
ayers meanwhile are holding on de-
spite the wet weather.
+ X X +
INTERESTING thoughts for the next
week include Man Bites Dog,
telling about tabloid journalism. with
Leo Donnelly. Dennie Moore and Ger
trude Flynn assisting; Little or Boy, ="
q play by Arthur Bein, concerning do
ings in a boys reformatory; revival
of Another Language" which ran 43
weeks before closing in February;
"Hilda Cassidy" with a New York
tenement house locale, and "9 Pine
Street." based on the Lizzie Borden
murder case This story of Fall River,
Mass, should be very interesting, par
rcularly to New Englanders. 1t is
about the famous case which bafHed
the best detectives of the country in
the COS and about which several books
have been written. In the cast are Lii
liam Gish, Ray Hackett, Robert Har-
rison and Roberta Beatty.
The Theater Guild, most successful
of the experimental theaters, has
finally romped into line on the ques-
ton Of seat prices. Even in the days
when wild-eyed promoters were de-
manding everything they could get for
their tickets, the Guild, with thousands
of subscribers-a guaranteed audience
was able to keep its prices down to
q SITS top. Now it has reduced its