Evening star., 1933-07-28
BUT LITTLE CHANCE
OF HER RETURNING
She Has Stated That She
Prefers Her Work
on the Stage.
BY 4. De s. MELCHER.

lows.
Dear Sir-Having read somewhere
that the dramatic critics Of WASH
ington are to have a session with Miss
BARRYMORE before she appears in per-
son at the Earle, can you not IN our
behak (and in behalf of a large pub
lie which We are certain JOINS us IN
this plea) prevail upon Miss Barry
more to return to the screen. I saw
her In 'Rasputin and the Empress and
thought she was splendid. should
like to see her in something else. is
it really true that Miss Barrymore
hates the films, and Is it true that she
refuses to 20 back to them? And don't
YOU think that she would Ike to know
that she has many admirers In fieid
in which she probably thinks she has
few? Please tell her 50 at any rate-
and see what you can do to plttng
her back on the screen. Cordially,
M. M. H." .,
we are afraid that We can do little
toward putting Miss Barrymore back
on the screen" We shall be happy II
we even have the courage to suggest
such thing to her. Suggest 1t we
shall, however, since It Is matter
which seems to be on the mmo OF q
great many people.
If time and space and whatnot al
lowed we should like to say to the
si:stranger's siSser er Return'D tpn Lionel and
mother of C'Little 'Ol Boy'D John Colt ::
See here, Miss Barrymore, after you
have given your audiences the pleasure
of seeing your delightful performance
in The Twelve-Pound Look coulont
you try Hollywood again?" and then
if we didn't get cold, friendless stare,
we should continue, you know you
were very. yery good as the Czarina In
'Rasputin' You made start then which
it seems a shame not to follow up. In
a single film you became all over again
the head of the royal family You
were lust as good as you ever were on
the stage. and we want you to know
it. We enjoyed seeing you in Encore
Gn spite of the fact that the play was
nothing to shout about, but we
thought you were just so much better
with brothers Jack and Lionel In tnat
one Aim. Couldn't you play The Con.
slant Wife for the screen: or one OF
the Barrie plays? We put in our peti-
tion. together with M. M. H. "a lady
who knows her theater) to put you
back again before the camera. Do any
thing, except Alice in Wonderland. "
TT Is to be doubted If Miss Barry
more will pay much attention to our
cries Rumor has it that she was fab
bergasted by the difference between
screen and stage methods-and further
rumor has it that it took every ounce
of her will power to get her through
that one film Although she Is said
to have basked in the elaborate dress
ing parlor of Miss Garbo, although
minions ran to do her bidding Ike
so many flies, although she was tempted
with sweet sweetmeats to make her
stay all the pleasanter, she was goaded
at the very outset by Hollywood ira
ditions. and found the hours, the tech
nical WITNESSES and studio STANDARDS
not to her liking.
Rocked in the theater's cradle-th1s
Is. of course, not to be wondered at.
Since at the age Of IL she did an
elaborate production Of Camille in
barn somewhere on Staten Island. she
has clung to the footlights with all
her might and but for this once has
refused to succumb to the films beck
and call. She prefers the jingle OF
theater's audience to the grind OF the
camera. She joins Miss Katharine
Cornell and one or two others in the
opinion that the stage is her meter
and that she is lost anywhere else.
In the case of Miss Cornell (although
we doubt it, this may be true. In Miss
Barrymore's case it isn't. She hasn't
the worry any more Of being afraid
of her voice on the screen or what
she will look like She is calm, hand
some, dignified and real personality
before the camera-aS she always has
been on the stage. We prefer her
hundred times as the tragic heroine
of "Rasputin" to the vapid. silly crea-
ture she stormed around as in
Encore"
OBERT MONTGOMERY will ap-
IN pear in person next week at the
Capital, In New York, in conjunction
with the showing of Another Lam
guage." This is Mr.. Montgomery's
first footlight appearance there since he
ran off from Broadway as pleasant
but not too potent juvenile to join the
film colony. AS some one said the other
day at the luncheon rendered Miss
Barrymore, as has done rather well. !"
He has better than that. In fact,
we doubt if you can get into the thea
ter while he is saying his say.
We wonder why shrewd, debonaire,
energetic Carter Barron hasn't made
a move to get him down to the Palace
for single appearance when Another
Language" is shown there? Mr.. Mont
gomery's "in perscn" would fill the
Jheater to the brim. We can visualize
the seasons fappers tearing their hair
out to get glimpse of him, as they
used to do in the old days when that
gentleman with the megaphone went
the rounds.
TODAY is the day when drama desks
- will be busy. Breakfast with Ethel
Barrymore and tea with Oracle Allen
almost too much for brief IL hours
There seems to be some kind of q
Jonah in that Buddy Rogers film COM
ing to the Columbia Monday. Day by
day we apologize for having called it
Best of Friends" instead of Best Of
Enemies" and day by day we look on
this page and find Best of Friends" all
over again. 1t isn't BEST OF Friends
it's just the opposite.
Word from clifford Brooke, who isn't
coming back from Buffalo this week
after all That company is still pos
sibility up there.
More and more applications for the
Loew's Fox stage show. What with
Brooke Johns and singing policemen
and fast-stepping sister and brother
acts, this looks really as If 1t might turn
into field day-or rather, field week
Nick Lucas comes to the Earle next
week.
And, there's no doing away with Mae
West She is to come back to the Met
ropolitan again a week from today
"She Done Him Wrong" Is just too
good to bury. So the Warner Bros.
have decided evidentally to make her
a permanent fixture on F street. We
have seen the film three times = and
shall probably see it three more.
DANCING.
PROF and MRS. ACHER -! Studio, 1127
10th st. NV. Class and dancing Friday, q
to 1850 pm, with orchestra. Private less
sons BY appointment. Net. ALSO. Eseab. 1oQ0