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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-10-20
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Evening star., 1933-10-01
Uric Play Opens.

7 EE SHUBERT will present Her Man
of Wax" modern comedy adapted
by Julian Thompson from the original
of Walter Hasenclever at the National
Theater tomorrow evening at 800 pm.
The engagement is under the auspices
Of the American Theater Society and
marks the initial offering Of this organ
iZation. This will be the opening of the
attraction which goes from here to New
York. The play was first done in Ber-
lin and during the past Summer it was
played for three weeks at the Pasadena
Community Playhouse, where 1t was
witnessed by Lee Shubert. In this pro-
duction. Lloyd Corrigan. the well known
moving picture director and actor ap-
peared in the role of Napoleon. Others
in the cast Of over so persons include
Louise Kirkland, Raymond Bramley,
Florence Arlington. George Anderson,
Martin Abbott, Louis CaSSavant, Dom
sur, Harold De Becker, Walden Boyle,
Rodney Benton. Richard Bengali. Jules
Epially. Albert Froom, Jack Fago. Jane
Farrell. George Lessey, Leslie King
Kermit de Nero. Frank Marino. Theo-
dore Pizman, Frederick Person, Clar-
ence Rock. Carl Benton Reid, Don Shell
ton. Claude Tahlmore, John E. Wheeler,
Mortimer H. Welden, Courtney White
and E. j. de Varny.
The production has been staged by
Arthur Lubin, who was responsible for
the staging of the Pasadena presenta-
ton.
Miss Uric plays the role of Josephine
Duval, French moving picture actress.
Evening star., 1933-10-01

Leslie Fenton, Harry Beresford. Frank
Conroy and Ralf Harolde.
"COL1TAIRE MAN" a mystery pic
- ture comes to Loew's Columbia
Theater next Friday with Herbert
Marshall in the starring role. supported
by Mary Boland, Lionel Atwill. May
Robson. Elizabeth Allen Ralph Forbes,
Lucille Gleason and Robert McWade.
"XNILD BOYS OF THE ROAD"
w First Nationals dramatization OF
the story of half million wandering
boys and girls, will be the new screen
attraction for the week starting next
Friday at Warner Bros. Earle Theater.
The stage will welcome back to Wash
ington Borrah Minnevitch, the worlds
greatest harmonica artist and his
Harmonica Rascals. Other acts will be
Jay Mills. Red Donahue and Pal. Mann
Robinson and Martin and Oracle Barrie.
FOLLOWING the current engagement
of "Too Much Harmony" at Warner
Bros. Metropolitan Theater. the attrac-
ton will be Maurice Chevalier in THE
Way to Love" his latest Paramount
production. Chevalier is supported by
the beautiful Ann Dvorak in the leading
feminine role and Edward Everett
Horton
Evening star., 1933-10-01
the story" in an entertaining reel which
is also being shown this week.

the story" in an entertaining reel which
is also being shown this week.
WILL ROGERS returns to IF" street
w this week in Doctor Bull" which
LoeW'S Columbia Is now featuring. He
plays the role of small-time doctor
in a small New England community:
Doctor Bull is a picture version OF
James Gould Cozzens' best selling novel,
The Last Adam" and was produced by
Fox Films. The cast includes Marion
Nixon, Louise Dresser. Andy Devine,
Ralph Morgan. Vera Allen, Howard
Lally and Berton Churchill.
EOR World Series week. Manager
II Jimmie Lake of the Gayety The
ater Is offering THE Pennant Winners" "
70 hurlesque gang consisting OF all 800
hitters, with q chorus Of the fastest
base stealers In captivity" Jerr1 cCro-
nin") McCauley, is the star. Some Of
the outstanding novelty numbers to be
seen will be "The Ladies Of the Eve
ming" and "The Starlight" ballets.
Amateur night Is Friday night.
ARTHUR TRACY. better known as
"A "The Street Singer" holds the top
notch position In the current stage
show at Loews Fox I'heater. Tracy Is
no stranger to Washington Ring one
Of the loyal local sons who has become
famous not only on Broadway. but on
the radio and in motion pictures as
we'll. Ricardo Cortez Is seen on the
screen in big Executive" Paramount
picture. with Richard Bennett, Eliza
beth Young and Sharon Lynne in the
main supporting roles. Star performers
who supplement Tracey on the stage
include Mills, Gold and Raye, the
Carrie and Eddie Revue and Paul
Nolan. There Is also Phil Lampkin
overture
Evening star., 1933-10-01
When and Where in Local Theaters.

NAT1ONAI-Lenore "Her Man of Wax" Tomorrow
evening at 500 pm.
GAYETY-Pennant Winners burlesque Today at 215 and
8:15 pm.
COLUdBIA-Dr Bull" Today at 355 $780, 745 and $40 pm.
LOEWS FOX-Bg Executive at g. 44l 1882 and 952 Stage
shows at 3:49 GAO and 901 pm.
of the Blue Room and stage show This after
and evening.
RIALTO-"S o. Iceberg" This afternoon evening.
PAIACE-"Stage Mother" This afternoon and evening
METROPOLITAN-"Too Much Harmony" afternoon and
evening.
KEITHs-Lady Day." This afternoon and evening
Evening star., 1933-10-01

MYTH many beautiful girls, dozens OF
wv musical numbers and spectacular
dance scene, "Too Much Harmony
occupies the screen at Warner Bros.
METROPOLITAN Theater this week as the
featured film subject. Starring Blng
Crosby, popular stage, screen and radlo
songster, it boasts a supporting cast LED
by Jack Oakie, Skeets Gallagher Llyan
freshman and Judith Allen.
Eight new song hits by Arthur John-
ston and Sam CosloW are introduced
In the film They are Thanks
sBuckin' the Wind" Cradle Me with
a Hot-Cha Lullaby" BLACK Noon
light" Boo -Boo-Boo," "The Day YOU
Came Along" THE Two Aristocrats
and Il Guess 1t Had to Be That way
Jack Oakie and Skeets Gallagher are
cast as a team of footlight fools VINO
mistakenly 20 high-hat when they hit
Broadway.
Completing the program are selecteo
short reels, including new Looney
Tune Song Cartoon entitled. We're
IN the Money" The March of the
Champions" a Grantland Rice sport
light. showing scenes of Jack Demp-
sey. Gene Tunney. Bill Tilden, Helen
wills Moody, Gertrude Ederle ana
Johnny Weissmuller in swift action. and
Sound News.
BARBARA sTANWYCK, Hollywood
- screen star, is making personal
appearance as the headline attraction
OF the current Earle Theater stage
show. Other acts are Britt Wood;
JOHNNIE Woods, Stone and Vernon, and
Oracle Barrie, mistress of ceremonies
The screen portion of the program
features The Secret of the Blue
Room" Universal mystery thriller.
with Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart and
Paul Lukas The program is completed
by selected short reel subjects, includ-
ing the latest issue of the .Graham m
MacNamee news reel, and the Earle
orchestral prelude.
FOLLOWING its gala opening under
J. the sponsorship Of the Danish le-
cation, rs. o. S. Iceberg" a Universal
Sicture, is the current weeks attrac-
Gion at the Rialto Theater. The pic
Sure was made in Greenland under the
direction of DR.. Arnold Fanck and Tay
Evening star., 1933-10-01

! OF an actress, VINO acts with no tnOugnC
in the world except to advance her
| daughters career.
Stage Mother" is too long. And the
role. as far as Alice Brady is concerned.
| is most unpleasant. While she plays it
with mcanny insight, it is not the sort
Of a business that will endear her to
picture audiences. Why, in heavens
name, should she be a stage mother in
two pictures released one on top Of the
other? Why should she be hard and
vulgar and ambitious, when she can be
sweet and charming and sincere? Why
shouldn't she be allowed to make audi
ences cry over sensible sentimental Gre
ations rather than over hoydens who
are all tinsel and glitter?
/ Miss Brady is splendid addition to
the screen. Her diction is flawless and
she has a way of flinging her hands
about which no one short of Beatrice
Lille can approach. She is handsome
when she wants to be, trenchant In
emotional scenes and SO persuasive even
in little moments that you are likely
to believe that she isn't acting at all
For the moment, however, We should
like to see her in something worth
wilhelm something as true to life as
her Bridge in When Ladies Meet"
(this for our opponents) was untrue.
We should like to see her, for instance,
as a queen. Anything that takes her
Hollywood planting her in such roles
makes about as much sense as it did
when 1t tried to make Tallulah Bank
head screaming tragedienne.
Il
A YOUNG lady about town wants ad-
4 vice. She is pretty. old enough to
take care of herself. and Is tremen-
dously anxious to get on the stage or
in the films She Is nearly crazy be-
cause, says she. Il am not getting any
where" She has studied here at a
| local dramatic school, has appeared In
small roles in small productions and
has done well wherever and whenever
she appeared. But she wants more.
She wants, first, Broadway and then
Hollywood. She wants her name in
small print and then in lights. She
| wants. in other words. success.
What should she do?
Our advice was negligible. We told
her that every drug store in Hollywood
has half dozen girls with the same
yearnings. That every chorus Oh
Broadway has probably "a Of the same.
That every car that rattles of to the
coast has at least one person who be-
lieves that fame and fortune is cine
| that the stage. being at low tide, washes
more people out to sea than 1t does
land them on coral reefs.
Yet. strangely enough, we have great
confidence in the films-and in the
stage-as we'll as In this young lady.
There must be q place for her some
where, Just as there have been places
for other ambitious young women.
When. for instance, you saw Kather-
inc Hepburn come out onto the stage
with Jane Cowl In Art and Mrs. Bot
tie" did you think that she'd ever go
where she is today? Or when you
played with Frances Fuller right here
in Washington and thought her q
small, attractive child. did you suppose
that she would ever do such a nice Job
as she did In "One Sunday Afternoon"
There is no code for success-other
than the one Marie Dressler gave lis the
other day-"work, work and work" Yet
that Is cold, friendless warning to
young lady in distress.
Evening star., 1933-10-01

Fortunately my guest at the perform
ance was an alert youth, trained since
infancy, as the son Of show-reviewer,
to keep his eyes and his ears wide open
for evidence in behalf Of the theater
1t was he who told me that when the
heroine summoned the doctor her call
was addressed to his hospital, for he, II
no one else. had heard her say, Don't
distrub him II he Is in the operating
room" And that when the other party
rang him up he was in his bachelor
apartment in Central Park West, hav-
ing tea with party of recuperatlng
patients. 1t seems that the surgeon
had two telephones.
The habit of finding lapses where
lapses are not Is an unimportant though
bad one and Is due to a lack Of con-
centratioa as well as a prevailing pas
sion to deprecate one Of indoor amuse-
ments most ancient and senile forms.
Not long ago Miss Elizabeth Cobb. Ir-
vim Cobbs daughter. and Miss Mar
garet Case, of the Algonquin Cases q
an idea for a contest in which 1t would
be proved how little an audience Is con-
scious Of the minutiae Of play. Upon
stage built on the Cobb estate, near
by Southampton, Long Island, they
presented q simple melodrama and
challenged the neighborhood intelli-
gentsia to tell them after 1t was over.
what had happened. Blank forms con-
tanning 80 questions were distributed
to the gathering and cups and medals
were offered as prizes to those who gave
the best answers For instance, what
tune from which opera did Mr.. Cobb
whistle after he had murdered his
chambermaid and with what brand OF
Scotch did he fortify himself before he
committed the deed? Was his victim
| called Betty or Peggy. and was the
dress she wore red or blue? What was
the flower in her corsage, chrysanthe-
mum or q petunia. and was the police
man who arrested him named Bolan or
Mulrooney? What, the questionnnalre
inquired, was the first thing Mr.. Cobb
did after he saw his victim dead at
| his feet-open the windows or close
them?
The contest proved again how un-
dependable is the observation OF even
the dramas keenest audience. Myself,
I answered only three Of the 80 IN
ouiries correctly, and Grantland Rice.
who won the top trophy, limped IN with
a lame score Of five. Miss Case and
Miss Cobb eventually presented their
bright idea in a volume OF melo-
drama suitable to tournaments of the
kind; but since then I have not heard
of it. Still one ventures to recon-
mend it as recreation to Mr.. Woollcott,
Mr.. Swope, Mr. Kaufman. Mr.: Broun.
Miss Parker, Mr. Ross and others OF
the charade and anagram set.
II
UDOUBLE DOOR," which started all
II this, is some rather heavy move
ments by Miss Elizabeth McFadoen IN
Evening star., 1933-10-01
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Evening star., 1933-10-01
Next Week Films

CIx of the greatest stars Of cinema
- land, John Barrymore, Helen Hayes,
Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert
Montgomery and Myrna 10y, will be
seen in Might Flight" which begins
a weeks engagement at Loew's Palace
Theater next Friday One Of the fea-
lures of the fllm is the musical score
by Herbert Stothart, who has written
a symphony tuning the musical accom-
paniment with the roar of the giant
plane motors. In the supporting cast
are William Gargan, c. Henry Gordon,
Evening star., 1933-10-01

Joan Crawford, who, any hour Of the
day, can walk into her library and see
herself as Mary Queen of Scots in a
handsome painting that hangs in the
small nicely paneled room, wanted
to play Marie. So did every one from
Polly Moran to Katherine Hepburn. But
Norma Shearer won out. (We should
have preferred Hepburn)
The subject, however. is not dead.
History is favorite topic with actors,
who, whether they know as much about
1t as Charles Laughton or not, like to
dress up in antiquity'S rags" and pa
rade themselves in the dim dark eras
OF B. M. w. (before Mae WesD.
Temporarily Napoleon is the favorite
subject next to Marie Antionette. Out
in Hollywood Edward G. Robinson is
preparing himself to be the Little
Corporal" and in Washington tomorrow
theatergoers will see what Lloyd Cor
rigan looks like in the comedy which
Lenore Uric is starring in.
This play, it is said, is not a
Eapoleonic chronicle, but rather swift,
modern satire on Napoleon seen
through the eyes of film actress. Her
Man of Wax" will be at the opposite
pole from the Helen Hayes play, Mary
of Scotland" mote the biographical
angle AGAIN., which VIII be seen here
later this month.
The American Theater Society, which
Is sponsoring both these plays, thus falls
into line with the trend of the day.
What comes afterward is not as yet
known. But it is rumored that out
Hollywood way Marlene Dietrich will
do some kind of a queen-and, of course.
Miss Carlo (whose name crops up
every time anything is mentioned is
playing Queen Christina" behind
Z barred doors right now And then,
think of all the queens hopping around
the Paramount Alice in Wonderland"
set.
CPEAKING of Alice" reminds us of
- the vague disappointment we have
had in the selection of the young lady
for the leading role. According TO an
almost infallible West Coast writer,
Charlotte Henry is not the young,
wistful little thing we had imagined.
But a young woman of 81 years who
has been about IN the movie studios
before. This seemed obvious from the
first picture. Miss Henry's smile, which
Is sweet, nevertheless seems studied and
artificial, and she has less of the bloom
of youth on her cheeks than We could
have hoped for. As long as Paramount
decided on young lady of age, it
seems more logical to have picked some
one who is profoundly versed in the
cinematic art. rather than lady who
has only broWsed therein haphaZardly.
We thought the IDEA was to pick some
one around the 16-year limit. with no
experience except that OF youth and
personality. Even with Polly Moran in
the cast, the film already seems to have
lost something. An Alice 81 years old
Is an Alice who knows too much.
X X
PACK again to Alice Brady, one OF
~ this departments favorite discus
sion grounds. Miss Brady is such
good actress, described by certain gen
try as CLASS" that 1t seems pity for
her not to be given the sort of roles
which lady of her prestige and ability
deserves In When Ladies Meet she
looked rather foolish. In Broadway to
Hollywood" she was brilliantly effec-
tive lady OF the stage Now in stage
Mother she is a hard, ruthless mother
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Picking Flaws in Drama
Turns Out to Be a Game
Critics Enjoy the Pastime, but 1t Goes Into Larger
Fields-Joe Cooks New Show on Broadway.
Double Door" Is Heavy Play.
By Percy Hammond.

oMEWERE in the enebrou processes Of Double Door the
with one by telephone TO do she rings number the
Plaza Exchange both him. After while
another speak by
instead of calling Plaza he asks for Columbus This devia
the detail premiere
Door" last Thursday evening shudder disturb the
about it. Numerous fans rallied
bishops notable for the clocwork precision OF his guild
they asked
could be trusted to direct the expoundn OF the dramas major
identity the doctors telephone exchange whether Plaza Com
about
or clasin OF
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Children's Studio Opens.

THE Children's Studio, school of
speech and dramatic art for young
children, will open at the Playhouse
1914 N street northwest, Saturday, Oc-
tober 7, for the new season for regular
class work The teaching, as before, will
be personally conducted by Rose Robi-
son Cohen, author of Speech Drills for
Young Children
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Brooke School to Open.

THE Clifford Brooke Academy OF
Stage Training in the Dramatic
Arts will begin its Fall term on Oc-
tober l6. During the coming term Mr..
Brooke will personally instruct the stu
dents. assisted by Maurice Greet. who
was with him during the former terms.
Enrollments are being taken at the
academy Offices at 1000 Connecticut
avenue.
Evening star., 1933-10-01

p -K-O Keith's Is continuing the en-
IN gagement Of Lady for q Day"
featuring May Robson and Warren
William, for an additional week. This
Damon Runyon picture has in its cast,
in addition to the featured players
such we'll known screen and stage
names as Guy Kibbee. Walter Connolly,
Jean Parker and Ned Sparks. A spe-
cial short subject of David L. Hutton
husband of Aimee Semple Mcpherson
and former baritone Of the famous
Angelus Temple, will "tell his side Of
Evening star., 1933-10-01

UDOUBLE DOOR," which started all
II this is some rather heavy move
ments by Miss Elizabeth McFadden IN a
burdensome melodrama, perhaps IN
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Current Attractions

Garnett. The cast includes Rod La
ROGUE, Gibson Gogland, Leni Riefen-
stahl, the German star. Maj. Ernst
Duet; Knud Rasmussen. Walter Riml,
Gustav Lantschner and Sepp Rist as
we'll as Eskimo polar bears, seals and
icebergs and glaciers. A year in Green
land was required for the making Of
IS o. S. Iceberg" year Of peril and
frozen feet, and the story OF the film
is founded upon the Wegener expedi-
ton that was lost in the polar wastes
some years since. Tom Read wrote
the dramatic continuity.
4 LICE BRADY. in stage Mother" Is
"A currently being featured at Loew's
Palace Theater.
An exceptionally strong cast has
been assembled to appear with Miss
Brady. Maureen O'Sullivan plays the
young daughter struggling for stage
fame under her mothers guidance.
Franchot Tone is seen as her young
lover, and Phillips Holmes attempts
his most mature role, that Of titled
nobleman who wins the affection of
Miss O'Sullivan. Ted Healy, madcap
"stooge" celebrity of Broadway. is also
in the cast. as are Russell Hardy, C..
Henry Gordon, Alan Edwards and Ben
Alexander. A Laurel and Hardy
comedy is also on the bill.
Evening star., 1933-10-01
Hollywood Turns Toward
Personalities of History
Napoleon >and Marie Antionette Find Greatest
Favor Among the Players Selection OF Alice.
Miss Brady's Bad Luck With Screen Roles.
Bv E. de S. Melcher.

n BIOGRAPHY joy. Books persons and
sonaties crep every hamlet dplacing
except Anthony Adverse novels and travel
- the have Succumbed to the
the and player Hollywood anxious
either
Is being Tapped by the mutitudeS.
ZWeig Marie Antionette"
responsible deal this
tay dressing table the West Coast Gancing
through browsing feminine uminary imagined
herself prisons eventually having
the beautiful foolish
whispered than held
{o ptv,
Evening star., 1933-10-01

spired by, though not based upon, the
life Of the mysterious Wendell sisters,
in their grim barracks in Fifth avenue
at Thirty ninth street. 1t is the inten-
tion Of the play to present a lady
Lucifer. the icy and malevolent Miss
Victoria Van Bret, in alarming and in
credible manifestations of all the wicked
sisterhoOd from the third witch on
ward. A galaxy Of vices has congress
In her heart-she is a miser, a mis-
chief-maker and a murderess. When
her young kinsman marries his pretty
trained nurse, she lures the bride into
the family vault, locks the double doors
on her and leaves her dying there, until
just before the final curtain drops.
Even after that she tries to snare her
sweet and timid sister into the dungeon,
SO intent is she upon terrors. When,
think, a play is as frankly bent on
horror as Double Door" is, little Of
the despised ingenuity and thickness
Of the theater is not only permissible
but necessary. But there Is nothing
adroit In the crude operations Of
Double Door," rough, rich and un-
finished botch. attractive to the ground
nngs, but not to me and you. By the
way, there have been 81 Elizabeth NC
Faddens in my ancestry since 1740, and
If the author of Double Door, happens
to be another remote cousin, she will
appreciate my slight objections to her
drama at the Ritz.
D USSELL GROUSE and Corey Ford.
~ who are distinguished for their
feats of literary wit and humor. come to
grips with musical comedy in Joe Cooks
Hold Your Horses" and find 1t Stub
born adversary. AS the librettists Of
that large and many -colored spectacle.
they droop in their efforts. and SO the
book" Of the play is but another sur
render to the decayed traditions Of the
Broadway song shows.
Evening star., 1933-02-27
WOMAN DEMOCRATS
TO MEET THURSDAY
National and State Leaders to Be
Luncheon Guests Of La
vinia Engle.

Woman leaders of the national and
State Democratic organizations who
took active parts in the campaign last
Fall will be guests at a luncheon in
honor of Miss Mary Dewson, chairman
of the woman's division of the Demo-
cratic Campaign Committee here on
Thursday. The luncheon is to be given
by Lavinia Engle of Maryland, direc-
tor of the Woman Speakers Bureau of
the committee, and Emily Newell Blair
of Missouri, former vice chairman of
the Democratic National Committee
and director of the division of Demo-
cratic Woman's Clubs during the last
campaign.
Miss Dewson was chairman of the
pre-convention Roosevelt organization
and organized and directed the cam
Of the largest woman's vote received
by any candidate for the presidency
since suffrage was extended to women.
Among the guests at the luncheon
will be Frances Perkins, who is to be
the first woman to hold a cabinet post
former Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross, vice
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee; Senator Hattie Caraway,
Representative Mary It. Norton, the
two newly-elected Representatives,
Kathryn OLoughlin and Virginia
Jenckes, two retiring Representatives,
Ruth Bryan Owen and Efiegene
Wingo; Miss Mary Anderson. head of
the Woman,S Bureau, Department of
Labor; Miss Grace Abbott, director of
the Children'S Bureau; national COM
mitteewomen. State vice chairmen and
other woman Democratic leaders.