Evening star., 1933-09-25


and don't forget your mo
news in this city has to do with t
group which in the past has had
This season, however, the Am
at the head of the class. Before
It Will have presented two out of
The third one would have appear
and her "Trip to PreSburg" hadl
Lenore Uric and Helen Hayes, tw'
peratureS, who will appear in pla
being good.
Miss Uric will play a role far re-
moved from the goo-goo-eye maneu-
~erings of Tiger Rose" and Lulu
Belle" in Her Man of Wax"-a saga
of Napoleonic MEETINGS. in which the
star appears as a cinema star doubling
for josephine cat least that's what we
are told. And Miss Hayes, long a
Barrie heroine, as also Mr.. Coopers
favorite partner in Farewell to Arms" )"
to do Mary of Scotland" written by
last seasons Pulitzer prize playwright.
Maxwell Anderson-the play, lest you
forget. being Both Your Houses"
which had a great deal to do with
Washington.
There is, too, more than a vague
rumor that we will get Eugene O'Neill's
"Ah Wilderness with George M
Cohan, and that later in the day Ina
Claire in Biography" will be with us
The latter is certain.
In the meantime, don't forget Nance
O'Neill'S Criminal at Large" which
opens at the National tonight. This is
the play which occupied the Belaso
(Manhattan) last season, and did
wolloping business all through what is
known to have been the worlds sorriest
theater year.
SHTHROUGH your unfamiliarity with
big-city types" says a Mr..
"Legion" in the morning MAIL you
have. in my opinion, done an injustice
to Warren William in your recent re-
view" Mr.. Legion" should probably
have said reviews" inasmuch as Mr..
William, in this departments opinion,
has not given a grade-A performance
for long, long time. We saw him
when he was here last season. We saw
him recently in Hollywood And we
have never yet seen him move an inch
either in face or in figure more than
he had to. We mean by that, that
while he is a smooth actor, We believe
him also to be a lazy one While he
was not at all poor in Goodbye Again."
If he had only reused himself to bit
more of a pitch, he might have hit the
skies AS to "unfamiliarity with big
city types" we'll, We suppose being
Graded and what not in New York is
just getting familiar with small-town
folks these days.
CLIFFORD BROOKE is feeling well
~ these days. Although he hasn't
admitted this, we have imagined him
sitting up in his hotel room beaming
with Brookian pride. This is due not
only to the fact that he recently
launched Miss Corinne Griffith on what
may or may not be successful theatric
career, and has acted in and directed
all three of the revival pieces at the
National, but that he has fashioned
two of the suddenly successful Holly
wood gentry into the state Of being
in which they now find themselves
While an efferveScent writer gives all
the credit of Donald Woods entrance
into Hollywood to Glitch Gardens, Den
yer. it should be recalled that Mr.
Woods was there only this Summer
and that prior to that he was leading
seasons under the directorial wand of
Mr.. Brooke. Further than that, Mr..
Brooke took Miss Maxine Doyle, a
girl who never said more than Thank
you" on the Earle stage without blush
ing and proved to himself and others
that given the proper length rope
she could do anything but hang her
self So, with Miss Doyle dancing all
over the Paramount lot, and Mr.. Woods
attending to Miss Chatterton in his
first cinema role, Mr. Brooke may well
feel close to Hollywood. And, you
know, he got a wire recently from
Norma Shearer saying that she wished
he would come out there.
Whoa-Brookie!
WE were wrong about jeanette Mac
w Donald. She has not as yet been |
sewed up TO rthe role of THE Merry |
Widow" The choice seems to lie be- |
tween Joan Crawford, Grace Moore and
Miss Macdonald Which would you
prefer? After seeing May Robson in |
Lady for a Day" we think she could |
probably play it better than any OF
them.
AT o'clock this morning Lionel
"A Atwill appeared on the "lot" ready
to play opposite the much-touted Anna
Sten in Mana" Mr.. GoldWyn has had
a flstful of trouble with his Russian
lady actress. In the words OF Lynn
Farnol, who writes us direct from the
studios and who Is Mr.. Goldwyn's ace
publicity henchman, hell has been
popping with Anna Stem and F1tz-
maurice In Mana The whole thing |
gets q fresh start with Dorothy Arzner
as director Our elder statesmen are
very hopeful" Curleyheaded Phillips
Holmes is apparently still in the cast.
X X y
MR.. PHIL SPITALNY, famed for his
A~1 parties as well as for his music,
will give 300 local restaurant and
grocery proprietors fiesta this eve.
Which is true-that "Jezebef has
temporarily folded up on account Of La
Bankhead's sickness, or that La Bank !
WIJERE To DINE