Evening star., 1934-05-25

assignment. The extremely
Il ented and the extremely TO
did one of those miracle clicks
pleted her role in Little Man
undergoing a sort of Hepburn
the public will think of her.
Evidence that the Universal Pic
lures Corporation is excited over its
star and her new film is clinched by
a letter from Albert S. Nathan, which
arrives somewhat breathlessly in the
morning mail. Says Mr.. Nathan:
Dear Mr.. Melcher: The newspaper
man dreams of making the perfect
newspaper. The playwright dreams OF
the perfect drama. The musician
dreams of the perfect opera. Frank
Borzage dreams of-and creates-the
perfect motion picture. Perfect as
nearly as human limitations will per-
nit. The screen offering, produced
by Universal, Is the much discussed
Little Man, What Now?' based on
HanaS Fallada's novel. The star Is
Margaret SULLIVAN, who stirred the
movie public SO deeply in Only Yes
terday.' Within a short time this
picture will be playing at the leading
theaters in every key city of the
United States The cast includes
Douglas Montgomery, playing opposite
Miss SULLIVAN; Hedda Hopper, Alan
Hale, Fred Kohler, Mae Marsh, George
Meeker and Bodil Rosing 40
Well, it will have to be very good to
be 1.-The perfect motion picture" At
the moment We should say that ''The
House of Rothschild' is at the head of
this league.
X x x X
COPHIE TUCKER continues to con-
fide in us that she sang before the
King and Queen of England. YeSter-
day comes the third envelope in a
week from GroSvenor House, Lon
don, containing IA clippings, saying
that the Red Hot Mamma vowed
them" and Suchlike. That makes
now over 40 small and big articles
sent us and dedicated to advertising
the tremendous hit that Miss Tucker
made before royalty. We wait with
bated breath for next weeks fourth
envelope from Grosvenor House, Lon
don, England, saying that the Red
Hot Mamma went over big in Lon
don" We can, of course, understand
that.
"HEN Frances Fuller set out for !
Hollywood this Spring she con-
fessed that she was not going to play |
any old role on the screen, but that |
she would wait for something that |
seemed suitable to her particular tai
~ t,in fI1ot
she might not work at all if they tried |
to hustle her into some barnyard story |
which lacked grace and conviction. |
Evidently Hollywood has been quick to
size up what she wants and to give
her the role for which she has been
waiting. The name of the film is
Ladies First" 1t was written by .
George S. Kaufman and Marc Con-
nelly, and IN it Miss Fuller will play .
opposite the brash George Bancroft. |
The last is little disconcerting, but |
the story part sounds fine. Too bad .
they couldn't find something to put
Miss Fuller and Gary Cooper back to-
gether again.
YESTERDAY one of those heavily
embossed Hollywood airmail let
tiers arrived on our desk. Opening
it, all we found in it was: "Melcher
what the" signed Doyle"
The last suggests that it comes from
the orchidaceous Miss Maxine Doyle,
who will star for Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer in Student Tour" in the near
future. But the first part defeats
nc ho
done?"
THE second, or was it the first,
well anyway one of the two Sum-
mer theater companies which will
soon go into action Cthis is the one
that isn't BARN has now been Off
cially named the Chevy Chase
Theater." 1t will be located two
blocks beyond the Chevy Chase Club
at Mrs. Farrington's Chevy Chase |
School, and it will present as its
first attraction that amusing COM
edy, Queens Gambit," which pros
pered so at the Arts Club this Spring. |
The play will be presented the mid |
die Of June, after a showing (prob- |
ably June 81, in Warrenton, Va.
"Under the Gaslight," for which Artist
Hugo linden has designed some in
teresting sets, will be the second pro-
duction with Ann Ives, Margaret |
Yard, Isham Keith, jr.; M. Forney |
Reese, Eugene Stevens and others
in the cast.
II * X y
IRON Mabel Van Dyke, sage chron-
icler for the Pierce Hall Players: |
ST see by the papers that Maxwell |
Anderson's Both Your Houses has |
been withdrawn by the National Play
ers out of difference to the administra-
ton. We may have a congressional |
investigation after Rhapsody in Blah,' |
but we're going right ahead, with the |
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