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Evening star., 1934-11-11

Crawford Splivalo, Will Rogers.
Stuart Chase and the late James
Rolph. jr. one each.
Fifty girls said they were in favor
of the New Deal, Is expressed dis
trust of it. one cracked 1t needs
another shuttle one said she didn't
understand it and the rest left blank
the space after the question.
Mae West got 50 votes as "favorite
actress" Greta Garbo. 40; Marlene
Dietrich. 18; Katherine Hepburn, 10;
Sylvia Sidney. 9; Janet Gaynor. 5;
Miriam Hopkins. A. Lynn Fontaine,
2, and one girl voted for herself. The
"favorite actor" poll showed:
George Arliss, 80; Charles Laugh
ton. %; Mickey Mouse, 3d. Bing
Crosby, IT; Gary Cooper, Is; John
Barrymore. 10; Frederic March, 6:
Clark Gable, Paul MUM and Popeye
the Sailor, 5 each; Sir Guy Standing,
William Powell, Francis Lederer,
w. C. Fields and Baby LIE Roy, l each.
Thirty-six girls said their ambi-
ticns are to become famous actresses,
% to become financially independent,
Is to become noted dancers and IL
to be happily married. OF the latter
group only said they wanted chill
dren. The rest left the spaces blank.
An average struck from answers
to other questions showed that the
Hollywood chlorine spends nearly half
her salary for dress and about one
ninth for cosmetics. saving, roughly,
Sc a month. Eighteen of the girls
said they had dependents-mothers
fathers, brothers or husbands.
At the bottom of the college
Rhythm" QUESTIONABLE blank one
girl wrote: Il think these questions
are innertinent
Evening star., 1934-11-11

" said about chorus girls. but
~ chiefly from the physical
4 a aspects. Paramount, during
few spare moments in the
production Of College Rhythm" re-
Gently, decided TO sound them out
mentally. So it went to the trouble
of asking some $50 girlies who sur
round Joe Penner in several sequences
in this new picture. to list their
'favorite public figures
Only one of the gals voted for Al
Capone. The greatest number cast
evenly for Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
velt and Mae West, each rating 10
ballots.
Other tabulations showed: Ad-
miral Byrd, 20 votes; Al Smith, 49,
Herbert Hoover, Is: Max Baer, IL;
Bing Crosby, 9; George Washington,
8; Helen Keller, 5; Joe Penner and
Clark Gable, 4 EACH Abraham Lin
coin, 3, and Eugene ONeill. Dorothy
Parker, Mahatma Gandhi, Greta
Garbo, Betsy Ross, Paul Won Hinden-
burg, the -Four Marx Brothers, Jimmy
Walker, Helen Wills Moody, Calvin
Coolidge and Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins, 2 apiece
Single votes also were cast for
Samuel insult. Albert Einstein, Huey
Long, Carter Glass. Mrs Anne Lind
bergh, George Arliss, Upton Sinclair,
Kathleen Norris, the Mayo brothers,
Ella Boole and Carrie Chapman Gait.
Sixty of the girls-by far the ma
jority-named Sinclair as their fa-
vorite candidate for Governor of Cali
fornia. Frank Merriam got 81 votes,
Raymond L. Haight, IS; Fiorello La
Guardia, 3; George Creel, 2, and
c. c. Young, Ma" Ferguson, Rheba
Evening star., 1934-11-11

Dillon. Their moderator is the Rev.
Father Dacy, pastor of st. Paul's
parish.
Anton Hardt. director of the melo-
drama company of the Roadside The
ater, has been appointed to direct
The Torch Bearers first play of
the season of Cue and Curtain. dra-
matte organization of the George
Washington University.
The Mount Pleasant Players. dra-
matte unit of Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church, will open their
regular season with a two-night en-
gagement in Fishburn Hall, Thursday
and Friday evenings, when they will
present "Skidding," a three-act COM
edy by Aurania Bouverole. The pro-
duction is under the direction of Miss
Wilda Kilbourn, with the following
cast: Marion Rose, Phoebe Steffev,
Frances Brunt. Helena Cook, Marjorie
Russell, Hugh Wingard, William Rus
sell, Henry Haviland. Frederick v.
Rand and Eldred Wilson.
The play that started Washington's
own Helen Hayes on her dramatic
career is being presented again this
month by Minnie Hawke, in whose
annual May ball young Helen Hayes
Brown was the star pupil when Lew
Fields saw her. The play is Jack,
the Giant Killer" and it will be given
Saturday afternoon, November "a, at
Wardman Park Theater.
THE Road to Yesterday" a romantic
comedy by Beulah Marie Dix and
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, is being
rehearsed by Techs Dramatic Club
for its Fall play. to be presented in
the school auditorium, Second and T
streets northeast, November % and "a
at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1934-11-11
Pictures of the Week
Screen Attractions and Vaudeville Programs
at Downtown Theaters.

WILL ROGERS, in Judge Priest"
is now enjoying his third week
on q downtown screen at Loew's Co.
lumbia Theater. The film is an in
sratiating version of Irwin S. Cobb's
celebrated character of an old Ken
lucky judge and his colorful Civil
War cronies. Tom Brown, Anita
Louise, Rochelle Hudson, Henry B.
Walthall, David Landau, Stepin
Fetchit, Frank Melton and Rogers
Imhof have the leading roles.
"THE MERRY WIDOW" is now en-
= tering its second week at Loew's
Palace Theater. Vienna's melodies,
the laguhter of gay Paree, and the
dreamy romance that only the old
world knows are blended into this ro-
nance that required Is months to
produce and an expenditure of close
to $2,000,000. Maurice Chevalier
and Jeannette Macdonald have never
been better than in their present
mirthful and romantic roles. To-
gether they sing many famous Lehar
hits. Laughter is provided by Una
Merkel and George Barber as the
king and queen and Edward Ever
EFT Horton as the ambassador. The
cast also includes Sterling Holloway,
Ruth Claiming, Donald Meek, Her
man Bing, Minna Gombell and
others.
" 4 GRAND and glorious" burlesque
production comes to town this
week at the Gayety Theater, starting
with the regular Sunday matinee
today. Under the title, "Cuddling
Cuties," the show comes heralded as
the prize production Of the Inde-
pendent Burlesque Association.
Headed by Al Hitler, favorite Dutch
comedian, and Joe Forte, straight
man, an old Columbia Wheel team
of the past, the cast includes: Con-
chita, Rom Fairclough, John De Arco
and Belle Regas, Freddie Walker,
George Murray, Dolly Hendrix, Three
La Mar Brothers and sixteen talented
chorines. AS an extra added attrac-
tion. Betty Duval, the auburn haired
siren Of "zipland," will appear.
Evening star., 1934-11-11

The story of "Ah, Wilderness!" as is
well known by this time, goes back to
the merry month of July In 1906 when
the 4th of July meant more than the
shooting Of fireworks. A picnic, q ro-
nance, a jag and a heart-to heart
talk between father and son are also
thrown in. 1t is truly a comedy with
enough satisfying drama to keep Mr.
O'Neill In practice.
Mr.. Cohan himself plays the role OF
the father. an understanding. humor-
Gus and kindly character, while Elisha
Cook, jr. has the role of the bewil-
dered boy, torn between respectability
and the problem of adolescence. 9th
ers prominent in the large cast are
Jean Adair, Ruth Holden, Joseph AL
len, Catherine Proctor, Don Shelton,
Edith Emerson, Freddy Strange, Jack
Byrne, Ruth Gilbert, John Butler and
Ruth Chorpenning.
Philip Moeller directed the piece,
while Robert Edmond Jones designed
the settings. 80
Evening star., 1934-11-11
Local Players.
The Arts Club Players are present

THE Arts Club Players are present
ing a special program of one-act
plays on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings of this week, and
Harold Allen Long, dramatic chair
man. announces that the number OF
guests invited to any performance
will not be subject to the customary
limitation. The completed casts of
the plays are as follows: Ashes of
Roses" by Constance Darcy Mackay;
Belle Howell Bohn, James Otis Porter
Jean Sellers and Adele Carson. The
Fixer," by Francis D. Smith; Heller
Ault, Mrs. Fulton Lewis. Manning
Cash, Carl Bradley and M. Forney
Reese Before Breakfast" by Eu-
gene O'Neill; Bill Turner and Lucy
Smith. Hester Walker Beall. well
known for her local dramatic as well
as radio work, will direct the last
and will also give the playlet, Voices, u
by Flexner.
The production of THE Passing
of the Third Floor Back" by the
Blackfriars' Guild Of Washington at
st. Pauls auditorium. Fifteenth ami
V streets northwest, on Monday and
Tuesday, November 10 and 20, will
present several new faces to the
guilds following and several others
familiar by virtue of notable perform
ances in past presentations of the
guild.
The selection of Nell Orton for the
important role of Vivian in the Jerome
vehicle brings back to the Black
friars boards after several months
absence the young lady whose por-
trayal OF Margheurita in the guilds
masterpiece, Catherine. the Valiant
will long be remembered in Washing
ton. Edith Fitzgerald. Jack Hurley
Julian Zier, John Victory and E
Francis McDevitt are also promi-
nently cast.
"The Black Flamingo," Sam jan
ney's play of the French revolution
has been placed in rehearsal by the
Montgomery Players.
For the presentation of the play al
the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School on December IA and Is j. A
Bishop has selected cast which in
cludes Doris Davidson, Doris Dewey
Day, Edward Soper, Russell Nichol-
son, William j. MacIntyre, j. Mahlor
Selby, Elizabeth Moore, Martha Will
liams, Ralph S. Fowler, Clarence L
Click and Harold S. Norton. Mr.
Fowler has designed and is building
the set.
The st. Paul Players will present as
their first Offering of the season the
comedy, Take My Advice" by Elliot
Lester, on November 26 and 81, Mon.
day and Tuesday in ST. Paul's audi
torium at Fifteenth and v streets. The
cast includes Richard Finnan, Arthur
Harvey, Adah Mae Brady, Martin
Meenehan. Charlotte Knott. Lee
Brady, John Meenehan and Eleanor
Freund.
The group, a part of st. Paul's
Alumnae, is being directed by Edward
Evening star., 1934-11-11

The especial altitude of the current
revival is, of course, the Eaglet's scene
with Matternich where the willy chan
cellor (Charles Waldron) shows him
in a mirror the ghosts Of his lunatic
ancestors on his mothers side. Royal
German and Spanish venom has been
dormant in his blood for ages, Met
ternich tells him, and that he hasn't
a chance to be anything but flaccid
tool of European politics. Although
he is the spawn Of Bonaparte, he is
more than that-a Weakling HapSburg
with wrists too feeble to hold scepter.
In an outburst of Teutonic and Cor
sican hysteria Miss LIE Gallienne
plunges a bayonet into the looking
glass and cries Help! Help, my
father!" But the dead Napoleon does
not answer, leaving his little King of
Rome Illustrate and delirious in the
hands of an enemy as the second-act
curtain drops with snowy deliberation.
Miss lie Gallienne gives her L'Aiglon
the gloomy brow, the narrow chest, the
cough, the pallid face and the melan-
choly Hamlet introspection that are
his heritage. He and she are naughty,
sorroWful and charming dreamy
temporizer who, when opportunity
summons him. hesitates and is lost.
Dramas of the magnitude of "L'Aig-
Ion" might be better were they to be
presented by the cinema, with its un-
limited resources of space and picture.
If Hollywood were to do ''L'Aiglon,"
MetternichS ball, for instance, would
not be the awkward mess of super
numeraries that it is at the Broad
hurst, but a credible party of cele-
brants engaged in an attempt to over
throw French throne. Wagram's
field would not be just heap Of spuri-
Gus canvas, barren of illusion. but
wide and extensive shambles peopled
by the Wraiths that the pacific
Eaglets fancy has summoned from
their graves. Do you think it would
be practicable for the cinema and
the stage to get together in the
performance of such plays as L'Aig-
lon? For momus TO say to the cam
era This large scene is little too
much for me- take it over and see
what you can do with it. Let's get to-
gether as music and the drama do in
the grand and comic operas, blending
one art with another. An alienation
of photograph and personal appear
ance might be what the theater needs
to keep it alive and kicking. Your
Bourbon answer. I am sure, will be
NO" Meantime. 1 have reluc-
tantly to say that 'L'Aiglon" at the
Broadhurst is what used to be known
Evening star., 1934-11-11

Miss lie GalllenneS group, having
weathered the slings and arrows, of
several outrageous fortunes and come
to the top more frequently than not
would, of course, be the most valued
here. Inasmuch as she knows all
there is to know about production, as
well as about the acting of a play,
she IS eminently suited to a task in
which she has both prospered and
pioneered. But if Broadway continues
to find favor in her sight if the per-
formances of "L'Aiglon" and more
modern plays thrive under her tutelage,
and she has not the will to desert
Manhattan for these s-populated
shores, then there still must be some
one who could replace her
After all, there are great many
people these days who sigh when they
come to Washington and find that not
only has it but one legitimate theater.
but that the one Is frequently none
Many intelligent people, making their
new home in Washington, feel that
they are being sighted by the theater,
and wonder why city should present
such a ghostly theatric front. If there
is one other capital in the world which
presents such meager theatric offer
mgs, then we should like to know
where it Is.
Just as local citizens rose up in
wrath q few years ago at the prospect
of continuing here without a symphony
Of its own choosing, and in a jiffy had
not only scared up an orchestra, but a
pretty good orchestra at that-so
should local citizens rise up in wrath
today and gather onto themselves
something permanent in the way Of a
theater. Without it, the public is
losing a recreational stimulus that
Shakespeare first undertook way back
in 1894, and which has done more to
both educate and relax large quantities
OF human beings than almost any
other medium.
* X X
ONE OF the genuine theater events
~ of the season is George NJ Cohan's
arrival in town tomorrow in "Ah,
Wilderness" We have seen both Mr.
Cohan and Will Rogers undertake the
leading role in this frankly auto
biographical Eugene O'Neill comedy,
and while Mr.. Rogers was eminently
suited to the role and played it as
well as you knew he would, there is
really nobody in the world who can
replace Mr.. Cohan Many arguments
have arisen as to who should be the
more grateful, Mr.. Cohan for having
been asked by the Theater Guild to
play this role or Mr.. O'Neill for hav-
ing been able to get Mr.. Cohan to
play this role. Mr.. ONeill. in this
case, gets the decision-since Cohan
puts more life into his script than
perhaps even he realized was there.
Elisha Cook, jr., is amazingly good,
too.
X X X
4 LAST-MINUTE word for What
"A Every Woman Knows"-a happy
screen duplicate Of one of Barrie's
better plays. The work of both Helen
Hayes and Brian Aherne should be
the answer to any maiden's prayer.
Evening star., 1934-11-11

as a vehicle" carrying Miss LIE Gal
lienne and Miss Barrymore (who is
beautiful and knowing as Marie
Louise) to the heights and plateaus of
histrionism All the rest of it Is
stagily false, with the possible excep-
tion Of Hugh Buckler's tuba perform
ance of Coquelin's Flambeau and the
faith of its producers, the game CO.
partnership of Messrs. Selwyn and
Franklin.
A s SEEN through these binoculars,
Ladies Money" presented at
Miss Barrymore's playhouse, is quite
the best of the George Abbott series,
not excepting Broadway" That. I
know, is a considerable compliment,
and strategy of the theater, and usu-
ally knows what to do and how to
do it. His products are often more
than exhibitions, since in them you
may find both character and action,
initiated with q vigilant regard for
illusion. Ladies' Money" has all of
the sagacious Abbott touches, and it
is violent. humorous, velvety and, in
It's way, studious.
A DMIRERS of Mr. Edmonds' novel,
Rome Haul" need not be fear
ful that it is wronged in its conver-
sion from a book into a play. Frank
Elser and Marc Connolly have done
we'll by it in The Farmer Takes q
Wife" having remodeled 1t to flt the
smaller spaces Of the stage without
manning it in any way. In fact. the
new drama at the Forty-siXth Street
Is an improvement on the long and
overatmoSpheric story which is its
base, and it is therefore one Of those
welcome phenomena that OCCASION
ally startle the cynical theatergoer.
Its modest authors say that The
Farmer Takes q Wife" is an attempt
to recapture some of the simple ex-
citements of the people of a vanished
epoch. the pioneer boatmen of the
Erie Canal.
The play carries one back to 1853,
when the banks and waters of the
Grand Canawl" swarmed with rough
and ready gondoliers delivering the
products of farm and factory to the
region between Albany and Buffalo.
The turgid stream is as picturesque
as Mark Twain's Mississippi and
much less melodramatic. Around and
about it are prowlers, bullies, fancy
ladies, hero and heroine and men
and women with oaken hearts, golden
souls and amusing habits, both good
and bad.
Evening star., 1934-11-11
March in Les Miserables.'

With both "The Call of the Wild"
and LES Miserables" scheduled
to go before the cameras at the Twen-
tieth Century Studios next month,
Daryl Zanuck announces two impor-
tant casting revisions Frederic March,
who had been scheduled to play the
stellar role in the Jack London classic,
has been assigned the part of Jean
Vatican in the Victor Hugo story.
Clark Gable. who was to star in 1T
Had to Happen" on a loan arrange
ment with Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer, will
instead be starred in The Call of
the Wild"
Evening star., 1934-11-11
Y ELEM HAYES is currently ap-
i pearing on the screen in one
Of her greatest stage sue

r HELEN HAYES is currently ap-
pearing on the screen in one
Of her greatest stage sue
L Il cesses, What Every Woman
Knows" and the stage show
il headed by Duke Ellington, Har-
LENS aristocrat of jazz, and his
famous orchestra.
Helen Hayes, tenderly charming
and possessing all Of her dramatic
fire, recreates the beloved role Of
Maggie Wylie, who entered into q
strange wedding contract and then
used all Of her womanly wiles to hold
her husband. In this same role of
Sir James Barrie's whimsical ro-
nance Miss Hayes gained her most
notable stage triumph.
Brian Ahsarne plays the romantic
lead opposite Miss Hayes and Dudley
Digges, Madge Evans, David Tor
renee, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephen
son, Lucille Watson and others are
cast in supporting roles. Gregory
La cava directed.
"CENTLEMN ARE BORN" the
FIRST national picture, Is now
at Warner Bros Earle Theater. The
film presents an all-star cast of the
screens most popular young players.
Franchot Tone, Ross Alexander,
Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Jean
Muir, Robert Light. Nick Foran and
Henry O'Neill all appear prominently.
Graduating with hopes high and
equally high ideals, the four young
college men in this story discover
that their struggles have just begun
and that the world outside presents
4 stern aspect. How they meet the
difficulties Of life away from the class
room provides an interesting drama.
Buddy Rogers, screen, stage and
radio idol, offers rhythmic entertain.
ment, songs and comedy in his Earle
stage presentation, featuring the CAL
1fornia Cavaliers Jeannie Lang
heads the group of stars who appear
with him. Others introduced in
clude the Rhythm Rascals, Jack
"Screwy" Douglas and Emily van
Loosen.
Evening star., 1934-11-11
Mady Gets Contract.

MADY CHRISTIANS, European
screen star who recently came to
this country to make wicked Wo-
man" for Metro Goldwyn- Mayer, has
signed long term contract with this
company. Culver City executives are
reported to be enthusiastic about her
first American picture and are now
looking for second vehicle.
Evening star., 1934-11-11

TnAL impetus 10 DC tnlS. Make IL
possible for Miss LIE Gallienne to
establish her Civic Repertory Theater
In Washington.
The dark and available legitimate
theater Is here. That the audience
exists is evident everywhere. That the
audience is the right kind for the
Repertory group Miss lie Gallienne has
sponsored is evidenced by the fact that
all the cheap seats at our plays go
like the proverbial hot cakes. (For-
merly any opening night was cinch-
at Sis one could mount leisurely into
4 gallery but one third filled) Stran-
gers from dramaless cities are eager
to see things nor will their thousands
be reduced in . hurry.
''Finally-and what is controllingly
important-there are In Washington
men and women of wealth who If ap-
preached properly would be glad to
give the thousands necessary to guar
antee the success Of q venture which
is not self-supporting, due to the low
admission costs and the high costs OF
artists and union labor. These men
and women should welcome the chance
Of being some day mentioned as the
pioneers Of . real national theater.
For a national theater could con-
eeivably be brought many steps
nearer by the intreachment OF a
fundamentally worthwhile group
such as that of Miss lie Gsllienne.
Finally. and perhaps this is not
the least of the advantages that oc-
<alr tn roe the moment Washing
tons many amateur actors and
actresses could have while still young
and not disillusioned a chance to play
bits and gain a foothold in = pre-
Carious but most satisfying occupa-
ton.
Let's bring the Civic Repertory
Theater here!" DRAMA LOVER"
OUT of the blue came this sugges-
~ ton day before yesterday, scat
tering most of the other drama news
to the four winds. The Civic Reper-
tory Theater here! Well, why not?
Now that Washington is pleased to
call a symphony its own; now that
music, formerly q dying art, has risen
up on its feet and become an integral
part Of the city's life, it seems fitting
to include as q further stimulus to
right living a drama organization
which shall not only be good-but
the best Of its kind. If New York
feels that it cannot afford to keep
such . luxury" under its wing, that
does not necessarily prove that some
other center could not take it up.
1t is time, indeed, that the theater
became permanently endowed in
Warrington. The drifting in and out
Of occasional plays only tends to dis
turb the honest theater.soer who hopes
that his weekly entertainment will
be . constant and q worthwhile guam
tity. While it is essential that We
get glimpses of what is both going
in and coming out Of Broadway, there
is no reason to suppose that something
more stationary could not be evolved
and that 52-week-a-year company
would not prosper.
Evening star., 1934-11-11
Next Weeks Films.
VETTI GALLIAN, a new screen per-

sonality, promises to give Wash
ingtonians something to talk about
with her performance in Marie Ga
lante." tempestuous love story that
Loew's Fox will present the week OF
Friday, November Is. On the stage
Phil Baker. comedy star of stage and
radio, with his merry quipS and vaunt-
ed accordion, will lead large array
of talent in his own revue.
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
and her brood" come to life again
on the screen of Loew's Palace Thea
ter on Friday. November l6. Pauline
Lord, noted stage star: w. C. Fields,
Zazu Pitts, Evalyn Venable and Kent
Taylor are the principals in this story
that is deemed one of the most human
the world has ever known.
Great Expectations" comes to the
R-K-O Keith screen as that thea
ter's next attraction. The Charles
Dickens novel has a cast that includes
Henry Hull, Phillip Holmes, Jane
Wyatt. Florence Reed and Allan Hale
Three Hundred Sixty-five Nights
in Hollywood" written by Jimmy
Starr and offering a down earth
story of the film capital and the ad-
ventures of its underdogs, is the at
traction that begins a weeks engage
ment at Loew's Columbia Theater
next Friday. James Dunn and Alice
Faye head a talented cast that in
cludes the comic Mitchell and Durant,
John Bradford, Frank Melton and
others.
Fred Waring and his Pennsyl-
vanians, favorite Washington enter
tainers, who are nationally famous
through their radio broadcasts and
their many stage appearances, come
to the stage at Warner Bros. Earle
Theater on Friday, November 16, for
special engagement. On the screen,
Barbara Stanwyck will be seen in the