Evening star., 1934-04-11

GQe LIE Gdlllenne COIupdIly III
: Summer and there beSport hers
along with such other local ia
Davis, Maxine Doyle, AL Jolson
So far as is known, this is Miss
Hutchinson's first screen assignment.
It will not, however, interfere with
her stage work, since arrangements
have been made whereby she can play
on Broadway in the Winter and. if
things work out well on the coast,
devote her Summers to the talk1e
muse. No announcement is forthcom-
ing as to what type of role Miss
Hutchinson will play. Since, however,
she made her name in such works as
"Peter Pan" THE Cherry Orchard"
and such like, it is to be presumed that
she will be cast in stories such as
Gambling Lady," The Sin of Nora
Moran" or Convention City,"
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THERE is good deal of interest at
tached to the forthcoming
Theater Guild production of Jig Saw"
This is due not only to Ernest Truck
and Spring Byington, as also to visit
ing Cabots, who will want to see how
cousin Elliot behaves in the play, but
because, ever since Authoress Dawn
Powell wrote that novel called "She
Walks in Beauty" she has been pop
ular both on and off the book stands.
Miss Powell is a busy writer and
while she rates higher as novelist
than she does momentarily as a play
wright, she has at least one play to
her credit, big Night" which the
Group Theater produced last season.
Not much is known of the plot of her
new comedy save that it has to do
with society" people who live in a
fashionable hotel in New York. The
cast is one of those Guild affairs
which would be difficult to improve
including as it does not only Truck,
Westley (back from Hollywood, Cora
Witherspoon, fine actress; Gertrude
Flynn, seen here recently with Ina
Claire in Biography" and possibly
Sheperd Strudwick, who tried so hard.
but was so obviously miscast in the
same play.
TWO plays which we think the
= Belasco will have to be very
careful about in the near future are
"The Green Bay Tree" and the above
mentioned "Biography'-the latter be-
cause Miss Claire did it to perfection
only day or so ago at the National,
and the Jed Harris success because,
without silk glove treatment, we can
imagine that it may not sit well on
many.
T ENORE ULRIC is coming to town.
- This time not in Her Man Of
Wax" or on the stage of Loew's Fox
as the cinema moguls at one time
announced with a flourish. But-as
simple little maid in red-hot melo-
drama. The kind, according to Man
ager White, she is really good in. Miss
Uric is coming to the Belasco, in
other words, in 1884 Tiger Rose
more of tiger, however, than rose.
THE three fattest roles in current
= dramaturgy, those of Capt. STAN
hope, Raleigh and Osborne in Jour
neys End" have been allotted to Ac-
tors Leonard Stevens, Walter Pick and
Harold Stepler of the G. w. Cue and
Curtain Club. which will present this
play at the Wardman Park Theater
on April 26 and q.
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DE WARNED. don't ever confuse
- the Columbia Players with the
Pierce Hall Players, or the Pierce
Hall Players with the Columbia Play
ers, or the leading man Of one with
the leading man of the other. Yes
terday was Waterloo day for this de-
partment! A frightful oversight,
launched Actor-director Paul Alex
ander of the Pierce Hall Players into
the very teeth of the Columbians-
and not only that, but straight into
the lap of 1.-THE FIRST Mrs. Fraser"
Mr.. Alexander is that young and per-
sonable actor, last seen in outward
Bound" who has the lead in ITO
Have the Honor"-which the Pierce
Hallites for some reason Or other
ara producing on April 25 and 26