Evening star., 1934-06-08
CAPITAL WILL
NOT SUPPORT
STOCK GROUP
Therefore,. Manager
Cochran, Ends the Ma
tionaI Players.
BY z. de S. MELCHER.

IN THE words of one of the play
ers-"Washington has run dry"
II. No more National Players. NO
more plays. Suddenly 1t Is dis
covered that the town will not
support stock company. Tomorrow
night the curtain rings down on
"Sailor Beware!" And that's more
or less that. And with 1t about 10
or II good actors fnd themselves
with nothing to do but twiddle their
fingers. A sad state, when you think
that Getting Gertie's CARTE" pros
pered once In stock for Is weeks at
the Belasco. ......
SO far as Is known, Kathryn Civ
ney Is the only one of the lot who Is
definitely booked ahead. She leaves
Tuesday for Denver with the Glitch
Garden Players. Lucky girl! Wonder
what Addie Hibbard will do? Shes
q swell trouper-and certainly she
doesn't deserve this break. But fact
is fact-Washington no longer will
support a stock company. Granted
that one or two of the plays this
season were not up to scratch. Granted
that one or two Of the leading play
ers SKINNED through their parts.
Granted that the weather was too
hot, or that it was too cold. You
can always find an excuse somewhere.
But the truth is-that washington
has run dry" The drama locally is
as dead as q doornail. Only the
cinema hourishes.
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kxARY PICKFORD and Charles
AVA Chaplin will both make pictures
during the coming year. Announce
ment Of this has been made by United
Artists. It Is said that Mr.. Chaplin
has even gone so far as to order his
sets for his new film, and that Miss
Pickford is hard at work scanning
plays and players.
Wonder what the public will think
Of them after their long, long silence?
And will Mr.. Chaplin speak. or will
he continue his pantomime-and will
Miss Pickford be very young or will
she be herself? It Is time that both
these celebrities buckled down to
action. Too long now they have said
they would appear on the screen and
then have continued to disappear.
X X X r
A ND now Mickey Mouse in his
"A true colors! During the coming
season Walt Disney will dress up Mr..
Mouse as he actually appears "in
person" Mickey will be done entirely
in technicolor In the manner of his
contemporaries, the silly Sym
phonies." There will be nine Of these
Mickey Mouses during the new year.
X r II
WORD comes that The Evening
w Star "is prominently mentioned"
in Operator 49," Operator IS" Is
a Marion Davies Cosmopolitan
Hearst production. Hollywood, rea-
lilng that in the good old Civil War
day The Star was quite prominent in
war affairs, has chosen to present
both history and fiction side by side
in this Marion Davies yarn, which
also features long, lean, angular but
popular Gary Cooper. The nlm
comes to the Fox next week.
pEMEMBER Mary Morris as that
~ terrible old woman who had the
cute habit OF locking up her sister in
vault? Well, after Double Door"
played here at the National, Miss
Morris hied herself to the Coast and
contlnud her splendid work as that
miserable old shrew before the cam
era. Anne Revere Of the original
cast went with her These two, plus
Evelyn Venable and Sir Guy Stand
ing, will appear in Double Door" at
the Metropolitan next week. =
0NA MUNSON will be one Of the
~ East Hampton Players this Sum-
mer. The rumor that she had gone
abroad to appear in Her Masters
Voice" in London is thus shattered.
incidentally, Paramount has given up
dickering with this play. After four
authors failed to get a story out of
it" they decided to call it quits. Not
enough meat for the films. Too bad
we had counted on seeing Mary Bo-
land romp through it with great glee.
ANOTHER actor whom Washington
4 remembers is that absurdly young
English actor, Richard Waring, who
played Romeo opposite Eva lie GAL
lienne's Juliet. Although the lad
was greatly In need of haircut when
here, he has apparently remedied
that, and his appearance has SO