Evening star., 1934-09-24


co STEVE COCHRAN is alive and
~ kicking after all. The Napoleon
OF E street whose National Theater
is beginning to see the light of day
again, has bounced out of his Summer
quilts to announce that the world
premiere" of Max Gordon's The
Farmer Takes a Wife" will blossom
forth locally October g. This is
pretty piece of news to every one ex-
cept the Columbia Players who had
been rehearSing on Low Bridge" by
Frank ElSer, and which is, alas, based
on the same theme. Margery Rice,
Columbia's s news cricr, calls in to say
that these rehearsals have all been
in vain-that Low Bridge" has been
withdrawn from amateur and stock
production.
IT IS apparent that the Owen Davis
play, Coming Spring" or rather
Spring Freshet' tits title has been
changed) is not coming this way after
all. For that we shed tear, par
ticularly because in the cast Is Eliza
beth Patterson. who you saw recently
in "Hideout' and who came all the way
from Hollywood to play in this play
And Why oh why, do they say that
plays are coming when they have
really no intention of coming at all?
YOU'VE got plenty of film stuff to
play with this week. We still dof
our hats to The Count of Monte
Cristo." even if he doesn't look more
than two years older when he's 40
than he does when he's 20-and even
If he makes love in a tree to Miss
Iandi when Author Dumas intended
no such thing. We also were glad to
overhear a Chevy Chase matron in
Germans Restaurant last night say
to her husband over a glass Of tonic
water: I've just come back from see
ing something I shall never forget
the Barretts" You won't go wrong
either if you see that amusing finn
at the Earle which has been unfor-
tunately called Desirable" Sounds
like a piece of cake. or a musical
comedy. when it really goes to prove
that everybody was all wrong about
Jean Muir and George Brent-that
they're really swell players when they
make up their minds to be such.
THIS is what is happening to some
of your favorites in the National
Players ranks.
Roy Roberts has the lead in Sailor
Beware" in New York.
Romaine Calender and Raymond
Bramley are prominently cast in Ell
mer Rice's Judgment Day" over
which the scribes and the author are
having plenty of verbal fisticuf1s dt
has always seemed to us that an author
is the last person who should rise up
in his own defenSe).
Walter Gilbert and Forrest Orr are
rehearsing in Roland Stebbins' next
production-"The Blue Horizon"
Leona Powers is now being featured
in "Errant Lady"-or was while the
play lasted.
Owen Davis. jr.. is playing in Owen
Davis new play. Spring Freshet."
Donald Woods has returned to the
coast and is appearing with Irene
Dunno in Sweet Adeline."
Charlotte Mayo, interviewed at a
soda fountain in New York, is prepar-
ing to be launched via the radio.
THE Warner Bros. studios in
Hollywood got a wire on Satur-
day: For gosh sakes send us 500
pictures of Dick Powell" The wire
came from Washington where lady
fans were all in a dither because Mr.
Powell wouldn't stand in the street
and dish out his pictures between
those eight or ten shows he had been
doing The Earle decided to settle
this situation for their guest star
and SO tomorrow afternoon the first
500 ladies who storm the theater
between the hours Of 1 and will