Evening star., 1934-05-04

10 play IOlG LII IL 1lAli1oCAA.
Incidentally, this was Mr.. Huston
last picture before he returned to the
stage in that excellent play. "Dods-
WORTH" which is current in New York.
"TOAN OF ARC" skidded across town
- yesterday afternoon-and then
skidded out. Arriving by plane from
Miami, Katharine Hepburn, who is on
her way to Hollywood to play In a
screen version of Mr.. Shaw'S cele-
brated drama based on the life Of the
French heroine, had regard appar-
emily only for her suitcases, which
we're being shunted to Union Station.
Photographers, reporters and a smat-
tering of curiouS-minded citizens,
anxious to catch a glimpse of Miss
Hepburn, we're treated to the usual
Hepburn silence-although she did
break out into Please allow them to
put my baggage in the cab. Union
Station, please, driver"-which Is more
than she said the last time she came
to town.
X X X Il
DONALD WOODS is returning to
~ stock this Summer at Glitch Gar
denS not because the Warmers have
given him the cold shoulder las a
matter of fact, they've taken up his
option) but because he requested that
he be allowed to do this when he first
signed with the Warner Brothers last
Fall. Mr.. Woods, realizing the wis
dom of keeping in touch with the
f1esh-and-b blood theater, put a clause
in his contract to the effect that he
be permitted to continue his stage
career in the manner to which he has
been accustomed here (as former
leading man with the National Play
ers) and will probably be seen in June
in "The Pursuit of Happiness" which
has started OF the current National
season with flourish.
X X y X
FREDDIE SHERMAN has arrived
from Hollywood and is at the
Chastleton. Mr.. Sherman will join
the National Players a week from
Monday in welcome Stranger"
y X y X
HERE is one time when we are in
hearty accord with one Of those
enthusiastic Loew-Carter Barron tel
egrams, which, after inviting us to a
preview tonight, says: "Internation-
ally significant and universally ac-
claimed is The House Of Rothschild,
a stirring picture presenting George
ArlisS in his most magnificent charac-
teriZation =" While perhaps Mr..
Barron is mite ahead Of himself in
saying that Mr.. Arliss is better as
Rothschild than he was as DiSraeli,
still it is a significant" film and one
which has every right to be uni
versally acclaimed"
X u X n
THE shortage Of plays these days Is
- appalling. That apparently is
what is keeping Ethel Barrymore and
Elsie Ferguson from returning to the
stage. Daniel Frohman, who has
been working his head off in town
assembling local and other kinds of
talent for his giant Actors Fund ben-
eft at the National Sunday night,
says that both Miss Barrymore and
MISS ferguson are ANXIOUS 10 return
to the footlights, but that as yet they
have found nothing to suit their va
rious talents.
incidentally, Miss Ferguson's ap-
pearance here over the week end is
causing much pleasant comment. Re-
member her In Peter Ibbetson" in
the old silent days of the films, when
she and Wallie Reid gave Mr.. Du
Maurier's play further immortaliza-
ton?
X x X y
p EBECCA TARWATER, one of the
genuinely talented young ladies
around town, who delighted National
Symphony audiences two years age
when she and her sister sang South
ern folk songs, will give her first "dra-
matte recital" at the King-Smith
Studio School a week from tonight
We have curious feeling that Miss
Tarwater is about to become a Ruth
Draper or Cornelia Otis Skinner
since it is rumored that her dramatic
sketches are so good that they will