The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-11

Faces" They were divorced
quietly last winter.
The star of Little Man, What
Now?" comes from Norfolk, Va.
was educated at Chatham Episco
pal Institute and Sullins College
First time the critics paid any at
| tention to her was at the Belasco
Theater in Washington when she
appeared as the star of Elmer
Harris "A Modern Virgin" and
emerged with five glowing notices
Next Sullivan picture will be
Ferenc Molnar's play, THE GOOD
Fairy" This whimsy needs
charm and Helen Hayes had to
turn it on to a high degree in or
der to make it register as a foot
light fantasy. I doubt II Miss
SULLIVAN has enough. But maybe
I'm wrong. What is charm? !
like Maggie Wylie'S definition
which Helen Hayes recited 80 ef.
fectively in What Every Woman
Knows" AS Sir James M. Bar
RE expressed it via Maggie:
"Oh, it's q sort Of bloom on
q woman. If you have It you
don't need to have anything
else; and if you don't have it,
it doesn't much matter what
else you have. Some women,
the few, have charm for all:
and most have charm for one.
But some have charm for none."
M. Cochran Is Mad
Sailor, Beware" galloped to
victory in its first seven days, or
maybe I should say steamed into
a second week under q spanking
16-knotS-an-hour breeze.
Impresario Cochran should be
happy, but it seems his mail is
heavy with protests from an out
ragged minority. So accordingly
he summoned his amanuensiS
and dictated this rather red-faced
reply:
Dear Andy:
/ have received about q dozen
letters severely criticising me
for presenting my National
Theater Players in the current
attraction, "SailOr, Beware!" In
part, they say mo wonder your
company is clOsing;" ut is q
vulgar plays" "the authorities
should stop it," II was never so
offended in my life" and last
but not least several have said
II would not want my daughter
to see it,"
Right here and now I wish to
go on record that if my daugh-
ter was is years Of age-She
is now 22-I would buy her a
ticket and tell her to see it.
1t would teach her those things
Of life that many q father and
mother haven't the nerve to
tell them. / contend that
"SailOr, Beware!" is as good a
moral lesson to young girls as
was merset Maugham's
Rain" After all Sadie ThOmp-
son fought to be good and in
Sailor, Beware!" Billie ("StOne-
wall'') Jackson fights to the"
very end for the ceremony of
marriage.
With all the rough language
in this play anyone must ad-
NIT that it is ''life" truth, and
human and I would much
rather present q play that Is,
after all, a natural story of sex
life, no matter how ribald and
vulgar it has been termed, than
to offer such "welI written"
plays as "The Captive" and
"The Green Bay Tree"
As far as the authenticity Of
the story Of "SailOr, Beware!"
is concerned, we aIl-that are
not hypOcrites-knOw that it is
true. Sincerely,
S. E. COCHRAN.
ReServing the right to object, I
should like to ask Mr.. Cochran
why he brackets 1.-THE Green Bay
Tree" as play Of offense. AS a
matter of fact, I consider it the
finest drama I witnessed in the
1933-34 season, both on Broad
way and here. It was beautifully
written, exquiSitely acted by the
Jed Harris company, and, I think
thoroughly moral.
The evil, if any, was supplied
by the minds of the audience. It
was not in the lines or the action
of Green Bay Tree" I am speak
ing, of course, Of the play which
was acted on the Morosco The
alter stage and at our Belasco. I
know nothing of the English YER
sion.
Purely Personal
The variety Club will hold its
first big pow-wow at the Willard
next Monday at 1890. John
Harris, president of the national
organization, is expected to be
present. And thank you, Betsy
Tucker, for the invitation to meet
Mrs. Roosevelt and attend the
pageant and breakfast Of the
Democratic women of Mont
gomery county at the Congress
Sional Country Club tomorrow.
Jock Mclean and Eleanor RooSe-
welt at the Saturday night per-
Torrance of Sailor Beware" and
Postmaster General Farley at an
earlier showing of this luSSy
farce. Also Kenneth Clark Of
Universal Service laughing hila-