Evening star., 1934-08-08
BY Y. De 8. MEDcHER.

VOTTMGg Oh a flying trip 10
Broadway and farther North
Clifford Brooke seen arnpltng
~ along Fort,F-fourth street, in
white nsnnels and white shirt
fno coatl and those glasses which
rwins from q ioniI black silk ribbon.
Mr.. Brooke had just come from a re-
nearsaI Of new play. He says. Il
shau be IA Washington shortly" By
which ne means that he win visit
Rofne friends across the Potomac,
snnewkaere in Virginia He has great
hopes for a play called The Light Be-
hind the Shadow" which was tried
out recently by Ernest Truck and
which, Incidentally. he directed. He
tells us that FRITZ (Pisrce Hall player
Fiery is now happily wed TO tall Navy
lad and that she lives in New York.
that Romaine Stevens and Zack Mace
ffaned for their work IN that Ted
Tiller skit) are acting in company up
IN Minnesota somewhere, that Miss
Stevens played four parts In The
Drunkard"; that George Calvert is In
New York angling a stage role. which
be should get II his work this season
with the National Players has any
thing 70 do with II: that Helen Shields
is acting In the same company with
Romaine Stevens. and that he
c.Brookie") is set 70 do that Christ
mas Carol" film, If some one viii only
come across with the promised lucre.
AS Thousands Cheer" Is still pack
ing them IN. At this minute you'll
find that Helen Broderick has come
back 70 play Queen Mary. You viii
also find that Clifton webb's various
assignments are being played by about
six other people. that Ethel Waters
version OF Tropical Heat Wave" is
better than ever; and that the Prince
of Wales (Thomas Hamilton) looks a
little wflted. It's still, though, swell
show. and Dorothy Stone and her
able dancing husband, Charles Collins,
help It along while Marilyn Miller
and Mr.. Webb dabble their toes in
some vacation waters.
Across the marquee OF the Para
mount Theater: Frances Fuller"
This means that Miss Fuller is ap-
pearing there with George Bancroft
in a film called Elmer and Elsie"
Apparently Miss Fuller and Elsie are
fine. The film is very pure but not so
fine.
They're making an awful fuss over
cleopatra" which gets to the Para
mount next week.
James Barton is the talk OF the
town in the Henry Hull role in TO
bacco Road"
Rumor has It that Life Begins at
s:40." which was tried out Monday
night in Boston, viii be pretty good
by the time it gets to Broadway.
ZIP FURTHER North--in the Con-
" necticut hills--a,ad incidentally
Lyme-we came upon Katherine Hep
burn, or rather heard that she pulled
what is now called "a Hepburn"
again. Announced to appear with
certain Summer troupe up there in a
new play. with the hall sold out three
times over for the entire week, two
days before the play opened Miss
Hepburn announced that she wouldn't
or couldn't appear. Reason; She had
TO go to Hollywood. But many say
that's q fib--that she didn't find the
play TO her liking.
Also Norma Terris' house up there
Is called Normaison. The Ralph Bell
any's are there. And Adrienne Nor
rison, mother of Connie Bennett and
all other Bennetts. sits high up in
her hilltop chalet and in the discus
sion Of this and that and the other,
says that Connie is having the dickens
of a time with 1.-THE Green Hat"
(which she is doing for M-G-M) and
that most of it must be done over
again (don't ask Why. Playwright
David Judson sits up there, too, and
rewrites good script to make it
better for the Messrs. Shubert.
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RACK in town this morning we find
long and vital letter from
Maxine Doyle, who now thrives in
Hollywood. Miss Doyle is all agog
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