Evening star., 1934-10-25

Catherine OF Russia is at the Earle
this week. In something called THE
Scarlet Empress" she is brought back
to life by Marlene Dietrich, usually
referred to as "the most beautiful
woman on the screen" Dolores Del
Rio should resent that. Won Stern
berg, Miss Dietrich's customary yes
man, directed the film; John Lodge is
her long haired boy friend, and ex-
cellent actor Sam Jaffe, is also in the
cast. j. Harold ("Rio Rita'O Murray
heads the stage show.
Hardie Meakin is hanging right on
to The Gay Divorce" The man.
ager of Keith's not only knows hit
when he sees one, but he admits to
having viewed that Night and Day.
number % times already. This is
the dance which Fred AStaire does
with Ginger Rogers, and while not
so widely advertised as the Cont
mental" it is about eight shakes of a
lambs tail better. The film is full
of good music and radiant young
women, and there are two comedians
who are really funny. Alice Brady's
giggling need not deter you from
seeing it.
Pursued" follows "The Barretts"
into the Columbia tomorrow. Not
much is known about this one ex-
cept that it has sort of a heated
jungle atmosphere and is acted by
such pleasant actors as Rosemary
Ames, Victor Jory and Russell Hardie.
Washingtonians will recall Mr.
Hardie as the young man who walked
out of town with Mae West after the
somewhat abbreviated career of THE
Constant Sinner" at the Belasco.
'One Night of Love" continues to
be the surprise picture of the year.
1t also continues at the Metropolitan.
Grace Moore'S singing should keep it
going until well after Christmas. If
you haven't seen and heard this one,
what do you talk about when you 60
out to dinner?
Mr.. LEE KUGEL, whose knowledge
Of the theater goes way back"
has been good enough to prepare this
story about George Arliss for us in
connection with his appearance here
tomorrow in a new film:
The forthcoming engagement OF
George Arliss in The Last Gentle
man" recalls experiences in the life
of this great star in the early years
of his connection with the theater
here in America.
Even in those early days he was
then regarded as an outstanding actor
on our stage. and it was this great
ability OF his. not alone in acting,
but in makeup, that brought about
a situation in his career that caused
him great worry. 1t began in Harri-
son Gray Fiske's production of The
Devil" ArliSS was so sardonic In
his characterization that, though rec
ognized as a great piece of art, still
the effect on his audience was so
fearsome that it created an entirely
erroneous conception of the man as
he really was off stage.
Immediately following this. he
played for David Belasco in support
OF Blanche Bates in "T'he Darling of
the cast the public feeling toward
acter so awesome and fear compelling
to such degree that for many years
it did much to stif1e what should
nave OCch d great dOullI dLLOH IOT Tie
actor and the man. Only one SINH
lar situation of like type in our thea
ter was Tully Marshall in Clyde
Fitch's The City So realistic was
his performance that its effect on the
audience was such that Marshall for
many years could not obtain an en-
gagement, as producing managers
foolishly believed that, with him in
the cast the public feeling towards
him was such that play could not
succeed. Marshall left the theater
to go into pictures. but Arliss re-
gained his standing as an appealing
figure in the theater by reason of his
sheer ability and art in creating
characters that invited interest and
appreciation from the theater-goers
There is no question but what it
was his characterization of 'Disraeli'
that established him as the biggest
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