Evening star., 1935-07-30

supposedly coming from England t,
from Eastern universities running
film should have quite railroad b
over.
Spencer Tracy will get Jean Harlow
for a starring partner in mis- next
picture, "Riff-Raff" Mr.. Tracy is
currently putting Murder Man" over
at the Fox.
When Shirley ("Curley Top'D Tenn
pie returns from her vacation in Ha-
wall she will play in Capt. jan
uary" Present plans have Guy Kibbe
playing opposite" her.
The Fox company is not only going
overheard for Farmer Takes Wife"
and Way Down East"-in which
Rochelle Hudson will get her fattest
role-but also for "The Gay Decep-
ton" and Here's to Romance"
Schumann- -Heink is said to have a
fine role in the latter and Frances
Lederer and Frances Dee walk away
with Gay Deception" honors.
Katharine Hepburn comes to Keith's
shortly in Alice Adams"
Nine new stages and so new build
ings are being built out at the Warner
First National studios in Burbank,
Calf.
THE Irish in U.s." starring James
Cagney and Pat O'Brien comes to the
Earle the week of August 9. Phil Spit
alny's orchestra will head the stage
show.
Gene Ford, Going Native" impre-
sario, said last night: We're all set
All the principals know their parts.
The chorus, under the direction of
Marjorie Hartoin, is letter perfect in
two out of its three ensemble num-
bers." And when Mr.. Ford says some
thing he means it.
10 out to the Roadside Theater
this week (and next) and. see
"Trilby." There you will find the
Du Maurier classic acted by a brave
young troupe directed by Harold
Weinberger and with Denis E. Connell
outdoing himself in the role of the
bewhiskered Svengan. There you will
also find Edith Allen reaching the
peak of her artistic career with a
series of sets that Broadway wouldn't
be ashamed to own. There you will
also see Trilby, who Is both beau
tiful and good (that is, she was good
after she got going) and other things
such as a gay 1900 "can-can," and
an expert victrola rendition of Alice
Ben Bolt"
The RoadSiders, to our way Of
thinking, outdid themselves last night
except that they couldn't quite
make up their minds whether they
were going to act the play seriously
or burlesque it. Maybe this was the
fault of the accentS-the broad
reaches Of the Potomac echoing from
some-while snatches of French cLe
Voyage de M. Perichou" type) became
more and more apparent with others.
BY the end of the play they had all
pretty much decided to hedge on the
side of France. In the meantime,
however, the audience had otherwise
enjoyed a thoroughly engaging per-
formance and one which you will
want by all means to see.
Mr. Connell, Cary Lucas and John
J. Rappolt, jr., were the winners OF
the evening. Mr.. Connell took Sven
gall by the scruff Of the neck and
shook all of the stufings out of him in
one of the most remarkable char
acterizations this town has witnessed.
His death scene had most of the
ladies in a panic-and his walk, his
talk and his dour doings were all very
much to everybody's liking.
Miss Lukas was very beautiful in
her singers robes-and Mr. Rappolt,
next to Mr.. Connell, gave the out
standing performance. Others in the
cast who deserve acclaim include Wal
ter Mcintosh as Sandy, Ruth Perrott
as Mime. Wizard, j. Edmond Veitch
as Taffy and Ralph H. Thayer as the
Rev. Thomas Bagot. The costumes,
designed by Dorothy Croissant, were
very fine, too.
TIP AT Saybrook, Conn, the Anhalt
New York Players are having
quite season, led on by Mr.. Clifford
Brooke, who Is, of course, well re-
membered by Washingtonians. This
week, for instance, Ethel Barrymore
is having another fling in 1.-THE Con-
stant Wife," the play that packed the
National during its late Spring season
here. And in the cast Is a young lady,