Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-03

ana Ginger Rogers are displaying q
tendency to beat their own records day
by day. There being no other marks
to shoot at after Sundays smashing,
they set out yesterday and surpassed
the opening business. Mr.. Meakin is,
to put it mildly, in frenzy of joy.
X X 4 II
A SIDE to ~. F.: Drop in some
time. rest your cloak of anony-
nifty and hear, hear about that word
1t was all great big slip of the type
writer keys.
Tom Moore announces the OPEN
ing of his Rialto Theater next Mon
day with world premiere of the life
of Stephen Foster, Harmony Lane. "
starring Douglass Montgomery. The
theater will feature a new Wide
Range" sound equipment developed
after years of experiment by the
Western Electric sound engineers.
With each film there will be stage
presentation especially designed to
harmonic with the screen attrac-
ton. In the opening week. THE
Southernaires," male quartet, will
present Stephen Foster songs and
other numbers.
OUD cheers. THE road is dead
Long live the road!" emanating
from the Offices of Steve Cochrane
this morning. The wise boys said
the hinterland no longer cared for
legitimate drama, until Katharine Cor
nell, Green Pastures" La Gallienne
and other adventurous spirits travelled
from coast to coast, returned richer,
wiser and delighted with the en-
thusiastic reception handed them
everywhere.
Now the mentor of our own Ma
tional Theater is adding to his laurelS
Nationwide VENTURA road tour
of a company centered about Ethel
Barrymore. Miss Barrymore will play
Somerset Maugham'S The Constant
Wife," in Princeton, N. j., on October
z and proceed thence to Allentown
and Newcastle, Pa: East Liverpool,
Marion and Springfield, Ohio; Evans
vile and Terre Haute, Ind; Paducah
and Hopkinsville, KY; Shreveport,
La; Columbia, S. c., and numerous
other small cities where the advent
Of frst-rate drama turns the town
inside out with excitement.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS. ace comedian
of the Roadside Theater group,
has been summoned to New York for
q part in forthcoming production.
If rehearsals do not begin before Sep
TENDER IA he will return here to re-
sumo his brilliant playing of Jerry
in the revival of ITO Die at Dawn"
which follows the current THE Hen
rietta" into the barn playhouse
The local Young Democrats will
attend the Friday evening perform
ance of East Lynne" the Willard
Players kidding version Of that IA
nous meller.
10Th the towns vaudeville houses
~ will feature nationally known
dance bands on the stage next week.
Ted Weems and his orchestra come
to the Earle, while the Fox will have
Art Jarrett and his lads to make sweet
music. Jarrett, as who doesn't know,
was a crooner before he reformed and
took on a band.
The Fox pit orchestra is acquiring
two new musicians-Lew Davies, who
sings, plays guitar, banjo, saxophone
and violin, and Charles Manning,
who plays harp and oboe. Both are
Washington lads.
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JOSEPH R. VoGEL. general man
ager of all Loew Theaters, wired
Carter Barron following a screening
of Dark Angel" that 1--WE are all
wrecks after seeing this picture
Every time think of it, tears come
to my eyes. 1t is the finest picture
Of its kind we have seen in years"
Sam Goldwyn oughta be more care
full about wrecking general managers
that way. For shame, Mr.. Goldwyn,
such heart-breaking! Fredric March,