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Ayres Wants to Direct

more important part in the creation
of pictures" the actor said. ITO con-
ceive q story. or the treatment of
story, to select cast and to guide
the whole thing to completion ought
to prove a great deal more satisfactory
than Just acting. I'm going to do
it some day"
Although he has been in pictures
more than six years, Ayres said he
gained mis- greatest respect for di-
rectors recently when he began to
make home movies, patterned def
nitely afte. the professional variety.
He considers acting experience OF
great importance in the training OF
a director.
Most of the successful directors
at one time or another faced the
camera ano took acting direction" he
pointed out. John Ford, who made
Judge Priest The Informer,' and
who is currently at work on Steam
boat Round the Bend; Henry King
who is making Way Down East;
Rowland Lee who made The Count
of Monte Cristo'; Ernest Lubitsch-
almost all the others, too were actors" :"
Bruce Thunderstorm. incidently. who
is directing Ayres in his new produc-
tion, Silk Hat Kid" started in Holly
wood as an actor. There are many
others, too. of course. A sufficient
number 20 inspire Lew and help him
keep his eye peeled Tor the main
chance.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Shakespeare in the Open.


CHAKESPEARE'S "A Midsummer
- Nights Dream" will be played at
the National Sylvan Theater, at the
Washington Monument, Wednesday
night at 8 o'clock by the Washington
Community Players, under the direc-
ton Of Bess Davis Schreiner, assisted
by Esther Galbraith and Robert Hal
sted as dramatic coaches, Alice Louise
Hunter as dance director, Dorothy
Hobley as director of music and
pianist, and a corps of lighting and
stage assistants.
Leading the cast will be Howard
Whitfield as Puck and messenger of
Oberon, to be played this season by
Robert Duke, and Macy Hall, who will
again be Titania. The lovers will be
played by Adele Whiteside as Helena,
Edythe Lazaroff Goldman as Hernia,
Eugene Kressin as Demetrius and Her.
man Riess as Lysander. The role of
Bottom, a weaver, will again be in
the capable hands of ]. Edmond
Veitch, with Kent Dyer, James M.
Rawls, H. Stanley Protheroe, Paul w.
Murphy and Harry Grow appearing
as the "hard-handed men of Athens"
who never labored in their minds "but
who nevertheless present the far
famed tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe
before the Duke Of Athens, on his
wedding day, at night"
The Duke will be played by Robert
Halsted, Hippolyta by Jean Smith,
Egeus by that sterling actor Maurice
Jarvis, and Philostrate by Hugh c.
Smith.
Tickets for all Summer Festivals are
available prior to the performance at
the Hotel Washington and Hotel VIII
lard newsstands, the American Auto
mobile Association ticket office and the
Community Center Office in Franklin
Administration Building.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
DRAMA CARRIES ON IN PLAYHOUSES AND ON
Next Weeks Films
"NGEN WITHOUT NAMES" an q

MEN WITHOUT NAMES" an ex-
AA citing screen story Of the ad-
ventures of a Government sleuth in
his campaign to round up an under
world gang, and a diversified stage bill
that co-hesdlines Frank and Milt
Britton Band and Grace Hayes will
comprise the new entertainment
Loew's Fox will offer next week.
Grace Moore comes to the Earle
Theater Friday in Love Me Forever"
Victor Schertzinger directed and COM
posed Its title song, just as he did
for "One Night of Love-" Leo GARLIC.
star of many films. has the chief
supporting role, while others In the
cast include Michael Bartlett, Spring
Byington, Robert Allon and Luis Al
berni. On the stage the Earle Will
present as headliners Cross and Dunn.
mo More Ladies" will be played at
o downtown theater for third week
when 1t Is shown at Loew's Columbia
Theater, starting Friday. Joan Craw-
ford and Robert Montgomery, as q
happy, scrappy pair Of newlyweds who
try to make their marriage workable
in spite of odds stacked against them,
are the bright stars of this film that
also boasts the presence of Edna
May Oliver, Charles Ruggles, Franchot
Tone and others.
Richard Dix comes to Warner Bros.
Metropolitan Theater Friday in The
Arizonian," an R-K-O-Radio Picture
based on one of the most thrilling
chapters in American history. Margot
Grahame, who won high praise for
her work In The Informer." heads
the supporting cast.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Next Melodrama.

NTOONSHINERS battling 'reve-
A'A noors," true son of the South
fighting for his sweetheart seized by
q desperate band of counterfeiters,
furnish thrills aplenty in the Road
sides next offering, ITO Die at
Dawn" an exciting melodrama, open
ing Monday. July Is, for a two-week
run at the Rockville pike barn
theater.
Who wrote ITO Die at Dawn no
one knows. The play never saw
Broadway-for the Roadside Theater
dug 1t from the depths of an old
trouper's trunk, where it had lain for
nearly so years. Mrs. william Vance,
Jolly Bonny" in her heydey as the
heroine of her husbands barnstorm-
ing company, was an nonored guest
at the Roadside's opening production
last Summer, The Octoroon," for she
had acted in that same play 40 years
before. She offered them the re-
sources of a weatherbeaten trunk
filled with old manuscripts During
this past Winter the Roadside board
read many of those old melodramas
that had been played over and over
again to the delight of small town
audiences back in the 70s and 80s.
ITO Die at Dawn must have been
written by a Kentuckian, for all the
mysterious and sinister atmosphere of
the Kentucky mountains is in the
play. One of the most thrilling scenes
is in the famous Mammoth Cave
itself, where band of counterfeiters
have found a hideaway. When the
hero breaks down a portion of the
wall within the cave, just in time to
save the girl from flogging at the
hands of the bands leader-there is
a thrilling moment! But the scene
that is giving Designer-Technician
Edith ]. Allen gray hair, is the mill
scene. The heroine has been bound
to the mill wheel-by the counterfeit
en asain-and is about to be carried
down to the rushing waters when
the hero dashes on!
Evening star., 1935-07-07

every opening night at the Casino
since 1t was reopened, after an in
terval, some years ago by William H.
Vanderbilt. "A number Of prominent
stars appeared" writes the erudite Mr..
Seton, land a number of interesting
plays were produced. Each opening
night Mr.. Vanderbilt entertained in
his box the star of the following
week-Ina Claire, Grace George, Alice
Brady. Mary Ellis and many others.
Mr.. Vanderbilt always left his box to
visit his venerable grandmother, the
late Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and he
always kissed her hand. I shall never
forget the season In which that de-
lightful character actress, Alison Skip
worth (now in the sound f1lms). was
in the cast. She gave her customary
artful performance, but provided
unlooked-for amusement offstase. In
private life she wore very old and
such very odd attire that the suspi-
cion got around that these adornments
we're salvaged from old plays she had
appeared in long, long ago! I at
tended the opening night Of AN
Artists Model In which Miss Skip
worth made her bow to Broadway in
1896, and ! have a photograph in my
collection showing the young and
pretty Alison of that period"
AS recently as two seasons ago
tickets for Monday evening at the
Casino were $3.50 in the urban tradi-
ton, and evening formality obtained
in every section of the house. Bellvue
avenue will see less of the castled and
butlered chivalry of the town for its
darkening.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Ew AYRES. currently appear.


Hat Kid" revealed recently
- that he is merely biding his
time as a screen star and keeps his
eye constantly on his goal, which he
claims Is screen direction. Each mo-
ment before the camera he pays as
much attention to the details Of di-
rection as to the role he is playing,
for in the same way as he learned to
act he is learning nlm staging-from
the ground up.
Without any acting experience what
ever" saws Lew, lit took me a year
to land my first acting job. Getting
a chance to direct is ten times as
hard as getting an opportunity to act,
so the answer is easy to figure.
"I've worked hard and I've made
a real effort to save and by the time
I'm 80, which will be four more years,
hope to turn director. Ill be fixed
financially so I can stand the in
evitable at leisure periods and I ex-
pect to oe in a position to be able to
wait for good stories"
A good story and good direction
account for 10 per cent Of the sue
cess of any motion picture, Ayres be-
lieves. The other 80 per cent Is dis
tributed among such items as acting.
photography. settings, presentation
and so on. he says.
It believe most actors eventually
develope a growing desire to have a
Evening star., 1935-07-07

appear next Fall on Broadway in
. new play by Adelyn Bushnell-and
under John Golden's management.
And that appearance will mark her
return after 18 years to theater
that knew her well as Peter Pan and
Little Babbie.
1t is possibly treason to hope that
Adams will then turn to the screen.
But such is our Sabbath plea. We
have suspicion that her voice would
record unusually we'll and that the
small elfin quality that made her
Barrie's ideal heroine would be re-
created on the screen to everybody S
advantage.
Such a wish may alarm not only
Miss Adams, but her many admirers,
who may feel that her art is such a
fragile, gentle thing that an out-in-
the-open medium such as the screen
might destroy it.
We frankly doubt it. The screen
has now reached a point where its
technical resources have been ad-
justed to fit most everybody's mood.
We doubt If the Lunts and Fontannes,
and even Miss Barrymore, would have
such narrowing times today as they
had yesterday. Not only the camera,
but the sound and the director, would
treat them with greater respect
Hollywood has calmed down consid-
erably since the roaring 28s and 29s.
The clatter of temperament has given
way to a good deal of serious work
(witness David Copperfield').
If. then. Miss Adams cared to turn
to the screen, she would be doing a
service not ony to herself but to the
public. Only small portion of the
latter is familiar with a name that
electrified Broadway for years and
one which carried Peter Pan into
every home. And if Miss Dressler, as
large and pleasant and ugly as she
was, could in her later years become
the idol of country that had already
forgotten that she ever had youth,
why couldn't Miss Adams, in her
small, gentle way, do the same? We
hope she will.
MERRIAM COOPER continues to
AVA be the "enfant terrible" of the
film industry. After whipping out
with old man King Kong and scar
ing the living lights out Of his
audiences, he turns to Rider Haggard's
"She" and again makes people gasp
and their hair fly off of their heads.
"She" hasn't, of course. the ter
rifying grandeur Of Kong. But it has
grandeur. And in those giant scenes
Evening star., 1935-07-07

The COWS, asserted the numan1-
tartan, Mr.. Marquis, ought to have
some place to seek shelter from the
MONDAY heat and the ensuing after
noon tempests Of the season. It was
brutal to turn the COWS out Of their
oewsheds, and it was brutal to bring
the Summer actors in and turn them
loose upon the unhappy community.
Not two Summer theaters in thou
sand actually supply the pleasure and
instruction in which they are sup
posed to deal, said the creator OF
Archie the Cockroach, their true spe-
cialty being amateurish and NAL
adroit confections that couldn't con-
ceivably get q hearing elsewhere.
The knowledge that theater is not
really q going concern on its own
merits, but must be supported as a
Worthy Cause, will put a neighbor-
hood of any form OF artistic en-
deavor.
There aren't as many Summer thea
tiers as there were last year, which
should pacify the good, gray prophet
OF Gramercy Park, but there were
eight new plays tried out last week
of suficient importance to be listed
among the openings by New York
drama editors. while full dozen
out-of-town theaters were offering
tried and familiar successes of the
last and earlier seasons.
The intelligence that the Casino
Theater, at Newport, was to be dark
this season caused, for all Mr.. Mar
quis' mirth, widespread anguish and
confusion. For one thing, it was a
really excellent company, opulent in
every professional and technical re-
source, and 1t functioned without
hitch or the necessity for alibis. 1t
gave, in recent years at least, only
established plays, including usually
no more than one unexploited drama
in each seasons repertoire. Further
more, Newport scutely needs, as it
is now discovering, theater to serve
as a focal point for the activity Of
its formal and enlinently de luxe
society. Where else to assemble the
tiaras, the mess jackets and the other
appurtenances Of evening leisure?
Where else to rank the Rolls Royces
by strict order of precedence, with
that Of Mrs. Moses Taylor at the head
of the line and hard by the Casino
door for her greatest convenience?
Mrs. Taylor had for many years sup
ported the theater for six weeks each
year, and If she wanted her car ever
more Immediately to hand there is ne
doubt that a grateful management
would have made it possible for hel
to drive it right down the aisle and
deliver her to her box.
But Mrs. Taylor did not see her way
clear to the underwriting of the
project this season, and while many
other Newporters would have been
more than willing to evolve syndi-
cate for its support, nobody, if rumor
may be believed, dared risk her social
frown by presuming to function in ar
Office which has been hers these many
Newport seasons. There was subduec
whispering of revolt in the quietel
corners of the reading room, but the
administration was too firmly in the
saddle and the insurgents, whatever
may be their views, have accepted
the ruling. Newport's more elegant
gestures will have to center abou
/ Tennis week and be done with it.
Harold Seton, an authority on New
York society and its allied institu'
tions, writes us that he had attended
Evening star., 1935-07-07

in oil, or something, you get the same
sort Of kick as you got when Kong
was fumbling around those mountains
and making mincemeat out Of puny
mortals.
Mr.. Cooper becomes. therefore, a
sort Of Grand Guignol' Of Hollywood.
His mission is to frighten and to elec-
trify. He doesn't stoop to screaming
monsters and bats and lowered lights;
he probably doesn't care two figs for
such small fry as Dracula. Instead,
he lets his imagination sweep into the
unknown and there conjures up such
mighty and formidable schemes ana
people that compared to these young
FrankenStein seems less than a mole
hill.
We wonder what will happen II
Cooper ever returns to this earth. Will
he know what to do with such Llli-
putians as Garbo, Dietrich and the
bouncing Miss West? Could he even
have sympathy for the also-daring
but infinitesimal Tarzan? When, in
other words, you spend your life fool
ing around with King Kongs and
Shes" is it ever possible to get back
to normal? How about 1t, Mr.. Cooper,
is it?
T USE RAINIER is the hit OF the
week. She is also last weeks hit
and the hit of the week before that.
etc. She is this departments choice
for the lady who is destined to go
places. You have heard, perhaps. that
she Is hammered and that her scenes
are overdone. This is the fault, how
ever. OF the director. Not Miss
Rainer's.
We have a suspicion that as "Es-
capade" progressed and as Luise
Rainer progressed that the directors
eye became more and more delighted
with what he saw before him. Tired,
perhaps. of seeing that excellent actor
Bill Powell walk away with every film
in which he plays, he must have
sensed the freshness of new per-
formance and realized that in this
small, dark Viennese star he had ma
terial with which the public was not
familiar.
And so Miss Rainer springs into the
limelight with her first hlm-a feat
rarely accomplished in Hollywood.
And she brings with her the sugges-
ton of new personality. new way
Of doing things and a charm which
Is comparable to nobody we can think
Of on the coast. We hope she gets
what she wants-and that she will
have the chance all too seldom offered
to visiting celebrities. Her start has
been, to say the least, auspicious.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Stage Players Signed.
MARGARET CALLAHAN, young

Broadway player, and William
Harrigan, also prominent on the stage,
have been signed by R-K-O Radio
Pictures for important roles in the new
James Barton picture, still untitled,
soon to 60 into production at the
Hollywood studios.
Also signed for the cast is Maureen
Delaney, member Of the famous Alb
bey Theater Players of Dublin, who
went at once to the studio when the
Abbey tour closed few weeks ago in
New England.
Charles vidor, who recently COM
pleted Richard Dix's "The Arizonian"
for R-K-O, will direct the Barton film.
Joel sayre Is writing the screen play.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Young Player Clicks.

iTOHNNIE DOWNS, under contract to
Paramount and recently fea-
tured in college Scandal" draws one
Of the leading parts in the musical
Coronado" which Norman Mcleod
tentatively is set to direct. The screen
play is being written by Don Hart
man, Seena Owen and Brian Hooker.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
PLAYERS Cast.

1--WE players today were added to the
cast of Paramount's THE Big
Broadcast of 1885" They are Arthur
Stuart Hull. Mabel Forrest, Jack Null
hall, Tom Hanlon and Larry Wheat
Gertrude Norman and Frank Dawson
went into the cast of Peter Ibbetson. n
in which Gary Cooper and Ann Hard
'ng are co-starred.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Buy Colbert Story.

I'D DARING GIRL" newspaper
story by John c. Mofitt, motion
picture editor of the Kansas City
Star, has been purchased by Para
mount for Claudette Colbert. Mofhtt
will 60 to Hollywoow to aid In adapt
= ing his story to the screen. y
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Today's Film Schedule

EARLE-"Dont Bet on Blonds."
at 2. 4:45, 7::30 and 10 pm.
Stage show at 3:45, 6:35 and
9pm.
LOEW'S FOX-"Murder in the
Fleet" at 2, ABS, 7:25 and
1915 pm. Stage show at
$40, $50 and 9:20 pm.
R-K-O KEITH'S-"She," at 2,
3::54, 5:48, 7:49 and $50 pm.
COLUMBIA-"The Devil Is a
Woman" at 2, 3:55, $50, 7:45
and $40 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"The Nit
Wits" at 2, 3:55, $50, 7:45
and Gas pm.
PALACE-"Escapade." Con-
tinuous performances from
2 pm.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Newport Casino Theater
Fails to Open This Season
Tears Are Shed Over Fashionable Playhouse
Which Remains Dark This Summer
Catered to the Four Hundred.
Bv Lncius Beebe.

TINE witty malicious Marquis brought his epgrammatc
/ theaters
Of Paul Yawz Column Review and further reduced
disntegraon already battered wounded institution
like kicking the crtch from under
oeng old lady, but Mr. Marquis justified himself with deal of
careful that his shafts directed
venture
established suburban companies those
Elitchs Gardens at Newport or Southampton.
Evening star., 1935-07-07

Air Excursions Offered.
Railways of England are offering
holiday air excursions.
Evening star., 1935-07-07
Peter Pan Comes Back
After Eighteen Years
Maude Adams Return to Broadway Next
Season Recalls Her Earlier Triumphs
and Her Great Popularity.
Bv E. de s. Melcher.

something Adams that
l q
ago a slvery ongued Portia
of the genuine particular theatr
Ladies and gentlemen who hadn't the theaer bod
the National if their lives depended
filled quaint honorable collection happy
Evening star., 1935-07-07
DANCING.

The Edward F. Miller Studio
s14 18th Sc. NV. National secs.
II It's Dance. We Teach It.
MAE DAWSON, 1929 M NV.
Ball Room Glasses Tues. and Thurs.
BeEinners, 8 to 3. Practice and Teachtng.
D to II. Tap classes and private lesg4ns
by appt, Phone National 33A1.
Evening star., 1935-01-10

eyes, but you can't come!" I ex-
If Orloh knows we've escaped"
what are you going to do with
me?" she asked calmly.
7 looked round with q kind Of
| desperate helplessness.
"She's right" said Jerry quietly.
"It's neck or nothing now. Unless
we chuck the whole thing and make
a bolt for it, we may as well stick
together. I've got gun anyhow,
and"
beg pardon, sir" interrupted
Jimmy, "but if Is would be any help,
sir, don't mind stopping ere and
looking after the boat. I amt afraid
Of them swine, SIR"
"By gad, you're sportsman!"
Jerry stepped forward and clapped
him on the shoulder. You can't
hang around like that, though: you'll
be frozen stiff. Here, take my mac"
He stripped of his waterproof and
thrust it into Jimmys arms. know
how to row?" he asked.
"Just a bit, sir. Been out once or
twice on the Serpentine."
'Well keep your eyes skinned,
and If you see any one coming, hop
in and shove her Off"
He turned to us, pulling out the
revolver from his coat pocket. Come
on, you two. No good messing about
if we're all agreed. You stick close
behind me, Molly, and for heavens
sake look out where you put your
feet"
With a mind torn by conflicting
emotions, I followed them up the
slope and. pushing through the gorse.
| dropped down onto the narrow path.
If Jerry were right-and his belief
had certainly infected me as we'll
as Molly-it was obviously vital that
| we should see Mrs. Gowlland at once.
Whatever the hidden thing might be
I which had driven her husband to
his death, we were far more likely
| to get the truth out Of her in her
time to pull herself together.
On the other hand, in the face Of
what we already knew, this venture
| of ours was surely next door to mad
ness. Our escape from the factory
was no longer a secret, and now, that
their original plans had miScarried.
Orloff and the foul crew that he had
doubtless brought along with him
would be more recklessly determined
than ever that none Of us should
leave the place alive.
Had Jerry and I been alone the
matter would have been different,
| but
Turning my eyes away from Molly,
I glanced swiftly in the direction
Of the creek. The sun was already
setting behind a broken bank Of
cloud. and in its fading light the
long stretch of desolate marshes
looked more empty and forlorn than
ever.
A chill wind, which had sprung
up from the southwest, rustled and
whispered among the reeds, while,
blended with its dreary sound, came
the faint. persistent moan of the in
coming tide.
Except for a solitary heron, there
was no sign Of life or movement any,
where.
There are strange doings at the
G0wlland farm house, tomorrow.
Evening star., 1935-01-10
HIKERS HITCH TO JAIL
Youthful Robbers "Thumb" Dep
uty Sheriff for Ride.

PITTsFIELD, III. January 10 R.
"A pair Of youthful hitchhikers
"thumbed" a deputy sheriff for a ride
yesterday, and as a result were ar
rested for the theft Of watch, cigars
and candy.
Pike County authorities said the
youths. Leroy Cox of Kenton, Ohio,
and Edward Spudic of Pittsburgh,
Pa, confessed.
Evening star., 1935-01-10
ENGLISH AUTHOR DIES

LONDON, January 10 R.-Frank
Richardson Cana, author and jour-
nalist, died today. He was 50 years
old.
A member of the editorial staff of
the London Times since 1916, Cana
also was q frequent contributor to the
Encyclopedia Britannica. His publica-
tions also included works on African
exploration and colonization and on
the World War and its aftermath.