Evening star., 1935-07-05


cold-plate salad.
"She" has always been a popular
story When Author Haggard con-
ceived the idea of beautiful woman
who found the secret to eternal life
by dipping herself in flame, he
stirred old ladies to the core-and it
is rumored that they ran instantly to
the mirrors, visioned themselves with
out wrinkles, aches, pains and old
age bruises and went shopping around
the house trying to find that flame
which She" had used to such ad-
vantage.
The R-K-O people have filmed this
with the same technical wizardry
they used in kong There are alb
Surdly high mountains, stones which
break and fall and send men to their
doom, fire and snow and ice and
dancing maidens and followers OF the
beautous She" in headdresseS that
Aline Bernstein has created out OF
her book of Aladdin and Marco Polo.
All of these things contribute vastly
to the story'S progression which, as
you know, tells how Leo Vincey got
way up in the mountains and the
past, saw his grandsire lying there
as neatly packed as if he'd been a
Cape Cod fish on ice, how she" had
kept him there for 500 years, and how
she tempted Vincey with the immortal
flame and would have had him a
young man at 499 if his girl friend
(Helen Mack) hadn't said nay
The players undertake this with the
vim that such goings-on should arouse
in any one. Helen Gahagan, making
her debut as the priceless She" al
though not so handsome by long
shot as she is on the stage, is probably
one of the few actresses of today VINO
could make that role seem real. Her
performance is regal, imaginative and
flexible-particularly when the flame
eventually consumes her and she turns
from a radiant beauty into an Apple
Annie of the Himalayas.
Nigel Bruce is splendid as Holly
Vincey's sidekick adventurer. And
Helen Mack is adequate as the girl.
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HERE'S list of the young hope
l. fuls who are under consideration
for the Fox Theater's Going Native"
revue: Robert Macdonald, Eddie Per-
kins, Karl P. Addison, Robert john
son, Marjorie King, La nellie Avery,
Stanley Karmazln, Ethel Adrian, Sill
yer Shields Police Quartet (c/o Henry
Nestor), Ted Valentine, Harry Skapp,
Myra Adock and Stephen J. Hunter,
Joma Genaro, jerry Hess, Joe Bell.
AL B. Griffith, Ruth Kaye, Dorothy
Wilson Halbach, Jeanne Christian,
Alma Metcalf, Karl Sonderland. Orig
inality Boys, Ted Field, James A. Par
son, Clarence L. Click, Helen Clum,
Philip Baxter and Howard Randolph
Green.
WE ADVISE-nay, urge-you to see
w "The Bride the Sun Shines On, "
which the National Civic Theater So
ciety is currently presenting at the
Odeon Theater. In the first place
the theater's worth a visit i'll itself
1t is by far the most attractive pMy
house in this vicinity In the second
place, the comedy is exactly the right
sort of a business fer this season of
the year. And in the third place, the
players are a bright. attractive lot,
very good in their various roles, and
excellently directed oy Forney Reese.
Considering the fact that these
people stopped playing "A Murder
Has Been Arranged" at 11:03 the
night before; that the scenery was a
little too new to be quite right; that
all sorts of extra trains went steaming
by and that the vague rumble of the
Fourth of July's ammunition could be
heard in the distance, last nights
performance came off surprisingly
well.
This was due in a large part to
Catherine McCord and Robert Pitkin,
who started the fun in precisely the
correct pitch-and continued it
through two riotously funny acts
and a third, which in the manner Of
most third acts, wasn't quite up to
the others. Nevertheless, the good
spirits Of the players never faltered,
and except for few lost lines and an
occasional straining for comedy effect,
all was good up until the last drop.