Evening star., 1935-01-28

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What-no Patience?
Come now, Doyle Carriers, from
what we have heard this is one of your
best-and we can little afford to be
without it. Couldn't you sneak in
performance of this satire on Satur-
day instead of doing THE Gondoliers"
twice? 1t isn't, of course, nice to COM
plain at your schedule, because We are
fortunate to get glimpse of you at all.
And we know (having seen it, that you
do The Gondoliers" most eXpertly.
But from what We gather from excited
Philadelphia matronS and so forth
Patience" is one of your highlights.
How about it?
X X X X
TONIGHT the National gets one of
its most welcome visitors. Some
how a year without Cornelia Otis
Skinner seems a sort of wasted year,
now that we have been entertained
with "T'he Wives of Henry VIII" "The
Loves of Charlie Boy" and that never
ending pleasure, the Philadelphia lady
who tries to solve her young sons
arithmetic problem-the one about
the 'mawbleS"-a sketch which has
so upset certain Philadelphia ladies
that the mere sound of ''mawbleS"
plunges them into furious rage.
Miss Skinner tonight will try some
thing new in her repertoire. She has
taken America for her theme, and, in
stead of the wigs and bonnets and
draperies of sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries, she will sit herself
down quietly beside the Hudson, and
there, in sketch which is said to be
the peer of all such things, she will
show us what has happened to a
formidable U. S. A. family-from its
more or less beginnings to its probable
ending.
She is calling this Mansion on the
Hudson" and she has, of course,
written it herself, designed the set
tings herself, staged it herself-and
will act in it herself The sheer cour-
age of all this somehow always seems
to put most other actresses in the
shade. We should think that by now
(and even before now Papa Otis
Skinner would be mighty proud of
such daughter.
X x X x
INTEREST in tomorrow nights pro-
duction of La Traviata" at Con-
stltutlon Hall is running so high that
evidences of enthusiasm have run all
the way over from the music depart
ment to this desk. Helen Fetter Cook,
the demon publicist in this case. has
regaled us with whole volume of
tldblts anent the production. the lat
est being that Comedian Phil Baker
and Rubinoff will attend. Not only
will they attend (although Rubinoff
Will have to fiddle at the Earle during
some of 1t and may not arrive until
very near the time when "Traviata"
expires), but Rubinoff has taken a
box for the occasion and Mr.. Baker
has wired Ma Baker in Florida that
she had best hop on a train and come
North for the fun.
It's been a long time since we've
had anything like Rabinoffian opera
in this city. It's the first time, too,
that we've had a Greek wrestler for
baritone. No one has said whether
Jim Londos will be here to break his
friends neck (Jean FardulD after the
performance or not.
At any rate, Baritone Farduli is
here right now doing scales instead
of cinching toe-holds, and good-look-
ing Eds de Philippe, who, we are
told, would prefer doing Shake
spearean roles to anything else" is
reading Macbeth" between Consti-
tuition Hall rehearsals.
TomorroW's the night - Rubinoff
and Phil Baker in a box-an ex-
wrestler and Manhattan nightingale
(Miss de Philippe) on the stage
what more to you want Oh. F. CO?
* X x X
THIS is the day when Pete Macias
and Osgood Roberts are doing
their Kings for Day" spiel at the
Heigh-Ho 8. first time that night
club has literally bulged at midday
=. Variety Club wives will appear
and there will be such entertainment
as has never before been seen :.
at least so the boys say last
Friday night Bill Ewing and his
King-for- crony rigged up
a stand at which Variety Club men,
bers were allowed to lay low their
favorite and otherwise critic
critics Tin the shapes of balloons)
lay paralyzed on the floor from nine
till midnight never have they
received such floggings even
Rubinoff reduced a certain balloon
to pulp and rumor has it that
Frank La Falce received a wire from
Barbara Stanwyck which had him
worried &. very worried or was
1t Miss Stanwyck who sent it?
X X X
A INVOLVEMENT is made that
Dorothy Sands has the "f1u" and
will not be able to appear Sunday
night at the National. Instead she
will do her impersonations at the same
theater the night of February "a
Next Sundays tickets, says the T. Ar
thur Ct,aith piirnai, mill hn coad than