Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

ing Joan Crawford is another star
an ink cartoon Of herself on the back
Of the envelope Another good
scribe Is Bette Davis Others who
do more than scratch their names in
clude Rosalind Russell. Una Merkel
and Madge Evans
Bob Montgomery doesn't answer let
ters, but Bob Taylor does His let
ter to this department Of few weeks
back is nice example OF q players
gratitude for a few kind words
Spencer Tracy, incidentally, was set
to come to D. c. two months ago to
20 to the mat with local reviewer
who didn't think so much Of him tn
''San Francisco" He thought better
of 1t, however, being q nice guy and
realizing that such things don't make
the grass grow greener -. Tracy has
been signed to q new contract by
NOM and is one Of those people who
Is said to be going places -. He's the
most popular actor on the M-G-M lot.
nAY before yesterday was tough sled
ding-until it came to that hour
when it was time to select Miss Hal
loween." Picture yourself sitting
in a small room, surrounded by four
walls, five nice people (Mrs. Edna
Gasch was the chairman OF the judg-
ing committee) and Is radiant young
ladies all dressed as queens" =.
There wasn't dull one in the bunch
tall, short, slim and slightly more
hefty, they all had beauty. charm ana
wit, and they paraded around the
small room as though they were run
ming of to Hollywood in another min
ute to become Hepburns, Shearers and
Crawfords. The winner (and
your queen), Miss Ada Dameron, Is
somebody you will undoubtedly want
to meet Eve haven't had the privilege,
but, then, neither has Mr.. Kelly or
MIR. Craig or the other judges). (.
She walked around that carpet with
great dignity and skill, and we defy
any town In this country to have
handsomer Miss Halloween" {.
(Where's she been all these years?)
X X
DICHARD Nancy is in town, and
~ that spells both good and bad.
Dick" as he is known to the
world, Manhattan and the great Beebe
and the smaller fry, is a veteran the
atric oracle, whose words are law on
Broadway, whose fame is unparalleled
and who was one of Percy Hammond's
best friends. In five minutes Dick
can tell you more about the theater
than 20 wise men all scrambled to-
gether. He took charge Of the
Billy Rose show this Summer in Texas,
new out there with seven newsmen,
piled them with good humor and
ginger beers and emerged as the
greatest hero Billy Rose has known
since he became a hero himself with q
show called Jumbo" (page I. w. HID {.
Mr.. Nancy Is on hand to acquaint
newsfolk with q man called Coward
and his play (titled Tonight at $500
which will be at. the National the
week of November 2 -. He spent
the day yesterday racing around the
towns gazettes and when last heard
from had struck up enough courage
to ask Betty Hynes II she would have
q soda. %
~ $3.50
T OCAL drama boards are In frenzy
Productions by the Arts Club.
the Pierce Hall Players, the Mont
gomery Players and such like have
reached q new high and, of course,
the fact that the Washington Civic
Theater has had major success with
Caesar and Cleopatra" has driven
most potential actors and actresses to
their grease-paint boxes u. Night
before last, President Lewis Loften
Moneyway of the Arts Club, and Mrs.
Maude Howell Smith, were good
enough to invite members of the
drama desks to q performance Of mo
More Frontier" on the small but
sometimes potent stage Of the club :.
And there was revealed acting Of the
cabiber that augurs well for a red-hot
season.
People gaped and nodded and ap-
plauded and approved and nobody
was aware that Murray Sheafan was
Murray Sheahan, or that Paul Alex
ander was Paul Alexander They
all said: "Now those are actors
which Is the highest praise any actor
can get =. And the scenes by Hugo
linden were colorful, and the inter-
missions were not too long. and, but
for the fact that we had to run out
and listen to Joan Crawford and Fran
chot Tone on the air (and they sud-
denly decided not to be on the air)
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