Evening star., 1936-04-10

Mr.. Cochran. comfortably at home In
his office above the roar and hubbub
of Tobacco Road" why you'll 60 to
the National anyway-we're booked
through the first week Of June" ). .
That does something toward assuag-
ing Mrs. Smiths grief, but she grieves
anyway at the memories of those less
expensive days when she could see
Freddie Sherman play villain, hero
and small son all in the space Of a
few weeks, and Walter Gilbert was so
handsome he practically took her
breath away The news, however,
that NaZimova in Ghosts" will follow
The Great ziegfeld," that Three Men
on a Horse" will come back to town
Gemember last year when it played
here during the great blizzard?) and
that we are likely to get either Ethan
From" puts hope in the hearts of the
whiting Where, oh where, they
ask, nevertheless, are Mrs Addie Hib-
bard, Forrest Orr, Freddie Sherman
and the others? Flung, probably,
between Broadway and Hollywood,
happy in their work, carrying high the
torch that carried them here to such
National Theater prosperity After
all. such former troupers as Donald
Woods, Eddie Arnold and Romaine
Calender aren't doing so badly .
Mr.. c"Sutter's Gold') Arnold is said to
have made himself a pretty penny
since he left here.
X X X X
WHY is it that the worst behaved
wv audiences in the world are lin
vited" audiences at movie premieres?
3. Why do the people thus asked as
a courtesy by motion picture concern
consider it their right to babble and
squawk and rubberneck during the
film as if they owned the hall? .
Is it because they consider that the
movies are still an infant art to be
enjoyed as you would enjoy playing
marbles with Buster Brown? :. Or
can it be that in this advanced age
they have never attended a motion
picture premiere before? During
a preview the other evening there
were shocking evidences of bad taste
among people who know better .
One embassy arrived with four invi-
tations after it had called and said
that it had lost the two that was its
quota One lady. who thought she
was somebody (and wasnt) brought
three companions after she had been
warned that it was an invitation"
affair and that unfortunately the list
was filled and her name wasn't on it
-. One gentleman lit a cigar and
spent the evening blowing the smoke in
the ears of the lady in front of him
=. And another embassy, which had
come primarily to hear what Mr.. Wells
might have to say, laughed so long
and so loud during his mostly unin-
telligible speech that even if he had
been audible it is to be doubted if
the "laughees" would have heard him
80. AS far as talking out loud was
concerned the place hight have been
the Bowie race track Gayety audi
ences have been known to have better
manners.
THIS is practically childs week in
Washington while the stage
Is not allowed to present youngsters
under Is years old. the movies are
making plenty of coin out Of their
Shirley Temples and their Freddie
Batholomews, nice state of affairs
when they turn out such sentimentally
salubrious stuff as Little Lord Faunt-
leroy" -. Not satisfied with one child
actor on the weeks screen the Loew
has now produced Miss
Temple again. and she will be seen
starting this very Saturday in Cap
tain January" typical Temple af-
fair, gay, musical, childish and emf
nently suited for Temple fans . One
thing that recently has been called
to our attention This is the fact
that Miss Temple is growing up, or
rather week by week she Is rising per-
eeptibly out of her shoes and thus
somewhat confounding the Twentieth
Century-Fox Studio, which wants to
keep her as small as possible To
remedy this business, the producers
have wisely hit upon a plan which
makes Miss Shirley's shooting up out
Of the ground amount to nothing at
all You will notice, for instance,
In Captain January" that she ap-
pears as little if not httler than ever
before This has been done by
Increasing the height of all the players
around her corralling young giants
and others to play in her support
Thus when Miss Temple is a full
grown young lady she may still ap-
pear the same-the sons and daughters
Of Brobdingnag having possibly been
summoned to enlist in the WORTH