The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-28

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ROCKEFELLERS JOIN w. B.
Interesting is the news that the
Warner Bros. will be allied with
the RockefellerS and Producer
Rowland Stebbins in the American
presentation of the continental
spectacle known as White Horse
Inn"
The Center Theater in Radio
City will house the big musical and
it is planned to open it next Sep
TENDER. The Rockefellers, one pre-
sumes, supply the theater and
some cash, Warner Bros. more
cash to get first call on the movie
rights, Producer Rowland Steb-
bins most valuable production eX-
perience.
1t will mark the producers first
venture into the musical field.
Under the firm name, Laurence
Rivers, Inc, Mr.. Stebbins has pro-
duced, since The Green Pastures"
such plays as Philip Goes Forth, !"
Red Planet" THE Pursuit Of
Happiness" Lost Horizon" and
"On Stage"
Now that he Is plunging into
the musical melee, he intends, ap-
parently, to do it on a large scale,
for white Horse Inn" will be
staged at the Center by Erik
Chare1, the Continental director,
who thinks nothing of transform
ing theater into an Alpine vii
lage over night.
Mr.. Charell first worked up the
spectacle from a farce called THE
White Horse Tavern" by two Ger
man writer's, on the suggestion Of
Emil Jannings, as far back as
1926. It went on in the fall OF
that year at the Crosse Schaus-
pielhaus in Berlin, which seats a
mere 5000. Paris saw it at the
Theater Mogador, and Italian,
Australian and English rights
were promptly sold, not forgetting
the Scandinavian. Mr.. Charen re-
Gently received word that it has
lately been produced in Palestine.
The London production, which
ran for 651 performances at the
Coliseum, was put on by Charell
as stage director under the man
agement of Sir Oswald Stoll, who
seldom touches anything requiring
a cast of less than two or three
hundred people. 1t opened April
8, 1881, and the critic Of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph reported it
at length the next morning.
''Kolossaw was his word for it.
A good deal of remodeling Of
the theater's interior will be in
order, as it was before 1.-THE
Great Waltz" erupted at the Gen.
ter season before last.
The theater will continue its
present film policy until around
mid-July, according to present
plans. It is stipulated in the con-
tract that the house be made
available to Mr.. Charell's techni-
clans at least six weeks before
the September premiere OF
white Horse Inn"
KELLIEGRAMs
Yascha Bunchuk, so rumor says.
has approached the Musicians
Union on the matter of a new
symphony orchestra for Washing
ton which he will conduct.
Variety Club will observe Moth
ers' day next Monday with Will
lard luncheon, beating the official
bell by six days. Mothers, wives
and sweethearts will be guests
with Nate Stiefel as the King for
Day.
Mae Breeskin phones that the
Washington Swing Club had an
overflow meeting on Sunday at
the Raleigh with Ray Noble as
guest. The final meeting very
soon will have the famous Dor
sey brothers band in the guest
chairs.
All the headline talent in town,
sports celebrities, including the
Detroit and Washington ball
teams; notables, will be at the
Father and Sons banquet of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation
Brotherhood banquet at the May
flower tomorrow night. Sidney
Lust has been working for two
months to make it the greatest
ever.
Bud Counihan, the cartoonist,
has forwarded pictures to this
desk of his daughter, Anita, a
classy lady, who is a lady-in-wait-
ing for Katharine Hepburn in her
picture, Mary of Scotland" Fol-
lowing this, Pop Counihan re-
ports, she will have the lead in
her next RKO picture.
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