Evening star., 1936-08-03

honey and she smells sweet WIFI
boughten perfumes, but say the man
who tastes of her or the people who
trust in her will chew on dry ashes
In the last day and find no remedy
for that thirst"
Thus in surly prophesy spoke John
Knox at the beginning of Maxwell An
derson's poetic Mary of Scotland"
when that story of the tragic Queen
was a legitimate stage drama. No
line of that speech appears in the
same tale when it Is translated to the
screen, perhaps for the very good
reason that at single glance it is
obvious that people will want and
have much Of" Hollywood'S Mary
Queen of Scots here and in every
town where cinema palace is left
standing.
Prereviewers who saw Mary of
Scotland" Saturday noted the con-
scientiouS determination with which
the general outline of the Anderson
play had been followed, found the
poetic language of the original had
been reduced to literate prose by
ScenariSt Dudley C"The Informer")
Nichols, the scenic scope of the action
greatly enlarged. The most familiar
and exciting of romantic tragedies in
English history c"Romeo and Juliet"
is fiction, not out of the school
books the life of the beautiful, i'm
passioned, ill-starred Mary is rewrit-
20, k,x-o ic diranfnd hu
1rishman, has Americans, Katharine
Hepburn and Frederic March for its
leading players. The result is mix
ture TO the mystical, the proSaic and
the imaginative which may hand
somely surprise, doubtless will please
the audiences that greet this epic at
its debut here Thursday night at
RKO-Keith's.
So impressed is Manager Hardie
Meakin by the potentialities of his
next lodger on Fifteenth street that
he plans to close the house for while
after the late afternoon showing of
"The Harvesters" on Thursday, reopen
again for a Hollywood premiere. COM
plete with Kleig lights and other fol
de rol, at 7:30 pm. The trimmings
will include a bagpipe band, imported
from New York and skirling for dear
life as the patrons line up at the box
Office.
Finding that Two Against the
World" can get exceedingly lonesome,
the Warner Bros. management pulled
that reel out of the Metropolitan this
morning, substituted Secret Agent"
spy thriller which boasts the services
of Peter LORE as "the hairless MeXi-
can" Ca scoundrel, not pooch), John
Gielgud, lately the most successful
Hamlet the London stage has known
in a generation, and Madeleine Car
roll, enjoying reunion with subtle
Director Alfred Hitchcock, who devel-
oped a new and brilliant technique of
mystery melodrama in The 80 Steps"
Also present in the cast is Robert
Young. recently graduated from Rover
boy roles into the more desirable status
Of rather amusing, light hearted
juvenile.
Gadgets:
''Windmills in Manhattan" remains
at the Roadside for second week,
beginning tonight
The Alice Louise Hunter dancers,
the Pepco Glee Club and the Wash
ington Gas Light band team up for
the eighth Summer festival at Sylvan
Theater tomorrow night at 7:45.
Bettors who wagered six months ago
that they couldn't find another cos
tune role for Fredric March The has
been an officer in three armies, a
monster in an opera cape, an Italian
goldsmith and other things too numer-
GUS to mention in recent years. are
paying of today-on the kits he wears
In Mary of Scotland"
Paramount newSreel claims its cam
eramen scored another scoop in the
Spanish revolution pictures which
opened at the Earle and Met. early