Evening star., 1937-12-20

Theater, limiting that ere long Mr..
E. Plohn OF the National Theater will
be so busy with his managerial tasks
he will have to relegate walking the
dog to some one less busy, and an
envelope from Samuel Goldwyn, Inc,
Ltd.
The enevelope from Mr.. Goldwyn
contained two bulletins, both having
to DO with MIR. Adolphe Menjou, and
We Will permit you now to decide for
yourself whether they were worth the
postage Sam spent on them. The
first maintains that Mr.. Menjou is the
first to act in the face of the danger
all Hollywoods hill-dwellers feel they
are in since that moving mountain"
OF Elyslan Park slid down and knocked
over bridge. Just as soon as he re-
turned from his New York vacation to
find mountain rambling around. MIR.
MenJou got in touch with Lloyds of
London, insured his estate against
moving terrain" The other item
has to do with Mr. Menjou getting
sick eating ice cream because he said
IN take vanilla" and the vanilla,
had been tinted with pure rich cream
so it would be yellow and photograph
white in technicolor. Mr.. Goldwyn
can be forgiven for all this, for he has
stopped adding players to THE Gold
wyn Follies." even if you thought he
never would, and he has to get its
name in the papers some way, even
if he has to feed Adolphe Menjou
cream to do it.
The other news is principally about
Shadow and Substance" the Abbey
Theater prize play. which will be pre-
sented at the National the week OF
January g. The Theater Guild and
the American Theater Society want
all subscribers to know that tickets
are being mailed this week from New
York, so don't lose them in the rush or
lay them aside in that drawer with the |
Christmas cards from the people to |
whom you forgot to send Christmas
cards. If you don't get your tickets
to see Sara Allgood and Julie Hayden |
IN Shadow and Substance" before |
December 30, start bothering Bess |
Davis Schreiner, the local A. T. S.
wizard
WE DON'T know exactly why we |
are printing this letter, for it
really has no place on drama page, |
except to serve as warning in ad- |
vance that there Is another Mac |
Arthur on the way. There are sew
eral, In fact, but this one already |
shows definite leanings toward the
literary. H. M. received the other |
day this typewriter note from To-
year-old Brother John:
Il hope you are getting along bet |
ter than We are. Everything is get
ting along as good as could be
expected.
Pop thought OF new idea for 60
ing to the store. Edgar goes on all of |
the days that are odd and go on all |
the even days. Wait until the end of |
the month when there is two odd days
strait. I don't believe he will 60 on
both of them.
Allan, Edgar and I are all getting |
along pretty good in school, but Allan |
Is having a tough time in Latin. So |
far Edgar is getting along okay. AS
for me i'm the same as Edgar. In
basket ball Alan is just the opposite
of star. have never been to a game,
but from what have heard while
playing he doesn't seem to know which |
team he is on.
"A new theater has been built. 1t is
called the Emery. 1t was built quite
time ago and have seen four of |
them, including Captains Courageous
Since there is nothing else to say I |
will not say anything else
Sincerely yours,
JOHNNY.
"P. S. The word straight and Alan's |
name are spelled wrong and the I in
I'm should be capital"
One member Of the family corrects
his spelling, anyway.