Evening star., 1938-04-29

lOOdy, tlle Edl 1t Will OlleT al fedFce
and his gang as its particular stage
highlight in an elaborate stage show
designed to continue the tradition now
being established by Harry Anger.
There will be flowers to welcome
MIR. Jessell to the Capitol. They will
be the flowers left there by Mr.. Jones,
whose last act (not performance
was to put card of greeting in the
rather decrepit- looking posies which
friends sent him during the week and
for which he had no further use.
What shall we do with the
flowers?" he was asked yesterday
afternoon when packing up for his
return to HOLLYWOOD
we shall leave them for Jessell,"
said Mr.. Jones magnanlmously He
may not like them, but so much the
better"
Whereupon Mr. Jones sat down ana
wrote Mr.. Jessell, an Old friend,
nice little card Of greeting and best
luck wishes. tucked them into the
potted plants and miscellaneous vases.
said good-by to the theater staff
iiOplNNt 4l4lo a tdD anu DCSdil lllt lOllS
jaunt to Hollywood, where he will loaf
all summer.
THE Jessell act. in case you get to
wondering about where you have
heard the name before, will have the
same Tommy Tucker who played
several years ago at Wardman Park
Hotel as its maestro, That was in
the days when George Reilly was
manager. 1t also was in the days
before Mr.. fuckers band started
playing as a regular feature of the
national radio networks. There will
be quite a number of musicians in
the Jessell-Tucker encourage to aug
ment the Capitol's regular orchestra.
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CPEAKING of hotels, to Frank
Swadley. manager of the Carlton
goeS the distinction of the seasons
finest remark in connection with the
semi-private screening OF a picture.
1t happened during the showing of
To the Victor" Gaumont-British
production which moves into the
Belasco on Sunday. The sequence
was one having to do with the tech
nique of sheep dogs in rounding up
the wandering fockS of Scotland The
action of the film, at the particular
moment involved the counting" of
the sheep as they climbed over a wall
by the dog which was supposed Gf
the film were to be a success to win
the competition with a number of
other dogs.
L hope" said Mr.. Swadley as he
watched the dog check on the sheep as
they jumped over the wall, that he
does not go to Sleep
The dog didn't. Neither, of course,
did any one watching the picture.
X
MAYBE this is a dog column, but it
still is necessary to quote Frances
Shippen in connection with the Ma
tional Capitals Kennel Club show to-
morrow to the effect: What with
Gary Cooper expected to show his
sealyhams (the dogs may be here, but
Gary Won'D and the Jimmy Walkers
expected to be on hand when their
Irish terriers are shown. we'll"
"The Star Wagon" which comes to
the National after the run of To
bacco Road" next week, is an unusual
contribution of Maxwell Anderson to
the stage. 1t is his second play in
eight years which has been written in
prose. Mr.. Anderson usually limits
himself to blank verse, which he re-
CARDS as the perfect medium for the
stage =. Did you know that the stage
adaptation of Tobacco Road" has
three characters more than the orig
inal novel as written by Erskine Cald-
we'll? Well, it has They were
needed to give the play more meaning,
SO Jack Kirkland, in the adaptation,
just tossed them into the middle of the
drama. incidentally, the play, while
having run for more than four years, |
was not an instantaneous success. It |
took an editorial in New York news |
paper to attract the attention of audi