Evening star., 1940-01-15

at least, should be dramatic but it
turns out to be too familiar, and
entirely too patty formalized to
achieve the desired effect.
The characters of Green He'll"
are lady and gentlemen who, in
previous manifestations Cor is it
previous manuscripts?) have been
interesting. The one played by
Fairbanks is kind of Journeys
End" hero, two-fisted. self composed,
but Withal wistful and underneath
none too certain that bravado is
enough. Others include the chival-
rous young man whose chivalry was
tainted by two marriages; the one
who funkS when the fevers and the
loneliness get him; the gruff, wise
old doctor; the dumb but good
natured, drawing Texan who is
fun to have around; and the hand
some, sophisticate ted devil-may-care
one who always is the life of these
exploring parties. Standard fellows
they are, only usually more well
met
Miss Bennett, looking lovely in the
jungle, also is straight from stock.
Like the rest of them, however, she
Is valiant about it even though val
lance is not enough to rescue
Green He'll" from being just one
more romance with archaeological
accompaniment.
Thank you note: To all those
letters s-to-this-column writer's who
gave it such quick and emphatic
support In its argument that Maui
rice Evans uncut Hamlet" should
be brought back to the National
this season. And a second bow to
the one who added words of ad-
miration for "the Burgess Meredith
claque," of which she is now the
lady auxiliary.
Speaking of Meredith, he will
come to Washington this afternoon
with Lon CLANCY, a personal ap-
pearance prelude. of "Of Mice and
Men" next Palace attraction, in
which they are co-starred
Prior to going into social huddle
with the critics. Meredith and
Chaney both are slated to be in
tervleWed on station .WRC
The program is set for 3:15-3:30
That favorite comedian of
Washington audiences, the ebullient
Red Shelton, returns Friday as
headliner of the Earle's stage bill
Earle production boss Harry
Anger takes periodic bows for hav-
ing discovered Shelton and having
given him his first big stage chance
IN Toronto some years ago
Fresh from radio, Shelton comes
with bag of tricks and gags which
Mr.. Anger guarantees to be new
and wonderful :. Sound with color
pictures of American Day at
the Worlds Fair will be shown to
an invited audience at the Pam
American building Thursday eve
ming, January 25 =. a day other
wise notable as the eve of the OPEN
ing of Gone With the Wind"
Double or Nothing" Capitol's quiz
program, has been moved from
Monday to Tuesday night for this
week only Any opinion to the
contrary, the stage does have an
opening that offers some degree of
challenge to the bigness of the
premieres of G. w. T. w. and ABE
Lincoln in Illinois" 1t is the bow
of Ernest Hemingway as playwright
in THE Fifth Column" scheduled
for New Haven's Shubert Theater
January 26 Franchot Tone,
Frances Farmer, and Lenore Uric
are the Theater Guilds choices to
invest Hemingway's first piece of
theater writing with power, elo-
quence, and intelligence Less
Strasberg is directing :. Obviously,
Hemingways arrival on the stage is
genuine event =. It's long, long
time until February 1925, but that
is when the Ice Follies of 1910 will
return to Washington, and tickets
for the return engagement went on
sale at Riverside Stadium today i
Evelyn Chandler, Bess Earhart and
the rest of the cast which put on the
pageant of grace ana color here in
November will return to do it all
over again.