Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-19

/ was reminded more and more OF
that old yearning to be an actress
I had had no experiencing one
in the company did-and 1t looked
for while as if Id never have the
courage to ask for job. Finally
they announced further additions
1 got up and spoke my speeches
emoted my emotions. and there ]
was in the company
There were two companies at
the time. the Broadway and the
road ones. Miss Gerber found her.
self first a member of the latter
Afterward, however, she played in
the New York company, found
them little different in any respect
Unlike so many members OF the
companies in which she has played
Labor Stages enduring revue. Miss
Gerber has managed to fall in love
with some one engaged in another
enterprise All any one can find Out
about him from Miss Gerber is q
brief, conventional Hes wonder
tul.' II she eventually chooses not
10 have a career, he will be the
reason. He, and Miss Gerbers no
ton that it would be fine to have a
family Of, say, II children.
Some of the other things one
finds out about Miss Gerber at
luncheon are that she doesn't have
to watch her figure, she can eat
accordingly like a Redskin tackle,
that she likes to travel, that she
recalls playing at the White House
as marvellous experience, and tina.
watermelon is one of her most pro-
found yearnings.
The chances of picking up a
string of degrees, including doc
torates in philosophy, are pretty
slim when you go to work at the
age of IA. But Miss Gerber has not
allowed that lack of opportunity to
dampen her ardor for knowledge.
She reads some pretty sound people
Eugene O'Neill more fervidly than
any one else. She has been so in.
tense in her O'Neill study that she
IShed plays. Ten times is the mini
mum she has read any of them.
Another playwright Miss Gerber
admireS is Clifford Odets, the par
ticular victim of one of the most
satlrlcal sketches in Pins and
Needles"
Intelligent girl, Miss Gerber. and
about as radical as your old grand
mother. She thinks it's fine that
the company is opening the Ma
tlonals new season, and then going
touring for 10 months to Los
Angeles and all the way back.
She doesn't think the movies
will snare her when she is in Holly
wood. She was there once before
and they didn't.
That's all We know about Miss
Gerber.
About the Mayflower Lounge
however, we know its annual cham
payne and orchids opening is set
now for Friday, October 4. and that
the management is already working
furiously to make the debut at least
terrific. Dance team will be Don
Lopez and Elizabeth Barrat that
what her parents should have
named her if they didn't, last seen
here in Max Gordon's lavish Very
Warm for May" Bonnie Boyd,
radio songstress, will sing to the
accompaniment of Dick Rooms Or
chestra, and, as an equivalent for
Giovanni, the pickpocket man, Ma
gician Russell Swami will come
along this time
Look your sleekest!
Another opening to jou down.
after reading Jack Varela S letter of
reproof, amplif1cation and correc-
ton is L'Escargot's Versailles room.
Says Mr.. Varela, quite amiably
considering our remissness:
In recent column following
the opening of the Troika, you
listed the names of others of the
towns bright spots which were
still to come. And L'Escargot's
Versailles room was beautifully
conspicuous by its absence!
For publicity man-even
though he is turned manager
you must realize what a blow
that was to me- One of Washing
tons chercest jernts and nary a
word!