Evening star., 1943-06-09

at the Earle on Friday Of this week.
Its stars are Humphrey Bogart and
Raymond Massey, its cast one of the
most elaborate the cinema has COL
lected to pay honor to a branch of
the Nations vital services.
X X X
OF all the occupational hazards
the machine age has produced, the
best we ever heard was the seuuin
hazard faced by ice skaters. Movie ice
skaters, of course, since the standard
kind are not likely to run into
sequins.
The sequin hazard is Sonia Henies
great worry in "Wintertime, an lev
thing which is expected to cure the
war picture headache Of the public.
Ihey drop off ballet costumes onto
the Ice and If. and when, a skater
hlts one, a mere compound fracture
would be regarded as a lucky break.
To see that nothing like that hap
pens the Ice is vacuumed between
takes and much more thoroughly
than the average living room.
twentieth Century-F Fox quite logi-
cally puts high value on Miss
Henie and the cleaner who over
looked a sequin would live in infamy
around the studio. If he lived at all.
Ha1rpins used to be the chief
source of worry until sequin became
part OF the movie skaters para
phernana.
ihe Army wife group in Washing
ton Will gain notable addition in
the next few days in the person of
Miss Ruth Gordon. Miss Gordon
In private life the wife of Pvt.
Carson Kanin, will join her husband
here for the summer at the conclu-
sion Of the Chicago engagement of
The Three Sisters" on Saturday.
Along with Miss Katharine Cor
nell and Miss Judith Anderson, Miss
Gordon shares the distinction of
participating in the longest run of
the Chekov play in English-or any
other language except the Russian.
In helping set that record, she gave
one OF the most brilliant perform
ances OF a brilliant career.
Her associates, the Misses Cornell
and Anderson. will spend the sum-
mer Victory gardening.
So far as this department knows.
the kanins have no garden, or even
a window box, in common with the
majority of wartime washington
mans.
Washington's Stage Door Canteen
u pleasantly richer and the Willard
Roof Players are correlatively
launched upon their season as a re-
suit OF the benefit opening Monday
night OF Bertha, the Sewing Ma
chine Girl" In addition to drawing
packed audience, the venerable
melodrama-With beer and pretzels
demonstrated that Director Rich
ard Midgley has put together his
best company this season.
Monday nights performance. tar
dy In starting, waned in brilliance
as the performance ran on and on,
but Director Midgley probably was
more acutely aware of that than
even the most perceptive OF the
customers
Bib Osterwald, Natalie Core.
Theodore Tiller, the outstanding
local players in the Willard troupe,
gave every evidence of blending
brightly with such professionals as
Louise Kelley, Mary Jane Kersey
John Regan, Fred Hillebrand and
others imported from Broadway for
the summer season.
That happy overlapping of the
arts and the industries which makes
entertainment so much more enter
tanning will have its pretty effect
upon Friday nights opening concert
at the Water Gate In person, it
will bring Kenneth Spencer of the
movies, currently to be seen in eel
luloid in "Bataan." In person, it
also will bring Muriel Rain, whom
you should remember from The
Pirates" where she was associated
with the Lunts-or maybe from
"Porgy and Bess," with which she
toured as understudy for Anne
Brown until the Lunts beckoned her
to join them in S. H. Behrman's
whimsical charade, which closed
month ago due to the illness of Mrs.
Lunt. which is what We always have
wanted to call Miss Fontanne.