Evening star., 1944-10-01
The Three First Ladies
By Jay Carmody.

From midmorning until on Thursday there
was long line Of patient front National
Iheater waiting to buy seats to Ethel Barrymore
1t must be nice to be loved that much by public"
passerby commented to her companion
1T also hne perhaps finer considering its rarity among
actresses that these people should be loved by Miss
companion said she years and at
in New York and being content But during years
dult wartime transportation Miss Barrymore travelled
had during all the before in all of her great hits
will travel this perhaps when she older
run long season in New York"
light at Thirteenth and streets said Walk"
companion silent the scrred the intersection
the most-scurryng intersection in Washington
Theater First
again, he resumed:
"You see things Barrymore Cornell
have always known and will forget that
the theater institution
That why they ladies theater
second third and fourth ladies concernedwe in the
postwar public may they
pay their visits the provinces They love themselves
than the theater. Miss Barrymore does not
Considering three first ladies group it probably
Barrymores turn to be in New York this
Cornell Europe playing Ihe Barretts of Wimpo Street"
for G audiences and with ladyhke for the metropolitan
cautioned her that bit subtle
turnouts.
land in Harriet timely play than good yet
obeated in the of her performance
that the hnterland afford to be-
New York. suenderng Miss Barrymore for in four
lhei oeemnauoh 10 carry the tneater 10 te 1artnes
reaches of the country despite the hardshps of travel playing
without rushing from late train to start
without meal beforehand the
love and for the public shown the three first
Ladies OF the tneater
None of intelligence by playing down to it,
They have much pride themselves and Of the
relax performance the assumption that the diff
ference will be detected.
Standard Never Changes
That of the things that has drawn especial comment
IN connection with Miss Cornes warfront tour in The Bare
outstanding aspects Hayes
in Victoria Regina period of such length that actress
great might regard giving right down
mite performance gratefully noted handsomely
rewarded in the of Miss Washington
Green had than
beforee first good play of dreary seaonand had been
running almost continuously thereafter but Miss Barymores
pride her portrait of the beloved Miss Moet high
day she first created it before audience
The standards of this trio in remarkable those
Of another famous actress whose performance of the central role
In weltraveed hit few atrocously
done its Washington that the playwright driven
OF the theater in disgust
Hollywood
has been the custom of Broadway laugh
temptousy Hollywood "hokng
up play script for the vastly larger audience OF the 1t is
trick old almost the hear and the movies-which
sounder commercial position feel pretty about it
wanted bother they would have trouble pointing
they had learned it.
particularly pat illustration Of the extreme to which the
movies have adopted the practice evident local this
the original who have fortunate have learned
Cornell will find exaggerated until be-
ravesty of a farce, extremely popular farce
with deep impression
much difference between standards of the theer first
ladies and the heater generally Broadway exist
between itself and Hollywood.