Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-21

Tenth and F streets will be God
Is My Co-Pilot," product of such
budgetary size as to indicate that
the Nets subsequent bookings will
be top flight. Further indicative of
the same are such followup pic
lures as "The Horn Blows at Mid
night" with Jack Benny and Alexis
Smith; The Corn Is Green" with
Bette Davis In the role which Ethel
Barrymore played for three sea-
sons on the stage; Rhapsody in
Blue" the screen biography of the
late George Gershwyn: Conflict"
starring Humphrey Bogart; MY
Reputation" which will present
Barbara Stanwyck; and Saratoga
Trunk" with Ingrid Bergman and
Garry Cooper.
John Payette and his associates
want it understood that the Met
ropolitan will be a house of that
caliber.
The organizations Ambassador
theater which has been showing
releases coincidentally with the
Earle now will alternate those of
that house and the Met.
The higher quality of pictures
from Hollywood and the growth of
the National Capital, primary fac
tors in the increased length of run
of major screen plays, has dictated
the change which goes into effect
in the company's secondary down.
town theater.
Dollar donations to the 100000
fund being raised to launch the
Washington Municipal Theater are
now being sought by special sub
committee of Mrs. Emil Hurja's
group in charge of the financial
drive. The special committee is
composed of Charles Zurhorst,
chairman, Harry Anger of the Earle
theater, George Muth, jeff Abel, and
Charles Stofberg, special assistant
to the President of the Board Of
Commissioners of the District.
Subscriptions, totaling any num-
Der of dollar bills that happen to
be handy. may be sent to the
theater offices, 309 Tivoli Theater
Bldg, Fourteenth street and Park
Roard, NV
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Felix Aylmer who plays the lead
In Mr.. Emmanuel' at the Capitol
theater may not be known widely
in this country, but he was deemed
in his own to be the one man
capable of stepping into the shoes
of Noel Coward to play the title
role in the picture.
Previous commitments made 1t
impossible for Coward to keep his
assignment to play the part of the
gallant elderly Jew whose British
passport and British pride and
sense of honor enabled him to tri-
umph over the Nazis in one of the
most dramatic missions ever under
taken to Germany.
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Theater Guild subscribers will be
required to do a bit of adjusting
when Sing Out, Sweet Land" opens
at the National on the night of
May l.
That will be Tuesday. but for
purposes of ticket use, it might just
as well be a Monday, the regular
opening night of Guild productions
in Washington.
First-night subscribers will find
their tickets good that performance.
Second -nighters will attend on We'd
nesday, and so on throughout the
two-week engagement of Walter
Kerr's musical.
Bib Osterwald and Ted Tiller,
who got their starts as entertain
ers in Washington, are prominent
members of the cast. which is head
ed by Americas outstanding trouba-
dour, Burl Ives.
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A wire from Bill Fields of the
Playwrishts' Co.:
Reference your column on Play
wrights' Co. sometime ago, you will
be interested to know Maxwell An
derson, Elmer Rice and S. N Behr-
man have just completed new plays
and Robert E. Sherwood is two
thirds along with his. All are I'M
titled at this stage except Behr-