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Office Building said right of that its
"She could do 1t, of course the
voice added.
We agreed entirely with the
pleasant voice and the words it said
But" we went on, do you have
any definite word on her plan to dc
SOP"
stamford is her. home area" the
pleasant voice hedged politely. "And
you can count upon her doing some
thing with her recess period. I dc
not know that it will be playing the
leading role in Candida but she
will be busy"
We have a suspicion that, begin
ming August 6, Miss Luce WILL be
playing Candida, and we have q
further suspicion that she will dc
very well in a role that has been
attracting the foremost actresses
of the United States and England
ever since Bernard Shaw wrote it
OF those actresses we have seen
Laurette Taylor, Katharine Cornell
and Cornelia Otis Skinner, which
is not large proportion of them
see Mrs. Luce do the part, with q
conviction that she would make ar
especially beguiling Candida, despite
the fact she has never acted be-
fore.
One of the reasons we believe
she will do it is that the next week
in the Stamford playhouse will be
dark. 1t is not usual for such a
thing to happen. 1t requires full
payment of the permanent COM
pany, which we think Is being al
lowed to lay off for more lengthy
and adequate rehearsals with a par
ticular guest star.
Mrs. Luce fits that premise ideally
and we are quite positive her Can.
dida, if there is one, will more than
adequately compensate Stamford
audiences for a week of dark the.
ater, and the producer for paying
his company during that week.
Well be sorry to have missed it
LoeW's, Inc, has a new telephone
number, Republic 1000, which we re.
cord not merely for your information
but even more because it is gooe
news to mere than the drama desl
Of The Star. The old number, Metro.
politan 5001, was so close to The
Stars National 5000-1-2, ETC., thai
the papers switchboard operator,
have been answering scores of call,
on the question, when does the mex
picture start?"
And, SO far as the drama depart.
,ment is concerned, it won't have any
more the humiliating experience OF
merely having to hang up when
having tried to dial Loew,s, 1t got
the answer, Evening Star" You
can't go on admitting all your life
to your favorite operators that yol
only know how, accurately, to dia
your own number.
1t was mighty fine of Loew's anc
the telephone company to have
worked out the new deal, we think.
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One of the facets of Back tc
Bataan" of which Washingtonian.
will generally approve is that the
producers finally found the right
actor to play Gen. skinny" Vain
wright, who so long served as c. o
at Fort Myer. He was not an easy
actor to find, but the studio finally
landed him in the person of Johr
MILAN, who had just returned from
a seven months USO tour. A dozer
other actors had been tested, wher
news Of Miljan's return reached
the studio. His test was the only one
that reasonably represented the re.
semblance to the officer upon which
the producer insisted.
MILAN, incidentally, is one of tn,
few actors who bridges the gap from
the silent picture to the talkies.
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Waits and strays: Justin williams
who used to play piano at the Gas.
cade Theater in Newcastle, Pa, thu
first venture Of Warner Bros. ints
the motion picture business, i.
father of Rhys Williams who play,
the principal male role in THE Corr
Is Green" Oscar Karlweiss, IL
for two months following his ia.
tiguing role in "Jacobowsky and ths
Colonel" Is almost fully recovered