Evening star., 1950-03-12
Leqit Theaters Proud
Of Old Locations
New Goyety Cites Old Vic and Scores
OF Others off Fashions Avenues
BY Joy Cormody

The management Of the New Gayety Theater
pair of larks about its rebh washngton legitimate
Its first week wmpole
went ne and the next seven weeks are blocked
sngy They will include such attractions "oodby Fancy"
March 21Aprl g. with and Haa Stoddard "A
national company prize play
Mae West in "she Done Wrong"
There hythe standard mnimum-in the Gayetys
ointment, however
This has to do with faint feeling here and there about the
community that the New Gayety fashonb located
people think theater should be.
The the New Gayety has for this would like
to have know namely that Of the great old leg
mate heates the world fashonab located
opera houses either In this category to be found such world
renowned drama institutions the Old Vic the comede Francae
Covent Garden and of others.
AS BELTS old institutions they built
cities which time growth have had tendency diminish
in architectural charm
For that matter all of New Yorks theaters are similarly
ocated-we Side
in the distinctly questionable Eighth
This something the would like
every one realize that 1t just what comes OF being an old art
like the thater instead of upsart like
say the movies.
Starting Thursday Of this Warner Bros adventure
the last decade The curiosity question that of what would
happen theater book Academy
No less goaded by the speculation than else Frank
La Falce who directs the Warner and Metropolitan Theaters de-
cded to make the experiment the latter house.
The question always has been how who missed
these quality would like to catch
them, how them would like to repeat?
Not all the pictures did make the Academy nomination list for
the awards which will be week but all
opening Thurs
day. continuing through following Wednesday, will
show on successive days she Wore yellow Ribbon" white
Heat The Satton Story" Come the Stable Pinky" and
"Ihe Window"
OF the pictures the solitary exception the rule of
eral popularity The Window 1t of the critics ia
vorite pictures the If should high this unique
reshowing. would be surprised.
AS go, the movies has
with anything so provocative in a long time.
There of measuring which set of Washingonians
certainly
other candidate would be those performed
the audience Of the 22d play tournment
programs including finals heldsin Rooe
welt High School auditorium which ealess daily from o'clock
Toughest the five nights Saturday March which
found auditorium without the afternoon before
and with the outside temperature the winters low.
Nevertheless banketed audience just like the at late
November football through the Of four plays
with hardhood their ancestors could have admired.
In the % of the tournament recalls that
xed which happened to be the of the winning
produced by the Neighborhood Players Jnxed the
unanimous choice of the four local drama critics who acted
Judges of the finals Thursday nighwch not cold
There nothing that about it, perhaps but
anly something should about that line in Dear Hearts
People" They read the
Good Book, from Fri til Monday's
Sun Mon, Tue Wed Thurs and Sat have never been humi
lated In the fashion.
Why should Fri be singled out for such treament