Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1927, Page 60

AMU In the Loca SEMENTS. | Playbouses BY FIRST FEW tense moments developed at one of our playho week, that for a evidence of becoming tremely dramatic if not ex Bsational. was doing the entertaining. duo remarked to the other: you heard the latest Scotch joke? negative shake of the head follo and the first speaker said: “F Lauder is going to give $25 mother of the Unknown Soldier.’ Many laughs followed and as noise quieted down somewhat, tinct hiss came from the left the orchestra se Instantly the quiet and as heads turned to the left, of the joke remarked rotchman.” At this young man arose to his ; I'm not Scotch the originator “Evidently a point a tall feet and said but I think vour joke taste. That poor boy out at A and his mourning mother should hallowed in the minds of all Americans and not figure in jokes.” The cries of approval that followe the little speech almost shook the house and for a few minutes things had a squally look for the pair on the stage. Finally, by raising his hand and walking to the front of the stage, partial quiet was restored by the actor, and he said: “I apologize for my thoughtlessness and the gentleman is entirely right. 1 served three vears in France with an Ohio regiment and I'll guarantee you all that my joke will never be repeated by me and if I hear it anywhere I am going to call down the speaker just as this gentleman has done.” The apology saved the day, ap- plause followed and the act went on First Nighter tried to get the re- buker's name, but he was refused. The voung man remarked that a similar joke would have caused a riot in any other country. whether Italians are among romantlc sur- in the byways of our appear to have at Jeast some music in their souls and now and then a real star shoots across the horizon. The latest genius 4n the vocal world is Marie Vero, who recently graduated from Manhattan Public School No. 1 and been ac. claimed by voice critics and theate - men as the vocal find of the genera tion. In her appearance at Keith's last week Miss Vero created some- thing of a sensation, demonstrating eonclusively that in a year’'s time she would be out in front with the real prima donnas of grand opera. No matter born in Italy roundings or big cities, they Stage Note Anne Shoemaker, Kathryn Givney wnd Virginia Williams are in the cast of “Gossip,” which George Macfar- lane is producing. A London production of ‘“The Desert Song” opens on April 4. Lau rence Schwab and Bobby Connolly will sail from New York the latter part of this month to stage it. Eva La Galliene probably will re. bpen her repertory season next tember, after a Summer’s rest, *Camille.” Laetitia McDonald, who wrote “Lady Alone,” is revising her All Back and No Front.” which is wchal- Jled for New York in March. with the new play by Arthur arrive in New York next v night, with Florence El- dridge, McKay Morris and Lucile Wat- ®on in the cast. After a road tour of several months ¥rances Starr opened her play in PBrooklyn last Monday and may go into a Broadway house later. Arthur Byron continues opposite Miss Starr. After holding the rights to Piran- dello’s three-act comedy, “Right You Are If You Think You Are,” for more than two years, the New York Theater Guild has decided to produce the play shortly in special matinees. Ruth Hale las been engaged to fashion a libretto from Elinor Wylie's novel, “The Venetian Glass Nephew,” which the York Intimate Opera Co. plans to present. Noel Coward's most recent play, #The Marquise,” may soon be seen #n New York. Marie Tempest is pro ducing it in Lond Sacha Guitry klosed their New York engagement Jast night and begin a tour in #Mozart” of Montreal, Possibly other cities. Word from Edgar Selwyn, at Palm ch, is to the effect that the Anita s-John Emerson dramatization of iss Loos' serial, *Why Girls outh,” is nearing completion and that e {8 planning to give it a try-out this pring after he returns from super. 5 ¥Gentlemen Prefer Rlondes.” “The Scarlet Lils,” by David pold,” billed as a rlag “of the day gBfter the big parade, York last Monday nigh. Sidney Greenstreet smale role opposite P ‘“The Biter Bitten,’ Davis. He was refent Humble” at the Grel ising the London presentation of gy Wood en in wich Theater. & F R The new Dillinghant show, Philadeiphia during the week of Feb- ruary 28. A play entitled has been placed in rehearsal. Bpong is also in the cast The cast of “Window Panes,” which Charles L. Wagner :s producing, wil include Eileen Huban, Charles Dalton, time gave sen- The house was crowded at the time and a song and dance team To gain & little time for breathing, one of the “Have 000 to the nd Yvonne Printemps Boston and Go Ar- épened in New s the leading in #by Dorrance with Mary Eaton as its sta¥, will open in “Thé Cloak of Pe- nelope,” with Lionel Atwill as its star, Hilda Miss Vero re Seen by.First Nighter. with the wisdom of a grown-up, fused to talk about herself, but lavished praise upon President Alhee of the Keith circuit for giving her the chance to advance in her vocal work. “He gives me so much money," said little Marie, “and next vear I go to Rome to stud; And she clapped her hands in glee over the expected trip. Miss Vero's first appearance here recalls the debut of the Ponselle sis. (ters, Carmela and Rose, at Keith's [about 10" vears ago. Their singing created a sensation and their salarie jumped from $250 a week to $800 in one season. They were both around {the 17.yearold mark. Two years |1ater they were in grand opera, each | receiving $2,000 for single perform | ances. If Bert Lytell continues many more asons in vaudeville it will be rA se good man gone wrong,” and all h the need of a good play. Bert ken fiving leaps at plays that looked good, lost all his savings, and returned to the twoa-day to recuper {ate his finances. But I'm nt through yet.” and Lytell to the First | Nighter one afternoon last week. “And {I'm ready any time to make a try for | hit in the legitimate.” One of the {best things of Lytell's act last week was his curtain speech, when he wound up with the sentence that he didn't consider it work to appear be fore such an enthusiastic audience, but a privilege. There has been “no foolin' " with the big National Press Club Building, at Fourteenth and F streets, and the chances are the theater portion of the edifice will be ready for A. H. Woods not later than the first of August. The iron work is almost completed. The small details in decorating take | time, but Mr. Woods sends word that when he opens the house it will be fully completed. of Miss Nordstrom in ¥ recalls the fact that at l\lanl\nt there are very, very few quick-fire comediennes on the Ameri- can stage, the death of Ada Lewis re- moving the queen of them all. Try to count on your fingertips the number of talking comediennes there are, | women who depend entirely on their lines for laughs, and you'll he sur- prised. Start with Marie Nordstrom, then Helen Broderick, now with a_ big New Yark show, and then—stop. Win nie Lightner is funny, but along en tirely different lines, as are a half dozen others in the same class. Ada Lewis set a hard task for actresses to follow, and very few have done it. S and News Ruth Finley and Brandon Peters. The play, which opens in Brooklyn next week, is the work of Olga Printzlau. “Interference,” -a play by Roland Pertwee and Harold Deardon, was pro- duced recently in London by Gilbert Miller and Gerald Du Maurier, with the latter in the leading role. This piece will be done in New York next season by Mr. Miller for the Frohman Corporation. “Ostrich,” another p! by Martin Brown, will be the opening bill of the Alberti Players in DBrooklyn next Tuesday evening. Ruth Dayton will have the leading role. “The Zoo,” formerl lled “What Fun Frenchmen Have,” by Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith, opens in London next week with a distin- guished east. Morrissey’s “satirical musical “Polly of Hollywood,” will tomorrow night ew York next week. Midgie Millor is the featured player. Earl Carroll is identified with a new cnmedw 'What Anne Brought Home,” v Larry Johnson. It is to be staged b,\ Ralph Walling. Rehearsals will start at once. “Savages Under the Skin,” L. Foster and ‘Wyman Proctor, follow “Lally” eventually at Greenwich Village Theater, York. “Stolen Blond by George Craft, is announced for vroduction by David H. Wallace, co-rroducer of “Lady Alone,” now running in New York. by Harry will the New P r e s entin, Keith ‘Popular Priced Vaue- 22 X0 ?‘ ¢ it oto- of the de. LAFF 1 I)ANL'I'NG. OF. AND MRS. L. 127 10th st. n.w —Clasies Mon.. Fri. 8 11 pmo With orehestra, - Brivate Irasons. b sbpointment. Fr. 8567, Eat. 1900. 10% - CATHERINE BALLE Valencia. black hottom, waltz, tango. clog, fo: sembly. Tues.. Orchestra. 710 9th: " Letla Fowlt':r Studio e \lantle 483, you_to dance col in a few leason M, it orchasice. B e waitz T-n;o Valencia. Latest variations. 6 "~ THE FOX STUDIO &fiffi"r’.‘m‘.‘#‘?’m‘ BEATRICE COLES ——recently of the professional stage. offers thorough training in ballet, acrobaiic. ch . refined ballroom_dancing an: ok 8'" leston UDI( one: Col. 75 Aams Mrs. Mae Davison 1820 M &t. X.W. Phone Main 1132 . Waltz-Clog. 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They are Sally Phipps, Helen Costelio, Gladys Me- Connell, Natalie Kingston and Mary McAllister. Sally Phipps, who is under long | term contract to Fix Films, has just completed the feminine lead in “Love | Makes 'Em Wild." an attraction di- rected by Albert Ray. Helene Costello is playing opposite Tom Mix in “The Bromcho Twiste ted by O, O, " adys McConnell is cast in ““Mar- riage,’ screen version of H. G.| Wells' novel, directed by R. William | talie Kingston just flnlnhod work Love Makes "Em Wil | ary McAllister will m seen in a picture starring Blanche Sweet and | directed by John Griffith Wray. RED' SCHEUSSLER, now casting divector of the United Artists’ stu- | dio, was the former head of the casting | offices at Warner Brothers, Universal City, Metro-Goldwyn and other big | motion picture plants. He is the first chief of the newly created department on the United Artists’ lot, all the units having previously followed the policy | of individual selection of screen talent. | As chief of what are said to be the film world's most modern casting of- | fices, just opened in a new building. | | Scheussler will choose players and | extra talent for the Joseph M. Schenck | groups (the Norma and Constance Tal. | madge companies), Feature Produc tions, Inc. (John Barrymore, the Dun- | can Sisters and others), the Mary | Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks or- ganizations, Caddo Productions ma] various United Artists’ units. F lm SCX'Ct HII HOPC! EVERY girl of the original Floradora sextet of the stage hecame famous either by a brilliant marriage or in some other w: Now the girls of the motion picture Floradora sextet, assembled for the Wallace Beery pie- ture, “Casey at the Bat.” have their eves on the high road to fame and fortune. Ann Sheridan ix the latest of the screen Floradora girls to receive the “big _break.” She has been selected as leading woman for Raymond Griffith's next picture, “Beautiful Women.” Sally Blane, another, was selected as leading woman for Wal- lace R‘el"!"! production, “The Big Sneeze,” while Tris Stuart, a third, hu been made a Wampus baby st: assigned to an m\porunt role in “Chu- dren of Divorce. New Billie Dove Stories AN unmistakable indication First National regards the con- tinued rise of Billie Dove to a posi- tion of eminence in the film world as a foregone conclusion iy the care with which vehicles for this charming young actress are being selected. John McCormick, manager of West Coast production, has just announced the purchase of two im- portant stories which will feature Miss Dove. One of these is_ “‘American Beauty,” a story by Wallace Irwin, recently published in the Saturday Evening Post, and the other is a story by Adela Rogers . Johns, “The Heart of a Follies (‘lr! and appeared in another prominent magazine some time ago. Miss Dove is preparing to start ork in “The Tender Hour.” George Fitzmaurice’s initial preduction under his new contract with Firet National, in which she will be co-featured with Ben Lyon, under the personal guid- ance of John McCormick. . Natli Barr, famous Russian mn and stage beauty, was recently si; by First National Picturestoa ong term contract. The charming player was born in Leningrad—as it is now called—and is one of a family of six daughters. She came to Paris to appear in the films, and there g.lch-rd A. Rowland saw and signed er. “Naughty But Nice” will be the third of Colleen Moore's present series of pictures produced by John Me- Cormick. It has to do with girl col- legians. that WEEK Funny Comedy Pl ;’ul REVIVI Myrna Loy and Helene, two of the younger stars of the Hollywood colony, bowling on the green near their studio. > AN OLD SPORT | Hollywood and 1927—PART 3. AMUSEMENWTS. “Black Ivory™” to Be Filmed pm AN BANKS, young author of Black Ivory.” has arrived in adds another to the | list of literary lights who are fast be- coming a part of the film colony Banks Ix only 21 vears old, but has |attained world fame as the author of last vear's best seller, “Black Ivory." | historical novel dealing with the life | eareer. | into | tolerance.” | vehicle. of Jean La Fitte, famous American pirate of the early nineteenth century Warner R)l)'hprfl_ who nwn the screen rights to “Black Ivory,” intend to produce it this year on a magnifi cent scale, reconstructing the War of 1812 period in authentic style. Her Thirtieth Picture | CONSTANCE TALMADGES latest comedy, “Venus of Venice,” is the thirtieth major picture of her screen It is a little more than 10 vears since Miss Talmadge first burst fame in D. W. Grifita’s “In- which now is Neilan, director, Venus of Venics being cut by Marshal ) and Hal Kern, film editor for the Joseph M. Schenck organization, is perhaps Constance’s most ambitious 1t has been in production at the United Artists Studio for nearly three months, and during the past two | weeks the company has been working { day and night to finieh it in time for | of e scheduled early release by First National. Written hy Wallace Smith, the story Venus of Venice'' revolves around the adventures of a reckless young water gypsy who steals hearts and purses in the pleasure haunts of the Italian canal_city Towering Venetian palaces, replicas of famous structures now standing in the historic city. and_a network of canals were constructed on the United Artists lot for “Venus of Venice. ADOLPHE MENJOU, the Paramount star, credits his success on the screen to the haberdashers. “Clothes made me what T am to- day,” says Mr. Menjou, in quietly as an actor who is willing to admit that his histrionic ability is not the sole cause of his prosperity. ® Generally recognized “the best dressed man on the screen.” Menjou declares that any actor who fails to make a thorough and scientific study of his wardrobe is in the position of an exclusive merchant who permits the interior furnishings or the en- trance to his establishment to become shoddy and out of date. othes are an actor's stock in trade,” says Menjou. “I frequently buy an entire new wardrobe for one picture. 1 have a tailor who is literally an artist. My shirts, collars and shoes are made to order. The less conspicuous things, sometimes overlooked, like neckties, socks, hand- kerchiefs, etc., are also extremely im- IIQIIHAIIIOFF REAT PIANIST Monday, Feb. 21, 4:30 Dln‘ ~ CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FRITZ REINER, Conduetor. Memorial Continental Hall, D. A. R. Sat. Eve., Fob. 10—8:30. hl«% '1-. P h-. FRITZ KREISLER vmuun—ra s, Tues. Feb. 8, 438 | Seats Mrs. Greene's Comeert Droop’s, 13th and G. M. 6403, CURRENT EVENTS I.ECTURI:'S By William Rufus Scott Every Monday Morning, 11 O’Clock AT RAUSCHER’S Single Aiipisviae, 88 Canta Current History Lectures CLARA W. McQUOWN Every Friday, 11 AM. Alzt-‘i';.fil“. 17th & K as NATIONAL STRING QUARTET with CHARLES T. TITTMANN, Basse Sunday Evening, February 6 ot Jowish Community Center 16th at Q. Pot. 3693, Tickets now on sale, $1.50. placing himself in a class by himself | | WED., FEB. 16, at 8—Verdi's Tuneful and Melodious THURS. MAT,, FEB. 17, Franco Alfano’s Based on Tolstoi’'s immortal story, ‘Salurday - Clothes Make the Man portant and T select them with care. M “It is, of course,” savs “next to impossible to expect a man on an salary h impec average ble dresser. to of the well-dressed man.” The Master,” a cemedy Flamma, will be presented soon American Stage Producing tion. rosco, Saturday, February 12th, at 3 WASHINGTON HOTEL Doctor Frederick Paulding iy A Review of the Modern Drama “SOME ILAYS_-GOOD AND BAD— for m- Mnefi The Bgmldml runghnr Blessed e hevy Chage Ticketa $1.00 Tlx the door or_from Mis ander. Fast Bradles Chase, Md.. 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CHICAGO GRAND OPERA COMPANY —TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY— POLI'S THEATER, February 16 and 17 “THE MASKED BALL" ALL STAR CAST with Rosa Raisa, Cyrena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall, Richard Bonelli, Lodovico Oliviero, Virgillo Lazzari; corps de ballet. Giorgio Polacco condueting. “* “RESURRECTION” with Mary Garden, Lorna Doone Jackson, Alice d’Hermanoy, Maria Claessens, Theodore Ritch, Jose Mojica, Cesare Formichi and a dis- tinguished cast. Roberto Moranzoni conducting. Complete Scenic Productions, Personnel and Orchestra Prices 88, §7, $6, $4; no tax. On sale at Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Concert Bureau, Droop's, 18th and G, Main 6498, and Mayflower, Willard and Carlton Hotels. GALLI-GURCI Washington Auditorium, Next Wed. Eve., Feb. 9, 8:30 Prices—48.00, 4275, §8.90, 31.05, uu Why He ertes Plays BY OWEN DAVIS. NG the author of some 107 play a friend asked me the other The Family why I didn’t stop working and rest on | first important my laurels. i > type, lately prevalent, I could stop and be contented but | concerning a husband, son and a I never would he happy. The theater | siren, with the wife playing & none is my life. 1 love it. and I love more | too innoc part to write plays. When 1 stepped off | But “The Detour” was really the A train 30 vears ago, fresh from Har- | best thing 1 ever did. It was just & vard, with a play under my #rm, I|litile picture of farm life, centering on started a _career that knew nothing (a young woman's ambitior to hecome but hardships for many years. 1 be-|an artist—an ambition impossible of came part of the theater. I made up | realization, but I'm proud of it. It my mind to write “theater” for the | was far better than “Icebound,” which theater, and that's one of the rea-| was awarded the Pulitzer prize, sons, perhaps, why I've never written| 1 wrote melodramas when I first came from Harvard because there were no college men writing plays in those days and 1 had most of the field 0 myself. There was a hig demand for melodramas and for the next year I turned them out at the rate of about one a month. They call me plays, but reaily play ot GAYET LADIES' CLUB THEATER Hurtle & Seamon Offer THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON A RED-BLOODED DRAMA OF THE TIOPIGS‘ New York er After sharing hon- and “The day Cuphoard” was my play. This was & a sex play 1 get fun out of writing plavs. 1 mood myself for a week or two-to a tragedy, a farce, or whatever I feel | {like writing—and enjoy the experi ences of the people in my play | 1 made the most money out of *For | ever After” and “The Nervous Wreck" | —it was a toss-up between them for a | financial high-water mark. “Sinners” the auther of 107 I've written nearer Twice Daily 2:15-8:15 LADIES MAT. DAILY, %8¢ NCING GIRLS The Greatest Thrill of the Ages NEXT WEERK—'BIG SENSATION” WEITHY BEGINNING SUNDA. MAT. AT 3:15 TWO GREAT HEADLINERS FOR EXTRA MEASURE The Chic, Talented and KEITH-ALBER VAUDEVILLE The World's Greatest Artists Eaclusively A Cycle of Original and Humorous Song Stories Brtre Co-Headline /- Attraction EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION The Equisitely Beautiful “BALLET CAPRICE” Featuring BRODERICK & FELSEN and W. 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