Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1928, Page 57

- Theater, Screen AMUSEMENT e SECTION Sy Star, Motors and Motor Touring [\} WASHINGTON, Bonzo” and Syvan DELL- Pslace. Old Favorite s and New Friends in the Playhouse BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. theater asserted itself witix extraordinary impressive- ness. The domestic farce “Tommy” proved one of the best examples of its type; unassuming, juvenile. Pointing no great moral and hint- ing at no imminent social danger, 4t showed the influence so often exerted by the “prize play” in sug- esting the rattle of skillets in the earby kitchen and the flaunting ©f the Monday banners on the ‘backyard clothesline With “Tommy” as a point of modern mediocratic security, the theater diverged to the extremes of the most respected classicism represented by Shylock, and in “Good News” the most advanced revelation so far made possible by the expanding resources of the theater exploited by the richest country on earth. * % ox What the ' attentive observer may think of Arliss as Shylock be- comes unimportant as compared with what Arliss himself thinks of the role. The character of the old Venetian money lender has Jong been a problem and has been from time to time on acrimonious lines. For this there is no excuse, as it may be urged in all logical candor that, after all, in the midst of insulting prodigal- 8ty Shylock stands forth with ‘monumental patience until goad- ed to extremes in a resentment which human nature could not escape. In spite of his fury when his provocations and motives are Mrankly analyzed it becomes quite possible to look at the plot from 2n unusual angle and regard him 25 the only instinctive gentleman in the cast. * x % Arliss interpretation of 3hylock does not relapse entirely into the traditional concept of a bloodthirsty monster who, with rupernatural prescience, know. that ships will be wrecked and contrives deliberately to entrap his commerclal rival into a mur- FTER a temporary wavering A in purpose the Washington “little bedtime story” a guiding influence in drama and literature. Even if an interesting pace is set it has become customary to draw the event out until it is so long that everybody yawns. No play has ever stood more completely for the triumph of the poet in drama than the “Mer- chant of Venice.” All effort tc overwhelm what has become the central role with obloquy has | lacked the support of popular interest because of Shylock's searching human analysis. A story based largely on the impu- dence of Bassanio, a self-confi- dent cockscomb, who risks a friend’s life in order that he may go a-fortune hunting, would be rejected as absurd even if offered | in similar guise to a director in Hollywood. The climax of the plot is negligible in most of the Shakespeare plays, the real climax of each important scene is at- tained by some magnificent ex- pression of thought, in phrase which generations have tried in vzin to imitate. woala How much a singer has the ad- vantage over the purely dramatic artist is shown by an engagement lize that of Arliss. The singer Is regarded as delivering as much as may be reasonably expected if two or three performances a week arc given. The dramatic artist plays six or eight performances and is expected to be without the assis- tance of orchestra or chorus, on temperamental qui vive in every oft-repeated line. It is rather a large order. Ranging from old English poetry to the most ultra-modern- istic style of entertainment, the theater proved its ability to out- jazz itself. “Good News"” fully lived up to the gently prophetic suggestion of its title. It left the old-style revue far behind as it romped and frolicked into the cleaner atmosphere which it has been the fortune of the 1927-23 season to bring about It looked as if “Old Man The- | ater” had explored the paths trod SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1 and PATRICIA COLLINGE- IN THE SPOTLIGHT Notes of the Stage and Its People. “Bachelor Maids," a comedy by Samuel Orange, is announced for early production by the Ray Mont Produc- tions. Willard Mack's play, “The Scarlet Fox,” which was to have opened last week in Atlantic City, has been post- poned until tomorrow night. “The Conquering Male,” a play by Laurence Gross, has been acquired by the Paul Kay Productions, Inc, for production early next season. ! Casting started last week for the | revival of “March Harcs” and the probability is that the satire by Harry Wagstaff Gribble will s00n go into re- hearsal, Richard Bird will have the principal role and three other parts will go to Josephine Hull, Natalie Schafer and Dorothy Stickney. Miss Stickney had the part of Crazy Liz in “Chicago.” The translation of “Hedda Gabler” that Eva Le Galllene will use shortly has been made by her mother, Julie Le Gallienne and Paul Leysaac A Pacific Coast company of “Excess Baggage” opened last week in Los An- in the discovery, when he had his| man, that the latter was also an in- | telligence department operative and | had been trailing him as a suspiclous | character, Clq@: Wagner is getting together his for next season and says he | has enlisted the services of Alice Brady | | for the whole of the 1928-1929 season | and intends to surround. her with a capable company in a new play. The New York Players' Club has ad- | vanced the opening of its all-star pro- duction of “The Beaux Strategem"” from June 1 to May 21. Casting of the play is now under under the direction of David Be and rehearsals are expected 1o | “Martine,” a play from the French of Jean Jacques Bernard, will be pro- duced at the American Laboratory Theater, New York, during the week of | April 2. Robert Edmond Jones has | designed the settings and costumes. | Prologues and Trousers. /\la-l-nonal o LEON NAVARA - Earle g HoLLywoop RepueaDs’ Keiths FRANK C RAVEN-Natioar —— lC‘,u.w ezk of MArch 26 - NMAN = Fox Attractions in Washington Playhouses This Week MUSIC AND DRAMA. NATIONAL—"She Stoops to Conquer,” comedy. Tomorrow eve- ning. POLI'S—“Within the La drama. This evening. BELASCO--"Abie’s Irish Rose,” comedy. This evening. KEITH'S—Babe Egan, vaudeville. This afternoon and evening. GAYETY—"Pretty Babies,” burlesque. This afternoon and eve- | ning. l \ | F derous contract. Arliss makes t character guite human and Jows its developments of rage and hatred to assert themselves step by step as the sto calls them by Ponce de Leon and really dig- | §eles with Robert Woolsey in the lead- HEN Pauline Lord, wearing knee, tury stage, such as “Twelfth Night" covered the fountain of youth 08 role A London production of the W et dand e wig, appears to|and "As You Like It." where the hero- i Charles Wyndham and Sir e Lt . play will be made on April 16. The s clothes, i3, according SiAbe s-Robertson are only a The play of college slang is WOrthY | ariginal company continues successfully | $prak David Garrick's prologue _to| ine wears mens clothes, it ecording FARAmEIE WON udither ) famous actors who have urrfcr"/orzv- Qd': mmso{r o r;;s AL D HEOR whe Bloops to Conquer” ‘at the Arit | the audlence liked their heroines in PEGGYMAYO'Gaye+v- EVAL o e alcie o Contiiern | piaye “She Stoops to Congquer effervescent moments. The wit — sshington performance of George C. . | re S s to Conque ighout its long tory. aims at no philosophical d Richard Watson Tully has written | Tyler's all-star revival of the Goldsmith | breeches. - Which comes to the National Theater o b h_ - 206 L0 Su o RuieEst wnd o a new play, “His Blossom Bride,” which comedy classic next Monday, she will| ‘The story of Mrs, Siddons, the great 2 7 g {omorrow evening for one week only S It is a discreet modulation that | feceed. Much of it migh will be presented in Los Angeles the be reviving an eighteenth century stage | tragedienne, who once played Viola in “Escape Bcgms Spring The same producer's all-star presen a0 e this eminent actor offers, a ted - Much of it might be de- jatter part of this month. ‘Tully, who | custom of which the modern theater | “Twelfth Night” and prudishly refused tation of Sardou's “Diplomacy” made bill at B. F. Keith's Theater this . scribed as horseplay. It is bettes wrote “The Bird of Paradise,” has re- scldom hears. The spectacle of ato appear except in an unmasculine our. its first metropolitan bow before Wash- w will be topped by Miss Babe Ega ington audiences the week of February ond her Hollywood Redheads, a whi \ turns with extraordinary faclliity < ol b <27 than that. It is colt play. cently been identified with motlon pic- charming young lady In breeches is no | dress of flowing robes, fllustrates by the fyom a characterization, depend- PP, tures, s longer ,,,,’./ m,’f‘.v {,_ was a hundred | fallure of the performance how much | \\7INTHROP AMES will end the five- 6 with a cast that included Willian mirth and rhythm, in which ing 50 largely on superficial ac- i “ " G ar y Then 1t W “hreeches parts” tickled the elghteenth run of John Galsworthy's | Faversham, Margaret Anglin, Cectlia « s curacy of delineation as that of It May be that “Good News” will | The premiere of “One A M." In New | plecn de restance 5t an evening ut the | century ‘audience's fancy and now the .mlmo.f'(;:, e Booth ‘Theater, New | Loftus and Prisicos Stare: sod W rument. The act is de the central figure in “Old Englizh [ulfill an important mission in the | York has been postponed indefinitely | theater, more respectable feminine mind re- | Escape o v N 34 '“ mgtontans will remember kindly carnival of syncopation, all 10 the study of motives and im- Cconomies of the theater. Many while Max Marcin and Samuel Ship- | Some of the greatest comediennes | §arded them York City, Saturday, March 24. Mon- | .y L revivals of eridar h pressions % and sensitive, “Ngers, dancers and marchers | Man, the authors, do a bit of recasting of the elghteenth century nchieved tri-{ The prologue of a play was an fm- | day. March 26, it will be seen In the Rivals” and “The School fc R e been trained for the pur- 404 rewriting. This Iy the play which umphs in men's parts, One stage|portant part of the performance then, | Plymouth Theater, Boston and Pinero’s “Trelawny of t d will be poses of the revue which s being first was titled “Kidnaper character in particular, Sir Harry Wil- | It was the author’s way of cajoling the | Among the cities to be \:lsllefl on | last season and the season befo onna of the e variet 7 IR 11xs | abandoned in large degree by pro- e - iy dulr, In the comedy “She Would and | audience into good humor beforehand | tour are Hartford, New taven, Phila- he cast which will present the now songs. Othe include umanizing Bhylock, Arliss s 13 y pro 8 DeMille, daughter of the | 550" would Nof viginully played by| and of apologizing modestly for his| delphia, Baltim e, Washington, Mon- Goldsmith comedy s well up 3 . cowboy, who started in Texas does not go 5o far 25 Lo pave the UCers who see a handwriting on pores producer, who made such w o pan, the property of the | shortcomings afterward. treal and Toronto, ) standard that Mr ¢ has set b i landed as an English music hall way with any security for the cx- | the wall sufficiently plain in fts | &o e on ‘,m her two recitals ot favored actresses on the English| Often enough a little known or un-| Leslie Howwu and Frieda Inescort | self i the matter of revivals. Fay (uv who will “spin ropes and tremists who seek 1o make the ex- 9¢mand for primitive decency tg g, gacaies Cartier, Will play leading | yiage. Peg Woflington, Kitty *Clive, | popular author would get some famous | Will head the New York cast on this | Batnter will be seen as Kate Hard- assisted by Marjorie Tiller: Jim position of a Bhakespearean rol contradict “the glorification” | g, a0 ,“ml""“‘*‘“')"_““' ’l}l"-"‘"" # | Dorothy Jordan were never so captivat- | man to write his prologue to rouse | tour, which will continue until the 1st | castle (-lrx‘mvll\uillrr as Tony Lumpkin, el hlin _and Blanche Evans 2 matter of parlor recitations Propaganda on the billboards. | nounced some thne ngy - © 0 “P7| 1€ 88 when they donned men's attre | popular iterest in his play. In the |of June. [ Mrs. Leslie Carter as Mrs. Hardcastle as “Thase Pulite Favarites, M o ol s por reClations o e new style of revue must, if i e ngo | In"the role of Sir Harry, or when they | case of “She Stoops to Conquer" David e - Lyn Harding as Mr. Hardeastle. O. P (heir latest offering, “Back Stage,” by e o cosume requisite beyond | Loy o itated, 6ffer occupation 1 “A Lady for & Night" announced to| "POke_the prologue or the epflogue 1o | Gurrick, the most famous actor of the = 5 | Heggle as Diggory and Patricia Col< Edgar ~ Allan Woolfe: — Gilbert the conventional attire appro- We¢lim IREL OCCAPRUDIIION | o very Sy e Vovk oy Hent Cwiil | play garbed in the swme Interesting | day, furnished the prologue that Miss Leon Succeeds Whucy. linge as Constance Neville. The distin glish favorites, who will priate 1 a social afternoon or MANY otk tomorrow night, will| guinjon,” “Breeches parts,” they were | Lord will speak gutshed actress will deliver the Garrack themselves,” and the Roge called, and an young woman who could When the Players’ Club of New York Tll!.‘ management of the Earle Theater | prologue. : z appear to advantage In them was as | revived “She Stoops to Conquer” as its has announced & successor to Other roles of the famous farce are Will be completed by th open on Thursdi y evening. He takes no libertie (,“Y "‘;’J empting "”’l ’“Q"i“r WAL inekuds. Otonaia. D beiiey, Osgood with the role whic 15 - 3004 ews” rises securely to a | pey e owel ymo! 4 b role wi has new level of merit, It offers no | Gujn oen Towell and Raymond | well wet for u stage carcer as o modern | annual classical production three years| Whitey Kaufman In Leon Navara. ® | taken by Lawrence D'Orsay, Wilftid ¢ ires. Aesop's Fables. Top exploitation of theory, se vaudeville performer wl n balance | ago, Olver Herford's prologue, written | youthful dirvector and master of cere- Seagram Marle Carvoll, Hovace ©dthe and the Pathe xtent ¢ pia faceiir contonttishie It was announced 1 New York last @ londed breakfast table on his chin spoken in the character of Gieorge | monies, who recently came East nfter| Braham, George Tawde, Johi Sevmour pating in hurlesgue could hope t, Place Jazz composition in 0 week thal Basll Sydney and Mary The continued populurity of Bhakes- | Bornard Shaw, was one of the events cnigagements in many of the large | Thomas Cofin Cooke, William Lorens zntagonize "u’lu;m‘n, hu} lets ts orchestra | gl have been invited th bring thefr downtown houses of Los Angeles and | and Harold Thomas. ilare anfi ot in monotonous din, | version of Taming of the Bhrew San Franclsco, and who was held by [ g revival also marks the retw A S, | rythm is reinterpreted 1o | i modern dress 1o Paris the management of the Stanley Theater | \oqiyiry of two prominent the eye in swift, and gracef | Wl l l) ] N W t~ In Baltimore for five weeks, EMDIE | (1o American stage—Mrs. Leslie Carte b g g Do Lo e et 4 P i ~ ‘ I Anlt o A can stage—Mrs. Leslie Cavter yaraded oh S iy cenvuries | hysical motion. I the incessant fpusnelt Mortlsan, who stage manuge 14 olore. ants. popularity” with Baltimore amusement iy Hax been lving i retrement L L he has become a fixed idea ' 5 e Ore! a Ix oo M “ 4 aven o { Caltfornia since her triumphant to o pr r 8hylock, hurt and perhaps no of horns in the orchestra 15| coming to the National Theater w week Leon Navara has been acclaimed &/ \r'the country i »The Clroles - Zasa o - esiddeit LR g i 4 )| inended 1o convey an impression | from tmorrow night, forsook the stage master of the plano. Prior (0 engake= | g “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.” was head the big cast, which e e o e S of the stridencies sultable 1o foot |« couple igo o become ai [ JOLORES DEL IO, for the first time to truthfully portray a Mexican woman, | ments on the Orpheum and Kelth civ- | ersunded o abandon her tesolution of ludes Beo P e AN ball on a great day, Jt must he Aylaton but tering the details since she came (o Hollywood, has | This has never been done on the soreen. | cuits he toured the country on the con- | Naving mway from (he stage I order comie. Ge Clark. tenar. Jack yeekoned artistic and interpre- | ¢f that profession, agreed with his wite | painted . word-ploture of her am- [ Of course, it Wil require n big story. 1icert stage. In addition {o his abllity | (o "play the tole of Mrs. Hardeastle Baker singing and dancing comedian . tve. It it 15 only aceidental, jy | b # stake corcer would be “healthier bitlons In the movies | hope somehody will suggest & atory to|With the baton and the “fvaries.” he | \illam Seymour, Who s ditecting the Francine La Rocque, Known a8 bur- not have Lis full opportunity of | sll expr s a congenial sym-| " M lees Uirtiiing.” U1 would Mke Lo be known" says|mo that will give me the u.|lm1uu|uwnm attalned success as & dancer and | jace, had also determined on ceas lesques nightingale; Bobbie La Verno «rpression until oo | pathy with the subject in hand,| Not every comedtan on the burlosque | hnj ow, 48 A0 actiess, not an & beautl- | of plaving & woman of my nabve cown- | singer Alio, active work, but the temptation of | singing and daneing soubrette, and ® me player carries p even' though promising no par- | Mege has the distinction of being the | ", YOman try aud making her the herolne of the | - . [ ngain staging “She SWops 0 Conquer.” | charus of sixteen Western girls, not ane ning elothes thr 18 WEns the | teular orogress i melodie orte. | 4an of his own particular avente of | “1 God by been kind to me by giv- | plety Dini EadC which tn his long career of 30 years he of whom, 1t 18 declared, was born east Ry s ts | ar progress i melodic o8- comedy relie, yet sich ds the position |16 e & pretty fuce and graceful fig- . on t Eat Carrots, has diyected some 40 (mes, brought of Nebraska il it s e juinade. | jnality, Vof Mausice 3 Oush. known “as the | Ure. L am glud, hut that s veally sece . . o, oI out of retivement. Mr. Seymour i this has taken place | » % ow o Klever (Cosher Komife He in fen- ) 0005y, My face and my fgure do not Lois Moran's New Role. *EAT vaw carrots and be beantful” aged both the previous Tyler vevivals v AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MIN- averaging may be under The air has been rife with ru- | tired with “Pretty Bablos” at the | Wlerest me n particle when work 15 on fa all wrong, movording to Vers)of the play, as well as the Players' Club TREL: which will permit the pr | s Lo change | Ginyety Unis week Canis 15 one of the | WY mind [LO18 MORAN has @ new starring | Reynolds, screen atar. She olaims that | of New York's presentation three years : - tion of Bhylock implying 1 r | popular chiaracter delineators. He never| "I fact, the biggest succoss 1 have rols . Yo Bllme ploture: anfiliod) Loc, snany: CRrrotet make: (et bl yol- | 3o Studenis of Amavion Yntveny gpe disholical unrestraint of humsn . L | offends made i the movies hus been 1 roles | “Don't Marry,” which inaidiously pre- | 10V g “She Stoops to Conguer” fs probably | feheansiig for w minsirel show 1o be passion, nor yeu a relspse it Lhe r Co vl Dieticlans and vegetarlans who have | " gt famous farce comedy of (he | Iresented at the auditorium on the atiitude of 3 sort of lzy figure in R the Henry Myers sailed last week from Lypes far from belng beautdtul, § wae 1 Tk vdual role™ Inelated on carrots s the perfect (00| yyggih Tanguage, & favorite of English- | CAMPUS, - Massachusetts and - Nebraska obese T6irgiand of soniGon fealendar in wnticipation of the | New York o meet Mrand Mis Arthur | sire you wls, In fact, plays a “dual role have ruled many & falr skin" savs [ooouking audiences ever since it fivst | BYenies, next Saturday night, tor bene~ 8 growesque tuiryland of antiquity. | Spring stock season wnd lstens | Hsmmerstenn in Beriin. My 1 am not anxiows to appear on the | @ modern glrl, whom her puritantcal | Vera. 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They are all charnes | prove to the man in the case, Nell .|5!a|\|ly. money to vender his last year more | SPoOnng Iln'»ul{nu g HnE Gf poelry W put b | events, employing congpleunn e chiiven version of the Harold Ulertzations. In ‘Restrrection’ 1 think | Hamilton, that his admiration for the All vegetables ave healthy, and car- | comfortable than anything he had The inferlocutor will be the well 1o pajamas The enterprise | new y rial or exploiting ola Bl Wight povel, he Bhepherd of (iere were scenes in which 1 was abso- | “girl of grandmother's day” fs not the | 1ots have thelr uses, but to w0 on|known before i his poverty-sivicken | Known athlete Lean Shlas of this city, would be rather well in keenine | tuvorites, ure seheduled as high ) f“" Hille " was an dntelligence service fytely ugly. 1 loved them, They were | type he tenlly wants, In the end she | carrot diots is just an dangerous as most | life while ehd men i binek face, taken Wil the tendency to make the ' spots in the current, pesson z v;"/'n' iring_ the war. One of hia ey with ehavacter proves It by captuving hiny aa & deal ofhee diet “advocated by many et Charles Kemble, Siv Hewry Tiving. 3 | from athletic ranks will imotude Donalg ! TIaRy Araning. § n Fiance resulleg Ay kreal ambiti o plotures o 1038 edition of femininity, sons tofiay." B Buckstone, Mn‘\uvu-w. W, H 4 \ in ‘he GAYETY—"Pretty Babies.” nted M two acts and twenty odd “Pretty Babies,” this week's les on the elghteenth cen- | of the evening [ that deplet peasant charaetorizatlons— sents & current problem Whontinwed on Second Page) ‘\