Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1928, Page 59

FLASHES BY C. E. HE ways of the world and it people are strange, and nc- | where do we find more peculiarities than in the | movies: One hears talk of the| movies being used for propagan- | da, of their being mishandled by a group of inexperienced mag- nates out Hollywood-way, and of their being utilized for all sorts of unusual purposes, and here is a little point which came to the attention of the writer during the past week: We have, for years and years, been expending time, cash and energy upon the Christian educa- tion of the “heathen” at points all over the world. We have dis- patched missionaries to all of the ‘dark” countries. They have toiled among savages and unbe- lievers, and their work, without a doubt, has been a good work. But last Monday we viewed “The Light of Asia” over at the private exhibition room of Firsi National Pictures, on G street. This picture, which is quite a re- markable thing in itself, detai the life of Buddha—and so we have ht home to us some T work from for- $ The picture is notl propaganda. however: it is a sim- ple story, well told. and acted by high caste Brahmins. The little girl who takes the leading femi- nine role is a princess in real life he leading man. who looks for all the warid like Doug Fairbank is a prince. The pageant scenes are remarkable, the incidents of e in India long before the birin t carried Indian were all changed bv the guild. with ~ of transi~iors, duv - To say th ] Sl ~hile ox so realistic ils that it m attract- “Ivan” =*s of the Russia— A'_wh"rc ou ever feel th e to write a2 motion picture scen- ario? Have you ever felt that you could do much beiter than the chap who scribbled the story which you just saw on the screen? Well, the way of the free-lance scenario writer 1s a difficult one. He is taking up a precarious fonn of making a living, regardless of ttractive advertisements in the rfovie magazines. In fact, he does not know what he is “up ~gainst.” Take the case of Oscar Oscarus of Washington as an il- lustration: 5 Oscar felt that urgze to write His mind was filled with ideas for rip-snorting motion pictures. 3o he sat down before his ancien’ typewriter and produced four scenarios, Then he purcha some stamps and sent them off o the production companies in Hoi- lywood. B as manuscripts have a habit of doing, the scenarios came back. Oscar was a little discour- zged, but in glancing through the movie magazines he came upon the advertisement of the Grezt Western Scenario Co. (which is rot the name of the company). e ad offered “bizg money to the of scenarios—no experi- e enuired—manuscripts re- vised—send your stories to us for ete.” ght some more stamps znd sent his four scenarios to the Great Western Bcenario Co., in Hollywood, and the following s only a part of the “wonderful letter received from the company “The writer hz st read with a great deal of interest the report of our reading and crilicism de- partment relative to your story the report which ched, does not Ling, ne ve worth development * We itate o compliment you ich you haye done The general idea of the story guch as | lend itsAf 1o expr through Dramatic intensify the incider tions by developing the emotio strengin of the characterizations re intellectual appeal of the ciples However hardly marke! ehosen Keith’s New Organ. . 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MARCH 18, N, 1928 -PART 4, SCREEN cant theme and have displayed great ingenuity in the develop- NELSON, in too sketchy a manner. * * * There are latent possibilities for pathos, romance and drama in| the story, but as you have told it, is sub- merged and it becomes only a re- lation of events or happenings. It needs to be elaborated, the dra- | matic highlights need pointing up. the big moments should be stressed and some bits of charac- t tion worked in in order to make the characters more human. We feel you will find it to your best interests to permit us to serve you in making a complete revision of your story. This means one of our experts will take yvour material and without dis- turbing the meritorious parts ot the general plot, outline or chai- acterization, rewrite it into ap- proved form, build up the weak spots and, wherever possible, add to the dramatic intensity—in short, give it the ‘polish’ so indic- ative of the master craftsman— the finishing touches which make a producer reach for his cheek- book. Have no fear that we will mutilate or disfigure the story in! such a way that you might fail to recognize your own brain-child. * * * We trust you will avail your- | self of this splendid opportunity.| to enter a most fascinating and | lucrative profession—the writing | of photoplays. Sign and retuin enclosed application with your remittance and one of our | staff of trained writers will im- mediately proceed with the re- vision of the story. For $35 we revise the manuseript and attend JETTA GOUDAL - to your copyright. Remit by post or express money oider, bank draft or certified check. Do onal check.” S e angle to a game which numbers its victims by the thousand. No definite promise is made to soll the scenario and the 825 is supposed to be paid for a revision. Of the four manuscripts | suhmitied by Oscar, only one was held. After the revision, accord- ng to agreement the company is | authorized to sell the story| through our sales department to "2 best adventage,” but no prom- ise is made of its eventual dis- vosal ta a producing company. | It is a gre~t game! * % % ¥ RION DAVIES, who has been | orking in a new picture, not vet titled, under the direction of | King Vidor, will have Robert Z.| Leonard as director when she as- cumes the leading role in “Her | Cardboard Lover,” which has been ted as her next starting ve- hicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. % % MRSA RELLA ABELL ARM- STRONG of Annapolis Roads, Md, widow of Paul Armstrong, o has attainad celebrity on the ge and in screen work, has| itten to The Star and inclosed | a copy of a communication which | she recently sent the editor of the Motion Picture Classic regard- | ing the alleged claims of Wilson | Mizner that he collaborated with | Paul Armstrong in writing “Alias | Jimmy Valentine.” In part, Mrs. Armstrong says: “In justice to the memory of a | great playwright, I must call your a‘tention to an attempt by Wilson “Mizner to detract from the credit | and impair the reputation of my | husband, Paul Armstrong. ‘Jimmy | Valentine’ was written long be- fore Mr. Armstrong knew Mizner. * * * It was written at Annapolis Roads, once the family estate, when Mr. Armstrong spent one week on the play. George C. Ty- ler presented it with H. B. War: ner and it then ran for 10 years ve different countries, estab- ng a record at that time. It was also at the Annapolis Roads house that Paul Armstrong ~rote ‘Salome Jane' in three days. The one real collaborator with | ¢aul Armstrong was Rex Beach.i who helped on the play ‘Going Some. " IR TUDIO AND SCREEN: James | Cruze, director of such pro- | ductions as “The Covered Wagon" | and “Old Ironsides,” has been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to dirzcet * ess Baggage,” new starring vehicle for Willlam Haines, The latter is now work- | inz in a story of newspaper life, ! He Learned About Women.” | 0. P. Heggie, well known on the American stage, has decided to| keep away from the movies. He| completed one of the feature roles In “The Actress,” with Nor- Shearer, and then decided he throngh with the pictures “Detectives” is the starring ve hicle for K~rl Dane and George K. Arthur. It is zald to be a bur- lesque on the typical mystery Marceline Day has the i 45 pictures censored in | s during Jan . 23 were de in America. Eighteen were | 1 made Browame. director of the Lon Chaney psm,um.s,)ms returndd ‘oo aho~d. where he selected s for a Chaney plcture | ot heen named completed United Artists picture “The of Eden” and it will he wwing soon. Charles | as once an independ- prodiicer, appears in support. star, and others in the cast Bherman, Loulse Dres George and Edwari Bo tro the | fn Aaude gn | 5 mi oy w ru | | dr this clarinet, ohoe, violin, vio- plecnlo, viola, snare Arum tambourine, castapets, Chinese block, | tom-tom, cathedra) chimes, xylophone and L angle ) In wddition, the artist playing this instrun t will fnd it possible o get | the following effects through the e of by Vo pistons” Autn hors, fire gong teumbor! - whistle, horse hoofs, bird | wmg wnd even he imitation of surf len g upn the beach Munsger Sobbing hopes W have this nstrument In use within s short time Extraordinary eflopts are belng made ol only 1o perfect the installstion of | the dnstrument us soon as possible, bt | vl flute moni loncello ini e I i fa Herne hing signed for 8 con- | lel on the Kelth eivcoit, sp- Ing # eketoh called A Women P x Chirystal ple of weeie e 0 i black.” “It | sport slarring teams PHOIOPL AY g &efle /gém, 7 *Buck Privares FLORENCE VIDOR and GARY CooPer-" olumbia QEETA DEVI- Little “Jheater Agin Trousers. ROUSERS for women will become popular, despite the | forts of Paul Polret, Parlsian czar of feminine fashion, to make them m"} suys Norma Talmadge. i my opinion that users, Trousers are unbeautiful, no matter what may be sald of thelr greater con- venlence, and woman, as & rule, will| unde present esthetic | apparel for the mere sake of utility France, during my recent trip| 1 discovered some agitation iIn| of the bifurcated trousers lur‘ fast in golfing and hiking, fteedom ot relinguish thefr ‘In ere. vor and In me of tennis irts do i ovement, hut €r the Al gratetully get fMes and her Jaces “IL 15 worthy of eaved conservative hizarre seaslde wear " rlere once with these sports back Into note that women have innovation imodest, but because charm . Teams Are Popular, HOLAYWOOD at present in stressing | the tncrensing importance of uly-crested teams have met Buccess Fay Wray and Gary Cooper are the | Write a b In the Para- | play. well OB TECEnt sorecn pilr oiint studio there are two othey tubilshed teams, testifying 1o ih of the " W on comedy Wollace Beery women will never abandon the griceful charm of wmong peoples. their skirts for the dull monotony of |of motion pictures s bullding up a thoroughly feminine woman | well | strictly alone, not because they shun the trousers s their adoption would rob them of thelr greatest poss sible quality Lately a new impetus | hits been given to the idea, and several with soture chiefs i the sya- The other teams are concentiat- | and ayniond Hatton and W, €. Fields and Chesww Conklin, chme//r%z Jhe GAUCHO WRAY - [/\e’rropollfait Palace Earle Doug Talks Highbrow. MIDST a universal fanfare of dis- 2, %Y “cusslon and prophecy along all lines of thought and endeavor there i still begging & just appraisement of the role of motion pictures in the great | drama of the awakening world. | Douglas Fairbanks, noted screen actor and president of the Academy of | Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in- | dicates the screen as the most powerful | agent of the present time In molding common sentiments among diversely speaking peoples, His views offer an interesting fleld of psychological con- NeVer | yecture. 11" “On the principle of suggestion and | repetition, the screen Is performing & unique service which is not immedi- | ately apparent in its sheer entertain- {ment,” says Fairbanks. “This service is the inducing of like sympathies ‘The emotional appeal common recognition of soclal standards. While these are Occldental standards, their presentation even in fictional form 1s yeoman service for a better rstanding between East and West ‘he general Influence of the films s stabilizing: no other channel of of are RITERS whose dreams have be- guiled the interest and tingled the emotions of milllons through book, mag- nzine and stage are trooping this Hpring to the Paramount moving ploture studio 10 Hollywood in & way never before seen In movieland Most of the newly signed authors who already have come to tne studio under the very shadow of the oamera have taken up this fob of turning out the year's most gripping stories for | sreen entertalnment. Others are on thelr way westward or are producing thelr works elsewhere, Emil Ludwig, famous German blog- rapher, 15 the latest literary dignitary W enroll under the Paramount banner. Ludwig has signed an agreement o graphy for use as n acreen This In belleved to be (he frat time & blographer of fivst vank has con trncted o do his own specialty for the Nims, Ludwig 1n the author of works on Napoleon” “Hismarck” and ofher world Ngiies 'ihe subject of hin m* for the movies. her | left co- the | / communication conveys an equal senti- | mental appeal. Radio, cable, telegraph, | telephone, telephotography, the rail- | ronds, the steamship, news, publicity, | | congresses, conventions — these are | {serving the great practical demands, but that which aims at the imagina- tion and the heart, that which shapes sentiment and behavior, is the vivid portrayal of life rendered by the film. “Literature itself operates on a con- siderably narrower plane, reaching but a fraction of the great Alm audience of | the world, “The specifically educational and in- formative usages of the screen will | naturally increase, but its chief func- tion will be always entertainment wherever prosperity survives.” It s this latter opinion that seems to have governed Douglas Fairbanks in his cholee of film stories. Universal appenl, the imaginative, rich romance has been his slogan from which he has | never departed. However precious the services of the ma in & humani- | tarian sense, the actor prefers to regard these as Incidental to the main objec- tive—-n few hours of unfettered bliss a good story well told. ScreenWriters Upand Doing In Hollywood a steady clicking of | typewriters testifies to the presence and | the activity of the authors at work there, and AMazing contrasts i styles are to be found in the Paramount corps of writers Along with the dynamic Elinor Glyn may be found Ernest Vajda, writer of sophisticated continental drama; Owen Davis, inexhaustible playwright; Percy Heath, author of scores of screen plays, George M. Watters, author of “Bur- lesque”; John Monk Saunders, famous author. ‘Benjamin _ Glaser, Joln ¥ | Goodrich, Keene Thompson, Leater Co- | hen, Lioyd Oorrigan, Donald Davis, son | of the playwright; Ethel Doherty, Loutse Long, Oliver H. ' P Garrett, Groves (Jdones, Willard Keefe, L. W. MeLaren, Albert Bhelby La Vi histovian and motion pleture author muel Ornite, Wells Root, Flovence Ryerson and Ralph Cedar, Among the most vecent of the new- comers are Harlan Thompaon, Eroest Howard, Culbertson and John Kivkland | kindly to | pr Anne Nichols, author of “Abie's Irish Foverlooked, w o Thae *Happy Ending: 't WHEN American producers come to the realization that a sickly- sweet finish is not essential to the suc- cess of & motion picture, American pic- tures will not only fare better in Amer- fca, but they will be received with much more hearty acclaim in Europe.” Paul L. Stein, who directed Jettu Goudal and Joseph Schildkraut in “The Forbidden Woman,” is responsible for this statement | Stein, who halls from Berlin, declares | that all Europe will take much more American-made films when roducers of this country give them oglcal endings | two brothers, JOUNBOLES and MOLLYO' DAY- | l Photoplays This Week! SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS PALACE—"“Doomsday.” This afternoon and evening. EARLE—“The Shepherd of the Hills.” ning. This afternoon and eve- FOX—"“The Forbidden Woman.” This afternoon and evening. RIALTO—"Buck Privates.” This afternoon and evening. METROPOLITAN-—“The Legend of the Condemned.” ernoon and evening. This aft- COLUMBIA—“The Gaucho.” This afternoon and evening. LITTLE THEATER—"The Light of Asia.” evening. PALACE—“Doomsday.” “Doomsday,” by Warwick Deeping, the English novelist and author of “Sorrell and Son,” is th> screen at- traction at Loew's Palace this week. The story Is based on luxury without love or love without Iluxury. Mary Viner, played by Florence Vidor, is the only child of Capt. Hesketh Viner, who has known nothing but drudgery in her constant effort to keep a home on her father’s niggardly pension. On_ the other hand, her lover, Capt. Arnold Furze, a World War veteran, played by Gary Cooper, finds that physical labor brings him contentment, Mary, to escape drudgery, sacrifices her love and marries Percival Fream, an older man. She soon realizes her tragic mistake and runs away from him, and her efforts to regain the love of Arnold leads to a dramatic climax. On the stage is Frank Cambria’s production, “Galloping On,” featuring Wesley Eddy and his Palace Syncopa- tors in new songs and bits. Miriam Lax, soprano: Robert Cloy, tenor; Ben Blue, Broadway's dancing comedian; Alfred Latell, “Bonzo,” in “Leading a Dog's Life,” and the Bachelor Octet and Dancing Ensemble also contribute to the presentation. HThe ;alacn Cm:’cr)n Orchestra, under arry Borjes, and short s - plete the bill. el G EARLE—“The Shepl;rd of the Hills.” “The Shepherd of the Hills” brings the strange, primitive people of the Ozark Mountains of a generation ago to life on the screen. This screen version of Harold Bell Wright's popular novel produced for First National Pictures, will be the screen feature at the Earle Theater this week. The stage offering will be a presentation of diversified fn- cidents, entitled “Cabaret,” and will feature Leon Navara, call the aristo- 'c:;llicr Jester of’ jazz. who acts as mas- of ceremonies, and the Six Ori Brown Brothers. S “The Shepherd of the Hills,” a color- ful story of the Ozark Mountains and Ozark folks, works to high dramatic climaxes on the screen, but is warmly human, this being largely due to the humor of its characterizations. Alec B. Francis plays the title role: Molly O'Day and John Boles are cast as the lovers; Mathew Betz and a pic- turesque crew of bad men supply the villainy; little Maurice Murphy plays the hill boy and a second love_story is enacted between Marion Douglas and John Westwood. Added short reel subjects and orches- tral overture, “Emerald Isle." together with other numbers by the Earle Con- cert Orchestra, under Daniel Breeskin, conductor, will round out the bill. METROPOLITAN—"The Legion of the Condemned.” “The Legion of the Condemned.” which had its premier showing on the screen last week at Crandall's Metro- politan Theater has been held over for | & second and final week i The story shows in detail the hazard- ous vet romantic life of a group of | men at the front. men who owed debts to society and felt that only deata could expiate their sins. Any mission they were detailed to was dispatched with a reckless abandon, so that soon they became the talk of the front and of the entire world when feats of valor were discussed. Into this group is pr jected Gary Cooper, as an American newspaperman who wishes to die be- cause of the supposed faithlessness of his sweetheart, The direction of “The Legion of the Conc»mned” was by William Wellman. himself a fiyer in the Lafayette Squad- ron during the war, who is said to have endeavored to portray truthfully the exploits of the birdmen. In many of the flying sequences the spectator is carried along in the cock- pit of the “ship” living really the life jof the aviator in battle, and the men who handled the planes are said to all be pilots who made names for them- selves during the World War. Fay Wray is cast oppo: and this new screen team is supported Barry Norton. Lane Chandler. Francis McDonald, Freeman Wood and E. H. Calvert. FOX—"The Forbidden Woman." Jetta Goudal and Joseph Schildkraut | are being co-starred in the screen pro- duction, “The Forbidden Woman," the Fox Theater this week It is described as a dramatic story of both loving the same woman. who is a spy in the service of the Sultan of Morocco. Victor Yarconi is the third featured member of the cast, with the settings carrying them first to the exotic_atmosphere of Mo- rocco and then to France. The picture was directed by Paul L. Stein, an Amer- fcan importation from Germany. This i his first picture to be made in Amer- ca. An added screen feature will be a movietone reproduction, with the Eng- lish comedienne, Beatrice Lille. The stage program will be divided at also | This afternoon and | into two interludes: First, a Mardi Gras {of syncopation, in' which Jan Garber and his orchestra are featured, and, second, a St. Patrick's day “comalye.” participated in_by-the Fox Concert Or- chestra, Leon Brusilof conducting, the singing ensemble and ballet corps. Ote standing_will be several popular Irish airs, including “Mother Machree.” by Josef Turin, tenor, and for a climax, “The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's * Halls." An added feature will be a shamrock silhouctte by the ballet corps and a solo harpist RIALTO—"Buck Privates,” | “Grandma’s Boy."” | The Rialto offers two photoplay fea- itures this week. The first is “Buck Privates,” a war comed T De Putti and Malcolm MceGregor are c starred, the former cast as a Germaa fraulein and the latter as the persiste ent doughboy who finally wins her. The other feature is a revival of one of Harold Lloyd's most successful pic- | ture, “Grandma’s Bo; | “Buck Privates” deals with the Army |of Occupation in Germany and the | humorous circumstances arising when | the army is billeted in a pretty Rhine town. A'little German girl, whose heart has been won by an American dough- boy, saves him from falling into a trap prepared by her stern parent and in turn is meted out severe punishment when she is ordered out of her father's house and suddenly becomes a social outcast. Her lover is miles away with his troops and his heart is embittered toward the girl whom he believes has been faithless. | _The supporting cast includes Zacu Pitts, Eddie Gribbon, James Marcus, Duncan, Bud Jamison and Les Harold Lloyd portrays a frightened youth who f {in every effort to be brave. Finally grandma tells him how his grandfather | overcame cowardice with a good luck | charm and gives the charm to him to try. With its possession confidence is bonlxd and he rushes out to lick the or} Mildred Davis, Anna _Townsend Charles Stevenson, Noah Young and Dick Sutherland complete the cast. Rox Rommell, conducting the Rialto Orchestra, offers for the overture a novelty called “Ampico Echoes Witn Phantom Guests at the Piano.” Inter. national Newsreel rounds out the | COLUMBIA—"The Gaucho.” | Douglas Fairbanks as the Gauchs will continue at Loew's Coiumbia for a second week. Doug's new picture, in which he dis- plays his skill with the bolas, is replete | with romance and conflict. It is a tale of treasure, combat, intrigue and love, concerning the adventure of a | pampas bandit who crosses the Cordil- leras with his riders to seize a city grown rich from the offerings of pil- grims to its sacred shrine. He competes with the country's dic- tator and his commandante to seize the city. He is held under the spell of a wild pampas girl and later under the spell of the girl of the shrine. When he is betrayed by one of his treacherous lieutenants a series of adventures fol- low, in which Doug is captured, es- capes and after a midnight ride with his followers saves the shrine city from the dictator’s cruel regime. An “Our Gang” comedy, the M-G-M newsreel and the Columb Concert Orchestra under Claude Burrows com- piete the program. | . LITTLE THEATER—“The Light of Asia. “The Light of Asia.” a screen version of the life story of Prince Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. directed, enacted and uced in India under the patronage of the Maharajah of Jaipur, is this week's attraction at the Little Theater. The Motion Picture Guild in securing India’s first film for a Washington showing presents a subject of absorb- ing interest. The work is said to be a numan and understandable account of the life of a man whose story is overiaid by accumulations of legend, and whose teachings have been offen misconceived. The childhood of this Aryan prince, his love for Gopa who became Princess Gautama, his discon- tent with the idle and sheltered splendor of his world, his sense of th insecurity and unsatisfactoriness of a Rllppmt\k\ make up the first half of the m. His decision to divest himself of all worldly entanglements and search after wisdom, his extreme asceticism and his grappling with intricate problems before he rose up to impart his vision to the world afe brought out later, and the final fade-out is the figure of t loneliest man in the world walkt alone toward Benares. asu_Pitts in “Sunlight,” a short vivid film study dealing th the thwarted life of a spinster: an Ufa tronomical film entitled “Heaven Bodies™ and ths Pathe News Reel com I plete the program Minor Glories of Play. 'HE heart-warming sentimentality of revivals is always evident even to comparative strangers in the theater Particularly when the restoration of The so-called “happy ending™ has be- | old plays brings an imposing assemblage come such an institution of the Amer- ! of noted players does the occasion take fcan film industry, according to Steln, that producers are reticent to violate tradition. 'They fear that audiences will go away from the theater dis- satisfled with a picture unless the fade- out reveals the lovers lived happily ever after. ‘The theater-goer of Europe feels that he has been “hoodwinked" If he is served with a production with an end- ing that is not logical. ‘The Euro- peans want a finish which naturally 1 va the events and situations which 8o thinks Mr. Stein. Stein, who filmed “The Forbidden Woman®” from the soript of Olara Beranger, has provided the story with A “compromise logical ending.” pleture 1s A screen version of Elmer Harrls' story, “Brothers.” Oricmul.Thrille r. de it \! () China, comes the story of Crimson City,” which Warner Bros. are soon to make for the screen with Myrna Loy and John Miljan i its cast Frankly and unashamed, the pro- ducers announce “The Crimson City™ melodrama with all the things the way of thrllls, surprises and evil deeds that “melodrama™ lm‘\lln It all sounds very intevesting to the man who loves thrills and the woman who reaches ecatasy when lnnocence ontwits villafny, as it always does in melodvama, ‘The mysterlous Ohina should be able to furnish a colorful background and supply an intriguing atmosphere. In the pleture the exotlo Miss Loy Jas the Tole of & slave gIrl and Mvjan that of & white man she saves from Rimselt and his enemies. The blonde Lefla Hymans, as an English gl will share (he honora In “The Orimson Olty," whioh has & great cast includ- g Anna May Wong. without whom as plete, ani@ 8o-Jin, e has not announced [ Rose,” and Anita Loos also must not be | no ||||'l\ll‘ul the Ovleny would be com- JT of the land of eternal wonder, | “The | The | (asks | | on something in the nature of a three- ring circus—out of the realm of the | play itself. but still within the bounds of the theater’s highest tradition. Only thus are the traditions and the past glories of the theater served—by con. necting the new with the old, the pas with the present Last season “Trelawny of the We! and only a few weeks ago “Diplomacy brought to Washington casts made up of many of the modern theater's out- standing players. These old dramas are famous, not for themselves alone, but almost As much because of the play- ers who have appeared in their leading roles. New hands were tackling old fresh answers were being sought for old questions. “She Stoops to Conquer,” Ollver Gold- smith’s immortal comedy, which comes to Washington shortly, will bring an- other of Qeorge C.Tyler's casts of not- ables, headed by Pauline Lord, Qlenn Hunter, Fay Bainter and Mrs. Leslie Carter Written by David Gareick and read by Mr. Kemble at the original perform- ance in 1783, the prologue to this fa- mous old play will be recited by the luminous Pauline Lord, she of “Anna Christie” and “They Knew What They Wanted " One of the most realiatic of the theater's great emotional actress- es, Miss Lord nevertheless will appear in the time<honored black breeches, lacestrimmed jacket and sil- ver-white wig And that - Pauline Lord i knee breeches 18 something of itself i the way of creating a new tradition Then there s the 1ole of Tony Lump- Kin Sldney Drew and Charles Oogh 1an, famous among the many interpre ters in the last half-contury, were well beyond 80 when they pl notwithstanding the fact that Tony's Age I8 desoribed as 'n]\\\ll‘b\\'l\lllfl ma- turlty® Qlenn Hunter, the memorable juventle of “Merton' and “Young Wood- Tev." now plays Tony, the age of the player Atting the e probably for the st tme, belng almost ghe same, d the part, | Lacteen by Jean de Lunwr, Fay Bainter, who has been seen only sophisticated ultra-modern _typ since her triumph in “East Is West." for the first time essays classic comedy as the demure and sly young miss, Kate Hardcastle. while Mrs. Leslie Carter. NOW N the CONSDICUANS MAITIty of hpr career, is the bumptious Nrs. &k tle. ch of the many act have ved the part heretofo deavored to outdo her predeces the role, notably in intense actt stage “bu " In that alone, it nothing else, Mrs. Carter d mal an interesting new Mrs. Hardcastle. Lawrance O'Orsay appears in for the first time in 20 years without his mus- tache, think of that—and wonder. O P. Heggie, a star in his many vears' standing, has a part less than two minutes, that of a flunkie, but It is traditionally one of ¢ high-ltghts of the pl Lyn Harding, vel spearean player and Owering - gant more inehes, makes his st appearance more than 13 years i Washington as Mr. Hardeast) Mollvanna™ fame Neville Obviously, somy tractions i a p s the O of these unusual at contributed to the record-breaking su of “She Stoops to Conguer™ 1 Philadelphia last week, where Mr. Tyler’s all-star revival reap- od A gross business of $47.400 for the week. At the Wednesday matinee, the receipts were $4,644, which Mr. Tvier advances as the workts record business for a dramatio matinee. . George Baneroft, whose first star pic ture, “The Show Down,* has fust heen completed by Paramount, has been hon ored by election to the vice preaidency of the “283 Clib." Hollywood fitm play ers’ organtzation of Nasons, stk Knee | Florence Vidor Wwill be starred n The Maguifcent B, from an orig | nal stary written by M. D'Abbad: | D'Arrast, the young director who wo | success With recent Adalphe Menjou l\whnN He will diveet Miss Vidor tn his new wark. The stary “The Mag- | | | FIrE" s being adapted tor dhe nificent [